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Year: 1873

Some days ago respectable ma


tron of st. Paul, Mimi, who adver-


tised in a paper of that city for a


girl to do general housework, was


aghast at finding in the first appli-


cant for employment fine looking


young woman, not only dressed in


the latest fashions, but also having


the manners Of the best society.


Anticipating at least demand for
the use of piano and sewing-ma-
chine, not to speak of hot and cold
water and stationary wash-tubs,
from handmaiden of this SUPER
lative description, the discomfited
old lady was beginning an agitated
rejection of her visitor, when, to
her increased embarrassment, the
latter suddenly burst into tears and
fairly begged to be employed. She
asked it only for q few days, she
said, until she could write to her
friends, and then poured her whole
story into the ears of the astonish-
ed matron. Her home was near st.
Louis, where recent parental in
firmities made it necessary for her
to contribute something to the
maintenance of the family and,
having seen in st. Louis journal
an advertisement for governess,
which some unknown friend sent
marked to her, she had answered
the same with an application.
To her delight she was at once ac-
cepted by the gentleman advertis-
ing, who wrote, however, that. it
would be necessary for her to go
up the river to st. Paul, where his
family were spending the summer,
and directed her to take the steam
boat from st. Louis on a certain
day, that he might meet her there
on further up the country, where
he was tarrying on business. In
flush and expectancy Of her first
effort away from home she had
taken no account of the popularity
of this preliminary arrangement,
but gone upon the boat as told.
At the upper landing designated
her employer did come aboard as
promised, aud proved, to her con-
10 be a certain eccen-
trio and rich old widower of her ac-
quaintance, whom, under his true
name, she had several times check
ed in matrimonial overtures.


Noting her dismay when he in
troduccd himself ms her late advcr-
Year: 1873

A French physician is out in .
long dissertation on the advantages
of groaning and crying in general,
and especially during surgical oper-
ations. He contends that groaning
and crying are two grand opera
tions by which nature allays an
guish that those patients who
give away to their natural feelings
more speedily recover from acci-
dents and operations than those
who suppose it unworthy a man to
betray such symptoms of coward
ice as either to groan or cry. He
tells Of a man who reduced his
pulse from one hundred and twen-
ty-six to sixty, in the course of o
few hours, by giving full vent to
his emotions. If people are at all
unhappy about anything, let them
go to their room and comfort
themselves with q loud boohoo.
and they will feel a hundred per
cent, better afterward.


In accordance with the above,
the crying of children should not
be too greatly discouraged. If it is
Systematically repressed the result
may be st. Vitus' dance epileptic
fits, or some other disease of tho
nervous system. What is naturalis
always useful; and nothing can be
more natural than the crying Of
children when anything occurs to
give them either physical or men
tai pain.
Year: 1873

OuH SOuhDhOhh LUZ
The world for us and we for il,
Poor self We throb and thrill;
Believing fate or circumstance
Governs all human will;
Nor do we see how large q space
OF life is yet to Ill.
Till haply through some sense Of loss.
Some sweet hope in its shroud,
The hidden hand draws near to us,
In shadow and in cloud,
We find how vain our human strength,
And weep and cry aloud.
we-weep and cry aloud to Him,
To whom none cry in vain;
And one by one. we break the links
That bind US in the chain
OF worldly things that hold US back
From our eternal gain.
Yet as we soar to heights unknown.
We suffer while we rise;
Learning our high resolve and hope
Trough our great agonies;
Finding where Christ in triumph leads,
In pain the human dies.
Year: 1873

public.


In another column we print q letter from
our Paris correspondent giving an admirable
sketch of the career and character of the
soldier who has just been made President Of
tho French Republic for seven years. Re-
publics have always had more or less marked
tendency to close the cycle OF their glories,
great or small, under the auspices of fortunate
soldiers; and it seems disheartening refec-
ton that in the elevation of Marshal Mao
Mahon by an Assembly that does not repre-
sent the public will, and that yet bestows on
an individual power practically without con-
troll, there is SO likely to be once more in the
history of France miscarriage of the
national aspiration toward free government
But it is said that MacMahon's fidelity is 80
far above reproach that this itself is guaran-
tee. 1t is pity when any mans fidelity is
put toward the nation in the place that should
be occupied by more substantial sureties. No
one can speculate what may be the outcome
of this reliance on fidelity, nor even toward
whom the Marshal may conceive his fidelity is
dua If he be faithful to the Republic, very
well; butif he be faithful to the Assembly and
to that majority of the Assembly that has
given him power, the case may be very differ
ent, for on the one side is the nations hope
and on the other side the tradition of Bour-
bon royalty. Toward which Of these the in
stincts and the education of the Duke of
Magenta may incline the reader win know
better when he has read the excellent and in
structive letter To which we refer.
Year: 1873

A SoUTHERNER FOR THE PRESIDENCY. -
Some of the Southern papers are discussing
the propriety of having the next President
come from their part of the country, and
Alexander H. Stephens, Of Georgia, seems to
have been mutually agreed upon as suitable
candidate. There are not bones enough in
the body OF the dauntless little Southern
giant--and he has nothing else except skin
and brains upon his frame and headwork-to
make respectable rattle in the contribution
box OF country church. But his friends
will have their say, nevertheless; and it will
not be the first time, if they succeed, that he
has been offered q similar distinction, and
that too, by q regular democratic national
convention, fact not generally known in
our political history.
Year: 1873

Of Cuba to the United states.


1t is clear that the English journals have
had keener appreciation of the opportuni-
ties offered by the Santiago butchery than the
larger portion of the American press. There
are reasons for this which are very potent
England has strong interest in the COM
merce Of the West Indian main, and she
knows that under the government Of the
United States Cuba would speedily become
tranquil island. 1t is feeling of this nature
which leads the Daily Telegraph to say that
this country (England) can afford to take a
perfectly impartial attitude The
Pearl of the Antilles as slave State of the
Union would have been formidable competi-
tor and dangerous neighbor to our own free
possessions in the West Indian main. But as
things now ore considerations of policy as
well as humanity would lead us to look with
favorable eye on the transfer of Cuba from
the rule of Madrid to that of Washington y
Nor are the other leading newspapers less
emphatic, as will be found in our columns this
morning. We might inquire, then, if the Eng
lish people without distinction of party favor
the annexation of the richest island in the
world-one containing one million five hun
dred thousand people-to the sovereign
States of q Power always considered her rival,
and often her enemy, as mere measure of
compensation for the perpetration Of horrible
crime, what should be the sentiment. Of the
United States in the matter? If from timidity
or the obsequious attitude of contrite Spain
we do not realize annexation now, is it wild
fancy to assume that some fagrant outrage of
another Burriel will not end the dominion OF
the Dons in the Archipelago?
Year: 1873

DEMOCRATIC BACK Down ON THE BACK
PAY.-The democratic caucus in Washington
on Saturday night was notable for its egre-
gious back down upon the question of the
back-pay grab. If the democrats do not take
care the republicans will manufacture politi-
cal thunder for themselves out of that delicate
little financial transaction. How Pen Butler
must laugh in his sleeve!
Year: 1873

committed to the general policy Of the admin
istration. there viii be no excuse available for
the dominant party If shall fail to satisfy the
American people in its measures upon our
foreign and domestic affairs. The session
may be prolonged into midsummer, and work
which will extend through several sessions
WILL we expect, be cut out in the Presidents
Message.
Year: 1873

his duty under the law and properly investigate
the serious charges made against the Comp
troller. in whose leading strings he has been
hitherto supposed to be driven.


If the investigation is to be made, and
made impartially, we invite the Mayor to
further inquire whether the retainer given by
the Comptroller last Saturday to this same
special counsel to appear on behalf of the city
in the mandamus cases before Judge Barrett
was authorized by the Corporation Counsel,
and whether the assignment of such special
counsel to the Comptrollers department has
been made in accordance with the provisions
Of the charter-by the law officer Of the city gov
ernment. If, as we are informed, the Corpo-
ration Counsel has made no such assignment,
but, on the contrary, has advised the Comp
troller that the city has no good defence to
the suits in which mandamuses were applied
for before Judge Barrett, then Mr.. Green has
again clearly violated the provision of the law
to which we have referred; has done SO in
obstinate defiance Of the opinion Of the legal
adviser Of the Corporation and at needless
waste of the public money, and should be at
once removed from Office.
Year: 1873

THE TEmD TRIAL OF STOKES. The defend
ant Stokes, having been granted new trial
by the Court of Appeals, again puts himself
and his cause before the courts and the people
Of the State upon the issue Of third trial
upon the charge Of shooting to death Colonel
James Fisk, Jr, in the Grand Central Hotel
in this city, in January, 1872. Whatever new
facts can be developed as are claimed to be
in favor of Stokes, procurable now, and which
were beyond the reach Of counsel for the de-
fence in the two former trials, will be soon
made apparent The public will hail with as
much pleasure satisfactory proofs Of 'justifi-
able homicide as they are anxious for the
vindication of justice in bringing to punish
ment the perpetrator of the highest crime


known to the law. The trial was opened
yesterday and will proceed without delay to
The end
Year: 1873

HARTFORD VICTORIOUS. The popular vote
of Connecticut (near six thousand majority
in favor of Hartford as the State capital, in
stead Of dividing the honors with New Haven,
as heretofore, is a great victory for Hartford,
and the city should do something as testi-
monial of its appreciation of the popular ver-
dict. A handsome park would be good idea,
and the example would be good ons to all
our other State capitals that have not adopted
this most beautiful and valuable Of all modern
CITY improvements.
Year: 1873

The DESTRUCTIVE FIRE in our neighboring
village Of Mount Vernon yesterday was owing
mainly to the absence of water. They had
fremen on the ground in time, but they had
no water. Experience is the mother of wis
dom, but we have to pay very dearly for her
instructions in neglecting them too long.
Year: 1873

The AMERICAN JOCKEY CLuB.-As will be


seen by the report in another part of the


paper, the races yesterday at Jerome Park
were witnessed by an unusually large assem-
blage Of people, notwithstanding the dispirit-
ing effect Of the weather in the first part OF
the week. The five races were well run, and
save that in the hurdle race at the close of the
days proceedings, wherein one of the jockeys
was thrown and fallen on by his horse,
nothing happened to mar a day Of exception.
oily good sport and admirably suitable weather
Year: 1873

THE RAM THAT BUTTED.-Thc Danbury
NeeSs, gets off the following good thing:


"a retired clergyman sends us an account
of little affair that happened in his place.
1t appearsl that there was a young woman,
a fne.spirited girl, engaged alta wash-tub
opposite an open door. Just behind her
was young man, as is generally the case,
and in the yard was an old buck that was
allowed the freedom of the premises, which
is not always the case, we arc glad to say.
Well, this buck came up to the door, and
looked in, and the young man going close
behind the young woman, pointed his finger
straight at the buck, and the old fellow re.
cognizing at once the pressing character Of
this mute invitation, put down his head and
dashed forward. and the miserable fellow
stepped to one side and fed, and the young
woman all unconscious of the arrangement,
received the awful shock without warning,
and passed over the tub, and the air for an
instant appeared to be full of slippers and
wet clothes, and soap. ami hot water, and
suds. And the next minute that goat came
flying out of that door at dreadful speed.
bald the whole length of his spine, and with a
wild look in his eve. And for an hour af-
terwards he stood bach of the barn scratch
ing his chin, and trying to recall all the cir
cumstanees in the unfortunate affair.""
Year: 1873

A MIRAaE-The St. Louis Globe Of
Wednesday says: might before last there
was much excitement on the leyee Some
gentlemen standing near the river looked.up
stream and saw what they thought was a
great ice gorge coming down, slowly but
surely, toward the city. They gave the alarm,
and many interested parties came down to
the levee to witness the grand spectacle
The more they looked up stream, the more
they saw.the wonderful sight. 1t looked
like ice-broken cakes of ice 1t seemed to
be moving, and there appeared to be great
commotion in the current, as if the river was
on rise. But the spectators, after gazing
an hour or SO, began to get tired, and
thought the gorge was long time coming.
All at once, and while their straining eye
balls were about to hurst, the fog lifted from
the river, and the light of the stars revealed
the Hater, rnebsttucted and moving towards
the gulf. = ~


The sightseeing citizens had beheld mi
rage. What such phenomenon is, the
reader can learn by referring to copy of
Webster's dictionary. A mirage is beau
tiful thing to look at, but ayou cant most
always tell' whether it will amount anything
or not
Year: 1873

Michael G. Brod erick. the Son-Slayer, In.
dicted for Murder I'm the First Degree
Turning Laughter into Tears-The Cor
sner's Jury n Nonentity-The Mother
in-Law's Testimony.


Another wonderful exemplifcation of the uncer-
tanty OF justice in New York took place Yesterday
Readers of the HERALD are well acquainted with
the case OF Michael G. Broderck, which has already
been fully reported in these columns. 1t now ap-
pears he may possibly suffer for his crime. The
Coroner's jury brought in at the inquest verdict
which was virtually an acquttal, saying that Brod
erck had killed his son in self-defence, believing
his own life to be in danger. But neither the
HERALD nor the Dstrict-Attorney could see things
in the same light as the Coroner's jury, and
the Distrct-Attorney decided In consequence
OF the HERALD's expose OF how the thing was done,
to prosecute the case to the mrthest, and At all
events not leave for public condemnation loop
hole so large by which criminal could creep out
evident In this case that the family had banded to-
gether, feeling they could not bring the dead son
back so at all events to save the Iather. Commenda
bic as this plan was In the family which united to
condemn one Of their number (the son john In
order to get Michael Broderick on, the ends Of
justice could not be served by such q proceeding;
so that wnen Coroner Young went to the District
Attorney and asked how IN ch bail he should take,
hee e az ali to e any a1n
the Coroner's jury, but should AFFORD the Grand
Jury


MORE THOROUGH OPPORTUNITY


OF examining oil the iacts OF the case, and then
bring in what indictment It pleased. Before this
indictment he should take action, but would not
consider the question Of bail beforehand Upon
this the Coroner retired and there the matter iay
The District Attorney then, noticing the great
discrepancy which existed between the ne wspa per
account Of the crime and the evidence OF the
family concerning 1t, decided to find out where the
reporters got their facts as published


THE REPORTERS,


therefore, on two or three of the more promi.
nent journals were subpGnaed to appear
before the Grand Jury on Monday yesterday


After the members OF the family had given their
evdence-as already reported-before the Grand
Jury yesterday morning, the reporter OF the
HERALD was called, and testified that the morn
ing of the murder he heard nothing at a about the
-pihas Vtsh 4 lon1e4 0nh ~ RSAA 4 Eep0klnk
Year: 1873

The first step to be taken in self-im-
provement is to try as hard as the SELF
teacher can to understand every word
he reads, and, as a consequence OF this,
TO put aside all books and all writers
that he cannot understand. Such books
burden and fill the mind with useless
lumber. Such writer's themselves, too,
1t NAV be added, do not always express
clearly what they wish to convey, and
therefore are obscure, wordy and dry
to the humble student. The duty OF
the self-educatOr, therefore, is to seize
keagerlv that which he does understand,
and to nOurish his mind with it, and to
reject that which he cannot cOmpre-
hend, to defer it till he shall be able to
master it. How to read book is a
much heavier task than many take ii to
be. From careless readers we have now
| MANY careless writer's but where the
book is good it deserves to be well
treated. One may take it also as fact,
that the reader really takes up book
to use it, not to gallop through it. 1t is
we'll he should know what he is about :;
that he should read and think over the
title-page, acguaint himself If he can
with some little history of the author,
some hint as to whether he is trustwOr-
tby or biased. Then he should carefully
read the preface and master the idea
that the author had when he wrote the
book. He should then glance over the
contents, look at the subdivision OF
chapters, and finally read the book if he
choose to do so. This, which may seem
a roundabout way to some, is in reality
the shortest way. Some books, says
Lord Bacon, are to be tasted, some read
and digested. Suppose the work IS OF
the common class, without any thought
in it. The self-imprOver will save all
his time by preliminary study often
times the title will tell him all he
wants to know; more often, the title,
the preface and table of contents will
assure him that he has little to learn,
and he will put aside the book and pass
on to worthier food. For books are
like men, sometimes their prefaces and
addresses are by far the worthiest parts
of them. As the reader progresses in
his studies and gains in experience, ne
will find that there grows up to him al
most an intuition, by which, he can tell,
in a very few pages at least, bad, emp
ty and pretentiOus book from one that
will inform and render him wiser.
Hahn Fris,UeU.
Year: 1873

True study is an eminently leisurely
process, the great condition of success
in it being deliberation, and though it
always sufficiently interests the student
to keep his faculties lively, it seldom
excites him to any dangerous degree.
Hence l believe that genuine study is
much less injurious to health than is
often supposed Certainly much less in
furious than many things which are
scarcely reputed injurious at all. The
processes of genuine and well directed
study positively save the brain by their
rational and orderly sequence, by the
safe advance from step to step. Study
of this kind is like a well-built stair.
case by which You can climb to a great
height with minimum of fatigue, nev-
er lifting the body more than few
inches at a time. But as there might
be such thing as racing up stair
case, so when we study against time,
there is strain in the mere speed, how.
ever good may be the system We are
following. There may also be strain
on the faculties in the direction OF
them toward kind of study which is
not adaptt d to our natural gifts. If We
learn what nature qualified us to learn,
and learn it step by step, without hurry,
We incur a minimum of cerebral fatigue,
and gain maximum of requirement.
Study of this kind gently stimulates
and does not fatigue, unless prolonged
for an unreasonable length of time. II
is positively favorable to health, be-
cause it is favorable to cheerfulness. IT
makes life pleasanter and more inter
esting, and so far from being injurious
to the nervous system, gives it tone and
vigor, exactly as manly exercises give
tone and vigOr to the muscular system.
There can be no doubt that men were
intended to bear intellectual labor with
out injury to their health We are con-
stituted to think and to learn just rs a
fish is constituted to swim or a bird to
hy.-LOndOn Globe.
Year: 1873

A LAUDABLE AMBITIoN.-I honor the
man whose ambition it is not to win
laurels in the state or the army, not to
be iurist or a naturalist, not to be a
poet or a commander, but to be master
of living well, and to administer the
offices of master or servant, of husband,
father and friend. But it requires as
much breadth of power for this as for
those other functions, as much, or more,
and the reason for the failure is the
same. I think the vice of our house
keeping is, that it does not hold man
sacred. The vice of government, the
vice of education, the vice of religion
is one with that of private life.-Enaer-
| SON
Year: 1873

moon, a wall sinking here, or crater
vanishing elsewhere? The wonder
rather is that the steep and lofty luna
mountains have not been shaken long
aimee to their very foundations.


Our moon presents, in fact, a strange
problem for our investigation. 1t is
gratifying to us terrestrials to regard
her as a mere satellite of the earth, but
in reality she deserves rather to be re-
garded as a companion planet.
Year: 1873

An exchange says that the dying
words of Delaware woman were: Hen
nv, if you marry again, remember that
it only takes a cupful of sugar to sweet
quart of gooseberries. 1t is painful
to think of human being departing
this life with such n whopper on her
lips, when every lady knows that the
more sugar you put to gooseberry
the sourer it becomes.
Year: 1873

There was "A fierce monster, who made
His home in vale, woodland and glade.
He laughed in his terrible might
Aud chilled every heart with alright
As he scattered the powdery snow


Iio. no!
Three poor little maids lost their way,
As homeward they wandered one da
How lovely they were, and how sweet!
This monster said, "These ! will eat,
But Ill wait until darkness sets in


To begin"
The little maids heard him, and wept;
Then closer together they crept,
And each kissed the others pale cheek.
u who could harm darlings so meek?
Close under a snow-bank they tried


To hide.
The sun went down, lurid and cold;
shrOud of snow round them were rolled
They heard the grim monster go by,
These three little maids to espy;
But, blinded with anger, no three


Found he.
Now the morning sun warmed them, and 10
They peeped from then shelter Of snow
These darlings were snowdrops; and he
Who bowed to his will every tree
Pine maple, and locust, and larch-


Was March


Little Corporal.
Year: 1873

If YOUNG ladies don't smoke, what is
the reason they so frequently have little
round holes burnt in the front ireadth
of their summer dresses? ASKS the
Once.a-week. We should think it showed
merely that the young ladies had been
among the sparks. Only this and moth
ing more.