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Year: 1875

An unusual case, showing the fer
tility of resource and the quickness OF
thought of the better classes of Chi
nese is reported by the North China
Herald from Maxim. During the Tea
ping rebellion a married Chinaman
resident in the city, joined a regiment
which was ordered for service against
the rebels. He did not return at Il e
close of the struggle, and nothing being
heard of him for several years AFTER
ward, his wife believing herself a widow
listened to the advances of another
man who professed love for her, ard
who pressed his suit so ardently that
she consented to JOIN her lot with his.
They went before the proper authori-
ties, were made husband and wife, and
lived together in conjugal happiness
at all events they were happy. This
continued for a year or two, when the
first husband presented himself, alive
and well, and demanded the restora-
tiOn Of his wife.


.'Oh, no" said No. 2, ''you left her,
remained away for years, nobody
aud mOurned for You. We are mar
ried now. and here are the papers.


No. 1. not having heard of the ex-
ample of Enoch Arden, probably, still
eIamored for his wife, and it was ulti-
mately decided to take the matter be
fore the Chensien. The magistrate
listened attentively to both sides of
the story, and at first appeared puz-
zled what course to take. The papers
produced by the second husband were
legal, but the first husband was obdu-
rate and would not yield. At length
the magistrate told them to leave the
wife in his hands for ten days, and
then both to come back again for his
decision. This was agreed to.


About the fifth or sixth day the mag
istrate in great haste sent for the two
men, and with a mournful countensuce
informed them that the wife had been
suddenly smitten with an illness which
had proved fatal. and that she was
dead and he asked the first husband
whether he would take away the body
and provide for the funeral. The man
demutred, said he wanted living wife,
not dead one, and should have moth
ing more to do with the nrtter. Turn
ing to the other, the ligistlAte l. put
the same question to him. saying that
one of them must remove the body.
The man said ne was very poor, but
the deceased had been a good wife to
him they had loved each other dearly,
and, cost what it might, he would
raise the money and pay for the
burial.


very well," said the magistrate
"then here she is-take her away with
you."


And drawing aside curtain showed
the astonished men the wife, standing
and living and in good health, before
them. 1t being clear that the first
husband really cared nothing for her,
she willingly abided by the magistrates
method of settling the complication.
The only drawback to this story is,
that we are unable to hand down to
posterity, in plain English, the name
of this Chinese Solomon.
Year: 1875

IF had LEISURE / would repair that
weak place in my fence, said farmer.
He had none, however, and while
drinking cider with a neighbor, the
cows broke in and injured a prime
piece of corn. He had leisure then to
repair his fence, but it did not bring
back his corn.


IF had leisure, said a wheelwright,
last winter, L would alter my stove
pipe, for I know it is not safe But he
did not find time, and when his shop
caught fire and burned down, he found
leisure to build another.


IF had leisure said a mechanic, Il
should have my work done in season.
the man thinks his time has been all
occupied, but he was not at work till
after sunrise he quit work at five
o'clock, smoked a cigar after dinner.
and spent two hours on the street talk
ing nonsense with an idler.


If had leisure. said a merchant, Il
would pay more attention to accounts.
The chance is, my friend, if you had
leisure, you wonld probably pay less
attention to the matter than You do
now.
Year: 1875

When you shoot them, do not let the
feathers get sOiled or rumpled. To skin
them, 60 to table or stand ; lay down
a sheet of paper to work on, and keep
the feathers clean. Lay the bird on its
back then, with a point of your knife,
split tine skin from the neck down the
breast to the tail bone. Now skin care
fully down one side to the wing and
leg f; cut these off at the first joints !;
lay q piece of paper inside to keep the
feathers from sticking to the body, and
proceed in the same manner on the
other side. Now bend back the tail
and cut the bone where it Joins the
back turn out the skin until you come
to the head cut the neck out of the
head and take out the brains. Now
take q small, wide moutbed bottle, put
in some arsenic, with little water, and
with small cotton mop rub the skin
with the solution. This is to preserve
the skin. and it also keeps out the
moth. Now take some tow roll it up
to the size of the body, and wind with
thread, for small, or cord for large
birds take fine wire for the neck,
double it. put the ends through the tow
and draw back until you have the
length of the neck bend the ends over
and cover the neck wire with n very
little cotton on tow put the end into
the skull and carefully turn back the
skin.


Then sharpen wires and push up
through the feet into the body and
Lend over the ends-the wings the same
way. Now carefully sew up the breast,
take out the natural eyes and put in the
artificial ones. with little cotton be-
hind them. Then mount your bird on
q perch and bend the wires, at the
bottom of the feet, around it, and
dress mp the feathers. Thus, all you
want, to make good job of it, is
patience.
Year: 1875

An old king of Thebes said that the
invention of writing was a calamity to
the human race, for it would weaken
the memory, and prove in the end the
art of forgetting. There is doubtless
some truth in tine remark, for the
memory of the ancients Was more tens-
cious than that of the moderns. Many
of the Greeks carried in memory the
whole of Homer's Iliad /; and it has
come down to us from their retentive
brains, and not from the manuscript Of
the author.
Year: 1875

THE WIDow AND HER BIBLE.-A poor
old widow was once asked by a city
missionary If she had a Bible. "Thank
God, have" said she I; "what should
| do without my Bible 1t was the
guide of my youth, and it is the staff
of my old age. 1t wounded me, and it
healed me. 1t showed me I was a
sinner, and it led me to the Saviour
1t has given me comfort through life
and L trust it will give me hope in
death"


Children, do you love your Bible as
this poor widow did hers? Do you
read it often, and lay up its precious
teachings in your hearts


Let the Bible be your greatest treas
ure. Read it every day, and pray to
God to help you understand it.


Love the blessed Saviour whom IL
tells you of; try to be like him, and
you may then hope TO be one of the
molly, happy ones, vino sing his praise
forever.
Year: 1875

AUNT SUES CHATs.-Addie SAYS they


are "going to have fair to make some


money to pay for an organ" at her
church and that she is little bit of a


girl, but she wishes she could make


something for it. Well, Addie, sup
pose you begin by making some match
scrapers they will be very useful, if
the servants in your village scratch the


walls with matches as ours do. Get
two or three sheets of black sand-paper
(or emery paper,) at the hardware store
and one sheet of gilt paper. at the sta
toners. Cut your sand-paper into
pieces about six inches long by four
inches wide. Stick each of these, with
flour paste, on to a piece of cardboard
the same size; then bind the edges
with strips of gilt paper. Now make a
cord by twisting together some worsted,
(red and white, blue and white, or all
of one color, if you choose put little
worsted tassel at each end of the cord
pierce two holes in the scraper, and put
the cord through to hang it by.


Then there is the ''tomato-pin-
cushion" which is very easy to make.
and very useful in the ladies' work
baskets, both for pins and needles. Cut
two circles of crimson (or any other
colored) merino, about as large as one
of your little preserve saucers. Sew
them all round, except couple OF
inches, on the wrong side; then turn
them. Fill the pincushion, 0hrough
the two incn opening left unsewed) with
bran, or clippings of flannel, until it is
about enough, (you will soon find ont
what is ''enough'O then sew up the
two inches. Now take some sewing
silk of the same color as the merino
thread your needle with it, doubled.
Pass the needle up through the center
of the cushion, take the silk over and
under, and pass the needle up through
the same hole again, drawing the silk
pretty tight repeat this until you have
divided your tomato into the right
of sections, then fasten the silk
off carefully, and your pincushion will
be completed.
Year: 1875

1t is an unparalleled mercy to be pre-
served from corruption IN the midst OF
general infection. 1t is far better to
be innocent than penitent; to prevent
the malady then invent the remedy.
Year: 1875

Of late years one of the most impor-
tant and useful operations of surgery has
been that of grating new and healthy
skin upon a wound or sore and thus es-
tablishing the healing process and OBJ
tanning cicatrization. Hitherto the par
ticles of skin have been taken from some
sound part of the patients body and
applied to the diseased or injured point,
but NJ. Anger has recently demonstrated
that pieces of skin may be taken from
amputated limbs and used successfully
in heteroplasty. In one case NJ. Anger
took strips of skin from the palmer sur
face of an amputated finger and applied
them to the liberated leg of another per.
son. In three days the bandages were
removed and the grated parts found
firmly united to the surface and evident
ly vascularized. To insure success it il
necessary that the graft be made imme
diately upon amputation.
Year: 1875

The Danville On. W Advertiser tells
the following:


"On Friday, May %, Moses George,
of this village, veteran of the war of
1872, who has past his eightieth year, ex-
tracted from his groin bullet which was
buried there by the rifle of an Indian at
the battle of Chippewa on the fifth day
of July, 1915. The bullet struck the in
side of the right leg near the groin as
the soldier was wheeling into line, and
badly shattered the thigh bone. The
bullet weighs a full half ounce and is
concave on one side, showing the i'm
press of the bone which it struck. 1t
is somewhat blackened, but beneath a
thin coating the lead isas pure and bright
as it was half century ago. The results
of the wound made by the bullet was
very severe. The limb was shortened
six inches or more, and below the thigh
and reaching nearly to the knee is thickly
SCARED, where pieces of the broken
bone, over fifty in all, have from time to
time worked out. The bullet did not re-
turn by its original entrance, but came
to the surface about four inches above,
and was taken out by the veteran him
self without the aid of instruments. He
was overioyed to get his eyes on the old
enemy who had worried him so long"
Year: 1875

A CIRCUS out In Kansas refused to
dead-head the constable of the town.
He got square on it, however. He had
the whole concern arrested for laboring
on the Sabbath, and that refusal to dead
head cost the manager 5000. There is
one thing which a village constable and
Jersey editor never forgiyes-that's
refusal of dead-head tickets.
Year: 1875

How TRUE it is that one expense neces-
states another. Last year the State of
Massachusetts, gilded the dome of its
State House at an almost fabulous cost,
and now it has been compelled to pay for
Theoretically sealing the windows to the
cupola above, that the glittering surface
may not be tarnished by the expectora-
hons of tobacco-using visitors.
Year: 1875

TIE crop reports from nearly every
section of the Northwest are very favor
able-much more SO than previous ac-
counts have led the public to expect
An increased acreage in wheat has been
sown, and the fields generally average
well and give promise of favorable
yield. 1t is altogether probable that the
harvest the coming fall will be fully up
to, if it does not exceed, the average.
Year: 1875

The project Of oh tanning Steam Fire
Engine is at last assuming definite shape.
At the meeting of the Council last Monday
evening a petition was presented contain
inc the names of nearly all the heavy tax
payers and leading business men Of the city,
asking the council to take the necessary
steps towards the purchase of steam fire


agine. This was referred to the fire de-


artment committee and they were in
structed by resolution to obtain the most
full and reliable information possible re-
garding the different styles of steamers,
&c. Promptly following this action OF
the council, Alderman S. S. Woodard,
chairman of the Fire Department, will
leave in few days for the East to visit
different manufactures of steam sflre en-
gines with a view Of consulting the in
terests Of the city in the purchase of
steamer and report the result of his OBJ
scrvat;ons at an early day.
Year: 1875

This is the destructive and terrible stage of the
disease. The whole nasal passages, including the
and lungs become one after another, affected in
famed, liberated, and succumb rapidly to this
frightful monster. peculiar acid Is generated
ing the blood weakens and destroys its renovating
power, and allows the system no opportunity to
throw of the maady until this poison is neutral.
treatment becomes of the most vital consequence
"bccause unless arrested at this stage the disease
will make rapid progress towards pulmonary con.
SUMPTION See Warren's Household physician.
Meanwhile q soothing, healing and astringent med
icne must be applied directly to the nasal passages
thus forming the most perfect treatment of the dis.
ease possbe.
Year: 1875

for France to participate, because ne was
persuaded that the exhibition would re-
suit in the development Of French rels-
tions abroad The permanent Commis-
sion will soon be called upon to consider
the best means of promoting the French
participation IN the Centennial EIhibi-
ton. Forney said he was in communi-
cation with the Duke De Cozen and the
Viscount De Meaux on the subject.
Year: 1875

Sheriff Kilkerdale at once replied that
he would proceed to Hazelton Tomorrow
in compliance with the Governors re-
quest.


1t is hoped that the conference may
lead to q solution Of the troubles in the
Lazerne region. The Governor tonight
directed the Adjutant General TO proceed
to Hazelton and be present at the con-
ference.
Year: 1875

The majority of men have an ex-
ceedlng dislike to appearing ridicu


lous, never having appreciated the
full comedy Of life, and that it must
either be treated as comedy or TRACE
dy. or, perhaps, as a nice admixture of
both. To bring the foregoing re-
marks home to our present subject,
when any Of those ludicrous little mis-
haps occur which are described in
witty works Of fiction, or in comic pc
riodicals, how painful they are to the
l,rinci pal actors in the scene, and how
little he likes to hear of them again
When a young man enters ball
room with his trousers tucked up;
when grave, wise man, like Pick
wick, enters the wrong bedroom;
when, as | once saw myself, middle
aged lady comes down to breakfast,
having some stray locks still in the
confinement of curl-papers, these un-
fortunate people by no means like
to be reminded of their misadven
lures. There is really no fun, only
cruelty, in reminding them Of their
heedlessness and, indeed, it becomes
a kind of torture if this is repeated a6
n0useua. That great artist, Dickens,
took care that none Of Mr.. Pickwick's
companions, owing him respect,
should venture to allude to that de-
plorable and shocking incident IN
good Mr.. Pickwicks adventures
And this present writer would not
dare to allude to the misfortune OF
that respectable middle-aged lady who,
in absence of mind, had forgotten to
release some Of her locks from their
nightly Imprisonment, it she had not
long ago passed away from this
troublesome world. AS we have be
fore intimated, however, it is the
young who most feel having Oh any
occasion made themselves absurd or
ridiculous. The midJle-aged man,
unless he is a most fortunate ndividu-
al, has gone through SO much trouble
that these minor mistortunes Of bis
youth are food for laughter for him
as well as other people. Not always,
though. A man in ''the sere and
yellow leaf" of life has confessed to
me that he feels hot all over and
knows that the color is mounting to
his face when he remembers some of
the most ludicrous adventures of a
trivial kind in his early life. The
sensitive, alas are always sensitive,
and even old age fails to harden them
-~ Social Pressure.
Year: 1875

How little we know of each other,


As we pass through the journey Of life,
With its struggles, its fears and temptations


Its heart breaking cares and its strife,
We can only see things on the surface,


For few people glory in sin,
And an unruflled face is no index


TO the tumult which RACES within.
How little we know of each other


The man who to-day passes by,
Blessed with fortune and honor and titles,


And holding his proud head on high,
May carry dread secret with him


Which makes of his bosom hell,
And he, sooner Or later, a felon,
May writhc in the prisoners cell.
How little we know of each other


That woman of fashion, who sneers
At the poor girl betrayed and abandoned,
And left to her sighs and her tears,
May, ere the sun rises tomorrow,


Have the mask rudely torn from her face,
And sink from the height of her glory


To the dark shades of shame and disgrace.
How little we know of each other


OF ourselves too little we know
We are all weak when under temptation,


All subject to error and woe.
Then let blessed charity rule us,


Let us put away envy and spite
Or the skeleton grim in our closet


May some day be brought to the light.
Year: 1875

NEEDLESS DELAYS. -Steadtastly
set your face against needless delays
in doing any work for the good of
our fellow men, or for your own edlf-
cation. A dilatory spirit is one ofthe
most delusive of all the temptations of
our great destroyer. 1t purposes
merely to postpone, perhaps for an
hour or day. 1t would shudder at
the thought of final and utter neglect
of what it thus defers. Do this very
day and hour the duties this hour and
day demand.
Year: 1875




The anniversary exercises of the
Seminary closed on Thursday evening
May 18th, with Il sermon by Rev.
VIM. w. Taylor. of New York 1t
was an admirable presentation Of the
Apostles resolution to know nothing
but Jesus Christ, and Him crucitied,
and formed Il fitting close to the work
OF the year. Among the friends 6l
the institution, and the strangers pres
ent at its examination, there was but
one expression Of opinion as to the
thoroughness of the instruction given,
and the promise of the students who
are about to go out from it. The
view Of the Faculty Is decidedly that
which has been 50 often and so earn
estly expressed by the ObSerCer-that
the need is not SO much of more men
as of better men, and they have had
the courage, in spite of their limited
number of students, not only to de.
cline to receive some who have appli-
ed, but to recommend the withdrawal
of others who had most clearly mis-
taken their calling. The result is
that while the numbers are diminished
TIE quality is improved, aud those who
do remain have the advantage Of a
constant and thorough drill IN every
study. We believe we only express
the opinion OF those most competent
to judge in saying that there is proba-
bly, no Seminary that now gives better
practical training to its students than
this.
Year: 1875

| found out afterward that my
grandmother had told dreadful iib
about my being an adopted child ; but
it really did not matter what poor
Charlie Pell thought about that, so |
never contradicted the statement.
And really now that golden hair-dye
has come in, my grandmother has
grown so Juvenile in appearance that |
think she begins to believe that she Is
not out of her teens herself.
Year: 1875

FUN ALIvE.-A first class wedding
came off ont in the prairie a few days
ago, which afforded the t'boys. a huge
old time. The minister who was sent
for to do up the job came much earlier
than he was expected, aud informed
tine to-be-married that he had but just
so much time, and if they wished to
be united they must hurry up. Thus
urged. and before the guests had ar
rived, the two were hurried into the
presence oftlle minister. who .spliced''
them tight before they had time to
think. The newly made husband. as
soon as he ''got his wind" COM
meHced lamentations both loud and
long. in the language of our Informant
he '.boo-hooed all over the yard, . till
eventually his wife got sup on her
ear'' and declared that if the boys
would chiravari him she'd pay all the
expenses. And the fun grew fast and
furious, until some of the visitors in
formed the newly made bride it WIS
time to retire. She thereupon in
formed the crowd that she didn't In
tend to go to bed until she got ready.
Two of her lady friends then, jokingly,
took hold of her to go through the
ceremony of putting her to bed, when
she incontinentaily threw herself into
an attitude, struck ont manfuily with
her ''mawleys, knocking both ladies
''out of time,'' one of them falling
into jar OF yeast, sadly demoralizing
her ''good Clothes" OF course we
won't mention names, but those folks,
living within at housand miles of Leb-
anon, who got away with all the big
cake. because the ceremony was per-
formed before they got there deserve
the severest censure. perhaps not The
moral of all this seems to be that there
are girls in Old Linn that s'know
their rights, and knowing. dare MAIN
tain ~
Year: 1875

HCRRAH FOR HARRISBURG As we
informed our readers last week.
articles of incorporation have been
filed inangurating the Harrisburg 6
Mckenzie Canal and Water Ditch
Go. The intention of the gentlemen
forming the Company is to secure
stock subscriptions amounting to
100000, said subscriptions to be used
in the construction of a canal conveying
the waters of the Mckenzie to Harris
burg. 1t is intended to take the water
from the Mckenzie at Spores ferry,
a distance of probably fourteen or
fifteen miles from Harrisburg. We
are told the enterprise is an entirely
feasible one, and the highest hopes of
success are entertained. It is quite
an undertaking for Harrisburg, but
If her citizens are thoroughly aroused
and funyIunderstand the benefits which
will naturally flow from the compile
ton of such an improvement, who
can doubt of its success? Still the
gentlemen who have it in hand have
a huge work before them-a task
that will require perseverance and
unrelaxing energy. Often those who
are.tO be the most benefited by new
enterprise are the last and most un-
willing to see and aid it. But we
hopesthat the citizens of Harrisburg
have not only the means but the lib
ertlity and energy to successfully
carry out the work, and that the
Harrisburg &c Mckenzie Canal may
soon become an acknowledged fact.
All enterprises of this character de-
serve at least the good will of every
citizen who is anxious to advance the
best interests of his county and State.
Let us have the Canal, and the sooner
the better.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures .
SO quick, SO rapid are the changes the
body uudergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase IN Flesh and Weight


IL Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

The Legislature yesterday reacinded the reso-
luton to adjourn finally on Friday The GER
tainty that this would be done has been plain
for some time. About the first of April is time
enough to begin tho farmers spring work.
Year: 1875

DIVIDING New CASTLE COUNTY
This long talked Of measure has at last
been brought fairly before the Legisla-
ture and it remains to be seen whether
the members Of that body will give the
people an opportunity to express their
sentiments in regard to it, or whether
they will take the responsibility Of kill
log it in its inception Were the act
Of this Legislature final the response
bility would be the heavier upon them,
but inasmuch as their action must De
confirmed by the people at the next
general election before it can become
q portion Of the constitution. We hope
that Mr.. Birds bill will be passed by
both Houses, and let the matter 60 be-
fore the people, SO that we have an ex-
preston Of popular opinion in regard to
IL