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Year: 1876

is thriving town, and place Of con-
siderable trade. nine miles east of Van
Buren, on the line Of the railroad, and is
the center of a good ncighborhood, a
steam Touring mill is now in process of
erection, there
Year: 1876

Nearly all the disagreeable habits
which people take up come at first from
mere accident or want of thought They
might easily be dropped but they are
nature. Stop and think before yon allow
your-elf to form them. There are dis
agreeable habits Of body, like scowling,
winking. twisting the month, biting the
nails, continually picking at something.
twiriing key or fumbling at a chain
drumming with the fingers, screwing
can lay your hands on. Don't do any
of these things. Learn to sit quietly, like
gentleman, was going to say, but
am afraid even girls fall into such tricks
sometimes. There are much worse hab-
its than these, to be sure; but we are
speaking Only of very little things that
are only annoving when they are persist
ed in. There are habits of speech also.
such as beginning every speech with
lyon see." or you know" "now a, p" 81
don't care" "tell we what, tell ye now" !"
Indistinct utterance. sharp Rasal tones, a
slow drawl, avoid them all Stop and
think what Won wish TO say, and then let
every word drop from yonr lips just as
smooth and perfect as a new silver coin,
Have a care about your ways of sitting
and standing and walking. Before you
know ii. you will find yonr habits have
hardened into a coat of mail that you
cannot get rid of without a terrible ef-
fort Little Corporal.
Year: 1876

The Charlotte n. c. Observer says:
"The family of Mr. J. G. Freeland, who
lives seven miles from this city, on the
North Carolina Railroad, bore witness,
on Friday last about midday, to a singu-
lar sight Some member of the family
was standing on the porch, when, casting
his eyes forward, he saw bright light
of an egg shape, spring up from the
ground about two hundred yards from
the house, on a small eminence close to
the railroad lie called the attention of
the other members of the family to the
sight, and they watched ituntil it reach
Ell the size of half-hnshel measure
A fter burning this way for a while the
light suddenly went out, and those who
had seen it ran to the spot where it had
been seen. There they found a rock
which as they could tell from one side of
it, was a white flint. 1t was very black
on one side, and was too hot to be hand
led at first. When il had cooled it was
taken mp and broken readily in two 1t
was found very brittle, and could be ta-
ken in the hand and mashed up az can
piece of charcoal. The facts are unden-
liable, and can be easily estahlished.-
| There are, we believe similar instances
on record, and the burning is said to be
caused by gaseous exhalations from
earth which lies above gold deposits"
Year: 1876

The Denver (Col.) Tribune OF April
%, contributes the following to our in
tere~ting collection Of stories about dogs:
The dog referred to is known by the
name of Colonel and belongs 10 Charles
kestler, proprietor OF the Merchants


Hotel, on Iiolladay street The animal
is about five years of age and has been
with his present master from his (the
dogs birth One of 'Colonel's' amu-e-
ments is the play Of ball From some
cause or other no one Of the reasoning
human family saw fit to pay any atten-
tion to 'Colonel's' wishes and feelings in
regard to the ball business during all of
yesterday forenoon, and the ball itself
was laid awav in a drawer that occupies
the center of a writing desk in the main
office of the hotel. The Colonel stood
this With canine dignity for several
hours, but finally concluded on max ing
an attempt to secure his ball, without re-
gard to the human race lie spent the
hetter portion of an hour in irving to
open the drawer by pressing his feet
against it. As this only made matters
worse. he next endeavored to secure the
open sesame by pulling the knob in
the center. This knob, however, was
both small and rnnnd. and the Colonel
could secure no grip with his teeth. His
next effort was a rear attack, and was
perfectly successful. Going under the
desk he manifestly observed the location
of the back Of the drawer, and also saw
land reasoned that by standing on hl-
hind legs he could insert his front paws
between the back of the drawer and the
back of the desk, and so press the form
er forward, and thus secure his much
coveted treasure, the ball. To think


with such dog a. Colonel, was to act,
and almost sooner than it can be told,
and IN the presence of a number of par
ties interested in the matter, the drawer
of the desk was pressed ont. Colonel
at once appeared in front, from under
the desk, and and leaping upon it, he
saw and eagerly clutched his plaything.
The efforts made by Colonel his tenn
porary confusion and jistrust, his per-
severance and final trim ph were all
witnessed by a number of gentlemen"
Year: 1876

At tx coming Centennial Eewspa per
decided TO display copies of antique
Journals and other curiosities Of news
paper literature. To this interesting
collection all persons having ancient,
quaint, or curious specimens are invited
10 contribute; and should the response
be as hearty and general as We hope to
find it, this gathering of time-worn pub
locations will prove to be not only
leading trait Of the Newspaper Depart
ment, bnt also one of the salient attrac-
tions of the Exhibition as whole. All
having the ability and the will to aid
on the project should transmit their con
signmentS without delay to the Pavilion
of the Centennial Newspaper Exhibit
tinn, Fairmnunt Park, Philadelphia.
addressed to the care of Mr. Geo. P
RoweIl, who has the matter in charge.


While on view, these exhibits will
have attached to them labels designat-
ing by whom they are contributed, and
all consistent care Will be taken to pre-
serve them from damage After the
close Of the Exhibition they will be
again ut the service of their owners. or,
in the absence of different instructions,
will be transferred TO some historical So
ciety or museum.


During the late war there were many
newspap pers issued which illustrated the
straits in which their publishers found
themselves. Pink, blue, and yellow
sheets, wrapping paper, and many other
substitutes were pressed into the service.
Specimens Of these now possess a cur
ious interest.


The advantages TO the public of snch
a gathering are manifest to a degree
which renders elucidation unnecessary.
and the opportunity TO do a very useful
act is placed within easy reach. A sin
gle copy of some senile broadsheet may
not be of much worth to its proprietor,
yet in conjunction with others it will
make up worthy collection. Many
people there are who, having preserved
snch curiosties for years, can turn them
to little or no practical account, and it
is not too much TO hope that the re-
sponse given by such will be ready and
general. Without loss to themselves.
they can materially benefit visitors to
the Great Centennial Exhibition and
appreciably advance patriotic move
Year: 1876

HUSBAND THE STRENGTH.-Men
break down and become unable to per,
form any regular duties long before
their allotted time because of injudi-
cious management of themselves during
their early yearsNof vigor. II does not
pay to abuse ourselves, because we have
an abundance of strength, for payment
will come for any waste in a manner
least acceptable to a man or his friends.
The man who makes a slave of himself
upon the farm, and works early and
late every day in the year, lacks com
mon sense. BY and by he will be help
less in consequence of the overstrain, q,
and not only burden upon himself but
upon Others. Judicions work is the
thing TO develop vigorous manhood,
but it is wrong for man to abuse his
strength when young and pay for it so
dearly in old age, when he should be in
the enjoyment Of what he has acquired.
BE Dromnt in all vour actions
Year: 1876




The statement that the Young Mems
Christian Association of this city is EN-.
barrassed has proved true. A representa-.
tive of the MORNING HERALD called at the
rooms of the Association on Saturday night
and learned from the Clerk that the EN-
barassment was not very great, only seventy
five dollars, which is owing for rent, and
this would not have been but for the fact
that there are two hundred members of the
Association out of employment who have
not been able to pay up their dues. But the
members of the Association have arranged
q plan that it is is thought will be success
full Each one takes so many envelopes
which he distributes among his friends. In
each Of these envelopes will be placed a
penny day, and are collected daily by the
association. In this way an amount suffi-
cient to liquidate the Indebtedness of the
concern can be easily collected. Funds will
also be wanted to assist in putting in fur
nture and making Improvements that are
needed. The rooms now present very
neat and cheerful appearance, and during
the past winter were patronized numerous
". The membership is large, and but for
the large numbers out of work who are un-
able to meet their obligations to the associ.
alton, it would be free of Indebtedness. It
is to be hoped those who can will furnish
contributions, for as an inscription upon the
envelopes sent says. ''It is more blessed to
give than to receive"
Year: 1876

In answer to the inquiries of an inter-
viewer as to what he thought of Attorney
General Taft's laft order turning over to the
South to military law, Senator Bayard Of
Delaware said:


"No document so partisan, so reckless OF
all constitutional limitations upon power, so
regardless of historical truth, so utterly in-
subordinate to the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United Stated, has in the his
tory of our country issued from depart
ment; not only acting as all departments
should act, under the sanction of the law,
but look to all other departments of the ex'
ecutive as itself the fountain of law for
them.
Year: 1876

Philadelphia politics are becoming very
much snarled. There is an ENHANCEMENT
in each party. The Republicans have
started up an internecine war which
promises to culminate in the disruption Of
theparty at the December primaries, if not
before the Presidential election, and the
leaders Of the Democracy are fighting as
to which faction shall control the party
machinery and let it out to the highest
bidder.
Year: 1876

PKACu SHIPMENTS The Delaware
Railroad Company has announced to
The peach growers that they can, this
season as usual, charter cars for the
shipment of peaches, and the cars are
now being distributed along the line
of the lOad. The rates are about the
same as last year. Yesterday one
chartered car of peaches was shipped
to New York, and two other car loads
were picked up at different stations
Thus far this season about four char
tered cars OF peaches have been sent TO
New York.
Year: 1876

Every now and then the public is
startled by the exposure of some do
mestic or social villainy based on Sc
cret marriage Some confnding young
lady has been induced to marry her lover
secretly, and to keep the marriage secret
for months, perhaps for years. in
recent case the marriage had been kept
secret for nearly seven years. OF course,
the man who wishes TO keep his mar
riage secret is always actuated by selfish,
and usually by base motives. He Is
acting participating a game and his
confinding wife is pretty sure, in the end,
to find herself the victim OF his treachery
and baseness. A woman should never
consent to any such arrangement. her
marriage should be sslemnized in the
light OF publicity, and not in the shadow
of concealmcnt. She should distrust
man who has any reason for shlQudlns
in darkness the act which, i'm his esl'
nation at least. should be the crowning
glory of his life. The man who always
has some plot on band-who naturally
takes to trickery and concealment, ana
is never ready TO have his actions brought
out into the clear light Of day, is apt 70
be constitutionally so base that he sell
dom, even by accident, deviates into the
path of honor and virtue. No women
who values her domestic happiness
ehorld over listen to the suggestions OF
such man in favor Of secret marriage.
Year: 1876

Boston Post.


The sensation Of the season at Niagara
: the projected trip across the Niagara
river of a young lady, lately arrived from
Europe and known as the Signorina
Maria Spelterina This young artist ar
rived in New York about two months
ago, and has since been quietly making
preparations to accomplish the feat that
gave Blondin worldwide reputation.
She was bone in Italy, and made her
first appearance in public with her
fathers company when sshe was three
years of age She performed until she
reached the age of ten upon the tight
rope, and then commenced the slack
wire and the rolling globe. In the last
two acts she achieved brilliant success,
performing for two years in Berlin and
Vienna. In 1871 she went to Russia
and made such grand success upon the
high rope that she adopted that branch
of her profession entirely and give 1t her
sole attention. She is gifted with won
derful nerve combined with cool daring,
and during her entire career has never
made a single mistake, although on
several occasions she was only saved
from accident by great presence of mind.
Speaking of the Niagara, she does not
regard the feat as anything at all extra
ordinary, as walking across the river
does not display the artists nerve half
as much as the different performances
that she proposes to give on the rope
If sufficient strain can be got on the
rope so as to stretch it tolerably straight,
she will perform ten or twelve different
acts The rope is now being man
ufactured in New York, and when COM
pIeted will measure one thousand feet,
and weigh one thousand seven hundred
pounds. 1t VIII require one thousand
pounds weight of guys to keep it fairly
steady. The rope will be stretched across
the Nigara Rapids about two hundred
feet below the railroad suspension bridge,
and three hundred feet on each bank
of the river will be enclosed and ar
ranged with seats for the accommodation
of tho snectatOrs
Year: 1876

What marvellous power that strange
chant has exercised in France during
the greater part of century? What
wild vicissitudes have accompanied its
defamation by men and women who
have used it Se as a patriotic and
revolutionary call to arms. Rouget de
L'Isle was himself but commonplace
young mana poetical lieutenant in the
army of Strasburg-but for once he
mounted to pinnacle of genius without
knowing it: for the ''Marseillaisc' was
simply 4 chant cte batofue, and never in
tended to be a revolutionary song.
Dietrich who was mayor of Strasburg in
1892, asked the young soldier to compose
a new marching song. for volunteer
company going on foreign service. He
finished the composition in one night,
and the next morning was heard to
rehearse it before the mayor and some of
the artistes of the theater. At midday
it was sung in the market place, and so
great was its effect thai 500 recruits
joined the GOO who were ready to go out.
That chant was to have a history un-
precedented by any battle song in the
world-to survive its author, and to take
new meaning and a new name. Rouget
de L'Isle, himself prescribed as a roy
alist, heard it in the Swiss mountains as
a menace of death, and recognizing the
well-known sound, asked his guide what


was called. 1t had then been named
the "Marseillaise Hymn" and was so
called till hymns went out of fashion, and
then it still returned the name of
"Marseillaise. Whether it has played
out its part in the history of France it
would be rash to endeavor to determine.
Year: 1876

Buy the best bleached glue, if the
walls are to be white or some light tint
(if dark, it is immeteriaI, so the glue is
clean), and use it in the proportion of
quarter of pound to eight pounds of
whiting. Soak the glue over night, in
the morning pour off the water, as it
simply swells while soaking. Add fresh
water, put in pail, and set that in a
kettle of boiling water. When dissolved,
stir it into the whiting. adding enough
water to make it, after mixing, of the
same consistency of common whitewash.
1t may be tinted any color, and is APP
piled with a whitewash brush. If the
color is rubbed smooth in little water
and then mixed with the wash il will be
more even. If the walls have been pre-
viously whitewashed, scrapu away all
that will come off, and wash with a
solution of white vitriol-two ounces
in a pail of water. The vitriol will be
decomposed, forming zinc white and
plaster of paris, to which the cal
Chime easily adheres. 1t is important
to dissolve the glue in hot water bath.
for if scorched by too great heat its te-
nacity is impaired or destroyed.
Year: 1876

The uncertainties surrounding the
Suez canal bring up the old project of a
ship canal across the istbmus of Panama.
In connection with this matter it is i'm
portant to note the fact that new canal
route has been discovered, or redis-
covered, across the narrow neck Of land
uniting the two continents, and a
wealthy citizen of Colombia proposes to
survey the track at his own expense.
The matter has been laid before the con-
gress of the United States of Colombia,
and that body asked to indorse the plan
of Nh Gogorzo, which is to have an
accurate survey made by a corps of
engineers, and than to organize a joint
sock company in Europe to build the
canal and put it i'll operation, the whole
work to be completed in ten years. /
there is the least body in this movement
it will be watched with interest by
commercial nations. England virtually
controls the Suez canal. If British
money cuts ship way through the soil
of the new world from the Atlantic tC
the Pacific ocean then England will
command both commercial shortcut:
and have a vast advantage in the
markets of Asia.
Year: 1876

It would be hard to conceive of
sadder sight than the one which pre-
sented itself as night closed down upon
us after the fire, says a correspondent.
Hundreds of poor families had fled with


heir few pitiable savings to the Cove
Fields and the Cricket grounds and
there were huddled down upon bits of
carpet, beds, or the bare ground, and
falling asleep, hopeless, supperless, and
exhausted. It is wonderful to note what
people save at such time, and whether
it is sentiment which comes to the sur
face under strong excitment or merely
absence of mind, could not decide. /
saw cats living securely in the arms of
frantic women who rushed past, and
house plants, canaries bouquet of wax
and paper flowers, pictures, etc. One
little fellow whom we met looked as if
he were willing that the worst might
come, since he had beloved and
demure old rooster sa e in his arms.
An aged grandmother seemed satisfied
that an unkind fate had left her several
rolls of wall paper to began life anew
with, and a weary and discouraged-look-
ing man was struggling along with an
arm-lead of light but nnwieldly stove
pipe.
Year: 1876

The sponge fishery is curious busi-
ness. The sponges grow in the rocky
bavs of the coast of Asia Minor and the
islands that support it, and are secured
by divers, who require long experience
before they can make much at their bust
ness. The diviDg-aPParatus is very
simple. The diver wears a pleasant
smile, and rarely anything else, when he
is at work at his trace, and he carries a
knife in his hand TO detach the sponge
from the rock. He seizes a stone weigh
ing fifty to sixty pounds, and attached
to cord which hangs from the side of
boat. Clinging to the cord, he allows
the weight of the stone to carry him
down and when he has reached the bot
tom, he releases his hold and the stone is
drawn up Here he looks around for
the sponges, and if he finds any, he de-
taches as many rs possible, and rises to
the surface with them. He can only re-
main below as long as he can hold his
breath. When a man first begins diving
he can not remain more than half min
ute under water; but, by degrees he ex-
tends the time so that he can hold his
breath two or three minutes. Instances
of divers remaining under water five or
six minutes are reported but they are
extremity rare


The sponges are spread upon the beach,
where they undergo a sort of purifying
process, and they have to be washed
several times to free them from all sub
stances except the peculiar fibre that
gives them their value.
Year: 1876

know not If or dark or bright


Shall be my lot,
II that wherein my hopes delight


Be best or not.
1t may be mine to drag for yeaIs


Tolls heavy chain;
Or, day and night, my meat be tears
On bed of pain.
Dear faces may surround my hearth


With smiles and glee;
Or may dwell alone, and mirth


Be strange to me.
Ny bark is waited from the strand


By breath divine,
And on the helm there rests hand
Other than mine.
One who has known in storms TO sail
| have on board
Above the raging Of the calo


/ hear my Lord.
He holds me when the billoWs smite
/ shall not fall.
II sharp, tits short if long, tits light
He tempefs all.
safe to the land safe to the land


The end is this;
And then with him 20 hand in hand
Far into bliss.
Year: 1876

Cherries are green enough now to
pick, and the small boy will soon be
going around with his hands clasped
across his equator, looking as if he didn't
care how soon the republic went 10
Brooklyn Argus.
Year: 1876

REFERRING to the California civil
rights decision, recently noticed in these
columns, the Toronto Globe calls atten-
tion to the fact that the two principal
opera houses of London do not admit
persons, except to an undesirable part of
the house, unless they are dressed in
what is called evening costume. No ac-
tiOn lies against the managers for the
reason that they are held to be engaged
in 4 private business, which they can
regulate to suit themselves. Of course
if they deny admission to person hold
ing ticket they are liable in damage;
but no proceeding can be brought to
iorce them to admit person whom they
do not wish to admit.
Year: 1876

THE Indians on the Yellowstone, or
more probably the Indians who are not
on the Yellowstone, are giving the ex-
pedition sent against them good deal
of trouble, simply refusing to be found
anywhere. A enemy who has no need
of base of supplies is never more
troublesome than when he is wanted and
cannot be found.
Year: 1876

THE law is not always infallible
Charles aud Mary Fisher were sentenced
TO Sing Sing last November, the former
for seven and the latter for four years,
for an offense which the prosecution has
now become satisfied they did not COM
NIT. The opponents of circumstantial
evidence, however, can expect no COM
fort from the case for the defendants
were convicted upon direct and positive
testimony. They have been pardoned
by the governor; but there is no state
ment anywhere that they will be COM
pensated by the great state OF New
York for the injury and injustice done
them.
Year: 1876

PROBABLY the most miserable creature
on earth is the family dog which is sus-
pected of having a leaning towards hy
drophobia, but which suspicious are no
strong enough TO warrant his being shot.
Year: 1876

The Republican having out.generaled
the Commercial in securing the negro
for its faction of the Republican party
me latter IN spite calls it the organ Of
BetknSpery and Babeockery in this city,
These are hard names to apply to any de.
cent person. Doubtless the Republican
woald have preferred to have been called
a rascal at once, Now. let the Republican
reply by terming its adversary the organ
OF the Grant and Williams southern
outrage mill." Since the latter is suppos.
ed to have imprisoned, killed and tor.
nented to death many innocent people in
tho South, they are no doubt as bad As
Belknap and Babcock.
Year: 1876

The Democratic Party will name its
candidate at st. Ljuls, and the action of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel Independents
Will have no more weight than would
the assembling of tie same number of
0tlzens anywhere. As politicians they
are failures IN their own States, and
have small following where able and
sncere and disinterested men should
have most influence.