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Year: 1875

Macready says in his "reminiscences in
speaking Cf Mrs. Siddons But who
that had ever seen it could forget her
performance of Lady Randolph? In
tie part of Mrs. Beverly the image of
cOnjugal devotion was set off with every
charm of grace and winning sOftness.
In Lldy Randolph the sorrows of widow
hood and the natural fOndnees of
the chieftain's daughter assumed a
loftier demeauor, but still the mothers
heart showed itself above all power of
repression bv conventional control. In
her first interview with Notval, pre-
sented as Lord Randolph's defender
from the assassin, the mournful admira-
ton of her look, as she fixed her gaze
upon him, plainly told that the tear
which Randolph served to start in her
eye was natures parental instinct in the
presence of her son. The violence of
her agitation while listening to Old
NOrval's narration of the periIs of her
infant seemed beyond her power longer
to control, and the words, family artc-
ulated, as if the last effort of mental
agony, "Was he alive?' sent an electric
thrill through the audience. In dis
closing the secret of his birth to NorvaI





er, how exquisite was the tenderness
with which she gave loose to the indul-
gence of her affections. AS he knelt
before her she wreathed her fingers in
his hair, parted it from his brow, in
silence looking into his features to trace
there the resemblance of the husband
of her love, then dropping ON her kn es
and throwing her arms around him, she
L.,
fastened her eyes on him, repeating
the lines:


Image Of Douglas Fruit Of fatal love!


All that | owe thy sire pay to thee!


Her parting instructions, under the
influence of her fears for her sons safe
ty, were most affectionately delivered.
When he had fallen under the treacher-
GUS stab of Glenalvon she had sunk in
a state of insensibility on his body. On
the approach of Randolph and Anna
she began to recover recollection. To
Randolph's excuses her short and rapid
reply, "Of thee / think not ~ spoke her
Indifference and disregard of every
worldly thing beyond the beloved ob-
iect stretched in death before her.
Leaning over him, and gazing with
despairng fondness on his face, she
spoke out in heartrending tones


MY SON. NV sou!


My beautiful brave. How proud was I
or thee and OF thy vslOr; my fond heart
Oerfowed this day with transport when l


thought


OF growing old amidst a race OF thine"


The anguish of her soul seemed at
length to have struck her brain. The
silence of her fixed and vacant stare
was terrible, broken at last by loud
and frantic laugh that made the hearers
shudder. She then sprang up, and with
few selfquestioning words, indicating
her purpose of selfdestruction, hurried
in the wild madness of desperation from
the scene.
Year: 1875

Always, on a Southern gentleman S
table, the dessert of oranges is furnished
with small silver fruit knives and spoons.
The orange is held in the napkin-just
asiyou hold an egg--and with the slender
point of the knife a circular incision is
made In the stem-end of the orange,
and the stem core is nicely taken out,
leaving an orifice large enOugh to admit
the egg spoon. The orange is held and
eaten then, just like gourmands eat an
egg III It's own shell and the skill and
grace with which this is done, that is,


without solllng your fingers or napkin
Year: 1875

THE longevity of toads is again under
discussion, owing to a discovery made
near Orsay. In digging up a garden
Gotta vases, which they at first supposed
to contain treasure. On breaking them,
however, two live toads were found clad
in green velvet. This strange attire
showed that they must be at least 200
years old, as an ancient treatise on
magic and demOnoiogy mentions that
at the beginning of the seventeenth
century sorcerers dressed up toads in
this manner for the achievement OF
certain charms.
Year: 1875

II know the trials of a young girl st:ug-
Cling with the daily toll of the school,.
room. You have had SORROWS to- bear that
I never knew. You have been called to-
Judge between father and mother in a
broken home. fear you will regret leav-.
ing Mrs Bradshaw's. Your mother has
long been my dearest friend. She is a
most tender, wise and sacrafcing mother.
I have known many mothers, but her soul
is bound up in her children more than
any ever knew, and ask you to consider
we'll her pleasure, and hold up her heart
and hands in this extremity. None know
better than that it is she, and not your
father, that now demands the loyalty and
service Of any who are able to serve her.
She stands bleeding at all her hfe's arte..
ries, and from no fault except weak fond
ness for her husband, and blindly sacri~
ficing herself to save him from his disas-
ter. DO not take up that role. 1t is he


who should protect you, and if you have
services to render, cherish your mother.


I had hoped most earnestly you would be
spared any open avowal of your feeling
and position toward your parents. May
it not be forced On you by the selfish hand


that has robbed everyone to maintain this
wretched case But let no one prevail on,
you to compromise yourself. l do not.


mean to say what think of your father.


but can say nothing without admitting
my horror of his conduct toward her, and


the public that he has debauchcd by his
publications. only plead for your low


ing, mute, and suffering mother" (Greas
laughter from the gallery:l
Year: 1875

A Beautiful ExTRACT.-Th follow
ing is a gem in its way, and can be read
with profit more than once. The little
ness of life has rarely been more happily
expressed;


'Generation after generation have felt
as we feel now, and their lives were as ae-
tive as our own. They passed away Ike
a vapor, while Nature wore the same as
pect OF beauty as when her Creator com
manded her to be. The heavens shall
be as bright over our graves as they are
now around our paths. The world will
have the same attractions for our of
spring yet unborn that she once had for
ourselves, and that she now has for our
children. Yet little while and all will
have happened. The throbbing heart
will be stilIed and We shall be at rest.
Our funeral will wend its way, and the
prayers will be said, and our friends viii
all return, and We shall be left behind ID
silence and darkness for the worm. And
1t may be Tor short time We shi,ii DS
spoken Of, but the things Of life Will
creep in, and our names will BE- forgot
ten. Days will continue to move ana
laughter and song will be heard IN the
room in which we died; and the eye that
mourned for us will be dried and glisten
with joy; and even our children viii
cease to think Of us, and will not remem-
Der to lisp our names. Then shall We
have become, in the touching language
of the Pss1lrnist, forgotten and gone out
Of mind.


The best theology pure and bene-
fcent life.


The best philosophy contented
mind.
Year: 1875

The iron safe lately taken from tine
wreck of the iil-fated United States ship
of-war Cumberland, run into and sunk
by the Confederate ram Merrimae. in
hampton Roads, in 1861, is now On ex-
hibition in Norfolk. While Captain
Brown was searching for the spot where
he supposed the safe to be, he stumbled
against what he supposed to be a log of
wood, but what he was subsequently,
Mortified to find was the CHASTITY remains
OF a man, hardened and petrified into
stone, standing stoIid and erect, lone
sentinel, watching, as it were, the treas
ures ofthe deep, surrounded by the bones
Of his lost comrades who died with him
whilst vainly and nobly battling for the
preservation OF their good and beloved
old ship 1t was when endeavorine TO
raise this strange object out Of its grave
Of mud he found the safe.
Year: 1875

SUFFERINGS OLA PIONEER EDITOR. =
During the pioneer days of Ionia, Mich,
the town had an editor who was patient
and long-suffering. Some of the MEM
bers of a church got him to give $50
toward securing a minister; then they
wanted their religious notices inserted
free; then he was asked for S2j toward
helping to build parsonage, and he
finally found he was giving the church
more than he gave his family. He
nevertheless chung on" for time longer,
until one evening he went to prayer
meeting and was asked to leave his office
for a week and go help clear the grounds
for a camp meeting. That was the last
straw, and he rose up and said:


Gentlemen, I'd like to go to heaven
with you. l know you all You are
clever and obliging, and kind and ten
der, and it would be nice for us all, as a
congregation, together; but I've con
eluded to leave and dodge i'm along side
of somebody from Detroit, Lapeer, or
Grand Rapids. It's money, money all
the time, and I've given to this church
until, if my wife should die, she'd have
to go to heaven barefoOted."


The congregation seemed to realize
that free horse was being ridden to

death. They let up on the editor and
paeified him. He even had special
tent assigned him at the camp meeting.
and all was well.
Year: 1875

SAM CAREY, the Democratic candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, appears ia a
rather anomalous character in the fol-
lowing little paragraph from the Colum-
bus JtJITHa!:


Tie Cincinnati Commercial will great
ly oblige us if it will turn to its back files
and reproduce the reports from English
papers of some of General Carey's re-
markable temperance speeches while
abroad There was one touching story
told by the General, about how the
scoundrelly liquor men burned his house
on the face Of the earth. The story
touched John Bull to that extent that
he actually opened his pocket and con-
tributcd largely to the martyr who was
driven out of his homestead by the
criminal violence of these liquor men.
This is not the only bonanza honest Sam
uel has struck, as he has gone about
earning his bread in the sweat of his
brow. We should be glad to hear from
the Cincinnati press some OF the partic-
ulars a. to his being burned out by the
whisky men. Somehow the story seems
to have escaped publicity, until it was
poured by the gentle martyr himself into
the ears ofthe sympathizing British pub
lie.
Year: 1875

THE special correspondent Of the New
York TiiJHEe, now in this state, study
ing ihe political situation, says that al
though the Republicans here mightpos-
sibly have adopted a policy which would
have given the party more strength in
1876, yet it could not have taken any
course concerning the essential questions
of party policy which would have made
their victory in the Immediate contest
here pending more probable. - CIece-
land Leader"
Year: 1875

IT is affirmed that the Roman Catho-
lie dickering Of the Democratic party in
Ohio has injured it beyond estimate
among the good, honest men OF the rural
district They do not care a snap for
party lines, when the leaders deliberate
Iy try TO sell out the precious privileges
of free citizenship for very paltry mess
ofpolitical pOttage. e.-PittsbuTy CONNER
cidI
Year: 1875

Democracy has been tried and found
wanting. 1t once stood before the peo-
pie as a party Of honor and Justice.
But it turned its back on freedom, per
secuted its champions and became the
more tool OF the slave power. Infdelify
to principle brought corruption into its
administration. When the Nation rose
in 1861, to east it out from its high Office
of governmental control, it was not the
political freak of an hour, but the re-
solve of people that had no further use
for a party that had betrayed its trust.
Its fall was the death blow of the power
which sustained it. The grave of slavery
should have been the grave OF DemOc-
racy.


As political power, it should have
Laon banished from the field Of Ameri-
can politics. But the power of evil Oft
times outIives the institutions which
generated it. Slavery is dead, but its
ripened fruit, corrupt Democracy, still
lives TO exert Us baneful influence on
the destiny of a nation. To resist the
spread of its political poison, requires
fidelity, watchfulness, energy and thor
ough organization on the part of those
who love their country, and desire its
government to remain in the loyal hands
Of those who saved it from the deadly
attack of Democracy and slavery
DHJIic
Year: 1875

The Boston Advertiser says it has been
demonstrated by the result OF Tuesday
that the opposition has been entirely too
hasty in its assumption that the rerebii-
can party is in an active state OF decay.
Indeed, so far is it from tha. condition,
that it has proved its ability, with good
candidates and sound platform. to carry
the general election of 1876 by large
popular majority. and by corresponding
ly large majority of the electoral vote.
We presume that the election of the re-
republican ticket in New York will be
rather damaging to Gov. Tilden chances
for the nomination but, whether this is
SO or not. the republicans may confident
ly claim to be able to carry New York and
the other large States against him or any
other man the democrats may nominate.
The reaction has spent itself. The coun-
try is still progressive in sentiment, and it
will trust its fortunes to the party that has
been the leader in all the progress it has
made in half century,
Year: 1875

SAYS the Presque Isle Sunrise: There has
been a marked improvement in the appearance OF
the Swedish colonists since we last saw them in a
public meeting, about three years ago. They are
very much better clad many of the young men
and ladies were dressed tashionably as well as
neatly. They have, this year, harvested an abun-
daut crop, their barns are full to Overlooking and
a large amount Of grain is secured in fine order
upon their peculiar risks, which are unlike any
thing ever seen here for saving grain, and better
than any other method except tight barns Many
Of them came to the meeting in double and single
carriages, some of the carriages having double
seats, upon which rode four and siX. Many Of the
farmers have CLOCKS of sheep in place of the
two or three they had two years ago. Some who
had one COW then have three and four now. They
cut this year large crops OF hay, have pastures for
their stock, and their farms begin to have the ap-
pearance of old and well cultivated fields The
Rev Mr.. Wren cut this year twenty-eight tons
of hay and had some forty acres Of grain. iu
looking over New Sweden as it is now and seeing
the people, we are confirmed in the opinion we
have often expressed, that in fifteen years y New
Sweden will be the best to-do and most indcpCI-
dent rural town in ArOostook. 1t is but little
more than five wears since IT was an unbrohcn
wilderness, forest in which no tree had been cut
except by lumbcrmen Now, hundreds of acres
are under cultivation. Next January, they viii
be entitled to deeds OF their land from the State,
and then there will be IT, New sweden a larger
number of men who will own their land in fee,
without particle of incumbrance, mortgage, OF
nythng OF the kind, than in any other town III
Aroostook, with the exception, perhaps, of three
or four and we doubt whether these exception,
win exist. They are great lovers Of money and
it is supposed that many Of them have gtceubacks
boarded OF which they say nothing. NOtwith-
standing all the talk that has been made Of theil
being a colony of paupcrs, but two families have
received any aid from the State during the pas
year, and the mothers Of these widows will
large families. They a very kind, social pco
Pile in their habits, families visiting each other
social parties are frequent, and they kindly ASH


ca h other in misfortune.
Year: 1875

= The inhationisis can find no comfort
whatever in the elections except the bur
jal of Sam Tilden. They find their soft
money doctrines beaten in every state
where they were brought in issue.
Year: 1875

The Colorado river is noted for
"swirls," so called, at high water.
A bubble rises from the bottom,
and breaks with a slight sound on
the surface. The water at the
point begins with rotary motion
so small that an inverted teacup
might cover It Larger and larger
grows the circle, till a surface of
forty feet in diameter is in motion,
spinning round a funEel-shaped
hole in the center, two or three
feet across at the top, and coming
to a point in the depths below.
Often a large tree floating down
the stream is caught and its fore
most end thrust in the air twenty
or thirty feet, while the other end
is slowly drawn down, and it dis
appears. Three soldiers, deserters
from Camp Mohave, passing in a
skif, Immediately below the fork,
suffered their craft to run into a
swirl. One of their crew, at the


first intimation of danger, threw
himself overheard beyond the
charmed circle; and as he swan
away he turned his head and saw
the boat spin round and round,
until one end being drawn into
the vortex and the other upheaved
in the air, it slowly sank, as it re-
volved, into the turbid bosom of
the river, its human freight to be
seen no more; for the Colorado
river does not give up the dead
no corpses lodge on its shores.
Year: 1875

1t is easy to look down on others;
to look down on ourselves is the
difficulty.


Few take care to live well, but
many to live long; though it is in
every body's power to do the lat
ter.


The best sometimes err, yet still
remain the best, while the worst
do well at times, yet still remain
the worst.


He that is good will become bet
ter, and he that is bad, worse; for
virtue, vice and time, never stop.


The sight of a drunkard is a
better sermon against that vice,
than the best that ever was
preached upon that subject.


We cannot conquer fate and
neoessity,yet we can yield to them
in such a manner as to be grestor
than if we could.


He who pleases himself, without
injuring his neighbor, is quite as
likely to please half the world as
he who vainly tries to please the
world.


When fame is regarded as the
end, and merit as only the means,
men are apt to dispense with the
latter, if the former can be had
without it.


A troubled mind is often re-
lieved by maintaining a cheerful
demeanor. The effort withdraws
its attention from the cause of
pain, and the cheerfulness which
it promotes in others extends by
sympathy to itself.


Wine is turn coat; first a friend
and then an enemy.


The first glass leads to thirst,
the second to pleasure, the third
to inebriation, the fourth to insan-
ity.


A neat, clean, fresh, sweet,
cheerful, well-arranged house ex-
erts a moral influence over its in
mates.


Nothing is more amiabls than
true modesty and nothing more
contemplate than that which is
false; the one guards virtue, the
other betraysit. True modesty is
ashamed TO do anything that is
repugnant to right reason; false
modesty is ashamed to do any
thing that is opposite to tho hu-
NOR of those with whom the party
conYerses. True modesty avoids
everything that is criminal.


The sweetest, the most clinging
affection, is often shaken by the
slightest breath of unkindness, as
the delicate rings and tendrils Of
the vine are agitated by the faint
est air that blows in summer. An
unkind word from one beloved
often draws blood from many a
heart which would defy the battle
axe of hatred, or the keenest edge
of vindictive satire. Nay, the
shade, the gloom Of the face IA.
miliar and dear awakens grief and
pain. These are the little thorns
which though men of a rougher
form may make their way through
them without feeling much, ex-
tremely incommode persons OF
more refined ideas in their journey
through life, and make their trav-
cling irksome and unpleasant.
Year: 1875

Continued reflection on the politi-
cal situation in OHIO strengthens our
conviction that the nomination of


Ben. Wade for Governor by the Re


publicans is the wisest thing that can
be done. His name has the flavor of
victory. He is the best embodiment
of Republican character and princi-
Piles in Ohio He is, in fact, n bed
rock with which the party was found
ed. He has, in large proportions, the
elements essential to popular conf
dence-unimpeachable honesty, in
vincible integrity, immovable resOlu-
ton, high personal courage, practical
abilities equal to those of the best
men in the State; long and varied ex
perience in public affairs; lofty pa
triotism, which he demonstrated in
the United States in the elimination
of the rebellion, and an untarnished
record. He has no hurtful associa-
tions with jobs, rings, or public
thieves. All that class of political
carrion have stunned and feared him,
and in Northern and North eastern
Ohio especially he enjoys personal
popularity that no other man in Ohio
has acquired, while in all other parts
of the State his popularity is certain
ly equal to that of any man who can
be named. The nomination of man
who can rally the Republican vote of
the Reserve is victory itself Benja
min F. Wade is that man. But in


Middle and Southern Ohio he also
has great political and personal pop
ularity. The people know that his
integrity is of that firm fibre that
can be relied upon. His name, in
fact, at the head of the Republican
ticket, would inspire enthusiasm un-
known to the party for several years
past. The main point now is to Sc
cure his nomination without oppoSi-
ton, and inspire the party with con
fidence from the very beginning. 1t
appears to us that it would be wise
for every other candidate to withdraw
at once from the field. While there
are others who are generally respect
ed by the Republicans of Ohio, there
is no other man who can concentrate
so much vital power upon State
canvass. The Western Reserve, Cen
tral, and South western Ohio would
hail the nomination of Mr.. Wade
with soul-stirring enthusiasm. As
Ohio is practically the Presidential
battle field, Republicans of the State
should make no mistake, but enter
upon the great trial of patriotism
against Democratic retrogrcssion,
armed at all points with the strongest
men upon the glorious principles upon
which their party was founded.
Year: 1875

THE "Devir' which a BuckhOrn
Furnace correspondent wrote about,
two weeks ago, was seen by Long
Creek gentleman as the latter was ri
ding home, one day last week. The
locality in which the strange crea-
ture was seen, was in the neighbor
hood of Vesuvius Furnace. AS the
gentleman was riding along the road,
it came out from the bushes, but dis
appeared so suddenly that our inform
ant did not sufficiently recover from
his consternation to get good look
at it. A thick body, low squatty
legs, and a long black tail was all he
could distinguish, but it was alto
gether unlike any animal he ever saw
before. We hope to have an accu-
rate description Of this interlopel
some day.-IrOnton Register.
Year: 1875

A CURIOUS automaton spider has
been invented at Paris. The spider
is life size, and is made of copper.
By pressing spring it will move
round the table in way marvelously
true to nature. 1t was made at Nu-
remburg forty five years ago, and was
bought as a toy for the Due d Au-
male. Now it has been sold for toO.
This automaton is worthy to rank
with the historic iron fly which New
around the room and perched on the
hand of its master, or the artificial
eagle which took fight from perch
in front of the Emperor Frederick
and soaring aloft for some distance
returned to its starting place.
Year: 1875

A GROCER in a certain town keeps
a little brown jug near his cider bar
rel, and when he wants to do the fair
thing by a customer, he mingles some
of the contents of the aforesaid jug
with the cider. He made mingle
the other day for an old farmer, but
cot in good deal of benzine and a
very little cider. About an hour af-
ter drinking, the farmer was observed
leaning against a fence, and was
heard to soliloquize: 'It's too early
for sunstroke, and too late to freeze
to death, and / guess it's a touch o.
the shakin' ager."
Year: 1875

EVERY year pastry cook in Dres-
den cooks up lot OF pancakes III
one of which a ducat is placed, and
advertises the same, whereupon all
of the good people of that city rush
to invest five pfenings in one of the
cakes in the hope of being the lucky
winner Of the prize.