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Year: 1871

A lady in Iowa gave such hearty kiss
to lady friend in Il carriage that the
horse mistook the sound for the crack OF
the whip and started off, throwing the
lady out of the vehicle, fortunately with
but slight damage
Year: 1871

ONE FAIR YOUNG WOMAN


was bent nearly double, but clasped to
her breast was sweet young babe, whose
lips seemed glued to the fond young
mothers in the last long kiss OF death.


Three little girls, one of them with gold
en- blonde tresses falling to her waist
Year: 1871

Ths House Of Representatives after
the next election of its members by
the recent apportionment will consist


of 283 members distributed among
the States as in the column Of figures
next to the name Of the State. We
have appended the right hand column
to show the representation under the
Year: 1871

Be you to others kind and true,
Asyou'd have others be to you,
And neither do nor say to men
Whate'er you would not like again;
But if men do and say to you
That which is neither kind or true,
Take good stick and say to men,
Don't say or do that same again" .


Punch
Year: 1871

From the Fortnightly Review.


The Greeks aimed at the perfection
of design, and in so much as the study
of the human form helped them to ar
rive at that perfection, they carried it
further and TO more consumate point
than has ever been done before or
since. But they gave themselves small
scope for the display of human pasaioh
when they represented it, it was i'll a
cold and dignified manner which fails
to awaken our sympatlies. The fig
ures of fighting warriors on the pedi-
ment of the temple of H1gina receive
and i1ifict wouhds and meet their
death with fixed smile, which shows
that the artist intended to avoid the
expression of pain or passion. The
Greek artists have the supreme right
to the title of Idealists they are the
true worshippers Of the Ideal; the
ideal OF beauty once achieved, they
cared not to vary it, Witness the most
perfect specimen OF tlleir decorative art
which remains, the most perfect Ill the
whole world-I mean the frieze of the
Parthenon. There is not in the hund-
dreds OF figures which form the Pana-
thenaic procession, except by accidents
of execution, any variation of character
Ill the beautiful ideal forms represent
ed, whether they be of man, woman, OF
animal enough remains of the faces to
show that they conform to two or three
types throughout, without variety of
character of expression; all is as per-
feet as the most profound knowledge,
the most skilful workmanship and the
highest sense OF beauty can make it:
but with the great Florentine; the real
istic tendency is obvious from the be-
ginning, not to work up to an ideal of
humanity, but to study it i'll the count
less forms of beauty and grandeur. and
its ever-varying moods, and to repre-
sent these as truthfully as the deepest
contemplation OF nature could enable
him 10 do.
Year: 1871

decisive, sometimes naughty and con-
temptuous. Without knowledge Of
Latin and Greek, he was charged with
seasoning his speeches with salt mot
Attic 1t may be that his language
was not classical, as his diction was not
ornate. lie disregarded the embellsh-
ments of style, and disdained the articles
of rhetoric. He spoke as a man who
aimed at conviction, not cheers with
whom an argument was II battle, not n
tournament; n speech an action, not mere
defamation.


As to his method in preparing his dis
courses we have the following account
from the pen of his private secretary
Artom.


Seated tranqailly upon The ministc-
rial bench, playing with his paper-kniie,
and sustaining the assaults Of his oppon.
ents with all the GOODNESS of an cxpcr.
enced dobater he seemed to pay no
attention TO what was being said, when,
in reality not syllable escaped him.
Little by little, by an intellectual process
of which he was scarcely conscious, the
outline of his discourse was completed in
his head. Without writing
IL word, without even taking
notes, except when he had figures or dates
to adducc, it was sufficient for him to re-
volvo his subject for an hour or two in
the morning of tho day he expected to
speak, in order to clothe his ideas in the
most suitable form. In the latter part
of his life he was accustomed to have me
present at the preliminary rehearsal of
his speeches. Seated opposite to me, he
sought in my countenancc, which could
never conceal any thing from him, the
impression which the strong and ingenious
chain of his reasoning produced upon me.
Sometimes he interrogatcd me with his
eye, or constrained mo to make observa.
tions upon points with regard to which he
was not altogether satisfied Often when,
from the galleries of thee hamber have
listened to the speech prepared in the
morning before me have been able to
note the fidelity Of his memory Some.
times the very words which had struck
me excited now the applause and now the
merriment Of tho Chamber. More fre.
qucntly, however, he improvised the
phraseology, but the idea was constantly
the same and have been able to state
beforehand TO whoever stood near me the
series Of differences through which he
would arrive at his conclusion"
Year: 1871

A around tho parlor table we sat,
Cheering the Doctor with lively chat
A youth approached without any hat.


Shouting Muggins
Muggins they oil at once replied
And seated costly side by side,
To play in silence at first they tried,


Gentle Muggins.
The Doctor started in glad surprise
Scarcely able to trust his eyes,
No noise except the soothing cries


OF Muggins.
When all Of a sudden ringing shout
OF Mug, without the "gins" broke ont
And silence left in terrible rout


Roaring Muggins.
Whereupon the Doctor went to bed,
And tied handkerchief round his head.
And the shouts were as If to raise the dead


Playing Muggins.
The moral Of which you plainly can see.
No matter what the game may be,
Whether played on land or played on sea.


Or simply Muggns,
No woman her tongue can long control,
But will say n half word, if not this whole,
And hor Mug will harrow the masculine son


As bad as Mugg,ns.
Year: 1871

The object in scraping the trunks of old
apple trees,is to remove the scales of dead
bark, under which insects hide ; but as a
general rule there is not SO much advan-
tage in the operation, as there are hum
dreds of other hiding places nearly as ac-
eessible to the tree. The codling moth
for example, if not hiding under these
scales, to undergo its transformation, will
find fences, boards, brush, grass, weeds,
&C., from which the flying insects will
readily reach the young apples.-Wash-
ing the trunks of young trees, may assist
in promoting healthy surface bark. in
some instances. Soapsuds answer well.
and if weak may be used at any time Of
year, if stronger, or if solution of potash
is used it should be done when the leaves
are off, or the tree not growing. Rough
bark may be scraped at any time. We
desire it, however. to be distinctly under
stood that we attach very little Importance
to these operations; but that good cultiva-
ton, for promoting a thrifty, healthy
growth, is far more important, and will
give healthy bark, in much better
manner Those who wash the stems of
their trees, it is true, usually have good
orchards but it is because the same In
dustry and attention which induced them
to do it, also leads them to attend to good
management generally Country Gentle
man.
Year: 1871

On his bonds NolhlNu'


Now, poor man, read the above, and not
only read it but study it closely. Then, on
election day next fall, get out your sons and
sons sons, and all your neishbors and
friends whom you can influence, lead them
to the polls and have every mothers SON Of
them put in Republican ticket You can
not do better if you like to be taxed heavily
in order that bondholders may have an easy
time of it and pay no taxes. Don't make
mistake and vote the Democratic ticket, for
YOU would be working for your own inter
t ests, and you mustn't do that, you know,
for that wouldn't be patriotic.
Year: 1871

The justice of Radical taxation is shown
by the following. A gentleman previously
engaged in commerce, who understands the
subject, h,s taken the trouble to compute
for the Cincinnati Enquirer what the duties
arc upon few leading articles:
Year: 1871

The San Francisco Chronicle thus


speaks of an opium den in that city: Il


is rented by the proprietor to a China


man named All Fook for $500 pei


month, who again sublets various parts


We entered several apartments, and q


stranger sight cannot be imagined. The
first we visited was about ten feet in


hight, sixteen feet in length and twelve


feet in breadth; the only light or venti


lation of any kind was by the door, and


it was so dark that candle had to be


lighted to enable us to inspect it. This


was lodging-house, heaven save the


mark and kept by a man named All


Wa, who, for ten cents night, accom-
modates his eountrymen with lodging;
and in this place every night nineteen
men sleep. The beds, if they may be
so termed, are nothing but series of
shelves with straw mat on each, and
here, night after night, these poor
wretches pass away their time smoking
opium and sleeping off its pernicious
effects, as the proprietor, for five cents
extra, supplies this drug, the smoking Of
which occupies the chief part of the
VI lut vi 1IL1Oy .
building, when not engaged in their or
binary occupation of thieving, for Mr..
Woodruff informed us that there was
not one man who frequented that
place who was not thief We watched
the operation of preparing and smoking
a pipe of opium. The smoker has brought
10 him a tray, on which is light, pipe
and small piece of wire, and a jar of
pure opium; the wire is dipped into the
opium, then applied to the candle and
cooked until the perfume arising there
from suits the smokers ideas. 1t is
then carefully kneaded on the surface of
the pipe, the top of the bowl being COW
cred, with the exception of a small hole
in the center, and when the correct con-
sstency has been gained, by delicate
manipulation with the wire the opium is
worked up into bali about the size of a
small pea, and inserted through the hole
in the lid Of the pipe; the smoker then
reclines, and placing the bowl Of the
pipe against the candle, draws away at
the stem for a few secOnds-the pipe is
empty, and the performance repeated
until the smoker becomes stupehed and
falls back into a doze to revel in the
sensations arising from the narcotic.
Its effects are described as being Of a
most exhilarating kind, and if only in
hailed in small quantities it animates the
spirits and gives energy to the intellec-
tual powers, and is then followed by
state of quiet, pleasant langor until
sleep succeeds; but it is only by in
creasing the dose that these effects are
reproduced. The soporifc effects are
then Of longer duration, and the symp-
toms Of debility are greater, gradually
but surely leading to softening Of the
brain.
Year: 1871

The ichneumon fly lays its eggs
in the body Of the caterpillar
When the egg is hatched the larva
begins to feed at once on the body
of the poor worm. 1t avoids, by a
remarkable instinct, the vital parts,
and the caterpillar creeps on his
way, feeding as unconsciously as if
he was in no danger. So many q
soul is lost by some secret sin. The
friends of a young man were shock
ed by finding him suddenly trans
formed into a drunkard. Before
they suspected him he was lost to
all shame or self-respeot. . He had
been for years drinking in secret
before this exposure, and the last
stages were very rapid.


There is a little weed which some
times croeps into our caueIs and
rivers, which seems very insignifi-
cant at first. But if left to itself it
grows so fast and its rope-Iike stems
become so matted that it seriously
hindors navigation. Just such a
multiplying evil is one little secret
sin suffered to take root in the heart.
Let US offer every day the prayer,
"Cloanso thou me from secret
faults. - American Messenger.
Year: 1871

Beware Of Unseen Influences.


What is it that raises the sea and
makes the tide flow round the world2
What is it that keeps the moon
making her ceaseless flight around
this earth q? You call it gravitation.
What is it that gives irmness and
stability to all that is of the earth ?
It is invisible, but it is potent. 1t
is so all around us. Why, the
morning sunbeams that fall so
gently on the eyeIid, they scarcely
waken the sleeper, have power to
raise the largest pile of rocks. The
monument of Bunker Hill was
considered immovable. Yet, when
a few years ago a cord was let down
from the centre of the summit of
that pile, men were surprised to
find that the point marked by that
cord in the evening was not the
point marked in the morning
They found the great pile was
changed in some way. How was
it? Where the morning light so
/ gently fell from the east upon the



face Of that pile. the little rays Of
heat, each one almost impercepti-
bic, expanded the rock, and one
side rose higher than the other
and when the rays fell upon the
southern part, another part; and
on the western part they changed
back the vast pile from the position
which it held. Who could have
thought it? Yet those sunbeams
were lifting the vast piles of rock.
So God is working around u.s.
teaching us, instructing US how the
spiritual may operate upon human
heart; and if Gods spirit be given
to man, if the light and truth
influence the human heart, shall il
not be that unseen influences may
change, may correct, may control
may purify, may elevate p Bishop
Simpson.
Year: 1871

At the dinner Of an Irish association
not long since the following toast was
given: Here's the President Of tie sOci-
ETY., Patrick O'Raferty, an may he live
to see the chicken that scratches over
his grave.
Year: 1871

The erection of a monument to
Alice Carey is in contemplation and
one admirer of her writings has
sent in the voluntary subscription
of fifty dollars to Mr.. Horace Gree
ley, who will account for all sums
that may be sent to him for like
purpose.
Year: 1871

deck FOR some minutes looking on at the arrivals
many OF them Joyous family parties going to spend
the AFTERNOON on staten Island. They were OF all
ages, rom the old man scarce able TO get aboard
without assistance, to the child IN arms Some were
laughing and chatting ana some were standing in
silence looking out upon the expanse OF water coy-
cred with boats in every direction. In an instant
the dreadful catastrophe occurred


Mr.. Reagan cannot give any further particulars
beyond the fact OF the terrific explosion. after
which he became conscious lie must have been
blown from the upper saloon where he and his
friend were standing, for when he recovered con-
sclousness the first thing he found was that he was


STRUGGLING IN THE WATER
some distance from the boat He believes he lost
consciousness Immediately after, for the next thing
he remembers was his being carried to store
Who took him out and how he was rescued he is
wholly unable to toll. They took him to Mr. Flynn's
store, So Whitehall street. great number of the
wohnded and those taken out of the water were
ried TO the place, and the store of that good
Samaritan was soon converted into hospital. Moth
ing could exceed the Kindness and attention and the
exerions and care bestowed on the sufferers by Mr..
Flynn. Everything that their condition required
oil for the


WOUNDS OF THE sCALDED,
and wine TO sustain their failing strength, were
freely given.


After a short rest at Flynn's Mr.. Reagan found
himself sufficiently able to walk to the station In
New street, whence he was carried I'm a wagon to
Centre street Hospital, and the painful, but not
dangerous scalds and cuts about his face and hands
attended to. He was deeply panied on arriving at
the hospital on making inquiries for his friend, to
learn that Mr. Manly was there badly scalded and
in a dangerous condition.
Year: 1871

of East Twenty-frst street, who was passenger on
the ilfated boat, and will probably nave to mourn
the loss OF two children victims OF the dire disaster


When accosted by a reporter OF the HERALD the un.
fortunate man standing at the edge or the pOr-
ton of the upper deck which had been left un.
touched bp the explosion, gazing with an express
sion of agonlzed and utter despair into the
yawning chasm, in which the fremen and
police Officers were cropping and excavating
in the hope OF discovering some wounded unfortu-
nate haply not yet beyond the reach Of aid. Though
badly scaded and bleeding from an ugly wound in
the head. the poor man seemed utterly unconscious
OF his own injuries and only solicitous about his
darlngs about whose fate he evidently felt there
was but little room for doubt. To reporter
OF the HERALD who addressed him
he said:--"l and my children were
standing somewhere about the middle Of
the boat My son-in-law, Charles Wcsr was with
us. We were going down to Staten Island to spend
short time Intending to come back on the next boat


Nothing was farther from our minds than any
thought OF accident or disaster. In fact, we were


thinking Of nothing but the pleasure that was before
u.s. l remember hearing sound like clap
OF thunder followed by crash blast as Of
name swept past me, something struck
me on the temple and At onca be.
Year: 1871

this the iuebriate passenger desist.
ed, but as soon as the conductors
back was turned renewed the fight
with the next white hat, insisting
just as positively that that was his
berth. and with the same profound
and violent language and scuffle.
He was repulsed only to begin a.
gain, and he kept fighting those
good Christian gentlemen who
were SO unfortunate as to have
white hats, until fell asleep, and
dreamed till morning of my EARL.
er youth-of the church not round
the corner but in the glen, where
the forest trees brushed against the
windows, and the sunlight came
down as if in repose to the prayers
of the beautiful maidens, and
snowy headed fathers of the land.
| only awoke when entering the
sinful city Of Washington.
Year: 1871

Richfeld sulphur springs
give out a strong odor of sui
phureted hydrogen, which is
like the smell Of bad eggs
Some years ago traveller on
horseback was approaching the
spring, and observing a white
flag which was raised on a pole
by the laborers employed, in
quired of a man standing in
the door of a public house a
half a mile from the spring, if
that was the sign Of smallpox.
The man addressed being some
thing of a wag said, perhaps
it is. "Well." said the travel
er, "is there no way by which |
can go round and give small
pox a wide berth?' Said the
man: "You will have to go
some eight miles out of the way.
But l can tell you how you can
pass the flag, smallpox and all,
in perfect safety; just ride on
within fifty rods of the flag, and
then hold your breath till you
get fifty rods beyond the spring,
and you will be perfectly safe. "
The traveller did as directed
When he supposedhe had dreach-
ed within fiftyrods Of the spring,
he seized his nose with one hand
and put the goad on with the
other. His horse made rapid
bounds, and he, a quixoic fig
ure, attracted the gaze Of the
laborers, who stood astonished.
But when just opposite the
spring he could no longer hold
his breath. He loosened the
hold of his nose and took a
sniff of the sulphureted hydro
gen gas. "Oh Godr' he
shrieked, "T've catched it!'-
He seized his nose again and
passed out of sight. Whether
! he died of smallpox or what
became of him was never
known.
Year: 1871

The Supreme Court Of Tennes-
sec, at Knoxville, has had before
it a case involving the right of


possession to certain property be-
longing to the Methodist Church,
in which that tribunal announces
new principle. On the trial in
the court below counsel objected to
any juror sitting in the cause who
belonged to either the Southern
or Northern branch of the church.
The court below refused to sus-
tain the objection. The Supreme
Court reversed the judgment
rendered below, because the chal-
lenge cf Jurors was not allowed
saying that the members OF both
branches had such a beneficiary
interest in the result as made
them incompetent to sit on the
case.
Year: 1871

About a year ago a street
railway company in a Connecti-
cut town obtained permission
from the Legislature to increase
the fare from six TO seven cents.
A regular patron of the road, in
dignant at what he thought ex-
tortion, vowed he would hence
forth walk from his house to his
place of business-about one
mile-and back, and deposit
the fare he would have paid in
a small box at home. Accor-
dinghy he has since put seven
cents in the box before starting
out and seven more ON return
ing. His year was up the other
day, and he opened the box
He found in it 500 20, which he
tdepositedin the savings bank,
and began on second year in
like manner. Besides, and here
is the true moral of this true
tale, he finds his health and di-
gestion SO much improved by
his exercise that seven cents is
Attic enough for the privilege of


walking a mile.
Year: 1871

A Radical newspaper in New
York comes out in favor of giving
the President one hundred thou
sand dollars salary per year, as it
does not think that twenty-five
thousand dollars a year sufices
Grant to keep up his dignity. So
far as the dignity" is concerned,
twenty-five dollars would amply
suffice Ulysses. So far as the
making money is concerned the
President manages to pick up sew
eral hundred thousand a year by
way Of largesses from men with
plenty of money and little brains,
who want to step into the honors
of some high Office within the
Presidential gift.
Year: 1871

An angry Western editor
wrote to a poetical correspon-
dent the other day: ''lf you
don't stop sending me your a.
bominable poetry, I'll prin. a
piece of it some day with your
name appended in full. and
send a copy to your gall" The
poetry from that fountain was
quickly dried up.
Year: 1871

A SUNDAY school teacher was giving her class
a lesson on Ruth. She wanted TO show the
kindness Of BOaz IN commanding the reapers to
drop their bundles Of wheat Now, dear child
ren. BOaz did another nice thing for Ruth. Tell
me what it was" Married her" said a boy.
Year: 1871

DREADFUL LSUICIDE-MAND DELIBERATELY THROWS
HIMSELF INTO THREsHING MACHINE AND Is
Torn TO ATOMs-One of the most remarkable
suicide, on record occurred last week at little
village in Indiana, short distance east of India
napolis the circumstances of which are as follow
is: "A farmer was threshing his grain, by steam
power, near the roadside, when a well-dressed
stranger drove up in a buggy, got ont, tied his
horse and came up to the machine. He first went
to the engineer and asked privilege of feeding the
machine awhile, and was referred to the feeder:
The feeder seeing no reason to refuse letting him
try his hand yielded his post, which the stranger
filled with ability. After running a short time he
looked to the engineer for more steam which the
engineer put on, and then, while the machine was
going at lightning speed he motioned the man
handling sheaves to stop, and as as the teeth
were clear he doubled up his arms and threw
himself headforemost into the thresher before the
horror-stricken observers had idea ef his inten-
tion. He was Literally torn all to peaces in an in
slant. No cline TO his indentity could he discov-
cred his pocket book containing $50 but nothing
in the way Of papers, and people are still in the
dark, as regards the name of the man the cause
of his making away with Unsatisfactory Com
merciai