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Year: 1875

My idea of perfect happiness is the
consciousness of having done our whole
duty, and the certainty of getting our
reward for it.


Life is short, but the majority out
live themselves anyhow.


It is a great deal easier to be saucy
than to be sarcastic but there is many
critics who haven't discovered the diff
ference yet, and probably never will.


The man whom success renders more
humble, and at the same time more eau
tiCus, is one whom a defeat couldn't
weaken.


If man is going to leave the world
and retire into solitude he must take a
large stock of virtues with him, for
these are the only things he can enjoy
there.


There has seldom been a great occa-
sion yet but what there has been found
some one equal TO it, and that one has
often sprung from an unexpected
source.


The man who fully understands a
subject is always satisfied to use the
simplest terms to explain it.


II you expect to keep yure friend yu
have got to see all his virtues with both
eyes and bis failings with one.


The man who tells you that there
aiu't an honest person living has studied
his own character too we'll.


OF all created things animate or in
animate, we find no fools except among
mankind.


He who has the most authority and
uses it the least is truly noble char
acter.


The world has always longed for
sensations if man could invent a new
Punch and Judy, he would be admired
more than the one who could make one
barrel of flour go as far as two.


You can't separate wit from truth
truth may not be wit, but wit is always
truth.


Our FASHIONS we're not given to US to
be destroyed, but to be controlled.


The man who told us /" that virtue is
its own reward, might have added that
vice was too.


The theory of medicine has cured
more patients than the practice of it
ever has.


No really wise man ever asks ques-
tions that he thinks can't be answered.


Silence has been priced more perhaps
than it really deserves, but in the case
of folly it can't be commended too
much.


You can't make an enemy of the
M anest wretch with impunity, for the
meanest wretch can set fire to your pig
pen just as easy as anybody. Josh
Billings an N Y. Weekly.
Year: 1875

A wealthy farmer, a widower, lived in
a happy retiredness with his only
daughter, whom he cherished tenderly.
Many courted her, but upon one among
the suitOrs, the son of a poor woman,
she bestowed her affections. After her
father was pressed hard by many of them
in regard to the marriage of his daugh-
ter, he said calmly: "He who can eR-
plain and solve the question l ask him
shall carry off the prize" The knotty
query is "What is on earth the oldest
and least lasting, the most admirable
and ill-treated; it speaks without a
voice, and after demise is useful" The
young fellows tried to solve this riddle,
but did not succeed. The poor girl be-
came alarmed, lest one of her undesired
wOoers might hit upon the cOnjectures of
herfather. Meanwhile one eveI ing her ia
voredlover entered the room of the old
man with a nosegay, presented it to him
and said: "The flower appears sooner
than the fruit none are older than they
are nothing is less durable they are
admired above all things, and at the same
time used i'll the hand pulls them, the
sickle cuts them off without mercy ;
they speak without a voice, because
they have for lovers a secret language.
In fine, to be useful, the tooth of the
animal and the scythe of the reaper give
them the finishing stroke" After few
moments of deep reflection, the old
man answered, BE my son take my
blessing. l suppose that a man who
loves flowers will also love his wife"
Year: 1875

Pipsy Potts, in Arthnr's, is full of
hints, all helping tired housekeepers to
Tighten their work


About squash. Did you ever try any?
l cooked some that way to-day, and it
was nice. Take a summer squash, cut
it up in slices, roll it in flour and fry it
in a spider in hot butter. Salt and pep
per it; and if you like fried oysters,
youn like this.


Two other things. Take your board
that you scour knives on and nail 1t
firmly so that it will be stationary near
the table where you wash dishes. You
don't know, unless you've tried, how
much labor it saves /; for If at any time
you use knife, just step right there
and rub ii over with the securing mate
rial. use both brick and large cork.
And you wouldn't do this if You had to
go to some cupboard; take down the
board, and afterward have to put it
back again.


I learned something from a little
twelve year old girl who worked for me
last winter, that l never thought of be-
fore. She was scrubbing and mOpping
in the pantry, and got too much water
on the floor and how did she go to
work to get it up but take the dustpan
and scoop it up with that, and then
wipe the floor nicely with the mop.
How much better that was than wiring
ing out the mop ten or dozen times,
until your hands are almost blistered,
and your back almost broken.


CAUSE and consequence. The great
New York merchant prince, Stewart,
advertised to the extent of SS5, 900 last
year. Brit it was less than one per cent
of the total amount of his sales.
Year: 1875


Its Distressing Dizziness All over the


Country.


Since the panic, the matrimonial
market has been extremely dull, and
heads of families are in most despond-
ent mood. It had been hoped last fall
that the usual winters festivities or
marriage fairs would have witnessed
revival in trade, and every legitimate
effort was made by those having on
hand stocks held over from the previous
season to force off goods that were
rapidly growing out of fashion and
depreciating in value. Prices were
literally marked down; young ladies
who before the panic were held 10y
themselves) at a Fifth avenue house, a
Newport villa and an opera box, mod
estIy hung out signals of distress and
openly avowed their predictions for
love in a cottage. But so depressed
was the general feeling that even with
these concessions very lutte real busl-
ness was transacted there was much
skirmishing but few serious engage
ments. It is well known that at this
moment it is a matter of anxious debate
with the heads of our leading uptown
houses as TO what is the best plan to
adopt during the coming summer cam
paign to infuse more briskness and
firmress into the market. 1t is, at
least, an open question whether the
increased budget necessary to Wig
orous taking of the field at Sharon or
Saratoga would be justified in view OF
the barren results at these matrimonial
centres during the past two years.
These summer exchanges certainly at
tract the better class of buyers, but
competition is necessar ly so much the
keener. Experience, too, has shown
that two weeks at a quiet seaside or
mountain resort will practically pro
mote more business mot to speak OF the
vastly reduced percentage OF operating
a1nenses) than two months at fash
ionabIe watering. place; but without men
it is impossible for even the most beauti-
fnI and accomplished of maldens to
launch her little bark on the sea matrl-
Year: 1875

The case made ont by the cremation.
lists against the prevailing mode of dis.


posing of the remains of the deceased


was a strong one, but they found it i'm.


possible to overcome the natural an


tipathy of mankind to consuming their


dead trends in fire and bOftling up their


ashes as mementOes. People shrink


from this appearance of sacrifice to


the dread enemy of the race, aud cling


to the practice of laying away the NOR


tai part of their loved ones to sleep be-


meath the daisies. And yet the objec


tions to the present mode of burial are


many. 1t is unnecessary to repeat them


now, as they have become familiar


through the arguments of the advocates


of cremation.


But an ingenious gentleman of Eng


land, Mr.. Seymour Haden, has hit upon


a compromise. The main objection to
the usual mode of burial arises from the


use of close cofins, which arrest the
kindly processes of decay. The pur-
pose of burial should not be preserva-
ton, but prompt surrendenng up of
the individual being to mix forever with
the elements. The earth that nour1shed
us claims our growth to be resolved TO
earth again, and we should not re-
sist its claim. Accordingly Mr.. Haden
proposes to substitute for csske.s of
rosewood, or other more or less impene-
trable material, baskets of wicker, in
which the body nay be lad in the
bosom of the earth in close contact with
its dissOlving influences and pass into
its elements without any unseemly re-
sistance. Every thing that pertains to
death and burial, though abhorent to
the sensibilities of most persons, has a
strange fascination for us all. There is
nothing which more interests us than
the disposition of the earthly remains
of our fellOw-beings when the immortal
part has taken its flight. Honest old
MOntalgne notices our Inconsistency in
making such a pomp and parade over
the senseless and useless body, when
life is gone, and preserving such a close
privacy IN the circun stances attending
the coming of a new life into the world.
1t is one of the foibles of our nature
which We cannot get rid of, however
clearly the philosopher may point out
its absurdity.


No sooner does Mr.. Haden bring his
burial baskets to the attention of the
world than he finds it full of eager in
terest. He had quite a levee lately in
the stately gardens of Stafford House,
the lordly mansion of the duke of
Sutherland, where he exhibited fine
variety of his wicker caskets. A large
of lords and ladies gathered
TO look at these fragile receptacles for
the still more fragile forms which they
we're at that moment wearing, and to
listen to the descriptions of the inven-
tor. Children peered curiously into
some slender specimens adorned with
black and gold, in which an attempt was
made to crafty the love of display
which Is carried even into the grave. It
was curious party, and it would hard
y be possible to gather such a company
to inspect a collection of ordinary
,offins. 1t was the city of the thing |
and the interest which is excited by any
hing new pertaining to the disposal of
he dead that brought them together. 9
Year: 1875

THERE is nothing which man can pro-
pose, however ridiculous, but that soma
one will be crazy enough to take it up.
Tyndall's prayer test has found some
body to try it in the Peculiar People,
who have nired an old building in Lon
don Fields, and stuck up notice invit-
ing the halt, the lame, the blind and
incurable generally to present them
selves 70 be prayed over. Measles,
smallpox, and all similar ailments re-
ceive the same medicine. A number of
the sect are already under commitment
in the Old Bailey to be tried for man
slaughter, and the rest are on little bet
ter terms with the police.
Year: 1875

kindred-but the cloud that cast it
wears a silver lining, for the white soul
which left the earthly casket basks in
the sunshine of eternal bliss. In that
bright realm she will yet be mine.
Year: 1875

If two persons are to occupy bed
room during the night, let them step on
a weighing scale as they retire, and
then again in the morning, and they will
find that their actual weight is at least
pound less in the morning. Frequently
there will be a loss of two or more
pounds, and the average loss through
out the year will be pound Of matter,
which has gone off from their bodies,
partly from the lungs, and partly
through the skin. The escaped matter
is carbonic acid and decayed animal
matter or poisonous exhalation. This
Is dltfused through the air in part, and
absorbed by the bed-clothes. If a
single ounce of wOol-cOttOn be burned
in a room, it will so completely saturate
the air with smoke that one can hardly
breathe, though there can only be one
ounce of foreign matter in the air. If
an ounce of cotton be burned every half
hour during the night, the air will be
kept continually saturated with smoke,
unless there be an open window or door
for it to escape.


Now, the sixteen ounces of smoke,
thus formed is far less poisonous than
the sixteen of exhalations from the
lungs and bodies of two persons who
have LOST pound of weight during the
eight hours of sleeping for, while the
dry smoke is mainly taken into the
lungs, the damp odors from the body
are absorbed both into the lungs and
into the pores of the whole bo iy.
Need more be said to show the impor-
tance of having bedrooms we'll venti-
lated, and of thoroughly airing the
sheets, coverlids and mattresses in tn
morning, before packing them up in the
form of a neatly made bed
Year: 1875

Prof. Jenney has sent to the interior
department a later and fuller report
confirming his first dispatch, in which
he stated that nothing had been discov-
cred that would warrant extensive min
ing operations in the Black Hills. He
says the best dirt does not average one
cent and quarter to the pan, which is
altogether a different story from the
sensational reports heretofore published.
Gold has certainly been found in the
Hills, but only in very small quantities
and over a very large area of country.


1t is probable, however, that the
professors unfavorable report will have
very little effect in deterring parties
from going to the Black Hills who have
decided to try their fortunes there. In
the present stagnatiOn of business
throughout the country there are thou
sands of men whose hopeless financial
condition renders them easy victims to
the gold fever, as well as a certain rest
less element who are always ready for
change that involves excitement and
adventure. Besides, the impression has
gone abroad that ring of government
officials has been formed at Washington
to gobble the best mining localities be-
fore the general rush for the Hills be-
gins, and very little confidence is placed
on reports that are sent there to be
revamped for publication.
Year: 1875

FERMENTATION of food should be
guarded against as tie warm weather
approaches. This action IS al ways
liable t, ccoked vegetables when set
aside. Instead of warming up cold
n esseg, it il better to scald them,
Year: 1875

said: IF 1t storms look OUT lor youl-
selves, but don't take me from the
water. Leave me alone, for l shall
reach the English coast or perish in
the attempt. The clouds, however,
soon passed away and the sun shone
again and all lear Of a storm subsidized.


In the afternoon some apprehension
was felt from the tide (being. on the
Aood) as there was some danger of
the sailor being carried above Dover,
He therefore changed lis course, low
cred his sail and used his oar. As
the food tide was setting in heavy
the sail was raised again and the pad
die worked vigorously. Help was
t,ndered but refused. He said he
wanted no assistance, and repeated
lis intention of crossing unaided.
At ten in the evening the Dover lie
boat came alongside and in the name
of the Royal National Life Boat
Institution" welcomed the captain.
Other boats came up and spoke to
Boynton as he neared the English
3 clock on the morning OF May 2Sth
aud left it at 2 o'clock and SS min
utes on the mor'ing of May 29th,
therefore he was in the water almost
a hours. Congratulatory kilograms
from all parts of the world have been
sent to Bcyton, one even from the
Queen Of England.
Year: 1875

sailor. Thousands OF persons were
Join with his pals, the late fraudulent
post cllice contractors, and invent some
bunko game for his future support.


Nearly all of these Alabama men
in power here are an unclean lot. The
one glaring exception to the crowd of
black.legs and pirates in Congress is
Senator Goldthwaite. He Is simply
u fool. Ills mind is now So far gone
that any co ami:sion CT lnnacy would
be justified in sending him to an
asylum. When Congress is in session
he requires more looking after than a
family of small children. He is al
assembled on the cliffs, and their
hearty cheers rent the air. AL 2.3S
o'clock the Captain padded through
the snrf and walked ashore. Upon
examination after arrival at the Ho-
tel, the doctors reported his condition
good, but of course he was much ex-
Gansted by fatigue. His face was
much lur.,ed by the sun, and his
hand blistered blythe use Of the pad
die. This is certainly one ct the
most wonderful feats Of the Nineteenth
Century. He went into the water at
ways trying witt painful earnestaes.s
to do something that be A's 10 bust
ness to do, Last winter it was The
ore great struggle OF his life to get
out Of the Capitol building after he
had once entered it. Messengers
would find the old fellow industrious
w studying window some sixty foet
from the ground, as if he were try
ing to get through it. lie never
ought to be allowed to so out without
g. keeper.
Year: 1875

whole thing was done. But if the
Governor will explain to the young
gentlemen abou' to graduate at Yale
how man can be concerned IN such
transactions as these, and not only
keep out of the penitentiary, but at
the same time gain the reputation OF
an eminent reformer, he will give
them a new wrinkle worth having.
Year: 1875

GEN. CHEsNuT PITCHED TWENTY FEET


BY JERsET BULL.-The Camden Is. C.4
Journal regrets to learn that Gen. James
Chestnut met with an accident or Wednes-
day afternoon OF last week, which, though


severe, might have been much more seri-
Gus in its consequences. The General, as
is well known, is fond of fine stock and
takes great interest in some valuable Jer-
sey cattle which he owns On the after
noon referred to he visited the pens where
his COWS were being milked, in which was
a fine Jersey bull which he was accustom-
ed TO pet. This bull gave indications OF
temper, to which the General paid no at
tention, but fed him with bundle OF oats
and patted him between the horns. The
savageianimal, ungrateful for this kind.
ness, at an unguarded moment rushed
upon his master and threw him with his
horns distance of fifteen or twenty feet
and was about to follow up the attack by
goring him as he lay upon the ground
when his progress was arrested by the ne
groes who were present. The General was
insensible when taken from the ground
and has been confined to his bed ever since
from the effects of the bruises received


but we are glad to know that lie is rapid
ly recovering, and will soon be out again
Year: 1875

n@ The Augusta ConstitutionaliSt has
received crop reports from nearly every
county of Georgia. Almost without ex-
ception they are favorable. The amount
of breadstuifs and bacon raised is greatly
in excess of former years, and the time
seems not far distant when the empire
State of the South will be able to export
those products instead of purchasing them
from the west.
Year: 1875

being stabbed twice IN the abdomen ana
once IN the back by shay, receiving wounds
winch are supposed Will prove fatal snay was
arrested by Onicer Glen, OF the sixth pIecinct.
and locked up in the Franklin street station
house. THOMPSON was ATTENDED 10 at the STATION
Hospital
Year: 1875

1t is a misfortune of our time to place
everything in this life. In giving to
man for this sole end and aim the life
of earth, you aggravate all his mis-
cries by the final negation. And that
which was only suffering-that is to
say-the law of God, is changed to de-
spair, the law of hell. The duty of us
all, legislators, bishops, poets, is to
help to raise all faces toward heaven,
to direct all souls toward the future
life. Let us say, with high confidence
that no one has suffered unjustly or in
vain. Death isa restitution. God ap-
pears at the end of all. 1t would not
be worth while to live if we were to
die entirely. That which alleviates
labor and sanctifies toll, is to have be-
fore US the vision of better world
through the darkness of this life. That
world is no more real than the chime
ra VIII ich we devour, and which we
call life. 1t is forever before my eyes.
1t is the supreme certainty of my reas-
son, as it is the supreme consolation
of my SOUL Victor Hugo.
Year: 1875

He is renovator, and he does not
ask for money, and this is the way he
gets at it. First. He has discov-
cred certain process for colored, and
black goods, by which after cleaning
them, no matter how faded or rusty
they may be, he restores them to their
original newness of appearance, and
then he only asks for east off clothes
as payment for his work, so don't let
us hear any more about hard times
but muster up all your old traps, and
take them to his shop. His name is
Horatio Marteen and he keeps at No
"a, Arcadia street, one door below
Main and adjoining Mr.. Signoret's sa-
loon. dec1 I'm
Year: 1875

ENDoRsED.-The st. Joseph Gazette is eminent
ly sound on the Providence question. We sub
scribe to its platform. 1t does not believe that
the assassination of Lincoln was dispensation of
Providence, but the work Of a misguided assas-
sin, carrying out the plans of worse but less cOur-
ageous men than himself To believe otherwise,
would be to regard Booth as chosen instrument
of Providence whose name will be execrated as
long as the world stands, for having done the
will of Heaven. Neither does the Gd-ette believe
that the grasshOppers are sent by Providence as
a special punishment for the sins of the people
of Missouri, nor that they can be prayed away !;
but that they are the natural result of natural
causes. Other States besides Missouri suffered,
that did not commit her sins What cruel and
unjust being God must be, if we hold to the doc
trine of special Providences- The people of a
State or district [an1aJoffty Of thein) commit a
great sin and God sends special punishment
bringing misery npon thousands of good and in-
nocent people, who have not sinned, that the Of
tenders may be punished. Or, the holy people
offer up prayers and make sacrifices and thereup-
on the plague is removed, not only from
them, but from the wicked ones who brought it
down, and who have not prayed If God sees fit
to send down special curses or blessings, he has
the power to send them directly upon the
wicked or the good, as the case may be, although
they may reside upon adjacent lots. Whenever
that comes to pass, as rule, we shall believe in
special Providences; but until then, We prefer to
believe in natural causes.
Year: 1875

"a We belieye that would become less reckless Of
human life and liberty and happiness Of themselves and
others were the guards of civilization thrown around the


ls IN the extent that II man, woman or child suffer
hna in auy manner through the weakness Of the law
gnard the County Municipality State or United States
.bonld repair the breach far possible without re-
such as paupers leaving the injured to become
charges TO charitable societies. in either case feelings
~ dsIovaty to the central might be engen
go in the hearts and conscences of the sufferers


"A We believe that equal flow Of intelligence and
t.r dealing into all grades and stratums of society viii
have the same salutary effect in moral sense as
,c.e practically from equal distribution Of moisture
into every district of the vegetable empire


* We believe that n sufficient amount of water flows
along the wales of the great Western rivers to the
ton of business and destruction of life and health which,
n scientifically employed might be used to advantage In


va,ipc the dry lands causing the deserts to blossom As
the il not proving the positive opening Of an ARTIFICIAL
iar suseeut for commercial thoroughfare along the


, maintain ranges the north to the south OF the
II s domap proving a blessing of incaleulabe oonse-


IA the nation being index to the proof that the
presape intelligence industry and enterprise oil tne
YANKEE nation as basis Of Q. s. currency Is Tar better
than cold and silver and precious stones


Journsli.ts friendly to will please copy md
ns m s.mple of the same with bill Of charges that We
NAV know our friends and expenses


D,cbments Of recruits collected 9 society will point
ant the articles any, that they not able to endorse
wsrl correspond with organizations, giving sacn
copv of our rules Of order &c. fast as such sna
port a. before directed


Scribe Of P. off, Fortress n. 49, o. s.