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Year: 1871

OF the three methods OF using tobacco
that Of smoking has ihsinuatcd itself most
extensively among the youth Of this eoun-
try, and is in reality the most hurttul use
that can be made Of the weed. Tobacco
employed in this way, being drawn, in BY
the vital. breath, conveys its poisonous
influences into every part of the lungs.
There the noxious fluid is entangled in the
minute, spongy air cells, and has time to
exert its J,ernicious influence on the blood
not in yivifying, but in yitiating it The
blood imbibes the stimulant narcotic prin-
ciple, and circulates it through the whole
system. IL produces, in consequence, a
febrile action in those of delicate habits.
Where there Is, any tendency to phthisic
and the tubercular deposit in the lungs,
debility of these organs, consequent on
the use of tobacco in this way, must favor
the deposit of tubcrculous matter, and
thus SOW the seeds of consumption This
practice impairs the natural taste and
relish for food, lessons the appetite, and
and weakens the power Of the stomach
greatly. The great prevalence Of aeravipg
thirst among smokers can be traced to its
action on the lungs and because it is there
instead of in the stomach, the liquors that
are drank do not alleviate the thirst, but
rather aggravate it. Itistime that medical
testimony was tsfncd to this point.and the
great danger pointed out that theatens to
.lnake US nation of Sybarites and pigmies.
Year: 1871

There is no virtue that adds SO noble q
charm to. the finest traits of beauty as that
which exerts itself in watching over the
tranquility of an aged parent. Th0re are
no tears that give SO noble a lustre to the
cheek of innocence as the tears of flial
sorrow.
Year: 1871

The rule regarding talk, "Wben you
have nothing to say. say it. applies equal
ly to writing When you really have
something to write about, DO not peck
and scratch around the subject like a hen
pounce upon it bold, ike an eagle. Almost
every article presented by Impractical
writer's to magazines--no matter how
admirable the subject-drifts TO leeward
for Que or two pages before the writer
gets steerageway on his thoughts, and the
reader finds out where he wants to sail to.
This fault could easily be avoided by
proper revision Cut out all that does
not bear on the subject discussed every
ineffective repetition of the same idea.
Then consider whether you have said what
you wanted to say in the best language at
your command If not. write ON till you
wanted to say in the best language at,your
command. If not, write on til you feel
satisfied. Then condensc and prune. Do
not seek for striking metaphor. or spright


ly epigram, to decorate your article. If
such occur naturally they may be put in,
but with caution. Consider whether you
really gain anything by them; whether
they really add force to your writing, or
merely fatter your vanity at the time.
Afterwards, when all is done in the way
of argument, you may here and there
carefully add an apt quotation or pungent
witticism, to attract attention and make
some important sentence snap. like the
cracker of a coach-whip Remember, too.
all the time, that facility in composition.
as in all otl er accomplishments, can. only
beobtained by practice and perseverance.
Year: 1871




One of our physicians Informs US that
he now has under treatment young lady
of this city, whose blind adherence 10 the
rule Of Queen Fashion has caused her the
most cxcruciatIng suffering, and mag pos
sibly render her cripple for life She
is victim of high-heeled shoes. A few
weeks since she purchased u pair of those
unsightly abominat;ons and was inIpru-
dent enough to attempt to walk in them.
The consequence is, that for the past ten
days she has been confined to her bed,
suffering dreadful agony from swelled feet.
For time it was thought that amputa-
ton would have TO be resorted to, but by
careful attention this dreadful alternative
has been avoided, and in few weeks she
will be able to hobble about the house,
1t is extremely doubtful, however, wheth-
er she is ever able to wear anything tight
er than moccasin again.
Year: 1871

THAT'S MY BoY-I remember once
standing by the surging billows, all one
day, and watching for hours father
struggling beyond in the breakers for
the life of his sou. They came slowly
towards the breakers on piece of wreck,
and as they came the waves turned over
the piece of float, and they were lost


Presently we saw the father come to the
surface and Chamber along to the wreck,
and then saw him plunge off into the
waves, and thought he was gone but in
moment he came back again, holding
his boy. Presently they struck another
wave, and over they went; and again
they repeated the process. Again they
went over, and again the father rescued
his son. BY and by, as they swung
nearer the shore, they caught on snag
just out beyond where he could reach
them, and for little time the waves
went over them there till we saw the
boy in the fathers arms, hanging down
in helplessness, aud knew they must be
saved soon or be lost; and l shall never
forget the gaze of that father. And as
we drew him from the devouring waves.
still clinging to his sen, he said. That's
my boy, that's my boy p and half fran
tic, as we dragged them up the bank, he
cried all the time, That's my boy,
that's my boy !" And so have thought
in hours of darkness, when the b.llows
roll over me, the great Father is reach
ing down to me, and taking hold of me,
crying, {" That's my boy!" and l know /
am safe.-Dr. Fo,cler, IN the Methodist.


The man Who has good wife is rich.
Year: 1871

Simmons, who met his death at New
Hamburg in the engine of the Express
train (nighD, was the son Of DR.. Sim.
mons, and formerly resident of Utica.
We have to-day no braver men in Ameri-
ca, taken as class, than our locomotive
engineers. Almost every week the Press
records some act of heroism on the part
of an engineer Mr.. Simmons was
worthy representative oe his comrades
even in the face of death. When the
fireman jumped from the engine, the en-
gineer said he should "stick to his post
and go through" In the instant of time
which was given him for action, he sound
ed the proper Signals and the last OF
these mingled with the crash of the col
.ision. The telegraph told us yesterday
in words brief and vet how eloquent


The body of the faithful engineer
has been found clasping the throttle
valve of his engine:" No matter what
station in life he may fill, when such
man dies it is the nations loss. In a lee
ture delivered Tuesday evening, George
w. Curtis said: a


/ stood on the spot where a terrible
railroad accident occurred last night
there | was told that the engineer Of that
fatal train which was thrown from the
burning bridge, calmly saw the doc m
before him, gave the complete signal
for every car to put on the brakes. and
then. went down with his engine, in the
performance of his last mortal duty.
Year: 1871

ment. As soon as / could leave the field
| went over to look after my wounded
/ found the English officers lying on the
first floor, and our own on the floor above,
| saw in the lower room the young lady
whom had met in the morning at the
breakfast table, her whitedress all sprink-
led with blood She had been attend
ing to the British wounded. On the sec
ond floor, just as | was turning into the
room where our officers were, met my
hostess.


One glance at her was quite sufficient
to answer the question which l had
been asking myself all day. She had
intended to betray me, and nothing but
the accident of my aid rising for his
handkerchief saved us from capture.


Years afterwar9, in rejecting upon
this incident, was led to doubt whether
had not misconstrued her startled man
ner as l suddenly encountered her. That
unexpected meeting would have occa-
stoned embarrassment in either contin-
gency and it is SO difficult to believe
lady of cultivation and refinement cap
able of such an act, that l am now, near
ly half century after the even, dispos-
ed to give my hostess the benefit of that
doubt. And now, sir, added the General,
this is the third time in my life have
told this story. ] do not remember to
have been spoken to before on this SUBJ
ject for many years." He looked at me
and seemed to be considering with him
self few moments, and then said:


Remembering your intimacy with
General Worth, l need not inquire how
you came to knowledge of our secret"


We'll General" I replied, have
kept the secret for more than forty years,
always hoping to obtain your own ver-
sion of what struck me as most re-
markable incident in your military life. I"
THURLow WEED, in Harper's Magazine
for March.
Year: 1871

PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCo-
HoL.-An important memoir upon the
effects of alcohol upon the human body,
was lately read before the Royal Society
of London, giving the result Of expert
ments prosecuted by two eminent army
surgeons upon an intelligent British sol
dier. This man was perfectly healthy,
and entirely unaccustomed to the use of
spirits or tobacco in any form; so that
the effects produced on his appetite were
direct, and could be readily appreciated.
1t was ascertained that small quantities
of absolute alcohol-say one or two fluid
ounces -lessened it considerably, and
larger quantities almost destroyed it.
While this particular effect may have
been the result of peculiarities of consti
tuition in the individual experimental
upon, it is also possible that in case of
disease, much smaller quantities of alco-
hi might affect the appetite. The num-
Der of beats in the heart in twenty-four
hours WIS increased very largely to an
average of at least thirteen per cent
and the actual work d,ne by the heart,
in excess of the normal task, was found
to be equal TO that of lifting fifteen tons
one foot and, indeed, during the last
two days of the experiment the extra
work amounted to twenty-four tons. The
general conclusion, from this experience
and others which we have not time to
mention, are very decided that, in case
of ordinary health. the use of alcohol,
even in small dose, is very much to be
reprehended; /; but that when the system
is run down and enfeebled, it may be
given as stimulant, and for the pur-
pose of causing the organs of the body
to act with greater vigor.-Ha1per's
Magazine.
Year: 1871

WHAT ONE WOMAN DIp.-Nine
years ago there was an old man living
in Dutchess county, N. Y, who owned
farm of about 800 acres, and had three
children, a son and two daughters. He
was an old man then, and past work,
and his son managed the farm. Then
the old man made a proposition He
could not live long, and wanted to divide
the property in this manner: He would
divide 1t into two halves; give the son
one half and the other half to the two
daughters. Then the son made a prop
osition. The property was worth from
eleven to twelve thousand dollars, and
he said he would sell his share to his
sisters for five thousand, on condition
that they would take care of the old
man as long as he lived. One of these
sisters, a small, delicate person, acts for
the other, who is something of an inva-
lid. They agreed to the proposition, and
then the first thing this small person did,
when she got hold of the land and found
herself in debt FIVE thousand dollars,
was to run in debt four thousand more,
with which she bought new stock and
implements, put her buildings and fences
into good repair, and got everything as
a woman likes to see it. That is nine
years ago. Her father lived five years,
and got to be so helpless that she had to
wash his face for him, and shave him,
and wait on him hand and foot. She fell
sick herself of the strain, and could at
tend to nothing for some months. But
now that whole nine thousand dollars
debt is aid. The farm is in better con-
dition than it was when she took it, and
she has got SO forehanded that she is
able to go round visiting her friends. and
was sitting among you in this church
the first Sunday after vacation; and
suppose you would not know her, if she
were here tonight, from the lady who
seldom goes outside her own parlor. She
has had the whole oversight of the place,
sometimes hiring a foreman to work
with the men when she needed one, but
never giving up her own plan of ruling
and guiding the land. One day, when
she was not far on with her work, her
brother came to see how things were GO
ing,-not indifferent, / suppose, to his
share of the property still invested. He
saw some stone wall that was just done,
and said, You must not build a wall
like that; the land will not afford it,
What do you think that wall cost ?''
she said. The brother named the price
it would have cost him. The sister
brought out her book, showed him every
item, and it was not quite half as much
as he had said it cost. But then he
found that while the woman did not
touch the wall with the tip of her finger,
she inspired and directed the men, so
that they built as they built at the walls
OF Jerusalem in the days of Ezra the
scribe and SO the wall was finished. All
this she done and has raised poor lad
beside, taught him farming, started him
on farm OF his own in Missouri, and is
now looking out for another.-Robert


Collyer.
Year: 1871

A GOOD HINT-Mr. Spurgeon says
=" 1t is remarkable fact that ministers
of the Gospel arenot abletolive on much
less than other people. They cannot
make shilling go as far as other people
can make sovereign. Some of them
try very hard, but they do not succeed.
A member once said to a minister, who
wanted little more salary as his family
increased: did not know that you
preached for money No, don't.
saidthe minister. thought you preach
for souls so | do; but | could not
live on souls-and if l could, it would
take a good many the size of yours to
make a meal
Year: 1871

No IIoME.-No homo. What n
misfortune! How sad the thought
There are thousands who know
nothing of the blessed Influences Of
comfortable homes, merely because
of a want of thrift, or from dissipa-
ted habits. Youth spent in frivo-
lous amuscmcnts aud demoralizing
associations, leaving them at middle


age, when the physical and intellect
tual man should be in its vigor, en-
ervatcd and without airy laudiblt
ambition. Friends long since lost,
confidence gone, and nothing to look


to in old age, but-a mere tolcratlon
in the community where there should
be ornaments. No home to fly to
when wearried with the struggles
incident to life; no wife to cheer
them in their dependency; no chill
drcn to amuse them, and no virtuous
household to give rest to the joys Of
ife. All is blank, and there is no
hope or succor, except that which Is
given out by the hands Of private OF
public charities. When the family
of the industrious and sober citizen


gather around the cheerful fire OF o
wintry day, the homeless man is
seeking o shelter in the cells OF o
station.house, or beging for a nights
rest in the outbuilding Of one who
startedin life at the same time, with
no greater advantages but honesty
and industry built up that home,
while dissipation destroyed the other
Year: 1871


oh tell me not shall forget
Or cease Of the to dream,
This world would be all Loneliness
Nor life, as life would seem. ll
think Of thee by day dear friend,
dream of thee by night.
Oh tell me dost thou think OF me,
Amidst the gay and bright1
We have parted perhaps no more to meet
In this our earthly home,
But in heaven dear friend beyond the skies
Wen meet no more to roam.


DAlslE.
Year: 1871

STARTLING RUMoRs-Great Ercae-
ment-The CITY AStonished.- several
days the city has been considerably excited
over rumors Of serious nature, likely TO
affect very materially the interests Of the
city. We have put ourselves to consider
able trouble and expense to ascertain the
truth OF these rumors, and are now enable
to contradict them upon reliable informa-
ton.


The general rumor that an election was
held in Richmond last Tuesday, resulting in
a terrible defeat of Republcansm, we are in
formed is entirely untounded, that but few
Republicans comparatively, had anything
to do with the election.


In fact several Of their party this morn
ing assured us that they knew nothing of
the reports, and that several prominent
members of the party were waiting for re-
gstration offices to be opened in order that
they can secure certificates of transfer, pre-
paratory to voting. We are also informed
that some of them had their certificates Of
transfer in their pockets, but didn't deem
it necessary to use them, as the election
does not come off until next spring.


Can it be possible that we have all been
dreaming? All! we stop and bite our fin
gers, and find we are, and have been,
awake, and that the rumors of an election
having taken place is sad reality.
Year: 1871

Ten THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD.
The above reward will be paid for the dis
coveiy in Richmond of a thoroughly organ
lied band Of Ku-klux. They could be
made useful, if We could find 'em just now.
Year: 1871

Another Pastoral Letter Of the Archbishop Of
Munich to His Clergy and His Flock-His Re
ply to the Address Of the Catholic Citizens
The Dogma of Infallibility and tho
State-The Ecumenical Council Car
icatured-The Movement a De-
claration Of War Against


the Catholic Church


Appeal to the King


0f Bavaria.
Year: 1871


the end oil the garden, is


A BIACKESED WALL.


with marks OF bullets on Il. There were the VIC
Inns set up TO be shot: there were the corpses eft
IN their hideous ghastllness TWO nights ana days.
Here. where we are standing, Lecomte made a
frantic rush for the gate; here cruel hands snatcaed
him back TO death. Along this place he was dragged
up 10 the wall sobbing out some piteous complaint
about his children Al the wall there the sergeant
stepped forward, saying, General, viii you pro-
mise-- and, without completing the phrase, as
charged his rifle into his victims breast. With his
back against the wall the staunch old republican,
Thomas, glared full upon Ms enemies and cast their
cowarace In their teeth before he FELL raising his
arm as they fired TO shield his head. Look you can
see The place, close by that peach tree trained
against the wall. do YOU see that white glimmer In
the twilightf Ever repairing. restoring nature
has scattered delicate peach blossoms over the
dreadful SPOT. Those flowers here Does It not
seem stranger


IL is growing darker darker. and the distance Is
drowned In shade. Far OF the thrill OF the artillery
grows fainter The night Is coming on let us
hasten away, for surely II any place Is haunted
this must be.
Year: 1871

The following letters from the HERALD correspond
ents In Paris, Versailles and Rouer win we feel
assured, be read with interest, from the fact that
they will enable the general reader to form fair
three points.
Year: 1871

Mrs. Larches wife Of the proprietor OF lager
beer saloon at the corner OF Ocean and Myrtle ave-
nuca, Jersey City, swallowed dose OF arsenic yes
terday morning and was soon afterward a corpse
She had been lab0ring under mental arrangement
Tor Two weeks past and threatened repeatedly to
poison hersel6 Coroner Wandle was notified.
Year: 1871

"And you can forget family honor,
pride of race, bid defiance to the world S
opinion, and forsake an for me a poor
sla-"


'Stop, You shall not use that vile word
in connection with yourself. will go to
my step-brother and tell him everything.
| do not fear Paul's anger. He shall give
you your freedom, and we will go to the


North, where that terrible word could
never be applied to you,-where the mere
drops of colored blood in your veins
could never be reproach to you. You
have been educated and have imbibed
the feelings and tastes of this favored
and superior" race, and yet refined
gentleman as you are, too well / know
the position you occupy slae to,-a
perjured villain-my step-brother and
am of his blood. Surely if you knowing
this, can love me, I can bid defiance to
the miserable. ungenerous prejudice
which the white race cherish against
yours I love you my love renders you
my peer. Paul Devereaux is only my
,tep-brother, and, neither he nor the
world have treated me so kindly, 50
gently, that would cleave to either and
forsake you and Justine Devereaux
face assumed o very defiant expression.


"But darling Justine, unless we could
indeed get your step-brother to give me
my freedom, 1 can never be aught to you
The laws even are such, you could not be
my lawful wife"


There St Leon, enough, you will
force me to be too unmaidenly. What
you and I to offer our happiness for ife,a
sacrifice to ATs, which place you on a
level with the brute creation St Leon 1
nate, defy those laws, hate the cold,
merciless race who created those laws,
they shall not govern me


The bar of Heaven is the only tribunal
will be umenable to- Oh how / hate the
race, who have placed the brand of slave
ipon him / love! The white people
sere 10 not know, that Father Henry our
priest has co,ored blood III his veins-it
was he who taught me to abhor slavery,
md opened my eyes to the base injus-
LEO Of the accursed system, this "pecu-
liar institution Let US so to Futher
Year: 1871

"Why dost thou cling to life ?"
What will it bring to thee
Only heavier cross-


Better that thou vert free,
Better thy strings should play
Their funeral dirge to the grave.
Better that thou shouldst lay
Where willow and cypress wave"
Year: 1871

TINE IMPRESSION OBTAINS AMONG mary
u persons that the value Of Accident Insurance
can be appreciated only by travellers, or those
whose avocatons necessarily of hazardous
nature. Still statistics show that one in every
tel Of the entire population meets with an
Accident every year Every prudent and careful
man will act with reference to future contingencies.
Bodily injury by accident is one of the most fire.
quent causes of distress distress to man family
il fatal to lin and to himself also, if only dis
abling him from business,


In either case this mode of insurance comes to
you with certain relief.


Eue,y is liable to accident, "Good Luck"
cannot always be deperded upon.


The question to be settled precisely the same
as in fire insurance. Is it not cheaper to let a
responsible company take the risk than it is to
carry it yourself? Is not the protection offered
ioorfh more than IL costs.


What Accidents Have to be Paid For.
Year: 1871

They have wierd pictures on window-panes,
in Milan, Ohio, now, and nobody knows exactly
how they came there. or what they want. It
is likewise uuknewn whether they are the re-
suit of impressions left on the glass years ago,
or whether they arise from supernatural visit
alton, supposittious faces which no mortal can
see, being SO positive and closely outlined as to
photograph themselves on inanimate things.
Either proposition is extremely reasonable,
and the latter will be generally adopted. doubt
less, by our friends the spiritualists There is
one picture df an old negress, who is to all ac-
counts stubborn character. Her face began
to appear on glass, and the owner Of the lat
ter tried to wash it away, but it would not
wash out; instead, it continued to develop.
Then he had it painted over, and let the paint
remain for some time; but on removing it, the
face was there, more developed than before.
There is also picture of George Washington,
who could not tell-however, that's little too
monotonous. And there are dozens of other
pictures, and more coming all the while. We
are told that some of the faces ''look some like
daguerreotypes that We're taken twenty years
ago, before the art was brought to its present
high state of perfection. The first appear
ance of the glass is a stony steel color, inter-
spersed with a dull, ashen color; or it has some
the appearance of water that has tar or crude
oil mixed with il, and one can see the oily sub
stance floating on the top of the water, giving
il a variety of colors. When this discoloration
of the glass is first noticed, there is no clearly
defined outline of human face, but gradually.
day by day, in the centre of this discolored ap-
pearance, face begins to take shape and form,
until it requires no stretch of the imagination
10 see well-defned features of an individual
who appears TO be looking out of the window
from the room within. You go into the room,
and look out through the glass that has the pic
lures upon il, and nothing can be seen. The
glass is just as clear, apparently, as when it
came from the makers hands" This is terri
ble and perhaps we may say. without fear OF
contradiction, that there are more things ID
various localities than are dreamed of in any
body's philosophy