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Year: 1871

My first night in Port au Prince was n


map Of misery in recollection. for in


addition to the flies and the ileas and the


mosquitoes and the bugs with huge


black spider sprawling along the wall


that, hushed in grim repose, awaited its


coming prey, there was perpetual crow.


ing of cocks, MS If the demons wanted,


like the Western imitation of Chanti-


cleer, to take The sun in and make him


rise before his time, intermingled with


the perpetual roar of amorous donkeys,


whose sentimental strains in the streets


were the very reverse of those of Philo-


mela warbling amid the leaves. That
aslnine music, MS / soon discovered, was
regular institution of the charming
metropolis, where the long-eared lovers
seemed to have il all their own way.


They thronged the thoroughfares dd hb-


ium, and enjoyed themselves as they
pleased, without let or hindrance. If
Paris is the hell of horses, Port au
Prince is the heaven of asses My first
resolution at break of day was to find,
if possible, n villa in the country, and
journing in the land My efforts were
crowned with brilliant success by the
discovery of delicious little box about
two miles distant, which had been con
structcd in colonial times by people who
knew how to combine comfort and beau
ty. The approach to it between two
long rows of palms gave indication of
loveliness beyond, which was not belied
by the cottage and the grounds. 1t was
but Of one story, to be sure, and had
only four rooms, but that was quite room
enough for my singeness of person and
purpose. whilst everything was as neat
n possible, as it had long been occupied
by foreigner Not twenty yards from
the door was a great bath almost as ca
pacious as the dwelling, shaded by UNI
brageous foliage and fed by mountain
stream that rushed through it with re-
freshing sound and look Infinite was
the pleasure of that early morning
plunge until one unlrcky afternoon the
demon of curiosity prompted prone
made towards the source of the waters.
Malignant Fate stood by and smiled
when | went out on the stroll. | had
not walked more than mile when /
came suddenly upon multitude Of wo-
men wading in the rivulet and washing
the filthiest lot Of clothing that ever dis
gusted mortal eyes. 1t was all over with
my swims. Never could prevail upon
myself to indulge in them again. The
idea of laving in water that had once
been impregnated with such filth, how
ever well it might have been purified be-
fore reaching the bath, was too much for
my philosophy. Then indeed was the
bliss of ignorance appreciated, and the
thirst of knowledge deplored. M Walsh
IN LippMcoNs Naqazine.
Year: 1871

MICROSCOPIC CHARACTER OF IRON AND
STEEL. According to Mr.. Schott, the
different qualities of iron and steel can
readily be distinguished by means of the
microscope. Thus the crystals of iron
are double pyramids, in which the pro-
portion of axes to the bases varies with
the quality of the iron. The smallness
of the crystals and the height OF the pyr-
amids composing each element, are in
proportion to the quality and density of
the metal, which are seen also IN the fine
ness of the surface. As the proportion
of carbon diminishes in the steel, the
pyramids have so much the less height


In pig-iron, and the lower qualities of
hard steel, the crystals approach more
closely the cubic form. Forged iron has
its pyramids fa.tened and reduced to
superposed parallel leaves, whose struc-
ture constitutes what is called the nerve
of the steel. The best quality of steel
has all its crystals disposed to parallel
lines, each crystal filling the interstices
between the angles of those adjoining.
These crystals have their axes in the di-
rection of the percussion they undergo
in the working. Practically, good steel
examined under the microscope, has the
appearance of large groups of beautiful
crystals, similar TO points OF needles, all
parallel and disposed In the same dlrec-
ton.
Year: 1871

The LAST LITTLE GAME. Among the
implements used by confidence operators
to trap the unwary on railroad cars and
steamboats,, is a patent paddock, which
opens on the side with n small fiat key.
The confidence man exhibits the paddock,
and dilates upon its merits, claiming that
no one except himself (the inventor)
could open it, even with the key, with
out understanding peculiar twist
OPP ming it several times, he induces a
greenhorn to say that he can do it, and
in the heat of the argument which the
assertion usually brings forth bet is
made. The confidence man then hands
the unsuspecting victim the paddock and
d ferent key from the one which opens
the lock but the eye cannot readily
detect the difference, the change being
made with the adroitness which charac-
terizes the operations of the three card
monte swindlers. OF course the victim
cannot open the lock and loses his
money. This is the latest swindle, and
it is to be hoped the press will ventilate
it. Beware of genteel-looking men with
patent padlocks.
Year: 1871

OK A GEORGIA railroad the other day,
a small boy was discovered standing very
composedly on the cowcatcher, seeming
ly obiivious to the fact that he was doing
anything out of the usual order. The
boy was apparently about six years old.
A policeman in the employ of the COM
pany caught the little fellow around his
waist, and a. the train stopped at a
station, removed him from his perilous
position, to the great disgust of the
of the young hero, who seemed 10th TO
leave his perch.
Year: 1871

Once in the days when men wandered
through the world seeking that cup, made of
precious stone, holding the real blood OF
Christ, knight left England to search for the
same in distant lands. As he passed from
his door poor sufferer cried to him for help.
Absorbed in his grand hope, the knight needed
him not but went on. He wandered to the
Holy Land, fought in many wars endured
much but found not the precious cup and
at last, disappointed and detected, he returned
home. As he neared his own house the same
poor sufferer cried to him for help. What
dost thou require ~ asked the knight. The
aged man said, " Lo, | am perishing with
thirst" The knight dismounted and fastened
to fetch a cup Of water. He held the half
clad sufferer in his arms, raised his head, and
proffered the water to his parehed lips. Even
as he did so the cup sparkled into gem, aud
the knight saw in his hand-the holy grail,
flushed with the true blood of Christ and SO
wa my brothers, may wander far, and trav-
erse many realms of philosophy and theology,
to find the truth which represents the true
lfe-blood Of the noblest soul but we shall
find it only when and where we love and serve
as he did. five but give to the fainting soul
at our door a cup of water from the well of
truth, it shall fash back on US the radiance
of God. As we can save, so shall we be saw
cd. And when We are really moved by the
outcries of famished hearts and brains, as by
the wailing Of helpless babes,--when we
deeply long to be light and hope to men,
the ways Of doing so will open before us, even
as undreamed energies TO fill them full shall
be born within us.-M. d. Conway.
Year: 1871

Content is the gift of Heaven, and not
the certain effect Of any thing upon earth
and it is as easy for Providence to convey it
without wealth as with it it being the un-
deniable prerogatiye of the first cause, that
whatsoever it does by the mediation of Sec
ond causes, it can do Immediately by itself
without them. The heavens can and do every
day derive water and refreshment upon the
earth without either pipes or conduits -
though the weakness of human industry is
forced to fly to these little assistances to com.
pass the same effects. Happiness and comfort
stream Immediately from God Himself, as
light issues from the sun, and sometimes
looks and darts itself into the meanest cor
ncrs, while it forbears to visit the largest and
the uoblest rooms. Every man is happy or
miserable, as the temper Of his mind places
him either directly under or beside the in.
fuences Of the Divine nature which en-.
tighten aud eniven the disposed mind with
secret ineffable joys, aud such as the vicious
or nnprepared mind is wholly unacquainted
with. DIR South.
Year: 1871

nY REf. C.. u. srrROEON.


II the ungrateful man were asked to count
up his great merces, he would mention two
or three things, aud fancy that he had COM
pleted the catalogue The most Of US, in our
ordinary moods would not require a ream Of
letter-paper to write out what we earelessly
conceive to be a comprehensive and extended
list, and when the eye is cleared with few
briny tears, straightway it sees hundred
objects which it observed not before. To the
soul, chastened by divine correction, mercies
swarm and teen where aforetiine there seemed
but few.


Take note Of this, reader jot it down
while | am newly escaped from the chamber
Of atfiction, and the impression is fresh on
me it is a great mercy to be able to change
sides when lying in bed. Did see you smile 2
! meant no pleasantly, but intended to write
sober, serious sentence Did you ever lie
a week on one side ? Did you ever try to
turn and find yourself quite helpless Did
others lift you, and by their kindness reveal
to you the miserable fact that they must lift
you back again at once into the old position ?
for, bad as it was, it was preferable to any
other DO not smile again, but listen while
| add-it Is great mercy to get one hours
sleep at night. You 60 to bed, and never
reckon upon opening your eyes again till your
seven or eight hours are over but some know
what it is, night after night to long for slum.
Der and find it not. Oh, how sweet an hour.
sleep when it has interposed between long
stretches Of pain, like span of heavens blue
between the masses Of thunder.cloud We
bless God more for those dear moments Of
repose than for whole weeks of prosperity.


What folly it is, however, to put down
few Of these benefits selected from SO many
more 1t is as though we would catalogue tn,
cattle on a thousand hills, or enumerate tn,
waves Of the ocean. The tender love which
chastses US, the gentle kindness which bruises
US, the fond affection which crushes us to tn,
ground-these We do not so readily recount
yet is there as much divine love in a smart a
in a sweet, as great depth of tenderness ii
bufteting as in consoling. We must coun
our crosses, diseases and pains, if we woulC
number up our blessings.
Year: 1871

SILENT INTLUENcE.-We are touching our
iellow-beings on all sides They are affected
for good or for evil by what we are, by what
we say and do, even by what we think and
feel. May-aowers in the parlor breathe their
fragrance through the atmosphere. We are
each of us as silently saturating the atmos-
phere about us with the subtle aroma of our
character. In the family circle, besides and
beyond all the teaching, the daily life of each
parent and child mysteriously modifes the
life of every person in the household. The
same process on a wider scale is going on
through the community. No man livetb to
himself and no man dieth to himself. Others
are built up and Strengthened by our uncon-
scious deed and others may be wrenched out
of their places and thrown down by our un-
conscious influence.
Year: 1871

Men cease to marvel and stumble at the
doctrine Of the enfranchisement of the human
soul as they are developed into the higher
spiritual condition but men who continue to
live under the full influence of their bodily
conditions, Enthusiastically do II,
Year: 1871

The Point Pleasant RegisteT, Re
publican paper, gives the following as
the prospects OF the Convention in
Mason county. 1t is the same word we
get from everywhere sssfa gsa.


"Nipeteen-twentieths OF the Democrats
in this county will vote for the CONVEX
ton, besides large number Of RePu5li-
cans will do the same thing. The
county will undoubtedly give hand
some majority in favor OF the call ior a
Constitutional Reform Convention.
Year: 1871

A gentleman and his family passed
through our city few days ago, on their
return to their former residence in
Randolph county. He had tried bis
fortune in the West and found a failure.
He has returned to his native county,
after having failed to find better one.


He Gays the travel East and West ID
about the same each way; that about
the same number are returning home
that are emigrating to the West-Par'
ksrs6ng Gdz<tts. .fH
Year: 1871

pending certain headboards to graves OF soldiers as
was said. Another lady somewhere about the same
amount for removing the dead body Of General Lyon
IRON battle iield In Missouri &C.; but this class
OF cases, however meritorous, do not belong to the
same category with one that Injured TO the
salvation OF the government and the saving
Of so much OF human life and
treasure She says this Is non partisan CLAIM, and
Is for an obligation due from the government and
the people to her, and we don't suppose any true
man Of any party could object seeing her rewarded
In manner consistent with the dignity and great
ness OF the government and the magnitude OF the
service rendered by her.


Miss Carroll says-as quoted in the yeport-"My
calm 10 having originated this service receives
strong confirmation In the fact that military man
has ever controvcrted It, Ills not to be doubted that
no educated gentleman could nave been ignorant
OF the fact that the Tennessee was navigable
river and runs from the very Of the rebellion
norln, through the States OF Tennessee ana Ken
tucky; but the significance OF this knowledge had
not awakened the attention Of any one. and my
special claim to merit IL that was tho first to point
to the government how this knowledge could be
made available. In prefcrring my claim to this
cannot by any possibility detract from our brave and
heroic commanders. to whom the country owes SO
much and so far from opposing me l believe that,
as class, they would be grated TO see me, or any
one properly rewarded according to the part per.
formed III the mighty drama.n
Year: 1871

A LIST OF all the vacant tenements in the city,
"A with all necessary information in regard to them
can be found at 35l3 Congress ct.


N. B. Rents entered on our list free OF Charge


Mar 10-dtf
Year: 1871

MIN.


The winter melted into spring, and the
spring in turn bloomed into summer, and
at the musical convention at Keene they
again for moment met face to face -
and few weeks later their life-paths
crossed again one pleasant day in Spring
field as their carriages met in the busy
street. Summer was just fading into
autumn when, one glorious Saturday
night, our heroine and her mother were
waiting tea for old Mr.. B., with whom
her father was to exchange the next day.
The master of the house had been gone
some hours, for it was long drive over
the hills; and the elder lady several
times remarked her daughters unusual
restlessness as she arranged and rearran-
ged the flowers in the vases, and altered
the disposition of the furniture in the
rooms, which never looked more cheer
fui and home-like.


Laura, always peculiarly tasteful in
her dress, was fairer than ever tonight
in white pique, with purple pansies in
her golden hair and at her throat From
the back-parlor. where she was standing
by the bay window watching the sunset
clouds, and thinking, am going to see
him, know / am; have never been
deceived" she heard the little hustle Of
an arrival, and presently her mother
came in to say that Mr.. B. was unavoid-
ably detained, but had sent some one in
his stead. Laura's heart gave a great
leap she knew whom she was to meet
even before the tall form came forward
in response to her mothers My daugh-
ter, Laura, Mr. Parkhurst," as she bust
led away to look after her biscuits.


1t only needed the earnest, almost tear
full "thanx God, we have met at last !"
and the firm clasp in which he took both
her hands, to assure her that he had shar-
ed the long months of waiting, watching
and hoping, and that the JOY at meeting
was mutual.


Is there need of more? This is true
story, as improbable as it may seem and
my hero and heroine were married, and
are living happily together to-day in
model parish and parsonage in among
the New Hampshire hills. When this
number of the chronological journal
finds its way to their study table, / trust
they will pardon the friend who has WOW
en- the romance of their lives With
little s.ntiment as possible into an arti-
Gle for its columns, thinking the Incl
dents too interesting and remarkable to
Year: 1871

PAYING FOR MARRIAGEs.-Mr. Grant,
who has given US history of English
newspapers, tells very good story of
the origin of the custom of charging for
the insertion of marriage announcements.
AT first these we're published freely, as
they still are by many provincial papers.
But in the early days of the Times it
was the custom to announce a marriage
to state the amount of the brides dowry
100000, or ESQ, 900, or whatever it
might happen to be; and in looking
through the ladies column, one morning
at breakfast, Mr.. Walter threw out the
suggestion that if man married all this
money he might certainly pay trifing
percentage upon it to the printer for ac-
quainting the world with the fact
/" These marriage fees would form a nice


little pocket money for me, my dear"
added Mrs. Walter, and as joke her
husband agreed to try the experiment.
rhe charge at first was but trifle, and
the annual amount probably not much.
But Mrs. Walter at her death passed
this prescriptive right of hers to her
daughter, and when, few years ago,
he right was re-purchased by the present
proprietor, it was assessed at $4,000 to
$4,000 a year.-Lettcr to Neaoark Aduer-
tiser.
Year: 1871

Another Republican victory comes IN to
cheer the hearts Of those who IN this " of
"year" are struggling in various States.
Colorado has chosen q Legislature almost
unanimously Republican, and has elected the
Republican candidate for Delegate to Con-
gress by a largely increased majority
over that Of last year. The majority
for Chaffee over Miller, last elec-
ton, was 1902; we lack the exact
figures of the election yesterday, but large
gain seems certain. Thus far the campaign
has certainly been most cheering. On to
victory must be still our watchword
Year: 1871

Our London correspondent forwards full
statement of the long and unhappy quarrel
between employers and employed at Newcas-
tie. The resume of the situation and recital of
the facts preceding the final refusal of imported
wOrkmen to fulfill their contracts will be found
specially interesting to many of our own peo-
pie. That there should be any antagonism
between capital and labor is of itself matter
for deep regret, and the wasteful and irritat-
ing contest in England is another evidence
that wrongheadedpess and obstinacy on both
sides too often make this apparent antagOnsm
a real calamity.
Year: 1871

The World gives notice that in the battle
for reform in the City Government, which is
certain to become leading issue in the next
campaign, it shall fight in the ranks of the
"reformersn This is all right, if The World
will keep in the ranks but we may as we'll
give notice that we have not asked for its
services, and don't set a high value on them.
It is but little more than year since The
World struck out just such new departure
as it promises now. For few weeks nothing
could exceed the vigOr of its demonstrations
against the very same Ring which is now
ruling and running the City of New
York. Mr.. Tweed's domestic interiors were
turned inside out and his horses, his
stables, his punch-bowl, and his con-
vivial Sundays were described for the edi-
fcation of wondering public. There were
tables of figures for the confusion of Mr..
Sweeny, and columns of whitening invective
for the destruction of Oakley Hall. "Senator
"Tweed's treachery to the City," said this con-
sistent censor, "by increasing whose taxes
che has become 'one of its heaviest tax
"'payers,' inspires a resentment WHICH every
"honest Democrat in New-York will share
with their faithful representatives in tho
"Senate and Assembly" Mayor Hall is the
creature, ally, and tool of the corrupt Ring.
"Whatever power is placed in his hands will
he welded by his creators, or in servile
obedience to their dictation." The Jack
knife War, as somebody irreverently called it,
was terribly noisy thing while it lasted;
but Tweed trlumphed in the Legislature, and
The World deserted at once to the winning
side.


This was one of the most disgraceful exhi-
oitlons of unprincipled partisanship that We
nave ever seen in New-York. We can under-
stand that when political theory has been
oVerthrown it may be the part of good sense
10 treat it as a dead issue, and devote ones
energies to practical questions. But battle
between honesty and corruption never can be
a dead issue The fight against the Ring has
never been anything but an effort to turn
fosues out of Office, and to punish fraud.
FROM such fight there can be no honorable
retreat until honesty has triumphed. Yet Hs
Wortd retreated as soon 40 Mr.. Tweed carried
inc Legislature. It did worse than that; it
enlisted on the other side, and battled as
earnestly for the Ring az it ever had battled
against IT. There was better opportunity
Year: 1871

The resolutions passed last night by the
Regular Republican Association of the Xlth
Assembly District (Mr. Gridley's much-abused
organization) form capital statement of the
aims and sentiments of what we believe to
be a majority of the Republicans of this city.
Nay, more. is it not true that large element
of the voting population of New-York, out
side of the Republican party, desires nothing
more than total abstention of mere politicians
from local meddlings, fair administration of
the City Government, and the formation of
all citizens into City mot State or NatiOnaD
party, which shall purify city politics and deal
justly by all mcnf
Year: 1871

railroad men to consider the subject Of railway
management with special reference to such facts
a. have been brought out in the investigation
into the Revere disaster. Tho circular Of the
Commissioners very pithily makes one point
which has already been noted in TIE TRIBUNE
that the Eastern Railroad, ono Of the Oldest
in the country, uses none Of the modern
appliances to secure the safety Of passengers
from death and manning. But, In the general
investigation which railway management must
get, we must not overlook that Of any line OF
travel
Year: 1871

Although King Amadeus is young and in
experienced ruler, and the true son of a
father not over-ngid in public or private
morals, he has a manly sort of respect for law
which we cannot help admiring. Orders have
iust been issued from one of the departments
of the Government for the dismissal of all
police inspectors who have been derelict in
duty in the matter of suppressing gambling


houses. 1t is an exceedingly fortunate thing
for Superintendent Kelso and his suborlinates
that they do not live and hold Office in Spain.
Year: 1871

1t Ia confidently announced that it has been
decided at Salzburg by Prince Bismarck and
Count Won Beust to suppress the International
Society. This is easily said, but cannot so
easily be done. We must set down the report
as another of the wild guesses at the result OF
the Salzburg Conference. The statesmen
named are not the men airily and jauntily to
announce their "decision" to put down any
such large and widely-ramifyins organization
aa the InterDationals.