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Year: 1872

Tnr BarGnr SipE Look on the bright
side. II is the right side. The times
may be hard, but it will make them no
easier TO wear gloomy and sad countc-
nance. II is the sunshine. and no, the
cloud. that makes the flower The sky is
blue ten times whore i, is black once.
You have troubles. so have others. None
are free from them. Troubles give sinew
and tone to lifc-iortitudc and courage Ia
man. That would be dull sea, and tho
sailor would never got skill, where there
was nothing to disturb the surface Of the
ocean. What though things look little
dark? tho lane will turn. and night will
end in broad day. There is moro virtue
in one sunbeam than in whole hcmis
pherc Of clouds and gloom.
Year: 1872

From Scribner. for May.I


To remedy this aimlessness and un-
fitness for life with which our education
leaves our youth, we need more craft
schools, where our boys can become
practical engineers, chemists, printers,
machinists, and even farmers. The
maehinist would be none the worse if
he should spend his evenings over Eu-
cid instead Of lager the blacksmith, if
he knew how 10 drive home and clinch
an argumentin metaphysics as skillfully
as a horseshoe nail; or the dentist, if he
could extract hidden Greek roots with
the same facility as grumbling molars.
Educated men would dignity any Of these
employments, and make them sought and
not stunned by those worthy to fill them.
A man who wants TO run an engine ought
to be educated for his business, just as
much as a lawyer for his profession. We
are a patient and long-sufering people,
or we would never permit ourselyesto be
blown up by hundreds by ignorant engi-
neers, who know nothing more of the
monsters which they control than enough
to feed them with wood and water, and
oil up their creakiug JOINTS or suffer
ourselves to be sent to our graves by
stripEngs in short jackets, who give us
arsenic for paregoric, and strychnine for
the elixir of life. The time is coming,
and we trust is not far distant, when all
these positions Of responsibility will be
filled BY men OF education, and can be
filled by none others; when ignoramuses
will be obliged either to fit themselves
for their proposed labors, or seek other
employments. .f-
Year: 1872

many admirers Of Keats who would viii
lingly subscribe their mite, in order to
mark by some enduring memorial the
abode where death fed on the mute
voice of the singer Of Adonais. Apropos
OF Keats, let me repeat little anecdote
which was told nae of him, the other day,
by Mr.. Severn, the late much re-
spected consul here, in whose arms
the poet died. Like ordinary NOR
tails, even poets must eat; and
Keats was intensely disgusted at
the horrid food each day put before him.
The dinner was always sent in from a
neighboring trattoria.' Day by day it
grew worse and worse, until the patience
Of the poet was quite exhausted. He
would willingly have abused the land
lord, but there were difficulties in the
way, so at last he hit on the following
expedient One day, when Mr.. Severn
was to dine with him, and the dinner
was brought in as usual, Keats deliber-
ately took up one dish after the other
and emptied them all out of the open
window into the Piazzi di Spagna. This
eloquent silence had the desired effect,
and from that day forward the dinners
were excellent.
Year: 1872

Here is something timely and deli
eions from Warmers Backlog Stu
dies" in the April number of Scribner's:


Perhaps the influence of the four great
winds on character is only Q taRcied
one; but it is evident on temperament
which is not altogether g matter Of tenn
perature, although the good old deacon
used to say, in his humble, simple way
that his third wife was a very good wo-
man, but her temperature was very dill
ferent from that Of the other two. The
north-wind is full of courage, and puts
the stamina Of endurance into a man,
and it probably would into woman too,
if there were a series Of resolutions pass
ed to that effect The west wind is hope
ful; it has promise and adventure in it,
and is, except to Atlantic. yoyagers
America-bonnd, the best wind that ever
blew. The east wind is peevishness; 1t
is mental rheumatism and grumhling,
and curls one up in the chimney corner
like a cat. And if the chimney ever
smokes it smokes when the wind sets in
that quarter. The south wind is full Of
longing and unrest, of effeminate sug-
gestions, Of luxurious ease, and perhaps
we might say of modern poetry-at any
rate, modern poetry needs q change Of
cir. am not sure but the south is the
most powerful of the. winds, because Of
its sweet persqasiysRsss: Nothing SO
Year: 1872

stirs the blood in spring, when it comes
up out of the tropical latitude; it makes
men longen to go on pilgrimages.


/ did intend to insert here a little
poem (as it is quite proper to do so in
an essay on the south wind, composed
by The Young Lady Staying with Us,
beginnings.


Out Of drifting southern cloud


500 My soul heard the night-bird cry


but it never got any further than this.
The young lady said it was exceedingly
difficult to write the next two lines, be-
cause not only rhyme but meaning
had to be procured And this is true;
anybody can write first lines, and that is
probably the reason we have so many
poems which seem to have been begun
in Just this way, that is, with south
wind.longing without any thought in it,
and it is very fortunate when there is
not wind enough to finish them. This
emotional poem, if may so call it, was
begun after Herbert went away. liked
it, and thought it was what is called
suggestive;" although | did not under
stand it, especially what the night-bird
was; and am afraid | hurt the young
lady's feelings by asking her if she
meant Herbert by the j" night-bird "a
very absurd suggestion about two unsen-
timental people. She said, "nonsense;"
but she afterward told the mistress that
there were emotions that one could
never put into words without the danger
Of being ridiculous-a profound truth.
And yet / should not like to say that
there is not tender lonesomeness in
love that can get comfort out Of night
bird in cloud, if there be such thing.
Analysis is the death of sentiment.
Year: 1872




A correspondent of the Taylorsville
Ky Index gives the following account
of natural bridge up in the mountains
which in some of its proportions, at
least, exceeds in curious interest the
celebrated Virginia geological cenforma-
ton of the same nature:


In Carter county, KY, there is a great
curiosity called the Natural Bridge,
which we'll repsys visit to those at
traeted by strange and sublime scenery.
1t spans a stream called Little Carry,
which falls into Little Sandy river. This
bridge is two hundred and nineteen feet
in the span, one hundred and ninety-six
feet high, twelve feet wide and five feet
thick in the middle and thirty feet at
the ends, being afched underneath and
level on the top One hundred feet be-
low it there is cascade with fall of
seventy-five feet, and two miles distant
there. is another cascade with fall of
two huadred feet. From the bottom of
the ravine a spruce pine has grown up
to the hight of four feet above the
bridge, making its entire hight two hun
dred feet. The sides of the ravine are
so rugged that, were il not for natural
stairway, person on the top of the
bridge wishing to get under it would
have to walk two miles. 1t is interest
ing to compare the dimensions of this
bridge with those of the celebrated Natu-
raj Bridge of Virginia, which is ninety
feet in the span, eighty feet wide, fifty feet
thick, and two hundred and twenty feet
high The bridge is not the only natural
wonder of the neighborhood. In its vi
cinity are two streams known as Big
Sinkey and Little Sinkey, which
emerge from the ground good-sized
streams, and after course of about
two miles again disappear. There is
also an artesian well which formerly
threw up jet about four feet high, of
the size of common barrel; but, hav-
ing been obstructed by stones and trunks
OF trees thrown into it by persons desi-
rons Of finding out its depths, it now
only plays to the hight of a foot above
the level of the pool. Some years ago,
in the month Of August, the writer en-
countered an enormous rattlesnake
crossing the road near the bridge In
length he just reached across the road,
and in thickness he seemed to measure
in the middle Of the body about as much
as an ordinary churn. tied my horse,
got some good rocks and tried my best
on him; but my volley only caused him
to make the woods ring with his rat
ties. So not liking the look of his eye, !
mounted my horse and made flank
movement leaving my hero in posses
sion Of the field l told an old citizen
what l had seen He said: " Signs Of
that snake have been found there for
twenty years" / suppose he lived in
one of the large caves around the bridge.
Year: 1872

70 the EdttOr or The TTa6Uhc.


SIR: In THE TRIBUNE of the eth instant,
the heading Telegraph Notes" nnd the follow
ing, without word OF qualification;


three months Oh child Of M Herrok o Portland Ne lost rs life
yesterday morning by cat sucking its breath while sleeping


AS many persons apt accept statements of fact
which they find in your paper IL If perhaps worth while
TO point the extreme mprobabity Of the above.
do not doubt the death Of the child the animal
was present at the time; but that cat Sucked its
breath" would could do So must be regarded as


piece OF gross superstitous ignorance as such 1t is
hurtfu and ought not to pass unehaenged. Death is
serious and therefore th,subect be treated
seriously otherwise it easy 10 rdicule the assump
made, which do not meet with for the first
time Let say then that cat couid have no possible
motive for sucking chds breath If il posi-
BILE to do The breath of animal after IL has
entered the lungs is dsagreeabe ana poisonous and
know Of no creature with iking for such air Are
suppose that the applied m lips closely 10 those OF
the child and exhausted the lungs of the latter by


filing its Owni II what nexti The cat brea the
die. II IL breathes the ohld Will breathe also and


live But IL may be said that the cat places its mouth in
such proximity TO that of the child 10 intercept
the pure and suck" in that which the child re-
QulTed This would involve the death OF the cat first
for il is the smaller animal and the childs mouth must
also I'm the proper position intercept the pure air
required by the cat That the latter either from malig
nIty affection, would voluntarily suffer semlsufoea
ton for moment is of course absurd In fact the state
ment absurd altogether, and 1t would require the
cearest circmnsantiai description OF the way which
the act was performed, and that by "a dsinterested
observer TO ene the assertion even TO the consdera
tion here given The true explanation OF such is
doubtless very simple The cat lay upon the chld's
mouth, and smothered II, or upon It's stomach and
chest and by it, weight tired the respiratory muscles
that they gradually ceased TO act. and the little
infant 10 breathe Let me say conclusion that such
accdenfs re faeitafed by the enseess way
In which mothers and nurses place their children deeply
imbedded In soft clothes and pillows, depryng them by
50 doing OF full supply OF the fresh pure sr which Is


Tee-i6rS Sept Il. 1874
Year: 1872

And now the lively and frivolous, the dys-
pepc and nnrm to be lued TO sleep by melodious
and appropriate music. An instrument constructed by
an ingenious German, when placed under the mattress.
is calculated by soothngsrans 10 persuade the most
troubled conscience into sweet oblivion and gentle
sleeper by lively selection from OF Onenbach's
operas This little instrument is provided with tune
appropriate for occasion, that OF a death
funeral service, dead march being among the seec
ti0ns.
Year: 1872

The Campaign now going on is something wonderful.
There nearly hundred Liberal speakers traversng
the State beside the local orators and by eIamn


ing the country press that IN every county there will
speech night. No stas In the Union can
match this. and from this fact you can form
an idea of tho intensity and spirit OF the struggle
Senator sshury who las just finished one Of hs triumph
Year: 1872

Another Pack I'm Fun Cry ora tho


Public Treasury.


The claims OF an additional lot Of Court onicers
have been lately brought before the Courts on .
mandamus others having been disposed OF pre-
viously.


II has been the practice to surround the
Court or Oyer and Terminer with q gang OF men
who were appointed temporarily to attend at its
sessions and act as C0nstables or Deputy
Sherifrs. These ofsicers were compensated by the
Board OF Supervisors at Q per diem allowance,
and very large expense In the aggregate had to
be borne by the county for these services.


One OF these officers recently brought his case
before the Supreme Court to compel, by mandamus,
the Board Of Audit to allow his claim. 1t was con-
tended on the part Of the county that this was not
q Unsuitable claim. The Supreme Court, OF which
the Oyer and Terminer Is part had q large
number Of Court attendants which should have per-
formed oil OF the duty required by the Court OF
these Offcers and no additional ones can be
needed. and the appointments OF Others to do this
nNmna nor %stSs y oHy spssaas presexMs IT. to enlist
ers Of some local leader by procuring these gratui
ties from the city and county treasury Much dissat
course pursued by Comptroller Green on his access
sion to oi1ce IN reducing the number OF Court at
tenaants from more than two hundred to about
one-half OF that number and thus throwing out Of
employment largo number OF worthy persons
who were very valuable at the local primaries. At
the very time in 1871 when these services are
alleged to have been rendered. the extraordinary
number OF 210 persons besides were drawing sala.
ries as Court attendants.
Another crowd of claimants who claim for SER
wees performed In 1870, under appointment Of
Sheriff OBrien are awaiting the issue of the pres.
ent case to press their claims to take money from
the public treasury.


Some OF the very men at present making this ex-
tra0rdinary demand held other appointments
under the county and were receiving paw for such
service. This question OF dual salaries has been
long since exploded and 1t Is hoped that an active
resistance will be made to these claims before they
are disposed Of
Year: 1872

Comptroller Green paid yesterday along the line
Of the work, through his Paymaster Mr.. Moor Falls
the wages due up to August 1a to the laborers on
the small pipes and those engaged on the cobble-
stone pavement. Upon the completion Of this
payment, which amounts to almost twenty
thousand dollars all the aborers in the en-
ploy OF the city will have received the
wages due them to the 18th inst. In thus
facilitating the audit and payment of the pay rolls
OF the workmen Comptroller Green has pleased
them exceedingly, for during many years they
have been obliged to wait a longer time before get
ting paid During his long experience with public
works, while he has been always rigid In requiring
proper authority for the employment Of men, he
workmen In procuring prompt payment Of their
well earned wages.
Year: 1872

WALL


The different degrees Of faith and OF scepticism In
the public mind evoked by the challenges Of the
genuineness OF the Livingstone letters are
curious to contemplate. Down in Wall street some
parties have gone far to offer wagers that the
HERALD was the real author Of the anti-Stanley
commotion, in order that popular attention might
be more closely attracted to the glory OF the
achievement 1t takes all kinds Of people to make
a world.


SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Year: 1872

Tho Coal Miners, 8trike-No Trouble


Appxehended-The Executive MED-


sion.


Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.


SPRINGFIELD, H., Dec. 20.-The strike OF the
coal miners, in this county, still continues, with
no sign OF backing down on either side. The
last move on the part Of the miners to-day was
the issuance OF circular to all miners IN the
State notifying them of the strike, which no
tice, it is understood, will prevent any miners
belonging to the Miners Union from coming
here to engage to work. They hope to check-
mate, in this way. the intention Of the proprie-
tors Of the mines to continue work, With the aid
of few skilled miners and such green hands aa
they can employ.


On the other hand, your correspondent was
assured that there waB already enough skilled
worknen, who had signifed their readiness to
work to enable them to begin the operation Of
lifting coal again as early as next week. Some
Of the mines are 80 fortunate as to have old
miners connected with them as stockholders,
and with the aid Of these, there is no doubt Of
work going On. No disturbance has occurred at
any OF the mines, and it is believed that the
miners aware of the precautions being taken to
prevent one, will desert from any interference
It is further believed that the strikers do not
intend to hold out any longer than the ho1dayB
and that they will then 50 to work at the old
prices.


Governor Palmer removed his family. to-day,
from the Executive Mansion to his old residence
in the First Ward The mansion will now be
renovated and put in order for his successor.
Year: 1872

Many people think there is no dan
ger of taking cold when the weather is
very warm, and expose themselves i'll
various WAYS when heated, ta
tigued, OF sweaty. This is an erroneous
idea obstructive to life and health.
When the system is tatigued with eN-
erciSe. Vcr-hcated, or sweating, great
caution is necessary to guard against
taking cold. But are they never i'll ill
some form o, yes but they do not
cough, and conclude they do not take IA
cold.


Colds do not affect all people alike.
All don't cough that have been exposed
to cold but the insensible perspiration
cannot lie suddenly checked without i'll
jury to people and animals. Hence ii
is dangerous to drink cold drinks when
one sits down to rest, though if exercise
Year: 1872

Death i, not laughing matter, but
even those who found the body of II
young Frenchman must have smiled
when they found in his pocket a note
saving :-"My name isl had not
the least intention of committing sui
eide. | merely went into the sea for a
bath" How did he know he WAS dead
when he wrote the note
Year: 1872

IMPORTANT ExPERIMENr.-An. expert
menting Detroit chemist took piece of
threndbare cotton cloth, smeared it with boil
ed linseed oil, and placed it in the center of
chest filed with paper and rigs Although
the room WAS not tight and the weather was
cold, there was smell of fire about the room
in eight days. Unpackins it, the ex perimen-
ter found the rag half charred. In April he
made a similar experiment with pair of
painters overnlls. which he rolled up in pine
shavings and crowded in next to the roof
boards of loft. Tn a week the smell of
smoke alarmed workman in the next room,
and the overalls werc found to be on fire
And during the hottest weather handful of
old cotton rags. otsmeared with oil, became
hot enough when hung up in tin box in the
sun to light matches which had been placed
among them. These facts show the, necessity
of caution in putting away rags, especially
those that may be saturated with oil, benzine,
or other inaammable substances
Year: 1872

VINEGAR IN THREE WEEKs.-Molassss.
one quart; yeast, one pint, put into jug or
keg containing three gallons soft water; tie
thin piece of gauze over the mouth or bung-
hole, and set it in the sun. Set it in warm
place in Winter In three weeks you will
find good vinegar. More molasses and yeast
will make stronger vinegar.
Year: 1872

A correspondent OF the New York
Herald rays that if the head Of any family
will only take the trouble to sprinkle spirits
of turpeBtine their carpets and bedding in
smallpox. The above is snre disinlectant.
Reeeat this twice every week.
Year: 1872




How many Misunderstanding arise from
the loose way in which business matters are
talked over, and then when each party puts
his own construction on the conversation. the
matter is dismissed by each with the words
''all right" Frequently it turns out all wrong
aud becomes question for lawyers aud the
courts.


More than half the litigation of the coun-
try would be saved if people would put down
their agreements in writing. Each word in
our language has its own peculiar meaning.
aud memory may by the change of a single
word, or even by the change of its position
IN the sentence, convey an entirely different
ida from that intended When once reduced
to writing ideas are fixed, inelastic.


We once saw an excited captain rush into
the presence of his colonel with grievous COM
plants against brother officer. stop! Stop.
captain y said the colonel. "put your COM
plant in writing, and will give it attention."


The captlin went to work vigorously writ
ing his complaint. In little while he
stopped aud commenced laughing. The
whole affair looked 70 ridicuIously small when
written out that he was laughing at his own
folly IN giving it any atteDtinn.- Erchange.


--


THE SECRET OF r.-An old farmer being
asked why his boys stayed at home while
others did not, replied that it was owing to the
fact that he always tried to make home pleas.
ant for them. He furnishes them with useful
and attractive reading; and when night comes
and days inbor is ended, instead of running
with other boys to the railway station and nd.
joining towns. they gather arOnnd the great
lamp and become absorbed in their books and
papers The boys still at home when the
elder was twenty-one. while those Who were
furnished with no reading matter at home
songht city life and city dissipation as soon as
they were seventeen or eighteen. All will
do well to heed this testimony of farmer
who has known how hard it is t. struggle for
footing on free soil without capital. and
how valuable and comparatively cheap are the
aids which good reading brings to him. In
this age of general intelligence, the mind must
be catered to- and books aud papers furnished;
and not only this, but cheap and artistic
chrome pictures can also be bought to use in
making home attractive. The farmers Is the
most independent Of any, and there is no
reason why it may not be as attractiVely sur
rounded
Year: 1872

New WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS Last Mon.
day man called at the bank in this city
and requested to see note for $l75, held
against him there. The note was handed
him he turned round saying he could not
read without his spectaces; and in a
moment he had the note in his mouth,
chewing it vigorously, The fragments were
forced from his mouth by vigorous chok-
ing. This is certainly new way to pay
old debts, but it is not good way, as the
experiment in this instance proved a
failure.
Year: 1872

SINCE the opening of the new year a
number of new names have been added
to the TRIBuSE subscription list which is
now larger than it has ever before been
since the establishment of the paper, more
than "a years ago.
Year: 1872

So many people have admired that nobby
brown hat of ours, that we feel it our duty as
public servant to say that it is one of a
choice LOT just received from the east by that
entcrprising merchant, Joseph Deller. We
did not inquire the price, as, under the cir
cumstances, it would not have been becom-
ing in us to do so. If you don't see the point,
call at the store and it will be unveiled to
Won.