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Year: 1875

Col. G. Z. Waring, Jr., writes in the
October atlantic as follows: The best
practical statement have met about
ventilation was contained in the remark
of mining engineer in Pennsylvania
"Air is like rope; you can pull it bet
ter than you can push it" All mechan-
ical appliances for pushing air into room
or house are disappointing. What we
need to do is to pull ont the vitiated air
already in the room; the fresh supply
will take care of itself if means for its
admission are provided. 1t has been
usual to withdraw the air through open
ings near the ceiling, that is, to carry of
the warmer and therefore lighter por-
tions, leaving the colder strata at the
bottom of the room, with their gradual
accumulation of cooled carbonic acid
undisturbed. Much the better plan
would be to draw this lower air out from
a point near the floor, allowing the upper
and warmer portions to descend and take
its place. An open fire, with large
chimney throat, is the best ventilator for
aay room; the one-half or two thirds of
the heat carried up the chimney is the
price paid for immunity from disease /;
and large though this seems from its daily
draft en- the wood pile or coal bin, it is
trifing when compared with doctors bills
and with the loss of strength and eff
cheney that invariably result from living
in unventilated apartments.
Year: 1875

He that questioneth much shall learn
much but especially If he apply his
questions to the skill Of the persons whom
he asketh; for he shall give them occa-
sion to please themselves in speaking,
and himself shall continually gather
knowledge but let this question not be
troublesome, for that is fit for poser |;
and let him be sure to leave other men
their turn to speak nay, If there be any
that would reign and take up all the
time, let him find means to take them
of, and bring others on-as musicians
used to do with those who danced too
long at galliards. ( If you dissemble
sometimes your knowledge of that you
are thought to know, you will be thought
another time to know that you know
not-Bacon.
Year: 1875

1t seems that Spain is going to make
one more determined effort to c0Bquer
Cuba. Last Saturday was the seventh
anniversary of the declaration of independ-
ence by the Cuban insurgents; and with
out any material aid from without they
have been able to hold their own against
the whole power of Spain. 1t must have
cost that country at least sixty or eighty
thousand lives in the fight against the
revolutionists, but they still remain un-
subdued in the center of the island. And
now fifteen thousand more men are to be
sent to Cuba before Christmas; twenty
five hundred left Spain last week, and
the rest are to be rapidly forwarded.
It seems that this new spasmodic at
tempt by Spain to complete the conquest
of Cuba is due to notification from eur
Government that If the authority of the
mother country is not re-established in
Cuba by the first of January next ensu-
ing, the United States will feel compelled
to recognize the fact that state of be-
ligerency exists, and to accord to the in
surgents the rights of war. 1t is not
creditable to America that 1t has allowed
this sslaughter to continue 80 long. 1t
has injured trade, wasted many valuable
lives and much treasure, and been con-
slant source of annoyance between the
two countries. We hope the Presidents
message will give some assurance to the
two countries that the Government is
determined to put an end to this anom-
alous state of affairs in the ever faithful
isle.-Ne,o York Graphic.
Year: 1875

OF all the friends that have had
Or friends they seemed to be-
They left me when reverses came
Save one, who stayed by me.
This friend that / am speaking OF
Is neither child nor man
1t is q faithful dog at home,


My little black-and-tan.
No matter where wander TO, &
No matter where roam,
know / have at least one friend
My little dog ut home.
love TO hear his playful bark
He's truer friend than man,
No one can take his love from me,
My little black-and-tan.
He knows nv step upon the walk,
He also knows my rap,
And when sit down In the house,
He jumps into my lap;
And when his shining eyes meet mine,
For speak they almost can,
see true friendship beamiDg forth,
My little black-and-tan.
Nor chide me not for loving him, q.
For love him well do;
OF all the friends that have had,
Alone he has been true.
He does not leave me, though I'm poor, .
He loves me better than
The ones that left me In distress
My little black-and-tan.
Year: 1875

AN engine has been invented in Paris
which is driven by the alternate expan-
sion and contraction of oil or some other
liquid, contained in cylinders. The
liquid is heated SO as to expand by the
application of hot water passing through
small tubes, and cooled so as to contract
by means of a refrigerating mixture
similarly applied.
Year: 1875

THAT famous duel between two St.
Louis editors will hardly be matter Of
history. The grand jury of Winnebago
county, Illinois, have failed to find a
person that knows anything about it.
The people living where it is alleged to
have occurred never heard anything
about it, and as far as living witnesses
are concerned it might as well have never
been.
Year: 1875

Bro. Williams requests US to state
that the State Grange failed TO make
the neces airy appropriation for print
ing the Proceedings. and brought the
matter before the Executive Commit
tee on the lllh inst. and the appro>
priation was made, and the Proceeds
iugs are being prepared for the Press.


A copy will be sent to every
Grange in the State as soon as out.
Year: 1875

Ex-senator Nesmith, of Oregon, now
a member of the House, is one of the
most remarkable men i'll Congress. He
went TO Oregon in 1843, and for many
years scarcely saw white man. He
dressed in furs and the raw Hdes of ami
mails, and ate whatever he could get. He
was border hunter and trapper, such rs
we read of in the Lcdger. He knew
nothing of what the world was doing for
more than twelve years, and until he was
elected to the Senate in 1860, and on his
way to take his seat, he never saw gas
burning, nor knew anything of the tele-
graph, nor had ridden i'll n railroad car.
He knew little of newspapers or any
thing else but Indians, and yet he knew
how to play poker. 1t sometimes puz-
zles me to account for the number of
good poker players among the back
woodsmen. To make Nesmith happy,
you have only to play poker with him,
give him all the whisky he wants, a paper
or two of fine cut tobacco, and big
spittoon. He does not play with the
same crowd Fernando Wood does, but
he plays inveterately. You must remem-
Der that there are strata in poker playing
as well as in politics. Washington
Letter.
Year: 1875

by r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., of the Worlds Dis
penssry. Buffalo y. Y.


knowing that you are subject to great
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Of your sex, desire to Say to you, that am con-
stantly meeting with those who have been
treated for their ailments for months without
being benefited in the least. until they have be-
come perfectly discouraged, and have almost
made up their minds never to take another dose
of medicine nor be tortured by any further
treatment They had rather die and have their
sufferings ended than to live and suffer as they
have. They say they are worn out by suffering.
and are only made worse by treatment. OF any
thing more discouraging, we certainly cannot
conceive, and were there no more successful
mode of treating such difficulties than that. the
principles of which teach the reducing and de-
pleting of the vital forces of the system when
the indications dictate a treatment directly the
reverse of the one adopted for them their cases
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Year: 1875

THERE are probably hundred or more
persons in this and neighboring towns who daily
suffer from the distressing effects of kidney
troubles, who do not know that Johnsons Ano-
done Lin5nent is almost certain cure. In
severe cases great relief may be obtained, if not
a perfect cure
Year: 1875

MOTHERS who have delicate children,
who are subject to Group; When your child
goes to bed wheezing and coughing you know
not before morning Group may set in. and be-
fore you can get physician your child may be
beyond the reach of help. Aliens Lung Baisam
should always be kept in your house. and be
given Immediately when the first symptoms ap-
pear which will remove the mucus collected in
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Year: 1875

TIE BATTLE OF CAMDEN ALMOST A


CENTURY AGo-How DE KALB FELL


WITH ELEVEN woUNDs-THE DELLA.


WARE SOLDIERS AT HIS SIDE.


George Washington Greene in October
Atlantic


Above them all lowered the gallant
German at their head. His sword
was stained deepest, his battle cry
rang clearest, there was triumph in
the keen flash of his eye-if not the
victor's triumph, the triumph of duty
done. Three times he led his willing
men the charge. Three times they
were forced by superior numbers.
For numbers began to tell. His horse
was shut under him. His head was
laid open bya sabre stroke. Jacquette,
the adjutant of the Delaware regiment
bound up the wound with his scarf
and besought him to withdraw from
the fight. Without heading the ap.
peal, De kalb led the charge on foot.
Wound followed wound, but he held
his ground desperately. AT last, CON
ccntrating his strength in a final
charge, CORVALLIS came on, The
Marylanders broke. De Kalb fell,
bleeding from eleven wounds, still at
this supreme moment strong enough
to cut down a soldier who was aiming
his bayonet at his breast. "The rebel
general, the rebel general !" shouted
the enemy, as they caught sight of his
epaulettes. "Spare the Baron De
kalb," cried his adjutant, Dubuysson,
vainly throwing himself upon his body
and trying to shield it with his own
from the thirsty bayonets. lie spoke
to hearts hardened by the fierce spirit
Of the battle.


The furious Englis raised the help
less warrior from the ground. and
leaning him against a wagon began to
strip him. AT this moment CORVALLIS
and his suite rode up. They found
him already stripped to his shirt, and
with the blood streaming from eleven
wounds. II regret to see you so badly
wounded, but l am glad to have de-
feated you, said the victorious general,
and Immediately gave orders that his
brave antagonist should be properly
cared for,


For three days his strong frame
struggled with death. Dubysson
watched by his bedside, English Off
GERS came to express their sympathy
and regret. Soldier to the last, his
thoughts were with the brave men
who had faced the enemy so gallantly
at his command, and just before he
expired he charged his faithful adju-
tant to give them his ssthanks for their
valor and bid them{an affectionate
farewell. &


On the 10Th he ID, three days
after the battle. The Masons of the
British army took part in his funeral,
and buried him with Masonic rites
Gates announced his death to Congress
in terms of warm admiration and
Congress voted monument, which
has never been erected.
Year: 1875

The American mind is beginning
more clearly than ever to understand
that mere form of government, how
ever free, and however wisely devised,
is not alone sufficient to secure the lib
erty, happiness and greatness of pco-
pie that an active public conscience is
the true balance-whcel of free govern
ment; that popular institutios can safely
stand only on strong foundation of
public virtue, and that the morality of -
government must be ruled by the prin-
ciples which in private life formed the
character of a gentleman. It begins to
be felt more strongly than ever that for
the guidance of American affairs in
such a period. a statestnanship is requir--
ed which knows something higher and
better TO do than to iced efficient parts
sans with public plumber; statesman.
ship that has intelligence and knowledge
enough to understand and appreciate the
problems to be solved, and also moral
courage and independence or spirit
enough to treat those problems on their
own merits, and not merely in their res
lation to party advantage. Nor is the
number of those small whose hearts are
full of the sentiment that parties are
well in their way, and useful as long As
they strive for power only to use ID for
the public good, and not merely TO pos
sess it for their own enjoyment; but that,
to serve his country in the best sense,
every true American must recognize his
duties as a patriot first, before he thinks
of any obligation as a partisan Carl
lSclsev.z en- Berlin.
Year: 1875

a short time since in Ohio, a number
of farmers, infuriated at the murder of a
young girl in the woods, broke open a
jail, took out of it the man accused OF
the murder, and hanged him. The poor
creatuie was accused by his wife. He
solemnly denied i'll his last moments hay
ing committed the murder, and asserted
that his wife charged him because she
was insanely jealous of him. Now it
turns out that the man was innocent.
Unfortunately he is dead. Unfortunate
ly the men who, in violation of the law,
hanged him, are all murderers, who
ought to be hanged in their turn I'm
fortunately they willall have the unpleas-
ant consciousness for the rest OF their
lives that they are murderers- -nota COM
Portable thought to most of them, prob
ab,y. It is scarcely necessary to pursue
the thought further. Lynch law is
always wrong; but this is not all /; nine
times ont of ten the men who take the
law into their own hands hang the
wrong man.
Year: 1875

1t has puzzled many people to decide
why the dark wood SO highly valued for
furniture should be called rosewood. Its
color does not look much like o rose, SO
we must look torsome other reason.
Upon asking, we are told that when the
tree is first cut the fresh wood possesses
a very strong, rose-like fragrance; hence
the name. There are halfa dozen or
more different kinds of rosewood trees.
The varieties are found in South America
and the East Indies and neighboring
islands. Sometimes the trees grow so
large that pl,nks four feet broad and ten
in lenght can be cut from one of them.
These broad planks are principally used
to make tops Of piantortes. When grow
ing in the forest, the rosewood tree is
remarkable for It's beauty, but such is its
value In manufactures as an ornamental
wood, that some of the forest where it
once grew abundantly now have scarcely
single specimen. In Madras, the Gov
ernment has prudently had great planta-
tions of this tree set out, in order to
keep up the supply.
Year: 1875

THE long day dawns 2 But the sun,
away in the northwest, is still shining
brightly. 1t is eleven o'clock by our


Geneva watch. Is the sun really going


to sit up all night? Hepours uniyer-
sal flood of what seems to he light with
out heat-a genial warmth like that of
a midwillter sun at home, shining
through south window, when the mer-
curry out of doors stands at zero at noon.
Everything is bright, however; like a
home landscape inc Connecticut on some
waning but clear October afternoon an
hour before sunset. The light of day
Eliminates the ragged cliffs Of the wild
north CAPE and the desolate shores of the
Artic ocean. Everything is still save
the solemn plash of the waves, far be-
low upon the rocks The sun swings
still further into the north, and sinks a
little lower The time is 11:40. We
wait to see the king of day shining Sc
renely at midnight; and we have not
long to wait. Slowly he dips down to-
ward the ocean waves, now due north,
as if he were sinking into the ocean, on
the eastern shore of remote, invisible,
and unyisited Spitzbergen. But the
hour of twelve is here, and the sun does
not set. His entire disk rests broadly
over the northern sea rs we sometimes
see it at home few minutes before SUM-
set. We find he has still good deal
of heat-enough to burn hole ID our
dresses by the aid OF a sunglass. That
is the proper thing to do for all ladies
who go to North Cape. An hour later
and the sun has very perceptibly risen
again. He has ssset into sunrise,o and
he now swings slowly upward as if ris-
ing out of point east of northeast.
There is fresh breath of air


.'For a breeze of the morning moves,''


And ere long we feel it to be really morn
ing-bnt how, we cannot quite under
stand, for there las been no night, no
loss of sun for moment. It is altogeth-
er queer sensation, and an experience
worth having We found that, wholly
disregarding the sun, the hens all went
to roost III Norway just about seven
o'clock p. NJ. all through June, though
the sun was five hours high, and the
world was "as light as cork" and the
people followed their example. They
have no curtains to their windows (I sup
pose such thing as a burglar or even a
vulgar intruder, is unknown among
those Norway hills and vales), odd
enough il seemed to ,us, riding by at
nine o'clock P. NJ. to see, through the
windows, the people all abed and fast
asleep-and the sun shining brightly
more than two hours before his time to
set.
Year: 1875

To N,e Editor of dte Commercial:


What means the hint in your Local Brevi-
ties" of last evening Are the Wilmington Gro
quet players struttng around with chip on
their hats Let us know who they are and
where to get at them and we will give them a
chance to beat somebody. HocREssIN.
Year: 1875

The long promised fox hunt came
off yesterday in the vicinity Of Hack
ens.ck. The riding was success.
but the run proved failure. The
dogs lost the fox; the hunters lost the
dogs, and the wagon drivers lost the
huntsman.
Year: 1875

CIvILIZING THE INDIANs.-A correspon-
dent of al Eastern journal suggests that all
attempts to make the red man a farmer must
fail for the reason that pastoral life always pre-
cedes agriculture in civilization, and proposes
that the experiment be made of making cat
tle-raisers out of the Indians There may be
something in this, but if experience is worth
anything the noble red man would very soon
be engaged il raiding upon the pasture
grounds of his neighbor tribes, and endless
strife would follow. The truth is that all at
tempts 10 civilize the Indians are doomed to
failure, simply because there is no royal road
to civilization. Evolution does not proceed
in leaps, whatever Mr.. Mivart may think,
and it is as impossible to transform a tribe of
nomads into community of orderly citizens
as il would be TO make even an average Con-
gresham out of ChiInpanzee. All attempts
TO condense the slow process of generations
into the work of few years or months must
fail. because they are attempts 10 transcend
natural laws The Indians might certainly
be changed as some joke-loving folks once
proposed that the negro should be changed,
namely, by miscegenation but as Govern
ment policy such proposition would hardly
be thought suitable, and, therefore, in all
probability, the Indian viii never be changed
until lie is educated off the face of the earth
which will not be tedious process.
Year: 1875

FAILURE OR SUCCESS IN LIFE.-Here are
British Parliament, Lord Derby, who is
robust, manly man. He says: Take two
men, if they can be found, exactly alike in
mental and bodily aptitudes, and let one go
on carelessly and idly, indulging lis appe-
tites, and generally leading r life of pleasure,
and let the other train himself by early
hours, by temperate habits, and by giving to
muscle and brain each their fair share of en-
ployment, and at the end of three years they
will be as wide apart in their capacity for
exertion as if they had been with wholly
different constitutions. Without a normal.
healthy condition there can, as a rule be no
good work; and though that quality cannot
absolutely be secured or preserved by any
set Of rules, a little common sense and care
will go long way ID both securing and pre-
serving it. On that point | would give you
these hints: First, that it is not mental Ia
Dor which hurts anybody, unless the excess
be very great, but rather fretting and fidget-
ing over the prospect of labor to be gone
through; SO that the man who can accustom
himself to take things cody, which is quite
as much a matter of discipline as of nature,
and who, by keeping well beforehand what
he has to do, avoids undue hurry and ner-
vous excitement, has a great advantage over
one who follows q different practice. Next,
l would warn You that those students who
think they have no time for bodily exercise
will sooner or later have TO find time for i'll
ness. Third, when an opportunity of choice
is given, morning work is generally better
than night work and lastly-a matter which
I should not stop to allude to but that know
the dangers of an ovcr-driven existence Ill a
crowded down-if man cannot get through
his days labor, of whatever kind it may be,
without ('artifcal snpport'-that means beer
or bourbon it should be serious considera-
ton for him whether that kind Of labor is fl
for him at ALL"
Year: 1875

SUNG A DEMIJoHN.-A peculiar breach
of promise suit has been brought in Man
chester, England. A maiden appeals TO the
courts for damages, now that certain in
keeper refuses 10 take her in marriage after
encouraging her TO hope 1t is proved that
he had the delirium tremens In her house
several times She gets verdict OF IlO.
Why any women wants 10 marry the DELI
rum tremens we know not. She deserved
congratulation at escape from snch man.
instead of SO for the loss Of him. No
woman can afford to take a man If she has
TO have delirium tremens thrown into the
bargain A man is very well, but better no
man at all than such an accompaniment.
Let women be cautious how they marry men
with highly spiced breath, the spice tut IN
70 hide whiskey odor. If q man makes for
himself unhappy connubial relation, he may
run away and SO get rid of It; but for
woman wrongly sffianced there is no escape.
The Young men may have glossy hair and
bright ewes and Immaculate broadcloth but
IL be drinks, even moderately, make up your
mind ,ha, before 35 be will do one OF two
tbings-either stop drinking entirely, or else
on 10 psrdition and if he does the latter, he
will probably take you along with him.
Chyistiag Gf Work.