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Year: 1872

JxRszY.-SaId an astute Western
New Yorker a few days ago: "The peo-
ple Of New jersey make their living BY
getting on and of Of railroad cars"
They certainly attend to their business
pretty faithfully.
Year: 1872

INTERESTING ASTRONOMICAL FAcr.


Two persons were born at the same


place, at the same moment of time.


After an age Of fifty years they both


died, also ut the same place and at the
same instant, yet one had lived one


hundred days more than the other.


How was this possible? Not to keep
our friends IN suspense, the solution
turns on curious, but with little
reflection, very obvious point in cir,
cumnavigation. A person going around
the world toward the west, loses a day,
and toward the east, he gains one.
Supposing, then, two persons born
together at the Cape Of Good Hope,
whence n voyage round the world may
be performed in year; if one performs
this constantly towards the west, in
fifty years he will be fifty days behind
the stationary inhabitants; and if the
other sail equally toward the east, he
will be fifty days in advance of them.
One, therefore. will have seen one
hundred days more than the other,
though they were born and died in the
same place and at the same moment,
and even lived continually in the same
latitude, and reckoncd by the samo
calendar.
Year: 1872

Borrowed garments seldom fit well.
Haste often trips up its own heel. Men
often blush to hear what they are not
ashamed to do. What is not needed
is dear at any price. He who buys
too many superauitios may be obliged
to sell his necessaries. A foolish man
generally looses his estate before he
finds his folly.
Year: 1872

The New York Tribune thus char
acterizos the defeat of amnesty, and
explodes the notion that the administra-
ton ever desired it.


There will be no very general feeling
Of surprise at the action Of the senate
in rejecting the amnesty bill. The
course Of the junta Of men who are
proud Of being considered administers
ton whippers,in has all along indicated
what would be the fate of this wise
and statesmanlike measure, so far
above the comprehension of the aver,
age politician. Those who dislike
amnesty pretended to favor Senator
Sumrer's unfortunate supplementary
civil rights bill, but only long enough
to load down the original measure with
what was an unpopular and possibly,
unconstitutional proposition. This
done, they disingeniously killed amnes,
ty because it was saddled with civil
rights. This trick will deceive nobody;
it is diaphanos, But we hope that
there will be a congress Of the United
States wise enough, and broad enough
to give US universal amnesty though
the prospect is not now brilliant for the
wisdom.
Year: 1872

A few days after the Chicago fire, a
repectably dressed lady left three
bright and handsome children at the
Protestant Orphan asylum, st. Paul,
promising to return in a few days.
She has never been seen since, and
the children are unable to give any
account of themselves, except that they
love their parents and want 10 go back
to them.
Year: 1872

Verify the ways of highly moral
men are sometimes highly curious.
Charles ii. Berry, at Natick, Mass,
directed his servant girl to go to Sun-
day school, and she refusing to do so.
upon the established feminine plea
that she had nothing to wear" very
probably true one, the sanity Berry
did most numerically fog the said
small servant. Whats a queerly mis-,
cellaneous character a man like that
must have He was holy enough to
wish the girl 10 be religiously educated,
and he was diabolical enough to fog
her for exhibiting d decent and meri-
torious pridel His neighbors appre-
cIate his excellence, and. as token
of their esteem, have presented him


with a large and handsome cowhide.
Year: 1872

Severe pain will not get out of fashion
yes for long time, and so long people will
need good remedy-Rsnne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil is Just what the people need to
cure headache, rheumatic, neurslgis, and
other painful complaints.
Year: 1872

from lands end TO lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions Who are on the road to
an unsimely grave with bilious complaints,
there il bat one truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

ALLcoCK's PoRous PLAsTER.-In throat affections
they have no equal a cure. Even in stric-
lures Of the bronchial tubes dropsy of the heart tu
mors, internal and ovarian, are said to have been
cured by these plssters. But in all the uses for a
strengthening plaster, and for nervous and local
palms. we have the testimony Of the FIRST physicians
of the United States and of Europe IN their favor.
How great the comfort TO have suHocating cough
have sharp pains in the chest queer creapng SEN
satons around the heart, cured by simple remedy
of a clean, flexible, entirely unobjectonsble plaster
But internal tumors considered of fatal character,
are also cured by this mild and innocent application,
which, acting ike a second skin, produces steady
pressure, by which absorption resulting in ease at
once and ultimate cure is obtained.


GROUP.


A case occurred Of severe Group, where no doctor
could be had before morning. The mother be
thought of some Porous Plasters she had in the
house, They were slit so as to fit around the THROAT
and chest The whistling breathing soon abated
In few hours the child slept, and in the morning
no sign Of Group remained Sold by all Druggists
Year: 1872

A traveller says lovers of good sleigh
ing can be satisfied to the full in Siberia.
and have range Of thousands of miles
without fear of thaw or Of bare ground
But it is very cold, and one must wear thick
clothing to keep warm. frequently
saw the thermometer forty degrees below
zero and sometimes it gets below sixty.
Everything that can be frozen becomes
solid. We carried some soup, frozen. in
to cakes like small bricks, and we had a
piece of roast beef that looked and felt
like red granite.


The horses used to become white in a
short time no matter what their original
color was the long hair around their
nostrils used to be covered with frost
from their breath, and sometimes they re-
sembled the rows of spikes that farmers
put aroud the noses of weaving calves.
In the coolest morning there is generally
fog or frost-cloud resting near the earth,
from the freezing and falling of all the
watery PARTICLES of the atmosphere. In
the coldest nights the stars are very bril-
Eant. aud the brightest of them seem to
burn like diamonds.


For my winter journey 1 had suit of
clothing made from pair of blankets.
On nay feet had my ordinary woolen
socks, then rair of squirrel skin socks,
then some sheep-skin stockings that
came up to my knees. aud then come
boots Of reindeer. skin reaching as high
up as boots could possibly go. My
leather boots l packed away in my
sleigh, and had no use for them while
was travelling.


! Outside of my ordinary clothing had
sheep skin coat, with the fur inside
and buttoned around me; and outside Of
this had deer-skin coat that touched
the ground when l stood erect, and was
large enough inside for man and boy
Its collar was foot wide, and, wher
turned up in front, it completely conceal
ed my head.
Year: 1872

A novel trial is reported to have taken
place in London. A lady went to a ball,
and when preparing to return to her
home in the evening, before going to her
carriage took off her coifure and tied ii
up in handkerchief TO keep it fresh TO,
a party she was to attend the following
night and that she might be more con
veniently put warmer wraps on her heI
head, the evening being cold. When
she reached her dwelling the coiffure was
not in the carriage. She despatched a
messenger for it, but it could not be
found. Some days after she met an ac-
quaintance. whose hair was the same
color as her Own-rather peculiar hue
and was satisfied she wore her coiffure.
She taxed her with it Of course it was
Indignantly denied. So certain was the
lady that it was her hair the other had
taken from the ball and was wearing she
sued her for it. When the trial came on
the defendant struck the prosecutor dumb
and convinced the court by letting down
her tresses and showing they were her
own, thereby procuring judgment in
her favor. Subsequently she quarreled
with her hair dresser, when it came out
that the hair she had so dexerously e1-
hibited as having grown on her head had
grown on some other head, but had been
artfully and artistically arranged for
the pulling down process by the hair
dresser
Year: 1872

HOUk HOUSE.
Be true to yourself at tho start, young man.
Be true to yourself and your God;
Ere you build your house mark we'll the spot
Test all the ground and build you not


On the sand or the shaking sod.
Dig. dig the foundation deep, young man.
Plant firmly the outer wall;
Let the props be strong and the roof be high,
With an opening turret towards the sky
Through which heavens dsws may fall.
Let this be the room Of the soul, young man
When the shadows shall herald care;
A chamber with never roof or thatch
To hinder the Lighter door, or latch,


To shut in the spirits prayer
Build slow and sure--'tis for life, young man,
A life that outlives the breath;
For who shall gainsay the Holy Word:
Their works do follow them" saith the Lord,
Therein there is no death
Build deep, and high, and road, young man,
As the needful case demands;
Let your title deeds be clear and bright,
Till you enter your claim to the Lord Of Light
Fer the touse not made with hands.
Year: 1872

The terrible severity of the present
winter is without parallel in the history
of Wisconsin. 1t is not common in that
latitude that the thermometer gets below
more than once Oh twice during the win
ter and for years it has no: been known
to reach over three degrees to five de-
crees below. But this winter we have
CONCEALED beside the mercury that show
eG frem twelve degrees to fifteen degrees
below, and in parts of the State on a
parallel with Green Bay. the thermome
ter has registered from eighteen degrees
to twenty six degrees below.
Year: 1872

Dr.. TIPIER makes the following start


ling disclosure There are madmen in
the world who know how to restrain
themselves when under the eye of the
public, who have sufficient control over
themselves to deceive the passing glance
of their ae9uaintances, but who. when
once they get within the four walls of
their own house, throw off all trammels,
and are to their families-their wives
above ala perpetual danger" If cor
rect this is an exceedingly uncomfortable
theory. Marriage is proverbially re-
garded as lottery" but the chances of
drawing prize of the character indna-
ted BE- DR., Tipier, have hardly entered
into rhe calculation of female investors.
Year: 1872

A French lawyer defended man who
had taken chicken from farm yard
He said his client was insane. 81 do
not see in this theft anything that would
account for the insanity of the prisoner,
said the Judge. II beg your pardon, =
replied the lawyer. "this poor fellow is
certainly insane. lie stole wretched.
skinny chicken, when he might have
taken a nice fat pig"
Year: 1872

An Honest Mayor OF tho Olden Time to
Fill the Magisterial Chair Once More
The Correction OF Abuses and Corrup-
tion and the Snubbing OF ScaIawags To
BE Among the First Principles OF the
New Governmental Utopia ON the Isle
of Manhattan.


Alta few minutes past seven O'Clock last evening
HERALD reporter Knocked at the door OF Mr.
Havemeyer's residence in West Fourteenth street
taii' stately gentleman, OF full, almost portly
person. ana win massive head covered with
luxuriant growth OF snow white hair answered
the summons.


"Mr. Havemeyer, I believeSn


"Yes, sir; walk in"


The representative OF the HERALD was invited
10 a seat In the library where the Mayor elect had
been entertaining an old schoolmate and friend OF
sixty years standing gentleman whose hair was
even more silvery In Its whiteness than that Of his
Year: 1872

The Apollonian Hero Not Approachable-


HIS Friends Feel for Him and Bar the


Door to His Prcsence-Shame and


Sorrow Reigning Supreme I'm His Old


Hounts.


Mr.. James OBrien kept successfully out Of sight
yesterday, and, although his whereabouts might
have been known, he was not particularly anxious
to receive any visitors except such as would come
to show their sympathy with the sorrows Of defeat


In the afternoon he made short stay at his room
In the City Hall, but was inaccessible, and late
drew Jackson Club, he would see no one
and his friends were vigilant in guarding
him from annoy ance. Late at night the silence in
the former precincts of good fellowship grew to be
quite oppressive and not even a ray OF hope
cleaned through the darkness OF rout and dsap-
pointment to tighten the misiortunes OF the last
candidate in the municipal race.
Year: 1872

1t seems a pity that SO many of the
fine school houses in the west, where
land is plenty and cheap, should be
built to the towering height OF five or
six stories, compelling young girls to
do d great deal of unwholesome rum
ming up and down stairs, injurious to
their physical constitution, and often


times resulting in the chronic disorders
peculiar to the sex We have seen
many of these institutions which look
like a Webster's Dictionary standing
on end. Why not, instead, build them
after the model of the dictionary lying
fiat? The building committee should
broaden their foundations and decapl-
tate their towers. Two flights OF stairs,
first and second story, all that should
ever be seen in school -house-par-
ticularly school-house frequented by
girls. But there seems to have been
an ambition in the West to make the
school-house sort of town monument


visible for a dozen miles across the
prairies of Illinois or Minnesota. The
western school-houses are in most re-
spects far superior to any others IN the
country. Their defect is their undue
height. This objection is serious. We
know, from personal inspection, that
the fault of which we speak is begin
ming to show Itself in the WEAKNESS Of
scholars and teachers-not the males
but the females. Other new houses are
to be erected in various parts OF the
western states. Our suggestion, we
think, is worthy of grave consideration.
Year: 1872

ever and anon, and talked-if at all-in
hushed whispers to each other.


It was the old fashioned way, and
we were sitting in the room with the
corpse It was considerably past mid
night when I took book from the lit
tie table, on which pot of coffee had
been placed, and began to read. Soon
after this three of the men proposed
walk but, as Charley Fleet and Comp
ton were to remain, I said nothing. [
was still reading, as wide awake and
as free from fear SIS I ever was in my
life, when the same shudder I have
spoken of twice before ran over me
from head to foot, and froze the blood
in my veins. The book dropped from
my hands. looked up and saw Fleet
and Compton both asleep IN their
chairs. ] strove to call them, but my
tongue refused to utter a sound. And
again the low voice [ had heard upon
the port1co came to me, in low but dis
tinct tnnor ff Hurry to the dispen-
sary, or it Will be too late Mary is
there. My spirit can no longer strive
with her; it is departing from earth. :"
[ turned my head with a fearful sort
of attraction. toward the body. The
sheet was turned down and the face ex-
posed to view. The ghastliness of
death was still there; but the face
looked at me.


my God, Compton, look, look at
that!" He sprang to his feet in an
instant.


Chow did it happen? Where are
they all? His wife must have been
here while we were DOING" I knew
that [ had never been further from
sleep; but his voice reassured me,
though he said he had heard nothing,
and [ rose hastily.


"Quick, to the dispensary :" He
followed me in amazement to the little
room in the rest of the house where
Fenton Atwick had kept supply of
medicines, which he often distributed,
gratis, to the hands of factory five
miles down the river. [ hastily pushed
the door open, and beheld Miss At
wood standing at desk.


AS sprang forward she fell, face
downward, on the floor We lifted her
to a sofa, but she was dead.


A phial of prussic acid was open on
the desk. -,
Year: 1872

MISS CHARLOTTE E. RAY, a graduate
of the Howard University Law School,
has been admitted to practice in the
Supreme Court of the District of Col
umbia. She is the first woman admitted
to the bar in Washington, and we wish
her brilliant success.
Year: 1872

1t is not generally known that Cochise,
the Apache butcher, is something of spirit
ualist, and never scalps victim except in
obedience to intimations from the spirit
world. He has also dabbled in theology, and
explains the perpetual feud between his tribe
and the whites by the fact that there are two
particular devils, one an Apache and the
other a Yankee, who are always fighting
themselves and fomenting rows between
their respective parties on earth.
Year: 1872

WHEN the body and brain are well balanced


the stomach is capable of restoring the waste
from which the system is constantly suffering;
but when the brain is large in proportion, ithe
stomach is incapable of supplying it; in other
words, the expenditure is too large for the in
come Here lies the cause of so much suffer-
ing from Disease of the Heart, Liver, Stomach
and Lungs, which is produced by taxing the
Nervous System too severely; and Fellows
Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites is the on
ly preparation known which imparts this vital
ity directly, and consequently the power to
overcome disease nov23-d1w&w1t
Year: 1872

Deliberate Deviltry Two Trains


Smashed.


COLUMBUS, Sept. l8.-Some wretch with
malice aforethought about midnight opened
switch near the city on the Piqua railroad
and a large locomotive coming along at
tached TO three freight cars ran through and
was thrown from the track. A large
force was at once put to work on the wreck
and while at work freight train came
along and struck the cars of the for" ard
train sending them pell nell and disabled
the engine and seriously ipjuring James
Forester. 1t was little else than miracle
that dozen men were not killed by this
result of deviltry.


$1,000 has been offered for the arrest OF
Robt. Dunlap for the murder OF Jas. Car
penter. A large police force have been out
all day but as yet have found no trace Of
Dunlap.
Year: 1872

On Friday evening last, the goth inst,
near seven o'clock, HORACE GREELEY, late
candidate of the high and responsible Of
flee of President of the United States, died
of an attack of acute mania at a private in
sane asylum near the city of New Y ork, to
which he had been conveyed by his bust
ness partners. The story of the close of
the career of this distinguished journalist
is one of the saddest on record. 1t seems
that for two years prior to his death he had
been sufferer from Insomnia or wakeful-
ness, and was unable to get more than an
hours sleep at time. This resulted from
excessive and long continued mental exer-
tion. Mr.. GREELEY, although generally
patient and laborious man, was liable to
become nervous, excitable and unnaturally
absorbed in given subject. Upon such
temperament the tremendous canvass
through which he had just passed was
terrible ordeal. Through most of it he
really believed that he was going to be
elected. and that he had great mission to
fulfill for the good of his country. But the
warfare of the campaign told upon him
fearfully, as the severe overhauling of every
part of his record by journals formerly
friendly to him irritated. annoyed, and
humiliated him. But the final crash of de-
feat produced such depth of depression
as no one could have foreseen, and it un-
hinged his reason and finally caused his
death. He had been insane since the Goth
of November but the fact was suppressed
The N. Y. Times intimates that his mind
was not altogether sound even before the
Presidential election.
Year: 1872

As there has been good deal said of
the danger to health by using the sewing
machine, it is worth while to mention that
DR.. Parker recently read paper on the
subject before the State Medical Society of
Virginia, in which he maintained that ia
tigue is not disease; that there is no reason
to conclude that the use of the muscles en-
ployed in machine work for reasonable
time is injurious; that machine may be
used by a woman for four or five hours
daily, if she be i'll ordinary health. without
injury; that the damage to health in the
factory is due to the hygienic conditions
under which the work is done. In conclu-
sion, it was affirmed that the sewing-ma-
chine is a great boon to womankind, in
creasing compensation, protecting vigor,
and lessening family labors.
Year: 1872

Both Houses of Congress organized on
Monday, and the Presidents Message was
received and read. The House passed a
resolution ordering a record to be made on
the journals of Congress of the apprecia-
tion of the eminent services and personal
purity of the late Horace Greeley. On
motion of speaker Blaine, committee of
inquiry was ordered in the Credit Mobilier
scandal. A bill was reported in the House
for the construction of ten ships of war
which gave rise to considerable discussion
and was laid over.


A bill was introduced in the House on
Wednesday for the speedy construction of a
ship canal round Niagara Falls and another
for the repeal of the stamp tax on bank
checks.
Year: 1872

The Tribune advised that the Electoral
votes which were to have been cast for
Greeley for President, should be given to
Grant, as sign of the era of peace and
good will which the Liberal candidate had
sacrificed his life to. But our Maryland
Bourbons blackslid, as the Metho dist say,
and emulated the washed SOW. by select
ing one of the old Bourbon stock,
Hendricks, to cast their votes for. Stick a
pin here ye deluded "Liberals.' They
will sorely need a new installment of Lib
eral grace next fall and will have no Gree
ley to baptize them. Their loud profess
sions through the campaign were all hypoc-
racy
Year: 1872

VICK's FLORAL GuIDE:-We have re-
ceived the first number of this superb cat
alogue for 1873, the finest and got up in
the best taste of any flower or seed cata-
logue we have ever seen. Every body who
has flower to attend or but row Of peas
to cultivate should send a quarter and get
guide. We publish an advertisement of
the guide elsewhere.
Year: 1872

We have no ambition to enter the
live stock competition with the .Democrats :
locals baby. There is barely room enough
for one such baby and its dad in Cecil
county. They crowd the entire county to its
utmost capacity. We suggest an exhibi-
ton for the benefit of the Church.
Year: 1872

1t annoys your friends as well as yourself
You would like to get rid Of it, but scarcely
know what means to adopt. We will tell you.
Use the fragrant SozoDoNT, it will cleanse and
beautify your teeth, and leave your breath
pure.