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Year: 1873

toriai endorsements, was called, as though by
trumpet sound, to rush to the Buchu Banking
House. and buy shares of the "Littie Buchu
Silver Mining Company of Utah Gimited).
All England saw an attractive investment.
There were the members of Parliament one
noble lord, Senator of the United States
and the American Minister himself on the
Board of Direction. There was the financial
agent of the United States ready to take money
and pay dividends. They were, furthermore.
told that the books of subscription would not
be open for more than day or two.


The udent in natural history need not be
informed that the one article of food which
the experienced rat avoids in his midnight ex-
cursions is toasted cheese The moro care
fully the cheese is toasted the more anxious
the rat is to shun it. So when the subscrip-
ton books of the Little Buchu were closed
it was found that none of the old rats of the
London money market had nibbled at the
toasted cheese There was not q name known
in financial circles; not a name familiar with
the ways of money and shares. But there
was long list of clergymen and
widows and ancient maiden ladies, and
humble people from every town in the
United Kingdom. The subscriptions were
for small amounts, the savings of one or two
years, of many years, perhaps. 1t was pitiful
to see this list and read the names and to feel
that these simple-minded people had hurried to
buy these worthless shares in the belief that
they were endorsed and protected by the honor
of America. And when the mine went to
smash and the shares fell to nothing one
could not but think of distant English
homes-the humble freside, the village
manse-where misery found its way
through the influence Of the representa-
tives Of American nationality. But we
are sure no such thoughts entered the minds
of the heroes of the campaign. They had sold
their mine. They had the money. The
Baron went with his share to Hesse, the
Senator returned to Washington and built
palace, and is mentioned in connection with
the Presidency. The ex-pedler began to en-
dow theological seminaries and to subscribe
for the propagation Of the Gospel in foreign
parts. When the widows and clergymen went
to the banking house for their money they
were told that oil business had ceased with
the mine When they went to the Minister
he simply said. II have sinned, and only
regard me as a fool in order that you may not
condemn me as a scoundrel" And when the
President of the United States came to review
the transaction he gave it his approval, as not
being in any way violation of the principles
of his administration.


But, Notwithstanding, we had the two glo-
rious results. The Senator from Arizona is
rich enough to give his whole mind to the
country, and England has been compelled to
pay another indemnity for her perfdious
treatment Of America during our Revolution
and the war with the South. In other words,
we have assessed upon England supplement
tary Alabama claims, and for this let every
American heart beat with pride.
Year: 1873

IT would be interesting informati on if some
spiritual medium would lot us know what
Gaffney, Nixon and tho ignorant and money
less murderers think of the verdict in the
Stokes case.
Year: 1873

The ORD, OLD STORY. with the approach
Of cold weather comes the old, old story Of
desperate robberics from dwellings and from
the person. In most of these cases it is found
that want drives TO the commission of the
crime. The poor wretch, who sees his wife
Year: 1873

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM, THEORETICAL AND
PRACrIcAL. AT short intervals the newspapers
are favored with brief telegraphic dispatches
from Washington Of q semi-oficial character,
imparting roseate tinge to the complexion of
civil service reform. Now we are informed
that the Civil Service Commission is just on
the point of taking an important step for
the stringent enforcement of the rules, and
that all the outstanding rules are to be codified
into harmonious whole" This is theorcti-
cal civil service reform. Meanwhile o noisy
politician is foisted into high position at the
Custom House for which he has no qualifca-
ton except blind partisanship, and half starved
clerks in the various government Offices ore
robbed Of fifteen per cent of their salaries by
the greedy administration ring into whose
pockets the largest share of the stolen money
finds its way. This is practical civil service
reform
Year: 1873

The RATE OF TAXATION would be consider
ably diminished by the large increase in the
valuation of city property resulting from the
annexation Of lower Westchester to the me-
tropolis.
Year: 1873

AFTER THE CoMPTRoLLER.-The OLD lnJunc-
TONER has applied to Judge Barratt for
an order restraining Comptroller ,Green
him to duty in the Chamberlains OficA, in
violation of the charter, which requires sthe
Chamb erlain to pay all the expenses of Iris
Office out of his liberal salary of thirty thou
sand dollars. The hearing was adjourned
until next Wednesday, Mr. Green being mean
time prohibited from paying these clerks until
a decision shall be rendered 1t will be well
if the investigation to which this application
must lead be extended sufficiently to ascertain
whether the Comptroller is not still more
seriously violating the charter by intermed-
ding with the Chamberlain's duties and han
ding the public moneys


The HEART OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Is in
the right place. The Mast relief fund is roll
ing up, and if it continues he will sooD he
enabled to work for his grinding employers
for nothing but the glory which his genius
will bring if it is still his desire to give to
party ''what was meant for mankind"


The CRY AND COUNTY EXPENSES FOR 1874
The full estimates Of the expenses of the city
and county for 1874 as passed by the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment yesterday, reach
nearly thirty-sx millions and half and are
nine millions in excess of the present year.
OF this increase more than six millions are on
city account. The Department of Parks re-
ceives more than one million one hundred
thousand dollars over the last appropriation.
and the interest and instalment account in
creases nearly two millions and quarter over
this years account. The extra contingencies
swell up from two hundred thousand this year
to half million in 1874. This is the head
under which special counsel fees and the like
are smuggled through. 1t will be seen that
the increased expenditures are mainly in those
items over which the Comptroller holds
especial control.


DANGER OF CARELESS BLASTING. num-
Der of serious accidents, in some cases at
tended by loss Of life, resulting from the care
less manner in which blasting operations are
conducted on the streets of this city, call for
prompt interference on the part Of the proper
authorities. Huge rocks are shot into the air
without a thought on the part of the con-
tractor or his ''merrie men, as to where or on
whom they may fall. Houses in the vicinity
Of those unpleasant works are shaken to their
very foundations, and occasionally disfgured
by blast or two into which an undue guam
tity of powder has been introduced. The fire.
quent recurrence of such accidents should be
met by city ordinance Of the most stringent
character, and contractors should be taught
that it is not necessary to injure person and
property for the purpose Of opening street or
buildino q railroad
Year: 1873

to the metropolis will bring back from the
shores of New jersey and Long Island thou
sands of families who are now unable to find
houses in this city, and who would eagerly en-
brace the opportunity. thus afforded them to
become genuine New Workers with plenty Of
breathing room.
Year: 1873

The HEART OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ls in
the right place. The Mast relief fund is roll
ing up, and if it continues he will soon he
enabled to work for his grinding employers
for nothing but the glory which his genius
will bring if it is still his desire to give to
party "what was meant for mankind"
Year: 1873




of Buchu, and with the eye Of Frederick him
self moved at once to the position. First he
interested the London house of Buchu, who
became agents for the 'Little Buchu Mine,
as well as for the government. Then he ap-
preached the American Minister. This repre-
sentative was not without honor at home
and had lived career Of usefulness and
merit. But he was an easy-tempered man,
to whom money was very necessary, and he
had held high place in the Credit Mobilier
Congress, over which Mr.. Colfax was presid-
ing officer. He had seen our revenue system
the frauds upon whiskey and tobacco--and
tariffs. He had seen men grow rich by selling
their votes. And, although not deemed to be
dishonorable man, much contemplation Of
these things had deadened his perceptions Of
duty to his own country and the country to
which he was Minister. In an unthinking
moment he became director Of the Little
Buchu, and virtually stamped the shares with
the seal of the United States Of America.


Then came an evidence of the forbearance
and reserve of these great men. To begin
with, the Little Buchu had no real value as a
silver deposit. Since the shares were to be sold
there was no reason why these shares should
not represent fifty millions of dollars. But
the Hessian Baron and his allies did not want
to exhaust the market in one undertaking,
and SO modestly named the price at five mill
lions of dollars. And one morning all Eng
Land. in the press, by circulars. posters edi-
Year: 1873




Professor TYndall iiiustrateszthe val
ne of single potato by supposing that
every potato in the world but one were
destroyed; that one would contain in it.
self the possibility ofagsin stocking the
world with an invaluable article of food.
If one potato would produce, when
planted, only a crop of ten potatoes, in
ten years the total product of the pro-
duce of this one potato would be equal
to ten thousand millions, which would
be sufficient to stock the whole world
with seed. sFhe real value of that sim
gle potato, then, would be such that it
would be better that the city OF London
or New York should be totally destroy
ed than that tuber should be lost to the
world.
Year: 1873

The coming postal card will no doubt be
a good thing and a convenient thing, but
human perversity and ingenuity can make
even good things the vehicle of injury and
dishonesty. In England these cards or
their Introduction were made the means OF
anonymous slander and indecent ribaldry.
In France, in at least one instance, they
We're made the agency of very adroit
swindler. An enterprising cdeoaEer din
duSt,5e addressed to himself several cards,
calling upon him to receive money due
him, and notifying him of the success OF
his addresses to lady who possessed very
handsome dot. The curiosity of the hotel
keeper1ed him into the loss of his money.
He lent the man who was SO well off, and
with such fine prospects, ten thousand
francs, and could give no better reason for
his act than that he was proud to be the
creditor of one who already possessed so
much. 81
Year: 1873

A bitter war, increasing in violence,
is being waged between the Liberal
Catholic party of Canada and the
Ultra Montanes. The latter are under
management of the Jesuits, and the
former under direction of the Arch
bishop of Quebec. 1t is thought the
strife may lead to the expulsion of
the Jesuits from the Dominion.
Year: 1873

The Columbus Dispatch says OF
Senator's Sherman and Thurman:
"They did not take the back pay,
nor did they ever intend to take it.
The day after the bill was through
Congress they both decided that
they would not touch it or any por-
tion of it, but would quietly have it
covered into the Treasury of the
United States, where it will require
another appropriation act to reach it.
The very fhst, It seems, to resolve
upon this course were the distin-
guished Senators from Ohio; but it
seems, also, that they preferred not
to advertise what they considered
it proper for themselves to do under
the retroactive clause of the salary
act" il .tf f,f.. '.l
Year: 1873

/ A powerful temperance lecture has
been delivered from the scafold. The
wife murderer who was executed in
Chicago on Friday last made a speech
just before he was swung off, in the
course of which he said;


':Twas drinking whisky brought
me to this. Only for it Wouldn't be
in this place now. Do ye see this
rope, all ofye around me here?" The
doomed man caught the moose in his
hand and held it'up eye do well
when ye drink that bad whisky to
think of thisrope' that's going to end
my life. = =


Give up drinking whisky, young
men, and all Of ye. Give it up, or
it will bring ye to hurt some day. Be
sober, and be good to your wives and
kind to everybody. Whisky will
. E
make the best man mad. 1 had as
good a wife as any Of ye has now, and
if I hadn't been drunk I'd never Ia
ken her life, nor would be here my
self but whisky, I say it again, whisky
brought me to this. It was
the poisonous drink that was in me
that did not let me see what I was
doing. Oh, avoid liquor, let me say
to you once more"


John B. Cough never delivered a
more effective warning against intern
perance than did this unfortunate
man, speaking, as he did, from the
brink of the grave Wash. Star
Year: 1873

Aphilosophical Journal says; ''Men
regard with gentle 7complaeeney the
wealthyscamp whose money comes
around suspicious and unexpected
corners. : The majority Of men'un-
doubtedly do, but the complacency is
losing its value even to the wealthy
scamps themselves Money is an ex
cellent thing. It can be made useful,
and in the hands of the wise man is
useful In the hands of the fool it is
a weapon of destruction and brings
sorrows without number. We may
tolerate asman because he is wealthy,
but if we ahaye a suspicion that his
money came around doubtful corners,
the suspicion ITSELF destroys the val
ue of the complacency and is really q
verdictof guilty, the sound of which
is not pleasant to the scamp.
Year: 1873

The conscience money" fund is
growing to be one of the institutions
of the Treasury Department al
Washington. If one-half of those
who have grown rich upon frauds on
the government were only to be con
science stricken, and make restitution
of their in-gotten gains, what-a hand
some sum would be accumulated. It
would help materially to reduce the
public debt.
Year: 1873

The number of the ModOcs has
again been put at sixty-three, and
when one reflects upon the fact that
the telegraph has killed at least two
thirds of them, it must be assumed
that they increase and multiply in
some original and very remarkable
manner
Year: 1873

A daughter is. almost always right
when she endeavors to initiate her
mother, but we do not think she is
equally right when, at a certain period
of life, she tries all she can to initiate
her daughter. l......
Year: 1873

To prevent the teeth from decaying
brush them with lime water. Even
if they are far gone, it will cause them
to decay with little or no pain. Sat
urate the brush well, and use with
tooth-powder.
Year: 1873

1t is said that necessity is the
mother of invention but go to the
Patent Office, in Washington, and
they will tell you that invention is the
mother of necessity Nine inventors
out of ten die poor. J 2ri
Year: 1873

: ene'of the Ohio papers tells about
a braSe little boy out there who found
broken rail on the railroad track,
and perceiving the peril in which the
traiIi'would be placed if it should
come dashing past without warning,
sat on the fence for five long hours in
the bitter winter cold, in order that
he might carry the first news of the
accident to his father, who is local
editor of paper published in the
peighboring village. ss6s9 e68. .gle.i
Year: 1873

Understand the reasons, why the
habit is injurious. Study the sub
jeet until there is no lingering doubt
in your mind. Avoid the places,
persons, and thoughts that lead to
the temptation. Frequent the places,
associate with the persons, indulge
the thoughts that lead away from
the temptation Keep busy idleness
Is the strength of bad habits. Do
not give up the struggle when you
have broken your resolution once,
twice, a thousand times. That only
shows how much need there is for
you to strive. When you have bro
ken your resolution, just think the
matter over, and endeavor to under
stand why it is you failed, so that you
may be on your guard against a re-
currence of the same circumstance.
Do not think it an easy thing tnat
you have undertaken. It is folly to
expect to break off a habit in day
which may have been gathering
strength IN you for years.
Year: 1873

am composed of 9 letters.
NJ first is in right, but not in wrong,
My second is in narrow, but not in long,
My third is in yes, but not in no,
Nv fourth is in rain, and also in snow,
Myfifth is in love, but not in win,
My sixth is in zinc, but not in tin,
Ny seventh is in little, but not in much,
My eighth is in cane, but not in crutch,
My ninth is in rake, but not in hoe.
My whole is the name of girl know.
HillsborO, o.
Year: 1873

am composed of letters. A.t
IIy first is in me, but not in you,
Ny second is in moccasin, but not in shoe,
Ny third is in mouse, but not in cat,
My fourth is in mat, and also in rat,
My fifth is in cot, but not in bed,


My sixth is in told but not in said,
Ny seventh is in one, but not in ace,
My eighth is in countenance, and also in face,
My ninth is infwinter, but not in season,
My tenth is in learned, but not in reason,
My whole is the name of one of my schoolmates
Ht- " ROSALIE.
Year: 1873

Elk Governor Seymour is not san
guine about the anti-railroad mono
poly movement. thinks the
people will become excited on the
subject, and make demands and ella
NOR for Legislative action; but the
railroad corporations are so rich and
strong that they will easily resist
the effort and corrupt the legislators.
He holds that the only effectual
remedy for too much railroad is more
river and canal
Year: 1873

| beautiful young mother sat by us during a
three hours ride in the cars, the other day
and in her arms she held what seems to us the
talrest ornament mother ever wears, her
beautiful baby. The little fellow was very no
ble-looking; somewhere near his second birth
day, we should fancy; sturdy and strong, with
great blue eyes like wood violets. cunning little
white teeth even as kernels of corn, and rosy
cheeks that kept dimpling into smiles. Natur.
ally the confinement of his position made him
restless. He grew tired of sitting still on his
mothers lap; the cakes and apples she rather
unwiseIy gave him lost their charm, and the
bright flowers he kept begging with the pretti.
est pleading from the stranger by his side, at


last grew wearisome. Baby wanted to take a
turn on the floor, and mamma was afraid to let
him. What do you think she did. gentle reader'
Why, she looked her little wide-aWake boy
straight in his innocent face and said, gravely
Harry, if you don't sit still I'll throw you
out OF the car window"


In the plainest manner possible she gave her
child lesson in lying. No earthly power
would have made her throw him out and moth
ing would have been strong enough to tear him
from her had danger menaced him; but she
wanted to keep him quiet. and SO she rushed
to the resort Of the weak-deception. If two
or three years hence Harry shall tell her lie.
she will be exceedingly shocked and panied,
and he will be punished and prayed for, and his
mother will grieve at his deficiency of moral
sense. quite oblivious Of the fact that as she
has sown she is beginning to reap.


The fact is that halt the babies are trained
to tell falsehoods before they are able to walk
and talk. The thousands of poor little unfOr-
tunates, who are dressed in muslin and lace
and given over to the care and companionship
of ignorant hireings. are SO practiced upon
and deceived and frightened. and, in short.
lied TO- that it is a wonder that after all most
of them grow up tolerably truthful. We think
it speaks well for that much maligned thing
human nature. But servants are not the only
nor the chief offenders. We charge mothers
and fathers with being very culpabe and wick
ed in their sins of commission in this regard


Il have never deceived my child" says Mrs.
Laura Love, who is reading this number be-
side her baby's crib. When you pretended,
dear lady the other day. that you were not go
ing out when you were and when you tiptOed
off with your bonnet hidden behind you lest
baby should cry to go. what were you doing
but deceiving him When you pretended that
the abominably tasting stuff you were about to
give him out of vial was good, smacking your
lips rs if you enjoyed it, what were you doing
but acting lie!


Children have very quick perception. Very
young children learn to see through the ways
that are dark and the tricks that are vain of
their foolish elder companions Still. as we
look into their soft eyes, we seem TO hear the
solemn words that fell from the tendcrest lips
that ever spoke to man: Take heed that ye
offend not one of these little ones. s."-HcdrM
and Home
Year: 1873

RIPE BREAD.-Bread made out of wheat
-four, when taken out Of the oven, is unprepar


ed for the stomach. It should 60 through
change, or ripen before it is eaten. Young
persons, or persons in the enjoyment of vigor-
Gus health, may eat bread Immediately after
being baked without any sensible injury from
it; but weakly and aged persons cannot; and
none can eat such without doing harm to the
digestive organs. Bread, after being baked,
goes through II change similar to the change in
newly brewed beer, or newly churned butter
change. During the change in bread it sends
off large portion of carbon or unhealthy gas
and imbibes large portion Of oxygen or
healthy gas. Bread has, according to the COM
putation of physicians, One-fifth more nutri-
ment in it when ripe than when just out of the
oven. It not only has more nutriment, but i'm
parts much greater degree of cheerfulness.
He that eats old, ripe bread will have much
greater flow of animal spirits than he would
were he to eat unripe bread. Bread, as before
observed, discharges carbon and imbibes Oxy-
gen. One thing in connection with this thought
should be particularly noticed by all house.
wives. 1t is, to let the bread ripen where it
can inhale the oxygen in pure state. Bread
will always taste Of the air that surrounds 1t
while ripening; hence it should ripen where
the air is pure. It should never ripen in Gel
lar. nor in a close cupboard. nor in bedroom:
The noxious vapors Of cellar or cupboard
snoud never enter into and form part of the
bread we eat. Bread should be light, well
baked, and properly ripened before it should
be eaten. Bread that is several days old may
be renewed so as to have all the freshness and
lightness of new bread, by simply putting it
into common steamer over the fire, and
steamng it half or three-quarters of an hour.
The vessel under the steamer containing the
water should not be more than half FULL other
wise the water may boil up into the steamer,
and wet the bread After the bread is thus
steamed, it should be taken out of the steamer
and wrapped loosely in cloth, to dry and cool,
and remain so a short time, when it will be
ready to be cut and used 1t will then be like
cold new bread-American Farmer.
Year: 1873

INTERNAL MACHINE.-On the 26th of Nov
ceived an Internal machine, by u. S. mail
The machine consisted of a small wooden box
covered on the outside with glazed paper. In
the box was a drawer which was filled with
powder and ball, and bunch of lucfer match.
es so arranged that any attempt to force the
drawer ont, would bring the matches in con-
tact with strip of sand paper which was
tackled on the lid of the box above them, and
explode the machine The presence Of the
drawer, and the fact that the address on the
box was made up Of letters cut from news
paper, excited the suspicious of the Controller.
and thus thwarted the assassin's designs.