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Year: 1873

About the 1st of February last Julius
Ende and his wife Julia, both natives
of Germany, removed from the city of
New York to the village of Jamaica,
Long Island, and took up their abode
in small tenement in York street.
Ende succeeded in obtaining employ
ment in the Office of q German newspa-
per as a compositor. In this Office he
worked for four weeks, but was so i'll
treated by the other employees that he
finally was forced to leave it. This hap
pened about three weeks ago Since
that time he has had no employment
whatever, and for the greater portion Of
the intervening time his family have
been without fuel or food. Finding no
avenue of escape from his miserable
condition excepting through the poor
house, he and his wife, after celebrating
upon the matter, determined to commit
suicide rather than become a burden
upon the county, and thus end their
earthly troubles. Accordingly they
both carefully washed themselves, and
after putting on clean change of linen
and setting the house in order, they
proceeded with the utmost deliberation
to carry out their determination. Ende
took his razor, and, after sharpening it
upon hone until it cut hair, cut a
terrible cash in his left arm, severing
the main artery. He then cut a cash
in his left leg near the ankle, which
also severed an artery. He then, it ap-
pears, handed the razor to his wife, who
also gashed her arm, severing an artery,
and her left leg, near the ankle. Both
then got into bed, believing that they
would soon bleed to death. Fortunate
ly, one of the occupants of the house,
who knew of their needy circumstances,
at this opportune time happened to go
to their apartments with some food, and
was Mortified upon opening the door to
discover them lying in bed and the COW
ering saturated with blood. An alarm
was at once given, and in a few moments
physician was in attendance. and sue
ceeded in stopping the flow of blood
and sewing up the wounds, not, how
ever, until so much blood had been lost
as to leave their recovery o matter of
much doubt. With careful nursing and
watching they may possibly recover.
Ende is a man about forty-fve years of
age, of more than Average intelligence,
and has been in This country about
twenty-five years. At one time he own
ed and edited a paper in Washington,
and at one time was employed in the
Government printing office in that city.
At the breaking out of the war he en-
listed in the Twenty eighth New York
State Militia, and served the full time.
He afterwards obtained commission
as second lieutenant in the Fifty-eighth
New York Volunteers, with which regi-
ment he served until the close of the
war. The unfortunate couple have been
married fifteen years, and have followed
eight children to the grave.
Year: 1873

The inhabitants of the northwestern
part of Siberia live chiefly upon salmon,
which enter the streams in summer to
spawn then the natives take immense
quantities of the fish, dry them, and lay
by a supply for the next season. About
every third or fourth year, on the aver


age-though with considerable irregu-
larity-salmon do not appear, and the
consequence is famine, which, falling
first upon the dog teams of the people,
disables the latter from drawing sup
plies from other quarters. To prevent
the terrible sufferings which have arisen
from this cause, the Russian govern
ment established at Kolyma, post on
the Arctic ocean, a sort of savings bank,
with a capital of one hundred thousand
dried fish, purchased from the natives
and stored away then law was enact
ed compelling every male inhabitant
of the settlement to pay annually one
tenth of all the fish he caught, and no
excuse for failure was admitted-this
continuing as long as the fish season
remained good but when there was q
failure of the salmon, and starvation
impended, every depositor was entitled
to borrow enough for his regular sup
plies, on condition of repayment next
year. At the latest advice. this bank
had carried the people through two
consecutive years of famine, and accu-
mulated acapital of three hundred thou
sand dried fish, and was still accumlat-
ing at the rate of twenty thousand a
year. 1t was thus on the road to wealth,
besides proving such fountain of be-
nefcence of the people. 1t is the prin-
ciple of Jeseph's management in Egypt,
with all the modern improvements re-
quired by the state of society in Siberia.
Year: 1873

1 did not refuse. Instead, thankful
ly accepted the offer which my friend so
generously made, knowing that no surer
method could have been devised to 81.
lence forever the tongue of SANDER, and
free my name from the unmerited re-
proach which had of late rested upon
it.


Unmerited prosperity has attended
my steps ever since that eventful day,
but neither prosperity or wealth can eff.
face its memory from my heart, nor re-
store my withered locks to their own
raven hue.
Year: 1873

Jefferson was clear in his great office,


(Secretary of State under President
Washington,) and he lived up to his


great principles. Being asked by a
neighbor to write something that should
help him into Congress-: Jefferson said,


From very early moment in my life,


[ determined never to intermeddle with
elections by the people, and have in
variably adhered to this determination. /"
Much as he loved his old friend and
secretary, william Short, he would not
assist him to sell the little public stock
which he possessed, saying: 81 would
do anything my duty would permit !;
but were I to advise your agent (who is
himself stock -seller) to sell out yours
at this or that moment, it would be used
as signal to guide speculation. In
vited to share in a speculation, he
declined, on the ground that public
man should preserve his mind free from
all possible bias of interest. When the
fugitives from the st. Domingo massacre
arrived in 1893, destitute and miserable,
he wrote to Monroe: "Never was so
deep tragedy presented to the feelings
of man. I deny the power of the gener-
al government to apply money to such
purpose, but deny it with bleeding
heart. 1t belongs to the state govern
ments. Pray urge ours to be liberal. "
In his French package came one day a
letter from the wife of groom in the
stables of the Duke of Orleans in Paris,
addressed to her sister, poor woman
who lived fifteen miles from Monticello.
He was careful to rejoin it upon his
daughter not merely to forward the let
ter, but to send it to the woman's house
by special messenger. ---Jan,es Parton.
Year: 1873

Relating some personal incidents of
the late Horace Greeley, Browne tells
about the draft riot in 1868, in New
York city. He says after the riot had
gotten well under way Greeley had
very little doubt he would be hanged to
a lamp-post by the mob, and he had
actually accepted death as his inevita-
BILE portion. Messenger after messen-
ger, friend after friend, went to him to
apprise him of his imminent peril, and
were surprised to find him as cool as
the summit of Mont Blanc. He had en-
tire confidence in their statements, re-
marking, "Well, it doesn't make mich
difference. I've done my work. may
as we'll be killed by the mob as die in
my bed. Between now and next time
is only little while"


The day it was expected the Tribune
would be attacked, its employees, who
had prepared for defense, spent several
hours in trying to get him out of the
office. His invariable reply was,
"Never mind me, boys; I'll take care
of myself" And amidst the distribu-
ton of revolvers, muskets, and hand
grenades, and the fitting of hose to the
steam-pipes, the intrepid Horace sat
down to his desk to write editorials for
the next mornings issue. 1t was only
after several of the staff went to him,
and urged him to quit the establish
ment for their sake, saying his remain
ing would do no good and merely i'm
peril the Office, that he consented to
leave. He would do for the Tribune,
the darling of his heart, what he would
not for himself. His final remonstrance
was, "You might as we'll let me stay
If there's going to be any fun, L don't
know why shouldn't see it too." But
at last he was borne almost bodily into
carriage and driven off, still protest
ing against the proceeding as "deviish
mean
Year: 1873

A nice old man bought house at
auction in East Taunton, Mass, the
other day, and then astonished a newly
ma ri d young N can, to whom he was nm
utter stranger, by making him q pres
ent of it. The newly married young
man thought it was a joke, until his
wife was summoned, and revealed to
him that the nice old man was heruncle
just from California, &c,
Year: 1873

LEARNING colored men down
South are learning the white mans way
of Legislation very rapidly. In the
Arkansas Legislature Mr.. Farbish be-
gan to swear. The chair said it was
not allowable in debates, and that made
the member swear worse. Finally, he
swore so roundly that he had to be
turned over to the Sergeant-at-Arms,
Year: 1873

DOUBTFUL LOTTERY SCHEME IN GREELEY
TO the Editor OF The Trtbune


SIR: | wish to caution the public IN regard
10 lottery started this place purpotinS to be organ
lied for purchasing library, the number OF tckets be-
ing 100 900 at 81 each aud Is stated in circulars Issued
that the Greeley Town Board to superintend the
drawing large number OF circulars have been printed
and several men constantly busy in sending them
out through the mails. Now the public may be certain
Of three things:


First: None OF the literary men OF the place who are
interested in library have been consulted nor are they
in OF the plan. while the people OF the town arc IN
dIgnaut that advantage should be taken OF our fepu
tton for temperance aud morality to Induce the cOnd-
Ing and unsuspectng to invest their money III such
questionable scheme. go, -


Second: The projectors are irresponsible; part are
srnrcely known and they the last ones VINO would
be selected represent the people III matter OF tue
least importance. but their names are USED Simply Dy
designing leaders. .


That all this is true is evident from the fact that
large meeting held, and the prOtestahons against
the lottery were vehement and almost entirely unhiii-
NOUS whether the drawing will take place, ana the
przes paid announced. Is unknown but since tne
concern starts out intending TO deceive it may be pre-
sumed that IL win conclude with grand swindle, as
such things generally do, need any other result be
expected NV ="
Year: 1873

crown. II would be very disagreeable
II there was a man hired by the govern
ment 10 execute the chromatic scale
upon bass horn every time we went
from the bathroom 10 the front parlor,
or to plunge about wildly through yaria.
tions on the trombone whenever we
crossed our legs or took a drink OF
water. Ii would be equally horrible
IL, when we went TO the head OF the
stairs TO call to the hired girl to put
breakfast on, an uproarious fend 10 the
yard should rattle out the long roll on q
drum, or if a boisterous person should
stand in the entry whenever we dived in
the closet for an umbrella, to 20 down
the street, and should snort out a wild
fanfaronade upon a cavalry buglel II
that umbrella were loaded we should
certainly feel obliged to blow out the
brains Of the orchestra, and il we did
not mellow the drummers bones with
our scepter, not even the dignity Of cur
Office would preventus from pitching the
royal spittoon out of the window at him.
SO upon the whole it is perhaps better
that things are as they are. If Spain
desires another king, we wish it under
stood that we are not candidate for the
office. Rather than submit TO the eter-
nal and scandalous racket which pur.
sues a sovereign, rather than wear pink
plush night-gowns and yellow stockings
without pants, we would drive a horse
car and wear a perpetual two-dollar
duster.
Year: 1873

Dipping the Hand into Molten


The thing has been done over and
over again, observed DR.. Carpenter in q
recent lecture-that a man has gone
and held his naked hand in such a
stream Of molten iron, and has done il
without the least injury; all that is re.
quired being to have the hand moist,
and if his hand is dry, he has merely
to dip it in water, and he may hold his
hand for certain time in that stream
of molten iron without receiving any
injury whatever. This was exhibited
publicly at meeting Of the British as
sociation at Ipswich, many years ago.
1t is one of the miracles of science, so to
speak; they are perfectly credible to
scientific men, because they know the
principle upon which it happens, and
that principle is familiar to you all, that
if you throw drop Of water upon hot
iron, the water retains its spherical
form, and does not spread upon it aud
wet it. LHT.


Vapor is brought to that condition by
intense heat, that it forms a sort Of film
or atmosphere, between tue nanu anu
the hot iron, and for time that atmos-
phere is not too hot to be perfectly bear
able. There are number of these
miracles of science, which we believe,
however incredible at first sight they
may appear, because they can be brought
to the test of experience and can be at
any time reproduced under the neees-
sary conditions. Boudin, the conjurer,
in his very interesting Autobiography
a little book l would really recommend
to any of you who are interested in the
study of the workings of the mind
Boudin tells you that he himself tried
this experiment, after a good deal of
persuasion; and he says that the sensa-
ton of immersing his hand in this
molten metal was like handling liquid
velvet.
Year: 1873

other object to be engraved. Tn a few minutes the designs are cut with a great degree of eXactness ard beauty, Sufficient protection is afforded by designs Of paper be- ing pasted upon the surface to be engraved, or by writing or draw ing the design on the glass with geIatinous or India rubber ink. The cutting-pOWder is used over and over again, being transferred from the tray in which the work is placed to the hopper.
Year: 1873

A new but by no means pleasant kind
of bouquet has recently been invented in


Palermo. Signora l., a most beauti-
full woman, besides being an accomplished
priBa donna, had turned the heads of half
the male population of the place. Among
others madly in love with her was Ger
tain Count. But the lady would have
nothing to say to him, and the hot-blooied


Italian resolved to be revenged. One
evening the lady ws announced to play
Leonore in al Trovatore." When she
had concluded her grand air large bou-
quet was flung at her feet. She darted
forward to pick it up, when suddenly she
heard loud report and felt bullet whistle
close past her head. Of course she in
stantly tainted, and a general scene o,
commotion ensued. The bouquet was sub
sequently examined In it was discover
ed a revolver with the muzzle turned up
wards, and the trigger SO placed that the
weapon must go off on any persons grasp
ing the stem of the nosegay. Had the
lady bent forward a little more. she would
inevitably have fallen a victim to this
most dastardly plan for revenge, plant of
which the Count proved to be the author.
The police were Immediately set upon his
track, but as yet their efforts have not
been crowned with success. This is the
fate, however, which awaits the efforts
of the police in other countries besides
Italy. Meanwhile, the lady is greater
favorite than ever.
Year: 1873

So she wearily unbraided her hair, and
knelt down by the bedside, and asked of God
New Years gift-for that other one
whom she had lost, and for herself. She
asked piteously for the gift of peace, and
then she went to sleep.
The holiday time passed away. Weeks
and weeks followed in it's train. The young
man was as a g little child" inasmuch as he
was learning the alphabet Of spiritual life.
He was learning the mastery of soul over
self.


At length one day note passed through
the mail. These were the words:
Dear Sorceress III come and lay a
true purpose in your palm, will you tell my
fortune for me p


The answer was this
Come


He went, and the fortune was told-just
asd many and many fortune is told in this
worlj. 1t was a sweet but a sacred little
scene, SO let us not curiously peer into it.
just in the dusk of the next New Year 9
eve, again two persons stood by a window
looking out upon the night. The sn ,wfakes
were falling, and one by one the lamps were
lighted. Now it was man and woman side
by side. Two hearts had come together,
and about them had gathered the mysterious
| atmosphere We call home.
She said: "After all, Charley, holidays
are not hollow days, are they? ?''
g No, darlIng," he replied {" they are
rlch-full of love and peace; rich with
goodwill toward men,"


so lie is very much what the heart
makes it.'-Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

Cold in the earth and the deep snow piled above


thee,


Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave,
Have forgot my only love, to love thee,
Severed at last by times all l-severng.waye.
Now, when removed, do my thoughts no Longer


hover


Over the mountains on that northern shore,
Resting their wings where heath and fern leav e.


cover


The noble heart forever-evermore?
Cold in the grave, and fifteen wild Decembers
From whose brown hills have melted into spring
Faithful indeed the love is that remembers
After such years Of change and suffering.
Sweet love of youth, forgive if forget thee,
While the worlds tide is bearing me along;
Other desires and other hopes besetme
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong
No later light has lighted up my heaven,
No second morn has ever shone for me;
All my life's bliss from tn dear life was given,
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee.
But when the days of golden dreams had perished
And even despair was powerless to destroy,
Then did learn how existence could be cherished
Strengthened and fed without the aid of joy.
Then did 1 check the tears of useless passion,
Weaned my young soul from yearnIng after thine
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten
Down to that tomb already more than thine.
And even now l dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain,
Once drinking deep of that dvnest anguish,
How could taste the empty world again


Emily Bronte.
Year: 1873

MoDEsrY.-Modesty is the appendage


of sobriety, and is to chastity, to temper


ance, and humility, as the fringes are to a


garment. 1t is grace of God that mod.


crates the over -activeness and curiosity ol


the mind, and orders the passions of the


body, and external actions, and is directly


opposed to curiosity, to boldness, to


indecency.


Every man hath in his own life sins
enough, in his own mind trouble enough


in his own fortune evils enough, and in
performance of his Offices falling. more
than enough, to entertain his own inquiry
so that curiosity after the affairs of others
cannot be without envy and an evil mind


What is it to me if my neighbor's grand
father were a Syrian, or his grandmother
illegitimate, or that another is indebted
five thousand pounds, or whether his wife
be expensive? But commonly curious
persons, or las the Apostles phrase isl
busy-bodies, are not solicitous or iuquisi-
tive into the beauty and order of a we'll
governed family, or after the virtues Of an
excellent person but if there be anything
for which men keep locks, and bars, and
porters, things that blush to see the light,
and either are shameful in manners. or
private in nature, these things are their
care and their business. But if great
things will satisfy our inquiry, the courses
Of the sun and moon, the spots in their
faces, the armament of heaven and the
orbs. the ebbing and flowing of
the sea, are work enough for US or, if
this be not, let him tell me whether the
number of the stars be even or odd, and
when they began to be so; since
some ages have discovered new stars
which the farmer knew not, but might
have Sc n, if they had been where they are
now fixed. IF these be too troublesome,
search lower, and tell me why this turf
this year brings forth a daisy, and the
next year a plantain; why the apple
bears his seed in his heart, and wheat
bears it in his head; left him tell why a
graft taking nourishnent from crab-stock
shall have fruit more noble than its nurse
and parent; let him say why the best of
oil is at the top, the best of wine in the
Year: 1873

Considerable exception has been taken
by chemists to Wendell Phillips's asser-
ton, in his lecture on Lost Arts" that
modern science cannot make colors of such
vividness and durability as those used in
the fresc0es of Pompeii. The fact is un-
doubted that modern colors, though at
first very vived, fade into dullness in
comparatively short time This however,
says AppLeton's Journal, does not result
from lack of knowledge how to make
enduring tints, but from want of will.
Our modern colors are made with water
the ancient were worked by ire-processes,
which, though perfectly familiar to the
chemist and to the manufacturer, are un-
desirable, because costly. With due de-
ference to the great lecturer, the ability
to make bright, permanent colors must be
omitted from his catalogue of the Lost
Arts" for it is precisely one of the points
in which modern superiority is incontest-
able.
Year: 1873

ally altered the relative position in the
mortality returns of heart disease as under
stood in 1850 and in 1870. But making
all reasonable allowance for these disturb
ing causes, enoug b remains to show that,
from whatever reason, heart disease is
more fatal than it used to be. DIR. Farr
considers that this result is due to the
greater wear and tear of business and the
increased mental activity of the age. He
thinks that physicians are apt to get their
Impressions from the study of particular
cases which are not fair samples of the
whole mass, and he goes so far as to say
that " it is certain that the strain on the
minds of the classes who consult eminent
physicians is not shared by the great bulk
of the population that fill up the re-
turns"
Year: 1873

Art is one of the last thing which would
be thought subject to democratic principles.
but it is one of the first. 1t is better to
adorn the poor mans cottage than palace.
The artist must take the times as he finds
them, and work for his fellow.men. Ar
fists decry chromos, but is it not better to
have them than to have bare walls? bless
God for cheap pictures, that shall. like
John the Baptist, prepare the way for the
coming artist.-Henry Ward Beeeaer.
Year: 1873

Disa greeting.


The President while expressing his views
on the currency and financial question rather
timidly and modestly, is clearly of opinion
that the forty-four millions of legal tenders in
reserve ought to be reissued and said that, if
he were now engaged in writing his annual
Message to Congress, he should recommend
positive authority to reissue this reserve. On
the other hand, the Secretary Of the Treasury,
Mr.. Richardson, says, Il would as strenuously
oppose bill for permanently increasing the
legal tender circulation above the present
standard as would bill for permanently fix
ing it at three hundred and ffty-six million
dollars" The Secretary wants the power to
draw upon the forty-four millions reserve in
case of necessity, temporarily, but with the
understanding that the reserve shall be placed
back again as soon as the exigency may have
passed. He is, however, decidedly opposed
to permanent enlargement Of the greenback
circulation. This difference Of opinion shows
how difficult it is to come to any clear under
standing on this question Of the currency.
There will be, probably, as great conflict Of
opinions in Congress on the subject. An
elastic currency in some form, through the
direct action of the Treasury Department or
through system of free banking, seems to
be regarded by many as necessary We are
approaching the time, no doubt, when the
currency system of the country will have to be
revised and put on substantial basis.