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Year: 1876

A NEWSPAPER is a window through
which men look out ON all that is go
ing on in the world; without newpa-
per a man is shut in small room and
knows little or nothing of what is hap
pening outside of himselfY In our
day, the newspapers keep pace with
history and record it. A newspaper
will keep a sensible man in sympathy
with the worlds current history. II
is an unfolding encyclopedia, an uu-
bound book forever issuing and never
finishing,
Year: 1876

Say what we will, the rich and the
poor have TO struggle on together
through the world, and the sooner
those who have no wealth learn Ia
make the best of the means they have,
and suppress every feeling of jealousy
and envy towards their more iortu-
nate neighbors. the happier for every
body.-[New York Graphic.


All, now, that's the talk! II the
poor would only silently declare their
independence, and live such lives as
the rich might envy; If they would
study to be skillful and devote their
spare money and spare moments to
books; if they would cease in every
way to initiate the absurdities and vi.
ces Of the wealthy; if for idle aud
wicked gossip they would substitute
the exchange of their best ideas; If,
etc, the rich would very soon come to
attract 90 little notice that the poor
man would soon begin to censure him.
self for his coldness toward a small
class Of his fellow-beings, whose only
offense was the inheritance Of a few
paltry dollars.-[Courier-Journal.
Year: 1876

General Z. w. Pierce, Of Freeiown,
Massachusetts,, is calmly waiting the
time when he and his horse shall lie
side by side in the same burial iot.
Once, when he was in the army, he
went without food for a whole day,
and at night he took one ear of corn
from six which had been given to his
horse, and, haging roasted it, made
his supper on it, while his horse dis.
posed of the other FIVE. During the
meal he resolved, if his faithful horse
lived to get home, he would keep him
till he died, and then bury him in his
family cemetery. When he had got
home, this plan was firmly opposed
by his wife, who didn't care to be bu.
ried beside dumb brute. But he re.
piled that she couldn't be buried with
him then, for he would be buried with
his horse il she wasn't buried at all
The wils has since obtained divorc,
and there is now no obstacle 10 hii
cherished desire.
Year: 1876

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To TINE PuBIrc:-would you lik e
to know how a man feels who is about
to commit suicidei In the first place,
he must feel so badly that no matter
what is to come hereafter, IL is more
endurble than the present, and sec.
ondly, he must feel that, more endura.
bic or not, he cannot help the act;
that IL even the future is worse than
the present, the present is unendura-
bic. ] suppose medical men would
like to know just the mental condi-
ton Of one who can shuttle Of this
mortal coil.


II is this: My nerves and senses are
as sound as they ever were. can at
tend to business as efficiently, aud as
fully realize that the chief end Of man
is 70 gather ducats. as I ever could.
But can also realize that without my
better half ! am perfect engine with.
out steam-useless.


Doctors Of Divinity would doubt.
less like to know my mortal status md
religious ideas. My mortal idea is
this: That man should do his duty in
spite Of obstacles and consequences,
and that so doing Is the only thing
which will bring the peace which pass
eth all understanding. l acknowledge
that was too weak so to do. IN re-
gard to future state, my reason does
not fully accept that there is a future
state Of which we will be conscious. |
believe in the immortality Of the soul,
or the life principle, or whatever it is,
as ] believe in the immortality Of q
bushel Of coal; that 1t may change its
form 50 essentially as to be uncon.
scious Of having ever existed before,
but that still, as the coal, it is not de-
stroyed, but simply changes its form.
My heart may speak differently to me,
but even then, l believe that whatev-
er is, is inevitable, as il must oil pro-
ceed from one Great Original, and so
must be in accordance with His will.


However, I shall probably know
more about it in tyenty-four hours
than all the ID. D.'s living. | am not
crazy. know that the world is full
Of good and enjoyable things, and that
they were put here for our good and
benefit, and that we should strive and
work to obtain them.


But am unable to care for them
without the love Of my darling. i
wish to state that Miss - Is in no
way responsible for my having loved
her; that almost before she had ground
tor thinking that my feelings toward
her were more tender than those of
friendship, she informed me that her
heart was ano,her's and that, while
she esteemed aud cared for me as
friend, could be nothing more to
her. But she was mistaken in that,
and though could not convince her
Of it while living, she will realize it
when sleep the sleep that knows no
waking. A sweet good highs to all.


APPENDIX.


On the back Of sheet of note pa
per, were the words: Respect this
On the other side there was the f.l.
lowing:


II wish to be buried just in the clo-
thing in which | die. DO not move
me from where | am found, except to
my grave.


"Bury me in plain pine coffin, and
have me carried to my grave in cne-
horse spring wagon. Do not let the
total cost of my burial exceed S.. As
the last request of dying man, ]
Year: 1876

upon mine pregnant minute, ant
then he said impressively,-


Mark, you do not say anything
You do not offer me any hope. But
ah, me, it is just as well-it is just a;
well. You could no; do me any
good. The time has long gone by
when words could comfort me- Some
thing tells nue. that my tongue is
doomed to wag forever to the jigger
of that remorseless jingle. There
there tits coming on me again, a
blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
q buff trip slip for a.


Thus murmuring faint and fainter,
ny friend sank into peaceful trance
and forgot his suferings in blessed
respite.


How did finally save hiIa from
the asylum? | took him to neigh
boring university and made him dis
charge the burden of bis prosecuting
rhymes into the eager ears of the
poor, unthinking Students. How is
it with them, now? The resalt is too
sad TO tell Why did l write this
article? 1t was for a worthy, even q
noble, purpose 1t was to warn you,
reader, if you should come across
merciless rhymes, 30 avoid them
avoid them as you would a pesti-
lence
Year: 1876

A recent writer truly says: / be-
lieve no two good soldiers will wide
ly disagree as 10 their sensations dur
ing battle. | take il 10 be piece
Of bravado in any mau TO assert that
be had no fear during the progress OF
a long and severe engagement A
battle is a veritsbIe bell upon earth;
not to be 10 serious apprehension
while it lasts is to be either drunk,
crazy or insensible. The highess
type # bravery is that Of the man
who realizes the full extent Of he
peril. but sticks resolutely to bis duty.
II was my experience. aud that Of all
those about me, repeated dozen
times, that shell firing Is net ordins-
rily nearly so demoralIzing as that OF
musketrv. IL is not often that shells
are thrown so that their fragments
scatter death and wounds. and their
loud humming overhead does not
cause that nervous tingling which al
ways follows the sharp zip Of the RI
fe bullet. The peculiar cutting Of the
air made BY half a dozen Of these at
once is apt to give the soldier the idea
that the whole air is filed with them,
and that be is certain to be strack by
one of them.
Year: 1876

The late Commander Sanders, Of


the English Navy, was in or about
the year 1903 a lieutenant on board
the Staties, engaged in cutting out"
a French privateer Two armed lug
gers came to the rescue Of the latter,
and the lieutenant was shot in the
head, the bullet passing clean through
from ear to eye. He lay for dead oo
the deck of the Frenchman, and was
just on the point of being thrown
overheard when the French surgeon
of the ship asked to have the Eng
lishmsn sent down to his cabin that
be might make On experiment upon
him. This ives done, and in the
cabin Lieutenant Sanders revived, to
the amazement of every one. The
Frenci4 doctor took all care of him,
and at the end Of Eve years deten-
ton as q prisoner Of war, be reached
England sound and well, with the
exception of the loss Of bis eye. He
after this lived to the good old age
of ninety-one, and died only a few
days ago.
Year: 1876

Nothing is more elective to keep
out cold than double windows; the
layer Of air between two papes of
glass IS good non-conductor of heat.
and can Only transmit it from the in
SIDE outward by convection. that ia
bs q circulation of the enclosed air.
which will descend along the outer
cold window pane and ascend along
the inner warm pane. The radiated
heat, which, at temperatures below


100 degrees Fahrenheit, is very weak
through glass, is Of course smaller
still through double glass; then the
inconvenience Of glass becoming COW
cred with frost during cold weather
is done away with, if the enclosed
air is dry.


Some time ago we communicated q
suggestion, made by some builder, to
insert two panes Of glass, one on the
outside and one on the inside Of the
same frame, having rabbets on both
sides; this may do for economy, but
is subject to the objection that the in
side cannot be cleaned without TAX
ing the glass out, and the fact Is that
in the course Of time il will in some
way or other get into such q eondi-
tion as TO need cleaning; then when
the glasses are so close together, the
protection against the outer cold Is
less effective than if greater mass
of air is included.


In very cold countries, ike Russia,
Sweden or Canada, the need Of such
protection is more felt than with Us;
but even here il is often adopted IN
exposed localities when the parties
can afford the luxury Thus all the
houses on Brooklyn Heights. enjoy
ing the magnificent view Of New
York Harbor, and those on Washing
ton Heights, enjoying the view Of the
Hudson River and the Palisades, are
fully exposed to the strong and cold
blasts of the northwest winter winds,
and are all provided at the west and
north sides with double windows. the
absolute necessity of which has be-
come more and more evide nt for the
comfort Of the inmates. Such dOu-
BILE window may serve another pur-
pose, and be used as a little green
house; when exposed to the sun, the
selar heat is stored up in them, snd
IN France some persODs grow differ
ent plants aud even grapes in them
10 winter.
Year: 1876

A lady in this city says the Mar
quette Journal, suspected that her
husband was in the habit Of Kissing
Katy the cook, and resolved to detect
him in the act After watching for
days she heard him come in one even
ing and quietly pass through into the
kitchen. Now Katy was out that
evening and the kitchen was dark.
Burning with jealousy the wife too (
some matches in her hand, and hasti-
ly placed her shawl over her head,
as Katy sometimes did, entered the
kitchen by the back door, aud was
almost Immediately seized and en-
brsced in the most ardent manner.
With her heart almost bursting with
rage and jeslously the injured wife
prepared TO administer O terrible re-
buke TO her faithless spouse. Tear
ing herself from bis Ioul embrace, she
struck a match, and stood face TO
face with the hired man. Her hus-
band SAYS bis wife never treated him
80 well since the first month they
were married as she has for the past
few DAYS.
Year: 1876

BY REV. JOHN II. FORBES, OF HALL


FAX COUNTY.


Let the ground upon which tie pit
is to he Set he well leveled. Have the
Eearth round, aud the circle prOpor-
toned to the quantity of wood to be
burned. Cut the wood four feet long,
and trim ii well. In setting the pit,
first build pen one foot in diameter,
i'm the centre of the hearth. Place
the wood on end, regularly around
the pen; the first course should be as
straight as it can be set; the second
and third courses somewhat slauting,
making the first. in height, nearly
three lengths of the wood, placing the
laps on the outside and giving them
sufficient inclination to hold the leaves
aud dirt, the former of which should
be six inches thick, and the latter two
inches, on the body, and ten on the
head or top. Both should be put on
with great regularity.


The pen in the centre should he
built from the ground to the top of the
pit.


The five should he put in at the top,
letting it fall to the bottom, aud
when it shall become sufficiently kim
died, fill up with wood, and close the
top with leaves and dirt. Watch care
fully during the entire process of
burning, and if one side shall burn
fl ster than the other. put dust on that
side and open holes at the ground


After the pit shall be thoroughly
burned out. pull the dust off, clean it
well, and throw it back again on the
coal. Let it stand one day, and it will
be ready for drawing


BY adopting the above plan, which
has been approved and adopted by me
after an experience of thirty years a
hearth thirty feet in diameter, well set
with wood, will yield one thousand
bushels OF coal from twenty-five cords
of wood, or forty bushels to the cord.


In drawing the coal begin at the
ground, using the rake and shovel,
taking out dust and coal together,
rakinR the coal away and throwing
the dust back upOn the pit.


BY a careful attenti ion to the above
directions, the coal may be drawn out
in large sticks without water, and will
yield 40 bushels to the cord of woOu -
1t requires rs to 100 bushels of coal to
cure l6 foot barn of tobacco.
Year: 1876

and that Williams struck Meeling on
the head with an AK while he was
asleep, Wednesday night, afterwards
cutting his throat. She assisted in
destroying the evidences of murder,
and in burying Meeing.


She accused herself of being the
cause of the murder, but begged pitt
fully for life. Though the feeling was
very strong against her, aud the crowd
voted unanimously for the execution,
no man could be found who would put
the rope around a woman's neck, and
she was returned to Jail. Williams
body was left hanging until cut down
by the authorities this morning.
Year: 1876

Already the mass has begun to move
toward the Black Hills. Yesterday
big party left this city bound thither,
and many more Will leave within the
next four weeks. All or those going
from here go by the way of Cheyenne,
which is considered the quickest and
best route at this time of the year, on
account of the difficulty of crossing the
Platte on the Sidney route, which
would be otherwise the best way to GO
A Herald reporter yesterday inter
viewed man just from Cheyenne,
who says that town is perfectly alive
with people going to the Hills, and
that all kinds of business there is con-
sequently brisk. Everybody who has
anything in the shape of team is fit
ting it up to carry out the people who
are pouring in from all quarters, and
the prospects are that by the 1st of
May there will be more people ia the
Black Hills than there are in Omaha
to-day. Mr.. Ward, who married
daughter of Mr.. Hayrud, proprietor of
the Atlantic House, in this city, left
Cheyenne yesterday for the Black
Hills, with II saw-mill and many 9TH
er persons are on the way with every
thing that can be needed to help the
miners to make themselves comforta-
ble.- omaha Heruld.
Year: 1876

The annals of crime contain but few stories so interesting or so terrible as the report of the German authorities on the dynamite plot, says the New York Herald. Especially is this true in so far as the narrative is 8 history of the man by whom the plot was conceived. Thomas was in many respects man of -anystery. His true name is unknown to the world, and, strange to say, was not even known to his wife. His business he kept profound secret from her, and he spoke even to her in terms of mys- tery. He travelled to nearly every city in Europe and crossed the Atlantic to and from New York without so much as giving her hint as to his purposes. Yet it was plain that he was reasonably hap py in his marriage and that he loved his wife and children. More than this he was man of some refinement, and not even the German police can fix upon him any associations of 8 doubtful or disreputable kind. With all these things in his favor it is only too evident that the most terrible character and went composure and method which mark him do d AOAus 4O AAA A14O WetS 6O cheap that he was willing wantonly to sacrifice it that he might dishonesty ac- quire few dollars. Only 8 monster could carry such design into execu- tion, and it is hardto conceive how even monster could conceive it. If we look for the motives which prompted his acts we look almost in vain. The mid-ocean is new field for the exploits of new species of criminal. Most men who live by murder are witnesses to their own deeds. This man preferred that his death dealing work should be done out of his sight and in way that the world should never know either. of the criminal or his crime. It is only neces- sary to assume that the City of Boston was destroyed by his terrible contrivance to appreciate all the horror of his plot for the destruction of the Mosel. And for all this there is only one explanation the desire to be rich. This man could not forego his ease, his comfort and his social position, and to sustain these he sacrificed everything. In such man there could have been none of the feel

 ings which control ordinary men, and he must have been utterly without mora perceptions. Psychologists will find ir his career new study, but we doubt whether any analysis can explain acts which stand by themselves in fiendish

 ness and which will be long re1hem

 bered as without parallel.
Year: 1876

SAFE AT LAST. We have got our safe fixed now, says the Danbury Neaos. The keys are so distributed that five persons are necessary to open it. One of these is the mail clerk. another is the chief of police, the third is tax collector, the fourth is butcher and the fifth is the jailer. With this combination it is simply impossible to get our poetry.
Year: 1876

ROASTING A RATA New York officer arrested man for roasting live rat. The prisoner caught with trap a large rat. He took the trap into the street and built around it fireand cooked the animal to death.
Year: 1876

One of the latest and most remarkable
teachings of astronomical science Is
that the moon, when full,i so intensely
hot that no creature known to US could
long endure contact with her heated
surface. The reasoning in this case is
that the surface of the moon is expos
ed during the long lunar day, lasting
a fortnight of of our terrestrial time,
to the rays of sun as powerful as
that which gives US our daily heat;
and, without an atmosphere to tenn
per the suns heat as ours does-not,
indeed, by impeding the passage of
the solar rays, but by bearing alOft the
cloud-veil which the sun raises from
our oceans-the moons surface must
become intensely hot long before the
middle of the lunar day. Undoubted-
ly the want of an atmosphere causes
the moons heat to be rapidly radiated
ed away into space.


causes a steady heat to prevail
on its surface: and at the SUBMITS
of lofty mountains where the almost
phere is rare, although the midday is
intense, yet so rapidly does the heat
pass away that SHOWS crown forever
the mountain heights. Yet, although
the moons heat must pass away even
more radidly, this does not prevent
the heating of the moons actual sur
face. Accordingly Herschell has
pointed out, as fact beyond doubt,
the moons surface must be heated at
lunar mid-day-or, rather, at the time
eff lunar mid heat, corresponding to
about two o'clock in our afternoon
to degree probably surprising the
heat of boiling water. A t35
Year: 1876

Heaven is mystery! The place. of God
Amidst the gIories of Eternity
Is hid from mortal knowledge Who can tell
The wonders of that country from whose bOurl
No traveller returns:'' Saint nor seer.
Prophet nor bard. that spake in olden time
Unto this question of humanity
Has ever answer made Nor ever can
The my stery he solved to mortal mind,
Conscious of immortality, our race
With souls aglow. peer through the awful


gloom


That shrouds the confines of the upper world
From human sight, But never has the veil
That separates :he Temple OF our God
From Earth. been rent in twain, nor eye of man
Has penetra ed to the vast beyond;
As when the primal morn of Earth first dawn d
Our knowledge here is checked OF God and


HeaveDi


Into the slories of 1utGrity
Man may not penetrate; and, though the soul
Cas'd, like the prisond bird, its wings doth beat
Against the fleshy bars that intervene
BetwiNt it and the freedom of the skies.
All will be vain and iDefrectual.
Such liberty to us has been denied
BY the Omnipotent. We may not pass
The boundaries prescribed by Him who made
The human mind, and thus the limits set,
Pronouncing His ali-wise decree: '.Thus far
Thou mayest cOme--No farther,''


Cease thou, them
o Man in thy mortality to veX
Thy puny mind with things that ever be
Excluded from the range of human thought,
There is II Heaven above, even us this Earth
Exists beneath. But how, why. or where,
Is not for thee, nor any human mind,
To solve for man. The origin OF God
Is not forever more effectually
Hid from our knowledge than the glorious place
Thou mayest inhabit when thy mortal life
Merges at last in Immortality.


j. w. DICKINSON.
Year: 1876

When one starts in life, his name is
mere convenience, but not symbol.
1t serves to distinguish between man
and man, and is, as it were, a handle
by which we seize one man rather
than another. But, in process of time,
by the law of association, we cluster
about mans name all the circum-
stances OF his history, the elements of
his character, the prominent traits of
disposition. The. name becomes a
history. The moment that it is sound
ed in our ears, we do not think of the
name itself, but of a life, personaltyS
and character. In fact, the name is q
portrait painted in letters. What is
specially curious is, that TO its wearer
the name may suggest one train of as
sociation, but to all others another,
different and often repugnant idea. 1t
would be curious literature if one
could put in parallel lines what each
man thought of himself and what all
other men thought of him.


No person should be ashamed Of his
name.
Year: 1876

WHEN we remember that the Re-
public is about to enter its second
century, and reflect how few men can
depend with any confidence on the
button at the back Of the neckband Oh
a shirt. it seems as though civilization
was almost failure.
Year: 1876

Owing To the lack OF employment in every depart
ment Of labor the ranks Of the unemployed are full
Many men who have large families depending on them
for support compelled TO seek assistance om the
81 viucenid dc Paul Society the Helping Hand the So
cieiy for Improving the Condition Of the Poor and
other benevolent organizations These latter find the
draught upon their very great and they are
making appeals to the benevolent TO forward and aid
them in the Of charity. The station houses are
filed with dodgers nightly, and the mdness Of the sea-
son up 70 the present time Is declared by those VINO
come most In contact with the hosts OF hungry fellow
beings 70 be dispensaton OF Divine Providence In be-
half Of the poor. Hunger more endurabe now than
when u accompanied by cold and exposure 20 the
pitiess blasts The Commissioners OF Charities are
kept busy IN supplying the applicants for -four, pota
toes and coffee, and they that the church
charities cooperate with the Commissioners In visiting
the houses OF the poor and reporting such cases
they may nnd 10 be dnsarpipn of asaietsnoA
Year: 1876

RS-NoTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT-The NEW YoRK
adopted distinguishing Coston night signal for
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
ing green red changing from to the other
IN succession and be several miles distant Cap
Of vessels upon seeing this signal VIII obige by
preparing any marine they have for the Ship
News Department Of the HERALD.


rPersons desrous OF communicating with vessels afv
ing New York do by addressing such vessels
care Of yacht pier No East River New York
received from all parts Of the world and promptly de-
livered. Duplicates required.
Year: 1876

George Stout, thirty years of age an unfortunate in
ebriate, who homeless, was found dead in a
penters shop in the OF No. SO Prospect avenue
Brooklyn yesterday. Coroner Simms notified
hold an inquest over the body