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Year: 1876

| CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. s.


THE allegory of The Great Republic


has been upon the stage OF Robinson's
Opera House for the past two nights, un-


der the auspices of the Cincinnati Relief


Association. The proceeds were to be ap
| piled to the relief of the suffering poor of


the City The performers, numbering


nearly 600 children, were taken;from the


public schools of the city; and, as the OBJ
| ject was worthy one, and those who took


part children of old residents of the city,


vast audiences were present at each pre-


sentation of the aIlegory. The weather


this afternoon being propitious and there


being no session of the public schools, the


matinee audience in most part was
| composed of women and children.
| About half-past two o'clock, while the
| great house was dcnsely packed and the


thousands of children among the audience
| were at the height of their enjoyment,
some boy in the gallery, through mischief
or ignorance, raised the cry Of fire, as the
red light from the colored fires used in the
piece flashed out from the wings. Every
inch of the theater was! occupied, and the


dense crowd was pressing and surging
about the stair-cases and in front of the
doors. Some one in the audience took up


the cry of fire, and it was re-echoed from


near the door by some one who caught
glimpse of red glare from the stage. There
was an Immediate rush for the front
doors. A child was pushed down the
steps and screamed. Immediately after a
man thrust his arm through window,
and the scream and crash was enough to
set the panic in full force.


The scene was terrible one in the mar
row vestibule leading to the street. The
people in the rear mad with fear, pressed
upon those in front, shouting and curslng
Men, terror stricken, struck down help
less women and children in front, or
climbed over their heads to the top OF the
staircase, and precipitated themselves
upon the screaming and bleeding mass OF
children and women in the hallway.


The scene in and about the Opera
House after the accident was heart-rend-
ing. The news of the catastrophe spread
like wildfire over the city, and from every
direction came people hurrying to the
scene until the squares were impossible.
There are many conflicting stories as to
the origin of the panic. The building


was filed, from parquet to gallery, with
dense mass, which not only filled all the
seats and aisles, but crowded the stair
ways, and hundreds were outside seeking
to gain admission. Behind the scenes
were 500 school children, who were to
take part in the performance. When the
false alarm was given the audience be-
came panic stricken, and a rush was made
for the stairways. Some are said to have


leaped from the balcony upon the crowd
below. The lower circle of the house is


but few steps above the level of the


street, but the steps are narrow, and soon


became blocked by the surging crowd in


side the house. .Nultitudes were pressing


for the doorway, and in the panic women
and children were overthrown and


trampled to death by the panic-stricken
icrowd. The scene beggars description.
The alarm rapidly spread throughout the
city, and those who had wives or children
Year: 1876

WEDDING dresses are made with low
necked prncesse trains and petticoats
very much in the fashion worn century
ago Thick, heavy, yet soft white brocade
is used for the princesse train, while the
vest and tablier are of white satin trimmed
with lace and orange flowers. The cor
sage is low and square. The front of the
waist is a sorto white satin vest, buttoned
from one end to the other, and piped on
the edge The princesse back, with waist
and train in one, is or brocade, and there
are side cores of brocade in front, begin
ming at the neck and sloping down to the
brocaded side of the skirt, leaving the
satin vest and tablier in full relief. Orange
blossoms in full clusters on vines eX-
tend down the sides of the brocaded part
from the top of the corsage in front to the
end of the skirt. There are also orange
vines as heading for the lace t1ounces on
the tablier and on the rutfles of the
square neck and the Lady Washington
sleeves. A single orange cluster is on the
side of the head, TO hold on the plain tulle
veil two or three tiny pale yellow oranges
are now found in handsome orange-blos-
som garnitures for bridal dresses.


Old-fashioned Grape, thin and crinkled,
once so much worn for evening dresses,
is now being revived for trademarks
toilets. This fabric putfs, crimps, and
pleats prettily, and "holds its own bet
ter than tulle. A pretty fashion is to have
the bridesmaids represent a bouquet Of
colors, dressing two in blue, two in pink,
and two in maize or green Grape. With
these colored grapes bridesmaids select
large white roses for garniture. White
muslin dresses, once So much in favor
with bride maids, are now very seldom
seen. The mother of the bride usually
chooses pearl.color or gray for the dress
with which she accompanies the BRIDE
groom to the altar, but of late these grave
colors have been thought to mar the effect
of the other toilets Of the bridal party, and
ivory silk has been worn instead. If the
lady is advanced in years, dark, rich
velvet, either golden brown. wine-color,
or black, is used for trimming the white
ilk-Harper's Bazar.
Year: 1876

our boxes filled with the beauteous nectar
The operation is to put two large swarms,
without queens or combs, into hive
filled with empty sectional frames or
honey boxes, and give one broad comb at
one end of the hive, and before the new
queen is Matched remove the comb and
give them another. When the second has
become fertile, the greatest flow of honey
being over remove the honey yframes or
boxes and fill the hive with combs or
empty frames as the fall season for honey
may indicate. The queens and broad
combs can be utilized to advantage,
which any intelligent apiarian will under
SfapI
Year: 1876

The new aeronautical invention, the
parakite, has been exhibited to the public
at the Alexandra Park; but, as it was
represented only by a small specimen, the
results of the exhibition are not very tan
gible. The parakite, which resembles an
ordinary kite in many details, ascended
to an altitude of 1000 feet or thereabouts,
remaining steady while held by the string
but its descent was too rapid to suggest an
idea that it would be safe or comfortable
for human being to trust himself to it as
q passenger.
Year: 1876

Some remarkable facts respecting the
spread of Christianity in India have lately
been brought out by the census, which
was prepared with great labor and care by
the Indian Government Two hundred
and twenty-five thousand Protestant ma
tive Christians are reported, showing that
during the past ten years there has been
an increase of 81 per cent of the Chris
tan population, while the natural increase
of the Hindu population has been but 5
Year: 1876

The two lawfully fascinating and
alarming" young men in New York this
winter, according to Jennie June, are
Joaquin Miller and Col Nicholas Smith,
the husband of Ida Greeley. Joaquin
would like to be married, they say, but he
is so very susceptible he can't help falling
in love too much. Col. Smith made up
his mind to marry Ida Greeley, if he
could get her, before he had even seen
her, being quite enamored through the
newspaper accounts he had seen OF hel
devotion to her parents
Year: 1876

A WRITER in Fraser remarks that aman
is man whether he be bachelor or bene-
dick; whereas a woman may only be
properly so.called when she has fulfilled
her destiny as wife and mother.
Year: 1876

"YOU must really exercise patience"
said an old rat to brother that had been
caught in a trap; "no doubt it is painful,
but sQucaKing will do you no good what
ever, and it is very distressing to us to
hear" You are mighty compassionate" ]"
said the prisoner, trying to ease his leg.
son, assure you, feel beyond all de-
scription for you," said the old rat; Il
can enter into your suficrings most fully;
but, you see, notwithstanding that l grieve
so aculcly, can command myself and
behave with moderation" Every tine!"
replied the captive; 81 could do the same
if were sitting at my ease looking at you
in this trap; but I doubt exceedingly if
your philosophy would hold out if you
were here instead of there"
Year: 1876

From our Regular Correspondent.


Progress of the Show-Some Of the


FelIows who are Sick Counting


Chickens Before they are Hatched


Uncle Sans F'arm--FuU Ac-


count of the Agricultural Display


WASHINGTON, May %. 1876.


IF the success of the Centennial
Show could be fairly measured by the
attendance during the first week after
the opening it would be a good time
now to take back some of the glowing
and extravagant things that have here
tofore been said. 1t has really been
an exceedingly dull week, with consid-
erably less than 10000 average daily
attendance. But this state of facts is
simply in the natural order of things
and not in the least discouraging.
The cold, wet and disagreeable wealth
er has of itself been enough to keep
everybody at home and then the i'm
preston has got abroad-and it is cor
rect too-that the Exhibition lacks a
good deal of being ready. The unfn-
ished condition of the walks and num-
erous buildings, together with the mud
and rubbish and the work of unpack-
Year: 1876

with his nose close to the floor, and
quickly wearied of that, yawned, sighed
forgot the beetle entirely, and sat
down on it! Then there was wild
yelpof agony, and the poodle went sail
ing up the aisle;the yelps continued, and
so did the dog; he crossed before the
house in front of the altar;he flew down
the other aisle; he crossed before the
doors; he clamored up the home stretch;
his anguish grew with his progress, till
presently he was a woolly comet, moy-
ing with the gleam and speed of light.
At last the frantic sufferer sheered
from its course, and sprang into its
masters lap: he flung it out of the win
dow, and the voice of distress quickly
thinned away and died in the distance


Tom Sawyer went home quite cheer
full, thinking to himself that there was
some satisfaction about divine service
when there was a bit of variety in it.
He had but one marring thought; he
was willing that the dog should play
with his pinch-bug, but he did not think
it was upright to carry it off.
Year: 1876

An ingenious Yankee has been bother
ing the New York stable-keepers and rail
road men with a new method of shoeing
horses. 1t requires no fire in blacksmith
shop to adopt this method. The shoes are
taken in sizes from the manutactory and
are nailed on to the foot cold. There is
no cork at heel or toe on the shoe. The
frog is not cut away. The shoe does not
protect the frog, but the frog strikes the
pavement. The theory Of the man is that
the frog is to be used and is a sort of a
cushion that strikes the ground and pre-
vents the hoof from larring. Nobody was
disposed to laugh at the matter All the
horsemen said that a horse would be ru-
med who travelled on the frog. The an
swer was: All the wild horses travel in
that way, and how seldom lame one is
seen in herd Six months ago Alderman
Richardson agreed to give the invention a
trial on his road. 1t has worked superbly.
Lame horses have been cured, and the
great number Of the teams have been pre-
served from lameness. Not horse in the
stable has cut on the hind leg from the
shoe, and the Alderman would not &c
back to the old practice at any price. The
expense of the work in the shoeing de-
partment has been reduced one-half and
the feet of the horses are kept in capital
order.
Year: 1876

If any animal but q fish were allowed
to die a lingering death 10y sutfocation, OF
should be drowned, people would be un-
willing to eat the meat Of such animal,
and would consider it an imposition if !.
provision dealer should send such things
for their table. And yet it is usual when
fish are caught to leave them without air
(breathng in their way) and they die an
unnatural death, after struggling perhaps
for hours. No one seems to think their
flesh is injured by this suffering. Never
theless it is SO that if one has no thought
for the unnecessary suffering for the fish
he ought to Kill 1t instantly, out of regard
for his own stomach. He would find q
great Improvement in the quality. Strike
the fish a sharp blow just back of the eyes
or with a knife divide the back bone.
Year: 1876

The Morn. This little insect, 50 de-
structive in our households, is known to
nuturaists by the name of tinea, and be-
longs to the family of the lepidoptera, or
scaly- winged insects, Of which it is the
smallest, the most beautiful and the most
destructive 1t is second cousin to the
canker worm, the apple worm and the
turpentine moth, but among its aristocrat-
| ic and honorable relations is the silk worm.
The immediate family relatives of the com
mon moth are the bee moth, the carpet
| moth, the hair moth, the grain moth and
the pack moth. AS soon as the egg laid
BY the mother moth is hatched. straight
way the tiny worm proceeding from it be-
gins to feed upon the fabric to which it is
fastened, and spins itself a cocoon, in
which it moves freely and unseen, and
from which energies in due time butter
fly In May or June these winged insects
deposit their eggs Before this time every
thing they can harm should be placed be-
yond their reach. Before putting away
fur and woollen goods they should be
thoroughly beaten to dislodgc any eggs
| that may have been deposited on them,
and exposed to the sun and air for hours
1t is said that brushing over their retreats
with turpentine will dislodge Them that
| camphor, black pepper, tobacco, shavings
Of Russia leather, will disgust them that
| camphor wood and cedar trunks are free
| from their visitations, and that corrosive
| sublimate washings, lphur tImigations,
and the action of heat and steam will de-
stroy them. Prevention is the best cure


If furs and woollens are carefully sealed
up in paper cases, or put away in chests
and trunks which the moth fly cannot pen
| citrate, they should be beaten and summed
repeatedly, and the ravages will be check
ed. This little insect loves darkness, and
hides its evil doings from the light Of day


TRANsPLANTING EvERGREENs. Each
spring there come numerous inquiries
about transplanting evergreens, and many
| think success depends upon choosing eX-
acty the proper time. In our experience
we have not found the When so important
as the A92O, having removed the trees in


the fall, and early and late i'll the spring
| If one can have his choice OF times, nc
doubt that the period when the swelling
of the buds shows that vegetation is active
would be preferable, but we have succeed
| ed with much earlier and much latel
| planting The one great and all essential
point is to keep the roots from becoming
dry. Ii these are dry, send the tree to the
bush heap, as that will be its ultimate des-
tination. If the trees are to be brought
from no great distance, a dull day can be
waited for, otherwise the roots must be
packed in wet moss, be puddled, Or some


protection given them they had better be


kept soaking wet than to dry at all. Some


ask what manure to use Probably guanc


would kill them the quickest, but fresi


stable manure VIII be pretty sure. Nere1


manure an evergreen at planting. Wher


well established, well decomposed manure


will be of use. The top affords such at


obstacle to the wind that all trees owe


two or three feet high should be staked
| TAgricuiturist.
Year: 1876

Now tOr the calves and lambs, and there
IS no interest with which farmers have to
10 where the ounce Of prevention pays
better than here Be sure and have the
coW gaining when the calf is dropped.
Give u warm, dry room, with good bed
tor lying i'm light but generous diet
aiterward, with no ice-water; treat her
with gentle kindness, and above every
thing else, keep her from cold draughts OF
air, and YOU VIII hud that it Will pay even
SD much better than doctors and flrriers,
after your COW has gotten out of sorts
from want Of proper care when she most
needed it.


A COW that is gaining when she calves
and is taken care of at and after the call
Is dropped, is almost sure to do well ant
such an one is already to commence hen
seasons work Of producing butter


It has been my invariable practice fol
more than twenty years to feed my cows
lightly before calving with ears OF corn,
uuless they are in good grass; and | have
not had one retain the aitcrbrth in a.
that time


So, too, care pays when the lambs are
dropped in cold weather. Every man thai
has considerable flock should have two
or three small. warm pens, into each o
which he should put three or tour sheep a
few days before they are to lamb; and, il
the weather is cold, he should look atte
them once or twice in the night, and ther,
iS really no more need Of losing a laml
tAan Il calf


1t is sometimes the case when >heel
has twins that she viii own but one. un
less She or they have help. Usually if sh'
IS put in very snug pen immediatel
after the lambs are dropped she will ac
cept the situation. If one stubbornly re
fuses to own her offspring, just put he
head between two stakes driven into thu
floor OF the pen and let her be there
never knew one | could subdue. By al
means have a nursing bottle on hand ant
feed the lambs just enough to keep then
hungry and smart; and if the sheep ar
poor mixers, give them shorts and pota
toes, with plenty of salt, sulphur an'
water Cut the tails pretty short at three
days Old, if the lambs are smart, but with
in the first week usually. Keep off tn
ticks, and the lamb will be lit to sell il
season for the dam to get in good orde
for winter and sheep that comes to th
barn fat is about half wintered


An ounce Of prevention is worth poun'
OF cure. Ger. Telegraph.
Year: 1876

The death last week of the great patriot
statesman of Hungary, Francis Deak, naturally
suggests comparisons between his career and
that of his fellow leader in the revolution OF
1913, Louis KOssuth. After the short lived
Magyar Republic had been crushed by Rus
sian invasion, both continued to labor for the


liberation of their country from the tyranny
of Austrian rule but by different methods


Kossuth remained in exile, holding fast to his
faith in the possibility of the establishment of
a democratic form of government in Hungary,
and from asylums on foreign soil continued to
agitate for q new revolution. Deak returned


gathered around him in the form of a COM
pact and determined political organization the
intelligence and patriotism of the Magyar
population, and while preserving the form of
allegiance to the Hapsburg Government, man
aged to make Hungary constant thorn in its
side. Thus weakened, Austria fought with
France in 1859 and lost LOmbardy, fought
with Prussia in 1866, and was again defeated
and crowded out of the German Bund. Deak,
who had patiently bided his time, keeping
alive the ardent desire of his cOuntrymen for
independence, while repressing the dan
gerOus zeal Of his followers. now saw
that the hour for action had come, and
in the midst Of the prostration and despair
which followed the battle Of Sadowa, he and
Year: 1876

Morris wallpaper, Persian rugs house decora-
ton, they learn, IL the style in tho East"
and to work they 20 to decorate, often without
any knowledge of the simplest rules OF art,
material to work with, or money to pay for 1t.
There are plenty of enthusiastic authorities TO
instruct them how to proceed without any OF
these things. Cheap and fine limitations are to
be made, they learn, at home without money
and without skill.


We have but word Of advice to suggest
and that is-dOnt Wait until your eye Is
trained to tell you what to do, and until you
have money to do it properly. If you go to
work without either, from bearsay or fashion,
able gossip, the result will be disastrous
Leave the old rep-covered chairs and the solid
bedsteads in their places until you have some
thing as comfortable and as pleasing to your
own eve to serve as substitutes. DO not be In
too great haste to take your doors from their
hinges, and to hang, as certain zealOts advise,
yellow muslin barred with red calico, in their
places, nor to turn your snug closets
into open cabinets with the edges of the
shelves trimmed with gilt lace and forest
leaves. Make haste slowly to destroy the SOLID
comfort and privacy OF your home, 10 convert
it into a show place full of glitter and tawdry
fipery. Distrust all cheap limitations OF better
things. Your cheap stuifs fade and hang IN
thin and seazy folds nobody mistakes your
black varnish for ebony or believes that your
gliding is gold You may be sure that great
advance has been made by the beautifying OF
our homes in the enrichment of our daily
lives but you can only contribute to that adj
vance by patient study, not imitation, and by
tho service of Art not Fashion.
Year: 1876

Despite the efforts to turn it aside for party
benefit, the debate i'm the Senate on the
finances of the District of Columbia reveals
some part of the extravaganza and waste that
have piled up heavy debt II nothing else
results, there is at least o prospect that the
power of the District to incur new Liabilities
will receive permanent check. The United
States can scarcely afford to fill continually'a
nurse from which the Commissioners take out
handfuls at time to support party newspa-
pers and idle officials.
Year: 1876

A bill has been introduced at Albany to prohibit
speculation in theater tickets. Such bill can only
be useful to show how little legislators know about
the principles of legislation The practice at which
it is aimed is merely au annoyance. not an immor-
atty nor ali injury to the pub c and petty annoy
ances not proper subjects for legislative eoree-
ton The only way TO deal with ticket specu-
Iators is to refuse to buy of them. Admission to
a theater is not one of the necessaries of life
nor always. alas! one of the luxuries-and
If the keeper refuses to sell ticket at the adj


vertsed price. why should We not refuse to buy at
all. and go to some rival establishment OF stay at
homef If a majority of those who frequent the
theater wished to abolish speculation in tickets they
could do so in week by merely buttoning up their
pockets. But We can more fix the price of tickets
by statute than We can fix the price OF wheat
Year: 1876

II is beginning to be apparent that as one OF the
results of the Charley Ross excitement we are 10
have a miserable multiplication OF seyen-year-0ld
liars Every few weeks a precocious humbug III
pinafore is discovered in some out OF the way VII
lage, who sets the telegraphs working and de-
tectiyes running in half the cities OF the United
States by tale of adventure that ought not to I'M
nose even upon tho habitual reader of dime novels.
The little romancer has all tho characters OF the
soul-c~rdling drama, and all the stcreOtyped forms
of expression at his tongues end. He gives us the
usual "reminiscences Of "a big house." and papa"
and brother tho usual narrative OF rapid
night journeys in company of strange men, the usual
old woman who kept him In meanly fur
nished room. All the qudnuncs of the village
ply him with leading questions and stimulate his
powers of invention. For while he is the popular
idol Then il is discovered some day that there is
no mystery whatever about his past life; but the
young rascal has enjoyed himself hugely lying and
being petted for it, repeating the stories he has
heard, adding the embellishments suggested by his
onestioners and enriching the whole mess from his
own resources. Every child loves fiction and the
marvellous and most children ingenious in
yentors of strange stories But it would be better to
conine this talent to the nursery thanto force ii into
unwholesome growth BY the aid of the telegraph
and the newspaper.
Year: 1876

Neither rainy weather nor the cry of hard
times" had any perceptble effect upon the
Charity Ball. AS will be seen by our report,
the toilets were brilliant, the general attend
snoe was very large, and there were many
notable people present. The arrangements
were excellent, and secured in all respects an
evening of unusual enjoyment to the gay
throng that filled the Academy.