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Year: 1876

GENERAL BoYNToN, Of the Cincinnati
Commercial states boldly, and without any
fear of contradiction, that Senator Conkliug
advocates Grant for Third term. This
man the humor Of fashion and the mould
of form, says that Grant is the most avail
able person for the Republican party, and
is just so positive of the White House, al
the street car conductor is of his salary.
Year: 1876

TIE Milford Ntws is indignant that the
HERALD uses matter without credit. This
is rather cheeky, considering that the Nssss
every week publishes more than half It's
matter CLEANED from other papers without
line OF credit. When We publish our
State news we give general credit in the
usual line, "From our weekly exchanges"
Year: 1876

The Lives Injured " the Society are carefully
selected In different parts of North America and
Europe furnishing, by this broad field of opera.
TONS an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy holders. The Insurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1876

aud have endured this outrage without
resistance. If they had persisted II
seeking an entrance into their State
house, there would have been violence.
If the rejected representatives bad at-
tempted 10 pass the sentinel az the
door, they would have been thrust
back by the bayonet If the crowd
sbout the building had shouted Break
open the door. and rushed forward,
they would have been fred into. They
took the wiser course They preferred
TO leave the responsibility Of resorling 10
the bayonet upon those who used ii 70
decide political question. They pre-
terred an appeal 10 the good sense and
just intentions Of the people Of the
United States. and in this the people
will sustain them, we mean the people
of all parties, for the Republicans. IL
they are wise, will make haste to dis
claim all connivance with an act,
which if not condemned BY the goner-
al voice of their party viii be quoted
against them as long as that party shall
have an existence
Year: 1876

When the ablest jurist of America,


in many respects at least, the ablest,
wrote his thirteenth lecture Of his COM
mentaries on American law, the spirit
of prophecy fell upon him and he
foretold the peril Of this hour when
the government hangs upon the decia-
ion and trembles in the balance. His
words sound like the sunset Of life
had given him mystical lore and conf
ing events had cast their shadows be-
fore, when we view them in the light
Of present current events. We quote
his language -NasheiHe Anserican.


If ever the tranquility of this nation
is TO be disturbed and its liberties en-
dangered BY struggle for power, it
will be upon this very subject Of the
choice OF a President, This is the
question that is eventually to test the
goodness and try the strength of tho
Constitution and II we shall be able.
for half century hereafter, to con-
tinue to elect the Chief Magistrate Of
the Union, with discretion, modera-
ton, and integrity, we shall undoubt-
edly stamp the highest value on our
national character, and recommend
our republican institution, if not TO
the Imitation, yet certainly to the os-
TEEN and admiration Of the more en-
lightened partof mankind. The Con-
stltution does not expressly declare by
whom the votes are TO be counted and
the result declared. In the case Of
questionable votes and closely con-
tested election, this power may be an
important, aud / presume, in the alb
senee ofall legislative provision on the
subject, that the President of the SEN
ate counts the votes and determines
the result, and that the two Houses are
present only as spectators 10 witness
the fairness aud accuracy Of the trans
action, and TO act only If no choice be
made by the electors.
Year: 1876

Take sheet of stiff writing paper and
fold it into tube an inch in diameter.
Apply it to the right eye and look stead
faatly through it, focusing the eye on
any convenient object; keep the left eye
open. Now place the left hand, held
palm upward, edgeways against the side
of the paper tube, and about an inch or
two above its lower end The astonish-
ing effect will be produced of hole,
apparently Of the size of the cross sec
ton of the tnbe, made through the left
hand. This is the hole in which we
propose to materialize another and
smaller hole. As we need genuine
aperture, and it would be inconvenient
to make one in the left hand, let a sheet
of white paper be substituted therefore
and similarly held. Just at the pant Of
the paper where the hole equalling in
diameter the orifce of the tube appears,
make an opening inch in diameter
Now stare intently into the tube; and
the second hole, defined by its difference
of illumination, will be seen floating in
the first hole, and yet both will be trans.
parent. The illusion, for course it ii
one of those odd pranks our binoculal
vision plays upon us, is certainly one o
the most curious ever devised. Besides
here Is the actual hole clearly visible
and yet there is no solid body to be seel


to define its edges. 1t is not mer


spot of light, because, if page of prin
be regarded, the lines within the boun


daries of the little hole will not coincid
| at all with those surrounding it and ex


tending to the edges of the large appar
{ ent aperture. Each eye obviously trans
. mits an entirely different impression I


the brain and that organ, unable to dis


entangle them, lands us in the palpabl
absurdity of materiallzed hole.-
D Scientific American.
Year: 1876

The Empress or Brazil has presented
the Queen of England with dress the
equal of which has never been seen. It
is woven OF spiders webs, and is, as may
be imagined, work OF art as regards
quality and beauty. The handsomest
silk cannot compare with it, but it can
only be admired and hardly initiated
There have already been many attempts
to make use of the threads spun by spi-
ders, but up to the present the expert
merits have not been satisfactory enough
to encourage any further efforts in this
direction. In the year 1710 it was dis
covered that to make piece of silk it
would require the webs of 100000 spi-
ders The Spaniards had already tried
to use the spiders threads, and made
gloves stockings, and other articles of
the sort, but even these were so trouble
some and yielded SO little profit that, in
spite of the fabulous prices paid, they
were obliged to abandon the trade In
certain parts of South America garments
made of these threads are worn, but the
spiders in these lands are unusually
large. 1t is likely that the above men.
toned dress was made of the threads o.
the smaller species of American spider
There is therefore, some hope that ths
time is not far distant when, thanks Il
the progress of modern industry, fash
| ionable ladies may have the satisfaction
of wearing elegant silks of the same de
| licate texture
Year: 1876

The most universal cause of dyspep-
sia is eating too often, too fast, and too
much. The general rules should be:


l. Eat thrice day.


2. Not an atom between meals.


8. Nothing after two o'clock but a
slice of cold bread and butter and one
cup of hot drink.


f. Spend half an hour at least in TAX
ing each meal.


5. Cut up all meats and hard food in
pea sized pieces.


6. Never eat enough to cause the
slightest uncomfortable sensation after
ward


7. Never work or study hard within
half an hour of eating.


The most universal and infallible in
dication that person is becoming dys-
peptic is some uncom Portable sensation
coming on uniformly after each meal
whether that be in the stomach, throat
or anywhere else. The formation oi
wind in the stomach, indicated by eruc.
tation, belching, or otherwise, demon
strates that dyspepsia is fixing itself il
the system. Then there is only ont
course to pursue, and that is infallible
eat less and less at each meal, until n,
wind is generated and no uncomfortable
sensation experienced in any part of tn
body. No medicine ever cured confirm
ed dyspepsia, eating plain food regular
ly and living out of doors industriousl
will cure most cases
Year: 1876

Eggs can be cooked by the extreme of
cold as we'll as by the extreme Of heat.
Butter can be made like ivory go that it
can be burned. We may by the agency
of this solidify many of the other liq-
uid substances, and, indeed, many Of
the gaseous, but more intense degree
Of cold is used when We employ laugh
ing gas. This laughing gas, which is
heavy, is carbonic acid; when squenzed
forcibly by the pump it becomes as
beautiful and pellucid as carbonic acid,
and if allowed to remain produces a
more intense degree of cold. We can
however, show the liquid. We have a
glass lamp, and place over the lamp a
platina dish, we placing some of this
mixture Of solid carbonic acid, and in
the middle Of il introduce the mercury
would freeze, showing that we have a
cold at least 40 degrees below zero. We
used to make an experiment. such as
melting lead intensely hot. and ther
putting the hand in and lading it from
one vessel to another; for il, in lien o
this. gou take quantity of melted iron
you can plunge your hand into it will
impnnity, and workme1 have been abl
to walk on bed of melted iron. TAX


poker and put it on hot coal FIRE. ge
it very hot. and you may lift it or wip


it on the tongue with impunity. w


NAV have it so hot that the vapor &C


inally protects u.s. Scientific American
Year: 1876

Col. S. D. Harris in the Country Gen.
tleman, condemns the usual practice of
farmers leaving a drying COW alone as
soon as the milk shrinks so as not to fill
the bag once day or once in two days.
He says: "The little milk which is se-
creted must be taken away, or it will
work mischief in the organs of the I'D
der too serious to be overlooked by the
careful dairyman. 1t is one of the pro-
cesses of nature that when matter of this
kind is deposited (unless it be in large
quantity, il must be soon removed, or it
is re-absorbed into the system; and when
matter is once perfected, as in the case of
milk, it is no longer congenial to the
system, and if not taken away it becomes
a deleterious element for re absorption,
poisoning instead of feeding the animal.
Thus, you will find IN the udder of cows
thus affected, hard Jumps near the base
id6cation of putrid milk, left there IN
drying up the COW the season before, and
the COW will never get over it; but when
these organs encounter any difficulty in
the season of flush milk, this lump will
be the nucleus of Inflammation, just like
thief who is already secreted in a
house, ready to help another who is to
break in from the outside. To be free
from all such troubles, the cow should be
carefully watched for weeks and months
after the regular milking is stopped, and
tie teats tried to see if there is milk tC
be taken away. This operation is to b,
performed at irregular intervals, so as no
to invite regular secretion of milk, un
til the milk vessels cease to lead any
thing in that direction"
Year: 1876

Sidney Smith cut the following from
a newspaper and preserved it for him
self:


"When You rise in the morning form
the resolution to make the day a happy
one TO fellow w-creature. 1t is easily
done; left-of garment to the man who
needs it; kind word to the sorrowful:
an encouraging expression to the striv-
ing-trifes in themselves as light as air
will do at least for the twenty -four
hours. And if you are young, depend
on it, it will tell you when you are old
and if you are old, rest assured it will
send you gently and happily down the
stream to eternity. By the most simple
arithmetical sum, look at the result. Il
you send one person away happily
through the day, that is three hundred
and sixty.fve in the course of year
And suppose you live forty years onl!
after you commence that course of med
icine, you have made fourteen Thousand
and six hundred persons happy-at al
events for a time.
Year: 1876

The real mistake at the root of mod |
ern architecture is the sentimental arch


Geology which seems to have absolutely |
taken possession of it, and of which Mr..
Fergusons receipt itself partakes, since
it, in reality, only suggests that going
back to the supposed habits of a former


age we can produce what the present age
wants. Even the engineers (who in


some ways stand, more nearly than any


other body of men, in the same position


in regard to the present day as the medi-


eval masons did to their own time) are


bitten by this, and when they wish to


make a structure ORNAMENTAL" they


have no idea but to dress it in some bor-


rowed plumes of classic or medieval


architecture. The influence of senti-


ment has been exhibited in a still more


curious manner in greet building, the
Albert Hall. This, which is the design
of engineers, is a rather remarkable


building, and exhibits some of the char
acteristics of work constructed on gen.


uine architectural principles. The de-


tails are coarse and commonplace, for it


seems impossible to beat into the head


of an engineer that some training and


education of the eye and the judgment


is necessary for the production of suita-


BILE and refined ornamental detail; but


plain, construction, and design from a


united and interdependent whole, arising


as they do in strictly logical manner


one out of the other The unfortunate


point is that the plan is utterly wrong


TO begin with, fe the purpose of the
} building; and it 20 entirely from th'


sentimental workship of precedent which
led the designer, instead of considerin,


what was the best plan for the purpose


to start with the idea of reproducing th'


Roman amphitheater, although mo
ment's consideration ought to have rem
: dered it evident, AS a mere matter of or
dinarv common sense, that the plan Of
= building Tor seating people round cls


cumference to witness spectacle in tn
: center should by no possibility furnia
:. the proper model for one in which the
y were to listen to music performed at on
= end of the building. But it is to sue


-incongruities that people are led throug
forgetting that architecture is not (e1
cept in very rare instances) pure ar
81 governed by aesthetic or sentimental col
e siderations; that is the artistic or effec
- i've expression of practical Requirement
60 which must govern and form the bas
:" Of the whole. It is in further emph
10 sizing this condition Of architecture tn
y the possibility of making it genuil


intellectual pursuit, and not mere to
= really conslsts.-[ Fortnightly Review.
Year: 1876

The express train was bowling along
at the rate of forty miles an hour on the
Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad,
near Huntington, Indiana, the other
day, when the whistle sounded, the air
brakes ereaked, and the cars were set
back with shock. The passengers ran
forward to learn the news. The grimy
fireman lay on the ground with broken
arm and bruised face, and in the grass
near him was little girl about three
years old with a torn dress. She had
been running along the track. and thu
brave fireman in leaping forward to saw
her was thrown aside and badly hurt
The child was terribly frightened, bu
uninjursd.
Year: 1876

tive that the husbands heart was turn
ing back in worship of the bride. But
the lamp was blazing up again; there is
a supply of oil. A beauty beyond any
bridal beauty invests the wife, and it
shall grow more womanly, more luxu-
RANT, more enchanting, as the days
succeed each other and years progress,
until the soul puts on her garments of
eternal youth.
Year: 1876

Friendship is good deal like china.
1t is very durable and beautiful a. long
as it is whole; but break it, and all the
cement in the world will never repair
the damage. You may stick the pieces
together so that, at distance, it looks
nearly as new as ever, but it won't hold
hot water. 1t is always ready to deceive
you if you trust it, and it il, on the
whole, a very worthless thing, fit only
to be put empty on a shelf and forgot
ten there. The finer and more delicate
it is, the more utter the ruin. A mere
acquaintance, which needs only little
ill-humor to break it up, may be coarse
ly puttied like that old yellow basin in
the store closet; but tenderness and trust,
and sweet exchange of confidence can
no more be yours when angry words and
thoughts have broken them, than can
those delicate porcelain teacups which
were splintered to pieces be restored to
tACAA CACCAlCHCC. Hc
crack will spoil the true ring, and you
had better search for new friend than
try to mend the old one. And all this
has nothing to do with forgiveness. One
may forgive and be forgiven, but the
deed has been done and the words said
the flowers and the gliding are gone
The formal making up" especially be
tween two women, is of no more avail
than the wonderful cements that havt
made a cracked ugliness of your chin,
vase that you expected TO be your 80,
forever" Delicately washed to purif,
in the waters of truth, confded to nj
careless unsympathizing hands, friend
ship may last two lives out; but it "doe
not pay" to try and mend it. Once bro


ken, it is spoiled forever.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of the Iowa Home
steod saps:


"Colt raisers, don't dose your young
colts to death with strong medicine, when
they take the scours. Just take string
(buckskIn or soft leather is the best), and
cord the tail as close up as you can con-
veniently; that will give relief in hall
an hour and cure in from six to twelve
hours. / have tried the same on two old
horses, and it cured them in few hours
and l have been told the same remedy i:
as good for calves, but have never tried
it myself. Let us try to do away with
strong medicines as much as we can."
Year: 1876

Especial to the New York Herald


LONDON, November 8, 1876.


The feeling that Rnssia is determined
to force on War is daily gaining
ground here; and people who had begun
to console themselves with the hope that
the dreaded struggle had been postpon-
ed. at least for the winter, are losing
heart again and making up their minds
that the worst is to come 1t is noted
by well informed people that Russia's
demands become more exorbitant at ev-
cry stage of the negotiations. As soon
as the Porte yields one point another
and still more humiliating condition
is laid down, and thus the conviction
gradually forces itself upon the public
mind that the time will soon come when
such conditions will be proposed as the
Porte must peremptorily reject. Then
the solution of the Eastern question
will naturally be left to the sword, and
the Turk must fight for existence


THE TURKS ASKED TO WITHDRAW
| FROM sERvIA


This evening comes the startling rum
or that Russia will demand the with
drawal of the Turkish troops from Ser
via, and if this should prove true there
can be little doubt that War is inevita
BILE. The demand is evidently intended
to precipitate a conflict, for no one can
imagine that Turkey will comply with
it. Compliance would mean revolution
and massacre from end to end of the
Turkish Empire, which would serve as
pretext for marching Russian army


into Turkey; 80 that the inevitable Wa


may as we'll be faced now while tn,


Ottoman troops are flushed with thei


victories over the Servians, and whil
. the mass of the people give vigorou
| support TO the Government at Constan
, tinople.


RUSSIAN POPULAR ARDoR FOR WAR.


ulS VI 1tussla 10 sdiu W OO a.
tributable to the fact the government c
g. the Car has found it necessary to yiel
to the general sentiment of the Russia
people for War, which has become S
intense that the authorities can no lons
" er restrain it,


WILL THE CZAR ABDICATE?
n The impression that the Gar intent
O to ablicate is once more gaining groun
= and if this event should take place
is would be looked upon as sure foreca
O of War. The Czarowitch is known
:. be the leader of the War party, and il
n generally believed that one of his fir
t. acts after ascending the throne would
e to draw the sword and proclaim crus
10 de against the Moslem.
Year: 1876

Joshua Green desires to inform the
public that his Coal is as good as the
best, and none of it as bad as the worst
and all cheaper than the cheapest to be
had at any other place in this County.


Price al the Bank cents per bushel,
and full so pounds to the bushel guaran-
teed. Call and see. Silver money not
refused. IL
Year: 1876

The reduction proposed by the


House in the Military Academy bill


was Sl33, ,479. This was made first by


reducing the salary of each Of the
cadets $50 per annum and the salaries
of the professors was reduced perhaps
SIC, 600 in the aggregate. The balance
Of the reduction is mainly made by
postponing the appropriation for the
completion Of important buildings at
the academy, the most important and
EXPENSIVE OF which is the hospital fol
the care and medical treatmsnt OF the
cadets, which by law and former ap-
propriatioE in accordance therewitt
has been commenced and its early
Year: 1876

amount appropriated last year was
little over $500, 600 more than this sum.
The Committee on Appropriation
does not know, nor does any member
of this House know, save two OF the
democratic members of the Printing
Committee, whether this sum is suf-
ficient or not. 1t is quite probable
that this estimate was made by the
proprietor OF the old Globe office, who
is desirous of recovering the printing
lost to him by the action Of former
Congress. The House will be called
upon next session for more than q
half million dollars to enable this Bu-
reau to perform the work ordered by
Congress, which was never so large.
1t must be borne in mind also tnat
the cost of printing the voluminOus
testimony taken by the numerous
committees of the House will prOba-
bly sdd not less than 500, 900 TO the
cost of the public printing.


ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.


Amount estimated, sI,944 SIS, and
the amount appropriated last year
81 .62S. 900, to which we had to add
this session q deficiency of Sl63,OOO.


Now it Is evident that large re-
ductioD can be made here because OF
the substitution of silver coin for frae-
tIonal currency, thereby obviating the
necessity OF printing the fractional
notes; although the sum appropriated
is not the SUN supposed to be necessary
by the officers in charge, yet 1t Is prob2-
bly, approximately so. This reduction,
whatever it may be, IS due to the &C
ton OF Congress ln substituting silver
for fractional currency, and not to
any economy Of the majority OF the
HOU5e