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Year: 1873

Go straight on, and don't mind enemisA
If they get in your way, walk round them re-
sardless of their spite. A celebrated charac-
ter who was surrounded by enemies used to
remark, "They are sparks which, If you do
not blow, will go out of themselves.n ''Live
down prejudice" was the Iron Dukes motto.
Let thi, be your feeling while endeavoriny to
live down the scandal of those who are bitter
against you. If you stop to dispute, YOU do
but as they desire, and open the way for more
abuse. Let the poor fellow talk-there win
be reaction if you do but perform your duty |;
and hundreds who were once alienated from
you will flock to you and acknowledge their
error.
Year: 1873

The man in Newport who recently married
cape, but that she reached the cars just in
time to nab him. Since his marriage he has
Joined the Methodist Church, and now de-
clares that the woman may do her worst, as
he is sure of rest 10 heaven.
Year: 1873

Going up and down in hotel elevators il
considered by physicians to be beneficial
exercise in some nervous disorders. An old
lady, whose physician prescribed the elevator
for her, without any special explanation, has
taken the advice literally, and now makes
herself frantic every day with brandy and So
da water
Year: 1873

Itis no secret that Professor Agassiz il q
strong opponent of the Darwinian theory of
natural selection. Not long ago he was In
troduced to a lady whom he was quite sure
of having met before. She told him that he
was mistaken. He laughingly repliei:
"Well, we have known each ether, but l
presume it was when we were both toadsP
Year: 1873

A Utica young lady, respectfully connect
ed, has been roaming through one of the
country towns of Oneida county, armed with
loaded revolver in search Of a false-hearted
lover. The Utica Herald says she has sworn
a terrible oath to shoot him on sight, and
publishes the fact in order to put those in
terested on their guard. But why should
the Herald man thus unprofessionally spoil a
tragic sensation?
Year: 1873

To comprehend mans life it is necessary
to know not merely what he does, but also
what he purpose,y leaves undone. There is
limit to the work that can be got out of a
human brain, and he is a wise man who
wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is
not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from
among the things that he can do well, chooses
and resolutely follows the best
Year: 1873

A young man in Utica city consratulates
himself on being instrumental in saving the
life Of at least one person. He took a young
lady to an entertainment the other evening,
and when be parted from her at the ice-bound
pate of the maternal mansion, she earpestly
entreated him not to mention to her mother
that he had been her escort, as should he do
so he would. bring the poor woman's gray
hairs in sorrow TO the grave. The young man
feels that he has saved life, but he doesn't
wait upon that young lady any longer.
Year: 1873

A domestic Pennsylvania named Dalrym-
pie found light employment for his evening
hours by the family fireside in filling torpe-
does with nitro-glycerine to clear out oil-wells'
and the neighbors have been ever since Wed
nesday last exploring the whole country ior
quarter of a mile around to find out wnere
his house stood, and to discover, If possioie'
portion of his family large enough to noio an
inquest on.
Year: 1873

under the New City Building in Lewiston. for the
term IF five years, would now say to the public that
wei nts to keep irst-class place in every respect
Our BIZ. ofFare shall be in keeping wi b the Portland
and Boston Markets. Those visiting Lewiston do not
forget to call at
Year: 1873

that was found out not to be man. II
happened in this way: ~,


There was brute of sailor in the fore.
castle who was always imposing on me; when
we were shoveling coal in the hold he made
me fill two baskets to his one; / was telling
this to the rest Of the crew after we were
done work he gave me the lie, and the re.
sultwas a knock. down fight between us; he
was the bigger, and he got the better Of me,
and I began crying. This led to suspicious
of my sex. I stoutly maintained that was
a man, but 1t was no use. The offair got to
the captains ears. " ia
Z, Now the captains wife was ON board, and
to him and her I was at last forced to con-
.fess my whole story. [ was soon habited as
d woman again, and engaged as stewardess
in the cabin for the homeward run. Stop.
ping some weeks at Malaga for cargo, the
bark landed finally at Aberdeen, whence I
came By train to Glasgow. ~


During the passage from Glasgow to New
York the hero and heroine of the foregoing
story has conducted herself in quiet, modest
way-except in the matter ofknocking down
the steerage passenger for insulting woman;
and, as for that, you never saw aquieter or
modester knock down in your life, Maggie
starts at once for New Jersey and her father.
Year: 1873

A Connecticut bridegroom created quite a
sensation at his nuptials recently, by appear
ing in pair of nee-breeches belonging to
his grandfather; and which, owing to the
briefness of the modern sock, left several
inches of bare veal exposed.
Year: 1873

AN ARABIAN CuRIosITY.-A singular
vegetable phenomenon was discovered during
recent explorations in Arabia. 1t is called
the laughing plant, from the effect produced
by the seeds. When they are puiverized
and eaten in small quantities the person eat
ing them will soon begin to laugh loudly,
then to sing, dance and do all manner Of
absurd things. This lasts for an hour, after
which he goes to sleep. and having slept an.
other hour, wakes up utterly unconscious of
what has occurred. 1t has been suggested
that this plant might be made substitute
for alcohol, and that it would have the ad-
vantage of being cheaper, until the govern
ment should see through the trick and com
mence to tax it. But it is scarcely probable
that the Arabian plant could in fact be
made popular in that capacity, for 1t does
not appear that it inspires the person who
partakcs of it with desire to whip his wife,
murder his mother or indulge in any of the
pleasantries that the alcohol Of tho period
moves one to perpctratc.
Year: 1873

The Louisville Ledger tells the following
story of canine sagacity: GA little black and
tan terrier belonging to Mr.. Newcomb had
followed member of the family to the drug
store of Dr. j. B. Barnum, corner of Fifth
and York streets, and while on the sidewalk,
great, overgrown cur jumped upon it and
broke one of its forelegs The howls Of
agony emitted by the poor little fellow at-
tracted the attention of DR.. Barnum, and at
his suggestion the dog was taken into his
store, and the doctor proceeded to set the
broken leg and splinter and bandage it, The
dog resisted the operation with all his power,
and snapped and howled the whole time
The dog was taken home, and after an abb
sence of four days returned to the store Of
its own accord, walked up to DR.. Barnum,
wagging its tail and whining, and held out
the broken leg for the doctors inspection,
An examination revealed the fact that the
bandages and splinters had become disar-
ranged, and were evidently causing great
pain. The doctor rearranged the dressings,
and the dog hoped away. Every day since
then the dog comes regularly to the store
and holds out its leg to the Doctor, as much
as to say, Look at that, Doctor, and see how
its getting along" The examination over,
the dog goes home. His leg is nearly well,
and it remains to be seen whether, like many
of the human race, as soon as he is well he
will forget the physician who healed him."
Year: 1873

Nothing mean about us, but we really don't care to have persons call on us, during work ing hours, and talk us almost to death, more especially when such persons are well aware that we have, at all times, more work on hand than we really care to do. To be brief, neither an editors sanctum, nor printing office, is proper place for gentlemen of leis- uro, or for loud and unnecessary talking.
Year: 1873

The telegraph builders are hurrying up the work A few weeks more and some of our people will be able to say Chow dye do" to their friends in other Territories and tho States Won't it be nice 2
Year: 1873

The Los Angeles Herald states that firm of its city are going to carry freight here, by wagon, at rates that will take the trade of this section to its city. This might be done i; never, we fear, by the firm that proposes to do if.
Year: 1873

HAPPY.-The San Diegans must walk tall, since the Union made the announcement that the hammer and nippers to be used in driv ing piles for the trestle-work of tho Texas and Pacific Railway along the water front, had arrived.
Year: 1873

A HEAD GARDENER, AT PRESENT ENGAGED ON
n one OF the best places in England and who has
qurcd thorough practical knowledge of the business
indoor and out In of the first places In that
try from al of which he can produce first class refer
p,city to any party IN the United States suitable
salary could undertake the laying out of place
In superior STYLE Please address, with full particulars
d. T. SMITH, Moorpark Farnham surry, England, for
Year: 1873

A GENTS WHO ARE WEARY AND SAD
"A Dom fret yourselves and get mad,


But try new thing never thought of BEFORE


And don't waste your time doing nothing no more.
$40 deposit A. YEOMAN, I46 Chatham street
Year: 1873

Never tell man that he is a liar.
unless you are certain that you can
lick him; for as a general rule. when
you say that, it means fight.


have arrived At this conclusion
through sad experience. l know
that il Is not safe 10 give the lie TO
q muscular Christian.


Ibid once. / am sorry for il now
as ] never grieved for anything else
in the whole course of my life.


We were standing on the sidewalk
in front of the club-rOom when |
made the statement. We had been
talking politics; and men who talk
politics, and who get over il are-to
put it mildly-lunatics or else want
an Office. This man made an asser-
ton touching the fame OF my favor
ite candidate, which l believed to
be untrue. 1t is probable that if il
had been as true rs it was false, l
should have taken the same course,
because you understand how l got
my ornamental eve.


l mildly suggested that u man
who would make such a statement
as that was lost to ali sense Of shame
aud would be guilty of any base
crime.


He disagreed with me upon that
point.


As for himself he never made a
statement except upon the most
ample proof. Ny candidate was
the mcanest man that ever went uI-
hung.


told him he lied.


/ have been kicked by a mule;
d FaN1nrs Of
window on a hard pavement; eaten
green psrsimmOns; heard Miss
Blow read poetry for two hours and
a half; skated; hunted; rode
sharp backed horse of mustang pa
rentage, an adept in the art OF
''bucking;;" suffered grief of various
kinds, still clung to life-but ali
these are feathers in the balance, as
compared with that little word,
liarl


Immediately after saying It | sat
down-not in the way people usual
ly sit down.


sat on the rim of my right ear
about ten feet from the spot where
had been standing when I made
use Of the expression quoted above.
am not used to sitting in that po-
sitiOn, and do not think il agrees
with me.


1 1 have heard of people who got
up on their "ear," and walked Off
I wish 1 knew how to do ii, would
have propelled myself away from
that spot Immediately if l had pos
sessed that happy faculty. l pro-
ceeded to bring myself to a perpen-
dicular, fully intending to use the
means of locomotion nature had
given me; but when / came right
side up, something heavy run
against my nose, and as l felt rather
tired sat down on my other ear. l
like q change-it is too monotonous
doing the same thing over and over
again.


Somebody took my large friend
away and l was quite pleased when
he was gone. L have concluded to
look twice at a man before 1 give
the lie again. My eye is in mourn
ing, my nose sWelled to the size of
citron with the color of a blush rose,
and my store clothes look like they
had been run through a patent sau-
sage machine. / would not have
that mans temper for anything in
the world.
Year: 1873

Mothers, you have little critics
around you. They pass inst judg-
ment on your actions, and their re-
spect for you is increased or lessen
ed by this reading of your character;
but the influence controls them all
the same as If they did not read the
signs so clearly, and thus you make
them very much such as you are
yourself.


The children know very well for
whom you bring out your best
things, TO whom you speak in your
blandest tones, and on whom you
b stow your sweetest smiles. See
to il that your best efforts are made
for those you are in the habit of
speaking well of, no matter how
poor and obscure they may be. Be
very cautious how you receive that
individual of whom your children
have heard you speak disrespectful
words.


The children know when they arc
Justly punished, and ia what spirit.
The evil caused by a hasty blow and
unjust decree may never be eradi-
Gated.


Parents should be especially care
full not to do anything themselves
that they teach their children TO be
wrong. / remember, when child,
surprising a beloved aunt on a Sun
day afternoon making n cap. She
called me to her and said: Don't
tell your uncle, and l will give you
a penny" Her influence over me
for good was lost forever.-HeGrth
and Home.
Year: 1873

Go ON.-A man must not yield to
despondency, nor sit down inactive,
despairing because he is in dark
ness. Sometimes a few steps on
ward or upward are all that are
needed, and he, for want even of
that activity, may remain all his
life beneath the cloud. Perhaps you
have been ascending q mountain
with the mist SO thick before you
that at a few feet from you not an
object was visible, and so wet that
IL was like q dripping rain. Timid-
ity and dependency say in such
case, you had better turn back, at
any rate lie by in the first shelter.
But perhaps you will find clear
sky with a little more travel up
ward. Courage and hope say, Go
onl Faith says, Go on! Higher up
you will find light. So you go on,
and at length, Unexpectedly, at one
single step, you emerge into cleal
sunshine. Then all your trouble is
forgotten. How glad YOU are that
you persevered, that you did not
turn back; you would have lost this
glorious sight, this magnificent pros
pect, this peculiarly OF glory,
which you could have enjoyed only
under these very circumstances Of
preceding mist and gloom. You
would have lost the sight Of the
clouds under you, and the atmos-
phere resting upon them as on a sea
of chalcedony, smooth, soft undula-
ting, and the SUBMITS of the noun
tains all around, glittering with ice
and snow. And you would have
lost the glory of the breaking up
and trooping away of these cloud
congregations, as the departure OF
an army with banners, and the rev.
ell tiOn of the unveiled world as a
new creation"
Year: 1873

How sweet it were, II without feeble fright,
or dying OF the dreadful, beauteous sight,
An angel came 10 Us, and we could bear
To see him issue from the silent air
At teyening ia our room, and bend on ours
His divine eyes, and bring Us from his


bowers
News Of dear friends, aud children who


have never
Been dead iEdeed-as we shall know for


ever


Alas. we think sOt what we daily see
About our hearths-ansels that are TO be,
or may be if they viii, and we prepsre
Their souls and ours to meet in happy air
a child, friend, L wife whose son heart


sings
In unison with our, breeding its future


wings. Leigh HINT.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER BUSINESS FOR THE
SOUTH.-We copy the following
from the New York Herald:


Land of the best quality for the
manufacture of glass exists in abun-
dance in the Gulf States, and sever
al preliminary steps have been made
to start glass factories, particularly
in the Southern part of Mississippi,
but these efforts have proved abOr-
tive for the want of capital. 1t will
be a good thing for the South 10
manufacture glass and glassware.
The culture of fruit is becoming so
general in some sections that the
use of glass jars for its expectation
in a preserved form in large quanti-
ties has become necessity. HaV-
ing the fruits and the sugar, the
South only needs her own glass
ware to obtain q monopoly of the
trade in preserved fruits. Besides,
she will then be able to erect her
own glass houses, and be in a condi-
ton TO appreciate the political situ-
alton when she begins to throw
stones
Year: 1873


AsI lay awake in the night,


And beard the pattering rain,
Family caught the rumbling sound
or the coming midnight train.
The world was mUrky and still,
The air was loaded with damp,
And on the folds of the mist it came,
The noise Of the iron tramp.
Plunglng through darkness and fog;
Screaming its signal before;
Searching the night with ITS eye Of flame
And filling the earth with its roar.
| knew all the track, and could tell,
By the sinking and swell of the sound
when it durtcd throug woods or toilled


up grade,


or lcaped O'cr bridge at a bound.
Now the sound lioated free on the air;
Now it died round the curve Of hill;
Now lost to the air in 4 deep rocky pass
But the mad thing was rushing on still.
plunging through blackness and mist;
Sending wild 'larums before;
ilowling like Il demon of darkness let


loose


From Acheron's fiery shore.
And now all the windings are pa, scd,
And out it comes on the plain,
shaking the earth as it tears along
Through the midnight blackness and


rain.


Oh, that some forest chief,


From his ancient woodland nest,
Might peer through the night, and catch


the wild sight,


OF this mCnstsr troubling his rest.
Nearer and ncarcrit comes,


Louder the crash and the roar,
Bearing its precious load of life,
Two hundred souls and more.
Many their errands he,


some jsurney for traffic and gain,
Some so 10 the gloomy chambers Ofdcath,
And some TO the bridal train.
Here are eyes heavy with sleep,
Here bright with the light OF levc,
In Joy and in tears, with hopes and with


fears,


On through the darkness they move.
And now it goes by at a leap,
Wild the weird flashes it throws!
out OF thick darkness il comes in its flight
And into thick darkness it goes.
Plunging through blackncss and log,
Sending loud signals before,
Searching the night with its eye Of flame,
And filling the earth with its roar.
Year: 1873

Rut poesy springs not from rocks and
woods;
Her womb and cradle are the human heart.
And she can find 4 nObler theme for song
In the most loathsOme man that blasts the
sight
Than In the broad expanse of sea and shore
Between the frezen deserts Of the poles.


TLOlreH
Year: 1873

In trading, he gets most by his
commodity, that can forbear his
money the longest; so does the
Christian, that can with most pa
thence stay for a return of his PRAYER.
Such a soul shall never be ashamed
of his waiting.
Year: 1873

An excellent rule for living hap
PLY in society is never 10 concern
ones self with the affairs of others
unless they wish for or desire it,
Under pretense of being useful peo-
pie often show more curiosity than
affection.
Year: 1873

Should hell cast all its fiery darts
against US, if our will be right, II il
be informed by the divine win, they
can do us no hurt; we have then, il
may so speak an enchanted shield.
that is impenetrable, and VIII bear
of all
Year: 1873

A bill wasintroduced in the House
by AIr. Perkins to make the legal
rate of interest six per cent, but
not to interfere with the rate of bor-
rowing or lOaning money. This
would practically repeal the usury
laws, and leave the price of money
on the market to be regulated by
the supply and demand, Just as any
other commodity representing val
ne. We hope the bill will pass with
out opposition. Six per cent. will
do very well as legal rate, but cap
italists cannot be forced to lend
money at that rate, nor can evasions
OF the usury law be often detected
or brought to light. The hardship
is on the borrower, who is cOmpell-
ed to put up cOllaterals instead of
giving lien or deed OF trust on
real estate. If he fails at a given
time TO pay back the money his val
uables are forfeited and sold. But,
IN the other case, where the debt is
secured by reality, he has more time
IN which to redeem his property, be-
cause transfers are not made SO
readily. The lender has all the ad-
vantage under the present law, and
seldom exacts less than three times
as much in collaterals as the money
loaned.-AeDl. Ledger.
Year: 1873

Young American ladies startle the staid
duennas of the Old World with their wild
Amazonian ways, and are contemplated
with a sort of superstitious dread by Eu-
ropean mammas Who recard them as a
species of dashing feminine vacqueros, that
cross the sea to run down and lasso unpro-
tected l0rdlings with matrimonial halters
Generally trey manage to make a
sensation wherever they go, and
the neighborhood of Dieppe is
still ringing with the lesson one OF
them taught to practical joker. She went
With party TO view the ruined chateau
d'ATques, within which is a crumbliDg tcwer
well known 10 be haunted. She ridicuied
and defied the ghosts, and to show her con-
tempt for them climbed to the top OF the
tower and sat down to make q sketch. A
stranger, who had overhe I'd her braVado
and who was a ventrloquist, threw his
ice into the ivy in such way as to produce
uneartbly sounds. The young girl threw
down her ske'ch-book, and assuming an
appearance of fright, appes led to the ven
trilcquist to come and see If there was not
some one lurking in the tower. The stranger
ENJOYING his success and willing TO keep up
the fun, climbed up from stone to stone,
peering about and still casting his weird
voice above and below him all the while,
until he reached the crest where the young
lady was perched, when the showed him in-
to the moat below. Then, as he fl0undered
snoring out of the mu1 and water, she
CALI d out to him, ''Tt must have been the
ohOstlD
Year: 1873

A peddler named Norton Freeman ar
rived in Detroit on Thursday to procure
medical assistance for some fearful wounds
he had received In q fight with three
force dogs q week prevlously. The en-
counter Is thus described: While driving
his wagon through the country few
miles north Of Ovid, Clinton county, Free
man stopped and got down to drink at a
creek crossing the highway. As he rose
he was bitten in the leg by q large dog,
which had come quietly up behind him
and he saw two other goOd-sized dogs
near the wagon. Freeman sprang for his
vehicle, when the three dogs made at him
together, and his shouts and their yells
started the horse Uf on trot. He was
bitten seven or eight times before he found
anything with which he could defend
himself, anil then got hold OF n stick
about five feet long which could be easily
handled. The dogs retreated as he picked
up the stick, but when Freeman sought TO
gain the road they all spraug for him.
He says that hestruck 10 kill, and knock
ed each brute down in turn, but as fast as
knocked down they spraug up and attack
ed him again. Five minutes alter the battle
opened his hands were red with blood,
and blood was. running down into his
boots, but by q fortunate blow he SO disa-
bled ono OF the smaller dogs that the
brute had to draw out Of tho fight, There
was rest again OF four or five minutes,
and freeman walked slowly back into o
fence corner and exchanged his club Tor a
better one. Without movement on his
part, the two dogs attacked him again,
one biting at his legs, and the other leap.
ing at his throat. The latter animal
caught its teeth in his shoulder and tore
away oil that side Of the coat, and madea
wound in the flesh which will be, wOelSs IN
healing. Freeman was dragged down anu
both Of the dogs were on his back at once,
but lie managed 10 shake them of and re-
gain his feet. A blow from his club
dashed out the larger dogs eye, and the
brute ran round and round in circle,
bowling 30 iCHrfully that the other dog
ran away. Watching his chance he hit
tho crippled dog blow which killed it,
and then he Crawled down to the creek
and tainted. Some men came along in a
wagon and discovered him, and he was
taken to u farmhouse and cared for. On
his lett leg there are nine wounds from the
teeth OF the dogs. On the right, GlCVeni
on the right arm, five; on the lett arm,
three; on the back, three; on the shoulder,
two; on the fucc, two; on the right foot,
two; on the right hand, five; on the lett,
two, and one on tho back Of the head,
making in all forty.lvC distinct and sepa'
rate bites. ----- -.