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Year: 1876

Texas and Florida very great OF sugar producing
land. II your Congress adopted such policy Spain
could not complain. It would be form Of nterven-
tion not hostile and oonsonant with your national
ocy, which encourages free labor and would not en-
courage slavery. You would redeem yourselves from
the semibondago IN which you live 10 the
slave grown products OF Cuba and, what seems
to me Of philosophical Importance you would not DO
tempted to interrupt struggle which, for the good Of
the Cubans themselves must, think, go until they
win their own independence they surely will in the
course Of time and events If they themselves gain 1t
they will be strong enough to keep IT, II you, by in
timidation which must lead to war, 1t for them
they will be children your hands Finally you
ought to discourage slavery and you ought to encour
age your free neghbors in Mexico and Central America
who offer you, If you only would take it. hundred
fold greater market for your products than the lit
tie island OF Cuba and can supply you with all tho
tropical products you require by free men,
natural allies "


Here the conversation ended.
Year: 1876

MEDICINES.
A n A D D R e. 5 TO III E ) { K
Do ycu want to purify the system9
Do you want to get rid of Bilousness?
Do you want something to strengthen you?
Do you want good appetite?
Do you want to got rid of nervousness?
DO you want good digestion2
Do you want to sleep we'll
Do you want to build up your constitution?
Do you want brisk and vigorous feeling?


If you do, take


SIMMONS
LIV ER REGULATOR
Year: 1876

OVER SENsIrIvENEss.-Gen precious
and coveted gift, is often a source of at
least as much unhappiness as delight to its
possessor. Earl, the English sculptor, re-
Gently deceased, died, it is said, literally of
broken heart. The Royal Academy re.
fused. to admit to its exhibition statue
which had cost him three years labor; and
the sensitive artist quietly laid himself
down and died. Forty years ago he gained
the gold medal of the Exhibition, and has
many times since had his works exhibited,
and sometimes rejected-but to rejection
he could never become accustomed. 1t is
unfortunate when love of fame degenerates
from generous ambition to mere passion /;
and he who can deserve praise ought to be
self.sustained enough to be above depres-
sion when praise is denied him.
Year: 1876

10 Cur BOTTLE IN Two.-The follow
ing is one way to cut bottle in two: Turn
the bottle as evenly as possible over q low
gaslght flame for about ten minutes.
Then dip steadily in water; and then sud-
denly cooling will cause regular crack
to encircle the side at the heated place,
allowing it to be easily separated.
Year: 1876

There are few creatures in the animal
kingdom 50 Tenacious of life as the serpent.
1t will live six months, and in some cases
longer, without food. Serpents never feed
on any vegetable matter, but live solely on
animal food, which they themselves put to
death or swallow alive.
Year: 1876

The Dying Girls LAST WIsM.--This
morning | received letter from young
girl dying of consumption in an infamous
den. "My mother died a Christian" said
the note, "and, o, if could only get to
some place where could breath pure air a
little while before die"
Year: 1876

Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, in letter
from Germany to the Chicago Tribune,
deprives American smokers of what little
comfort they have derived from tire pre-
valence of this among the residents Of that
country. She says: "The habit Of smoking
appears to be unusual among German men,
and was told that it would be impossible
for me to live or travel in Germany on
account of the illness which tobacco smoke
always causes me; but have found that,
in all the smoke, there is so little tobacco
that it gives no Inconvenience. From the
odor, Judge that their cigars and smoking
weed are made of paper stepped in weak
solution of tobacco and this is no doubt
the reason they feel no injurious conse-
qucnces from its use. Those who quote
the German habit of smoking to prove
that the use of tobacco in this way is not
unhealthful, reason from false premises.
Tho Germans smoke, and smoke, and
smoke, by the hour, but they do not smoke
| tobacco"
Year: 1876

Chip-straw, SO much used for bonnets, is
the braided bark of willow grown in
France and Belgium. Its whiteness is SO
perishable that it will change over night,
becoming the cream color generally seen.
Year: 1876

The steam engine in the Woman's
Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition is
under the charge of Miss Allison. Some
interesting particulars about her are given
in the Philadelphia Press: "She was
brought up in a little place near st. Gather
ines, in Ontario, and from a child was a
lover of machinery, and spent much Of her
time in the large saw and grist mills which
her father then owned. She received a
thorough scientific education and learned
much from her brother, who had made
engineering profession. She learned the
method of operating the engine used at the
WOman's Pavilion in few moments, and
now does all the work, from starting the
fire in the morning to blowing off steam at
night. In answer to question relative to
the possibility of women running engines
as a regular business, she said that there
where thousands Of engines in use in
various parts of the country, and that
there was no reason whatever why women
should not be employed to manage them
The work was less tedious than almost any
of the usual avocations adopted by women
and an engine required far less attention
than any woman gives daily to a child under
| her care
Year: 1876

Can there be anything brought INTO
this House" asked a disgusted member,
during the last session of the Legislature,
that will not be repealed sooner or later?''
One of the opposition suggested "a skinned
orange"
Year: 1876

BOOKS" have ever gained the most
profit and the most pleasure also from the
books which have made me think the
most; and when the difficulties have once
been overcome, these are the books which
have stuck the deepest root, not only in
my memory and understanding, but like


wise in my affections. God be thanked
for books They are the voices of the
distant and the dead, and make us heirs of
the spiritual life Of past ages. Books are
true Jewelers. They bring to all who
faithfully use them in society, the spiritual
presence of the best and greatest of our
race. No matter how poor | am, no
matter though the prosperous Of my own
time will not enter my obscure dwelling,
if the sacred writers will enter and take
up their abode under my roof; if Milton
will cross my threshold to sing to me OF
Paradise, and Shakespeare to open to me
the world of imagination and the workings
Of the human heart, and Franklin to en-.
rich me with his practical wisdom, | shall
not pine for want of intellectual compan.
| ionship, and | may become cultivated
man, though excluded from what is called
the best society in the place where live
Year: 1876

The following poetical advertisement in
dicates humorously, but very truthfully,
how much a man expects of his wife:
Wunted-A wife who can handle a broom
To brush down the cobwebs and sweep up her room :;
Can make decent bread that fellow can eat
Not the horrible compound you every where meet;
Who knows how to boil, to fry and to roast,
Make a good cup of tea and platter of toast;
woman that washes cooks, irons and stitches,
And sews up the rips in a fellows old clothes,
And makes her own garments-an item 100 which is
So horrid expensive as every one knows
common sense creature, and still with Il mind
To teach and to giude-exalted, refined;
A sort of an angel and house, maid combined
Year: 1876

At little gathering the other evening a
young man asked lady whether, if his
small brother was Il lad, he was not
ladder; and she kindly said She thought
he must be, she could see through him SO
easily. 1t is pleasant to be young man.
Year: 1876

a gentleman, on entering his household
the other day, was agrcebly surprised on
being informed by his wife that she had a
health lift in the parlor. He stripped him
self for practice but was taken down a peg
or two when he ascortained that the lift
was in the shape of huge parlor stove,
which the lady wished her dear husband
to carry to the attic !-H'1o,cjcc .Jo,ynH.
Year: 1876

The vlcksburg Herald assures its readers
that: Many man lives with woman half a
lifetime without suspecting that the wife Of his
bosom has really forgotten more then he ever
knew. Many a carpet-knight, who plumes
him self npon his wonderful skill in smashing
hearts is being mentally measured and intel
lectu ally turned inside out by the smiling girls
whom he thinks he Is captivating. Many a
veteran beau, who pulls on his gloves to depart
feeling proudly conscious Of having made a
profound impression upon the susceptible soul
of the belle who has endured him for an even
ing would be wonderfully enlightened, il not
edited could he hear the sigh Of relief which
escaped her lips when the clsng Of the door
announced his departure.
Year: 1876

In commencing our New Mode of
Business, we wish to make known the
principle upon which our business will
be conducted, and wish to be distinctly
understood,


1st That we shall sell for Cash and
Ready Pay.


Cd That our Prices shall be One
and the same to every body


Sd. That we shall sell our Goods at
a small advance mCost, in all eases


4th. That in no case shall there be
any deception used to sell our goods
and that all Goods that do not prove to
be what they are sold for, may be return
ed, and the money refunded.


5th. That it is our determination,
all cases, never to be undersold.
Year: 1876

The testimony already taken before the
Judiciary Committee Of the Houss against
Belknap. in regard to the Posttraderahip
of Fort Sill is abundant TO establish cor
ruption in Office and to convict. Further
crimes and misdemeanors have been de-
veloped on the late Secretary Of War,
even more outrageous than those with
which the public have already been made
familiar. There is no precedent to Bel
Snap's case, because in previous impeach-
ments the officials charged with crime did
not resign to evade trial. When the Presi-
dent accepted Belknap's resignation, he
either knew Of his conspiracy or he was
bound to enquire into the facts before con.
senting to his retirement with an indict-
ment pending against him. Belknap's
counsel mean to contest the jurisdiction,
and to rely upon that as the main point in
their case. Although our Republican Sen
ate would gladly get rid Of this great scan
dal by side issue Of the want of jurisdic-
ton, it will not likely adopt such an ex-
pedient in the face Of public opinion.
Year: 1876

The vote on the Payne Currency bill
goes to show the utter impsssbility, or al
least improbability ofthe Democrats uniting
on any currency bill whatever. An analy.
sis of the vote on this bill shows that the
eighty -one Alternatives were all Democrats
while of the one hundred and fifty-six
negatives sixty-three were Democrats. The
defeat Of Payne's bill by one hundred and
ffty-six negative to eighty-one affirmative
votes, show the very best that the hard
money wing Of the party can do in the way
Of a harmonizing measure. Mr.. Payne
bill was the issue of long deliberatine
Democratic caucus, and not until prospects
of partisan achievements are overthrown,
will it be possible to spaas fair, honest
bill on its own merits. Are there not
enough Of fair square men in Congress
who have the honesty and courage to come
to the front with some acceptable measure
for return to specie payment?
Year: 1876

The precious stones presented by the
Khedive Of Egypt to Minnie Sherman
nee Fitch, out Of compliment for the high
regard he entertained for her illustrious
father, and which rich diamonds have
been lying in the vaults of the treasury in
New York since their arrival in June last,
have proved to be white elephant.
Among these jewels are necklace and
ear rings which were said to be worth
S25o,OOO, bat experts have appraised them
at $4,000. Neither the husband nor
father are able to pay the duty on them
which is $4,000. If the duty is not paid
by the first of June, the valuable gift will
be disposed Of at public auction. From
this state of affairs it would seem as if
Minnie, her hubby and her daddy had
big white elephant on hand.
Year: 1876

There is ne excuse or palliation for the
delay which obstructsj justice by the failure
of the United States Senate to pass the
House bill fer the protection of witnesses.
The delay of the Senate to pass this bill is
surprising, as its failure is bringing some
of the most important investigations to a
dead halt. The Senate should take up the
bill at once, and if amended sent immedi.
ately back to the House. Surely Repub.
ican Senate does not mean by its action
to screen criminals from exposur, and pun
ishment, by refusing to protect witnesses
who can be induced to testify only by 8
perfect assurance Of personal safety. /
even the House bill may possess some OBJ
jectionable features, it should nevertheless!
be promptly taken up and passed by thu
Senate with or without amendments. Al
above remarked there is no excuse or palli
alton for this delay; this great obstruction
Of justice by Republican United State
Senate.
Year: 1876

The Jewish population of New York
are raising money to set up schools oftheil
own faith for the religious instruction o.
their offspring. The Jewish population
Of New York is rapidly increasing, and
there may be some benefit from this move
ment in behalf Of the religious instruction
of Jewish children in the poorer quarter
Of the city, who have been as much ne
elected as have the poor Christian children
in the same localities. The whole Jewisl
population Of New York city are stirree
up in the purpose Of Christianizing thei
children in schools especially established
for this purpose.
Year: 1876

Something which will slightly ease up
the tax-burdened citizens of Philadelphia,
and will hedge off the tide Of political as
pirants. who have been jostling each
other in the scramble for numerous polit-


cal bonanzas that have long been bones Of
contention to that city, is the abolition Of
the fee system. This is the most credit
able piece of work done by the Pensylva-
MIA Legislature.
Year: 1876

CONGRESSMAN w. s. King, Of Pacific
Mail Subsidy notoriety, whose private
business affairs so imperatively demand
his attention that he is going to resign his
seat in Congress, should not be permitted
to DO so until he has been thoroughly in
vestigated in regard to the big slices Of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company's cor
ruption fund alleged to have been received
by him.
Year: 1876

THE fraudulent naturalization paper
business in Lancaster is becoming quite
interesting. We shall await the result
of the investigations with much interest,
as it will no doubt serve to enighten the
public in regard to the manner in which
the Republicans get their majority in
Pennsylvania.
Year: 1876

BEEcHER is not yet beached. He keeps
on preaching the most jolly kind of SER
mons. In one Of his late happy flights Of
fancy he must have been thinking Of "nest
hiding" when he exclaimed, Blessed are
the men who know how to put the tush.
ion between themselves and all the sharp
corners of life,"
Year: 1876

I


He seemed to be pleading in that


strange, musical tongue for the lit,


tie one for as he spoke he lifted


oh, so tenderly-the cloak which


partially concealed her, and show.


ed the little face which doubtless


he thought might plead for itself.


The woman with furious gesture,


raised her crutch to strike the.


child ; he stepped quickly back


ward, stopped to kiss the little girl,


then without a word turned to 60.


Lady Draye recalled him with an


imperious gesture, spoke a few


words, TO which he seemed to lis


ten gratefully, and together they
left the house by a window which
opened on the terrace. She led


way to the parsonage, which was,
at the time unoccupied. 1t was
said that he was in some political
danger as well as extreme poverty
and that she hal hidden him here
till she could help him to safer
asylum. 1t was certain that for
many nights she went to the par
sonage and returned before dawn,
thinking herself unseen.


One morning she did not return.
Her people consulted together.
Her relenting toward Philip had
made them feel more kindly to-
ward her than ever. before. They
sought her at the parsonage and
found her lying across its thres-
hold, dead, a phial grasped in
her rigid fingers. TL9re we're
no signs of Philip and his child;
it was believed she had sped them
on their way before she killed her.
self. For more than fifty years
after the parsonage was closed.
Though it had again been inhabit-
ed, no one had ever been terrified
by the specter / had seen. Prob
ably the Cedar Closet had never
before been used as bedroom.


Robert decided on having the
wing containing the haunted room
pulled down and rebuilt, and in do
ing so thertruth of my story gained
horrible confirmation. When the
wainscot of the Cedar Closet was
removed, recess was discovered
n the massive old wall, and in this
ay moldering fragments of the o
keletons of man and child.


There could be but one concIu-
ion drawn--the wicked woman
lad imprisoned them there under
he pretense of hiding and helping
hem, and once they were complete
y at her mercy, had come night af-
er night with cruelty unheard of, I
o gloat over their agony, and when Z
hat long anguish was ended, clos
Il her edious life by suicides
cath. We could learn nothing OF
he mysterious painting. We had +,
J destroyed, so that no record of
he painful story might remain. r


/ have no more to add, save but
or those dark bays left by Lady
)raye as legacy of fear and hor-
or, should never have known so
'ell the treasure / hold in the ten
er, unwearying love of my hus-
the blessing that ev-~
ry sorrow carries in its heart, that
Year: 1876

DANBURY News: There is one thing
on which husband and wife can never


agree, and that is on what constitutes a


well-beaten carpet. When the article IS
clean it's mans impression that it
should be removed, and he be allowed
to wash up and quietly retire. But a
woman's appetite for carpet beating is
never appeased while,a man has whole
muscle in his body. And if he waited
until she voluntarily gave the signal to
stop he might beat away until he drop
ped down dead. 1t is directly owing to
his superior strength of mind that the
civilized world is not widow this day.
Year: 1876

BREAKING DowN.-Men often have
their hands full, are overcrowded with


business and drive hurriedly along at it,
but they may not be overworked. We
cannot always tell when we are over
worked. A man does not always know
himself, no more than he knows the
strain on the handspring of his watch


that will break it. But there comes q
time when it breaks-a click, snap,
and the watch stops. Men break down
in this way. They go on, day after
day, the pressure being harder on each
successive day, until the vital force
gives out, and the machine stops. 1t is
great pity that the indications of this
state of things cannot be seen before
hand, and if seen, regarded. 1t is one
of the last things that men will admit to
themselves, much less to others. They
fatter themselves, that it is only little
WEAKNESS of the flesh, which will pass
off with few hours rest, when IN fact,
every nerve, power and resource is ex-
hausted, and the system is driven to
work by sheer force of the will. When
the OIL on the shaft or i'll the oil-box is
exhausted, every revolution Of the wheel
wears on the revolving part, and soon
will ruin it. The same is true of the
humga body.-Anaericaae Nanny a.tact,tre3.
Year: 1876

DEFEATED, BUT DEFIANT.-A Detroit
youth of 13, says III. Quad, sold fifty
pounds of old ron and piece of lead
pipe few days ago, and received enough
money to carry out his long cherished
idea of establishing a weekly newspaper
which should represent the interests of
every section of Michigan He was will
ling to commence low down and work
up, and he established an office in the
cellar Of his fathers house, purchased
two quarts of 'pi, y hired his sister as
as apprentice, aid work was begun on
his first number. The boy Lad an idea
that an independent journal would pay
best, and his first edition, which consist
ed OF seven copies of sheet about as
large as an envelope, was devoted to
items of personal nature. It was rath-
er family sheet also, seven of the eight
items in it being hits at his father and
mother, anl the lone one was bit of
advice to his school teacher. While he
was out hunting up advertising and So
hciting subscribers, his father laid the
type away TO shoot cats with, his moth
er kindled the fire with the wooden press,
and when the editor and proprietor re-
turned he was given woodshed inter
view and then welded to the handle OF
a lawn-mower. He was yesterday ''hol-
lering" oyer the alley fence to one of his
friends that he couldn't be crushed out
nor frightened off The track by no blood
thirsty mob, but the prospect of new
paper is dubious.
Year: 1876

WOODEN Spoons. In q work describ-
ing the present domestic industries of
Russia, nj. Weschniakoff states that not
less than thirty millions of wooden
spoons are annually made in that country
the industry having its great center in
the district of Somehow. Poplar, aspen,
maple and box are the woods used for
this purpose, and the cost of spoons
varies from about SIS to $50 per thousand.
The first operation consists in cutting
the wood into the proper lengths, and
making these into bundles; the latter
are sold in the markets, and are often
procured from long distances. The
second stage is that or forming the bowl
of the spoon; the third shaping the
handle and the fourth and last, dyeing
them of yellow color.
Year: 1876

DIVING For DRINK.-One of the hot
test regions of the earth is along the
Persian Gulf, where little or no rain falls
At Bahrein the arid shore has no fresh
water yet q comparative numerous pop
ulation contrives to exist there, thanks
to copious springs which burst forth
from the bottom of the sea. The fresh
water, is got by diving. The diver, sitting
in his boat, winds q great goat skin bag
around his left arm, the hand grasping
its mouth then he takes in his right
hand heavy stone, to " hich is attached
strong line. and thus equipped he
plunges in and quickly reaches the bot
tom. Instantly opening the bag over
the strong jet Of fresh water, he springs
up in the ascending current, at the same
time closing the bag, and is helped
aboard. The stone is then hauled up,
and the diver, after taking breath, plum
ges again. The source of these copiou s
submarine springs is Thought to be in
the green hills of Oman, some five or
six hundred miles distant.
Year: 1876

SACRAMENTAL WINE.-The New York
Times says +: At the Methodist preach
er's meeting, yesterday, Rev, Mr.. Bow
ditch, on behalf of the committee ap-
pointed to investigate the subject of pro-
viding unfermented wine for sacramen-
tai use, reported that good unfermented
wine, which will keep for any length of
time, can be made as follows "Take
any kind of ripe grapes and boil with a
small quantity of water until reduced to
a pulp strain through fine muslin,
and to every gallon of juice thus obtain
ed add from three to four pounds of
common sugar then boil the juice over
again, and pour while hot into air-tight
jars or bottles, which must be kept close
IL sealed. The wine will begin to fer
ment in few days if exposed to the air.
The cost of this wine is about 81 pei
gallon" The report was accepted, and
the meeting shortly sfterward adjourned
for one week.
Year: 1876

A Beautiful Sentiment.-The follow
ing beautiful sentiment was recently
uttered by Judge John L. t. Sneed, of a
Western court: 'The idea that the
judicial officer is supposed to be vested
with ermine, though fabulous and
mythical, is yet more eloquent in its
significance. We are told that the little
creature called ermine is 50 sensitive to
its own cleanliness that it becomes
pdralyzed and powerless at the slightest
touch of defilement upon its snow-white,
fur. When the hunters are pursuing it,
they spread with mire the pass leading
to its haunts, to which they then draw
it, knowing that it will submit to be cap.
tured rather than defile itself. And q
like sensibility should belong to him
who comes to exercise the august func-
tions of judge"