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Year: 1872


riage relation occupies so much of the
public attention, the following views o:
the late Theodore Parker on this subject
are not without interest:


"Men and women, and especially
young people, do not know that it takes
years to marry completely two hearts,
even of the most loving and well-assort-
ed. But nature allows no sudden change.
We slope very gradually from the era
die to the summit of life. Marriage is
gradual, fra li,n of Us at time. A
happy wedlock is long falling in love.
| know young persons think love be-
longs only to the brown hair, and plump,
round, crimson cheeks. So it does for
its beginning, just as Mr. Washington
begins at Boston Bay. But the golden
marriage is part of love which the bri-
dial day knows nothing OF. Youth is the
tassel and silken flower of love, age is
the full corn, ripe anl sclid in the ear.
Beautiful is the morning of love, with
its prophetic crimson, violet, purple ano
gold, with its hopes of days that are to
come. Beautiful also is the evening of
love. with its glad remen.brances, and
its rain low side turned toward heaven
as we'll as earth. Young people marry
their nnpneitas in iappar apf o,anara
character, and such marriage is com
monty good match. They do it in.
stinctively. The young man does not
say, My black eyes require to be wed
with blue, and my over vehemence re-
quires to be little modified with some.
what of dullness and reserve When
these opposites come together to be wed,
they do not know it; each thinks the
other just like itself.


Old people never marry their oppo-
sites; they marry their simllars and form
calculation. Each of these two arrange
ments are very proper. In their long
journey, these two young opposites will
fall out by the way great many times,
and both get out of the road but each
will charm the other back again, and
by-and-by they will be agreed as to the
place they will go to and the road they
will go by, and become reconciled. The
man will be nobler and larger for being
associated with SO much humanity un-
like himself, and she will be nobler
woman for having manhood beside her
that seeks to correct her deficiencies and
supply her with what she lacks, il the
diversity be not too great, and there be
real piety and love in their hearts to be.
gin with. The old Bridegroom, having a
much shorter journey to make, must as
sociate himself with one like himself
Men and women are married fraction.
ally; now a small fraction, then a large
fraction. Very few are married totally
and they only, think, after some forty
or fifty years of gradual approach and
experiment. Such large and sweet
fruit is complete marriage that i
needs very long summer to ripen in
and then long winter to mellow ane
season II. But real happy marriage O
love and judgment between a noble mar
and woman, is one of the things so yer,
handsome that if the sun were, as III,
Greek poets tabled, god, he might stol
the world in order to feast his eyes OIL
such spectacle.
Year: 1872

\ WOMAN, notwithstanding she is
the best of listeners, knows her bust
ness, and it is Il woman's business to
please. don't say that it is not her
business to vote, but I do say womn
who does not please is false note in
the harmonies of nature. She may not
have youth, or beauty, or even m1mer,
but she must have something in her
voice or EXPRESSION, or both, which il
makes you feel better disposed toward
your race to look at or listen to. She
knows that as well as we do; and her
first question after you have been talk
inc your soul into her consciousness is,
Did pleas? a woman never forgets
her sex. She would rather talk with a
man than an angel, any day. Womanly
women are very kindly critics, except
to themselves, and now and then to
their own sex, The less there is ofsex
about woman, the more she is to be
dreaded. But take a real woman at
her best moment-well dressed enough
to be pleased with herself not so re
splendent as to be show and a SEN
sation, with the varied outside infuen-
ces that set vibrating the harmonic
note of her nature stirring in the air
about her-and what has social life to
compare with one of those vital in
terchanges Of thought and feeling with
her that make an hour memorable q?
What can equal her tact, her delicacy
of apprehension, her quiclness to feel
the changes Of temperature as the
warm and cold currents of thought
blow by turns? At one moment she is
microscopically intellectual, critical,
scrupulous in judgment as an analysts
balance, and the next as sympathetic
as the open rose that sweetens the wind
from whatever quarter it finds its way
to her bosom. 1t is in the hoSpitable
soul of a woman that a man forgets he
is a stranger, and so becomes natural
and truthful, at the same time that he
is mesmerized by all those divine
differences which make her a mystery
and Il bewilderment.
Year: 1872

The Hartford Times said the other
day-we are astonished to hear that
81 printingpresses, driven at their
highest speed by steam, are constantly
employed, day and night, to print Gov.
JEWELS Great Defence of Gen Grant
and that three paper-mills are run
ming exclusively on paper to be used
in these pamphlets Five and a half
barrels of flour and sixty-two active
small-boys are daily used up in making
paste to wrap this stupendous docu-
ment for mailing.
Year: 1872

The woman who is Indifferent to
her looks is no true woman. God
meant woman to be attractive, to look
well, to please, and it is one Of her
duties to carry out this intention OF
her maker. But that dress is to do all,
and to suffice, is more than we can be
brought to believe. Just because we
do love to see girls look well, as well
as to live to some purpose, we would
urge upon them such cours1 Of rca /
ing and study as will confer such rs
no modiste can supply. a well known
author once wrote pretty essay on
the power of education to beauty-that
it absolutely chiseled the features :;
that he had seen many clumsy nose
and pair of thick lips so modified by
thought awakened and active senti-
ment as to be unrecognizable. And
we put it on that ground that we 50
often see people, homcly and mattrac-
tive in youth, bloom in middle life
into a sottened Indian Summer of
good looks and mellow tones.
Year: 1872

Many young men have an idea
that the focks of the golden calf are
clipped off and when he comes along
by then they have but to put forth the
hand and take. Not so, he must be
chased, and though fleet his step, if
you wish to win, you must keep pace,
regardless Of the sky, If you would
have money you must dig fv it.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel Diabetes, Drop
sy IncOntinence of Urine. Brighs disease Albumin
ra and in where there Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick cloudy, mixed with substances like
the white of egg threads like white silk. there
Is morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits, and where there is a prickng, burning
sensation and pain in the small of the back and along
the lons. In all these conditions, Railways Sarparil-
Ian ResOlvent, aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back. and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Railways
Regulating Pills per day will. soon make complete
In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without Dain and the
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

New FOUNTAIN - The committee from the
City Council, have completed the erection Of the
fountain, and the closing in OF the triangular
plot of ground, at Delaware avenue and Elev-
enth street. The handsome iron fence. the
freshly sodded plot, and the fountain sending
up its numerous jets Of water, and spray,
amongst the bOughs Of the shade trees which
surround it, all combine to render the place
pleasant and attractive.
Year: 1872

We have looked over the docket and made a
note of causes tried during the past week, bat
find none of any general interest. The case
OF 'The town OF Ottawa va. Hiloa L. Mead" &C.,
which is an application for An injunction to re.
strain the County Clerk from extending the
tax for the payment Of the interest on the Fox
River Valley r. r. bonds, came up on Monday,
but Judge Leland declined to hear it on the
ground that, as a taxpayer of the town of OF.
tawa, he was an interested party. The case
will be taken TO some other county.
Year: 1872

A CASE OF CoNscIENCE.-County Clerk
Mead yesterday received letter from an un.
he has honestly owed the county since 1867,
when he failed to give in to the assessor $3.50 he
had at interest. His conscience troubled him SO
much ever since that he co uld stand it no longer
Year: 1872

The FALL TRADE.-Trade this fall promises
to be good. Though prices are low the farmers
have been blessed with bountiful harvest AMI
they must have wherewithal to be clothed To
be ready for business, Child Bro. Il Phipps. at
the old stand east of the Court House. in Chez
ver's block, have provided themselves with an
ample stock of boots and shoes of every style,
quality and material and have marked the prices
down to suit the times. The stock is simply
prodiseus. and the goods are bound to be sold.
Year: 1872

PAPER CLoTHING.-The ingenuity of
the japanese in making all kinds of arti-
cles of paper has long been recognized,
and it has lately been proposed to i'm
port their paper clothing for trial in this
country. A writer in the ChriStian IN
ion thus discourses on the variety of
uses which paper clothing may be put to: {:
" From paper fans, we shall go to using
their paper handkerchiefs, and paper all
sorts-of-things. In Boston now they ad-
vertise paper suits of clothes for sixty
two and half cents a suit This is cheap
enough, though if a person wearing one
of them should get caught in rain we
imagine he would feel still cheaper. They
ought to be cool and comfortable, espe-
cially if made of wrapping paper, but
they would hardly keep their shape with
the thermometer at ninety-hve aud one
hundred. We are not informed what sort
Of paper they are made of, but they
might be the means of disseminating II
cheap literature ; one could wear small
volume, so that he that runs could read.
1t would be economical to have the suits
printed on both sides, so that they could
be turned the second day, and person
could in this way wear serial through
the week, :" to be continued " being
stamped on the coat tail. On Sunday he
could put on good clothes, with sermon
or religious extracts from the secular pa
pers, printed on them. There is no end
to the variety in costume that can be at
tanned in the use of paper or good that
can be done. Business men will come
down to their offices in the morning in a
suit of the morning daily, cool and fresh; !;
and sure that they have the latest, be-
cause the telegraphie news will be on
their backs. They will thus be the means
Of spreading information wherever they
go, to non-subscribers. Summer cloth
ing will not hereafter get out of style,
but it will get oat Of date, for mans
old suit will be ut once recognized In
stead of being pointed at as having old
Clothes he will be noted as having rev
ones. We are evidently only just in the
beginning of our discoveries Of the uses
of paper.
Year: 1872

NoT TOSSING FAIRLY.-A horse car
conductor in this city got his ticket of
leave in this manner At night, when
he had finished his trips, he began count
ing his money, not knowing that the Su-
perintendent was looking through a crack
through the wall This is the way the
conductor began TO count There's a
dollar for the road, here's dollar for
me-" and so on to the end of his forty
dollars or more. He found to his sur
prise that there was an odd fifty-cent
scrip which he had no chance to divide.
Finally he concluded to toss up cent
and see whether he should have it or the
road. 1t came head" and belonged to
the road. This disappointed the conductor
so he thought he would give himself an
other chance, and on tossing up again he
won, and put the scrip in his pocket with
a deal of satisfaction. The next day the
Superintendent called the conductor to
him and told him he had better get his
pay and leave.


Why" said the conductor, "what
have done?"


"My friend,', said the Superintend-
ent, "the trouble is, | think, the road
ought to have had one more chance in
that half-dollor last night"
Year: 1872

BRUTE FRIENDSHIP The intelligent
horse very often sympathizes with ami
mails in distress. About year ago a dog
was set upon by crowd of cruel boys,
and pelted with sticks and stones.


The poor dog had given no offense, but
this mattered not. He tried to escape
from his tormentors, and had nearly sue
ceeded in doing so when a stone hurled
with great violence struck him on the fore
leg, bruising the flesh, and fracturing the
bone. The animal howled piteously, but
none of his prosecutors went to his relief.
Having injured him they turned carelessly
and coldly away, and left him to his fate.


The dog limped into the stable of Mr..
Edward Fitzpatrick, moaning piteously.
In one Of the stalls Of the stable was a
well-bred young horse of more than ordi-
nary Intelligence. The distress Of the
dog seemed to move the heart Of the horse
to pity. He bent his head, caressed the
canine, and carefully inspected the broken
leg. Then with his fore feet he pushed
some straw into one corner of his stall
and made a soft bed on which the dog
was induced to lay himself down. A
close and attectionate intimacy was at
once established between the horse and
the dog.


The horse was being largely fed on bran
mash, and one day, on receiving his feed,
thinking the dog might be hungry the
equine bowed his head, caught the canine
gently by the skin of the neck, and with
his teeth lifted him into the trough or
box. The dog fell to with hearty will,
which showed that his hunger was great,
and that his gratitude was equal to his
appetite.


Days and weeks passed, and the dog
and horse continued firm friends. TIE
bran mash fed them both, and the invalid
grew strong and fat on the wholesome
diet.


AT night the two animals, thus strangely
brought together, slept in the most loving
manner. The horse would arrange soft
bed for the dog, and then lie down and
tenderly encircle the canine form with
one of his fore legs.


1t is seldom that such beautiful and
authentic incident is brought to our notice.
The horse showed for the unfortunate
dog more of that feeling which we term
humanity than did the dozen lusty youths
who were presumed to walk in the image
of their God. Nay, it took the poor
victim Of mans persecution to its heart
and home, and tenderly nursed the same
back to health and strength,


We claim to be practical rather than
sentimental, still we cannot resist the
thought that the horse revealed more
evidence of divine spirit than did tho
rude boys, who receive credit for having
immortal souls.


While they reyied and prosecuted, he
played the part of the good Samaritan;
and in SO doing he developed a power OF
thought and intelligence too broad to
occupy the contracted sphere of what we
commonly call intellect. The horse rea-
soned, and then acted like u Christian
Turf, BEetd and Farm,
Year: 1872

USEFUL HOUSEHOLD ARTICLE.-Am-
monia, or, as it is generally called, spir-
its of hartshorn, is a powerful alkali,
and dissolves grease and dirt with great
ease. 1t has lately been recommended
very highly for domestic purposes. For
washing paint, put Il tablespoonful in a
quart of moderately water, dip in a
flannel dsh-cloth, and then wash of the
WOODWORKING scrubbing will be neces-
sary. For taking grease-spots- from any
fabric, use ammonia nearly pure; then
lay white paper over the spot and iron it
lightly. In washing lace, put about
twelve drops in "A pint of warm suds. To
clean silver, mix two teaspoonfuls of am
monia in quart of hot suds. Put In
your silver ware and wash, using an old
nail brush or tooth-bru for the purpose.
For cleaning hair-brushes, etc, simply
shake the brushes up and down in a
mixture of one tablespoonful Of ammonia
to one pint of hot water, and stand them
in the wind, or or a hot place, to dry.
For washing finger-marks from looking
glasses or windows, put a few drops of
ammonia on moist rag, and make quick
work of it. If you wish your house-plauts
to flourish, put few drops of the spirits
in every pint of water used in watering.
A teaspoonful will add much to the re-
freshing effects Of the bath. Nothing is
better than ammonia water for cleansing
the hair. In every case, rinse off the
ammonia with clean water. To which
we would only add, that for removing
grease-spots, a mixture of equal parts of
ammonia and alcohol is better than alco-
hol alone; and for taking out the red
stains produced by the strong acids in blue
and black clothes, there is nothing bet
ter than ammonia.
Year: 1872

THIS odd advertisement is from an
English paper


"My husband is out on a strike. He
prefers that to work. lie amt any use
to me. | must work to keep the children
and myself. His ten shillings goes in
beer. III swap my husband while he's
on a strike, for sewing machine"
Year: 1872

VERSAILLES, March 22.-The galleries
Of the Assembly were crowded with specta-
tors this morning in expectation of the de-
bate on Catholic petitions which had been
posponed until to-day. Dupanloup, Bishop
of Orleans, rose to open the discussion but
yielded the tribune to Theirs who proceeded
to address the Chambers.


His speech was plea for further post
ponement of the debate. He deprecated
the discussion which he declared could not
by any possibility serve the interest Of the
Holy See. He assured the deputies that
the policy of the government on the Roman
question, as announced last year, was I'M
changed.


The independence of the Holy See was
dear to France, who had always defended
and would continue to defend it; but any
discussion now Of the petitions before the
Chamber would seriously embarrass the
Government while it could not benefit the
Holy Father.


Dupauloup said he would not insist on
speaking after the appeal made by the Pre-
sident. Easily reconcling the feel
ings of the Frenchman he cOmprehended
the respect due to the misfortunes of
France. The policy which had proved
fatal to France had also been fatal to the
See of Rome.


The Assembly then by large majority
decided not to continue the debate.
Year: 1872

ASYLUM FOR The INSANE.


House bill to amend the act passed at the
last session, providing for the admission of
patients to the Asylum for the Insane, was
taken up on Senate amendments. The first
amendment, striking out the preamble to
the bill, was concurred in, but the second
amendment, striking out the proyiso, was
nOn-cOncurred in.
Year: 1872

The New York Herald, which has
persistently thrown cold water upon
the Cincinnati movement, made the
following editorial announcement on
the thirtieth ultimo:


We see in MIR. Greeley man who
would make serious candidate.
The country would know where to
find him. A temperance man, he
would offend the Germans but tenn
perance is a local, not a national
issue, and could not enter into the
canvass. A protectionist, he sees
there can be no canvass upon that
issue for a political generation at
least. He would please the South
with his amnesty views +; while his
record as Republican will at least
bear the closet scrutiny. Let Mr..
Greeley be nominated and he will
poll more votes than any other Lib
eral Republican who would run int be
South. We question whether Grant
could even defeat him in North Car
olina and Virginia. He would be as
strong as Adams in the East and in
Pennsylvania, and would be popular
in the West because of his identi6.
cation with Western schemes anc
events. He would be a positive can
didate /; and we question whethe,
any man who could be nominated
would rally to his standard the i'll
fluences that would surround ant
sustain him.
Year: 1872

This is an extract from Washing
ton specials to the st. Louis Iimec !:


A private canvass of the House
been made, and it is reported that
SO soon as the Cincinnati convention
has done its work-always proyid-
ing that work is just right-enougb
Republicans in the House of Repre-
sentatives are ready to declare them
selves against Grant to give an anti
administration majority there with
the aid of the Democrats. This is very
far from impossible, and I could al
most name those who propose to fol
low this revolt.


Inquiries have been made for the
report of the committee appointed
by Congress to New Orleans. The
committee has been back two months,
and no report is made. Forty OF
fifty pages of it were sent to the gov
ernment printing Office and put in
type, but there it was suddenly cut
off. It is said that Senator Kellogg,
of Louisiana, and brother-in-law
Casey are the parties who had it
stopped, and that both are very seri-
ously implicated in the outrages.
It is now probable that the world
will never see majority report Oh
the subject, but people will naturally
inquire why the minority should not
put in their statement.
Year: 1872

that have existed by virtue Of antipa-
thies that should have been buried
with the causes that brought them
into being, will cease to prevail, and
with their disappearance the men
who angered themselves thereat will
forget in the newly-awakened pros
perity of the country, that they ever
had cause to be discouraged or dis
tempered. All that VIC have TO do
now is to beat down the party that
seeks to prevail by continuing the
animosities Of the past.-Er.
Year: 1872

[From the New York SUM-


The evidence which was published
in the Sun of Friday last respecting
the part taken by Collector Casey
President Grants brother-in-law, in
the recent conspiracy to overthrow
the State Government of Louisiana,
agrees perfectly with the statements
published in the SIN at the time OF
the occurrence but it has the adj
vantage of being I'LL under oath, and
of having been taken by commit
tee of Congress.


Az Collector of New Orleans, Ca
sey has control Of the revenue cutter
Wilderness, steamer belonging to
the government. Early in January
last, he took op board this vessel
fourteen or fifteen Senators of Lou
isiana, and kept them there, moving
up and down the Mississippi river,
so that they might not be arrested
by the sergeant-at-arms and brought
back into the Senate to form quo
rum. The following are among the
questions of the committee and the
answers of Casey, as given in the Of
fetal report of the evidence !:


Question. How many Senators
went aboard ? Answer. I believe
fourteen or fifteen-am not positive
as to the number.


Question. You knew that their
purpose was to avoid making a quo
rum in the Senate Answer. Yes,
sir ; they kept below most OF the
time to avoid being seen.


Question. Did you know that it
was violation Of your duty as an
officer of the United States thus to
prevent the organization of a State
Legislature ? Answer. Perhaps
did I did not think Of it at the
time.


Question. You thought the prop
erty of the general government could
be used in favor Of one party or fac
ton and against the other, without
any dereliction Of duty on your part
Answer. I thought, under the cir
cumstances, it could


Question. The officers who were
in charge Of the Wilderness during
the time these Senators were or
board were the usual officers of the
government-paid by the govern
ment ? Answer. Yes, sir.


Question. You are the brother
in-law of President Grant? An
swer. Yes, sir.


Question. Have you sent an,
written explanation to Washington
of your course here? Answer,
have written great many private
letters to the President.