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Year: 1876

There are always some persons
who are most of the time out of en-
ployment. One reason is that they
are not willing to begin at the foot
of the ladder. They want to start
with high wages, and disdain the
slow work of climbing up. A wo-.
man who seemed anxious to main
tain herself and two children called
the other day upon a sewing ma
chine operator. She watched the
busy fingers fold and arrange the
cloth, and steady it as it passed
through the clicking process for
some time, then said: GLOW much
do you earn day ?"


"About $3."


"That is good pay; if 1 could make
So day, | would go into the busi-
ness. But | don't see how you do it;
tried it once, but l found l made
but forty cents a day, so l gave it
up"


"Well you earned more than 1
did on the start, for / made but thir-
ty-fve cents. So l persevered, AMI
every day l earned little more, till
by the time l had paid for the i'm
provement, found was doing very
well. What are you doing now"


'Nothing. l have been looking
around, but haven't found anything
to suit me-"


"But how do you get along2 My
children would starve if 1 did not
keep at work"


"Well, manage some how. We
always have something to eat. l
can't say we live on the fat of tho
land, for we are frequently reduced
to mush and molasses, but hope to
do better by and by. have tired
ever so many things, but won't
work unless l get good pay"


Was fate against this woman, as
she sometimes averred, or was it
her own lack of perseverance, that
kept her walking the streets in
search of employment?


A few years ago we were acquaint-
ed with two persons who were out
of business. One was lad of six
teen, the other a man of thirty.
Both tried for some time to get
work of the kind they were accus-
toned to do, but both failed. The
boy after three weeks of idleness,
concluded that if he could not do
what he would he must do what he
could, and he went out one morning
determined to find work of some
kind. Before noon he had engaged
as day laborer on the road to shov-
el sand at fifteen dollars a month.
Beng unused to manual labor, his
hands and feet became blistered,
and he came home every night COM
pletely exhausted. But he perse-
vered for six weeks, until the job
was finished, and then taking his
e1rnings he went to another town
where he soon found more congeni-
al employment.


The man hung round the city for
weeks and months. He had but lit
tie means, and that little soon dwin-
died away. He was offered situa-
ton after situation, but he disdained
to work unless he could have "big
thing" as he expressed it. His clothes
grew shabby, and he ran in debt at
bis tailor's; his board bill becam e
| due. and he borrowrd money
as long as he could find any
person willing to lend, scme of it
coming from the pockets of hard
working men upon whom he looked
Year: 1876

There seems to be various opinions
as TO which is the better system of
mapagement with potatoes-Eheth-
er to Keep them in the cellar when
dug early or to store them in some
ont-building until cold weather and
then take the crop to the cellar. As
some cellars are exceedingly damp
and even wet and muddy, while otA-
ers are dry and airy, one must know
the condition of the cellar before he
will be competent to judge as to the
probability of potatoes keeping sat
isfactorily when dug early. Circum-
stances and conditions viii alter cases
materially.


A writer in the New England Far
mer, Boston, says that by many cal-
tisators of this crop it is thought
that potatoes viii not keep we'll in
the cellar if dug early. This is
mistake, provided they are ripe. We
have raised early potatoes for sever
al yeals because they could be har-
vested early and the ground sown to
grass in season to get well establish
ed before winter, We have dug the
whole crop in August, and found no
trouble about keeping than well in
the cellar. One year, finding they
were being seriously injured by the
grub, we dug them while the vines
were green and the tubers little un,
der ripe, and they kept as sound
and bright as any potatoes we ever
harvested. Ifthere is any rot among
them they had better lie in the
gronud till the rotten ones can be
distinguished from those which are
sound. Rotten potatoes should new
er be carried into the cellar at any
time of wear. Better let them decay
in the field, WI ere they will be worth
asmuch for fertilizer as they are
for feeding TO cattle.


The writer once dug his potatoes
early, stored them In Ru airy and dry
basement of the workshop, covering
them with boards and canvas to ex-
clude the light But the air and
light injured them materially. Light
is ruinous to potatoes. As they grow
in the dark, they must be Kept in
the dark, and be shielded from cur
rents of air.
Year: 1876

FORNEY ON BLAINE.--I have Of
ten heard Henry Clay described,
when he marshaled his party in the
House of Representatives. both be-
fore and after he was speaker-his
brilliant dogmatism, bis powerful
rhetoric, and the fascination of his
man3er; and can well imagine
Blaine during the present Congress,
with all his own rare advantages,
mental and physical, as a fair like
ness of the great whig statesman
who lorded it in the National Legis-
lature between fifty and sixty years
sago. 1t is said of Blaine, with truth,
that he has all the requirements for
the first Office in the gift of the pee
pie. He is fine scholar, a superb
organizer, and [ do not know any
where a better writer or speaker
He is temperate and good tempered,
full of humor, natural statesman,
and genuine good fellow. Add to
this he is full of pluck, as everybody
recollects, when he dressed off Ros-
coe Conkling IN the celebrated con-
troversy, few years ago, with that
Sir LOTUS, now of the Senate; and a
still more memorable and recent in
stance, when he took issue with the
Administration on the Louisiana
question. 1t deserves to be said of
Blaine that he is not a coy candi-
date for President. 1t is an honor
able aspiration, and he INDUCES it
like a man; and if he gets the nOmi-
nationahe will arouse Young Ameri-
ca from Canada to California, and
put a rapture in the strife that viii
once more make the public heart
throb with JOY under a great intel
lectual leadership.
Year: 1876

l know a little boy whose rea
name we will say is Peter Parsons;
but the boys call him Peter Putoff,
because he has such a way of put
ting off both business and pleasure.


lie can learn his lessons well, but
he is almost always at the bottom of
his class, because he has put,of
learning his lessons from one hour
to another until it is too late. He
can walk or run as fast as any boy
in town; but if he is sent on an err
rand the errand never gets done in
season, because he puts off starting
from one minute to another; and for
the same reason he is almost always
late at school, because he can never
be made to see that it is drawing
near to 9 o'clock.


If letters are given him to post,
they never get in 1sin time for the
mail; and if he is to go away by the
boat or train, the whole family has
to exert itself to hurry Peter out of
the house, lest he should defer start
ing until the hour be past.


He procrastinates in his play as in
his work. He puts off reading his
library book till it is time to send
it back; he waits to join the game
until it is too late, and generally
comes up little behindhand for ev-
erything from Monday morning till
Saturday night, and then begins the
new week by being too late for
church and Sunday-school. Peter
is quite conscious of his own fault,
and means to reform some time; but
he puts off the date of reformation
so constantly that l fear manhood
aud old age, which do not know how
to put off their seasons, will over
take this boy and find him still only
too worthy of the name of Peter
Putoff. = Child's World.
Year: 1876

with disdain. At last he became So
poor, partly through trying to keel
up appearances of wealth, that he de
termined, if he did not "strike some
thing" by the time he was again
broke, he would commit suicide.
Fortunately for himself at least,
perhaps unfortunately for society,
for the world looSes but little in the
death of such a man, he struck
something, or thought he did, and
went TO the mountains to work.
Now as he looks back to the weeks
aud months he Spent in waiting for
something to turn up, he fancies he
was an illaSed man and that fate was
against him.


Another reason why many per-
sons are turned out of employment
in dull times is that they do not
perform their work well. Skilled
workmen will nearly always COM
mand good wages, and the fact
that Il person receives but small wa
ges for any kind of work should be
an inducement to them to try to
improve, that they may receive
more.
Year: 1876

"A letter just received from Bal
timore contains the following
"Business is very dull. Every
thing is exceedingly dull. Il
have never heard of anything like it.
There are so many people out OF
work, and no prospect whatever OF
any improvement"
Year: 1876

From the Declaration (Colored organ).


Rev. j. M. Giliard was a minister
of the African Methodist Church.
He was besides teacher, and was in
charge of seminary belonging to
that body and located in Austin,
Texas. His duties as q clergyman,
called him to q small town called
Hills Point, where he was assailed
by band of ruffians and in manly
way defended himself. For this he
was arrested on charge of assault
and battery and confined, not in Jail,
but in an clubhouse attached to the
hotel of the village. An armed
guard was placed over him. While
lying on his back, reading, band of
men, not masked, they don't take
that trouble in Texas when only
colored man is to be murdered, rode
up and shot him through the body
twice. One shot proved almost in
stantly fatal. OF course no effort was
made to arrest the murderers who
were well known, although the better
part of the community, as usual,
frowned on the deed.
Year: 1876

It has been a question with marks
men, says the Springfield (Mass.) Union,
whether the recoil of pistol or rifle oc-
Cured before the ball left the bore.
Many have contended that it did not,
and that the tendency of pistol to
"throw up" did not affect its accuracy.
A. recent experiment seems to have
shown conclusively that the recoil occurs
before the ball leaves the bore and does
affect its direction. The experiments
was this: A rifle barrel, twelve inches
long for convenience, was secured to
solid bed in such way as to prevent
any movement but that of recoil directly
to the rear upward. In this situation it
was fred number of times, and the
balls followed each other into the same
hole in the target. An incline or wedge
was then made fast upon the bed at the
rear of the barrel in such way that the
breech would be raised as it slid back in
the recoil. Fired under these conditions
it sent the balls lower than before.
This showed that the recoil and subse-
quent elevation of the breech occurred
in season to affect the direction of the
ball; that is, before it had left the bore.
OF course the length of the barrel has
an effect in several ways upon the degree
in which the recoil affects the accuracy
of the shooting.
Year: 1876

Sir George Campbell, M. P, who pre-
sided over the section OF Economic
Science and Statistics of the British
Association, touched in his opening ad-
dress upon great variety of topics, and
among others gave his views as to the
difference between the mental qualities
OF men and women. He said: "As re-
CARDS the education and employment of
women, is not there great room for sci
entific inquiry on the question how far
the mind of woman differs from that of
man9 Is there not, in fact, very con-
siderable mental difference between man
and woman, just as there is consider
able bodily difference9 Is not woman,
to some extent. at least, a different
creature from man, SO that we may in
some sort predicate that under certain
conditions man will act in one way and
woman will act in another way, in the
same manner (though not in the same
degree) as we can predicate that dog
will act in one way and cat in another2
To some degree 1 am inclined to think
that there is some natural difference,
and that this difference must be taken in
to account in determining the treatment,
the employmennt, and the functions of
women. 1t is because / thoroughly
sympathize with the desire of so many
women of the middle classes to find
useful and honorable employment for
themselves that think scientific inquiry
into the economic capacities of the
creature woman most necessary. If we
can once solve that part of the problem,
the rest will be comparatively easy. L
feel sure that there are many functions,
whether they depend on nimbleness of
finger, sympathy of heart, or quickness
of intellect, for which women are espe-
cially fitted, while there are others for
which their nature is less fitted, and in
respect of which they will do well to
avoid an unequal rivalry with man."
Year: 1876

Last Wednesday at noon, as Mr..
johnson went home to his dinner, he
noticed his little boy, about years
of age, playing on the roadside, and his
little girl near him. Going into the
house, he threw off his coat. Mrs. J.
called his attention to the fire the boy
had set to the dry grass at the road
side, and was now, at her bidding, trying
to extinguish. With the remark that he
would help, Mr.. Jones took up his hat
and started. When q short distance
from the house he was thrilled with
horror to see the little girl speeding up
the ravine at her best run, and bright
tongue of fire blazing foot above her
head. Calling out, "run toward pa"
the father started in swift pursuit. The
child heard, but as she turned her face
the fire swept. over it, and she kept on
without again turning until caught by
the frantic father, who tried in vain to
tear the, blazing clothing from her. Un-
happily her garments were all new, and
it was impossible to tear them. Drop
ping her to the ground he succeeded in
slipping portion over her head, and then
as the flames blazed up caught them in
his hands until they were extinguished.


On raising her in his arms to take her
home, the skin peeled from her arms
and hands, which, as she ran, had con-
stantly futtered backward as if to fight
the fire off. She had run several hun
dred feet from where she caught fire.


Her constant cry was, "Oh, father Oh,
mother !" She was conscious to the last


Drs. Lotspeich and flowers were over
two hours dressing the wounds. Two
thirds of the surface of her body was
burned. The accident occurred at half
past IL, and at 10 o'clock the next day
she died. She was years old the
Goth of last August. Mr.. Johnson's
hands are perfectly cooked, and he is
almost helpless, so far as hands are con-
cerned. 1t is great wonder that he too
did not perish, as his only clothing was
cotton. He thinks that had he but
worn his coat the life of his pet might
have been saved, but he had nothing
with which to smother the fire but his
bare hands.-Holden mo Enterprise.
Year: 1876

A few days since, as an excursion train
OF eighteen heavily loaded cars on the
Vermont division of the Portland and
Ogdensburg railroad had commenced the
descent of heavy grade between St
Johnsbury and the Connecticut river.
the engineer suddenly deserted three
cattle upon the track just in advance of
him. To drive or frighten them from
the track, or to seasonsbly stop the
train, was impossible. Instantly he de-
cided upon his course. He sent his
fireman to disconnect his engine and
tender from the train, whistled "down
brakes" and, with full steam on.
plunged forward alone, and, with the
fearful impetus thus gained, threw the
cattle from the track. He then quietly
allowed the train to overtake him again,
connected it, and continued on, his pas
sengers knowing nothing of the fearful
danger they had escaped by his bravery,
his quick wit, and his fidelity to duty
Burlington W Free Press.
Year: 1876

AND now shall the brains of the good
people of Connecticut be strengthened
accordingly. A school of msckerel q
mile long and the fourth of mile wide
was struck not long ago by the fishing
smacks of New London, and at single
draw of the nets 100000 fish we're
taken, which in their turn netted sld.-
600 cash.
Year: 1876

the transmission was almost perfectly
accurate. Conversation was carried ON
for about half an hour, generally in an
ordinary tone of voice, but often in q
whisper. The credit of this important
discovery is due to Mr.. Bell.
Year: 1876

denly released bail. Amer he had gone letter vas
found In his cell, which we saw Il was IRON his
mother and road In substance as follow


NY DEAR SoS-Althcugh you have been wayvard still
own you as my had dream last night and God
veaed that wore In great danger lie has rsed
and an i. viii be ali right.


'was shortly after the receipt of this letter that ho
was released yn


Eyes sir, tho next day. On our trial be testified
that one evening ne was In our saloon and there
planned tho robbery with him for which We were


To Ryan-"Did you ever see tho man before and did
you know him?"


saw him since; had not known him certainly for


To Oschwald-"Did YOUR


sNo, sir, never saw him to my knowledge"


allow you treaiedYn


every well by the warden and assistants, but the
press and PUBLIC nave been preudced against US and


IF yoa. get new trial do you think you win DO


ayes sir, We have evidence enough now 10 clear US
All we ask is fair trial and chance TO prove our


APPLICATION FOR A BILL OF RECEPTIONS


The counsel IN the Ryan and 0schwad murder case
met al the residence of Judge Depue last evening for
pose making application for. They submitted rough
outline of the exceptions to His Honor but
to giving the facts to public until the bill properly
drawn, when u viii be submitted to the prosecution
for revcw, after which il VIII be returned TO Judge
Depue for examination. II he signs 1t an application
will be made to the Chancellor for writ of and
X he grants the writ the argument of counsel will be
heard by the Court OF Errors Should the Chancellor
deny the application tho whole matter will DO
dropped.


IL viii take counsel some time TO prepare the bill OF
exceptions and there will be delay in It's examination
by the prosecution that the bill. viii not probably DO
signed by Judge Depuo before Monday next. II AT all.
ho will be engaged in tho Court Vi Appeals at Trcn
ton to-day. He will be at homo Thursday, Friday and
Saturday will be in attendance at the Court OF Appeals
again next Monday and viii open the Circuit III New
ark on Tuesday so that he VIII not have much time TO
less II Is prepared at once
Year: 1876

Greater facilities havo boon offered by the Finance
Department. 10 taxpayers In the payment OF their
taxos by the erection OF an inexpensive addition
end of tho Bureau for the Collection OF Taxes
This additional accommodation affords double the
means for payment. and parties are enabled to pay
their In one-haf tho time formerly took The
receipts OF the Office were very hcavy yesterday, as
taxpayers ANXIOUS TO avoid tho penalty OF per
cent which will be added all unpaid taxes on the
LIST of December next, as provided by law.
Year: 1876

Thomas Carlyle, in recent conVersa'
tion with an American gentleman, TOOK
occasion, in a very concise but emphatic
way, to express bis opinion of Darwin
and the men who adopt his views. Said
he: ga good sort OF man is this Dar-
win, and we'll meaning, but with very
little intellect. All, it's sad and terri
BILE thing to see nigh whole generation
of men and women, processing to be
cultivated, looking around in purblnd
fashion and finding no God in this uni
verse. suppose it is a reaction from
the reign of cant and hollow pretense,
protesting to believe what in fact they
do not believe. An6 this is what we
have got to. All things from frog
spawn: the gospel of dirt the order OF
the day. The older I grow-and 1 now
stand upon the brink of eternity-the
more comes back to me the sentence IN
the catechism, which I learned when a
child, and the fuller and deeper Its
meaning becomes-'What is the great
end of MANI 'To glorify God, and to
,nioy Him forever No gospel OF dirt,
teaching that men have descended from
frogs through monkeys, can ever set
tIfat aside /"
Year: 1876

There are but four venomous beasts
among the fauna of the United States.
These are the rattlesnakc, the copper
head, the moccasin and the Spitz dog,
and of the four, the latter is by far the
most aggressive and deadly in its hos
tility to man. We're any of our citizens,
says an exchange, to insist upon keep
ing pet rattlesnakes, anG permitting
them to run at largo in the streets, the
law would soon convince thu OF the
propriety of weaving their affections
from creeping things and setting them
upon less dangerous pets. But the law,
with what is now seen to be glarlng
inconsistency, allows every man to keep
O Spitz, although the bite of the latter is
far more dangerous than that OF the
former. A rattlesnake's bite can be
cured by saturating the system with
whisky, but there is no cure for the bite
of rabid Spitz.


The facts as to the monopoly OF rabies
in which the Spitz in this climate in
dulges are within the reach OF all. They
should be made the basis of an act OF
the Legislature, directing the immediate
slaughter of every Spitz dog In the
State, and Furnishing, by heavy fine,
the importation Of a Spitz from any
other State or country. The few mis-.
guided persons who are the accomplicees:
of this no1ious beast cannot have their
perverted tastes gratified at the cost OF
the safety of the whole community.
The Spitz and the rattlesnake deserve
nothing but determination, and when
the former has completely disappeared
and his place has been taken by dogs
full of sweetness, light, and gifted with
calm, we'll balanced minds, we shal!
hear no more of hydrophobia, and shall
have no pretext for the annual st.


Bartholomew dog massacre every sum
mer.
Year: 1876

David Barber, of West Bloomfield,
called at the Detroit police station, the
Press says, and said that he was in the
city for the purpose of finding dog
which had been stolen from him two or
three days previously by a colored man
who was at work for one of Mr.. Barber's
neiehbors. The officers at the station
took a description of the dog and prom
ised to try to find him, and Mr.. Barber
left, saying that he should stay In the
city until bis search was successful.


Two days after Mr.. Barber returned to
the station apparently very much dis
couraged, and had been there but short
time when he saw a roundsman coming
down the avenue leading the lost canine.
He arose quickly and stepped to the
front door, where he stood with tears IN
mis- eyes, watching the approach OF the
dog, who, when about one hundred feet
of the station, saw and recognized his
master. With powerful and lightning
ike spring he broke away from the off
Ger, and the next instant master and dog
were showering each other with all man
ner of affectionate caresses, totally un-
conscious of the presence of dozen Off
GERS. When the meeting had resolved
itself into comparative quiet, it was seen
that not only were tears coursing down
Mr. Barber's cheeks, but the dog was
actually shedding tears of joy.


Upon being questioned as to the rea-
son of his extraordinary affection for
dog, Mr.. Barber related the following
story


"Three years ago this dog and my
boy, then three years old, went together
to Straight lake, short distance from
my home, aud while there my boy
clambered into boat that lay upon the
beach. Ia their sport the boat became
free and foated away with the boy. The
dog did not see the boat and its load un-
til quite distance from shore. when he
Immediately jumped into the lake and
swan after him. He was none too soon,
for when the boat was about twenty rods
from the shora it capsized, and my boy
was thrown into the water. He had
sunk twice when myself and several
neighbors who had gathered on the
beach saw this dog seize the boy by the
shoulder in such way as to hold his
head high above the water. Then he
swan toward Us. He approached stead
lily, but we became impatient and waded
out as far as possible to meet them.
When he reached us the boy was not
only carried ashore, but strong arms
lifted the dog and carried him also. Do
YOU wonder now that love him9"