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Year: 1876

Which are introduced fo the first time in tine present

 edition have been added for the sake of pictorial effect but give greater ucidity force to the ex- plantations in the text They embrace all branches of

 science and of natural history, and depict the most and remarkable features of scenery architec- ture, and art, we'll as the various processes of me- chanics and manufactures. Although intended for instruction rather than embelisEment pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

Forming in fact new Cyclopedia, with the same plan and compnss its predecessor but with far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such improvements in it's composition have suggested by longer experience and enlarged knowledge. N
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after.-long and careful preliminary labor, and with the most ample resources for carrying it on to a successful termination.

 None of the original stereotype plates have been used but every page has been -LN .
Year: 1876

The Czar of Russia makes nearly $55, 900 a day out of his position. And when he knocks off in the middle of the day to go out aud play base ball or see horse race, he isn't docked cent
Year: 1876

A Fulton woman, while cleaning house, fell from ladder and broke her arm Her husband returned home three days earlier than he had intended, cheerfully paid the doctors bill, and could ascend a pair oi stairs without treadiHg upon a piece of soap and landing Tn elop bucket at the bottom of the steps. And the house look. ed just as clean as if she had been at it a whole week instead of only one day.
Year: 1876

A Canadian in New York lately snstched a lsdys umbrella from her hand. then stood still for the police to arrest him and confessed the theft, because. he said, he was starving, could not get work, and wanted to be taken care of. Sad. We should say it was sad, and such & noble act of self-sacritice should have its reward. Blackwell's Island and plenty of hard work, at the very least.

 What a great pity that that Cana dian had not come to Arizona. He could have stood on the corners here, bummed his board off of some hard working restaursteur, bersted the bad times, cursed the United States government for all that was out, rolled some poor drunken fellow occasionally to keep his hand in, and have swim dled and insulted any one who unwit- tingly gave him work to do,

 There is no doubt about it. The whole thing is sad in a good many ways.
Year: 1876

It IS with feeling of sadness akin to melancholy that we read the following foreboding comment on the present California Legislature, in the San Francisco Bulletin of January %,

 We cannot believe that a body of men, who have come into power after such long exclusion from office. can be so bent on selfdestruction as to listen to or be moulded by the bold, bad men who, standing behind Supervisors and other officials, are becoming more au- dacious than ever before ID the history of the State.
Year: 1876

streets, and the freezing, starving boy
had in his desperation called at the
house, but | didn't. Had it been any
other boy or any other person asking
charity | would have given promptly
and freely. But was angered at his
trailing me, angered that he thought he
could swindly me, and | grabbed at him
and inquired


d" Boy what is your name 7"


He leaped back, and standing where
the furious storm almost hurled him
from sight he answered:


"Gil I"


Il know you sir /" shouted, and
moved away without another word.


May the Lord forgive me for that
nights work But you might have act
ed the same. When morning came,
after night so bitter that policemen
were frozen on their beats, l opened the
front door to find that boy frozen to
death ON the steps | knew as the dead,
white face looked up at me through the
snow, that | had wronged him with my
suspicion, but it was too late then, the
angels had opened to him a gate lead
ing to a place where the human heart
and its unworthy thoughts can never
enter. Poor Gil A warm meal or a
shilling would have saved his life, and
| drove him to death


This is why / give when l am asked
now. | know that sometimes give to
the unworthy, but it were better to give
all possess to an imposter, then to
have another homeless waif creeping
back to die on the spot where had un-
justly accused him.--Hearth and Home.
Year: 1876

COULDN'T SToP.-Here is a story that
illustrates the evil habits and little sins,
which, if not continually watched against
creep into our lives unawares. 1t teach
es all to beware of little sins. As the
boy can stop his sled much easier Just
after it starts, then when it is going
down the steepest part of the hill, so
these sins can be stopped much easier
when they are little, than when they are
full grown. Here is the story:


One night miller was awakened
by his camel trying to get his nose into
the tent.


1t is very cold out here, said the
camel, | want only to put my nose in.'


The miller made no objections. Soon
the camel asked leave to have his neck
in, then his feet, and meeting with no
opposition from his master, he soon had
his whole body in. This was very dis
agreeable to the miller, who complained
Of the camel's conduct.


If you don't like it you can go,' an
swered the camel as for me / have
got possession, and 1 shall stay YOU
can't get rid of me now. >"
Year: 1876

A young man, in the early days of
his ministry, was met by couple, as he
came out Of church, who wanted to be
married. He turned back to oblige the
party, and found at the last they made
up their minds to drive off in the buggy
to some other church. "But NAV I
ask" he inquired of the man, "why do
you first ask me to marry you, and then
change your minds in this way ?" No
answer came from the groom, but the
young women, lifting up the certain of
the buggy, called out !" Well you see,
| hadn't got a look at the minister afore
and to tell the truth, you're SO young
and innocent-like, that I'm kind of
feared you won't marry us right, so I'd
rather trust myself to some one who's
done it a good many times, and is sure
he knows how"
Year: 1876

early in the morning were at their stand
sallinp their wares. How secure their
mother in Philadelphis must have felt, that
there was place of such safety open to them
out of the way of temptation. .


The care of the lads is commendable,
and it must be source Of pleasure, to the
mother to know her boys are in good
Christian keeping; but the fact that they
come twice week to sell notions, is sug-
gestive,if the imperative necessity to enforce
our city ordinances. Here is the direct
evidence, that unlicensed strangers from
Philadelphia, come here in violation OF
law, enter into competition with our shop
keepers. No one can sell here without a
license, and failing to take one out, he is
liable to arrest, indictment and punishment
for misdemeanor. Is it not rank injustice
to our people, that persons from other
States can do that with impunity, which
our own citizens dare not do. The ordl-
nance forbidding the sale of notions, on the
street upon market days is plain. and we
respectfully ask Mayor Whiteley to have
them enforced; he owes it to his tax-bur
dened fellow citizens.
Year: 1876

Valentine Jobst of Peoria tells the fol-
lowing story of an incident in real life in
Chicago:


There were three brothers in business
butchers. All of them are married, and
in due course of time, as their families be-
came intimate, serious trouble arose. The
wives became jealous of one another, and
particularly in the matter of clothes. If
one of them had new dress, the other two
wanted to know why they couldn't have
new dresses. too. Little things added fuel
to the flame until it threatened to break up
the firm and estrange the brothers. This
none of the men desired. The business,
was prosperous; they were doing well, and
none of the three wished to retire.


They accordingly called family coun-
Gil, and after consultation resolved that all
intercourse between the female members
should cease save and except once year.
On each specified day all the members Of
the three families come together and hold
a grand picnic. At the close they sepa-
rate, and do not meet again twelve.
month. In this waya jealousy and fault.
finding is done away with. There is no
one to carry tales back and forth, no one
TO create heart-burning and hatred. The
men agreed together, and the women
agreed apart, and there is the best of feel
ing on all sides. II was good idea, and
might be acted upon to advantage in many
firm besides that referred to.
Year: 1876

AFTER six months in receiving vault,
the body of the late Baron Palm will be
taken to Washington, Pa, for cremation
by Colonel Olcott, the head Of the Theo-
sophisty or peculiar people who gave him
an extraordinary funeral at Masonic Hall.
He is to be consumed without any dis.
agreeable smell in five hours, and will
thereafter be carried round in mortuary
snufbox by the gallant Colonel. Imperial
Cpsari
Year: 1876

Thousands who try to grow plants in


pots, tubs or boxes fail, mostly, because
they let the pots be exposed to the hot
sun. Now we never see the roots--that
is, that part which draws nutriment from
the soil-fally exposed to the sun in q
state Of nature, and this should teach win
dow gardeners to shade the pots and boxes
in which their plants grow. Another
cause Of failure is allowing the leaves to
grow rusty. The leaves being in reality
the lungs Of the plant, il is imperative that
they should be kept clean. have often
been asked why plants do not do well in
windows. It is often quite difficult to an
swer without seeing the plants, and the
general failures occur from the cause above
named, for It stands to reason that If half
the roots Of plant are burned of repeat
edly and the leaves are killed with dust,
that sickness win be the result. II is
easy to clean of the dust by taking little
broom or brush and dipping il in water
and flirting il over the leaves Of the plants
two or three times week. Try il, ladies.
Year: 1876

The following proposition has been pub
lished as singular mathematical fact..'
Any number of figures you may wish to
multiply by 5 will give the same result il
divided by "a much quicker operation
but you must remember to annex cipher
to the answer, whenever there is no re.
mainder, and when there is n remainder,
whatever it may be, annex Eve to the
answer. Multiply AGA by 5 and the
answer will be 1920; dividing the same
number by 2 you have 232, and as there
is no remainder, you add cipher Now
take 357, and multiply by 5, there is l..
7S5. Divide the same number by 2, and
you have 17s and remainder, you there.
fore place 5 at the end Of the line, and
the result is again l,7s5.


This, at first, may seem "singular
fact" but is really very simple one
when explained. The solution is simply
this By adding cipher to the right Of
any number you increase il ten fold and
by dividing it by two equals the same sum
increased (by multiplication) only FIVE
times. Thus, instead of adding the cipher
to 232, after the division, place it to the
right of aga and you have 4,640--ten
times the volume Of AGA. That sum being
divided by two, gives without any further
addition) 2,320-the half of ten times
AGA, and therefore equal to FIVE times that
amount, or AGA multiplied by fve.]
Year: 1876

the country without which health and
contentment are impossible This is more
emphatically true when children are to be
fed And when they cry for food, it is a
shame that they cannot have plenty Of
that which is convenient for them.


Yet many good matron in the coun-
try thinks to please her boarders by pas
tries aud puddings, while she neglects the
weightier matters, such as poultry and
peas.


And the bed; 0 my friend, have pity
on the weary bones Of your guest, who
bas been beguiled to your rural resting
place, That is not bed for an honest
man that you have made Of straw, or
shavings, or husks. A good bed may,
perhaps, have been made out Of some such
materials; and | have slept on worse beds,
and been happy and thankful. If duty
or necessity require it, one might sleep on
the oaken floor, or on rock out of doors,
and enjoy it. But that does not make it
right for you to put me upon bed worse
than my desired gridiron, and charge me
a round sum for the luxury 1 have been
at the seaside, and in the mountains, and
in country villages, paying fair prices for
summer board, and the beds were so thin,
hard, uneven, hillocky, musty, and the
pillows so insignificant in size and so con-
temptible in material, that each night was
n torment instead of refreshment, and
80 how welcome was the morning light r.


will not write to you Of cleanliness.
No rhetoric will open the eyes to dirt.
The faculty of seeing it is gift and with
all your gettings, if you have not horror
of this great evil you will never acquire it.
Therefore, one must put up with your in
trinity once and never suffer it again.
Yet cleanliness is grace that crowns the
rest with halo, and without it palace
would be uncomfortable by "pure and vir-
tuous soul"


Pardon these hints. In my next will
speak to the boarders. They need speak.
ing to. They are unreasonable, exacting,
provoking, ungrateful, impertinent, and
take so many airs upon themselves that /
must take them down little. This will
undertake in future letter.
Year: 1876

were attracted from all par is, far and near
to enjoy themselves according to the GUS
toms Of their country. And it was equally
priced by the American population who
had long been accustomed to point it out
to friends and tourists as the chief curiosity
Of this land of wonders. Indeed the citi-
zens Of California, generally, took great
State pride in the vine, and hence there
was an universal expression of regret at
its death. The old associations connected
with its romantic history SO often related
made it highly priced by all.


The public estimation in which it was
held at home will appear from the proceed
ings Of meeting of the citizens of Santa
Barbara for the purpose of expressing the
sentiments of her people regarding the
character and death of the vine. A state
ment of its history and resolutions express
siye of a general feeling of regret at its
loss were adopted and published in the
Santa Barbaza Press, September 10th,
1875.
Year: 1876

The following recipe for whitewash is
recommended by the Scienfifc An,erican.
Il answers for wood, brick or stone
Stake about one-half bushel unslaked lime
with boiling water, keeping it covered,
during the process. Strain It and add a
peck Of salt dissolved in warm water, three
pounds Of ground rice put in boiling water
and boiled to thin paste, one-half pound
powdered Spanish whiting and one pound
clear glue dissolved in warm water. Nix
these well together, and let tho mixture
stand for several days. Keep the wash
thus prepared in a kettle Or portable fur.
mace, and when used put i on as hot as
possible with either painters or whitewash
brushes.
Year: 1876

The simple method of guarding against
losses by the robbery Of coupon bonds d
10 cut the entire sheet Of coupons off and
place il in one depository, while the body
Of the bond is kept in another. The bond
without the coupons being unsaleable, and
the coupons being collectable only one BY
one as they mature, the thief who fails 70
secure both gains comparatively little by
his crime, while the true owner, BY prov.
ing title to the part which remains in his
possession, has good ground for demanding
from the company issuing the securing
duplicate Of the other. The New York
Sun says this plan ! already followed BY
numbers Of capitalists.
Year: 1876

product, and because they did not
raise more stock, etc.


When the large crops were har-
vested a new want was experienced.
Granarles were now a necessity.
Bins made Of rails would not answer.
Rain and snow, and rats and thieves
called for lumber to build shelters
for the grain, and the burden of
transportation began to be felt.
When man had but ten or fifteen
loads of wheat to haul, it was a sort
Of recreation to take it to market.
But the extra horses and wagons and
men necessary to move the three
million bushels of wheat now raised
in Goodhue county are not realized
by those who sit in their Offices and
do the business, or by those who
lecture and advise and instruct the
farmers.


The fact is, MIR. Editor, to support
my family I must raise large guam
tity Of wheat. To raise this wheat
| must work hard myself and keep
a large working force. If can
make margin Of twenty-five cents
on a bushel of wheat, l must raise
1000 bushels to clear $1,000. That
amount would be considered mod
crate as the income Of business
man in town, and economy would
still be the motto where $1,000 was
the limit of expenditure for all pur-
poses in a family. 1t may be a
good thing for farmers boys to stick
to the farm, but they need some
education and some privileges or
they will not stay.


Now we find, to haul the wheat
sixteen to twenty-five miles over the
hills is great burden. 1t costs one
bushel in ten, as an average, to put
it down in the river towns; and the
question comes up: what can we
do? Shall we continue indefinitely
to be at this expense; to sit still and
do nothing? Or shall we contrive
some way to be relieved of this item
of team work? Again, distance
from market makes it absolutely
impossible for farmers to market
their wheat in the fall. The harvest
over and stacking done, every team
is put in requisition for fall plowing.
1t takes favorable season to do
the threshing and plowing before
the winter sets in, and when it takes
from one to two hard days work to
put forty bushels Of wheat in mar
ket, merchants will have to put their
bills and accounts over due on file
and wait the time, not when farmers
will, but when they can market
their crop.


| cannot see any solution Of the
question at issue except in the mod
ern highway-the railroad. A rail-
road is a pressing want of the peo-
pie, the farmers Of the country.
speak from my own experience. I
do not theorize or speculate on the
matter. l have raised all the way
from 500 to 5000 bushels of wheat
yearly. The increase of production
makes largely an increase of labor
in the family as we'll as in the field.
The increase of income is nearly
kept up with by an increase Of ex-
pense so that it is problem yet un-
solved with many whether it pays.
In summer it is hurry all around, in
fall plowing and threshing, in win
ter, blow high or blow low, through
cold, storms, drifts and snow, must
Year: 1876

go to market as the only time in the
year to spare.


Are we to blame, then, when we
try to secure railroad, even though
it be a narrow-guage, and not just
where we would prefer to have it
built2 or even if we are obliged to
aid it or help it on its feet? Are we
to sit still and wait? If SO, please
say how long it will be wise to do
so. J. A. TEACHER.
Year: 1876

The Southern White people bore with
the tortures of the Internal laws made
by the Radicals to oppress them with
manly sortitude; but as soon as the same
laws begin to apply to them the Radicals
set up whine for aid---troops are want
ed at once, or they will be made to obey
the laws they themselves have made.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Morrison, the chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means, stated
yesterday to some friends that, in the
course of eight or ten days, he would ask
the committee to formally consider his
Tariff bill. He said he had reason to be.
lieve that the measure would be approx
ed by the committee and passed by the
House.
Year: 1876

There were two men in New
FORK whose lives had been marked
BY an incident which illustrates a
phase of human nature not often
observed. They were college
mates. the one a listless, careless,
indifferent scholar. blessed Tor
cursed) with a rich father, and
now lawyer by profession, tho
an idle one in practice. The other
is a bright but profligatc fellow,
poor IN purse, proud in spirit, and
reckless of money and everything
but his own wicked pleasures.
They fell in love with the same
girl, but the smarter one (the last
described) was successful. In due
time they were married, but it soon
became evident that the woman
was not sufficient for tho profigate
husband, and unhappil.ess was the
result. In year they separated,
and the husband in the meantime
cast an evil eye upon rich widow,
was anxious to get rid Of his wife,
in order to marry the other.


While thus situated the former
chum nut in an appearance and
resumed his intimacy with the de-
serted wife. For the first time he
manifested an unusual energy, anu
persuaded the woman that her
husbands iniidelity had released
her from her marriage obligations.


In the end he cloped with her, to


the JOY and satisfaction Of her rcck-
| less husband. The latter, when he
heard 1t, was SO delighted that


when he was approached by a
friend with the Information that
| young Mr. had elopcd with


Mrs., he exclaimed: Well, at


last | am even with him; he was


always growing over me in college,


and If he has got my wife ! am


more than rcvengcd."
Year: 1876

Tue age of cheap transportation
is already upon US, and Centennial
visitors can not ask cheaper ride
than ten dollars from Chicago to
Washington, and twelve dollars to
Philadelphia. Itis not certain that,
these very low rates will be the best
thing in the end, but for Centennial
purposes they are admirable. Nei-
ther Is it certain that rates will not
be lower still, for no less than seven
trunk lines are now at war, and it Is
difficult to say just what they viii do.
In any event this Is a good time to
80 to the great Exposition.
Year: 1876

Canadian Warmer.


a man named Langley recently
went to ST Mary's Bay goose hunt
ING. Seeing a moose on the oppo-
site shore : e fired, and at the same
time a porpoise leaped from the
water, and the bulleJ killed both it
and the moose. The porpoise float
ed TO the shore, and the hunter
used it as raft to paddle across TO
the moose. There he found that
the bullet, after killing the moose,
had gone into a hollow tree, in
which was a store of wild honey,
which was flowing through the
hole made by the bullet Reaching
for what he thought was stick to
plug up the hole, he caught rab-
bit by the leg. Rather startled, he
threw it violently from him, and
struck a covey of partridges, killing
them all.
Year: 1876

y islScN toNdSESS is III SESSION
in New York, the existing system
Of prison management being under
discussion by number Of persons
VINO are presumed TO have made q
special study of the subject of pris-
on management and discipline,
with q view TO making prisons re
tormatory as we'll as punitive. The
several States are represented by
officially appointed delegates, who
are either practical prison officers
or men who have made the subject
Of crime and criminals matter of
special investigation
Year: 1876

Meeting Of City Cowncil-Tr"stses Of the
Common Narr0,c Escape.


New CASTLE, June THE City Council
met last night in regular session-all present
except Mr.. Rogers. A memorial from some
of the property owners, requesting Council
not to execute their order, previously made,
ware and Harmony Streets, and questioning
their right to act upon d petition presented
to their predecessors, was read but the
desire of the petitioners was denied, and
the determination to proceed with the
enforcement of the order expressed.


The Trustees of the Common held their
regular quarterly meeting last night. Their
account of last years expenditures and
receipts have been printed and distributed.
Little important business was transacted by
them; but complaints of the working of
land on one of the farms through which the
railroad runs, caused by the neglect of the
railroad company, were expressed, and
efforts will be made to have the destruction
of property stopped, by law if necessary.


adjournment, was held in the court house
yesterday-the purpose Of which was to
receive the report of the building committee
upOu AecossATy repairs Ahu dltcIhIIoho 70
the jail. Nothing definite was done, how
ever, and it seems to be the purpose of the
court to defer action In the hope that the
Legislature will provided such legislation as
may make important changes unnecessary.


We regret to learn that Captain William
Robinson met with painful accident yes
terday, whilst discharging a cargo of
grain from his sloop at LEAFS Mills on the
Brandywine. His injuries though series
are not dangerous, and his escape from
death was narrow and remarkable.