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Year: 1876

i PLEASANT and amusing incident is
related in the Vermont newspapers to
illustrate the gallantry and impulsiye
benevolence- of Governor Peck, of that
state. A few days ago, near his home,
the Governor passed a house where
poor woman was endeavoring to saw and
split some wood. He Immediately re-
Geved the woman of the axe, and work
ed strenuously until a large quantity of
the wood had been prepared for the fire.
Year: 1876

H lshment on sth street, near south end of Bridge
The tailoring depar is complete and contains


large assortment of fashionable clothes and Gent
Furnishing goods constantly on hand. Please call
and examine before purchasing elsewhere. 1877
Year: 1876

Established less than three years ago as a Repre-
sentative Republican Paper pledged to maintain and
defend the principles and organizations of the Ma
tional Republican Party, the INTER OCEAN was
early pushed TO the forefront Of journalism and
achieved a success unprecedented in the history Of
such enterprises. BY universal assent it has been
assigned position as
Year: 1876

This Hotel has lately been enti ely rebuilt and
ysfIrnisled. 1t is the aim of the management to
make HoNE for the travelling public OF the state
Is low any other first class hotel in
"a State mis-
Year: 1876

The Centennial Year TO he IA Iime of


Abundance.


The fields are whitening for tine
haryests. Never before in the his
tory of the nation, says the York,
Pa, Dispatch, has there been a
time when in every section of the
country vegetation was SO rank
and the fruition so full, Walk a.
broad in any direction, lift your
eyes, field after field of waving
grain, orchard after orchard laden
down with fruit, long stretches of
grass waiting the scythe Of the
mower.


What does it all mean: 1t
means simply that this Centennial
year, shall be the yea. Of abun-
darce, that from all the panic, all
the want, all suffering Of years the
Lord is about to deliver the ma
ton. The abundance of the earth
means plenty to ali. The farmers
money will touch the idle wheels
OF our factories and they will re-
volvc, his wheat will ill the holds
of our ships and the white wings
OF commerce will again be spread
to the breeze.


There isn't industrybutwi receive
a tresc impetus from the earLh's
| yield, and upon the land will dawn
II new era prosperity. 1t is com
ming, 1t is almost here, and with
the tidal wave of the harvests q
| perfect sea of employment will rol
in upon US and once more the
land shall rejoice.
Year: 1876

How the French Dine and Dress.
The Frenchman is not a big
feeder. He breakfasts in the
morning with little coffee and
good deal of bread and butter.
Along towards noon, If ravenously
hungry, he seizes on radish or
| perhaps the hind legs of spar
row, which latter made it dejeu-


ner a la fourchette. But for din


ner-ye gods, what n gorging is
theirs. Two spoosfuls of soup, then
the back bone of a smelt, morsel
of inert the size ofa saddle-rock
oyster, q mushroom, an onion, Il
Glove of garllc, smell of cheese "A
gallon of red wine, he is ready for
an opera or the theater. The
Frenchman can cook a dinner, but


when it comes to eating one, why,


bless your soul, an Englishman
can eat all around him. Yet du
fau though he be at dressing fish
or foul, the Frenchman does not,
to my thinking, dress himself -
is neither-well His sleeves are
too short, his skirts are too mar
row and he has altogether skim
py look. When he attemps to be
elegant he is only danditied, and


when he sets out to be a heavy
swell he only succeeds in being flash
y. But the French woman -ah!
She knows by instinct what to
put on and how, Supposing Eve
to have been French, it is safe to
assume when the idea of dress
dawncd on Eden, had there been
in the garden a leaf more becom-
ing than the. fig, she would have
gone stright to the tree. Little
given to diffidence, the mere dis
covery that she had nothing on
could never have distressed a


French Evevery much, but the
sudden awakening to guilty
knowed &c that she was not well
dressed would just about killed
her. A new becoming bonnet, a
pair Of high-heeld shoes, might


relieved her feelings and the situa


ton, and saved a.valuable life. If
you doubt the correctness OF my
generalization, go to the opera any
evening and see what is consider
ed full dress. This being the rule
under the Republic, what must it
to have been under the Empire?-
". Y. Tribune.
Year: 1876

Our Leavenworth correspondent, Oxford
has considerable to say about the necessity
Tor another newspaper in that city. He tell
our readers that money will lie subscribed
advertisements will flow in, &c, &c. All
We have to say about this il that if any
man, or set of men, have SO, 900 to sink In
making an ther paper pay in Leavenworth,
let them try it. 1t will take at least that
amount OF money TO get another paper on
a paying basis, aud when it is done, Leav.
enworth will have no better paper than
she .Ias Commonwealth.


E. McEardy & Cos Second ssmi-Annual


Sale of short Cattle in Kansas.


In another column our readers will find
the advertisement Of the above great sale
OF Short-ICrn Cattle. We again call the
attention OF our farmers and breeders to
the importance of this sale. The offerings
are such as TO present an opportunity for
the farmer to buy an animal which will
grade up his common stock at reasonable
figures or if the breeder wants something
pure and high bred to add to his herd, this
sale presents an opportunity. We hope
every farmer and breeder, who can do so
will attend this sale. wilt


a DISTINGUISHED physician says: after
a careful examination of Dr. Prices Cream
Baking Powder, | am satisfied that il is a
wholesome and valuable preparation, with
which bread and other articles NAV he pre-
pared suitable TO a weakened and disorder
ed digestion. | have introduced it among
nv patients, and have yet to learn of the
first instance where convilescent patient
could OF indulge in warm biscuits made
with it, and feel the better of it. Sour milk
and saleratus will not, | hope, be longer
used TO poison the stomach and corrupt the
blood" DIR. Pr.ce's True Flavoring Ex-
tracts as well as his Cream Baking Powder,
have gained their popularity and extensive
sale from their perfect purity and unvary-
ing quality. eod&w


DEsPoNDESCY, if allowed unchecked, Will
often produce a morbid condition so that
the least unsatisfactory affair that happens
will swell into certifying proportions. The
mind being warped often imparts torpidity
to the body, all of which more frequently
is the effect Of inaction OF the liver than
from any other cause, and by Tesorting TO
Simmons Liver Regulator the mind will
often find relief with the body. d&wlt
Year: 1876

The Boston Globe divides the Boston
loafers into four general classes, one of
which, the literary loafrr, it describe
thus: The literary loafers of Boston
freuupnt the Athenenm and Public Ii
brary. and may be sometimes seen at the
meetings of the Massachusetts, Hi<tOri-
cal Society. They are a peculiar class,
who think that because their attention is
for the time concentrated on books, they
are for that reason learning anything
They must not be confuundtd with real
students, whose minds are intent upon
the acquisition of useful knowledge.
Reading with the literary loafer is not
an intellectual exercise, it is intellectual
trifling He Grams himself with facts IA
a gluttOn Grams himself with food, sim
ply to pass away the time and dclude
himself with the idea that he is doing
something useful. A. for being anything
more than memory -rnnngers, literary
loafers are usually not even that-they
will not take the trouble to remember
what they read. and thus avoid the con-
geStion which would result from an IN
due pressure of facts on the brain. Their
minds are like sievea, through which in


formation passes, leaving a deposit of
thick matter The literary Ioafer is
rather shabby as to his dress, as much
perhaps from want of taste as from want
of means and his slovenly wav of wear
ing his clothes Is in harmony with the
nnkempt look of his hair and beard
The victims of this sort Of Ioa6ng are
usually the least conscious oftheir weak
ness of any of their kind; they have
~elf-satisfed air which makes them look
down upon real intellectual workers, and
though incapable of producing anything
they seem as if they had really given
some instruction to The world Where
the literary loafer lives is a mystery ev-
en- TO his wa~herwoman. but he comes
with distressing regularity TO the Athe-
Iuenn and Public Library, and in the
seasOn is sure TO be found at the Lowell.
Institute and other free lectures"
Year: 1876

In the neighborhood of Baku, on the
Caspian Sea, there is phenomenon Of a
very extraordinary nature, called the
everlasting fire. TO which a sect Of Indi-
ans and Persians, called Giaonrs, pay
religious worship. IL Is Situated about
ten miles from the city of Baku, in the
province of Shiryau, on 8 dry, rocky
piece Of ground.


On il there are several ancient tenn
pies built of stone. and supposed to be
all dedicated to the fire, there being one
among them in which fre-worship il
now carried on. Near the altar there il
large hollow cane. from the end OF
which issups blue flame. The wor-
shippers affirm that this fame has con-
timed ever since the DeluRe, and they
believe If it were suppressed in that
place il would break out in another.


At a short distance frnm this temple
there Is a horizontal gap. two feet from
the ground, about six feet long and three
| broad, ont Of which comes a constant
| fame of the color Of that in the temple.
When there IL strong wind il rises tn
the height of eight feet, but is much
lower in calm weather.


The earth around for more than two
miles has this extraordinary property
that by taking up two or three inches oi
the surface and applying lighted lamp
the part uncovered Immediately takes
fire even before the fame touches it
The flames make the soil hot, but do moi
consume 1t nor affect what is near with
any degree of heat.


it il Sid that eight horses were once
consumed by this fire under a rool
whore the surface Of the ground hid
been turned up and by some accident
had iRnited. If a cane or a tube Of paper
be set about two inches into the ground
closed with earth below, and the top oi
il touched with live coal, fame will
Immediately issue forth without consum.
ing the tube. providing the edges be
covered with clay. Three or four light
ed canes will boil water in pot, and are
sometimes used to cook victuala. The
flames have a sulphurous smell but are
/ inoffensive.
Year: 1876

Lord Rayleigh has made some inter.
esting researches in regard to the facility
with which We recognize the rituation of
a sounding body. In the case of sight
special optical apparatus IL provided,
whose function is to modify the uniform
excitation of the retina, which a lumin.
GUS point. wherever sItuated, would 9th
erwise produce. The action of the cry-
stalline lens of the eye is well under
stood and the Use of lens il precisely
the device that would ut once occur to
the mind Of an optician ignorant Of
physiology. There ia nothing, however,
in the ear corresponding to the crystal
line lens of the eve. II has long been
conjectnred that the explanation Of how
we find out exactly where a sound IT,
turns upon the combined use Of both
ears. The possibility Of distinguishing
voice in front from one behind with
unerrinR certainty seems, according to
experiments made by Lord RayIeigh, to
be by no means sure. II the source of
the sound was on the right or the left Of
the observer, its position could he told
approximately, but it was uncertain
whether for example a low whistle was
i'll front or behind. The explanation Of
the subject il by no means simple one,
and the different appreciation of sounds
through one we are constantly being
sensible OF. awaits further study.
Year: 1876

1t is no exaggerati0n to say that
health is a large ingredient in what the
world calls talent. man without it
may be giant in intellect, but his deeds
will be the deeds of dwarf. On the
contrary, let him havea quick circula-
tion, good digestion, the bulk. thews
and sinews Of man, and he will set
failure at defiance A man has good
reason TO think himself well off in the
lottery of life if he draws the prize of a
healthy stomach without a mind rather
than the prize of fine intellect with n
crazy stomach. But of the two a weak
mind in hercnlean frame il better than
a giant mind with crazy constitution.
A pound of energy with an ounce of
talent will achieve greater result than a
pound of talent with an ounce of ener-
gy.- Exchange
Year: 1876

The St. Louis Republican mentions
some ofthe troubles that will follow the
new money: "When a man walks much
the side of his legs will be chafed raw
When less than dollar is to go by mail
it will have to be converted first into
postage-stamps. When you run for a
street-car mohey will fly out of your
pockets at every jump. When you tell
your wife that have no money she will
say that you lie, for she heard ii jingle.
1t will be difficult to pay a man a quar-
ter by mistake for half When you
are in hurry the storekeeper will have
to weigh the coin in his hand and sound
it twenty-five times on the counter be-
fore he can determine whether it is good.
The baby will swallow dime day. A
boy with quarter will lose il IN a crack
in two minutes, from which no amount
of coaxing with forks and chips can re-
cover it. Sleepy men will put buttons
and lozengeS INTO contribution boxes a.
of yore"
Year: 1876

\ letter to the Hartford Times.say
Young Tiffany's chameleon shed its
skin this morning. When my attention
was first called to it, thought it was an
posture-for the little reptile looked
just as Of it had on little nightgown Of
fine lavenGer-colored muslin. tied or
tucked in at the neck and top of the tail


This strange garment gradually parted
in openings. While this process was
going On, the chameleon, which was on
the floor, and had thread tied around
it, held at one end by Willie Tiffany,
wonld very unexpectedly and suddenly
make vigorous little rnshes and darts
across the floor, to the length of it's
string. and to the great discontinue of
the ladies who were gathered around it,
watching the shedding process. On such
occasions the ladies would run scream
ing to a conner of the room. the sudden
ness and rapidity of the small varmint's"
movements whenever he started seeming
to deprive them ofall presence of mind.
The chameleon got hold of what he
could of this cast-of garment and tried
to swallow it. Upon examining seq
ments Of the cast skin under a magnify
ing glass, it was seen 10 he full of per-
fectly circular holes, arranged in the
most regular and orderly manner, and
the texture respmhled that of the crown
of bonnet. though not quite 80 close.
Year: 1876

Fellnw shot himself at Louisville
on Monday night, and left letter IN
which he said that he should return to
earth if such Thing were possible. and
haunt those who had caused his ruin
We ought To have this thing satisfactor.
lily tested now. Here Is a gentleman
who has shuffied off his coil for the ex.
press purpose Of being n spook end scar
ing somebody. Therefore if he can't
make it work nobody can. We shall,
figuratively speaking keep our eye on the
Louisville gentleman.
Year: 1876

Cleaning Floors with Oranges.


That's shocking, isn't it2 But then they
have more of them than we do, for it is in
Jamaica that they make scrubblng-brushes
of oranges, and you may be sure it is true,
because Mr.. Gosse saw them do it. The
floor was hard, polished wood, and before
the family were out of bed two or three
colored servants scrubbed over the whole
of it with sour oranges, cut in halves.
When the Juice was rubbed out of one
piece they would take anouher, and so they
used up big trayful of them. A polish
was put on by rubbing with cocoanut husk,
and the floor looked as if it bad been
waxsd.--St Nicholas fo1, May.
Year: 1876

all the States represented, a contempt
| OF the religious sentiment of the Amer
lean people, and ali insult to the God
in whom, as a people, We live and
move.


Wisely, decently aud well. therefore,
did the Commissioners decide that this
sentiment is to be the controlling moral
power in the United States. To fly in
the face of 1t is folly and madness. If
the lightning of heaven does not strike
its despisers, there is a power, silent as
the lightning and equally terrible, that
oveltakes all men in this land, who
try to thwart the intelligent will of the
people.


To concentrate this healthful relig-
ious sentiment is not difficult. AS
great lens condenses the suns rays up
on focal point SO AS to create intense
heat and fierce confiagration, SO by
holding up the truth in the face of the
country, we draw to it 8Dd through
it the opinion of the wise and good,
the press speaks, the pulpit thunders,
the Church lifts up its voice, the whole
horizon of public thought is filed with
the mutterings of righteous Indignation
against actual or projected wrong, and
these expressions are concentrated up
on the men who have the power in
their Lands. Woe be unto them if
they are disobedient to the voice of
the people, now 80 clearly the voice of
Godi


Many good men, ministers among
them, are slow to be moved at srch
times, saying to themselves there is no
danger, or, there are enough to attend
to it without me. So the slothful turn
over in their beds and take another
nap. Such men are not counted on
when good thing is to be done. But
in every community are a few, the
elect of God, true, brave souls, who,
when the trumpet sounds, spring to
their places, and do yeoman's service
for God and the country From the
rural wales and hillsides, from the cot
tages and farm houses, from the
churches and congregations, of all re-
ligions, and in all parts of the land,
from the colleges and schools, and
from the most intelligent Christian
families in the most refinned social
circles in the most wealthy and pros
porous cities, there come the men and
women who assert their rights to be
respected when the interests of the
whole people are at stake. There is
majesty, resistless might, in the united
voice of the religious people of the
country. If it be despised, it will COM
pei respect. If 1t be systematically
opposed, it will make its way to victo-
ry over all resistsnce, Cor 1t has behind
it the divine energy of truth which
never yet returned void to Him who
sends it, but always aecomplishes his
sovereign will.


Therefore will we never be discour-
aged i'm trying to do good work,
knowing that the power is of God. If
he be on our side, what are all they
who are against us2
Year: 1876

A parcel of shyster politicians seem
determined to nominate Bristow,
whether or no. The Union League
Club is an aristocratic affair made I'D
entirely of Republicans, and Is suppos-
ed to represent Republican sentiment
in the city. A number of admirers of
the Secretary put up his name for
membership, expecting, as matter of
course, that gentleman so well known
and so high, socially, politically, and
in every other way, would be accepted
without question. In short, Bristow's
becoming a member would honor the
club thousand times more than the
club would honor him. Now by the
laws of the club, one vote in ten ad-
verse to a candidate, kills, and when
the ballot was taken it was found that
there was twelve black balls two more
than enough to defeat him. There was
the widest excitement when the result
was made known. The black balling
of the Secretary was denounced by the
Oldest and best members as an outrage,
and anxious inquiries were made for
the men who die it, but of course they
could not be found. The next morn
ing in Albany, as soon as it became
known, certain politicians were talk
ing that it would be of no use to NOM
mate man who could not be elected
to the Union League Club, showing
that the programme had been arranged
beforehand, and that the black balling
was the beginning of a very dirty raid
upon Bristow.


THE DEMOCRACY.


are in dilamma. They want Tilden,
but they see if they nominate him
they lose ths West-tbat is, the soft
money part of the West. On the other
hand, if they nominate a softmoney
candidate, they are certain to lose New
York, and they can't dodge so as to
satisfy both.


THE CAR ELEVATOR ACCIDENT.


which took place on Monday night,
Year: 1876

Coal oil will explode ON very slight
provocation. The trouble is not in
the oil itself, but in the gas which
rises from it, and the oil is dangerous
or safe in proportion to the amount
OF gas il gives off. There is "fire
test" standard for determining The
relative safety of the illuminating oils
offered in the market, and everything
under 10 deg fire test is considered
unsafe. Three simple rules, il faith
fully observed, will make coal oil as
safe as gas. Buy from merchant.
whom you can depend on for having
the oil he sells properly tested, keep
the oil in your lamp above the mid
die OF the chamber, and be sure that
the wick fills all the channel designed
for it. Then you can carry the lamp
around the house, blow down the
chimney, or do anything else you
please with it; your only remaining
chance of becoming a martyr to kero-
sene is to attmept to "help" the kitch-
en- fire with it. That seldom fails. -
Boston Post.
Year: 1876

No one denies that it is wise TO
make provision for old age, but We
are not all agreed as TO the kind OF
provision it is best 10 lay in. Ger
tainly we shall want little money,
for destitute old man is indeed a
sorry sight; yes, save money by all
means. But an old man needs just
that particular kind OF strength
which young men are most apt to
waste. Many IA 10 )lish young fellow
will throw away on a holiday a cer-
tain amount OF nervous energy which
he will never feel the want OF until
he is seventy, and then how much he
will want it. 1t Is curious, but
true, that a bottle OF champagne at
twenty will intensity the rheumatism
at threescore. 1t is fact that over.
tasking the eyes at fourteen may ne
cessitate the use OF spectacles at for
ty instead of sixty. We advise our
young readers To be saving OF health
for their old age, for the maxim holds
good in regard to health as to money
Waste not, want not" 1t is the
greatest mistake to suppose that vio-
lation of the laws OF health can es-
cape its penalties. Nature forgives
no sin, no error; she lets off the Of
fender for fifty years sometimes,
but she catches him at last, and in
fiicts the punishment Just when, just
where, and just how he feels it most.
Save up for old age, but save knowl-
edge; save the recollection Of good
and noble deeds, inrocent pleasures
and pure thoughts; save friends: save
love. Save rich stores os that kind
of wealth which time can not dimin-
ish nor death take away.
Year: 1876

Life is too brief to fool away, and
every man should improve the short
time he has to live by proving to the
public that il a clothes pin is crowded
too hard on the line it will split in
the back.-Fulton Times.


A would-be fashionable woman in
the West, under sentence of death for
murder, has only one request 10
make. She wants the shade OF her
dress to match that OF the rope. A
corded" silk would be appropriate
NoYTisto,cn Herald


A coroner's jury, sitting on a sui
eide, found that the deceased was a
fool" He certainly must have been
a fool, or he would have dragged on
his miserable existence a thousand
years rather than fall into the hands
of a squad whose folly he conld not
possibly expect to compete with
Fulton Tunes.


And Sheridan twenty miles away,
sang Philip at an early hour yester-
day morning, holding the baby close
ly and rocking pretty good time to
the music. Just then the baby
squalled, and Philip paused and nerv-
ously remarked, looking ferociously
at the little thing. by Jovel / wish
/ was. ."-Rochesfer Democrat.
Year: 1876

An old Dunkard on a jury at Co.
shen last week found himself stand
ing alone with his eleven associates
opposing him. He returned to pray
three successive times, and finally
brought he eleven to agree with him
This proves the efficacy of prayer
or stubborness.
Year: 1876

Those who live nearest the depot
are generally the last ones to get on
board the train. so those who live
nearest the church are almost always
the last ones To come in Sunday
morning-IOnkers Gazette.