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Year: 1875

1t has puzzled many people to decide
why the dark wood 80 highly valued
for furniture should be called rosewood.
Its color certainly does not look like a
rose, so we must look for some other
reason. Upon asking we are told that
when the tree Is fresh cut the fresh
wood possesses very strong, rose-like
fragrance, hence the name. There are
a half a dozen or more kinds of rose
wood trees. The varieties are found in
South America and the East Indies and
neighboring islands. Sometimes the
trees grow so large that planks four feet
broad and ten i'm length can be cut from
one of them. These broad planks are
principally used to make the tops OF
pianofortes. When growing in the for
est, the rosewood tree is remarkable for
its beauty, but such Is its value in manu-
features as an ornamental wood, that
some of the forests where it once grew
now have scarcely single
specimen. In Madras the government
has prudently had great plantations of
this tree set out in order to keep up the
supply. -.-.f
Year: 1875

Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, in some hint;
for summer travellers, in the Christiar


Union, gives an account of DR.. Chap
mans cure for sea-sickness:


Considering the immense number OF
travellers by sea, and the large proper
portion affected painfully by it, surely
it is remarkable that physicians have
not paid more attention TO its pheno-
mena and cure. Indeed j. has so long
been accepted as an inevitable and in
curable disease, that scarcely hope to
obtain much credence when state thai
DR.. Chapman, OF london, has within
the last two years pointe;l out its causes
and its natural cure: and that have
personal knowledge of its efficacy in a
number of cases. His theory does not
admit Of any fair condensation in my
short space; but its main points are that
sea-sickness in all cases arises either
from one or all of the following causes
lst. From cerebral movements. I'd.
From spinal movements. 81. From Wis
ceral movements; and that these pro-
ducing an undue flow OF blood TO the
spinal axis greatly increase its func-
tional activity; hence the segments OF
the spinal cord connected with the
stomach and abdominal muscles origi-
nate morbid influences quite sufficient
to induce vomiting.


The cure is simple enough; narrow
bag containing ice, broken into pieces
the size of walnut, is TO be laid along
the spine, from the lower angles of the
shoulder-blade to the lower part of the
hollow of the back; care being taken to
prevent the bag slipping any higher
than the angles named. The effect is to
counteract the accumulation of blood in
the nervous centers, and in diminishing
their functional activity, AS well as their
excite motory power-that Is, their mo-
ton without yolition.


In long voyages the bag should be
made of India rubber, and may easily
be kept in place by the dress. DIR. Chap
man advises those who are naturally
liable to sea-sickness TO put on the ice
before the vessel begins her voyage.
was told by lady who had made fire.
quent trial of this cure in the rough,
tumbling seas between Campbelton and
Glasgow, and Glasgow and Liverpool,
that when once sea-sickness had begun,
application of the ice was accompanied
by delightful sensation, and that as
long as she lay still in her berth and
kept il or she was not only free from
lausea. but comfortably hungry for her
meals.


DIR. Chapman is candid enough to
warn people with weak lungs to be very
careful of its use, as, he says, it might
produce congestion if applied rheR they


rere not ssa-sick. Also, to suggest that
whenever the forehead becomes unna-
turally warm, or there is any headache,
to place folded handkerchief between
the top of the ice-bag and the skin.
The truth or falsity of DIR. Chapman's
theory can be solved so easily by all in
terested in it that it needs no further
argument, except to notice that it is
very likely the great nervous centres
are the cause of trouble, because it is
always the most finely organized and
sensitive natures that suffer most.
However, those who have been accus-
toned on going on board Immediately
10 lie down in helpless manner, or at
once arm themselves with basin, might
try for once the potency rather of the
little bag of ice
Year: 1875

Thanks after meat are usually far
more emphatic and cordial than graces
before it.. Hunger Is an enemy to pious
emotion. The ravenous Christian is too
much occupied with sharp desire and
painful craving to have a devout regard
for the mercies he is only on the point
of receiving. But full of wine and veni-
son, the satisfied feaster speaks from the
plenitude of grateful heart. On the
other hand, it must be acknowledged
that the tone aud words of the later
Year: 1875

1t was to see the novel tent-pegging
and the frowning sky. So buzz of
expectation rises from the drags and
carriages thickly surrounding the
ground when the sergeants are seen to
drive the targets-ordinary tent-pegs
lightly inserted into the soil-and TO
drop the flag, which Is the signal for
the first rider to make his effort. On he
comes, urging his steed with voice and
heel to attain the necessary speed,
giving his lance a flourish or two, and
finally, as he nears the peg, balancing
it for his aim as he whizzes by. He
fails, and so do eight of his immediate
successors, some striking the ground
wide of the mark. and others steering
so unsuccessfully that it Is scarcely


worth while for them TO make en- pdssdnt
the critical effort. Then starts lancer
favored by both skill and fortune; as
he approaches the mark-protuding, be
1t remembered, but few inches above
the turf-he steadies the lance in his
firm right hand, he draws his arm back
for the instantaneous lunge, and as mis-
spear flies round, over his head, there is
seen transfixed upon II the tent-peg
which was the immediate object of all
these furious gallops. As men and
horses warm to their work the practice
improves. until at last about one peg in
three charges becomes the average of
the game. There is ON this occasion no
competition between chosen sides, for il
NAV fairly be assumed that these twelve
Royal Irish horsemen could safely hold
their own against all comers-at any
rate in England. Before we had fin-
ished admiring not only the skill of the
horsemanship. but the pace and elan of
the horses legacy, by the by, of the
departed Ninth Lancers-a new exhibi-
ton was promptly prepared, and very
amusing were the speculations of the
drag occupants concerning the use to
which the baskets of oranges now in
troduced we're to be put BY riders who
Year: 1875

unpalatable reproductions of yesterdays
fare, the worthy man used to pray in a
plaintively ylugubrious tone Of grievance,
as though he were protesting against ILL
usage, and implorinZ an impossibility :
"May the Lord make me thankful for
what have received" On hearing this
dolorous entreaty, Mrs. Clement seldom
failed to deliver some equally appropri-
ate and edifying remarks on the sin of
daintiness. But TO her honor il must be
recorded that the offensive hint was not
thrown away upon her. To the last
the doctors graces were instructions to
his wife, as well as thanks to Heaven
lAppletoN's Journal.
Year: 1875

All nations have added theirquantum
of superstition TO the institution Of mar
riage. That this particular event in mans
life should be- thus favored above the
rest may be. accounted for by its i'm
mense importance, and by the fact that
all other events in the life of man are
more or less connected with it. In the
middle ages it was firmly believed In
England that there were lucky and un-
lucky days for wedding. He who
Year: 1875

Without decision of character no man
or woman Is ever worth button, OF
ever can be. Without il, a man be-
comes at once good natured nobody,
the poverty stricken possessOr of bui
one solitary principle of obliging
everybody under the sun, merely foI
the asking.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
aud are furnishing the bes-
paying aud most easily worked
in the world. Our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we have
lately added ~ and exceed


ingiy taking inducements, re


quirlng only intelligence and
application for any one, young
or old, of either sex, to make
really first-class paying bust
Year: 1875

To all persons who we're concerned
in the shipment Of peaches on the Goth
Of last August. in the American steam
ship company's steamer "Ohio" from
Philadelphia to Liverpool, There was
put on board of said steamer, about two
thousand crates Of choice peaches, under
the written promise Of said company.
that the steerage compartment Of said
steamer. was to be fitted up by the said
company as a first class refrigerator.
and kept in that condition from Phila-
delphia to Liverpool We paid two
thousand dollars. Upon the arrival
Of the steamer at Liverpool Messrs.
Peter Wright & Sons, agents for said
line in Philadelphia, telegraphed to me.
chairman of the committee, who had
bargained with said company, that our
peaches were rotten on arrival, owing
to the supply Of ice giving out on the
29th Of August, just three days after the
ship sailed. and that. Notwithstanding
the peaches were in FIRST rate condition
for four days after the ice gave out.
Qhe 29th Of August, showing BY this
admission Of the company that they
we're solely to blame for the failure and
loss of the peaches. | therefore called
at their Office once, they we're not in or
lodged. | then wrote; they replied,
that Bates, the person who put in the
refrigerator made the failure and init
mated we should look to him. Iwrote
back we had nothing to do with Bates;
that had never seen him, nor did not
wish to see him, that / bargained with
the aforesaid steamship company, and
that we held them responsible for the
failure. aud that if they would pay
back to us the money they had received
Of us. we would let the matter CO.


They quibbled and refused to do It, l
then, to save further trouble. or q law
suit. took the responsibility to write to
said company and make the following
proposition, to wit: Each party to
Year: 1875

The annual examination of the schooshp St Mary's
by The Council Of the Nautical School for the port
New York took place yesterday morning The exam
iners were John y. Jones, J. X Myers and H. A.
Barring a committee appointed by the Chamber of
Commerce. assisted by David Wetmore on the part Of
the Board Of Education. The ship returned from her
cruise tho 7th inst and in the early part Of the
week had drawn alongside the pier at the foot
OF Twenty third street East River, where she was to
bo examined. At ten O'Clock the Commissioners came
board and went through every part Of the ship in
spectng il as 70 cleanliness strength ventilation &c
Many OF the young sailors engaged vi making
ropes and mating 10 hang the sides Of the ship n
case II should be hauled close 70 a pier or another
vessel The regular Of the ship numbers
seventeen men, who instruct the young boys intrusted
TO their in the various duties Of a seafaring
life There are AZ present about ninety pupils
the vessel, with accommodations for nearly forty
more The ship IS about 70 undergo some repairs
the dry dock and there Viii. consequently be
a vacation for tue pupils, commencing next Mon
day and lasting until the 18th Of November
when school Will be resumed The usual length Of the
course OF instruction two years The teachers are
all officers on duty 10 the ship No compuson is used
either with regard to the Of pupils into the
vessel or their time Of leaving The Commissioners
finished their examination shortly after noon appar-
entity well satisfied With the work that beng done on
the 81. Marys
Year: 1875

From the Charleston Is. c. News and Courier


There has been a steady development in this industry
since the war and the great mineral State OF
the South Alabama, now freely boasts OF being the
chief seat in the Southern States Of the manufacture Of
hot blast charcoal IRON her furnaces being situated
the Selma, Dalton and Rome Railroad from which point
shipments to England have been made and sold at Ct
Gs per ton. Specimens from other mines, which have
been sent forward, classed by the prominent Eng
lish manufacturers as Best best, while the highest
grade OF iron IS only Best best best" This iron trade
is furnishing steady employment TO many hundred
tive whites and blacks and a good many English
Scotch and Swedes who building up the South, in
creasing the mining Of hard coal and using annually
millions OF bushels of charcoal burnt In the forests
near the mines Charcoal costing &C. 7c. and coke 90
q 10c the South must furnish very considerable part
Of the 600 Of iron made the United States
This is Indicated bv the number of furnaces in
blast aud projected South Carolina, North Carolina
Georgia Tennessee and Alabama
Year: 1875

From the Virginia Chronicle, Sept 3d.


Last week will be memorable in the life of talkatve
Gold Hill miner who has the happiness to board at a
restaurant on Main street. In this restaurant, en-
ployed as a waitress, is good.looking young woman
For known to tho outside world the miner
in question has allowed his tongue TO wag somewhat
freely upon the subject Of this womans character She
heard the gossip and learned lis source and on Wednes
day evening Of last week. Just the miner had relieved
the agony Of the restaurant man BY finishing an inter-
minable supper, no received invitation from the
handsome young woman to step into back room. IL
was given smiingy and the scandal monger went yn-
suspciousy to his fate. She closed the door, and In
reply the questioning look drew sixshootor from
her pocket aud requested hun 70 get down on his knees
Being 0blgng fellow he did 50 Instantly, and there
he chcerfly confessed that he liar, and that the
FAIR damsel before him in all respects considerably
superior to most angels She lot him go then, and
there ISN'T more taciturn man IN Gold Hi nov than
that miner
Year: 1875

The Commissioners OF Taxes and Assessments yes
terday made report to the Mayor relative TO the
sessments Of the real and personal property Of the
city, In reference to the assessments on banks they
remark


The method OF assessing banks is a subject which
has received the careful consideration of the Com
mssioners For several years the system which
has prevailed assessing the shares of all banks at
the par value, without taking into the value
of the shares Of some Of the banks worth than
par owing their possession of a surplus has been
the cause OF complainis the complaints coming in
large proportion from those bauks which do not
possess considerable surplus. The complaints
based upon the statement that, as imposed the
assessment unequal, and that the ssurplus Of
other corporations beng assessed, II was not just
that the surplus OF banks alone should escape.
While the Commissioners could not deny that there
was force in these statements, they felt restricted
their action, in part by the usage OF the depart
ment before any Of the present Board entered INTO
the office; in part by the general practice IN the State,
but chiefly by an unwillngness to jeopardze the
hdity Of assessments involving so many millions of
dollars by a construction Of the law o. 1866 which
might have been successfully contested From the
restraining influence Of the last consideration the Com
missloners released by Judicial Interpretation
them explicitly the duty Of assessing the shares
OF stock in banks TAT their value. instead
Of their par value This Interpretation
gwen In the Schenectady General Term or the
don, and Countryman, Justices. The case
entitled the People, ex rel Chauncey r Williams and
others Vs. the Board OF Assessors Of the City OF Albany
Dvested OF the nomenclature Of the law the question
was whether the shares OF bank with a capital of
$3.50 600 but with accumulations amounting with the
capital 81 1873 $50 15 properly assessed par or
$3.50 600 The opinion the Court was that the assess
ment the par value erroneous and that the law
required the shares TO be assessed at their value
whether that value exceeded par not II sgnih-
cant that although the title Of this does not dis
close the fact the suit practically between two of
the Albany banks each with a surplus but with
larger surplus than the other and each assessed alike
n uar
Year: 1875

Chicago heress writes to the Chicago Tribune :'T
am proud say that though an heiress to over
$4,000 understand housekeeping in all its de-
partments thoroughly. am nineteen but have never
been in love or even had fancy for any one. but
should that love ever offer himself 70 me
would say yes though he had but 5000 year, and
memberng the happy married life OF my sister In spite
Of poverty, | should feel assured OF happiness y
Year: 1875

rumor gained currency about the City Hall yestcr-
day that in consequence Of developments before the
Grand Jury and the Committee on Crime, the Mayor
contemplated the removal 81 OF the Police JUS
tees II is openly asserted by friends OF the Mayor
that several justices will be compelled 'wak the
plank but this talk Is likely intended TO in
tmdate OF the justices who suspected OF dis
loyalty Tammany Han and driving them over TO its
support IN the ensuing election.


Comptroller Green yesterday paid the salaries OF the
school teachers Tor the month ol September.
Year: 1875

1t is healthy indication, and q
very re-assuring one, that while the
majority of the papers of Texas ad.
init the expediency of postponing
the election until after the new con-
stitution is accepted by the people,
yet they roundly condemn the sup
posed stretch of authority exhibited
by the act. The liberties of the
people are safe as long as an un-
bought, unrestrained press possesses
the nerve to reproye the governors
OF the people, and warn the people
themselves at the least appearance
of trenching upon their rigb1s or
privileges.


The arguments on both sides of
the question, are weighty. Much
can be urged IN favor of the ordi-
nance, and more especially as to the



expediency of the measure, but
when looked at in the light of an
approach to the curtailment of the
liberties of the citizen, ii bears quite
another face. However, we are in
clined to the theory that the people
who voted for convention is the
authority which called it, and the
legislature was the mere instrument
of their will. The Convention then
is simply the tangible form of the
popular will, and consequently su-
preme for the moment, and legally
authorized to act in the premises
by the conditions of its position as
the executor of the will OF the peo.
pie.


We congratulate Texas on the
fact that she possesses guardian
in her intelligent, honest and eff.
cient press, which will insure the
triumph OF law and repress lnordi-
nate ambition, whether it is erhib.
tied by one man or by legislatures,
senates or judges.
Year: 1875

yors, doctors and mechanics pay
for personal space IN newspaper
columns, and anyone who expects
to gain notoriety orsecure personal
qualification by the same means
must learn to pay just as the mer'
chant, lawyer or mechanic does.


The Telegraph on the subject Of
the restraining ordinance has has
the following:


Our views were not in accordance
with those expressed by the majori-
ty of the committee to which was
referred the subject of p.s .pones
ment of the election, and we most
heartily approved the report made
by the minority Of that committee,
believing with it that the Conven-
ton did no: possess the power
which it assumed, and no such aus
thority was delegated to it by the
people.
Year: 1875

ALL the rats in the Ophir and Con-
solidated Virginia mines were killed by
the gas during the late fire, and not one is
to be seen now in either mine. Rats take
the same place in the mines that the
Piutes do on top They eat up the scraps
of bread, meat, ETC., that are thrown away
by the miners, and which if left lying
around would make the air very impure.
Their presence is therefore blessing,
and it is very seldom that one of them is
molested by any OF the miners.
Year: 1875

THE trial at Detroit of the celebrated
Ward will case occupied forty days, and
has ended in disagreement of the jury.
1t has been ascertained that eight of the
Jurors were in favor of breaking the will
and that four believed the will and first
codicil should be sustained. All but one
agreed that Capt. Ward was competent to
execute will.
Year: 1875

THE crew of shipwrecked vessel who
had been thrown upon small island off
the coast of Cuba have recently reached
New York and report that while on the
island they found the decomposed remains
of four men, who had built huts and were
evidently part of the crew of an iron
ship which appeared sunk near the shore.
They had probably died of starvation.
Year: 1875

One shirt to his back.


This was little rough, and the poor
fellow felt the humiliation keenly. 1t
was hard to be obliged to wash this ar
ticie two or three times Il week, in his
narrow, contracted wash-bQVl; and it
was harder still to put it on in the
morning not quite dry, and especially
so at this time Of the year. Until with
In II few days Jack Hyer had been able
70 present quite respectable appear
ance by the aid of an occasional false
bosom, but now the scanty funds were
quite exhausted, and the thread-bare,
brown coat was kept buttOned up to the
chin. Jacks home was genteel
boarding house, too, and his friends
and acquaintances among the very best
people. For some time he had felt sure
that this kind of life must be aban-
doned; for Jacks business prospects
grew worse instead of better, aud he
was already in arrears with his land
lady; which vas so mortifying to him
that he had long ceased catching her
eye as she handed him his coffee. The
fact was, Jack had been reared with
great expectations, and had been kept
all his life in school and at college, and
at the time of his fathers death was
studying for a lawyer. Greatly to
everybody's surprise, the Hyer estate
was found insolvent, and our fine Mr..
Jack was compelled to leaye his Office
and his elegant home, and earn his
daily bread and butter. Alas! Poor
Jack!


At the time our story opens, Jack
was strolling reporter of New York
dailies, and hanger on at magazines.
The precariousness of this life soon be-.
came painfully evident to our young
gentleman, but he gave every cent he
earned to his land lady, and washed
his solitary shirt in the little third stroy
hall bedroom.


The sweet face Miss Flemming, his
opposite neighbor at table, who by dint
of zeal, talent, and indomitable perser-
verance had won for herself quite re-
putatiOn among writers, was always
very happy to give Jack the benefit of
her experience. She had borrowed his
po-tefolio and critically read his artl-
cles.


There is nothing the NATTER size
had told him, frankly. After you have
had little more experience you will
learn how to adapt your work to the
market. Your articles lack nothing
else.


Jack thought of his hirt, and sigh
ed.


The night before Thanksgiving; Jack
was positive it had never be en- SO cold +,
and the freshness seemed all to have
been frozen out of his face, it was so
plnched and blue.


Mss Flemming sat in the cosy din.
ing-room, cutting the leaves of a new
magazine.


why, Mr.. Hyer,' she said, in sur
prise, making place for him in 'front.'
of the blazing gate fire, you certainly
have not been out this bitter cold day
without IN overcoat. 1t was very i'm
prudent-yery.'


well, it is about time, Jack an swer
ed, cheerily, 'to put on overcoats.'


He must say something; but 1 have
his own word for it that be never felt