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Year: 1872

FEMALE DELIcACY.-Above every other
feature that adorns the female character,
delicacy stands foremost within the
province of good taste. Not that delica-
cy which is perpetually in quest of some
thing to be ashamed of, which makes
merit of blush, and simpers at the
false construction its own ingenuity has
put upon an innocent remark; the spu-
rious kind of delicacy is as far removed
from good taste as from good feeling and
good sense; but the high-minded delica-
cy which maintains its pure and unde-
waiting walk alike amongst women as
in the society of men, which shrinks
from no necessary duty, and can speak
when required with seriousness and
kindness of things at which it would be
ashamed to smile or blush.
Year: 1872

A SYBARITE SUIcIDE.-The latest nov
city in suicides comes from Cleveland,
Ohio, where an individual who had
drawn a blank in i. lottery, went to his
death after the following unique and
elaborate preparations: He first pro-
cured a loaded revolver and connected it
with the clock work so that it should be
fred off at certain time. He then got
into bed, and, after placing the pistol
behind his ear, took dose of chloroform
under the influence Of the narcotic he
then went to sleep. At the given time
the clock-work pressed the trigger, dis
charing the pistol and launched the
sumberer into eternity.
Year: 1872

A man sent note to a rich neighbor
whom he was on friendly terms with, to
borrow an ass for few hours. The
worthy old man was no scholar, and hap
pened to have guest sitting with him at
the time, that he did not wish to expose
MS ignorance to. Opening the note,
and pretending to read it, after rejecting
moment, turning to the servant, Every
good says he, "tell your master iii
come myself presently"
Year: 1872

!, A wife wanted her husband to sympa.


mise with her in a feminine quarrel, but


ne refused, saying, "I've lived long
enough to learn that one woman is lust
as good as another, if not better" and
4 retorted the exasperated wife, shave
nVed long enough to learn that one man
Is Just as bad as another, if not worse!p
Year: 1872

A wedding was to take place one even.
Ing ing lately, and bride, parson and guests
were ready, when it was announced that
.ne unhappy groom was on jury which
was unable to agree, and had been locked
up for tho night. 8r7
Year: 1872

The Cincinnati Commercial reviews the
history of this road in the following terse
language


What is known as the Ferguson Bill
was passed by both Houses Of the Legisla-
ture of Ohio authorizing the city of Gin
cinnati to issue bonds for ten million dol
lars to build and equip a railroad to Chat
tanOOga. The people Of the city voted to
proceed under the act to build the road,
and five Trustees, not one of whom was a
practical railroad man, were appointed by
the Superior Court. They labored in much
travail with the Kentucky Legislature and
produced nothing but a ridiculous muss.


A year passed by and again the labor
came at its appointed time, resulting in
the production of a charter SO overloaded
with eXcrescences that its parents and all
the Ohio portion of the family are dis
gusted, and the representatives of the city
in Council assembled have requested, by q
vote of nearly four to one, the Trustees to
disown the hantling. The public senti-
ment in the city has changed so much in
the meantime that the project is regarded
as virtually abandoned, and the vote of
the City Council is a fair index of the
feeling to-day among business men and
taxpayers. Some of the reasons for this
are, that great rival railroad corporations
centering here can not stop without new
connections with the South; that for
bonus of one-tenth the proposed sum, pri-
vale parties are ready to build the road;
that $4,000, 900 will not build the road and
the amopnt spent will not be justified by
any receipts; that it will be road run
ming through and necessarily controlled
by another State; that there is nothing to
prevent Louisville from tapping it after it
is built; that the road can not possibly be
controlled in the interest of Cincinnati;
that the whole theory is founded on false
idea of government, and that for many
other reasons it ought not to be put into
practice
Year: 1872

4 self-constituted committee, apparently
with little to do, have undertaken to protect the
good name and fame of our good people, by Il
resort to species of mob law that has been
played out in this section for some years These
men might find some more profitable business
for themselves, certainly for the community,
than instigating violence of any kind. Such a
course can never be tolerated by peaceablc, SEN
sible men for moment, and this fact must for
all time be understood. Their time could be
better employed in labor for themselves and
families. No matter what provocationS are
alleged (and in this case they are bluntly de-
nied) the course pursued was foolish and
wrong.
Year: 1872

4 new and careful bridegroom in Cleve-
land kept the wedding ring in his mouth
during the fore-part of the ceremony, SO
that he could find it when the proper mo,
ment arrived. He mumbled along all
right until the minister winked at hln, as
a hint to produce the ring, When IN hls
nervousness he swallowed it, and there
being no stomach-pump on hand, he was
stood on his head by three groomsmen TO
recover the golden pledge"
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
sy lnc9ntnence OF Urine Brlsht8 disease, Albuminu-
the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there


morbid dark, bilious appearance. and white Bone
dust deposits. and where there is prcking burning
sensat on and pain in the small of the back and alonE


liam Resolvent aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Railways
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled 10 hold
and discharge water naturally without pain apd the
Urine will be restored TO its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

We shall print tomorrow morning full
and exhaustive expose of one of the most ne
farious traffics carried on in this city, to the
downright robbery from our citizens OF NIL
lions of dollars annually, and the grave peril
of health. Several weeks of careful inquiry
by reporters, accompanied in their investga-
tions by public officers, and thorough analyses
by a scientific chemist, have established, be-
yond any sort Of doubt, that the milk trade Of
this city, as conducted by the middlemen who
serve families Herewith, is one mOnstrous
and fragrant swindle. More than seventy-fve
thousand quarts of water are daily sold as
adulteration in our milk, at positive loss in
money of nearly, if not quite, ten thousand
dollars day, and incalculable cost of health
and life.


The Health Board of this city has failed
utterly to suppress this dangerous aduteration
of this article of our daily food, though Boston
and other smaller cities have succeeded in
doing so. THE TRIBUNE, encouraged by the
result of its efforts at breaking up the dan
gerous sale of kerosene oil, now proposes to
try what virtue there is in exposure of the
milk dealers, and in the article promised for
tomorrow will give the names of scores Of
those detected in the act of adulterating their
milk at the depots, and of selling the impure
article subsequently at their stores. The ut
most care has been taken to secure correct
ness in this matter, and all the facts to be
published are vouched for on sworn afiidavits
of the officers who accompanied the reporters,
and of the chemist who analyzed the samples
of milk purchased by them.
Year: 1872

We hope that no considerations of domestic
politics may enter into the debate and the
vote this week upon the subject lof the sup
Elemental article to the Alabama Treaty.
There has been too much of that already. If
Gen. Grant had not been eager to profit
politically by this negotiation, our Case at
Geneva would have been free from the objec-
tionable features which have so exasperated
the English. If Mr.. Gladstone had not
been afraid of q defeat in the House of Com
mons he would not have Joined in the excited
clamor over the Case, which subsequently rem
dered it impossible for him to recede with
dignity. If Gen. Grant and Mr. Fish had not
come to the conclusion that the abandon
ment of the Treaty would injure the Ad-
ministration in the canvass. the British
Government would not have possessed
the enormous advantage they used so
numerically in brOw-beating our President
and Secretary into compliance with their de-
mands. Every error in this whole unfortunate
business, on both sides, has proceeded from
the real or supposed exigencies of the political
situation. We earnestly hope that we have
reached a stage in the affair when final de-
cision may be speedily arrived at I; and it would
be greatly to be deplored if any considerations
of politics should enter into those deliberations
by which the Senate is to close the contro-
versy.


The questions properly before the Senate
are these:


I. Was there anything in the Treaty, the
Protocols, and our Case, taken altogether,
which justified England in repudiating the
Arbitration or presenting as an alternative
the supplementary articleY


II. VIII the adoption of this additional arti-
Gle inure in future to the substantial and last
ing benefit of the United States


If it could be made to appear that the true
answer to these questions was in the atfirma-
tive. the Senate should at once advise the
framing of such treaty and should promptly
ratify it. 1t Is because, and only because, we
think the answers to both must be negative,
that we hope the supplementary article may
be rejected, whatever be the consequences of
such action.


To sustain this ground. we prefer, for the
moment, to restrict ourselves to the arguments
and statements of the Secretary of State,
writing under the orders of the President.
In his dispatch of the 27th of February, Mr..
Fish strongly and firmly states his reasons for
including the claims for indirect damages in
the American Case. The English Commission
ers had rejected our proposition for an AMIGA
bic settlement by the payment of sum in
gross; both nations therefore agreed upon a
litigation before arbitratOrs. The Treaty
amounted :" on both sides to frank, full, and
unTeserved surrender under the rules therein
prescribed, of everything that had created the
differences !" the indirect, or national, claims
Year: 1872

the innocent reader SUPPOSED Merely The
Byooklyn Eaole itself! That did MT seem to
us a profitable field for the display of further
enterprise;- but perhaps it does to The
World: and therefore we gladly seek
to encourage its tardy spirit OF
inquiry into Brooklyn abuses by generous
offer. We will make over to any accredlted
representative of The World all the facts our
reporters ascertained about the Hampstead res
eryoir. together with the exposures of the
same by The Brooklyn Eagle in good large
type, nicely adapted to the simplest com
prehension in its Office, on the single
condition that it print them. 1t is true tins
will make it good deal like a journal OF
ancient history; but perhaps that VIII DC
no objection to The WorId,-and its
readers really ought to know some
thing about the Brooklyn frauds. Why will
it persist in longer hiding from them the
facts 7 Send over to us, and you shall have
the clippings with hearty good will.


We have been and are on the track OF
what we believe to be other frauds in
Brooklyn but we have not heard OF
either aid OF rivalry from The World in
this business, nor do we expect any. When
we are sure about them, we shall print
what we can prove, without the slightest refer
ence to the Rings it may make or break. VIII
The World, in its newborn zeal for Brooklyn
purity, second our efforts by republishing 7
There is an excellent organization of tax-pay-
ers in Brooklyn, known as the Committee OF
Fifty. We have a number of charges against
Brooklyn Ring officials, derived from its MEM
bers, which we have not been able to verify.
VIII it aid us, by using its sources of infor-
nation to put these allegations into authentic
shapel
Year: 1872

1t is well that the House of Representatives
is so much moro jealous of its reputation for
careful legislation than is the Senate. If it
were not, it would not be the sieve which re-
tains so many doubtful "jobs" from the other
end of the Capitol. The passage of bill for
the nominal relief of those who have igno-
ranty settled on Iowa railroad lands, by the
Senate, the other day, affords a good instance
of the ease with which these little schemes
get through the Upper House unchallenged.
And we must call this a suspicious bill, al
though it was championed only by those two
honest gentlemen, Messrs. PomerOy and Har-
lam
Year: 1872

Latest Washington dispatches indicate that
the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee have
sufficient perspicacity to discover that the new
Article to the Treaty of Washington is " uni
lateral" to borrow Mr.. Summers descrip-
ton. In brief, it is discovered, at last,
that while the door to satisfaction for indl-
rect damages is forever closed to the United
States, it is kept op,n for Great Britain.
This view of the case is tardy, and 1t is
possible that the alarm at Washington may
overbear it, Senators who have not found out
until now that the Supplemental Treaty is
simple surrender, cannot be trusted for any
adequate treatment of the proposal to surren-
der when they discover it.
Year: 1872

Some thousands of bricklayers and carpen-
ters will be "On strike" to-day, for elght
hours work at ten hours wages. We are just
at the beginning of building season OF
unusual activity, and speedy and peaceful
adjustment of this conflict between the boss"
masons and carpenters and their employees IS
very desirable. We regret that the treaty
which must be made at the end Oh tne
struggle could not have been made at It's DE-
ginning, without a resort to hostile measures.
If struggle there must be, we trust 1t VIII not
be disgraced by any act of violence toward
employers, OF toward fellOw-mechanics who
may choose to accept the wages offered them.
Argument and appeal will be strictly in ORDER
but rash resort to briclbats and bludgeons
cannot fail to react with crushing effect on
the assailantS.
Year: 1872

Whatever you may say of John Thomas, you can
not deny that he is genteel. There are few domes-
tics so faithful and gifted He was allowed TO go
to a party given by the Oneida Boat Club the other
day. and this is the way he describes what he saw
The thrilling moment is just after dinner:


"The wants Of the inner ladies and gentlemen being
satisfied the latter, warned by the tempting strains
which were heard from the other house, which, In the
Interim had been dvested OF its superuous furniture
encrced little waist each, and oated into the lntox
eating allurements OF Terpsichore'


If f"inner ladies and gentlemen" is not sweetly
pretty and refined, what is And how gallantly
monogamic the honest creature is when he allows
the g'n'lm'n "a little waist each" He has loyal
eyes, too for to him all the representatives OF the
fair sex seemed to possess far more than average at
fractions for so large gathering" 1t must be
cheering thought even to the whitening wall-hower
that, however beaux may wander, she is still beauti-
full and adorable in the eyes of that plushed and
powdered votary of Ugh Life our own and only John
Thomas.
Year: 1872

It would seem that labor matters are complicated
enough already, but the master masons of Chicago,
dreadng a strike of their worllmen, have resolved
that they will sign contracts hereafter unless they
contain provision exempting the builders from all
damages in case of general strike This will drive
three parties to loggerheads instead of two, but
whether it will solve the problem, upon rational
principles of the wages of labor is somewhat doubt
full
Year: 1872

The suppression of the Street Cleaning Com
mission is greatly to be rejOiced over, for it
was expensive and cumbrOus, and most in
efiectual in giving us clean streets. Its duty
now devolves on the Police Board, and we
hope to see it well done. Properly the clean
ing of the streets is sanitary measure, and
should be under the direction Of the Health
Department, or at least under Its influence /;
but the police can secure what we want, if
properly directed, and the preliminary pIo-
visions already made by the Board appear prac-
fical and promising. Still, we are not disposed
20 congratulate ourselves too soon over the
good intentions of the new street cleaners.
Ratber we shall wait and watch to see that
the promises are faithfully kept.


That portion of the continent which within
the memory of comparatively young men was
Jettered On the maps Great American Desert"
is likely to be crossed in every direction by
iron roads, if one may accept indications III
CONGRESS. Our dispatches make mention OF
seven or eight schemes-in greater or less for
wardness-designed to pierce that region which
may DC roughly described as bounded on the
Year: 1872

The usual eagle has again appeared, with outspread
wings and crookt talons, and threatening beak, to
carry away the usual baby. Since the days OF the
story and the picture of the Sunday-school books
the eagle has never succeeded in carrying OIL the
child 1t queer, however that eagles do not appear
unless children are out playing. At least they are
never seen except by some faithful dog or LOVING
mother, who defends the infant. This time the
eagle appeared in a town on the Hudson, and the
mother with the usual difficulty, rescued the child
1t is sometimes the case that the eagle story resem-
bles that of the three black crows; we have known
the eagle to be a hawk, and the child to be feeding
chickens; we have heard of the eagle being only a
hen defending her chicks from the infant; but in
the last case paper having told the story ruth
less cotemporary says 1T was only gilt tin eagle.
Year: 1872

We find printed IN The Jerish Messenger the
address at the Fifteth Anniversary of the He
brew Benevolent Society of NewYork, delivered on
the 18th ult, by Judge DAILY. In this the first emf
grafton of Jews to New-York is stated to have oc-
Cured during the first half century of its existence
The address appears to be full of fresh historical
interest
Year: 1872

As we have said something about the controversy
concerning the Athanasan Greed in the English
Convocation it may be proper to inform our readers
that the Convocation voted, 62 20 a. to retain the
Creod entire There was vote taken, We suppose
upon the question of believing IL.
Year: 1872

If we may credit the story, the Communists of
Lyons are doing a very profitable business. They
offer to the prominent merchants of Lyons to insure
their property against all damage or destruction by
fire in case of a Red rising This they do in return
for stipulated monthly payment. and some mer-
chants il is stated pay as much as f200 year for
this insurance against petroleum. But this is not
the only way in which the Communists, 1t IS said,
make the bourgeois feel their power. They demand
of the insured that at the municipal elections they
shall vote as the Committee direct, being required
to show the voting-papers to Communist agent
lust before dropping them into the urn This IS the
story told by NJ Francisque Sarcey, writing IN the
XIX Steele. We do not pretend to say how much oil
it is to be doubted and how much accepted as true
Year: 1872

The downfall of the Coliseum will not, it appears
from an advertisement in another column prevent
the prompt opening of the great Peace Jubilee at
Boston on Monday, June II. Among other prepars-
tons arrangements for the Press are not to be over
looked A large room will be specially set apart ior
correspondents and reporters, and the teegraphic
and postal facilities will be ample and complete
Year: 1872

AMOUNT OF SLEEP.-Those who think m . st require the most sleep. The time saved from necessary sleep is destructive to mind, body, and estate. Give yourself, your children, your servants-give all un. der you, the fullest amount of sleep thev will take, by compelling them to go to bed at some regular, early hour, and to rise in the morning the moment they wake; and within fortnight, nature, with almost the regularity of the rising sun, will loose the bonds of sleep the moment enough repose has been secured for the wants of the system. This is the only safe and eff cient rnle; and as to the question how much sleep any one requires, each 1nuss be rule for himself-great Nature will never fail to write it out to the observer under the regulation just given.-Scien- tifc Aneric0n.
Year: 1872

Bancroft Davis seems to be the evil genius of the Government. It was his pen that wrote up the consequential claims of the American Case with such acrid particularly of detail that the state nent creates revulsion in the mind of whoever reads it; and he ordered thepub- ication of Minister Marsh's confidential note which disturbs the cordial relations of that invaluable officer with the Italian government. Some men are genial as Q frosty morning and sympathetic as He.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of The Detroit Tribune describes at some length fearful curse of hydrophobia, where the man was in con- vulsions, barking like a dog," frothing at the mouth, and making strenuous efforts to bite everything..that came near. Dur ing these convulsions the patient would seize the pillows from his bed in his teeth and shake and rend them with all the seeming ferocity of an angry dog. An intense dread of water also exhibited itself

 The doctors decided to place the patient upon the same treatment which had been successful in former case, which, for the aid it may be to others who suffer from this disease, we here give, as fol- lows The injection under the skin of large doses of morphine, and the admin

 istration of large doses of castor, which is 8 powerful anti-spasmodic. About one grain of the sulphate of morphine was in- iected under the skin once in four hours, and a half 8 drachm of the powdered castor, mixed with syrup, given internal ly. The effect was to produce sleep in about half an hour, when the convul- sions returned at intervals of about an hour and half until nine o'clock Sunday morning when the last convulsions occur red, after which he suffered severely from obstinate vomiting until Monday at ten o'clock, when that also ceased, leaving him comparatively easy, but much prostra- ted. Since that time he has gradually improved, and is now, to all appearances, quite we'll. In addition to the above treatment small quantities of chloroform were inhaled at times, and on Sunday morning the patient was wrapped in wool en blanket wrung out of warm solution of muriate of amonia, eighteen or twenty grains to the ounce. This was the treat ment which checked this fearful malady, and which the doctors, for the sake of humanity are anxious should hepublished to the world and thoroughly tested.