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Year: 1876

From the Boston Journal


Some husbands do not make their
financial affairs topic at home, and
some better-halves know less of their
own husbands business than they do
of ftheir neighbors'. Some weeks since
a lady was informed of her husbands
suspension by reading the announce
ment in a paper which she accidentally
took up ina store while waiting to
have an order filled. Whether it was
pride or fear that prompted the secrecy
can not be stated, but what can be ex-
.pected from wives in the way of true
economy if they are only silent part
ners in the matrimonial copartnership ?
In 1857, large jewelry firm sold a cost.
ly set of: jewelry to a lady. The firm
knew that her husband was i'm failing
condition, for the lady had been a long
and profitable customer. When the
partner told his clerk not to charge the
set which had been delivered, but to
make a memorandum on the blotter.
he paid the lady's integrity a high com.
pliment. When her husband failed the
jewelry came back with note couched
in such terms that the dealer only re-
GREETED that gift of the set would be
construed as an insult.


Richmond, Ind, has a home club Of
(colored) jubilee singers.
Year: 1876

(Subjcct to thv Rulss Of tho Democratic Pa'ty)


The subject of this sketch is Mr.. John
w. Whteman. He is native of Christi
ana Village, White Clay Creek Hundred
living in the same house in which he was
born. On his fathers side he is sprig
from the Knickerbocker Dutch, and on his
mothers side fr3m an English and French
ancestry, all of whom were contempora-
neous with the settlement of the country
and the early days of the Republic, and pa
trots and defenders of the Republic from
It's inception. His claims are that he is the
regular Democratic candidate for the nomi-
nation to the Sherifalty. He is confident
that he can perform the duties of the office
of Sheriff to the satisfaction of whoever it
may concern, can give the proper surety
for sush performance, and is true Demo-
Rrat and lover of his country right or
wrong His character, abilities, 'and anti
cedents are open to the investigation of the
people of New Castle county.
Year: 1876

DR. scHRErvER, Of Bethany, gave the
Medical Society yesterday an interesting
account Of a case Of TRANSMISSION Of blood
for Diabetes. The operation was quite
successful. The patient gainedstrength
enough to go out and work in the garden
in days time, whereas previously ne
was not able to sit up. The blood was
taken from lPmb by conduit prepared
by DR.. schreiver himself in the laOFa'0I
nv OF the College.
Year: 1876

understand that the National Board
Of Underwriters have sent out an appeal
to the authorities OF the various cities o.
the country to be anxiously on theirguard
this year against the consequences OF a
carless and irresponsible use OF fireworks
in the celebration Of the coming Fourth
OF July. They are reminded OF the
dire calamities > that have salready
occurred under such circumstances, and
the danger that now menaces US.
We understand that it il the intention OF
Mayor Sweeney to rigidly enforce the
ordinance Of our City Council OH this
subject, and to prohibit, under the penal
ties prescribed, the promiscuous use OF fire
crackers or fireworks OF any sort in the
streets. II fireworks are discharged on
the evening OF the Fourth it will be under
such restrictions as may be prescribed by
the authorities. The >small boy and
the drunken man will not be al
lowed to throw fire brands arrows and
death" in every direction as in other days.
This is SaIutary precaution on the part
Of the Mayor, and We hope he will give
the police stringent instructions. We do
not want an illumination Ia Portland,
wherewith to celebrate the Centennial





anniversary OF American Independence
Year: 1876

An adverse report was made to the


United States House by the committee
on patents, on the application for an ex-
tension of the patent on what is known
as the four motion feed in sewing ma
chimes, owned by the Wheeler & Wilson
and Wilcox & Gibbs companies. The
report of the committee shows that dur
ing the past three years over one mil
lion machines with this combination
were sold, at an average price of $65
each. The continuance of this patent
has been the cause of keeping up the
price of all sewing machines in this
country, large sum being imposed
upon the manufacture of sewing ma
chimes in the shape of royalty. Under
this patent Wheeler & Wilson machine
can be shipped to England and pur-
chased there at lower figure than the
same machine can now be purchased in
the United States. The House adopted
the report of the committee. The effect
of this refusal to extend the patent will
it is thought, reduce the
price of sewing machines at least thirty
per cent.
Year: 1876

A circus company in Iowa owed an
editor bill for advertising and refused
to pay it. Thereupon the editor called
upon the sheriff, who attached the Ben
gal tiger and brought him around to the
newspaper office in his cage. He was
placed in the composing room, and dur
ing the first two days he not only con-
sumed SIS worth of beef. but he scratch
ed Sc worth of trousers from the leg of
local reporter who endeavored to stir
him up with broom handle to make
him roar. On the third day the tiger
broke loose, and the entire force of COM
positors descended the staircase with ju-
dicious suddenness. The editor was
alarmed to find his exit through the
composing room cut of, and that the
latch upon the sanctum door was broken.
So he climbed out the window and found
safety on the reof. The tiger was killed.
Year: 1876

"Now, general" said an interviewer
to Gen. Sherman, 81 would like to
know if you were in earnest when you
wrote that letter, saying you would not
be a candidate for President.


81 was. I meant every word I wrote,
but not for publication. I had no idea
Dalzell would publish my letter. know
him quite well personally and have
been at his home. He is a good, fatherly
kind of man-that is family man. 1
supposed he wrote me entirely from per-
sonal interest, and was surprised that
he published my letter. However, l
meant it, and will not, under any cir
cumstances, be a candidate.


"Suppose yon were nomirated~


81 would Decline"


"Suppose the nomination were
unanimous and enthusiastic


81 would decline anyway. l cannot
think of any circumstances that would
induce me to accept the nomination.
There are so many n en- in the country
better fitted for the place than 1 am. l
have no civil experience, as every
President should have"
Year: 1876

In my younger days, said Mr.. Maguf:


I'm, was ut one time o collectOr-a bill


collector. At first I had o good deal OF


trouble finding place. There's pre-


judioe against young collectors, you


know. The keen, experienced debtor


handles them very easily. A glassof beer,


o cigar, or, cheaper and better yet, a


little judicious Aattery, and the young


man goes back and reports "Can't


get anything out OF him." Middle


aged or prime old men do best a. col.


lectors.


But managed to get work, and I was


very successful. In fact, being q young


man, could not afford to fail, and I


made it point never to undertake the


collection OF bill that did not present
reasonable hope 80 that collected
every bill l ever undertook to with ono
exception, and in that case the circum.
stances were such that never consid-
cred my failure derogatory to my char
acter as collector.


He was rich man, abundantly able
to pay, and didn't doubt that some day
I should get the money. He had taken
offense at something said or done to
him at the store, and swore that he would
never pay the bill. But I had heard
men soy worse things than that, and pay
after all. So I went to work at him.
First I called about twenty five times,
at regular intervals that was enough to
show me that he was man of en-.
durance, and that it would be long
chase, on which I could not afford to
waste time. So I put him along with
two or three others on whom I called
whenever was in their neighborhood.
If I was down town, near his Office, I
dropped in and asked him for the
money ; il l was up town, near his
house, I called there ); if happened to
meet hin in the street, didn't let him
pass without dun. One evening saw
him get out of carriage, and I nailed
him on the spot; but always he said it
was no use, he never would pay.


And SO it went along for two years,
but was not discouraged for had re-
covered BITS after waiting longer than
that. In this time we got very we'll &C.
quainted and he used to smile and talk |
good humoredly when I came, and I
must say that while he was very pig
headed and obstinate man, still he had a
cheerful courtesy about him that ma
5erially lightened the monotony of my
visits.


In the summer of '53 went on my
annual vacation, and came back to town
resh and hearty and ready for business.
The first call l made was on my resolute,
good natured friend, whose conquest I
lad come now to regard as essential to
he preservation of my prestige as a COL
ector. 1t was at night. quite dark
light as I remember it, and had skip
'ed up the doorsteps and grabbed the
'ell handle preparatory to an energetic
'ank, when I felt something on my hand,
oft, and at the same time kind O. crispy.


bent over to see what it was, and by
'ad the good natured, resolute man had
'eaten me at last. The stuff on the bell
mob was Grape!
Year: 1876

The house committee on appropriations
have authorized Representative Atkins to re-
port the annual pension bill on the assem-
bling of congress. 1t is said to conform
strictly TO the estimates calling for twenty
million FIVE hundred and thir.y-one thousand
dollars
Year: 1876

DEAR SIR-It is our purpose to communicate to
the President copies of the testimony Of witnesses
taken under orders Of the board Of returning officers
before the commissioners, but we have no means OF
getting copies Of these depOSitOns they are taken
in behalf Of the Democratic candidates for election.
II you Will secure copies Of such dispositions we
will, with pleasure, transmit them, with copies OF
the depOsltlOns taken by the Republican candidates,
so that II printed hereafter the whole bOdy of the
testimony may be read and considered together No
doubt a request by you Of the gentlemen taking the
depOsitions will enable you TO comply with our wish
for a copy Of them. Very respectfully yours,
Year: 1876

New ORLEANS, December 1.-The follow
ing correspondence took place Thursday and
Friday between the northern Democratic and
Republican committees now in this city
watching the canvass of the vote of this
State by the returning board:
Year: 1876

WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEsT.-Dr.
Beard states that from analysis of the lives
of thousand representative men in all the
great branches of the human family, he
made the discovery that the golden decade
was between 40 and so, the brazen between
90 and 80; the iron between 30 and go. The
superiority of youth and middle life over
old age in original work appears all the
greater when we consider the fact that all
the positions of honor and prestage- profess
orships and public stations-are in the hands
of the old Reputation, like money and po-
sition, is mainly confded to the old. Men
are not widely known until long after they
have done the work that give them their
fame. Portraits of great men are delusions;
statutes are lies! They are taken when men
have become famous, which on the average,
is at least twenty-five years after they did
the work which gave them their fame. Or
iginal work requires enthusiasm. If all the
original work done by men under 45 were
annihilated, they would be reduced to bar
barism. Men are at their best at that time
when enthusiasm and experience are almost
evenly balanced. This period, on the av-
erage, is from 3S to 40. After this the
law is that experience increases, but enthu-
siasm decreases.
Year: 1876

AS the first big pattering drops that fall
With splash on our lattice pane
Make us shiver and start as they warn us all
OF storm or of coming rain,
So is it with life when we're growing old
And age steals on unaware
We shiyer and start, if the truth were told
At the sight of the first gray hair.
We mark not the light of our MONDAY hours,
Like the first streaks the dawn doth bring;
We hail not the birth of the summer flowers
AS We do the first snow-drOps of spring;
On the bleak winter wind we look not with grief
Though it howl through the branches bars;
But we sigh when we witness the brown Autumn


leaf


And behold Natures first gray hair.
Gray hairs may come when the beaming eye
Has none of its brightness lost,
When with buoyant heart, we would fain deny
Youths Rubcon had been crossed
But the ivy clad tree looks young and green,
Though sapless trunk it BARE
And naught of decay on our cheek may be seen
When we witness our first gray hair.
Oh noble crown to noble life
Is head of silvery gray,
And It's WELL if tired with the struggle and strife,
1t finds rest at the close of day;
But gray headed sins are crownless curse,
And the parent of dark despair
And it gives us pang, oh doubly worse,
Than the sight CT our first gray hair.
Come early, come late, like knock at the gate,
Is that first soft silvery thread,
And it joins with its silence the years that wait
With the years forever f1ed
1t silently tells us we're journeying on;
Is silently questioning us-Where?
Oh faithful mile stone were the truth but known,
Is seen in our first gray hair.


.-WALTER c. HowDEN.
Year: 1876

The heart is crystal palace; once broken
it can never be mended.


Resolve to preform what you ought, and
perform without fail your resolve.


Plotinus thanked God that he was not
tied to an immortal body.-Leighton.


Always speak well of your friends, but of
your enemies speak neither good nor evil


Self-indulgence and idleness are sure to
sap the foundation of spiritual strength.


The richest man on earth is but a pauper
fed and clothed by the bounty of Heaven.


Never be diverted from your duty by any
idle reflection that silly world may make
upon you.


The plants look up to heaven from whence
they receive their nourishment.- ak
spear. t.


Error, when she retraces her steps, has
further to go before she can arrive at truth,
than ignorance


Grace in the heart shows itselfin the tenn
per, conversation, and conduct; as life in a
tree appears in its leaves, branches and
trunk.


In politics, as in religion, we have less
charity for those who believe that half of
our creed, than for those who deny the whole
of it.


l beseech you to treasure up in your
hearts these my parting words:-Be asham-
ed to die until you have gained some victo-
ry for humanity Mann.


Limit your wants; the Must is hard: and
yet solely by this Must can we show how it
is with us with our inner man. 10 live ac-
cording to caprice requires no peculiar pow
er.-Goethe.


Never let a man imagine that he can pur-
sue good end by evil means without sin
ming against his own soul! Any other issue
may be doubtful; the effect on himself is
ertain.-Southey.
Year: 1876

WHY WE CoUGH. An Italian investiga-
tor has been studying the cause Of coughs
and has come to the confusion that they
are the result of the presence off parasitic,
fungus in the air of passages. In severe
cases the parasite multiplies and takes po-
session of the lung cells. Quinine is said to
possess the power of stopping the microsco-
pic fungi, and is therefore recommended as
a remedy. The Italian doctor has success.
fully used powder composed of the chlor-
hydrate of quinine, one part; bicarbonate
of soda, one part; gum arabic, twenty parts.
The soda is intended to dissolve the mucus,
the gum arabic to increase the adherence
of the powder on the bronchial passages.
The blowing in of the powder should take
place during a deep inspiration Of the pa,
tient, SO that it may penetrate the wind
pipe, the chief seat of the microscopic fun
gus. The remedy, whatever may be the
truth of the theory on which it is founded,
has the merit of simplicity, and if its ap-
plication did little good, il could not do
much harm. ssl
Year: 1876

A most interesting observation, referring
to the power of termination in seed which
is hundreds and even thousands of years
old, is said to have been made by Professor
Hendreich in Greece. In the silver mines
of Laurium, only the slags left by the
ancient Greeks are at present worked off,
in order to gain, after and improved modern
method, silver still left in that dross. This
refuse ore is probably about two thousand
years old. Among it, the seed Of species
of glaucium or poppy was found, which
had slept in the darkness of the earth during
all that time. After little while, when
the slags were all brought up and worked
off at the melting ovens, there suddenly
arose crop of glancium plants, with a
beautiful yellow flower, of kind unknown
in modern botany, but which is described
by Pliny and others as frequent flower in
ancient Greece.
Year: 1876

OATMEAL IN THE HoUsEHoLD.-ln Great
Britain children of all ranks are raised on
an oatmeal diet alone, because it causes
them to grow strong and healthful, and no
better food can possibly be found for them.
1t is also quite as desirable for the student
as for the laborer, and for the delicate lady
and for her hard working sister; indeed all
classes would be greatly benefited by its
use, and dyspepsia with all its manifold
annoyances, can be kept at distance. Oat-
meal is more substantial food, it is said,
than veal, pork or lamb, and quite equal to
beef and mutton, giving as much or more
mental vigor, while it's great desideratum
consists in ones not becoming weary OF it,
for it is as welcome for breakfast or tea as is
wheat or Graham bread. 1t can be eaten
with syrup and butter as hasty pudding, or
with cream and sugar like rice. 1t is espe-
cially good for young mothers, upon whose
nervous forces too great demand has been
made, and they lose the equilibrium of the
system and become depressed and dispirited.
Oatmeal requires to be cooked slowly, and
the water should be boiling hot when it is
stirred in.
Year: 1876

At dinner party there were two sisters
present, one widow who had just emerged
from her weeds; the other not long married,
whose husband had lately gone out to India
for short term. A young barrister,, was
deputed to take the widow to dinner. I'm
fortunately he was under the impression
that his partner was the married lady whose
husband had just arrived in India. The
conversation that followed began with the
lady remarking how extremely hot it was.
"Yes it is very hot" returned the young
barrister. Then happy thought sugges-
ted itself to him, and he added with a cheer
full smile, "But not so hot as the place to
which your husband has gone.,' The look
with which the widow answered this "happy
thought will haunt that young barrister
till the day of his death.
Year: 1876

He who steadies himself between two
ships, will certainly be drowned.


Shame is worse than death.


He who weeps from his heart, will pro-
woke tears even from the blind.


A lean horse and hero in strange
country, each look amiss.


When you go to law against the Empe-
ror, God himself should be the judge.


The wise man strikes twice against one
and the same stone.


You may praise the Russian thousand
times, but his eyes will still be blue, (the
reverse Of handsome, according to Usbeg
taste.)


Young men may die; old men must.


The overlooking (fattering) tongue soon
makes a wound.


He who fears the sparrow will never SOW
millet.


When the ass bears too light load he
wants to lie down.


The spoken word cannot again be swal-
lowed.


He whose heart is full soon finds loose
tongue.


Smoke arises only from large blocks of
wood.


A living mouse is better than dead lion.
Him whom God hath marked, the proph-
ct strikes with his wand.


He who is on horseback no longer knows
even his own father. (The armed man on
horseback spares not his nearest relation. J
When you die, even your tomb shall be
comfortable.


Men speak to each other by words; ami
mails by signs.


Man is caught by the tongue; an OK by
his horns.


That which is taken in the milk, only
goes out with the soul. Faults contracted
in infancy disappear but with death.)


The open mouth never remains hungry.
Do not fasten up your garment until you
see the water.


Time does not bow to you; you must bow
to time.


When the parson visits you, don't be
overjoyed: he will soon begin to beg.


A great head has great cares.


Sense does not lie in the head, but in age.
Every tribe has it's thief; every mountain
its wolf. (To be always on ones guard
One whip is enough for good horse; for
a bad one not thousand.


He who is not satisfied with drinking will
not quenchs his thirst by licking.


Man carries his superiority inside, the
animals theirs outside.


Were the hand to give all that the tongue
promises, we should soon have no more
beggars, everybody would be a prince.


Be the distance never so great, travelling
still is pleasant. Be the girl never so plain,
she still is handsome.
Year: 1876

''Where is he then?"


81 suppose he is where other wor kingwo-
mems husbands are, at the public house, :"
she said rather bitterly, for she had her ex-
perience.


The women wanted to go to the house for
him, but the blacksmiths wife was coura-
geous woman, and, besides, she Thought it
most likely false alarm. "Nay, nay there
got fine affront, I'll go with you," said
she sI'll take the poker and we have got
our tongues to raise the town with, sup
pose." So they marched to the toll bar.
When they got near it, they saw something
that staggered this heroine. There was
man half in snd half out the window.
This brought the blacksmith's wife to a
stand still, and the timid pair implored her
to go back to the village. s


"Nay," said she, what for2 see bnt ooe
and hark!-itis my belief the dog is hold
ing him. However, she thought it safest
to be on the same side with the dog, lest
the man might turn on him. So she made
her way into the kitchen followed by the
others; and there a sight met their eyes
that changed all her feelings, both towards
the robber and toward each other. The
mastiff had pinned man by the throat,
and was pulling at him to draw him through
the window, with fierce but muffled snarls.
The mans weight alone prevented it. The
window was like picture frame, and in
that frame there glared, with lolling tongue
and starting eyes, the white face of the
blacksmith, their courageous friend villain
GUS husband. She uttered an appalling
scream and flew upon the dog and choked
him with her two hands. He held and
growled and tore till he was all but throt-
tied himself, and he let go, and the man
fell. But what struck the ground outside,
like lump of lead, was in truth lump of
clay; the man was quite dead, and fearfully
torn about the throat. So did comedy
end in an appalling and most piteous trage-
dy; not that the scoundrel himself deserved
any pity, but his poor, brave, honest wife,
to whom he did not dare confide the villainy
he meditated.


The outlines of this true story were in
several journals. l have put the disjoint-
ed particulars together as well as could.
l have tried hard to learn the name of the
village, and what became of this poor widow
but have failed hitherto. Should these lines
meet the eye of any one who can tell me-
hope he will and without delay.
Year: 1876

ScALY LEG IN FowLs.-Scaly leg is
caused by a parasitic insect which may be
seen by the aid of a microscope, in little
furrow under the scales. It is contagious.
To cure it, clean up the legs of the fowls by
washing with carbolic soap. An ointment
made of coal tar and lard, sulphur and lard,
or the various preparations of carbolic acid,
applied two or three times, will usually
effect cure. Give the fowls sulphur once
week, mixed with their food, and do not
neglect to thoroughly clean the whole hem
merry, by washing with lime water or some
disinfectant. The disease is not hereditary,
but scaly legged fowls should not be used
for setting.
Year: 1876

CORK AS GAS LIGHTERS. Experiments
have been made at Bordeaux for the en-
ployment Of cork in gas for lighting. The
results were so favorable and SO economical
that it has been decided to fit up works for
lighting the town of Nerac on that system.
The waste obtained from cork manufacto-
ries is distilled in retorts, and the flame thus
obtained is said to be brighter and whittier
than that from coal gas.