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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 costlVe, some
stimcs alternating with lax
4 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
Spirits. Sometimes many or
Year: 1871

WHAT CONSTITUTES 4 STATE =
Governor Hoffman, in his address at
the LAYING of the corner stone of the
new Capitol of New York, thus de-
fined what constitutes a State


The glory and strength Of State
consists not merely in its public edi-
fees. its public works, its monu-
ments of public and private splen-
dor and munihcence. Its sources OF
strength are to be found in the puri-
ty and vigor OF character, the self
control of the men and women who
constitute the State; its true glory
in the general diffusion of virtue,
peace. and comfort among the homes
of its people. That is the most per-
feet State in which the benefits of
constantly added wealth reach fur
thest down on the scale of society,
and in which self-government, the
government of each man over him
self, renders other government all
but unnecessary. To this whole
some and substantial growth, the
efforts of every one of us can con-
tribu-e, with the help of God.
Year: 1871

The Springfield Republican calls
a family in Ohio, which has eighteen
children, q" the champion family" "
The New York Sun says this is a
mistake; the real champion family is
the Grant family. The number of
its children is not large, but its off
shoot and relations are almost count
less, and they are all successfully
quartered upon the Treasury. No
other family in the world can ap-
proach the Grant family in the
talent its chief exhibits for pension
ing his worthless relations upon the
public crib.
Year: 1871

Attempt to Assassin ate the Minister of fhe


Interior.


A Madrid letter in the London Echo, dated
February :, says;--'While the unfortunate
Duchess of Prim was yet wretched with sorrow
the assassins of her husband wrote to her,
saying that they were well satisfied with
what they had done and should cou-
tihue their task to the end. 1t was be-
leved that the King was thereby indicated
surmise as to who the others were. 1t is now
thought that the Minister of the Interior,
Sagasta, was intended for the next sacrifice.
Last night, as his carriage was retaining at
late hour to the Office of the Home Department,
1t was attacked by party of some dozen or
more men, whose faces were concealed by
muf1lers. The coachman used his whip freely,
and the footman shouted for help with such sue
cess that the police came up Ia time to arrest
six of the aggressors, who were Immediately
taken to prison. If their intention was to MUIR
der Sagasta they would not have succeeded,
for the carriage was quite empty, and was on
its way to the stables for the night. Nothing
further is known of the criminals, for
the Spanish system in such is to ret ain the
prisoner in solitary confinement none but his
judges being allowed access to him for weeks
and months, until everything has been ascer-
tained with regard to his crime, and then he is
either remanded for trial, if deemed guilty, or
set free. All the Investigations connected with
the crime up to the trial are surrounded with in
Quisitorial mystery. In my private opinion,
although the Ministeriasts seem inclined to
make a great deal out OF last nights attempt, it
will prove to be of no political significance, and
only an outrage committed by band of street
brawlers, who had taken more wine than was
good for them"
Year: 1871

WashtnGton as He Appeared In HIS 41fh Year.


AS this is the anniversary of George Washing
tons birthday our readers will be interested In
the following sketch of his personal appearance,
which we copy from a letter written in New
York in ITS, and published in the Kentish
Gazette, an English paper


General Washington is now in the forty
seventh year of his age; he is tall, well-made
man, rather large boned, and has a tolerable
genteel address; his features are manly and
bold; his eyes of blush cast, and very lively;
his hair a deep brown; his face rather long,
and marked with the smallpox; his complexion
sunburnt and without much color;
ard his countenance sensible, composed and
thoughtful There is a remarkable air of dig
nifty about him, with a striking degree of
gracefulness; he has an excellent understand
ing, without much quickness; is strictly just,
vigilant, and generous; an affectionate hus-
band, a faithful friend, n father to the de-
serving soldier, gentleman in his manners, in
temper rather reserved total stranger to
religious prejudices, which have so often excited
Christians of one denomination to cut the
throats of those of another; in his morals ire
proachable; he was never known to exceed the
bounds of the most rigid temperance. In
word, all his friends and acquaintances allow
that no man ever united in his own person a
more perfect alliance of the virtues of q philo-
sopher with the talents of a general"
Year: 1871

A Horse and Wagon Back on a Ferry Boat-


1he Driver Narrowly Escapes DrOWninK.


A thrilling scene was witnessed yesterday
morning about ten o'clock, from one of the ferry
boats which ply between Saw Mill Bun and the
Point Louis Aurin. of West Pittsburg, and
Joseph Minick, started with a light spring
wagon from Saw Mill Run and boarded ferry
boat 10 come to this city. When the boat got
opposite Painters dump" team in front of
the Onel driven by Aurin and Miniek got un-
manageable and caused the horse attached to
the latter TO back. Before the animal could be
stopped the backing wagon had broken the
safety bar of the boat siding and the wagon
dumped into the river, draggngithe horse along
with it. Mnick had got out of the vehicle after
the ferry boat started, and left Aurn sitting in it,
When the horse and wagon went over the side
of the boat Aurin was carried with them into
the river. The horse and wagon foated to below
the landing, where they struck the coal barges
moored there and the animal drowned


AuTin managed TO keep himself above water
until he had floated opposite Singer, Nimick 81
Co.'s works, where couple of men-Joseph
Kestner and James Sterling-seeing the state of
affairs, pushed plank to him. Aurin was SO
pOwerless that he could not hold with his hands,
but managed to get his arms over the plank and
was pulled ashore The distance ne had fOated
was some three hundred yards. He was COM
pletely exhausted when taken out, and could
not have kept above water for half a minute
PilsbVrg Commercial, yesterday.
Year: 1871

substantial Food as n Means of


Grace.


Beecher said in his sermon last Sun
day: "a man can't eat dyspeptic and
live grace. Over-eating makes too much
blood and keeps the body feverish and
tending downward. Many men make a
practice Of eating themselves into stu
pidity every day. Can a man cultivate
the fruits Of the spirit when he german
dies every day till he can scarcely sect
How can these fruits of peace and JOY
exist with gluttonous stufhng2 Every
man ought to be put into exact knowl-
edge Of what his system needs. | find
many persons who suffer by under nutri-
ton. They are white and long and lean
and cold. They need more animal.
They are too heavy for the beast they
ride. More food would be means o
grace"
Year: 1871

Nor TO BE FOOLED WITH An exchange
says: "The worst joke that was ever
perpetrated on scientific men took place
recently at Louisiana, Mo. A man was
sick with rheumatism, or something, and
a fellow went around to the doctors and
professors and things, and told them that
1t was the queerest case on record. He
said the man had no feeling You
could stick pins i'll his body all over, and
he paid no attention to them at all. He
was perfectly MO. So the doctors got
together and called on the sick man to
experiment. All arrived with pins and
needles and bodkins. F.fhe man was
asleep and they got around him, and
each one stuck his pin in the patient.
The sick man rolled over and looked at
the crowd, and thought they had come
to dissect him, SO he took chair in one
hand and bed-post in the other, and
drove the crowd thence. They are around
with their heads tied mp, looking for the
man who said that sick man had no
feeling"
Year: 1871

How A jury NoTEp.-A California pa.
per tells how the jury in the case of Mrs.
Fair made mp its verdict, the statement
being made, it is claimed, in the words
of one of the jury: " During the pro-
gress of the trial not one Juror spoke to
his fellow jurors of the case, and when
we retired to make up verdict no one
knew anything of the opinion of his fel-
lows On entering the jury room the
first thing done was to cut piece of pa
per into twelve pieces, and to number
thew from one up to twelve. These
were put in a hat and drawn, and the
slip drawn was the number of the Juror.
On those slips each juror wrote his And
ing III the case, ana When his number
was called put it into the hat When
wrote my finding, murder in the first de-
gree, / hardly thought there would be
another such finding on any of the slips,
but when the slips were all deposited
and taken ont and read, to my great as
tonishment il was found that each juror
on the first and only ballot, had voted
Just as had, murder in the first degree.
Year: 1871

The Earl OF Carnarvon, in London,
said that the last few months bad shown
MS that English security lay not in alli-
ances with the nations of continent
honey-combed with secret intrigue so
much as in the free confederation of the
English race in every part of the world.
Year: 1871

SEVERE PUNISHMENT In Ireland a
man has been sentenced TO seven years
penal servitude for carrying of l50 yards
Of telegraph wire and three insulators.
The Postmaster General prosecuted, and
great stress was laid on the calamities
which might result from such crime,
the telegraph being the medium of life
and death communications.
Year: 1871

HOME COURTEslEs. "A retired governes,
says Il am one of those whose lot in life has
been to go out into an unfriendly world at an
early age; and of nearly twenty families in
which | made my home in the course of about
thirty years, there were only three that could
be designated as happy families The source
OF trouble was not so much the lack OF love,
as the lack of care to manifest it,


The closing words Of this sentence give us
the fruitful source of family alterations, of
heart aches innumerable, of sad faces, and
gloomy home circles. mot so much tho lack
of love as the lack Of care to manifest it. "
What a world of misery is suggested by this
brief remark Not more than three happy
families in twenty and the case so manifest,
and so easily remediedl All in the " small,
sweet courtesies of life, what power resides !!
In look, word, a tone, how much of happi-
ness or diSquietude may be communicated i!
Think of it, reader, and take the lesson home
with you.
Year: 1871

The SORRowS OF OTHERs.-There is no
question that habitual cheerfulness is great
blessing But when cheerful people are laud-
ed, let 1t be remembered as a general thing
that they are no more to be commended for It
beautiful eyes. Cheerlulness is matter of
health and constitution. An invalid or ner-
v0uS persona very sensitive person, easily
affected by atmospheric and other Influences
cannot be uniformly cheerful. He may do
much towards endeavoring to be so, it is true,
but it must be thing of effort. Many peo-
pie are cheerful because they are apathetc
The sorrows of others, not being their own,
arc easy to bear. Wa do not wish to decry
this social sunshine; but let us not forget that
there are very sweet flowers that flourish and
give out perfume in the shade, and at inter-
vals.-MeoicdL Journal
Year: 1871

The following estimate of woman's love ap.
pears in an English contemporary " A French
woman will love her husband if he is either
witty or chivalrous German woman if he
is constant and faithful d utch woman if he
does not disturb her ease and comfort too
much Spanish woman if he wrcaks ven
gence on those who incur his displeasure !;
an Italian woman if he is dreamy and poetical;
a Danish woman if he thinks that her native
country is the happiest and brightest on earth
a Russian woman if he despises all westerners
as miserable barbarians: an English woman if
he succeeds in ingratating himself with the
Court and aristocracy; an American woman if
he has plenty of money.
Year: 1871

a THoUGHTFUL WoMANs OpINIOX.-We
have no doubt that, to certain extent, ignor
ance is bliss That is to say, it is a pleasure
always to have something to learn. If any
one of us could know the causes of all effects
or-tO put it in another light-the effects of ali
causes, that accomplished individuals would be
of all men the most miserable There would
be nothing more for him to enquire about
pump out or guess at. One discovery is but
the stepping stone to another, and so on with
cut end. Consequently, the most profound as
well as the most ignorant among US, always
has something to conjecture, something to
hope for, something to reason, something to
subject to the test of experience, some prob
lem, the solution of which can only be the
basis of fresh inquiry, to investigate aud solve.
All our knowledge, which We may have been
years III attaining, only points to higher knowl.
edge, and is therefore comparative ignorance,
and In the attempts to overcome this ignor-
ance, and their success, consists the wise
man bliss
Year: 1871

Mormon physicians are forbidden, under a
penalty of s. 900 and not less than year s
imprisonment to prescribe any of the more
powerful agents known to the medical prefes-
sion, without first explaining to the patient
and his friends their medical properties and
procuring the unqualified consent of all con-
cerned.
Year: 1871

HIDDEN MANHOOD. Harriet Martineau
tells how, when she had grown to be quite a
girl, little one was born into her home; and
as she would look and ponder, not knowing
what was to become of it, she got great ter.
ror into her heart that the babe would never
speak, or walk, or do anything that she could
do because she said, how can ii, seeing that it
Is 50 helpless now? But she found, when the
right time came, that the feet fonnd their foot
ing, and the tongue its speech, and everything
came on in Its own right time and then, in
stead of the babe, she had noble and beauti-
tul brother, who was able 20 take her part and
teach things to her, who had taught him. So
the babe became an illustrations when it came
to manhood, of very common latent fear in
the hearts, not of sisters SO much as of fathers
and mothers that the life that has come to
them, and is their life over again, will not
scramble or grow or wreStle into its own place,
as theirs has done. They have no adequate
belief in the hidden manhood or womanhood
that Is folded away within the small trail ma
ture, and that the man will walk among men,
and talk with men as a man; and so they often
spend the better part OF their time in trying to
order atresh what our wise mother Nature has
ordered already.
Year: 1871

SWEET SIXTEEN AT ScHooL-A story is
t Id Of little affair which took place in one
Of the schools Of the Nutmeg State. The
principal Of the school in question attempted
the other day to break one Of his pupils
SpnghtIy miss Of sweet siXtccn-of the habit
Of scribbling upon her slate Seeing that she
had written the name Of her reputed lover,
the principal took the slate and held it up be-
fore the school, saying, after he had read the
name distinctly:


Children, can you tell me who that gentle
man Is? have seen his name upon Elias
slate several times. He must certainly be of
some Importance. After pause the princi-
pal continued, while all eyes were fixed intently
dent of the United States?"


:. Why, no, sir exclaimed the roguish girl,
with very sober look, apparently wishing to
clear up the mystery; ''he is real nice young
fellow down to Stonington Point"
Year: 1871

A Philadelphia judge has picked up
somewhere the absurd idea that wit
nesses are not criminals. He rebuked
lawyer for badgering one in a late
case, and laid down the astounding
proposition that a witness should be
treated in the same manner as any
gentleman would treat visitor at his
house.
Year: 1871

The first subscription recorded Oh
the books of the 1--WE millions memo
rial fund Of the Presbyterian Church,
Is one dollar, by a godly woman in the
First Presbyterian Church in Detroit
Being in poor health she anticipated
the action of the church, lest she
might not live to give her mite. Soon
after she died, but In the archives oF
the memorial work OF 1870, her name
will stand forever AZ the head Of all
those who 'cast their gifts into the
treasury
Year: 1871

The prohibitory law is now enforced
in New Bedford, Massachusetts SO
stringently that no liquor is sold
openly. The consequence is that
strangers in the place, without ac-
quaintance, are obliged to practise
total abstinence, while the inhabit-
ance of the city and their friends
drink more than ever. One effect of
the measure is that the druggists are
doing an immense business in mix
ing Prescriptions TO be taken on the
spot. There is also a large amount of
''kerosene" sold daily by the glass.


The dram shops are kept locked, but
Trustworthy customers arc admitted


by the back way, where they are


served by the proprietor from bottle
kept in his coat pocket, or a demijo1n
hauled mp from the cellar through a
| trap door in the closet. Parties 81
| three or four desiring to indulge in a
social drink go one at time TO the


source Of supply, and each one remains
| long enough to take drinks all round
| by himself. II is admitted by some
of the strongest temperance mon in
| New Bedford that a large class who


would take drink only once in 8
| while If il was open to them, now
| often get so drunk that the police are
| obliged TO take them in charge. This


has also been observed TO be the case
| in Boston when the bar-roOms have
| been closed.
Year: 1871

A correspondent OF the Scientific
American has discovered chow to see
Ilnder water" He had occasion to
examine the bottom Of a mill-pond,
for which purpose he constructed q
float out Of inch plank, sufficient to
buoy him up. Through the center of
this float he cut q hole and placed a
blanket over it, when he was enabled
to clearly discover objects on the bot
tom, and several lost tools were dis
covered and picked up. he is satisf-
cd that, where the water is sufficiently
clear, the method could be successful
Iy used in searching for lost bodies and
articles, and suggests that it be tried
on the sea. HWith aerafb like the
Great IEastern,n he adds, "where, an
observatory could be placed at the
bottom, with suffieielt darkness, by
the aid of glasses we conld gaze ao1Bn
into the depth of the sea, the same as
we can survey the starry heavens al
unidnightn
Year: 1871

RELATIVE to the finding recently of
a corpse at POmpeii, a correspondent
writes: "When the bodies are found
at Pompeii plaster is Instantly poured
in TO preserve the form. This plaster
gave the exact representation of the
poor Pompeiian who had met his hOr-
rible death so suddenly. Through
centuries and centuries the texture of
the very garment had been preserved,
although in dust and ashes. The legs
were bare and the shirt open at the
throat. The shirt was OF some coarse
WOOllen stuff, around the throat is a
necklace of enamelled glass beads,
and on the ankle an anklet of metal,
showing that he had been a slave.
But the expression of the face is fright
fUIl; there is all the fierce struggle OF
Wig orous life with sudden death, and
the position OF the arms is as il he had
been trying to wrench of his breast a
clutching weight
Year: 1871

One of the finest qualities in human
being isthat nice sense of dclicacy which
makes it impossible for him ever to be
an intruder or a bore.


1t is a great blunder in the pursuit Of
happiness not To know when we have
got it that is not to be content with a
reason able measure of ii.


Any work whereby men and women
earn m honest livelihood is neither to be
despised or ridiculed, except by branches
fops and silly bells


The mind Is like the body in its hab-
it,, exercise can strengthen, "a neglect
and Incidence can weaken il ; they are
both improved by discipline. both ruined
by neglect.


Men are frequently like tea-as the
real strength and goodness il not drawn
out of them until they have becna short
time in hot water


Coleridge said that he would "crecp
toward the light even if the light had
made its way through a tent i'll the wall
of the temple.


A white garment appears worse with
slight soiling than do colored garments
much soilcd-so little fault in good
man attracts more attention than great
offences in bad man
Year: 1871

Saturday afternoon there hohblcd up
Grand River street, following his mas
ter an old gray horse SO lame that he
could hardly step. and his bones mark


ed plainly through the faded skin He
was being led out to die The man
jcrked and pulled to make him hobblc
the faster, and stopped several times 10
incite him to 4 quicker gait 10y caths
and kicks. But the poor beast could
do no better, even though he was 10
have liberty from work and toll At
Third street the halter was slipped from
his head. he was given last kick, and
hc hobblcd of, going away 10 die And
if the poor old horse couldhay spoken!


He might have told of years of toll. OF
days when the mangcr was empty, of
louder oaths and harder kicks. He
was almost thirty years old, turned ont
mt last because he could not work


Perhaps he once pranced along before
the carriage of wealth, champing his bit
and archng his neck tossing his head
in contempt at the over worked beasts
llldN I'INNt'l illll wi lIf WV. viz Wy
there came change for him, because
he had even then grown old, and his
step was not 50 light, and his pace was
slower, and he was made back horse.
He was driven early and late; hc was
pushed when ready to drop from travel
he was whipped when he knew not for
what The drivers stormcd at him,
struck him hard blows


He used 10 stand in his stall and won
der why men abused him so when hc
tried to be faithful He never com
plancd of his hay and ots and, if they
took him out again for work before he
had finished his meal. he gave no out
ward sign that told of the still hungry
feeling within him. over the cobhlc
stones, up and down the streets, out IN
to the hot sun, the cold rains, the snow
and the driving blasts, aud poor Tom
was at last so sore and lame that there
came morning when be- was sick, and
when he told them by his groans that hc
could not work, and that his blood was
like fire and his whole body aching, they
called him bard names, and said that
another and better horse should have
his place And when he gets little
better, they mUdc him hobblc away, and
sold him 10 cartman. And for years
the poor beast drew dray, and was
pounded and overloaded, and there
came another day when be could not
pull even the cart, and then he was LETT
10 take care Of himself And he waJ
led away on Saturday ay-turned ont on
the commons 10 stand and shivcr in the
blast TO see plenty around him and
vet be hungry to think Qor a horse
can think Of mans ingralitudc He
limpcd off towards the lcailess trees, the
barren branches cold and dcsolatc, ike
his own dreary winter of old age And
the darkness found him there, the wind
whi-tlcd through the branches, tossing
up hi yellow name and faded hair He
was waiting. not for another morning
not for his mastcr--uOt for food he
was waiting there for death. He knew,
perhaps. that death was not very far
away, and that it would not be long ere
he would fell, and then the passcrby
would note the dead body Of a horse
nothing more. No board will be put
up with Tom engraved thereon no
one will stop TO lament no one speak
Of the useful life no one carc--hc was
nothing but a horsc-Dthoh Free
PT'Js.