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Year: 1875

The habit which obtains in society"
of inviting not only the five hundred
dear friends of the hostess to meet in
rooms originally intended for not more
than half the number; and more, the
custom of allowing other friends to bring
friends who are personally unknown to
the hostess, makes it easy for those who
desire, unbidden, to view the proceed
ings of the upper ten thousand to do so
without any very great amount of diff
Guilty. The hostess does not expect to
know all her guests the guests know
that, unless in very exceptional cases, a
bow and hurried word constitute all
the attention they will get from that
much occupied lady. No one expects to
know all or even the majority of those
present.; and SO it comes to pass that,
given a correct evening dress and q
passable manner and style, it is not diff
cult to understand how it is that persons,
perfectly unknown to either hostess or
guests, may descend from their vehicle,
be it carriage or fly, at the door of some
mansion where an entertainment is evi-
IDENTIFY going on, may ascend the stairs,
may give their proper names, and hear
them shouted with more or less accuracy
in stentorian tones, and enjoy what
amusement they can extract therefrom,
and may go away without having en-
countered the slightest risk of being
found out.


Not long ago large ball was given in
the immediate vicinity of London.
Hundreds of guests were invited. The
givers of the ball were warned that, un-
less they were careful, they would GER
tainly have more guests than they
counted upon entertaining the hint
was taken, and it was arranged that all
the really invited guests should bring
their cards of invitation with them.
This precaution was well understood,
and acted upon. Nevertheless, at least
thirty persons, entirely uninvited, who
did not even pretend that they had lost
their tickets, presented themselves dur
ing the evening-only, of course, to be
refused admittance.


One wonders whether these people
have a society among themselves, with
whom they dance, to whom they talk,
with whom they make appointments fol-
the next occasion on which they may
chance to appear among the invited.
They certainly take some pains as to
their preparation; they decorate them
selves in evening costume; they go to
the expense of carriages to take them to
their destination, They cannot all have
sinister designs on the property of their
hosts, else they would soon become
known to the police, They are devour.
ed by desire to mix in society to which
they have no legitimate entrance. Sc
long as people organize parties in the
way usual at present, so long are un.
hidden guests likely to be amongst the
number.
Year: 1875

A writer happily hits off this particu-
lar season of the year: ALI the day and
all the night is full of peace. The fever
of the earth is gone, and we are no
longer driven to dreamy Incidence as the
only resource from combustion or hque-
faction. We may shut the windows
now, with no hum of the industry out
side to irritate or distract us. The
evening of comfortable study has come
back, with no self-immolated moths to
teaze us, or to fry themselves in the
lamp or to be pressed out of all shape
and comeliness in the shut folio, the
fair pages of which they disfigure.
Only little whila ago we had no even
ings-now there are three or four hours
for the books and the stars before bed
time. There are even now signs of O
general housing; the wasp crawls feebly
up and down the pane, with all his fiery
pluck gone out of him; the cricket sings
in the new quarters which he has found
somewhere in the room; the great, ugly,
moribund insects cling to the wall, and
the beetles and the butterflies have
passed into the seasonable stage of theiI
metempsychosis.
Year: 1875

A wire clothes-line agent called on o
well-to-do farmer at Meridian, N. Y,
and tried to sell him wire clothes-line.
The farmer declined, and the stranger
made him an offer to give him line if
he (the farmer) would give his name as
o reference to use in the vicinity. He
gave his name on slip of paper pre-
sented by the stranger, and which was
apparently carelessly folded, and about
two weeks from that time received an in
voice for wire amounting to $100 as per
order. The carelessly folded paper
proved to be an order made to third
party, and the best he could do in set
tlement was to pay $50 to be released
from the order, or take the wire and pay
the bill.
Year: 1875

Old traditions of the conduct of wild
animals toward a traveller at night in the
forest, says a Western correspondent
who has been out in the mountains, tend
to fill him with nervous apprehensions


The books advise q fire to awe them into
keeping respectful distance while you
slumber. Pile on the well-drie pine
fagots which are strewn over the ground.
They will burn till a few hours of
dawn, and although the restless tread of
an army of wolves, catamounts, cougars
and panthers may disturb the slumberer
he will be safe from their enmity. 1t is
very romantic to spread ones blankets on
the soft turf under friendly pine and
lie down to pleasant dreams," though
after long days jaunt the dreams very
fortunately are apt to prove truant. But
fiery eyes cleaning out of the darkness
on all sides at the victim whom the red
shining flames alone protect from being
torn to pieces do not fill the brain with
the most soothing images. /, however,
soon fell asleep. after rolling myself up
in two blankets and buffalo robe, and
did not awake until just before the gray
dawn. Then the last Pickering ember
of the fire had expired, and although the
darkness was not yet dispersed the vora-
cious lobos and kiotes were no longer
watching me. I saddled my horse and
packed the pony by the starlight. Be-
fore the sun peeped over the pine
fringed hills on the east side of Gold
creek I had ridden fifteen miles.
Year: 1875

Suppose he does not como. The old
father dies, and the shop or the potatoes
fail, and the brother takes to drink, or
marries, or does not marry because he
must support his mother and sister
The girl finds that she is as pretty and
pleasant an object as ever, CHEEKY as the
rose, but somehow the world does not
give her place, as it does the rose,
gratis. When it comes to daily meals
and clothes she is by no means her own
excuse for being. She knows she was
born to be a wife and mother, but no.
body wants to marry her. She takes
stock of herself her capital is fright
fully small to carry into the market.
Her brother was educated to earn his
bread and butter; beside the education,
he had physical strength, the habit of
friction with the crowd, something which
he himself calls "cheek." Her cake
making, Turkish embroidery, pressed
ferns, all go fornothing, when she comes
to put a money value on her acqui1e E.
ments the chances are that her knowl,
edge of literature or music is too general
to fit her to teach. If she should teach,
sher salary, exclusive of board, would
not, nine cases in ten, amount to a sum
more than sufficient to clothe her cheaply
and shabbily. If she goes into store
as saleswoman she is paid less than was
the cook in her fathers kitchen; and in
both these occupations there is no
chance of advance, no career such as is
ready for her brother in every trade or
profession, unless she have great energy
or skill in trade, and the probability is
that she has not particle of either.


She is sure to try authorship sends
poems and tales to magazines with a
request to know how much she can
make per annum, If she perseveres.
They come back with thanks in big yel-
low envelopes. She goes out as book
agent-sells chromos, silver polish,
Heaven knows what not. In any case
she has to "push her way, sick at heart,
at first shrinking from every look or
touch or word. Perhaps after while
she learns the business tact which comes
to her brother by nature, and gains even
the desirable "cheek, most pitiable
and woeful of all successes. There are
many trades, the lighter handicrafts, and
above all etching, wood engraving, and
lithography, with which, if she had been
taught, she could have earned her iv-
ing and remained within the shelter of
home.


AS your own Nelly sets out to school
this bright morning, it is well to re-
member these things and to make some
provision for her future as for her broth
er's. There are many chances that she
must earn her own living let us begin
now to put into her hand the tools
by which she can do it, and above all
protect her in home while using them
keep alive in her the modesty, the ten
derness, the beauty of the future wife
and mother. In business point of view
the dewy fragrance of the rose is worth
nothing but the poor girl selling her
wares from door to door with sick
heart and face of brass, knows what it
is worth, and feels that she lost with ii
the birthright of her womanhood.-
-NetU York Tribune.
Year: 1875




An advertisement ran thus: Two
ters want washing.


All goats love tobacco; but all crea-
lures that love tobacco are not goats.


The Lake Superior mines since 1856
have yielded nearly 100000 tons of
iron.


It is said there is all the difference in
the world between the north and south
poles.


Here must have been strange sight:
He rode to town, and drove twelve cows
on horseback.


Why don't Sweden have to send
abroad for cattle2 Because she keeps
her Stockholm.


Feebleness, either in plants or animals,
invites parasitic disease, whether of ami
NAL or vegetable origin.


Thirty-five tribes contribute stock and
specimens of industry to the Indian ex-
position at Musgokee, 1. T.


Parisians are introducing the Oriental
fashion of stufing furniture with aroma
tic herbs, which fill the air with agree
able perfume.


1t costs fifty dollars to slap Cleve-
land man on the mouth. That's good
deal of money, but there's also a good
deal of mouth.


A spendthrift says that he has lived
beyond his means so long that now he
hasn't the means to live, and yet he
means to live somehow.


When man goes to quilting party
about teatime and sits down on ball of
wicking with long darning-needle init,
he will think of more things connected
with darning in a minute than he can
mention in two hours.


An honest reputation is within the
reach of all men; they obtain it by 80
cial virtues and by doing their duty.
This kind of reputation, it is true, is
neither brilliant nor startling, but it is
often the most useful for happiness.


There is no better tonic than cheerful
ness. The man who sings at his work is
generally set down as honest, contented,
and happy. Twig the gentle mosquito,
whose song is heard most while your
blood is being diligently and maliciously
sucked.


A lady leaving one of the summer re-
sort hotels, was charged for an entire
china toilet set, only one piece of which
she had broken. She paid the blu, and,
pleading the excuse of having forgotten
something, returned to the room and
broke each and every article of the set
for which she had paid.


On the subject of matrimony French
philosopher advises: Fathers and mo-
theirs, if you should choose to take the
trouble to see through your future sons
in-law, just look out of the window at
them as they ring the door bell. Daugh-
ters needn't look; maidens in love have
but one eye, and most of the time not
even that.


A fve-year-old son of Waterbury
(Conn. deacon amuses himself by imi-
tating a train of cars with his mouth and
shutting his feet. While indulging in
this pastime, one Sunday, he was told
that it was wrong to do so on the Sab
bath. "Oh, but this is the milk train"
was his rejoinder, that being the only
train through the town on that day.


One of the remarkable men of the
Alabama constitutional convention is
Col. Bethea. He is lawyer, but has
had only one case in his life. 1t was his
first and last. The case involved large
amount of property, and his fee de-
pended upon bis success. He won; his
fee was 100000 and with this he grace
fully retired from the bar. A legal
career SO brief and so brilliant has pro-
badly been the lot of no other man since
litigation began.
Year: 1875

THE SUN.-It is now said that the sun
is a partial luminary. In recent dis
cussion, DR.. Balfour Stewart said that it
was not only lopsided, but one region
affected the magnetism and meteorology
of the earth differently from the other.
He also denied that it had q solid
nucleus. Even the dark portions at the
bottom of the spots, he said, might be
compo ed of matter carried down from
above.
Year: 1875

These mines are rich beyond expec tations. There is no longer any doubt of this fact. David T. Harshaw came i1 this week with sack of dust and mug gets of gold in value $S43. We saw the shining metal at John H. Archi bald's store. It was the result of foul days labor performed in this way One man digs the earth, another packs it one and half miles to water where "a third washes it in rocker. Mir Burroughs is the partner of Harshaw, and the latter says they work moder- ately. The pay earth of their claims is from four inches to two feet deep to the bedrock. MT. Harshaw says he worked in Gold Run and other rich diggings in Nevada county, California, in the days of '49, and that he never found richer earth than that of the Santa Rita mines.

 T. Green Rusk went out to these pla- cers after many others had gone and returned and reported unfavorably for any further prospecting, but he has discovered diggings which pay him from one to one and half ounces per day,

 Others are making from an ounce to twenty dollars per day. These placer diggings are known to cover several miles in extent and those who have made personal and practical observa- tions, say they are more extensive than ever reported. Of course, water is scarce, but if the dirt is rich enough to pack a mile or two and then give the miner from $16 to $10O per day, they are entitled to rank equal with the best placers ever discovered. If a man can find dirt that will pay him from $5 to $10O per day by packing it one or more miles to water, such dig gings should surely be regarded rich and very rich. The dirt at the Santa Rita placers can probably be carried in carts instead of on jacks, and the daily yield be largely increased.

 The country at and about these mines is unusually beautiful It is mostly live oak parks with abundance of grass and Scarcely any undergrowth. As sheep-grazing section, it is of the first quality and locations are being made for that purpose. But at present, the gold placers are the great attrac- ton and must be for years, according to the present appearances of quantity and quality. of dirt.
Year: 1875

mitted with their good work. Gener als Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and oth CTS have probably done as much public service as Crook, but are not allowed

 to rest; and very recently The Miner

 gave Gen. Sherman a lick which the Generals friends might cOnstrue as be ing planted "below the belt" No liv, inc man is saint-nOt even Gen Crook. We never heard him claim that he is infallible, although we have asserted that he is as an Indian fighter

 He is a public man in the broadest sense of the word He controls and directs large and very expensive pub lie business, and to the better fit him

 for it, he was educated at the public 'eXpense. He can less consistently plead excuses for errors, than the mass of

 military or civil officers. His best friends have been and always will be

 those who will call his attention to CT TOTS and at the same time do him com plete justice To let Gen. Crook have a full and unobstructed opportunity to fight the hostile Indians, we opposed everything and body that opposed or 

 in any way hindered him; now to let competent agents of the Interior De partment, have an equally unobstructed opportunity to execute their duties and manage the Indians peaceably, we will in like manner oppose and try to eX- pose all agencies in their way. This is our platform fully set forth. We stood on It boldly in behalf of Gen. Crook and at our own peril, and will occupy It hereafter and "take the chan ces."
Year: 1875

THE CITIZEN of last Saturday had some remarks on this and similar cas- es We quoted from The Miner regard ing the favorable disposition of the people to have him hung and also gave a telegram asking a temporary respite for the purpose of sending a petition to the Governor for communication of sentence. We did not say the people acted wrongly, but strangely in all such cases. Here is what The Miner of Jul ly B says regarding the rePEiere and move for communication

 The case of Manuel Abiles, who was condemned to be hung here to-day, and has been respitcd by the Governor for two weeks, has been the subject of much discussion during the past few days A petition has been in circula- ton asking for communication of the sentence to Imprisonment for life, and majority of the people have signed it. Many assign as reason that they swere unwilling to see him hung while his companions in the crime were al lowed to go free. We see nothing in such an argument and in signing it took only into consideration the man himself without reference to what was done with the rest. That he is guilty of helping to kill the man, we have no doubt, and that he ought to be severe ly punished we are fully persuaded, but having heard a portion of the tes- timony and been convinced that the deceased deserved killing, not by the hands of Abiles of course, but that he was unfit to live, we thought the mat ter over, and concluded that if ouI name would have any influence in say ing the man from death and putting him in prison instead, where he could do no further harm, we had not the heart to withhold it. This may be sickly sentimentalism, or maudlln weakness if you please, but we confess that except in extreme cases, we think hanging man is not the best use he can be put to, especially as we are now erecting a safe prison at Yuma where cOnvicts can be made useful to some extent, and kept without fear of es- cape; besides, if Yuma is anything like what it is represented, It may be a greater punishment to roast him to death there than to hang him at once and be done with it.

 On this last remark we hope to heal from Judge Berry in The Sentinel.

 Since the foregoing was prepared for the printer, private advices have been received from Prescott saying that some signed the petition because they were opposed to capital punish ment; some because other criminals had either escaped punishment or sui ficient punishment; and others signed it who discovered afterwards that the prisoner acted like an abandoned wretch and also confessed that Inc struck the fatal blow, but that another man closed up the job. All hands seen to agree that Abiles is guilty of mur der. Many did not sign the petition

 and think the sentence should not bC cOmmuted. Before this paper is ot

 the press, the probability is that what

 ever action may be taken will be by

 the Executive.
Year: 1875

THE Nation points out, as an instance of
the American tendency to deceptive labels
and trade marks, the fact that the village of
Florence in Massachusetts,, received its name
in order that its silk company might shave
the truth more closely in announcing that its
silk was manufactured in Florence, the name
of the place being followed by the abbrevia-
ton Mass, in almost undistingulshable let
ters, and the label being printed in Ialian.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1875

SEVERAL of our contemporaries having
stated that the deposits of saving banks are
exempt from taxation, a correspondent of the
the Eastport Sentinel observes that some of
the folks in Machias take advantage of such
exemption by placing notes, town orders etc.
under the doorstep OF the bank at Machias
the last dayIof March and taking them out
on the second day of April. This is doubt
less an evasion and violation Of the spirit of
tho law
Year: 1875

GEN. SHERMAN's $ book has created great
deal of talk. 1t will undoubtedly call out
some sharp criticism from certain officers
who served in the war of the rebellion, and
from some civilians who were in the civil SER
vice during that period. There is little doubt
that the hero of the march to the sea has
told some sharp truths, and that some of the
people told on'' do not relish his observa-
tions,
Year: 1875

The Bulletin cries out, in language un-
known to the American Constitution, "All
is lost save honorr' If this be true, the
Democracy have sustained loss so nearly
total that the rest Is not worth mentioning.
-Ne,o Orleans Republican.


The Times tells us that s'Congress is going
to adjourn and leave Arkansas to be dealt
with by the mailed grip Of the President. y
We noted that the House had assented to the
mailing of seeds and of documents without
payment, but we did not understand that the
President could send his grip by mail. How
ever, we presume the Times is right; mi allied
grp'' is good.-St. Louis Globe.


Accidents are occurring daily on railroads
from rails breaking by frost, destroying life
and limb and property by thousands of dol
lars in value. Is there remedy? 1t seems
altogether practicable to roll the rail solid
and to harden the top half by immersion in
water, as all of us have seen the blacksmith
do when he desires to obtain hardness to a
certain extent on iron he may be working. II
to preserve the bottom half or base tough,
retaining all the adhesive properties of good
iron, This suggestion is thrown out to elicit
inquiry and experiment by those parties di-
rectly interested, in order that some result
NAV be had in arresting the fearful and fire.
quent calamities of the times by broken
rails.-St. Louis Globe.


Let us be just, as well as critical. The Ad'
ministration has been doing its best to serve
the country. IN this it has been reasonably
successful. 1t could not reach and cure evils
pertaining to business activities and social
indulgences over which it had no control
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1875

A GOOD family horse. Color black. Seven years
IA old and sound, Weight one thousand pounds.
Perfectly kind and not afraid ot the ears: Can be
who is authorized to SELL The horse is to be sold for
no fault but the owner is proprietor OF too much
horse flesh. feblSdtf
Year: 1875

I'm the preface to his recent excellent
book, The Abode Of Snow Mr.. An
drew Wilson, well known as the author
of one of the most interesting works on
the Chinese empire, rcvivcs the old
theory of Adhcmar that the earth will
topplc over one of these DAYS, and
send the oceans sweeping over the CON
tinents. The theory is that owing to
the greater preponderance Of water in
the southern hemisphere, the greatest
accumulation Of water is round the
south pole when the accumulation
has reached q certain point the balance
Of the earth must be suddenly dc,
stroycd-thc center Of -phcricity alb
ruptlv change far from the center of
gravity, and the whole earth almost
instantaneously must turn transvcrscly
on it. axis, move the great oceans, and
so produce one Of those grand cata-
clvsms which have before now altered
the whole face Of the globe. Some very
good physicians and mathcmaticians
have believed in this theory, which is
not easily controvcrted, even if it be
false one.
Year: 1875

BoGAEDUs, the demoniac pigeon
murderer, can shoot fifty innocent
birds in eight minutes without ruAiing
his con- cience. If there are SUCH
things a special providence, the day
will come when this terrible man viii
involuntarily blow into the muzzle OF
his GUN to see if it is loaded,
Year: 1875

In the matter of perseverance the
world must learn the lesson from boys.
A boy does not sink into despair if the
first burr he throws at another boy
fails to stick; he keeps on with steady
aim and a stoical indifference to i'll
fortune, and though he may have
missed his mark a dozen times, he fl
nalIy succeeds in decorating a pair of
trowsers in the most satisfactory man
ner.