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Year: 1876

THAT WAS A STRANGE BURGLARY ON
Second avenue yesterday morning The
thieves entered a saloon before daylight and
coolly carried OFF a safe weighing nine hum
drcd pounds, in order TO open Il at their leIs-
ure IN some place where they would be less
self IN mems ponderous safes are liable tn
he stolen a. well a. broken open. a new anx-
iety will disturb the sleep OF the owners OF
Valuables-IN y lStui 27fh
Year: 1876

The celebrated chemist, DIR. Dorums,


showed i'll the following manner, in a
/ recent lecture, how extremes meet


Eggs can be cooked by the extreme OF
| cold as well as by the extreme of heat.


Butter can be made like ivory, so that it


can be turned. We may by the agency


of this solidify many of the other liquid


substances, and, indeed, many Of the
| gaseous, but more intense degree of
cold is used, and we employ laughing gas.


This laughing gas, which is heavy, is the
carbonic acid we have shown; when


squeezed forcibly by the pump it be-


comes as beautiful and pellucid liquid


as carbonic acid, and if allowed to re-


main produces a most intense degree of
cold. We can, however show the liquid.


Let me ask you to observe, prior to
making that experiment, a very curiously
interesting one in regard to the
spheroidal state of matter, we have here
a glass lamp, and we place over this
lamp platina dish. In the platina dish
we place some of the mixture of solid
carbOnic acid, and in the middle of il
introduce the mercury. and we shall find
that the mercury would freeze, showing
that we have a cold at least forty degrees
below zero. We used to make an ex-
pertinent such as melting lead intensely
hot and then putting the hand in and
lading it from one vessel to another; for
if, in lieu of this, you take a quantity of
melted iron you can plunge your hand
into it with impunity, and wOrkmen
have even been able to walk on a bed of
melted iron. Take poker and put it in
a hot coal fire, get it very hot, and you
may lift it or wipe it on the tongue with
impunity. We may have it so hot that
the vapOr actually protects us.


Here we shall have a more extraor-
dinary illustration of it, for we cannot
only make ice but can freeze mercury.
We will fill this little thimble with
mercury, and as soon as it is intensely
hot we will introduce the mixture. and
will show this curious illustration and
to freeze the mercury. Those
who make the experiment of the heated
lead please remember to have the lead
hot and you will find that it
piyeS ont cold
Year: 1876

Susan. So long as live rely on my graf
itude. If ever you visit England do not
fail to come here, so that | may make
you acquainted with my wife; and then
me- whether or not was out of my tell
senses. Yours, faithfully,


ARTHUR OXLEY.


In the year 1898, during the reign of
terror, the surgeon of Boulogne, having
been accused of being an aristocrat by
one of his younger professional brethren,
who enyied him his practice, was obliged
to take refuge in London in order to save
his neck from the guillotine. Being
without employment or acquaintance,
he inquired for the residence OF his former
patient, Mr. OXley. He was directed to
it; and on arriving at the house he sent
up his name, and was Immediately ad-
mitted. In huge armchair, seated be-
fore the fire, with bottle of wine beside
him, sat portly parsonage, whose size
was so great that it was with difficulty
he could rise to welcome his visitor.
Welcome, Monsieur Lefebvre," ex-
claimed the huge Englishman. " DO
not be offended at my receiving you in
this manner, but my cursed wooden
leg won't allow me to do anything.





to see it, in the long run, you were not
right"


1 am fugitive seeking an asylum
among you"


'' You shall stay with me for you are
really wise man. You will console me-
Do you know, my dear Lefebvre, that
had it not been for this abominable
wooden leg rendering me useless should
have been admiral of the Blue. spend
my life in reading the newspapers and in
curses that | am tied here when every
body else is up and doing. Remain here;
you shall comfort me.


Your charming wife can doubtless
do that better than l can"
"Oh, as for that, no. Her wooden leg |
prevents her from gadding about and |
dancing; so she has, as a resource, given
herself up to cards and scandal. There
is no possibility of living alone with her;
in other respects she is good enough wo-
man. | was an unutterable fool. If |
nad my leg back again l would not part
with the pairing of a single nail. Between
ourselves 1 must have been crazy; but
keep that to yourself.
Year: 1876

From DIR. HOlbrook's Liver Complaint"
Good living is said to cause dyspepsia;


but the most healthy people / have ever


known have been among those who lived


well-who ate freely several times day
of the most nutritious food. By some it
is said that tobacco, snuff, tea, coffee,


butter, and even bread cause this COM
plaint but whoever will make inquiries
on this subject throughout the COM
munity will find that this is seldom true.


In fact dyspepsia prevails, according to


my experience, altogether the most
among the temperate and careful
among those who are careful as regards
what they eat and drink, and the labor
they put upon the stomach, but exceed
ingly careless how much labor they put
upon that more delicate organ, the brain,
Such people often eat nothing but by
the advice of the doctor, er some treatise
on dyspepsia, or by weight; nor drink
ANYTHING that is not certainly harmless :;
they chew every mOuthful until they
are confident, on mature reflection, that
it cannot hurt the stomach. Why, then,
are they dyspeptics? Because, with all
their carefulness, they pay no attention
to the excitement of the brain. They
continue To write two or three sermons
or essays every week, besides reading a
volume or two, with magazines, reviews.
newspapers, ETC., and attending too much
other business calculated to excite the
mind. To me it is not strange that such
persons have nervous and stomachlc
affections The constant excitement of
the brain sends an excess of blood to the
head, and therefore other organs are
weakened, and morbid sensibility is
produced, which renders the stomach
liable to arrangement from very slight
causes
Year: 1876

The day is come for the ship to SAIL and for John to
ge to sea,
And his aged mother is freting with the bairnie


her knee;
The morning meal is scarcely touched, and the wife


is still for sorrow,
For her good man will soon be gone, she viii be


lone tomorrow:
Black clouds are lowering in the sky, but between


them streams the sun,
With the light of hope in the dark time that for her
- lsJust begun
Oh, may his heart keep true hers and the ship
in safety run!
And now they are waiting on the beach, and John
with uneasy breath,
Is fearing to say the sad farewe'l-farewsn the
shadow of death;
They have little to say, ard little know of writing
in the books,
But though they have lack of words they talk to
each other with looks;
They can feel the heart in the hand, and read what
is written in eyes;
They can tell OF their joys and their sorrows in
kisses and in sighs,
And so can they speak to each other without the
words of the wise.
There is the good ship the Mary Ann, at her moor
iDgs in the bay;
And boat is grating the sand and really to sail
away
To the waiting ship wi h John and his mates. All,
there's the signal gun
And the husband turns to kiss his vile, and they to
each other rum
1t is at last and her good man is with the other
tars;
She will, weeping, watch the good ship go till the
dark clouds hide he SCARS;
And then for long lonely nights by the below
the silent stars.


From BeHJrdUiG.
Year: 1876

The Little Russians inhabit an inland
district in the southwest of Russia
They are primitive people, and of their
funeral rites a striking account has re-
Gently been given by member of the
st. Petersburg Geographical society.
When any one dies i'll Little Russia a
Jug of water is placed on the window
sill, that the soul may be able to per-
form it's ablutiOns before setting out on
its long Journey. That it may have the
sun to light it on its way, the funeral
takes place at sunset. Within the coffin
are placed various articles of food and
clothing along with some money, that
the deceased may have a prosperous
start in his new life. The shavings of
the wood of which the coffin has been
made, and the tools used by the dead
man, if he has been an artisan, are also
enclosed In it. With these are put the
parings of his finger-nails, which both
men and women in Little Russia pre-
serve all their lives, in consequence of
superstitious notion that they will ena-
BILE them to climb the mountains that
separate the earth from the mysterious
region of the dead. Female mutes are
invited to follow the coffin, and an old
woman scatters handsful of wheat over
the mourRers and along the road, pro-
ceeding which is considered lucky for
the living. The coffin is surrounded
with cows-this being the continuance
of an ancient custom prevalent among
the HindoOs; it is thought to purify and
disinfect the dwelling in which the death
has taken place.


The little Russians believe that the
soul remains for some time in the house,
in the shape of butterfly; and cats and
fowls are driven away for fear they
should eat it up. After the funeral a
banquet is held, at which cover is laid
for the deceased, who is supposed to pre-
side during the festivities. The dead
are held to be hurtful rather than WELL
disposed to their surviving friends. This,
however, is not always the case; mothers
sometimes, for example, revisit their
children and lavish great tenderness upon
them. But it is essential that the chill
dren keep the visits secret, or they will
call down the vengance of the mother
on their native village. These are strange
notions, and we linger over them with
pleasure. They invest death with sort
of romance, and rob it of half its ter
POrS
Year: 1876

The idiots who are deceived by bogus
drafts, or the notorious "saw dust game
or by "three card monte men," or by
the Elusive bottom oC roulette (Which
the gambler controls with his FOOT or
the game of rouge ct noir, or lat Of keno
or faro, or any of the plain Y gambling
sports, in which the professional player
has ninety per cent o. the adyailC-
aee-these idiotic players, who readily
accept these terrible odds a.e nothing
compared with the madmen OF Wall
street VINO risk on bonds they never
knew and stock they do not own the
happiness Of themselves and al who de
pend upon their success. What do such
people mean as they crawl between,
heaven and earth? II is the old story oi
fraud on the one side and OF faith on the
other.


THE engineer whs said that his loco,
motive ran over and killed two hundred
and seventy nine rabbits in Nevada was
al once elected president Of liar CLUB
Year: 1876

Five hundred cattle in the form of
meat are henceforth to be shipped every
week from the United States to England.
There it is sold at less than half the price of
the domestic article America will yet do
an enormous trade in this staple.


Therep0rt of the conference committee
appointed by the Methodist Episcopal church
south to decide upon basis for the union
of the two churches, is wise document.
The divine purpose and scriptural founda-
ton of both churches is acknowledged, and
the future unity is decreed. Sensible rules
are laid down in regard to the settlement of
the ownership of property in dispute, and a
desire is manifested to secure harmony and
charity and perfect brotherhood throughout
the Methodist body. This union, besides the
good effect which it will have upon the pro-
gress of religion, cannot fail to produce
marked results politically. Removing the
distinction between the northern and south
ern churches will tend to obliterate the dis
tinction between the unionist and the recon-
structed rebel.-NeU York World.
Year: 1876

Mrs Roney, of this county, has a child
five or six years old that has been sick
with sore throat for several weeks, and
one day last week it seemed to die. 1t
had no pulse so far as persons present
could discover. 1t was laid out for dead
and coffin made. The persons sitting
up with the corpse grew sleepy, and
were nOdding, when suddenly the child
threw aside its grave clothes, gotu from
the table where it had been laid, and
went to the cupboard and got something
to eat. As soon as it saw that some one
was awake it called loudly for milk.
Such was the superstition that no one
would for some time touch or 90 near
the child. The mother came in, and
after some hesitancy caught her hand.
and the electricity seemed to restore her
courage, and convince her that it was no
ghost. She got the milk for the child.
After eating it was placed in bed. 1t
seems that this sudden exhibition OF
strength was a freak of nature, for in
four hours the child was dead.-1forgdn-
fO1gD N ~ RLgde
Year: 1876

There is apparently no end to the in
ventions of explosives and motors of great
force. The latest is thai discovered by q
party in 'Petrolia, Pa. It's workings have
not been kept a close secret, but have
been publicly exhibited before large gath
erings of people, and from the printed
reports of the public experiments we have
the positive assurance of its being a real
ity. The new invention is claimed to be
an explosive with force of one hundred
per cent. greater than nitro-gl lycerine /;
and what is most important considera-
ton, is that it can be handled with COM
parative safety, the great force being de-
rived from mercury, which is nowhere
near as susceptible to friction as nitro
glycerine. A correspondent of the Titus
vile Herald, writing from PetrOlia, gives
the following account of recent public
experiments with the new discovered eX-
plosive: 1.-TWO ounces Of the stuff was
put into small tin pepper box and
placed upon a steel plate half an inch in
thickness, said to be capable of resisting
a pressure of 175,000 pounds to the
square inch. When exploded, a hole the
size of the box was made through the
plate with the edges as square and clean
as though made by a drill. Three ex-
periments were afterwards made upon
half-inch boiler ple e, and the result was
the same as upon the steel. One table
spoonful placed upon three thicknesses
of the best boiler iron aud exploded with
out any tapping, wilrperforate all three"
It is claimed that the new explosive is
equally, if not more, efficient for rock
splitting or blasting, and exhibitions of
its powers for this kind of work are TO be
made before long.
Year: 1876

DR.. Hall is authority for the following


sensible thoughts upon breakfasting be,


fore much exercise in the open air par
ticularly in districts where fever and
ague are abundant:


Breakfast should be eaten in the morn.
ing before leaving the house for exercise,
or labor of any description those who
do il will be able to perform more work
and with greater alacTity than those who
work an hour or two before breakfast.
Besides this, the average duration of life
of those who take breakfast before eXer-
else or work, will be a number of years
greater than those who do otherwise.
| Most per ons begin to feel weak after
having been engaged five or six hours in
their ordinary avOcatiOns; good meal
reinvigorates, but from the last meal of
| the day until next morning there is an
! interval of some twelve hours hence tke
body, in a sense, is weak, and in proper
tiOn can not resist deleteriOus agencies,
whether of the fierce cold of midwint r
or of the poisonous miasm which rests
upon the surface of the earth wherever
| the sun shines on blade Of vegetation
or heap of offal.


This miasm is more solid, more con-
centrated, and hence more malignant,
about sunrise and sunset than at any
other hour of the twenty-four, because
the cold of the night condenses it, aud it
is on the first few inches above the soil
in its most solid form; but as the sun
rises it warns and expands and ascends
to point high enough to be breathed,
and being taken into the lungs with the
air and swallowed with the saliva into
the stomach, all weak and empty as it
is, it is greedily drank in, thrown i'm
mediately Tito the circulation of the
blood and carried directly TO every part
of the body depositing its poisonous in
fuences at the very fountain head of life.


If early breakfast was taken in regions
where chIlls and fever and fever and
ague prevail, and if, in addition, a brisk
fire were kindled in the family room for
nhour, including sunset and sunrise, these
troublesome maladies would diminish
in any one year, not tentold, but a thou
sand fold, because the heat of the fire
would rarity the miasmatic air instantly
and send it above the breathing point.
But it is troublesome to be building
fires night and morning all summer. 1t
being no trouble" requiring no effort,
to shiver and shake by the hour daily
he
Year: 1876

MORE GOVERNMENT OFFIcERs.-In the
O. s. Senate, on Monday a bill was
passed providing that animals shall not
be confined in any railroad car or vessel,
without food or water, for long er
period than twenty -four hours, and that
they shall have at least seven consecu-
tive hours for rest.


Mr.. Bayard, in addressing the Senate
against the bill SAID ct seemed to him
that there was too much intermeddling
by Congress with affairs which had bet
ter be left to the police powers of the
States. This bill would create a whole
brood of deputy marshals or United
States police officers, " no could without
regard to locality, enter vehicles for the
transportation of animals and exercise
a system Of espionage which would be
exceedingly annoying. lie thought this
legislation not wise because it was un-
necessary. He gave notice that he
would demand the yeas and nays on the
final passage Of the bill, that he might
put himself on the record against it,


This bill will probably meet with op-
position in the Hou 7e, which is now not
in a temper to saddle the country with
any more government officers.
Year: 1876

1t seems that the r publican party
leaders have become corrupted every
where. 1t is not only in the South that
the leaders of this party have been
shown to be extravagant and dishonest
but according to Il ,ir own party papers
it Is 80 elsewhere; and the Republican
papers, or many Of them, have been al
least compelled by public opinion to de-
clare against the reelection of Republi-
cans.


This is go in our sister city of Phila
delphia where an election is in progress
to-day for municipal officers. The e1.
travagance, dishonesty and peculations
(for it amounts to that although they
cannot be reached by the law have been
exposed by the press of both parties
and the most influential Of the Republi-
can newspapers are as denunciatory OF
Republican nominees as are the Demo-
cratic papers. These corrupt Republi-
can leaders everywhere seem to think
the taxpayers were made to labor for
their especial benefit. As soon as poor
devil, like several in our State. got into
Office, he assumed to think himself Of
immense consequence and worthy OF a
higher salary than was ever given be-
fore; and if he did not get more money
legitimately commenced to help himself
in any way that his fruitful imagination
could suggest. 1t is fact, that the Re-
publican Party has not bestowed it's Off :
ces on the most worthy men but has gen.
orally placed in position fellows who were
utterly unable to keep themselves above
water by their own efforts and hence
the Offices are filled by pack that have
been known professionals, but their
profession has been that Of office-seek-
ing.


Philadelphia we hope will rid herself
OF a lot of these folk to-day.
Year: 1876

And now come the tidings that there
is probability of an exhaustion of the
petroleum territory of western Pennsyl-
vania, and as a consequence, the large
stock of oil on hand has suddenly began
to be In demand at largely increased
prices. The rates within two or three
months have nearly doubled, with con
tinuous upward tendency.
Year: 1876

1E another part Of this issue Of the
APPEAL we publish a Communication
from a member OF the Women's Chris
tian association, in regard TO the use Of
tobacco and the good that might be
done by the application OF the money
expended for the weed to the purposes
for which the association exists. Though
logically written, we doubt thst this sp-
peal will have any great weight with
smokers and chewtrs to induce
them to forego an expensive habit,
but it certainly ought TO have st least
the good result Of attracting attention 10
one OF the nobless and most generously
conceived Of all our charities, Similar
in every respect to that knsRn as the
"GoOd Samaritan" zoE which Colonel
Michael Msgeveny has done so much,
it is equally worthy the generous sup.
port Of the public and Of being suitably
endowed by some one or more
Of our wealthy Protestsnts. The
work Of the WOmen's Christian assOcia-
ton is a most noble one, embracing as
1T does the rescue Of unfortunate women
from life into which many Of them
drift without any volition or will OF their
own, and supplying them with labor
and home. We appeal to our eitizess
in behalf of so eminertly benefcent a
mission, and trust that wherever and
whenever by the noble women who con-
duct it, they are invited to help it they
will respond promptly and literally.
Year: 1876

THE President yesterday signed the
act to provide fJr the deficiency in the
printing and engraving bureau Of the
treasury department, and for the issue
OF silver coin OF the United States in
place OF fractional currency. In view
Of this, the treasury regulations to gov
ern the issue Of silver currency were the
subject Of confederation al the depart
ment, but have not yet been fully de-.
termined OF. They may be ,sped 10.
day, but there is possibilit, , of a deIav
Of two or three days yeiore they are
completed.
Year: 1876

A Congressman vouches for the fol
lowing as an actual conversation between
two members of the majority, which he
could not help hearing the other day in
the United States House restaurant.
After some comparison of domestic ar
rangements for the session, A. inquired: {:
" "What have you done about your wash
ing2" "Oh," said B., I" have made
an excellent arrangement for that.
have got frst-rate colored woman, a
real good woman, 1 think, and have
made bargain with her for the season at
a dollar dozen 10 "Well, responded
A., 81 am not quite certain whether
my arrangement is as cheap as that or
not. I have made bargain with a
woman to do all my washing for the sea-
son for dollar and half month but
I'll watch it for the first month, and if
l find your bargain is cheaper, I'll try
and get your woman to do mine too. "
Speaker Kerr ought to have been in
formed of this conversation in time for
his committees. III those two men are
not put on the ways and means, gross
injustices will ne done to the financial
q enuius of the House.
Year: 1876

A rhinoceros belonging to a menagerie
recently died in New York State, and
was skinned and cut up that his skeleton
and skin might be prepared for the
Albany museum. The skin is from three
quarters of an inch to an inch thick, and
some idea of its weight may be obtained
when it is stated that it required twelve
strong men to lift he box containing it,
The skin will have to be reduced one-hal
in bulk, and will be put over manikin
by the improved French method, the
old German method of stufing with
stri W being found impracticable. To
properly prepare the skin, large vat
will have to be made, in which it will be
placed over night in solution of alum
and salt 1t will be taken out each day
and worked down. The operation will
require about two weeks.