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Year: 1876




WONDERS OF SLEEP.--It is related that n
man fell asleep as the clock tolled the first
stroke of twelve. He awakened ere the echo
OF the twelfth stroke had died away, having
in the interval dreamed that he committed n
crime, which was detected after five wears.
tried and condemned the shock of finding
the halter about his neck aroused him 10
consciousness, whom he discovered that all
these events had happened in an infinitesi-
NAL fragment of time. Mohammed. wishing
to illustrate the wonders of sleep, told how a
certain man, being sheik. found himself.
for his pride, made a poor fisherman that
he lived as one for sixty years, bringing up
a family and working bard and how, upon
waking from this long dream. so short a time
had he been asleep that the narrow necked
bottle filled with water, which he knew he
overturned as he fell asleep, had not had
lime 10 empty itself.
Year: 1876

D. you believe this, hoysi 1t ia true
true that you are watched often. very often
when YOU think not Of it. Perhaps can
hest illustrate tins by giving you story
related by traveller in one OF the Southern
Stntts


Among the Irish emgrans WIN came to
our country more than twenty years ago
was a lnd not then out Of his teens. lie was
n stranger in arrange land. without friends
or helper in his search for employment
| he came to the banks Of one of the rivers
which flow into the Gulf Of Mexico. Hero
! he Obtained situation as deck hand on honrl
| of steamboat 1t was hard work nnrlhard
lare At ol honrs of the day or night he
was expected 10 stand ready to land and
receive freight, take in wood, and feed the
furnaces. He did his work faithfully prov.
ing himself sober, active, and intelligent.


lie had hccn in the bort about n week
when on one dark night fire Sas seen, and
cry heard on the banks of the river
The tirr was signal for tho boat to stop
The mMtc who WAS then in charge, would
not land but sent our young lriSlman on
shore in n small boat. He found planter
and two or three negroes standing around
the signal fire The planter banded him
package. saying, "Ilrrc is thirty four thou.
sand dollars. Give 1t 10 the captain or
clerk. and ask him to depos it for me in
the Planter Bunk ~ soon ns he gets in.
Tell him not TO forget II, as it is to pay
note which falls due on the day after .onlor.
row"


The young man put the money in his
bosom, and pushed of the beat. In th,,
darkness he might have gone in another iii.
rcction, and with the money in his posses
sion, great fortune for poor immigrant,
disappeared. never TO be seen in these parts.
Docsill gotten wealth ever prove real bless
iegl This young man probably thought
not. At all events he had no intentions OF
trying il.


On his reaching the deck, the mate de.
manded Of him what was wanted. The lad
replied simply that it was message Tor the
captain, and was roughly ordered to go into
the cabin and deliver it.


Upon entering the cabin he saw the cap
tain surrounded by IL jolly group Of passen-
gers and very huisy with cards and punch.
Under these circumstances he wisely con
cludcd TINT the money would for that night
he safest in his own Keeping. lie retired
from the cabin unobscrvcd and slowed the
package OF Eotc~ in the bottom Of his clothes
bag In the morning WHEN the captain was
sober, he again visite the cabin, and drhv.
cred the money and message, when some.
thing like the foIlowingconvcrsation occurr
cd.


"WImt is this1 Where dill you sct this
money!


Il went asllorein the yawl for list night
sir


And why did yon not bring it to the
Office at once :"


Il dill sir; but You and the clerk were
both very busy


This answer drew forth hearty laugh
from some Of the passengers who had been
Year: 1876

A DASBuRY man put n pair Of nine dol.
jar shoes in the stove oven to dry, the other
night. There was not much fire in the stove
and so he closed the oven door. The next
morning he built the fire without thought
OF the shoes, and it was not until an hour
later that they occurred to him. They were
ruined then. The sOles were turned up in Il
playful manner, and the uppers resembled
somewhat the coast OF Maine. He didn'
say n word. Sadly and silently he was re
moving them with shovel, when his wife
came in, and saw at II glance what had
happened.


well, that's just like man ~ she III.
dlscrectly exclaimed. Why didn't you
have SENSE enough to look into the oven
before you started the FIRE,


He hadn't said single word OF his loss
But now he spoke: Gosh dun my eyes
if I'll ever build another tirew


And he'is keeping his word. When riA
O woman learn wisdom


Of the one hundred and seventeen women
new studying at the University Of Michigan
four have chosen law, forty.sevcn medicine
and fitly-siX literature aud science.
Year: 1876

Brown will withdraw. OF course they have
perfect right to do so, and also to form
local organization of their own ''down
East" This proceeding however, need not
necessarily break up the Rowing Associa-
ton of American Colleges. Let those that
remain extend an invitation to every college
throughout the country to join the associa-
tion. To this invitation we think there
would be a hearty response. Some of tho
Western and Southern colleges might like
to stake hand in" the next annual re-
gatta, and the places made vacant by the
New Englanders might be moro than filled
by Western and Southern bone and muscle.
Then let the rowing be done in fours ia
stead of skies, and we may expect to see
regatta next season on Saratoga Lake such
as will equal, if not surpass, the finest ef.
forts Of American students over that or any
other course in the country.
Year: 1876

This morning we present our readers with
q cable letter touching on the prominent
topics of social and political inter-
and action, the British capital. After
the long autumn vacation during
which fashion deserts the Thames and seeks
the Seine, the Rhine, the Po and the Tiber,
that season intervenes when county seats
and less pretentious country houses offer
away from Belgravia. 1t is a great season
for positive talk, however, as those who
simply chat are not present to keep CONVEX
sation in that unending maze which begins
anywhere and leads nowhere in particular.
Hence people talk war and peace,
with deep moral intent the sad career of that
young aristocratic scapegrace, Viscount
Maidstone. AS rule young noblemen get
into pecuniary difficulties after going into
tho army, but this earl expectant went
into bankruptcy and then enlisted
failure to be gunner he made for the cav
airy, and now hourishes a sabre at shilling
day. The benefit for the society
which relieves distressed Americans will
please all our readers, but will astonish some
who can scarcely realize, if they have not
held a consulship, that such thing can
exist as distressed American abroad. We
assure these good people that the society has
much more scope for its good work than
that celebrated society once fourishing in
the British capital ''for the relief of aged
apprentices" 1t is gratifying to learn that
English opera has been SO success
full in London as our letter informs
us, and we are certain that the
same success could be repeated here if the
same care were taken with its presentation.
We need not mention every topic in the
gossipy budget, but leave the remainder,
with our blessing, to the reader.
Year: 1876

and supply OF . mIlion and half
men that she is organizing for actual
service. German and Dutch bankers mnst
furnish the capital with which these contrac-
tors will operate, and they find themselves
suddenly in want of the large sums they had
snugly invested in our securities. They sell,
of course, and forced sale in large amounts
necessarily hurts the price. This is only
rience little later in an aggravated form.
1t will not do us any great harm eventually,
for if the trouble continues there will be a
prosperity on our side that will largely in
crease the cash that people here will have to
invest
Year: 1876

Resignation OF tho French Ministry.


The threatened crisis in the French Min
istry has at last come. The entire Ministry
has resigned and n new one will have
to be formed at once. The endeavor
of the republican majority in the
French Chamber of Deputies to sepa-
rate one Minister from his associates
and hold him alone responsible for OBJ
noxious points of policy is hardly in the
spirit of parliamentary government. There
are several important topics as to which the
republicans are dissatisfied with the attitude
Of the government. Ontwo Of these topics
the burial of members of the Legion of
Honor and the estimates for public Worship
they hold that the government is subject to
clerical influence, and, sustained by that
influence, is disposed to resist the opinion
and the will Of the nation as these are
manifested in Parliament. An issue thus
made can be determined only in one way.
The House can vote down the propositions of
the government until they are embodied in
bills satisfactory to the House, and the
Ministry, whose bills are thus thrown out,
though it may retain its place for time
under the good-natured solicitations of the
President, will yield at length and Min
istry will be chosen that will accept the
views OF the House.
Year: 1876

ANOTHER Mysterious DISAPPEARANCE is
added to the long list of those already on
record. A merchant from Auburn, n. Y,
leaves the house of friend in this city with
the intention of paying a short visit to
Brooklyn. From the moment he leaves
The house all trace Of him is lost,
notwithstanding the diligent search Of
bis friends. 1t is supposed he had
money on his person and was well
known to the thieves, having been at one
lime the master of Auburn Prison. What
are our police doing about it? Even in
aenseIy populated London or in Paris q
missing man or woman is soon found, dead
or alive. The condition of New York is
ssslly disgrace TO our boasted police force.
Year: 1876

What jolly time the Yale and Princeton
boys had last Thursday on the ST. Georges
Cricket Ground, at Hoboken There the
bounding football received leather drub-
bing from academic boots that would have
done good to the heart of the sturdiest old
boy that ever looked back to Eton, Harrow
or Rugby. Just enough frost in the dir to
give o healthy glow to the cheeks and
zest to the game. Princeton was splendid,
and deserved q better fate than losing two
successive goals, but Yale was magnifi-
cent. The large and interested throng
Of ladies and gentlemen that gathered
in their furs and overcoats to witness this
exciting game had ample enjoyment to repay
their trouble Now that Yale has fine vic
tory to her credit and Columbia another we
look forward to their meeting on the 9th
inst. with the liveliest expectation OF rat
Ting game. Football, like base ball, has all
the elements of the widest popularity, and
we shall not be surprised to see all our
young men employed in the great city
banking houses and business exchanges
form clubs for this game, as they
have already done for that which
has been called ''the national" They are
too much given over, rs soon rs the fall
comes, to the sociable, the hop and the Ger
man, and, although these are not TO be
ignored by the wise man, who knows what
young humanity is, they should not have
six months to themselves. Football means
cheap and bracing exercise in the open air
at time when, as our modern civilization
makes it, "a young mans fancy lightly
turns to love-" In the Arcadian days
spring time was the dangerous period but
we have changed all that. Now, too when
the winter is upon us, we hope the leading
base bal clubs will take up the idea of form
ing new and improved national associ-
alton which will give that fine game fresh
impetus. Mr.. Waites letter in O recent
HERALD on this subject was move in the
right direction. What is now wanted is an
association that will do for base ball what
the Jockey Club has done for horse racing
in America rehnblitate it. set up code of
honor, as well rs code of rules. and fear
lessly and without favor enforce both We
wish prosperity to all our national games
and those that deserve to become national
Year: 1876

A MELANCHOLY CASE is that Of the acciden-
tai shooting of a young girl by her father
while the family We're examining loaded
pistol in the hands of the unfortunate man.
This careless handling of loaded firearms is
frequent cause of death. While we deeply
sympathize with the afflicted family we
hope that this latest accident will serve as a
warning against the incautious handling of
dangerous weapons.
Year: 1876

OUR GALLANT MIITTIAMES not unfrequently
appear in the civil courts for redress against
the arbitrary rulings of courts martial.
1t sometimes happens that officers set
tie their personal quarrcls with the men
through the medium of military court, and
when this occurs injustice is often done to
accused members. While each battalion of
the National Guard should have the settle
ment of its own affairs, under the general
militia laws, great care should be exercised
by the commandants in selecting the officers
that preside at the tribunals organized to
investigate and punish petty offences against
discipine
Year: 1876

Prince Bismarck's Hint to Austria.


From the words spoken by Prince Bis
marck at the Parliamentary dinner in Berlin
it might be believed that the great states
man had just heard Of the likelihood of
war, and fresh from his rural retirement
was shocked to believe that it might now be
too late to preserve the peace. This style OF
observation may probably suggest to the
world that the Prince "sphinxes' on this i'm
portant subject. 1t can scarcely be believed
that he expresses either the purposes or
convictions of his government in bis in
timation that Germany will abandon her
neutrality i'll the interest of Austria or
that she will do her utmost to prevent the
war out of regard to the old-time friendly
relations between England and Germany.
There is in this vein of historic sentiment
worthy the centennial oratory; but the
present neutrality Of Germany is the sub
stantial fact that the Prince thus declares
to the loyal supporters of Kaiser William
in his Parliament-a fact likely to be ex-
ceedingly agreeable to them for multitude
of reasons. All the rest is the fringe. They
like to hear German magnates deal with the
politics Of Europe in that style, which con-
stantly recalls the fattering fact that there
would be no war if the Kaiser chose to lift
his little finger. Some of them, perhaps,
like to believe that Germany would move to
rescue Austria from the divisions incident
to her duality, and others like to believe
that she would act benevolent or patroniz-
ing part toward England. But the immi-
nent war has already assumed the
shape that the Prince would endeavor
to give it. 1t is not prevented, but
it is localized and it will concern Eng
land but little. There is not room to doubt
that Russia will occupy Bulgaria and that
Germany has assented to it. If Turkey
fights against'it she will fight alone and
will be easily whipped despite the vision
airy reasonngs of the Berlin correspondent
of the London Times If Austrias vital
interests are threatened it will be by the
Hungarians, who may 60 to some extremes
to prevent the Vienna government from CO.
operating with Russia. Should they take
any foolish step in that direction the ap-
pearance of n German army near the from
tier will restore them to reason.
Year: 1876

A NOTICEABLE FACT in connection with the
police returns of New York is the regularity
with which from seventeen to eighteen hum
drcd arrests are made every week. The
number of captures rarely exceeds and very
seldom falls below the numbers given. 1t
would be interesting to know whether there
is much repeating done, and if we have the
satisfaction in this instance of getting "a
fnir count y
Year: 1876

OUR BONDS IN EUEoFE. BY cable we
learn that tho decline in American socu-
rites is in consequence of large sales
on German and Dutch account. As tho
result of the sales is not unnatural the
sales themselves are only what might be
looked for in the circumstances that imperil
the peace Of Europe. German merchants
and contractors are no doubt engaged to
supply the greater part of the demands that
Russia must mako for the equipment
Year: 1876

The New York Times of the 18th
inst. has the following from its special
correspondent at Tallahassee:


At IL O'Clock to-day Judge White re-
sumed his judicial operations against
the canvassing board for contempt, but
the Democratic lawyers, to the surprise
of their friends, suddenly determined to
withdraw all their proceedings and
bring the matter in a new form before
the Supreme Court. This was done, it
is said to relieve White, who found him.
self 80 entirely unsupported by law in
his outrageous proceedings against the
board, that his courage failed him when
he came to take the final step in
the matter; it will therefore be brought
before the Supreme Court tomorrow
and its decision will be respected, for it
lis beyond suspicion of partisan action.
The ultimate question to be decided by
this court is: Had the board the right
to go behind the county returnsp Two
years ago, when canvassing the vote for
member of congress and state ofhcers,
the same board, acting under advice of
Attorney General Cooke, went behind
returns and acted without protest from
any one. Then the Democratic lawyers
were anxious to go behind the county
returns of the vote for member of con-
gress, and there was scarcely one of the
Democratic lawyers in the state who
didn't come forward in support of the
power of the board. to go behind county
returns. Now the same lawyers find it
convenient to swallow all they said two
years ago about the power of the board;
and say that its duties are merely cleri-
cal. On points affecting national issue,
the action of the board was unanimous.
Cookies protests were against throwing
out precincts in Hamilton and Monroe
counties, and yet as shown by the Off
cial minutes of the board, he advised
this action and voted for the throwing
out Of these very precincts. No wonder
the Attorney general omitted to go
through the form of presenting his pro-
test to the other members of the board.
who knew that he had voted with them
Year: 1876

Remember that lemons can be kept
sweet and fresh for months by putting
them in clean, tight cask or Jar and
covering with cold water. The water
must be changed as often as every
other day, and the eask kept in cool
place.


Remember that a tablespoonful of
black pepper will prevent gray or bun
linen from spotting if stirred into the
first water in which they are washed.
1t viii also prevent the colors running,
when washing black or colored cambrics
or muslins, and the water is not injured
by it, but just as soft as before the pep
per was put in.


Remember that mirrors should never
be hung where the sun shines directly
upon them. They soon look misty,
grow rough OF granulated, and no long
er give back a correct picture The
amalgam or union of tinfoil with mer-
curry, which is spread on glass to form
looking-glass, is easily ruined by the
direct, continued exposure to the solar
rays. -


Remember that one can have the
hands in soap-suds with soft soap with.
ont injury to the skin if the hands are
dipped in vinegar or lemon Juice imme.
diately after. The acids destroy the
corrosive effects of the alkali and make
the hands soft and white. Indian meal
and vinegar or lemon juice used on the
hands when roughed by cold or labor,
will heal and soften them. Rub the
hands in this; then wash off thorough
ly and rub in glycerine. Those who
suffer from chapped hands in the win.
ter will find this comforting.
Year: 1876

There is nothing more curious on our
coast than the mud islands at the mouth
of the Mississippi. They were lifted from
the bottom of the sea;but how is mys-
terry. Some have risen or subsidized in a
single day, and the gas coming from
them, few feet below the surface,
keeps up a continual turmoil of the
water above, while from all of them the
gases which raise them escape through
small but apparently bottomless craters.
In some of these springs the water that
shoots up is several degrees cooler than
it is in the surrounding sea; and the
crater Of one Of them, on Osgood's Is
land, has mineral flavor. and is sold
in New Orleans drug stores as speci-
fic for rheumatism. These islands never
rise in channels of navigation, but al
ways on their edges, Some have a liv.
| ing vegetation, but the greater number
Year: 1876

of the dog she manages an introduction,
and it is not her fault if the oddly made
acquaintance does not ripen into a very
warm and satisfactory filtration. This
is no hypothetical case. Such things
do occur, and others of the same XII d..
In amusing contrast to the aristocratlc
skating club is a rink where no annual
subscription is required, no presenta-
tion at Court. no members ticket, only
a small payment at the door. Evening
is the time to see such an establishment
at its best, or worse. The room blazes
with gas, but ventilators have been left
out of the design. A smell of music
hall cigars, stale sandwiches, and cherry
brandy pervades the air. Arms and
legs fly about like the sails of a wind
mill, or like the figures in a magic Ian
tern. In the middle of the room and
in the corners difficult feats are per
formed with ingenuity if not with
grace, and one or two men secure the
admiration of less skillful skaters by
assuming the character of animated tea
pots. The young women may be seen,
clinging at the borders of the throng,
where they can eat sponge cake and
drink lemonade at the expense of their
respective young men, others showing
a strong resolve to take the worth of
their extra money out of the floor
SGf,rdgy ReuielC.
Year: 1876

How SHE LEARNED THE METHOD
A paper published in Sacramento, CAL,
gives the following: Yesterday, a
young lady called at the counter of the
registry department of the postofice,
and asked for the privilege OF reopen
ing letter which she claimed to have
dropped in the box that morning. The
postmaster, after finding the address
and taking particular description of the
missive sought, obligingly searched
among the letters in the drop, and,
finding the letter, proceeded to open it
in the presence of the writer. In doing
this the official used q common lead
pencil, but the lapel Of the envelope
was stuck to stay stuck, and general
mutilation was imminent. Observing
the unprofessional method the lady
said, decidedly, Give it to me; let me
show you The letter was handed
over, when the fair manipulation deity
ran the thumb-nail under the edges Of
the lapel, raising it neatly. Follow
ing this up, with delicate touches in
kind, it soon became apparent that the
opening, without leaving trace Of the
manipulation, was only n question Of
time. The postmaster and his deputy
looked on in charming and innocent
interest. The performance was q high
art-a deft facility. eloquent Of patient
practice. Neatly the work was done,
and - the careful opening was compile
ted the Lady remarked-by way Of ex-
PLANTATION merely, and lest some infer
enco unfavorable to the legitimacy Of
this skill might be draWn-'I used to
be in q postofice myself, you see l
learned how it's done, Is you know"
Year: 1876

One Of the magazine writer's asks,
''Did you ever hide some sacred thought
beneath your pillow and weave q web Of
tender hope about" We never did and
we doubt If any one else ever did. In
the first place most people never hide
anything beneath their pillow unless 1t
is q handkerchief when they have cold,
and then il it is under the pillow how
are YOU going to weave anything around
II without lifting the pillow up? The
magazinists seem to be asking very fool
ish questions.