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Year: 1872

Having made large additionsto oourestablish-
ment in the shape of material of the latest
style, and having employed experienced and
orders for every varietyof PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB PRINTING with neatness and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power to our establish
ment affords us great advantages over most
suntry Offices in the way of low prices and
fast work Call with us and be convinced.
Year: 1872

Avoid all indulgences and habits of
which you would be ashamed TO have
your mother know. Strive to keen well
and grow strong, for healthy souls live in
healthy bodies. Narrow chests, stoop-
shoulders and weak backs are fosterers
of moral cowardice and mental weak
ness.


Never consider your education finished;
add to it every day. Mind makes the
man. Your mind is one vast storehouse
in which there is always room. Your
value is rated by what you k7aOao, do and
are. An undeveloped, uncultivated man
is of little use to himself or others.


Observe people and study human ma
ture. Learn application, also. Correct
yourself by what you see agreeable or
disagreeable in others. Exercise kind
ness toward all. Have kind and CHEEKY
word for every one; make some one hap
py every day; do not wound the feelings
of your comprehension can not love
them too much. Be merciful to animals;
a child who tortures helpless creatures
and teases other children will grow up
brutal and cruel. Love is the best law;
have animals gladly flock around you,
and younger children look upon you
as true friend. Be patient with your
companions, sympathize with them, try
to help them, gently correct their faults,
and love them. Gain love by giving love.


Serve and love God, and obey his laws.
Take Christ for your pattern; work for
humanity as He worked, love as He loved.
Strive to be better, nobler, holier than
you are.


Govern your tongue, temper and ac-
tions. Conquer your faults; cultivate
firmness; learn to say NO! when tempted
to do wrong; think before you speak; be
sure you are right, and stand like rock;
practice self-control; cultivate go-aheada-
tiyeness; be leader in the fight for the
good and true: respect the rights of others,
and be courteous.


heep yOurselues pure. Think how noble
it would be to grow up as pure as when
you began to walk-purs in words and
thoughts. Every one of you can be purer
and wiser than you are. Avoid every
act, word and thought which you would
be ashamed to tell to those you love and
respect most Avoid low, bad company;
do not tell or listen to vulgar, obscene
stories. God made nothing impure or
unclean.


Your happiness and nobleness depend
on clear conscience, contentment and
cheerfulness; on something to do, to love
and to hope for. Cultivate good habits !;
be generous learn to live, to love, to for
give and to be pure Educate and care
for your bodies, brains and hearts and
remember, ''Self-made, or never made"
Boys and girls, the world needs strong,
enduring men and women-pure, patient
and noble-who fear nothing except to do
wrong who love all of Gods creatures (;
who are overflowing with sympathy and
kindness, and who will work to make the
world wiser and better and the world is
looking to you to fill that need.-Hedrth
| and Home.
Year: 1872

In Professor Nordenskiold's account of
the aerolitic shower which took place
near Hessle, in Sweden, on the 1st of
January, 1869, he mentions as a remarka-
BILE fact that stones weighing two pounds,
which struck the ice of the Larsta- Vixen,
failed to penetrate, making holes only
three or four inches deep in the ice and
rebounding


The small velocity retained by these
stones, at the time of striking the earth
is, doubtless, owing to the resistance of
the air, and, consequently, is not an indi-
cation of the velocity which they had
upon entering the atmosphere. .-Ndture.


The interest of the above, says the
american Gas Light Journal, lies IN the
fact that many meteorites have been
proved to pass into the atmosphere with a
swiftness more than ten thousand times
greater than that of the swiftest cannon
ball. The flame that attends their pas
sage is believed to be due to heat produc-
ed by their compression of the air in front,
as in the fire syringe" The writer has
before suggested that, if cannon ball
could be projected with this velocity, it
would burn up instantly as a streak of
intensely brilliant flame. The prObabili-
ty is that the impulse necessary, however,
to impart such velocity to a cannon
ball would grind it to powder in overcOm-
ing its inertia We have also before
thrown out the idea that aerolites which
reach the earth are such as have had
their velocity so reduced by friction that
they become cooled below the vaporizing
point before reaching the earth. The
comparatively low velocities above
recorded are thus easily understood.
Much must depend on the angle at which
they first strike the atmosphere. Some
think that, in meteoric showers, they
merely flame through the outer edge of
the atmosphere, ami shoot on in their
appointed paths, like messengers from
the outer universe who merely call to
take look at the earth in passing but it
may be, on the other hand, that these
falling stars" are altogether consumed
or dissipated, reaching us only as i'm
,oalnab1a 1uet
Year: 1872

LONDON complains that the luxury OF a
glass of pure water is denied TO the
wealthiest community in the world.
There is no constant supply IN any
part of the city, and the sediment from
sewerage is retained in cisterns for weeks
and months. The query is pertinently
made in an English paper, "Why do not
the temperance advocates come to our
aid q? For how caR a vast population,
supplied with such an eXecrable fluid, be
expected to be a temperate and water
drinking population ?"
Year: 1872

THE Girard CosmOpolite says that, at a


certain station on the Philadelphia & Erie


Railroad, the company has a new night


telegraph operator, who, if inclined to


slumber, is too ingeniously wide awake


to be caught mapping at his post. Re


Gently he was seized with drowsiness


which he could not shake off. As it was


his duty to report all passing trains, he


dare not yield, and yet could not resist.


The mother of invention, necessity, at


length suggested an alarm signal, which


he proceeded to put into operation by


suspending a scuttle full of coal, by means


of a cord which was passed through the


keyhole of his Office door, and fastened


across the track at the requisite elevation.
Mr.. Operator then resigned himself to


rosy dreams, which were finally inter


rupted by passing train, the engine of


which snapped the cord, causing the
scuttle TO come down with a rattlety-bang
that would have aroused even a sleeping
| Erie policeman. Another young opera
tor, some thirty miles up the road, let
| train slip by him the same night, and ap-
piled TO the inventor of the coal scuttle
alarm TO know when the train passed his
station. No answer was vouchsafed, the


inventor remarking "Why don't the darn


ed fool get the right to use my patents"


MORE novelties are the result of acci-


dent than is generally supposed. The or
igin of blue-tinted paper came about by
a mere slip of the hard. William East,
an English paper-maker, once upon a
time set his men 10 work, and went away
on business. While the men were at
/ dinner Mrs East accidentally let q blue
| bag fall into one OF the watts of pulp.


Alarmed at the occurrence she determined
! to say nothing about it. Great was the
astonishment of the workmen when they
saw the peculiar color of the paper, and
/ great the anger of Mr.. East when he re-
/ turned and found awhole vat of pulp had
been spoiled. After giving the paper made
| from il warehouse room for four years,
| Mr.. East sent il up to his agent in Lon
/ don to be sold ''for what it would fetch"


For what il will fetchm said the agent,


misunderstanding the meaning; ''well, it


certainly is a novelty, but he must not


expect too much" So he sold the whole


at a considerable advance upon the mar
ket price, and wrote to the mills for as


much more as he could get. The sur


prise of Mr. East may be imagined. He
hastened to tell his wife, who found cour-
are to confess her share in the fortunate
/ accident. and to claim a reward, which


she received in the shape of a new cloak


Mr.. East kept his secret, and for short
time supplied the market with the novel
/ tint. until the demand far exceeded the
! supply, and other makers, discovering


the means used, competed with him.
Year: 1872

In Utah, during the past winter, some
travellers saw dog standing by the side
of telegraph pole. The appearance of the
animal struck them, for, as they rode up
toward it, it did not move nor give any
signs of life, but stood as motionless as if
carved out of stone. A closer inspection
revealed the fact that the dog was frozen
to death. He had died leaning against
the telegraph pole, and stood as naturally
as if alive.
Year: 1872

REV. ROBERT CoLLYER "got into the
wrong pew" at Manchester, N. H., the
other evening. In other words, he got
into a hall in which a Democratic meet
ing was assembled, instead of the hall
where he was appointed to lecture. The
Boston AdrertiSer thus relates the story,
as told by himself on opening his lecture
at the right hall: "He came in late to the
hall with broad smile upon his face,
and when he explained, the audience
smiled also. He said he had met with
difficulties since his arrivalin Manchester.
When he reached the Manchester House
he found no lecture committee, but learn
ed the Chairman had been there in search
of him. So he directed the hackman to
drive him to the lecture hall. Arrived at
the hall, he found no committee there to
greet him, but an immense audience; even
aisles were packed. But he had never
before had an audience who kept their
hats on. He made his way to the plat
form, and the audience looked at him,
evidently thinking he was somebody. He
looked at them, and thought it was the
most remarkable lyceum audience he ever
saw. The female portion looked as If
they were natives of Ireland, and the
men looked as if they came from the
same country too. Presently several
gentlemen came and took seats on the
platform, one or two nodding to him.
Then one got up to introduce the speaker,
but he did not mention his name. He
said he was resident of South Carolina,
and Mr.. Collyer began to think he did not
mean him; but when he said he would ad-
dress them upon the unadvisability of re-
electing President Grant, he was sure of
it. He then made his escape as soon as
possible, was met by the lecture commit
tee and escorted to the right hall"
MEDFoRD and New Bedford, although
their names rhyme, occasionally don't
quite harmoniZe, as witness the follow
ing The Medford editor perpetrates this:
There was fair maiden OF Medford
Who was smashed on youth in New Bedford
But he smeled so of oil


That his suit it did spoil
Oleaginous chap of New Bedford"


To which a New Bedford editor re.
| spends:


There was fine lad in New Bedford
Fell in love with lady in Medford;
| But she smeed so of rum
| He was quite overcome
This prohibitory youth of New Bedford"
Year: 1872

Before Recorder Hackett


The jury in the case OF Frederick Heggi tried for
the alleged murder OF Frederick j. Sicgried by poi
soning him, were kept together on Tuesday night
As soon as the Court was opened yesterday morn
Ing His Honor the Recorder, learning through the
foreman that there was no possibility Of the Jury
agreeing upon verdict, discharged them from the
further consideration OF the case. The Jury stood
nine for acquittal and three for conviction.


Now that this protractcd trial has terminated IL
Is not improper to say that the chain OF circum-
stantial evidence against the accused was not com
plcte. Heggi was remanded to prison.
Year: 1872

TT The Washington Star says. Few
people know, and thousands do not
know. that by placing glass fruit jar on
a folded towel, thoroughly soaked in cold
water, the fruit can be poured in boiling
hot, with no more danger Of breaking
than with a tin can,
Year: 1872

UNIFORMS FOR GIRLs.-A writer in
Scribncr's Monthly does not know why it
is not just as well for school girls to dress
in uniforms as for boys. There are many
excellent schools in England where the
girls dress in uniform throughout the cn-
tire period spent in their education. BY
dressing iD uniform the thoughts of all the
pupils are released from the consideration
Of dress; there is 20 show Of wealth, and
no confession Of poverty. Girls from
widely separated localities aud classes come
together and stand or fall by scholarship,
character, disposition and manners. The
term Of study could be heightened BY the
use of the money that would thus be
saved; and while a thousand cousidcra-
tions favor such a change, wc are unable
to think Of one that makes against it.
These reflections are suggested by tho fact
that in some of our schools the mere item
Of dress for young ladies is often over ono
thousand dollars year.
Year: 1872

BREAD FOR ALL.-Mr. r. r. Griffith, at 1lth
and Tatnal streets is doing an extensive business
in the bakery line. His two large ovens are kept
constantly in use and still the demand for his
pies, should patronize this establishment, where
they are made, OF the best kind
Year: 1872

STRUCK BY THE LOCOMOTIVE Saturday
last an old colOred man, ~ years OF age. was
struck by the locomotive on the Wilminstou A
Reading Railroad near White Bear Station, ana
Knocked down the embankment and badly huri
30 a. to die. He was crossing the track at pub
he road when struck, and being deaf and nearly
blind was readily run over.
Year: 1872

Tho Chattanooga Herald contains the
following account Of q frightful accident
which took place in that city on Satur-
day morning last, in which horse and
delivery wagon belonging to Mitchell &
Stone, grocers, were precipitated over u
bluff into the river:


On Saturday morning tho boy in
charge went down Spring street on his
usual rounds, but having in new horse,
the animal balkcd. He turned from
Spring to Second. Here the horse balk-
ed again. The street at this point is very
narrow, there being just room enough
for vehicle to pass between an adioin-
ing garden fence and the bluff, which
iuts out 125 feet above tho river below.
The horse, whel, he stopped, commenced
backing, and ut once started the wagon
down steep slope which precedes the
final descent. The weight of the wagon
drew the horse after it and both went
headlong to the bottom. Tho driver vi
first appeared panic stricken and un-
conscious Of his danger, but, upon some
one crying out to him, reused up and
loaped out in time to escape horrible
death. After rolling down the slope the
horse and wagon had clear fall of
seventy-fye feet or more, stricking bed
of rocks at the bottom of the river, which
owing to the low stage Of the river were
clear OF water. The horse was killed in d.
stantly and the wagon shattered to frag-
ments, mixed in with water-mellons,
peaches, apples, flour and groceries in
general. The driver ran around to the
bottom of the bluff as soon as possible,
but found that the animal was dead,
without ever having stirred from the
place where lie had fallen.
Year: 1872

Mover accuse child of fault unless
you are certain he committed it. Chill
dren should not be treated with suspi-
cion. We should act toward them in
this matter as we feel we ought to act
toward others, only with greater tend
erness--not less, as is usually done.
We should always put the best construc-
ton possible upon their conduct; that
is, unless you are sure child is telling
lie, and can prove it, do not show the
smallest hesitation in believing what he
says. Far better that you should be
deceived, than run the risk Of showing
n truthful child that you do not trust
him. Your simple trust may make a
lying child truthful. Your doubt of
his truthfulness may make truthful
child liar.
Year: 1872

You can never altogether forget her.
She was SO very young and innocent
and pretty. She had such way OF
looking at you over her hymn-book in
church. She alone Of all the world did
not think you boy Of eighteen, and
wondered at your size and learning, and
your faint foreshadowing Of sandy
moustache, and believed you every inch
man. When at those stupid evening
parties, where boys and girls who should
have been eating suppers OF bread and
milk, and gone to sleep hours before,
waltzed and hirted and made themselves
sick over oysters and champagne, you
were favored with glance of her eye
or a whisper of her lip, you ascendod to
the seventh heaven Immediately. When
once, upon d certain memorable eye,
she polked with the druggists clerk,
and never even looked at you, how mis-
erabie you we're. 1t is funny to think
of it now, but it was not funny then,
for you were awfully in earnest.


Once at a picnic she wore II white
dress, and had roses twined in her black
hair, aud she looked so much like a
bride that you fairly trembled; some
times you thought in just such snowy
costume, with Just such blossoms in her
hair, she might stand beside the altar,
and you, most blessed of all mortals,
might place a golden ring upon her fin
ger; and when you were left alone with
her for a moment some Of your many
thoughts were sure to form themselves
in to words, and though she blushed
and ran away, and would not let you
kiss her, she did not seem to be angry.
And then when you were parted some
how for a little time, and when you met
again she was walking with gentleman,
a large, full grown, whiskered man Of
twenty-eight or thirty, and had neither
word or smile for you, and some we'll
meaning gossip informed you shortly
after that she was engaged to the tall
gentleman with black whiskers, and
that it was a splendid match, 1t was
terrible news to you than, and sent You
of, to some great city, fan from your ma
tive place, where, after a good deal Of
youthful grief, and many resolutions to
die and haunt her, You recovered your
oquanimity, and began to make money,
and to call love stuff and nonsense.


You have a rich wife OF your own,
now, and grown-up children, aye, even
two or three toddiing grandchildren
about your hearth; your hair is gray,
and you lock your heart up in tho fire.
proof safe at your banking house when
you go home at night, and you thought
you had forgotten that little episode Of
your nineteenth year, until the other day
when you read of her death in the pa
pers. You know she was a stout lady,
who wore glasses, and had died Older
than she was in that olden time, but
your heart went back and you saw her
smiling and blushing with hor cold
black hair above her face, and yourself
a boy again, dreaming of wedding-robos
and rings and you laid your old gray
head upon your Office desk and wept
for the memory of your first sweetheart
Year: 1872

Here is a bit of philosophy worth
reading. 1t is an exposure of very
common delusion. 1t is good render
ing of au old idea:


1.-TWO things ought to be strongly i'm
pressed upoh young people of our coun-
try. The insecurity of riches, even when
acquired, and their unsatisfying charac-
ter. There is no fallacy SO universally
cherished as the notion that wealth is
surely means Of happiness. The care
Of a large property is one of the most
burdensome of earth's trusts. The only
material good that comes from any
estate is TO be made out of a moderate
income far more easily than q large one,
and with fewer attendant disadvantages.
Few thoughtful men would undergo the
entire stewardship of large estate on a
positive bargain that they should receive
no more for taking care OF it than Or
dinarily falls into the lap of the owner.
The scramble after wealth is due to a
wrong estimate Of good when it is gain.
ed"
Year: 1872

A great many men, whatever nay be
their experiences in life, are accustomed
to complain of the usage they have re-
ceived in the world. They fill the ears
of those who have the misfortune to be
their friends, with lamentations respect.
ing their own troubles. But there is no
man tha5 is not born into a world of
trouble; and no man has ever attained
to anything like the full stature of man.
hood, who has not been ground, as it
were to powder, by the h0rdships which
he has encountered in life. This is a
world in which men are made, not by
volyet, but by stone and iron handling
Therefore, do not glumble; but conquer
your trouble.
Year: 1872

Every column of a newspaper contains
from ten to twenty thousand distinct
pieces of metal, according to the size of
the paper and type. The displacement
of single one makes an error. Is it
any wonder that errors occur? In large
offices professional proof readers are
kept, whose practiced eyes passing twice
over every line of proof, detect most Of
the errors, boy is also kept for the
same purpose at the same time reading
the copy aloud. Still mistakes are fire.
quently occurring, after coming from
such hands, and probably no newspaper
or book ever was yet published without
errors that might be detected by the
merest novice. In book printing it is
estimated that proof reading costs half
rs much us composition. In country
Offices the editor generally has to be his
own foreman, printer, book-keeper and
almost everything else, and if the same
care had to bo exercised that is deemed
indispensable On the best city sheets,
the country newspaper could not be
published at all, because Of the expense.
-P1Tnting Gazette.
Year: 1872

Face the Music.
Face the music. though the world should
Turn against you in its might,
Wayer not, be not q coward,


Dare to think and do what right.
IfreVerses come, and sorrow


Oyertake you on your way,
Pace the music, and the morrow
VIII dawn brighter than to-day.
When a storm Is breaking Ger yOu,
Or an avalanche sweeps down,
And your life seems dark before you,
And the world appears to frOwr.
Aud all friends prove false and leave you,
Fen the friends you most do love,
And your fOndest hopes deceive you
Face the music--lOok above.
Face the music, though the rattle
Of the conflict jar your soul
Boldly enter Life's long battle,
God your guide and Heaven your goal.
Face the music in Lifo'S morning.
Face it in the noon-tine bright;
Face it in she twilight glooming,
Pace it in the solemn night.
At all times and in all seasons,


Whsrcsoyer you may be,
Let no feAr nor favor bind you,
Face the music and be free.
Year: 1872

Last week, near st, Louis, MIR. John


j. Murdock found laargs meteorjc
stone in the bottom OF hole on his
farm. The hole was clean cut and
reached to a depth of more than thr-
teen feet in the ground. The stone weigh
ed about twelve pounds, was coated with
black crust, and was composed main
ly Of iron. In shape it was oblate
spheroid, and therefore before it reach
ed the earth was probably in a semi
fluid state and revolving on its axis. 1t
should be kept as specimen of what
the earth WAS before it cooled down in
to its present habitable condition. 1t
C. uld be used to illustrate the nebular
hypothesis, If necessary. From several
other parts of the country reports have
been coming in, telling of the fall of
meteorites, some of which are of i'm
menso size, but are composed of we'll
known materials. There have also
been several extremely brilliant nuroras
such as that which was observed in this
city last Saturday night. We seem


likely to have large and brilliant col
lection of august meteors" this year
unless perchanco these phenomena be
now foreruhners and portents of the
dreadful catastrophe by which on the
twelfth day Of the present month, the
earth is to be destroyed under the NAL
efc whack Of Plnhtamour's comet.-Er.
Year: 1872

The feeling Of our working people was
plainly shown the other morning when
Mr.. Greeley alghted from street car
and stepped into the business Office OF
the Tribune to get his letters. A vest
crowd OF iaboring men collected at once
and greeted him in the heartiest and
most enthusiastic manner. And an
Irishman proposed three cheers, which
were given with will. lie received
them in simple, democratic fashion,
and his overHowing good nature and
noble bearing left the most favorable
improa5ioD,