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Year: 1873

We know that men actually
shrink from the attempt to OBJ
tain companions who are their su.
periors; but they will find that
really Intelligent women who pos
sess the most desirable qualities
are uniformly modest, and hold
their charms in modest estlma-
ton. What such women most ad.
mire in men is gallantry ; not the
gallantry Of courts and foDs, but
boldness, courage, devotion and re-
fined civility. A mans bearing
wins ten superior women where
his boots and brains wins one. II
a man stand before q woman with
respect for himself and fearless
ness Of her, his suit is half won.
The rest may safely be left to the
parties most interested. Therefore
never be afraid ofa woman. Won
On are the most harmless and
agreeable creatures in the world
to a man who shows that he has
got q mans soul in him., If you
have not got the spirit to test
like this, you have not got that in
you which most pleases high
souled woman, and you will be OBJ
liged to content yourself with the
simple girl who, in quiet way, is
endeavoring to attract and fastcn
you. But don't be in a hurry
about the matter. 1t isn't credit
able to you. Especially don't
imagine that any disappointment
in love which takes place before
you are twenty-one years old will
be ofany material damage to you.
The truth is, that before.a man is
twenty-five years old he does not
know what be wants himself. So
don't be in hurry. The more a
man you become, and the more
manliness you become capable Of
exhibiting in your association with
women, the better wife you will
be able to obtain and one years
possession Of the heart and hand
of a really noble specimen Of her
sex, is worth nine hundred and
ninety-nine years possession of
sweet creature with two ideas in
her head, and nothing new to say
about either Of them. So don't be
in a hurry VIC say again. You don't
want wife now, and you have
no idea of the kind ola wife you
will want by-and-by. Go into fe,
male society if you can find that
which will improve you, but not
otherwise.
Year: 1873

A correspondent Of the New York
Herald says that nearly all the Ku
klux prisoners at Albany have been
discharged, those only remaining who
were convicted of direct completely in
murder. No complaints Of the viola
ton Of the enforcement act have been
received lately: with the exception of
complaints that the department has
ascertained we're made by horse thieves
or vagabonds, who have in several in
stances received protection unwitting-
ly from the government. The dis
patch adds that the administration
would not object to discreet exercise
of vigilance to rid the South Of all its
useless members, and it does not pro-
pose to again be deceived in the name
of law and order in extending to this
class the protection Of the strong arm
Of the law.
Year: 1873

The editor of the Philadelphia
Dispatch has been made the hap
py recipient Of some interesting
reading matter, and he very pro-
perIy expresses his thanks thusIy:


eve owe our thanks to Judge
Kelly for the latest Patert Office
report. We already have sixteen
hundred of these interesting vol
umes in our little library, but
they have been read aad re-read
so many times that We know
every page Of them by heart.
This new volume came opportunt-
ly and gratefully on Christians
morning, and that night we gath.
cred our little family aronnd the
fire and read it through to them.
The affecting tale entitled I'M
provomcnt IN Monkey. Wrcnches,'
seemed to touch every heart, and
when We came to the climax of
the little story about Reversible
Pie boards, there was not a dry
eye between the front door and the
stable. During the reading of the
piteous narrative entitled the
Gum Washers for Carriage Axles,'
the whole family gave expression
to boistcroas emotion, and the
hired girl was so much excited
that she lost her presence Of mind,
and went around to her mothers
inadvertently with six pounds Of
sugar and a butter-kettle full Of
-four, and came home at midnight
intoxicated. We can never suf-
ficiently thank Judge Kelly for
innocent enjoyment thus furnished
us. The memory OF that evening
will linger in our minds very much
longer than that hired girl ever
fingers when she lights on q lot
Of substance which she thinks will
suit the constitution Of her aged
p1rent.''
Year: 1873

Some close observer, comment
ing on the alacrity with which
workmen left their labors at the
stroke of twelve, remarked. I
have seen a man who had his pick
in the air knock off and leave it
there, rather than waste time TO
put it down after tH elve struck
Year: 1873

Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the
State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority Of the same:
SECTION ]. That there shall be
Year: 1873

A MISSING MAN -. Beyond Eleventh street
bridge the people are gravely sgltated over the
came to the city one day last week, and leaving
his horse at the Delaware House he has disap-
peared mysteriously. We learn upon inquiry
that the horse was left there, but no suspicion
is excited by those whe know the man, as ne is
in the habit of disappearing quite frequently,
but he always turns up again.
Year: 1873

THE OLD FERRY RoAD NuIsAEcE.-A special
meeting of the Board OF Health was arranged
for Saturday evening last to view an alleged
nuisance in the Old Ferry Road. But seven
members Of the Board, less than quorum, were
present and no business was transacted.
Year: 1873




The daily teaching OF German in our public
schools is great want, being daily more and more
made apparent to all who have an interest In the
practical advantages to be secured to children
growing up. In some districts IL Is taught, but
generally or two days OF the week for short
time. Why cannot 1t be taught every day and gen.
orally Efforts have been fruitessly made both
by Germans and our other adopted American citi-
zens, as well as native born, to this end What IL
the obstacle among our school authorities Busi-
ness experience every day In our great city
demonstrates the utility, n not necessity, OF
knowledge OF the German language, and u large
majority 0i the people in favor OF IL. Have not
the taxpayers . right, therefore. to be heard and
70 enjoy privilege for which they pay should
not our rising generation in this great business
mart wherein our boys will soon take their places
as business men, have knowledge OF the German
language to iortiiy them tor the demands Of social
intercommunication and to provide them with
increased facilities In the transaction OF
business. The German has become the great COM
and those speaking this tongue control large part
OF our business domain. Would it not be good
thing for every poor boy now enjoying the advan-
tages OF our splendid puDlc school system when he
goes, as in ali probability he must, among this in
nuential class OF people TO earn his bread, n he
could speak the German language Would II not
help him and in other regards be productive OF
great good Let us have the voice OF the people
on this question: and the views, consequently, Of
your powerful and enlightened progressive jour
nal SIl-AMERlCAN.
Year: 1873

Shortly before twelve O'Clock yesterday morning
of the laborers employed in removing the ruins
at the scene of the late fire. IS Centre street. found
the arm OF grown person, which Is supposed to
have belonged TO one OF the bodies previously re-
moved from the ruins The limb was taken to the
Sixth precinct station and Coroner Keenan, no.
iaaA
Year: 1873

was never so large, and our sales were never So perfectly immense as this season, and We were very fortunate in buying early, as they have ad- yanced about ten per cent. since the purchase. The following list is in part our stock:
Year: 1873

If flash of light could have been shot over Danbury just as the rain commenced to descend, Sunday night, it would have revealed the most astounding sight ever witnessed here. It is estimated that three hundred bare-legged men and boys, and about two hundred inadequately clothed women were at one time struggling across wet stoops and through impenetrable dark ness with most astonishing variety of tubs, boilers, pails and barrels to catch the rain water. Everything that could be employed for that purpose was brought out, and as there had been no rain in six weeks, and the stoops were slippery, and there was no time to lose, the natural confusion of legs, language and utensils was something remarkable. One man on Franklin street who was dashing out doors with two tubs and a boiler, lost his fOothold, ,ssand sliding across the stoop, went of into an open hatch-way, down & stairway and halfway across his cellar, the tubs and boilers arriving about the same time. It was some twenty minutes before he could converse. A feshy gen. tleman named Hayes, lest his balance while on chair to fix the conductor, and fell into q tub that he didn't know was there, and the neighbors were obliged to carry both himself and tub into the house to get them apart; job that was consid- erably aggravated by the promiscuous profanity and abuse which he leveled al everybody during the operation. A boy on Stevens street ran against portico post with such force as to render him un. conscious, and the moment he came to he conceived the idea that his father had kicked him. As he didn't run backward againt the post the impression appears all the more remarkable. There were other accidents the same night, but wha renders the affair peculiarly painful, ii the fact that not one woman was is any way injured. We don't understand that -DGn6Wry Ne,cs
Year: 1873

SOME of our people seem to be
discouraged as to our railroad pros
poets, others, residents and non res
idcnts, argue that our situation was
never better. We are of the latter,
and believe that the present winter
will bring Superior's opportunity.
We have in prospect the extension
of the Northern Pacific into Superb
or. \ connection at this place, of
the Wisconsin Central with the
Northern Pacific r. r., and surely
the St. Croix and Lake Superior
land grant viii be made available,
and the road put under construction
within six months. But to make
sure we must aoorh, and our people
will do it.
Year: 1873

To the Editor of the \. T. Tribune


Sir | acknowledge myself indebted 10
YOU for copy OF the report of Commissioner
Haas, OF Berlin TO has principals in Europe,
relative to the Northern Pacific railroad
never saw the report until you were so good
as TO allow me 10 read it, nor has it been seen
by any officer or member of this Company's 5
Board of Directors. The report was made by
Mr.. Haas TO his principals after his return to
Europe; and although as | understand a
copy was asked for by some of the officers of
this company it was refused to them not
withstanding the entire expenses Of Mr.. Haas
in obtaiSiug the material for his report in
this country were ultimately paid by this
company | had heard that the report was
quite uutayorable | am glad TO tnd on
reading il tnat it Is much more favorable
than could have been expected from Euro
pean. especially one from the Continent, who
bad never been in the United States. ami
who was not familiar with its rapid develop
ment in railroad enterprises and the rapid
settlement along the railway lines throughout
the Western country He was not aware Of
the fact that railroads had been built in the
United States through regions where the
voice ct civilization had hardly been heard,
and where the sound OF the last stroke of the
hammer in driving the last spike in the last
rail had scarcel, ceased TO reyerberate before
a large business was established upon The
roads Tnis fact /, - we'll a. every other
person familiar with our Western States and
Territories, have knowledge of


have heard il said that this report was
suppressed by the officers of this company,
or through its agency, in some way, and /
Year: 1873

CITY PAY-RoLL.-To-morrow is the regu-
lar day for paying off all the employees OF the
city for the month. While the city has plenty
of money in bank to pay all its accrued lIabl!-


titles, the tinance committee deem it best to


raw only ne.half now and the balance in ten
Year: 1873

Rome is now the chief seat Of the
art of cameo-cutting, two Of which are
produced-those cut in hard stone and
those cut in shells. The stones NEST val
liable for this purpose are the oriental
onyx and the sand-onyx, provided they
have at least two different colors in par
allel layers. The value Of the stone Is
greatly increased for this purpose If It
has four or Eve different colors in psral-
lei layers, IL the layers are so thin as 10
assist in making the devise Of the cameo.
For example, q specimen Of stone, which
has four parallel layers, may be used for
cameo OF Minerva, where the ground
would be a dark gray, the race light, the
bust and helmet black, and the crest
over the helmet brown or gray. All
such canoes are wrought by a lapidsry' 8
lathe, with pointed instruments Of steel,
and by means Of diamond dust Shell
canoes are cut from large shells found
on the African and Brazilian coasts, and
generally show Two layers, one white
and the other q pale coffee color or deep
orange. The subject is cut with small
rieel chisels out OF the white portion Of
he shell. Stones adapted for cameo
cutting are dense, thick and consist
usnally Of three layers Of different col
ored she'll material
Year: 1873

Three men-of-war. ships-namely,
Dutch French and Eaglish-while
anchored in port, were contending with
each other for the best display of sail
orship; so the captain Of each vessel
determined to send aloft an active sailor
to perform some deed of grace and
daring. The Dutch captain sent a
Dutchman, the French a Frenchman,
and the English an Irishman.


The Dutchman stood on the top of
the mainmast with his arm extended.


The Frenchman then went aloft and
extented both arms.


Now the Irishman thought that if
he could stand on the top of the main
mast with a leg and an arm extended,
he would be declared the most daring
sailor. Nimbly he clambered aioft
until he reached the highest point
there he carefully balanced himself on
both feet, extending his right hand
with graceful motion Then he threw
out his left leg until it came In line
with his right arm. In doing this he
ingloriously lost his balance, and fell
from the masthead, crashing through
the rigging toward the deck. The va
rious ropes against which his body
came in contact broke his fall, and his
velocity was not too great to prevent
his grasping rope attached to the
mainyard. To this he hung for two
seconds, then dropped lightly to the
deck, landing safely on his feet. Fold
ing his arms triumphantly, as if the
fall was in the programme, glanced to-
ward the rival ships and jOyously ex-
claimed:


There, ye frog-aiting and sassige-
stuffed furriners, bate it if We can
Year: 1873

A newspaper, says the Mobile Reg
lister, may be made popular with large
class of people, but it can not be so
edited or so arranged as to please eve
rybody. In fact, you could not always
please the same person, even though
you make it rule to give him to-day
the very kind of reading he liked yes
terday. Too much depends on the
state of ones feelings. as Influenced
by surrounding circumstances, for that;
or, in other words, too much depends
on the mood governing when one reads.


The brain, like the stomach, often
demands change of diet. To go into
the prosy details of metaphysical ques-
tions when we are gloomy and despOnd-
ing is sort of mental suicide, yet there
are times when dry details are not of
fensiye. What would be thought of
the minister who INDUCED in coarse
Jokes and grOtesque grimaees over the
body of a corpse? What would be
thought of politician who INDUCED
in funeral remarks to a crowd of en-
thusiastic voters on the eve of an i'm
portant election? The very idea of
such folly exeltes in our mind the
thought of the ridiculous; and yet we
occasionally find ourselves placed in a
position not less antagonistie to our
feelings, and hence we often tire of
that which, at other times, would seem
really grand.


There are times when We love to read
poetry Just as we love to hear music !;
but to be forced to read the one, or lis
ten to the other, against our iDeliDa-
ton is to bore us most effectually. So
we think in regard to newspapers. If
we are in the humor, we love to read
a tale. or hairbreadth escape by land
or sea; at other times we would inf
nitely prefer the gossip of the editor,
while still at other times there is call
for something more exciting and sensa
tional, and then we turn to the news
department and read accounts of the
latest tragedies and disasters.


We argue from this that no one can
safely criticise newspaper because it
does not happen to be exactly agrea-
bic to him in all its features at any
particular time. He must consider that
the portion making up the variety
which does not please him, is, most
likely, pleasing to hundreds Of others.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune tells three ways of having
apples every year: sa ru


/. Take scions from tree in 1873,
and put them into a good thrifty tree
and do the same in 1874, and you will
get fruit in alternate years.


2 If you cut off the thrifty trees the
growth of 1873 in the last of June,
leaving three or four buds that would
come on in 1874, you would force out
the next years buds and gain one
year.


3. If you remove all the blossoms on
one-half of your trees in the bearing
year, you will have fruit on that one
half the odd year. These things L
have done successfully. | have now
in bearing the Victory apple Of the
odd year produced in this way next
year the scions Of the last year will
bear in the regular year
Year: 1873

There is difference between news
item and an advertisement, which some
persons fail to appreciate, and which is
tersely stated by the Georgetown Times;


"Our country correspondence is be-
coming an interesting feature of the
Times, and while appreciating the in
tentiOns of correspondents, we have
a single suggestion to make to them.-
We hope they will distinguish between
NEWS and BUSINESS. For instance, if
John Smith breaks his neck that is
NEWS, and we want it, but If John
Smith sells cheaper cod fish than his
neighbor that is BUSINESS, and John
ought to pay for having the fact made
public, because it will bring him Gus
toners, and thereby put money in his
pocket. Again, if Farmer Jones SELLS
a choice lot of cattle, We want all of
the farmer readers of the Times TO
know the price obtained and the name
of the purchaser, and without any
charge for the information, but if Jones
has lot of cattle FOR SALE, then it
takes the nature of an advertisement,
and the publication of all such infor,
nation is charged for in every well
regulated printing Office, and finds a
place In the advertising columns of the
paper. Our correspondents will read
lily see the distinction, and recognize
the justice of it. We observe the dis
tinetion rigidly in our editorial col
umns, and must observe it in the cor
respondents column. =.
Year: 1873

One Of the most pleasant and mob
is to furnish its members good read
ing. In the times which are past it
was considered enough to clothe and
feed and shelter family. That was
the sum of parental duty. But lately
it has been found out that wives and
children have minds; and so it has
become a necessity to educate the
children and furnish reading fer the
whole household. Ii has been found
out that the mind wants its food as
well as the body, and that it wants to
be sheltered from the pitiless storms
of error and vice by the guarding and
friendly roof of intelligence and vir-
tue.


An ignorant family in our day is an
antiquated institution. Ii smells of
the musty past. 1t is a dark spot
which the light of the modern sun Of
intelligence has not yet reached.


Let good reading 90 into home and
the very atmosphere of that home
gradually changes. Itbecomes clearer,
purer, more cheerful, healthful and
happy The boys begin to grow am
bilious, to talk about men, places,
principles, books, the past and the
future. The girls begin to feel new
opening to them in knowledge, duty
and love- They see new fields Of use
fulness and pleasure And SO the
family changes, and out from its num-
Der will go intelligent men and women
to fill honorable places and useful
members of the community. Let the
torch of intelligence be lit in every
household. Let the old and young vie
with each other in Introducing new
and useful topics Of investigation and
in eherishing love of reading, study
and improvement-Rpdt World.
Year: 1873

A new method of making wrought
iron direct from the ore now practiced
In South Shafforedshire, which is thus
described: The inventors take the
ore, grind it to powder and mix with
it powdered lime, together with pitch
or tar. When pitch is used, little
water is all that is needed to produce
a mixture having much the appearance
of dark morter. In this shape the
preparation is spread on the floor of a
close kiln, and treated pretty much
like patent fuel. Here the moisture
evapOrates, but no portion of the metel
producing ingredient is lost. In few
hours the kiln has surface of metal
coke usually four, and, if necessary,
eight inches thick. This is broken up
into sizes adaptable to heating furn-
ace of the ordinary iron works class,
where it is submitted to fire for half
an hour, at the utmost In that time
it is ready for the heave or squeezers,
which it leaves capital bloom, pro-
ducing in the rolls bar of half man
ufactured iron known, under the old
principle, as puddle bar.


Thus the use Of the blast furnace
has been altogether avoided, and the
work of converting the product of the
blast furnace into partially manufac-
tured iron, which has heretofore re-
quired the exercise of a large amount
of troublesome skilled labor, has been
effected by an operator who needs very
little practice to make him efficient.
The other stage through which the
iron has to pass in order to the COM
pleting of the bar, or sheet as the case
may be. or the same as in the old pro-
cess. The inventors who are Messrs.
Gerhard & Caddick, claim that they
require only two tons of coal to make
one ton of finished iron from the ore !;
that they can make German steel as
cheaply as cast iron and that they can
manufacture cast iron equal in purity
to charcoal iron without the use of
charcoal, and they state that they have
offers for all finished iron they can
make. The offers are, they explain,
at prices which would leave a splendid
margin of profit. The inventors are
taking steps to form a company. If
all that they claim to do is practicable,
a simplicity has been attained in the
making of iron which would go far to
reduce its price in those smaller sizes
and shapes which are most of all ap-
plicabIe to the business of the general
iron merchant.
Year: 1873

In the bill of rightsrecently report
ed to the Constitutional Commission
of Michigan there is clause which
permits the Legislature to authorize
ten Jurors to return verdict, and to
give it the same efficacy as one in which
the entire jury coucurred.
Year: 1873

THE laboring man holds the same
relation TO the merchant, manufactur
er, attorney, physician and minister,
that the locomotive does to train of
elegant and well-flled cars; they
would stand still forever If the engine
did not move them.
Year: 1873

OSR's only safety Is 10 being straight
forward. A woman in Lawrence,
Mass, suddenly turned her head TO
look behind her the other dsy, and
neither she nor the doctors have been
able to turn it back. The curiosity
OF the sex is likely to prove fatal yet
again. She should not have been in
such a hurry to zee what was going
on behind ner, and perhaps she had
no business looking back 81 all. Lots
wife was unfortunate in gazing back
sod this woman OF Lawrence should
have thought Of her distant relative
and looked ahead.
Year: 1873

1t iS rather aStOniahing that General Candy
should not have been under cover OF q
guard Of sharp shooterSA CsfsainIy this risk Of
Life with the tFeachsTous Indian was too great "a
be termed prudent Much moro than q command,
efs life is involved IN his death BY the enemy