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Year: 1873

A usual notion of our Parks is that they are


meant to give us country in the midst of city.


We add to this perhaps, the idea of sculpture


and a little architecture. But it seems that
we shall be greatly mistaken if we associate
our Parks only with developments Of nature
and art. Expecting merely to find Croton, we
may discover in Central Park fountain of
science. At least such is our impression after


reading the Second Annual Report of the
Commissioners Of Public Parks. Turning over
some of its elaborate pages, where the effect
of Winters storm is detailed, we find our
selves invegled into an argument about the
destruction of races and the survival of
the fittest The only path we should
have expected to see toward such conclu-
sions, would be in the biography of the few
survivors among the unhappy animals pre-
sented to the Commissioners in former years.
Something, too, might be founded on the
lost We might anticipate q memoir of the
experience of that big turtle, now deceased,
who, if resident anywhere but in the Park,
would have been rated in table of the ex-
pectaton of life as good for q century; of
that departed pelican, who, if left on Lake
Ponchartrain, would have been exchanging
with alligators, distending her
guet with raw fish, and tearing out her
breast feathers for her progeny yet many a
year ; of that bullet-pierced bear, who was
cut off in the oleaginous flower of.
his adult life while attempting to wash off the
dirt of a sea voyage in Fiftieth-st. mud
puddle. Perhaps the creatures OF tho present
Year: 1873

A gentleman qualified to speak with au-
thority gives positive denial to the statement
that the Commissioner of Public Works had
refused to allow any scrutiny of the accounts
of his Board. We call attention to his COM
municaton in another column.
Year: 1873

1t was fitting that Prof Tyndall the eminent
physicist, visitor to our comparatively new
country should be handsomely sped on his
return homeward. So the distinguished party
which gathered, last night, to wish him a
prosperous voyage, represented not only the
culture and social and scientific progress of
the country, but also the cordial goodwill
which all the people hold for our parting
guest
Year: 1873

struction and are able to pay for the right of
way. Why should tho State Of New-Jersey.
or any other State, undertake to limit the con-
struction of railroads any more than the
organization of manufacturing companies
We hope the time is soon coming, if indeed
it has not already come, when no party can
stand up in NewJerseY against the growing
demand OF the people for the relaxation Of
the railroad monopoly.
Year: 1873

Now why cannot the New-Jersey Legisla-
ture give the people who want to build another
railroad between New-York and Philadelphia
a chancef We don't know whether the bill
introduced yesterday is the right one, not; but
we are inclined 30 consider any bill right, which
gives people a chance to build railroad where
ever they can get the money for the con-
Year: 1873

So we are to have another Credit MObiier
investigation. The Senate, having received a
copy of that portion of the testimony which
affects its members, sent over from the
House, has ordered an examination of its own.
There is some significance in the action of
Senator Patterson, one of the worst wounded
Senators. in moving for this Committee Mr..
Colfax, of course, will retain his case in the
House Committee.
Year: 1873

There are no diseases SO dehilitating in their ef
fects upon the constitution a. the above and none
difficult 10 cure by the usual modes of practice
The FEVER AND AGTE POWDERS will effect 3
cure in cases Of the longest standing well g.
prove preventive in the forming stages Of the dis
ease Being purely Vegetable. they act with Ger
tainty the disease totally eradicating it from tn
system, and prevent return al any future period


Why waste your money and health in trying every
medicine yon hear Of, when THoMPSONss FEVER
AND AGCE POWDERS have never failed 10 cure
the C'HTIIS in any rases
Year: 1873

morning sold at 4s shillings per ton and
during the day advanced to So shillings.
Many furnaces and mills have been com
PEELED to suspend work


The excessive cold of the past few days
is abatine.
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil is safe
to use and does not soil the clothing or
the person, neither does it lose its virtues
by age or exposure. Directions on each
bottle how to cure pain, how to be happy,
how to be handsome 1T works ike a
charm Try it.
Year: 1873

The great cause of so many young peo-
pie being gray headed is on account of
their having used the vile compounds
which have flooded the market so long


NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE is a sure
remedy for this. Clear as crystal no
poison perfectly s'ceet, clean and reliable.
All druggists sell it. See advertisement
Year: 1873

RkMEMBER. this is not lottery swindle, but is
II projected solely to relieve Dr. Spinney from the
care OF his property and all outstanding embarass-
meBt, that he may devote his whole time TO the
practice OF his profession in Davenport, which now
requires all his time and energy
The projectors of this scheme have been very for
tunate In selecting their General Agent and Mana
ger as his personal and business character is per
feet guarantee of the integrity of the enterprise.
~ Agents wanted to sell tickets.
eT All tickets not returned or poid for will he
cancelled.
Year: 1873

ALLcoCK's Porous PLAsTKE-n throat affcc-
tiOnr they have no equal as a sue cure. Even
in structures OF the bronchial tnbes drnpsy Of the
heart tumOrs, internal and ovarian, said TO have
been cured by these pasters. But in all the uscs
for strengthening plaster and for nervous and 10
cal pains we have the testimony Of the first physi
clans in the United States and of Europe in their ia
vOr- How great the comfort TO have suffocating
cough 10 have sharp pains in the chest queer creep
ing sensations around the heart, cured by the sim
Pile remedy OF a clean. flexible entirely unobection
able plaster But internal fumors considered Of 1
fatal character also cured by this mild and in
nocent application. which acting like second skin
produces steady pressure, by which absorption
resulting in case at once and ultimate cure is oh
tanned.


GROUP


case occurred of severe Group where no docro
could be had before morning The mother bethough
nf some Porous Plasters she had in the house The,
were Ait 80 as to fiji around the throat and chest
The whistling breathing soon abated In few
hours the child slept, and in the morning sign O
group remained. sold by all Druggizts
Year: 1873

From lands end to lands end, that all may read,
aud reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy and that j.
Year: 1873

The drawing will be conducted on the stage Of
The AcadeHg Of Music in full view of the audience
and under personal supervision Of the following
well known and disinterested gentlemen who have
kindly con-uted to act Il
Year: 1873

The reports from New York and Philadelphia
agree in saying that the money market ia easier
and the general business prospect improved. In
the former citythe Bulletin of this morning saws
the Improvement experienced on Saturday was
OF healthy kind, and calculated to prepare the
way for the resumption of currency payments
by the BAnks."
Year: 1873

GENERAL EARLY TO LECTURE IN RICH
MoND.-General Early has consented to de-
liver an address in this city on the evening
of the Goth instant, the day set apart for the
commemoration of General Lees birthday,
in mid of the fund being raised for the com
pletion in marble Of Mr. Valentines design
for decorating the tomb of the great soldier.
The place for the delivery Of the address
will be anno9Resaip due time.
Year: 1873

A HEROIC AcT.-On the oath Of December
last son of Captain Hopkins, of Ware
Neck, attempted to 60 to vessel that was
lying IN Ware river, taking two young CO.
lored boys with him. The boat was upset,
and left the three to struggle in the icy-cold
water. The courageous young seaman swan
to the vessel, carrying both of the colored
boys on his back. He put them safely on the
vessel, and then returned to the shore to get
a boat to take them home. When he reached
the vessel the second time lie found the
youngsters one dead and the other nearly
dead. but took him directly home, and by
rubbing and wrapping up warmly was soon
restored - Gloucester Herald.
Year: 1873

To BREAK PAIR OF STEERs.-The first
step in my practice was to get the steers in a
small yard. then into the stall, put a rope
around the horns. tie them in The stall. and
teach them to stand quietly when tied. Al,
harshness was avoided. The next thing was
to establish confidence between myself and
the steers; which was done by pat:ing. curry
ing, AID feeding nubhins of corn. Wild steers
would soon le'ri that they re not going to
be hurt They were then trained to be led
sngly; after which two were tied together by
therhCrns, aud were led around the ward,
and along the highway. until they were as
tractable as a gentle horse. Then yoke was
put on their necks. and two were allowed TO
run loose for afew hours every day in the
yard while wearing the yoke. A weep was
then made by setting post in the ground,
allowing it to extend two or three feel above
the surface; and the butt end of the pole,
ttwei ty or more ct long, was placed in
horizontal position on The post, with a. iron
bolt or crowbar running through the pCle to
the top of the post. The steers were bitched
to the small end Of the pole with a band Sled
attached; and they were irainel to draw the
0river on the sled. After a few lessons on
the sweep, they were prepared to draw light
sleigh to the woods aud bring bone & small
load of woods. E. Todd at N. Y. Farm
er'S Club
Year: 1873

They are going TO increase the salary of the
lord mayor of London-no grab. He gets on
ly the paltry SIN OF S35,U00 now aud they
propose to give him $4,000, the increase to
be mainly spent in liberal hospitalities to COM
meTcial men and municipal au hoiities- If
he is smart he will give those fellows two
dollar clearinghouse fare and then save
handsome niln
Year: 1873

The writer wishes he could offer hirself as
an awful example of the perils which environ
the man who NEEDLES with cold-type. A
thoroughly trained printer should have had
stepmother and then q stepiatber, aud then
have been bound out to a tanner, and then
have married seolding wife aud lived in
smoky house, and have had family of babies
who were afflicted with the collie He should
have added to all this discipline Thorough
knowledge Of science, art. law, languages,
t1eolngy. history and biography. II, N ddi-
ton be has vicious looking countenance
and an amiable disposition, he may stand
some chance with those authors and editors;
but the probabilities are, after all that they
will worry him to DEATH"
Year: 1873

1t isn't often that anything sentimental oc-
ours at Sheriff sale. The Sheriff of Tioga
county, n. Y, was recently told to distrain
the effects of widow to satisfy iudgme nts.
After he had performed his duty he said to
the spectators that he proposed to contribute
the amount of his fees to the unfortunate
woman. The good example proved contagi,
Gus; one donation after another was handed
in the purchasers returned the articles which
they had bought the non-purchassrs gave
cash and provisions; so that the widow was
soon better of than ever.
Year: 1873

From the report of the condition of the
wheat crop, just issued from the Agricultur-
al Department, it appears that in the Mid
die States q great improvement upon the
ed, especially in New Jersey and PennsylYa-
MIA. The prospects in the States south of
Maryland IS less favorable than last year,
and there are indications Of diminishing area
in the cotton States. In Kentucky a more
checkered showing Is made, giving a present
appearance OF decidedly unfavOrable cast
with indications Of future improvement as tbs
weather becomes settled.
Year: 1873

The Legislature of Illinois has enacted that
"No person shall be preclnded or debarred from
any occupation or profession or employmentlex.
cept military on account of sex, provide that
this act shall not be construed to affect the elig-
ibilty of any person to an elective Office" Thus
women may hereafter be lawyers in Illinois, and
may fill any Office within the appointment of the
Governor or President No doubt the Legisla.
ture would haye admitted them to elective Offices
also but for fear Of exciting dangerous and
deadly quaFrels among the men.
Year: 1873

A geological item of interest comes from
Vicksburg, which has an eccentric tom-cat
that persists In sitting on nest of hens eggs,
evidently for the purpose of Matching them as
he is never absent from his charge, except for
the purpose of supplying himself with foo L.
At last accounts three of the chickens had
broken shell, and were kindly cared for by
their strange protector, who Immediately cast
the empty shells out of the nest and went on
with his incubation. That cat should ina
gine himself henis one Ofthe most wonderful
instances of mOn0mania on record.
Year: 1873

Our Quaker friends in Philadelphia, always
foremost with useful practical advice and
help, have lately issued pamphlet addressed
to mothers on the subject of the terrible NOR
tality of late years among children during the
Summer months, and the means, aside from
| medical aid, of its prevention and cure. The
directions are drawn up by committee OF
the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia, and
the names are those of men who stand
highest in their profession in the treat
ment of children. OF course these di-
rections are especially intended for the poorer
class, of mothers who are unable to fly with
their teething babies out of the foul air OF
town, OF to keep them under the constant over
sight of a skilled physician. The rules, like
all those most effective in Hygiene, appear to
an ordinary reader absurdly simple; yet it is
after all disobedience to the simple rules of
health and morality, for which, since the days
of lamenting jeremiah to the present time,
the people are destroyed. When the Philadel-
phia doctors urge upon mothers In cities dur
ing the Summer months the absolute ne
cessity of bathing the child by INNER
sion in the morning i'll tepid water
and sponging it at night, the rule appears so
commonplace an exigency OF decency that 1t
ia passed over with indifference, just as the
Syrian leper scoffed at the prophets orders to
wash himself seven times. "If he had hidden
" thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not
" have done it 7" inquired his servants. We
have q shrewd suspicion that the simple rules
even in regard to washing are neither known
10 nor comprehended by the majority of
mothers, or the wise old Quaker doctors would
not have issued them thus authOritatiyely.
We. therefore, make an abstract of them,
anxious TO do our part in averting the ter
rible doom of last Summer from the little
ones.


1. Perfect cleanliness is enioined in every
minute particular; the change of night and
day clothing, clean with each change.


Q. A bed or cot, apart from its mother, for
the child.


3. Plenty of fresh air. The baby should be
taken to the Park. the boats that ply up and
down the rivers; the shady side of broad streets
or public squares; kept carefully out of the
room where cooking or washing is going on,
and given plenty of ice water to drink.


A. The house kept scrupulously clean. Walls
white-washed; slops and garbage promptly
removed; and the air purified by carbolic
acid or quicklime.


8. The child, if sick, must be kept to the
mothers milk alone, or, if that prove insult
cient, to goats or cows milk. There is no
safe substitute for milk to infants who have
not cut their front teeth No child should be
weaned, as rule, until after its second Sum-
mer. The food which Nature has provided
will often save the life of child when every
thing else fails.


0. Without the advice Of q physician, no
Year: 1873

child should be given spirits, cordials, car
minatives, OF soothing sirups of any KIND.
Thousands of children. the physicians add, de
eperp pear from the use Of these poisons.


In fact, tho sum and substance OF these
directions seem to be simply to guard the
child against poisoning in air, foul clothes,
food, or medicine; which brings us back TO
the first statement that pure country or sea
air is the only absolute safeguard for the life
of n young infant NewY0rk lags behind
Philadelphia in the matter of Summer
hospital for the ailing children of the poor
When we urged this matter on the attention
of our charitable women last Spring, and
contributions were proifered to us for the pur-
pose there was absolutely no one to whom
we could refer the givers who was ready
to further their object. BY next Summer we
hope this Obloquy will be removed from the
city. There is an asylum ready for every
form of adult disease; but the poor mother
who sees her child dying on her knees for
lack of a breath Of Gods free air, cannot
give it to him.
Year: 1873

Why cannot the Republican party of Phila-
delphia-if any of its once purifying and re-
forming spirit survives-be true to its ancient
traditions and purge itself of the evil agencies
which now control it7 This is question even
we at distance have perfect right to ask.
We recall the days, not very remote, when, in
the great struggle for freedom and, with it,
for the publication of the State, THE
TRIBUNE had no more Jealous and
faithful co0perators than the Republi-
cans of our sister city. We honestly believe,
at this moment, thoroughly in accord as we
still are on all economical questions, that our
voice of warning will be listened to. If in
this we are in error, no responsibility rests on
us. The Republican managers in Philadelphia
may be so far implicated in the schemes of
the offce-holders a. to be unable at this day
10 release themselves and do the duty of
patriotism. In that case we appeal to the rank
and file.


That at this moment there is and for years
has been in Philadelphia, notorious and
corrupt "Ring" which dominates everything
to its own evil purposes, no sane man dis
Dutes II is openly and boldly charged by
Year: 1873

In the course of his report on the proposed
site for the new Bridewell, Controller Green
incidentally discusses the project of removing
Bellevue Hospital The Controller, it viii be
observed, is convinced that no change in the
location of that institution is needed; and he
reports that the present objections to the
building can all be removed by enlargement
and internal Improvements. 1t is generally
agreed, moreover, that the site of the hospital
is not suitable for the purposes of prison.
Year: 1873

"Stone walls do not prison make, Nor iron bars
cage" sang the old poet, and the case Of Mr. John
Crane Of Massachusetts, would seem TO confirm TINS
philosophical view Of incarceration. Mr. Crane, Tor
rather loose proceedings in matter Of bankruptcy
was first sent to Fitchburg Jail by the United States
authorities, and passed two years in that strong
hold, without being obliged to work. and doing very
much as he pleased Afterwards, upon conviction
of fraud in State court, Mr.. Crane was consigned
for two years to the jail in East Cambridge. Here
he boosted that he never had key turned on
him." On the ground that they were necessary TO
his health. he was permitted to wear his mustache
and beard, while the faces Of common unfortunates
were shayen as smooth as a smelt. lie had plenty
of money and was permitted to keep it in his own
possession. lie went in and out Of the building as
he pleased, and there was nothing to prevent his
going out at night ii he wanted to. lie purchased
what he wished to cat and cooked it in the guard
room. He smoked though there was rule against
smoking. He gave oyster suppers to the officers


He is said to have lad all the wine and spirits when
he wished for and, in the goodness of his heart TO
have supplied it to the prisoners. An officer who
reprimanded him was threatened by this prisoner
with dismissal, and singuarly enough, he has since
been dismissed This is the story as we find 1t, and
a very queer story it is.
Year: 1873

The ways in which poor, harmless wives are de-
ceived by marbe-hearted husbands are many and
dreadful ;-and among the most dreadful cases OF
deception is this, which we gTieve to relate. An
Indiana wife. wearing only half a dozen pounds or
so of somebody el5e's hair upon her head, became
convinced that life wouldn't be worth having with
out the addition of a pound or two to the mass.
Acting upon this conviction, she soon, by series Of
conversations persuaded her husband that his life
wouldn't be worth having unless the said addition
were Immediately made. Captivating gracefully,
he sent home two "switches" from which the fair
lady was to make her selection But mark the
wickedness of this abandoned man! Before dis
patching them he carefully changed the tags upon
which the price was marked, putting the twenty
five dollar tag upon the ten dollar switch and cce
rersa After a strict and examination Of the
two switches by his trusting wife and all her fem
inine friends, the one marked S25 was naturally
enough chosen. And that wretched man, that pc
nurious fiend, exulted over his treachery to that
gentle lovely woman
Year: 1873

There are few things so good to fight an enemy
with as his own weapons Such is the lesson OF the
diplomat and the soldier and the temperance people
of Niagara Fails have taken occasion to show that
they also have learned IT, gentleman of thatplace,
dealing abundantly in the flowing bowl, lately
deemed it his duty to make an arid world aware Of
the capacity and the excellence of the same To this
end he did straightway launch upon the highway
peripatetic small boy carrying tremendous trans
parency bearing testimony to the said abundance
and delicious goodness of his liquors This artistic
procession of one was extremely successful in its
object until another procession of small boy and big
transparency appeared dangling in its wake Alas
for the deaerin the fluid which biteth and stingeth
The temperance party had borrowed his dea but not
his legend-for on tho second transparency writ
ten this sentence: "Cursed is he that putteth the
cup to his brothers lips"
Year: 1873

Tenants of booths about Fulton Market are
elevating their shanties on short stilts, with
the expectation that they will thus be able to
stay destruction. This sort OF tempOrizing,
however, did not help the case of the huck-
sters around Washington Market. Now we
Lave got at it, clean sweep may as well be
made of all these excresences They have no
right where they are; they impede travel,
check ventilation and collect various kinds of
refuse and repulsve litter. To suppose that
any of these objections can be Obviated by
hosting the booths on poles is TO imply that an
extension of the AstOr House into Broadway
would be unobjectiOnable if it were built so
that broom could pass under it.
Year: 1873

A Southern newspaper speaks of a commencement
address as eloquent, chaste, and unique'-ot
another as "manly and pleasing"-of third as
elegant, graceful. and eanest'-of a fourth as
" soul-warming'-of a fifth as sparkling and beau
tifup-of a sixth as vigorous and sound" There
is no more useful part of speech than your adjec-
tive In reporting it saves all the trouble of special
and distinctive description. Coneretes are trouble
some and nouns mean something, but the adjectives
are always at hand and may be sprinkled upon the
page as easily as pepper is sprinkled from the box.
Year: 1873

The manner of restraining the playful impetuOsity
of Southern gentlemen while at church is very
graceful and picturesque. Not with calm and tepid
words does Texas preacher rebuke an unduly
gamesOme flock. No; the worthy man to whom
specially refer stopped his sermon, the other day,
raised convenient rifle and observed warmly in a
spirit of love- William Dellp, sit down or I'll make
it painful for you.' The slightly obstreperous
William Immediately took this mild hint and sat
him down to quiet enjoyment of his Christian
privileges.