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Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes Drop
ria and in where there are Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick. eudy, mixed with substances ike
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there
morbid dark bilious appearance and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prickng, burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
the loins. In all these conditions Railways Sarpar-
Ian Resolvent, aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of RadWay' 8
In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water. naturally without pain and the
Urpe will be restored 10 its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

There is nothing that has a more


direct influence upon the human


character than the early associations


of home. When we go into some


houses, can we wonder, as our atten-


ton is drawn to the discoTds, cOnten-


tiOns, and inhaFmOniOus feeling that


abounds there, can we wonder, / re-


peat, that the children grow to ma


turity with characters and disposi-


tiOns totally destitute OF all refined


and loving qualities? The habits


they form by these associations fol-


low them to their grave; they grow


into their lives like so many evil


spirits that cannot be cast out. The


bad qualities many persons possess
are not born in them they are, more
frequently, the result of early expe-
riences. When we see the poor little
waif upor the street who has no home
bu6 the world, no mothers love to
guide or direct his youthful thoughts
to noble actions and high impulses, |
with no restraint placed upon him
and nought to curb his young reek- |
lessness-can we wonder-that he |
takes the direct road to the peniten-
tiary? Nothing short of u positive |
can save person of this char
acteI, and he who rises from the
street to a position of true manhood
is deserving of something greater
than human praise. There are no
that fix themselves more
closely in our hearts than the remem-
brances of childhood and home.
Their silent yet living influence is
ever acting upon our mental nature;
it is the source of refined and tender
feelings; it helps 3 greatly in over
coming the selfishness that is innate
with US, and thus it is that the in
iuences of home perpetuate them
selves. The gentle grace of the
mother lives in her daughters long
after her head is pillowed in the dust
If the earth and fatherly kindness
inds its echo in the nobility and
courtesy of sons who come to wear
lis mantle and fill his place; while
IN the other hand, from an unhappy
and disordered home,
70 forth persons who shall make other
homes miserable, and perpetuate the
ourness and sadness, the contentious
nd strife and railings, which have
made their own early lives so wretch
d and distorted. '-Etigene..
Year: 1872

All the air and exercise in the uni


verse and the most liberal table but


poorly suffice to maintain human


stamina, if we neglect other cO-opera-


i7es, namely, obedience to the laws


of abstinence, and those of ordinary


qualification. We rise with a head
ache and set about puzzling ourselves


with the cause. We then recoiIeet
that we hao a hard days fac, or that


we feasted over-bounteously, or that


we staid up very late; at all events,


we incline to find out the fault, and
then call ourselves fools for falling
into it. Now, this is an occurrence
happening almost every day; and
these are the points which run away
with the best part of our life before
we find out which is for good or evil.
Let any single individual review his
past life; how instantaneously the
blush will cover his cheek when he
thinks of the egregiOus errors he has
unknOwingly committed - say un-
knowingly, because it never occurred
to him that they were errors until
the effects followed that betrayed the
cause. All our sickness and ailments
anu q DAACA 4AlS NC pCAlu y pun OuASclNcs.
There are thousands who practice
errors day after day, and whose per
vading thought is, that everything
which is agreeable and pleasant can
not be huTtful. The slothful man
loves his bed; the topper his drink,
because il throws him into an exhila-
rative and exquisitive mood; the
gourmand makes his stomach his god;
and the sensualist thinks his delights
So we go on, and at
last We stumble and break down. We
then begin 20 reflect, and the truth
stares US in the face, how much we
are to blame.
Year: 1872

A certain town of Eastern Tennes-
see bOasted in having four whiskey
stills. The son of the man who start
ed the first one went into it one Sun
day morning and drank so freely as to
get drunk. He then went TO a dis
tant church, and made such a disturb
ance that they were compelled to turn
him out.


Going into the woods, he remained
alone until he got sober. He then re-
solved never to get drunk again, and
to work until the whisky stills were
all broken up.


Meeting with an active agent Of the
American Sunday School Union, he
secured his advice and assistance in
organizing a good Union Sunday
School near these four distilleries.
They have all since been closed. The
owner, as he shut up the last one for
want of business, said, ''That Sunday
School is too much for US. Anything
but this singing the Bible into folks.
It's no use to fight that"
Year: 1872

WEARING FLANNEL.-Them maJori-
ty of the people are not aware of the
beneficial effect of wearing flannel
next to the body, both in cold and
warm weather. Flannel is not so un-
comfortable in warm weather as pre-
judiced people believe. Frequent colds
and constant hacking coughs have left
me, since adopting flannel garments.
There is no need of great bulk about
the waist, which condemns the wear.
ing of flannel with those who prefer
wasp-waists to health, tor in that case
the flannel can be cut as loOsely-fitting
waists, always fastened at the back
There are scarcely any of the bad
effects ofthe sudden changes of wealth
er felt by those who wear flannel gar
ments, and mothers especially should
endeavOr to secure such for their little
people, in preference to all these
snowy outside trimmings, which fash
ion cOmmds an
Year: 1872

An immense and constantly increas-


ing demand for iron for all uses in


all civilized countries has now at


length overtaken the production of


all countries. Consumption has in.


creased at a more rapid ratio than pro-


ductiOn. The stocks of all countries
are exhausted. Under this Increase


of demand and diminutiOn of supply.


prices have gone up in England more
than 100 per cent. as compared with a
year ago, and here perhaps, go per
cent. But the grand difference be-
tween England and the United States
is that the former has already taken
out the bulk other accessible iron ores
and coal, while the latter has scarcely
yet penetrated the surface of hers.-
There is more coal in the United States
than in all the world besides; and al
most inexhaustible deposits of iron
ore are scattered over the country.
hardly touched by the hand of man.
Missouri alone has probably aeeeSsi-
bic ore sufficient to supply the wants
of the world for half a millennium.


Now, the wants Ofthe world in iron
are destined to increase. Railroads
eat up an enormous quantity. The
use of iron in any form necessiates its
further use in many other forms. A
constant and intense demand for iron
is one of the eertainties of the time tc
come; and it is also certain that the
United States is, and is likely to be,
better able to respond to this demand
than any other country in the world.
What we would say to our capitalists
and men Of enterprise who are free to
it is, make Iron! Make
more of it! Make all you can of it ~
Year: 1872

A French philosopher lald down
three rules for the attainment of hap
piness. The first was occupation; the
second occupation, and the third and
last was still occupation. 1t develops
your mental and physical powers
You were created for it. Brain and
Judgment, sinew and muscle, bone
and blood, were all given you to be
thus used. Unused, they rust and
wither, and shrivel and decay. Bro't
into active, healthful exercise, they
bring happiness to you, of which the
idle, listless man knows not. Even
the sleep of the toiler has joy and
zest that others can imagine but never
fully comprehend.


Establish hours of rest and felaxa-
tion. To the hardest worker comes
the blessed day to rest, interleaved
among the seven days of the week.
This at least, the law allows him to
command for his own; and the happy
tendency of our times is to give him
other hours of rest beside, to enjoy
with the loved ones at home


But those who work with the mind
as well as the body, should have even
more hours of rest and relaxation with
their family, embarrassed by the wear
ing business tolls of life, and dedica-
ted to happiness and recuperatiOn.
Year: 1872

Somebody says the hog is a Pea
body among animals along side of a
hen. Throw a handful of corn in
ten acre lot and every hen in the lot
will get dab at il. The last hen on
the lot may not secure more than two
kernels, but nothing in the hens ap-
pearance will indicate that. 1t will
step around with as much precision
and gratitude as any in the flock, and
wear the most pensive smile you ever
saw. A hen will not eat everything
it sees, but it will try to, and there
isn't one of them on the face of this
earth but that can tell you the taste of
everything it has seen within the Ia
dius of half q mile of the house,
Year: 1872

NEW WAY To SAVE MELoNs.-A
man in Indiana complained to a
friend that the thieves got so many of
his melons that it wasn't worth his
while to raise them.


'I'll tell you how to save your mel
Ons,n said his friend. 81 couldn't
keep my melons nor other fruit. But
a little while ago a missionary of the
Sunday School Union got up Sun
day School here, and I haven't had
any melons stolen since. He just
keeps telling them they'll go to some
awful hot place if they steal, or lie, or
cuss, or break Sunday, and then he
gives the youngsters such nice pic
lures, and teaches them to sing such
pretty songs, that they'd heap sight
rather go to Sunday School than eat
melons if they had them"
Year: 1872

PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY.-The
responsibility of educating your chill
dren is one you can not escape. 1t is
a task imposed on you by Divine
Providence, and you may look with
confidence for guidance and aid. In
short you must educate your child,
whether you choose it or not, for eve
~ action, every word and look, the
very tone of your voice, and the
round of ordinary daily events, which
form the moral atmosphere in which
he breathes, will influence him far
more than the occasional lessons
which he receives, however excellent
they may be. -o-
Year: 1872

Brain work costs more food tLan
hand work. According to careful es-
Inmates and analyses of the exeretions
three hours of hard study will wear
out the body more than a whole day
of severe physical labor. Another
evidence Of the cost of brain work is
obtained from the fact that though the
brain is only one-Iortieth the weight
of the body, itreceives about one-ntth
of all the blood sent by the heart into
the system. Brain workers, there
fore, requires a more liberal supply of
food, and richer food, than manual
labOrers.
Year: 1872

A man out in Nevada, who took a


dose OF stryehnine by mistake and
escaped to tell the tale, deseribes the
sensation OF dying by this process. It
Is enough to deter any person in his
senses to select that mode of commit
ting suicide. He says he felt a. sue
eession of shocks, each worse than
being broken on the wheel, and after
suffering terrible torments for a peri-
od that seemed of infinitive duration.
he finally sunk into Uneonseiousness'
from which he was rescued by the
utmost exertions of a skilful physi-
clan.
Year: 1872

Here is a joke almost good enough
for Sheridan. Somebody in Kansas
attempted to inelOse a public road
which ran through his farm, and
somebody else said, sit was one of the
plainest cases of highway robbery he
ever heard Of"
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, January 22.-It is said
that the Cuban leaders who have been
in this country seeking to induce our
government to recognize the Cuban
republic as s. belligerent power, are
beginning to despair OF success. They
will bring to bear in congress now the
recent landing Of twenty FIVE thousand
coolies, and also the landing of several
carg0es of slaves, on the island, as ar
guments against Spanish rule.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, January 22.-TWeed's
constituents request him to either go
to the senate or resign. 1t is stated
that Tweed only wants to buy two
more of the legislature to secure him
from expulsion, and that he is W, iting
to obtain them.
Year: 1872

HENRY WILSON is said to be the
only strong candidate for the vice
presidential nomination against Col
fax. He viii be supported by the
labor organization Of New England,
bat is Utterly opposed by Butler.
Year: 1872

The Mayor received yesterday the follow
ingreply from Collector Casey, in response to
his communication touching upon the filthy
condition of the sinks in the CustOmhouse
The letter is quite vigorous and pointed
and will be read with Interest, since Mr..
Casey openly declares his intention to obey
our city laws and sanitary regulations:


CUsTOMHOUsE, NEW ORPHANS !


Collectors Office, July 26, 1872.
Hon. Benz. F Flanders, Mayor Of New Orleans


DEAR SIR Respectfully Y referring to your
letter OF tie twenty-fifth instant, inclOsing
the petition of the residents OF Custom
house street, in the vicinity of the Custom
house building, cOmplaining.Of the ef1ux
from the prlvies into the street, | reply that
your letter was promptly referred to Colonel
j. +. Morse, superintendent of the building
under whose direction the vault was CON
structed, with the request that he would
examine into the matter and take such
steps as might be deemed necessary to re-
medy the evil complained of. l transmit
for your information a letter from him,
from which it appears that, so far as the
etftux is concerned, it is not so bad now as
1t was for many years previous to the
change recently made in the construction
of the privy vaults" and that "if the city
authorities would attend to the proper
cleansing Of the cutters from the levee past
the CustOmhOuse, so as to carry of the of
tensIve accumulatiOns from the levep,
there would be no ground for complaint"


In accordance with the suggestion of
Colonel Morse, / would respectfully request
that authority be granted the government
by the city authorities, to lay pipe from
the CustOmhOuse to the river, for the pur-
pose Of carrying off the ff1ux.


The government officers located near the
CustomhOUse street entrance to the build
ing are certainly as much interested in the
abatement of any nuisance Of the kind as
any person living on the street, remote from
the building, can be.


l would state that the customs officials do
not claim any exemption from the strict
observance of the sanitary regulations of
the city, and that no one authorized to
speak for this office has advanced such an
idea. No complaint has ever reached this
office from the superintendent Of streets of
any disregard of his instructions, and it
appears to me if there was any cause for
complaint that the proper place to seek re-
dress was here. instead of placing the
matter in a wrong light through the press
of the city.


would further add that an officer of the
customs, who prides himself upon the ex-
treme sensitiveness of his nasal organ, has
this day made a careful inspection of that
portion of CustOmhOuse street, and has
failed to discover the " offensive stencil"
complained of.


The inclosure of your letter is returned.
WIth high respect, your Obedient servant,


JAMES F. CASEY, Collector
Year: 1872

An erroneous impression prevails in
various parts of the country, says the
Washington Patriot, that an ordinary busi-
ness card, with a one cent stamp upon it,
will come within the provisions of the law
IN relation TO the new postal card. Such,
however, Is not the case. The new cards
will, it is understood, be sufficiently elabOr-
ate in design to prevent their being coun-
terfeited, and will be sold by all post
masters at one cent each. An ordinary
open card with writing upon it will require,
as now. a three cent stamp.
Year: 1872

Those who desire to take a trip to the
watering places, and there enjoy the pleas
ures of salt water bath and the luxury of
a fish dinner can buy an excursion ticket at
the Mobile railroad depot tomorrow morn
ing as far as Ocean Springs, and return by
ten o'clock at night. The ride is delightful,
and the entire trip refreshing. Excursion
tickets at moderate prices. Train leaves at
twenty minutes past seven o'clock.
Year: 1872

The LoBsTER.-When a lobster shakes
hands with you you always know when 1t
takes hold and are exceedingly pleased when
it gets done. They have small features AM
lay no claim to good looks. When they loco
mote, they resemble small boy shutting OF
his fathers boots. They are backward very
They even go ahead backward. They occa-
sionally have a row like people, andi the me
lee lose member, but have the faculty Of
growing out another. This process is pat
ented, both in this country and Europe,
which accounts for it not coming into gen.
eral use with the human lobster, so to speak.


lobster never comes on shore unless he is
carried by force. They are afflicted with but
one disease and that is boils. There is more
real excitement in harpooning a whale, or
having the measles, than there is catching
Holsters. The fisherman provides himself
with small hen-coop, and places in it for
enticers, several dead fish. He then rows
his boat to.. the lobster grounds (which is wa
ter) sinks his coop to the bottom, and anchors
to a small buoy Zone from eight to ten years
willdo), and then goes home. When he feels
like it again-say in the course of week
or so-he goes back and pulls his poultry
house, and ifhe has good success he will find
the game inside the coop.


AS an article of food the real goodness of the
lobster is in th1 pith. Very few persons
relish the skin, and physicians say it is hard
to digest We therefore, take the lobster and
boil it until it is ready to eat. Nothing is
better for the collie than boiled lobster. 1t
will bring on a case when cucumbers have
failed. For sudden case, we advise them
crumbled in milk. Eaten ct the right time,
and in proper quantities, Holsters stands Sec
ond to no fruit known.
Year: 1872

SOMEWHAT FisHY-A Rio Janeiro
correspondent of the New York Herald,
requests us to believe the, following: 4
remarkableIe case of lightning stroke occur
red oflate'in the Province. of Rio Grande
do Sui: Some men were jollifying in
hotel during thunderstorm and one call
ed out in jest that he wished bolt would
strike the house and upset them all. His
words were Immediately followed by tre-
mendous report, and when the party re-
covered from their fright, five men were
lying senseless on the ground, one of whom,
whose head had been against wall, was
dead. During the flash, one who was
supping at a table was seen surrounded
with flames. He was Immediately stripped,
and was found uninjured, but his inside
clothing was all singed, the lining of a
waistcoat, pocket burned, and gold coin
melted that wassin it, with another, His
shoes were also burned.
Year: 1872

To Dry SALT BEEF AND PoRK.-Lay
the meat on table. or in a tub with a
double bottom, that the brine may drain
off as fast as it forms; rub the salt well in,
and be careful to to apply it in every niche /;
afterwards put it in either Of the above
utensils, when it must be frequently turn
ed after the brine has ceased running it
must be buried in salt and kept closely
packed. Meat which has the bones taken
out is the best for salted meat is pressed
by heavy weights, or screw, to extract
the moisture sooner
Year: 1872

The engineer had gotten off to SNOWFALL
chirmunk, and the conductor was mind
ing young widows baby for her-and
the result was that the train happened to
to get on down grade and was started off
at a terrific rate every bit of four miles an
hour, should think We&ere just half a
mile above the Annapolis junction, and the
first thing we knew-there being no one to
whistle and wake up the switch tender
We turned off into the Annapolis road and
went down the wrong track at full speed.
Imagine our CONSERVATION when just at
this moment we heard the whistle, not a
half mile ahead Of us, Of the Annapolis
up train we were raralyzed with terror.
Here we're two trains on the same track ap-
preaching each other at the dizzy speed
just mentioned. Evidently our time had
come LIZ few short hours the engines
would meet, and then-destruction


Pale but calm the doomed band of pas
sengers sat, and, though with the very
shadow Of death upon them, raised their
voices in a parting hymn.


"Send for thesbaggage-master," said a
young man with a sad smile.


"Why?" was asked.


"Because we are about to pass in our
checks"


Everybody wept From the rear plat
form We could see the miserable engineer
straining every nerve to catch up, but he
had tight boots on and didn't gain anything
to speak Of


At this moment ray of hope dawned
upon US. had just finished writing my
will on the back of visiting card when I
observed young lady in the act of detach-
ing her hustle. Placing the article-which
was composed of eight hundred newspapers
and hair mattress-under her arm, The
heroine marched through the cars.


We followed her anxiously.


She climbed up on the tender and then
over the engine. 1t was very interesting
and thrilling to see her climbing over the
wheels and brass things, on her way to the
cow-eatcher 1t reminded me of country
girl getting over a wire fence. Holding
on by the cross-bars with one hand, the
noble maiden tied the hustle on the sharp
PROV with the other.


You can guess the result. In the course
of the afternoon the collision came off,
Protected by the hustle, the engine receiv
gentle bump, and was saved.


| took up collection for the woman on
the spot l always take up collections on
such occasions always. And what's more,
never forget to give the object interested
something nice out of it-never There is
nothing mean about me. l suppose you
have noticed my clothes?
Year: 1872

The baby oyster is not much bigger than
fair-sized pins head at the end of fort
night and at three months, only of the
size of split pea. In year, he will be-
come as large as an ordinary halfpenny !;
and at the end of four years growth, he is
fit for the market
Year: 1872

We have only room tliis week to mention
aud diroct attention TO acall of the State Cen
trail Democratic Consei va,iye Committee. for
on the l9th ofJunc. This is a step in the right
direction, and we can but feel that the call OF
the Committee will be responded to from
every. portion of the State. 1t is time that
earnest energetic work had commenced. and
that from now on no time should be lost Ia or
ganizing and preparing fora full convention
In Juneand q lively and determined campaign
from there out. Read tie call in our paper
and 20 to work ut once.
Year: 1872

E6- Nothing is truer or more just
than what the Washington corrcspon-
dent of the New York Tribune says, as
follows:


"If Morton and Conkiing had been
only moderately sagacious, they would
have accepted Mf. Summers resolution
at once. and, with II temperate and dig
nilied protest against the preamble, sent
the inquiry to an impartial committee
the same day. They have, on the con
trary, taken two weeks to convince the
world that they dread every inquiry as
dangerous to the Republican party, They
have insisted upon making the party re-
sponsible for the acts that are charged
upon individuals They have given fair
notice that no inquiry shall be referred
to n committee which they can not con
troll
Year: 1872

A NEGRO vicr-PRxsrpENr.--Aw Washington
letter Of March lst says: The colorcd people
Of this district intend to hold mass meeting
to pass resolutions calling on the Philadelphia
convention to consider the claims Of the col
ored men for the Vice-Prssident and demand
that tho Republican party shall accept the
standard Of summers bill for civil rights.