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Year: 1873

NEW ORLEANS, August 1S.--From
January first to August first of the present
year two million seven hundred thousand
dollars for state taxes have been collected
in Louisiana. For the corresponding
period of last year only one million eight
hundred thousand dollars were collected by
the late admin istration, taxes are being
paid cheerfully, the people generally
believing they are properly applied.
Year: 1873

A WARNING TO PARENTS. -Yester-
day afternoon, Fourth street. near
CANDLES Hill, was the scene Of drunken
servant girl with baby-carriage, contain
ing one of those precious darlings. The
girl was first rolling the carriage on the
sidewalk, next in the gutter and over the
curbing, and then in the middle OF the
street through the mud and dust. The
little baby, one would judge, scarce year
old, was half asleep, and it was first
in the 'front.' of the vehicle and then almost
out of the rear. Parents should be more
careful with whom they put in charge OF
their children, for who knows but that in
many cases, from treatment received at
their hands they are overtaken by sickness,
and. in many cases, are lost. A word to
the wise is sufficient.
Year: 1873

TEN PINs.-We are aggrieved that the
young ladies' in one section of Richmond
should so far forget their sex as to play at ten
pins but how much more painful The fact
must be to those individuals who watch
their game for hours without the satisfac-
ton Of witnessing a single "spare."
Year: 1873

Thee HURCII HILL TUNNEL.--This
very considerable hole in the face of nature
was Damaged slightly yesterday by the ter
rifle washing it was subjected to by the hea-
West fall Of rain we have lately had in this
vicinity. The entrance and approachesto the
mouth of the tunnel on Nineteenth street,
and the route of the track along Bloody
Run gulley were found this morning con-
siderably obstructed by earth and stone
washed in and on to them. The rumor Of
the crushing of the curbing and arching at
the corner of Twenty-fourth and Clay
streets, near shaft No. q, was not true, so
far as we could learn.
Year: 1873

THE CHIEF AMUSEMENT Of some lads
living on Clay, near Fourth street, is for a
eiof them to get on the moonlight side
Of some building and whistle "Ten thou
sand miles away" which makes the neigh
bors wish thew were.
Year: 1873

The following specific against sum- stroke may save from illness and death many whose occupation obliges them to be Tn the field or out upon the streets:

 About year since saw in a news paper an account of @ case of sun stroke, written by the party himself. After suffering long time from the at- tack, and having, to considerable de- gree, recovered, he experienced suffer- Ing even from the rays of the moon. This led him to the reflection that it was not altogether the heat of the sun that produced prostration. After much research he discovered that the injury came from the chemical ray, and not from ths heat ray. He was guided to this by observing the fact that photo graph could not be taken through a hollow glass. Accordingly, he lined his hat with two hnings-one of orange yellow to arrest the chemical ray. and one of green to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared, he went where the rays of the sun were most intense with per feet impunity. It is we'll known that the negrois seldom or never sunstruck. The color of his skin over the skull be- ing of the orange yellow may assist in accounting for the fact. I practiced upon this suggestion all last summer, lined my hat with green and orange yell low paper, and had confidence enough in the truth of the theory, to neglect my umbrella, which had never done before I mentioned it to many, who tried it also, and in many cases that came under my observation, they uniformly asserted that the oppressive heat of the sun upon the head was much relieved"
Year: 1873

Many of our readers who are looking about for something to do, can find pleasant and profitable employment in the business of life insurance. It re- quires no capital, save horse and bug gy-to travel through the country, and to active men the recompenseis certain. We recommend the selection of some strong old company like the New York Life, with large assets and liberal plans, one that is popular wherever known, and one too that everybody knows. A man who takes applications for life in- surance is doing good. It is in every sense good business. A letter drop ped to the home office of this company, at 346 and 348 Broadway, New York, will meet with aready response. Tryit.
Year: 1873

The Poughkeepsie Telegraph says

 that there is Q pass in the Catskill

 Mountains, between Shandakin Centre

 and Westkill, Ulster County, where snow and ice can be found at all sea- sons of the year. A road runs some

 five miles up deep hollow, bounded on the two sides by high mountains, with clear ice-cold stream of water running down it's centre. Stretching across the head of this hollow is another mountain somewhat higher than the others, that makes one think that the passage-way had suddenly terminated in sort of cut de sac, but upon arriv- ing at it's base the road turns directly to the right and enters narrow pass, hardly fifty feet in width. On each side the mountains tower up thousand feet from the roadway, not perpendicu- lar, but so steep that when the trees have shed their foliage the top can be seen by 8 person standing at the foot. There is snow and ice during the hot test days of summer few feet from the roadway. There are large masses of solid ice in some caves not further than five feet from the road. Strange as it may seem, the growth of vegetation is very rank, the ichens especially cover ing the rocks profusely, thoug gh ani- malls are very scarce, it being too cold for their comfort,
Year: 1873

A Canadian paper repeats the follow ing anecdote with great unction Five years ago a gentleman in the United States Gas gentlemen frequently do in that and other countries) got up rail- road speculation, for which it was thought necessary that there should be a Government subvention. The affair was duly submitted to Congress, and an engineer of high character, who was withal wit, was appointed on the part of the Government to report on the scheme. This scientific man visited the country, returned, and was one day sitting in his hotel, with friend lying on the sofa, when one of the railway promoters entered and addressed the engineer in low whisper. "Speak out, said the engineer. Accordingly, after ascertaining that the other party present was friend, he said in loud voice: Mir. Smith, if you will fix that report to suit us. we will give you S3O,- 900 of the stock" tsMr. Jones'" was the reply, "when you want to bribe an honest man-an honest man, mind you come right down with your spondulics; and your stock p
Year: 1873

See her pallid countenance, but short time ago the picture of ruddy health, the envy of the school and the pride of the household. She was always welcomed by her schoolmates, for her 1.-the form and pleasing disposition carried cheerfulness into their ranks. Diligent, punc- tual and exemplary obedient and graceful at home, she won the hearts of all. But, alas we sorrowed. Those rosy cheeks and ruddy lips are blanched by consumption. The voice once so enchanting in laugh and song is feeble. husky and supplanted by hollow cough. Let us approach her couch gently and take her hand Do not shudder because of the feeble andpassionless grasp. The hand once so hearty and plump is emaciated and shows bony out lines, while the cords and tortuous veins are plainly mapped upon the surface. The pulse that bounded with repletion, carrying vigor to the whole system. and imparting life, beauty

 vivacity, health and strength, is delicate to the touch. The feeble heart can not propel the thin, scanty blood with force Must we lose her while yet in her teens? Companions and friends gather around with words of cheer and consolation, and depart with moistened eyes and silent steps. Must we lose her :? No

 there is relief We can stay this destroyer of our happiness and not suffer the loss of so bright a gem. Something more is required now than dietary and hygienic observance, for nature calls for aid and she shall have it. Take this pleasant medicine. It is invigorating. How 1t allays the irritable cough, improves the appe- tite and digestion and sends a healthy jingle through the frame The blood is enriched nervous force increased, and the heart bounds with new impulse. See her face brighten by degrees; the color is returning, her voice is getting clearer. and pleasant words are spoken. The strength falters yet, but is gaining. Let Us take her out in the warm sunshine. In short time she will be able to go without our aid 8 cheerful girl This delightful medicine must be God-blessed. It is restoring health to our loved one. She is emerging from her sick ness sweeter and nobler than before and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery must have the credit. It has raised her. Sold by all first class Druggists everywhere. 637
Year: 1873

There is no class of the community upon whom the future welfare of the country more essentially depends than upon the rising generation of young mechanics. If they are intelligent, sober, industrious and consequently Y in dependent, able and accustomed to judge for themselves, and governed in their conduct by an enlightened view of their own best interests; if they are men of this sort, the mechanics, and es- pecially the young mechanics, will form, in conjunction with the young farmers of the country, a bulwark against mono polies and corrupt politicians, .and save the republic. If, on the other hand. they are ignorant, idle, dissolute, and consequently poor, and dependent upon those who are willing to trust them-if our mechanics should unhappily be- come such c,ass-they would soon be converted into the mere tools of few rich and artful men, who, having first stripped them of every sense of self-re- srect, and every feeling proper to virtu- ous citizens, would use them as passive instruments for promoting their own ambitious objects, and for the enact ment of laws which are beneficial to no- body but the artful few and base demagogues with whom they originate.

 It is as true of the mechanical arts as of any other profession that knowledge is pOWer"
Year: 1873

The enforcement of the liquor law has developed new, and it is presumed paying, branch of industry at Boston. It IS serving as substitutes in working out sentences to jail administered to

 liquor sellers. At least one liquor sell Ter, against whom sentence of twenty days to South Boston jailis duly record. ed on the court register, has not been absent from his usual haunts for day. while man called by his name is acti1, ally serving out the sentence and it is pretty certain that such cases have been numerous. and, of course, have been made possible by the connivance of prosecuting officers. In China it is possible even for d man sentenced to death to hire substitute to endure the infiction of the punishment; :; but never before was it possible for offenders against the law In Massachusetts to ex- plate their crimes thus vicariously.
Year: 1873

AFTER THE ED1ToR.-In St. Peters

 burg recently the editor of daily news paper being much impressed with the prevalence of drunkenness, determined to instruct the public mind on the sub- ject, and with this view took an excur- sion into the country to collect facts on the subject. There he found two typi- cal villages where there was no tavern, all order and thrift the other, where the tavern was conspicuous eb- ject, all poverty, misery, disease, and dirt. On this he wrote powerful arti- cle, making an appeal to right-minded persons to do what they could to miti- gate this evil, but he unfortunately brought it to close by asking, s'Where arc the clergy, and why do they not preach against drunkenness ?" The police authorities, being unable to an swer this home question, gave it up. and settled the difficulty summarily by suppressing the edition in which the article was to appear.
Year: 1873

There has never been> time when fires have been so frequent and destruc- tive as during the last two years. These disasters have indeed risen to the rank of national misfortunes, and it is time to do something to prevent the whole sale destruction of property which is constantly occurring. The cost to the country of recent fires, without count ing the great confagrations of Chicago and Boston, has been more than enoug gh to provide every city in the nation with sufficient and efficient fire department. Before anything more is given up to the flames, 1t would be well for every com munity to consider whether it's means for extinguishing fires are what they should be.
Year: 1873

H1NTs.-Don't complain of the sell fshness of the world. Deserve friends, and you will have them. The world is teeming with kind-hearted people, and you have only to carry kind, sympa- thetic heart in your own bosom to call out goodness and friendliness from oth- CTS. It is mistake to expect to receive welcome, hospitality, words of cheer, and help over rugged and difficult pass es in life, in return for cold sel6shness, which cares for nothing in the world but self. Cultivate consideration for the feelings of other people, if you would never have your own injured. Those who complain most of ill-usage are the ones who abuse themselves and others the oftenest.
Year: 1873

The Wilmington Star of the l1th,
relates the following singular case of
lost child found "About ten years
ago white boy by the name Of Henry
Pnrdie Jane, then only about s
years old, mystcriously disappeared
from this city, it being the general
impression at the time that re was
stolen by u circus company. Nothing
more was heard from tho little fellow
or his whereabouts, and his relatives
mourncd him as lost to them forever,
when few weeks since, letter was
received from him by Postmaster
Brink, written in Michigan, in which
he gave detailed description of his
rcoolle ctions in regard to his family.
Col. Brink went to see Mr.. John Tur-
ncr, the grandfather of the boy, who
is an employee at the Gas Works in
this city, and tho result will be tho
speedy return of the boy to his friends.
1t now transpires that tho little fel-
low was stolen by woman who car
ried him to New York City and
from there to the West, where he has
since been left entirely dependent
upon his o%n resources for o sup.
port.
Year: 1873

An experienced man in Illinois
says that he finds much economy in
boiling corn in the ear, and so feeding
it to his hogs. He supposes that tho
alkalies contained in tho cob act upon
the flinty covering Of the grain and
softon it while they also loosen tho
attachm ont of the kernal to tho cob.
Certainly the animals prefer to have


he corn in this fashion. They fattcn
faster and keep in finer corditiou.
Year: 1873

Smashing trunks is not the only pas
time of depot at tiendants, nor is smash
ing the only ill-fate to which the "Sar-
atOga" is liable. There is another way
of making the traveller miserable. Pro-
badly it is not necessary TO say that
hack driver has been arrested for it,
and it is therefore shrewd trick. The
person in the game takes a short trip
and takes his trunk with him. 1t is
we'll known that trunks have no legs,
and cannot run away so trusting in
this fact, the baggage masters in the
smaller places are very apt to leave the
trunks in heap until the cars arrive.
This is the opportunity that the design
ing traveller has in view. He steps up
to see if his trunk is all right. In look
ing it over he takes its check off and
and puts that trunks check upon his
piece of baggage. Then he wanders
away satisfied. On reaching his desti-
nation he takes the trunk to which his
check entities him and drives off with
it. There are, of course, all sorts of
chances in the mattar, but the expert
ment pays, since the price disposed of
is only ballasted and utterly valueless.
The great difficulty, now that the game
is exposed, is how to put a check to it.
People who have anything valuable n
this world, and who take it about in
trunks can read this and have some
thing to worry over " lenever they make
q trip on the cars.
Year: 1873

The law of congress allowing 16O
acres of the public lands to any person
who will plant and keep in order for
ten years forty acres of timber is rem
dered almost wholly imperative by the
decision of the land commissioner at
Washington, who says the farmer must
plant forty acres of trees in single
year. To break and plant forty acres
would cost the farmer more than $3.50,
a sum which few farmers can afford 10
expend for that purpose in one year.
Year: 1873

An ITEM FOR SMOKERs.-It is stated
the opposition of the cigar manufacture
ers to the adoption of the new cigar
stamp box, which the commissioner of
internal revenue has submitted for ex-
animation, does not rise solely from the
fact that the box is patented. One of
the strongest argument urged against
the box at the time it was examined
here, was that the manufacturers could
not take the cigars out of the box and
put them in another box bearing diff
ferent brand. 1t appears to be one of
most profitable tricks of the trade to sell
the same quality of cigars to custermers
under different brands, and to shift
them from one box to another, according
to the character of the orders and the
condition of the stock. These practices
the adoption of these boxes, it is said,
would abolish, for the reason that the
cigars could not be changed to differ
ent box after the stamp and brand had
been once affixed.
Year: 1873

Mothers will do well at this season
of the year to keep their children in thu
house, cool and quiet. Along the sid F(
walk the watermelon and the under |
taker go hand in hand typhoid fever
sails in an invisible shallop on the lake
of the green scum and cholera-mo bus (
familiarly swings upon the front-ga. .es.
Year: 1873

How You've MEN SHOULD DRINK.-
Stand up straight like man, your left
side to the bar, take the glass neatly
and firmly between the thumb and fore
finger Of the right hand, letting the
little finger drop down to near the bot
{. m of the glass, swing the glass in a
plane exactly corresponding with the
top of the bar, until it is precisely
before you. just then throw the head
back little, push the chin forward, so
as to leave the throat in a full, open,
easy position. Compress the lips tight
ly, draw full breath through the nos
txils, o. d with graceful curve raise
the glass until the rim is within about
three inches of your chin. Now is the
supreme moment. Just here, turn your
eIes upward, think of your mother, and


r. your hand instead of your mouth


Hh;oS SO laughs it will be an insult


thara % .ys;ss should rsss mot going


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Year: 1873

The CIRCULATION OF WATERs.-Ihe
principles involved in the circulation of
the waters of the sea were beautifully
shown before the Royal geographical
society recently, by a simple expert
ment. A trough, with plate-glass sides,
about six feet long and a foot deep. but
not more than an inch wide, was filed
with water. At one end piece of ic'
was wedged in between the sides to r.
present the polar cold, while the trOrA
heat was represented at the other eSe %
by bar of metal laid across the surfa y -,
Of the water, the projecting end ',,v,
which was heated by spirit laml
Red coloring matter was then put l.
the warm end, SO that the current cOult
be traced. The blue water, chilled by
contact with the ice, Immediately fell
down to the bottom, crept slowly along,
and gradually rose toward the surface,
at the equatorial end, after which it
gradually returned along the surface to
the starting point. The red water
crept first along the surface to the polar
end, then fell to the bottom Just as tho
blue had done, and formed another
stratum, creeping back along the bottom
and coming to the surface. Each color
made distinct circulation during the
half hour in which the audience viewed
he experiment.
Year: 1873

DOING ONES DUTY.-It is observed
that each person is competent to be
something which no one else can do.
The further we get on in life the more
noticeable does this become in refer
ence to ourselves and others. The
idiosyncracy, the aptitude is felt at first
only as a vague yearning. Inevitably,
in one or more points, our interests will
clash with those of our neighbOrs, even
when we are carrying out what we
deeply feel to be our appOined life
work. This clashing begets skpticism.


We ask ourselves again s5-id again
whether it can really be our dnty to
conflict with and pain others. By and
by we learn from experince that If, in
doing right, we give pain, it is not our
fault. No more our fault than the feel
ing of pain is the fault of him whom
we affect disagreeably. The doctrine of
fatalism has in it much that is incOntro-
vertible, and may well be instanced to
this connection. By doing bravely and I'M
swervingly what We feel drawn on to do,
we are sure to he doing well, no matter
how great the hue and cry raised against
us. Indeed, a disturbance caused by
any line of action is direct testimony to
the power and efficacy Of such action.
The lesson taught by history in this re-
gard is one of the first to be distilled
from dry, isolated facts for the behoof
of youthful learners. Age.
Year: 1873

The New York correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser writes /:
ga case in my own intimate acquaiut-
ance has this week appalled, very large
circle of friends in this city The VIC
tim was exactly of my own years, and a
companion from early boyhood. For
thirty years at least be has been daily
smoker OF the choicest cigars. but in all
his other habits temperate and regular,
and of excellent constitution-one who,
Of all men, would have laughed at the
suggestion that tobacco was killing him


A week ago last Sunday night he was
stricken with the progressive paralysis
characteristic Of nicotine, and on Sunday
night he died His death was most pitt
full. First, sight was lost, then speech,
then motion of the neck, then motion of
the arms, and so on throughout the
body, and lie lay for fortnight unable
to move or make sign, save a pitiful,
tongueless, inarticulate sound, which
sometimes rose to almost frantic effort,
all in vain, to make known what he
wished to say to his family or friends
for his consciousness or mental faculties
were left uninpaired till within two
hours OF the last, TO aggravate to the
uttermost the horror of his situation-a
living soul in dead body The sense
of hearing was left unimpaired, SO that
he was conscious of all around him,
while as incapable of communication
with them as if dead, save by slight
sigh of assent or dissent to question


The doOters were fully agreed that tobac.
co was the sole cause of this stroke.
Year: 1873

To pass away the gloomy hours in
prison, Banyan took rail out of the
stool, belonging to his cell, and with
knife, fashioned it into a flute The
keeper hearing music, followed the
sound to Bunyan's cell, but while he
was unlocking the door the ingenious
prisoner placed the rail in the stool, SO
that the searchers were unable to solve
the mystery; nor during the remainder
of Bunyan's residence in the Jail, did
they ever discover how the music had
been produced.


In an old account of Bedford there is
an equally god anecdotc, to the effect
that Quaker called upon Bunyan in
Jail, one day, with what he professed to
be a message from the Lord. after
searching for thee" said he, Sin half the
jails of England. l am glad to have
found thee at last If the Lord had
sent thee" said Bunyan, sarcastically,
"you would not have needed to take SO
much trouble to find me out, for He
knows have been in Bedford Jail these
seven years past"