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Year: 1872

"There cna be no doubt, writes
Mr.. Darwin, "that dogs feel shame
as distinct from fear, and
something very like modesty, when
begging too often for food. A
great dog scorns the snarling of a
little dog, and this may be called
magnanimity. Several observ-
ers have stated that monkeys GER
tainly dislIked being laughed at,
and they sometimes invent imagi-
nary offences. In the Geological
Gardens | saw u baboon that al
ways got into furious rage when
its keeper took out a letter or book
and read it aloud to him, and his
rage was so violent that, as | wit
messed on one occasion, he bit his
own leg until the blood flowed. "
All animals feel wonder, and many
exhibit curiosity, the latter quality
affording opportunity for hunters,


in many parts Of the world, to decoy


the game into their power. The
faculty of imitation, so strongly de-
veloped in man, especially in a
barbarous state, is present in mon


keys. A certain bull terrier OF our
acquaintance when he wishes to so
out of the room, jumps at the han


die of the door and grasps it with


his paws, although be cannot him


self turn the handle. Parrots also
reproduce with wonderful fidelity
the tones Of different speakers, and


puppies reared by cats have been
known to lick their feet and wash
their faces after the manner Of their
foster-mothers. Attention and mem
ory also are present in the lower an
imals, and it is impossible to deny
that the dreams Of dogs and horses
Year: 1872

BLANKET FOR HORSE. this
season of the year, when we have
many cold, windy days, horses, when
left standing in our streets for any
length of time, should have some
sort of covering thrown over them
to keep them warm and comfortable
and prevent them from becoming
chilled. Careful drivers will always
do this, and in passing through our
streets it is very gratifying to notice
so many horses kindly cared for in
this respect, indicating the pleasant
sympathy and interest Of the owner
in the welfare of his beast. There
are those, however, who possess SO
little sympathy and care for their
animals that they never think OF
protecting them against cold, even
when sweaty from hard driving or
overwork. Such people ought Dever
to have the charge of a horse; but
as this cannot always be regulated


they should be compelled in some
way to take proper care OF them


Haverhill Publisher.
Year: 1872

Among the other changes in the
Canona, made at the late Episcopal
Convention, new Diocese may be-
formed with six presbyters who have
been economically resident one year,
and six parishes. providing that NO
existing Diocese shall be so reduced
as to contain less than twelve par
shes and twelve presbyters.
Year: 1872

A YOUNG lady said pretty good thing
the other evening. She had many admirers
among the limbs Of the law, and on being
asked how she escaped heart-whoe, sup
posed it was owing TO the fact that " in a
multitude Of counscllors there is safety"
Year: 1872

A VERY SAFE SAFE There is an account
in San Francisco paper of a safe which an in
genious mechanic constructed and declared to
be absolutely burglar proof To convince the
incredulous of this fact he placed one thous-
and dollar bill in his pocket, had himself lock-
ed into the safe, with an ample supply of pro-
Visions declaring be would give the money to
the man who unfastened the door, All the
blacksmiths, and burglars, and carpenters in the
State have been busy for week boring and
blasting, and beating at the safe, and the man
is there yet. He has whispered through the
keyhole that he will make the reward $4,000
if somebody will only let him out Fears are
entertained that the whole concern will have to
be melted down in blast furnace before he is
released, and it is proposed to pass in through
the keyhole ire-proof jacket to protect the
inventor while the iron is melting.
Year: 1872

has on hand, is pretty certain evidence that he
means business, and that he intends to sell at
the shortest profits consistent with safety and
prudence.


A business association with this people for a
quarter Of q century, fortifes him in the conclu-
sion that he knows how to select goods to suit
the various tastes of the community, and every
one who has dealt " it'll him knows that all he
aims at is living profit His magnificent stock of
1EW Try
Year: 1872

The latest intclligen nee from the dia-
mond fields of South Africa is not en-
couraging to those who entertain the
idea Of seeking Torture in that region.
According to all accounts there is but
one place at which diggers now cover
their expenses, and that is the Coles
berg KroRje, or New Rush. There
claims have reached so high value
that none but men of some capital can
afford to purchase them; yet, notwith-
standing their high price, they do not
yield near so freely as they did. The
day for adventurcrs without means to
make money in the diamond diggings
is past. The proport on of those who
have made large sums by digging dia-
monds, even when the fields were at
their best. is small; and numberless
persons have toiled under an African
sun, undergoing all kinds of privations,
from nearly the time Of the first dis
coveries, without making more than
bare subsistence. The area within
which the gems are found is limited,
and is being rapidly exhausted. The
entire area may be completely worked
out within a few months the produc-
ton may continue year or two. I'm
less new fields are found, of which there
now appears to be little prospect, or the
reported gold discoveries in South
Africa amount to more than present in
dicatiOns warrant, there is likely to be
a general exodus of the diggers before
many months.
Year: 1872

Glass may be cut with very hard steel
almost as we'll as with diamond. A
common three cornered file which has
been worn out may be tax en- and ground
to three-cornered point, heated red
hot, and plunged into mixture of
pounded ice AMI salt. When once more
touched upon the stone to remove any
scales it is ready for use. 1t should be
held and used exactly as the common
di"mond. The steel becomes not only
very hard but very brittle by this treat
ment.


JOCKEY club has been organized at
Petersburg, Menard county, III,
Year: 1872

1t is not often that an attempted
suicide has much that is laughable
about it. The other day, it is true, a
silly man in England tried to blow his
brains out by firing charge of gun
powder into his mouth from the nozzle
of pair of bellows, with no result be-
yond noise and smoke. But this was
nothing to sight witnessed very lately
at Berne. A young married workman,
father of two children, after performing
all the religious duties of Easter, walked
from the church to the river and threw
himself in. The cold of the river fresh
ened him up, and he swan back to the
shore. But crowd had now collected,
and, the sight of this producing reac-
ton, he flung himself into the water a
second time. Again he he took to
swimming, and the spectators begged
him to return to his family. An at
tempt was made to get him out, but he
again dived and disappeared. A third
time he came to the surface, and now
the persuasions of the crowd prevailed
Shivering and exhausted he returned
to the shore and landed, amid shouts
of laughter from all present. What
excuse he made to his wife is not re-
ported.
Year: 1872

In discussing the late strike in War
wickshire, the British Medical Times and
Gazette says: The English agricultural
laborer is entirely different man in
habits and mode of life from the Eng
lish town laborer, whether mechanic or
manufacturing hand. He is taller, big
ger and stronger, but not so acute and
restless; slower and less energetic. He
does not consume one-tcnth of the ami
NAL food that the town operative de
YOURS. but he does not drink one
twentieth of alcohol. He may OCCASION
ally get little muddled on muddy ale
or sour cider. but he is never incapable
for three days in the week. He lives in
the open air and is exposed to all
insufficient, and his food is chiefly bread,
potatoes suet dumping and vegetables,
with a little pork or cheese, but very
rarely butchers fresh meat. He sleeps
probably over dungheap or near "a
cesspool, with his wife and half dozen
children in the same room, and very
fortunate if he escape an attack of con
tinued fever once in his life. But his
great enemy when he is over fifty is
rheumatism, and this consigns him to
the care of the parish during the last
decade. Still his existence has its
bright side. He rarely knows what a
headache is. His labor is of the slow,
enduring kind which does not exhaust
and, if he escape death from continued
fever or accident, he lives beyond three
score years and ten. His children are
healthy, and his wife does not suffer
from nerves." The town operative,
who earns twice as much money, and
who could earn three times as much if
he worked all the working days Of the
week, dies at fifty, and rarely passes a
year without being an out-patient at q
hospital or getting some medicine from
his club doctor. One of his children has
point disease. and another is blind
with one eye. His wife spends nine
the out-patient room of a hospital. He
was a clever, intelligent lad, with
smattering of education, but after thirty
he got heavier and more stupid. and has
long given up all idea of climbing to
higher round in the social ladder.
If the farm laborer can be taught to
make some provision for old age, and to
give his children better education, and
to spend part of his increased pay on q
more nutritious diet, q higher rate of
wages will make him happier and
more energetic man. But if the greater
amount of money current among "a rural
population, and the shorter hours of
work, convert the village ale house into
gin palace and bring into the country
the vices of town, it will only necesstate
an increase of cottage hospitals and
cnunfu in firm aries
Year: 1872

lT is TO BE FEARED that the official
custodians Of the past in our larger
cti' S are not always conscientiously
circumspect in binding out the chill
dren that are left in their charge. A
few days ago, the members of circus
troupe were stopping at hotel in Troy,
n. Y, when a woman made her ap-
pearance on the scene, and demanded
her child. The object of her search
was soon found in the person of a little
girl about / years Of age, who figured
redundantly on the bills as ",Julia, the
infant female equestr.enne," and who
was in the custody of a man and woman
belongi G to the company. The man
explained that he had obtained the
child five years previous from the Com
IN 'ssioners of Charity of New York city,
for the express purpose of educating
her for Gil cular eQuestrianism. The
child was restored to her mother,
though she seemed quite 10th to
leave her parents by adoption. But
this does not alter the fact that the
officers of the poor have 10 excuse for
consigning a helpless child to such a
career.
Year: 1872

1t is an interesting fact in connection
with the recent census of Great Britain
that the population is steadily increas
ing, Notwithstanding the large loss from
emigration. The increase in London,
where the loss from this cause is very
considerable, though perhaps not as
large as in the agricultural regions, is at
the rate of about 10000 per year. This
fact finds its explanation in the superior
health of English women us compared
with the women of this country. This
is attested by the fact that there are on
an average 900 more bi.ths than deaths
in London while in our cities, at least,
there are more deaths than births. The
difference is attributable to the fact that
the English women take exercise in the
open air every day, and assiduously cul-
tivate every healthful habit. This is no
new development, but the lesson which
it teaches cannot be repeated too often.
There is one phase of know wnothingism
that is entitled to consideration it is
that which would teach American ma
tlons to cultivate and transmit health,
that the race may not disappear from
the earth,
Year: 1872

While the question of counterfeit


ing and expert alteration is being agi-
tated, it would be we'll enough to re-
member that a Berlin lithographer is
said to have invented inimitable paper
money. The colors used in the paper
can not be chemically analyzed, but
on applying the magnifymg glass they
can be really distinguished from all
other colors, and they. can not be imi-
tated by photography or in any other
way. ..,
Year: 1872

4 rich Methodist has made a dona-
tion to the Boston Theological Semi
nary for the erection of q building
suitable for married students and theil
families. The idea is admirable, pro.
vided married men are permitted to
study divinity in the seminary. This
is not allowed in some institutions. II
is generolly thought that a married
man has so much live divinity at home
that he will not pay proper attention
to the dead divinity of the schools.
Year: 1872




An exchange remarks "Horace
Greeley is an honest man and it is
not too much't to say that he will re-
ceive enough honest votes to place
him in the CHAIR Of Washington. He
was an honest boy, so much SO that
the expression honest as little Hor-
ace passed into a proverb. As was
the boy so is the man. He W y
about the only boy in the school he
attended that could not be induced
under any circumstances to fudge.
in playing marbles Nor will he
fudge now"
Year: 1872

A lively Hoosier maiden wept when
she read how Longfellow had cut his
nastern so as to him ruin for life. She
was so fond of his poetry, she said, as
she snuffed the pear]y tear drops from
her nose,
Year: 1872

THE LIBERAL CONVENTION.


The Liberal State Convention now
in session in the city Of New Or
leans, can, and we hope will frame
stitch a ticket that may be accepted
by al the elements opposed to a
continuance Of the corrupt rule of
the past four years. But, it may
also, through the influence Of bad
men, wreck the hopes of people
and throw the government into the
hands Of a new aud by far more
dangerous set of cormorants. Yet
we hope that the bad men who may
have c,ept into that convention will
not be in such numbers as to choke
its honest expressions.


The people expect much from this
convention, perhaps more than one
political assembly is capable Of ac-
comp1isbipg when so many Of its
members have but lately doned the
armor Of Liberalism. We do not
say this in a spirit Of repro oacb,
though it is apparent that tue very
men who were the last to join the
party of progress are now the most
clamorous for Office. The party must
get along without those men who
have anchored their hopes upon it
thinking that with this party like
with defunct Democracy and Radi-
calism, all that was necessary to do
in order to secure the offices was to
make strong and loud professions as
they were wont 10 do in ante beltuna
days. A party SO young and COM
batting an enemy SO formidable as is
the case in the present contest can
not if it aims at success take up any
man whose record is on the side Of
corruption and misrule. There is a
greater object to be attained in the
selection Of a good ticket, then peo-
pie have any idea /; it is not the
availability OF the man, nor his record
as a'strong and constant advocate Of
the tenets Of our party which ought
to make him popular candidate
The people in their choice must look
to something far greater, they must
see that the men who are to lead the
party in this contest are honest
and upright. One party already in
this State has buried its hope Of
success by alliance with all that is
corrupt and disgraceful. Will the
Liberals heed this warning or will
they too plunge in the same abyss
Will they give the people candi-
dates for whom the masses irrespec-
tive Of color or past political opin-
ion, can vote? /? or will they simply
rehearse the play OF the Kellogg and
McEnery conventions


The gentlemen who proclaim with
loud acclamation their anxiety to save
the State must bear in mind that the
State can not be saved by making
]ong-winded spread-ea9le perora-
tons, but by pulling with one accord
towards the same object. They must,
if they mean to do all parties JUS
tice, bury their prejudices of cast and
color. They must not go to their
past political opponents with honey
on their tongue and gaul in their
breast. Nothing but honesty Of per-
son and purpose will win in this con.
test. The issues will be between one
party arrayed on the side OF justice
and the other one leaning towards
centralization. The people will soon
discern the difference and vote &c.
cordingly.


!


At least fifty department clerks
Year: 1872

LETTER FROM BATON ROUGE.


[From our own Correspondent


BATON ROUGE, August 5, 1872.


EDITOR REpCDL1cAN:-Since [ wrote
you my last letter we have heard Of
{: wars and rumors of wars among
the Radical toothache party in this
neck Of the woods. In fact, as near
as I can learn, from all the most re-
liable sources the Grant-Kelloggg con-
Germ is about on its last legs here
and the noise it makes resembles a
izzle more than anything else I
know OF.


A few nights since very large
number of the &c old ish' free color
ed people were expelled from the
Grant Clubs, as was also near1 y all
of the white men who belonged to
their clubs, for the reason that the
ante slace population could get no
Offices as long as the first mentioned
classes were among them.


These proceedings raised the dev-
| ills own trouble among them and
they are now at dag;gers points.
Since tue occurrence Of these trans
actions among the GRANTEES Greeley
clubs have received large accessions
Of both white and black.


Charles Summers letter fell like q
bomb" among the GRANTEES here.
First came Banks letter which Gre
ated a confusion among them and
then that of Charles Sumner threw
the whole line into demoralized
state of bewilderment such as no
commander could overcome even did
he resort to the most stringent mill
tary discipline.


I tell you Mr.. Editor, the Liberal
party is no myth in the land and he
who thinks so must be either very
stupid or deficient in an optic point
Of view. Greeley and Brown will be
elected, and Louisiana will be re-
deemed from the band of ignorance,
stupidity and corruption which has
bound and disgraced her for some
years past.
The Liberal triumph in North
Carolina is the very note to the gen
eral result in this campaign. Mark
the prediction.


This week has started ,in with
lovely weather-cool breezes fan the
brow, bright sun shine adds brillian-
cy to the glory and enchantment ol
this paradise like home. From the
country glad tidings drift in like the
chirping Of the sweep woodland
songsters that please the ear and
gladden. the heart with brighter
hopes for the family purse. Corn
will be abundant with q majority o1
the planters, cotton will do we'll pro-
yided the worms do not come in
numbers more numerous than now
and the cane is doing tolerable well.
A tolerable fair crop Of sugar may be
counted on in this parish notwith-
standing the great detriment done
stubble and seed cane by the hard
frosts of last winter.
Year: 1872

The following from Horace Greeleys pen
is presented as a specimen of his talent for
poetry. II was written by him at twenty
three years of age:


''Rouse not the muf1ed drum,
Wake not the martial trumpets 3 mournful
sound
For him whose mighty voice il death is
dumb;
Who, in the zenith of his high renOwn,


10 tue grave went down.


'Invoke no caunou's breath
To swell the requiem 0 er his ashes poured
Silently bear him 10 the house Of death;
The aching hearts by whom he was adored.


He won not with the sword.


''Nol let afliction's tear
BE the sole tribute to his memory paid;
Earth has no monument so justly dear
To souls like his in purity arrayed-


Never to fade.
- 81 loved thee. patriot Chief
| battled proud beneath thy banner pure;
Mine is the breast of woe-the heart Of grief
Which suffer on unmindful Of cure


Proud 10 endure.


'But vain The voice Of wall
For thee, for this dim vail OF sorrow fed
Earth has no spell whose magic shall moi
fail
To light the gloom that shrouds thy narrow


bed


Or WOO tnee from the dead.


Then take thy long repose
Beneath the shelter of the deep green sod;
Death but d brighter halo Ger the throws,
Thy fame, thy soul alike have spurned the
clod-


DRest thee in God
Year: 1872

In bygone days there was phrase
used by courts in ordering sales, and to
prevent the auctioneer hastily disposing
of articles to favor bidders, to preclude
which it was required that the article, if
Of great value, should be up for eonpe-
ttion during the time required by can
die TO burn one inch; but where articles
were not of value equal to that of the
candle consumed, snch formality was dis
pensed with, hence the applicability and
use of The term to anything of insignlfi-
cant consideration-"not worth the can
die" In the earlier colonial records Of
Pennsylvania will be found a decree of
court condemning piratical craft which
had been captured, to which is annexed
the order "that she be sold By the inch
of candle" The antiquity of the usage
is doubtless much greater than illustra-
tions our country can present.
Year: 1872

According to all accounts, King Am


adeus of Spain is the least unostenta-
tious of the monarchs of Europe, with
the exception of the King of Sweden


Like him he takes pride in being cit


izcn king. Several of his subjects main
tain a more costly establishment and
support more elegant equipage. From
the sum voted for the support of the royal
household, he defrays the expense of his
journeys, pays the pension Of the de-
throued Queen, repairs the national pala--
ces and assists in carrying on several
public works. The remainder he gives
to the poor of Madrid. He shows no
greed for money like Queen Victoria, nor
is he laying up fortune for rainy day
as the last French Emperor did. He dis.
cards all strong drink, wine, coffee and
tea, and perhaps is the first king who
limited his drink to cold water. He uses
no tobacco and does not indulge in gam


ing He rides out with two horses with
only single attendant. His manners are
those of quiet gentleman, and be shows
little regard to rank and title. he Is
Year: 1872

The mark which persons who are un-
able to write are required to make in-
stead of their signatures, is in the form
of cross; aud this practice, having
formerly been followed by kings and
mobiles, Is constantly referred to as an in
stance of the deplorable ignorance Of
ancient times. This signature is not,
however, invariably proof of such ig
norance. Ancieutly the use of the mark
was not confined to illiterate persons; for
among the Saxons the mark of the cross,
as an attestation of the good faith OF
the persons signing, was required to be
attached to the signature of those who
could write, as we'll as to stand in the
place of the signature of those who
could not write. In those times, if a
man could write, or even read, his kuowl
edge was considered proof presumptive
that be was IN holy orders. The clericus,
or CLERK, was synonymous with penmaD;
and the lalty, or people who were not
clerks, ala not feel any urgent necessity
for the use OF letters. The ancient use
of the cross was therefore universal, alike
by those who could aud those who could
not write; 1t was, indeed, the symbol of
an oath, from its sacred associations. as
we'll as the mark generally adopted
Hence the origin of the expression,
"God save the mark, as form of ejac.
ulation approaching the character of an
oath.
Year: 1872

GEN Joe Johnstons history of his
campaigns during the war is nearly ready
for the press. Southern papers say he
confines himself to his own operations.
bat the conduct of highAssivil officers OF
the Confederate Government, so far as
they relate to his command, will necessa
rily come up for discussion, and we may
look for some interesting revelations and
criticism.