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Year: 1876

Friendship cannot be confined to
great minds; people have their distinct
ideas of it; somebody to feel comfort
able with. to rely upon, to be able to
say what they like to you with securi-
ty of being understood; who will hear
them, perhaps help them, is what they
want. Thought is not a universal ar
ticle of exchange-good-will and
sense of mutual fitness may refresh
the soul at less cost, and help it toward
that love to the brethren which
Christianity requires. But friendship
Of this characte breaks down if there
is too much attempt to enforce it's ideal
claims and duties, People must be
content to leave a great deal unex-
planned and unaccounted for. to SUBJ
nit to seeming Sights, to be quiet un-
der good deal for which temper de-
mands apologies. Men cannot be COM
PEELED to friendship by cooked pis.
tol, says Sydney Smith. Nor must
people ever use their wit at a crisis.
Long suffering and condoning are of
the essence of all friendship. As Cow
per says, ''The warmest heart
perhaps only feels by fits, and is
often as insensible as the coldest."


Nobody must wonder or take offense
if he fall foul of one of these cold fits
when he expected enthusiastic sympa-
thy. But none Of these precautionary
rules are meant to apply to the grand
ideal friendship-to such we look up,
but do not presume to dictate; only of
them one is disposed to say, as we'll
fall out as sink into placid difference;
death is the only dissolution of the tie
we can admit. Swift writes some for
chile, strange, bitter things on the an
guish that friendship of this order
can innict: 81 am of opinion that
there is no greater folly then to con-
tract too great and intimate a friend
ship, which must always leave the sur
vivor miserable" Again: ssBelieve
me, that violent friendship is, much
more lasting. and as much engaging.
as violent love. There is not greater
folly than entering into too strict and
violent friendship" This, howev-
er, is spoken of his friendship with
Stella, written when he hears she is
dying, and dares not to return to Ire
land: Il would not for the universe
be present at such a trial as seeing her
depart This sounds like a miserable
selfshness, but yet betrays real hor-
ror of deep feeling. Swift's is char.
acter on which one must not pro-
nounce hastily.-Blackwood's Maya.
zine.
Year: 1876

From the Savannah News.


a Talbot County gentlemen has a
large block of pine tree into which
plank was deeply driven by the force
of one of the hurricanes or cyclones of
last spring. The plank, which was
about an inch in thickness and six in
ches in width, was torn by the fury of
the storm from house. 1t was not
splintered or shivered by the coils.
sion, but entered the body of the tree
as clearly as if it had been a piece of
sharp-edged iron driven in by maui.
The force and velocity must have been
tremendous. On one side the block
had beeh cut to the depth of three in
ches, without reaching the end of the
plank that entered the tree. 1t prob
ably extended to the depth OF at least
four inches, and did not split the tree
in the least. 1t is understood that
this wonderful memento of the power
of the wind will be sent to the Signal
Service Bureau, where it will give be-
holders a faint idea of the force of a
Georgia cyclone.
Year: 1876

To Mend Chinaware. Take very
thick solution of gum arabic and stir
into it plaster of Paris until the mix.
ture is of proper consistency. Apply
it with brush to the fractured edges
of the chinaware and stick them to-
gether. In a few days it will be i'm.
possible to break the article in the
same place. The whiteness of the ce-
ment renders it doubly valuable.
Year: 1876

Hartford letter tn n. I. Times.


The position of at least one of the
uncertain states at the opening of the
struggle at Cincinnati seems to be now
settled, for it is declared that Connec.
ticut will not only vote for Bristow
from the first, but will work heartily
and honestly for him as long as there
is any chance for his nomination.
Gen. Hawley freely and publicly an
nounces that his purpose in going to
Cincinnati is to do all in his power to
secure the nomination of Bristow, and
that his information leads him to be.
lieve that all, OF at least very nearly
all, the other delegates agree with him
in that matter. The delegation is not,
however, pledged or trammeled in any
way, and there may be a small minor.
ity who will vote for some one else;
but the Connecticut influence, what.
ever it will amount to, will be for
Bristow from the start, for the state
has entirely gone out of the favorite
son business.
Year: 1876

FROM The Boston Herald.


Twenty-Five years ago, when the
Boston Neck was first paved, the stump
Of a post was exposed to view by the
workmen employed. and an old resi-
dent, named Ware, whose memory
went back to Revolutionary times, and
who then resided at the corner of Ded-
ham and Washington streets, came out
of his house and informed Mr.. Thomas
r. Pierce, who had charge of the gran
ite work of the city at that time, that
the post of which the stump formed a
part WAS the identical one to which
Washington hitched his horse at the
time Boston was evacuated by the
British in l776, and that it was exactly
upon the line of barricadc that the
Provincials had erected for tho pur-
pose of keeping the British within the
limits Of the town. In order to mark
the spot Mr.. Pierce prepared granite
block, and with his own hands set it
directly over the stump, and had no.
tice of the fact made in the newspa-
pers of the day. Some years later,
when the track of the horse railroad
was laid, and the pavements were re.
set, Mr.. Pierce took good care to locate
his monument stone exactly in the
same spot. Last season the streets
were repaved with wooden blocks, and
while the work was in progress the
stump was again exposed to view, still
in good preservation, and from it sew
eral large fragments were obtained.
Being still in the employ of the city at
his old trade of cutting granite, Mr..
Pierce had chiseled upon the stone the
figures of l776 upon one side and 1876
upon the other, and reset it in the
same place the workmen joining in
appropriate commemorative services,
and he pronouncing over it the follow.
ing benedietion We thank thee, good
Lord, for saving the Nation one centu-
ry; we trust he will save it for an
other.
Year: 1876

The long promised eruption of Vesu-
vius has at last occurred. On March
18th, at about midnight the lava began
to overflow, and a long snake-like riv-
ulet took the direction of Pompeii.
The eruption was hardly expected, for
the smoke and vapor emitted by the
crater for some months past in great
abundance had somewhat abated. On
the following day the sight presented
by Mount Vesuvius was really lovely;
a tremendous column of white vapor
lowered over the abyss, and the re-
flection of the burning furnace under
meath on the leathery cloud gave it a
splendid crimson tint dying out in the
most delicate pink. Large quantities
of cinders and lapillm have been thrown
up. There is reason to believe that
the eruption will be a long one.
Year: 1876

A Washington correspondent says,
SIT is a we'll known fact in Washing.
ton circles that President Grant is in
financial embarrassment on account of
unfortunate real estate transactions.
Recently he sold the great bulk of his
real estate in Washington. His last
act has been to order the sale of his
Long Branch and St. Louis property.
He does this, his friends say, because
he is resolved to clear off all his in.
debtedness, and this is the only way
possible for him to do so. It shows
that he is much more heavily involv-
ed than has been generally supposed"
Year: 1876

VULCAN's TRANsIT.-A few days ago
Urban Leverrier, the great French ass
tronomer, announced that the planet
Vulcan would pass between the earth
and the sun on the I'd or Sd of October
The majority of astronomers disbelieve
the existence of such q planet, none of
them having ever seen it, and even
those who speak of this fiery orb do so
in terms OF hesitation, as though it
were a mythical star.
Year: 1876

AVIcT1M OF THE SToKM.-On Thurs
day morning the crew of an oyster
punpy picked up a spar off Roaring
Point, to which was lashed the body of
a young man. There was nothing
about his person by which he could be
identified. He had on blue shirt and
dark pants, and the initials A. ID. s., IN
India Ink on his right arm. The body
was taken ashore and decently inter
red.-iSedford Citszen.
Year: 1876

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 20. Saturday night
the body Of woman was found floating in
the lake near Lincoln Park. At first it
was supposed it was a case of accidental
drowning but subsequently the bodies OF
two infants aged respectively two years,
and five months, were discovered near the
same place and the three were identified
as being Frederika Teehan and her two
children. Upon the inquest evidence was
adduced tending to show that the woman
was subject to fits of arrangement and that
she took the children to the lake and after
throwing in the elder jumped in herself


holding the baby tightly in her arms. She
was 26 years of age and German by birth
Year: 1876

For Book BINDING or Ruling, go to
THE ARGUS Bindery No better work
can be done in this vicinity. Prices reason
able, Work done quick Leaye orders
at The Argus Counting Room, opposite
the Post office. If
Year: 1876

The Chicago & Pacific Railroad COM
pany seems to be in a bad way. The Off
cials have in vain hid themselves away in
an upper chamber in the Marine Building
with no sign or finger marks to show their
seeks his way up the stairway. Even the
elevator had stopped running this noon.
and facilities for getting at the rooms of
the railroaders were such as could only be
improved by able bodied pedestrians.
Year: 1876

New YORK, May 29.-Commodore
Vanderbilt was seized with sudden chill
last evening and physicians remained with
him during the night, which he passed in a
very restless manner. This morning the
Commodore is very low
Year: 1876

among some of its members this afternoon, and as
the chairman must call such \ meeting when two
members desire it, it is possible that some other pro-
gramme may yet be agreed upon.


When this bill is introduced several points OF
order viii be made upon it by the Republicans, un-
der the lead of Dir. KassOn. The bill was brought
before the committee to-day by the reconsideration
of vote taken several weeks ago. One OF the rules
of the House relating to committees is in the follow
ing words: "When vote is once passed in COM
mittee it cannot be altered but by the House their
votes being binding on themselves" This rule, 1T
viii probably be urged, violated III the meeting
of the committee to-day, and on that ground the va
lidity of its action will be disputed. Again. the vote
by which it agreed to report the bill repeating
the Resumption act taken this morning after IL
O'clock the hour at which the House began its ses-
sion. Attention was called in the committee to this
fact and the rule relating to this subject was quoted.
1t is as follows: "NO committee shall s,t during the
sitting of the House without special leave, and so
soon as tho House sits and committee is notified of
it the chairman is in duty bound TO rise instantly
and tho members TO attend the service of the House.
The BILL when reported. will not be passed without
very strenuous opposition. The committee agreed
that an hour and half should he given TO each side
for debate but it is doubtful if important measure
like this is allowed to pass the House during single
session after it is reported.
Year: 1876

II will be seen gentlemen, that am III entire ac-
cord with the platform of the Convention by which
| have been nominated rs candidate for the Office
of e-Presdcnt of the United States. Permit me,
i'm conclusion to express my satisfaction at beng
associated with "A candidate for the Presidency who
is first among his equals as representative OF the
spirit aud of the achievements oil REFORM In MS
official career as the Executive of tho great State OF
Ncw-York. he has. in a comparatively short period
reformed .he public service and reduced the public
burdens so az To have earned at once the graf
irudo of his State and the admiration of the
country. The people know him to be thoroughly in
earnest. ne has shown himself 10 be possessed of
powers and qualities which ht HIM IN an eminent
degree for the great work of reformation which tins
country now needs aud il he shall be chosen by the
people 10 the high Office of President of the United
States believe that the day of his Inauguration Will
be the beginning of new era OF peace, purify ana
prosperity IN all departments of our Government.
am gentlemen, your obcdcnt servant


THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
To the Hon. John A. McClernand, Chairman and
others of the committee of the National Democratic
Convention.
Year: 1876

figure, $4,000 The Superintendent OF Police 70 %
given 81 600


Ifthe bill passes and that clause OF the charter Is
not repealed which provides that subordinate In any
department. shall receive greater salary than the nead
or commissioner Of his department. other than tne
Police Department. there Will be necessarily whole
sale cutting down Of salaries among clerks ana DINERS
In some OF the commissions


DEFICIENCY.


The Appropriation bill providing for certain de-
hciencie in appropriations OF last year was ordered TO
third reading in tho Assembly. The total amount ap-
propriated Is $S4, 0O0


FARLEY


On Tuesday next the Assembly Committee on Cities
will, in the afternoon, give a hearing Mr.. A j..
Campbcls Civil Justice bill which cuts down the num-
ber OF subordinate officials and reduces the districts
from ten 10 six Mr. Fsh's ball relative the grading
OF streets in New York and the limitation OF expendi-
the annual expenditures Of the various departments
will also be considered


TRYING 1T ONCE MORE


The bill introduced by Mr.. Wheeler In the House is
said TO be Identical with the Illinois listing law. 1t
qures that all property owners IN the State shall make
under oath, 10 which list must be appended full
statement OF their mortgage debts their property
for which drawback is TO be allowed, that on y
the real and personal property actually owned by
son shall be subject TO taxation. This is another dodge
TO got round the bond and mortgage taxation trouble
suggested doubt, by Mr.. Kings queer little bill
knocked in the head day before yesterday by the House
at the suggestion OF the Committee Ways and Means,
and which read No property In the State OF New York
shall be taxed twice"


READY FOR rHK PEOPLE


The concurrent resolutions which passed both houses
last year and the present Senate last week. which
vides for amendment to the constitution creating
the of1ce OF State Superintendent of Public Works.
passed the Assembly this afternoon by vote of SO "a
This gives the people chance to vote on II next
Year: 1876

President Grant, it is said, has in
formed Minister Orth that he expects to
make a tour Of the world upon the close
Of his term of Office New Pork Post.


And a Dom Pedro OF person on
wheels he will be. We have no doubt
he could get around the world in ninety
days.-(Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1876

ENGLISH HoTELs.-An American tray
cling in England speaks of the hotels
there as follows: Napkins are to be
furnished and used us matter Of course
at dinner, but not at breakfast. Butter is
TO be eaten at breakfast, but not at dinner,
save perhaps with cheese. You are re-
quired to sleep on feather bed in the
warmest nights of July and August, but
it is the fashion to be dressed without
drawers no matter how cold or chilly the
weather. The night air, they tell you, is
bad for you, and therefore when you retire
70 your chamber at night you find the
doors and windows are all carefully shut,
and often double curtains drawn, so by no
possibility pure breath Of air may be
drawn from the outside, and the air within
may be poisoned as speedily as possible.
Per contra, gas is not allowed in the hotel
chambers, lest, forsooth, the air be injured
thereby. The idea Of having "a window
up an inch or two while sleeping, to OBJ
viate this, is not thought Of After a night
thus spent in a sort of Black Hole of
Calcutta, breathing a tainted atmosphere,
you are expected to go to the hotel break
fast-room, and with the thermometer often
as low as So to so, sit down and wait for a
mortal hour, with draughts OF cold air all
around you, chilling your bones to the
very marrow"
Year: 1876

If the small coins which lieloose in the
pockets were properly appreciated, there
would not be so much pecuniary embar-
rassment in the world as there is. Many
a little makes muekle," is true Of moth
ing more than of pennies and half-pen-
nies. Little savings, as a rule, must be
made in personal expenditure more than
anything else. What is spent on the
household is very generally needed, but
the small personal luxurics which cost so
little are not. When money is put aside
to be saved it should be put in some place
where it cannot be directly got The very
fact that little trouble and formula have
to be gone through before it can be OBJ
Ttained, will prevent it being spent many
a time, when it most certainly would be
were it close at hand. But it should be
borne in mind that to live poorly is false
economy. Nature requires a certain a
mount Of nourishment, and will have it
or be revenged and the revenge will, in
all probability, take the form Of a long
doctors bill or diminished working pow
er. This sort Of saving is "penny wise
and pound foolish" The things to save
out Of are shows, false appearances and
self indulgences, not necessaries. For
instance, where is the economy Of work
ing or reading by dim light to save gas
or candles and injuring the sight in
wearing boots that let il water, bringing
or colds and rheumatism in living on
poor food and lowering the system Far
better wear a shabby hat week or two
longer than usual, or dispense altogether
with some contemplated piece Of fnery.
The worst Of it is, though, that people
are generally much more willing TO dis
pense with necessaries that make no show
than with useless extravagances that afford
an opportunity for display which every
one sees through. Small economies are
apt to degenerate into meanness. We
continually read in newspapers Of people
who die in misery and poverty, who have
perhaps received help from the parish,
and after their death money is found
which they have hidden in all sorts of
hooks and corners. With these unfortun
ates saving had become mania, and Of
all manias it is surely the most deplorable,
for after all money in itself is worth abso-
lutely nothing; it is only valuable for
what it can procure. fit will only bring
comfort and necessaries for those we love
whilst we are able to work, and insure
independence for ourselves when we can
not do so, it is worth economics, fore
thought, hard Sork, energy, care and
self-Genial. But even gold is bought too
dear when the desire for it is allowed to
overpower all other feelings.-Batttmore
Gazette.
Year: 1876

" No." he said contemptuously, "it's
it's easy enough for man to make mon
ey nova days. Times are different from
what they was. Then there was solid
work about it. Now all you have to do
is TO take your surplus and buy things
when they're low and sell when they're
high, and there it is in a nut shell. A
child could do it. By the way" he add
ed, "could you lend me half dollar for
q few days. ."-N0yWich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

The way to save, the Ledger tells us,
is to begin with the little matters-and
begin at once. No one ever made his
way from poverty to riches who scorned
economy in small things, and could not
comprehend the value of single cent.
The poor man, who would get ahead pc
cuniarily, must learn to save cent after
cent-one at time, if he can do no more
till he gets a hundred of them, and so
hasa dollar, is wise and noble thing for
himto do. Having thus actually saved his
first dollar, he will have acquired with
it a power of self~denial and tenacity
OF purpose which will enable him to save
one dollar after another till he gets
hundred. And then he can save
on indefinitely, and become indepen-
dent in fortune.


"But," says some one who has lived
all his life without saving, chow am
I to save. Ny habits are fixed. How
can I learn to lay by something for old
age?"


You mustdo as to money matters what
certain ancient school of philosophers
did as to morals. Those old sages used,
every night, to review their actions for
the day, and see what they. ought not to
have done, and what they might have
done better of the things which it had
been necessary for them to do. So,
too, must you, every night, review the
outlays of the day, and see what you
have spent that you ought not to have
spent, and how you might have goi
more economically whatever it was ne
cessary for you to obtain. Any one who
faithfully makes such review of his
expenditures will be apt to discover
many opportunities for retrenchmen
and reform" And then if he will, ht
can at once begin to save, and may &C
quire economical habits which vii
secure his future prosperity, ft
Year: 1876

An English writer who, of course,
must depend to a great degree upon
guess work, says that not less than five
thousand millions dollars worth of gold
and silver have been taken from the
earth since the days of Noah. Of this
amount he thinks that three billions
two hundred millions have been pro-
duced since the discovery of America.
The Christian world is credited with
having had two thousand millions, most
of which has been disposed of by ship
wrecks, gliding, fire, and various other
ways, as effectually, the Alta California
suggests, as many of our citizens have
disposed of theirs by investing in stocks.
He thinks this loss proceeds at the rate
of sixteen millions annually, which is
undoubtedly too low. One-half of the
balance, three hundred and fifty mil
lions, he thinks is held in the form of
plate and ornaments. OF the balance of
three thousand millions in the anti
Christian world, waste and losses omit
ted, he thinks that over thousand bill
lions have been hidden in Asiatic lands
in different ages of the world, and he
continues that it is we'll known that q
thousand millions were thus hidden in
India and China in the six years sue
ceediug 1851 that is during the time
when wholesale murder and slaughter
and wholesale robbery and despoliation
were the business of the natives and
their enemies. One would think that
China must be carpeted with gold leaf,
paved with silver dollars, glittering with
the precious metals, did he think only
of the vast. sums sent there for hundreds
of years past, little or none of which
ever comes back. But somehow these
metals have fate there as they have else
where-they disappear. Like many other
commodities, they serve theirpurposeand
disappear. What became of all the gold
with which Solomon covered his grand
temple9 What became of all the Span
ish spoils in South America and III
Mexico9 One might ask such questions
forever and be no wiser therefor. Gold
and silver serve their purposes and dis
appear, as do the ehumanr race and old boots
and all other material things, and there
is none 80 wise as can tell us accurately
what has become of them. When the
faucet is turned, where has the gaslight
gone one might ask, and the question
would be as reasonable and perhaps as
difficult to answer. We know pretty
well, the paper significantly adds, where
our little portion of gold and silver has
gone, but tn It knowledge does got give
us any particular qualification.


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