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Year: 1876

God. which passeth all understanding, come
in an Instant Is there no growth in relig-
ious life2 Is there no inducement to that
steady development of moral nature which
sums up the true measure of Christian man
hood Can the Water street wharf rat, who
sewers and kennels of great city-liar
thief adulterer, wretch-be suddenly trans
formed into gentle, God-fearing Christian
soul? If this is the truth-and this is the
Gospel we learn from Brother Moody-of
what use is all that vast body of divinity and
morals which comes down to us from the
Christian fathers-which comes in other
forms and clouded with legends and super
stitions from Confucius and Mencius and
Mohammed and Buddha? Looking at relig-
ion in its largest sense-not as creed or a
combination of creeds, but as the expression
of the faith, the reverence, the self-denial,
the intellect of people, as the first and
fairest development of reason-it is far diff
ferent from what Brother Moody breaches
and Brother Sankey sings to the anxious



drome. If this is all, let us put away the
books that for ages have embodied the wis
dom and virtue and genius of all nations. OF
what use are those holy examples with which
the history of every faith abounds-examples
of suffering, restraint, self-denial and martyr
dom--if we can all be summoned into the
kingdom of heaven as by signal gun or the
tap of drum?


Brother Moody's work-and we say it in
all kindness to him. and with the highest
respect for his sincerity, his enthusiasm and
his rare gifts-is but the work of day He
furrow and root out decaying stumps and
SOW the seed, but true living religion must
grow. The soil must be watered and fer
tilized, the sun must shine and the dens
must fall; the laborers in the vineyard must
be viglant lest the tares come and choke the
growing plants, and we must wait for the
harvest. This revival, like all re-
vivals, will last for an hour. Brother
Moody will soon go to other
fields; the Hippodrome will close its
doors, to open in few months to fiddlers
and beer merchants, and the anxious thou
sands who now assemble nightly to know
what they must do to be saved will 60 back
to the world of sorrow and sin and tempta-
ton The true Christian work will remain
to those patient, self-denying men in the
ministry who live with their people from
year to year. Let US trust that all the good
for which Christian men are praying with SO
much fervor may be achieved and when in
the dread future this generation is asked,
s'What has the harvest been ?" there will be
some other answer than the refrain which
Brother Sankey chants. so sweetly, Nothing
but Leaves
Year: 1876

1t is pleasant to hear that the Bonapartists
are once more ready to save France, for we
like TO know that an influential party is
amiably disposed toward q country in whose
welfare the world has an interest, and it is
an evidence that France is in very prosper
Gus condition when the Bonapartists con-
slider that she needs saving. France, like
every other nation, occasionally goes ''to the
bad" as they say in Coekaigne, OF goes Ito
the dogs, as we say, not having particularly
good opinion of the dogs. 1t is her fate in
such circumstances to fall into the hands of
the Bonapartists. They are her dogs. Their
advent is an evidence of vital decay or
calamity. To see a gentleman's gold re-
peater in the possession of Mr.. Simp-
son, with ponderous seals dangling from
his fob. may be a splendid sight to
the eye that regards only Simpson, but it is
q very melancholy indication to the friends
of the gentleman and thus, though France
may dazzle and glitter with a Bonaparte on
the throne, that splendor itself is the worst
of signs Bonapartists are all happy when
one of the family is in possession they are
reserved and self-possessed when events
have any tendency to put them there. They
hold their peace and watch their opportunity.
But in proportion as their chances wane-in
proportion as the country shows the capacity
to take care Of itself, to avoid excesses and
calamities, to keep out Of the possession of
the pawnbrokers as it manifests a resolute
disposition not to go to the dogs the voice
of the Bonapartist is heard in the land
clamoring his anxiety to save France.
Consequently the fact that the Bonapartists
now declare themselves readyto perform
this little service is the best possible indica-
ton of the national welfare.
Year: 1876

A FoRoING MARQUIS. Crime, when it in
vades high society, should be in keeping
with its surroundings. Thus, while society
would turn with withering scorn from
nobleman who stole and pawned his
buffers wardrobe, il can look with
complacent aversion on marquis
who forges the signature Of king. This
the Marquis Mantegazza has been doing with
the sign manual of the King Of Italy to the
tune Of forty thousand dollars a signature.
Tweed robbing a mere city sinks in the scale
Of interest below the verge of recognition.
Year: 1876

The AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY held
public meeting at Chickering Hall last
night, to listen to an address by Judge
Charles p. Daily. The learned geographer
recounted the work of the societies in geo.
graphical exploration, and presented an in
teresting history of discovery in every part
Of the world, which will be found in our
columns this morning.
Year: 1876

WHEN Whitley was on the witness stand
during the trial of Assistant Attorney Har-
rington for completely in the safe-burglary af-
fair, he swore positively that he had no knowI-
edge of it beyond what he saw reported in the
papers. He also testified that he knew moth
ing of purpose to commit the burglary prior
to the time of its commission In his recent
testimony before the Congressional Committee
he swore he was employed by Babcock and
others to abstract the documents from the
safe in the District Attorneys office and de-
post them in the House of Columbus Ale1an-
der. 1t is very difficult to believe the testi-
mony pf such a man On one of the occasions
referred to he must have sworn a direct and
positive lie, and now the query is, on which
OF them did he swear the truth, or has he
sworn the truth on either of them? The tes-
timony of such man, when uncorroborated,
should not convict any person, and if it were
not that Babcock is under strong suspicion of
having been engaged in number Of very
crooked things, it would not have the weight
OF feather against him. But there is evil
dence undisputed, that Babcock communi-
Gated with Whitley and addressed him as
''Dear Colonel" assuring him that if he would
only have faith and patience be would in due
time reap his reward. The fact then that he
held correspondence with Whitley goes far to
corroborate the testimony of the latter agains,
him. L Pitts Dispatch.
Year: 1876

Indiana polls Journal, sth.l


In the course of an editorial article urging
the nomination of Mr.. Bristow for President,
the Louisville Commercial says:


1.-The nomination of Bristow, on the con-
trary, wonld very probably restore the Repub-
hcan ascendency in North Carolina, Louisi-
ana, FloridS and Alabama; and would be the
same in Mississippi if the State election was
to come off there in November next. The
reason is obvious. Colonel Btistow is held in
such high esteem by men of all parties, even
by Southern Democrats, that the campaign
against him would be very languid. Intim-
idation, fraud and bribery would not be used
against him to any great extent; men would
GO to no trouble to vote the Democratic ticket
when he is the opposing candidate; and thus
many Republican Governor, representative
in Congress, and State legislator might step in
under the shadow of his well sounding name. 3"


The Commercial assumes to be Mr.. Bris-
tow's spokesman in political matters, and is,
think it is furthering his interests among Re-
publicans by such talk as the foregoing. The
Republicans do not want President against
whom Southern Democrats would make





interest, nor is to their policy, to nominate
candidate whom Democrats will ego to no
trouble to vote against.


We do not believe bitter contest for the
nomination at Cincinnati will be profitable to
the party or productive of good, and really
restrain much of our ''inwardness' towards
the kind of argument contained in the para
graph we have quoted. IfMr. Bristow is the
kind of Republican foreshadowed by the
Commercial he is not the man we want under
any circumstances. If he is held IN ''such
high esteem by Southern Democrats" it may
be good reason why certain independent
newspapers should favor him, but it is very
poor reason for his nomination by the National
Republican Convention. Mr.. Bristow may
have an unfortunate mouth piece in the Com
mercial-we do not pretend to say we do say,
however, that what Mr.. Bristow needs to
strengthen him in Republican Convention is
just the reverse of the Commercials twaddle.
Republicans want to know that he has de-
cided convictions and such willingness to ex-
press them as would scarcely make him fa-
vorite with Southern Democrats. The real
difficulty in his case is, that Republicans are
afraid he is the kind of man the Commercial
paints him. He really has no expressed
record. He has made few speeches and writ
ten little His location does little to strengthen
confidence in his Republcanism, and few
such articles as the one from which we quote
will dispose of him as a candidate before the
Cincinnati Convention.
Year: 1876

A PERFECT and complete marriage
is perhaps as rare as perfect personal
beauty. Men and women are married
fractionally, now small fraction, then
a large fraction. Very few are marri-
ed totally, and they are only after some
forty or fifty years Of gradual approach
and experiment. Such long and
sweet fruit is complete marriage that
1t needs very long summer to ripen
in, and then long winter to melIew
and season in. But a real happy mar.
risge Oflove and Judgment, between Q
noble man and woman, Is one of the
things 30 very handsome that If the sun
were, as the Greek poets tabled, q god,
he might stop the world, in order to
feast bis eyes with such spectacle
Theodore Parker,
Year: 1876

AFTER enumerating the intrigues on foot for
the nomination at Cincinnati, the Gazette of
that city says:


All these sordid pursuits and low views
must be overcome in the Convention, if the
Republican party would succeed. 1t must rise
to the question: What candidate will best
meet the demand of the independent Republi-
can mind for reform and high character? Who
will command the confidence of the Republi-
can masses ia all sections of the country?
Their demand will be, not who has most ser
vilely followed the Administration, but who
has shown the purest and most resolute deter
mination to elevate its character. Not who
can command most of the support of Office
holders and seekers, but who will do the most
to drive the corrupt from Office. Not who
will have the voice of spoilsmen and mercen-
ary adventurers, but who is most feared and
hated by all the elements of profgacy and
corruption
Year: 1876

Fischer zeitung.l


A razor RECEIVERS It's edge if left
for half an hour in water which
contains sulphuric or muriatic acid
in the proportion Of one part by
weight Of acid to nineteen of water,
The razsr is cdrefully wiped on be-
ing taken out of the acidulated
bath, and passed over an oil.stone,
The acid bath is said not to hurt
the blades on the contrary, the
quality Of the metal in some cases
improves by the immersion. So
with scythes and sickles. The time
lost in the haryest-feld in the early
morning in sharpening scythes
would be spared by laying the
blades for half an hour in a bath
prepared as above described. As
soon as taken out of the bath thoy
should be wiped, and a soft sand.
stone hone passed along would leave
a good and uniform edge behind it
Year: 1876

New York Cor. Rochester DemOcrat.l


Speaking of families, one is led
to notice peculiarities which are be-
queathed from father to son. Thus
it is said.that the Astors have an
idiot in every generation. Old John
Jacobs Oldest son, who bore his
own name, spent the larger part of
his life in private asylum built
for him by his father. This was,
no doubt, the finest institution of
the kind in America, and consisted
of an entire square walled in, con
tanning residence for the keeper,
with stables. The patient was
never left unmatched. He was
driven out in the coach in the fine
weather and was treated with all
possible attention. The cost of
taking care Of him was about $4,000
a year, including interest on the
property. About six years ago the
patient died, being then about sew
enty-6ye. The present idiot is
Henry, son of the late William B.
Astor. AS soon as his case was
found to be hopeless he was placed
on the farm near Rhinebeck. The
manager of this establishment had
care of him, and all went well unit


Henry got acquainted with a coun,
try girl of low family, and was soor
decOyed into a marriage. The ex
pectation of wealth led to this, buI
it was disappointed, for the father
left Henry a pensioner on his broth
ers. Since then Henry was accused
of striking child in a cruel man
ner, and damages to the amount o
$4,000 were recovered, Like al
idiots, he is cruel, but this verdic
is only explained by the famil,
wealth. 1t has never been equalet
in the records of Jurisprudence
The brothers will not pay it, ant
all that can be done is to arrest tht
idiot and place him on the limits
Year: 1876




They are Exposed.


Few conditions in life are free
from trouble, with probably the
single exception of being the hus-
band of a cross wife. In that case
you are only to do as you are told.
But of all others, the most trying
ordeal is that experienced by the
eDjoyer of single blesSedness. In
the first place he is acquainted
with eyerybody's young and lovely
wife. When she meets him in the
stores, just because he has no one
else to buy for, she wants him to
buy her a new dress. If he doesn't
buy it he is "stingy." If he does
he has the most brilliant prospect,
at no distant day, Of getting shot
by her husband as a reward of
merit.


Should he take a stroll with q
neighbor's daughter, several of the
young men of his neighborhood
watch 10 waylay him, and all the
other girls of his acquaintance
are watching their opportunity to
snub him. If he remains in the
unpleasant enjoyment of his fate,
all unite in saying that he cannot
get any one to have him, and if he
marFies all the wicked men and bad
boys Of his neighborhood gather
together to chariyaFi him.


With the exception of the mar
ried man, there is no other being
on earth more to be pitied. For
our part we have sympathized with
him for a long time, but We can do
nothing for him. His good nature,
benevolent disposition, and religious
awe Of the girls and women, place
him beyond the reach Of any aia
but his own.
Year: 1876

Generally our clothing has been oon-
sidered as an apparatus for keeping the
air from us. This conception is utterly
erroneous, and we can bear no garment
which does not allow Of a continual ven.
tilation of our surface. Just those text
ures which are most permeable to the
air keep us warmest. A writer saws he
has examined different materials. for
their permeability to air, and taking the
permeability of air passing through flan-
mel, as one hundred, linen allowed flftv.
eight, silk forty, buckskin ffty-eig6t
chamois ifty-one, kid one part of air to
pass through them.


If the above stated notion was COR
rect, kid would keep us one hundred
times warmer, chamois warmer by half
than flannel, and so on, while every one
knows that it is quite the reverse. Fur
is 80 arranged that its fine hair project
ing into the air intercepts all the heat
which flows from the surface of the BODY
by radiation and conduction, and dis
tributes this heat through the air which
circulates between the single hair cylin
ders. Thus the air, however cold It
may be, reaches the nerves of our skin
as a warm air. Furred animals in Win
ter, when touched specifically, give a
very cold sensation; it is only near the
skin that their hair feels warm. In a
severe cold, certainly little of our ami
NAL heat comes as far as the points of
the hair, from which it would escape
by radiation or conduction, as the cur
rent of air in the fur cools the hair
from its points toward its roots, and a
severe cold penetrates only little
further into the fur, without reaching
the skin of the same. This can take
place only at an exceeding low tempera-
ture, or when a very cold air is in vio-
lent motion.
Year: 1876

THE Country Gentleman advises gar
deners after planting their beds to stick
q small cross in each TO show that it is
planted. II they neglect to do this,
however, and forget whether the beds
are planted or not, a good way to tell is
to turn a strange cat into the garden.
If the beds are planted the cat will pro-
ceed to race around and dig into them,
and act us if it had relatives in China
whom it was anxious to get at, while if
they are not, it will sit down calmly in
the path and seem to be meditating on
the progress of missionary work in Ar
menia. A cats instinct seldom deceives
il in this matter .-Noyloich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

THE philosophers have said that ev-
cry act of virtue or friendship was at
tended with secret pleasure whence
they concluded that friendship and vlr.
tue would not be disinterested. but
the fallacy of this is obvious. The Vlr-
tuous sentiment or passion produces the
pleasure, and does not arise from 1t. i
feel a pleasure in doing good to my
friend, because 1 love him T; but do NOT
love him for the sake Of that pleasure
Hume.
Year: 1876

Beat seven or eight eggs quite light,
and throw them into q clean frying pan
with small quantity of butter and q
little salt. Stir them carefully until
they are well thickened, and turn them
out on a hot dish, without permitting
any portion of them to adhere TO the
frying-pan. This dish is excellent with
o trimming Of steWed tomatoes.
Year: 1876

Wash and wipe the heart, cut it inlo
four pieces, season these with pepper
and salt, chopped thyme, and bay leaves,
add about two ounces of dripping,
eight onions cut also in slices; let all
this be placed in an earthen pot, with a
pint Of water, and, the lid being put on,
set the stew in the oven to bake for two
hours.


SALT FISH WITH PARsNIPs.


Salt fish must always be we'll soaked
in plenty of cold water the whole of the
night before it is required for the fol-
lowing days dinner. The salt fish must
be put on to boil in plenty of cold water,
without any salt, and, when thoroughly
done, should be well-drained, free from
any water, and placed on q dish with
plenty of well-boiled parsnips. Some
sauce may be poured over the fish, which
is to be made as follows: Mix two ounces
of butter with three ounces of -four,
pepper and salt, a small glassful Of vim
egar, and q good half pint Of water.
Stir this on the fire till it boils. A few
hard-boiled eggs, chopped up and mixed
in this sauce, would render the dish
more acceptable.


MINCED BEEF.


Cut into small pieces the remains Of
cold beef, and gravy reserved from it on
the first day of its being served should
be put into the stew-paR, with the addi-
ton of warm water, some mace, sliced
sschalot, salt, and black pepper. Let
the whole simmer gently FOR an hour.
A few minutes before it is served, take
out the meat and dish it; add to the
gravy some walnut ketchup, and little
lemon juice or walnut pickle. Boil up
the gravy once more, and, when hot,
pour it over the meat. Serve it with
bread sippets.


BEEF RIssoLEs.


Mince and season cold beef, and flavor
it with mushroom or walnut ketchup.
Make Of beef dripping very thin paste,
roll it out in thin pieces, about four
inches square; enclose in each piece
some Of the mince, in the same way as
for puffs, cutting each neatly all around;
fry them in dripping of . very light
brown. The paste can scarcely be rolled
out too thin.


MINCED VIAL.


Gut veal from the fllet, or shoulder,
into very small dice; put into veal or
mutton broth with little mace, white
pepper, salt, some lemon. peel grated,
and q tablespoonful of mushroom ketch-
up, or mushroom powder, rubbed
smooth into the gravy. Take out some
Of the gravy when nearly done, and,
when cool enough, thicken 1t with -four,
cream, and little butter; boil il with
the rest Of the gravy, and pour it over
the meat when done. Garnish with bread
sippets. A little lemon juice added to
the gravy improves its favor.
SCRAMBLED E0os.


Beat seven or eight eggs quite light,
and throw them into clean frying-pan
with a small quantity of butter and q
little salt. Stir them carefully until
they are well thickened, and turn them
out on a hot dish, without permitting
any portion Of them TO adhere TO the
frying-pan. This dish is excellent with
trimming Of stewed tomatoes.


LETTUCE, DUTCH METHOD.


Heat quite hot pork fat or butter, add
little vinegar, pepper and salt, and fry
the tender leaves Of lettuce until en-
tirely wilted.


ONE Of the most valuable features Of
the present Centennial Exhibition is
the careful preparation Of statistics, by
experts, relative to the material pros
Year: 1876

though how much, at this writing, it is
impossible to determine.


The railroad on the Fog river line is
badly washed out A freight train is off
the track at Yorkville, and the up bound
passenger train for this morning is stopped
at Millington, iD consequence of a bridge
being gone. The report is that three
bridges are washed out between Aurora
and Streator.
Year: 1876

DETROIT, April l4-At Mackinaw the
warm rain had great effect on the ice
and there is every appearance of an early
break up now. The Straits will un-
doubtedly open in ten days or less
Year: 1876

The crowd IN the courtroom had been quite
ooisterous during the entire morning. and were
repeatedly admOnished by his Honor and the bail
ne elected. The caution seemed to have only mo-
xnentdry effect and in few minutes after being
requested to maintain silence the loud talking
and laughing Of the throng would be repeated.
His Honor endured IL until after the recess, and
shortly after the above cause was begun the noisy
demonstrations were repeated, Whereupon he
directed the baifs to clear the courtroom. which
was done and better order and odor prevailed.
Year: 1876

RUsKTH's ADVICE TO GIRLS ABOUT DRESS. --Dress as plainly as your parents will allow you, but in bright colors (if they become you) and in the best materials that is to say. in those which will wear the longest. When you are really in want of a new dress, buy it Cor make it) in the fashion. but never quit an old one merely because it becomes unfashionable. And if the fashion be costly, you must not follow it. You may wear broad stripes. or narrow, bright colors, or dark, short petticoats, or long Gin moderation), as the public wish you; but you must not bay yards of useless stuff to make knot or hOunce of. nor drag them behind you over the ground, and your walking dress must never touch the ground at all I have lost much of the faith once had in the common sense, and even in the per- sOnal delicacy. of the present race of aver age English women, by seeing how they will allow their dresses to sweep the streets. if it is the fashion to be scaven- gers. Learn dressmaking yourself, with pains and time, and use a part of every day in needleGOrk, making as pretty dresses as you can for poor people who have not the time or taste to make them nicely for themselves. You gre to show them in your own wearing what is most right and graceful, and help them to choose what will be prettiest and most becoming in their own station.
Year: 1876

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