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Year: 1872

HIS CoNvIcTIoNs.-Napolean had earn
est ideas of life, to say the least. "Do you
dread the war as endangering my life p
he asked. 1t was thus that in the times
of conspiracy, attempts were made to
frighten me about Georges. He was said
to be every where upon my track: that
the wretched being was to fire at me.
Well suppose he had. He would at the
utmost have killed my aid .de-camp. But
to kill me was impossible. Had I at that
time accomplished the DEGREES of fate
l feel myself impelled toward goal, OF
which l am ignorant. The moment
have reached it, as soon as | am no longer
of service, an atom then will suffice to put
me down. But till then all human efforts
will avail nothing against me. Whether
am in Paris, or with the army, is there
fore quite Indifferent. When my hour
comes, fever. or fall from my horse in
hunting, will kill me as effectually as
a bullet. Our days are numbered"
Year: 1872

Lou.
There's little joyous-hearted girl, to see whom
is a blessing,
That lives square or two from us, upon our
quiet street
Her merry face is bright beyond the painters
sweet expressing,
And trippingly as dactyls move her tiny,
twinkling feet
She seems as if she had never known childish
care,
And the soft October sunshine is tangled in
her hair.
Above the din of noisy girls catch her radiant
laughter,
Beneath the dusky indens on the long, long
summer days,
And see her foremost in the romp, with dozens
running after
The first beam glancing through cloud
chased by troop of rays.
'Tis but poor similtude-the bravest would
not do
For music, perfume, starlight, all sem COM
monplace for Lou!
At morning, when, with many books, meet
her on the way to
Her school, / often wonder what they teach
my little friend;
The lessons she herself might teach are wiser
far tEan Plato
Simplicity and truth, the means to mpass
wisest end;
But much wish the privilege as tutor might
claim
To ask her softly aimez-rOaS? and hear her
answer fame.
And sometimes when at church l see her
happy, trustful features,
tender, wayward thought will come be-
tween me and the psalm,
That like to such q little child must all we
erring creatures
In simple-minded faith appear, with passions
hushed and calm,
Before the Eternal Truth shall break upon our
sight so dim
For such an one the Savior saw, and bade come
unto Him!
Year: 1872

Thomas Jefferson wrote the fol- /
lowing excellent advice. There is
much human nature and good sense
in it: t-s


"Harmony in the human state is
the very first to be aimed at. Moth
ing can preserve affections uninter
rupted but firm resolution never to !
differ in will, and determination |
in each to consider the love of otheTs
of more value than any object whist
ever on which wish had been fixed.
How light, in fact, is the sacrifice OF
of any other wish when weighed
against the affections of one with
whom we are to pass our whole lie F!
And though opposition in single
instance will hardly of itself pro-
duce alienation, yet every one has
their pouch into which all these ut
tie oppositions are put; while that Is
filing the alienation is insenslbly 60
inc on, and when filed it is COM.
olete. It would puzzle either to say
why, BECAUSE no one difference Oh
opinion mas been marked enough to
produce q serious effect by itself
But he finds his affections wearled
out by constant dream OF little
checks and obstacles. Other sources
of discomfort, very common indeed
are the little cross purposes OF nus
band and wife, in common CONVERSE
ton, disposition in either to crltl-
else and question whatever the other
saws. a desire always to demonstrate
and make him feel himself IN the


wrong, especially in company. Moth
ing is SO goading. Much better,
therefore, if our companion views a
thing in light different from what
we do. leave him in quiet possession,
4 of his views. What is the use OF


rectifying him if the thing be unlm-


portant; let it pass for the present
and wait softer moment and more


conciliatory occasion Of reversing


the subject together 1t IS wonder,
| full how many persons are rendered


unhappy by inattention to these ut
4 tie rules of prudence
Year: 1872

The use of soda for washing linen
is very injurious to the tissue ami inn
parts to it a yellow color. In Ger
many and Belgium the following
mixture is now extensively and ben
efcially used: lbs. of soap are dis
solved in about gallons of water as
hot as hand can bear it; then next is
added to this fluid three large sized
tablespoonfuls of liquid ammonia
and one spoonful of best oil of tur-
pentine. These fluids are incorpor-
ated rapidly by means of beating
them together with small birch
broom. The liuen is then soaked
in this liquid for three hours, care
by a closely fitting wooden cover
By this means the linen IS thorough
ly cleansed, saving much rubbing,
time and fuel Ammonia does at
feet the linen or weolen goods, and
is largely used as a liquor IN the
North of England.
Year: 1872

There was once a Bavarian duke
by the name of Christoph, who visit
ed pretty regularly little church in
some obscure village, to join with
the devout peasants in prayer, and
being very kind and sociable man,
took pleasure in speaking to every
man of the low class, whosoever
chanced to meet him.


One day he met an old man by
the name of Lorenz, from Merzing,
and being much pleased with this
mans intelligent conversation said
to him, on parting. that he would
take much pleasure in doing him
some favor, and whenever his assist
ance could be OF any service to him
he should find the prince alwSys
: : ;:eseSv to help him.
- ? s'sllz Z -reFt Lorenz, our
highness could not do me a greater
favor than you have already doneato
ne; you have brought the greatest
blessing upon me and my family
that ever could be bestowed upon
us"


How could that happen ?" asked
Chrstoph; do not recollect that 1
ever had an opportunity to do you
favor"


Well, said the old man, ssI new
er embraced the opportunity to tell
your highness under how great an
obligation ] am to you, because you
saved my son from his career to
eternal perdition. He was a drunk
ard-a Vry dissipated young man
always ready for the perpertration of
any crime. Ore day, lettering about
he saw You, my gracious Duke, en-
ter the church This stirred his Gu
riosity; he wanted to know what you
were going to do there in that place,
which he so much despised But
when he saw and heard your devo-
ton he became so deeply affected
that he prayed for the forgiveness of
his sins, and from that very hour
became an altered man. This heav-
emily blessing I owe to your instru-
mentality, for what neither my ad-
monition, nor my rebukes, nor my
prayers could achieve, that have you
accomplished by your pious exam
pie
Year: 1872

A SUPERsTITIoUs LAMPLIGHTER.-A
funny story was told at late meeting OF
the Polytechnic Branch Of the American
Institute, which is reported in the En9t-
neerin9 and Mining Journal. A new
man was sent to lighthouse, and his first
experience was to get frightened at his
own reflection in the plato glass. Next,
as he was cleaning the lantern toward
sunset, the level rays of the sun were ac-
cidently focused on the wick by one OF
the lenses, and the astonished tyro be-
held the lamp suddenly lighted by an
unseen keeper. The next morning he
extinguished the light, which soon after
calmly famed up again from the same
cause and the man, taking TO his boat,
abandoned the light house service forev
er. This shows that even the compare
lively simple mechanism now employed
may be above the comprehension Of the
men we have to employ, and it is not to
be wondered at If the oil-lamp remain.
for long time to come the basis Of oul
and other lighting systems.
Year: 1872

On her landing (from the Clydnus), she
invited Antony and his generals to dim
ner, at which the whole of the dishes set
before him were pure gold, set with prec-
ious stones, and the twelve couches were
ornamented with purple and gold. On
Antony's praising the splendor of the
sight, as surprising anything he had seen
before, she said it was triAe, and begged
he would accept the whole as gift from
her. The next day he again dined with
her, and brought a larger number OF
friends and Generals, and of course was
surprised at the costliness which made
that of the day.before seem as nothing
and she gave him the whole of the gold
upon the table, and gave each Of his
friends the couch upon which he sat-
These costly and delicious dinners were
continued every day, and one evening,
when Antony playhlly demonstrated
with her for such wastefulness, and said
it was not possible TO fare in more cost
ly manner, she told him the dinner Of
the next day should cost ten thousand
sestertia, or sixty thousand pounds ster-
ling. This he would not believe, and laid
her wager that she would fail in her
promise. The dinner was grand and
dainty as those of former days but when
Antony called on her to count up the
cost of the meats and wines, she did not
reckon them, but that she would banquet
on the ten thousand sestertia. She wore
in her ears two pearls, the largest known
in the world, which, like the diamonds Of
European Kings, had come with her
crown and kingdom, and were together
valued at that large sum. On the SER
wants removing the meats, they set before
her glass of vinegar, and she took one
of these pearls from her ear and dropped
it into the glass, and when dissolved drank
it of. Placus, one Of the guests, who
had been made judge Of the wager,
snatched the other from the Queens ear,
and saved it from being drank up like
the first declaring Antony had lost his
bet.


This pearl which was saved, was after
wards cut in two and made into pair Of
earrings for the statue of Venus, in the
Pantheon Mt Rome, and the fame of the
wager may be said to have made the two
half pearls rs valuable as the two whole
ones
Year: 1872

THE Norwegians will soon celebrate
the one thousandth anniversary Of their
nations independence, by the dedication
of monument to the warrior Harold,
who won their freedom. The monument
will be a sensible aflair-a lighthouse at
the hero's grave, on one Of the most dan
gerous points Of the Norwegian coast
This monument will be at once grand,
useful and appropriate an honor to the
dead and boon to the living MARINER
Ole Bull will contribute about $40, 900 to
the erection OF this lighthouse-the OBJ
ject of his professional visit to San Fran
cisco two or three years ago, being to
make money for that purpose.
Year: 1872

IT costs nothing to record mortgage
in Russia, one dollar in Germany, three
dollars in France, and five dollars in Ita-
ly. In Turkey no property owner can
give a mortgage on his real estate. When
he obtains money on it he has to obtain
permit from the magistrate of his city or
town, and he sees to it that he pays MS
creditor at the appointed time. A Rus
sian emaneipated serf cannot sell his
property except when the whole OF the
tax payers in his community allow him
10 do SO.
Year: 1872

AN Indiana woman got large number
Of signatures to a petition for the release
of her husband from prison. On her trip
around, she met another man who suited
her better, and SO burned the petition.
and will claim the divorce which the law
gives her in such = case.
Year: 1872

As the California earthquake approach


ed, a young lady improved the opportun-
ity 10 faint away in her lovers arms, it
being the first time either had dared to
establish such propinquity. She did
not recover for twenty minutes or more,
and the young gentleman took vast
oath on the morrow that he would give
twenty dollars shock for earthquakes.
Year: 1872

AccIDENr.-Jacob Metcalf, a carpenter in the
employ Of Stephen Postles y Son. while working
on the roof of a back building, this morning, fell
through the roof where it had been partially
sawed on, receiving severe cut in the head and
otLer injuries. Medical aid was at once sum
moued and the wound dressed
Year: 1872

sE- The Ladies Pro1sHlneiaPent0 while protest.
ing against all the old wort Jess Dentrltlces nov in
the market, the ladies', with one CONSENT have
adopted the SOzOdOnt as the one thing needfu 10
insure tho integrity OF the teeth and fragrant
breath
Year: 1872

see the lady Of his love taking dehci-
ols drives with her brave rcseucr,
while the two governors, from their
seats on the piazza of the Ocean ilo-
tel, winkel knowingly at one another.
Then he returned to this city giving
up all as lost.


THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.


The Liberal Republican clubs Of this
city generally have their rooms over or
under whisky shops. Thisis economical
and convenient and they now know
the only way they can keep their
spirits up is to put Il little down,


A meeting of the Liberals was called
here the other evening, and there was
not enough in attendance to transact
business, and they left in disgust.
Greeleyism is decidedly ihlle IN this
city.
Year: 1872

"of the country are in full sympathy with the
"objects of the Peace Society,"" and that even
Gen. Grant, whether he may be considered as
still "a leading man" or not, "is as firm
" friend of peace as there is in the country"
But there might be such a thing as peace at
home as well as peace with foreign nations; !;
and of the former we have hardly had sur
felt during the last four years. The whole pol
icy of the President and of his immediate
personal supporters has been anything but
peaceful. They have undertaken to live and
to thrive as a party by fostering spirit OF
uncompromising antagonism between the North
and the South. He has sedulously cultivated
the passions and resentments of the civil war,
and in the work of restoring the Union has
relied mainly upon military rather than upon
moral force. We do not know that Gen. Grant
is particularly desirous of war, but he has not
exhibited any particular ability in keeping out
of it. Under such circumstances, if the Ameri-
can Pelce Society and Mr.. Gilmore can both
together do anything to promote more pacific
state o, things, we trust that they will join
forces and play and preach together.
Year: 1872

Onr attention has been called to o recent
decisim by Commissioner Douglass, in re-
lation to the tax on tobacco, which seems
extraordinary and unjustifable. The Tariff
and Tax bill recently passed by Congress fixed
the tax on tobacco, after July 1, at 20 cents
per found, instead of 16 and 80 cents as here
tofon. The same bill provided that all
"tolacCo and snuff now stored in any export
"boided warehouse shall, on and after
"Juk 1, 1872, be subject to the same
" tax as lis provided by this act" The
question somehow arose, what tax should
be paid on tobacco stored in bonded ware
house, in the interval between June 8, the
date Of the passage of the act and July I, the
date at which the reduction goes into effect
The answer would seem TO be obvious enough
that such tobacco, from and after July 1,
should be subject to the reduced rates. In
deed, there is no authority in the bill to collect
the old taxes on any tobacco after the 1st Of
July. In spite Of the extreme simplicity of the
case here presented, Commissioner Douglass
has decided that all tobacco bonded between
June and July 1, and withdrawn for con-
sumption after the new law goes into effect,
must pay the old taxes of 39 and 1G cents!


Mr.. Douglass bases this remarkable decision
on the words of the bill which we quoted
above" all tobacco and snuff now stored in
"any export bonded warehouse" &c. To-
bacco put in store on June 90 does not come
under the head of tobacco stored at the date
of the passage of the bill hence it must pay
the old rates. To show the absurdity of this
decision, let us suppose three lots of tobacco
to be bonded, the first on the 5th of June, the
second on the Goth of June, the third on the
9Th of july and all to be withdrawn and the
taxes paid Oh the 1st of August. According
to this ruling of the Commissioner the to-
bacco stored on the 5th of June and 9Th OF
July would pay 90 cents and that stored on the
Goth of June would pay either 12 cents more or
cents less, according as it fell within the first
or second class of the old law. This is plainly
in direct contradiction of the spirit of the
new law, and not at all warranted, we submit,
by anything in its letter. We may add that
this arbitrary construction of the act was not
known or suspected by any one in the tobacco
trade until seven days after the passage OF
the law. Many thousands of pounds OF to-
bacco were stored in the mean time, which the
owners, to their great surprise, now find bur-
dened with an extra tax of IL cents per pound.
The only way of getting rid of this seems to be
to export the tobacco to the nearest foreign port,
and then to bring it back again. AS this can be
done for two or three cents pound, 1t Is not
at all likely that the United States Will gain
anything by the veXatious decision OF Athe
Commissioner
Year: 1872

they accepted the supplemental article, whioh
was an explicit confession of sharp practice in
our Case. England, dissatisfied Win
the Senate's amendments, refused 10
90 before the Board of Arbitration without
still further guarantees against any more
cheating. And after few preliminary pre-
lenses of resistance, our Government agrees
TO this also, on the ground that "we must
"give England no excuse for withdrawing
" from the Arbitration"


The Treaty has already failed. 1t cannot
now accomplish the work that all generous
men hoped for when it was framed. All its
moral value has been frittered away by petty
and undignifed pickering on both sides. 1t
may end at last in our gaining a
few millions of money at the sacrifice
of every shred of dignity and self-respect.
But this will be worse than if it had never
been. At every new wrangle, some addi-
tional fetter upon our future liberty of action
is forged. The Treaty has become so
important, in the eyes of the Pres
ident, that the past and the future
are alike to be offered up to it. Tho longer
its final settlement is delayed, the more we
are now likely to lose by it, unless the whole
matter is taken out of the incompetent hands
which have brought it where it is.
Year: 1872

There have been wild and improbable ru-


mors afoat for several days about the firm


and unyielding attitude of our Government in


regard to the British demand for the post
ponement of the Arbitration at Geneva. 1t
has been said that Gen. Schenck had received a


dispatch announcing the unalterable inten-
ton of our Government to yield nothing
more; that Mr.. Bancroft Davis had been in
structed to say in the Conference what was
thought in Washington of the recent conduct
of the British Government. 1t really looked
for a moment as if our Government, hunted
to corner, had turned at last. But we print
this morning semi-Offcial dispatch from
Washington which, doubtless, contains the re-
suit of the Cabinet meeting yesterday in re-
gard to the question at Geneva. And this
news has the same pale color of all which
preceded it. We surrender once more. Our
Government will not oppose the English de-
mand for postpOnement. We will not
Join in it, but the British Govern
ment want it, and if it is refused they will
retire from the Arbitration. Our Government
is resolved to do nothing which will give the
English Cabinet any excuse for withdrawing.
| This idea has become a monOmana with Gen.
Grant and Mr.. Fish, They seem incapable OF
! the exercise of their reasoning faculties
when confronted with the awful possibility OF
the failure of the Treaty. To prevent this
Year: 1872

Recent advices from China say that the
young Emperor will probably be married on
the 10Th of October next and soon after
ascend the throne The event will no noted
with some anxiety by those nations which have
large commercial interests in China, as the policy
of the new Emperor relative to foreigners
may be more or less liberal than that OF
Prince Kung and the Empress Dowager


Croakers profess to see evil signs in the fact
that the future Empress has been chosen from
the family of a high official of the Empire
opposed to foreign influence; but this choice
is more likely to be the result Of accident
than of design. In Japan, on the other hand,
a cheerful feeling prevails among the foreign
residents on account of the favorable prospect
of opening the tea districts to general trade
The Japanese have shown marvellous WILL
ingness to meet foreign advance half way
and now that a desire to have the whole
country open to trade is made manifest the
expectation that the tea districts will be thus
relieved from restrictions is natural one.
Year: 1872

HIS FRIENDS sERENADE HIN AND III RESPONDS


WITH A sPERCH-HE WILL SUPPORT GRANT


AND WILSON.


SOUTH BEND, Ind, June 1S.-Vice-Presdent
Cofax and family arrived here this morning early
train About O'Clock this evening his friends assem-
bed in the Courthouse square TO the number Of
1000 or 5000, and accompanied by band proceeded
to his residence lie loudly cheered and addressed
his friends in half hours speech In the Of s
remarks he said that when leading and prominent Re
prbcans insisted that he bad right TO fix tho time
when his public life should terminate aud
that IL would be selfish and wrong for him
to refuse the use of his name, II the party desired
the old ticket he had yielded 10 that appeal But when
a majority OF the Convention determined that 1t would
strengthen the ticket 70 nominate another promptly
teegraphed his adhesion to the new ticket. lie would
have been faithless indeed after having been a
candidate before the Convention II he had not He
spoke OF the principles that had controlled his whole
political life He had sought 10 lift up the downrodden
and to liberty protection, and equality under the
law to ALL and he rejoced that one now throughout
the land dared openly oppose these principles. lie
added that be had determined that throughout
his term no temptation Of any kind should induce bin to
drift into antagOnsm rivalry to the President ana
that his name should not become IN any way
a nucleus OF disaffectiOn wedge OF us
cord Whenever he differed as to the pub
lie policy. he preferred rather 10 counsel
privately than Dy puOno pfopest 10 a"ahoD VI '''""'
dscord While constantly urging unity, harmony
and conoliation, as political necessities, TO keep
party Of 100000 united and victorious, no
lamented all dissentiOns, and welcoming tho
season Of rest and quiet before MN
instead OF the care labor and responsibility Of The past
20 years he said be should prove in the homee he eA
nec.ed 10 enjoy with the people who had gwen hn sneA
lifelong attachment that he earnest ana con
sistent Republican in private life as when ID puDho
station. ,-- -


MIR Colfaxs speech was followed by hearty cheers oI
bimse and then for Grant and COlaX, tncn FOR CRAM
and WilsOn-after which the crowd dispersed