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Year: 1876

Men of science speak of epidemic
waves, and of scarlet fever being COM
munIcated by the few drops of milk
which you pour into your tea, or cream
diffused in dish of strawberries. On
late occasion, at a fashionable din
ner-party in London, as many as eight
OF ten guests, and seven members of
the household, took scarlet fever. OBJ
viOusly, the infection must have been
caught at the dinner-party but hor
was the puZZliBg matter of inquiry,
for no one in the family of the host
was known to have been affected with
the disorder. Was the disease brought
to the house by q waiterf Was it con-
veyed in the table-linen from the
washerwOmanf Was it somehow IN
cOrpOrated in the cream that had been
used in the desserti An investiga-
tiOn on these and other points, as we
understand. was made, but not with
any satisfactory result. The cream was
thought to be most likely the vehicle
of infection; but how could any one be
certain on the point? The cream en-
don is possibly made up of half dozen
creams from as many dairies and in
quiry ends only in vague conjecture.
Rather a hazardous thing, one would
say, going out to dinner where you
may run the chance of being killed in
a manner so very mysterious. People,
in their innocence, are not aware of
the manner in which contagious dis
eases may be communicated by public
cOnveyances, by articles of dress, by
dwellings. by the very atmosphere.
We have Just heard an instance of the
communication of scarlet fever by
means of "kist,n the name usually
given in Scotland to a servants trunk.
A servant girl in MOrayshire fell all
with scarlet fever. and died. Her kist,
a painted wooden box, containing all
her worldly goods, her later clothing
included, was sent home to her rela-
tiOns, and lay for some weeks at sta
ton on the Speyside Railway before
an opportunity occurred for removing
it by a cart to her mothers cottage
among the hills. During this interval
the statiOn-master's children, in rOmp-
ing abOut, conducted their gambOls on
the kist, which was a repository of
eontagiOn, and in due course were
struck down with scarlet fever. At
length, the fatal kist was conveyed to
its destination, and the contents were
dispersed among friends and neigh
bOrs. The donations were kindly
meant, but they proved fatal. No
precautions had been taken to disin-
feet the articles, the result being that
wherever the clothes of the deceased
girl were taken in, scarlet fever found
its victims. For several months the
fever ragged, until the wave of its in
fectiOn was expended. Now ensued a
remarkable event. The outbreak
proved to be an opposing barrier TO
the spread of a more virulent type of
scarlatina advancing from another
quarter at later period of the year.
On reaching the former scene of the
disease, it was arrested for want of
material to feed upon; a second attack
being very unusuaL-Chamber's Jour
nal.
Year: 1876

Have you boy from five TO eight
years old? If so, it is matter of the
greatest importance that you train him
up right. Teach him from the start
that he can't run across the floor,
whoop, chase around the back yard or
use up few nails and boards to make
carts or boats. If you let him chase
around he'll wear out shoes and clothes,
and nails and boards cost money.


Train him to control his appetite.
Give him the smallest piece of pie; the
bone end of the steak; the small potato,
and keep the butter dish out of his
reach. By teaching him to curb his
appetite you can Keep him in good
humor. Boys are always good humOred
when hunger gnaws at their stOmachs.
If he happens to break dish, thrash him
for it.; that will mend the dish and
teach him lesson at the same time.


If you happen to notice that your
boys shoes are wearing out, take down
the rod and give him a peeling. These
shoes were purchased only ten months
ago, and though you have worn out two
pairs of boots during that time, the boy
has no business to be hard on shoes. BY
giving him a sound thrashing you will
prevent the shoes from wearing out.


When you want your boy to go on an
errand yOu should state it, and add:


Snow go as quick as you can, and if
you are gone over five minutes I'll cut
the hide off of your back"


He will recognize the necessity of
haste and will hurry up. You could
not do the errand yourself inside of
fifteen minutes, but he is not to know
that. If you want him to pile wood,
the way to address him is thusly:


"Now, see here, Harry, want every
stick of that wood piled up before noon.
Year: 1876

As to physical preferences, confess
that 1 have felt sufficient interest i'm the
subject to ask a score of short men the
kind of stature they most admired in
women, when they made the following
replies: two for medium size, two for
small, thirteen for tall, and three for
very tall. But, as may be observed,
twenty is hardly sufficient number on
which to base a theory; still, it is
enough to Indicate that there are proba-
bilities in favor of 1t, and in the absence
Of more extended tests am inclined to
believe that, where there are sixteen for
and only four against, the small man
prefers the large woman.
Year: 1876

Let US begin with the frunk abandon
ment of any formal parlor, but, taking
the largest and pleasantest and most ac-
cessible room in the house, let us give


it up to the wife and children in the
daytime, and to the meeting of the


whole family when evening comes.
There is not much need at the present
time to emphasize this suggestion, for il
is one which experience and necessity
have already made to a good many peo-
pie; and now that the problem, ''How
to get dwelling at a rent within
moderate means is being solved by the
increase Of "hats" and apartment houses,
the ''parlor'' must be given up, there
being no provision made for it in the
common plans. But it is by no means
my notion that the liying-room should


be hOmely, matter-Of-fact apartment,
eonsecrated to the utilities, while the
MUSES. and Graces are left to kick their
heels in the hall. On the contrary, we
want in the living room, for founda-
ton, that the furniture shall be the
best designed and best made that we can
afford, and all of it intended to be used
and necessary to our comfort; not an
article to be allowed that doesn't earn
its living. and cannot prove its right to
be there. These wants being provided
for first, then we will admit the Orna-
ments of life-casts, pictures, ,engravings,
bronzes, books, chief nOurishers in life's
feast; but in the beginning these are to
be few, and of the choicest, and the
greatest care is to be taken in admitting
newcomer. The room, from the very
first, ought to represent the culture of
the family,-what is their taste, what
feeling they have for art; it should re-
present themselves. and not other peo-
pie; and the troublesome fact is, that it
will and must represent these, whether
its owners would let il or no. If young
people, after they have secured the few
pieces of furniture that must be had,
and made sure that they are what they
ought to be, have some money left to
get picture, an engraving, or a cast,
they ought to 90 to work to supply this
want as seriously as they would the
other, which seems the more necessary,
but in reality is not bit more neces-
sary. L look upon this ideal living
room of mine as an important agent in
the education of life; it will make a
great difference to the children who
grow up in it, and to all whose expert
eDce is associated with it, whether it be
a beautiful and cheerful room, or only
a homely and bare one, or a merely
formal and conventional one. The re-
lation of these things to education is all
that gives any dignity or poetry to the
subject, or makes it allowable for a
reasonable man to give much thought
to it. But it has real vital relation to
life. and plays an important part i'm
education, and deserves to be thought
about great deal more than it is. 1t is
therefore no trifling matter whether we
hang poor pictures on our walls or good
ones, whether we select fine cast or a
second-rate one. We might almost as
well say it makes no difference whether
the people we live with are first-rate or
second-rate.-
Year: 1876

If come home and find you haven't
done it, I'll lick you till you can't stand
upw


1t is more than boy of life size ought
to do in a whole day, but you are not to
blame that he is not thirteen years old
instead of eight.


If you hear that any one in the neigh
borhood has broken a window, stolen
fruit or unhiHged gate, be sure that it
was your boy. If he denies it, take
down the rod and tell him that you will
thrash him to death If he doesn't "Own
up" but that you will spare him If he
does. He will own up to lie to get rid
of a thrashing, and then You can talk TO
him about the fate of liars and bad boys,
and end up by saying:


eco to bed now, and in the morning
I'll attend to your case"


If you take him to church and he
looks around, kicks the seat or smiles at
some boy acquaintance, thrash him the
moment you get home. He ought to
have been listening to the sermon. If
he sees all the other boys going to the
circus, and wants fifteen cents to take
him in, tell him what awful wicked
things circuses are how they demoralize
boys; how he ought to be thrashed for
ever seeing the procession go by; and
then when he's sound asleep do you
sneak of, pay half a dollar to go in, and
come home astonished ut the menagerie
and pleased with the wonderful gymnas-
tic feats.


Keep your boy steady at school, have
work for him every holiday; thrash
him If he wants to go fishing or hunt
ing; restrain his desire for skates,
kites and marbles; rout him out at day
light, cold or hot, cuff his ears for ask
ing questions; make his clothes out of
your cast of garments, and you'll have
the satisfaction, when old and gray
headed, of knowing that you would
have trained up a useful member Of
society had he not died just as he was
getting well broken inn. Quad.
Year: 1876

done. How long do you think the cowardly
their notice to lesve9 They would know
what to expect if they did not obey"


was informed by some of the few Re
publicans left at Monroe that it would be 3
dangerous undertaking to call meeting Of
the party in the parish of Ouachita. The
last meeting and barbecue had been broken
up by company of cavalry, and the men
driven into the woods.


was informed that DR.. Dinkgrave, after
organizing Republican club short dis
would be killed if he did not desist. This
he spurned with contempt, and it only
made him more determined and active in
the organization of the party in his parish
The threat was, however, soon carried into
execution, and the bold and fearless Repub-
lican leader of Ouachita was


MURDERED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT;
Murdered by an assassin whom no Demo
orat of that parish knows, wants to know,
or ever will know; murdered by the legen-



Soto, Baton Rouge and the Felicianas.


l found in Morehouse parish a perfect
reign Of terror, several men had been


BEATEN TO DEATH,


And several shot at The last man mur-
dared lat Oak Ridge) was a colored man
named Monroe Edwards. The result of
Democratic policy has been to scatter the
Republican population of this parish in diff
ferent directions, and such as l have con-
ferred with spoke in q subdued manner,
and wero evidently frightened.


MoDOc's ADVICE.


think it not irrelevant to relate to you
q conversation which took place in my
presence. Several men were commenting
ON the effect which the presence of the in
fantry company just stationed at Monroe
might have On the cOlored element of the
parish. Some manifested some apprehen-
sion lest the presence of said company
might so encourage the negroes as to en-
danger the success of the Democratic party
and render the measures which had already
been adopted useless.


One of them, however-an individual
whom 1 afterward learned was from Vicks.
burg, member of an armed organization
called the Modocs, and the meat contractor
of said company-said: "There is not the
least danger of their interfering with you,
gentlemen. Invite the officers to your
houses, introduce them to your wives and
daughters, treat them with marked friend.
ship, and they will be On your side in less
than no time. No Yankee officer can resist
that sort of thing. We have tried it in
Vicksburg, and it works we'll"


The foregoing is necessarily


ONLY PARTIAL REPORT


Of the things which fell under my observa
ton during hasty trip through the par
ishes named. l have given you enough
however, to indicate the purpose OF the
Democratic party to carry the election il
possible, and to use every means which
even promises success. Unless we can have
the interposition of power which car
neither be cajoled nor intimidated, the ma
jority of the Republican voters in Ouachita
Morehouse, Richland and the other eand
hill parishes will be etfectually disfran
chised.


Respectfully submitted
Year: 1876

This first class Democratic organization
last Friday night came over bodily and
reorganized as Republican club under
the name of the young Mems Packard
Campaign Club" In . conversation with
some very intelligent members, we learn
that they are chiefly Influenced to this
change Of position by the utter disregard Of
Democratic pledges to improve the condi-
ton of the workingmen and mechanics Of
this city.
Year: 1876

Oh! how hard it is to pay bills. Every
body knows this. 1t is such pleasant
thing, too, to have money in your pocket,
and there is no way by which this desired
end can be secured, except by spending
less than you receive. Nothing assists in
this calculation 80 much as paying for what
you get when you get it. When you run
up bill at the butchers, the bakers, the
milliner's, and the dressmaker's, you never
know exactly what you can afford. 1t il
hard to keep track of all your accumulated
Indebtedness, and you are tempted to spend
the money lying idle in your hands for
things which YOU can just as well do with
out, and in this way incommode yourself
when the day for settlement of bills arrives.
Every-tradesman knows that people buy
more freely on credit than for cash. When
the pocket-book is drawn upon every time
that want is to be satisfied, there is a
truer appreciation Of the value of what
you give, as we'll as what you get but
when things are not paid for at the time,
there is less appreciation of the cost than
Of the purchase, In housekeeping, espe-
cially, the cash system is the best and
pleasantest. 1t prevents great deal of
cheating, waste, and saves the mistress of
the house no end of trouble. Cash custo-
mers buy cheapest, and are the most de-
sirable. Pay cash.
Year: 1876

The past week has given us as severe
test Of patience, as mortals are generally
called upon to bear. The weather during
that time has been unusually hot, ,and such
continuation Of the heat is something
uncommon. You can take any records Of
the weather, follow them closely, and you
will fail to find very often seven days of
such weather in succession as that we had
last week. There are Of course many days
when the thermometer stood higher, but it
was generally only for a day, and no
longer. Under these circumstances hot
weather is endurable, but imagine seven
days and seven nights Of furnace heat, with
the mnsical accompaniaments of flies and
mosquitoes, and you can easily know, as
we suppose all do, what Wilmington has
been through in seven days. The Oldest
inhabitants declare that such succession
Of heat is of unfrequent occurrence, and
this is well sustained by the weather re-
cords many ofwhich in this city have been
faithfully kept and date as far back as
the nineteenth century. From drug
store on Market street we have obtained
the following figures, showing the state of
the thermometer AIKEN at noon on the dates
named:
Year: 1876

[From the Christian at Work.


The leaves of the gumbo trees, which
grow in the West Indies, when eaten by any
animal will cause all its hair to drop out,
and have seen horses and cows both with
ouL hair in name or tail from eating leaves.
The manchenillo tree is quite common on
some of those islands, and is very poisonous.
The wind blowing through it directly upon
a person sensitive to poison, will ia Ike effect
in few moments. The smoke from its
burning wood has the same effect. saw q
horse which had taken shelter under one of
these trees during shower, whose hair
was taken off wherever the drops Of rain
from its bouahs had touched him, and years
afterwards had this mottled appearance.
A negro who slept under one of them IN
Of them in midday was awakened nearly
unconscious, as If under the effects Of q
powerful narcotic. / have known several
cases Of severe poison and two deaths from
eating crays poisoned with this tree.
Year: 1876

The 29th of August, 1870 was distin.
guished for the unusual variations of the
thermometer as during the afternoon it
fell in two hours from "a to "a. The aver
age for the past seven days has been 95,
which is too hot for comfort, as all can
attest. 1t is conceded that that just past
through is the hottest we have ever had


But you never saw person in all your life
that did not contend that each day as fast
as they occurred was the hottest of them all.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, July 21.-Ata meeting of the
Jersey City Board of Finance last evening. a
communication was read from Mayor SeidIer
urging the board to make some arrangements
whereby the thousands of men in the CITY who
are starving for want of bread could get work.
The Mayor said it was of no use to talk eIo-
quently to half starved mer about the hard
times and thatif no work is provided for them
there will undoubtedly be bread riot.


The communication was referred to special
COMMITTEES of five, who were empowered to Wis
1t the Board OF Aldermen and Board of Works
with the view of beginning some public i'm
provements at which the men could be put at
work "
Year: 1876

SHREVEPORT, La, July 2l-Mauy planta-
tions on the west side of the old river are over
flowed. Fears are entertained that all on that
side will be submerged. The heavy rise here
has alarmed the planters along the river i'm
mediately below here. The upper river at
Fulton fell Is inches. The impression here is
that every plantation between Fulton and the
head OF the raft is under water, though not a
word has been heard from any of them since
the high water cut them off from the hill.
Year: 1876




In the round of deyotons for various subjects col
eges and theological seminaries assigned
special day, and that day has just passed. II
recommended by the National Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association, by the Presbyterian AS
sembly and the Reformed Church Synod, by Messrs.
Moody and Sankey and other recognized authorities
has become matter OF supreme interest TO the dit
ferent denominations 10 find supplies for their vacant
pupTts Theological students scarce, and
few IL any, OF the churches willing to
license ordain preachers young men OF recog-
nized piety and sound sense unless they have
college training in the pecuaries Of the several sms
II determined, therefore to pray young into
colleges and semnaries well pray Tor those who
in those Institutions Reference was made 70 this
subject therefore in the several MONDAY meetings
held yesterday and in the more numerous church
meetings of last evening There is great tendency at
this time the minds of men and women to step out
of semnarran and collegiate traces and TO preach the
Gospel without any such preparation The example of
Messrs Moody and Sankey, Whittle and Bliss Varey,
Lord Redstock, Pearsall, Smith and many others is
doing much interfere with the minister's peculiar
entered the pulpit and set out evangests than have
been known 10 do so before within the century And
many are looking for the complete fuldment OF the
prophecy of Joel which Peter referred the day Of
Penecost) in these days, and helping toward that
end by patronlzng the ministry Of the unordained by
successful lay evangelists male and female. If the
prayers offered for colleges and students yesterday shall
have the effect or placing more laborers the vineyard
and making them more successful than those who
now tong there they will not have been offered in
Year: 1876

The Committee on Supplies Of the Kings County
Board OF Supervisors to whom referred the matter
Of rebuilding the burned Baby Ward, yesterday sub
mtted their report The foundlinTs and infants
sheltered in the old nursery In space gixty by
twenty feet over the county washhouse the commit
found twenty-five babies whose ages averaged from
four TO twelve months, with seventeen grown per-
sons to for them, making total Of thirty nne
persons in room, with sewerage water closet
connected and without proper ventilation Two floors


in another old wooden structure each forty by thirty
feet contained fty children whose ages averaged from
two eighteen months, with my grown persons as
The beds in these were so close together
that there hardly space enough to get between
them The committee urge immediate action on this
matter as the present accommodations for these infant
charges are entirely inadequate The committee
believe that at outlay Of $1,000 the shelter requisite
can be provided
Year: 1876

To EDITOR HERALD


Can no plan be devised by which Boston subscribers
can receive the New York daily papers by mail
on the same day evening OF their issucf
Tho great OF readers and woud.bo
readers Of the New York dailics live from
two TO Eve miles from the post Offices and generally
leave their places Of business that vicinity about four
O'Clock P. NJ and as the train which these papers
sent from New York docs reach bore till be-
haltpast four aud Eve o'clock they cannot buy
them at the news stands till tho following morning.
when, rule, they not wanted II appears that
this hafpast four O'Clock train on which the papers
expressed Ia mail train. and know that the let
ters coming thereon are distributed by the be-
fore six o'clock but the newspapers carried 10 the
general post oflce, where they lie till the following
morning tits simply useless under these circumstances
for any one here 70 subscribe for New York daily
aud have 70 sent by mail; he cannot always down
town tl after I've O'Clock In order 10 buy IL at the
stands enough many do so at great Inconvenience and
cost OF SIX cents per copy and makes an ar
rangement with dealer deliver II he does 90 al
annual cost or SIS He then only succeeds getting
u on evenings when II neither nor SHOWS or Ia
neither too hot nor too cold On every hand j hear
impossible for any one who does business with New
YORK, has ever lived thereon indeed anywhere eso
on OF Bostonto be satisfied with the mental pabulum
dished up for as isolated Bostonians in these village
sheets, tunniy called newspapers II that
the quick delivery Of newspaper IL quite much
and v these can be distributed by the carriers before
SIX O'Clock r. Al. daily why not the newspapers which
come oy the same train? These are days Of reform,
and u seems 70 me that only requires little strrna


up on the part OF The metropolitan press 70 bring about


THIS much needed change khADhk
BOSTON. Jan l6 161h
Year: 1876

MmwAuKER, Wis, Jan. 81 1870
The Grand Jury adjourned to-day till next Tuesday
II Is understood that after the ezpoe made in the
HERALD OF tho backwardness OF the prosecution in the
against the men at the back OF the Ring,
conference held, at which II was agreed TO pro-
ceed with all speed The made for not proceed
ing against the politicians Is said TO be that the evil
dence that OF efhcers who had turned iniormers
and would be invalid in court
Year: 1876

The Executive Committee Of the Brooklyn Liquor
Dealers Association have appointed sub committee,
consisting OF Messrs Cleary and Madden TO visit Albany
for the purpose urging upon the Legislature the pas
sage OF the Excise bill introduced by Assem- lyman
Worth and other measures favorable to the interest
which they represent The dealers complain Of the
which Judge Moore interpreted the existing
law the trial Of criminal In the Court of
Sessions and state that they only hope relief
from the Legis lature
Year: 1876

charity ball will be given on Monday evening next
at Parepa Hall Eightysixth street. near Third ave-
nue., for the benefit OF the poor in Yorkvle The
affair is gotten up under the auspices OF the Catholic
young men OF thai vicinity The ball promises TO be
great success the sale OF tickets has been unusually
lorn