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Year: 1873

OF miners wages in Eureka, tho Ser-
tinsl, of Sunday last, says: .


At this inopportune moment, when
every kind of business is almost at
standstill on account OF the prevailing
horse disease, the managers of the Eu-
reka Consolidated Company have made
an effort to reduce the wages of miners
s.fn their employ. As consequence OF
, this action, the miners, as might have
been expected, have very generally quit
work, and will in all probability seek
other localities for employment. The
furnaces of the company have been shut
down, but whether on this account or
because OF the accumulation of bullion,
which cannot be moved away for some
time to come, we are not informed Be
that as it may, the attempt to cut down
the wages of labor will fail, as it has in
every mining camp. The experiment
was made in White Pine, aud all the best
miners left the country, and sought work
elsewhere; and after few months trial
of the low wages system, the price OF
labor was raised to its old rate--four dol
lars per day-and good miners were thus
induced to return. The wages of this
kind of labor never ought to be lower
than the above-named standard price,
for it will not pay men to work for less
IN new country, where the cost OF hv'
ing is so high.
Year: 1873

THINGS A MARRIED MAN CANNOT HELP
THINKING.


That all the girls used to be in love with
him.


That all the widows are now.


That If he were Widower he could mar
ry again whenever he chose.


That all the other fellows are fools.
That be wouldn't introduce any fellows
he knows to his sister or his daughter.
That bis wife is little jealous.


That she used to be a pretty gEL


That his mother could make good bread;
that bis wife cannot,


That he would not trust mOss


That if he could ever - women.
make his fortune -r'ecula0e ne "ouiu
' - would enjoy a country life.


4nat his girls will never be so silly as to
marry.


That his mother-in-law may be fine old
lady, but


That smoking never hurt man yet.
That with little management the ser
wants would always do well and never give
warning.


That his shirt buttons are grossly neglect
ed.


That he is going to make his fortune
some day.


That be despises old bachelors.
THINGS MARRIED WOMAN CANNOT


HELP THINKING.


That she was very pretty at sixteen.
That she had, or would have had, great
many offers.
That all her lady friends are five years
older than they say they are.


That she bas very find mind.


That if her husband had acted on her ad
vice, be would be rich man to-day.
That people think too much ofthe looks
of that Mis-, who would not be call
ed handsome if she didn't make herself up.
That her mother-in-law is very trying
woman.


That her sister-in-law takes airs, and
ought to be put down.


That her girls are prettier than Mrs. AS
girls.


That she would like to know tohere her
husband spends his evenings when he stays
out.


That her eldest son takes after him.
That he is going to throw himself away
on Miss Scraggs.


That Mrs. Scraggs set her cap for him
and did all the courting.


That her servant girls ara the worst ever
known.


That she has taste In dress.
That she has good temper.
That she pities old maids.
Year: 1873

That nervous youth in Louisville who
by mistake slipped a nickel fve-cent piece
iEto the parsons hand instead of a five
dollar gold piece which he had ready in an
other pocket. after three weeks of welded
bliss, thinks he paid pretty dear for his fun
after all, and regrets that the nickle was
not suspender button.
Year: 1873

The British Post Office has declin-
ed to entertain the proposition to ad-
NIT postal cards to the international
mails and permit them to become a
medium of communication between
the citizens of the two countries-Eng-
land and the United States upon
terms intended to foster their use :;
and the reasons given in this refusal
adduce one fact, which, though we'll
known to travellers, is not familiar to
the general public. The use of pos
tai cards has never been popular with
the English people; and even among
the lower classes, who might care more
for cheapness than privacy the open
card has never been in general circula-
ton.


They were, to begin with, in Eng
land certain causes which operated to
destroy the popularity Of the card.
The tailor nsed it for duns, and it was
made the medium of many petty acts
of malice which, though not lbelous
IN tn emselve,s were none the less an
noying. It was employed for purposes
OF intimidation in many way that
narrowly escaped liability TO the sta
tute aimed against blackmail. AS a
consequence, it was not long in be-
coming unpopular, and public opinion
had settled into a rooted prejudice
against open correspondence before any
suits for libel occurred


A young man whose tailor had sent
an insolent dun, brought suit for libel
and recovered heavy damages, the
Judge holding in general terms that
no communication, which would in
jure the standing of any person, in
whatsoever manner, was eligible for
open correspondence. This decision
put stop to the abuses of which the
postal card is in it's very nature pecu-
liarly susceptible; but open correspon-
dence in England cannot be said as
yet TO have recovered from the stigma
put upon it by rem dering it the vehi-
Gle of insult
Year: 1873

1J0 SD Ay. ENTRANCE ON 65TH ST, TOP FLOOR
.IlO front room.-A respectable girl as good cook
washer and iroDer to do general housework a small
private family good reference objection going
tho country.
Year: 1873

Some time ago Il was charged, and after


wards demonstrated, that the records of the
Buell. court martial were distracted frOm the
War Department Within . few days it
has been discovered that xll the archives in
the War Department pertaining 10 the secret
history Of the late rebellion have been stolen.
When this was done, or by whom, Is not
known. The late Secretary Stanton, during
his administration IF the war Office, fled y
large number of private letters and tele.
grams, the existence of which were known
70 two or three persons besides himself.
They related 10 courts martial, the conduct
of prominent officers Of the army, the in-
trigues Of politicians and military aspirants,
the rnscsli;y Of Government contractors.
and the ways and means used to influence
the President Of the United States in over.
ruling The decisions of the Secretary Of War
In these cases. A gentleman whose position
made him familiar with these documents.
says many men who were cOnnected with
the army, and who have since figured in
public life. will retain their character more
securely with these records out of tho reach
of scrutiny. It 10 known that they were oil
IN the War Office when Stanton retired.
He had them systematically bricfed and
slowed away In safe place, and had he
lived and remained In public life they would
probably. have figured largely In preventing
the appointment Nf men 10 Office who have
since shown that they were no better fitted
for the civil service than they were for
positions of trust and high command in the
army. These private archives covered
period of time from the first battle of Bull
Run down to the surrender of Lees army.
They embraced orders for courts martial
with their findings, some Of them senten.
cling the offenders to be shot, records Of
which tho people were ignorant. 1t 10 said
that gentleman connected with the War
Department during the rebellion through
copies of them, and will use them in writing
the secret history Of the war; Washisgso0
Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Press.
Year: 1873

All ladies having Hair Goods made up or
making purchases in that line to the extent of 81
or upwards will receive four tickets.


Parties making purchase of Jewelry to the
extent Of 81 or upwards will receive two tickets;
and 80 cents worth of Jewelry purchasers of 25
cents worth of Jewery will receive one ticket.
For every Ladies Scarf at Goc or upwards one
ticket.


f or every Ladies' Belt one ticket.


For every Bustle one ticket


For every Hoopskirt one ticket


For every pair of Corsets one tickets.
For every Hair Brush or Comb at 70 cents or
upwards one ticket


For every Pocket Book one ticket.


For every Japan Switch at 20 cts. one ticket
For every Fan at 25c or upwards one ticket.
For every Plait at 25c or upwards one ticket
Year: 1873

SALE OF BUILDING LoTs.-The sale Of building
lots by Messrs. Ogle & Miller, on Saturday after
noon, at O'Clock. should be largely attended
These lots arc well situated on high and healthy
ground, in part of the city that will soon be
rapidly filling up with good houses TheV are
within short walk of the railway station, and
very desirable to those who wish to enjoy a
country residence and do business in the heSrf az
the city. Those who invest their money in the
purchase Of these lots, may rest assured Of the
fact that they will soon more than double IL
Lots in the vicinity that few ysars ago sold for
81 d ioOt now sell for IS and SO foot. See adj
Vertisemont.
Year: 1873

The first year of married life lisa. most
important era in the history of man and
wife, Generally, as it is spent, so is almost
all subsequent existence. The wife and
the husband then assimilate their views
and their desires, or else, coniuring up
their dislikes, they add fuel to their pref
udices and animosities forever afterward.
81 have somewhere read, !" says Rev. Mr.
Wise, in his Bridal Greeting, "of BRIDE
groom who gloried in his eccentricities. He
requested his bride to accompany him to
the garden day or two after the wedding.
He then threw line over the roof of their
cottage Giving his wife one. side of it he
retreated to the other side and exclaimed:


"Pull the line."


She pulled it, at his request, as far as
she could. He cried


"Pull it over"


81 can't" she replied. .ti


"But pull with all your might" shouted
the whimsical husband.


But vain were all the efforts of the bride
to pull the line, so long as her husband
held on to the opposite end. But when he
came around and they both pulled at one
end, it came over with great ease.


"There,' said be, as the line fell from
the roof, Fyou see how hard and ineffect-
ual was our labor when we both pulled in
opposition to each other /; but how easy and,
pleasant it was when we both pulled to-
gether. 1t will be so with us through life,
my dear, if we oppose each other, it will
be hard work. If we act together it will
be always pleasant to live. Let us always
pull together Hm lal tHa


In this illustration, homely as it may be,
there is sound philosophy. Husband and
wife must mutually bear and concede, if
they wish to make home retreat of bliss.


One alone cannot make home happy.
| There must be unison of action, sweet
ness of spirit, and great forbearance and
love in both husband and wife, to secure
the great end of happiness in the domestic
| circle,
Year: 1873

In the Boston Herald strange story is
told concerning secret marriage. During,
the last eight or nine years, wealthy
widowed lady and her only son have lived
together at the North End, the latter dur
ing all that time exhibiting every sign of
the greatest filial devotion. During the lat
ter part of January last he died suddenly,
and, after his burial, young lady, for
whom he had occasionally during life ex-
pressed tender feeling, came to his moth
er, and, to the amazement Of that lady,
announced that for eight years she had
been her sons wife. This she proved by
documents, and she he's put forth claim
for her share Of the dead. mans property.
There seems TO haye been no sound reason
for this concealment and the affair win
doubtless remain a mystery, unless the lady
J wishes to dwvlge,
Year: 1873

It was believed that the U. s. Treas ury Department intended to inaugurate the return to specie paymenG, by paying out silver. A later report says: Were the Secretary of the Treasury disposed to issue silver coin to any larger amount, he would not at this time be able to do so. The influx of foreign gold makes it necessary that it should be assayed and recoined at the earliest moment. Every effort is being put forth at the Philadelphia Mint to coin gold, and the capacity of its machinery is not equal to the present demand. As the labor of csining piece of silver is as great as coining gold the Secretary says the public will readily see that it would be impossible to turn out any large amount of silver coin without allowing the un- coined gold to accumulate, and that would be positive injury to the busi- ness interests of the country. He doubts whether people will care to burden their pockets with metallic money when the fractional currency is just as valuable and good deal more convenient. What ever amount is put out, it is his impress sion will be hoarded and not be used as circulating medium.

 His plan, he thinks, will be to allow all government indebtedness in small amounts, and sums of $5 or $10 on large bills, to be paid out in the silver stand ard coins by the Aasistant Treasurer; this to continue while the premium on gold remains below no. The extent of pouring out silver coin, it will be seen, has basis, like that of circulating the trade dollar, entirely governed by the premium on gold.
Year: 1873

A PRov1DENT1An MAN.-This title now justly belongs to physician who has added to the list of medicines new remedy, which appears to include all that is most valuable in the old pharmacopoeia, and not to include any of the drawbacks with which the so- called specifics of the Faculty are chargeable. The Providential man is DR. JOSEPH WALKER, of California, whose VINEGAR BrrTERs have achieved, in the short space of two years, 8 degree of popularity never before attained by any advertised preparation in this coun- try. We have too much confidence in the shrewdness of the American people to suppose that this sudden and sur prising celebrity is the outgrowth of delusion. Indeed, we have reason to know that it is founded on innumerable and we'll authenticated cures of almost all the bodily ills that flesh is heir to. Not the least among the merits of the famous Tonic and Restorative, is it's entire freedom from alcohol, as we'll as from all mineral drugs. It is composed exclusively of rare vegetable extracts.
Year: 1873

The New York Cigar Makers are on a strike. The manufacturers wish to re- duce their rates of payment to the standard in vogue before last fall and this alteration is murmured at. A local paper says good and attentive cigar maker can, if he works we'll and steadily, manufacture 25O per diem, earning thereby $5 @ day or $3O per week under the old rule to which manufacturers wish to return. Under the rates which have been usual during the past year the price paid to the makers has been $2 per thousand in advance of this, which whd would make a good mans pay $33 per week. The manufacturers say that they are willing to do all in their power to help their employees, but the stringency of trade compels them to lower the rate of wages. On account of the scarcity of money and the laxity of business, many of the smaller factories have been compelled to discharge many of their hands.
Year: 1873

Prof. Henry in a scientific convention suggested that if the storm comes to the seaboard the air is constantly drawn in from sea, bringing an immense amount of vapor. This may continue several days, constituting at Boston, for instance, long and violent northeast storm, when 50 or 75 miles back in the country the air is clear. The storm ap- pears to be produced by the heating of the lower strata and their expansion 1; then the equilibrium being disturbed there is a rushing up of tbe moist air into higher region, where it is con- densed and the caloric given out, where by the effect is increased. The whole storm is wasted eastward. till it comes to the seaboard, where it receives con- tinual supply. In the interior the SUD- ply at given point is soon exhausted, and this may be cause for the storm moving eastward. During Q storm at the seaboard there is motion outward ]; the wind is blowing inward from the ocean below, but outward toward it O
Year: 1873

Have you ague in the face ; and is it bon or sde you or pains in the stomach or bowels? Have you, bilious collie or severe gripping pains If so sue JohnSon's Anodyne Liniment internally
Year: 1873

Moncure D. Conway, in letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial dated the 18th
April, says; oH d


The other day Mr.. Spurgeon gave an
account of the invitations he had re-
ceived to 60 to America. will just
tell you," he said, one little thing that
happened to me this afternoon. | had
letter from a gentleman well known in
America, giving me this offer, $25, 900
for twenty-five lectures-that is e200
for each lecture. On these terms the
twenty-five lectures would give me $4,000,
and in hundred nights | should have
100000. Besides this | should be al


lowed to lecture for as many more
nights as chose, so that | might, in the
course of year, be worth G40,00O and
no doubt the persons who undertake this
would earn ten times the amount.
have nothing to do but to leave you for
a year, and come home with twenty or
forty thousand pounds, while if | stay
here / shall have nothing like that.
What do you suppose was my an
swer to this offsr2 / wrote, if
you were to multiply that offer
by one hundred times, and again by one
hundred times, / should feel it as easy to
decline as | do now, when l say cannot
cross the ocean to lecture upon any sub
ject whatever. am a minister of the
gospel, and never lectured for money,
and do not intend to do so now; and if
nay people do not support me it is a pity.
Some people would say, why not go over
to America and get the money to build
the college. l shall not do so, because
shall not do one thing to degrade
myself or disgrace you. l shall not
make any appeal to another country to
do what you can and ought to do. There
are two brothers here tonight who have
received offers from America. Each
man can lecture as well as preach, and
there is no harm in their having five
hundred pounds and months holiday.
If we're in their position 1 should do
the same thing; but as l am, l cannSt
leave the college nor the orphanage, not
if my house were filled with silver and
gold from top to bottom. ! should feel,
if l went to America, that / should go,
not to preach the gospel, but to lecture;
and l cannot do this, no, not for the
national debt" f+>f>1
Year: 1873

A remarkable old woman named Vir-
ginie Chesquires, has just departed this
life, close to Issy, near Paris. She had
almost attained her hundrsdth year, and
had behaved with remarkable heroism
during the war of the First Empire, at
which period she fought as a soldier in
the Twenty.seventh regiment. She went
through the Peninsular campaign, and
gained the rank of sergeant for gallaDtry
and good conduct, and on one occasion
she carried off the dead body of her
colonel under fire. While trying to lift
up her commander, two of the enemy
approached, upon which she made signs
pretending to be wounded; they hurried
forward to secure their prisoner, but
when they were near the sergeant shot
one of them, seized his horse, flung the
body over the saddle-bow, and rode back
to the French lines. The other trooper
fed on seeing his comrade fall. The
sergeant however, had been wounded,
and blood was flowing from the breast.
The surgeon insisted on undressing the
sergeant, and then it was discovered that
the gallant non-commissioned officer be.
logged to the fair sex.
Year: 1873

A novel spectacle was recently


witnessed in Detroit Michigan.


About fortnight since widow
named Gathner met an acquaintance
on the street, and said that she was
in a destitute candition, and had no
means of keeping starvation and
death from her door. The gentle
man thus addressed looked at the
woman a moment, and replied that
she was young and good looking
enough to marry again. To this
Mrs. Gathner answered that she had
no objection to such an arrangement
but she had, thus far, been unable to
find a husband "Ill sell you at
auction, replied the gentleman, "and
the only proviso shall be that the
highest bidder shall court you for a
week, in order that you may know
him." The woman consented and
the sale was announced. The auc-
tioneer stated to the crowd which
assembled that he had known the
woman for years, and that he knew
her TO be Industrious and Of good
character, and then opened the sale.
Bidding was lively and everybody in
great humqr. In the crowd was an
old bachelor, named Joslyn, and he
was the only one who took the joke
as a real fact. He jumped from 43
cents to $5, and then raised TO 80.
The auctioneer called on that figure
and the widow was knocked down.
Joslyn handed her the money, agreed
TO the proviso and left the crowd,
none OF whom had q thought that a
marriage would take place however,
after the terms Of the proyiso had
been faithfully carried out And
while tits quite certain that Joslyp
has found q good helpmeet, the
bridegroom's friends say that he is
sober, steady good-tsmperedand well
of.
Year: 1873

The following story, told by John
Smith 1--WE will suppose his name to
be Smith) and his son Virgil, is said
to be "truo bill "


Smith hadG very promising young
horse, now for tho first time train.
ing for the track. The other day
Virgil, bright little chap, somo ten
years of age, was speeding the colt
around the track, and making tho
run in gallant style, when the colt
suddenly SHE'D and threw the boy
of. The cause Of this was young
porker that had slowed himself in
the brush close to the track, quiet
spectator to the colts performance,
until the latter got almost opposite
to him, when he made violent rush
with the result mentioned. BY the
time his anxious father reached tho
ground the boy was on his feet un-
hurt Said tho father:


Virgil, don't you know how to
ride a COLT, to let little pig like
that throw you off / don't want
the colt spoiled 1 want him to 60
round tho track, and I'll show you
that apig cant prevent him."


III bet YOU said Virgil; ''heu
throw you too if a pig makes him
jump like he did with mo-"


"No, Le won't Virgil you can get
in the brush there, and when 1 ride
him round you can grrnnt like a pig.
I'll show you how it is done," said
the elder Smith.


Accordingly the colt was caught
and mounted by Smith the elder,
the boy in the meantime having
taken his position in the bush to
play tho role of pig in which he sue
aeeded to perfection. When the sire,
after a rattling run, had reached tho
nroper place, he started like young
grizzly, and tearing out of the brush,
laused the panic stricken colt to pitch
lis rider ingloriously in the dirt.
himself up, the discomft.
ID dad said savagely:


"What did you do that for told
'ou to grunt like pig, not like q
blasted old hog"
Year: 1873

This new house. newly furnished aud
is now open TO the travelling public. II Is
located near the depot. No effort will be
spared by the proprietor TO make the stay
Of his guests pleasant and agreeable.