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Year: 1873

A lady, writing to Chicago paper on
the subject of female training, says:
"The education and training Of Ameri-
can women is altogether defective in it's
way. Instead of being taught house
work, and thereby becoming conversant
with theroutine mesticoccupations,
they devote their leisure hours to the
reading of novels. Instead of learn
ing to fit and make their own dress
es, and their fathers and brothers shirts,
they are allowed ia go gadding about the
streets, and that, too, athours that they
ought to be at home under their moth
ers' eyes, darning stockings or prepar-
ing the next mornings meal. L say that
young girls, from eight years and up
wards, ought to be made to walk at least
five miles day. in sunshine or rain,
even if they could ride that distance for
five cents. This is the way that pro-
pose to apply the remedy. In no civil
lied country in the world is the domes-
tic education and training of woman
considered disgraceful or undignified
excepting the United States of Ameri-
On ~
Year: 1873

Chicago is singular city. 1t is re-
markable for its marriages and its di-
vorces, for its sensation stories, its
house raising and its rats. 1t was lately
engaged in celebrating, by holiday,
music, flag flying and general rejoicing,
the anniversary of the conflagration
from which it suffered so severely two
years ago. A Western paper tells of a
man who had settled down in a neigh
ing village for six or seven years, and
was noted for his quiet, sober manners.
But it was observed that on one particu-
lar day of each year he put off his Gus
tomary sedateness, put on his best
clothes, took a holiday, gave himself
up to fun and frolic and generally end
ed in retiring to bed in his boots. An
inquiry into the reason of his curious
conduct disclosed the fact that the day
thus set apart for private celebration,
was the anniversary of his wife's death.
That man must have hailed from Chi
cago.
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court of New York has
Just decided that q man can pick all the
fruit from a tree growing on his own
land, though il hang over on a neigh
bor's land. The question is an old and
oft-disputed one, and it may he added
of incalculable practical value. But as
a landowners right of property extends
down to the centre Of the earth, and up
ward to the zenith, may not the man
whose possessions are overhung by a
few dozen of his neighbors apples
lawfully bring an account against him
for sky rent which will enable him TO
appropriate the fruit TO his own useP
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
Two very important railroad movements
are on foot, which show how the solution
of the question of cheaper freight transpor-
tation will ultimately be secured, without
any governmental interference with prl-
vate enterprise. The New York Central
Railroad Company proposes to lay, in adj
dtion to its present double track, two addi-
tional tracks; thus making four tracks,
two of which will be devoted to passenger
travel exclusively, and two exclusively for
freight. With these facilities the Central
will become In part freight railroad, and
the saving in both time and expense In tho
moving of freights will sooner or later, In
proportion to the activity of competition,
be felt in comparatly ely lower rates, and
a larger freight movement. or equal Inn
portance is the proposed change in the Erie
gauge, by which the cost of operating that
road will be greatly reduced, and its op-
portunities of successful competition with
the Central materially improved. In a few
years, at the furthest, this line, and the
Pennsylvania Central, must follow the ex-
ample of the n. Y. Central in quadrupling
their track accommodations and with the
completion of roads now In progress, and
the construction of others proposed, thero
Is no reason to fear that the facilities of
transportation will not be ample to meet
all the requirements of commerce, and the
competition of new and old lines sufficient
ly active to insure the adoption of the low
est tariffs at which freight can be probably
moved under the most economical and pru-
dent system of frailway mansgement.-Iron
AOe
Year: 1873

VENTRILoQUIsM EASILY LEARNED.-Ac-
cording to a writer in the Chicago Advance,
the ventrloquist's art is as easy to learn as
falling off log. He maintains there is no
difficulty in acquiring the power. In the
first place, he says, speak any word or SEN
tence in your own natural tone; then open
the mouth and fix your jaws fast, as though
trying to hinder any one from opening
them further or shutting them draw the
tongue back in ball; speak the same
words, and the sound, instead of being
formed In the mouth, will be formed in the
pharynx. Great attention must be paid to
holding the jaws rigid. The sound will
then be found to initiate voice from the
other side OF a door when 1t is closed, or un-
der floor. or through wall. To initiate
a sound behind a door partly open, the
voice must not be altered from the origin
al note or pitch, but be made in another
part of the mouth. This is done by clos
ing the lips tight and drawing one corner
OF the mouth downwards, or towards the
ear. Then let the lips open at that corner
only, the other part to remain closed. Next,
breathe, as II we're. the words out of the
orifice formed. Do not speak the words
distinctly, but expel the breath in short
puffs at each word, and as loud as possible.
BY so doing, you call the illusion in the
minds of the listeners that they hear the
same voice which they heard when the
door was closed, but more distinctly and
nearer. ON account of the door being open.
The voice must always be used when the
ventriloquist wishes 1t to appear that the
sound comes through an obstacle, but from
some one close at hand
Year: 1873

Among the passengers In the overland
train was young man possessed of judi
cious spirit of economy and pardonable
share of vanity. The judicious economy
was made manifest to the other occupants
of the car by the fact that the young man
wore plain clothing and single cheviot
shirt all the way from Chicago and for
the pardonable vanty-well, how that be-
came apparent Is where the joke comes in.
He had only been to the East on visit,
and the girl he left behind him had been
notified in advance of his approach, and, In
company with few other friends, was to
meet him at Niles station. Visions OF rap
ture floated through his brain, and, seating
himself in secluded corner OF the car, he
poured forth his spirits gladness in gush
of melody, somewhat as thus:
Year: 1873

APPRECIATED Milwaukee Sentinel
says Or Prices Cream Baking Pow
der and Special Flavorings are the best,
without exception, that are made They
are growing daily in popular favor, and in
every case where they are used give de-
cided satisfaction We are using them in
our household, and speak from a know
ledge Of the case. These articles are not
put into the market to compete in price
with those of low grade and inferior quail
ity-they claim purity and healthfulness.
Let those who read give them bVt single
trial and be satisfied
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
arS
Year: 1873

THE KEYSTONE SALOON HAS BEEN RE
] moved TO the corner Of Moline Avenue and Rail
road street. within five minutes walk of the new
Railroad Depot, where the Proprietor will be hap
py at all times to see his friends


5-Sdlm JAMES MCELROY
Year: 1873

The SLAUGHTER WHICH DAILY SUs-
TAINs Us.-When we ride we sit upon
the skin of the pig; when we walk we
tread upon the skin Of the bullock; we
wear the skin of the kid upon our hands,
and the fleece Of the sheep upon our
backs. More than half the world are
human beings in sleeps clothing. We
eat the flesh of some creatures, Of some
we drink the milk, upon others we are
dependent for the cultivation of the soil
and if it is pain to us to suffer hunger
and cold, we should be scrupulous to
avoid inficting wanton misery upon the
animals by means of which we are warm
ed and fed.
Year: 1873




A WRINKLE ABOUT THE AGE OF
HoRsEs.-A short time ago we met
gentleman from Illinois who gave us a
piece of information in regard to ascer-
tanning the age of horses after he or she
has passed the ninth year, which was
new to us, and will be, we are sure, to
most Of our readers. 1t is this: After
the horse is nine years old, wrinkle
comes on the eyelid at the upper corner
of the lower lid, and every year there
after he has one well-defned wrinkle
for each year over nine. If, for instance,
horse has three wrinkles he is twelve,
if ho han four he 10 thirtoon-A Add til o
number of wrinkles to nine and you will
get it. So says the gentleman, and he
is sure it will never fail As a good
many people have horses over nine 1t is
easily tried. If true, the horse dentist
must give up his trade.-Eeld and
FsreStde.
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Rtands Wit thout a rival. and should and its
way into every family, 1t has reached the
highest state OF perfection Of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and Its sales are CONSTANT
ly increasing throughout the world.
Year: 1873

MEETINGS To-NIoHT. The Democrats Of the
First Ward will meet this evening, at the City
Hotel. A large attendance should be present, as
business Of importance will doubtless come up for
consideration.


The Sixth Ward Democrats will meet this even
ing at the Sixth Ward House, corner of Sixth and
Walnut streets. The meeting should be well at
tended.
Year: 1873

The harmless occupation which MIR. Samuel
Townsend proposes for himself, of recognizing
White Mans Party" has but one bad feature
it leads the world to conclude that Delaware
contains worse Bourbons than Kentucky We
believe this to be mistake, though for one State
to have produced two such Tcwnsends as Samuel
and George Alfred is not only hard on highly
respectable family, but we'll calculated to give
Delaware rough name.


The Reading Eagle remains aesHre4 thai
the Wilmington d Reading road was about to be
sold out, and that if the transfer did not reach
completion, its Illustration is owing chiefly tt
the outspoken fearlessness of an independent
press" After what we have already said on tht
subject We know not what would suffice to con
vince the Eagle that there never was the leas
truth in the story.
Year: 1873

The CITY CountlI TO BOFe IUF WHs-Vi NO :


DR.. Quinby, in letter to the Gdzstt expresses
the opinion that oil and gas underie this part Of
the country, and may be had by boring He sug-
gesta that the City Council undertake the work,
or aid it by an appropriation. We have no dis
position to controvert the Doctors scientific
theories or even the practical proposition he
blses upon them, but there will be a strong OBJ
lection against having the Council return to its
old occupation of boring, especially for gas
There was time, year or two ago, when that
body was almost continually engaged in suct
work, and it provoked general remonstrance.
Year: 1873

,TRoY has funny man too. The
other day he was out sailing with two
or three friends, when he pulled the
plug from the bottom Of the boat, and
she sunk. One or two OF the crew could
not swim,and but for a passing steamer
they would have been drowned.
Year: 1873

The indignant protest Of the two Reform
Committees of Brooklyn against the passage
of the bills pending at Albany which seek to
relieve the East River Bridge Ring at the ex-
pense of the people of Brooklyn should not
be lost upon the Legislature. The first pur-
pose of the present managers of this
great enterprise is to avoid any Off
cial scrutiny. They have spent four
millions of dollars where their estimates
called for only half that sum and they can
not explain Twhere the missing millions have
gone. An investigation, conducted during a
heated political contest, is more than they
can survive, and hence every effort is bent
toward escaping an investigation. Such inquiry
the people as imperatively demand. The
Bridge management will enter as q most i'm.
portant issue in the ensuing Mayoralty contest
in Brooklyn, and the truth about its expendi-
lures must be made known. To give them an
honest and impartial Committee Of Inquiry Is
all the people of Brooklyn now ask of this
Legislature.


The second aim Of the Bridge managers ia
TO avoid any further payments of private
stock AS long as Messrs Kingsley and Strana-
han and McCue could conduct the enterprise
as they chose, and thus pay for their stock
out of the profit of contracts with themselves
and of enormous percentages paid to one Of
their number, they were content to invest in
the undertaking, Now that they are forced
Year: 1873

TO a comparatively Observation-Disclosures, they
seek to retire their money, but not
themselves. The pending bill provides for
the return of their money, but virtually leaves
them in charge of the work. The Mayor Is to
appoint the new Directors in case Assembly
man Jacobs's bill passes the Legislature. Now
it is we'll known that Mayor Powell is subject
TO the dictation of the Ring which created
him and on which he depends for reelection
Indeed, it is asserted that the ten directors
are already named, and that Mr. Kingsley has
had the naming of them and the supplying
them with stock, from his own and his part
ners' shares, in order to qualify them as
directors.


The appeal of the Reform Committees which
we publish. will be strengthened at Albany by
representations of committees of taxpayers
who have gone there to protest against this
outrage. The Assembly cannot do q wiser
thing than to remit to succeeding Legs
laturo final decision in this important
matter, which involves not merely the present
expenditure of several millions of dollars, but
in large degree the prosperity OF Brooklyn and
of New York.
Year: 1873

The last legal appeal In behalf of Stokes,
the convicted murderer, which we print to-
day, is ingenious and able. 1t would be i'm
pertinent to attempt to forecast any possible
decision in the case. The arguments will be
considered with special reference to the skill
with which they are drawn rather than as
giving any indication of the character of the
final result.
Year: 1873

Mr.. James Wood was she champion of q
bill which was ordered TO third reading in
the Senate, yesterday, aud which has every
appearance of job. The bill is designed to
compel the lease of the Washington Market
property to the West Washington Market AS
sociation. The measure IL ono VI an ancient
and doubtful flavor. If any other cause fOI
suspicion of its goodness were needed, ii
would be found in the character Of Its eager
supporters.
Year: 1873

lowed The fact that there is case OF yellow
fever in the harbor need cause no specia'
alarm, but it should warn the city authorities
to prepare for this and other Summer pes''-
lential diseases
Year: 1873

Capt. Jack and his twenty-five surviving
Modoc braves are determined, it is said, to
"die game" They declare thelr readiness to
20 to the Happy Hunting Grounds of the fu-
tre life with their rifles in their hands. Capt.
Jack, at least is under an indictment for
murder, and naturally prefers death on the
battlefield to the gallows which surely waits
for him. This fact will make him the nucleus
of a continued and desperate resistance. As
long as he is alive there will be pursuit and
fighting.
Year: 1873

The Government of the reaction has already
begun in France. The new Cabinet is COM
posed of men who are entirely in sympathy
with the coalition that forced President Thiers
to resign. Among the members whose names
are published this morning only one (Gen. de
Cissey) has had any association with
the Republicans, and his antecedents
show that he was never thoroughly in sym
pathy with the Republic. These appointments
alone rendered superfuous the formal declara-
ton of President MacMahon, that his admins
tration would adhere to conservative policy,
But, when we consider that the real party OF
disorder in France is the coalition of mon
archists, there is something very much like
irony in his remark that the country looked
to the Assembly for the restoration of order.
Year: 1873

Attorney General Barlow has given .ne
Legislature his opinion concerning the leganty
of the payment of dividends on alleged over
issued stock of the Erie Railway Company
He is, OF course, of the opinion that there
should be no dividends paid on stock which
has been fraudulently issued in lieu of con-
vertible bonds; but he does not sec how the
tainted stock ia to be distinguished from that
which is not under suspicion. 1t was not really
necessary to 90 to the Attomey-Ge to
discover such an evident fact.
Year: 1873

The Danbury NeUS says: tits little


singular how well pair of boots can be


made to fit at the store. You may not


be able to get your foot only part way


down the leg at the first trial, but that


is because your stocking is sweaty, or


you haven't started right, and the shoe


maker suggests that you start again and


stand up to it, and he throws in little


powder from a pepper-box to aid you,


And so you stand up, and pound down


your foot, and partly trip yourself up,


and your eyes stick out in an unpleasant


manner, and every vein in your body
appears to be on the point of bursting,
and all the while that dealer stands
around and eyes the operation as intent
ly as if the whole affair was perfectly
new and novel to him. When your foot
has finally struck bottom, there is faint
impression on your mind that you have
stepped into an open stove, but he re-
moves it by solemnly observing that he
never saw boot fit quite as good as
that. You may suggest that your toe
presses too hard against the front, or
that some of the bones in the side of
the foot are too much smashed, but he
says this is always the way with a new
boot, and that the trouble will entirely
disappear in a few days. Then you take
the old pair under your arm and start
for home as animated as a relic of 1912,
all the while feeling that the world will
not look bright and happy to you again
until you have Drained that shoemaker.
You limp down town the next day, and
smile all the while with your mouth,
while your eyes look as if you were
over an oyster bed barefoot.
When no one is looking you kick against
A post or some other obstruction, and
show fondness for stopping and rest
ing against something that will sustain
your weight. When you get home at
night yen go for those old boots with |
IN eagerness that cannot be described,
ana the remarks that you make upon |
earnine that your wife has disposed of
them 70 a ,.l]ow woman in the suburbs,
are calculated y Immediately depopu- |
ate the earth OF ~>zuen and shoemakers
generally.
Year: 1873

The water fairly boils with sharks,


says a Florida correspondent, writing


from st. Augustine. | counted one


hundred and twelve within the space of


an acre, none of which were less than


eight feet long. Indian river people


say that they have seen them twenty
feet in length. | saw one that measured


over seventeen feet. TREY would fire.


quently break under the bows of our
twenty one foot sail boat, careening her
to one side and at times half lifting her


from the water. They flocked about
the boat by dozens, and cast hungry
looks at the huge yellow dog on the
forecastle. At one time ! struck a
twelve foot fellow over the snout with
a heavy boat pole. He made a great
swirl through the water as if surprised,
but saucily darted back to the craft to
see what had hit him. Occasionally
boatmen plunge lily irons into them,
and are towed about the river against
wind and tide for miles. Some of the
natives declare that they are man-eatcrs,
while others deny it. Jim Paine, of
Fort Capron, told me that he had
stood in the water for hours while these
big sharks were nosing about his legs,
but DIR. Fox, my guide, seemed afraid
of them, and declared that he had
known them to pull an estimable young
lady from Savannah out of boat while
she was dragging her hand behind the
stern. She was cut into mince meat in
five seconds. During the war, it is
said, that a boat containing fourteen
men was upset in Jupiter Inlet, about
twenty feet from shore. There was a
foaming of the waters, and in half
minute twelve of the fourteen men dis
appeared The water tinged with blood
marked the spots where they had been
drawn under. Two of the sailors got
ashore. but so bitten and in shreds that
they died soon afterward.


| was told another story of four men
who started to walk up the beach from
Cape Florida to st. Augustine. They
managed to get across New Inlet upon
an improvised raft, brt on arriving at
Lake Worth Inlet tloy attempted to
swim across. Three of them were COB
bled up by sharks. The fourth reached
the shore, and travelled on to Jupiter
Light, where he told of the fate of his
comrades. These reports certainly
show that many of the sharks are man
eaters. The most of them are of the
variety. AS they are more
lively and voracious in the summer
than in winter, it is probable that they
would attack man in July or August
when they would not touch him in De-
cember or January.
Year: 1873

No farmer can afford to run in debt.
1t costs great deal more to live, to buy
implements, stock, clothing, groceries,
for blacksmithing, for labor, &c, always
if man does not pay cash down. A
cash-down farmer can always command
the best in the market Mt the most rea-
sonable prices. If he wants to add
acres to his farm he can do it more
readily and at liberal discount from
the asking price if the seller knows the
cash will come as soon as the bargain Is
closed and the papers executed. Horace
Greeley is reported as having once said
that he had rather be slave in a rice
swamp or n convict in a State prison
than be under the harrow of debt. The
interest which is being paid by the
farmers of this country on capital in
vested in unproductive land is far more
burdensome to them and effects their
prosperity to greater degree than the
exactions of railway monopolies. This
is especially true of the farmers of the
West. But then the little home debts,
the accounts at the stores, blacksmith
shops, shoemakers, &c, &c, are leeches
which take from the farInerall the profits
of his labor. No one sells ANYTHING "
anybody as cheap when he knows he
must wait six to twelve months for his
pay as when he knows the cash accom-
panies the order. Don't run in debt,
if it is possible to avoid it. DON'T 1t
never did and it never will pay, in the
end. to do sol
Year: 1873

Last summer, in the dog days, Soth-
ern played joke on his Scotch terrier,
Jack, to cure him of making acquain-
tance with other dogs when out for a
walk. When he saw another dog, Jack
would rush up and rub his nose against
that of the stranger, and indicate in
doggish ways that he would like to be
his friend. When the season for muz-
zling came, Sothern put muzzle on
Jack and took him out for walk.
Somewhere near Union Square he met
Florence, and as the twain stood in con-
versation Florence noticed that when
ever Jack applied his nose to that of
another dog the latter went bowling
down the street, leaving the terrier very
much astonished. Florence could not
understand it, and finally asked:


"Ned, what's the matter with Jack.
that all the dogs run away from him SOP


go, nothing" said Sothern, Except
that before l started out l fixed couple
of cambria needles in his muzzle SO
that they stick out about an inch beyond
the end of his nose."


Well, the result was that in a day or
two Jack was afraid to go near any
other brute of his kind, and all those
who had been interviewed with those
needles were careful to keep away from
him. Sothern says he will take out a
patent for his inventionRrovided Bergh
1oes not have him arrested for cruelty
10 animals.