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Year: 1873

MONEY AND THE Coon IT DoEs.-The
Philadelphia North american defends the
accumulation Of wealth in an article from
which we copy as follows:


Money getting is not in itself the evil
it is represented to be- The savages in
Africa, who do not even toll sufficiently to
nave decent houses to dwell in, or clothes
to wear, and who live from day to day
with no thought of the future, are GER
tainly not to be preferred to the money
getters of our great cities. Nor is the
nan who vegetables from year to year on a
small income, which he never increases,
because he has no ambition urging him to
do so, and hlch is not sufficient to ena-
bic him to give to the poor, or to public
objects, or to reli gion or education. If the
word were made up of such people, pro-
gress of any kind would be impossible,
and science and art might date back to the
past, like Chinese civilization. If there
had never been a plutocracy at Florence,
there might never have been Michael
Angelo. And if there had been no pluto
cracy at Venice that splendid city of the
sea would have been a very dull sort of
place. All that is grand in architecture
and beautiful in art in Europe is due to
the rise of opulence and to the liberality of
some gorgeous plutocracy. In America
we make very good use ofwealth. Edu-
cation, religion, charity, benevoIence, art,
science, public works, all receive their
share Of attention Nor can the poor
complain of neglect, since the efforts to
relieve their distresses are great and con-
tinual There must be some Indictment to
induce men to produce inventions and i'm
provements, Or to spend their lives in the
severest toll, or to fix their unremitting
attention upon some one object. And the
attainment of wealth serves that useful
purpose, and therefore it cannot properly
be held to be an evil. The mere pride of
wealth is a thing to be deplored. But we
really find little OF it in America, notwith-
standing all that said to the contrary.
Year: 1873

Two CURIOUS NEEDLEs.-The King Of
Prussia recently Wis ted needle manutac.
tory in his kingdom, in order to see what
machinery, combined with the human hand
could produce He was shown a number
of superfine needles, thousands of which
together did not weigh half an ounce, and
marveled how such minute objects could be
pierced with an eye. But he was to see
IN this respect even something still finer
and more perfect could be created. Tie
borer-that is, the workman whose bust
ness it is to bore the eyes in these needles
asked for a hair from the monarch S
head. 1t was readily given, and with a
smile, He placed it at once under the
boring machine, turned hole in it with
the greatest care, furnished it with the
thread, and then handed the singular nee
die to the astonished king.


The second curious needle is in the pos
session of Queen Victoria. 1t was made
at the celebrated needle mandatory at
Bedditch, and represents the column of
Trajan in miniature. This we'll known
Roman column is adorned with numerous
scenes in sculpture, which immortalize Ira
jams heroic actions in war. On this d.
minutive needle, scenes in the life Of Queen
Victoria are represented in relief, but so
finely cut and so small that it requires a
magnifying glass to see them. The Victo-
ria needle can, moreover, be opened; it
contains a number of needles of smaller
size, and which are equally adorned with
scenes in relief.
Year: 1873

EXPERIMENTS WITH WHIsKEY.-A well,
known physician suggests the following
tests for those who are sceptical as to the
effect of whiskey, and other similar spirits,
upon the stomach. Hold a mouthful of
whiskey, he says, in your mouth for five
minutes, and you will find it to burn
severely. Inspect the mouth you will
find that it is infamed. Hold it in ten or
fifteen minutes; you will fud that vari-
Gus parts Of the mouth become blistered.
Then tie handkerchief over the eyes,
and taste, for instance, water, vinegar,
milk, or sena; you will find that you are
incapable of distinguishing one from the
other. Such simple and easy expert
ment as this ought to convince any one
that alcohol is not only violent irritant,
but also narcotic; for in this expert
ment you have objective evidence that it
has infamed and blistered the mouth, and,
for the time being, paralyzed The nerves
OF taste, and, to a certain extent, those
also Of common sensation. Now, this is
not an experiment or fact upon which any
doubt has ever been, or can be, thrown !;
and can any one believe that the still more
important internal organs of the body can
be less injuriously affected than the
mouth ? Another well-known physician
says, that even the moderate use of such
liquors, if long continued, and grown
habltual, cannot fail to have ultimately a
prejudicial effect upon the health while
it may be confidently asserted that there
are no circumstances of ordinary character
by which it can be justified as beneficial
or necessary.
Year: 1873

HELr YoURsELF.-Fight your own bat
ties. ASK no favors Of any one, and you'll
succeed FIVE thousand times better than
one who is always beseeching some one.
influence aud patronage. No one will ever
help you as ycu can help Yourself, because
10 one will be SO heartily interested il
your affairs. The first step will not be
such a long one, perhaps ; but carving
your own way up the mountain, you make
each step lead to another. and stand firm
in that while you chop still another out
Men who have made fortunes are not those
who have five thousand dollars given them
to start with, but boys who have started
fair with a well earned dollar or two
Men who win love do their own wooing
and | never knew a man to fail so sig,
naly as one whoinduced his affectionate
grandmamma to speak good word for
him. Whether you work for fame, for
love, for money, or for anything else, work
with your hands, heart and brain. Say
:" will" and some day you will conquer
Never let any man say, d" have dragged
you up" Too many friends sometimes
hurt you more than none at all.-Grace
Greenwood.
Year: 1873

SrBENGrH OF \ MorHER's LovE.-The
almost superhuman strength and courage
OF wOmen under circumstances OF great
peril or when the maternal instinct is
aroused to the utmost for the preservation
OF their offspring, has been recently ex-
emphtied IN a most extraordinary manner
at SeganO, small village south OF Milan
y calId Of four years, playing near an old
well caroiessIy covered over, went too near
the insecure edge, and before an elder sis
tel could reach her, was precipitated to the
bottom. The frightened child ran scream
ing to her mother with the fearful news.
The latter, work woman in the factory,
stood for a moment as if paralyzed, when,
as if realizing the fu'l danger of her little
one, iustantaneously flew across the court,
and with her eyes fixed upon the water be-
low, pa.Iid, mute. teeth hard set together,
she thought only of rescuing her child, and
clutehing the old coping of the well, let
herself down from stone to stone until she
reached the water, where an inner row of
stones gave her footing The little one
had caught by its clothing to this Jagged
wall, and the brave woman, reaching far
over, firmly grasped the child, and lifting
it free, held it safe above water with one
hand, while with the other she steadled
herself against the damp, slippery wall


In the meaDtime the alarm mad been
given, and the workmcn who had come to
the rescue, let down ropes to which
woman was to attach herself and child
But this was impossible to be accomplish
ed without letting go of the child. The
poor woman could not again bear the ter
ror OF losing her baby for an instant, and
with look Of baffled, hopeless despair
thrown upon thosa who waited breathlessly
for the result, was about to resign herself
to her awful fate, when sudden grasping
Of the rope below gave renewed courage to
the spectators. The undaunted woman had
made another effort for life, and successful
ly. Slowly lifting the child to her mouth,
she had taken in her teeth portion of the
dress and safely held it, until she made
fast the rope to each. This communicated
to the people ab owe, shout went up, as
one more fearless than the rest, at the risk
of his own life, went down to the rescue of
mother and child, which he accomplished
by intrepid GOODNESS and undaunted cour-
age, amid the hearty braves of the men.
and the half-frenzed, hysterical shrieks of
the women.
Year: 1873

in succession. He had no premonition of
these attacks or any subsequent ill-feel-
ing; had been plowing the day before his
first attack. He got better in few days,
and continued to work in various places ;
could not do much, changing often, and
always finding something that did not suit
him every place he tried On May 20,
1861, he had a series of convuIsions, appa-
rently epileptic, lasting until the evening
of May 81, when he died-l2 years, 6
months and s days after the date of an


injury which had destroyed the anterior
and part of the middle lobe of the left
cerebral hemisphere. Unfortunately his
brain was not examined, but the openings


in the skull we'll indicate the extent to
which one half of the brain was destroyed
Year: 1873

Mr.. George w. Curtis thus closed his
/ lecture on the education of women: Now
as to the question of 4 collegiate education
for women, it is not proposed that women
shall be compelled to 90 to college, but
only that they shall have precisely the
same opportunity that men have, if they
wish to improve it. There is in England,
at this very day, lady lecturing at
the Young Women's institute upon do
mestic questions, such as " ould you pre-


fer to use an earthern or an iron pot upon
your kitchen stove ?" or g How would you
lay out 10 shillings if you had sick hus-
band and six children to young to work p
and g How would you make bread ~ This
is precisely the kind of education; the
sooner it becomes universal the sooner we
shall have better food and better health


We have our agricultural chairs and col
leges aud certainly if it is worth while
to teach US how to raise wheat it is as wise
to teach us how to convert it into bread


If there are branches Of knowledge improp-
er for women to learn, or duties unfit to
perform, they will know it thousand times
better than men, so give them their choice.
If there be some women in whom the love
of learning extinguishes all other love,
then the heaven-appointed sphere Of that
woman is not the nursery. 1t may be the
library, the laboratory, the observatory
Not the happiness of Romeo and Juliet,
but star-eyed science is her place. Does
such woman prove that perfect liberty of
education un-spheres women? On the
cvntary it bas enabled that woman to per-
ceive exactly what God meant her TO do.
We have left the petted slave in the Greek
household, to 90 forward and onward. We
have left the idle toy and the painted doll
with Chesterfield and the clubs, and we
90 forward. God lead us to find the true
woman in the free American home
Year: 1873

mystifed by the form and properties of q
candle which Ma-coy drew from bis bag,
gage and ignited. The wild men passed il
from hand to hand, examining it, and
singing themselves in turn. Still another
marvel was the sheet of paper on which
the artist essayed portrait of one Of his
hosts. The finished sketch did not ap.
pear to attract them at all, or to raise in
their minds the faintest association with
the human form; but the texture and
whiteness of the sheet excited their ad-
miratlon, and they passed it from one to
another with many exclamations Of wonder
Meantime, number of questions were
suggested and proposed through the
! Interpreter.


The formality of marriage among the
Siriniris was found to be quite unknown
the most rudimentary idea of divine wor-
ship could not be discovered the treat.
ment of the aged was shown to be con-
temptuous and neglectful in the extreme
and the lines of demarcation with the
beasts seemed to be but feebly traced
Finally, Mr.. Marcoy begged the inter-
prefer to PROFOUND the delicate inquiry
whether, among the viands with which
they nourished themselves, human flesh
had found place. Garcia hesitated, and
at first declined to push the interrogation
but after some persuasion consented. The
Slrlnlris were not in the least shocked at
the question, and answered that the flesh
of man, especially in infancy, was a deli
cious food, far better than the monkey, the
tapir or the peccary that their nation,
in the days ofits power, frequently used it
at the great feasts but that the difficulty
of procuring such a rarity had increased
until they were now forced to strike it
from their bill of fare.-Lippinc0tt's May
azine
Year: 1873

Is this asfast: to keep
The larder lean,
And clean
From fat of veals and sheep:
Is it to quit the dish
OF flesh, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish?
Isl to fast an hour?
Or ragged to go?
Oh show
\ downcast look, and sour:
Nol 'tis fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat,
And meat,
Unto the hungry soul.
1t is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate
To circumcise thy life.
To show heart grief-rent;
To starye thy sin,
Not bin
And that's to keep thy lent.


Robert Her rick
Year: 1873

If the boy believed that the accumula-
ton of wealth and the acquisition of
power were what the old man says they
are. the world would very soon be stag
nant. If he believed that his chances of
obtaining either were as poor as the ma
iority of men find them to be, ambition
would die within him. 1t is because he
rejects the experience of those who have
preceded him, that the world is kept in the
opsy-turvy condition which we all
rejoice in, and which we call progress
c. d. Warner.
Year: 1873

A Hartford subscriber writes that he
is Just recovering from smallpox, and will
be on in few days to renew his subscrip-
ton We hope he won't mind little like
that We will send the paper and wait
for the money. We will wait cheerfully.
We amt of that avaricious kind of people
who will grab for money as if for very
life We despise such things. There's
no earthly reason for the coming on; we
will wait.-ErchanQe.
Year: 1873

Rufus Whitmore of Orwell is about as hard
a pill for Anti-robacco Trask as we ever came
across. Rufus is in his 95th year and enjoys
excellent health hearing perfect, teeth and
eyes good, mind clear, etc. and yet this
man has been a constant user of tobacco for
more than IS years. But this is not the
worst, for not only has Rufus been devotee
of the weed nearly all his life, but his father
and grandfather did the same thing before
him, and they lived to be respectively 80 and
90 years old. On the whole, we fear the
Whitmore family IS not good one to fur
nish arguments for Father Trask-
Year: 1873

TIE CHESAPEAKE AND Ono. RAILROAD
CArsE OF THE LATE ACCIDENT.-The sleeping
car that was thrown from the track and


down the eHbankment on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad Sunday night has been


Gotten I'D, and was brought to the shop of
the company for repair yesterday. The dam
age TO it was much less than at first sup
n0sed, the furniture and trucks being en-
tirely uniDJured. s.,r ....


we learn that an examination of the
tr11cks shows that the run-off was not caused
as stated by the condition of the track, but


was in consequence of the side-bearing of
fine trucks being so heavy as not to allow it
TO curve as readily as it should have done.


The locomotive and two passenger cars
nassed safely over the rails, and also the front
truck of the sleeping-car, but it was the
rear truck that ran off and caused the acci-
dent,


Experts agree that the road-bcd of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Company is in as good
condition under the efficient management OF
William S. Dunn, engineer Of repairs, as any
road in the South, and the trains Except
over the unfinished portion of it between:
Hinton and the kanawha falls which is sfi u
in charge of the construction department.
and has not been turned over to the super
intendent for general traffic. have run with
10 much regularity and as free from accident
as anv road its length in this country. 1t is
otHGered by practical railroad men OF long eX.
nerience in aIlfof its departments, and IN Q
pepg short time the new road-bed will be in


GOOD surface, and with the new locomotives
and cars (sixteen of former and one thou
sand of latter we may expect such traf1e
over this road as will astonish even Its mos
| jealous advocates. Ft
Year: 1873

TEMPORARY REMOVAL4-The Directors of
the Union National Bank, have rented Plum
mer's Insurance rooms, In the second story Of
the building at the N. K. corner of Fourth and
Market streets, which they will occupy while
the Bank is undergoing fepairs
Year: 1873

An aged couple Oh Wooster
street are very fond of checkers
and play quite frequently
When he beats at the game she
loses her temper and declares
she willnot play again. Ityex-
es him to see her act SO, but he
controls the irritation and talks,
to her about it He tells her
how wrong it is for people at
their age in life to be disturbed
by such trifles, and shows her
so clearly the folly of such q
course that she becomes ashamed
Of her weakness and returns to
the game, and plays it so well
that she beats him. Then he
throws the checkers in one di-
rection and kicks the board in
another, and says he will never
Play with anybody who cheats
so alliiredly, and stalks moodily
to bed and leaves her to pick up
the things.
Year: 1873

A good advertisement In wide
ly circulated newspaper is the
best Of all possible salesmen. 1t
is salesman who is never weary ;
who goes after business eaIly and
late; who accOts the merchant in
his shop, tie scholar in bis study,
the lawyer in his office, the lady
at her tea table; who can be in a
thousand places at once, and speak
to Il million people every day, say
ing to each one the best thing in
the best manner.


A good advertisement in a
newspaper pays no fare on rail
roads; gives away no boxes OF
cigars to customers or merino
dresses to customers wives. drinks
no whisky under the head of
travelling expenses; but goes at
once md all the time about its
business free of expense.


A good advertisement insures a
bu ,iness connection of the most
permanent and independent basis,
aud Is IN certain sense Il guaran-
tee To the customer of lair and
moderate prices. Experience has
shown that the dealer whose ware
have obtained public celebrity is
not only enabled TO sell, but is
forced to sell at reasonable rates,
and to furnish IA good article.
Year: 1873

y medical man asserts that
fish diet is a great humanizer of
the tempers Of mankind, tend
ING. to make them more kindly
toward each other, and less dis
posed to crime. He instances
carniverous animals as being al
ways the most fierce and viO-
lent, and believes that if human
stomachs could have an occa-
sional respite by the eonsump-
ton Of fish, tie world would
be all the better for il,
Year: 1873

a yomg man residing in De
troit, Mich, was standing on
the street in that city, quietly
engaged in picking his teeth
when a waggish acquaintance
came along and gave his elbow
a push. BY this push the blade
was so firmly wedged between
two of his teeth, that Frederick
was counseled to so to a dentist
and have one Of the teeth loos-
ened.
Year: 1873

A Memphis paper states that
during a fire in that city the 9th
er day woman carried a barrel
of flour down stairs without
bursting a hoop. In ordinary
times it eXhausts her to strike
her husband twice with the po-
ker.
Year: 1873

A man in Cincinnati cut his
wifc's throat the other day and
then cut his own. We don't
blame him for cutting his own
throat, for that was his own
property, and he had a right to
10 what he pleased with it; but
we can't help thinking, severe
rs the language may seem, that
the cutting of his wife's throat
was both unkind and uncalled
for, not to say ungentIemanly-
Year: 1873

the streets would have been most gro-
tesque. The guards, of whom l have
made mention, were selected of men wto
before had the disease. But as several
cases are reported of patients who had
recovered from the disease and aiterward
were attacked again, these men clothed
themselves in rubber from head to foot
as protection against infection, with
ligatures tied closely about the wrists
and ankles, and heavy rubber gloves and


boots encasing hands and feet. These
men were each provided with yellow
flag, and meeting you on the street would
wave it toward you to warn you of their
occupation, and the passenger never fail
ed to give them the widest berth the linn
its of the street would allow.
Year: 1873

From the Turf, Field and Farm.


DR.. Mary E. Walker, if we my believe
a Washington correspondent, was the here
inc of scene few days ago when she
made muscular demonstration that would
have done credit to a feather weight of the
prize ring. Two rows of seats in one of
the gentlemen's gall ries of the House of
Representatives were set apart for ladies.
DR.. Walker, though not dressed as lady,
sought to occupy one of these seats. The
doorkeeper in charge stopped her, when she
Indignantly asked if she was not a lady?
He replied that he dii not know, and NUT
tered something about examination, when
the fiery little doctor let drive at him with
her fist, planting a blow squarely on his
nose. The argument, ifnot convincing, Sc
cured the right of way, and the feat her.
weight marched triumphly 10 the coveted
seat. This incident reminds us of another
scene,!in which the belligerent spirit of the
Doctor was made manifest. In the lobby
of the Louisville Post-office big washer
woman with brogue decidedly Irish ad-
dressed a sneering remark to the Doctor,
who was then arrayed in halflmilitary
uniform, wearing upon her shoulders the
straps of a Major. The washerwoman was
four times the size of Walker, nevertheless
the little body resented the insult with a
blow. She carried an umbrella in her hand,
and when the big woman rushed at her full
of anger, she hoisted this umbrella and
made it serve as shield. She danced be-
hind it screaming defiance, while her burly
opponent Vainly tried to execute flank
movement and take her revenge. 1t was a
ludicrous scene, and had not the police in
terfered il might have proved disastrous to
the Doctor. As the Walker is about at the
end of her rope in her great role OF refor-
mer, and as she seems to be not only will
ing, but able to fight on slight provocation,
why do not some of the magnates of the
prize ring secure her for star engagement?
She would draw well, and soon might de-
monstrate her right to be recognizedcas the
chamnion featbeTweiobt of Smerica '
Year: 1873

INDIANAPOLIS, March 12-The loss by
the fire last night in the Woodburn Sarven
wheel company's building is estimated at
one hundred thousand dollars, fully cover
ed by insurance. Chief fire engineer Dan
iel Glazier entered window On the second
story and while in the act of giving orders
to his men, a brick wall fell, burying him
beneath the debris. he was extricated as
speedily as possible, but only lived few
minutes.
Year: 1873

BERLIN, March 12.-The German Par
lament convened to day. The Emperor
opened the session in person. In his speech
from the throne the Emperor said he be-
lieved the negotiations now in progress
would result in the entire evacuation of
France by the German troops at an earlier
day than had been heretofore expected.
Year: 1873

The fr ends of the University Of Michi-
gan are beginning to inquire if nothing can
be done to stop the frequent designations
of professors in that institution. An in
crease of salaries might perhaps help the
matter.
Year: 1873

One of the most celebrated physicians OF
Philadelphia, it is said, ears two raw apples
every evening before he retiTes to rest, and
thinks they not only supply food to his brain,
but keep the whole system In q healthy
condition.
Year: 1873

In trial to-day for the recovery of dam
ages from one of the city railroads for the
loss of a son run over by car, ex-Mayor
Hall objected to the introduction as evidence
of the ordinance providing that no vehicle
shall turn a corner faster than a walk, on
the ground that the ciY charter of 1870
abolished all then existing ordinances.
The judge sustained the objection.
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, March 12.--Vice-President
Wilson lectured at Cooper Institute in aid
of the fund for the erection of a statue to
Father Matthew in Central Park. His sub
ject was Temperance Reform and its Great
Apostle.