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Year: 1871

The Washington Star explains that GER
tain gentleman, formerly employed in the
Interior Department, was not dismissed
"because he participated in recent labor
strike but because he had shown con-
stitutional disposition to strike against all
labor
Year: 1871

found in the fact that the mayor and CON-
troller find it the easiest of their duties to
negotiate bonds both at home and abroad
and that handsome premiums are obtained
on all bonds authorized by the legislature
Year: 1871

They CLEANED fouse" at the domicile of
the editor of the Litchfeld Enquirer last
week. The editor was called home and in
trusted with the artistic work of painting
the kitchen chairs. He finished one of them
and sat down on it to paint the others.
They made a fire under the chair to thaw
him off. 1t ruined the chair, but he has had
bay window set in his pants, and they are
about as good as new.
Year: 1871

This new article constructed on scientific prin-
ciples can be seen daily at the grocery of Clark
& Maeder, corner of Common and Carondelet
streets 1t is guaranteed to consume not more
than Fifteen Pounds of Ice in twenty four hours
1t is the only kind made not to require the break
ing cf the ice, and it thoroughly separates the
warm from the cold air. 1t is now recognized as
the only refrigerator in which the contents can be
kept perfectly dry and cold without freezing; Even
matches are kept dry in it for any length of time
See the Scientific American about FISHERS Re
FRIGERATOR ie9 I'm
Year: 1871

Bag" One of the bellies Of Philadel-
phia a I'd an heiress in her own right,
is to be married next month to an Off
Ger in the array, who is ordered to one
of the forts in Arizona for four years
Her baggage will consist of eighteen
large Saratoga trunks.
Year: 1871

How To KEEP \ SlrrArloN. The
following bit of good advice is from
tAe Norhi"g Man, and is worthy the
attention of all our readers


Law it down as a fundamental rule,
that You will be "faithtul in that
which is least. Pick up the loose
nails, bits of twine, clean wrapping
paper, and put them in their places.
Be ready to throw in an odd half
hours time when it will be an accom-
mediation, and don't seem to make a
merit of it. DO it heartily. Though
not a word be said, be sure your en-
plover will make note Of it. Make
Yourself indispensable to linn and he
will lose many of the opposite kind be-
fore he will part with you.


Those Young men who watch the
time to see the very second their
working hours is up-who leave, no
matter what state the work may be IN,
at precisely the instant-who calcu-
late the extra amount they can slight
their work, and yet not get rcproyal
who are lavish of their employer S
goods, will always be the first to re-
ceive notice the times are dull, and
their services are no longer required,
Year: 1871

CHRIST WITH Is IN TElAIs.--G"d
did not take up the three Hebrews
out Of the furnace of lire, but He came
down and walked with them in it,
He did not remove Daniel from the
den Of lions. lie sent his angels to
close the months of the beasts He
did not, in answer to the PRAYER Of
Paul, remove the thorn in tie flesh :;
but He gave him a sulicieucy Of grace
to sustain him.
Year: 1871

LABOR CONDUCIVE TO LONG LIFE
In view of the short duration of life en-.
tailed By some occupations, it must be re.
garded as consoling, yea, sublime fact,
that labor in general does not tend to
shorten life which on tho other hand,
idlencss and luxury are productive of the
same results as the most unhealthy occu.
pations. DR.. Guy, an Englishman, in cal
culating the average duration of life in the
wealthy classes, arrived at the very sur
prisiug result, with regard to adults, that
the higher the position 10 the social scale,
the more unlimited their means, the less
the probability of long life.


We have so long been accustomed to
consider the possession Of riches as the
guarantee for physical welfare, that many
will be surprised to hear from Guy that
the probability of tho duration of life
lessons. with regard to adults in each class
of population, in the same degree as the
beneficial impulse for occupation is lack.
ing. liza person who for long time has
lived an active life retires from business,
it may be taken for granted, with the
probability Of ten to one, that he had
seized the most effective means of shorten
ing lis life." We may smile at the soap
maker who, after formally retired from
business, went, nevertheless, on each day
of soap boiling iu his workshop; but it
must also be acknowledge that his Instinct
did not mislead him. OF all conditions of
life, idleness is the hardest for nature to
combat; and this is especially true Of per.
sons who have accustomed themselves to a
busy life. .-e
Year: 1871

DoUGHNUTs.-Boil one quart of new
milk. and melt in it half a pound of butter.
Beat three eggs with two pounds Of sugar,
then pour on the boiling milk stirring all
the time. When nearly cold stir in tea.
cup of yeast, teaspoon of salt, aud -four
enough to make stiff batter. When
quite light knead in flour enough to make
a soft dough. Add grated nutmeg and
a little mace. Let it rise again until very
light roll it out, cut in strips or according
to fancy, fry in hot lard.
Year: 1871

WEARING EUoENfE's SECOND HAND
CLoTHEs.-A New York correspondent
writes If Solomon had lived in this nine.
teenth century, he should have written,
Keep thy tongue with all diligence; for
out Of it are the issues Of life; instead Of
Keep thy heart" The tongue is now
much more responsible for tho wrongs done
in life than the heart. The most malicious
things said are mere emanations of tho
tongue, and don't come at all from the
heart. Women will say things Of each
other, not meaning to do harm, and yet
how much is done by one unkind word
l heard a lady say, few days since, she
wondered what Mrs. Soand.So would do
now that she would not be able to buy tho
Empress's second. hand clothes; and when
she saw astonishment expressed on my
face, she said: Why. don't you know she
has been buying the Empresses' dresses
for years? While her dresses are very el-
egant, no one ever saw her with perfectly
fresh dress on" The moral drew from
all this was, that the only use woman's
fine clothes were to her was to make other
women hate her-if you can call that
use. Upon inquiry | find that the EN-.
press never wore dress more than three
times; that was the extreme when some
particular costume pleased her very much;
and often dress was worn but once. On
certain days, those that had their service
were exhibited on lay figures by the dame
de robe in charge, and sold to the highest
bidders. They were usually bought to go
out of France-Russia and the United
States being the principal markets for
them.
Year: 1871

r Salt Lake has risen thirty feet since
the settlement of Utah by the Morwons.
This inland sea will soon assume oceanic
proportions at that rate of rising, aud the
parched desert become q vast expense OF
water.
Year: 1871

anu emerge from the WauSOieuu WIFI tue
smell of the virus upon their garments
but they refuse to confess it. So with all
the slaves of passion; like the marine di:
yer, they 20 down among the dead men,
and struggle up again to the light of day
-convulsed by horrid recollections of con-
tact with the dead, but returning again
and again, until at length they have lost
their identity among the hopeful living,
and by the verdict of society and the fixed
finger of inscrutable Providence, are con-
signed to the dark procession of dead
men, who lurk among the habitations of
the living.


In all the cities of the East, and on the
continent of Europe, this dark procession
swells, and gathers volume and threatens
to absorb in its ranks the body of our
youth-the young, toward whom the aged
turn with loving eyes as the pillars Of
hope-soldiers destined to take rank in
the battle of life on the side of virtue
for, alas mans condition is an incessant
conflict between virtue and vice-a hot
struggle between the living and the dead
men,


Science devised and suggested the
quarantine as protection and guard
against physical cpidemics, and it has
been most cfficacious in its results. The
social quarantine is the power which phil
anthropists must employ to diminish or
utterly remove the present danger of con-
tact between the living and dead men.
1t being conceded that the gamblers
breath atlantis the air with moral death,
he must breathe an atmosphere of his own ;
it being conceded him that his art aud
craft have degraded him to a condition of
moral death, then it is due to the living
to devise such guards and warnings US
may preserve them from contact with the
contagion. Another form of moral death
called the Social Evil is made the sub
ject of police surveillance and regulations
in many cities. But the gambler is more
dangerous foe to life and hope. Marius,
weeping amid the ruins of Carthage, felt
some compunc tious throb, but the dead
men Of the nineteenth century revel and
riot, with fendish exultation, among liv.
ing habitations they have pluudered; no
touch Of mercy swells the dead mems
heart, but they, cold as the monumental
marble which records the birth aud death
of their last victim, and which stands
there, in the lonely mountain, n terrible
witness against his destroyers. The ashes
are cold upon his hcar,hstone. aud the
mourners go about the Streets But he
left a legacy to his orrhans-it is scrawl,
upon which was traced in faint characters :
MY dear children, never go down
amonr the dead mon ,"
Year: 1871

A New FRENCH LoAN.-Our dispatches
this morning announce that the French gov
ernment has decided upon placing new loan
Of two and half mlliards of francs upon the
market. For the purpose Of strengthening
the national credit it is proposed to buy up a
large amount Of rentes and so run up their
market price. The new loan will be issued in
the form Of three per cent rentes. Before the
war this class of securities commanded good
price in France, but they have deprecated
greatly since the disastrous struggle began,
and are now quoted at but little over fifty
cents on the dollar. The amount of the pro-
posed loan-about five hundred millions Of
dollars-is very large, but it will doubtless be
taken up at fair price, and will enable the
French to pay off the stipulated proportion of
the war indemnity, the payment Of which rids
France of the presence Of German soldiers.
Year: 1871

THE REPORTED SALE OF CUBA CONTRA
DIoTED.-The telegram which announced that
the United States were negotiating with the
Spanish government for the sale of Cuba and
Porto Rico seems to be void of all foundation.
Senor Roberts, the Spanish Minister, informed
one of our reporters yesterday that the whole
story was hoax, and that Spain had not the
least intention Of selling Cuba or any of her
West India possessions. Even if she ever
had mind to such a bargain she could no
longer entertain the idea, now that the pacili-
cation of the island has been secured at the
cost Of so much blood and treasure.
Year: 1871

THE Coal STRIKE begins to tell seriously
upon every branch of industry. Yesterday at
a meeting of manufacturers of plate iron 1t
was determined to advance the price of all
grades of boiler plates three-eighths of q cent
per pound. The manufacturers allege that
they are forced to demand this advance in
consequence Of the rise in the cost of pig metal,
caused by the heavy increase of the price Of
coal In the Schuylkill region.
Year: 1871

During the past year most of the schools have been
amined twice. In the first six months there were ex
amined 345 classes of which 629 excellent SCI
good 2i fair and 81 Indifferent That is TO say about III
per cent of all the classes found to have been very
imperfectly instructed. the term "far" well fin
different" and bad" indicating in different degrees,
decided deficiency. The following tables exhibit the re-
the examinations for the first half Of the year in
each of the several classes of schoOls
Year: 1871

Competitors for Premiums Field Crops the
with Secretary the Of the Annual Fair
Secretary before the 18th Of December statement showing the
cultivation the quality
seed the quality used and depth powng
Year: 1871

The invention of the lucifer match
was recently claimed by an English
chemist, Mr.. Isaac Holden, in his evil
dence before the Patent Committee of
Parliament. The production of this
most useful and at the same time most
dangerous fre-work, it is said, was due
to happy thought which flashed
through the brain Of Mr.. Holden. This
gentleman was obliged to rise very early
in the morning to pursue his chemical
studies, and experienced great annoy
ance from his tedious efforts to strike q
light by means of flint and steel. He
was giving lectures at the time to avery
large academy. Mr.. Holden says that
he knew the ordinary explosive material
necessary to produceinstantaneousig light,
but that it was very difficult to obtain a
fame on wood by that explosive mate
rial. The idea then occurred to him to
place sulphur under the explosive sub
stance, and the expedient proved en-
tirely successful. The experiment was
exhibited in Mr.. Holden's lecture-room,
and a young man present Immediately
wrote to his father, a chemist in Lon.
don, in reference to the discovery, and
shortly afterwards, it is stated, lucifer
matches were manufactured and offered
for sale.
Year: 1871

Dr. y Onn murray, the inspector G6n
eral of Indian Hospitals, and an author
ity on the subject of cholera, has com
municated to one of the English jour.
nails an important paper on this
disease, from which we extract the fol
lowing:


at is our duty to assist nature and


(the first symptoms) the poison is
thrown off without any violent or very
prominent symptoms by the natural
functions of the system. Our task here
is to support the strength, avoid indi-
gestible food and depressing causes.
The only medicine that 1 have found
useful in this stage is little quinine
every day. The subsequent indications
of the treatment are to remove the alb.
normal symptoms as they appear, of
which the most early is diarrhea. The
first indication is to check this, and re-
store the case to the stage of maazaise !;
then remove the cause, and restore the
natural secretions. Irritating or indi-
gestible food in the bowels is the most
frequent cause of diarrhea; and should
this not previously have been dis
charged in the excavations, it should be
removed, and recurrence of the loose
ness guarded against, as l have always
found it the most exciting cause of col
lapse. 1 have found this best carried
out by combination of opium with
carminatives, in the form of cholera
pills composed of one grain of opium,
two of black pepper, and thr, e of assa-
foetida 1t appears to check the loose
ness and to stimulate the secretions.
This pill does no harm if needlessly ad-
ministered. 1t should be repeated if
the looseness continue. 1t will cure in
most cases, and in all restrain the
symptoms until regular medical advice
can be procured. This is a most i'm
portant point in the use of this simple
remedy. 1t may be distributed to every
house, and be available in a few min
utes, whereas the delay of few hours
may allow the disease to advance be-
yond control. I know no better RENE
dy for this stage. These pills have been
distributed in tens of thousands in the
towns and villages of India with most
satisfactory results. Some surgeons
prefer red to black pepper, and others
add camphor to the opium and assa-
fetida, and report favorably of the COM
bination. They are distributed in the
and are placed in the
hands of the police in India. In this
country similar arrangements might be
made.


In collapse, our power is limited by
the circumstance that the vital organs
are insensible to the ordinary action of
medicines. Experience shows that
opium, astringents and alcohol lie inert
in the collapsed stomach, though these
are the ordinary remedies fer pain,
looseness and debility. 1t is also my
experience that the free use of these
at this stage causes death,
either by preventing reaction, or by
causing local complications should reac-
ton appear.


"There is another cause of death
which is not generally understood, but
which it is not always in the power of
all sufferers or attendants on the sick
to check or prevent. I allude to the
extreme danger of assuming the erect
posture, or even sitting up in bed,
during the collapse or the earliest stages
of reaction. have seen, myself, and
have heard of many cases where fatal
syncope followed sitting up in bed or
rising to go to STOOL"
Year: 1871

A TTENTION is INVITED TO THE NEW ORLEANS,
Mobile and Texas Railroad Company. II is composed of
strong Northern capitalists who have already expended
nearly SlO0oooo0 of their funds of
the line They have built about 225 miles Mobile west
ward and secured by purchase OF securities and made
vision for the thorough repair and equipment of the l
miles constituting the Texas DIVISION leaving miles
be built to complete the entire road
Year: 1871

INTERVIEW WITH THE MURDERER RuLIoF1.
Professor Mather of Amherst College, writes
to the Springfield Republican full account Of
his recent interview with Rulloff, in the Jail at
Binghamton. He says:


''On one or two passages of Homer In par
ticular Rulloff showed great acuteness Of criti-
cism, and most thorough appreciation OF the
grandeur of the sentiment. One or two rem
derings of President FELTON, he opposed most
version, he quoted from Il vast range of classics
to confirm his view.


'His theory of language | cannot enter upon
here, for it is too subtle for the general reader.
1t is very original, is quite contrary to the es-
tablished views upon comparative phlology,
and probably will never be ofany practical use.
Most persons think him monomaniac upon
this, and certainly his enthusiasm is most re-
markable He sat there in his chains, just
sentenced by the highest court to die Oh the
gallows, and without word, or apparently
thought, about his DOOM he argued and plead
for his favorite theory as though he were
wrestling for his lite, and was determined to
win.


"He is anxious to have philologists examine
the manuscript of his work. He urged me to
see whether his theory is true. He asked my
pardon for the apparent dogmatism of the
statement, but said he felt convinced that this
theory of language was a special revelation to
him, and that perhaps hundred years might
eapse ere it would be known again, and then
added significantly, And you know that
whatever is done must be done quickly.


'sIn person this strange man is about mid
die height and of robust build, and is appar.
emily verging on fifty years of age, not at all
the broken old man he had been represented.
He has singular face, not villainous or gross
ly sensual, nor is it scholarly. The features
are strongly marked and full of sinister mean
ing. It is a face that you could not forget and
ret would not care to think about. His eye,
which is dark hazel, | had heard was the
striking feature but it did not impress me 50
perhaps because it showed struggle and suffer
Ing. The bad lines in his face to me were
about his chin and forehead, and his neck is
very short, and stout and heavy In manners
he is very urbane and natural and he con-
verses with great facility and elegance. His
voice is mellow and pleasant, and occasionally
showed tones of tenderness. But for all that,
| do not believe the man has any tenderness
save for language In looking at hlm you
would never imagine him as loving any human
being, and YOU would be sure that his hatreo
would be implacable He is certainly. an en-
igma, and offers in himself a powerful aIrgu
ment against the theory that education is alone
sufficient to lead to true manhood.
Year: 1871

"JOneS."


The following little story, with its moral was
written for the Macon, Georgia, Telegraph
knew man and he lived in Jones'
Which Jones is L country of red hills and
And he lived pretty much by getting of loans,
And his mules were nothing but skin and bones,
And his hogs were fat as bis corn bread pones,
And he had bout thousand acres of land.
This man-and his name was also Jones'
He swore that hed leave them old red hills


and stones,


For he couldn't make nothin' but yellowish


cotton,


And little of that for his fences were rotten,
And what little cotton he had that was


boughten,


And he couldn't get living from the land.
And the longer he swore the madden he got,
And he rose and he walked to the stable lot,
And he hollooed to Tom to come there and


hitch,


For to emigrate somewhere where the land was


rich,


And to quit raising cock burs, thistes and SIGH,
And wasting their time On barren land.
So hi1a and Tom they hitched up their mules,
Protesting that folks were mi ghty big fools
That I'D stay in Georgia their lifetime out,
jest scratching living, when all OF them


mought


Get places in Texas where cotton would sprout
By the time you could plant it in the land.
And he drove by house where a man named
Was living, not far from the edge Of the town,
And he bantercd Brown for to buy his place,
And said that seeing rs money was skace
nd acho fu horI IN
Two dollars an acre would get the land.
They closed at dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him wagon and tents,
And loaded his corn, and his women, and truck,
And moved to Texas which it took
His entire pile, with the best of luck,
To get there and get him little land.
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm,
And he rolled up his breeches and barred his


arm,


And he picked all the rocks from off on the


ground,
And he rooted it up and ploughed it down,
And sowed his corn and wheat in the land.
Five years glid by, and Brown, one day,
WHO got 80 fat that he wouldn't weigh
Was a sitting down, sorter laEly,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one of the children jumped on his knee
And says, ''yan's Jones, which you bought


his land


And there was Jones, standing out at the


fence,
And he hadn't no wagon, nor mules, nor tents.
For he had left Texas afoot and come
To Georgia to see if he couldn't get some,
Employment and he was looking as humble as
Ifhe had never owned any land
But Brown he asked him in, and he sot
Him down to his victuals smoking hot,
And when he had filled himself and the floor
Brown looked at him sharp and rove and swore
That whether mans land was rich or poor
There was more in the man than there was


in the land. V
Year: 1871

/. The symptoms Of Liver


Complaint are uneasiness


and pain in the side. Some


times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
times alternating with lax.
l with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
Of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hav-
ing left undone something
which ought to have been
done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
e r,iritc Som ptimas many OF