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Year: 1875

The spring meeting Of the above associa-
ton will be inaugurated next Saturday.
Prior to any remarks upon the arrange
ments made by the club for the reception
of guests must be PIT forth the admirable
accommodations which the car COMPANIES
have made.


Il is whispered that this year the ''bon
tom will yield to the prevailing mode, and
instead of seeking prominence anu giddi-
ness in the reckless chariot, will content
themselves with the easier mode Of the
horsecar. Furthering this laudabls desire
Of the ladies, the various companies have
made their routes pleasant and free of dust.


My Lady Claribel will not disdain the
vehicle that conveys herself and low-born
Chloe to the races when the mode Of loco
motion is cheap and agreeable.


The fair sex, ever first BY an iatuitive
instinct to grasp a dilemma, have resolved
to ride to the races without splendor, but
with ease and convenience.


AS our races are mainly dependent for
their success upon the attendance of the
fair sex, this concession on their part must
be regarded as showing determination to
view the sports of the turf at any cost.


1t is well for this community that its
highest exponents should set an example.
'Tis true the shell-road to the race course
is in good order, at least such order as the
city affords.


But our high born danes and maids Of
high degree have republican ideas, and the
convenient street car meets all demands.


After leaving the street car, there is a
pleasant walk through the grounds. When
fashion has allowed it, why not take the
stroll


The cars leave Clay Statue every five
minutes on each day Of the races.


On the first day there will be three races;
the first hurdle raco over eight hurdles,
the second at mile heats and the third
race at two miles.


There will be six days racing during the
week.


Of each days sport due notice viii be
given in the REPUBLICAN,. Horse racing
has been ever fostered in the South, and
though some may charge that the noble
sport is in its decadencs, it will remain for
the high-steppers and leapers now stabbed at
the Fair Grounds to disprove such asser-
ton.


Tie prices for admission to the stand are
extremely liberal. Paris pools will, as
usual, be sold Oh the track. Open pools
will be sold as hereafter set forth.


Attention is called to the rules of the club
governing members and guests.
Year: 1875

Messrs. Warner s. Childress have estab.
lished their ice depot at No. AZ Carondelet
street, corner of Union, and are now pre-
pared to fill all city and country orders by
the hogshead, tierce or sack. They do not
claim Yor their ice anything more than
purity and freshness which the article is
always supposed to have in this climate
where it won't keep long. But they viii,
always have enough to supply the demand,
aud by attention to customers merit. the
patronage that will no doubt be awarded to
their new enterprise.
Year: 1875

They laugh at the vanity of w. j. Flor
ence, the actor, because his bank checks
contain his portrait, but his checks are
good for the face Of them anywhere, and it
better to have face on the check than a
check on the face
Year: 1875

She has got on torn dress, hitched
up at one side sufficiently to reveal an
unbuttoned shoe; there are flakes of
whitewash in her hair and on her chin;
her dress is wet, her fingers are parboil-
ed, and her thumb has been split with
hammer, but her eye is as clear and
bright as that of major general on field
day. She picks up handful of skirts
and skins through the apartments, see
ing five hundred things that should be
done at once, and trying to do them I;
aud every time she comes in reach of
the dresser, she snatches look into the
glass and shoves fresh hairpin into her
dilapidated coil. And thus planted in
the debris, like a queen on her throne,
she unblushingly asserts that "It's an
awful job" Everything is in wretched
shape;" "I'll be SO glad when this is
over" "It does seem as if my back
will snap in two;" "I'm good mind to
say I'll never clean house again so long
as ] live." And then her mind uncon-
sciously scars heavenward, and she won
ders if there will be a house-cleaning
season there, and if not, how heaven
can be made of it. 1t is this speculation
which gives her that dreamy expression
when she is cutting your bread with the
soap knife.
Year: 1875

What is the use of the steam pipe
from the top of steam dome on a
boiler to the water barrel of the water
gage Is it to keep the water at a GER
tain level2 Answer. 1t is for the pur-
pose of furnishing dry steam to the gage.


Is there gain in power, in having
the area of the sails of a windmill equal
to the whole circle, over the old style of
four sails2 Answer. No.


How can I make q desirable cement
for leather9 Answer. The following
waterproof cement has been highly rec
commended: Melt together in an
iron pot equal parts of common pitch
and gutta percha, and stir well. This
may be kept liquid under water, or
solid, to be remelted when wanted. 1t
is not attacked by water, and adheres
very strongly to leather.


Of what material are stove brick COM
posed Answer. Usually of good
variety of fire clay, well burnt. The
clay consists principally of the silicates
of alumina, lime, and magnesia.


What is the object of filing in be-
tween the framework of freproof safes
with cement or concrete2 Answer.
The cement, etc., is very poor conduc-
tor Of heat. If the filling were metallic,
and the safe was subjected to even a
comparatively modern degree of heat,
owing to the good conductivity of the
metal the books and papers contained
i'll the safe would soon be converted into
charcoal.


If rope three hundred feet long
when coiled up weighs one hundred
pounds, will it weigh twice or more
than twice as much if suspended from
the scales7 The argument originated
about the ability of aeronauts to cause
their balloons to descend by that means.
Answer. 1t will weigh the same in both
cases. -Scientifc american.
Year: 1875

Again, when taken in by the more
ordinary channel, the stomach, it finds
its way by two routes into the circula


tion. A certain portion of 1.-THE greater
portion-is absorbed direct by the veins
of the alimentary surface, finds its way
straight into the larger veins, which lead
up to the heart and onward with the
course of the blood. Another portion is
picked up by small structures proceed
ing from below the mucous surface of
the stomach, and from which originate
a series of fine tubes that reach at last
the lower portion of a common tube
termed the thoracic duct q tube which
ascends in front of the spinal column,
and terminates at the junction of two
large veins on the left side of the body,
at point where the venous blood, re-
turning from The left arm, joins with the
returning blood from the left side of the
head on its way to the heart. 1t is SO
greedy for water that it will pick it up
from all the watery textures of the body
and deprive them of it, until, by its sat
uration, it can take up no more, its
power of reception being exhausted /;
after which it diffuses itself into the cur
rent of circulating fluid. When we
dilute alcohol with water before drinking
it, we quicken its absorption and, if we
do not dilute it sufficiently, it is diluted
in the stomach by the transudation
of water in the stomach, until the re-
quired reduction for its absorption is
effected.-Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1875

The very first lesson parent has to
learn is that whatever he attempts to
teach he must himself first practice.
Whatever he wishes his child to avoid
he must make up his mind to renounce,
and that from the very earliest stage of
existence and down to the minutest
things. In young children the initiative
faculty is so enormous, the reasoning
power so small, that one cannot be too
careful, even with infants, to guard
against indulging in harsh tone,
brusque manner, sad or angry look.
AS far as possible the tender bud should
live in an atmosphere of continual sun
shine, under which it may safely and
happily unfold, hour by hour and day
by day. To effect this there is required
from the parent, or those who stand in
the parents stead, an amount of self
control and self-denial which would be
almost impossible had not Heaven i'm
planted on the one side maternal in
stinct, on the other that extraordinary
winning charm which there is about all
young creatures, making us put up with
their endless waywardness andlove them
all the better the more trouble they
give us. That is, mothers do. When l
said maternal instinct" I spoke ad-
visedly and Intentionally. OF paternal
instinct there is almost none. A man is
proud of his sons and daughters, bound
to carry down his name to posterity ;
but he rarely takes the slightest interest
in anybody else's children, and in his
own only SO far as they contribute to his
pleasure, amusement or dignity. The
passionate love woman often has for
another woman's children and for the
feeblest, naughtiest, ugliest of her own,
is to men thing entirely unknown.
Year: 1875

The sturdy old settlers of New York,
the primeval Dutchmen, from whom has
descended SO much of the wealth and
responsibility that now adorns the city,
were a peculiar generation. Their
houses were a model of simplicity. The
white floors were sprinkled with clean
sand, drawn into various figures by the
broom. Large tables and high-backed
chairs of walnut or mahogany, decorated
with brass nails along the leathern back
and cushioned seat, furnished the parlor
"genteelly enough for anybody" Pew
ter plates and dishes were in general
use, and it was long time before they
gave place to the china and earthenware
that had been introduced into the city.
They had no taste for thenew-fashioned,
fantastic novelties, and their shining
pewter dishes, porringers, and tankards,
which are still kept in some ancient
Dutch families, are ga sight to behold" "
Silver plate, more or less, was to be seen
in every household, and was preserved
as an heirloom. Glass was but little
used. Madeira was only used on great
occasions, such as the birth of child,
marriage, or funeral. When a young
man of any wealth was about to be mar
ried, the first thing was to import a pipe
of the best Madeira, a portion of which
was drank at his wedding. another por-
ton on the birth of his first son, and the
remainder was stored away in the cellar
to be used at his funeral Tea drinking
was a great favorite among the ladies,
although custom of comparatively re-
cent origin. A matron at that time
would drink tea with her friends, return
home by candle-ighting, tie on her
check apron, put her children to bed,
and then pass the evening in company
with her husband, together with some
friend or neighbor who might drop in to
chat for an hour. Things have bravely
altered since those days, and we are
nearer no doubt by many years to the
millennium.
Year: 1875

How weak thing is gentility if it
wants virtue.


God estimates us, not by the position
which we may occupy, but by the way
in which we fill it.


Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss
it's aim, however good, as the bow snaps
that is bent too stiffiy.


If we would build on a sure founda-
ton in friendship, we must love our
friends for their sakes rather than our
own.


The whole universe is full of the ma
jestic and awful reality which would stir
the immortal depths of our hearts if we
could once realize and feel it.


When we are least moved by heavenly
love we sympathize least with human in
firmities so also when we are fullest Of
heavenly love we are most compassion.
ate to human misery and best fitted tc
cope with the troubles and infrmitieS
that beset us.
Year: 1875

ing ended pleasantly enough, but we had
all been so thoroughly frightened I
don't think we would ever care to repeat
the experiment. We were never able to
discover who betrayed us, but always
had a sly suspicion of Bellies fun-loving
father. ,..a


Most of the actors in that scene are
widely scattered. Many are dead.
Bright, queenly Belle had one of the
saddest of lives, short as it was. But
she rests quietly now, and but few know
the story of her short, sad life. Some
of the party are happy wives and
mothers, although 1 never heard of any
of them marrying the one that chose
her that eventful night. Most of us
parted soon after, never to meet again.
But wherever the broad earth may hold
them, am sure they must sometimes
give a thought to our mad frolic on
Halloween. n.-Bdzdr.
Year: 1875

A good story is lately current of a
Hartford clergyman who is famous
for his manly, earnest good fellowship.
He was travelling on the cars, on the
New York and New Haven road, not
long since, engaged in pleasant chat
with friend, when he was repeatedly
annoyed by drunken hummer in the
seat in front, who persisted in attempt
in to engage him in conversation. At
last, wearied beyond endurance, the
clergymen arose, and, turning the man
sharply away from him, said /; "You
are drunk, and I don't wish to hear or
see anything more of YOU" The bum
mer sank into silence for moment, and
then once more turned, and, gazing re-
proachfully at the clergyman, exclaimed,
SO as to be heard nearly the whole ex-
tent of the car by the passengers, whose
attention had been directed that way:
"Mr. T, pears to me you don't
care anything at all bout my soul"
Year: 1875

Balloon without Getting Killed.


That was sickening spectacle and
heartrending occurrence at the Calhoun
fair, an Owensburg paper says. 1t was
the hour for the grand balloon ascen-
sion, the big attraction of the fair. The
immense air ship was inflated, and, like
some wild beast, was pulling and surging
to be set at liberty. The man with the
iron nerve stood ready in his spangles to
make the ascent the manager made a
short address to the assembled multi
tude relative to the performances of the
young aeronaut upon the trapeze bar at
tached to the balloon, and just as he was
concluding, shout was sent up from
the crowd that the balloon was on fire.
Accustomed to such expressions from
spectators upon similar occasions, the
manager treated the voice of the multi
tude as joke, and the monster air ship
was freed from its moorings, and shot
upward with the velocity of rocket,
Professor Atchison, the man with the
iron nerve, clinging to the trapeze and
waving his cap to the multitude of spec
tators below. When the balloon had
gained an altitude of about three hun
dred yards, the aeronaut threw his feet
over the bar preparatory to his trapeze
performances. Hanging by his feet, and
with his head downward, for the first
time during the ascent he discovered, to
his horror, that the balloon was on fire.
Knowing that his doom was sealed, and
mindful when too late of the warming of
the multitude, he gained an upright pc.
sition upon the bar as soon as possible,
and clutching the rope with his hands,
he sought by swinging to and fro to
divert the course of the balloon in its
descent, so as to land in tree-top, but
the fire had made too much headway,
and the balloon collapsed in an instant.
and shot downward to the earth with
fearful velocity, striking the ground
with terrible force, the rapidity of its
fall lessened an iota, perhaps, by some
projecting twigs from neighborine
tree-top. DIV


The immense crowd was, of course
paralyzed and stricken dumb with hor
ror but few of the more self-possess
ed, after moments delay, rushed to the
spot where lay the wreck of the balloon
and the remains of the aeronaut, who
though a mass of broken bones anC
bruised and bleeding flesh, was not dead
He was at once removed to place
where he could be made as comfortable
as possible, and everything that surgica
skill and human aid could suggest wa
done to afford him some relief.


Though crushed almost to pieces, anC
undergoing intense suffering, he revived
so far as to be able to converse will
those around him. Under the infuenc,
of the kindest and most careful treat
ment, he has improved slowly, and it il
now thought that there are some chances
for his recovery.
Year: 1875

Hereafter 10 Legal ADVERTISE
ments will be inserted in the TINE
unless payment is made when hand
cd IN. 1t requires money to carry
on our business and we are com
PEELED to adopt the cash principle.
This rule will not be deyiated from
in any case.
Year: 1875

The doomed William Delaney, closely confined
In the Queens County Jail at North Hempstcad await


Ing his execution for the murder OF Captain Lawrence
appointed for the 10th of December next is either
feigning insanity or really becoming deranged, tho
authorities yet in doubt which. The walchmen at
his cell door report that he does not sleep much more
than three hours in each twenty. four and since Fri.
day morning of last week he has swallowed scarcely
any nu riment, or, as one OF the Keepers ex.
pressed 1t, he ''has not eaten an ounce OF
VictuaIs.u 1t is thought that unloss his con-
diton, both mental and physical, undcrgocs


marked change, he will not live to expate his crime
upon the scatod. He seems to have very peculiar
ideas in regard to his passage from the earth to the
abode of spirits. He thinks that his SOUPS journey will
beon In spite of all reason and argument he enter
tans the belief that after his death his spirit will have
to work hard In the other world his body has done
in this and is certain that he viii be a sailor In heaven,
ho has been earth. Delaney would scarcely be
Recognized to-day the who only few DAYS
ago. stood up so unninchingy and received the death
sentence
Year: 1875

The Milwaukee Netos says There was
young girl at the police station recently,
not over sixteen, with prepossessing face
and good figure, whose body and limbs
are covered with scales about the size Of
a fish. Medical gentlemen who have ex-
amined her says that she presents the most
extraordinary case of malformation on
record. These scales have the chameleon
like iunction Of changing their color. The
scales on her arms, while the writer was
present, changed twice from pale amber
color to "a blood red, and back again. They
do not overle each other as in the case of
fish or reptiles, but appear TO be imbedded
in flesh-in sort Of mosaic work; and in
color changes, the transformation does no
take place at once in all the imbricated
plates, but varies, some turning red, while
others retain the amber color, which seems
to be the primary hue.
Year: 1875

Yesterday morning Samuel II. Mead, the
inventor and patentee of the Mead Meigs
safety explosive bnllet, was accidentally
shot and instantly killed in his residence at
GA Madison avenue. He was preparing to
go with his father to Martha's Vineyard on
shark-shooting frolic. Nearly all the
preparations had been made and the Young
man was starting from an upper room with
the last load Of odds and ends in his arms
and hair trigger rifle in his hand, when
the weapon struck against some article of
furniture and was discharged, the ball en-
tering his forehead. His father, who was
in the parlor, heard the report and ran up
stairs to find his son dead.


Young Mead was only twenty four years
old. Four years ago, after having patented
a number of improvements in firearms, he
took out the patent for his explosive bullet;
but ascertaining that General Meigs had
applied for patent OH a missile of exactly
the same character he sought the General
and proposed that they should operate to-
gether. The MeadMeigs shell " is
combination of the breech-loading metallic
cartridge with hollow Or explosive bullet
containing fine gunpowder. penetrating
flesh or striking any hard substance the
bullet expledes and tears the object to pie
ces. These bullets are used IN Alaska for
obtaining specimens for the museum Of the
Smithsonian institution, and by the Wheel
er exploring expedition in Arizona. They
are also employed by Major General Custer
and other bear hunters in the Black Hills
country Of Dakota Territory.


Mr.. Meads last invent ion for which a
patent was applied for short time before
his death, was an arrangement by means of
which the recoil Of the Gatling gun may
be so utilized that reloading after each sue
cesslve discharge can be done automatical-
ly, provided the cartridge hopper is kept
supplied.


MI Mead was an enthusiastic sportsman,
and for several years spent his summers
hunting strange animals. His frolic among
the sharks off the coast Of Massachusetts
promised to be the pleasantest of his life,
and for long time he had looked forward
to it with delight. -Neao York Sum- 21st.
Year: 1875

LOVED AND LOST fell in love with a
fat girl once. 1 loved mad1y, because
was loving 207 pounds Of girl. She was
amiable, tender-hearted, good-natured and
true, and think she loved me. We wefc
to be married in the fall, and | should
probably have been one Of the happiest of
husbands, when an accident dashed my
prospects. She fell overheard just as we
were about to leave the wharf on steam
boat excursion. Three or four sailors
plunged after, and they got gang plank
under her, cable around her waist and
towed her to the wharf. Then they rugged
q derrick and lifted her out by sections,
but they were SO long about it that she
took severe cold, and the result WAS
death. There were months and months
after that could never pass load OF hay
without thinking of my lost Amanda and
shedding tears, and even to this day never
see au elephant Or rhinoceros without her
dear visage rising up before ME.
Year: 1875

Here is che Yute account of the creation :
g In the beginning the earth was covered
with mist. You could not see before you.
The great spirit took his bow and arrow
and shot-shot so we'll that he scat tered the
mist. The earth became visinl TO him,
but there were no men upon it. Then he
bake. Men came out white the first had
not been strong enough. The Great Spirit
began his work again, and this time the man
came out quite black {; he had remained too
long in the oven. 1t was necessary to try
the third time. The experiment at length
succeeded, and the man came out done to a
turn he was the redskin, the most perfect
of human types
Year: 1875

was urging this one time in meet


ing in America, and an old man got up


at the close and said, i want to endorse


every word that has teen said. | be-


lieve in the conversion OF little children.


Sixteen years ago l was in a heather


country laboring as a missionary, and


my wife died and left me with three


little motherless children. On the Sab


bath after her death my eldest girl, ten


years old, came to ME and said, Papa,


shall | take the children into the bed


room and pray with them as mother


used to That is the power of exam.
pie; the mother was dead and gone,
and little Nellie, ten years old. wanted
to f, How in her footsteps. The father
said yes, she might if she liked, and she
led them off to the chamber to pray
He said when they came out he noticed
that they all had been weeping, and
asked what they had been weeping
about. We'll. father said the little
girl, prayed just as my mother taught
me to pray, and then'-naming her lit
tie brother-'he prayed the prayer that
mother taught him to pray: but little
Susie, she was too young, mother had
not taught her prayer Of her own, and
| could not help but weep to hear her
pray Why said the father, what
did she say?' Why, she put up her
little hands, and closed her eyes, and
said. % God, you have come and taken
away my dear mamma, and I have no
mamma to pray for me now-won't you
please make me good just as my dear
mamma was, for Jesus sake, Amen;'
aud. said the old missionary, God heard
that prayer. That little child, before
she was four years old gave evidence Of
being child Of God, and for sixteen
years she was in that heathcn country
leading little children to the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sins Of the
world Mother, do you believe your
child can come too early? Do you be.
|ieve your child can have his name
written in the Book Of Life too carly?
Oh, may God help US to labor for it, to
call our children into the ark. Nav