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Year: 1876

A regular boarder is one who pays
his bib weekly. .


" Cenienniadelphia" is the latest
name for the Quaker City.


A good place for oculists-The see
Eye-lands.


The Fagot Dramatic Club would be
a good name for a collection of STICKS
to act under.


A consderate proceeding-sendlng
a stan nding army to the seat of war


"The best and oldest advertising
medium"-an old maids sewing cir-
Gle.


II you have favor to ask of a man
now, be sure aud shut the door after
you when you 90 into his office.


But few men can handle hot lamp
chimney and say there is no place ike
home, at the same lime.
Year: 1876

A net change Of thirty would make the
House tie. The Republican vote from
Colorado is not exactly gain, but is an
addition. We are not precisely informed
as vet what loss the Republicans have
sustained in the South. They have lost
one in Kentucky, and we presume one in


Louisiana. The House stands almost
tie. with the chances in favor of Re-
publican prepondersnce, but not by any
means "by large majority" The most
surprising Congressional event is the
gain of four Republican members in
Missouri. The Republicans of that state,
we are afraid, must have beguiled the
innocent Democrats into swapping votes.
Year: 1876

DR.. Hall is opposed to the immoderate
drinking of water. He says:--The longer
one puts off drinking water in the morning,
especially in the summer, the less he will re-
quire during the day; if much is drank du-
ring the forenoon, the thirst often increases
and very unpleasant tullncss is observed,
in addition to metallic taste in the mouth.
The less man drinks the better for him,
beyond n moderate amount. The more water
man drinks the more strength he has to
expend in getting rid of it, for all the fluid
taken into the system must be carried out
again; and there is but little nourishment in
water, Tea, coffee, beer and the like; more
strength is expended in carrying them out
OF the system than they impart to it. The
more man drinks the more he must per.
spire, either by lungs or through the skin.
the more he pcrspires the more carbon is
taGen from the system but this carbon is
necessary for nutrition, hence the less man
is nourished the less strength he has. Drink;
Ing water largely dminishes the strength in
two ways, yet many are under the impress
ion that the more water swallowed the more
thoroughly is the system "washed OUT
Thus the less we drink at meals, tho. better
| for us. II the amount were limited to sim
gle cup Of tea or hot milk and water at each
meal, an immeasurable good would result to
ALL Many persons have fallen into the prac-
tice of drinking several glasses of cold water.
or several cups of hot tea or coffee at meals,
out Of mere habit; oil such will be greatly
benefited by breaking it up at once; 1t may
be very well to drink little at each meal,
and, perhaps it will be found that in all
cases it is much better to take single cup
OF hot tea ut each meal than glass of cold
water, however pure.
Year: 1876

one of the most important parts Of that duty
OF man to man which Christ lifted up into
the bright light of His spirit Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself' I have no
idea Of that Christ which will look after hu-
man souls, but do nothing for their bodies.
| think few people realize how deeply into
the welfare of human life, how deeply in
among the influences which may elevate
men, go many Of these cares of city work.
Like the cares which go to make happy
home they are apt to seem poor ignoblc
details, but they may touch human life at
its very heart We want this more widely
recognized. Listen how Dr. Claiming put
it,


1t is plain truth, and yet how little un-
derstood that the greatest thing in city is
man himself. He is its end. We admire its
palaces. But the mechanic who builds them
is greater than palaces. Human nature in
its lowest form, is the most abiect child of
want, is of more worth than all outward i'm.
provments. You talk of the prosperity of
your city; know of but one prosperity,
does the human soul grow and prosper there1
Do not point me to your thronged streets.
ask, who throng theml The glory anil
happiness Of II city consists not in the num-
bers, but in the character of it's population.
a city which should practically adopt the
principle that man is worth more than
wealth or show, would gain an impulse that
would place it at the head Of cities. A city
in which men should be trained worthy of
the name, would become the metropolis OF
the earth


Oh, how / wish these sentences could he
read and pondered by every inhabitant of
this great city How they lift up the whole
subject into higher realm C! thought and
shame the poor indifference or contempt
with which so many regard it. For all this
is no exaggeraton. Every function that
goes to the working out of city life does
touch-or at least may touch--upon this
deeper well being of man. "These also are
parts of Iiis-ways" And here, where among
these works of citiGenship is included that
OF Carrying out the education orssFuy-fewngs
these higher aims lie in the very 'front.'


Oh, friends, well know that there arc
some you who need no appeal of mine,
who for years have been doing what have
only been saying. am proud and thank
tul that these congregations of ours, in many
a city, have ever been the homes of q true
Christian citizenship Only let us keep up
to that standard, lift it higher yet--hold it
more firmly Always in the past free
thought in the church and free action in the
state have gone hand IN hand, and as it
should be, those whom the truth made FIRE
have been made free indeed Still let it be
so! Cherish still, teach TO your children,
foster in your young man a thoughtful, self
reliant patriotism and teach them that char
ily begins at home but does not stop there.
-ChicagO Times.
Year: 1876

The Presidents message, which we
published yesterday, in reply to a
resolution of the House inquiring
what official business he had transac.
ted away from the seat of Govern
ment, is a mastcrly state paper. The
resolution was direct insult offered
to the President, wholly without their
legitimate business, and transcribed
their constitutional power, all OF
which General Grant shows most
conclusively. He also, in the data he
transmitted with his message, gave
the most indubitablc proof in great
abundance, by the preccdcnts cstab.
lished in the practice Of all the Pres.
idents, that the official duties of the
nations Executive have in very nu.
merous instances been performed
away from the Capital. 1t was, in
decd, high time that the high-handcd
arrogance and impudencc of the Con-
federate House should receive an
elegant and solid sitting down, and il
got it. The Presidents allusion to
the necessity President Lincoln would
have labored under to transact official
business away from the Capital had
the rebellion succeeded in getting
possession Of it, was the very quint-
essence of caustic satire. Evidently
the President was slightly inclined to
the belief that the time had come in
this instance when forbcarancc ceases
to be a virtue, and chose to put his
foot down very cmphatically.
Year: 1876




WASHINGTON, May 5.--The farther
the impeachment trial progresses, the
more evident becomes the fact that
the managers on the part oft he House
are no match for the brilliant and able
counsel of the impeachcd Secretary.
This is now the universal verdict here
although ii may be Il hasty one, for
several of the managers have not yet
been heard. The victory to-day was
all on the side of the counsel. Car
pcnter spoke for nearly three hours,
laying first strong foundation for
his argument, and then building up
on it q structure at once massive and
symmetrical and picturesque. Moth
ing whatever was said as to the mer-
its Of the case, the discussion being.
confined entirely to the question of
the Senate's jurisdiction. Carpenter
lays down the broad principle that
Belknap is, and was at the time of the
Impeachment, private citizen, and
then he went on to show that there
was no authority TO impeach pri-.
vate citizen. He said il was the Office.
that was impeachcd, not the person.


1t is generally admitted that the
managers have the weaker side and
that the Senate will at once decide
that it has no jurisdiction. The argu-
ments will probably close on Monday
Year: 1876

In Algeria there is river of gen.
uine ink. 1t is formed by the union
of two streams, one coming from q
region of fnrrnginous soil and the
other draining peat swamp. The
water of the former is strongly i'm
pregnated with iron, that of the latter
with gallic acid. When the two
waters mingle, the acid of the ono
nnites with the iron of the other
forming true ink. We are familiar
with a stream called Black Brook in
the northern part of New York, the
inky color of whose water is evident.
ly due to like conditions.
Year: 1876

LEAvENwoRTH, Kansas, May G.--At
halt past o'clock this morning this
vicinity was visited by the heaviest
and most destructive wind storm
Leavenworlh ever experienced. II
had been raining almost necessarily
for sixty hours, and at the time the
wind storm struck town the rain was
still coming down i'm torrents. AT
an early hour in the evening Lightning
began to play across the sky while
the air seemed filed with electricity.
and all night long flashes and reports
followed each other in such rapid
succession that there was an almost
unbrokcn glare of lightning and roar
of thunder. AT 3:5 O'Clock u dense
black cloud was seen in the Western
horizon, and in n few moments there
after swift brcezes came up from the
East which continued not over a
minute. Then there was dead calm.
and the rain fall ceased entirely. Then
begun to be heard the distant torna-
do.


In a moment more the wind struck
us, and il seemed for q time that
everything above ground was doomed
10 destruction. just as the hurricane
struck the city came binding flash
of lightning, with crash of thunder
that made the earth tremble. This.
with the terrific roaring of the wind,
which cannot be likened to ANYTHING
but itself, the crcaking and groaning
of the trembling buildings, the crash
of falling walls and flying timbers
made an exhibition of the fury of
the elements which those who wit
messed will never desire to see re-
peated.


The wind cloud was in funnel shape
with the small end down. 1t moved
with an oscilatory motion from east
to west, rebounding like bombshell
and scattering ruin in its pathway,
whenever it struck the earth. The
loss to the city and county cannot be
less than $l50,OOO, and may reach a
quarter of a million.


The following are some of the most
damaging results of the storm: The
Leavenworth Carpet Factory, with
the machinery, valued at $4,000, to-
tally destroyed. The roof of the Odd
Fellows buildings, one of the largest
Dulluilgs In the city, was torn Off and
the interior of the building ruined
by water. Part of this roof fell on
the agricultural warehouse of Mo-
bitt n Co., crushing that building. and
and another part of it was carried
two hundred feet distant and crush
ed in one end of a large boarding
house, but happily without injuring 9
any of the inmates.


The roof of Lobenstein'


warehouse was blown of. The iron
roof of the Union depot was blown
of; also, a part OF the roof of the
new market house; part of the south
wall Of llaflan's liquor store; part Of
the north wall of the Leayenwoyth
mill and the entire roof of the Har-
mon building. Ten other large houses
are more or less damaged and some
thirty smaller buildings unroofed.
Year: 1876

DEAR SIR Il have on my books an
account of s. against you for
blacksmithing, and l want it, want
it bad. ! have got TO have it. l ought
to be ashamed of myself for not dun
ming you for it long ago, and you
ought to be ashamed of yourself for
not paying it long ago. / have bought
iron and paid for it for years, and
trusted it out in bits all over this
neighborhood, and l cannot afford to
do so any more till some of you
walk up to the captains office and
settle; and what is more, I'll be
d--d If l will! You hear
me now. Walk right up; l love
you like brother, but am not rich
enough to work for nothing and
board myself. Yours, etc.


III. l., BATES,
Year: 1876

A wet Sunday night affects two
classes of lovers in opposite ways. To
him who is engaged it is godscnd,
as ii enables him to snug up to her in
the parlor, and have the whole even
ing to himself; but to the other lover,
he who is not engaged, a rainy sun
day night is most painful episode.
His footing at the house isn't sure
enough to warrant his going there
through the storm, and all he can do
is to attend the church and stand i'm
the vestibule,and pull up his shirt col
lar, in the despairing hope that she may
appear. She don't, nf course, and he
goes back to his dreary home wretch
ed and miserable beyond description.
o, those days of ecstatic idiocy How
their memory overc0mes us.
Year: 1876

BONANZA MINES 1T will be remembered
that about a year ago the proposition of
cutting up the stock of the Consolidated
Virginia mine was discussed, and there was
a strong power in favor Of taking that
course, but finally the consideration of the
question was postponed. 1t has now come
up again and is definitely decided on. The
incre ase of stock will be five of the new
shares for one of the old. The capital win
then be So, ,0o0, 900, and the dividends per
share will be paid in proportion. IF any
body wants to buy any bonanza he will
have q better chance now than when sin
gle share was worth $490.


Hale s. Norcross is to be divided up seven
for one, which will be another low priced
stock. The Consolidated Virginia is yield
ing at the rate of $1O0,oO0 per day. The
Mexican has developed not only fine pros
pect of rich ore at the south end, but also
struck good milling ore in the bottom Of
the winze, on the north line, so feet before
reaching the 1465-foot level, which looks as
if rich and continuous body of ore the full
length of the mine was going to be found.


The Sierra Nevada has just opened a
station and commenced the development of
the led ge at the 1900 foot level, point on
the lode that must be looked to with deep
interest for some time to come.--Mansng
pTess.
Year: 1876

CRYSTAL LAKE, Illinois.
/. Is it fact that the land in the south
frigid zone is colder than that in the north
frigid, and if true what is the reasonp 2.
What is yoar reason for believing that the
center of the earth is not a molten mass,
and your theory to account for the interior
heat of the earth?
Year: 1876

Included in the balance of the municipal loan is


the $l3S 900 of bonds issued the past two years for
interest on bonds in aid of the Portland and Roch
ester railroad which the railroad company agree to
pay at maturity; also $40,500 of bonds issued for
March interest bonds in aid Of the Portland and
Ogden sburg railroad.


An examination of the exhibit of the CITY
Treasurer justifes the remark that our heavi-
est burdens did not arise from the necessities
of the war; nor from the cost of municipal
administration. They have been incurred by
engaging in enterprises which we might have
avoided. In our anxiety for progress, we
have embarked in measures of doubtful sue
cess, but which were undertaken in obedience
to passion for enterprise which infected the
whole country.


The increase of expenditures for purposes
purely municipal has been but little beyond
the increase which was natural with the
growth of the city. The great increase of
expense which must be met this year, is
owing to the failure of the railroads, con-
structed upon city credit, to meet the matur-
ing interest of city bonds which those cor
poralions had agreed to pay. The earliest
failure to fulfil this undertaking occurred
about two years ago with the Portland and
Rochester railroad. By an agreement made
with this company the city is to issue its
bonds running for six years, to the amount
of 100000 each year for the period of three
years; the company to pay the interest of
these interest bonds and to take them rp at
maturity. This arrangement has been sue
cessfully carried out for two years. and has
one year longer to run. Thus far the city
has not paid out any money, and it is to be
hoped that this railroad will meet the expec-
tatlons of its friends, and the city escape
| 1urther liability on its account. The other
| failure OF this kind has but recently been an
nounced by an official communication from
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Com
pany, which has notified the city that the in
terest on the $l,250,O0O of city bonds, is
sued in aid of that railroad cannot be paid
I by the company and must be provided for by
the city. 1t is intimated that this inability to
meet the interest is temporary and is neces-
sary to enable the company to proceed with
the construction of the road. AS the interest
of these bonds is not to be paid. for the pres
ent at least, the question we have to consider
is, how shall this interest be provided. It is
the general opinion of our wisest citizens
that the amount necessary to pay the interest
of the $l,25O,000 city bonds should be in
cluded in the annual tax. We ought not
to borrow The amount required for
this purpose is $Sl, ,OOO which with the in
terest on the subscription to the stock OF that
road, and the five per cent for sinking fund,
Is $77 900 more. In other words the city


should raise $l5S,OO0 to meet its obligations
lor THIS road for this year. This is an annual


teX TAX, OF about So upon every thousand


ooilaFS OF valuation. Should it happen that
Year: 1876

AT the close of this ballot Alderman Fox
moved to drop the ballot for .he time and pro.
ceed with the election of the other officers, but
the voting proceeded with the following result:
Year: 1876

The Colorado potato beetle, or potato
bug as we generally call it, has at last
found his match in the shape Of mite
parasite. Professor Riley, at meeting OF
The St. Louis Academy of science, exhib-
tied potato bug which was SO completely
covered with mite parasite that the point
of needle could not be placed on any
part of the beetles body without touching
one of the parasites. He estimated the
number of mites at eight hundred. The
bug had been attacked by these enemies
and killed. The potato bug seems to have
number of natural enemies, such as the
load, crow. the rose-hreasted grossbeak
and domestic fowls. There are no less
than twenty-three insect enemies that at
tack and kill it. The bug has also been
migrating eastward across the continent
for several years, until it has now reached
the Atlantic ocean. We hope it may find
a watery grave, and let the waves sing its
requiem.
Year: 1876




Some prospectors have discovered and
are exploring an extensive cave in Pros
meet Mountain. The mouth Of the cave is
situated on the southeast side Of the noun
tain. about two hundred rods south Of the
mouth of the Prospect Mountain tunnel,
and consists of a small aperture on the top
Of the ground. Through this aperture a
man was lowered, fastened to rope, and
found himself in large dome-shaped
chamber. In the floor Of this chamber he
discovered another opening, leading down
ward further into the ground, but this
aperture was not at that time entered.
Subsequently tunnel was run into the
mountain from the surface, which opened
an entrance into the chamber which the
man had entered, and here windlass was
put up and further explorations begun
The man was lowered down for distance
of about one hundred feet, when he rested
on the floor of large cavern, distance
from the natural entrance of the cave al
the surface about one hundred feet. On
the floor OF this cavern was piled bank
Of snow about eight feet in depth, and here
were found the skulls and bones, o
coyetes and deer. some of these bones
which are covered with mud, which hae
dried on them, were brought TO town
There is third aperture leading into tn
ground from this cavern, which will be ex
plored by the parties who discovered an!
are working the cave. There is posi-


bility that q mine may be encountered il
. the explorations, as Prospect Mountain
. veined and dotted with mineral deposit!
, and if ore is found the parties who find


will have a ready made shaft to work with
Year: 1876

Not long since the Minister Of Justice at
the Hague ordered an inquiry to be made
into the number of converts and their in
mates now in Holland, with view Of as
certaining how many monks and nuns
have migrated thither from Prussia since
the enactment the Falck Church laws.
Year: 1876

lCharles Il. Pascoe in Appletoss Journal for Sep


tember.1


Handel was a man, too, of most ex-
traordinary activity of mind, and an in
tense worker, and one of the most gifted
as well as one of the most learned men
who have ever lived. His opera of Ri
naldo" (the first opera, believe, ever
performed in England, and one which
met with an extraordinary success) was
so rapidly composed that Rossi, the
Italian poet who wrote the words, de-
clared in an advertisement that the COM
poser was 80 swift in his work that to his
lRossi's) astonishment it was entirely
produced in a fortnight. The grand
oratorio of "Samson" was composed
within the space of thirty-five days. The
sublime and magnificent messiah ap-
peared in manuscript entire within
twenty.three days from the date he
composed its first note. Handel seems
to have been perpetually working. He
had no sooner conceived an idea than it
took shape, and with little turning
over in the brain appeared ultimately,
and in a marveleusly short space of time,
be it said, either as some elaborate COM
position of consummate workmanship
and skill, or as less pretentious piece
of music of score, harmony and beauty.
His life seems to have known no idle
moment. Half a mile or more from
Whitechurch is rude wooden shed
standing in the main street or thorough
fare of the village of Edgeware. One
day, as Handel was on his way to Can
mons, he took shelter from shower in a
humble cottage which stands at the back
of this shed. The cottage was the dwell
ing place of one Powell, who to his en-
ergetic If humble calling of blacksmith
united the more exalted calling of parish
clerk of his grace of Chandos's chapel al
Whitechurch. After the usual salutatiOns
had passed between the chapel master
and his colleague, the blacksmith fell tc
work at his forge in the shed, and being
like most blacksmiths, light of heart a,
well as strong of limb, he sang q song tC
himself while he welded the hammer
Handel listened for a moment. BY ar
extraordinary phenomenon the hammer
striking in tune drew from the anvil two
distinct harmonic sounds, which, beine
in accord with the melody Powell wal
singing, made sort of continuous bass
Handel fell a-thinking. His brain con
ceived an idea, and forthwith it began to
take shape. The ring of the hammer or
the anvil and the voice of the blacksmith
should be made to form piece for Han
del's favorite instrument, the harpsichoid
At once he trudged home, and in due
time "The Harmonious Blacksmith
was given to the world, which after thu
lapse of a century and half Is still helt
TO be one of the most charming and popu
lar melodies ever composed by man. Tn
shed where Powell sang at his work ye
! stands.