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Year: 1873

American in these, must occupy prominent
place In painting and sculpture there is no
reason why we should not be represented by
the very best specimens of recent work If
Paris will not send US bronzes can we not
show that we are not altogether deficient in
the cunning conceit-work that has made
France so famous2 We have much besides
giant squashes and machinery and model
schoolhouses to show to the world as evidences
of our social and political condition. All
these must be brought together and exhibited
under the brightest aspects. The American
department of the Philadelphia Exhibition
must tell in a language more eloquent than
words the story OF the growth and progress of
both country people in the century that is
passed


All this is giant work, and it must not be
left altogether to Philadelphia. The whole
country has as much interest in the Centennial
Exhibition as the Quaker City. Every part of
the country must assist in the enterprise.
Congress must take the lead and the State
Legislatures follow. A plan should be ma
tured that will be comprehensive enough for
grand national and international fair BY
whom the plan is devised, whether it is left to
Philadelphia or brought forward under ma
tional auspices, makes little difference so long
as it meets the requirements of the case and
comports with the dignity of the occasion.
The Vienna Exposition will teach us many
things for the management of our own,
and when the Philadelphia Commission, now
in Vienna, returns its return cannot fail to
be to the advantage of the Centennial AS
the latest of the great expositions the Vienna
Exposition is full of LESSONS to be learned
both in the way of merits to be initiated and
faults to be avoided. The holding of great
fairs at which all the nations of the earth
come to exhibit the best of what they have to
show is no easy matter, and the success of the
Centennial Exhibition makes it desirable that
we should learn all that we can from the expe-
rience Of others as we'll as 60 to work with /.
universal will TO make it worthy of the Ameri-
can people and the American Republic
Year: 1873

HUNTERS POINT seems as fatal to oil re-
6neries as these are dangerous to the health of
the metropolis and surrounding cities. Now
that there has been another disastrous confia-
grafton in that locality would it not be well,
both for the interests of the owners Of the re-
6neries and for the public that they should
be removed to some other place? The sug-
gestion is one which we are sure will meet
with general appreciation.
Year: 1873

pie evidently think they are in the right. A
brief correspondence between London and
Washington will settle the question. Treaties
are sometimes perfected as well as tested by
experience.
Year: 1873

all the national departments shall form con-
centric parts of the great circle or rotunda,
like the French building of 1867, seems better
adapted to our purposes than parallelogram
with wings like the building at Vienna. The
together, making it only few steps from the
entrance of one department to the entrance of
another. If we can have beautiful palace on
the banks of the Schuylkill let us have it, but
by all means let us have a convenient building


We must not forget, however, that the de-
signs and construction of the Exhibition
building, however perfect in themselves, will
not of themselves make the Exhibition great
success; neither will the favorable responses
of foreign monarchs and the ready contribu-
tions of foreign countries. These things will
do much to enbellish and glorify it, but for
its real intrinsic success we must depend upon
ourselves. This Exhibition is in every sense
a national Exhibition. 1t is at once the grand
celebration of the hundredth anniversary of
American independence and the great exposi-
ton of what has been accomplished by the
American people in the hundred years of their





rings all the world together to see what has
been done on this Continent since its peals
called the scattered settlers to arms against
Great Britain. In the meantime q new world
has been peopled and developed-a new world
that has been lavish in its gifts to the Old;
new world that has accomplished more that is
good and more that is novel than it is of itself
aware. Wonders have been drawn from the
bowels as well as the surface of the earth.
Mining and agriculture have gone hand in
hand In mechanical contrivances we stand
unrivalled. But what we have drawn from
nature and what we have contrived to over
come in nature will not suffice. We do not want
our Centennial Exhibition to be an American
Institute Fair on larger scale. Art, science,
literature. and especially what is particularly
Year: 1873

To THE CLERKS OF CouRTs.-The clerk OF
the House Of Delegates publishes notice to
the clerks OF the courts of the State notify
in. them that the law requires them to re-
port to him the number Of days their re-
Spcctiye courts were in session during the
year ending with August last. Also the
state OF the business of the courts during
Tue year. Such reports as are received
before the 18th Of December will be EN-
braced in the report of the clerk of the
House OF Delegates to the Legislature.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country.
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be precur
ed, and the government from that time 10
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention Of eonsum-
ers.
Year: 1873




PHILADELPHIA Oct. g. 1873


The result OF the deliberations Of the Committee
on Architectural Plans for the Centennial Expo
sition, which adjourned at a late hour this after
noon, is one which clearly shows that the members
intend to render their decision in an eminently
practical and cautious manner and that 1t will not
favor any architect until additional estimates and
particulars arc handed in by all. In many instances
the artists upon handing in their designs have ac-
companied them with such ambiguous and indifrer-
ent statements as these 1.-THE building modelled
on this design will cost about so and so and
can be constructed In about two years"


IL is an established act that there has never
been an exposition building ready at the time an
nounced for It's opening since 1862 with the excep.
tion OF that OF Chicago, which opened yesterday,
and the stand taken to-day by the committee ndi
Gates concIusiyey that no such accident shall oc-
have announced, as your correspondent day or
two ago thought 1t probable that no decision can
be made be fore the 18th OF the present month.
The plans have just been sent to the photographer
and careful reproductions VIII be made OF all. In
the meanwhile every architect WIN be required to
estimate the actual cost which the fuldlment
the las, cent. supposing that his plan
he 1 Be obliged to state the number Of the
and their price per 1000 as well as the weight Of
,ne later ane s pce h per % wnen wroags
are called Tor In regard to all other materials used
In the construction.


a prominent feature which must lnUuenCe tne
committee in making the nnal award Will be the
reduplication OF moulded forms which will greatly
facilitate their manufacture and the discernment
shown by the architect in constructing his iron
work In such regular shapes as to be easily
disposed Of after the Exposition Is over. For in
stance, n the section OF O roof were made. as 1t
is In several Of the plans, OF q uniform width
corresponding TO that OF two or three railroad
tracks, the entire roofing on the temporary build
ings could easily be disposed OF Tor sheds and small
roofs TO almost any railroad company IN the coun-
try. IL Will be remembered that Bavaria offered
IN nfITa 10 fha hntI Pn tn
1867; but when her engineers went there
they found the sections we're not OF the
proper dimensions, and that the parts
were joined by ryets instead oil bolts. Hence
they could not use 10 at ALL and the building reared
at an expense OF millions was sold for the small
SUN OF $3.50 900. All these things must enter into
the development OF the decision. The committee
are an exceedingly shrewd and practical set, and
as they will employ their own mechanics and
engineers IL is highly probable that even after the
plan IL really selected II Will be subjected TO many
valuable improvements and changes
Year: 1873

TIE IntslGgsne:r suggested few days
ayo, rs the only obstacle to the Cover
nor's resignation, the supposed absence
Of any provision in the law for a special
election to fill the vacancy thus created.
We have already referred our neighbor
to the 4lst section of Chapter lib Of the
Acts Of 1873 as containing all the law
thatis is necessary in relation to the mat
ter, and yet, to our great disappolnt-
ment, our neighbor no longer calls up
on the Governor to resign. We will
be happy to loan our copy Of the law to
any person who is skepticsl as
TO its provisions and will take
especial pleasure in pointing it ou! to
the editor of the Inteliigeacsr if he will
call at this office, and then, having as
sured him that the obstacle that in'
duced him to retract his double'leaded
advice does not exist, why may we not
expect him to renew the demand we so
cheerfulIy seconded for Governor
JACOBS resignation OF his office?


Upon reflection, we believe that the
Charleston journal and the Clsrksburg
Telegraph will concur in the recommen.
dation and thus afford to the wonder
log world the sublime spectacle OF po-
Utica, unity in West Virginia.
Year: 1873

When a woman puts three mackerel to soak
over night in a dish pan whose sides are eight
inches high, and leaves the pan on stairway
she has accomplished her mission and should go
hence. This was what Division street woman
did Friday night Filled the pan at the pump,
and then left it standing on the steps to the
stoop, while she went into the next house to
see how many buttons would be required to go
down the front of a redingOte. And a mighty
important affair that was to be sure. And
there was her husband tearing through the
house in search of handkerchief, and not
finding it, of course. And then he rushed out
into the yard, wondering where on earth that
woman could be, and started down the steps
without seeing the pan, or ever dreaming that
anyone could be so idiOtic as to leave it there.
Of course he stepped on it; or at least, that is
the supposition, as the neighbors who were
brought out by the crash that followed, saw a
Mortified man, and high dish pan, and three
very demorlized mackerel shooting across the
garden, and smashing down the shrubbery.
And he was a nice sight, was that unhappy
man, when they got him on his feet.
There wasn't dry thread on him, and his
hair was full of bits Of mackerel, aud one of
his shoulders was out of joint, and his coat
was split the whole length of his back, and he
appeared out of his head. He was carried in
the house by some of the men, and laid on a
bed, while others went after a doctor, and
sixteen women assembled in the front room
and talked in whispers about the inscrutable
ways of Providence, and what warning this
was to people who never looked where they
were going. Ne,oS.
Year: 1873

A tribe in the interior of Africa have Gu
rious religious ceremony. 1t is dance in


which the parties plant good, solid kick on


each other, and they keep it up for hours. 1t
must be very enjoyable, OF course, and we'll
calculated to develop feeling of reverent
ecstacy in the participants; but one can Z help
but think what vast improvement would be
toed boots in the assemblage. This would tend
to exalt the saints, we imagine, and sividy re-
mind them of their latter end. Then we
should like to go there ourselves, as sole whole
sale agent for some popular liniment There
10 money in this thing, if it is worked up right.
Year: 1873

A correspondent recently asked the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher if he approved of wives
spending their time at watering places and
leaving their husbands to the mercy of servant
girls, and received this characteristic reply:
No woman who values her domestic happi-
ness as she should, will leave her husband
thus UNPROTECTED"
Year: 1873

A certain person had friend who was a
mser. One day he sad to him, II am going
a journey give me your ring, then l shall al
ways have you near me, for whenever | look
upon it you will come to my remembrance. I"
The miser made answer, 2" If you wish to keep
me in REMEMBRANCE as often as you look at
your naked finger remember that you asked a
certain person for his ring and he refused to
give it to you"
Year: 1873

"Ths company shall never get another cent
of my money said an angry lady on a rail
way train.


How then will you travel?" asked the
conductor.


"I'll pay my fare to you, was the answer.
Year: 1873

A wag out west who read that dry copperas
put in bed of aunts would cause them to
leave, put some in his mother.in-law's bed to
see if she would't go. He says she was there
at last accounts
Year: 1873

Well, Mr.. Jones = said neighbor Brown,
I'll start this very day for town,
And get PAIR OF Boots for me,


And also shoe my family
so Bill you go and harness Doll,


And straight TO town Will go. by gol,
And stop in front of SMITHS Store


Where the Boots hang DER the door.
Bill always does what father tells.


lie harnessed Doll and put on Bells,
Aud in they pied young ones and ALL


Crack went tho whip and off went Doll.
Doll had been living on high feed


And started at her fastest speed,
And took Brown aud lis family straight,
To Paw Paw at two-forty gait.
Whoa, Whoa, old Doll, Bill cried out when
They got to Main Street, Number Ten.
And out they jumped In front the door,


of Poet Smiths Mammoth Store.
In they went with an awful swol,


Good morning, hope to find you well,
Said Brown as he and his young drove


Advanced 10 warm them at the stove.
Ny neighbor Jones brought me the news


How cheap you sold your Boots and Shoes,
20 resolved to como and buy


OF you my winters full supply.
To shoe the tribe, Smith began,


Beginning first With the old man


And then the young Browns little feet.


We're shod and fitted all complete.
The news soon spread the county round.


That just the place at length was found
Where men could save fifty per cent.


On every dollar that they spent.


-Remember where you can buy Coats
Thread for 5 cts. q spool.
Respectfully, Yours,
T. SMITH Il GO
Year: 1873

and relying upon my past experience ana PICS
ent knowledge in the buslness and the good
sense Of discerning public for my future
veal or woe. It Will be my purpose this Fail
TO EXHIBIT large attractive and commanding
stock of Goods, such as will suit the spcial
wants OF the trade and to dispose of them in
every instance IN such Mariner as will reflect
credit upon myself
Year: 1873

Which from its infancy has been under my
special guardianship, aud II part the object
of my care. In conclusion the undersigned
would beg to say that the magnitude OF the
stock and the assortment of goods now offered
for inspection ana sale at this establishment, is
without q precedent and beyond parallel III
the annals OF the
Year: 1873

is to be the weapon used. And through the
instrumentaty OF this and the enterprise Of
the never-tiring hand OF its principal, the work
has been commenced and shall be carried on
upon magnificent scale, beyond peradventure
to mistake. Having the requisite facilities at
hand which are particularly desirable at the
present day, to compete with an establishment
like this, aud 80 much needed by the man OF
BUSINESS, with every possible advantage at
my command, not even pebble to obetruct or
to mar my course, once moro
Year: 1873

1t IS not our purpose to create unneces-
sary alarm, but 1t is proper that the pub
hc should be apprized Of the danger
there isln permitting unwhoIesomep places
to exists III our city, on account of tie
probable approach of the cholera. This
disease is making fearful havoc in many
places, and is steadily but surely coming
north. No one can tell how soon it may
reach Chicago, Niilwaukee..or Portage, and
that prevention is better than cure. it i
an act of wisdom on the part of every
citizen to put ms premises III order. and
SO purify them as to not invite the chol-
era or any other frightful malady. The
suggestions OF the Chicago Board Health
are so pertinent that we copy them with
Il recommendation that our people give
them Immediate attention, and provide
without delay fol. their removal and prop
er care OF the garbage and other decoTn-
posed matter around dwellings,, butcher
shops groceries, etc.


The fault Was not ali With the scav.
engers, by long way. The paopIe are
at fault, They throw this material in al
leys and in back yards and their own
lives are in jeopardy as we'll as then
neighbors.


More atteution should be given to wa
ter closets. Let then. be kept clean am
pound of chlorate Of lime nut in the
vaults, which vii! cost just cost ten cents


Let every citizen who has a trough or
ditch running under his house see thar
it is not stopped up and running owe,
under the house.


Clean the back yards and alleys, and
make the home fit place for mankind t.
dwell in.


We must all get to work and do oui
part, as individuals, and do it at once
if we do not we will have endless trouble
before the season ends.


Let every good citizen stand by The
Health Officers and help them to prose
cute such as are unwilling 20 observe the
laws of heaith.-Rortoge Register.
Year: 1873

Ir is stated that Count de Chambord
has accepted the throne of France, which
article has been formally rendered him
by the Legitimists Undoubtedly the
Legitimists might at the same time have
rendered the Count all the Kingdoms of
the earth, in accordance with similar
tender that we read of Doubtless moth
ing vas easier than for the Count to
accept the throne at the distance he now
happens to be from it; but i'll order to
mount it he will have to come nearer to
it, and he may not mount it at all. Never
theless, that is perhaps no reason why
he should not accept it.
Year: 1873

The people calling themselves Demo
Gratis last year formally resigned their par
ty name and theiV destructive party prin =
ciples and adopted an out-an out Repub-
lican platform, and then voted for a well
known Republican leader fer the Presi-
dency. Was this a mere political device?
Did they only intend to deceive? Did
they openly renounee their principles
and bow allegiance to Republica canisnl
only to make profit by their treachery
1t they did not, let them come forward
like honest men and carry out their own
professions and promises, Let them yield
hearty support to an Administration
which has, in all things. faithfully ad-
hered to the political platform upon
which they came into power. Let them
unite cordially in strengthening the hands
of the able and patriotic men who are
now doing all in their power TO admin
lister the Government in such manner as
most certainly to secure unbroken peace
and tranquility at home and unsulied
national honor in the eyes of foreign Pow
ers Let them in a word, come heartily
at once into the Republican ranks help
honestly and earnestly to purge away
official corruption, if such corruption shall
anywhere be found existing, and cooper
ate in the bringing about of another "era
Of good feeling" when the voice of dis
content shall be heard 10 more in the land
and the spirit of true patriotic brother
hood be once more universally diffused.
i Washington Chronicle.
Year: 1873

We know perfectly well that some
persons lace themselves too night, al
though it is not at present fashionable
to do so. We know, too, that many
women have seriously injured their
health, while some have sacrificed
life on the shrine OF q slender waist.
But the wearing of the corset does not
necessarily, aud, in fact, does not
commonly, end in tight-lacing; while
lacing, and that, too, Of q very hurt
ful sort, may be, and frequently is, ac-
compIished without the use Of cor
set at all. We have seen mems
clothes worn as tightly as any corset
ever was. The condemnation of
tight-lacing is perfectly just, of course,
as everybody having the smallest
knowledge of anatomy knows. But
many women who never lace wear
cOrsets, aud derive great benefit from
their use. It is certainly very absurd
to demand that these people shall
fOregO a cOmfOFt-giviDg article of ap-
parel merely because they could turn
il into an instrument OF torture, IL
they were fools. They find that to
put the entire weight oftheir clothing
upon their shoulders is to give them
selves pain, and in order to divide IL
they let part Of their apparel depend
upO1 their hips for support. To do
this without a corset it would be nee
essary to wear the garments altogeth-
er tighter about the waist than they
should be worn, and to bind them
around a single narrow zone, which
would be both uncomfortable and un-
wise. The corset however, distributes
both the weight and the pressure over
the strong muscles Of the hips, and as
it is less yielding than the flesh, it OBJ
viates the necessity OF tight waist
bands altogether. The corset, proper
ly used, in other words, furnished the
very best remedy for tight-lacing, par
tieularly now that taper waists have
gone out of fashion. = Hearth and
Home. ~
Year: 1873

God bless the farm-the dear old farm.


God bless it every rood, .D
Where willing hearts and sturdy arms


Can earn an honest livelihood!
Can from the coarse and fertile soil


Win back a reeompenss for toll
God bless each meadow, feld and nook,


Begemmed with fafFest flowers.
And every leaf that's gently shook,


By evening breeze or morning showers,
God bless them all! each leafs gem


In Natures gorgeous diadem.
The orchards that in early spring,


Blush rich in fragrant flowers,
And with each autumn surely bring


Their wealth of fruit in golden showers
Like pOmegranate on Aaron's rod,


A miracle from natures God.
Aud may He bless the farmers home,


Where peace and plenty reign;
No happier spot meath Heaven high dome
Doth this broad beauteous earth contain
Than where, secure from earth and strife,
The farmer leads his peaceful life.
Unyexed by toll and tricks for gain.


He turns the fertile mold;
Then scatteFs on the golden grain,


And reaps reward hundred fold;
He dwells where grace and beauty charm.
For God hath blessed his home and farm.
Year: 1873

said he was the first to discover the


body Of the lady who was supposed to
have been murdered in the snow some
winters ago. When he found her, she
was grasping in her hand q pistol


worked with gold and set with gems,
the sight OF which so wrought on him
[ that he secured it, and he left it to be
supposed that she had been murdered.
though in truth she had died by her
own hand In proof of his story he
added that, getting alarmed, be sub
sequently threw the weapon into a
certain pond, the situation of which
he indicated. There, on search being
made, the pistol was found.


The effect Of this revelation on Ar
maud's mind was terrible. He saw
that he had done the woman he loved
a great wrong. To repair tlIis as far
as practicable, he at once set out for
Europe. On reaching England, he
had no difficulty in verifying the
newspaper statement; to find q clue
to Evaline's retreat was more diff
cult. Many months were spent in
fruitless search but at last he succeed
ed. They met, and on bis knees, be
besought forgiveness for his impetu-
osity, aud the injurious suspicious
which had separated them. Egaline
listened with tears and a throbbing
heart; but she restrained a moment
the impulse to throw herself ON his
breast.


Though guiltIess," she said, 81
was yet to blame. Remember, 1
could not produce the diamond. Let
me tell yon why" A 80


-"YOU had parted with it %" an


"Yes, in a moment of folly. When
l saw how we had he tracked woman
to her doom, could net restrain the
bbrning desire to show her then,
without delay, that she was in our
power, and that we were about to be
revenged. Swayed by this girlish
weakness, I enclosed the diamond in
q casket that her victim had used and
sent it to the hotel. Heaven knows
how the sight of it worked on the
erazed mind, and how far it was re-
sponsible for her miserable end. But,
Armand, have repented Of il bitter
ly-O, so, bitterly! and if you can
forgive me, H.


The rest was sobbed out, as Armaud
elasped her tightly to his arms.