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Year: 1872

81 think it must be jolly thing
to be a young widow" | heard
this remark, the other day, in a
group of laughing girls. / think
rememAer saying such a thing my
self in the careless girlish times.


Do you know, girls what il is to
be widow II is ten times more
open 10 comment than any deB1oi-
seHe could possible be. 1t is TO
have men gaze as you pass, first at
your black dress, then at your wild
owls cap, until your sensitive nerves
culver under the indictious. It Is
70 have one III naiHred person say,
'I wonder how long she will wait
before she marries again 2" and an
other answer. "Until she gets a
good chance, l supposed" It is now
and then 10 meet the glace of real
sympathy, generally from the poor
est and noblest women that you meet
and feel your eyes fill at the token,
so rare, that il is alas! unlocked for.
1t is to have your dear, fashionable
friend condole you after the fellow
ing fashion:


HOh welli its dreadful loss. We
knew you'd feel it, poor dear.
u III III IAG ACAI DACaAAs OA III
be sure to marry again, and your
widows cap is very becoming to
you"


But it is more than this to be
widow. 1t is to miss the strong
arm that you have leaned upon; the
true faith that you knew could new
er fail you, though all the world
might forsake you. It is to the dear
voice that uttered your name with
tenderness none other could give
it. 1t is to hear never no more the
wen known footstep that you flew
so gladly once to meet. To see no
more the face that, TO your adorn-
ing eyes, seemed as the face Of the
angels of God? To feel no more the
tWining arms that folded you so
lovingly; the dear eyes that, looking
into your own, said so plainly,
whatever it might seem TO others,
yours was the fairest earth held for
him. 1t is to fight with a mighty
sorrow as a man fights with the
waves that overwhelm him, and to
hold il at arms length for a while,
only to have-in hours of loneliness
and weakness-the torrent roll
over you, while-poor storm-driven
dove-you see no haven of peace in
the distance but heaven.
Year: 1872

Louis Napoleon is said to have been the first
ruler Of France who has the sagactv to dis
cover the reserve of wealth the nation pos
sessed, hid away in the houses oG the peaSan.
try. The French peasant had no confidence
in banks or IN any individual security Igno-
rant and suspicious by nature, prone to hoard
ing in tea-caddies and old stockings it need
cd a tempting bait to draw forth his little
store. In this respect, Government loans,
subdivided into such small divisions As allow
ed the poorest man to invest his ten or twenty
francs in them, proved an unexpected success
The popularity of these loans among the
masses, as an investment for their savings,
has not diminished. In the bidding for the
recent loan to pry off the i'rus>ian indemnity
the crowd began to assemble before dark on
the preceding evening, and a regular queue
was formed after the French fashion All
through the long hours of stormy night the
queue remained, gradually lengthening until
20 many persons were in line that at the close
Of the day four hundred were still outside
when the doors were shut.
Year: 1872

A Wholesale liquor firm in Patterson, n. j..
were surprisd the other morning in the absence
Of revenue stamp just affixed to barrel OF
whiskey by The assistant assessor, and NJ they
could not sell the liquor without the stamp, and
the stamp could not be duplicated, they were in
an awkward fix. Suddenly they remembered
that man had been sitting on the barrel i'm
msdiatslv after the stamp was pasted on, and on
nnding that gentleman and looking under the
~ OF his coat the mystery was solved. Aher
some trouble the stamp was transferred from
the innocent man 10 the barrel, and the excite
ment subsided.
Year: 1872

A PATENT TRAp.-A Pennsylvania has
invented II rat-trap that is made to operate
upon the selfish passions of the poor rat, and
llirs him into trouble The "Mechanlc and
Farmer" in description of the trap, says that
a mirror is set in the back part of the device
beyond the bait, and as his ratship is out OH
fofaging expedition, he espies the bait, and at
the same time believes his own image in the
mirror To he another rat
Year: 1872

Why does the hair become harsh and dry-why
does it fall out-why does it become grayp Sim
ply because the life has gone out of it The ibeIs
draw sustenance from the scalp a. the grass draws
aliment from the soil. and when the supply of nu-
tr,ment is cut Oh in either case the product with
ers and dies. At the first symptom OF decay there
fore the unfed halffed roots Of the hair should
be refreshed and reinforced with LYoH's KA-
THAIRoN. the only preparation which will nour-
ish the 6lanaents and keep them in . vigorous
condition after they have begun to suffer from q
deficiency Of their natural stimulant. A long as
degree Of friction. morning and evening, 20 long
will it be impossible for the hair to whiten or fall
from the scalp.
Year: 1872

CHARLES PECK the enterpsng Lakve dealer whose ad veseen has occupied this for several months has obtain ed credit everywhere he could getg into Troy the about $500 and selling everything f would the cash que Fly slid unknown leaving his creditors little nothing satisfy their cam and this little nothing derstand he tempted nd but this he did succeed Our changes will do we'll have out for this eneprng chap of that peculiar that cheat the printer Watch him. broth the qu and when he where him first class
Year: 1872

William Prescott Smith, Master oi
Transportation and General Manager
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
died recently of hemorrhage of the
bowels, after an illness of a few days


A farmer residing near CarTolton,
OILY in digging a well, found set Of
teeth an inch and half square each,
and three inches long, at depth Of
thirty-six feet. Also a lot of peri
winkle shells. .


According to the mercantile navy
list opened by the Statistical Bureau,
the mercantile marine of the United
States comprises nearly thirty thou
sand vessels of all kinds, with an ag-
gregate capacity of four million tons.


The Detroit Free Press says, that
within three days three men In that
city had been taken Ill with what their
physicians pronounced the horse dis
ease. The Pittsburg Dispatch of the
same date reports several similar
cases In that city.


It is said there is not one wholesale
shoe and leather establishment left In
Boston. The wool trade has suffered
in an equal degree, and the dry goods
jobbing houses left are few and far
between.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes:


A gentleman who served with Gen.
eral Lee writes: "Soon after General
Meade took command of the Army OF
the Potomac, while both armies were
in winter quarters, he made demon
stration for the purpose, doubtless, Of
feeling his adversary's position. The
movement was a very unexpected one,
and it happened that nearly all Of
General Lees aids were absent for the
day when the Federal forces appeared
In our front. General Lee therefore
asked some of his subordinates for de
tails of officers to act as temporary
members of his staff, and of these ]
was one. During the brief actor
which ensued, some one asked Gen
eral Lee what he thought of the new
commander opposed to us, and I shall
never forget the measured and care
fully weighed words of his reply. Z
have now, he said, the most danger
GUS adversary I have ever faced. Gen
eral Meade will do nothing which the

newspapers viii go mad about, but he
viii never make mistake in my front,
and if I make one he viii see it In
stantly, and take immediate advantage
of it. The remark struck me, at the
time, as the highest compliment which
any commander could pay to his an
tagonist, and at Gettysburg the cor
rectness of the opinion was proved
when the mistake was made, discov
cred, and instantly turned to advan-
tage, precisely as the Confederate lead
er had predicted"
Year: 1872

The Earl of SALISBURY has begun the
building of ''workingmen's town" near
London Each of its twelve hundred hous-
es will have little plat of ground for gar
den purposes. Part of the rent can be ap-
piled to the purchase of a tenement, so that
a lessee can become the owner of his home
within certain number of years The
colony will boast a cooperative store, a
church, school, and library. The ad-
vantages of thus transplanting the poorer
class from city to country where decaying
garbage, breed physical and mental disease,
sickness and vice alike. Remove the caus-
es and the effects must disappear. From
every point of view, it is cheaper and bet
ter to build houses for the poor in the coun-
try, than poorhouses in town.
Year: 1872

The ENGLISH POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
The later accounts Of the English trial
of Government management shows
that the practice of using the tele-
graph for transmitting social and
business messages for short dis
tances-such as we intrust almost
wholly to the mail or to express mes
sengers-has grown into a settled
custom, and is found to be one of the
most convenient of recent innovations.
The time viii also come In this coun-
try when the means of quick commu-
nications with the rest of the world
will be brought to every mans door.
Year: 1872

Never again viii the roses blow


For US ike the roses we used TO know,
Oh! never again will the wide sky hold
Such wealth of glory and sunset gold;
And never again will whisper, dear,
The pleasant fancies you smiled to hear.
And never again at the days decline,
Shall sit with your little hand in mine,
And look at the beauty of sunset skies,
And the sweet beauty of your eyes.
Never againl for the dream is done
That work, and look, and touch begun.
Love, If we always coald dream, alb, then,
The words as sad az it might have beeni'
For us, there is nothing but memory,
In the coming days of tchat could not be.
Love, you are near me and yet as far
As the round earth from the furthest star.
kiss me and smile in my eye once more,
Though your lips should quiver and tears run o'el
Put your hand in mine for a mOment-one,
And then good-by, for the dream is done.
Year: 1872

Little by little the year grows older,


The red leaves drop from the maple trees;
The sun grows dim, and the winds blow colder,
Down from the distant Arctic seas.
Out of the skies the soft light dies,


And the shadows of winter come creeping over
And the bee and the bird are no longer heard
In grove or meadow or field of clover.
Year: 1872

A subscriber renewing his subscrip-
ton to the Religious Telescope casu-
ally remarks; ''The tobacco crop is
large in our region. As soon as it is
out OF the way, so that people can at
tend meetings, we expect to give our
time to the Lord"
Year: 1872

The Boston Post is responsible for
the following on the marriage of
Thomas Hawk to Miss S. J. Dove:
.. 1t isn't often that you see Z
So queer kind of love;


OH what a savage he must be


To Tommy Hawk DoyeI
Year: 1872

A farmer went to town ono day,
accompanied by bis son, little Thomas.


" See" said lie TO him on the way,


" there is broken horseshoe In the
road pick it up and put it into your
pocket" go no father" replied


Thomas, ait isn't worth while 10 stoop
to pick it up" His father, answering


nothing, picked it up and put 1t in h's
own pocket. He sold it to the black


smith OF the next village for three far


things, and bought cherries with the
money. After this they continued


their journey. The sun was burning


hot. Neither house nor tree nor
spring was anywhere TO be seen.
Thomas suffered with thirst, and bad
great difficulty in keeping up vita his
father. The latter, then, AS If by ac-
cident, let fall cherry. Thomas
picked it up with as much eagcrness
az If it had been gold, aud put it in
his mouth. This game continued
until all the cherries had been picked
up. When the last had been eaten,
the father turned to his son, smiling.


and said to him "You see now that
if you had been willing to stoop ohce
to pick up the horse shoe, you would
not have been obliged to do il hun
dred times for the ch errles."
Year: 1872

A JUDIcIous wIFs.-A judicious
wife is always nipping off from her
husbands moral nature little twigs
That arc growing in wrong d;rec-
tions. She keeps him in shape by
|, continual pruning. If you say
anything silly she will affection
ately tell you SO. If you declare
that you will do some absurd thing
she will find some means of pre-.
venting you doing it. And by far
the chief part of all the common
sense there is in this world belongs
unquestionably to women. Tie
wisest things man commonly does
are those which his wife counscls
him to do. A wife is q grand
wieider Of the moral pruning
knife. Ii Johnson's wife had lived
there would have been no harding
up Of orange peel. no touching
all the posts in walking along the
streets,no eating and drinking with
q disgusting voracity. II Oliver
Goldsmith had been married, he
would never have worn that mem
orable and ridiculous coat. When
Fever you find o man whom you


know little about, oddly dressed,
or talking absurdly, or exhibiting


eccentricity of manner, you may
! be cure that he is not q married


man; for the corners. are rounded


of the little shoots are pared


away-in married men. Wives


have generally much more sense


than their husbands are clever


men. The wife's are like the ba.s


last that keeps the ship steady
Year: 1872

At times he pauses to speak Of
what he has read or learned from
the pages before him. The one
who hastened from the carriage
seems TO be writing. Somebody
will know on the morrow. In ono
corner Of the room we see a paint
or at work. He is finishing a pics
turc 1t will be seen in due
time
Year: 1872

Never give up when you are
right. A frown 10 only . muscu-
lar contraction, and can't last long.
A laugh Of derision is but tho
modified barking Of q cur. If you
can be laughed out Of the good or
the good out OF you, you are
weaker In intellect than the fool.
whose argument is guAAw. and
whose logic is . sneer.
Year: 1872

The shutters have been closed.
We cannot see in there now. Only
through the crevices of the shuts
ters light. So we know there is
life in thcre-so we know the FAINT.
ly is together. No one has come
back come out from the door!
Yes-they are there!
Year: 1872

Now we see the party again in
tho front-room-the parlor. The
woman is caring for her Children.
and for poor creature who seems
weak and sickly. The old gentle
man is reading the great volume.
Year: 1872

Two considerations will strike .
mau who examines the subject of
secret societies One is, that there
are SO many of them; and another
is, that the majority, in fact near
ly all Of them, are .srun" by men
Year: 1872

ANOTHER RAILROAD TO SPAN THE coNTINENT-Is-


CORPORATION OF THE COMPANY.


SAN Francisco, August 10.
new company has been incorporated to build
another Atlantic and Pacific railroad, below the
snow line. The stock taken amounts to mil
lion and quarter of dollars, and the city is in
yited to vote subsidy of ten millions to the
undertaking.
Year: 1872

It was said of ThOreau, we believe,
that he could take up any given num-
Der Of lead pencils without counting.
A celebrated trapper once assured US
that he could tell how many balls he
had in his bullet pouch by placing his
hand on it, without stopping to count
them, and added; 81 can tell the
number Of bullets instantly, without
stopping, as you pronounce word


without spelling it.n SOuthey was
accustomed to take in the substance
Of book in turning the leaves over
continuously, glancing down the
pas es. HOudan, the magician, trained
himself to quickneSs Of perception,
when a boy, by running past show
window at full speed, and then trying
to tell what was in it. We once saw
a man on q canal boat who was anus
ing himself by going from passenger
to passenger and telling almost every
one where he had seen him before, on
such train, in such hotel, in such
q street, giving date and place 20
people with whom he had never ex-
changed word. This training of the
faculties in particular directions Is
carried to q marvellous extreme by
backwoodsmeD, trappers, and men
who guess the weight of animals
Perhaps the most remarkable instan-
ces are the markers who leap from
log to log at the mouth Of boom,
standing on the log, and translating
instantly an old mark into anew one,
remembering what equivalent to give
for each Of . hundred marks, and
ohopping it upon the log in the time
that it floats its length 1t Is said
that Thoreau knew the relative order
Of Towering Of all the plants in the
Concord woods, and knew the note Of
every bird, and thousand out-of-the
way things besides.-Hedrth and
Home.
Year: 1872

The Philosophy of FTyin0.-The


true philosophy OF frying IL to have
the fat at boiling heat before any


thing is put into it. Being merely


warm, it penetrates, and the food IS


greasy" hot, it is the perfection Of
cooking.


To Glaze Sbirts.-To every quarhof
made starch add q ateaspOOnful Ofstarch
and one of white soap, ,scraped fine
Boil the starch, after adding hot wat
ter, until GU have it as thick as you
Wish.


4 Nice Fried CakS.-Take one cup
of sugar, two eggs, one tablespoonful
of butter, one teaspOOnful of cream
tartar, one cup of sweet milk, and
stir in i.,ur until thick enough. Then
fry quickly.


FFszzted Beef.-Put piece of but
ter the size of an egg inIO a skillet;
silver up some beef and put In, turn
ing nearly all the time, till DONE
Put the meat in one side of the skillet,
and put in q little cream, milk or
water for gravy.


Corn Bread Rusk. Take six cup
fuls of corn meal, four cupfuls of
wheat flour, two cupfuls of mOlasses,
two teaspoOnsfuls of soda, and little
salt; mix this well together, knead il
into dough, then make two cakes of
it, and put into the tin or iron pans,
and bake one hour.


Force Meat BdH.-ChOp pound or
two of veal kidney or any tender meat
fine; mix with one or two eggs and a
little butter or raw pork, some like an
onion; season with salt and pepper
Do them up into balls about the size
of half an egg and fry brown.


IeLret CrsdDa.-One coffee cup of
wine, half box Of gelatIne, the juice
and grated peel Of one lemon, one and
s half pints Of milk and one coffee
cup of whits sugar. Dissolve the
galetine in the wine over the fire, |
crate in the peel and add the juice of |
the lemon; after it has dissolved, add |
the sugar. let it simmer, strain it and |
then add the milk; stir till cool and l
put in mould.


Corn Meal tBrend.-Pour over pint /
or nice COIN meal, one pint of hot new
milk; beat this well and add a little
salt, then stir in a large spoonful of
nice sweet lard, beat two eggs very
light and stir in also; this must be
well beaten, and Of the consistency Of
rather thin batter, add more milk
should IL be too thick, then mix in q
large spoonful of yeast; butter the
pans and set 10 rise in them; when
risen, have the oven of q moderate
heat ald put them in; bake two hours
and half to a light brown. Serve
not.


Apple JelIy.-Half tart apples, and
take out the cores. Boil them till
very soft in large proportion of wat
er; then let the apples pass through q
Ielly-bag, without squeezing them
Weigh the liquor, and to each pint Of
1t put q pound Of white sugar; then
boil it slowly till it becomes a thick
ELY, which is esoertained in the
Iame msnneT ~ current jelly. If you
Wish 70 have it Of q red tinge, put in,
when taken from the firs, q little
cranberry OF beet Juice. II you wish
70 have II = straw color, put in little
.inctQTe Of saffron. II green, use the
expressed juice Of spinach leaves. Let
t pass through the elly-hag again
when cool, turn y, lasses. y
Year: 1872

Seolding is a habit very easily
formed. It is astonishing how soon
one who indulges in il at all becomes
addicted 10 it and confirmed in it. II
is an unreasoning snd unreasonable
habit. Persons who once get in the
way of seolding. always find some
thing to scold about, If there was
nothing else, they would fall a scold-
ing at the mere absence of something
to scold ut.
Year: 1872

In the year 1923 Arkansas Territory
was visited by nObler refugee than
commonly came to its seclusiOn. a
volunteer exile from the Executive
Mansion of Tennessee, followed by
the fury of a political press, and that
public full of uneharitable interpTe-
tatiOn, which believed the worst,
Sam Houston had resolved that the
sun should forever shine upon his
back, and the East be forgotten in
the misery of his spirit. A Govern
or, elected at the age of 81, by 1900
majority, he had proved the reverse of
the coupIet-
Year: 1872

At the date of these dispatches NJ.
Pavy was preparing to winter under
the seventy.fifth degree of latitude, in
the valley of the great river Polar
continent. He had begun to lay in
provisions and fuel. Both he and his
companions were in good health and
courage, and were confident of arri-
wing. during the coming season, at
great Polar sea of moderate tempera-
ture, at the extreme north Of the con-
Year: 1872

A MINER printer-C. F. Mitchell-has had tine good fortune to win, at a raffle, a horse, saddle and bridle, which horse and trappings, M. says, shall be free to all print CTS, so that now we can Gall take ride" <"

 N B. Should said horse take kindly to feeding on green exchange newspapers, and to kicking at every editorial ass who may bray at us, the chances are that we may give him home and steady employment
Year: 1872

1t is very important to have collar fit
nicely and snugly to the shoulders of the
horse. 1t enables him to work with great
deal more ease and to apply a great deal
more strength. 1t prevents CALLING and
wounding, as the friction is avoided. Col
lars are SO made, or should be so made, as
to throw the chief force on the lower part
of the shoulder. The horse can apply but
little strength on the upper part, and for
this reason breast collars are coming great
ly into vogue, as the strength is exerted on
the lower part of the shoulder. But we
started out to tell our readers how to make
a new collar fit the shoulder of the horse.
The collar should be purchased of the prop
er size just before putting it on the first
time, immerse it in water, letting itremain
about minute, and Immediately put it
on the horse, being careful to have the
names so adjusted at the top and bottom as
to fit the shoulder, and then put the horse
to work The collar, by being wet, will
adapt itself to the shoulder, and should dry
on the horse. When taken off it should be
left in the same shape it occupied on the
horse, and ever after that you will have a
suug-titting collar and no wounds Valley
Farmer.
Year: 1872

ATTEMPT TO FORCE A CORPORATION IN
TO BANKRUPTCY.-The Philadelphia Led
ger states that novel though important
suit has been brought at Titusvil1e, Pa,
the point in which is to force corporation
into bankruptcy for refusing to pay the
matured coupons on its bonds. The suit is
brought by holder of ten bonds of 81 900
each as test of the law. The petition was
filed, and the court issued an order on the
company to appear at Pittsburg, on the
18th of August and show cause why they
should not be declared bankruptcy.
Year: 1872

A SINGULAR PHESoMENoN. THE Worces-
ter Mass Spy says "A singular electrical
phenomenon is manifest at dwelling on Plea
SAINT street In passing around the room and
rubbing the feet on the carpet a person be-
comes highly charged with electricity; upon
touching the register or any good conductor,
brilliant spark of large size is developed. The
gas can be readily lighted by first turning 1T on,
and then rubbing the feet on the carpet and
holding one finger over the jet. A spark often
darts from the feet when passing over certain
places in the floor, producing a painful, sensa-
tion. The electricity is only developed BY rub
bing the feet on a carpet laid with Manila pa,
per When three or four persons take hold
of hands and walk around they all become
powerfully charged and the one first touching
conductor would not care to repeat the ex-
pertinent. What peculiar arrangement in a
house is necessary to produce this phenomenon
and it's influence on the health of its inmates
being constantly charged with electricity, is a
question for the scientist