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Year: 1876

A Suggestion to the Cambridge Crew.


The committee who will meet the newly
arrived Cambridge First Trinity Four
rectly to Philadelphia, where the races in
which they propose rowing do not come off
until about the last week in August, to go at
once to Saratoga and row in the Open ANA
teur Fours there on Wednesday, August 8.
In President Closes letter of the 25th ult.
he states that the principal race in which his
crew hope to row here is the intercollegiate
one of Philadelphia. But, unfortunately,
this years intercollegiate race was rowed
last Wednesday on Saratoga lake,
the plan of the Centennial Com
mittee to have it at Philadel-
phia not succeeding, so that our
English guests are in a way to be seriously
disappointed. An intercollegiate race is, to
be sure, still advertised to take place at
Philadelphia among the Centennial races,
but only two colleges, Yale and Columbia,
are at present talked of as likely to send
crews, and there is little chance at best of its
being such race as Cambridge had con-
templated. Now it would be great rudeness
on the part of our students 10 let this or any
college crew come three thousand miles to
row them and not give them a race. By
making one purposely for the second week in
August on Saratoga Lake, and Yale and Cor
nell, Harvard and Columbia all taking part,
this could be accomplished, and Yale and
Columbia would thus have a chance to beat
Cornell and make very interesting struggle.
If this plan is rejected all these college
crews could enter the race for international
amateur fours in August, and SO the famous
Atalantas and Argonautas, Beaverwycks and
Neptunes, of the East and the Duquesnes,
Wahwahsums (the new crew that recently
beat the latter), and perhaps the Bufaloes of
the West, would all have a chance to measure
blades with the foreign foe, and this on q
track long enough to test endurance instead
of merely speed. A most potent reason why
the Cambridge men should go to Saratoga is
that they have just come to
climate hotter than their own. in
year when it is far hotter than
usual, too, and if they go directly to Philadel-
phia they will find an especially hot city,
while Saratoga, far to the north, is the very
place by going to which troops of our best
people seek to avoid even New York heat.
Let Saratoga also later that same week offer
purse for international professional fours,
and have the st. John, Halifax, Pittsburg,
Boston and Biglin teams in, and they will
have such week of racing as this country
never saw, while all the crews can go from
there to Philadelphia with a most valuable
bit of experience of each others quality and
yet have ample time to learn the short
Schuylkill track and be in the heat as little
as possible. We respectfully urge the at
tention of both the Cambridge men and the
com m ittee IN these suCpestiOns
Year: 1876

INcREpIBLB BLuNDERrNG. explosion
of tho boilers of the English man-of-war
Thunderer appears to have been caused by
. piece of negligence which throws the
stupidity of the orders that resulted
In the sinking of the Vanguard and
the carelessness that almost sent the
Iron Duke to the bottom completely
in the shade Having wedged down
all the valves of the boilers to test them by
hydraulic pressure the engineers few days
afterward began to get up steam without re-
moving the wedges. As there was no escape
for the vapor except through the sides of
The boiler it went that way when the proper
pressure had been reached. The English
re ominously unlucky with their new iron
navy.
Year: 1876

the House.


Among our Washington dispatches yester-
day was one fitted to excite public curiosity.
Everybody knows that the Committee on
Banking and Currency has long been at
deadlock by the absence of Mr. Gibson.
serving on the Custom House investigation
at New Orleans. The Banking and Cur.
rency Committee consists of eleven mem.
bers, and in the absence of Mr.. Gibson the
other ten stand five for hard money and five
for soft money. The return of Mr.. Gibson,
who is sound hard money democrat, would
have given that side majority if the othel
members had remained firm. But the Hen.
bricks intriguers have found means of in.
fuencing Mr.. Wike, of Illinois, one of the
hard money members, who has been brought
to surrender his views in obedience to
demand from his constituents. In conse.
quence of this change the committee now
stands six soft money men against five
hard money men, and it is expected
that it will make report recommending the
repeal of the law which requires resumption
of specie payments in 1879. If such report
is made it will lead to one of the most ami
mated and exciting debates of the session, a
debate in which democrats will be arrayed
against democrats in vigorous conflict.


When Greek meets Creek then comes the tug Of war.


A fierce debate on the currency between
the Tilden men and the Hendricks men
would be full of peril to the democratic
party. 1t will be in vain for Mr. Hendricks
+
abet such q contest. If his friends would
unite with those of Mr.. Tilden so unseemly
family quarrel could easily be averted, but
Hendricks has q suicidal ambition to appear
as q leading figure in the canvass. The
Hendricks wing have plausible ground to go
upon and they seem determined to make the
most of it, at whatever cost to the party.
The st. Louis platform demands the repeal
Of so much Of the Resumption act al
fixes a date, and the Hendricks faction
are prepared to taunt the Tilden men
with desertion of the national platform
if they make strenuous opposition. On
the other hand a repeal would weaken Gov
ernor Tilden and seriously impair his
chances in the Eastern States. He is COM
mitted to the Resumption act, date and all.
After its passage by Congress the New York
Legislature passed law indorsing it and
pledging the State to pay all its debts in specie
on and after January l, 1879. This bill was
signed by Governor Tilden, and he will be
put in an awkward predicament if the DEM
ocrats of Congress should censure his action
and condemn his record. Moreover, such
report of the Committee on Banking and
Currency as is expected would be gratui-
tous insult to Governor Tilden, because q
repeal of the act of 1875 is known to be inn
possible. A repeating bill might possibly
be carried through the House, although this
is doubtful, but it would be certainly de-
feated in the republican Senate. The at
tempt would only divide and weaken the
democratic party and proclaim the dissent
between its candidate for President and its
candidate for Vice President If Mr. Hem
bricks has the least particle of loyalty or
decency he will actively intervene to pre-
vent SO disgraceful and damaging a spec-
Year: 1876

The New FLOATING BATHS recently ordered
to be erected by the city of New York under
an act of the Legislature are not yet ready,
although a considerable time has elapsed
since the contract was awarded 1t would
seem as if the poor cannot enjoy the use of
these necessary buildings until next sum-
mer. by which time our officials and con-
Tractors will conclude to do something about
the matter.
Year: 1876

WE VIEW WITH ALARM AND DIsGUsT q
probable revival of the Beecher controversy
in all it's revolving forms. While we recog-
nize the right Of all to seek redress in the
courts for real or even imaginary grievances
we still regret that there is no secret tribu-
nal where the very dirty linen of modern
society can be washed out of the sight Of all
who admire the good and pure.
Year: 1876

The WEATHER AND THE WASHINGTON EcoNo-
MIsTs have well nigh worn out our humber
Post Office officials--the first by a reduction
of fvital forces and the second by reduction
of pay to the starvation standard. On the
principle that too far east is west our
democratic friends may pass from the virtue
of economy to the vice of stupid niggard-
illness in dealing with the public service.
Year: 1876

Ring, and the utility of which makes us for
give many Of their sins. We should tunnel
the Hudson so that the great trunk lines
from the West and South could terminate on
the island, and not in New Jersey. Then We
should have perfect system of drainage.
Our sanitary arrangements are crime. Our
streets, in nine cases out Of ten, are a
nuisance. We should have more parks and
those we have should be made attractive
summer resorts. Beyond spot here and
there like Madison square, Union square and
one side of the Battery, New York in all
respects falls below the true standard of
metropolitan excellence.


Let us, however, take heart from the ex-
ample of Paris and see if we cannot revive
and rebuild the metropolis. Comptroller
Green has a fine chance to lead in this work.
The people respect him as an honest, bold
man who has erred on the side of thrift.
Now let him take the lead in the regenera-
ton of the metropolis. If Mr.. Green will
only agree to take up this work he can have
fifty or o hundred millions if he wishes.
The people demand a new policy and they
will have it, if new men are necessary to
carry it out.


There never was time when really great
man could do more good than now. New
York wants government that will benefit
the rich and the poor. She wants the bless
ings and advantages of civilization. She
feels that she has been ruined by the small,
narrow, thieving rulers who have preyed
upon her substance. She sees the thief dy
nasty under Tweed give place to the imbecile
dynasty under Wickham-and all the time
matters grow worse and worse. If Mr.. Green
had the genius to build up rs well as the
genius to tear down; if he could see the future
of New York as clearly as he sees the past !;
if he were as far-seeing and bold as he has
shown himself to be brave and honest, then
we might see better days. The hour has
come; we need the man. New York must
enter upon new career, for we have had
enough of crime and folly. Where is the
man who can lead us?
Year: 1876

The SERvIAN WAR has not taken a new
aspect, the defeats on the northeast and
southwest now reported being merely q con.
tinuation of the disasters that have over
taken the Slavonic arms from the start.
Roumania is said to be growing restive but
the war party will have little to give them
courage if, as is highly probable, the Turks
continue to strike the Servians so sorely.
Year: 1876

Sark is one of the most charming of
the islands on the Normandy coast. Liv-
ing there is remarkably cheap. The in
habitants can live on about one hundred
and fifty pounds year like young
turkey cocks, and 60 about like princes.
I'm point of scenery Sark is the grandest
of the whole group of Channel islands.
1t is only approachable by climbing
cliffs, which vary from two hundred to
three hundred feet in height. The pop
ulat.on is about three hundred all told.
The majority of the men are fishermen,
though there are a few farmers. The
majesty of the law Is represented by the
governor, who has nothing else to do
than to go out shooting and fishing. He
is assisted in doing nothing by the one
policeman, who lives at the lookup, or
prison, as 1t is ironically called. His
wife also lives there, and acts as sort OF
warden when required. But as no one
has been locked up for the last eleven OF
twelve years (and that was the first case
since goodness knows when) the run
ming in I" powers of said policeman and
strength of locks Of the prison are not
often tried. There is one drawback TO
Sark, and that is there Is a steamer only
about once a week, and less in very
rough weather during the winter, so that
IL sometimes happens that one Is q COM
plete fixture there.
Year: 1876

Some months ago woman in New
Jersey became the astonished mother OF
novel and intricate infant. Ostensibly
the infant was a girl, but it was fitted
up with a double set of arms, and an
extra leg. 1t would naturally be sup
posed that the mother of child so
unique and interesting would have been
extremely proud of the acquisition, and
would have promptly made arrange
ments to place it i'm Barnum's circus, or
in some other good exhibition where 1T
would do the most good. Nevertheless
the woman was greatly dissatisfied, and
took the ground that inasmuch as she
had not ordered n four-armed and three
legged infant, she was under no obliga-
tion to receive it. After a few weeks
spent i'm bewailing her fate aud upbraid-
ing her innocent and dismayed husband,
she finally announced that che had de-
cided to send the child to surgeon in
order to have it made over so as to re-
semble the usual style of child. II was
generally supposed that she had carried
out this resolution, but as time wore on
and the infant was not returned, the
neighbors began to suspect that either
the surgeon had an unusual number OF
children on hand waiting to be repaired,
or that he had met with some unex-
pected difficulty in remodeling so com.
plicated an infant, and had, in fact, ire
trievably damaged it. As 1t subse'
quently appeared, the surgeon was free
from all blame, and had never even seer
the child for the accidental discovery
of its remains in n we'll adjoining its
mothers house made it reasonably Ger
tain the captious and dissatisfied woman
had actually thrown her child away
Such was the view taken of the matter
by local grand jury, and at the present
moment the unhappy mother is on tria
for the crime of infantcide.
Year: 1876

I'd rather be poor and merry, than in.
herit the wealth of the Indies with dis.
contented spirit. A merry heart, a
cheerful spirit, from which laughter
wells up as naturally as bubbles the
springs of Saratoga, are worth all the
money-bags, stocks, and mortgages of
Wall Street. The man who laughs is a
doctor, with a diploma Endorsed by the
school of nature his face does more good
in sickroom than pound of powders
or gallon of bitter draughts. If things
go right, he laughs because he is pleased /;
If they go wrong, he laughs because it is
cheaper and better than crying. People
are always glad to see him, their hands
instinctively 60 half way out to meet his
grasp, while they turn involuntarily from
the clammy touch of the dyspeptic, who
speaks on the groaning key. He laughs
you out Of your faults, while you never
dream of being offended with him; it
seems as if sunshine came into the room
with him, and you never know what a
pleasant world you are living in until he
points out the sunny stTeaks on its path
way. Who can help loving the whole
souled, genial laugher? Not the
bufoon, nor the man who classes noise
with mirth--but the CHEEKY, contented
man of sense and mind! A good humored
laugh is the key to all breasts. The
truth is, that people like to be laughed
at in genial sort of a way. If you are
making yourself ridiculous, you want to
be told of it in pleasant manner, not
sneered at. And it is astonishing how
frankly the laughing population can talk
without treading on the sensitive toes OF
their neighbors! Why will people put
on long faces, when it is so much easier
and more comfortable to laugh? Tears
come to us unsought and unbidden. The
wisest art in life is to cultivate smiles /;
to find the flowers where others shrink
away for fear of thorns.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of the London 7smes
in speaking of Ostrich farming at the
Cape of Good Hope says:


Permit me in your valuable paper to
make few remarks on one of our most
lucrative employments at the Cape, and
which is 50 little known OF in England,
and that is a" ostrich farming" Tanning
the ostrich and making it a domesticated
bird has only been attempted of late
years formerly they used to run about
wild on the plains of South Africa. They
were shot by the traders and natives for
their feathers until they had almost be-
come extinct. l have otter heard my
native servants talk about the number
of birds they have killed and eggs they
have eaten, but that is thing of the
past. They are now watched by the
farmer most accurately until the young
are hatched; these are then taken from
their mother; the eggs that are not
Matched are taken home and generally
put under blankets to complete the incu-
baton. The birds are generally sold
when they are week old for f1O each
to those farming them; they are fed on
lucern, clover, or any grass stuff from
the garden; they are housed at night
time, and are put out during the day
when the sun is warm. When a month
old, they are taken out by a boy to the
fields, on a pasture peculiar to the
country, and will feed about the home
stead with the poultry to the age of two
years. After that age they have to be
kept in paddocks.


The birds commence laying at the age
of three and four years. They are at
tended to the same as wild birds; but
when we find hen has more eggs than
she can cover, they are placed in an
incubator, where it is interesting to
study the process of incubation.


Birds are kept solely for the feathers.
They are plucked every eight months,
and will average at each plucking fl0
worth of feathers after the first picking
which are chicken feathers, and are not
so valuable.


The Cape never offered better time
than the present for enterprising young
men, as farms are being let at nominal
price but should advise those who in
tend going ostrich-farming to rent part
of farm from one who is engaged in
that pursuit, because it does not require
much ground, and at the same time he
will be able to gain information.
Year: 1876

MISS LUCY CoUGHLIN went from
the home of her married sister, at 318
East Twenty-ffth Street New York,
taking two smoothing-irons, and saying,
"You will never see me again." A day
or two after her body was found in
the East River of East Twenty-fith
Street with one of the snoothing-iront
attached to each foot. Miss Coughlin
was about ffty.fvs years of age.
Year: 1876

More than year ago, the Bulletin
published, under the head of a
"Charming Romance" one of the
truest stories of worthy love and laud-
able ambition ever told. Briefly re-
lated, the facts were these: Lieut..


Philip Reade, a young army Of
ficer, heard in a Topeka church choir


a voice so sweet and musical, SO ten
derly sympathetic, that his soul was


touched to know more of the sweet
singer. He sought her acquaintance,


was introduced, and found young
lady struggling against the hardships
of pecuniary misfortune to make
headway. She was ambitious to go
abroad, and study under great masters
in the foreign lands of poetry and
song. Her genius, her aspiration, and
more than all, the nobility of her
character and her modest worth, found
ready admiration in the mind of the
Young officer. He made her cause his
own, and so readily responded to every
aspiration of her young life, that he
pledged his own fortune to enable he1
to go to Italy, and there finish heI
musical education in the best schools
of Florence and Milan. Pool
in purse but rich in womanly pride,
she declined to accept the gift of SC
much money. Alone and with the aid
of money earned in local concerts and
private tuition, she visited Boston and
further progressed toward the fame
which she longed to achieve. Her re-
fusal to accept money increased rather
Year: 1876

A GERMAN story thus illustrates the
fact that no creature is too small to be
of use, sooner or later:


can apothecary had a tame squirrel,
which he was in the frequent habit of
regaling with nuts, and which he used
to keep in his own private room ad-
Joining his shop. The little fellow was
allowed plenty of liberty, for the door
of his cage was frequently left open,
and he used to climb up doors and
windows and spring thence upon his
masters hand.


"On one occasion he Jumped upon
the broad -brimmed hat of a Quaker
who came into the shop. He made
friends with all his masters acquaint-
ances, but if anybody teased him he
could show that he knew how to bite.


CAS- the winter came on, he was an
the habit of building himself a nest OF
any tow he might find about, and used
to choose for residence the pocket of
his masters coat.


"When, in the evening, the coat was
taken off and hung upon a nail. the
little squirrel would climb up the door
on which the nail stood, run down the
coat and take up his quarters in the
pocket, carrying always in his mouth
a good supply of the tow, which he
had prepared and rolled together be-
| forehand, and with which he contrived
to make in the pocket the cosiest
nights lodging i'll the world.


"a housebreaker, watching his op-
portunity, selected an especially dark
| night for getting in through the win
dow of the apothecary's little back
room behind the shop, with, as you
may imagine, no good end in view.


HE knew that the apothecary kept
| no dog; he could easily guess where
his coat was likely to be hanging up.
He soon found the pocket, and was
Just about to tighten it of purse. pock-
et-book and keys, when a misfortune
totally unexpected befel him.
Year: 1876

"You have kept me waiting he
said; "but l shall say nothing about
it this time. If it occurs again you
will be sorry for it,


As may be supposed, they did not
set off on the best of terms with each
other; and to show how much she was
offended with him the Queen took nc
notice of him all the way, but fondled
a little dog, which she held on her
knee, and talked to it all the time.


"Jump on my lap said the hus-
band, watching an opportunity when
she was silent.


lie will not obey you,' sad the
wife, contemptuously; "he is mine. "


q keep no one about me- said the
husband as quietly as ever, "who does
not obey me-" And he took out his
pistol and shot the dog dead, which
produced such an effect upon the
Queen that she did not venture to
complain. Very soon after they az
rived at their journeys end, and as the
Queen WAS proceeding to her apart
ment her husband called her to him
and bade her take off his boots She
was about to refuse, but thought bet.
ter of it and complied. "Now," he
said, "sit down in this armchair and
l will take off yours, for my theory of
the marriage state is that husband and
wife should bemutually helpful to each
other '-rHG}nbe1S' TOHj190I
Year: 1876

NED GRAHAM was a good boy, chill
dren. TO be sure. he had his bad days
and fretful days; but, on the whole,
he was Il good boy, and everybody
loved him. | want to tell You about
one of his naughty habits, and how it
was cured.


He was about five yeMs Old, when
he first got into the way of kicking and
screaming if everything wasn't just to
his mind. When anything went
wrong, he would fall fiat on his back,
and scream as loud as he could bawl.
Some days he would have two or three
screaming-spells, with scarcely any
reason for it.


One day he was playing with his
blocks, and had a large barn built,
ready for the animals of Noah's ark to
enter, when his little brother Will
came along, gave it kick, and barn,
animals an all were in Il heap ut his
feet.


Ned looked a moment at the ruins :;
then down he went on the floor. and
such a scream as he set up. Boys, if
you could have been there, and heard
that scream, you would had thought
that Ned had been bitten by a rattle
snake, or chased by tiger.


His mother was busy sewing: but,
hearing the noise, she left her work,
and came to the rescue, fearing that
he was hurt. When she found that
Ned was only giving way to his bad
habit she took him upon her lap, and
very kindly told him the habit must
be cured at once, and that, the very
next time he screamed, she should try
a new punishment.


For day or two Ned did very well :;
but his old habit soon got the better
of him, and for some tritling cause,
he lay down on his back and screamed
as loud as ever.


In came his mother with bottle in
her hand. ''COme to me, Ned, she
said. "Don't speak a word, but put
out your tongue" Ned begged and
begged; but his mother was firm, and
he knew lie must obey her.


Very unwillingly the little tongue
showed itself, and on went Il few drops
of pepper-sauce. Oh, how his tongue
did smart. He wanted to rinse it off
with some water but his mother stood
near him. and he was forced to sWal-
low the biting liquid, Then she told
him that, whenever he screamed, she
should come with the pepper-sauce,
and put more and more on his tongue
every time,


If you will believe it, he did not need
it again Every time he felt inclined
to scream, it seemed us if his tongue
began to smart; and he knew the pep
per-sauce bottle was close at hand in
the dining-rOom.


Ned is Il young man now, and has
entered college. Won't he laugh fhe
reads this? Perhaps it will make him
ashamed that he ever had such fool
ish habit. Margaret A1nold, IN NaTs-