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Year: 1875

A Detroit gentleman walking behind
two school children the other day heard
the boy inquire: "Will you be at tho
party tonight ?" 81 shall be there an
swered the miss, "but may as well tell
you now that your love is hopeless. Mann
ma is determined, father is set, and il
isn't right for me to encourage your atteH-
ton. l can be sister to you, but moth
ing more. Therefore you needn't buy me
any valentine or give me any more gum. 7
Year: 1875

When the stiffened body goes down IL
the silent tomb. sad, silent, remorseless.-
feel there is no death for the man. That
clod which yonder dust shall cover is not
my brother. The dust goes to its place.
man to his own. 1t is then feel my i'm
mortality. | look through the grave into
heaven. ask no miracle; no proof, no
reasoning tor me- ask no dust risen to
teach me Immortality, | am conscious ot
eternal life Theodore Parker.
Year: 1875

Dat meal, long a favorite article Of food
in Scotland, is steadily growing in favor
in this country In starch and nitrogenous
compound, it is richer than wheat, barley
or corn, and as food it sits lightly upon
the stomach, and is very digestible.
Year: 1875

A farmer having written a long article
in an agricultural exchange advocating
the use Of green wood, ''house-wifen
responds that if moisture makes the wood
better She still prefers to have it dry to
begin with, and will add the water. 10
suit nerseltn She concludes that if that
farmers wife has to burn green wood the
house sometimes gets tao hot for him, and
that is why he thinks it makes such a hot
fire
Year: 1875




The happy-thought men has been
driving a clever cob and writes We
are going up hill beautifully It is
quite a pleasure TO sit behind him
And as he is the surest-footed beast
possible, coming down hill on the other
side viii be simply perfect Bravo /
am in luck wOnldn't part with this
horse not for hundred pounds This
is a bargain


We are on the summit.


1 say to Cazell, cheerfully, "There's
rather sharpish pitch here meaning
that the decline Is very sudden, and
that he mustn't be astonished if, with
such magnificent stopper, 1 take this
opportunity of showing him how Z" he
ought to go down bill"


Down the " sharpish pitch.


A Iumbling of wheels-the trap slip
ping forward on the horses back-a
tremendous whack on the dash board
In front, as if it bad been attacked with
a ge-hammer-suddenf fash of sup
position that this blow must have come
from the hOrse-suppOsition becomes
conviction on the unexpected and awful
appearance of the hind quarters of the
animal high up in the air, then of two
apparently gigantic hOofs, whose size
seems to have been exaggerated by
hundred magnifying-glass power
Bang | bang l-dash-board gone-heels
higher NO than ever-reins anywhere
whip nowhere. I hear my own voice,
as if it were somebody else's, shouting
wildly, "Murgle get out behind
Bang bang My knee somehow or
other just escapes the enormous hOOfs,
which are now being hourished furi-
ously over my head-we are swaying to
the right-tO the left-up like a swing
Bang bang Gigantic hOOfs again -
rolling like shipl 1 am conscious of
still holding the reips firmly, and pull
ing him towards a ditch on the left.
Bang Grassland in another half
millionth quarter of a second there
comes tremendous rattling bang-we
arrived at, so to speak, our last kick
everything gives way in every direction,
and in q sort of grand final display of
cracking fireworks, we are, IN one sud
den explosion, sent flying up, all COM
pact at first, like a sky-rocket, then
dividing, and dropped out here and
there, and being conscious the whole
time of gigantic horses legs waving
about, coruscating horses hOofs, wheels
whizzing, wood swapping, and glass
breaking, until to all this there sud
denly succeeds a moment of the deepest
tranquility, broken only by the con-
vulsive snorting of the clever cob, who
is lying on his side in a ditch, with
Murgle in pious attitude kneeliDg on
his head, while all that is visible of the
trap are four wheels in the air-and
take this all in at a glance as 1 lie on
my back in the road, with torn coat,
a smashed hat, and the broken reins
still in my hand while Cazell, also
hatless, is seated on a bank, with his
knees drawn up as though meditating
bathing, and wondering whether the
water were warm enough or not his
scared look conveying the notion of
gentleman Who had been called too
early for the train and wanted to go
asleep again
Year: 1875

There is an elastic sponge, as it is
called, that is somewhat largely used
now as a substitute for curled hair In
stufing beds, cushions, car seats, etc
but this is an entirely different thing
from the sponge of commerce. Before
it was used for this purpose, it was a
worthless sea grass, growing abun-
dainty among corals in rather shallow
water.
Year: 1875

question is, though the wife be divorced
and King alive in the flesh, and, though
civilly dead according to the laws of
New York, is Mrs. King a widow in
California? Upon the determination of
that point depends the acquisition and
enjoyment of large property left by
father to q daughter upon the event of
her becoming q widow,
Year: 1875

PHYSICIAN in London sends to the
Lancet letter which he received from
a firm of undertakers inclosing a check
for R2 l4s., being five per cent commits
sion on the amount received by the
firm for two funerals furnished on the
physicians recommendation. It had
not occurred to the physician that he
was entitled to commission on funerals
until he received this bribe, and he i'm
mediately inclosed it to the Lancet, in
quiring what he should do with it. He
was advised to send it back, and doubt
less did so. 1t must have produced
queer sensation when the honest doctor
found himself credited with a commits
sion on the funerals of his patients.
Year: 1875

It will be a comfort to those wso have
suffered and are new suffering so severely
ron drouth 20 know that Sc, ists pre-
dict that the spring rains will be unusually
large as consequence Of the long spell OF
Polar weather which we have experienced
during the winter. The theory is that
the amount ofwater distracted from the
passing clouds and vapor la
den winds depends largely, il
not chiefly, upon the cold
ness of the earth's crust and its conse-
quent condensing power. When the
warm and moist spring winds begin to
blow over the country from the Gulf and
the Atlantic, with the return of the great
equator ial air current, they will lmp'nge
upon continent intensely chilled and IN
a condition to condense immense quanti-
ties of vapor. We may, therefore, hope
for the restoration of the balance OF
vapor, which has been lost since the fear
full drouths of last July, since which date
the agricultural interests have suffered
greatly from the general rainlcssness.
Year: 1875

The Changers Of Rice county are here
after to hold fairs upon the first Satur'
day OF each month. Why not initiate
this everywhere! Why not have ons
day in each month, say the Grange meet
ing day. when the farmers, Grangers and
all, can come together at q given place, to
sell their cattle and grain and buy what
they want?


Will not the County Councils of the dill
ferent counties move in this matter!


Why not have Grange address IN the
evening Of that day and a supper or
dance to wind up with!


Wha speaks first!
Year: 1875

[From the Minneapolis Tribute, March 81


The figures which we give below are as
nearly correct as any one, aside from the
Colonel himself can possibly give them.
Indeed. we doubt if even he could give a
more correct statement Of his assets and
liabilities. The descriptions Of his real
estate are taken from the records. and
the estimates of the value Of the various
pieces were made by some of our most
experienced real estate dealers. His liza
bilities, we ascertained from his attorneys
and gentlemen who hold them:
Year: 1875

w.t. on or about the 3sth day OF April A. d. 1871 caused
70 be organized, under the laws Of the State of New
York. corporation under the OF the Emma Silver
Mining Company OF New-York, with q nominal
each ana thereupOn Icaused the sald 50 called Emma
Mining Company OF Utah 10 convey to the said Emma
silver Mining Company OF New-York all and singular
the premises aforesaid az and for nominal consder
alton Of 5000 shares or theeabout the capital stock
OF the said last named corporation which then and
there ssued and delivered full paid stock for the
pose aforesaid TO the various persons interested in the
said mining property ana IN the said Utah Company
the remaining shares OF stock in the said last named
Company also then and there issued full paid
th Is not advised.


The plaintiff is informed and believes, that in pursu
ance OF some Arrangement scheme and plan devised and
agreed upon before tha formation OF the SAID Emma Sill
yer Mining Company OF New-YOrk. the particulars
whereof are unknown to the plaintiff the stock Of the
said Company caused TO be issued and distributed
Year: 1875

James Campbell, chief steward of Vassar
College, tells the editor of the Poughkeepsie
Eagle that the young ladies at the college
are given to eating confectionery between
meals, and considers that the use of candies
in that manner is certainly hurtful to them :
but the appetite for it seems to be fixed,
and therefore he attempts to meet the
situation by putting fine candies upon the
table


Candy eating by girls between meals is
in his opinion, fully as bad habit as segar
smoking by young men. The extravaganza
of it is also to be deplored. One lady pupil
in the college uses it to an extreme, and
not long ago she had package of candy
sent to her from New York, the bill for
which amounted to $40. If one young
lady hands it around freely, another thinks
she must too, and then there is no end to
the outlay of money for it.


Had Mr.. Campbell gone further, he
might also have said that it is candy eating
that takes the roses from the cheeks Of
American girls and makes them pale and
sallow. He might have said tnat the eating
of candies by women and pies by men
makes us a nation of dyspeptics, and saps
up our vitality, making us feverishly
vigorous at times, but apt to succumb
before disease much sooner than the palmer,
more substantially and more hygicnically
fed Englishman.
Year: 1875

The sporting world was greatly excited
last week over the great international shoot
ing contest between the American and Irish
rifemen. The scene of the shooting was a
locality known as Dollymount, in the vicinity
of Dublin, Ireland, and the contest was
witnessed by great throng of people, esti-
mated at tie close to exceed twenty thous-
and. The shooting was at distances of
eight hundred, nine hundred and thous-
and yards, and was pronounced very fine
on both sides, but the Americans were
finally declared to be the victors. Their
Irish competitors, with their accustomed
generosity, were enthusiastic in acknow-
Lodging the superiority of the American
marksmen, and grand banquet in their
honor was given by the Lord Mayor Of
Dublin in the evening. All this is very
nice, but whether the practical good to come
out of it will pay for the ink and paper the
newspapers have wasted over it is rot ST
easy to see.
Year: 1875

The chief place of the manufacture of
marbles, those little pieces of stone which
contribute so largely to the enjoyment of
boys, is at Oberstein, on the Nahe, in Ger
many, where there are large agate hills and
quarrics, the refuse of which is turned to
good paying account by being made into
small balls, employed by experts to knuckle
with, and are mostly sent to the American


market. The substance used in Saxony is
a hard, calcareous stone which is first brok-
en- into blocks nearly square, by blows with
a hammer These are thrown by the hun
dred or two into a small sort of mill, which


is farmed of fiat, stationary stationary
slab of stone, with number of ecentric
furrows upon its face \ block of oak, or
other hard wood, of the diametric size, is
placed over the stones and partly resting
upon them. The small block of wood is
kept revolving while water flows upon the
stone slab. In about fifteen minutes the
stones are turned into spheres and then,
being fit for sale, are henceforth called mar
bles One establishment, with but three
mills, turns out $4,000 marbles each week.
Year: 1875

coming in his direction from the middle
Office.


1t was moment of supreme excitement.
With wonderful presence of mind the watch
man dropped his basket, and drawing his
revolver fred upon the burglar in front of
him, sending 4 bullet whistling through his
heart. The rufian rolled upon the floor,
and moment later was rigid corpse
bathed in blood This brilliant coup de
main on the part of Soaring enraged the
burglars, OF whom there were three still to
be disposed of, and in rushing into the mid
die of the room to escape the one approach
ing him near the cellar door, he was seized
by third, at whom he fred and who, it
is expected, is mortally wounded, as the
bloody trail left in his path testifies to the
efficiency of the watchmans shot. At his
juncture another of the gang dealt the
brave watchman blow of a club with
which he felled him to the ground, when
they proceeded to manacle him. The strug-
gle was most intense Searing's cries for
help brought TO his assistance the store dog
Major, and then calling as if to compan-
ion Come on, Gray, but don't shoot, the
desperadoes became alarmed and fed
through the Office window, which was sub
sequently found covered with blood


\ few minutes later and Messrs. Gray,
Fred. Fowler w. Ii. Scranton, attracted
by the watchman's cries, came upon the
scene. The thieves had fed, however,
leaving their dead companion behind them.
Soaring had a handcutf on one hand and a
severe bruise on the head, where one of the
rufiians had struck him.


Upon the mask being removed from the
burglar face it revealed countenance of
the most brutal type The rufian seemed
about twenty-five years of age, had a we'll
knit frame, and was evidently about six
feet high. On his person was found a
quantity of nitro-glycerine, cartridges and
other burglarious ammunition such as pro-
fessional burglars employ in their ncfarious
work


A new Jimmy was found under the
safe in the Office, and later in the day the
dead burglars overcoat and gloves, with
some money and the photographs of two
children were found, but nothing to lead to
Identification in the way of writing. The
path taken by the decamping desperadoes
was clearly in the daylight for distance
of half a mile by the heavy trail of blood
marked by the bleeding burglar, and at the
foot of a tree where he changed his cloth
ing and left them behind him there was
large pool of blood. 1t is expected that he
could not live many hours later. Along
the railroad was discovered valise contain
ing a complete set of burglars tools, show
ing that the men were professional ''cracks." +"
They entered the office in their stocking
feet, and doubtless calculated on overpower-
ing the watchman and then rifing the safe
Of its contents.


On Saturday jury was engaged ex-
amining the Office, and kilograms were sent
in all directions that it was thought the
thieves would take. Soaring, the watch
man, was the hero of the hour, and is to-
day perhaps the the most popular man in
Oxford.
Year: 1875

The Scientific 1naeriican tells us that
NJ. Lostal, Railway Contractor, of Ferminy,
has communicated to the Society of Mineral
Industry, at ST. Etienne, France, the +6.t
suits Of his observations on the effect of
lime in preserving wood and his method of
applying it. He piles the planks in tank,
and puts over all layer ofquick-lime whicH
is gradually Stacked with water. Timber for
mines requires about a week to become
thoroughly impregnated, and other wood
more or less time, according to its thick
ness. The wood acquires remarkable cor
sistcnce and hardness, and, it is said, viii
never rot. Wood has been prepared in this
manner for several miles, so that the plan
will shortly be tested on a considerable
scale Beechwood has been prepared il
this way for hammers and other tools for
several IRON works, and it is said to become
as hard as oak without its elasticity or tough
ness, and to last much longer than when
undrepared. 1t has long been known that
wood set in lime or mortar is preserved
from decay, but no systematic plan for its
preservation has until now been attempted


The experience which most of us have
had with whitewash on farm buildings and
fences, leads us to believe there may
be something in this idea We have known
wood annually whitcwashed to last much
longer than some that has been carefully
painted, tarred, or otherwise cared for In
deed as regards tar, there is often no bet
ter way, short of actual burning, to hasten
the destruction Of wood 1t is used be
cause it keeps out water, and so far it is q
benefit but it is heat as well as water that
hastens decomposition, and the dark color
of the tar absorbs heat to an extraordinary
degree. We can lay our hands on white
washed fence In summer time with COM
Portable feeling but to put ones hand on
a tarred post in the full sun, is a sure pre-
cursor of an unscemingly ddnce, with per-
haps some hastily expressed sentiment con-
corning it. OF course, the hotter the eli
mate, the more rapidly the dark color has
tens decay, and it is more likely to aid
above ground than beneath 4 post dark
painted, or tarred on the part beneath the
ground, will therefore decay faster than one
not SC colored, but not so fast as one fully
exposed to heated atmosphere. 1t is not,
perhaps, that there is much preservative
power in the lime itself so much as in It's
| light color.
Year: 1875

DURING the war a Georgian started to
Marietta with some chickens for sale He
met a squad Of soldiers and they bought
all his chickens but one rooster He insist
ed they should take him, but they were
out of money, and couldn't buy.


The old man said he hated to go on to
town with only one chicken, and was great
ly puzzled about it.


At last one of the soldiers said


"Old man, I'll play you game of seven
up for him."


agreed, says the old man.


They played long and spirited game.
At hast the soldier won. The old man
wrung the ROSTERS neck and tossed him at
the soldiers feet, and mounted his swab-
tailed pony and started home After get
ting some two hundred yards he suddenly
stopped, turned round, and rode back and
said


"You played far game, and won the
rooster fairly, but I'd like to know what in
HI you put up agin that rooster"
Year: 1875




The satisfaction expressed by the country
when Secretary Delano was at last got rid of
seems to have been premature. Nobody
imagined the possibility of such successor
as ex-senator Chandler, Of Michigan, com
monty called "Old Zach Chandler" Until
this strange selection President Grants later
Cabinet appointments have been respectable,
the officers selected being q great improve
ment on their predecessors Mr.. Bristow in
the place Of Secretary Richardson, Mr.. jew
ell in place of Postmaster General Creswell
and Mr.. Pierrepont to succeed Attor-
ney General Williams were appointments of
such conceded fitness that the country felt
warranted in expecting very different sue
cessor to Mr.. Delano from the old political
hack, discarded by the republican party Of
his own State, who was sworn in yesterday.


Candor requires it to be said that this ex-
tremely unfit selection was not President
Grants first choice. He made successive
offers of the position to other gentlemen, who
declined it, and feeling that it did not COM
port with the dignity of the government to
let SO important an Office go begging
any longer, he has given it to a
man who is only not worse than
Mr. Delano himself Mr.. Chandler is re-
puted to be rich, and may charitably be pre-
sumed to be above pecuniary temptation, but
we can think of no other point in his favor.
He is an INSCRIPTIONS partisan, whose Off
cial conscience will easily reconcile itself to
frauds if the profits go into the pockets Of
republicans. The fact that President Grant
has been unable to prevail on o better man
to accept this important place is o striking
proof that the administration has sunk so
low that it is no longer thought to be an honor
to participate in its councils. There may
have been a special repugnance to act as Mr..
Delano's Successor after tho whitewashing
letter the President wrote him in accepting
his resignation. In such circumstances the
new Secretary would not feel free to disap-
prove Of any act Of his predecessor. An
acceptance of the Office would imply an ac-
ceptance of the Presidents public indorse-
ment of the course of Mr.. Delano, and no
man Of honor would wish to bind himself to
take that view of the case. 1t is Presi-
dent Grant himself who has rendered
it impossible for any fit man to
take the place, because acceptance is
burdened with the condition that the new
incumbent shall take the same view Of Sec
Year: 1875

influences which can force upon the party
leaders two Objectionable and improper NOM
nations out of ten can be dangerously ex-
erted to sway the administration of justice.
| There are, it is true, good men on both party
tickets. Mr.. Charles F. Sanford, on the
opposition side, studied law with MIR.
William nj. Evarts, who by professional
standing and judicial temperament is
fitted to adorn the bench. On the
Tammany side, Judges Loew and
Spencer have already done honor to the ju-
dietary and proved their capacity and fidelity


while Mr.. Peter b. Olney, who enjoys the
friendship and confidence of Charles OConor
possesses every qualification necessary for
an efficient and useful District Attorney
But Tammany is admittedly a powerful and
growing monopoly over whom it will soon
be difficult for the people to hold check.
The recklessness of the old leaders alone
caused their overthrow. Had they been
more shrewd and cautious they would have
escaped detection and ruled the city with an
iron hand to-day. The mistakes of the
present ruler of the organization may
cause his downfall and that of his sub
ordinate chiefs. His self-will and obstinacy
have damaged Mayor Wickhams administra-
ton, when it might have been
success if left wholly under the Mayors
control. The same qualities which prompted
the attempt to drive Recorder Hackett
from the Bench have rendered highly prob
able the defeat of the Tammany judicial
ticket. But when John Kelly falls, which we
suppose will be in about three years. another
and it may be more dangerous leader will
rise up in his place. Under cautious, cum
ming and unscrupulous Tammany ruler
the New York city government may become
in the future as much an imperial despotism
as was the Paris government under Napoleon
and Haussmann. Our public works are at
present stagnant. The new Court House
is built although without dome
No great undertakings at present
yield large profit and can be used
as a mighty political power by bold leader.
But in few years we shall have our boule-
wards to extend, our old streets to widen,
our new public buildings to erect, our new
parks to lay out our new bridges to build,
and then we shall again be under the heels
of more prudent and calculating Tammany
Tweeds. 1t may be just as well to give this
overshadowing political organization a check
at this time, and this is the sentiment by
which large majority of the citizens appear
now to be moved
Year: 1875

Canada seems likely to set at Toronto an
example that the world will be more likely
to praise with imitation than the one that
has made 50 much noise at Montreal. In
the former city there recently occurred one
of those cases Of murder that are called
malpractice apparently because they are
supposed to have some relation with sur
gery-and the authorities there actually pro-
pose to hang the man and woman to whom
the offence has been brought home. 1t is to
be hoped that the authorities will not change
their minds, and that none Of the myriad
bubbles Of the law will come between them
and their purpose; for even two executions
in cases of this sort will be salutary. 1t ia
safe to predict that if these Toronto criminals
are actually executed there will not be many
more cases Of this sort Of malpractice in that
city; and this is, of course, the result aimed
at. This is result that the authorities OF
many other cities might well desire TO se-
cure. In this neighborhood the criminal
authorities have often had e. deal with this