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Year: 1872

Double capes are to be worn next sea- son, instead of rounded as formerly.

 A celebrated writer says that one good mother is worth hundred schoolmas- ters.

 The most popular Spring costumes are of foulard silks trimmed with velvet and fringe.

 A new style of ruf1e for the neck is very full and wide, and is called the 'Medici frill."

 Large coral beads worn around the neck are said to be preventive against rheumatism, asthma, and the neuralgia.

 Fichus of crepe chine, edged with wide lace, are worn with dark silk dinner dresses, and are very stylish and becom- ing.

 Imitation lace is more used for trim. ming this season than the rest, as it is much more durable and not half so ex pensive.

 A new style of material for mourning dresses for Summer wear is called batiste, and is a light tan color, striped with white or colored satin stripes.

 The newest style of veils are of plain net, made square in front, and pointed al the back, the point being thrown over the bonnet, and edged with wide Span ish lace.

 A lady appeared at ball in New Yorl recently in dress of black crape ovel silk, trimmed with founces of old vene. tian lace century old, and worth its weight in gold. The ornaments were supurb diamonds set in silver.
Year: 1872

THE UNITED STATES PRINTING Or F1oE.-In the House of Representatives, MT. Garfield said the Committee on Appropriations had just been looking over the accounts for the public print ing. This Government had at present much the largest printing-house on the globe, where there were over thou sand men and women employed and paid by the year to carry on the business, where enough printing ink was bought every year to float the biggest man-of- war in the navy. A train of army wagons reaching three-fourths of the way from Washington to Baltimore, and loaded with one ton a piece packed as closely on the road as six mule teams can be packed, would not be able to haul the mass of public documents print ed every year in that printing house. Congress was now asked to appropriate more than two millions to run that establishment for the next fiscal year. With all that before the House, and re- membering the fact that there had just been erected an addition to that building four hundred feet long and seventy feet wide, he wished to call the attention of the House to the fact that unless it put the brakes on that enormous outlay, it would became scandal in the eye of the nation.
Year: 1872

We don't recommend advertising as the best way to get a wife but we know that it is the best way to get good trade.

 You can't eat enough in one week to last whole year, and you can't advertise on that plan either.

 Iniudicious advertising is like fishing where there is no fish. You need to let the lines fall in the right places.

 A constant dropping will wear a rock. Keep dropping your advertisements on the public and they will soon melt under it like rock salt.

 Large type is not necessary in adver- Using. Blind folks don't read news papers.

 If you can arouse curiosity by an ad- vertisement it is a great point gained. The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in the world.

 Don't be afraid to invest in printers ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run out.

 When you advertise, see that you do it on the same principle that you buy goods. Get the most you can for the money.

 People who advertise only once in three months forget that most folks can't remember anything longer than about seven days.

 When people sec @ man advertise they know he is business man, and hls ad- vertising proclaims that he is not above business, but anxious to do it.

 "Dull times," it is said, "are the best for advertisers. Because when money is tight and people are forced to econo- mize, they always read the advertisements to ascertain who sells the cheapest. and where they can trade to the best advan- tage.

 Some say that it is no use to advertise they have been in the place in business all their lives, and every body knows them. Such people forget to take into consideration that our country is increas- ing in population nearly forty per cent. every ten years, and no matter how old the place may be there are constant changes taking place !; some move to other parts, and strangers fill their places. In this age of the world, unless the name of business firm IS kept constantly before the public, some new firm may start up, and by iberally advertising, in very short time take the place of the older ones, and the latter rust out, as 1t were, and be forgotten.
Year: 1872

Ever and ever the world gees round, Bearing it's burdens and crosses; Ever and ever the years roll on,

 With their tide of sorrows and losses. Ever and ever the book of life

 Bears upon it's pages The weary, weary lay of the heart. Sung through all the ages. Ever and ever with outstretched hands We grasp for golden morrow; Ever and ever the pillows of time

 Are lighted with bitter sorrow. Ever and ever tho lips smile on,

 That the world may walk in blindness Little they know of the hearts wild woe, When the face looks but with kindness ]; Ever and ever the shadows fall

 Over the golden mosses; Ever gleam from Paradise

 Lightens our cares and crosses. Ever and ever the morning dawns

 On hopes that are breathed in gladness Ever and ever the night brings in

 Its tide of bitter sadness. Ever and ever the eye of God

 Looketh upon us with pity; And ever the light is shown to us,

 That gleams from the Golden City.
Year: 1872

There is no market in London at which horses for killing may be purchas- ed as bullocks are. Indeed, it is 8 sin gular fact that the horse-slaughterer is v1lgarly regarded as an individual very inferior, as regards social status, to the ox-slaughterer. No one sees anything in the least repulsive ill the trade of the ordinary butcher. It is as we'll known as possible that sirloins and ribs and beef-steaks could never be obtained with out the use of the poleaxe and the gleam- ing knife. Inpoor neighborhoods it is nothing uncommon to encounter Mr. Brisket's man with his thigh-boots hid eously stained, and his blue smock speckled with color that matches, bear ing huge smoking "quarters" on his broad back, or, more sanguinary still, with his head and shoulders concealed by the newly-dressed sheep he carries, and which, still limp and worm, wags it's dead head in ghastly time-keeping with the mans footsteps. Yet nobody turns away with shudder of horror or wonder how any one can be so barbar- ous as to apprentice his son to the trade of Q butcher. Popular prejudice, how ever, is decidedly against the horse slayer. He is stigmatised "knacker, '' and the meaningless term is applied to him in spirit of disgust and aversion By common consent he is banished to the bottommost round of the social lad der and scavengers and sifters at the dust-yard assert their right to look down on him. Possibly, mans affection fol the horse may account for thls. He lives with, and helps us, and shares our perils as well as our prosperity. With the poor he is one of the family almost

 and the care taken of him is commensur ate with the calamity of his falling sick and being unable to perform his share of the money earning. But when it i attempted to explain the anomaly o1 the score of sentiment; the feecy laml rises in accusing against us. Is not thu lamb emblematic of all that is gentle and innocent, and guileless Do no painters paint it as symbol of purit, and peace ? and have not poets emu lated its plaintive baa-ing over quire and reams of gilt-edged paper. Yet w

 all eat lamb We view it's naked, deli cate carcase without pang or sigh fo l its departed fleece. We are haunted b. no feelings of remorse as we pour pun gent mint sauce over that cut from it leg-that playful one of four that friske, and gamboled over the grassy mead

 We have its neck and it's innocent scra

 stewed--that scrag that felt the butch CTS fatal knife-and express our admi ration of it because it is nice and ligh and easy to digest, and regret its en-

 only when there remain bones in tn

 dish.-London Society.
Year: 1872

There are many young men who are Tn the habit of excusing their idleness and ineficiency with the plea that they can do nothing without capital The lack of means is the ready reply they make to every appeal to action. They imagine that they possess in themselves all the prerequisites to success but capital. If they only had capital, in addition to their other imagined virtues, they would do great things in the world, they would as- tonish the natives with the boldness and brilliancy of their enterprise. They would grow immensely rich, and then lay the world under perpetual obligations to their gratitude by the magnifcence of their benefactions. This is the way they think and talk, and they roll the vain glo- | rious idea over in their minds until they become to imagine that the world is an immense loser by their poverty.

 These persons forget one important fact that all capital is the product of la bor. That nearly all rich men in this country were once poor. That nearly every personal fortune they can enumer- ate is either the product of it's owners toll and skill, or the representative of his fathers toll and skill.

 How did the makers of these fortunes get along without capital ? Had they spent the vigor of their youth in idle and | foolish lamentations over their poverty, they would have lived and died poor, and left nothing but an inheritance of homes ty behind them. Capital allied to labor and skill can work wonders in the way of material enterprises, and the man who possesses money finds it easy to make money.

 But capital is not only indispensable to young men of the right stuff for all this There are other kinds of capital besides accumulated money: brains, muscle, in- dustry, honesty, diligence, truth, fideli- ty, skill, tact, education-all these are capital, and all of them have commer- cial value, which the owner will De able, sooner or later, to command in the mar ket. Provided with these, any young man in this country may make more than he needs to spend every year, and thus have something at the end of each year to invest as money capital. If he needs money let him go to work and make it. and thus give proof of his ability to use it proftably and judiclously. If we gc into any great city, or into any prosper 2 ous agricultural district, we find the cap italists are those who have made theil fortunes without any outside aid. They did not waste their time in repining II their poverty, and in silly dreams of what they could do if they had the money te do it with. They went boldly and reso lutely to work they toiled and thought and planned, and kept toiling and think ing and planning patiently, until at las

 they grasped the fortunate moment, and in nine cases out of ten they succeeded
Year: 1872

FA1rHFULNEss TO EMP1oYERs.-The is no greater mistake young man can commit than that of being indifferent to the interest of his employer. It must be admitted that there are circumstances under which it would seem to be almost impossible to feel an interest Tn an em- ployer's business but for all that, it is worth trial. Be faithful in small things, be attentive to your duties, shirk no em- ployment that is not dishonorable, feel that your employer is fairly entitled to every minute of the time which you have agreed to give him for stipulated remu- neration. The wages may be small-too small, but if you have contracted towork for dollar week, when your work is worth ten, stick to your bargain like a man, until your term of service has ex- pired. It may seem very hard, but it will instill the great principle of being true to your word.
Year: 1872

How TO MAKE MnK.-They found out how to do one thing in Paris, dur ing the seize, and that was to make arti- ficial milk. The following is the recipe: Dissolve one and half ounces of sugar in quart of water; add an ounce of dry albumen and from 15 to 30 grains of soda, and then take an emulsion of the whole with from one and Q half to two ounces of olive oil. Gelatine may be substituted for albumen. Slaughter house fat was used in Paris for the olive oil. It is said that one firm in Paris made daily 132,000 gallons of this sweet mixture. It is not probable that our milkmen will try the experiment; the stuff would be found out too speedily.
Year: 1872

Some aged inhabitants of the city of Munich, Germany, still remember a wo- man who used to be called ''Die Beterin au der Mariensaule," because she used to pass the whole of every day in silent, motionless prayer before the Virgins image. No rain, or storm, or cold, or entreaties could drag her away when spoken to she only wept and said, My child, my child :" King Ludwig I. took an interest in this woman, and her story was found to be thatin early life she had been 8 peasant in the neighborhood, who had lover, but they were too poor to marry. One night the Virgin ap- peared to her in dream, and neighbor found in the circumstance some hint as chased this number and drew thousand for the war, and she had to pay four other six hundred were taken by her fa- ther's creditors. Some years after she found at the foot of a.Virgin, when pray ing, eighteen hundred gulden. The young people then married, but two or three days after the husband was taken away for another war. In his absence she bore son. Once again the hus- band returned, but only to be immedi- ately recalled to fight against Russia. Going to see him off with her child, poor Adelaide was knocked down by a carriage, and her foot crushed. Worse than all, her child was lost. She never saw her husband or child again, though she heard of her child as having got into a soldiers wagon, and being adopted by an officer going to Russia. The poor woman actually wandered to Russia whence she came back broken-hearted to pass her days before the image of the Virgin, who had twice given her gold but could not restore her child. Through the sympathy of the king. her last days were made as comfortable as possible She died in 1884 in hospital.
Year: 1872

In the Great West, there is no more interesting and facinating locality than that of Salt Lake, in Utah.

 At the first glance, it seems so strange to find sea, whose waters are even more salt than the waters of the Atlantic or Pacific, away up there, at m elevation of nearly five thousand feet, and eight hundred miles from the nearest sea- coast proper. But, when we know its history which we now only suspect-it may not seem unnatural, though still wonder full.

 There is every indication that Salt Lake is mere remnant of what was once mighty seal

 It appears to be gradually drying up. We will not see the process completed in our day, however, as it is consider able body of water, having length of one hundred and twenty miles, and an average breadth of about forty miles. At some points it's depth is very great. have stated that Salt Lake contains @ greater proportion of salt than the two great oceans, which is an evidence that evaporation has been one agent in re- ducing a great ocean to the more modest dimensions of lake. Evaporation, eruptions and drainage have accomplish ed the vast work. This amounts to little more than speculation, at present, but, in time, science will prove it as clearly as the boundaries of seas and continents are marked as they exist to-day.

 Salt Lake bears all the marks of body of water that is shrinking and drying up. It has 8 great, smooth margin, at some points many miles in width, that is one vast plain of alkili, white as snow, and baked and cracked like the muddy bot tom O. pond that has been licked dry by the burning sun during a summer drought.

 Around Salt Lake, where the land rises 8 little higher, is one of the most fertile regions on the continent. It is a perfect oasis, indeed; for on the west stretch out barren plains hundreds of miles, and on the east loom up rugged mountains, capped with snow, and so rocky as to offer but poor encourage ment to tree or bush. But the level lands, between the mountains and the lakes margin, are the paradise of the husbandman, and Salt Lake City is the nucleus of perfect garden spot. The soil is wealth itself, and its vegetation fairly rivals that of the tropics in its richness and luxuriance.

 Whatever may be it's political destiny, the Salt Lake region has bright future before it as farming country; and with it's beauty, it's wild surroundings, it's facinating history, it is one o1 Heavens richest gifts to man.
Year: 1872

A SENSATION. Berlin, winch is not much addicted to sensations, has lately been enjoying one: Two young ladies, sisters, disappeared, but shortly after ward tempered the blow to their shorn by letting them know that they still in- habited this wicked world, and were in London. Having fallen desperately in love with the same young man, who is described as an Adonis, they felt that they could only find happiness and re- spectability in becoming his wives. They had, therefore, taken passage for this country, en route for Salt Lake City, where, perhaps, they will arrive too late for the fair, news of Mormonism being at 8 disadvantage having probably not reached them when they left. However, as it is intimated that these interesting young persons took care before starting to help themselves as far as they could to the dover which they thought becom- ing, they will no doubt manage to get along.
Year: 1872

THE FAIRRR OF THE TWO.


Gen. Hunton had said it (the platforml con-
demned the Ku-Klux Act This he denied, and
said he would read letter from Reuben Fen
ton, one of the most accomplished scoundrels
in the United States Senate, Mr.. Greeley
groom. a man who owns and runs him just as
John Harper does Longfellow. He then read
the letter of Mr. Fenton, urging the adoption OF
more vigorous measures for the enforcement of
the Fifteenth Amendment than the Enforce
ment Act and the Ku-Klux law. Why, MIR.
Greeley himself, in his letter OF acceptance,
evaded the point when he said the civil law
should be supreme over the military. Nobody
doubts that it was cunningly drawn paragraph
for circulation both North and South. and sus-
ceptible of two constructions.


But the great point in Mr.. Greeley's favor
with Gen Hunton was that he wanted to "shake
hands across the bloody chasm. Well, now,
he didn't make the offer until after the election,
and he would like to see an ambitious candidate
who wouldn't shake hands with most anybody
to secure his vote, no matter if it was over q
ss bloody chasm" Laughter and applause. ]
When the call for the Convention at Cincinnati
was first made, copy had been sent to him,
and from it he read the names of the signers.
OF all the names, Schurz was the only one who
was not now opposed to Greeley, and he would
be in opposition if it were not that he had been
made President of the Convention; but as an
evidence that he was chagrined at the nomina-
ton, it was only necessary to mention that he
forgot to announce the result of the ballot.


The battle cry of the opposition was any
body to beat Grant" That was the platform,
the creed, the prayer of the Lberals-it was
the Alpha and Omega of their alphabet. But
who did they pick up as
Year: 1872

The decisions Of the Courts in Pennsylvania,
do not seem to agree to the constituionality
Of tho Local Option" Law. In Philadelphia,
the question comes up before full bench of
the Court OF Common pleas, it being in issue
whether the act passed by the Legislature estab-
fishing the Local Option rule in the And Ward
was good. The Court, four Cudges concurringD
decided that it was, and consequently no licen-
ses for the sale of liquor have been granted in
that Ward this year


On the other hand, two Of the Pennsylya-
MIA Courts have decided the law
constitutional. Judge Junkin, Of the Cum
berland County Court took this view, upon a
case argued before him, and quite recently,
Judge Ross of the Montgomery and Bucks dis
trict gave similar decision, declaring section
In the charter Of the borough Of Hulmeville un-
constitutional, because it gave permission to the
voters to decide whether liquor should be sold in
tue borough The vote had been taken and a
large majority dec Jared against sale tavern
keeper in the borough appealed to the Court,
and asked that a hcence be granted him, at
usual, under the general State law. ThelCourt
rejected the work of the Legislature and the
consequent action Of the people, and granted
the license applied for.


The decisions being now so different, in thu
inferior Courts, a case will no doubt be taken
very sosn, to the Supreme bench of the State, g
that an authoritative decision may be had. Wha
Its character may be, we do not presume, o
course, to say. II it should decide, also, ,agains
Local Option, as it may very probably do, (upo
well-estabhshed principle that the Legislature
which is the only power created by the Stat
Constitution, with authority to make laws, car
not delegate its authority to other parties,) tn
whole effort of the temperance people in beha
Of local prohibition will be thwarted and rendel
ed unavailing This will be great disappon
ment, for the Local Option plan had the cons'
qusnce OF putting it within the power Of a stron
temperance community to entirely forbid IL
liquor sale in their locality, which - to them


was as good as total prohibition, by general laV
The ultimate effect, no doubt, will be to mai
the temperance movement still more earnest
its spirit and less disposed to any compromise
measures.
Year: 1872

Princess Anne has been selected as the place
and the 2sth of August as the time for the meet
ing Of the Democratic Congressional Nominating
Convention of the First Maryland district.