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Year: 1872

An amusing case happened atone Of
our leading hotels recently. in which. al
though the party claiming to have been
injured was not at all interested, gees to
show what might have been A gentle
man connected with prominent. banking
house in this city, going to rather late
Dinner, found at one Of the tables where he
occupies seat, two young gentlemen in
all the elories of new ready. made clothes
and who had evidently come in from some
Furnishing country ci y for the purpose Of
having limited good time Their con.
vcrsation Was principally upon the con
quests they had or fancied they had, made,
Suddenly No l broke out


oh, Frank, you remember about that
Mrs. Mason, that we read al out in the
papers t'other day"


Well, yes. why {?


Sent my card to her last night


1'No. did ye though |?


'Did, for fact She came down into
the paror, and We had quite chat
She's gay


oh, you rascal


Then followed sundry words, winks, and
further, conversation, in which the name OF
the lady did not appear to great advantage
as loving and faithful wife. At this
juncture the banking gentleman looked
up. and with an air of once injured. mixed
with one of settled, stern, but mild feroc.
ity. said:


1t is perhaps my duty, gentlemen, be.
fore this thing goes any further, to inform
you that the lady whose name you are US.
ing with such gross familiarity is my wife


This was percussion shell. aud silence
reigoed for the space of few seconds.
One of the young fellows turned pale,
while the other assumed a ro.eate hue.


hey then exchanged colors. and stammer-
ed out some halt uttered words.


Yes, continued the gentleman, 'and
have always supposed that some little &C.
centricities of my wife would not be taken
advantage of, or subject her either to rude
conduct or outrageous insults. | have the
right to demand an apology.


The waiter coming up at that moment,
asked them " hat they would have for des-
s,rt. With sickly smile one of them FIX
ed his eyes upon frozen custard, while
the other was entirely absorbed with jelly.


Thew said they guessed they didn't
care about anything more, and sneaked
toolishly ont.


When then banker came out. he found
them in the hail. looking as if they had
just been engaged in settling a delicate
question. One advanced and said That
was all confound nonsense, you know -


w hat was nonsense p


'Why bout my having an interview with
with your wife. Just got it up as joke
on Frank. l am sorry for it,


He was then read severe lesson by a
man who had never seen the lady in
question in his life, and told that hereafter
he should be extremely cautious how be
allowed bis toungue to wag in such an un'
licensed manner. And why should he not
Year: 1872

WYE WILL BE PREPARED TO PUR-
w chase all the WOOL that may be offered
us during the coming season, and to pay not only
the highest price in Cash, but to pay as much as
can be realized in any market when expenses OF
shipping are deducted.


win be glad to furnish quotations when Spring
Year: 1872

istration with dishonesty in the service.
the country will hardly forget that Gen.
Grant is the only President who has
strenuously insisted upon a reform of
the whole system of party patronage
to which the Senators are not
strangers-the only President who
has recommended it TO Con.
|. gress, and who only awaits the
completion of necessary details to put
it into execution. The evil practice of
the Civil service, necessarily breeding
corruption. was first formally opposed
by Gen. Grant in his first annual mes.
sage, in which he said: "There has
been no hesitation in changing officials
in order to secure an efficient execution
of the laws sometimes, too, when, in a
mere party view, undesirable political
results were likely to follow. Nor has
there been any hesitation In retaining
efficient officials against remonstrance
wholly political" That he has been
sometimes overborne by the tremendous
power of an evil system, We do not
deny. But he has not relaxed his pur.
pose to grapple with it, and, Congress
having expressly authorized him to un.
dertake the work, he states quietly in.
his third annual Message that plan of
reform shall have a fair trial" The
President is not rhetorician, but he
says what he means, and the country
understands him.


While, therefore, we all heartily agree
that iniquity shall be exposed, let us
hope that it will be done honorably, so
that the Republican Party shall not be
made responsible for evils which Il has
neither fostered nor approved, but to
the removal of which its Administration
is pledged.
Year: 1872

A painful story from one of the western
counties of New York. 1t is that Of an
old lady who had spent almost all her
property in the education of her son !;
she had sent him Us child, as, indeed,
by her husbands will she felt bound to
do. to England, there to receive his
education. At the time of her hus-
bands death the son was only ten years
old, and was her only child. The prop
erty left by the husband was not suffi-
cient, as she thought, to permit OF the
proper education of the boy in the way
desired 10y his father, and at the same
time TO allow her either to accompany
her son 10 England or to live in comfort
during his absence. She took discom-
fort and sent ner son first to England
and afterwards to Germany, where he
took a firstrate position at Heidelberg.
Lately he returned, probably with his
body OVERLOADED with beer, and his
mind swamped hopelessly in the mazes
of German metaphysics. He saluted
the old lady kindly, and then proceeded
to take from her in every possible way
all enjoyment of life. She had, by dill
gent work and strict economy, managed
to lay by something which, with her son,
should soothe her declining years but
this money he succeeded in persuading
her to make over to him, and then, by
his vicious courses and profligate ways,
he broke his mothers heart, and few
days ago the old lady died, and the son,
having accomplished his purpose of kill
ing her, has just set sail again for Eu-
rope, evidently intending there to lead
the life of an adventurer.
Year: 1872

The New York Star speaks of Grants
Administration as an odious one. The
severity of this criticism will be appre-
ciated when il is remembered that the
Star and its editor are both included in
the goods and chattels belonging to that
pure patriot now under cloud of in.
dictments for felony, VIM. M. Tweed.
Year: 1872

Walking hriskly, with an exciting object
or pteasurable interest ahead is the most
heaitbful OF AL forms of exercise except
that OF encoura4inelv remuneratyc, steady
labor II the open air; ANA vet multilndrs in
the city, whose health urgently require
exercise seldom walk when they can ride.
II th@ distance is a mile or more It. is
worse m the country, especially with the
Wetl-fo-'to; horse or carriage must be
brought tn the door even if less distance
have To be passed Under the conditions
nrst named, walking is "A bliss; il gives ami
nation to the mind, it WHITES the circula-
tlnh, 1t paints the cheek and sparkles the
eve and wakes mp the whole being, physical,
mental and moral. We know a family OF
children in This city who from from the ace
OF seven, had to walk nearly two miles to
school, winter and Summer; whether Slcet or
storm, or rain, or burning sun. they made
1t an ambition never to STAY away from
school on account of the weather. and never
to be 'late;" and one of them was heard to
boast that in seven years it had never been
necessary to give an t'excuse'' for being
winter it was necessary to dress by gas
hight Ihey did not average two days
sickness in year, and later they thought
nothing OF walking twelve miles ut time
in the Swiss mountains. Sometimes they
would be caught in drenching rains and
wet to the skin; on such occasions they
made IT, a point to do one thing, let it rain.
| and tlud9ed on more vigorously until every
thread was dry before they reached home.


l'alfs journal OF Health
Year: 1872

The richness of the reclaimed swamp and
overfowed lands in most parts of this
State is proverbial At no points are they
found more so than on the ''Floral Isles. :"
so called, which lie among the Sacramento
and San Joaquin rivers. A correspondent
of the Enterprise writing from Twitchel
Island, gives the following description of
how the lands are prepared, planted and the
seed ''harrowed" in: THE tuleS grow from
five to ten feet in height during the rainy
season. As soon as the water dries up in
the spring, the tules are fred and although
they look green, they burn ike wild oats.
After the burning is done there is a coating
OF ashes on the ground from two to ten
inches in depth, resembling light snow


IN" seed is sOwn on the surface, without
lurther preparation. A flock of sheep is
then driven over the ground, in a compact
body, by five or six men, in such a manner
as to compel them to go over the whole
surface. This treading serves to harrow
the grain, tramps the ashes down solid and
makes the whole surface of the ground look
as smooth AS an onion bed in well reru-
lated garden. San Francisco CAN
Year: 1872

A correspondent OF the New England
Farmer tells what he knows about shingles
in this way


II would say that after thirty five wears
experience in erecting new, and repairing
oId buildings, and after trying all the differ
ent materials in the market on my own
roofs, | have decided that the most eco
nomCal roof one that will remain tight the
longest term of time for the smallest sum
oi money III our climate, is one covered
with Il low grade of sawed shingles sshut
OF sound lnmber.' | lay sixteen shingles
i've inches to the weather, Joints well
tapped, and two nails to each shngle
driven about one inch from the edge. |
take this quality of shingles and soak them
in lime water before laying, in the follow
ing manner take a mOlaSseS hO9Shead, put
IN one hushel lime, fill half fun of water
aud let the lime slack pnt one bundle of
shingles into the lime at a time; let it re-
main from five to ten minutes if bound
loose, if bound tight it is better to cut the
bands. The lime will penetrate through
the shingles very quickly, and in this way
will soon dry off and be fit to use | prefer
this way to lime washing roofs after they
are laid for the reason that whatever is put
upon the outside fills up the joints, TO the
course above it, forming Il dam at each
Joint, which keeps the water back Nv ey-
perience is, that a low grade Of shingles, if
sound, prepared in this way, will last long
er, and make a tighter roof than the best
quality OF shingles in the market laid with
ont this preparations"
Year: 1872

The following story of sorrow and alb
sence of mind is told as Il fact by the Port
land Advertiser: "a short time ago IA lit
tie babe belonging in this city died, and,
in u bureau drawer till the funeral. The
day Of the funeral came, and the bereaved
mother was convulsed with griet over the
little casket, and, sobbmg, laid it away in
the cold ground. On her return home, she
thought she would so to the drawer and
gaze once more at the place which would
hencetorth be consecrated to it, when what
should meet her eyes, when the drawer
was opened, but the lileless corpse OF the
child, that had been entirely forgotten in
repairing for the funeral"
Year: 1872

1t is given to some women to see point
clearly and state it comprehensively For
instance, an Iowa woman concludes SEN
sible article against woman suffrage thus
pointedly: "You may look at this matter
in whatever light you will, but simmer it
down and it is but a quarrel with the Al
mighty that we are not all men ~
Year: 1872




We do not see that the eight-hour strikers
.re making headway very fast. The hot weather
is coming on. and the dulness Of Summer IL not
favorable to movements such AZ this The
niano.,nah sts snd others have returned to the
old system, and the iron manufacturers deter
minedly oppose any reduction in the hours Of
LABOR, In fac, the opinion is gaining ground
among the more intelligent workmen that they
have possibly been little ton fast An increase
Of twenty per cent in the value Of manufactures
which would be the result Of the eight-hour
system, would fall just that much heavier upon
the workmen themselves, without any CORE
.poudinQ advantage in wages; that ia. for the
sake Of couple Of hours Of leisure extra each
dav, they will pay twenty per cent more for the
necessities of life; and this enhancement OF val.
ues would next lead to larger importations and
TO a destruction Of the work own business,
for capi,alists will not continue in line which
Yields them but precarious profit, if not an
absolute loss.


We hope that the men will see how wise it IL
to consult with the employers and try to comt
to some mutual and amicable understanding
The true use Of trade leagues is oprovide agains
absolute oppression, not to enable ls1ge mum
her Of men through combined powell to rui'
themselves and their employers at the SAM
time. I, is we'll to be strong, but ii is much bet
ter to be Just.
Year: 1872

That was nice hanging at Sumter,
N. c., the other day. One negro was
to be executed for the murder Of an
other, and the Sheriff thought to ease
matters by arranging an anvil so as to
drop and raise the victim. 1t worked
badly ann only raised him slowly. He
struggled, got one arm free, and
grasped the rope over his head, when
the fertile-minded Sheriff stepped for
ward and held his arms down till he
ceased TO struggle.
Year: 1872




One day, a few months before the rev.
olution of $780, a friend of mine, NJ


Auguste Bernard, who had just returned
from the Antilles with large fortune,
said to me- 81 want to bring together
the two men upon whom in all the world
have founded the greatest hopes
yourself and M Theirs He writes in
the National and you serve the Bourbon
cause; but we won't take q tabe.cloth
Tor q flag, and we will leave politics un-
der the table. ~ had sneaking kind
ness for NJ. Theirs as one of the sympa-
thetic men in the enemys camp, and l
accepted the invitation. We all three
dined at Very's, in the Palais Royal,
which was then considered a neutral
restaurant. | saw very small man
with singular strength in his proportions,
full Of life and energy, standing on his
legs,as if ready for action, the head and
neck we'll poised, the forehead express
sive Of every variety of intellectual
faculty, soft eyes, firm, compressed lips,
short hand, but well opened, as if carry
ing the heart upon it, To the vulgar
he might have appeared ugly. But |
saw at once in his physiognomy that in
tellectual beauty which triumphs
over any features, and brings
out the splendor of minds from the
most ungrateful body. Perhaps as is
often the case with southern men, he
had too great consciousness Of his
power. Modesty is northern yirtoe,
and the exquisite fount Of education.
He spoke first and spoke last, and lis


ened very little to answers. But he
spoke with vigor, an accuracy, and an
abundance Of ideas which fully excused
the volubilty of his lips. 1t was easy to
see that he had been early accustomed
to be listened to by his friends. His
speech, while persuasive, was simple
and unpretending. Although we said
we would not talk politics he very sooa
went into them, and without anger, but
tremendous severity, tempered only by
consideration for my known opinions,
he proceeded to cut Charles X and the
restoration. / saw that there was salt
peter enough in him to blow up a dozen
dynasties. But what struck me most,
aud what convinced me of the great
superiority of this young man, was the
contempt he had for his own party.
That is virtue which generally comes
only with old age, but which his preco-
cious mind enabled him to have in his
youth. l quilted him, convinced that
it was all over with the restoration, since
Providence had raised up against it such
q powerful enemy. But at the same
time was charmed to have met with an
opponent worth fighting, and . man so
infinitely superior to the legions of me-
diocrities with whom he was connected.
- LaDldrtine's Souvenirs. 1f uH
Year: 1872

An Indiana man, made uncomfortable
by some sand which had got under the
piece Of scalp which the Indians left
him when they stood him on his head
fifteen years ago, has been relieved BY 3
surgical operation.
Year: 1872

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 is
Year: 1872

THE CULTURE OF THE HAIR just as
surely as soil infested with Canadian
thistles can be made to produce fine crops
of golden grain, the scalp now scarcely
covered with harsh, dry, unmanageable
hair can be made prolific of silken tresses.
All that is necessary to effect the change
in either case is the right kind of fertili-.
ger. Leaving the agricultural chemists to
determine how the barren land shall be
made fruitful, we positively assert that
Lyons Kathairon is unequaled is
fertilizer and beautifer OF
the head. Twenty-Five years of success is
the basis of this unqualified statement,
During that time it has been used by
many millions of both sexes, and the first
instance in which it has failed to fulfil the
expectations of rational purchaser has
yet to be discovered. 1t viii not cause
hair to grow on a vanished gourd; but
wherever the roots of the hirsute fibres
remain undisturbed it will cause them tC
put forth new shoots, and in all cases
where the hair has become thin it will in
crease its volume.
Year: 1872

PURE STARcH-When starch is pure, it
is free from sourness and is purely white.
Inferior starch has a golden or yellow
tinge, the color of -four, indicating the
presence of gluten "a color not desirable in
ones linen, or is sour and musty. 1t is
absurd for the laundress TO cleanse and
bleach and then discolor linen with i'm
pure golden or yellow starch Duryea 5


Satin Gloss Starch is snow white, per
fectly pure, aud the most economical
starch known.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Renne claims that the name Magic
Or is his trade mark, and that all
persons who use that name for a medicine
do so at their peril, as much as though
they stole any other property of his, be
sides their extra meanness The genuine
Renne's Pain-Kiling Magic Oil is what
the people want and will have
Year: 1872

0mcial Vote OF the Congressional his.
tricts.


The vote for the Republican candidates for
congress OF which there was but one in each
district, appears in the outside column of the
Year: 1872

We print this morning the full official
vote of the State at the late election for
President, Governor and Members of Con-
sgress, as returned to the office of the Secre-
<sry Of State.
Year: 1872

The report of the Chief Of Engineers of
the army says the trials with torpadoes at
Willet's Point have been marked with sue
cess, and the investigations have gone so
far as to enable the Department to pro-
nounce upon special system of which it
will arrange the details of parts as well as
the methods of handling and operating tor
pedoes. The total cost of the application
of this powerful auxiliary to the defense o
our coast will be about two millions. An
estimate is submitted of five hundred
thousand dollars for torpedo defense of
some Of the most important harbors. Tie
report is very Voluminous and sets forth in
detail the progress made and anticipated
upon several works along the coast. Great
attention is also given to improvement in
river and harbor Notifications and inland
defenses, etc.
Year: 1872

A thing immortal; Time can not
change it Death cam not queneh it;
Eternity can not waste or destroy it
From the cradle to the grave it COM
passes us about, growing stronger
when temptation besets us, becoming
nobler when adyersity tries us, and
more God-like to save when the black
ness of despair gathers its horrors
around us. Forsaking lis not, though
deserted by all others, it clings to us
with a spell which no charm can dis
solve, with a strength which no power
can sundef.


In the morning, at MONDAY, and at
eventide, it. Is always ours and
though the dear heart whose every
throb was actuated by it is hushed in
that bosom forever though the once
soulful eyes glow not with it now, and
the mute lips breathe it no more-yea,
though the coffin and the shroud, the
cold clods of the valley, and the long
grasses OF many year hide from our
ear-bedimmed eyes the sweet form
that was ever transfigured into angelic
radiance by its presence, yet from the
shores of the receding Past this moth
er-love drifts over to us with all the
vividness of the days when she was
with us; and it comes back to us from
the beautiful beyond, in its infinite
tenderness still yearning over us, and
bringing us hope as we struggle in the
close contests of life.


Going not out forever, and setting
not, It's a guiding star by whose far
reaching light we may pilot our frail
barks from billow ON to billow across
the stormy sea of Time, and anchor at
last at the fadeless shore of a country
whose mansions are Home indeed,
hallowed and made pure by the pray
erful vigils born of a mothers love.


Psychological Journal.
Year: 1872

whether her teaching leads her fol-
lowers to heaven or hell.


All mankind, says Emerson, love a
lover. Possibly; but mankind, in
these latter days, are disposed to
thrust the true lover into the corner
with any other stupid country lout.
Boys and girls are furnished with GER
tain rules of expediency to use as
pruning-hooks upon themselves when
their hearts begins to swell and bour-
geon as all growing things will do in
Spring; and some inexplicable force
within sends bushes to their cheeks
and delicious thrills to eyes and lips.
Of love when it has rotted into taint-
ed passion we make, however, a
prominent object in our social life.
Fisk's amours, the political parties
led by unrepentant Magdalenes, and
divorce cases become turn by turn the
subject of our daily thoughts and
cares, and are reflected in our novels,
always the clearest of social mirrors.
Nothing could augur worse for our
condition. When men begin to doubt
habitually the purity or even the re-
serve of women, there is something SO
rotten in Denmark that Denmark is
near its end. We throw this out as
but word of warning to our sisters.
Valentines Day in the quaint fashions
of old time meant the choosing and
pairing for year of young people,
not always for betrothal or marriage,
but for the services of delicate
friendship, for that protection and
chivalric homage to weakness and
gentleness on the one hand, and pure
acceptance of homage on the other,
as no doubt often led to love. Its
bushes and bows and gallantry are
as much out of date now as the far
thingales and slashed doublets with
which they yanished.-N. Z. Tribune.