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Year: 1872

A Washington correspondent of
Kansas City Bulletin relates the fol-
lowing:


Socially speaking, Washington is
deserted. The beautiful lions who
fit, not like swallows, toward the
Summer. but away from it, have
sought the mountains and the cool
spray of the beach. The blinds of
the great drawing rooms are closed,
and no more upon the pavement
comes the soft rustic of trailing
raiment, the patter of French heels,
the CLEAN of jewels and the glitter
of eyes brighter yet.


The gambling dens are closed too
the great army who delight much
to gamble on the green, have gone
to fresher pastures. And now I
must tell you O sad story that came
to us from a little golden-haired
maiden that we caught on the
same mission as ourselves-a WIS.,
it to the Senator from Ohio
She had come to Washington with
her father some six months since,
and been living in very pleas
ant quarters sustained by his exer-
tions as correspondent-they had
been of large wealth before the war,
and what were his companions then.
now serve him as news-furnishers.
Within the last few weeks-'only Of
late, mind you,' said the lady with
the red lips and dewy eyes-bills
had poured in upon them, which her
father seemed unable to meet, and
one by one she had given him the
jeweled relics of her former luxury
Just for day, YOU know, till he
got the money those ugly newspaper
men owed him.


The night before he had failed te
come home at the usual hour, and
after waiting wearily till past mid
night, the little lady sought her pill
low, and found there note and left
there many hot tears. The note
stated simply that her father was in
great trouble, and must be away fol
many days, and referring her to a
SENATOR VINO nad Deen very kinu u
them, for assistance. A note to him
had sketched a direr tale; the
trouble was gambling, and the many
days absence meant-eternity.
brought with few grains of arsenic.
It is common story and q true one,
but I pray God I may never know
such a low wall of suffering as stole
from the adjoining room, when the
kind-hearted Senator broke the sad
news or see again the look of dazed
horror that had driven the sunlight
from her dewy eyes when she came
trembling out. It is pleasant to
know that she will be well cared for;
but I wist that that laughing girl
hood will never lie so sweetly again
upon the fair face of this Little Nell.
Year: 1872

Tyraoid fever Is the great aat0ma4i
ecourge of our country. Il attacks the
high aud the low. the rich aud the poor,
the resident o1 ibe country. village and
city. The family Of the moss humble
aud lowly seems uo more liable TO il than
the family Of the most exalted IN wealth
ana rank Ii has no more respect for the
royal family o. England than for the poor
est peasant household Prince Albert
fell a victim to it. and to-day the heir ap-
parent is prostratei under it. remorseless
grasp.


We may gaiu some idea II the vast
harvest Of sickness and death which this
reaper annually gathers, trom the follow
ing facts. 1t Is estimated that from l00,-
600 to l50,000 people annually suffer
from this disease in England alone


The oausation Of typhoid fever, though
long enyel1ped in obscurity, Is now well
known. Is Is one of the so-called " filth
diseases Of modern sanitary writer's It's
most ordinary exciting cause Is air or
drinking-water bcfouled with excremental
matter IL Is also quite certain that a
person suffering from this fever may him
self iufect the air Of his room or the
water which receives his cxcreta with
germs OF the disease 50 as to transmit It
to others 4 single case may thus be the
fruitful source of a wide spread epidemic


The facts illustrating the origin Of ty-
ph0id. from excrcmental matters in drink
ing water are now very numerous and very
instructive. Every experienced physician
can give striking examples occurring IN
der his own observation. Il not unfre-
quently happens that the actual source of
the disease Is very obscure, and can only
be discovered 10y the most persistent and
intelligent inquiry hut the scientific stu
dent is generally rewarded with complete
success. The following examples will IL
lustrate the methods of communicating
the fever


In small German settlement IN the
upper part of the city there was q severe
outbreak of dysentary and typhoid fever.
\ physician called u attend some Of the
cases, set to work TO find out the cause. On
inquiry a. to the water-supply, he was di-
rected to a spring on low ground in the
midst Of the settlement, SO situated as to
receive the surface drainage. The water
was pure and sparkling TO the sight and
the taste. and was loudly praised by the
owner Of the spring. A quantity put in
bottle and allowed 10 stand few hours
threw down thick sediment Of most Of
fensive matter The people ceased TO use
this water. and the epidemic ceased at
oDce
Year: 1872

4 GREENLAND PARLIANENT.-In the
middle Of the one room, or hall, stood
plain pine table. with n plain bench on
either side of It, and on each bench sat six
narliamentari8ns. dressed in seal-skin
pantaloons aud boots, and Guernsey frocks,
across which there was a very large dis
play Of suspenderz Each parliamentarian
head was covered with 4 cap composed OF
the brightest kind of scarlet cloth, orna-
mented with a broad gilt-band. The roy
al emblems were embroidered in front, and
above these there was golden bear, with
a crown on his head, standing uncomforta-
bly, on his hind legs. TO typify Greenland.
There was a thirteenth cap at the head OF
the table and this was worn by Mr.. Anthem.
pastor of Julianashaab and president of
the Julianashaab parliament er ff0ci0.


The first business was IN form of peti-
tion fo4 relief. The petitioner stood there
in person, looking the very picture of for
lorn destitution. He stated that he had
lost his canoe (kayak.) and he produced
evidence enough TO show, without any
swearing, false or otherwise, that it had
been crushed and lost in the lee The man
who had hardly clothes on his back to
cover his nakedness showed further that he
had 8 wife and family who had no friends
to assist them, and we're entirely depend
ent on himself for support L thought it
doubtful support at best, and so appeared
to think the parliament for they voted an
order for certain daily allowance. The
next case was Of 4 young hunter, whose
kayak had been crushed by the ice, and
who had not the means to build new one
They voted him q loan. \ third case was
an old man. who received one dollar to buy
a spear with another was partly a loan
and partly gift to a man who had fam
lily Of girls and required materials for an
oomiak- Still another made application
for and received assistance to bury dead
husband.-H1rper,s Magazine
Year: 1872

ADVICE TO BoYs.-You are made
to be kind, generous and magnGni-
nous, says Horace Mann. If there
is boy in school who has a club
foot, don't let him know you ever
saw it. If there is a boy with rag
ged clothes, don't talk about rags in
his hearing. If there is lame boy,
assign him some part in the play
which does not require much run
ming. If there is a dull one, help
him to get his lesson.
Year: 1872

The greatest swindle of the nine


teenth century has come to climax
we allude to the celebrated "Tich-


borne" case. The claimant, the


supposed "Roger," is in deep grief
within the walls of Newgate. Last


week the jury became sick of the


fraud, and intimated to the judge


that they had heard enough evil


dence to enable them to decide upon


a verdict. OF course, this was un-


derstood to be against the claimant.


The counsel for the plaintiff yester-
day decided 20 Withdraw the case
from court, and thus terminated an
Issue which has excited the curiosity
and interest of the civilized world.
On this, the counsel for the defense


moved for a Bench warrant for the
apprehension of the claimant-who
is now believed to be none other
than Arthur Orton-and the appli-
cation being granted, the pseudo
"Roger" was transferred from the
association of his friends to the cold
hospitality of Newgate Thus ends
this gigantic swindle. The scoundrel
who fabricated the fraud, and those
who aided and abetted him in his
to wrest the Tichborne estate
from the rightful heir, will receive
condign punishment. Unfortunate
ly, great portion Of the estate has
been wasted in law proceedings, and
can not be recovered. 1t is hardly
probable that history records such
a we'll l-contrived and plausible con-
spiracy as the case under notice,
and it will be likely to remain as
the greatest legal curiosity on record.
We trust that the ruffian who sought
to swindle the Tichborne family out
of their estates, and defame the
name of Mrs. Radcliffe, nee Miss
Doughty, will end his days as a
felon.-TLondOn Free Press.
Year: 1872

IN Sweden only a limited number
of saloon licenses are granted, and


these are sold at auction. The sa-
looms must close at a fixed hour, no
liquor may be sold to a child or a
drum nkard, and no money can be re-
covered for liquor sold on credit.
Year: 1872

A lazy lad who did not go to
church until the congregation were
coming out, asked ''Is it dOne?"
mo" was the reply. alt is all
said; but 1 think it will be some
time before it is all done"
Year: 1872

A new safe has been invented
which makes things very unpleasant
for burglars. The walls are filed
with gunpowder in such a manner
that the blows of a sledge or the
cutting of chisel in the attempt to
rob the safe will ignite the powder,
blow off the outer crust, annihilate
the burglar, and leave the contents
of the safe uuinjured.
Year: 1872

Among the great
discoveries Of modern
science, few ere Of


more real value to
mankind than this ef-
fectual remedy for all
diseases of the Throat
and Lungs. A vast
trial of its virtues,
throughout this and
other countries, has
shown that it does
surely and effectually
Year: 1872

THREE millions Of tho public BIT hare
been paid during the past month. The
receipts of the Treasury have decreased
for some time past, because an immense
quantity Of goods have remained in bond
awaiting the provisions OF the new tariff,
which went into effect on the first Of this
month Day before yesterday the re-
ceirts CT the New York Custom House
were ~ 800 00O This il n much larger
sum than ..es ever before received in
one day The reduction Of the puEic
deh. vii amount to seven more uillious
during tue next thirty days.
Year: 1872

syIL communication corrupt good
manners" Brother Peck is naturally
disposed to be truthful, but association
with Democratic politicians is having its
effect, He informs his readers that we
claim there are no Greeley Republicans
in the county. Every reader of the
TeIBUNE knows that we have never set
up such claim. What's the use Of telling
that which everybody knows to be false
Year: 1872

ANOTHER ISLANDER NAILED In answer
to charges that the President had arbi-
trarily set Cadet Smith (colored) back a
year in bis academic course at WsSt
point, the sentence of the court martial,
which ordered his dismissal from the
service is published lie was guilty Of
three deliberate lalshoods, and the Pres
ident commutcd his sentence from abso-
lutte dismissal to a mere reduction Of
standing.
Year: 1872

GRAND RACES Our citizens have SUBJ
scribed large sum of money to be Of
lered in purses tor trotting and running
at the fair, to be held here the first week
in September. The purses will be more
liberal than any before given, and can
not fail to bring some of the best horses
Of the northwest to compete. The cele-
brated horse Canada is being fitted for
the course
Year: 1872

ALREADY several hundred bushels Of
new wheat have come into this market.
The prices paid range about Sl0j. This
will not continue long, as there is a cor
ner in Chicago which will collapse with
August. Farmers who possibly can will
do well to bring in their wheat durin G
the present month.
Year: 1872

The Dodgevile "Liberal" continues to
falsify in the Democrat and as he now
has plenty Of leisure hours we expect to
hear from him regularly during the cam
paign. He intimates that tho blrren
'postern mammary' will be our only
means of sustenance after election Such
a fate is fearful, even ia contemplation


What it is in reality the LIBERAL sore
head is no doubt well qualified to testify
Year: 1872

The Democrat says we are passing
through a political grave yard What
political party lies buried therein; pray
tell? Is it Democracy? | SO, may we
not having seen the monster in its living
hideousness, well shrink from its ghastly
corpse
Year: 1872

BaGEE JAL.-John Fox (colorcdl, who
was confined in the Jail Of New Kent county.
charged with the murder Of negro in New
Kent county, made lis escape last Thursday
night by burning out the rear window Of the
iail
Year: 1872

FEAR.-It is not the fact that, because some men are more constantly exposed to danger than others, they are conse. quent]y freer from fear than the gene rality of their kind. Warriors are not so uncommonly brave as the world gives them credit for. Let it be remembered that in battle they are penetrated with a prodiglous fury, elated by prospects scene to scene, till ia their fury and ex- citement they become utterly forgetful of the great slaughter that is going on around them, and the imminent danger that momentarily threatens them. The strong passions and the excitement they experience supersede and suspend fear. But when their passions are at rest, and their ardor is not aroused-when they become calm, inactive spectators of the horrid massacres of war-we do not see, or, at least, do not hear of their stifiue the passion of fear to such very great degree. The effects of fear are some- times so fatal that, as we have already said, men have been known to die under the influence of it. A couple of French merchants once fought duel in the of Bordeaux. On the first fire one of the parties fell, and the seconds immediately approached sup posing that he was mortally wounded. After close inspection they found that he had not sustained any injury, his ball having glanced aside and lodged in the trunk of tree: but he was, nevertheless, dead, havip 3 it is conjectured, anticipated by his error that fate which he might have other wise escaped.
Year: 1872

M. H. B., the sprightlv lady corres-

 pendent of the Missouri Republican. has

 been taking Turkish bath in New York,

 and don't like it. Here's what she says

 of it: We were divested of every stitch

 of our clothing, our rings and bracelets locked up. our back hair taken of, our own special possession of seventy-five or a hundred hairs made into little hirsute

 pill and impaled with hair.pin. That

 was the only token of civilization we

 boasted. The procession formed. At the door we were handed @ miniature sheet and little bit of sponge wet with cold water. Through passage we went to room, where we dropped our sheets and entered vapor that clothed us decently. I wonder the Police Gazette or the Days Doimgs haven't hit on this business for illustration. We'll, in this steam I thought would suffocate. It poured up and down through holes till it was dreadful. The use of the wet sponge, l here ascertained, was to put on the top of your head to prevent coup de steama, or some such dire complaint. They ouldn't let me out, and the temperature got worse and worse, and I began to think of my mother and an obituary notice in the Repu6licam, when we were pronounced cooked enough, and let out into room in which was mighty tank of cold water, through which you must wade or swim as you could. Caesars ghost l flew through it. My anatomy and physiology were heated to boiling point. The water seemed like ice. It sent the blood rushing to my hollow head I'm convinced I have no brains), and my heart came kerhop up and went kerchnnk down. l made up my mind this was the worst of it, and tried to be resigned. had been soaped and scrub bed in the vapor room till was scaritied. I stood on the brink and watched my companions splashing through the infer nal tank. One of lem, to expedite her own release, caught at my ankle 1; away went my soapy, slippery feet from under me, and in I went for a second time. How very near an end was the happy connection between M. H. B. and the St. Louis Republican At the next stage of this truly awful experience we received the "shower," I had now become convinced that I should never see nome or friends again. In calm despair walked under a solid column of water, that nearly broke my back, and just here I got mad. That fat attendant hasn't yet recovered sufficiently to make a complaint, and when the thin woman went before Judge Bowling, that gen. tleman said it was conspiracy; that no woman of my size, unaided could do such damage. He told the woman to go home and say nothing about it 1; for she had evidently been dreadfully drunk, ahd undertaken to walk through carpet cleaning machine. And that's the first and last Russian bath I take.
Year: 1872

A MARROW EsoApE.-A new story of Oregon, Bulletin, and it has Ill the ferO cious features incident to life in the far West. Two brothers, twins, Sam and Henry Lockhart, were owners of ferry across the Pitt River in 1852. The win ter following while Sam was absent in Shasta, the Indians made raid and killed Henry and all the white settlers in the vicinity of the ferry. This shock to the surviving brother served to trans. form hlm into fiend. He became a hard drinker, and vowed to devote his life to the discovery and slaughter of every Indian that he had any reason to believe had anything to do with the slaughter of his brother. And he car- ried out that purpose till his very name was terror to all the Indians within hundreds of miles. He was a wanderer, and could not be restrained by law or the entreattes of the whites. On one of his expeditions he met Joaquin Miller, whom he suspected of complicity in his brQther's murder. He had not yet proof enough, however, to justify the shooting of him on sight Whether Miller resisted is not stated; but cer- tainly Sam made him prisoner, and marched him to Yreka, where serious consultation was had with Judge Rosbo- rough in whose judgement the avenger had great confidence. s'It was with

 reat difficulty" says the Bulletin. "that the judge then only practising lawyer in Yreka, could persuade Sam that he was mistaken in his suspicious, his only remark being, if he is guilty, I shall kill hlm, sure" After questioning and cross examining that would have done credit to a member of the bar-Mlller having Been directed by the judge to be perfectly frank and truthful-Sam was at last satisfied with his innocence and permitted him to go unmolested. The levers and admirers of Joaquin Mil ler's poetry may thank Judge Peterborough that their favorire did not receive his death from Sam Lockhart's unerring rife nearly twenty years ago. Poor Sam continued his lawless course until he met a bloody death in Idaho, while engaged in one of those mining disputes which were decided by the law of the knife and pistol"
Year: 1872

women before you have lived through such things.'

 Don't talk of it, Margaret; I could net bear it. Why. he is all the world to mel How could I bear to lose ite"

 "Then don't wish him to be city mer- chant, my dear. I dare say there are many good men in the clty-men who | love their wive but, on the other hand there are so many temptations, especially l in society, that sometimes wonder, not that 80 many go astray, but that SO many remain true to themselves and their duty" She spoke absently, and her eyes had a far away glance as if they dwelt on oth- CT things.

 Jenny ventured 8 question. Margaret, is yours happy marriage Do you love your husbands And does he love youg"

 Mrs. Won Howth started and turned dale.

 "Jenny, I would have loved him, I would have been good wife to him, but he never loved me. He brought me to thought me ladylike and interesting, that was all. He told me once, though not so plainly as this. And since then we have each taken our own way, independent of the other. seldom see him at our house in town. l havo my carriage, my dia- monds and my opera box. In the season I go to Saratoga or Newport, while he favors Long Branch with his presence. We are perfect strangers to each other; we never quarrel. and suppose If were to die to morrow he'd he an inconsolable widower for 8 week. Jenny. you will not wish ts change places with me again. Your husband might change as mine has done, exposed to the same temptation. Thank Heayen, you have him as he is, good true man, who loves you and never mind the butter and cheese, Jenny SO long as your happiness and his is made up with them"

 She rose from her seat and strolled up the garden path.

 Jenny did not follow. She sat on the step lost in thought. The riddle of her friends life was at last made clear to her. She had often wondered why Margaret, in the midst of all her wealth and luxury, should seem so sad, she wondered no longer now.

 To be the wife of a man who had no love for you. What "lower deep" can there be than this for proud and sensi- tive woman9

 Jenny turned with tears in her eyes to meet the stalwart husband as he came from the field.

 "Well. little woman," he cried and then she got the hearty kiss for which she was locking.

 Yes, Margaret was right. The butter and cheese were of little consequence while love like this made her task easy to endure.

 And the rosy checked little woman bent fondly down over her "Hira,n" as he flung himself down on the porch seat and famed him, brought him lemonade, and made him thoroughly happy and at rest.

 Poor Margaret Happy Jennie! Nev- CT again would she wish to be more only farmers wife.
Year: 1872

AHO OAU NOuPACs They sat in the sun together,

 Till the day was almost done, And then, at it's close, an angel

 Stepped over the threshold stone He folded their hands together,

 He touched their eyelids with balm, And thelr last breath tloated upward Like the close of solemn psalm. Like bridal pair they trayersed The unseen mystical road, That leads to the Beautiful City, Whose Builder and Maker is God. Perhaps, in that miracle country, They will give her lost youth back, And the flowers of 8 vanished spring time Shall bloom in the spirits track One draught of the living waters Shall restore hls manhood's prime, And eternal years shall measure The love that outlives time. But the shapes they left behind them The wrinkles and silver hair Made sacred to us by the kisses The angel imprinted there We'll hide away in the meadow, When the sun is low in the West, Where the moonbeams cannot find them, Nor the wind disturb their rest. But we'll let no tell-tale tombstone, With it's age and date. arise Der the two who are old no longer In their Fathers House in the skies.
Year: 1872

NEW TEETH IN AGED PERSONS an article on longevity, Professor Owen has explained how it is that aged persons are said to have cut new teeth late in life. Many readers will remember to have heard or read of such occurrences, which are regarded as extraordinary. The facts are these :: it often happens that teeth break or decay, and leave stump in the gum. The gum closes over the place, and the incident is forgotten. As years go by, the jaw and the gums shrink the long buried stump is in consequence laid bare, and is hailed as new tooth, and is som etimes mentioned in the newspapers as kind of wonder. Thus 8 "fact" is shown by competent authority to be an error and it is always we'll for public opinion to get rid of an error.