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Year: 1876

The public roads throughout the county are
BIT the present time in a much better condl-
zion for driving than is usual a. this season
bf the year. There has been 40 heavy SHOWS
ind severe freezes during the past two
months and as consequence the public
highways are In excellent condition fol
travel as general thing. The road from
The city to New Castle is especially good
there being but few places where the bed II
hot hard and free from mud. Many per
sons have been deferred, during the pas
two or three fine days from driving, bu
Gthey will find that the drives are in nearly
as fine condition as is the case AZ any sea
son of the year.
Year: 1876

She was pretty, wore pleasant
smile, and when she entered an ave.
nue car last evening, there were seven
young men who Immediately vacated
their seats and delighted themselves
by casting alternate glances at the
fair one and the vacant spaces. She
took the nearest seat with nod to all
and bewitching smile; six young
men bowed and sat down, while one
young man bowed and stood up, and
imagined himself a martyr. She car
ried a bcwitching child in her arms,
and it was very playful. One young
man thought she was its aunt, and
two others were quito positive she
was not its mother. Meanwhile the
child amused itself. 1t climbed and
crowed, and laughed and played, and
the lady laughed and pctted it. One
of the young men, sacliligious
wretch, commenced humming, 81
wish ! was q baby" when the child,
kicking in playful mood, knocked a
handkerchief from the lady's lap on


he floor. There were four of the
young men who made a simultaneous
dive for the muslin, and two of them
got it; they came up smiling, neither
willing to relax his grasp, and two
hands extended it toward the fair
one. An old lady on the opposite side
Uttered, and the young lady held the
child in front of her face and blushed.
The young men looked at each other
and then at the --. Their mouths
and eyes opened; each handed it ia
the other, something tell upon the
floor, and the two young men silently
departed from the car. The other
young men looked out of the win.
dow, and somebody whispered, Il,
wasn't q handkerchiefp
Year: 1876

AS Woodward avenue car was go.
ing north the other evening, with a
young lady and an old gentleman az
sole passengers, she exhibited symp.
toms OF impatience at the slow prog.
ress made. The car had to halt for q
team on the track, and she would have
got off but for the gentleman, who
said:


"It's for only half a minnte-don't
be inpatient


Then the car waited two minutes
on switch, and she put her head out
of the window, walked up and down
and was on the platform when he
said:


"There comes the other car. You
seem to be so impatient that am led
to believe that some of your family
are sick. Is it so?"


"They are all unusually WE'LL" she
replied, and she took her seat again


One blOckmore and the car left the
track. She waited a half a minute to
see if it could be hauled on again
right away, and then she started to go


at will be all right in minute
protested the old gentleman.


"Can't see it, she curtly replied.


"Then you will go?"


81 will"


"And it isn't sickness p


"See here" she said standing on the
lower step, "if you are dying to know
the cause of my hurry l will tell you
My fellow is to be at the house at hall
past eight, and I'm not going to run
the risk of losing good offer for all
the old men and all the street cars in
Detroit. There does that make vou
feel any better?"
He pondered over it as the cal
slowed around and bounced and bob
bed, and he concluded that she was
perfectly correct, though little i'm
pudent.--DetroitE Free Press.
Year: 1876

A sudden rise in the price Of silk
has led to new and absorbing inter-
est in that valuable commodity, which
now amounts to many millions Of dol
lars annually as an article of import.
We have the alarming news that the
silk crop Of this year is q failure, or
nearly so. An investigation shows
that the silkworms have been killed
by an atmospheric or electrical wave,
unexplainable, as such climatic
changes usually are, and confined to
particular ATTITUDES in which the silk
crop grows that supplies the market.
There is not an eighth ofthc usual
crop gathered, and consumers will
probably feel the loss next season
more than this. The silk crop is
gathered in June, and the new article
is not yet in the market; but the light
yield is an established fact. The
Lyons manufacturers are telegraph
ing TO their agents here to take no
more orders for certain lines Of goods,
since 1t will be impossible to supply
them.
Year: 1876

New YORK, Nov. 2.-The Congre-
gational Association of New York
and Brooklyn have issued to the pub
lie a statement of their action in re-
gard to the charges against Rev. Hen
ry Ward Beecher's morals, which
were to be brought before the advis-
ory council commission and q COM
mittee appointed last winter to CO.
operate in bringing evidence before
that commission, report up to this
day, after more than six months op-
portunity to speak, and after the
most urgent and public entreaty that
every one would speak who had any
thing to say against him, no one had
seen fit to respond. No one had un-
dertaken to make either before the
association or before the commission,
the slightest responsible charge
against the moral character Of Beech
er.


The report was adopted and the
following preamble and resolution
passed:


WHEREAS, The report of said COM
mittee indicates that there is no SUBJ
stantial ground for believing in the
guilt of Mr. Beecher. Be it there
fore


Resolred, That we do therefore as
an association regard our brother as
worthy of our confidence and love,
and express to him our sympathy in
the severe trial through which he has
passed.
Year: 1876

A new disease has broken out in
London, a painful one from all ac-
counts. Its principal symptoms are
smashing windows.


A boat builder stopped i runaway
horse tho other day at Newport by
letting fly tho contents of pail OF
water and hitting him fair In the face,
Year: 1876

WOMEN's WORK IN THIS CAMPAIGN
|-"This is not only an exciting, but q


very interesting, political campaign.
Women as well as men have duty to
perform to their country, and they
should not shrink from 1t. They can


not vote or appear in professions, but
they can cut the wood and bring up
the coal, and thus leave the men more
time to talk up matters" "-Danbuyy
Nesrs.
Year: 1876

Many young people are impatient in
the hard work to be done as clerks, or of
subordinate positions, and are eager to
make fortunes without the long and pain
fu1> toll which is essential to success.
TheyNmay learn something from the ex-
perienoe of Vice-President Wilson. He
says of himself:


l feel that l have right to speak for
toiling men and to toiling men. l was
born here in your county of Stratford. |
was born in poverty. Want sat by my
cradle. l know what it is to ask mother
for bread when she has none to give. |
left my home at ten years of age, and
served an apprenticeship of eleven years,
receiving a months schooling each year,
and at the end of eleven years of hard
work, a yoke of oxen and six sheep,
which brought me eighty-four dollars.


Eighty-fo dollars for eleven years Of
hard toll


never spent the amount of one dollar
of money, counting every penny, from the
time was born until was twenty-ont
years of age. know what it is to traveI
weary miles, and ask my fellow-men tc
give me leave to toll.


l remember that in October, 1888,
walked into your village from my native
town, went through your mills seeking
employment. If anybody had Offered
me nine dollars a month l should have
accepted it gladly. l went to Salmon
Falls, l went to Dover, went to New
market and tried to get work, without
success, and returned home footsore and
weary, but not discouraged.


put my pack on my back and walked
to where l now live in Massachusetts
and learned mechanics trade. know
the hard lot that toiling men have to en-
dure in this world, and every pulsation
of my heart, every conviction of my
judgment, every aspiration of my soul
puts me on the side of the toiling men Of
my country-aye, of all countries.


The first month worked after was
twenty-one years of age, went into the
woods, drove team, cut mill logs and
wood, rose in the morning before day
light, and worked hard until after dark
at night, and l received the magnificent
sum of six dollars Each of these dol
lars looked as large to me as the moon
looks tonight.
Year: 1876

Norfolk Street, Strand, says the London
Court Journal, has a curious commemo-
rative monument. An observant specta-


tor will notice that the first floor windows
of large house at the corner of Howard


Street presents peculiar appearance.
The shutters are up, and they are COW
cred thickly with dust, while through the
chinks can be seen the blinds, also thick
with dust and mouldering away with age.
Those shutters and blinds have been in
exactly the same position, untouched for
about fifty years. During that time no
human foot, it is believed, has entered
that room. And the reason is this
Fifty years ago a certain nobleman was
engaged to be married, the day was fixed,
the wedding morning arrived, the break
fast was laid out in that spacious and
handsome room, the bridegroom was
ready to proceed to church, when it was
discovered that the bride was missing;
note in her handwriting was found ad-
dressed to the bridegroom, briefly in
forming him that she had eloped that
morning with his "best man." gay and
gallant captain of dragons; the jilted
bridegroom did not say much, but he
went alone into the room in which the
wedding breakfast was laid out, with his
own hands put up the shutters and drew
down the blinds, locked the door and
took the key. He gave orders that the
door should be nailed up and barred
with paddock bars and that no one should
enter the room again. When the house
was let it was stipulated that the room in
question should remain untouched and
the sum of two hundred pounds per an.
mum was paid to the tenant to compcn-
safe him for the deprivation of the use Of
the room. The nobleman has been dead
for some years, but It'll believed the room
has not been entered sincehe closed it,and
there are the wedding meats" moulder.
ing silently away, and the ornaments
crumbling to dust in tine funeral gloom
Year: 1876

PRACTICAL USE OF Doas.-It is fact
perhaps not generally known that there
is firm doing business in San Francisco
who purchase the thousands of dogs
slaughtered by the Pound Master of that
city, or that may have been otherwise
killed, for which they pay forty cents
each. The carcasses are conveyed to
their manufactory at South San Fran
cisco, where the skins are removed and
sold to the tanneries, the hair taken off
and re-sold to the plasterers, the hide
tanned, made into gloves, and sold in the
market. The denuded carcass is then
thrown into huge caldron, and boiled
until the bones are easily separated from
the flesh, when they are ground to a fine
powder and used to clarity sugar. The
oil that rises to the surface Of the boiling
mass Is skinned of and manufactured
into cod liver oil, and the remainder is
used for the purpose Of fattening hogs.
Year: 1876

THE TRAINING OF RAILROAD MEN,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has, within the past few years, adopted
the policy of taking number of edu-
Gated young men into in employment
for railroad management, 80 as TO produce
a regular supply of not only educsted
but practical officials. At the present
time there are from twenty to thirty
such men employed in Altoona, some
of them in the drawing room, Others
in the shops and on the road. The
testing department and the wheel
foundry are both under the charge of
such persons. Many of the sections Of
track are also supervised by them, and
the practical result is that there is grow.
ing up about this line corps of expert.
enced and accomplished officials, such
as cannot be found on any other railroad
in the country. OF course, these men
are laughed at good deal by the older
and more experienced men-perhaps at
times with some justice; but although
there may be at. times some amateur
railroading, those who are laughed at do
not seem to mind the sneers Of the older
men, and the evil Of inexperience, If it be
one, will cure itself in time, and when
cured the policy will bring with it an
immense additional advantage of having
body Of men who are both experienced
and educated In the ordinary sense of
that term. There is such thing as
valuing too much the knowledge which
comes from study alone, and that which
is learned from practical experience too
little, and perhaps the practice of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company may
have erred in this respect; but generally
there has been shown an appreciation of
the value Of intelligence, Of knowledge,
and Of education, such as no other rail-
road has indicated.
Year: 1876

! believe no two good soldiers will
widely disagree as to their sensations
during battle. / take it TO be a piece
of bravado in man TO assert that he
had no, fear during the progress of a
long and severe engagement. a battle
is veritable hell upon earth; not TO be
in Il serious apprehension while it lasts
is to be either drunk. crazy or insensi-
BILE. The highest type of bravery is
that of the man who realizes the full
extent Of the peril bnt sticks resolufe
ly to his duty. 1t was nv experience,
and that of all those about me, repeated
dinarily nearly so demoralizing as that
OF mnsketry. 1t is not often that shells
are thrown so that their fragments
scatter death and wounds. and their
loud humming overhead does not cause
that nervous tingling which always fol
lows the sharp zip of the rife bullet.
The peculiar cutting Of the air made by
half dozen Of these at once is apt to
give the soldier the idea that the whole
air is filled with them, and that he l.
certain TO be strnck with one OF them
All, believe, will agree as to the SEN
sation first caused by the impact of
bullet. 1t is a stunning, nnmbing feel
ing, which for time overpowers the To-
cal pain Of the wound. In my own ex-
perience a single hnckshot near the hip
knocked me flat, and for two days after
gave me such acute pains and such mus
cular disturbance from knee to shoulder
that ] could not stand erect. Soldiers
have frequently been prostrated by
spent balls. A curious effect Of she'll
wounds is that they do not bleed; The
hot fragment sears the torn blood ves-
sells and stops the effnsion. A Minnie
ball extracted from the human body
presents a remarkable sight. ] have
seen them where the resistance of the
flesh had turned back the pointed end
on all sides with such regularity that
the ball resembled a saucer or a flower.
IN. Y. Times.
Year: 1876

Miss Abhie J. Terry says: In the first
place it is an imposition on any we'll
bred girl to keep her mp later than half
past ten o'clock, when you have the op-
PortunIty Of seeing her often. If you
always leave her with the wish in her
heart that you had staid longer, you gain
so much. Never run the risk Of wearying
her with your presence. Be just as
earnest and straightforward as in your
honorable dealings with men. Impress
yonr friends with the worthiness and Sc
robustness of your love, so that vulgar
and senseiess bantering may appear to
them as such. Love is religion-the
snpremest hnppiness-wear it manfully,
proudly, but holly. Woo a woman
bravely. If there is anything humilia-
ting to woman, it is to have a lover
whom she wishes TO honyr, weak and
vap'd, ever yielding and half afraid Of
her. She longs 10 tell him to "act like a
man - The man who concenlS or denies
his love for fear Of being laughed at Is
a coward. A love that has no element
of divinity in it is not love, but pas
sion, which Of itself has nothing emo
bling. That WAS n beautiful inscription
on AN engagement ring, Each for the
o:her and both for Col"
Year: 1876

It is the habit of erring humanity
and a very comforting one apparently
to blame Providence for the misfortunes
which by imprudence we bring upon
ourselves. If man eats too much at
dinner, drinks too much and smokes
too many cigars, and dies of apoplexy at
forty, when he ought by the laws of ma
ture to have lived to eighty, God il ar
raigned, and the mans friends and the
clergyman who breaches his funeral ser
mon call his death ga mysterious dispen-
sation of Providence" If a mother
dresses her tender little child 80 as to
show its bare neck and arms and its
plump legs-beautiful, we admit. but
none the less too cold on that account
il she fills the child's stomach with bon
bons, and its head with knowledge in
tended for ripper years, and the child
dies, as of course it will, then every
body sympathizes with her and urges
her TO ne resigned to the will of Provi-
dence. And the afflicted mother weeps
and wonders what she has ever done to
deserve such an affecting stroke. Men
who are brought up to know right from
wrong, cheat and lie and swindle and
speculate and huild MP fortunes. and in
vest them in fancy stocks. which rise in
to existence like soap-bubbles, and by
and by the bubbles burst, the fine things
are swept away, and these men will have
the assurance to say that God has dealt
har-hly with them and that the punish


ment il more than they can bear. In
nine cases out of ten the world is what
we make it: If we do our duty to God
and TO man, regard the natural laws OF
health, and indulge in no habits that
work death and ruin, we shall find plen


~ in life worth living for, and have lit
tie cause to complain Of the cruelty of a
| kind Father
Year: 1876

Jumping from points of elevation is a
fashion Of suicide. To stand on an ele
waited site exercises a singular fascina-
tion ovor some people, leading them to
jump into the air. 1t causes others to
sweat and tremble with fear Last sum
mer I talked with the guardian Of the
steeple of the Cathedral at Strashurg on
the snbject, and he informed ME that
few visitors were free from the feeling of
fright on reaching the first terrace,
which is of great altitude, and that it
was so pronounced as to generally pre-
vent them from going any higher. Some
times the women tainted. confess that
/ was not free from vague dread in
looking oyer the immense reach of land
scape which this view takes in, although
there was absolutely no danger, the
terrace being securely guarded by strong
iron rails. This man of upper air-the
guardian or guide-informed me that
the summer before an Englishman had
tainted, but determined to overcome his
fright, and continued to ascend every
day for a week, until he could look out
in the direction of the Black Forest,
from the lantern, with equanimity. Dur
ing the summer a man had jumped into
the air through altitude fascination. He
was probably dead before reaching the
ground, on account of the immense
height from which he hurled himself.


Formerly the Vendome Column was
the scene Of so many deaths of this kind
that decree was issued to prevent vis-
itors from ascending it unless accompa-
MED by guardian. 1t was the Tar
peian Rock of Paris. Such number
have killed themselves from the fascina-
ton of altitude. or the fright produced
thereby, that elevated places must be
recognized as dangerous for certain peo.
pie. Those whose self-killing is premed-
iiated ofcourse are not comprised there
| in.-TThp Galaxy.
Year: 1876

soon overpowered, and the money taken
from her.


"Let us go now" said one of the rob
bers. "You take the money, and ! will
settle her tongue in a way that it will
remain quiet for an hour at least"


"Don't be in hurry" said another.
al am hungry. and we can just as we'll
take morsel here as not"


The other demurred, hut he continu-
ed: "Set to work and some supper
You've got fire and some boiling WA
ter, and we want some tea. To work, l
say


Mrs. Jacobs saw that a refusal would
only subject her TO more indignity, and
she aro.e to do their bidding.


She put some more plates on the table,
along with such food as she had cooked,
and then proceeded to make the tea'
wondering all the while if there was any
way To regain possession of the money,
and dreading her husbands anger and
dismay on his return should she fail 10
do so.


As she took the tea-canister from the
pantry shelf she caught sight Of bottle
labeled "arsenic." Her husband had
purchased it on the preceding day, in
order to destroy the rats.


Here was the chance of relief, and
she seized it eagerly. Opening the bot
tie she pu few grains in the tea pot
along with the tea, of which she gave
good measure in order 70 destroy the
taste of the arsenic.


A few minutes later the robbers were
sitting at the table unconsciously sip
ping their death.


"They may kill me-" unused the faith
ful wife, shut the money will be found
and my husbands honor saved"


After a few minutes, one by one the
robbers complained of being sick.


.ssI verify believe that woman has poi
soned us, ," said one, and the next moment
he fell with deep groan on the floor.


II know that she has poisoned us,
"cried another" and her ownslife shall
pay the forfeit"


He sprang from his own seat and start
ed towards her, revolver in hand; but he
fell ere he reached her.


"Jane," exclaimed the third, "you
have saved the money, but you have
murdered mew
How strangely familiar sounded the
voice! Forgetting all her old fears ir
the new Mrs. Jacobs sprang forwart
and knelt by the side of dying man.
None tried to harm her now, for al
were powerlAss to do-so.
She pulled the disgnise-a hideou
negro face with large grinning mouth
from the face of the speaker. On
looK-then came a scream which echoed
through the house like a peal Of thun
der. The dying man was her own hus
band


| But little more remains to be told o
the sad story. the money was preserv
ed, but the heroic woman is a maniac
raving in an asylum over the murder o
her husband.
Year: 1876

The Rev. G. Gnachtrip. of the Ger
man Methodist Episcopal Church says
that he tried and found the following a
preventive and cure for small pox:
Take one grain snlphate of zinc and one
grain digitalis Tor fo1glove). Put this
in half tumbler of water and place in
pint bottle. Leave it stand twenty
four hours. Then put in a tablespoon
full of Orleans sugar. Shake well and
then ill up with rain water. A table
spoonful of this taken every morning
will prevent the disease. even though
exposed to il. When the symptoms OF
small pox, such az headache. pain in the
back and fever comes on n tablespoonful
for an adult and teaspoonful for chill
dren every halfhour will prevent the dis
ease.
Year: 1876

Place a man in a position that will
carfully tax him and try Him, posi-
tion that will often bring blush to his
cheek and the sweat TO his brow, a posi-
tion that will overmaster him at the
time, and cause him to rack his brain
for resources. Place him in position
like this. But everv time he trips go TO
his rescue; go not with words of blame
or censure, but 90 with manfnl words Of
encouragement; look him boldly in the
eye and speak to him with soul and en-
phasis. This is the way to make a man
of a boy and a giant of man. If a
man has pluck and talest, no matter
whether he ever filled given position
or not, put him in it, if worthy, and he
will soon not only fill il. but outgrow it,


But put none in position with a faint
heart. This is the way to kill him. Put
him in grandly with most unmistakable
confidence. Drop no caveats. but bold
ly point the way, and then stand by with
the will and conntenance of a true friend
Thus try twenty men, such as have been
named, and nineteen will succeed.
Year: 1876

THE only change Of Importance made In
the postal law, il that which takes transient
newspapers and magazines out Of the third
class end permits them to be sent any dis-
tancs st the rate Of one per cent for every
three ounces or fractional part thereof, and
one per cant for each additional two ounces
or fractional part thereof. f. /