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Year: 1875

Life has great troubles in store for
all of us and few live to be men and
women without knowing terrible grief.
But, fortunately, these intense moments
cannot fill all the years. Time helps
us to forget at least, the sorest OF the
pain. To every one would come some
ioy but for the little worries that hap
pen with the passing hours-cares
about money and the cost of things.
small quarrels, petty iealoasies, false
shame, and an awful dread of what
s.they" will think IL we take little COM
fort, and dress and eat to suit our
selves, and know people we like whether
they are ''genteel" or not, and say what
we mean, instead of what is expected.


Worries eat the life away. They
gnaw and bite wrinkles into the face,
and bring gray hairs on the head, and
half the time they are not only abso'
lutely needless but absurd, Why IN
the name of all that is sensible, can we
not wait until the draught of sorrow is
forced to our lips, and not sup need.
lessly at the cup of gall and wormwood


If every man could say to himself,
ssSmall worries shall most certainly not
lepgthen my face" if every woman
could refuse to fret over such trifies as
impudent cooks, and napkins with un.
timely holes in them, more OF us would
live out the threescore and ten years
allotted to us by Heaven, and we should
all certainly be much better company
while we lasted.
Year: 1875

started from his cousins the signal
fioated from the window to warn them.
And when they saw the pursuing party
dash madly down the road to the river,
and recognized the British uniform of
the leader, they pulled swiftly out to
sea. The horsemen reached the shore
only in season to see the boat with two
men in it, nearly out of sight; and sup
posing their destined prey had escaped,
relinguished the pursuit.


Meanwhile the hunted victim lay
safe and quiet. where the simple
shrewdress of the little cousin had
hidden him, until the time came for her
return for supper. Then he babe her
go as usual to her home, telling her to
ask her mother to place the signal
lamp, as soon as it grew dark. in the
window, for the boatmen, and to send
him there some supper, with his valise
which. in the hurry of departure, he
had left behind.


The signal recalled the boat, which
after twilight had ventured in sight of
the shore and the farmhouse, and the
Governor quietly made his way to the
river in safety. When he reioined his
father in a secure home, he named his
infant daughter, which had been born
in his absence, "Hetty Marvin" that
he might be daily reminded of the
little cousin whose truth and shrewd-
ness saved his life.-t Indiana Church
man
Year: 1875

Health follows neatness, and disease
the departure from it. The use of the
same towel by many, common in a
public place, though more allowable
than the use of the same tooth brush,
is nevertheless a not much healthier
practice.


A prominent Oculist says that the
contagious Egyptian or graz 1lar infiam-
nation of the eyes is spreading rapidly
throughout the country, and adds: Il
have in many, and 1 may say in the
majority of cases, been able to trace
the disease to the use of the so-called
rolling towels. Such towels are gener-
ally found in our country hotels and
the sleeping apartments of the working
classes, and being thus used by nearly
every one, are made the carriers of one
of the most dangerous, and as regards
its symptoms, most troublesome dis
eases of the eye. | therefore would
strongly recommend that the use of the
rolling towel be abolished, for thereby
we will discard one of the great instru-
ments for the spread of such dangerous
disease of the eye, by which thousands
of working men are annually deprived
Of their means of SUPPORT"
Year: 1875

The deepest musical wave note that
can be heard by the human ear, is pro-
duced by regular successive impulses
Of sixteen times a second, while the
highest note which is susceptible to the
ear, is four thousand times a second,
hence the range extends over eleven
octaves. The human eye can perceive
the difference between the red and the
violet rays. The waves of the former
are LAO, ,0O0th part of an inch apart,
and of the latter Lee, ,000th of an inch
long-about one octave. Hence the
ear is eleven times keener than the eye.
Roscoe,
Year: 1875

The mulberry flowers came dropping down
Sweet over the two that stood together,
Parting there by the gateway brown.


Still and sad in the soft May weather.
lie held her close for a last, long kiss;


IN wait for YOU dear, he said, forever
No later hour shall be false to this;


For mine is love that can alter neveri"
The mulberry flowers drop down once more
Sweet over the two that stand together;
But not the two that stood before,


Parting sad in the soft May weather
For the earth has changed its bloom again,
And the love has changed that would alter


never.


But year has come and gone since then
And this is the length of girls forever
Year: 1875

The world is crazy for show. There
is not one perhaps in thousand who
dares fall back on his real, simple self
for power to get through the world,
and exact enjoyment as he goes along.


There is no end to the apeing, the
mimicry, the false airs, and the super
fetal airs. 1t requires rare courage,
we admit. to live up to ones enlightened
convictions in these days. Unless you
consent to join in the general cheat,
there is no room for you among the
great mob of pretenders. If a man de-
sires to live within his means, and is
resolute in his purpose not to appear
more than he really is, let him be ap.
plauded. There is something fresh and


invigorating in such an example, and
We should honor and uphold such a
plan with all the energy IN our power.
Year: 1875

LEARN A TRADE.-I never look at
my old steel composing rule that / do
not bless myself that, while my strength
lasts, l am not at the mercy of the
world. II my pen is not wanted L can
go back to the type-case and be sure to
find work for learned the printers
trade acknowledgements work. Job
work, book work and press work. am
glad to have a good trade. 1t is rock
upon which the possessor can stand
firmly. There is health and vigor for
both body and mind in an honest trade.
1t is the strongest and surest part of the
self-m ale man. Go from the academy
to the printing Office or the artisans
bench, or if you please, to the farm
for, to be sure, true farming Is trade,
and grand one at that. Lay thus a
sure foundation, and after that branch
off into whatever profession you please.


You have heard, perhaps, OF the
clerk who had faithfully served Stephen
GiIard from boyhOod to manhood. On
the twenty-frst anniversary of his
birthday he went to his master and
told him his time was up, and he GER
tainly expected important promotion in
the merchants service. But Stephen
Girsrd said to him:


VERY well. Now go and learn a
trade"


"What trade, sir?"


"Good barrels and butts must be in
demand while you live. Gro and learn
the cooper's trade; and when you have
made perfect barrel bring it to me. :"


The young man went away and
learned the trade. and in time brought
to his old master a splendid barrel of
his own make.


Girard examined it and gave the
maker two thousand dollars for it, and
then said to him:


"Now, sir, want you in my count
ing-room but henceforth you will not
be dependent upon the whim of Ste
phen Girard. Let what will come, you
have a good trade always in reserve"


The young man saw the wisdom, and
understood.


Years ago, when the middle-aged men
of to-day were boys, Horace Greeley
wrote


sit is great source of consolation
to us that when the public shall be
tired of US as an editor, we can make a
satisfactory livelihood at setting type
or farming; so that while our strength
lasts, ten thousand blockheads, taking
offense at some article they do not un-
derstand, could not drive us into the
poor-house."


And so may a man become truly in
dependent.
Year: 1875

/ ATE THE SUGAR MYsELF.-A little
girl hamed Caroline had a very lovely
little canary-bird. 1t sang from early
morning until evening, and was of a
beautiful golden yellow, with black
tuft upon its head. Caroline gave it
seeds and cooling herbs to eat some
times, also, lump of white sugar, and
fresh water daily to drink. But sud-
denly the little bird began to droop,
and one morning as Caroline brought it
some fresh water, it lay dead in the
cage.


Caroline loudly lamented the loss of
her darling pet, and cried for long
time. Her mother went and bought
another that was Just as sweet of song
and yet more beautiful of plumage than
the former, and put it in the same cage.
But the maiden wept still louder when
she saw this new songster. Her mother
wondered much at this and said "My
dear child, why are you so much
troubled, and wherefore do you con-
tinue to weep? Your tears cannot call
back your dead canary to life, and here
you have another that is Just as good
and as pretty as the first" Then the
child said: "Oh, dear mother. L have
done wrong to my canary and did not
treat it as L ought"


Dear Lima" returned the mother,
you tended it very carefully" "Oh,
no" said the little girl, ga short time
before it died 1 did not bring it piece
of sugar, which you gave me for it 1
ate the sweet white lump myself"


So spoke the little girl, much afflicted.
The mother did not laugh at her daugh-
ter's affection, for she recognised and
honored the holy voice of conscience in
the heart of her child.
Year: 1875

Chicago, April "a Washington
special says that the Union Pacific
Railroad Company is likely to have
another serious subject to Conesider.
There is little doubt that the Attor-
ney General is examining the law to
ascertain whether the government
can enjoin the payment Of Il dividend
by the Company to the Stockholders,
as has been announced they will soon
do. 1t is maintained that the first
duty of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, after the payment of the
interest on the first mortgage, is to
look AFTER the second mortgage. The
Solicitor Of the Treasury, Wilson,
IS understood to have advised that
government shouiI prevent the pay
ment of any dividend to the stock
holl-rs until the money duo the
government is paid.
Year: 1875

Recent Associated Press quotations
of prints, sent to the papers through
out the country from New York, are
calculated TO mislead merchants IN the
country. unless some explanation Is
given. Without question, the very
prints quoted at &c in New York are
real plugs" and so denominated by
those who make them and those who
sell them. We are credibly informed by
iobbers in the East that goods offered
at these low figures are out Of date, out
Of fashion and hardly worth having,
many Of the styles having been carried
through the panic Of 1873, without
ever meeting with a demand at any
price at which they have been offered.
Retail dealers IN Nashville would not
offer them to the trade for fear Of Of
Tending taste and bringing discredit
upon their more desirable goods.


Print agents are here almost every
day. and are asking 8 cents per yard
for all standard, first class work. They
are the direct representatives Of the
manufacturers, and every brand that
is made in this country Is distributed
through them. All these men sustain
our iobbers here in the complaint that
the dispatches are not sufficiently de-
scriptive to keep the people accurately
Informed as to the prices Of prints.


We are also assured by our wholesale
dealers that there has not been a de-
cline IN any first class print, and that
they are continuing to order only such
STYLES as meet the taste Of the retail
trade. If there was any advantage to
be afforded our retail dealers by pre-
senting these plugs" to them, our
wholesale men would as soon give them
the opportunity as not; but as a desir-
able stock Of prints is the greatest es-
sential to a live dry goods trade, the
venture would be alike disastrous to
the retail as well as the wholesale deal
ers.


According to the Associated Press
dispatches published this morning
there was no change in quotations Of
prints in New York yesterday.
Year: 1875

THE Cincinnati EHquirer's Washing
ton correspondent mentions a story In
circulation about the name of the
President having been forged to a
recommendation for an Office IN the
Department Of the Interior; and there
is a question whether 1t was forged by
the applicant himself, or, as he says,
by a member Of Congress from Ala
bama, TO whom he gave ten dollars for
the Job.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, May 2l.-The President
and family viii leave for Long Branch
about the Sd or 4th Of June, having at
present abandoned the idea Of visiting the
farm near ST. Louis. The servants from
the White House will be sent to the Branch
next week to arrange the cottage prepara-
tory to the President and family occupy
Year: 1875

1 was thoroughly frightened, and at
what2 could not have told you but L
caught my hat from the table, and made
the best Of my way for the front door.
1t was locked, but the key WIS in the
door, and turning it, ] found myself In
the blessed open air.


walked aimlessly about for a time ;
and when the air had cooled the fever of
my childish fear, began 10 be seriously
ashamed of myself, and determined to go
back to the old house at once, before the
sleeping woman should discover my ab-
sence.


L drew out my watch, and found it
nearly a. m., and turned 10 retrace my
steps already an amber glow was dawn
ing in the east. l sat down on large
stone, and removing my hat from my
head, drank in the beauty and freshness
of the breaking day. Fearing to be
seen, 1 rose and fastened to the house,
but stopped at the broken gate, dreading
to enter. By-and-by a couple of neigh
bors came along, and accosted me. At
my suggestion, they entered the house
with me. / went to the bedroom to
awaken the old woman, wishing to leave.
Ihe door was open knocked-no re-
sponse / listened-no noise of breath
ing L entered-the room was empty !!
L related this to the two men.


May be she is with the corpse, I"
they suggested "let's go and see."


We ascended the staircase, and entered
the state chamber there lay the corpse,
but the old woman was not there. What
horror is this The shroud was torn and
rumpled, and for few inches about the
bottom of the garment was a drabbled
and dusty stain. The corpse had stralg-
gied and aCdLked


A startling idea possessed me sudden
ly. "Come," said ; and they followed
me up the narrow staircase into the dis
nal attic the first rays of the sun lit up
the dusty place partially. In the same
place, by the same rope, the old woman
was hanging
Year: 1875

The City of Geneva, Switzerland, Devas-


tated by Tornado.


A correspondent at Geneva gives an
account in one of the papers, this morn
ing, of terrible storm which broke over
the city at midnight, Wednesday, the
7th of July. About o'clock few heavy
drops of rain began to fall, and at the
same time the whole temperature of the
horizon began to be fitfully illuminated
by flashes of sheet-hghtning, but there
was no thunder. Once only, during the
entire night, was there one terrific clap
of thunder, and that was when the storm
was just over. The lightning gradually
increased in intensity, and became, in
deed, actually, and without exaggera-
ton, continuous. The entire atmos-
phere seemed TO be an element of flames,
and all this time there was not the
slightest movement of air in the streets.
At about II o'clock, small objects lying
on the roofs of houses were caught up
and whirled around as by a cyclone.
Still there was no movement of the air
in the streets below. At midnight the
tempest came, mainly from the Jura
range, and from the southwest, travel
ing in that direction toward the basin
of Lake Leman F.; as it neared the lake,
it seemed to spread out into fan-like
form, with front sufficiently wide to
embrace the entire city,. 1t did not last
much longer than ten minutes, but at
the end of it Geneva was wrecked as no
army of besiegers could have wrecked it
in the same space of time. The storm
came in the shape of an almost compact
mass, a sheet of ice driven horizontally
before the tempest blast. In the first
instant every gas lamp in the streets,
save here and there one spared by rea-
son of some protecting roof, was smashed
to atoms and extinguished, but the city
was not in darkness, for the masses of
coagrllated hail reflected the blue light
of the lightning in a ghastly and omi-
Gus manner. The windows of manufac-
tories and residences were forced from
their fastenings, besides having all their
glass shivered, and bedrooms and stair
cases and saloons were thrown open to
the storm, and in n minute or two they
were half filled with masses of ice, far
beyond the immediate power of the in
habitants to remove, for the storm was
marked by this popularity, that hail
stones, or ice-fragments rather, COM
pacted themselves into a solid mass as
soon as they fell. In the slope of the
left bank of the river Arvie, in the sub
urbs of the city, the tiles of many
houses were absolutely beaten to pow
der. Stout partitions of wooden plank
were pierced by holes, such as might
have been made by nusket-ball.
Three persons were killed by the fall of
farmhouse. in the immediate vicinity
of the city. Vast quantities of small
birds have been picked up, killed by the
storm, and the bodies of several foxes
have been found. Geneva is surrounded
by pleasure-gardens, and vine yards
and market-gardens, and these have
been destroyed, as if charge of cavalry
had passed over them, involving the
ruin and despair of the poor and indus
trious peasants, whose all is now taken
from them as effectually as if it had been
sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Year: 1875

Capt. Paul Boyton relates an adven-
ture he had with a shark while engaged
in diving for coral in the Gulf of Mex
leo: l was down on nasty rock bot
tom. 4 man never feels comfortable on
them he can't tell what big creature
may be hiding under the huge qnarter-
deck sea leaves which grow there. The
first part of the time / was visited by q
porcupine fish, which kept sticking its
quilts up and bobbing in front of my
helmet. Soon after / saw big shadow
fall across me, and looking up there was
an internal shark playing about my
tubing. 1t makes you feel chilly in the
back when they're about you. He came
down to me slick as l looked up. L
made at him and he sheared off. For an
hour he worked at it, till could stand
it no longer. If you can keep your head
level, its all right, and you're pretty
safe if they're not on you sharp. This
ugly brute was twenty feet long, should
think, for when lay down all my length
on the bottom he stretched a consider
able way ahead of me, and could see
him beyond my feet. Then L waited.
They must turn over TO bite, and my ly-
ing down bothered him. He swan over
three or four times, and then skulked off
to big thicket of seaweed to consider.
l knew he'd come back when he'd set
tied his mind. 1t seemed a long time
waiting for him. At last he came vicious
ly over me, but, like the time before, too
far from my arms. The next time 1 had
my chance, and ripped him with my
knife as neatly as I could. A shark al
ways remembers he's got business some
where else when he's cut, so off this fell
low goes. It is a curious thing, too,
that all the sharks about will follow, in
the trail he leaves. got on my hands
and knees, and as he swan off noticed
four dark shadows slip after him. 1 saw
no more that time. They did not like
my company.
Year: 1875

RAPID PRINTING.-The New York
Tribune. which has in operation one of
the new Hoe perfecting presses, recently
printed an edition of its eight-page paper,
on both sides, at the rate of IL, 4S0 copies
per hour, the press commencing work
withing one minute from the time the
last stereotype plate was given to the
pressman, and running without break
or an instants delay, till the last copy of
the edition was printed.
Year: 1875

The Western Rochetoucauld says the
average gorilla of Central Africa now
points to Stanley and his band of explor-
ers, and pathetically reminds its grand
children that it is what they may one day
expect to come to.
Year: 1875

Parental LoyE.-No love is so
true and tender as the love our pa
rents give us, and for none are we so
ungrateful. We take it as a matter
OF course, as something We deserve.
Especially may our mothers toll and
deny themselves, think all night and
labor all day, without receiving any
thanks whatever. From the day she
walks all night with US while we cry,
10 the day when she helps TO make our
wedding dress and give Us those cher
ished pearls which she wore in her
glrlhood we do not half recognize her
love for us. Never until we are par
ents ourselves, do We quite compre-
bend. Yet Is there anything like it !?
The lover may desert Us for some
brighter beauty; the husband grow in.
different when we have been biz a lit
tie while; the friend be only a sum-
mer friend, and fly when riches van
lsh, or when We are too sad to amuse ::
bnt our parents love us better in our
sorrow, and holds us dearer for anv
change or Disagreement. There isn't
much of heaven here on earth. but
what there is of it, is chiefly given in
parents love.
Year: 1875

Tn his address delivered at the dis
tribution of prizes at the medical de-
partment of Kings College, MIR. Lyon
Playfair made some remarks on the
progress of medical science which Gu
riionsly illustrate the detacement which
philosophical terms have undergone IN
long popular currency, In the tour.
teenth century, Lyon Playfair remind,
cd his hearers, a great assembly OF
the medical faculty was held at Paris
to advise on the great plaques which
at that time were ravaging France,
but all the advice the faculty was then
in position to give was that when
rain fell in the day little treacle was
to be taken, and that fat people should
not sit in the sunshine Again, when
no fewer than fourteen physicians
were gathered around the death bed
of Charles II. the chief remedies that
were tried were to burn the sufferers
head with red hot irons and force q
disgusting draught distilled from hu-
man skulls down his throat. The fact
was that these medical men were but
empires striving at knowledge through
error, pracricing a purely experimental
art, ilIumined by no light of science
1t is curious TO find an art here de-
scribed as experimental which was
at that period unprogressive precisely
for the reason that it was not expert
mental in the philosophical sense Of
the term, but was applied deductiveIy
upon the basis of a number of unveri-
fed a priori assumptions. Iu one
sense, no doubt, the doctors expert


mented upon Charles IL. head; but
they did not do 50 because experience
had shown them that red hot irons ef-
fected a cure in such cases as his, but
because it followed from their mistak-
Ell theories Of the human economy that
red hot irons must or would probably
effect cure. 'Oil of scorpions was
probably administered on similar prin-
ciple as of course, with similar results.
The truth is that it was only when
medicine became an experimental
art that it began to advance but the
reference of its former futility to the
fact that IL was in former times expert
mental is not remark which, after
all, ought to surprise us when applied
to q profession in which the word
empyric , has so siugularly acquired
the bad sense which in that profession
attaches to it. When the same word
may be applied to 'quack and to
follower of the only faithful method
of philOsophizing, confusion is not to
be wondered at.-PaU Null Gazette,