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Year: 1872

The difference in men is seen moro
clearly perhaps in the quality OF their
work, than in anything else. A thor.
oughly honest "frst class" man, has q
just pride in doing things well. He is
not satisfied with anything slovenly.
lie cannot bear 10 slight his work or to
do things half way and leave them half
finished; he is pains taking, faithful,
true to himself in little things as we'll az
great. If il is necessary 10 hurry, hs
still feels that what is worth doing at oil
is worth doing well.


This is true Of farming as we'll as Of
everything else. 1t is the faithful. thor.
ough work that pays the best. and man
ought to have desire and on ambition
to do first rate work OH the farm as well
rs anywhere else. Farmers that half do
their work seldom get first rate crops.
and those that they do get are loss salts.
factory than they would be with the con.
seriousness that all had been done that
was possible Is secure the highest results.
The true way is to adopt il rs rule
to do everything as we'll as you know
now. or, as they say. to do your level
best. 1t is the secret oil success. for it is
the quality of work as we'll as the guam
tity. that tells. and that often depends
on the judgment and sound good sense.
Adopt high standard and then bend
every energy to realize your highest
thought. ht.-PioUn,an
Year: 1872

Iigh and your dress?


Our rule is not so revolutionary as il
seems. We do believe in an arrange
ment Of society which shall permit The
Introduction of all worthy to take
place in IL; society whore at least for
these not native to it, the qualifications
shall be refinement and intelligence
Some are in who ought to be out, no
doubt; but this cannot be helped. 1t 10
for those who are out and ought TO be in
that we now speak.-.Home and Society.
IN Scribner's for May.
Year: 1872

A BOYS OrINroN OF GIRLs.-Girls ars
the most unaccountable things in the
word-exeept women. Like the wicked
fea, when you have them they amt
there. can cipher clean over to i'm.
proper fractions, and the teacher says |
do it first rate, but cant cipher out q
girl, proper or improper, end you cant
either. Tho only rule 10 arithmetic that
hits their case IL the double rule Of tive.
They ore a. full Of old Nick as their
skins can hold, and they would die if
they couldn ttormsnt somsbody. When
they try to to meaa they IRE as mean as
pusley, though they ain. as mean as
they let on, except sometimes, and then
they are good deal meansr. Tho only
way 10 get along with q girl when she
comes at you with her nonsense il to
give her TIT for tat, and that will fun.
mux her, and when you get girl fun.
nuxsd she is as nice as new pin. A
girl can SOW more Wild oa IN q day than
a boy can SOW 10 n year, but girls get
their wild oats sowed after while, which
boys never do and then they settle down
as calm and placid as u mud puddle


But l like girls first rate, and guess
the boys all do. l don't care how many
tricks they play on me and they don't
care either. The oitytoitisst girls in
the world can't always boil over like q
glass Of soda. BY ana by they will get
into the traces with somebody they like,
and pull as steady as any old stage horse
That is the beauty of them. So let them
wave, say; they will pay for it some
day, sewing on buttons and trying to
make o decent man Of the feller they
have spliced on to, and ten chances to
one if they don't get the worst of it.
Who COL McILLnASY y.-For
several weeks past the Sentinel has been
diligently inquirug, "Who is Col. MoIll.
hany2' but we received no answer to
our inquiry until last Saturday at the
picnic at Buffalo Springs. While on the
speakers stand We we're introduced 10 q
handsome gentleman, but We heard the
name indistinctly. The stranger wore q
smile that was childliks aud bland, and
good naturedly Iut his hand on our
shoulder not to knock a chip of) and
told US that he had read Of our inquiry,
aud that it gave him pleasure to inform
US that he was Col. McIlltany, and that
We would find out moro about him after
We had heard bis speech. 80 We did.
We have said the Col ia good look
ing man. His manner and converse
ton are those Of gentleman of the old
typs-of that type We are taught to re
gard as something better than We arc
used to in the present time. He was ,
confederate solIier-at ono time . pris
oner. His wlfo was q prisoner in closs
con6ement for two months during the
war, and We know that she was q gallan
rebel At the close of the war Col. Nc
Ilhany returned home and took position
between the plow handles. no having
been deprived Of the privilege Of prao,ic
ing his profes.ion-the law, by the harst
provisions Of the Drake constitution
until the decision OF tho supreme court Il
the contrary Since that time be ha


been engaged iu the pratice Of his profes
sion, taking no active part in politics
until his appearance on the congressiona
rsca track few weeks ago He is
Democrat Of the old school aud Jealous
supporter of Horace Grseley.-Clarks.
vile sentinel.
Year: 1872

THE CULTURE OF THE HAIR. Just as
surely as a soil infested with Canadian
thistles can be made to produce fine crops
Of golden grain, the scalp now scarcely
covered with harsh, dry, unmanageable
hair can be made prolific of silken tresses.
All that is necessary to effect the change
in either case is the right kind of fertili
ger. Leaving the agricultural chemists to
determine how the barren land shall be
made fruitful, we positively assert that
Lyons Kathairon is unequaled is
fertilizer and beautifer of
the head. Twenty-Five years of success is
the basis Of this unqualified statement.
During that time it has been used by
many millions of both sexes, and the first
instance in which it has failed to fulfil the
expectations of a rational purchaser has
yet to be discovered 1t will not cause
hair to grow on varuished gOurd; but
wherever the roots of the hirsute fbres
remain undisturbed it will cause them 10
put forth new shoots, and in all cases
where the hair has become thin it will in
crease its volume.
Year: 1872

Pure STARCH-When starch Is pure, it
Is free from sourness and is purely white.
Inferior starch has a golden or yellow
tinge, the color Of -four indicating the
presence of gluten Ia color not desirable in
one ; linen, or Is sour and musty. 1t is
absurd for the laundress to cleanse and
bleach and then discolor linen with i'm
pure golden or yellow starch. Duryea :
Satin Gloss Starch is snow white, per
fectly pure, and the most economical
starch known.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Renne claims that the name Magic
Oil is his trade mark, and that all
persons who use that name for medicine
do so at their peril, as much as though
they stole any other property of his, be-
sides their extra meanness! The genuine
Rennes Pain-Killing Magic Oil is what
the people want and will have.
Year: 1872

From lands end TO lands end, that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who art on the road to an untimely grave
with billions complaints there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy, and thar il
Year: 1872

The fly crop appears to be immense How it
may be with the horse flies, CAD flies, blue-bot-
tie flies, and other varieties, we cannot say with
confidence, but the attendance of house lilies is
altogether overwhelming. Millions of them seem
to regard it as sacred duty to occupy the din
ing-room and Kitchen aud several regiments
are detailed regularly to wander over the e&-
posed limbs of soantiy-clad sleepers, who are
trying to piece out the nights rest with morn
ing nap. And with the sun rising in the middle
OF the night the flies are able to commence very
early, too so that it is no reproach. at all, that
any one should be caught in bed by them.


Some people think many ilies are sign Of a
healthy season, because they clean up the causes
of pestilence, and are a sort Of scagengers Of
the air, and some other people believes flies are
a sign Of an unhealthy season, coming around
when sickness and disease come, to enjoy their
company, and live on their cold victuals. How
correct these theories may both be we don't un-
dertake to say but probably there is screw
loose in one or the other Of them.


However, the flies are here. The place they
flew from is unknown, but it is tolerably certain
that good many will never fly back to it. We
know OF one man who will catch at least a thous-
and of them in his hand, before next November
and the bad boys will slaughter several thous-
ands more. Then the number who will get stuck
in the grocers' molasses measures, and be
drowned in various liquids in various localities,
must be quite large-say one hundred housand
at least. But in addition to these, myriads will
be caught on ily-paper, poisoned with 'ilystone,
and trapped in tumblers of water through hole
IN a piece of bread There are probably not
less than five millions of women in the United
States, at this moment who are desperately re-
solved on lsome such methsd OF fly slaughter
Surprising that each one kills only an average of
a hundred flies, this alone would cause the death
of i've hundred millions.


1t is to be remarked in this connection, how
ever, that some persons believe that when one
fly is killed, two, Cor is it ten y come to the
funeral. If this be true, the death Of five hun
dred millions in the ways mentioned will cause a
very extensive crowd OF mourners to come into
the couutry--the precise number of which we
leave the reader to estimate for himself.


Many facts might be further stated, on this
subject, but space fails us. There are very
hsavy lios, such a. they have at Salt Lake City
inpudent flies which are confined to no particu-
lar locality sticky flies, which like to bathe in
drop of perspiration, on your noble brow and
troublesome flies, which won't be shoo'd away.
But all these are familiar or will be before the
season is over. Let rs fly Of to some other sub
ieet
Year: 1872

Adarge meeting OF the managers of the Board
OF Trade was held, last evening, and an earnest
resolution was apparent to maintain the further
usefulness Of the organization. Remarks were
made by several members oil the service it had
performed for the general interests of the city,
and steps were taken to moet all financial obi
cations, some Of which have been incurred by
the removal to the present large and pleasant
room


Upon the re-opening Of business, after the
hot weather, we confidently hope to see the plan
Of daily business meetings earnestly undert tken
and successfully carried through.
Year: 1872

cided that the House could take no cognizance
of it and the subject was dropped.


Young got an amendment to the Deficiency
bill paying the Southern census takers OF lo6o
This carries the bill back to the Senate.


The minority and majority reports IN the
Book Concern scandal was submitted to the
Methodist Conference. No action was taken.
Year: 1872

In CoURT.-In the early days of San
Jose-that is, when the American citi :
zen began to pervade those parts-pro-


ceedings in court assumed "A certain


degree of freedom, or "looseness, char


acteristic of the men and the time. On
one occasion the clerk of the court came
to blows in open court with an attorney


The Judge, instead of causing their ar
rest, cody watched the progress of the
clinch, for the clerk was in favor The
sheriff, knowing the state of the court,
did not interfere. Whenever the favor
ite was on top, or the scuflie apparently
in his favor, the Judge would remark,
" this court is like any body else, and
don't know what is going on until dis
orders are called to its attention" OF
course no person took the liberty of call
ing his honor's attention to the row
in progress under his nose If, how
ever, the scales were likely to be reversed
and the attorney uppermost, the judge
would order the sheriff to quell the dis
tnrbance; but that official understood
that he was TO hasten slowly, and the
belligerents fought it out until separated
by the imme Late bystanders.
Year: 1872

SEA SICKNESS. There are scores of So


times one is etficacious, sometimes an


other, and often none OF them do any
good Still it is always well for those at


sea to know how sea-sickuess Blay be
alleviated and possibly prevented. Sir
James Alderson, in discussing this sub
ject, says that it is not only necessary
to take a recumbent position, but also to
lie in the right direction. A person
lying down with the feet toward the
bows of ship is, while it descends in
pitching, in the same position as per
son in swing descending forward. in
which ca Sc we have seen that sickness is
produced by blood being forced upon
the brain. On the contrary. person
lying down with his head toward the bow
is, during the descent of the ship. in the
position of one descending backward in a
swing in which case the pressure by the
blood will he toward the feet. and there
fore relief, rather than an inconveni-
en- e. will be experienced. the tendency
being to reduce the natural supply of
blood to the brain. 1t is necessary not
only to lie down, but to do so with the
head to the bows, and it is highly desIr-
able that this position should be assumed
before the ship begins to move There
is secondary advantage to he gained by
closing the eyes, and SO shutting out
the confusion arising from the move
ment Of the surrounding objects.
Year: 1872

FALL GOODS. Merchant are receiving
their fall and winter goots. The earliest
importations are of fine silfs and woolen
stuffs Among these solid colors will
prevail The jacquard, or raised figured
goods. will be conspicuous feature this
season stripes will be bolder than those
of the summer ; plaids are most extinct
In fine fabrics there is variety of
quaint antique shades that are not posi-
tive colors, but neutral tints made up of
two colors so intimately blended that the
identity of each is lost Unmixed colors
and all high colors, such as bright Grim
son, carlet, clear blue, and green, have
disc peared from among choice goods,
ant re only found in the cheap materi-
ais made for the million.
Year: 1872

A decision in the United States Dis.
rict Court in Vermont. says th,
New York World, restored TO liberty
and TO the control OF his own affairs
citizen Of Philadelphia, who had for
three years been confined as lunatic in
an asylum in Vermont The particulars
Of this case have not yet been made pub
lie; but it appears that the victim had
made bis escape from the asylum, and
we are left to infer that had he not sue
cceded in doing so he might have lin
gered out all his miserable days in the
living death to which he Ind been con-
signed either by malice or by mistake.


Quiet people when they peruse
Charles Reade's ferocious letters to the
press are sometimes tempted to think
that irritable genius little so. his
head But no man has ever painted
more sane and appalling picture OF the
miSeries of n rational man confined
among madmen than the author of Hard
Cash. 1t is sickening to reflect upon
the moral tortures of such position,
and the instincts of simple humanity
apply to it the ancient maxim of the
common law concerning the innocent



and the guilty. 1t is assuredly better
that nine madmen should go unrestrained
than that one sane man should he dealt
with AS mad. In addition to the case of
which news just reaches us from Yer
mont, rnmor declares that certain able
lawyers in this city now have in hand
the wrongs of citizen of New York,
who but recently effected his escape from
one of our own local instit ltions.


1t is impossible, in short, to doubt
that our existing rules in regard to mad
ness and asylums for the mad, are quite
inadequate either to prevent one of the
worst forms of wrong or to remedy il
when undergone.


The regulation requiring the attesta-
tions of two physicians to the fact that
they had examined the alleged lunatic
md found him really insane is practi-
,ally of little consequence. Its value
wholly depends upon the character of
he examiners. If they be men of learn
ng and reputation in their profession,
III is WE'LL if they be the reverse, all is
wrong.
Year: 1872

STUNG To DEATH. The bee is some


times formidable creature as poor old
lady who lately lived in Twickenham has
unhappily discovered. This lady,
Miss Hough, sister to the Vicar of Ham


found her chief pleasure, her hives, and
her cherished favorites, the occupants
have literally stung her to death. 1t is
said that bees when swarming, often
choose to alight on the human head.
If let alone they choke, and if disturbed
sting the owner to death. 1t is possible
to escape if the person assailed has great
courage, quickness, and presence of
mind, by sweeping the bees gently but
firmly and dex'erously into hive. Miss
Hough got frightened, and tried to dash
off her tormentors as she might and sad
to say, they attacked her with such
ferocity that before a doctor could be
brought she was dead. The case is a sig
nal warming against keeping pets without
thoroughly understanding their habits.
Year: 1872

TREED RY MAD Cow.-An Ohio
farmer went out into his lumber lot,
accompanied by a German hired man,
TO drive up his cattle. One of the cows
seemed to act strangely, and Yaccup'
was sent to investigate. And he did
he caught her eve, and she caught his,
and she went for the German. For a
moment or two there was good Tine
made, lodging trees and jumping stumps
ill the man took to shell-bark tree,
and up it he went, about twenty feet
from the ground The COW which seemed
afflicted as if with hydrophobia, turned
her attention to the master, and he was
successfully treed in about two minutes,
but he couldn't hold on, and as he fell,
the COW inflicted serious injuries on his
leg. After while he climbed again,
and they were four hours in the tree-top
prison until other laborers killed the
COW and rescued the frightened pair.
Year: 1872

CURIOUS PoND. Another Vermont
curiosity: Just below the summit of the
Green Mountains, three fourth of mile
South of Hancock turnpike, is a pond
one-hundred rods in length and fifty
wide. which is of unknown depth. 1t
has been sounded one hundred feet and
no bottom found. It is fed by only one
small spring of ice cold water that would
scarcely gil half-inch pipe, while its
outlet is six or eight times as large. Its
waters are very warm. Trout and leeches
of large size inhabit the pond in goodly
numbers, the latter especially.
Year: 1872

1t is not everybody who knows
where to joke, or when, or how; and
and whoever is ignorant Of these con-
ditions had better not joke at all.
A gentleman never expects to be
humorous at the expense Of people
with whom he is but slightly acquaint-
ed. In fact, it is neither good man-
ners nor wise policy to joke at any
body's expense; that is to say, to
make any body uncomfortable merely
to raise laugh.-Old Esop who was
make the subject Of many a GLIDE on
account of his bumped back,
tells the whole story in The fable Of
g The Boys and the Frogs" What
was jolly for the youngsters was death
to the croakers. A jest may cut deeper
than curse. Some men are so con-
stituted that they can not take even
a friendly joke i'll good part, and in
stead of repaying it in the same light
coin, will requite it with contumely
and insult. Never banter one of this
class, for he will brood over your ban
dinage long after you have forgotten
it, and it is not prudent to incur any
ones emnity for the sake Of uttering
a smart double entendre or a tart re-
partee. Ridicule, at best is perilous
weapon. Satire, when leveled at So
cial follies and political evils, is not
only legitimate, but commendable. It
shamed down more abnses than were
ever abolished by force of logic.
Year: 1872

From the Weyauwega wis., Times]


Some few months since, "Uncle
Markham" as he is familiarly known,
q successful trapper of this vicinity,
wooed and won the gushing heart of
a timid damsel. Though tie trapper
is q man well along in years, probably
about sixty, he has a great, warm heart
that burned with the intense fire of
Gloves young dream" for the young
maiden Of twenty summers. He won
the girls consent, and the wedding
was celebrated in the frontier style.
A few Of the trapper's friends proph-
esied that the marriage brooded no
good to him; but latter events have
proven different state of affairs.


Uncle Markham took his young lily
to his little home on the banks Of the
placid Wolf, where he taught her the
divers sports peculiar to his calling.
He taught her to fish until she was an
adept. He taught her to row a boat
until she could "pull like man." He
taught her to shoot until she is a ''dead
shot" So far he has been happy. She
has been all he could ask for, and en-
couraged with her fast progress, he
has been lately teaching her the art of
trapping: In this she has recently
crowned his ambition.-with n laurel
wreath, and filled his cup of joy to
the brim. She has trapped a bear,
and shot old Bruin dead in his tracks.
1t happened on Thursday morning,
the 26tl ult. The trap had been set
for Il bear on what is known as the
"island" near Wolf River bridge.


On Thursday morning, Alta, the
trapper's wife, or " sis" as he is wont
to call her, started out, we'll armed, to
look at the traps. Upon nearing one
Of them she heard a terrible slashirg.
A few steps brought her in full
view of the great terror of our
northern forest. Old Bruin paused iii
his work to view his strange foe, and
greeted her with. = hnWl Of rage. That
howl was his last. Quietly she drew
the stock of the gun to her shonlder,
drew a sure bead ON the most vital
part of the animal, and fired. As the
smoke cleared away she saw that the
shot had struck home-that her tro-
ply lay bleeding at her feet. After
her work was done, she had her hus-
band and a young man help her carry
home two hundred pounds. of bear
meat. l5,
Year: 1872

From the Rochester Union and Advertiser
There is now and then a person so
stupid as to believe that advertise
ments are not generally read, and
that money expended in advertising is
practically wasted. Even such will
concede that if hundred men of po-
lite address, of fluent speech and
ready wit were to call daily or weekly
each upon an hundred others and get
the ears Of each long enough to say
john Smith, or Jones, or Thompson
at such a place, has such and such
goods at such price, or would sell
farm, or house and lot, or had lost
horse or pocket-book, or would loan
money, etc,-we say such men will
concede that the services of this one
hundred men would be Of great value
to Smith or Jones, and in Q measure
advantageous to the party to whom
this statement was made. This hun
dred men could not be employed to go
from door to door and make this
statement to ten thousand people at
less than a cost of several hundred
dollars each trip. All this is done
by the newspapers at the cost of a
few shilling, or a few dollars at most,
and the visits are made week after
week, day after day. The messenger
who travels addresses himself to the
ear and takes the party addressed
when he may have his thoughts ali
sorbed in business or other matters;
but the newspapers reaches the party
sought through the eye, when the
reader has his thoughts solely fixed
upon the paper before him.


But those who affect to believe
that there is little use in advertising
urge as an objection that advertise
ments are not read. They can be
easily convinced of their error in this
respect by making inquiry. Let them
insert an advertisement offering to
purchase some article that is tolerably
plenty in the market, and they will
be flooded with offers to sell before
the ink of the advertisement is dry.
An enterprising weekly that has a
circulation of one, two or three thous-
and copies is in q position to do the
village merchant great good, and for
which, as rule, the publisher does
not get one fourth Of what he justly
deserves. In its sphere the weekly is
of quite as much service to the adver-
tiser as. is the daily, and oftentimes
it enjoys the privilege of being the
exclusive family visitor, a privilege
the daily seldom has.
Year: 1872

counted it out, and hence, he was not
likely to purchase what he did not
need. .=s... .s........ .... -.


And then he had a goal ahead which
he was determined to reach as soon as
possible; and by his system Of cash
payments he could estimate at the
close of the day the gain he was max
ing toward the desired end. In two
months he paid what he had borrowed
Of his wife, she put it into the COM
mon fund; and in five years his
home was his own, and he owed no
man anything but love and good
will.