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Year: 1875

tB A new cause for applanding speaker
has been brought to light by our young men.
On the occasion of Il lecture recently dcliv-
cred in our town there was applause at times
when it was neither proper or necessary 10
the lecturer it was a matter of considerable
mystery why it was done Within few days
he has learned the secret During the lee
ture the gentleman blew his nose tremen-
douslv. Applause In few minutes he
again sounded, with ring his nasal organ
(Great appause,) 1t was for this inimltab'e
Introduction Of a" new feature in the lee
ture business that the applause was bestow-
ed. and not because of any merit in the lee
kurp
Year: 1875

E1- Since the four. motion feed y
sewing. machine monopoly is to be brok.
en- up by the refusal Of Congress to ex.
tend the patent, by which the companies
have made millions OF clear profit in the
last twenty three years, people can rejoice
over the probable fall in the price OF sew
ing machines. They have been paying
go and S75 for machines which cost the
manufacturer not to exceed Sl2 or Sl5.
The Wheeler Il Wilson machines. for in
stance, can he hodght in Europe and
shipped to this country for half the price
they can be bought here, including
freight, duty, etc. This tells the story.
There will be rejoicing all through the
land that the great money making sew.
ing machine monopoly has been over.
thrown Courier. Journal.
Year: 1875

ET The New York papers notice that
nearly all the spectators to the Beecher
trial are old. gray haired men, whose
sands OF life are nearly run. Remarkable: ::
hut it was just so here with the can-can
The men who came to this country when
Lake Michigan was small pond. were
all out, every one Of 'em.-MR~aukes
EsUs
Year: 1875

whereabouts, and one or two of those
Southerners affected ignorance OF such
a man being in Congress. You see it
was bitter pill to some of them-his
success. At length / found him in
quiet little quarters over a bookstore
on Pennsylvania avenue, hard at
work, on the speech l alluded to before.
He was glad to see me, and showing
aside his papers, said he would


SHUT UP SHOP FOR THE DAY.


and proposed showing me around the
city. We talked over old times, and
he took me to the Senate, where he
procured me a seat in the body of the
house. and had the pleasure of hear
ing him speak on the Homestead Bill.
A Southern fire-eater attempted to rid
icule him by proposing that every set
tier should be given township of
land, but Mr.. Johnson was not to be
put down that way, and by the digni-
ty of his manner and subject cOmmau-
ded respect He then had some hopes
of the nomination for President land
he got some votes in Convention, and
asked me whom ! was instructed to
vote for. / told him my constituents
had given me instructions to vote for
stephen A. Douglass. | did not see
Mr.. Johnson again until he was Presi-
dent and he received me exactly as he
did when L went to him to be measur-
cd for coat. If anything, he was
more cordial. and a little Of the reserve
was lifted oil his manner. He was q
strange, strange man, and / doUht if
he will ever ba rightly UDdpTgfcGI -
He never opened his heart to me, but
| think l appreciated his manly
worth"
Year: 1875

The tomato vine, which furnishes food
so palatable to almost every one, belongs
to the same family Of plants as the deadly
nightshade which attains such a rank
growth in the edge Of swamps and by the
shady roadside, and which all children
are educated so cautiously TO shnn.


Aquaiortis aud the air we breath are
made Of the same materials.


Linen, sugar, and spirits of wine are SO
much alike In their chemical composition
that an old shirt can be converted into its
own weight In sugar and the sugar into
spirits Of wine.


Wine is made of two substances, one
of which is the canse of almost all com
buslion, and the other Will bnrn with
more rapidity than anything else in na-
ture.


The famous Peruvian bark, SO much
used 10 strengthen weak stOmaehs, aud
the poisonous principle Of opium, are
found TO be composed OF the same ma
terials.
Year: 1875

The peculiarities of the Nebraska
girls the following will illustrate: A
young lady, while crossing pasture,
her long crimson scarf waving in the
winds, was noticed by an old gentle
man sheep belonging to Uncle Steph.
en-. The waving scarf was accepted
as a challenge. The result was al
soon as the young lady got up, she
was landed again dozen feet each
time nearer the fence, until she finally
got out. A young gent Of Platts.
mouth, who had called on her = few
times called again the following Sun.
day. The digni6ed young lady told
the gent he need not call again, ..
she was thoroughly disgusted with
the whole male sex.
Year: 1875

Peter Lamb, of our village, is not
going to have Santa Claus for his
children next Christmas. Last Christ.
mas he undertook to represent the
character himself, and after dressing
himself in fur cap and buffalo robe
and loading himself with toys. he
went up to the roof of the house, and
climbed into the chimney, to which
he had fixed rope which hung down
the tlue. BY some means he managed
to get into the wrong ilue, and in
stead of coming down into the room
where his wife and children were
waiting for him, he tumbled clear in-
to the kitchen and rolled out on the
floor with veil. The kitchen girl
was sitting there communing with
her lover, red haired man named
McGinnis. When Mr.. Lamb arrived
she screamed and tainted, but Mr..
McGinns was not at all scared ;and as
he supposed that the intruder was a
burgler, he attacked Mr. Lamb with
poker, emptied the coal scuttle on
him, kicked him through the door
and then handed him over to a pass
ing policeman, who took him to the
station, where he would have been
locked up all night if the magistrate
hadn't recognized him. When he
got home his wife and children were
sure he had got suffocated in the
flue, and Mrs Lamb was in awful dis
tress because she didn't know wheth-
er she ought to have the side of the
house taken out that night, or to go
out to hunt up mourning bonnet to
wear to church next day. The ener-
getic McGinnis had gone home to
gladden. his family with Mr.. Lambs
bundle of toys, and the servant girl
had given notice that she would leave
at daylight. So this year Mr. Lamb
has told his little ones that the fiction
about Santa Claus is a wicked super
stition, and he is going to hang their
presents on tree.-Mar Adeler
Year: 1875

SALINAS, April 2sth.-This morning
at an early hour VIM. Thompson was
found in q state of insensibility in a
room at Conner's lodging house, in
this city, produced by suffocation from
escaping gas. 1t was at first thought
to be the result of carelessness, but
after events prove it to have been de-
liberate attempt at suicide. When so
far recovered as to sit up in bed, he
refused to hold conversation with any
one; and upon being left alone for a
moment, be shot himself in the right
breast, the ball ranging upward and
lodging near the spine. He is now
suffering great pain. The surgeon in
attendance thinks the wound will
prove fatal, it being likely to produce
Inflammation of the lungs. No cause
is assigned for the rash act, further
than that he had been drinking hard
lately. His relatives, living at Wood
land, CAL, have been informed of the
occurrence.
Year: 1875

The present expectation is that Representa-
ton will engage at least portion of the atten-
ton OF the Legislature, next week. The senti-
ment which is now uppermost with tho members
seems to hold division Of this county into two
as the better way of righting the present wrong,
or failing in this to accord to the county slight
increase IN the lower House. As dividing line
it is proposed to use the present southern
boundary of Wilmington hundred, throwing that
and Brandywine into the new county but as
the New Castle delegation is opposed to the
separation the Divisionists profess a willingness
to include Mill Creek in the upper county in
consideration of Mr.. Badwin's vote and to se-
cure his influence in behalf of the measure.


As the COMMERCIAL has frequently pointed
out there is but one way to fairly and equitably
settle this question Of representation. Anything
short Of conceding to New Castle county repre-
sentation on basis other than that of popula-
ton is but half way measure and will not OBJ
viate the present inequality. The division of
New Castle county might, probably, be nearer
approach to fairness for the present than sim
pie increase of the membership in the House by
three, but will not reach the seat of the wrong
and eradicate. it. Experience has shown that
the growth of Wilmington city has been in far
creator ratio than any other portion of the State
and we have no reason to believe the future will
alter this condition of growth. On the contrary,
every indication points to even more rapid ex-
pansion OF the city. So, il the county should be
divided, and the division should produce even
an approximation to fairness at the present
time, in few years to come tho inequality will
still exist, and the wrong, to be nghtcd,
would have to be done upon the ba-
sis of representation.Ih 1t would also be more
difficult of accomplishment then than now, for
at that time there would be three counties to
conciliate whereas there is now but two.


Fairness in representation can only he ac-
complished on the basis of population. Less
than this is but smoothing over the defect to
pave the way for future dissatsfactions of
even greater magnitude. The adoption OF any
measure of reform in this respect is all admis-
sion of the evil
Year: 1875

The Milford Ne.os, first stating the condit on
OF the Wilmington II Western Railroad, re-
marks upon the application which has been
made to the Legislature for State aid


" This is something like the programme pro-
posed, and 1t looks very fair. In its present
condition the road cannot pay its operating ex-
penses and the interest on its debt completed
lts traffic will be 80 increased ar to enable il to
pay OF its indebtedness. Under such circum
stances, if the Legislature proposes to keep up
the present rate of taxation, it will have plenty
OF cash i'll hand to loan without issuing single
new bond and it had better be invested where
1t will aid in the development of the resources
OF the State than boarded i'll the vaults of the
Farmers Bank.


" This enterprise may probably be made to
succeed II 1t can carry the votes of the New Cas-
tie Co. members, by combination with the Sns-
sex members WHO desire the construction OF the
Georgetown and Seaford road. When this de-
mand is pushed before the Legislature there is
little doubt but that it will be met by something
of this kind. In conclusion we are author.
ized to inform the lobby that there a no
money in this thing for them. The men who
Will champion this measure are incorr1lptible
and will not use one cent to unduly influence
Legislation. The measure will stand or fall en-
tlrely on its own merits.
Year: 1875

The intelligent ladies who claim that the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
confers upon women the right of suffrage will
he panied to learn that the Supreme Court OF
the United States is unanimously against
them. Yesterday Chief Justice Wate-ungal-
liant man--made a decision in q case that pre-
sented this very point which leaves the woman
suffragists not single splinter Of a shattered
plank 10 stand upon.
Year: 1875

The Rochester Democrat, in utter defiance
of Judge Nelson's request that the press would


abstain from prejudging the case, declares
that Theodore's midnight wanderings in
search of soft spot reminds one of the old
lazy who searched long time for her specta-
cles and finally found them on her own head.
Year: 1875

SpRJNG CLOTHING. G.-Those in want of any
thing cheap and stylish in Clothing suitable
for the season should not fail to read the at
first page They have on hand superb
stock, and as the season is rather late are
Offering bargains that can not be surpassed
Give them an early call and We guarantee
that you will no. be disappointed
Year: 1875

A new system was adopted ON JAN
uary for the destruction of the nation
al bank notes redeemed by the ContrOll-
er of the Currency. Heretofore it has
been the custom at Washington to de-
stroy the notes by fire, thus wasting a
large quantity of material from which
the national bank notes are made. Work.
men are now engaged at the national
capital in erecting machinery for the
purpose OF reducing the notes to pulp,
and by chemical process extracting


from the pulp all impurities that it may
have acquired in printing, circulation,
&c. In this manner the Uuited States
bonds and spoiled note sheets have been
treated for some time past, and large
amount of valuable material has thus


been saved. The destruction OF circu-
lating national bank notes by fire has
been so large that it was deemed advis-
able to Try the same system with them,
and it is expected to realize a large pro-
fit. The pulp thus saved will again be
made over into new bank notes, dc. The
Controller of the Currency has also
adopted u plan of numbering every note
of issue with the designation number Of
the specified national bank by which it
was issued, in orderto expedite the sort
ing oil such notes when redeemed by the
Controller. The clerks in the Controll.
er's office at Washington have no occa-
sion now to read the aame of the bank
from the note, but can sort them numri-
cally, without the possibility of chargeing
the notes Of one bank to the account OF
another. 1t Is expected that large
saving win be effected by this system,
as well as preventing errors through q
similarity OF appearance Of the notes.
Year: 1875

The etiquette Of the affairs is thus laid
down by the London Queen: When it
has been settled to give a servants
dance, the lady of the house gives direc-
tions to the housekeeper to invite the
servants of the neighboring houses, and
permission is given to the servants to
invite their friends, subject, of course,
to the housekeeper's approval in case OF
under servants. The master and mis-
tress should appear for short time
with any guests who may be staying i'll
the house, and should open the ball. A
country dance is the best TO commence
with. The lady should open the ball
with the house steward or butler; the
gentleman with the housekeeper. After
the country dance there should be a
quadrille, in which they should also
join, and then waltz, after which the
servants infinitely prefer being left by
themselves. In this waltz the gentle
men of the party should join, but the. Ia
dies should remain spectators. Nore-
striction should be placed Oh the length
of time the ball is to last; servants
dances are few, ,and they will with pleas
ure dance uninterruptedly from nine or
ten O'clock until five or six in the morn
ing. Ladies should endeav0r to dis
pense with their maids services Ut bed
time, so as not to interrupt their amuse-
ment.
Year: 1875

At nine o'clock at night, when you
see the big dipper with the handle
towards you, and the tail of the comet
in the bowl, it about time to take
drink.


A GENTLEMAN was introduced to a
Young lady, recently, and addressed her
as follows: "Where do you live when
You are at home!" To which she prompt
" replied, when / am at home ! live
there"
Year: 1875

A FIENprsH MorHER.-An old negro
woman by the name of Brown, living
about nine miles south of Covington,
Ky., had daughter twelve or thirteen
years of age, who had for long time
been bed-ridding with 4 hopless attack
of paralysis. Her mother, an iDcarnate
fiend, growing weary Of the constant
care and trouble which the afflicted
daughter required at her hands, deter
mined to put her out of the way, and
selected the most cruel and torturing
method that debased ingenuity could
suggest-burning-expecting to con-
ceal her crime under the guise of an ac-
cident. Having performed her diaboll-
cal plans, about two weeks ago she set
about putting them into execution.
Placing the child on chair by the fire
place, and tying a rope round her neck,
she began saturing the head and
clothing of the almost helpless child
from a bottle of turpentine that she had
procured for that purpose. The child
struggled with what power of motion
it could command, knocked the bottle
from the hands of its mother and broke
it, saturating the mothers clothing
with the inhammable fnid. In the
struggle the mothers clothing took fire
from the fireplace, and she abandoned
her terrible crime to save her own life.
She ran and threw'berselt in a branch
near by, and extinguished the flames,
but not until she was fatally burned.
AT the time it was supposed to be an
accident, but the monster woman subse-
quently, when in the agonies Of death
from her burning, revealed the facts as
above detailed.
Year: 1875

lNCONSlAN4.
Inconstant! Oh, my God!
Inconstant! when single thought OF
Sends all my shivering blood
Back on my heart in thrills of ecstacy
Inconstanti when to feel
That thou hast loved me-wilt love to


the last
Is joy enough to steal
All fear from life-the future and the


past.
Inconstant! when TO sleep
And dream that thou art near me, is to


learn
So much Of Heaven, weep
Because the earth and morning must
return.
Inconstant. All, too true;
Turned from the rightful shelter Of


thy breast,
MY tired heart futters through
The changeful world-a bird without a


nest.
Inconstant to the crowd
Through which pass, as to the skies


above
The tickle summers cloud;
But not to thee-O not to thee, dear


love!
may be false to all
On earth besides, and every tender tie
Which seems to hold in thrall
This weary life Of mine may be liei
But, true as Gods own truth,
Nv steadfast heart turns backward


evermore
To that sweet time Of youth
Whose golden tide beats such barren


shore.
Inconstant! Not my own
The hand which builds this wall be-


tween our lives;
On its cold shadow grown
To perfect shape, the flower Of love


survives.
God knows that would give
All other joys, the sweetest and the


best,
For one short hour to live
Close to thy heart, its comfort and its


rest
But life is not all dark;
The sunlight goldens may n hidden


slope;
The dove shall find its ark
OF peaceful refuge and of patient hope.
Iyet shall be possessed
OF woman's need; my small world set


apart
Home, love, protection, rest,
And children's voice singing thro' my


heart.
BY Gods helpI will be
A faithful mother and tender wife
Perhaps even more, that lie
Hath chastened the best glory from my


life.
But sacred to this loss
One small sweet chamber Of my heart


shall be;
No foot shall ever cross
The silent portal scaled to love and thee.
And sometimes when my lips
Are to my first-born's clinging close


and long,
Draining with bec-like sips
All its sweet lily heart-will it be wrong.
If, for an instant, wild
With precious pain, put the truth


aside
And dream it is thy child
That am fondling with such tender


pride?
And when another's head
Sleeps on thy heart, if it should ever


seem
TO be my own instead,
o darling, hold it closer for the dream.
God will forgive the sin,
If sin it is; our lives are swept so dry,
SO cold, so passion-clean,
Thank Him death comes atlast-and so,
Year: 1875

In 1852 there lived on farm but a
few miles from Frederick city, Mary
land, couple of old bachelor brothers
named Pancoast. Benjamin, the elder,
was some fifty seven years Of age at the
time, while Walter was his Junior by
eight or nine years. Benjamin had re-
sided there since his boyhood, and be-
came very fat, large, simple-natured
aud good-hearted old fellow in the
many quiet summers which he had en-
ioyed. Walters stay, however, had
been shorter. He had come to live
with Benjamin in 1889, after an absence
of twenty years from the old home
stead. Where he had been and what
he had done in all that time nobody
knew, and he never chose to tell. Peo-
pie limited that he had good reasons tor
not telling. Certain it is there were
evidences that he had known intimate
ly the mysteries of life among bad and
desperate men, and had learned much
more of their cunning than of any NOR


al good by his association with them.
In person he was as, unlike Benjamin
as in character, being below medium
size and rather thin. Still the two
brothers seemed for thirteen years to
live together quite amicably and the
good influence of the elder seemed to
be apparent upon the younger.


In September, 1852, the peaceful
Pancoast's bachelor household suffered
the disaster of accepting as an inmate a
pretty housekeeper named Lena Ber.
aud. The brothers had determined
that, as they were both getting on in
years, and were less active than former
ly, it would be well to have woman
in the house to oversee the servants
and look after their comforts, 30 they
Year: 1875

To YOUNG MEN, owe my success
in life to one fact, namely: AT the age
of 27 I commenced and continued for
years the practice Of daily reading and
speaking upon the contents of some
historical or scientific book. These
off.hand efforts were made sometimes in
a corn field, at others in the forest and
not untrequently in some distant barn,
with the horse and OK as auditors. 1t
is to this earley practice in the great
art of arts that am indebted for the
primary and leading impulse tha: stim-
ulated me forward and shaped and
moulded my entire subsequent destiny.
Improve, then, yong gentlemen, the
superior advantage You here enjoy.
Let no day pass without exercising
your power of speech. There is no
power like oratory. Caesar controlled
men by exciting their fears, Cicero by
captivating their affections and swaying
their passions. The influence Of the
one perished with the author; that Of
the other continues to this day'-Henry
Cl1u.
Year: 1875

RED CLovER.-A correspondent says
he has ascertained by fifty-four years
farm experience that red clover is the
basis of all permanent improvement on
Sothern lands. If plaster acts well it
should be plentifully supplied to the
clovered lands, and he never knew
good clover lay that did not make
good crop of wheat. Clover is manure
both above and under the surface: the
roots are large, run deep, and bring up
plant food from the subsoil that has
been washed in below the reach of Or
dinary plants. Clover, according TO
Voelecker, fixes nitrogen in the soil
during every stage of its groweth, and
nitrogen is the specific manure for the
wheat crop. A good crop of clover
has been estimated as the equivalent
for twenty loads of ordinary yard
manure for an acre OF land. Plaster does
not always benefit the wheat, but it
helps the clover. 1t is true that clover
is lime plant that does best on the fos-
siliferous limestone lands. A New York
farmer has some fields that have been
cropped more than fifty years with no
other manure than clover and plaste.
He says a crop of corn raised on clo-
YER lay needs but little hoeing, if the
cultiyator is used to keep the surface
open to the light showers and dew.
Year: 1875

ANIMAL SAGAclrY.-A Mississipian
has a cat of which be tells the following
story: II was SICK short time ago,
and the cat would come from the table
to the bed frequently. She finally caught
mouse and brought it to the bed, lay
ing it down beside me. | threw it off
but as often as did So the cat would
bring it back, until thought she wanted
me to eat it; SO made believe ate il,
and thee went away apparently sat
lsfied. And before night the salne day
she brought me striped squirrel, and
each day for three days I was in bed she
brought game with the same result
she wonld never leave until / had pre-
tended to eat it. -