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Year: 1875

Sound sleep is essential to good health.
1t is impossible to restore and recuper-
ate .the system, exhausted by labor and
activity, without this perfect repose.


Sleep has great deal to do with the
disposition and temper. A sound sleeper
is seldom unduly disturbed by trihes
while wakeful, restless person is apt to
be irritable.


A great deal has been written about
the advantages of curtailing the hours of
repose, and of sleeping but little. We
are inclined to think that there is room
for doubt whether the benefits of closely
limiting the time given to rest have not
been exaggerated. Active persons, of
nervous temperament, can hardly get too
much sleep. We know very well that
the saving of two or three hours day
from slumber, is, in one sense, equiva-
lent to considerable prolongation Of
human life, and we are no advocates of
Incidence but the fact still remains that
sleep may be so much abridged as to
leave the system incapable of as much
effective work in two hours as might be
performed in a better condition in one.
-NeaD York Ledger.
Year: 1875

ON my breakfast table. For myself,
personally, / care but little about it,
though if l were capable of uttering such
nonsense as is here put into my mouth,
it is high time that, instead of being a
member of this House, were a member
Of some lunatic asylum. 1t is for the
dignity of this House that / feel con-
cerned; for if honorable members were
capable of listening to such nonsense,
supposing me capable of giving express
ion to it, it were much more appropriate
to Gull this a theater for the performance
of farces, than place for the legisla-
tive deliberations of the representatives
OF the nation.


1t was proposed by some members to
call the printers of the different papers
in which the speech appeared to the ban
of the House, for breach of privilege,
but the matter was eventually allowed
to drop. Mr.. Wilberforce himself was
in favor of this course. He treated the
matter in playful manner, to the great
qualification of the House.
Year: 1875

The early settlers of the middle West
ern States found their beautiful valleys
and prairies abundantly stocked with ma
tive game. Bear and deer were TO DE
found in plenty, and various species OF
the gsllinaceous birds nativeto the couh-
try might be raised at any time IN five
minutes walk. The vast area OF unin-
habited country left those untamed deal
zens of the forest and prairie the safest
refuge from the attack of man, and to
these secure solitudes they gradually
Withdrew, as their enemy pressed them
more and more closely. The ratio OF sup
ply to demand, as far rs bird and beast
were concerned, was 80 great that no
man troubled himself about the snght
inroads which his own hands might
make. All this, in many portions OF the
West, was scarcely fifty years ago, IN
others less than half that time. but
now the relation of cleared and occupied
to uncleared land is reversed. The de
stroyers of the native game have multi
piled on every hand, and the places once
q refuge from human havoc are refuge
no longer. The earth fattens, prosperity
increases, but the native denizens of the
country are dropping farther and still
| farther, till we shall soon know OF them
only through their recorded scientific
descriptions or the graphic tales OF some
aged pioneer.


With certain classes of our game ami
mails this result is not only unavoidable
but desirable. The bear, the wolf and
the species of the cat tribe which were
| - mako
nightly raids on the sheep-fold and pig
sty have had their day and are gone.
But there is large number of the game
birds of the West-the quail, the pheas-
ant (or PARTRIDGE and varieties OF the
grouse, which seem by nature especially
fitted for semi-civilized life, and which
seem to delight in not too intimate
companionship with man. These beauti-
full birds are not only an ornament to
any mans land, but are wholly the
farmers friends, since the little grain
they consume is more than paid for by
the destruction of insects and the seeds
of noxious weeds.


The various States, through their game
laws, are protecting, to the best of their
Judgment, the breeding seasons of these
birds, and our sportsmen throughout the
country are lending their influence to
the enforcement of these laws. But the
motives of the sportsmen are somewhat
selfish in their character, since they look
to the law merely as an ally which shall
preserve their shooting pleasures as long
as possible. The farmer, however, has
more disinterested motives for the pro
lection and preservation of game, and
especially the birds, and it is very large
ly to the farmer that we must look fol-
the successful carrying out of the laws
which are enacted for this purpose. A
very little care and attention to this
matter will be repaid hundred fold.
Will not our farmers who have not al.
ready done so give it their careful con-
sideration.
Year: 1875

In the Herald Of Health is an article
from which we clip the following, as
showing the evils of intemperance in q
new light, adding another novel and
startling argument to the many already
advanced, against the use of intoxicating
liquors


"The history of four generations of
family, as sketched by M. Morel, dis
tinguished french writer, is full of in
structions on the matter. It is as fol-
lows:


First generation. The father was
an habitual drunkard, and was killed in
public-house brawl.


"Second generation. The son in
herited his fathers habits, which gave
rise to attacks of mania, terminating in
paralysis and death.


"Third generation. The grandson
son was strictly sober, but was full of
hypochondrica1 and imaginary fears of
persecution, ETC., and had homicidal
tendencies.


" Fourth generation. The fourth in
descent had very limited intelligence, and
had an attack of madness when sixteen
years old terminating in stupidity nearly
to idiocy. With him the
family will probably become extinct.
And thus we perceive the persistence of
the taint, in the fact that generation
OF absolute temperance will not avert the
fatal ISSUE"
Year: 1875

The following is taken from "Grant's
History of the Newspaper Press :"
About the same time as that to which 1
have been referring-the beginning of
the last century-the debate, which was
on the question of the employment of
English laborers, being one evening un-
usually dull, Morgan O'Sullivan, re-
porter of that period, who had short
time before been imported from Tip
perary, said to the only other reporter in
the gallery at the time that he felt very
drowsy, and that he would be after taking
little bit of nap if he would tell him,


when he awoke, anything which might
Year: 1875

Too mock by half was he who came
A-wooing me one morn.
For he thought so littls OF himself
learned TO Share his scorn-
At night had a suitor. vain


As the vsinest in the land;
Almost no seemed to eondescend
In ths offer Of his hand.
In one who pressed his suit, missed
Courage and manly pride;
And how could / think Of such one
As leader and guids?t
And then there came Q worshippcr,
With such undoubting trust,
That when be knott he seemed not worth
Upraising from the dust.
The next was never in the wrong,
Was not too smooth nor rough;
so faultless and 70 good was he,


That that was fault enough.
But one, tho last of all who came.


know not how TO paint;
No angel do seem to him


He scarcely calls Inc saint,
He hath such sins and weaknesses
As mortal man befall;
He hath thousand faults, and yet
/ love him with them all.
He never asked me yea nor nay.


Nor knslt TO me one hour
But he took my heart and holds my heart
With a lovers tender power.
And bow, IA needs must, and say,
In proud humility,
Loves might is right, and yield at Last
To manhood's royalty.
Year: 1875

BOXING THE EARs.-The drum of the
ear is as thin as thin paper, and is
stretched like a curtain between the air
outside and that within ; and thus, hav-
ing to support it, and being extremely
delicate, a slap with the hand on the side
of the face, made with the force which
sudden and violent anger gives it, has in
multitudes .of cases ruptlred this deli
cate membrane, resulting in the affliction
of deafness for life. AS the right hand
is almost always used, it is the left ear
which is stricken this aids in account
ing for the fact that the left ear is more
frequently affected with deafness than
the right.
Year: 1875

One fine summer afternoon / deter
mined to become farmer. Don't fol
goodness sake think that 1 WAS going
TO buy farm, for such were not my in
tentions. No, not by any means. Why
L had never joined the Patrons of Hus
bandry was because l had been black
balled by that same organization some
thing less than half dozen times. And
why was not going to buy farm the
reader can easily guess-I hadn't the re-
quired amount of funds.


But / am wandering away flom my
ine summer afternoon. To return will
tell You why and what way was going
to become farmer


Ny hank account was no more, and my
iandlsdy would not wait with me for an
other week s board, hence my departure
from the city and my arrival among
farmers The time was spring when j
wandered among the rural districts.


The grass was just starting from its
mother earth, and looked inviting in the
extreme, to lazy young man with the
world before him, and no one to take
care of but himself. When l say invit-
ing, l don't mean inviting to eat, but to
lie down and take comfort thereon. /
threw myself on the green sward meath
the shade of a friendly bush growing
near the roadside. L was lying thus,
dropping into a delightful snooze, when
a voice from the highway disturbed my
calm repose.


"Say young feller, what's the mat
teri"


remained perfectly quiet, turning
fAe matter carefully over in my mind
wss lying on my back, and, with very
hftlo body exertion, raised my left leg
to perpendicular position, and gently
moved nay foot up and down, and waited
~ see the effect. And to this day, /
soIelrz1r believe, though L know 1 am
liable to We killed for saying it, that this
motion was the sign of distress among
the PAtrons, for in an instance the man
in the wagon was at my side. Bending
over over me he said /:


"What ails you, young man 2"


/ said nothing for a moment, wonder
ing " If what ails you" was the test word,
and, II 30, what would be the proper re-
sponse Finally 1 groaned out-with a
mysterious and unknown working of my
fingers-the word, "Corn bread" With
a bounding heart / saw / had beyond a
doubt hit the nail on the head. With
out word my fraternal brother assisted
me 10 rise, and led NE limping toward
the wagon, which stood in the road near
by. He helped me into the wagon, and
after had imbibed something from a
little brown jug, was able to tell my
rescaer the story of my wrongs. This L
viii not repeat for reasons best known to
myself. Suffice it to say, that the farmer
was deeply touched by my tale. Iwound
up by telling him wanted to get work
on farm.


"wen, now," said my rescuer, CT
am looking for a cheap chap to work on
my farm. Did you ever shear sheep9"


"Oh, yes" said, 81 have done as
much of that as any other work about
the farm"


This was the truth, for 1 had never
been ON the grounds of homestead in
my life. l was just going to tell him
what a Jolly time had experienced last
Christmas, when the idea struck me /
might be treading on dangerous ground,
50 determined to remain silent on the
subject until learned something about
il.


How much will you pay month for
good shearer," / ventured, determined
pOt TO air my ignorance.


How much a month, said he, with
Year: 1875

THE GRANT PARISH CAsE.-The
Washington correspondence of the
New York Tribune, of Friday week,
last, says:


The Attorney General to-day closed
the argument in the Cruikshank en-
forcement case. The Importance of
the case, in political point Of view,
is so great that it will not be decided
by the court for some weeks, if dur
ing the present term. The opinions
will of necessity be very elaborate
and carefully prepared, and the current
business of the court requires the en-
tire time of the judges. Several de-
cisions will be withheld until the fall
term to give the judges an opportu
nifty to prepare their opinions in the
recess. The Attorney General said
to-day that there might be no decis
ion in the enforcement case until next
winter, although he thought not to be
delayed longer than necessary.
Year: 1875

The report of the officer in charge
of the souphose in this city is surpris-
ing in its exhibition of the complexion
Of those receiving benefits from the
institution. 1t has been customary
with the Democratic press to speak of
the poor Of the negro race as vagrants,
and particularly, when unemployed,
as idle and worthless vagabonds. The
souphouse tells a different story. 1t
appears that out Of 1929 persons who
were fed at the New Orleans Soup
house, during the month of March,
only 103 were persons Of color, and
out of 4O75 who applied for lodgings
at the same house, only sixty weight
were colored. This statement is as
sad as it is instructive.


The city is largely populated with
colored people, and in all lucrative
employment preference has generally
been given to the whites. Notwith-
standing the disadvantages of preju-
dice against the colored people, and
their want of opportunities for edu-
cation, they are as class nearly self
supporting, owing to their habits of
industry and economy. 1t should be
a source of pride to the colored resi-
dents that they are in nearly all cases
able to shift for themselves, while
thousands of dollars are annually
raised and disbursed charitably to
patch out the existence of the poor
whites. The colored child begins to
labor early in life, and is mede to
earn what its eats. Our white bows
and girls are not put at trades as a
rule, and necessity is often their great
est incentive to work. The result is
taat calls for assistance come more
frequently from the white race, though
it takes no more to sustain the life of
a person of one color than that of an
other.-New Orleans Republican.
Year: 1875

There was short spelling match
ut the head of Water street yester.
day. A loaded coal cart, au ice
team and a Metropolitan car got
iammed, when tho llibernian dri.
yer of the anthracite van, with
some allusion to the canine descent
of the ice vender, badc him back
out or he would pull him out of his
ice bin; whereupon six feet and
corresponding breadth Of down
east Yankee emerged from the
yellow receptacle OF .rigid mer-
chanoise, aud, doubling his fist
about the size of II nail keg, simply
calculated:


Spell aulc.'


The collier evidently had no con-
fidencc in his photographic ability.
for he gave it up and swung off the
track without trial, and tho
brakes of twenty blocked horse
ears, from Water street to Cornhill
flew around with whir, aud the
German band who play for their
beer in front of the Water street
saloon every morning, commended
the Beautiful Blue Danube. -
Boston Bulletin.
Year: 1875

The best method of relieving a
cough is to resist it with all the
force Of will possible, until the ac-
emulation of phIegm becomes
greater; then there is samething
to cough agaidst, and it comes up
very much easier and with halt the
coughing. A great deal OF hack
ing, aud hemming, and coughing
in invalids is purely nervous, or
the result OF mere habit, us is shown
by the frequency with which il oc-
ours while the patient is thinking
about it, and its comparative rarity
when he is 50 much engaged that
there is no time to think or when
the attention is impslled ~ anoth'
er direc,ion. IL
Year: 1875

Speaking is considered one Of the
most important exercises we nave. This
exercise comes on Friday evening. and
almost every time Friday comes it finds
some one absent. 1t does seem strange
that Friday is such an eventful day that
almost every time it comes around it
brings SICKNESS" or something that
prevents the pupil coming to school.
| believe if our speeches and ESSAYS
came on any other day Of the week that
certain Gay would take tie place of Fri
day, and but very few Of the pupils
would be there to read tper essays or
speak their pieces. Make such change
and Friday would pass off ike any
other school day except the oGe set
apart for speaking.


fridays exercises ere the cause Of
more trouble to both teacher and pupil
than all the other exercises of the week.
1t is Il source of unnecessary trouble tr
the teacher on account Of the pupils fail
ing to perform their allotted parts. and
trouble 10 the pupils because the major
itv of us were not taught to declaim
when we were younger ana in the lower
rooms hence our experience III decla;n!-
inc is somewhat limited and our embar-
rcsSment is greater when occupying =
position in the highest department in the
Savannah Public School we are called
upon to speak before the whole school.
According to my notion, we are more to
be pitied than blamed


But Us we live in g. country where
every one is at liberty to express his
sentiments, it is highly important that
we should be able to speak our thoughts
on any subject when called upon. 1t IS
very difficult tor an Inexperienced person.
to speak before an audience, ard prac-
tice is necessary to Danish our embar--
rasSment We can not possibly tina, D.
better place for practice than the school,
room. Therefore let Us strive in the fu~-
ture to make our Friday afternoon ex~-
crcises a success. II we do, | think it,
will not only prove beneficial to us but;
we VIII find it pleasure instead OF -
TASK. AZ.
Year: 1875

MpoETANTTo HoUSEKEEpEES.-Every
one ought TO know that this Is the
season to get rid of flies. They begin
now 10 crawl half dead from their
winter hiding places in attic and closet,
and the careful hou>ekeeper should
not omit TO put an end 10 as many As
possible. \ pail of water into which
they can be swept is the best plan ;
but the torpid insects suffer but little
IN whatever way they may be eXecu-
ted 1t Is from these that the swarms
Of August will originate. DR.. Harris


IN his book on insects says, speaking
of the house fly: The swarms of
summer are doubtless the progeny of
a few individuals who have survived
the rigorous winter in some protected
nook, and are not produced from eggs
laid the preceding season. \ single
female will produce about 10000
young 1t is mistaken kindness TO
brush these creatures out of the win
dow as 50 many do, who, though they
DO not hesitate to kill mosquitoes, feel
bound to spare the lives Of equally
noXious flies. \ writer says: If
every grown person Qor children
ought not to doit) would untiinchingly
destroy every fly that appears in spring.
the race would be swept from the face
Of the earth
Year: 1875

PEAcucAL hNowLEDGE.-Those par
ents who believe that they have done
all they can for their sons by giving
them liberal school education, make
one of the most distressing mistakes
that atiiicts modern society and busi-
ness circles No class of young men
in city or country is so deserving of
pity as those who have good educa-
ton, good morals, but no practical
knowledge of the solid business affairs
Of life. They are deserving OF pity
because they are really worthy of
better position in life than their capa


blilties will warrant, and because
they are not to blame for being en-
tireIy untitled for responsible posi-
tlonS. Thousands of well educated
young men walk the streets Of the
cities. even in the flush of prosperous
times, who do not know how to earn
their livelihood, and 90 seeking, day
after day, such positions as they be-
lieVe their talents demand, and meet
with disappointment at every turn. 1t
Is a noteworthy fact that nearly, II
not quite all, Of the great, good, and
substantial business men of our coun-
try, have come up from boyhood, IA
miliar with the use of the az. Plow,
forge or plane: and they are not now,
nor have they ever beeD, ashamed to
own that their hands had been hard
ened with toll. Labor is a great free
gift it is q promoter Of health and
morality, and hence, of happiness and
prosperity.
Year: 1875

The latest invention in the life-boat line
is boat with a broad line of cork at the
luad-lin,, 50 constructed that 1t sails equally
well with either side up l. will not upset
easily; but If it does upset the bottom and
keel fall right down through the centre, and
there il Is, just as it was before, Only the bot
tom has come the top.
Year: 1875

ROBBERY. The residence of VIM.
Bright, Esq, No. 10 West Eleventh
street, was entered last night through
the cellar, and robbed of a lot of silver
ware and few other articles of little
value. The rogues had great difficult
ty in getting from the kitchen to the
dining room, and only succeeded by
getting a step-ladder and breaking the
glass out of transom over one of the
doors. The frequency of these depre-
dations Is beginning to be alarming;
and if it is not stopped some rascal will
be found with bullet in his head.
Year: 1875

SALE OF BUILDING LoTs. -Saml w
McCaulley, Esq, will sell six valuable
building lots, finely located at the cor
ner of Chestnut and Adams streets
This is a growing section of the city,
and has improved within the last five
years more rapidly than any other Sec
ton. Those who purchase these lots
tomorrow for an investment cannot
fail to treble their money in three or
four years
Year: 1875

VERY DRUNK,-At noon, to-day,
man was brought to the City Hall in a
furniture wagon. He was very drunk,
so much so as to entirely oblivious.
Chief Brady and officer Bradford seiz-
cd him by the arms and his breeches,
and tenderly carried linn to the cells,
where thoy left him to repose among
the bed bugs and reaches, and to sleep
off the effects of his deep intoxication.
Year: 1875

Yesterday was Of excitement on Blackwelrs
Island When the light dawnlng it was discovered
that deed had been done almost under the walls or
Tie Pententiary which would have been shocking II
il had been committed in dreary place
wherein the footsteps Of an official never falls
An old is found murderously assaulted and
robbed just where life and property ought properly
TO be most secure, bold maleiactors have committed
a crime within the range Of vision OF law officers,
and yet the criminals escape detection.
In the middle Of the day the Commissioners
sit in judgment upon official charged with criminal
ity and 10 the middle Of their deliberations they are
disturbed 81 an alarm OF a stampede among the
convicts II is hard to lay the blame
for these things where It properly belongs
This alone certain. II ia terrible for private
citlzen contemplate what may happen TO him in bis
home when such irightfu thing occurred TO poor
Creevy Inc abode Of criminals supposed TO be thor
oughly subjected to the law.
Year: 1875

The body Of Mary Geicr, married woman, aged
twenty seven years. and living in Jefferson street Yon
kerg was found in cistern near the rear or her apart
monts Yesterday afternoon. Deceased who Is said to
have lately evinccd symptoms Of mental derangomcn
had been missing since Wednesday morning last There
s 10 doubt that the unfortunate woman committed
suicide She leaves family Of small children. The
Coroner was notified Of the occurrence.