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Year: 1875

Rapid transit is as necessary to the growth
of Brooklyn as to New York. With rapid
transit all that beautiful country lying be-
! yond Brooklyn, fringing the Sound and the
Bay and the ocean, could be opened to set
Element Rapid transit from Brooklyn ferry
needs but another link, when the great bridge
is finished, to bring it to the City Hall. Some
time since project was exhibited for build
ing steam railway along Myrtle avenue. OF
course there were objections. The property
holders rebelled, as they always do, as they
rebelled against gas and Croton water, as
they rebelled on Greenwich street and pro-
tested that the elevated railway would destroy
their highway. The result of this oppo-
sition has been that the Board of Aldermen of
Brooklyn have foolishly concluded to aban-
don Myrtle avenue as a road for rapid transit.
Now the question is to be fought over again.
If new street is chosen there will be the
same difficulty. Suppose Flatbush avenue,
or Fulton avenue, or Vanderbilt avenue or
any one of the streets that radiate from the
ferry is selected and we shall have the same
complaints. The Aldermen, yielding to this
local clamor, will go on selecting streets and
changing them, stepping from one difficulty
to another Rapid transit will die in sheer
disgust


There is no better site for rapid transit
railway than Myrtle avenue, unless it would
be Fulton avenue. Myrtle avenue binds
Brooklyn with Williamsburg. It runs paral-
lei with the river 1t skirts, although it
does not 90 through the best portions of the
city. 1t is largely given to trade. 1t passes
the beautiful Fort Greene Park. 1t is alto
gether hallucination to suppose that
an elevated railway destroys a street
for trade. Take Greenwich street, where the
elevated railway in New York now runs.
Greenwich street is as valuable now as it was
before the road was built. Rents are no
lower than they are in corresponding parts
of the city. People buy and sell as they did
before. If we did business there and had
7atsa railway running ab0ys ths $jdssyeIka 81
| passing swiftly along once or twice an hour
| to numbering street car every two minutes
blocking the way and making traffic almost
impossible. Furthermore the building of
the way stations. necessary to the elevated
railway really brings trade. 1t would not
surprise us if the elevated railway in Green
wich street were found in few years to have
given that avenue a new prosperity. So that
the inhabitants, in opposing the running Of
rapid transit route, may be doing what they
did in the past in opposing the introduction
of gas and Croton water.


But if our friends in Brooklyn are to have
rapid transit they must select a route and
stand by it, This shifting from street to
street in response to the clamors of q few
grocery keepers and real estate agents will
destroy the whole business.
Year: 1875

The RAG BABY ONCE MORE. "A correspond
ent in this city writes us that he is not an in
Aationist, but only desires to abolish the banks
and substitute greenbacks for bank notes.


He would like, also, law compelling the
government to pay him interest on his
money when he has no other use for it, but
allowing him to take it back whenever he
can use it to better advantage. Well, he
represents only one view, and there are half
a dozen other plans to multiply at will ''the
best currency in the world" We still prefer
TO await the conclusions of the Detroit Con-
vention. Let us see what that body will
bring forth All views will be represented
there Senator Gordon from the South, Mr..
Kelley from Pennsylvania and Mr.. Carpenter
from the W&t-and we shall see what the
currency platform really is 1t will be time
enough then tQ talk ab0utia We prefer "
Year: 1875

TIE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT IN MEXICO is
spreading, and one Of the reasons for this un-
satisfactory state Of affairs will be found in
the acts of men like General Devallos in
Lower California, Of whose brutalites cor
respondent writing from Panama, gives an
account Devallos seems to be a more in
can only regenerate herself by the punish
ment Of such as bA
Year: 1875

THE INTERNATIONAL REGATTA on Saratooa
Lake, which is to begin next Tuesday prom
ises to be an interesting affair, second only
In importance to the college races. In an
other column we give some account of the
contestants and the prizes and Of the prepar-
ations which are making for the event.
Year: 1875

The Sioux INDIANS continue to be very
troublesome, and all the evidence seems to
indicate that only complete whipping will
teach them good behavior. This is the view
OF General Crook, as expressed in an inter-
view with a HERALD correspondent which we
print this morning
Year: 1875

The committee on improvements, reappointed
at the last meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Washington Grove Camp Meeting Association,
have been favored with excellent weather, In the
main, for the carrying out Of their ideas of beau
tifcation in arearrangementoft Of the camp grounds,
and they have utilized time with the jealous pur-
pose Of making the tract one Of the most inviting
spots OF the kind in this part of the country. A
good force Of laborers and carpenters has been at
woI and more men will be "put ON on Monday
to hasten the completion Of the work, so that
opening, the 4th Of August. Operations were COM
menced yesterday for the erection Of the new
preachers stand. 1t will be Numerically oppo-
site the old rostrum and different in FORM Instead
of the side facing as BEFORE the end will point to
the audience, and handsome pulpit will be
placed at point nearest the worshipers, while
the space TO the rear OF the preacher occupant
will be filled up with benches for ministers Of
the Gospel and others who may be invited.


Without enumerating the changes made since
last year, which have been duly published in
THE REPUBLICAN, the grounds in toto present
most refreshing and handsome appearance in
their bright summer foliage.


Arrangements have been finally completed for
the season with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
and the following schedule established for week
dsy only: Trains will leave Washington for the
Grove at 7:50 and 9. m, 3i5 and $40 p. m. On
the return trains will leave the Grove at and
900 a. m, and $40 p. N.


The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has brought q carload Of lumber to Washington
Grove station and will at once commence the en-
largement OF the platform accommodations for
passengers.


along the line Of the road, as q junction with the
road to Laurel will be formed at this point, and
will take much Of the country traftic from
GaithersVille, located three quarters OF mile
distant.


The operations Of the association exhibit great
ENTERPRISE and liberality,
Year: 1875

now he rises again, leaps into the air and shakes
himself, as If to free the hook. Suddenly he turns
for the mouth Of the brook and runs In like ar
row, and 1t requires my utmost exerttons to take
in the slack line. Farther and farther up the
brook he runs, and follow after in great excite.
ment, till at last, by rapid and even pull land
my victim, quivering and dancing, on the sand,
Words cannot express the Joy and pride felt at
that moment. Such trout had never caught
before. My most extravagant dreams of trout
large as this. spliced my broken rod, and tried
the place again, but caught only few small ones.
An hour from that time my big captive was laid
away in the cool cellar Of the Archer farmhouse
packed in sweet meadow grass, ready to be sent
Into Bangor by the morning stage.


SIMON SIDRIINKER.
Year: 1875

THE TRIUMPH OF CORN Con OVER
MEERscuAUM.-How unsatisfactory is the
possession of a meerschaum pipe Suppos-
ing you to have secured fine piece-the
best piece in the universe, say-you would
not be more happy than miserable. The
whole universe seems leagued 10 destroy
II. You fear TO put it away, lest harm
should come 10 ii in your absence; equal
ly do you dread taking it up, for there is
the risk Of dropping, scratching, breaking.
While smoking ii you cautiously keep on
the morocco case; handling would soil the
bowl, and you have heard that the coloring
oil eyaporates If the pipe be exposed TO the
air. The longer and more completely your
precautions are successful, the greater your
anxiety and nervous apprehension and If,
aller all Qt generally ends sol, the cherish
ed, the inimitable, the invaluable meer-
schaum is broken all TO pieces, your agon-
izing sense of loss pays dear for your sea-
son of uneasy ecstasy.


This ever-present excitement and unrest
is destructive to The peace and comfort
which should attend thoughts of pipe
smoking. Our pipe should be our refuge
and solace rather than our care and tor
ment You will seldom find a smoker of
age and experience indulging his habit
throug costly and fragile medium pos
sibly, if lie be rich, he will have you to his
cabinet and parade before you choice
specimen of "real Vienna" but you will
notice that the clay is still virgin; and hav-
ing carefully locked it back in the cabinet,
your experienced friend picks up some
battered, disreputable looking old corn
cob or other, which he loads and fires with
a sigh of relief and satisfaction; aud when
he is through smoking he throws the corn
cob carelessly on the table, nor careth he
should it fall hence 10 the floor; bless you'll
the corn-cob can stand it. Be not deceived
by this seeming neglect, however; trust
me, your wise friend loves cOrn-cob from
his heart, and would feel its loss there,
while the "choice Vienna's" evanishment
would chiefly barrow his-pocket.-JuIidn
Hawthorne in Nor. GALAXY.
Year: 1875

TnE SNOW PLAET.-one Of California's
contributions TO the Centennial EXPOSE
tiOn will be a suow-plant which has been
brought from Calaveras county, near the
Big Trees. This particular specimen is
The cones, fifteen in number, are blood
red, and grow together in bunch. The
plant forces its way up through The snow
in the spring of the year, and the edges Of
the cones have an appearance Of frost, COW
cred by fine white fringe Of crystalllu
appearance. 1t is Of parasitic nature, gen.
orally taking root in some rotten tree lying
beneath tue surface.
Year: 1875

Men glory in raising great and magnih-
cent structures, and find secret pleasure
to see ''sets'' of their own planting to grow
up and hourishi but surely II is greater
and more glorious work 10 build up man
to see youth OF our own planting, from
the small beginnings and advantages we
have given him, to grow up into consld-
erable fortune to take root in the world,
and to shoot up into such height, and
spread his branches so wide, that we, who
FIRST planted him, may ourselves find COM
fort and shelter under his shadow.-TillOt-
SOa
Year: 1875

"Chsap money ?" yes, that is the latest new cry
They'll have 1t so cheap that peck wouldn't buy
A barrel of beans or q bushel OF rye
II you want to get rich, why, all you've to do
Is TO take your gre0nbaeks and cut them intOi
Then get Up lAW-h would be a droll one
ThAt every half dollar should pass for Whols onei
That would save printing bills and expense to the ne


tion,
And be most sensible kind Of imitation.
In that way ia pay every dollar that owe,
Aud it's Just what they advocate out in Ohio.
Year: 1875

of Wealth, whose especial mission it is to
puff and praise that book It Is for the
Board Of Education to consider how far the
adoption of this change-the consideration
OF which has been laid over for q month
would be to the true interests Of the city and
its schools, and how FAR to the pecuniary in
terests of ANYBODY else
Year: 1875

modiousness. It is q agna1 and unique,-a
sort Of inspiration tt is the only one Of the
many plans which sho. rs the dome from the
street. II the Court House be built on this
plan We shall have the handsomest and most
convenient public bull ding on the Continent,
I'm ornament to the city and q comfort to
all who ahal OCCUPY l.
Year: 1875

Competent architects state that the court
| rooms in the Gty-Hall can be ventilated as
well as those il any private building, and can


be put into good condition by the expenai-


ture of few Thousand dollars, after which
they will be preferable to any TINT can be
obtained in the fourth and fifth stories Of any
private building which any one will construct


for such purpose, The Courts will then have


ample room on the first and second floors,


instead Of climbing up into the upper stories


Of new building. They will have as high


ceilings and as good ventilation as in any


business block. The arrangement, safety,


and size Of the vaults are superior to


any of usual construction. Now, it is


singular and significant fact that, notwith-
standing these things were first pointed
out some weeks ago, the Committee Of the


County Commissioners have never called up
On the Board Of Public Works, who have
charge Of the Gty-Hall, to ascertain whether
the statement is correct or not. They have
proceeded just as If it we're not, and as if the
present quarters Of the Courts ara not sus-
cephb1e Of being put into proper condition.


LILO 4eOA4A "a i SVAho GOA44444 N4V
statements made: in TIE TRIBUNE, and
express their Willingness to proceed
to make the necessary improvements
Whenever the County Commissioners shall
approve the same, and furnish the
necessary funds for making them. The
whole work may be done for few Thousand
dollars, after which the Courts will bu better
located and housed than they would be in any
private building. It, is not unreasonable to
ask, therefore, that the County Board shall
fully examine the proposition to make altera~
tions in the present City-Hall, and consult
with the Board Of Public Works, before bur-
dening the taxpayers with an expenditure Of
from 500, 600 to $15o,ooo f6r the rent Of
private building and the expense they will
hare to mt on it..
Year: 1875

Charles Nordhof, in the character Of
Methodist layman, enters ringing protest
against the effort Of any Methodist Bishop
TO commit the Church to a third term. He
says that Bishop Haven has done great
deal at the South to widen the breach be-
tween Northern and Southern Methodists,
and to weaken the bond of brotherhood
between the section., or at least to increase
causes Of irritation. He closes letter to
The Herald On the subject by sharp
complaint Of the conduct of Methodist
clergymen, in endeavoring to use their in
huence at the White House for political
purposes. He says Of this course: ut
seems to me dishonorable, and they have
undoubtedly and within my own painful
experience brought contempt and disgrace
upon the METHODIST name b7 such n,iscon-
duct. In my Judgment and in that of
many other Methcdists the favor in which
our more prominent clergy have been held
at the White House, and consequently in
the departments during a number of years,


ia, had an evil influence upon them, and
has worked badly for the Church. For
my art I should be very happy if The
next President sheuld prove to have an
unconqnerable aversion to all Methodist
clergvmen. 1t would be fortunate thing
for the denomination
Year: 1875

Waiting For what? Shall ever know
Or shall the new years creep drowsily by
Till my death-day comes; shall L never
l was born, and must live out my life of


woe?


Is the whole of my lifetime merely a


pause


'rwixt my birth that was, and my death


to be?


Must l always follow, and never be free
Am l only effect? Can / never be caus G I?
Or am but link of the weariful chain
OF life, and the sequence of things
am forced to live, far cannot die.
But my life is empty and all in vain.
Yet sometimes Ihear my spirit, elate
At the thought of the glorious deeds 10
Cry "strike! lis the timer But, in


answer, One
shallI ever know who whispers ''si-


lence! Watt
Ii cannot be Hope, for her voice is sweet; !;
1t is not Despair, for 1 know her well
'Tis like the ceaseless drone of a knell,
And wearies the heart with monotonoHs


beat.


Shall another voice never whisper to me !;
awake! 'Tis the hour! Go forward


and fight!


Thy probation is ended, and impotent


night


Has burst into day - who shall tme free?
l know not, know not this only dread,
That ere that voice shall proclaim that
Not only the viii may be lost but the
And Imay he cold with the name1ess dead.


- Chambers journal.
Year: 1875

with satisfaction by all the good people
of the town, as it was thought 1t would
check the prevailing dissipation. Near


The close of the meeting, however, a


prominent citizen brought their case be-
fore the meeting as matter of CON-
passionate consideration. Another gen.
tleman thought as ''they were the back
hone of the county," their fines should
be remitted, and made motion to that
effect, which was seconded by one of
the culprits themselves. The motion
was carried by ten majority, and the re-
suit was announced amidst deafening
cheers from every rowdy In the meetings
The next Sabbath part of these thus
favored celebrated their victory by an.
other drunken spree.


The motive of those supporting the
motion may have been compassion, but
10 us such compassion appears 10 be a
mawkisk kind of sensibility. Weshap-
pen to be familiar with the circumstances
OF That disturbance, and ii was the worst
thirg Of the kind which, 10 our know.
ledge, ever occurred in Pittsford, which
is ordinarily very quiet and law-abiding.
The parties engaged in 1t generally fully
deserved the penalty inflicted. We say
generally, because we have understood
thai the guilt Of few was more owing
TO being caught in bad company than
any evil intent but still that is no rea-
son why the law should be thus practical
ly stultided by the vote in town meeting.
Whatever haay have been the motives
for such an action. we cannot but re-
gard it as an unwse enc
Year: 1875

GATH writes concerning Senator Jones,
that he resolved not to marry a second
time, and was living in bachelor style in
Washington rather fast but Jolly life,
when he invited an old friend and his
daughter to come and stay awhile. At
the close of the session he wanted TO be
at Long Branch, and 50 the Sullivans
were persuaded to go along, and there,
10y the sad sea waves, the widower and
sweet eighteen were engaged.
Year: 1875

That they have thoughts, language, in
tcllgcnce. affection and gratitude is Ger.
tain. What is there to disprovc their i'm,
mortality: Few stop to consider how much
like animals we are, how very slight tho
distinction between their physical and
mental organisms and our own. Are they
not generated and nourishcd in the same
way Do they not die in the same way t?
Have they not the emotion of fear
and the moral sentiments of maternal love ?
What inlet, to knowledge have we, except
our senses? And do they not possess them
all ? Is not the decay Of their bodies re-
paired by the circulation of the blood
And is it not carried on by the mechanism.
of the heart arteries and veins Does not
the mysterious organ the brain-scem to
he the point of contact, the connecting
link between mind and matter, as, with
us ? In fact, it is not ut all unreasonable
to believe that III that other life to which
this is but the gateway. through which
all animated nature must pass, shalt
thcre meet and welcome the animals we
have loved here; our old familiar friends,
the companions of our childhood and later
wears.
Year: 1875

A capillary correspondent. was recently
attempted between /; notorious Parisiln
thief in duG,lncc vile and his comrades out
side. The prisoner was sent u letter from
wrapped III the leaf of Il book. The TAILOR
did not consider the souvenir important
enough to be delivered, but a few days af.
ter came u similar enclosure, and yet an
other. This aroused suspicion, and the
Governor took the matter in hand. lie ex-
amiuci the leaf Of the book it was only
that OF i common novel, twenty six lines on
a page. Then he studied the hair and no.
ticcd TIE small quantity Of the gift. Count
ing the hairs lie found them of unequal
length, and twenty-siX in number, the same
as the lines Of the page. Struck with the
coincidence, he laid the hairs ado the line
Of the page which they respectively reach
ed. beginning at the top with the smallest
hair. After some trouble he found that
the end Of each hair pointed to u different
letter, and that these letters combined
formed u slang sentence, which informed
the prisoner that his friends were on the
watch, and that the next time lie left the
prison to be examined, an attempt would be
made to rescue him. The Governor laid his
plans accordingly, the attempt at rescue
was made but the rcsCurrs fell into their
nyyp tran
Year: 1875

Many persons see corhS used daily with
out knowing from whence come those use
full Materials. Corks are cut from large
slabs of the cork tree, a species of oak,
which grows wild in :hr southern countries
IN Europe. The tree is stripped of its bark
at about sixteen years old but before strip
ping it of, the tree is not cut down. as in
the case Of the oak. 1t is taken while the
tree is growing, and the operation may be
repeated every eight or nine years; the
quality OF the bark continuing each time to
improve as the age of the tree increases
When the bark is taken off, it is singcd in
the flames Of IL strong fire, and after being
soaked for = considerable time in water it
is placed under heavy weight in order to
render it straight. Its extreme lightncss,
the ease with which it can be compressed
and It's elasticity, are properties so peculiar
to the substance, that no cfcctual substi-
tutc for it has been discovered. The yalu
able properties of cork were known to the
Greeks and Romans, who employed it for
all purposes for which it is used at present,
with the exception Of stopplcs. The am
clients mostly used cement for stopping the
mouths of bott,,s or vessels. The Egypt
ians are sad to have made collins of cork,
which being spread on the inside with res
nous substance, preserved dead bodies from
decay. In modern times, cork was not gen
orally used for stopplrs to bottles till about
the seventeenth century. cement being used
for that purpose.
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writes to that journal in regard to the effect
of co-etiucut.on Of the sexes, and the sui
Of study upon the health Of women, as seen


in the experience Of the college at Ann
Uarlor, Mich, where the experiment has
had II trial Of six years. There appears to
be no reason why the system should be OPP
poscd. So far as the health Of the womea
is concerned, it is evident that study is not
undermining it, while there is slid to be
not q few among the siXty-scven now i'll the
institution whose physical condition has
been improved 10y the discipline of their
college life. In regard to the soc.l aspect
of the experiment, thi3 correspondent states
that after The novelty of such comPapion-
ship wore off, the young men and women
took little notice of each other, AMI accord
ing to the etiquette of Ann tiarR2r' there
is 10 presumption of acquaintance between
members of the same class. Then" are
kept so busy that there is really little time
fer social intercourse"
Year: 1875

Avoid buthin,, within two hours after a
meal. Avoid bathing when exhausted by
fatigue or from any other cause. Avoid
bathing when the body is cooling after
pcrspiration but bathc when the body is
warm provided no time is lost in getting
into the water. Avoid chilling the body
by sitting or standing naked on the shore
or in boats after having been in the water.
Avoid remaining too long in the water ),
leave the water Immediately there is tho
slightest feeling of chillness. Avoid bath
ing altogether i'll the open air. if, after
having been a short time in the water,
there is Il sense of chillness with numbness
of the hands and feet. The vigorous ana
strong may Lathe early i'll the morning on
an empty stomach. The young and those
that are weak; had better bathe three
hours after meal; the best time for such
is from two to three hours after breakfast
Those who are subject to attacks of giddi
ness and faintness, and those who suffer
from palpitAtion and other sense of dis
comfort at the heart, should not bathe
without first consulting their medical
adviser
Year: 1875

A TEsT.-At the wharf of the Dia.


mond State Iron Company, tomorrow
afternoon, the Water Witch steamer
will be given a trial test. This is


doubtless preliminary to the. contem-
plated contest with the Fame steamer.