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Year: 1873

A paper masquerade was recently
given at a private residence in New York
at which all the costumes were made o
paper, and were Of the most costly and
elaborate pattern. One Of the costumes
was a dark paper underskirt, cut short
and not very full, and spangled with a
profusion of gold paper stars. with a
black tissue paper nolonaise, lined with
black muslin to give sufficient durability
for an evenings wear. Golden stars
were also profusely sprinkled over this
garment, which was quite long in front
aud back, being open to the waist before
and looped in the back The high cor
sage was finished with an Elizabethan
frsise of white paper around the neck,
and the long Henry Nv. pulled sleeves
was similar trimming. Another was
dark underskirt with pink ruffles, each
ruffle edged with hearts and diamonds.
No tunic; but around the waist wide
huted fraise of pink paper, six inches
deep in front and twelve in the back,
each deep flute ornamented with alter
nate hearts and diomands. All the or
naments worn were of paper also, and
the handkechiefs were Of tissue paper,
stamped in imitation of point lace.
Year: 1873

1t was in John Falls Orphan House, il
Wemar, one evening, when one of the boy:
had said the pious grace-"Come, Lord
Jesus, be our guest, and bless what Thou
hast provided" little fellow looked up and
said


"Do tell me why the Lord Jesus never
comes, We ask Him every day to sit with
US, and He never comes" If


"Dear child only believe and you may
be sure He will come--for He does not de.
spise our invitation"


IL shall set him seat" said the little
fellow and just then there was a knock at
the door.


A poor frozen apprentice entered, begging
a nights lodging. He was made welcome
the chair stood empty for him. Every
child proffered his plate--every child was
ready to yield his bed. The little one had
been thinking hard all the time.


"Jesus could not come, and SO lie sent
this poor one in His place-is that it3'
said the child.


"Yes, dear child, that is just it, answer
ed Falls. "Every piece of bread and every
drink of water that we give to the poor. OF
the sick, or to the prisoners for Jesus sake
we give to Him. 'Inasmuch as ye have
done II unto the least Of these My breth-
rcn, ye have done it unto me- >"
Year: 1873

HALLAN's coSsriTurOsAL HsroRY oF ESeLASD


Harper 4 Brothers, New York city.


This edition Of this valuable work il
appropriately termed students edition
and is brought into one volume by abbre
waiting some Of the less important remarks
while nothing of importance has been omit
ted. No student should fail to posses
himself of this volume, careful study o
which will render him better acquainted
with the great subject of which it treati
than any other volume of double its size
Wilder has il.
Year: 1873

w The origin of "chalking the hat
was due to Admiral Reside, in the days
when Congressman went numbering
over the distant States in stage coaches.
At the annual adjournment of Congress
Admiral Reside would pass his friends
of the two houses over his stage lines
after the following fashion: "Mr. c., !
suppose you are going back to iLexing-
tonp I will pass you through on my
coaches" "All right; but how will
your agents along the road know this
fact 7" "Just give me your hat" Up
on the tile being passed over. this Ma.
poleon of the stage, taking piece ol
chalk from his pocket, would dash off in
brilliant white. upon the black ground o
peculiar hieroglyphic, impossible to
counterfeit, and hand it back to the
owner with a remark: "Just show that
to my agents along the route"
Year: 1873

EEA Pennsylvania editor lost pay
ing subscriber by death the other day
and this is the editorial obituary that
follows. eR


.Death seems to lurk behind every
rail fence and hay stack iii this vicinity
and lie in wait t6f our prominent and
choicest citizens. To-day we see it, to-
morrow We don't. All, who can tell
what week may bring forth in such .
blasted country as this Death has
again turned a fip-aap and come down
fat-footed in our midst, and sna,che,l
from amongst us one Of the best miver.
tsers We ever had. He possessed the
love, confidence aud esteem Of all who
knew him, and some who did not, and
save sleight poker debt to Mr.
did not owe cent in this world
Year: 1873

gV The Slippery Subscriber can
look collectors right in the eye and
swear he "never got copy" with the
last four numbers in his coat tail pocket.
We didn't know there was so much lit
tleness in men until we began publish
ing But the race of Slippery Subscri-
bers is not so very extensive You,
dear reader, engaged in perusing this
paper, with the noble and satisfying
consciousness that you Have paid for it,
do not belong to that class. And you
dear reader uneasy in the thought that
you are in arrears, but filed with praise
worthy determination to settle on the
first opportunity, We will not rank you
in this disagreeable ca,egory:-Fat Con
trtbutor
Year: 1873

A THRILLING SCENE AT SEA-A
brief dispatch lately made the simple
statement that an insane woman threw
her children overheard and then attemp-
ted to drown herself while on the voyage
from Europe in the City of Brooklyn.
The painful story as told by passenger,
is as follows: "Whea the vessel was
two days out from Queenstown woman
rushed up from among. the steerage pas
sengers, bringing her two little boys with
her. She then threw them overheard,
in a frenzy, and then leaped overheard
also. An alarm was raised, the steamer
stopped and boat sent back. The wo-
man, then a mile distant, was seen float
ing on the waves, supported by her
clothing. She was reached and taken
into the boat alive. One of the boys
was found dead, the other was not seen
again. The children were bright and
pretty little fellows, who had been the
pets of many of the passengers. Their
mother was suffering from sickness and
had become temporarily insane, in which
condition she committed the strange, un-
motherly act. She was apparently an
intelligent and refined person, in some
what destitute circumstances. She lived
in Liverpool, but her husband was in
this country, and with her children, she
was on her way to find him. When the
City of Brooklyn reached New York the
woman was just beginning to recover, ant
was beginning to inquire for her chill
dren."
Year: 1873

Charles Dickens's opinion of the horse
is found in his writings, as follows: 81
object to the personal appearance of the
horse protest against the convention
al idea of beauty as attached to that an
imal. / think his nose too long, his
forehead too low; and his legs Except
in the case of the cart horse) ridiculous
ly thin for his body. Again, consider
ing how big an animal he is, l object TO
the contemplate delicacy of his consti-
tuition. Is he not the sickliest creature
in creation? Does child catch cold rs
easily as a horse? Does not horse, for
all his appearance of superior strength,
strain his fetlock as easily as | sprain
my ankle? Furthermore, to take him
from another point of view, what help
less wretch he is! No fine lady requires
more constant waiting on than horse,
Other animals can make their own toilet;
he must have a groom. You will tell
that this is because we want to make his
coat artifcially glossy. Glossy! Come
home with Dle, and see my cat-my clev-
er cat, who can groom herself! Look at
your own dog! See how the intelligent
creature currycombs himself with his
own honest teeth. Then, again, what i
fool the horse is-what poor, nervous
fool He will start at white stone or a
piece of paper in the road as if it were a
lion. His one idea, when he hears q
noise he is not accustomed, to, is TO run
away from it. What do you say to these
two common instances of the sense and
courage Of the absurdly overpraised an
imal? l might multiply them to two
hundred if | chose to exercise my mind
and waste my breath, which can never
do. prefer coming at once to my last
charge against the horse, which is the
most serious of all, because it affects his
moral character. / accuse him boldly
in his capacity of servant to man, Of
slyness and treachery. / brand him
publicly, no matter how mild he may
look about the eyes or how sleek he may
be in the coat, as a systematic betrayer,
whenever he can get the chance, of the
confidence reposed in him."
Year: 1873

A very wonderful fossil is now ON ex-
hibition in this city, and an effort is be-
ing made to purchase it for the Academy
of Science. 1t was found last April
while blasting for coal near the west
bank of the Missouri river, about Is
miles north of Sioux City, Iowa. 1t
was imbedded in about ten feet of con
glomerate rock. The fossil was much
broken in being severed from the sur
rounding rock, still nearly every portion
of the monstrous reptile was Obtained
The fossilized skeleton is So feet in
length, and weighs 2,607 pounds. 1t is
not in the likeness of anything now liv-
ing on the earth, and in the opinion OF
the scientists who have examined it, it
is unlike, in several respects, any fossil
reptile ever before discovered. Compar-
ing the spinal column with that of ex-
listing reptiles, it is believed that the
living animal must have been at least
seven feet in circumference at the larger
part of the body. 1t is supposed this
interesting creature fourished about a
half million years ago. Prairie Farm
Year: 1873

For some weeks past, Jacob Wall and
have been in the employ of a farmer
about fourteen miles south of Windsor.
The men did not agree very well from
the start, and after a week or two had
fight, in which the colored man was
badly worsted. Neither wanted to quit
the farmer, and they worked together as
before the fight, though they would of


ten go whole day without speaking to
one another. Wednesday morning they
were sent to clean out and deepen an old
well on the farm, about three-quarters of
a mile from the house and near a log
cabin in which the farmer used to live.


They rugged windlass, got a tub, and
after drawing out the water the white
man was lowered down to see how things
looked for the work of deepening. As
soon as he landed from the bucket the
negro drew it up, and after a moment
shouted down: "Stril1e me, will vel
Ise got you now whar ye won't come up
alive!" Wall expected that a stone
would come crashing down upon him,


but the negro tore down the windlass
and went to the house and told the farm
er that Wall had left to go to Detroit
and have drunk. The farmer had har-
messed up to come to Windsor, and he
hurried off, hoping to overtake Wall and
induce him to go back. The negro got
six dollars from the wife, stole his
clothes cut of the house, and has not
been seen since. The farmer came to
| Windsor and Detroit and did not reach
home until Friday noon. The man


down the well had shouted and yelled
himself hoarse before night of the first
day, but his cries were unheard, and he


made up his mind that he must wait un-
til the farmer came to the we'll. When


the latter got home and found both men
| gone he went over to the we'll and dis
covered Wall, who was pretty well ex-
hausted, being in water up to his waist,
and having badly bruised himself in his
| efforts to get out. The man had a watch


with him and he thinks that the hours


were the longest he ever experienced,
and that he has imbibed enough cold


water to keep the Wall family sober to
| the end of their days.
Year: 1873

The educational statutes providing for
County School Institutes are equally
commendable with uny other tenet Of
the Commoa School System. The sys-
tenn as such, TO be desirably and success
fully promotive Of education, must ne
cesEarily have imperative regard to the
required and essential preparation Of its
teacher. Hence, the Teacher School
or the 'School Institute"


Our School funds are in the major
part, vainly and lavishly appropriated
co long as our methods of teaching are
contradictorily confused, and the grade
Of the teacher SO limited, as 10 precon-
ceive for him a state Of educational in
ertia, and to say unto him or her-so FAR
and no farther-if you know this much
Of so many branches, you know enough
to teach; it is not necessary for you to
know more, to progress onward in the
higher branches Of Literature and Of
the Sciences; our children will know
enough when they shall have passed
through the branches fixed by the law;
our examiners will not ask you any
questions outside Of the common branch
es-and we would rather not have You
teachers acquire so much knowledge
both for fear Of you neglecting the COM
mon branches, and Of charging such
high wages Imagine TO yourself what
the qualification and mental ripeness Of
teacher who permits himself thus to
be hattered by the voice Of ignorance
and moral depayity, and thus battered,
conceivcs himself to be so we'll equipped
in the habits Of education, that he can
now be inactive in self.information-
knows enough, if not ALL, and in this
mood not only remains away from the
sessions of the County School Institute,
but also condemns it as a financial out
rage upor the public, He intending to
teach fourishing school, and himself
drone, yea a veritable ao5o5A at a GER
tain advanced stage in the course Of ed
ucation's progressiveness!


The man who is unwilling to be taught
and to be informed, is totally unfit 20
teach He who refuses more Of The thco-
ries Of knowledge, certainly cuts off tis
! life and blessings Of knowledge 10 the
pupilage. A well prepared and quali-
fed person for the leadership, is he who
is among the last to profess his worthi-
ness and ability,is always thankful for in
formation, and prefers to be regarded rath-
er as pupil than as a teacher. lie isnev-
er so full Of the teacher as to be above a
kind and dutiful consideration Of the
child's uante, It's rights, and its claims 10
his most efficient attainments in his self,
and communicable requirements as q
teacher. In consideration Of this, our
school law provides us with School In
stitutes, which are not, and cannot be,
an empty boast, though treated as such
by the majority Of its obligatory mem-
bers, which is shame, and vital demorit
to them for the position Of a teacher.


j. " Wy.
Year: 1873

Pining, sickly women should go to
Colorado if they want health and
strength. Mrs. p was not able to sweep
her room when she lived in Ohio, but
the other day, after living in Colorado
one short year, she chased her husband
half mile with pitchforlS.
Year: 1873

A New Orleans paper relates how a
pet monkey in that city, seeing that a
little child was on the point of being
run over by a street car, rushed into the
street and wrenched the child from the
jaws of death. That beats any monkey
wrench we ever heard of before.
Year: 1873

A recent English writer says that
drunkenness is an affair of climate
The people Of all damp and cold coun-
tries are apt to drink more than Is good
for them; and a geographer might di-
vide n map Of the world into temper
aten and Hintemporaie" zones.
Year: 1873

A wooden tenement in the suburbs of
Baltimore, occupied by one w. S. Goss,
who is ostensibly engaged in experimen-
ting on substitute for rubber, for which
he proposes securing a patent. He has
a partner, one w. Z. Udderzoot, who
has put two hundred dollars obtained
from his mother) into the common purse
the object being not to perfect patent,
but to defraud five insurance companies
out of $4,000. Goss is a married man
and these policies are on his life, one OF
$4,000 being in the Travellers Acct
dent Company. Udderzoot procures a
corpse from some cemetery or disecting-
room and places it in the builing. Then,
all being in readiness for the final corp
Udderzoot and Goss start one morning
for this building, purchasing on the
way pint of whisky and q gallon OF
coal oil. They also borrow one AK ol
neighbor, who accompanies them
With the ak quantity of kindling is
cut, and at dark futile effort is made
to light a coal oil lamp. Udderzoot
then goes away with the neighbor, os-
tensibly for the purpose of procuring
another lamp. They had not been gone
long when the building was in flames
Goss had piled the kindling wood on the
body, drenched it with coal oil, and SET
fire to the pile. He then ran down the
lane, got into buggy which his brother
4. c. Goss, had procured and held in
waiting, and drove to the Philadelphia
depot He then took a train northward
to become a voluntary wanderer, a home
less outcast.


Udderzoot and his companion hasten
back to the blazing building. The neigh
bors gather around, and stand in the
glare of the cracking flames. Not un.
til the fire fiend had done its worst did
Udderzoot mention to those around him
that Goss was in the building. This
failed TO create sensation, however
as several had seen a man run down the
Year: 1873

An almost unparalleled circumstance
was noticed at Muirhall, near West
Caldar. during the great heat that pre-
vailed in the summer. An Iceland po-
ny, the property of John Waddell, con-
tractor, was for time, left to his own
free will, during the temporary absence
of It's driver. The pony which had
been driven for a considerable dis
tance, and was seemingly actuated by
a craving for water, was observed by the
proprietor of Muirhall. and others who
chanced to be in the vicinity. to deliber-
ately walk distance of full 80 yards,
and with its teeth turn the cock of a
water pipe projecting out Of the road
embankment, supply itself with draught
of the refreshing beverage, readjust the
cock, and return to the position in which
it was left. This case is not only parall
eled, but surpassed by one that occurred
at Leeds. IN 1904. A gentleman horse
was regularly turned into field where
was pump, the water of which never
failed. The horse observed how tn,
pump worked, and at last took to pump
ing for himself, thus saving the groom
the trouble of providing him with wa
ter. His mode of procedure was to tax
the handle Of the pump between hi
teeth and pump away until the troug


was full
Year: 1873

How We FADE-As the trials of life
thickeD, and the dreams of other days
fade one by one, in the deep vista Of
disappointed hope, the heart grows wea-
ry of the struggle, and we begin to re-
alize our insignifcance. Those who
have climbed to the pinnacle of fame,
or revel in luxury and wealth, 60 to the
grave at last with the. poor mendicant
who begs by the wayside, and like him
are soon forgotten. Generation after
generation, says an eloquent writer, have
felt as we feel, and their fellows were
as active in life as ours are now. They
passed away as vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as when
the Creator commanded her to be. The
heavens will be as bright over our graves
as they are now around our path; the
world has the same attraction for off
springs yet unborn that she had for our
selves, and that she has now for oul
children.
Year: 1873

Twelve young men in Bloomington, H.,
concealed themselves in the garret of a
public hall one day last week with view
to witnessing the evening performance
free of cost. Just as King Richard was
offering his kingdom for horse pair
of masculine legs protruded through the
ceiling above aud manly form was
seen struggling frantically to keep from
falling into the parquette. All twelve
were arrested and have had to pay 5000
for damage to frescoing. The regular
admission fee was twenty-five cents, and
the speculation is not regarded as sue.
cessfui.
Year: 1873




MODEL JURIEs-Iwo members of the
petit jury sitting in the Court of Quar-
ter Sessions in Philadelphia are profeS-
sional gamblers, and one of them has
been three times arrested within the last
three months III the very act of gambling.
Only last week, while these two profess
sional gamblers were in the jury box, it
was proposed that the jury of which
they were members should try recent
" arrested batch Of gamblers, among
whom by a pleasant coincidence was
one of the very Jurors aforesaid. Set
ting a thief to catch thief may, or may
not, be good policy; but setting a gam
bier to try his own case was not regard
ed as in good taste, and the juryman
was undisturbed. Not long since a Phil
adelphia juryman relieved his pent up
feelings, after the monotorous routine OF
court business by gong out and commit
ting burglary When such things as
these are true, and their exposure is
regarded as only very good joke, it is
evident that something is at fault in the
jury system of Philadelphia ; and thai
the execution of justice is not only hope
less, but becomes a ludicrous farce whe1
burglars and gamblers sit in the jury
box to try the case of themselves anc
their followers. That is too literal al
Interpretation of provision which re
quires that "a man shall be tried by
jury of his peers.
Year: 1873

There is some talk Of having geolog-
ical survey of Rhode Island, but the
work may be delayed on account of It's
extensiveness. The professor who is ex-
pected to make the survey says that if
he is expected to go over the state it will
take him at least two days, and he won t
do it for less than $3.50. That's west
ern wickedness. They think out there,
unless the map of state covers a whole
folio page it is not worth notice.
Year: 1873

The Adoertiser's Washington special
says:


The small pox is increasing in Wash
ington, and the means of carrying it
about the city has just been discovered.
A short time ago a well-known lady no
ticed filthy looking man enter street
car and sit down next to her. A few
days afterward she was attacked with
yarioloid. The day after she had recov-
cred and was about the house as usual,
an assistant of DR. Verdi, the health Off
Ger, who had just heard of the case, call
ed, forced himself into the lady's room
and carried off the bedding and clothing
of all kinds, as he said, to destroy. In
the person of this assistant the lady rec
ognized the man who had sat next her
in the street car.
Year: 1873

The Napoleonic dynasty virtually ends
with the death of Napoleon III, and the
analogy between the lives and deaths of
the first and the last of the rulers of
that name is singularly precise and strik-
ing. Both the uncle and nephew rose
from obscurity to the height of daggling
splendor both made their mark upon
the ages in which they lived; both fell
in consequence of their follies both
died in exile.


Equal AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN,
OF WHATEVER STATE Or PERSUASION,
Year: 1873

The great increase of the pattern business since the
Introduction Of TRIMMED PATTERS has led to the
establishment Of local agencies in every part Of the
$nited States which enables the ladies in the country
well as the city TO make their own selections Each
pattern Is enclosed IN an envelope stamped with plate


OF the garment when completed.
Year: 1873

A physician says the cry for rest has
always been louder than theory for food.
Not that it is more important, but is Of
ten harder TO obtain. The best rest
comes from a sound sleep. Of two men
or women, otherwise equal, the one who
sleeps the best will be the most moral,
healthy and efficient. Sleep will do
much to cure irritability of temper,
peevishness, uneasiness. 1t will restore
to vigor an overworked brain. 1t will
build up and make strong a weary body
1t will cure a headache. 1t will cure a
broken spirit. 1t will cure sorrow. In
deed We might make long list of nerv-
Gus and other maladies that sleep will
cure. The cure of sleeplessness requires
clean, good bed, sufficient exercise to
produce weariness, pleasant occupation,
good air and not too warm a room, a
clear conscience, and avoidance Of slim
ulants and narcotics. For those who are
overworked, haggard, nervous, who pass
sleepless nights, we commend the adop-
ton of such habits as shall secure sleep;
otherwise life will be short, and what
there is of it sadly imperfect.