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Year: 1872

Keep your heart, my little one,
Through small the sum you make,
The Lord will give a recompense
For every stitch you take
'Tis not for man alone you toll
Then labor for His sakeI
The hearts that grind the helpless poor,
Nor heed their weary pain,
May for time in riches roll,
And glory in their gain,
But God will cut them down at last.
AS sickles cut the grain.
Go read your Bible, little one,
When working hours are DER,
You'll find there's many, many things
Much worse than being poor
And loving God, and trusting Him,
viii help you to endure.
Keep up your heart, my little one,
Though small the sum You make,
The Lord will give you recompense
For every stitch you take.
'Tis not for man alone you toll
Then labor for His sakeI
Year: 1872

Mrs. THURsroN, the woman who own
the United States, is in Boston, and has
been interviewed by Post reporter. Her
statements arc clear and to the point She
bought the State Of Maine at auction, and
consequently owns the rest of the coun.
Try. AT Washington she was told that
her claim would be allowed il she would
pay the expenses Of the government for a
year. This she promises to do, and is
now at work gathering the necessary pa.
pers. AS this task is an easy one the lady
VIII soon come into her property. When
she gets it she will be generous and allow
lts use by the people on payment to her
annually ola small amount, say four or
five millions.
Year: 1872

Professor King and L. i. Holden,
an attacho of the Boston journal,
made a successful balloon ascension
Saturday: The balloon rose slowly
into the heavens and disappeared from
the sight of those who were watching
it from the Common in about twenty
minutes. 1t iloated off at about the
rate Of fifteen miles per hour only.
About the miles southwest of Scituate
descent was made in an open field,
where the excursionists remained some
ten minutes and unloaded their bag.
gage They then went up again and
went out to sen, whore they were taken
in tow by yacht and landed on shore.
They arrived back in Boston Sunday
noon, in good condition.
Year: 1872

A young German has been found at
Memphis with both arms and leg
severed from his body. lie said he
lost them warding off blows from an
axe, which was aimed at his head y,
but will not toll who did it.
Year: 1872

No 1sraelite should vote for Grant,
because ho said ho would not allow u
Jew in his army nor tolerate a jew
ish sutlcr. Therefore, it is tho duty
of every respectable Hebrew to sup
port the honest Farmer of Chappa-
qua.
Year: 1872

A young man in Harrisburg who loves den
tist' s daughter, has to get tooth pulled once
a week as an excuse for going to see her, and
he wants to know what excuse he shall have
when his remaining four teeth have been ex-
froctad
Year: 1872

COOP ADVICE. you cannot speak well of
vour neiehbors, do not speak of them at all
A cross neighbor may be made kind one by
kind treatment. The true way to be happy is
to make others happy. To do good is luxury;
IF you are net wiser and better at the e. end OF
the day, that day is lost. practlfe o.k klndness'
it be but little each ID day bnt Learn 1e rne
learn Mear to control your temper and your words.
Saw Saw nothing q behind one S back, that you would
NOT saw to his face.
Year: 1872

The Republican party will 90 into the next
campaign with the loss, perhaps, of few lead
ers ana lew brigades, but it will march under
its old colors and keep step to its old music
Wash. Republican. M


The band will play the rogue s march; column
forward.
Year: 1872

Tho following is clipped from the ''Lare Of
Life"


Very few ladies know how to appreciat easy.
healthful dress. They think their dresses are
loose, when man or boy put into one as tight,
would gasp for breath, and feel incapable of
putting forth any efforts to break the bands
Ladies are so accustomed to the tight fits of
dressmakers that they ''fal all to pieces" when
relieved of them. They associate the loose
dress with the bed or lounge. To be up they
must be stayed up, and to recommend COM
Portable dress to them is not to meet con-
scious want of theirs.


1t Is great pity, none the less. If they
could once know what luxury it is to breathe
deep and full at each respiration, to feel the
refreshment which the system takes in by hav-
ing the blood enlivened and sent bounding
through the arteries and veins, to have the
aids to digestion which such dress gives, to
have their strong, elastic muscles keep every
organ in place, and the muscles erect; if they
could for while know this blessed luxury, and
then be sent back into old, stiff, straight jack
cts, they would fume and fret and rave In very
desperation if they could not get rid of them.


As it is, they prefer to languish and suffer
dreadfully, and die young, and leave all their
friends, and their husbands, and their little
children, and | do not see any other way but
to let them be sick and die till they are salts
fed. If only the sinner was the sufferer, it
would not be worth while to make great ado
about it, but the blghting to future innocent
| lives, which may follow, renders the false hab-
its our women in the highest degree criminal.
Year: 1872

Three of the Democratic candidates for the
Legislature are personally responsible for the
unjust legislation affecting our working popula-
ton These are Messrs. Biggs, Chandler, and
Newton. They were members of the Legislature,
when these laws came under consideration, and
did nothing to have them repealed.
Year: 1872

SCRATCHED TIcKETs.-A ticket with name
upon it erased counts just as any other ticket
would with the exception that it takes away one
vote from the candidate whose name is
stricken out. II the name of the oppo-
sition candidate is written upon the margin of
the ticket, or is pasted on slip over the name
OF any candidate it counts one vote for the can
didate whose name is 30 written or pasted on the
slip.
Year: 1872

nent Confederate general; but it is only the arm
that is in ruins. lie RECEIVERS enough to return
again to the paper which had once been the
daily sensation of the South. But he has an
eye keen enough to see the coils Of fate closing
around his beloved South. That broke his
heart.


When the army of the Union was drawing
near to Richmond he wrote, remember, an
editorial iu which occurred the words, III the
Federal armies ever enter Richmond, those
who shall be unfortunate enough to live to see
that day.. &c. The day came when the Amerl-
can army did enter Richmond, andat the dawn
of that day were closed in death the eyes OF
the most gifted man the South has produced
in recent times When in the brilliant salon |
saw the woman he loved SO long aud devotedly,
and for whom he bravcd the world, | saw his
gloomy brow and his magnificent black eyes
spectrally beside her. But should say, II ne
we're sitting beside her. it must have been IN
a very shadowy way indeed, not sufficiently
pronounced to Interfere with the newest tlrta-
ton on hand.


But should remark that the Countess OF
whom | have been writing is lot Italian by
birth; she is French.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
bappiness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness of
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

Down at Harmar, a man named PETER
PRESTON sold his house the other day for
$1,000 and was so much elated over it
he got on spree. In the evening aNer
giving his wife his pocket.book contain.
ing all his money but dollar or two, he
started over to Marietta. The last seen
ofhim he had climbed over the siding Of
the bridge over Nuskingam river and
was lying between the braces. His hat
remained there two days, and the pre-
sumption is that Peter fell in the river
and became a "den'd moist, unpleasant
BODY"
Year: 1872

PAINLESS KILLING.-In regard to the free
dom from pain incident to death produced by
carbonic acid gas when administered in large
quantities. it may be interesting to note that, In
large foundries, where iron is melted in cupo-
las, there is always large quantity of carbon
ic oxide passed into the stack. This volume OF
gas in some instances cannot escape freely by
the fues and blows out of the charging door.
Sometimes workmen in the act OF charging the
cupola, are deluged by flood of the gas, and
in all cases fall instantly insensible, and would
die if not dragged away from the poisonous at
mosphere When restored to consciousness
they cannot remember any sensation of any
kind-certainly none of pain attending their
Iinsensibility In one instance workman en-
gagged in repairing furnace in this city, re-
mained in it while an adjacent one was put in
to blast. The superabundant gas passed par
TALLY into the place where he was working,
and so quickly did he succumb under its lnt1u-
ence as to cut short something he was saying
to those outside. so as to show that between
the time of uttering one word and another to
all appearance he was dead. 1t was with the
utmost difficulty that he was restored, and he
had no recollection of what had happened.
1t has been matter of considerable interest
whether this result is brought about by the
carbonic acid or by the carbonic oxide gas
Some who have breathed pure carbonic oxide
gas have noted this effect, while men plunged
suddenly into carbonic acid gas. as in wells,
have as suddenly become insensible.-Ph'ta-
delphiG Ledger
Year: 1872

CHANGED BAsE-It is stated that for the
first time in sixteen years there is not Wash
burn in Congress; not that the material has
given out, or that the family has retired from
political life, and are endeavoring to earn an
honest living, but it is owing to the fact that
the Washburns are drawing their regular ra-
tions and getting their regular "pap" in posi-
tions which pay them better. Governorships
and positions as foreign Ministers pay better,
and the family have therefore changed their
base and are making raid on those offices.
Year: 1872

VALUABLE DIscovERY.-The Oregon Re
publican states that o vein of coal eight feet
in depth, has been recently discovered in Doug
las county. If it is good article of coal it
will be more valuable to the owner than gold
mine.
Year: 1872

gated people, and that we must bear
with meekuess whatever indiynities
our heartless opprcssors may see pro-
per to impose trusting that in Gods
own good time relief may come to US
from some quarter or other.


In justice to Lieutenant Il. S. Cod
frey, who was in commend of the cav
airy, and whom we know and respect
as a gentleman, VIC arc assured by our
informants that the soldiers had
nothing to do with tho breaking open
of doors, throwing sick children about,
etc, etc.


Lieutenant Godfrey we are sure
would neither do anything of this
Kind himself, nor would he suffer it to
be done by any one under his com
mand. Hubbard was in command of
tho eXpedition-thc cavalry were only
along so as to give tho civil authori-
ties assistance in case any should be
ncodcd-and upon Hubbard rests the
whole responsibility for everything
that was done. Chester Reportcr.
Year: 1872

THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.


CLEVELAND, May 8.-The National Encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic met this morn
ing None but members of the Society were admitted
The of the organization Gen. Burn
sde addressed che meeting In the OF his speech he
sad during the past year he had used his best efforts TO
further such legislation in Congress would benefit his
comrades He declined to speak In favor Of the
Bounty Land bill. because he felt that the
kept for actual settlers and the benefits that would be
derived from such O bill, would not compensate
for the harm done the public. In regard to
ta9 or his he
said w the efforts OF his comrades were concentrated
welconsidered plan to secure liberal provisions


This evening the reunion closed with grand banquet
in the Central Rink, at which 1000 guests were
present


THE SOCIETY OF THE CAVALRY CORPS.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, May s.-The business
meating Of the Society Of the Cavalry Corps Of the
armies of the United States was held at 12i o'clock
Gen. Sheridan, the President, on taking the chair
expressed his pleasure at meeting 30 many
veteran troops hoped the meeting would give itself
to the work of effecting permanent organlzatlon
necessary, and the Committee who had been charged
with the work were preparing report on the
subject The Committee reported the amended consttu
tion which, after discussion, was adopted The Consti
tuition declares that this Society shall be known as tho
"Society Of the Cavalry Corps of tho Army
of the Potomac and Of the Cavalry Of the
that any honorably discharged officer or soldier
who at any time served the sald cavalry shall be en-
titled to membership, and all officers and men VINO
served in the cavalry OF the Shenandoah are considered
expressed by the Western members at the course OF the
SO ;ety in the matter. and several left the meeting
Year: 1872

TO the Editor OF The Trfbune'


SIR: For some years past have taken little
mart i'm public matters and Lad about quit voting because
AZ seemed TO me that both Of the leading parties OF the
country demorazed and could see no hope OF re-
form in this generation But the Of the Cncin-
matt Convention has aroused me from my lethargy, and


am filed with hope and confidence in the belief that
our deverance at hand and that your admins
traton will restore the country to the better days OF the
Republic This aee) county will give large ma
iority I believe 1000 or The usual Demo-
cratic majority in this cOuntyl has been ranging
from 100 to $780, We will go 10 work and see what
can be done in our State at large. Ido not hope
much of this State but will do our whole duty Our
ticket is the strongest by all odds that the friends Of Re-
form could have given in Iowa. The Constitution is
the leading Democratic journal in Southern Iowa. This
morning your name and that of Mr.. Brown are placed
at its masthead and your names are sustained with
powerful editorial, which herewith inclose. Every
moment can spare from the practice Of my profession


will devote from until the election In the good
cause.


KeOEuE IotpG, May 4, 1872.
Year: 1872

DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF T. BUCHANAN READ.


Mr.. T. Buchanan Read, the poet has been
for several days past at the Asor House. by


critical attack Of plenro-pneumonia Late last night
the physicians In attendance had nearly surrendered
hope OF his recovery there being but faint prospect
that the patient would survive the night Mr. Read ar
rived about week ago from Europe, where he has been
living for some years past and conveyed at
from the ship to the hotel to which he has since been
confined.
Year: 1872

TO The Edftor Of The Tribune.


SIR: want to express my delight that you
have tb nomination Of what to be success
full party took stock in the movement until
you were the nominee. II the Democrats adopt tas
believe they Will you you will be tho next President
And you the only now have knowledge Of that


would support as the Democratic candidate, and
in position to accomplish much as any one who is
out OF politics.


P0Aspale, Penn, May 8, 1872
Year: 1872

To the Rditor Of The Tribune.


SIR: A large number of Republicans in this
CITY will vote for Greeley and the Democrats are nearly
unanimous for him.


learned the this morning that on Saturday there
was meeting of the leading Democrats OF tho city for
consultation and all who present were in favor OF
the ratification Of the nominations by tie Democratic
National Convention. Mr. Greeley must and Will be
elected. Truly yours, H. L. GREEh'
AZ May G
Year: 1872

There is mysterious feeling that
frequently passes like cloud over the
spirits. 1t comes upon the soul in the
busy hustle of life, in the social circle,
in the calm and silent retreats of soli-
tude. Its powers are alike supreme
over the weak and the iron-hearted.
At one time it is caused 10y the fitting
of single thought across the mind.
Again, sound will come booming
across the ocean of memory, gloomy
and solemn as the death-kneli, over.
shadowing all the bright hopes and
sunny feelings of the heart. Who can
describe, and yet who has not felt it,
bewildering influence? Still, it is de
licious sorrow; and like cloud dim
ming the sunshine of the liver, al
though causing II momentary shade o
gloom, it enhauces the beauty OF re
turning brightness.
Year: 1872

In the great gale, few days since,
people at Niagara looked to see the new
suspension bridge come down, but it
stood the test, although the central por-
ton, unprotected with guys, performed
graceful serpentine movement, both
horizontally and perpendicularly, that
was rendered additionally attractive by
the pas ing to and fro of passengers of
both sexes on foot and in carriages just
for the fun of the thing. An enterpris-
ing velocipedist also added to the
amusement of the occasion, but his
machine was not a success on shipboard
in storm. The performance closed
with the demolition of one-half of the
inclined railway descending to the
ferry.
Year: 1872

1t having been demonstrated that
beets can be grown in many parts of the
Pacific slope, of such quality and in
such quantity as to insure profit to both
the grower and the sugar manufactures.
it is not surprising to learn that larger
tracts of land will be devoted to their
culture this year than ever before. At
Alvarado, Cal, a large sugar manufac-
tory, capable of handling sixty tons OF
beets every twenty-four hours, has been
built. Last year the company owning
it manufactured 100000 pounds of sugar
OF excellent quality, equal in every re-
spect to that made from cane. This
year product will be more than doubled,
and as several other large sugar works
have been established in different parts
of the State, an appreciable and favorable
effect will no doubt be produced on the
sugar market Of the country. The sup.
ply Of cane sugar manufactured at the
South during the past few years has been
far short of the demand, and high
prices have ruled in consequence.
Year: 1872

The Pacific R,rol Press speaks highly
of muskmelon, the seed OF which was
brought from Turkey, which keeps
readily to midwnter or later, The edi
tor ate of one plucked three months
previously, and which it seemed might
nave been kept months longer. lt-is
hardly as rich as some Of our muskmel;
ons, but if it can be kept the year round
will be of great value.
Year: 1872

The New York Academy of Design
will hereafter be open seven days in
the week. Last Sunday witnessed the
Inauguration Of the new programme.
The galleries were filled with a large
and orderly assemblage, and nothing
whatever occurred to mar the quiet Of
the Sabbath. This is the true way to
insure the observance Of the day o rest,
which experience has proved to be es-
sentlal to physical and mental we'll
being. AS it is now, churches and
liquor saloons vie with each other in
attractiveness, and the latter carry off
the palm. 1t is useless to ignore the
fact that a ma ajority of people do not
and will not, attend religious services.
AS workers in real not an ideal world =,
it is our business to recognize this, and
see to it that they shall have at least an
opportunity to spend Sunday some.
where else than in close, cheerless
rooms, or in gaily painted, cheerful sa-
looms. Our libraries should be thrown
open; our collections of paintings and
statuary should invite the passer-b by !;
our leading scientific men should, as in
london, deliver talks to workingmen'
in some central hall, where tne work
ingman and his family might come, and
be sure of glad welcome. If the Sab
bath was made for man. it should be
made pleasant for man, not Only lorthe
Christian and the drunkard, but for the
great majority of men, who are neither
the one nor the other.
Year: 1872

A SINGULAR STORY ABOUT A CLOCK.
Here is singular story about an old
fashioned clock, over which the credu-
lous and incredulous can debate for the
winter. 1t is from the Boston Herald
of Dec. Is.


Fourteen years ago an old lady in
Portland, Me, fell dead from heart dis
ease while winding up an old fashioned
clock. The time was ten minutes before
ten in the morning. Ever since that
the clock has stopped at 10 o'clock on
the anniversary of her death. 1t has
never once failed in the fourteen years
that have passed"
Year: 1872

The day after his arrival DR.. Choate's
the disease developed itself in all its in
tensity. The horrors of acute mania
were hourly witnessed. The most skill
full treatment at the hands of expert
enced physicians proved Of no avail, and
the patient gradually sank into a state
of Inconsistencies. The inflammation of
the brain made the stomach sympathize
with it to such an extent that Mr.. Gree
ley refused and was really unable to
take food in any form.


Mr.. Greeley gradually grew worse,
and failed to recognize the few intimate
friends and relatives who visited him.
His daughter Ida was with him night
and day. So violent did he become that
it was found necessary to remove most
of the furniture from the room. At one
time he tore the watch presented to him
by the employees of the Tribune apart,
and again he threw kerosene lamp on
the floor, setting the room on fire and
narrowly escaped being burned to death,
AS his strength left him he became more
quiet, but did not show any signs of
consciousness until about an hour before
his death. He died at precisely ten
minutes before seven without struggle.
Year: 1872

A man one hundred years old went to
have pair of shoes made. The shop
keeper suggested that be might not live
to wear them out, when the old man re-
torted that he had commenced this one
hundred years good deal stronger then
he did the last one.
Year: 1872

That she might have worn q percussion cap,


And been knocked ON the head without hearing II


snap. HHHH


Well, / sold her horn. and the very next day


She heard from her husband at Botany Bay.


Charles Lamb was never like any body
else, and certainly nobody else was ever
like Charles Lamb. 1t was he, of
course (who else could it have been p,
who replied to the complaint of his su-
perior in the India House, that be came
to his desk later in the morning than
any either of his writer's, by saying
Eyes, but you see make it up by going
away earlier in the evening" His good
things were always so essentially and
wholly his OVID, that there is no possi-
bility of mistaking their origin. No
other man could have thonght his
thoughts or anything like them. No
body else would ever have thought of
plying our forefathers, who lived before
the times Of candlelight, because when
they cracked a joke after dark, they
had to feel about for smile, and handle
their neighbors' cheeks to be sure that
they understood it Hearth and Home.
Year: 1872

We wish to call attention to the arti-
Gle below as being the prospectus of the
most beautifully illustrated publication
in America or the world, and with its
great literary merits and unexcelled ty-
Biography, it is most desirable month
ly for every household.