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Year: 1875

Great care should be taken of goldfish,
as they are very susceptible; and hence
a loud noise, strong smell, violent or even
slight shaking of the vessel will ofttimes
destroy them. Small worms, such as are
common to the water, suffice for their
food in general but the Chinese, who
bring goldfish to great perfection, throw
small balls Of paste into the water, of
which they. are very fond. They give
them also lean pork, dried in the sun,
and reduced to very fine and delicate
powder. Fresh water must be given them
every day. Care must be taken to collect
the spawn when seen floating on the water,
as otherwise it will be destroyed by the
fish themselves. This spawn is put into
a vessel, and exposed to the sun, until
vivifed by the heat. Goldfish, however,
seldom deposit spawn when kept in vases.
In order to procure supply, they must
be put into reservoirs OF considerable
depth, in some parts at least, well shaded
at intervals with water lilies, and con-
stantly supplied with fresh water. At a
certain time of the year, numerous barks
are seen i'm the great river Of Yangtse-
Kiang, which go thither TO purchase the
spawn of goldfish. This is obtained with
no small care, for toward the month of
May, the Inhabitants close the river in
several places with mats and hurdles,
which extend nine or ten leagues, and
leave only space in the middle suffi-
cient for the passage of boats. The spawn
is stopped by these hurdles, and the water
being afterward drawn up and put into
large vessels, is sold to merchants, who
send it to all parts of the world.
Year: 1875

A writer in ,Scribner's says: The
pleasures of the table should appeal to
the eye and mind as well as to the palate.
Form should be consulted; grace should
be indispensable. The SAVIOR of food
gains much from its setting and its
accompaniments. A few flowers, perfect
order and neatness with congeniality and
sympathy around the board, will insure
what an Apician feast might not. The
day of uniformity in table as well as 9TH
er furniture has passed, the present fancy
being for, oddness and variety. This,
apart from picturesqueness, is both con-
venient and economical, since the break
ing of one or two pieces does not neces-
state the purchase of an entire new set.
It Is not unusual now to see on an ele-
CANT breakfast table, each coffee cup diff
ferent from its neighbor, and no two OF
the plates. But it is at tea--most infor-
NAL of meals-that the greatest variety
and the prettiest effects may be produced.
Flowers have come to be indispensable
to many tables, and they will be, ere long
let us hope, indispensable to all. They
need net be rare nor costly. They are
so beautiful, even the plainest and poor.
est of them, that nothing else can supply
their place. A few green leaves, dozen
wayside dasies, q bunch of violets, i'm.
part a charm and awake in us the touch
of nature.
Year: 1875

Near tho crest of heavily wooded
declivity in Greenwood Cemetery is a
plain marble shaft, bearing the name of
Henry J. Raymond. The tomb, al
though perfectly isolated, is yet within
six rods of the most frequented part of
the grounds. The lot was chosen by Mr..
Raymond, and the selection is character
istic of the man. In public life he sought
a place near the front, but not at the ac-
tual front, as was best illustrated in the
great work of his life, the founding OF
the Times. In that he aimed at a middle
line between the mental eccentricity OF
the Tribune and the moral eccentricity
of the Herald, at the time of those great
newspapers greatest greatness, marking
out for the Times mean between the two
extremes.


The costly tomb of James Gordon
Bennett, conspicuously fronting one of the
busiest avenues in the cemetery, is such
a sepulcher in such spot as Mr.. Bennett
might have been expected to choose, al
though the lot is believed to have been
selected and the marbles chiseled under
the direction of Mrs. Bennett. 1t was the
daydream of his life that by keeping the
LftTuU III tuc NOitCA VI 4NCW loih Jus
mess life, and by enlivening it with a
wit that his successors have not even
understood, much less emulated, he
might make it the journal of the future,
and we do not hesitate to say as much.
In pecuniary sense, he was prodigiously
successful.


Horace Greeley's tomb appropriately
looks out from under the abundant
boughs of Locust Hill upon the setting
sun. The mound is temporarily marked
by modest slab that will tell who sleeps
beneath it until his fellow craftmen erect
their contemplated bronze memorial.
The Greeley tomb, too, is typical of its
occupants former aspirations. 1t is
seemingly sequestered and actually re-
mote from the ornate mausoleums that
New York fashion:has reared in the city
of the dead, but it is visible alta great
distance beyond the cemetery's bounda-
ries, and the monument which the farmer
editor must have expected at the hands
of his numerous admirers will be note
worthy feature of the landscape, to be
admired by men of all nations as they
sail in and out of our picturesque harbor.
Year: 1875


brought into camp, it was found to be
that of a Bavarian trooper, who had
been suspected of trcachery, though no
proof had ever been found against him.
On, his person was found the key to the
cyper which had been taken from the
person of the Prussian drummer; and
now that the Colonel had them both, he
could translate the mystic scroll. It
proved to be a direction to the Bavarian
to lay his plans for keeping as near to
Napoleon's person as possible, after he
should enter Berlin, and then wait for
further orders. .s...a


Tho mystery was explained. The
Bavarian had contrived to call the great
dog away from the regiment and de-
livered him up to the enemy, and his
skin was to be made the cover for spy
to enter the camp under. And the spy
would have got in, too, but for the sport
i've order Of the Colonel, and the will
full obedience of Pierre Sancoin.


On the next day Pierre was promoted
to the rank of sergeant, and the Emperor
said to him as he bestowed the boon:


eff you only make as faithful an officer
as you have proved yourself faithful as
a sentinel, ! can ask no more"
Year: 1875

AS the WOrlu leaQS we IOllOW.


Piety enjoins no man to be dull.


A Jest is a very serious thing.


Gravity is twin-brother to stupidity.
True Joy is only hope put out of fear.
Custom does often reason overrule.


Let us be sacrifcers, but not butchers.
1t is meat and drink to me to see a
clown.


Party is the madness of many for the
gain of a few.


Let me have music dying, and seek
no more delight.


One touch of nature makes the whole
world kim.


The world has not yet learned the
riches of frugality.


Fellowship in treason is bad ground
of confidence.


The danger which is despised arrives
the soonest.


Age is rarely despised but when it is
contemplate.


Every man desires to live long; but NO
man would be old.
Some men by ancestry are only the
shadow of mighty name.


He who never leaves his country is
full of prejudicss.


There are some people who give with
an air of refusal.
AfIectation is as necessary to the mind
as dress is to the body.
Much dearer be the things which come
through hard distress.
You have greatly ventured, but al
must do so who would greatly win.


Political men, like goats, usually
thrive best among inequalities.
shall show that the place does no
honor the man, but the man the place.


To be happy we must be true to nature
and carry our age along with us.


When King creates an Office, Provi
dence creates Immediately fool to bu.
| il.


1t is easy to look down on others; t,
look down on ourselves is the difficulty
|
Year: 1875

Sometimes sick Hindoo may be seen
lying on his mat, with all his friends
and relations sitting silently around
him, touching his mouth and nose with
the holy mud, or now and then repeating
text from their Vedas, or sacred
writings. There they will stay till
nightfall; then, if he is still alive, they
will bid him farewell and leave him to
his fate, and most likely to the river
banks. Atany rate, once brought to this
sacred spot, he is expected to die; other
wise his family disown him, and he be-
comes Pariah, disgrace tU everybody
and misery to himself And yet in a
general way, the Hindeos are gentle,
affectionate people; but they are ruled
in all things by the Brahmins, or high
caste priests.


Once some English sailing down the
| Oranges saw one OF these poor, mise rable
sick creatures lying on the bank waiting
| to be drowned. Not knowing much
about the fashion of the country, they
felt great compassion and landed, and
one young gentleman poured some laven
der water down the poor fainting crea
ture's throat, and, seeing him recover
somewhat, carried him on board, and
took such kind care of him that he soor
|, regained his senses. But the poor fellow
was in despair, and reviled them loudly
He had been taken from the holy bank
he had drank with q Christian; he had
lost caste, and was avoided and scorned
by all his friends as though he had Q
plague. He complained bitterly, loudly
cursing his unluckly preserver, who wa'
generally blamed, and had to provide
for the man for many years, as he could
not get work for no one would employ
an outcast, a man who had no right tt
be living. Had not the sacred Gange'
refused to keep him 7 At the end o
some years he was again taken very i'll
This time the Englishman did not inter
fere, but let him dispose of himself aftel
| b;a own faabion : Ho,ae ,ynd School
Year: 1875

There is nothing very extraordinary in
folks fond of animal pets desiring to in
sure their favorite's being we'll treated
after their death, but there is something
extraordinary in bequeathing a parrot
an annuity of more than 9200. That is
what wealthy London widow did do
for her faithful companion OF twenty
four years." Poll was pretty sure of be-
ing we'll looked after, since the 200 gum
cas- year were to be paid to whomsOever
took charge of her and proved her iden-
tity twice every year, all payments to
cease upon the non-production of the
bird.


Eccentric as the bequest appears, Mrs.
Hunter was passing shrewd and business
like in her arrangement for her pets
comfort.


She named widow of her acquaint-
ance as the recipient of her bird and its
legacy, giving her power to bequeath
both to whomsoever she pleased, pro-
vided the person was neither servant
nor a man, and did not live out of Eng
land.


She furthermore left twenty guineas
with which to buy very large cage, and
directed her executors, in the event OF
her friend declining to take the charge,
to see the parrot placed in respectable
hands. Then, with an eye perhaps to
some relative rising difficulties, the old
lady put this clause in her last tesla
ment:


"I will and desire that whoever at
tempts to dispute this, my last will and
testament, or by any means neglects OF
tries to avoid paying my parrots annu.
ity shall forfeit whatever / have left
them; and if any one to whom have
left legacies attempts bringing in any
bills or charges against me, it is my will
and desire that they shall forfeit what
ever legacy / may have left them, as
owe nothing to any one; many owe ME
gratitude and money, but none have
paid me either"
Year: 1875

PERErRE got little tired Of returning
the bows of an uncomfortably polite man
in his establishment, and finally gave the
polite man this conundrum at point
blank range /" Sir, what would become
of the hours il the minute hand stopped
10 bow to the second hand every time
they metT nt
Year: 1875

Mir. James Birden. a gentleman well known as dealer in the enlivening article horse-radish, recently took unto himself 8 wife as will be more fully noticed in our list of marriages. They seem to be hay ing rather eventful honeymoon,-at least if it is all as lively as their experience of Tuesday. They had gone out on the Pa per-mil pond. at the Station. for a little row, and found a log near the edge of the dam which they tried to push over to see the splash. The log did not go over the dam, but, somehow, the Birdens did plunging down some dozen feet into the foamlng water below. It so happened that the up milk train was just passing on the Naugatuck road. Supt. Beach was on board, saw the boat and the Birdens take their awful leap, and rushed down from the Station with several others to fish out the cold corpses of the drowned pair. Luckily Birden ''shot" the fall safely, and he and his spouse came to land happy if trifle wet. So there was no double funeral; but Birden deals in & powerful article, and they say that even the weak dilution of him which went down the Naugatuck, that day, moved the people who haunt it's borders to tears as far down as Ansonia.
Year: 1875

Der.

 Subscribers who are in arrears must make up arrsArges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions and subscribers who are in advance may deduct the amount their subscrip- tions are in advance.

 Money should be sent by post-office order, check registered letter, if possible. If remit tanees are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odicals.
Year: 1875

we would call especial attention to our new style
pictures of age AN FINISH" which we do not
think are SURPASSED in this or any other country
many thousands of which are in his city, and for
their quality we give general reference


M. & W. GARRETT,
jan1,1y 72o Market street.
Year: 1875

The surviving officers and soldiers who served in
either Of the seven Maine Light Batteries during
the war Of the rebellion are requested to meet at
the Hall of Bosworth Post, G. A. Il. in Portland,
on TUESDAY THE 23d day of September next, at
three O'Clock in the afternoon for the purpose of
social reunion and to form a regmental organiza-
ton. IT is earnestly hoped that full delegation
from each battery will be present. This reunion
and organization is to be had with special
reference to a part in the grand centennial re-
union of all the Maine regiments, which is to
take place sometime during the coming year. The
time selected is the third day of the Maine State
Agricultural exhibition when there will be a re.
duction Of fares on all the railroads and steamboat
lines Bosworth Post has kindly rendered the use
of their hall free of expense. Will papers in the
S.afe plea SO p xtend This notice?
Year: 1875

winthrop Locals.


Owing to our dog days weather, but little has
been done at haying, and there is large quantity
of meadow still to cut and it is generally Of an eX-
cellent quality.


The Maine State jersey Association held an ad-
iourned meeting the 7th, and voted to publish a
herd book and to hold show of Jersey stock
sometime this fall in Winthrop.


Abial Robinson has sold his fine yeailing whale
bone colt to go to Kansas.


The excitement about the bank robbery has sub
sided but the children and the aged women who
had their little all there deposited with which to
sustain their declining years have not become
reconced; and the men of means who lost their
money now think that pay ing some two per cent.
for others to do the business for them was not on
ly inviting robbery, but acknowledging their own
incapacity.


The story started by some one (who wanted to
pass as knowing more than others,) that the
burglars had a team, led the search too far away,
Year: 1875

divers Ledge in this city, is quite resort for
little picnic parties. On Monday afternoon, par
~ of young ladies whose initials ranged from A
10 w, had very pleasant and enjoyable picnic
there. Several Boston ladies were of the party,
who we're in raptures on account of the beautiful
view obtained rom that charming spot whose
equal it would be bard to find anywhere. The
range OF vision takes in a number of towns, both
up and down the river, as well as the beautiful
,ilvcry stream. From this lofty point, TIE State
House appear, to he in a valley After spending
little time in the adjoining woods, the party al
luded to spread their white table cloth on the
rocks, and partook of the contents of the basket
which they carried with them. Several square
blocks of granite afforded good seats for rest and
comfort The locality is coming TO be visited
more and more by parties who love to look upon
the beautiful in nauie, spread out so grandly even
at our doors.


\ good story is told of Deputy Sheriff A. c.
Carr Of Winthrop who is proving himself very
efficient officer We know that he laughed at the
occurrence for enjoys heartierl laugh better
than he. While on his return from Dexter and the
upper Somerset region, in pursuit Of the trail Of
the bank burglars. he was coming through Bel
grade in the night. 1t nky backness, and
the thick darkness could almost be felt. Now
Carr knows every apple tree in Belgrade, but he
was lost this time sure. Calling up to a house to
inquire as to his whereabouts, he raped away
several times. Receiving response, he repeat
ed the raps moie emphatically; but no reply came
After the expiration of some twenty minutes, a
neighbor across the way, some distance off, raised
a window and called out to know what was want
cd The irrcpressihle Carr replied that he wished
TO inquire the road to Winthrop. The man over
the way responee in shrill voice, You can't
raise them folks if You rap all night; they sleep
sound; they 'cere formerly IVMNrop peop'e"
Year: 1875

The orator commenced slowly and
cautiously, but soon warming with
his theme, forgot himself in soaring


flights Of eloquence. For about three
quarters Of an hour he Kept the spec
tators enchained by flow of beauti-
full thoughts, expressed in the choicest
Year: 1875

ONE OF THE WAYS OF THE WORLD.


For some days past there has been an
advertisement in one of our papers
which tells sally to come home and
the past will be forgiven and forgotten,
etc. Last evening detective inter
viewed Sally in gorgeous bagnio, and
conversed with her about the appeal
from her former hearth and home, but
Sally was implacablc. She said she
was suprcmely happy where she was,
and all Of her people might proceed
with their entreaties until the crack Of
doom, and she would never resign the
"love-swects" she had TASTED in her
new gilded residence. Then the de-
tective said, "Sally, shall have to de-
tract little from your romance, and
ask you to walk to the Central Station
with me-" Then Sally became per
feet fury. She ripped her new dress,
and murdered the Kings English for
awhile, but all to no purpose, for she
was soon torn from her dream OF plea
sure and taken to the assumed abode
Of preliminary justice, where she will
have to show that sho is her own mis-
trcss under the laws of the land, and
then she can resume her coveted posi-
tion and character of mistress to an
other.
Year: 1875

A Nevada newspaper speaking of the
avalanches of snow which have been 50
destructive to life and property this
winter, says:


Tho purely sliding avalanches. or
snow slides, are such as occur i'll dry or
merely moist snow, while rolling ava
lanehes take place when the snow is wet
or sufficiently moist to form into bulls by
rolling. The;avalancl o, that occurred III


Virginia City were OF the genuine rol,
ling description-the kind most dreaded
and most destructive i'll the valleys of


the Alps.


A very small beginning when the snow
is in q proper condition may end in u de-


structive avalanche. A ball Of snow no
irg + than a mans head started high up


on the side of Mount Davidson, might


have swept away several houses at the
foot of tho mountain. The fearful force
of tho avalanche was shown here when
one broke into house and killed two
men and buried five persons, who were
rescued with mutch difficulty. A further
| illustration OF the terrible force and dos
| tructive powers of the avalanche Is to bo
founl in the fact that twenty light
Cinnamon were killed by one that fell
near Genoa.


AS we have said small ball OF snow
| started high up on tho s.opo OF Mount
| David son would result in a genuine ava


lanche. In rolling distance of fifty
| wards in the moist snow the small ball
| of snow would become four or five feet
| in diameter, when it would bnrst, and
| each piece of it in an instant after form
| q ball of large size; those in turn would
| explode as soon as they had acquired Il
| certain weight and velocity, and mo-
ment after there would be hundreds
and thousands OF these balls i'll motion,
all bounding down the steep side of the
mountain.


While hundreds of these are exploding
| or lust formed other hundreds are of full
| size and are picking up rocks dirt and all
manner of rubbish, which becomes in
volved in the grand DOWN. ard rush.
Towards the lower part of their course
| the balls become so numerous that they
bound and clash together SO often that
they are broken before they acquire any


size, and the whole avalanche is then a
plunging, sliding mass OF snow. The
avalanche which knocked two houses to


pieces and buried five persons. start ed


hut a few hundred yards above where


the houses stood.


1t started ut bunch Of rocks which
projected fifteen or twenty feet above
the general surface of the slope of the
mountain. On the rocks the snow had
fallen and ndaccumulated to the depth OF
about three feet, hanging in places as
| snow is seen to do on the caves OF house.
From one of these rocks fell bunch oi
snowIwhich began to roll down the hill
and the result was destructive avalan.
che. Doubtless the avalanche which
l killed two men started in much the Same
way.
Year: 1875

Messrs Post, Norcross and Smith,
the Commissioners appointed by the
SecretaTy-Of the Treasury to examine
the Post ONCE building at Chicago,
have made their report TO Secretary
Bristow. The Commissioners con-
denim the foundation and the stone
used in building, and recommend that
the building be torn down and that
the stone he abandoned. Secretary
Bristow will Immediately give orders
that all work be stopped, and that
steps be taken to preserve the estruc;ure
in Its present condition until the mat
ter can be submitted to Congress.


1t is probable that the miLers found
in the Black Hills will not lie dis
turbed at present, as the government
does not propose TO furnish free trans
portation back to Cheyenne for all
adventures found there.
Year: 1875

Washington, Feb. 4.-The commit
tee of ways and means considered the
tariff bill to-day, and took number
of votes which developed the fact that
the proposition to tax tep and coffee will
not prevail as an independent PROPOSE
ton, but may, If some other articles,
now free, are included with them. A
minority OF the committee opposed
any new tariff bill, but there seems to
be no doubt that the bill will be re-
ported favorably by Monday.


In the Senate the committee on Mil
itary affairs reported back the House
bill to provide relief for the grasshop-
per sufferers. Morton moved that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of
the joint resolution to repeal the 22nd
joint rule of the two Houses of Con-
gres5. Carried, p to IS. Morton said
that the existence of the rule subjected
the country to great danger, and Of
fered the following as n substitute for
the motion to repeal. mo objection
to the reception and counting of any
electoral vote or votes of any State
shall be valid unless such obje ction is
sustained by the affirmative vote of
both Houses. Thurman moved that
the resolution be referred to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections that
it might be perfected. Adjourned.