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Year: 1873

IT used to be stated In old.faShioned
books Of natural history that 1.-THE
horse was the gift OF the old world to
the new" But whole races Of horses
lived and perished in American ages
before men went down into the sea in
ships. There are now In Yale Museum
the fossil remains OF twenty.one differ
ent species belonging to the horse
flmliy. The animals varied from sizes
that are larger than any now existing
down 10 delicate creatures not bigger
than fox.
Year: 1873

A RHPoRrER Of Western paper.
speaking OF u certain fair creature, re-
marked that ''the profusion and color
OF her hair would lead one to look
upon it rs though n was spun by the
nimble fingers Of the easy hours n
they glided through the brigh, June
days, whose many sunny rays Of light
had been caught In the meshes and
were content TO 60 no further" This
Is better than saying the girls hair
was red.
Year: 1873

SIX RouGus penned Natchez re-
porter In an alley and were thinking
how they would batter hiS head, when
four OF them fell Into an old sewer aud
a woman scaldetl the other two. IL
does seem rs If Providence was on the
side of reporters.
Year: 1873

lieve they have been wrong, but because
they believe they can resolve themselves
into power by resolutions they have not the
means to fulfill. Their cancellation and re.
solve means division Of offices, and conse.
Huently division of power. IN hopes Of
being paid, they profess what they 30 not
believe. and IN the hopes o. creating a
schsm in the church Of Republicans. they
want new party to teach their new doe
trine of divide" We are now asked TO
divide with men who have not earned, 10
allow men to reap who have not sovn. We
are asked to divide with the parry and
crew who knew TO division when the pile
was in their charge.


Offices are the sole object OF division. and
consequently we can call i official concilia-
ton. Official gain, official conciliacion IS
tie rock upon which the new party will
founder, and it were as well they had never
been taken from the wreck. PIP. {.
Year: 1873

I am ready to negotiate on very
favorable terms, the sale Of the most
valuable water power within the vi
cinity of Bristol. 1t is within one
mile of Main Street and furnishes a
fall of IL feet with room above that
point for more than one Factory with
fall of twelve or more feet. The
property is peculiarly valuable and
can be had at a price low enough to
entice manufactures to our locality.


l. G. FOWLER.
Year: 1873

SOMEBODY ought to look to it that
the lighting Of the Rink is better here
after, than it has been for the past two
nights. Mr.. Gary, with an exhibit
of probably the best variety of orange
trees in the world, is left out in the
dark, and they can not be seen at all.
Somebody must remedy this, or the
fair will suffer.
Year: 1873

Twenty-Five years ago. says a letter


writer, u company of young people, farm
ers' sons and daughters, to the number
of thrty-two drove in the early morning
down to the ancient little city of Amboy,
n j., to embark in sloop for Il sail
down the waters of one of the prctticst


bays that wash the Atlantic coast. Ar
rived at Sandy Hook, they feastcd tished
and frolicked and firted, too, no doubt,
for the waSh-tub and the dairy can never
deprive the daughters of Eve of their
prerogative. At the close of the after
noon they prepared for glorious bath
in the surf of Florida Grove, the young
men retiring round the point, leaving
their fair friends in unembarrassed en-
joyment of the situation. Upon their
return the young farmers saw Il sight
that might well strike terror to the stout
est heart. The cruel undertow had
sucked the poor girls down to their
deaths, and the waves had cast their
bodies on to the sands from whence they
had dashed so merrily into the rolling
surf short half hour before, and not
one of the whole party was left alive.
Sadly the young men bore the remains
of sisters, friend and sweetheart back to
their homes, now made desolate indeed,


and widespread was the grief and
anguish in the hitherto happy township
of Piscataway. There was not family
that did not mourn the loss of beloved
child and daughter; and such was the
shock produced by the terrible occur
renee throughout the whole State of
New Jersey that the memory of it is pre-
served to this day, and the story told by
those who listened to it first, perhaps,


from the lips of sorrowful eyewitness.
Year: 1873

One of the Gueerest of Gencvese Gus
toms is their manner of conducting
their auctions When Il man bids, a
wax taper is lit, and his bid holds good
as long as the taper lasts. A taper is lit
for every bidder OF course the last
and highest bidder has the best chance.
Alongside of the auction should be
placed the other queer custom the Gen
eyese have, of making the world, as far
as in them lies, to stand still for Il cou-
pie of hours in the middle of the day
Nothing can keep your ordinary citizen
Of Geneva from throwing everything
aside at noon and going to dinner The
banker locks up between twelve and two
going on with business in the afternoon.
Even the coachman, that you have taken
by the hour, will want to leave you be-
tween u and o'clock. The fact is,
there has been nothing on the Genevese
stomach but bread and coffee since the
night before 1t is lnquestionably the
meacerness of their breakfasts which
makes them SO prompt to disappear be-
tween II and 2.
Year: 1873

Business, as IL whole, was never more
prosperous than it is at present;
there never was time when the un-
skilled workmen received such high
wages; and it is the fault of the laborer
himself if he is not securing home and
independence. The one great drawback
is that our people will not be as economi-
cal as they ought to be. There is too
much spent upon dress; there is not that
frugality i'll housekeeping which would
conducc alike to health and comfort.
We have not yet learned to live well and
chcaply, and this remark applies to al
most every household in the land. Our
girls are not brought up to understand
and to do housework; there are too
many servants in the house, and there
are servants where it would be much bet
ter that there We're none. The dauGh-
ters of wcll-to-do people think it beneath
them to go into the kitchen and get din
ncr; III fact, very few of them could do
it. This is all wrong. There is nothing
which gives higher degree of health,
there is no exercise which is so invigorat-
ing, none which gives IL brighter glow to
the cheek, none which makes purer
blood than that of housework. Think
of it, mothers, and give your daughters
ii thorough insight into this department
of woman's labor
Year: 1873

announcement was made, and as the
eyes of the court were turned upon him,
his self possession left him. And when
Lansing asked that he should be taken
into custody, the poor fellow fell over III
II fit, and was taken out by the police.
Year: 1873

am a womau-thercfore may not
Call to him, cry to him,
Fly to him,
Pray him delay not.


And when he comes to me, must sit quiet
Still as n stone II,
Harder and colder.
II my heart riot
Crush and defy it
Should grow holdcr--
Say one dear thing to him,
All my lie ding to him,
Cling to him
What to- atone is
Enough for my SHINING!
This were the cost to me,
This were my winning
That he were lost to me.


Not as a lover at last if he parted from me,
Tearing my heart from me
Hurt beyond cure
Calm and dcmurc
Then my behavior;
Showing no sign to him
BY look of mine to him,
What he has been to me,
Pity mclean to me
Christ-O my Savior!
Year: 1873

A FELLOW has been blowing out the
gas again at Auburn, N. Y. His room
was broken into i'll time to save his life
In the morning he came down and re-
marked: "That gas must have leaked
considerably last night. Upon being
assured that it had, he innocently,
inquired: "Did it run over and spoil
the carpet anywhere?"
Year: 1873

Flog is a verb,


And SO is whack;


Cane is noun,


And SO is back;


And lazy boys go to sleep,


And through their lessons crawl and Creep


And sutter and stammer,


Must see the noun aud feel the verb


TO help them in their grammar.
A FORGErFuL young woman out west,
the other night, aroused the imates of a
hotel to which her bridal trip had led,
ON account of finding Il man i'll her
room. The hitiing circumstance of her
marriage that morning had quite escaped
her memory, and it was not until sum-
mary justice was about to be visited on
the offender, that she happened to recol-
lect it.
Year: 1873




To-day, there was very sweet young lady
from Brooklyn sitting on the Congress Hall
balcony. She always has lots of admirers
natural thing enough when you know that
the report had gotten around that she is an
heiress. She is very shrewd young lady,
Instead OF entertaining galaxy of fellows all
at once, she takes them one at time. Then,
If one wants to talk business, he can always
have an opportunity. A Knickerbocker Club
fellow got hold OF her yesterday. He must
have ''buzzed' her for an hour steady-at least
until a young Chicago fellow thought he never
would go, He despaired of getting word in
booker Club fellow, he would have been
tempted to have joined in the conversation,
and run him out. The young lady seemed to
like the fellow and was bound to let him have
his way clear to the end. This made it all
the worse for the Chicago fellow.


Well, how did the Chicago fellow manage it =?


Why, he simply walked around behind the
New York fellow, and remarked to a friend,
just loud enough for the enraptured lover to
hear it


''Why, John, that fellow wouldn't sit there
talking so sweet, if he knew what fearful
rent there was in the back of his coat, would
he?' 4el


The New York fellow overheard the remark.
His look of interest cooled in a moment, as he
worked his back around towards the wall, as
if he were trying to conceal something. He
imagined ten thousand people were looking
at him. He didn't lean forward and look
sweetly into the young lady's eyes any more.
He put his hand convulsively around towards
his back, ahemed! few times in business
like way, looked red in the face, and then
said he expected friend was looking after
him. Then he excused himself abruptly,
and Sbiad off toWards the elevator with his
face to the young lady. He didn't walk
straight, but worked himself along sideways,
keeping his back towards the wall, and then
disappeared up the elevator, just as the yo1ng
fellow from Chicago sat down by the young
lady and commenced his version of the oft
repeated tale Of love and hope.


Are such things right?
Year: 1873

The Sun AND THE WEATHER. We note
hrst that, besides being the great ''domina-
ting force to which all natural phenomena
connected with climate are due, the sun has
special influence on all the most noteworthy
variations of weather. The seasons are due
10 solar influence; and here we have an in
stance OF power of prediction derived from
solar study, though belonging to date so re-
mote that we are apt to forge. the fact. 1t
seems so obvious that summer will be on the
whole warmer than winter, that we overlook
the circumstance that, at some epoch or other
this fact, at least in its relation to the appar-
ent motions of the sun, must have been rec
ognized as a discovery. Men must have at
one time learned, or perhaps we should rath-
er say each race of men must at one time
nave noticed, that the varying warmth on
Which the processes of vegetation depend,
corresponds with the varying diurnal course
oi the sun. SO soon as this was noticed, and
SO soon as the periodic nature of the suns va
rying motions had been ascertained, men had
acquired IN effect the power of predicting
that, at particular times or seasons, the wea-
ther on the whole would be warmer than at
other seasons, In other words, so soon as
men had recognized the period we call the
year, they could predict that one-half of each
year would be warmer than the other half.
Simple as this fact may Feem, it is important
to notice it as the beginning Of weather pre-
diction; for, as will presently appear, it has
an important bearing on the more complex
questions at present involved IN the prognos-
ucatl;n OF weather changes.-From Popular
Science Monthly for august.
Year: 1873




A Vienna Correspondent Of the Cn-
cnnati Commercial Gays:


Zone little machine interested me, as
it pertains to a new art OF cloth max
ing from glass. While in the glass
exhibition from view the day before, I
noticed e. glass case filled with silky
looking articles, such as feathers, child
ren's hats, cuffs, collars &C.. of not very
tasteful styles, attracting some attention.
Sure enough, here were the articles
made Of glass of which we have read
80 much during the last elk months, and
also a real piece Of cloth Of the same
material. According to promise, ] en-
deavcred to procure some OF the latter
for a wedding vest for bachelor friend;
but it does not seem to be for sale, being
only made for sample. The feathers
were for sale, and not at all dear. /
was given some specimens Of the silk,
and of the wool, as it is called, hanging
outside the case. The good frau told
me the art was an old one from Venice.
but had been lost; was now first put to
practical use by her man," whose
spinning machine was in the Machine
Hall. So here, to-day, to my surprise,
I found the machine, primitive as the
Turks turning lathe. A small boy
turned wheel having broad rim OF
iron, while girl sat with
a few email glass rods before an
intense jet Of fame. Taking up one OF
these rods with one hand aud melting
the end in the flame, with the other
she thrust a little point into it and
threw thread Of glass over the Wheel,
much as the silk OF a cacoon is started
upon reel. This was not always ac-
complished at one trial, but when once
started in would spin off infinitely as
long as the glass rod was held in the
flem,. This silk upon the iron reel had
the same appearance as that OF one
continuous web OF a cscoon, though not
go strong. The process after this then
to that Of cloth making,i simple enough
and with proper machinery it may at
length be made in quantity. Ifever
put to practical use ii will be very COM
Portable to wear in one respect, since it
can not be essily soi!ed. But for a
wedding vest, over burning heart, my
bachelor friend, it will never do, since
it must surely melt.
Year: 1873

the L54kcLs


A groom and bride entered the sleep
ing car at Baltimore, the groom glaring
at everybody as though he wanted tc
fight on the spot. His little wife, how"
ever seemed to be happy and good ma
tured. After the train got ont Of the
city, the newly-married man became


extremely disagreeable. He picked
quarrel with the negro porter on the
car, and knocked him down. The


slseping-car conductor then interfering
he walked into him, and after briel
struggle laid him out on the floor bleed.
ing at every pore. Having made way
with these individuals, the rest Of the
passengers car!ully kept out Of his way,
and he sat on his seat boiling and SIM
mering with wrath. and ready to en-
gage in fresh conflict. After q while
his wife expressed a desire to retire,
and he had berth made up at the
point of the bayonet, aud the bride, let
ting her hoops and other useless ad-
jnncts fall to the floor, crept into the
berth, followed by her giant liege lord.
Thinking that all was quiet and safe,
the gentleman who had the berth above
that of the newly married pair attempt
ed TO reach it by resting one foot on the
champion fighters berth. No sooner
had he taken this first step than his
leg was seized by the monster below,
and he found himself dragged down
with violence to the floor suffering con-
siderable injury. Then he received q
blow from the fist Of the warlike groom.
He, however leaped up regardless
of the presence of the bride
In the berth, gave the groom
good thrashipg, as he lay crsmped
up. This quieted him, aud the car at
last had rest. When the conductor
came anound for tickets, Mr.. Groom,
reaching down on the floor, picked up
his wife's drawers and, mistakipg them
for his pantsloons, felt, for his tickets for
about twenty minutes; but not finding
any receptacle in this garment for tick
cts, he gave it up in disgust, when, at the
suggestion OF the conductor, he looked
up his breeches and found them. The
fellow was well dressed, apparently had
plenty of money, and was not intoxica-
ted. 1t is supposed that the novelty OF
his situation overcame his reason.
Year: 1873

PIKEvlLLE, July yll.-Yesterday three
young men went to Versailles and when
returning home one Of them. Jack
Reed, rode his horse very fast by some
children who were playing along the
road. One OF the party said to him that
he should not ride go fast Reed cursed
him, rode up, caught and pulled him
out Of the wagon and beat him shame
fully. The third one came up and ran
Reed about two miles, when they agreed
to meet at certain house and fight it
out. In the evening they met and
Reed was shot twice in the chest. lie
cannot recover.
Year: 1873

LOUISVILLE, July 1.-THE report
that three Germans in this city had
drawn the capital prize in the Librsry
drawing is not correct, and the men re.
ferred TO had no ticket in the lottery.
The capital prize was doubtless drawn
at some place not accessible BY tele'
graph,
Year: 1873

That staunch able Democratic pat
riot the Hon. Thomas \. Hendricks
was inaugurated Governor of Indiana
last week. In submitting his Annual
Message to the Legislature Of the
State, which by the way is an able
and satisfactory paper-among other
things he said that it is primary among
our obligations to see that every duty
which the State owes to to the United
States is faithfully discharged, and
that the rights and powers Of the
State are maintained and upheld. Be-
tween the rightfol authority of the
State and the powers Of the United
States there should he no conflict.
and if they be asserted and exercised
in the spirit of the Constitution and
with proper appreciation Of their rela-
tions, there will be none Under the
Constitution each State and the Uni
ted States are so related that the sup
port of one is fidelity to both, and the
exercise of unwarranted authority by
either provokes collisions, and is a
public wrong. The Federal power
has become so great, the area of its
operations so extended and the allure
ments to its service so seductive, that
our most watchful care is necessary to
preserve the proper dignity and just
influence Of the State. 1t should at
tract attention and excite serious con-
Germ when local troubles and con-
troversies growing out of matters
wholly Of State concern are made a
pretext for the interposition Of Federal
authority and menace Of the nation
al arms. Surely you will agree with
me that Indiana is a great Common
wealth and that her people are so en-
tirely capable of sell-goyernment that
every question Of controversy connect
ed with her policy or growing out of
her action and within the sphere of
her reserved sovereignty as State OF
the Union must be settled and adjust
ed according to her pleasure and by
her authority. My conduct upon all
questions that touch the relations be-
tween the State and the United States
shall be governed by an earnest desire
to preserve the legitimate authority OF
both, and to maintain the most sincere
harmony by the prompt and full dis,
charge of every duty and the exercise
of tratelnal comfy. / will labor tC
promote a cordial and enduring friend
ship between Indiana and the Other
; States. The Governor then calls
special attention to the election laws


recommends fair and real representa-


ton upon the election boards Of all


political parties; that voting places
should be numerous and the precincts
small, so that voters may be known
by the neighborhood as we'll as by
; the officers, and a reasonable period OF
residence in the pecinct required as q
qualification to vote He also recon-
mends representative reforms, reform
in the civil service of the State, an in
crease in the salaries of judges of the
Supreme and inferior counts of the
, State, urges special protection and
fostering care over the free schools
, and the guarding with anxious care O
the funds that support them.
Year: 1873

The stars that disappear at morn,


Oh, think not they are hed;
They are not lost. they are not gone.


But, mid the glory shed
Around them by the source Of light.
They shine more swoetly than at night
1t is the night that's dead.
And thus the loved who disappear,


Pass like the mornings flight,
Rut walk in paths so sweet and clear,


AS blind us with the light;
They sit upon the azure day,
They float on twilights downy gray,


And on the clouds at night.
Oh, deep and wondrous heart of man !
Strange fount of JOY and woe
In this sad life no eye may scan


Thy currents ebb and flow.
But in the glorious world to come
The voice of discord shall be dumb,


And thou thyself shalt know.
Year: 1873

ernment; to demand the repeal of the
supplemental enforcement bill and all
other similar laws, and especially TO
insist on the recognition of the MclIn-
cry government. 1t is undoubtedly
the policy of the administration to en-
force submission, and our only chance
is to keep the excitement alive. Iknow
of no plan so well calculated to effect
this as Il call for Il State Convention, and
the sooner the better. If it meets with
your approval, please communicate
with your exchanges and enlist their
aid.


Nothing is SO dangerous with our
people as apathy. The effects OF en-
forced submission are beginning to be
painfully apparent already. AS TO Il
new election, with I<ellogg's bill unre-
pealed, it would be farce ana a
mockery.


Hoping that you will approve OF the
suggestion, and lend your influence to
the plan, 1 remain,
! Very truly yours,
Year: 1873

With this issue we must part COM
pany with several of our exchanges.
Such information as we could furnish
to exchanges we were willing to sow
BROADCAST, until the magnates at Wash
ington, in retaliation for the demand
to abolish the franking privilege, placed
a tax upon the diffusion of knowledge
and the exchange of newspaper courtc-
sizes. The white paper. alone for the
TELEGRAPH costs nearly one dollar
per annum per copy This is all we
can afford for an exchange which we
get only now and then, and perhaps
do not use once Il year. The postage
on exchanges wanted hy It's will be paid
by us, and a copy of this paper contin-
ued to their address. Exchanges not
needed, will receive Il copy of the
TELEGRAPu, nevertheless, by the pay
ment of postage on both papers.
Year: 1873

There is more sound political wisdom
in the following extract from the New
York Sun than in the whole programme
Of tho UniiicrS:


Giving the negroes Il full halfofa all the
public offices in Louisiana will not be
sure to restore prosperity to that State,
or to cOnducc to better relations be-
tween the races. The people there may
be divided into two classes, those who
pay taxes, own property, and have a
material interest i'll the prosperity Of the
commonwealth, and those who neither
own property nor pay taxes. The first
class is composed almost entirely Of
whites. TO these may be added 4 few
well educated colorcd men, mostly to
be found in New Orleans. The second
class includes nearly the whole of the
negro population, and it is by the votes
of this class, aided by Interference from
Washington, that !, gang of thieves
have been enabled to plundrr the State
without mercy. To suppose that giving
the representatives of this class more
power would better matters in any re-
Spect is folly,
Year: 1873

The Scientific American gives the fol.
lowing hints to those who would build
a chimney which will not smoke" The
chief point is to make the throat not less
than four inches broad and twelve inches
long; then the chimneys should be alb.
ruptly enlarged to double the size, and
so continue for one foot or more; then
it may be gradually tapered of as de-
sired. But the inside Of the chimney,
throughout its whole length to the top,
should be plastered very smooth with
good mortar, which will harden with age.
The area of the chimney should be at
least half square foot, and no hues less
than sixty square inches. The best
shape for chimney is circular, or many
sided, as giving less friction (brick is the
best material, as it is a non-conductor),
and the higher above the roof the better.