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Year: 1876

MARCHING ON.-In the suit instituted by
Mr.. Moulton against Henry Ward Beecher
the counsel of Mr.. Beecher have made
application to the Supreme Court of New
York to have the place of trial changed
from Kings county, in which Brooklyn is
situated, to Franklin county in the extreme
northeastern corner of the State of New
York-up, in point of fact, in the John
Brown region. The application for this
change OF venue is made on the ground
that Mr.. Beecher cannot have a fair trial
in the county where he resides because of
the division Of sentiment there. Franklin
county is in the Adirondack range. 1t is
on the border line of Canada, over five
hundred miles from New York city. 1t is
difficult of access, and has a population of
some twenty-five thousand scattered over
LIS square miles. There are very few
newspapers read there and fewer books.
Year: 1876

FRESH EGGs.-To determine the age of
eggs dissolve about four ounces of common
salt in quart of pure water and then
immerse the egg. If it is one day old it
will descend to the bottom of the vessel {;
but if three days it will float in the liquid /;
if more than FIVE days old it will come TO
the surface, and project above in proper
tion to its increased age.
Year: 1876

The Treasurer OF the Charity Hospital
is at present engaged in distributing
pro rata among the creditors of that
institution about $4,000 in State war
rants OF the years 1874 and 1875 at the
rate OF seventy-five cents on the dollar.
This Is rather figure above the daily
quotations, but most or the creditors
are willing to take them rather than to
depend on the uncertainty of legislative
action. The Legislature twice made
the attempt to appropriate money for
the payment Of the old debts Of the
hospital. but through the courts, and at
the veto OF the Executive, were pre-
vented each time. The hope that the
Legislature will eventually give relief
Is growing more doubtful as time
roll. on.
Year: 1876

Cocoanut forests of thousands of
acres are spread over the plain back
Of Gale, Ceylon. The trees run up
without knot or limb from thirty to
eighty feet to the branches that bear
the fruit. A mature tree is only
about one foot to one foot and half
in circumference at the base, and it
maintains nearly this size all the way
up. How is the fruit gathered at
such height? The coolies climb
these trees like squirrels; they place
piece of rope around the legs, near
the ankles, so as to held them in po-
sition around the tree, and then with
out spur or other artificial help they
climb up with astonishing celerity,
gather the fruit and drop it ON the
ground. A single tree produces
about dozen cocoanuts, and the
coolie harvester is allowed one for
gathering the fruit of each tree
Cocoanut forests are really beauti-
full, presenting symmetrical growth,
graceful proportions and charming
shade. The fruit itself, with the in
closed milk, affords healthy food and
cooling drink; it is source of consid-
erable revenue from export; the fiber
of the shell is largely utilized for the
manufacture of cloth and rope. Next
to coffee, the cocoanut is the most
important and valuable product of
this island.
Year: 1876

A young man desired certain sit.
uatlon in the city, which he seemed
in a fair way to obtain. He was
agreeable in his manners, and the
firm was pleased with him. He was
highly recommended by friends OF
the different partners, and it was
thought he would soon rise to the
position of partner himself.


Meanwhile, the firm asked friend
who lived in the same town with
the young man to privately take a
note of the manner in which he spent
his evenings, and report to them.


The answer came in due time
The young man spent several even.
ings in the week in billiard saloon,
and on Sunday drove out with a span
of hired horses in company with two
or three 'fast young men," He did
not hear from the firm. They did
not need his services. He was not
the sort ola young man wanted in
honest business. Even men who
have no religious principles them
selves know how to value it in 9TH
ers. They feel safe in trusting a
clerk who is punctual at his church
and in Sabbath school, who is inter.
ested in his church and the doings of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion," rather than in the last new
star at the theatre.


When | see n clerk of mine driv-
ing out for pleasure on Sunday, said
a man engaged in a large business, l
dismiss him on Monday. He had
learned oy experience that they did
not belong to the trusty class.


Straws tell the direction of the
wind, and things, you little dream of
do more than letters of recommends
ton to influence the opinion of 9TH
ers from you. They are taking notes
of your words and ways even when
you think yourself most unobserved.


If you would have the name of be-
ing honest and upright, there Is but
one way to win it. BE what you
wish to seem.


A man may wear a mask success
fully for time, but slight thing
may loosen it and expose to view his
true face. Besides, men of business
have remarkably sharp eyes, which
pierce right through masks. 1t is not
worth boys while to try and wear
one TO deceive them.
Year: 1876

l. Call III a handsome carriage
for the gentleman who is to honor
you, at eight o'clock sharp. Enter
tain the deaf old mamma for an hour
and a half, till he finishes his ex-
quisite toilet. When he comes down
and gives you one finger to press, tell
him he looks lovely tonight, and try
to look as silly as you can.


2. Conduct him tenderly to the
carriage and stow him away on the
back seat, with all his wraps. If it
be cold, have q hot brick ready for
his little feet. On arriving, lead him
to the warm and elegant dressing
room and 60 and stick your cover
mgs somewhere in the little cold
dressing room-under the bed, if you
can't do any better.


3. Button his gloves for him and
escort him to the parlors or ball
room. Seat him on sofa and your
self on the wall adjacent. Try to
look happy, and rest assured that you
don't succeed.


4. During the evening see that
the gentleman is famed when he is
warm, lemonaded when thirsty, and
protected from draughts. Don't for
get to say sweet and silly things to
him whenever opportunity offers.


5. If the gentleman be a good
dancer keep him to yourself, and on
no account suffer him to accept invi-
tations to dance from ladies prettier
than yourself. If he be but indiffer-
ent leave him to the tender mercics
of the homely girls and the wall.


6. When you invite a gentleman
to dance, say with an idiotic simper:
"Mistaw--, May I how the plez-
zaw of dawncing this kwardwill with
you?" In the Lancers talk interest
ingly of the weather; and in the
grand cham tramp on your partners
coat-tail, if possible.


I. Manage to slip out slyly sever
al times in the evening, and come in
chewing coffee or "trix."


8. At supper stand behind his
chair and work yourself to a white
heat keeping him supplied with the
choicest delicacies, but though You
faint, don't taste a morsel yourself
until he has laid away the entire bill
of fare and three plates of ice cream.
If he wears anything which coffee
will stain, manage to spill some
on it.


9. When you leave you must not
grumble because somebody has sat
on your hat in the little cold dressing
room, or made shoe-brush Of you
cloak, but you may swear little on
the stairs.


10. Put on his arctic overshoes
for him and place him in the car
riage. Now go back to the dressing
room for him at least three times for
stray fans and gloves. Yawn all the
way home. Kuss the driver for not
stopping exactly before his pas front
door. Say good night, and whisper
coachee to stop at Hellery's on the
way to your residence.
Year: 1876

These maxims, under the head of
Moral Courage" are posted on the
office door of New York merchant:


Have the courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in
your pocket.


Have the courage to do without
what you do not need, however much
your eyes may coyet it.


Have the courage to speak to 4
friend in seeiy coat, even though
you are in company with rich one,
and richly attired.


Have the courage to speak your
mind when it is necessary to do so,
and hold your tongue when it is pru-
dent that you should do SO.


Have the courage to own that you
are poor, and thus disarm poverty of
its sting.


Have the courage to tell man why
you refuse to credit him.
Have the courage to tell a man why
you will not lend him money.


Have the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have
when you are convinced that he lacks
principle;-a friend should bear with
a friends infrmities, but not with his
vices,


Have the courage to show respect
for honesty, i'll whatever suise it ap-
pears, and your contempt for dishon-
esty and duplicity, by whomsoever
exhibited.


Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new
ones.


Have the courage to prefer comfort
and prosperity to fashion in all
things.


Have the courage to acknowledge
your ignorance, rather than to seek
for knowledge under false pretenses.


Have the courage in providing an
entertainment for friends, not to ex-
ceed your means.


Have the courage to insure the
property IN your possession, and
thereby pay your debts in full.
Year: 1876

A Norristown man dreamed that
he was the chief of the Pawnees, and
getting up IN his sleep he procured
large cheese knife, gave sa,,,..oa an ear, ar.
wife's hair with as much neatness
and dispatch as if he had been per-
secuted red man from his birth. 1t
was a fortunate thing for his wife
that her hair was hanging on the
back of a chair and not upon her
head.
Year: 1876

A correspondent sends us the fol
lowing good speech which, as she
assures us, is nearly a verbal report
of one that she heard at a temperance
meeting:


"I have been thinking since came
to the meeting tonight about the
losses l have met since | signed the
total abstinence pledge. l tell you,
there isn't man in the society that
has lost more by stopping drink than
| have. Wait bit till tell you
what mean. There was a nice job
of work to be done in the shop to-day
and the boss called for me. 'Give
it to Law said he; 'he's the best
hand in the shop" Well, I told my
wife at supper-time, and says she,
"why, Laurie, he used to call you the
worst. You've lost your bad name
haven't you?' 'That's a fact, wife,
said I. And it amt all that 1 have
lost in the last sixteen months either.
l had poverty and wretchedness, and
L We lOsG llCII. Idu ttu Olu ldSSCu
coat and a shocking bad hat, and
some waterproof boots, that let the
water out at the toe as fast as they
let it in at the heel. I've lost them.
I had q red face and a trembling
hand, and a pair of shaky legs, that
gave me an awkward tumble now
and then. l had habit OF cursing
and swearing; and I've got rid of
that. l had an aching head some
times and n heavy heart; and, worse
than all the rest, guilty conscience.
l thank God! I've lost them all!
Then l told my wife what she had
lost. you had an old, ragged gown,
Mary said l, 'and you had trouble
and sorrow, and poor, wretched
home, and plenty of heartaches, for
you had a miserable drunkard for a
husband. Mary! Mary! thank the
Lord for all you and have lost since
l signed the Good Samaritan pledge" ,"
Year: 1876

Richter says: ave learn our vir-
tues from the bosoms of friends who
love us; our faults from the enemies
who hate us. We cannot easily dis
cover our real form from a friend
He is a mirror, ON which the warmth
of our breath impedes the clearness
of the reflection.
Year: 1876

Messrs. WEEKS 6 POTTER. Wholesale Druggists,
Bos on, Mass: Genllemen,-I have for some
months felt it a duty that owed to suffering hu-
manity to write you, stating the grsat benefit that
ave derived from the use OF SANFoRD's RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH. For more than 20 years
have been afflicted with this very troublesome com
plant have tried all the remedies that | could
find, but without material or permanent benefit
Last fall the disease had arrived at that state that
must have relief or die The entire membranous
system had been SO infamed, and the stomach so
disordered, that it was doubtful mstter whether
could go to the Pacific coast, or IL did 60 whether
should live to come hack not. l saw adver-
tisement of this medicine, and although being very
I.credulous about specifics or nostrums of any
kind, yet in sheer desperation tried thus and at
once was benefited by it. The changes of climate,
chronic disease of the liver and my age-over 20
may prevent my entire restoration, but the bene-
fit derive from its daily use is to me invaluable,
and am hoping 10 be completely cured and at last
arrive at a respectable old age!


If this statement of my case be of any service
to those afflicted have been. and enable you to


bring this remedy into more general use. especially
the Pacific coast (where it is much needed( my
object in writing this note will he STAINED.


| Very truly yours, HENRY WELLS,
Year: 1876

lFrOm st. Paul Dispatch, March IL.


A former veteran reporter of the
Pioneer. who rcjoiccs in red wig, met a
narrow escape last night, which might
have resulted fatally, If it had not result
cd otherwise. Tho reporter in question
has lodger who usually takes dash Of
ten or twelve miles on horseback about
midnight, in order to obtain an appetite
for sleep and breakfast. Last night tho
horseback exercise transformed
the spinal marrow of the
rider into an icicle and when our red
wigged reporter S lodger returned he was
cool. Throwing open tie dampcrs to the
stove in his room, he hung his spurs upin
his watch fob and. plunging into bed, was
soon steadily asleep. If there is any
thing which the ex.P Pioneers reporter is
proud of more than his wig
it is his nose. 1t is as long as .
giraffs's neck and tho nostrils
distend like sharks mouth. About
one o'clock this morning those nostrils
began to work, and by half past three
they had become sufficiently active to
reach the scnsibilitics of tho reporter.
BY four o'clock he thought he sinelled
something. and by five o'clock he was so
certain Of it that he sprang from his bed
and making hasty toilet by putting ON
his specs, rushed to the upper room of
his lodgcr. Here he soon found that
sparks do not always fly upward, for huge
one had deposited itself under the bed
and was gradually but surely warming
up thai frozen spinal marrow. About
six square feet Of the floor was in gen.
tie blaze. but the reporter displayed rare
presence Of mind and agility. With one
fell swoop he brought down his
right bare foot, completely covering the
burning space and cxtingui:;hing the
flame with greater ease than If he had
been Gulliver among the Lilliputians.
The only bad result was slight too
blister, making him limp triae, and it
was not until daylight that the re-
porter fully realized the peril he had cs.
capped. lie then found that in the haste
Of dressing himself with par Of spccta-
cles he had knocked tho glass out and
mounted the empty rims upon his 1ow.
ing nose. If the glass had remained in
the specs he never could have discovered
the fire, and undoubtedly he and his
entire family would have fallen
victims to the flames. That We
are not called upon to record
this hcartrcnding calamity is due entirely
t. an ovcrrulins Providence, a wide nose,
a petite foot and a hasty spectacle cos
tune adapted to the winter season. If
it had not been as it was, it might have
been worse.
Year: 1876

who tue Mysterious Woman Is.


Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribunc.l


WASHINGTON, D. G., March l4.--The
mysterious woman whom the Sergeant
alarms of the House had in close custo-
dy at Williard's Hotel turns out to be
Mrs. Gen. Roddy, Of New York.
She was examined by the House commit
tee on naval affairs last Saturday evening.
The subject of her testimony was the
sale of q vcntilating apparatus to
the Navy Department by her
husband. While she did not directly i'm
plicatc any officer Of the Navy Depart
lnent in corrupt practices, she admitted
that she had been informed by
General Roddy that certain
charge on his acct unit book covered pay
mcnt to officers of the navy department.
She also asserted that the title of a
house belonging to her husband was in
the name of an officer Of the
navy. Further than this she seems to
have given the committee ne important
information, except to say that she had
understood that . naval officer was =
stockholder in the company owning tho
patent veutilating apparatus above re-
(erred to.
Year: 1876

We reprint from the Press the fol-
lowing report of a pleasant and some-
what novel entertainment which was
held in Santa Barbara ON the 21st
inst. We trust that some of the la
dies of our city will take the matter
in hand and give us something of the
kind. The Press says: Last night
one of the most agreeable evenings of
the season was spent in the parlors of
the Presbyterian church. The rooms
had been beautifully decorated by the
ladies, the results being perfect bow
er of loveliness. over three hundred
and fifty persons sat down to supper,
at which everything that could be
wished for was to be had for the ask
ing. A large number of ladies were
handsomely dressed In the costumes
of a century ago, and with their nat
ural grace and beauty heightened by
the becoming costumes, made
sight we'll worth seeing. If our
ancestors could have been present to
witness the scene they would have
been highly gratified with the old
time dignity and grace reproduced by
their descendants. One of the princi-
pie features was log cabin of consid-
erable dimensions, the inside repre-
senting a New England home, the oc-
casion being the reception of the
bride and bridegroom just returned
from their wedding tour. The BRIDE
groom of the occasion says he has con-
Siderable daubts as to whether he will
ever get his back straight again after
making so many elaborate bows to the
visitors. During the evening some
very good music and singing were
given. Mrs. Ketchum and Mrs.
Wright sang solos which were warm
ly applauded. Some choruses were
sung by members Of the Philharmonic
Society and instrumental pieces were
played by Mrs. Jones, Prof. Neumay-
er and Mr.. j. G. Platt. The party
broke up at half past nine O'clock.
Great credit is due to the ladies for
the excellent manner in which they
perfected all their arrangements and
1t was cause of regret on all sides
that there would be no repitition this
evening. However, it was whispered
that a second entertainment will be
given between now and the Fourth of
July. By all means let us have an
other one.
Year: 1876

The immense demand for real es-
tate which has prevailed in this city
and valley during the past two years
has induced many to turn their atten-
tion to the real estate business, and
among them have appeared quite a
number of irresponsible parties-irre-
sponsible in their transactions, in
their. assumed agencies, for their con-
tracts and for the payment of their ad-
vertising and other bills. These wor-
thies have through persistent annoy
ance of land seekers, and their mis-
statements relative to their authority
to sell this or that piece of property,
brought a legitimate and honorable
business to be looked upon as the oc-
cupation of shysters, Jeremy Diddlers
and impecunious adventures. We
have, however, a number of real es-
tate firms conducted by business men,
whose transactions are honorable and
whose statements may be accepted as
reliable and trustworthy. Among
these stands the firm of Butler q Sew
erance. These gentlemen are fitting
up on the corner of Spring and Temple
streets, in the rooms form erly occupied
by the Pomona Land Company, a real
estate office that is worthy of the
name. Their walls are lined with
maps of the best purchasable land in
the valley, and on their tables will al
ways be found the latest daily and
weekly journals. They sell only land
which they own or are duly author
lied to sell, and while they never in
dulge in the bounding process of in
ducing man to purchase, they are
ever ready to answer all questions rel-
ative to land, its locality, value and
quality which may be asked by the
seeker after information. We cheer
fully commend Messrs. Butler & Sew
erance to the new conner and land
seeker as gentlemen whose business
qualifications are first-class, and
whose transactions will be found
strictly honorable in every respect.
In another column they inform the
public where they can be found and
what they propose to do.
Year: 1876

The life of farmer is not an easy one; but when we look around and see the wrecks of fortune made on every hand by men engaged in other pursuits, the farmer has cause to be thankful if he can support his family and give his children a good common education. It has been stated that during the last half century only four merchants, in the city of New York, out of every hundred, have succeeded in mak. ing their business profitable. The unsuc- cessful ones have managed, i'll many cases, to continue Tn business for years after they had become bankrupt according to their books; but of course, finally had to suc- cumb to their fate. These men, while liv- ing in good style, and many luxuriOusly, have carried continually load of care that no farmer ever experienced; and when the time came that their business must be wound up, thelr condition generally has been one of poverty, and utterly broken down in spirits. A few recover and re- sume business again; but the majority are pushed aside to make room for others, eventually to follow in their footsteps and end their lives in misery and despair.

 Farmers, be contented. You may not be able to lay up money; but if you can pay for your farms and live comfortably, envy not the condition of those engaged in other pursuits. To those farmers who are out of debt, and own good farms, need say that the apparently wealthy bankers of Wall street might we'll envy your lot. Nearly every week some one of these firms, owing millions of dollars, explodes, and it's members sink into poverty and ob- scurity; but the farmer who is ont of debt owns bank that can never fail, inasmuch as seedtime and harvest are promised unto the end of time.

 A word to farmers sons: If your faith CTS own good farms which are not mort One of you, at least, should remain to carry on the farm when your father lease of life has expired. You might possibly do better in some other business, but you had better not risk a change O6scrtcr.