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Year: 1876

There was an artiicer in Rome who
made vessels of glass OF so tenacious a
temper that they were as little liable to
be broken as those that are made Of gold
and silver. When, therefore, he had
made vial of the purer sort, and such
as he thought present worthy of Caesar
alone, he was admitted into the presence
of the then Emperor Tiberius. The gift
was praised, the skillful hand OF the ar
tist applauded, and the donation of the
giver accepted. The artist, that he might
enhance the wonder of the spectators and
promote himself yet further in the favor
of the emperor, desired the vial out OF
Caesars hand and threw it with such
force against the floor that the most
solid metal would have received some
damage or bruise thereby. Cesar was
not only amazed, but affrighted with the
act; but the artist, taking up vial from
the ground (Which was not broken, but
only bruised together, as if the substance
of the glass had put on the temper OF
brass), drew out an instrument from his
bosom and beat it out to it's former fig.
ure. This done, he imagined that he
had conquered the world, as believing
that he had merited an acquaintance
with Caesar, and raised the admiration
of all the beholders, but it fell out other
wise, for the emperor.inquired it any
other person besides himself was privy to
the like tompering of glass. When he
told him "No" he commanded his at
tendants to strike off his head. saying
"That should this artifce come once to
be known, gold and silver would be as
of little value as the dirt in the street.
Long after this, in 1910, we read that,
among other rare presents then sent
from the Sopby of Persia to the king of
Spain, were six mirrors of malleable
glass, 80 exquisitely tempered that they
could not be broken.
Year: 1876

Much of the good that comes to US
through life is far removed from any OF
our plans or intentions. If we watch
child at play we shall see that his con-
tinual pleasures take him unawares. One
by one they meet him Unexpectedly in
simple yet ever changing forms. When
he grows older and planshis enjoyments
how seldom does he realize his anticipa-
tions! Happiness eludes his search and
defes his schemes, but comes in ways
unthought of. 1t escapes from the am
bilious schemer, who thought his grasp
upon it was firm, and dwells with the
simple and loving hearts under the cot
tage roof, who court it not. It flies
from the banquet table, spread to en-
snare it. and descends upon the frugal
board, where health and peace and love
preside. Complicated plans to secure
wealth and power, fame and position,
may be successfully carried out without
bringing half the enjoyment which comes
uncalled to those who live simply, pure
", trustfully and self-denyingly from
day to day, making no claim, but receiv-
ing gratefully whatever blessings de.
scends upon them.


We would by no means undervalue a
grand life purpose, or throw the least
shade of disrespect upon careful and
well laid plans of action. They are IN
valuable, if we use them as instruments,
keeping them under wise control and
modifying them az occasion may re-
quire. They are only detrimental when
we worship them, become absorbed in
them, are bound down by them, and
8. elk good in no other direction. Like
fire and water, our plans make excellent
servants but very bad masters.
Year: 1876

a Detroit boy, after finishing the last
chapter of a book called "The Pleas
ures of the Deep" pleaded with his
father to let him ship aboard lake
schooner. The old man smiled grim
smile, took the case under considera-
ton, and in few days the boy was on
the rolling deep, having shipped as a
greenhorn on a vessel in the lumber
trade. He sailed to Saginaw, came
down and crossed to Toledo, and next
day he appeared in Detroit, lame and
stiff, bis throat sore, one eye nearly shut
and feeling of humbleness running all
through him.


"What back again ?" cried the old
man, as the boy entered the house.


"Yes. father. l want to saw all the
wood for wiLter, bring in all the coal,
clean out the cellar and paint the barn
and you needn't give me but two mealsa
day."


"Don't you like sailing2"


"Father, you don't begin to realize
anything about it. The captain sailed
right along on Sunday, the same as any
other day, and I believe he swore even
harder. He wouldn't give me an um.
brella when it rained. he made me sit
up most all night, and two or three times
be called me up at midnight and made
me haul on ropes and drag old sails
around. There wasn't single night
when all OF us got off to bed at nine
o'clock, and there wasn't day that he
didn't boss US around and break In on
US every time we got to reading any.
thing goodl I like land, father, and l
wish you owned q farm |"
Year: 1876

The following incident is mentioned
in an exchange in proof that the yellow
fever is not contagious in the sense in
which smallpox or scarlet fever is, and
that, unless place is in a condition
favorable to the spread of the disease,
there is no special danger that the
presence of patient who has contracted
the fever elsewhere would cause well
person in contact with him to take it !:
About twenty years ago the yellow fever
desolated Norfolk, Virginia. For time
the alarm in the country round about
was very great, and every village and
instituted sort of quar-
antine, which shut the poor Norfolk
people closely in their stricken city.
Henry A. Wise alone Of all the people
in the neighborhood retained at once
his courage and his humanity. Seeing
how sore the need was of refuge
without the walls of the city, he invited
the sufferers, sick and well, to come to
his plantation in Accomao county, just
across the strait from the city; and de-
fying the threatened violence OF a
frightened mob, he brought them there
in considerable numbers, and not q
particle of harm came of it !; not single
person who had not been exposed
to the infected air of the city took the
disease. If this fact is correctly re-
ported, there is something in it deserv-
ing the careful Investigation of thought
full physicians.
Year: 1876

Sandy Melville endeavored to swindle
an old man in Omaha by selling him
spurious gold coins in exchange for
greenbacks. After his arrest be at
tempted to escape from the officers and
was dangerously wounded. A lovely
maid haunted the corridors of the jail
until the sheriff took pity on her and
permitted her to enter the prisoners
cell and dress his wounds. She nursed
him and gave him brandy and water and
piloted him out of the valley Of the
shadow. When she had restored him
to health the courts took him in hand
and sentenced him to five years i'm
prisonment in the Iowa penitentiary.
Affecting spectacle justice of the peace
called in; marriage ceremony in the jail
witnessed by all the prisoners bride
groom carried eff to chew tobacco in the
penitentiary bride returns to her hum
BILE home to take in washing and to wait;
beautiful essay in local paper on
woman's devotion, with appropriate
references to Diana and Mother Eve.
Year: 1876

Evary one has noticed how many
singular sounds are heard at night
noises apparently unexplainable, and
consequently mysterious. Many 3
ghost story has spring up from an un'
accountable noise; many person terri
fed beyond measure by an unexpected
sound at midnight. Sir David Brew
ster gives an excellent account OF 9
mysterious night sound which would
have frightened many persons, but
which proved innocently harmless when
tested by steady observer. A gentle.
man heard strange sound every night
soon after getting into bed; his wife
heard it also, but not at the time when
she retired, little earlier than he. No
probable cause could be assigned, and
the effect upon the Imagination became
rather unpleasant. He found some time
afterward that the sound came from q
wardrobe which stood near the head OF
his bed. he almost always opened and
closed this wardrobe when undressing;
but as the door was little tight he
could not quite close 1t. The door, pos.
sibly affected by gradual changes OF
temperature, forced itself open with a
sort of dull sound which WAS over in an
instant. From the lady not being in
the habit of using that wardrobe, the
mystery became associated with her
husband only. Had they given way to
and never investigated the
affair, another haunted house would
have been added to the long row already
standing.
Year: 1876

To beg tobacco and steal umbrellas is
strictly legal, for it has become a law by
custom, the practice of which has been
indulged in "time ont Of mind, whereof
the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary" .


If by chance one loses possession OF
an umbrella only for the short space OF.
five minutes on a stormy day, when such
things are most required, the chances
are that it will go into the hands OF
stranger and will never be seen again by
the rightful owner. But an umbrella
stolen is not so great a crime or an act
of such unparalleled meanness as to
have an habitual tobacco beggar solicit
in bland manner q "chew;" and when
you hand him your box to have him
take all that there is in it, put what he
can in his mouth and the rest in his vest
pocket, then coolly remark that you
keep poor stock and advise you to go
and purchase new supply.


Both of these disreputable acts are OF
frequent occurrence, but the petty lar
ceny in umbrellas is not so frequent as
the confidence dodge in tobacco. The
surest remedy to effectually abate this
nuisance is to attach your umbrella to
your side as some of the ladies do their
fans, and when you are solicited by
well known tobacco beggars hand them
five cents.
Year: 1876

. Little Buck Elk has stated to Indian
@ Commissioner Mitchell that he was in
the fight in which Gen. Custer and all
his men were slaughtered, and that
eleven different tribes were engaged in
the fight. He said that the Indians
were as thick as bees at the fight, and
that there were so many of them that
they could not all take part that the
soldiers were all brave men and fought
well; !; that some of them, when they
found themselves surrounded and over
powered, broke through. the lines and
tried to make their escape, but were
pursued and killed, miles from the battle
ground. One soldier, who had faster
horse than the rest, made his escape
into the Bad Lands, and after he had
riden seven or eight miles accidentally
ran into a war party of Indians and was
killed by them. This soldier rode q
big horse with fa1en name, and had q
government saddle and gray saddle
blanket, but it was not known whether
he was an officer or not. he also said
that they captured six battle flags, and
that no soldiers were taken alive, but
after the fight the women went among
the dead bodies and robbed and mutila-
ted them. There were plenty of watches
and money taken from them which the
young warriors are now wearing In their
shirts and belts.
Year: 1876

The Pail Mall Gazette reads modern
wives lecture on the duty OF finding
sureties for their husbands. A woman
who WAS an inmate of the workhouse OF
st. George's-ia-the-East applied for per-
mission to leave that establishment fora
day or two. Her husband, who was in
receipt of pension OF G33 per annum,
had been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment, and to find sureties for a
further period of two months for sav-
age assault upon herself. During his
Imprisonment she and her child had be-
come chargeable to the parish, and the
guardians had attached the pension, 80
as to pay for the maintenance OF the
wife and child during their stay in the
workhouse. The term OF the erring
husbands imprisonment having nearly
expired, he had written amost affection
ate letter begging his wife to find the
necessary sureties for him. Her appi-
cation was granted by the guardians, and
the woman was given permission to start
on her singular errand of endeavoring
to persuade some confding person or
persons to guarantee that for two whole
months her husband would refrain from
any further attempt to fracture her skull
or smash her ribs.
Year: 1876

"Awful Gardiner was once q well
known pugilist and sporting character in
New York. On one occasion he went to
Newark with q "select party" to give
sparring exhibition. The man who
had charge of the hall where the show
was to take place was of gigantic stature,
and one of the party wagered bottle OF
wine that lawful Gardner " could not
knock the fellow down with his fist.
They all waited in the ball for the COM
ing Of the janitor with Lights. He ap-
preached with candle shaded in his
hands, and as he came within arms
reach the "Awful" measured him and
struck square from the shoulder. The
man hardly winked. he simply turned
his head round toward the pugiist and
said: "Gentlemen, please be little
careful OF your elbows"
Year: 1876

A NOTABLE C1ooK.-In the Kansas
building, on the Gent grounds, is
a clock whose peculiar excellence is that
it requires winding but once in hun
dred years. It is said to keep the most
accurate time, telling the month. of the
year, the day of the month, the day Of
the week, and the time of the day; and
vet the inventor claims that it does all
this with much less power than is re-
quired with any other clock escapement
ever invented. Who would like CEN
tury clocka
Year: 1876

The CENrENNIAL CLOSING ON Sun.
DAY.-It was but last Friday that the
assembled preachers Of Methodism at
Baltimore passed special vote Of
thanks to the Centennial commissioners
for their resolution to close the exhibi-
ton on Sundays. yet last Sunday was q
day of the very hardest kind of work in
the buildings from morning to night
The builders had their hands at work
the workmen we're engaged in moving
and placing goods which were brought
in by railroad, and multitude of visi.
tors we're admitted to the buildings
We should suppose that when the Meth
odist Conference at Baltimore hear Of
all this they will feel it to be their duty
to pass vote of censure upon the par
ties who were responsible for it. Their
vote of last Friday was put through two
days to soon. To look at the show on
Sunday cannot be greater wrong than
to work at it.-New York Sun.
Year: 1876

Polished sheet iron Is now man
ufactured in Pittsburg equal in
quality to that imported from Rus
sia where the manufacture has
long been carried on BY secret
process which enabled the Rus.
slams to monopolize tho trade.


Wide black leather belts are the
latest agony for ultra fashionable
ladies', especially if the belts are
drawn tight They a re stylish, of
course, and the only funny thing
about them is that the have not
been named centennial"


Henry Ward Beech er was rob.
bed Of $500 worth OF silverwarc
on Saturday. The burglary hap
pened ut five o'clock in the morn
ing, and the burglar made good
his escape. Doubles the loss of
this earthly treasure gave visor to
the Sunday sermon at Plymouth
church.
Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD


In view of the many distorted and untrue reports
going the rounds OF the press in regard the unhappy
accident here Wednesday evening the 9th inst have
deemed advisable to ask to insert the accompany
Ing account which, coming as it does from official
source, may be relied strictly true On Wednes
day evening the boys had been detained somewhat
than usual at prayers by brief address from the
principal in reference 10 the revival az Princeton
that II nearly hafpast eight O'Clock by the time
they reached their rooms. On doing Harry NJ
Hunter, of Newark, took from the drawer of the
bureau small pistol Eclipse make, single barrelled
carrying x2-10o cartridge, belonging TO his room
maie A p. Field, OF New Orleans La This he looked
at for some little time and laid II down the
bureau, supposing, the rest did, that the
shell Of the cartridge empty AZ that
moment Gilbert L Taylor, of Trenton, reached into
the room and picked up the pistol little Hunter lean
ing against the doorpost Taylor snapped II several
times pointing IL At the noor and was on the point of
again cooking it when II exploded, the ball striking
Hunter on the zygomatc process Of the en temporal
bone, glancng of and piercing the temporal muscle
aud squamous portion Of the bone and lodging in the
brain Hunter put his hand 10 his face and staggered
into the room, the blood pouring from the
wound BY tins time the writer had reached the spot
and the boy washed undressed and got to his bed
In twenty minutes DR.. John vought was on the spot
and everything done that his long experience and
skill could suggest The strictness OF our rule against
firearms may be judged from the fact that since Sep
tember Field has had the pistol locked In his tLnnk,
and had only that morning placed Il In his drawer No
blame can attach Our discipline is as strict as
common sense will allow. Hunter is still living his
symptoms being slightly more favorable than at any
time since his injury W. Z. V. H0RNER, Sec,y.
Year: 1876

DoATMEN BUTCHER EACH OTHER WITH KNIVES


IN JERSEY.


A terrible anray occurred last evening about ten
O'Clock In Jersey City, Two canal poatmen, named
Francis Ford and John Heaney had sup
per in restaurant Newark avenue,
near Warren street After leaving they
proceeded 10 oyster saloon on Washington street,
near Essex where after taking oysters, they drank
freely dispute then about the payment for
the drinks and the proprietor obliged TO eject
them When they reached the sidewalk the
men cline he'd and Ford, who had drawn q knife
plunged IL into Heaney's back and into his
arm Heaney cried out and staggered back, at the
same time drawing knife, which he buried In
in rapid succession The men then closed and butch
cred each other till they fell fantng and poweress TO
the ground which was soon covered with blood An
alarm was given, and when the police arrived 1t
was supposed that both men were dead Ford
presented terrible spectacle, his face streaming with
blood which ran down hts hands from the wounds In
his arms Heaney still clutched the knife convul-
sively and with the little strength left him
he struggled to deal his adversary another
blow He was raised to his feet but unable 70
stand from the loss of blood Both men were then
conveyed the Charity Hospital where they received
prompt medical attendance but from the
deadly character Of their wounds there Is
but faint hope OF their recovery The
blade. Great excitement prevailed among the canal
boatmen, who crowded around the hospital and the
police found it necessary TO remain for long time 70
pregerve order
Year: 1876

AN MJURED WIFE 1rrEMJfs TO sHooT HER


RIVAL AT wHIyA PLAINS.


The usually PLACID surface OF social life Al White
Plans westchester county, s at present slightly
agilated by an affair which has just anspired there
and in which q dashing widow came near losing her
life al the hands Of a sighted WIFE The husband OF
the latter, until recently, carried . somewhat
extensive retail business in the village named, and
for the past year 80 had employed the
widow Indicated q sales woman II IA SAID tnat
during this time the watchful eye OF the
merchants wife detected sufficient 70 convince
her that In the female empoye she had 4 dangerous
rival for the affections Of her husband Meantime the
ncipent scandal smOuldored not unknown, however,
to the whispering gossps OF the county seat until one
morning. when the st0rekeeper's shutters were not
taken down usual and the already anticipated an
nouncement was made that he had failed Little sym
pathy was felt in the business community for the
broken merchant but II does not appear that
the captivating widow, who Is represented 10
be still on the sunny side OF thirty
and panctual attendant AT one OF the
fashionable churches has forfeited the esteem of the
community in which she lives A few evenings age
the merchants wife, who upbraded her bitterly az
being the OF all her unhappiness well as OF her
husbands financial ruin Epthets more forcible tnan
polite rapidly exchanged, when the rate vile SUD
her rival had placed her finger the trigger, when


friendly hand nterposed causing the bullet intended
for the brain OF the widow TO shatter
plate glass mirror a fow feet distant IL was subse-
quently ascertaned that the aggreved wife bad pur
chased the pistol for the purpose or wreakng
vengeance the saeswoman, who she believes has
wrecked her household and her hopes. Through The
efforts Of mutual friends the attempt the life OF the
widow has been well guarded from the public that II
is only within the last day or two the anar has leaked
Year: 1876

The hearing Of the argument the writ Of habeas
corpus in the case Of Perrne H. sumner the alleged
California forger concluded yesterday in the Cir
cult Court at Jersey City, before Judge Knapp. The
Court denied the application for the discharge OF the
prisoner and remsnded him TO the custody sf Mr..
Osborne the orbcer from California who would be
reouired TO convey him thither by the most direct
route The prisoner should not be subjected 70 the
perils OF a sea voyage Counsel for the prisoner
noupeed his intention appeal 20 the Supreme Court
and the Court allowed him extension OF time til
next wednesday fox rat purpose Meanwhile the
prIsoner will remain in the Hudson County Jail
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning at three O'Clock, onncer Smart
Of the Third precinct in Jersey City, saw man pass
along LaidlAw avenue carrying coil Of lead pipe He
arrested him and conveyed him 20 the station house
The prisoner gave his as Frederick Raymond and
his addres as Allen street. New York In bis posses
sion were keyhole saw chsel. n hammer piece or
wax candle and other concomtants OF the jimmy He
admitted he stole the lead pipe, but not from house
IN Jersey CITY He said he had taken Il from vacant
house near his residence and tookl TO Jersey to sell


He had nothlnk TO say IN relation the tools found
hrs possession Justice Davis committed him for trial
Year: 1876

WAR DEPARTMENT,


OFFICE OF THE CHEF SIGNAL OFFIcER,


WASHINGTON, July 2l-l A. u.


Probdbittries
For New England and the Middle States, continued
high temperature and partly cloudy weather during
the day. followed by cooler weather, northwest TO
southwest winds and rising barometer during the
Ing


For the lower lake region ard Ohio Valley generally
clear weather and lower temperature, northerly TO
westerly winds and rising barometer.
For the South Atlantic States, clear and warm
weather will continue with light southcrly to westerly
winds and stationary or slight rise IN barometer
For tho Gull States ana Tennessee, partly cloudy
weather and local rains with light to south winds
and slight changes in temperature and barometer.
For the upper Lake region, the Upper Mississippi and
Lower Missouri Valleys generally clear weather and
lower temperature than on Thursday with northeast
to southeast winds and rising barometer Of the
Missouri Valley.


The Red River will continue TO rise.
The Lower Mississippi will fall slowly.