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Year: 1875

Succeeding the surrender at Appom-
attox, many Southern families sought
refuge in Mexico aud the different
countries of South America. This
was done in the hope Of regaining for
tunes which had disappeared during
the vicissitudes of war Some of them,
perhaps, left the country in the belief
that there was no hope for improve
ment in the abject condition of the
Southern States. They were unwilling
to remain as witnesses of the ruin and
sorrow which had been brought upon
the sunny South. Many who went TO
Mexico, and even farther, have long
since returned to their homes. And
some families that were attracted to
Brazil and Venezuela by expectations
of prosperity which were never real
ized, gradually found their way back to
this country with bitter experience of
life beyond the Caribbean sea. But
not few Of those who went to South
America, not having the means for re-
turning, are still there, and in the main
are living in destitusion and misery.
Application has been made by them to
the representatives of our Govern
ment for relief, but those officers were
not authorized by law to extend any
aid to the applicants. Notice of the
unfortunate condition of these people
has since been brought to the State
Department and as result the Navy
Department has fitted out the United
States corvette Swatara for the purpose
of trip to the various South Ameri-
can ports to offer free passage to all
American citizens in distress and de-
sirous of returning home. The Swa-
tara sailed from New York few days
since, and expects to make the round
trip in about one hundred days. On
her return the passengers will be dis
charged at Port Royal, South Carroll
ma, and it is hoped that private meas
ures will be instituted to supply the
urgent wants of these wanderers from
home and Observation-Disclosures Ga
zeits.
Year: 1875

When taken in by the more or
dlnary channel, the stomach, it finds
its way by two routes into circulation.
A certain portion--the greater portion
of it's absorbed by direct veins of
the alimentsry surface, finds its way
straight into the larger veins, which
lead up to the heart and oawards with
the course of the blood. Another
portion is picked up by small struct-
ures proceeding from below the mu-
cous membrane of the stomach, and
from which originate a series of fine
tubes that reach at last the bottom of
a common tube, termed the thoratic
duct--a tube that ascends in front cf
the spinal column and terminates at
the junction of two large veins on the
left side of the body, at point where
the venous blood returning from the
left arm joins with the returning blood
from the left side of the head, or its
way to the heart. 1t is so greedy for
water that it will pick il up from all
the watery textures Of the body and
deprive them of it, until, by its satu-
ration, il can take up no more, its
power of reception being exhausted,
after which it defuses itself in the cur
rent Of circulating fluid. When We
dilute alcohol with water before drink
ing it, We quicken its solution and, if
we do not dilute it sufficiently, it is di-
luted in the stomach by the transuia-
ton of water in the stomach until the
required reduction for its absorption
is effected.
Year: 1875

There is no naticn more fluent in


conversation than the American Tie


French are more voluble, perhaps,


their language permitting greater rap


iiity OF pronunciation than the Eng


lish. One trouble with Us is, each one


likes to do all the talking; therefore,


Americans are not good listeners.


But mere talking is not conversation.


In almost all home circles there is much


talking done during the day, but We
fear there are few who do not reserve
their mo0st brilliant conversational
powers for other assemblages than the
home group.


Many father comes home tired /;
he has worked hard and talked great
deal, told amusing anecdotes, and dis
played much wit. He has come home
to rest. He takes out his paper and is
soon oblivious to everything around
him. Wife would like to tell him
many of the little, harassing Affections
OF the day, and would like to hear of
some of his interesting experiences;
but IT he were a deaf mute he could
not be moro silent, only an occasional
grrnt answering her many attempts at
and the children expect
ing the good night kiss, and often not
even that, are not noticed.


Such home, whether the abode of
wealth or otherwise, cannot be
healthy or happy one.. As a paral-
lax, draw around the evening lamp of
home circle. The father tells
the anecdotes from the paper as he
reads them; the mother laughs her
sweet, low laugh, and the children
burst into merry ha ha'sl To watch
them as they ask questions, aud listen
to the answers and patient explsna-
tions, the wonderment, interest and
thought imprinted on their young
facss, is a picture for an artist. The
home education is an heritage more
than land or money! and one
beautiful recompense in life is, that
in making others happy we bring hap
piness to ourselves. Parents who
practice self denial. and endeavor by
cheerful conversation and playful wit
to enliven home life, will reap a rich
reward in the better thoughts aud no
bier actions of their children, and will
experience the truest and best content
ment Observation-Disclosures Ameri-
can.
Year: 1875

Speaking Of hard times. Mai. Sykes.
said In his speech last Monday that


they were caused in great degree By


mere panic. produced Ly exsger-


aied statements of our Indebtedness.


without giving our resources and
the vast increase in the wealth and


productions OF the country. The


impression had been sought to be


made that the country was bank


rupt, and this, of course. depressed


the price of property and made


money.yery scarce, "a the phrase goes.


Money, said he, is circulating medi-


um, and derives its value aud useful


ness from its free circulation. Mil
lions of dollars locked up ia banks or
private safes did no good. Whether
this boarding of money resulted from
a panic or good cause, the effect was
the same upon the price Of property
and the business of the country
Men who had the thousands and tens
Of thousands of dollars in hand were
the very men to cry hard times" and
thereby make and continue q panic, in
order that their money might become
more valuable. This money panic
which was without any adequate cause,
was producing great misery in the
country, especially to the industrious
and producing classes. The country
was in far better condition than it
was u year ago. The cotton crop of
the south would bring $40. 600. 600,
and in addition they had an abundance
Of corn and wheat, and meat was much
less scarce. as he recently ascertained
by actual observation, than many sup
posed. The country is improving. and
If corn. grain, hogs, cattle and mules
are raised next year as they have been
this year, your difficulties will soon be
at an end, aud the panic makers. who
with pockets full OF money are always
crying hard times" will lose their
occupation, aud we may thank God
when that day arrives.-PnL1ski Gu
zen.
Year: 1875

Here is something to cheer the pc
triOt heart: \ movement is on foot
in Philadelphia to assemble a large
number of the soldiers of the late war
in that city, sometime during the Cen
tennial year. 1t is proposed to have
both the northern and southern ar
mics represented by their leading gen.
erals, and by thousands of their rank
and file, from every state in the Union
the purpose being to show to the
world the fact that the men who were
in the armies against each other few
years ago are now united in celehra-
ting the one hundreta birthday Of
their country. and are inspired by a
spirit of patriotism and feeling of com
mon nationality"
Year: 1875

The neatest dun we ever saw is that
issued from the Office of the Insurance
Monitor, a copy of which has been fur
nished the North Texan. We pub
lish and adopt it as our sentiments:


We think we never saw so patient
set of men as some of our subscribers |!
Gifted with unusual facility for bearing
up under (other peoples annoyanees,
they stand it" with Roman firmness
month after month, while the cramps
and collapses and vacuities rattle rue
fully among the finances of this Office
The ease with which they do it comes
of the division OF labor. Each man
owes only three, six or nine dollars,
and the large sum now overdue, being
thus divided up among a couple of
thousand of philanthropic gentlemen,
is carried with 4 smile of easy cOmpla-
cency most delightful to contemplate.
The puzzle on which we are at work
is, how to get that smile on the other
side of the house We dare not send
you a photograph of our heightened
vissage as it appears when coming the
subscription list; that would throw
you into agonies of remorse, and We
have no reveugelul or injurious feeling
against even the smallest debtor who
owes ''the largest journal, etc" But
we do want to smile. We think, on
mature reflection, that we never wanted
so much to smile in all our life, and
there is only one thing that can ever
bring a grin to our lugubrious frontis-
piece again.
Year: 1875

Married people should treat each
other like lovers all their lives-then
they would be happy. Bickering and
quarelling would soon break Oft love
affairs consequently lovers indulge in
such only toa very limitedextent. But,
some people-men and women both
when they have once got married,
think they may do just as they please.
and it will make no difference. They
make a great mistake. 1t causes all
the difference in the world. Women
should grow more devoted, ane men
more considerate after marriage, IL
they have the slightest idea of being
happy as wives aud husbands. Ii is
losiRg sight Of this Fundamental truth
which leads to hundreds OF divorces.
Yet, many a man will scold his wife
who would never think Of breathing
harsh word to his sweetheart: and
many a wife will be grum and mOrose
on her husband 8 return, who had only
smiles and words Of cheer for him
when he was suitor. How can such
people expect 10 be happy?
Year: 1875

1t is said that corn loses one-6fth by
drying. and wheat one-fourteenth.
From this the estimate is made thst it
is more profitable for the farmer to
sell unshelled corn in the fall at sew


enty-6ve cents than at one dollar a
bushel in the following summer, and
that wheat at one dollar and twenty-five
in December is equal to one dollar and
fifty cents iu the succeeding June. In
cases of potatoes-taking those that
rot, and arc otherwise iost-together
with the shrinksge, there is little
doubt that between October and juno
the loss to the owners who hold them
is not less than thirty-three per cent.
Year: 1875

Once in while 0 man gets the starch
50 thoroughly taken out of him that
it's no use trying. A few days ago a
prairie schooner passed eastward
through Peoria. On its canvas cover
was painted in large letters the legend,
Gong back to my wife's folks
Year: 1875

How much soever a man may
profess to love you don't forget,
my boy, that he always loves him
self the best. ach


The great error that the world
has always made, and always will
make, is to mistake pleasure for
happiness. al'aoI


Many man has spent his whole
life in search of fame, and found
it at last in the neglected corner of
some country churchyard.


Epitaphs are SO cheap nowadays
that no man ought to despair of
finally becoming famous.


Instead of being a curse I con-
slider it the greatest of blessings to
man that he was ordered to get his
hash by the sweat of his brow; no
bread got any other way will go SO
far or is half so sweet.


The best way to be happy Is to
have lots to do, then you have no
spare time to be miserable.


The most useless thing I can
think Of just now is an empty
pocket-book. Gm le9


1t requires more judgment to
manage friend than 1t does an
enemy.---Josh Billings. go3h
Year: 1875

the simplicity of his diet, and tho
lacking in energy, has wonderful
power of endurance. Two meals a
day Of rice, or thin cakes made of
meal and water, is all that the ma
jority have for their subsistence
There is really no need that any
one In a country like this should
starve. Sir John Herschell states
that bread may be made of some
kinds of saw dust, such as will sus-
tain life. According to DR.. Lyon
Playfair, man may lay pound of
flesh on his body most cheaply dy a
diet of beans and peas, the cost in
England being sixpence, or less
The usual cost at which people
maintain their bodies in good con-
dition is many times this small
unt,-the difference being spent
in the qualification of the palate.
Year: 1875

There can be no question that
much that is- considered necessary
now-n-days is not SO in truth, es-
pecially with respect to whatwe eat
and drink. We put into our stom-
achs what costs us no little money;
but does us fearfully more harm
than good. We pay more for our
food in order that we may have the
luxury Of dyspepsia, and complain
of hard times and poverty when il
we lived more plainly we should
have abundance, and be at the same
time both healthier and happier.


A Swedish Counselor, who had
emigrated to Minnesota, determin-
ed to make the experiment at how
little cost he could sustain life for
a year. He found that on Indian
meal the cost OF living was only
about five dollars. The Scotch
peasants, who are proverbially
strong, both in body and mind, live
almost entirely on oatmeal and kali,
kind Of cabbage.


II you wish to see how little is
necessary for subsistence and even
enjoyment, go and watch an Italian
laborer on railroad, while he takes
his favorite dish Of polenta. This
is made by stirring Indian meal in
to boiling water until a thick mass
is formed, much more solid than
our ordinary mush. This is divid-
ed into large pieces by a string. A
lump is taken in the hand and eaten
with q slice of sheep milk cheese
to give 1t q relish. Yet the Italian
can accomplish more work than the
German, who eats and drinks more
heartily.


The IIindoo is distinguished for
Year: 1875

After IN idea is conceived the
fewer words you clothe it in the
better.


He who is thankful for q favor
not only liquidates it but has paid
something toward the next one.


Women rule the world, and fash
ion rules the women.


Idon't know as can tell which
makes the biggest fool of q man,
fear or love. ~ --


There is nothing we see quicker
and despise more than the vanity
of others, and yet there is nothing
that we havetmore Of ourselves. a..


He who is oftenest in the wrong
is the very man who thinks he
never is so. f,oef pf


1t is much easier to cheat our
selves than it is others, but we don't
think so. d nf 4fraf
Man blames fortune for their
bad luck, and credit themselves
for their good luck. h4f


The modification of getting
cheated always stings as more than
any loss that we suffer. ~


No man can get so low down in
this world lis to be Of no account
for good or for evil. '''''


II man has not faith he has
got nothing that he can rely on |;
energy without faith is like a kite
in q high wind without tail.


There seem to be two favorite
ways to use up q man: one Is to
pull him down with base ISLANDERS,
and the other is to blow him up
with vanity until he col'apses q
fue. af ai yiesfl.fiJ asBoi


The man who Is . tyrant In his
family is always coward when he
Is away from home. ~ "a


A true friend 4 one who can tell
you ell your failings but hides them
carefully from others. soJ


Many people manage to make
themselves continually miserable
by trying to enjoy something they
haven't got.


How can we expect to flnd per-
lection In others when wo cant
find II in ourselvcsi
Year: 1875

Lies the sunset splendor far and wide,


On the golden tide
Drifting slow toward yonder evening red,
With the faint stars sparkling overhead.


Peacefully we glide.
Sweet rest, the summer day is done,


Gone the ardent sun.
All is still, no wind or twilight blow;
Shuts the evening like a crimson rose;


Night comes like a nun.
Lift we loving voices pure and clear,
To the Fathers ear;
Fragrant as the flowers the thoughts we raise
Up to heaven, while DER the ocean waves


Draws the darkness near
Year: 1875

We will send the weekly whig and Chronicle for TWO
DOLLARS from until January paper
iptl the first of next January.


The 1876 will be
viii want to read live enterprng propose
publish will be our centennial
ll accounts Of the Great Centennial
through our columns the wonderful development
fst hundred of its existence.


In addition this the Presidential election
exciting political expected expect
all hand and the hke
Republican believe
and not for the of needless
We also to
making the Tennessee
East Tennessee.


We shall space building Of
agricultural interests of this


o whig Chronicle
giving
money either
Money Order, or by Drafts addressing


wHIG AND CHRONICLE


KNOXVILLE, TENN.
Year: 1875

In the hotel of the future, if we can
not change all our carpets at the
"spring cleaning" and change them
back again at the "fall cleaning;" il
we can not afford double suits of fur
niture for every room-which may
well be the case until the latter part OF
the millennium-we shall yet look to
1t that each room IL furnished with
some light, agreeable, easily movable
and wholly restful furniture, which
shall seem 10 be cool even when the
heavens are brass above our heads and


the earth Ia dust beneath our feet. In
the hotel of the future, each room shall
have one graceful, simple chair or
lounge which may be lifted, and which
shall not be too fine TO give rest for
tired feet without fear of perpetrating
vandalism. Why should one dissem-
BILE? That is what you go TO "A hotel
for-to put your feet In chair when


you come in tired. Foreigners and
our own home-folk also are never
weary of caricaturing the American
habit of holding the feet higher than
the head. IL is very bad manners, but
1t is very good physiolgy. The high
est medical authority declares that a
horizontal position of the body is most
conducive to a restoration of disturbed
equilibrium and TO a healthful circul-
alton. But there are some enterpris-
ing spiris among us who do not need
science to tell them what rests them
when they are tired, and, carrying the
principle of selfpreservatiOn too far,
they have postured themselves too
recklessly, and thrust their uplifted
feet through all the laws Of Difference
and courtesy. Let them be Anath>
ema. But shall not take mine ease
In mine inn 2-iSCribner, for MOuenlhfr
Year: 1875

The first yearsof every mans busi-
ness or professional life are years of
education. They are intended to be,
in the order of nature and Providence.
Doors do not open to man until he is
prepared to enter them. The man
withouta wedding garment may get
in surreptitiously, but he Immediately
goes out with a flea in his ear. We
think it is the experience Of most sue
cessful men, who have watched the
course of their lives in retrospect, that
whenever they have arrived at point
where they were thoroughly prepared
to go up higher, the door to q higher
place has swung back of itself, and
they have heard the call to enter. The
old die, or voluntarily retire for rest.
The best men who stand ready to take
their places will succeed to their posi-
tion and its honors and emoluments.-
DR.. Holland.
Year: 1875

Opinions are divided as to the wis
dom of Chsndler's appointment, but
all agree that he is honest, and on all
sides attention is directed TO the fact
that his name has never been CON
nected with any of the Jobs before
Congress Cincinnati Gazelts's WASH
ington Special.
Year: 1875

A cotemporary asks, @whai are
the street lamps for?" The man who
dosen't konw what street lamp is
for is hardly fit to sit in al editorial
chair and mould public. opinion,
Street lamps are for weary young
men to recline against At midnight
when they forget the way home.
Year: 1875

A Hartford clergyman was in the mid
die Of a sentence in his morning sermon
on Sunday when the clock struck for
noon. Heimmediately closed his manu-
script, remsrking, That's a good enough
ending" and brought the service to o
speedy close,
Year: 1875

Just as we are getting rid of that pc
culiarly English institution, the prize
ring, here comes Algernon Sartoris with
his boxing-gloves to lure us back to
pugilism. Every young idiot in Wash
ington will have q pair Of boxing-gloyes
before this time next week,
Year: 1875

former record would have been 30 sharp and
sudden "a to have excited mistrust and de-
ris;on. There was, strictly speaking, no
place in public life for Mr.. Davis
after he took off his shawl and water proof,
and surrendered to the troopers Of Gen. Will
son. We must do him tho justice to say that
he has never pretended to be anything differ
cnt from what he always was-a bitter, obsti'
nate, unrepentant enemy of the United States.


For these reasons, it is evident that DIT.
Davis was the wrong person to invite, IL the
officers of the WinnebagO County Fair wanted
to hear useful and practical speech on the
relations of the North and South, and to
make demonstration in favor of good Will
and national unity. IL they merely wanted to
make money out Of a sensational Orati0n, they
are already convinced of their mistake. The
farmers refuse to send their cattle and their
mammoth pumpkins the Grand Army vet
erans have denounced thc proceeding ana de-
cline to take any part in the 1aH
and the whole community takes such
strong and indignant interest In
the matter, that the invitation, after
having been given and accepted, is TO be with
drawn. If this had not been done, it is need
less to say that this article would not inive
been written. If Mr.. Davis were gong To
Illinois to make a speech at the courteous
summons of an agricultural society, We should
moi have said word to make his reception
urkiLd. 1t would have beon disgrsccinl, Il he
had bocn treated with rudencss or insult wheh
comng~as the guest of the county. Bat since
the matter has thus fallen through, We have
no hesitation in SAVING that it was thought
le-s and rcpyehcnsIc bunder. and one which


we hone will never be repeated. We wish no
i'll to Mr.. Davis; but it is clear hc can do no
rood for himself or the country by making
lublic speeches, in the North or the South.
Year: 1875

The action of the Canal Board yesterday. al
though not as decisive as some OF the most
Jealous friends Of Reform may wish, was a
gopd beginning. Resolutions we4e adopted
citing Resident EagiDccr Babcock and Dbl
vision Engineer Yates Of the Eastern Division
to appear at the next meeting OF the Board TO
show cause why they shall not be removed
from office. In the mean time these gentle
men are suspended. 1t WIS perhaps 10 more
than fair to give the accused officers OPP
portunity to explain their shortcomings, while
the case against them is made out SO clearly by
the Canal Commission that the public i'll
torests demanded that they should be at once
relieved OF their official trusts. There can be
10 dorbt that removal will follow suspension
in due time, and Secretary Willers has hit the
nall on The head in proposing a complete re-
organization of the Engineer service on the
canals.
Year: 1875

One branch of the litigation in regard to the
New York and Oswego Midland RairOad-the
contest between certain local tax x-gatherers and
the receivers of the road-was ended yesterday.
Judge Blatchford, in the United States Circuit
Court in dissolving the temporary injunctions
which restrained the town officers from enforc-
ing their demands. spoke very strongly of the
importance of regularity and strictness in the
collection of taxes, with view to preserving
the credit of the State. The main point ef his
decision was that there is no sound principle
which cxempts property in q receivers hands,
pending a sait, from the operation Of tax laws.