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Year: 1876

a STRANGE SToRY.-The following
strange account of II tragcal occurrence
at Toulouse, France, is published in u
Paris paper:


Two men, strangers to the place, ask
cd permission to ascend to the top of the
tower of the old Cordeliers church, which
was formerly used as storehouse for
! 10 lder, and was partly burned in 1871
Leave was granted but shortly after
ward the two men were seen to lean over
the parapet, locked in each others arms,
and then to fall to the ground One, who
appeared TO be the principal, wore
decoration in his button-hoe, was taken
up dead the other was only stunned,
and on being carried to the hospital made
this extraordinary statement: The de-
ceased, he said, was an engineer, and had
formed with him II plan 20 rob the bank
Of Toulouse by means OF n subterranean
passage leading to the cellars of the es-
tabishment, and which had been in the
course of construction for several months
previously The work was terminated,
and the plan was to be carried out an
hour later. His accompiice had then in
duced him to go to the top Of the tower,
on some pretext, and then suddenly seized
him by the waist and endeavored to throw
him from the top, in order, no doubt, to
obtain the whole Of the booty. a strug-
gle took place between them, in the
course Of which they both fell over as
described. The cellars of the bank were
visited and the passage was found almost
terminated another hours work and it
would have opened in the floor Of the
strong room.
Year: 1876

SHARING UP A WIFE AND MOTHER
IE-LAW.-WilliAm Lang became a mon
omaniac on the subject Of religion. He
lived with his wife and his wfe's mother
at Oak grove, Dodge county, Michigan.
lie had been Eighty in his notions about
the Heavenly Kingdom and its antipodes,
but was not considered dangerous. One
day he put his wife and mothor-in-la law
in his wagon, behind ii span OF fiery horses,
to drive them TO the town Of Lowell. -
Fairly started on che road, no imagined
himself Elijah in his chariot of flame,
and began to punch up the fire in the
horses. He whipped, and they flew over
the rough corduroy road. The mother
in-laW was shaken up to an extent that
she fell scnselcss at the bottom Of the
chariot, and finally was bounced out in
the mud. There appears to have been
some method in that act of Lang's mad
ness. The wife got hold Of one of the
reins, and bya desperate struggle man
aged to steer clear Of a precipice, where
certain death lurked at tho bottom Of the
chasm. Near town the citizens thought
it was II runaway and collected and stop
ped tho team. Lang got out and attacked
them Tor thworting bis good intentions.
lie was finally subdued, tied, and taken
home, whore he died next day in his bed,
and did not take flight like Elijah.
Year: 1876

MORSE LEGENDs.-Th legends of tho
Northmen have power and beauty
quite their own. There is a strength and
majesty in them that one hardly finds IN
the myths Of the Greeks or the subtle
fancies of Hindoo mythology. Some
times one finds in these legendsand sto-
ries profound poetic meaning expressed
with the most perfect beauty and grace.
An old Morse King sat in his great hall
one night, when the tempest was roaring
and whirling without. The great hre
threw its glow far out into the dark re-
cesses Of the hall, all the brighter for tho
storm and darkness around. While the
King talked with his counsolors before
the fire, n bird flew in and passed over
them, and out again at the great window.
"Such," said tho King, ais the ne ot
man out Of darkness into the light ana


then lost in The blackness and storm
again" ayes SIRE" answered an o'd
courtier; but the bird has its nest beyond.
Year: 1876

Hereafter 70 Legal Advertise
mcnts will be inserted in the TINE
unless payment is made when hand
ed IN. 1t requires money to carry
on our business and we are com
PEELED to adopt tho cash principle.
This rule will not be dosiaied from
in any case.
Year: 1876

Their taste being, in some respects,
rather obtuse, the flesh of which they
partake is not objected to, even though
it be too long since it was killed, or even
whether it was killed at all. Many a
buffalo calf, dying with its mother, is
thus served up. They have no idea of
being filthy in their habits, as who has {?
What if they did not wash their hands
before mixing the bread, or taking up
the meat? Meat is meat, and therefore,
clean. No matter if it has been carried
thirty or fifty miles, swinging and flop
ping upon the sides of mule, until COW
cred with dust, sweat and hair it needs
no washing, or at least gets none, before
before being put into the camp-kettle.
If the hair, boiled into strings and serv-
ed up with the beef, is unpalatable, it is
quietly taken out of the mouth and
thrown away. Hair is clean, dust is
clean. If dirt is, as has been defined,
matter out of place, there is none in an
Indian camp; for what can be out of
place where nothing has place? AS
might be expected of a people whose
subsistence depends upon the chase, they
are not particular as to the kind of meat
used, unless prescribed by "medicine."





The buffalo, antelope, or deer has the
preference If these cannot be obtained,
a pony or mule, dog or a wolf, sup
plies the deficiency; and even the poor
little land tortoise does not come amiss.
To the latter | became somewhat par
tial, from the fact that, being thrown
into the fire alive, and roasted with his
she'll on, there could none of their filth
be introduced. Do not consider this act
cruel. A tortoise thrown into hot fire
with his back down, never struggles, or
gives any indication of pain, but is ap-
parently dead Immediately, while he
would live for hours with his head sew
cred from his body. The Kiowas and
Comanches do not eat birds or fish, nei-
ther does the Kiowas eat the flesh of
the bear. They are forbidden in the
code of laws, as unclean l. tabooed or,
plain Indian, bad medicine" Hence
with them the wild turkey is valuable
only for its feathers, which they use to
wing their arrows. After meal, water
is always offered to all who have par
taken of it, to rinse the mouth and wash
the hands After this the pipe may be
in order, but not necessarily. If it be
introduced, the women withdraw and
some important subject is discussed.
The pipe is always circulated from one
to another, from the right toward the
left.-Battery.
Year: 1876

A SENSIBLE GIRL.--A Kentucky
heiress and belle, who with other ladies,
isroaming through California mountains,
being warned in one of her frolics, that
she would break every steel in her cor
set, replied Never corset steel or
whalebone has rested against my ribs
No, Madame. Such form as | have is
my own natural figure, developed by ex-
ercise and guiltless of lacing. have
my clothing all buttoned to snug fit
ting sleeveless waist, made very short on
the shoulder so as not 10 interfere with
the movements of my arms. Even my
dress skirt and overskirt are fastened to
this bodice All the weight of my cloth
ing is carried ON my shoulders. have
no heavy weights dragging about my
hips my circulation is unimpeded; /
never have the headache or backache. /
step about as brisk and free as man.
Women are always wondering at my
good health, and ability to walk so far
wonder in turn also, how they can
walk, or talk, or breathe, even, all laced
up in stays"
Year: 1876

1t is two years since / left off the use


of tobacco. | certainly did enjoy my


cigar l prided myself on my fine Ha.


vanas, and might have been seen almost


any morning with one in my mouth,


walking down to business and putting
away in most comfortable manner.


Why left off was this | had little
son about six years of age. He almost
always hurried to be ready to walk down


with me as far as his school. His bright


face and extended hand were always


welcome, and he bounded along beside


me, chatting, as such dear little fellows
can. The city has in it many uncared
for boys, whose chief delight seems to
be to pick up pieces of discarded cigars
and broken pipes, and with their hands
in their pockets, to puff away in a very
elegant manner. One morning it seemed
as if little Edgar and met great many
smokers. | became very much disgust
ed, and pointed them out to little Edgar
as sad warnings of youthful delinquency !;
talked quite largely, and said the au-
thorities ought to interfere and put
stop to such a public nuisance. A little
voice, soft and musical, came up to me.
as | gave an extra puff from my superb
Havana. A bright little face was up
turned, and the words, Isn't it worse
for a man, father :" came to my ears.
| looked down on the little fellow at my
side, when his timid eye fell and the col
or mounted on his boyish cheek as if he
had said something bold and uniting.
81 Do you think it is worse for a man,
Edgar ?" / asked. "Please, father, |
think the boys would not want to do il
if the men did not do it" Here was
the answer. threw away my cigar and
have never touched tobacco since in any
FORM Christian Weekiy.
Year: 1876

Brown PAPER AND HAVANA CIGARS.
1t is stated that not steamer leaves
New York for Havana that does not
take out from 2,00o to 5000 reams, or
in occasional instances as high as 30,-
900 reams of coarse brown wrap
ping paper. What this paper was used
for was a long time mystery; but it
has recently been revealed that it enters


into the manufacture of "pure Havana
cigars" 1t is said that when saturated
in the juice of tobacco stems the straw
paper makes filing almost equal, if not
superior, to the genuine leaf In fact,
it is sometimes impossible to detect the
delicate film of paper interlapped with
leaves in the finished cigar, or neatly
folding the exterior. For this purpose,
we are told, it serves admirably, the pa
per, under combustion, leaving no resi-
dun other than pure white ash. To
such refinement of art has this busi-
ness been carried that by the use of ma
chimes rolled over the sheet of paper an
almost perfect impression of the tobac-
co leaf is obtained, the peculiar spots
being printed as ON calico. Smokers of
Havana cigars will no doubt consume
their weed with an added zest after
learning of what it is probably compos-
ed.
Year: 1876

q" hsotht u fttoh0
Hid away mongst the glorious hills.
In the forest trees cool, sweet shade,
with the gay mountain brooks dashing past
And bright, smiling heavens o'erhead.
Like a pearl in an emerald setting.
The fairest in Natures fair crown.
found in one summer days rOamings,
A gem OF country home.
And queried with inward wonder.
Can il be that spot so fair
Bears aught but unfading beauties,
Can thorn be hidden here2
Can the waves Of life's restless ocean.
With its meanings, lonely and drear,
Have brought to this seeming safe haven,
Their burden Of wearying caref
Or has even earth one safe place.


Where death. and dark sin have no home.
And those who would flee from their power
Can here for refuge come?
But the question was answered, ere asked,
For / thought of the one Eden land,
Where, as Nature itself. was man pure,
As formed by Divine command.
And how in one hour had been blighted
All that was fair and good,
And man must forever suffer


The wrath, which that sin had incurred.
So here, in this fair mountain home,
By Nature so richly adorned,
The shadings of life roughly blent
With the sunshine and beauty. found.
The mirthful voices of childhood.
Ringing blithely out on the air,
Ginning in with tone of chiding.
We're borne TO my listening ear,
For these God-given treasures laboring
Unmurmuringly. day by day.
Looking on to the honor and joy
They might bring to them, by-and by.
In return for the years of toll.
And the hours of anxious care,
When each thought. and care. and labor.
Had in it the breath of prayer.
Thus 1 saw this father and mother.
Living their noble life.
For the heavenly garner binding
Full many golden sheaf
And out in the mountain shadows.
Une tiny, moss grown mound,
Pointing ever from earth and its sorrow
To the better life, beyond.
Many summers had past many seeds
Of sorrow and care had been sown.
For the loved ones, who all too quickly
Had to man and womanhOod grown.
For now there were lonely rooms,
And vacant chairs by the hearth.
And the quiet was never more broken
With bursts of innocent mirth
The same happy brooks murmured past.
The fields all bout were as green.
And something to gladden. the eye
On every side might be seen.
But now, sitting ever alone,


The past re-living each day,
Still planning, and hoping, and praying,
For the dear ones gone away.
Those two, in the twilight of life,
Their noble work nobly done,
Sit waiting the Masters calling,


The angels W elcome Home"
o men with a natl ons trust


Placed in your care to-day
Before High God TO answer


For her honor and purity.
0 women that hold in your hands
The reins that guide the world.
By your silent influence welding


A power more mighty than gold.
Let mem 'ries Of home steal gently
Into your hours of care,
A rest from life's weary burden.


A shield from temptations power.
Let the words of loving counsel


There given. be not in vain,
So shall each year of your life prove
A sheaf of rich, ripening grain.
Year: 1876

SUNsHINE.-Do what you can to make
Sunshine in the world. Lift up the cur
tains. We do not mean the curtains to
the room but the curtains which darken
the spirit of your brother, your friend,
your neighbor, or even of stranger, if
the curtain strings are within your con-
venient reach.


Lift up the curtains and let the sun
shine in Light is better than dark
ness, and how cheap it is /! A kind and
cheering woad to one who is in trouble,
andis perplexed and almost discouraged;
a word of heartfelt sympathy to the
afflicted loving word of counsel to
the young; word of assurance to the
doubting "soft word which, though
it buffers no parsnips, turneth away
wrath" to the prejudiced and unreason-
ably provoked; all such words as those
are sunshine to those to whom they are
spoken.
Year: 1876

Are you in want Of ANY KIND of book? School
Book. Blank Book, Novel. singing Book, Bible
to BABB1TT 4 HAYES they keep good stock OF
all varieties but if they do not happen to have the
particular book you wish they have the best of ia
cilities for procuring them quickly and cheaply.
Remember they keep EVERYTHING pertaining
TO a first class Drug and Book Store and would De
pleased TO see and serve their friends at all times.


q
Year: 1876

The President said in response to
inquiries, there were now 600 or 800
troops in Washington. If there
should be any necessity for more he
would order them hither. We should
have peace if we should have to fight
for it.-InterUieao aoith President
Grant.
Year: 1876




The exactness of astronomy gives it GER
tain air of precedence as compared with It's
sister sciences when, recently, Prof. Huxley
claimed for hypothesis III natural history
basis rs firm rs that of the leading hypothesis
in astronomy, he awOke surprise at least with
most of his hearers. In security of basis,
the edifces of theory raised by the geologiSt,
the electrician, the student OF natural
history or of mcteorOlOgy, seem weak COM
nared with those of the astronomer. They
NAV be as sound, but they are not so eyl-
IDENTITY buttrcsSed by accumulated facts Yet
even in astronomy there are outlying portions
of the structure that have at times either top
pled down or shown signs OF giving way.
For many years after the acceptance OF
the Copernican theory by astronomers, they
were troubled by the notion that the orbits of
the planets would ultimately become dcranged
by the attractions of these bodies Tor each
other. That fear was set at rest chiefly by the
computations of Laplace, proving that
in the long run those alterations
were self.adiusting. More recently came
the suspicion that the planets meet
with friction in their passage through
the luminiferous. ether and hence that 1t Is
only question of time as to when their rev
olutions will be percepdbly shortened, ana
that they will ultimately fall into the sun. A
more definite shape was given to TINS slspi-
cion when Prof. Encke announced that the
comet which has been named after him
WAS moving in IA gradually accelerated orbit
But while the probability OF the ultimate fall
of the planets into the sun is still proclaimed
bv many if not nearly all writers on the sub
iect, the alleged change in the orbit OF Encke's
comet is vehemently disputed, and it seems
likely to be cassed with the myths of as
tronomy


OF yet more doubtful order are many OBJ
servations that have recorded small, moving,
telescope objects whose very existence is since
denied. The list of debatable comets of this
sOrt-that have been observed under suspicious
circumstances or over which doubts have
been tbrown-is lengthening with every year
as they fail to make another appearance in the
places where they are expected People take
less interest i'll Comets now, since it has been
shown that the chances that one of them will
strike the earth is one in n million, than they
did when DR.. Thomas Dick used to indulge
his imaginatiOnin describing the final cOntagra-
ton of the world as brought about by such
means. There is besides a general belief at
present that If any known comet should
strike the earth, the result would be like
the rush of the bull at the locomotive
bad only for the attacking party.
Another of the questionable objects that bolds a
very doubtful place in the annals of the science
is the alleged satellite Of Venus. All star
Year: 1876

A feeling used to prevail among good peo-
plc in New England nc least, that religious
young man who received college education
was under kind of prcsumptye obligation
to enter the ministry. In those days the pull
pit was not unrcasonably held TO be the cSpe-
cial place of power and the best vantage
ground for a moral leader of men. To some
extent the old tradition fingers, but the facts
have greatly changed. Taking the community
at large, il Is not too much to say that the
center of power has shifted from the pulpit 70
the newspaper. The great mechanical inycn-
tons of modern times have each in turn
wdcncd the scope of the newspaper Ii was
the prlnting-presS that made it possible The
stcam-cngine, the railroad, the telegraph, have
multiplied its power both to collect news and
To reach the pubic. The pulpit has gained
nothing from such helps; the preacher has no
greater facilities for gathering IN audience to-
day than he had five hundred years ago, and
his relative superiority to his hearers is less
thn it was then. Nor is it probable that the
limit of the newspapers growth through me-
chanical improvements has by any means been
reach 'd.


The newspaper, too, addresses itself to all
sides Ot human nature. III may look NJ hlst
like superiority in the ministers position that
he deals wholly with moral themes. In one
way it is a superiority, but in another it is a
limitation and a weakness. The great defect
in the work of the Christian ministry, the
great drawback to its usefulness, is the narrow
view which ministers are trained to take of
human nature. The Lord made man as many
sided as the universe. He gave him the capa-
city for mirth, for social pleasures for enjoy
ment of beauty, for hundred forms of men
tai activity; He gave him body with capacl-
ties for exquisite ministrations to the spiritual
nature, as well as possibilities of dragging it
down He set man encompIssed with ten
thousand influences of Nature of his fellow
man, of the all-brooding Deity himself, and
with that quality in him which should respond
to each. But the Characteristic attitude of the
church has been that in this wOndrOus organ
ism of man only one or two elements are
really of vital account. Men must be saved
from going to hell when they die; they must
go through process of conversion they must
be held to certain beliefs and certain exercises
of worship-and that covers the whole. And
the preaching based on this view of life has
Year: 1876

Italy, it is understood, has her eye on TuniS.
being resolved to demand that part of the OF
tOman Empire as the price of an alliance with
Russia In addition to acquiring the site OF
Carthage-her ancient foc-Italy would by this
bargain gain a valuable colony.
Year: 1876

The latest thing in murder cases-to offer to
marry your brothers murderess so as to get
her property when she goes to State Prison.
This is considered ingenious, and would he, if
those who tried it did not commit the blunder
of writing letters-a fatal slip of the pen
either in homicide or politics.
Year: 1876

The serious work of the last stretch of the
campaign in this State, which seems to hold
the casting vote, may be said to have begun
with the speech of larl Schurz on Saturday
night TO the Germans of this city, of which Is
given elsewhere the first full report that has
been published The speech is devoted to a
clear presentation of three of the great issues
of the campaign-hard money, civil service
reform, and national reconciliation. y special
personal interest attaches to it from Mr.
Schun's explanation of his identification with
the Bri-tow movement, and the willing trans
fer Of his support from Bristow TO Hayes.
His demand that men shall vote "not for n
"namc, but for character" is likely to be
needed
Year: 1876

Everybody who was shocked to read that
the Princess of Thule" bad been found in a
hotel in the Tebridcs kept by her father and
wearing a shabby brown dress at that, will
be relieved at Mr.. William Blacks statement
in another column that the original "Sheiia"
has yet to be discovered. Mr.. Black puts her
back long way from the vulgar crowd, and
that is the true perspective for herOines.
Year: 1876

For New England and theMiddle States
clear or fair weather and no decided
change in temperature, with light south
west 20 southeast winds and high but
slowly falling barometer during the
day.
Year: 1876

A man of high intelligence. well edu-
Gated, and of vigorous understanding
in most things, was nevertheless given
to the practice of self-tOrmenting in
regard TO the state of his health. He
was fairly robust, ate and drank well,
slept easily, walked with remarkable
energy, was capable of service and
long-sustained mental labor and of
much physical exertiOn. Unluckily
for himself he began to study domestic
medicine, and straightway too active
Imagination led him to simulate in his
own case the symptoms of almost every
disease he had happened to read of.
He was apopletic, paralytic, rheumatic |;
he had heart disease, his lungs were
affected, his liver was cOngested gout
threatened him his vision became en-
feebled obscure sensations alarmed
him as to the state of his brain : fevers
of one kind or another were perpetual
ly Matching in his system. The mans
life became a burden and misery to
him he half-kiiled himself with ter
Tor, and nearly succeeded in getting
poisoned by a succession of varied and
opposing remedies.


At last he was cured. Reading the
symptoms of condition from which it
is physiOlogically impossible that men
should suffer, he found to his horror
that each particular symptom was dis
tinctly marked in his own case. He
went over the ground again and again !;
each renewed examination only served
to bring out the symptoms with more
alarming distInctness. Then the affair
became too ludicrOus hearty fit of
laughter dissipated not only that par.
ticular ailment, but all the rest, and
the sufferer was cured.-English Con-
gregatiOndiist.