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Year: 1872

"A FINE and just remark lately
made. as we are told, by the Grown
Prince of Prussia is worth repeating
"Some of us" be said, ''may not
admire or love Republicanism. but
it is as impossible to hate Nature
herself" This is an admission of
the normal equity of Democratic
principles of government. Nations
may not entirely or at all secure the
blessings of self-government; fortune
may deny it to them as it sometimes
denies well-rounded career to indi-
viduals; experiments may turn out
failures, but the truth of the princi-
pie remains unchalenged by honest
thinkers, while suffering man contin-
ues to dream of it if only as an inn
practicable ideality.
Year: 1872

LOVE and smallpox are getting
very much mixed mp lately. A lady
at Troy, New York. was recently
Frustrated with typhoid fever, and
sent to medical institution IN the
city. where young doctor who at
tended her became deeply epamored
and paid constant visits after she re-
covered. Very imprudently he went
once after visiting smallpox patient,
and gave the disease to the lady She
is now in the pest-honse, with the best
Of care from the rsmorseful physician,
who will maks her bis wife as soon as
she gets well
Year: 1872



 A Disease with a Thousand SymptOms. Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of all human a- ments. Its symptoms almost infinite in the var- and the fo1orn and despondeI victims of the dis often fancy themselves the prey in turn of known mdlady This is due in part to the close sympa thy which exists between the stomach and the brain and in part aso to the fact that any disturbance of the digestive function necessarily disc ders the liver. the bowels and the nervous system and affects, to tent, the quality of the blood. A medicine that, like Hostetters Btters not only the stomach but at the same time controls the liver produces regular habit of body braces the nerves pures the fluids and ministers to mind diseased" is therefore the true and only specific for chronic indigestion Such is the operation of this famous vegetable restorative. It only cures dyspepsia, but also all coucommttants and consequences Moreover it is invaluable preventive of indigestion. No who chooses take half ga9sfu of this agreeable appetizer and stomachc ha ituay three times day will be troubled with op- presion after eating nausea, quotations any other indications of ant of Vigor in the digestive assmilatng organs The debility and languor supern duced by hot weather immediately and permanently relieved by the Btters, and persons who constu tona ly inclined to look upon life "as through glass da ky" will be apt to take brighter and hopefu view of the situation under the genial influence of th | hoioS J;o;, olctp
Year: 1872

BABY FARM1NG.-An excellent Act of Parliment framed for the better protec- tion of infant life will come into operation in Great Britain on the first of November. The object of the new law is to guard against the iniquitous system of " baby farming" The act states that the houses retaining or receiving for hire two or more infants, for the purpose of nursing, are to be registered. The age of an infant is under one year. The local authority of the place is to keep the register and may refuse to register unless satisfied that the place is suitable or the applicant of good character. A person so registered is to keep register of all infants received, and to produce the same when required. A local authority, for serious neglect, or when pel son is incapable of providing proper food and attention, or if the house is unfit, may strike tho house and name of the register. An inquest is to be held on an infant dying in registered house unless medical certificate is produced ,' the coroner. The punishment for an of: fense under the act is not to exceed six months, with or without hard labor, or fine of twenty-five dollars. Fines anC penalties recovered are to go to the lOca rates. The statute extends to the United Kingdom, and the local authorities" are specified. These are stringent rules. bu the abuse of baby farming had in Eng land become 80 unbearable that some thing of the kind was imperatively de lnanded. In the metropolis the Metro politan Board of works is the loca authority, and in the city of London th' common council.
Year: 1872

A WHOLESOME FRIGHT.-A vener- able minister adopted a shrewd and successful plan to abate the nuisance ofneighbor,' hens. One neighbor and himself kept their hens shut up, so as not to annoy others. The other neigh hor, though often expostulated with, would let his run at large and they made sad work in the garden of the minister and the other neighbor, One day the man who kept his hens shut up came to the minister in great trouble, saying, "Mr. H., I really do not know what to do; I have just put my garden all in fine order, and neigh bor -'s hens have scratched the beds all up, and undone all my work. l don't want to make trouble in the ighborhoOd, out what can ] do ? The venerable minister immediately said, "Look here I have two heH- ! wish to kill. I will let them out anu they will go right into your garden You shoot them. You may throw them over if you have mind to /; but you shoot them." He went home The hens were let out and were soon in his garden, and he shot them. The news flew through the neighborhooC that the man had shot the ministers hens. The other neighbor heard Q it, and said to himself, "If he vii shoot the minister hens he vii mine," and at once shut them up anC the annoyance ceased.
Year: 1872

A writer tells how girl in the noun tains of Virginia caught trout. The major and myself soon hooked pretty string of small and medium sized fish. There were, however, some magnates we saw moving about in the crystal water who could not be tempted by any bait we had to offer. They would glide out from beneath the cool shadows of the boulders, approach our traps with a certain majestic deliberation, sometimes even rubbing their noses against the hooks, then, as If satisfied that it wasn't worth the risk, would retire contemptu- Ouslv, and let the minors take bite, 'ickled. no doubt, at seeing how rapidly the youngsters snapped and went up. While we were worrying with these sly old rogues, Martha came down armed with a hickory wand, with running moose of horse hair attached to the end With an arch smile she requested us to hold off for while, and let her try her hand. Creeping like cat along the rocks, she marked grand old vo- iuptuary half dreaming among the sha lows. Silently aud gradually drop ping her slender moose into tue water, she drew it to ward him. As the en- circling hair touched his fin, it suggested a slight suspiclon of mischief, and he slowly retreated to the distance of about half his length, then resuming his in- difference again, lay balanced and i'm mobile, very possibly feliciting himself on the superior wisdom which had en- abled him to detect the gilt and feathered shams displayed to deceive the small fry of bis race, and the lofty virtue which had tanght him to resist the allurements of casual appetite. The next moment he was whipped from the water by an invisible moose of horse hair, and wrig gled n Matha's cat-hke clutches. At this success the black eyes of the mouu- tain nymph sparkled, and her plump checks pitted with rosy dimples. Quiet. ing our applause with gesture, she re au. ustel her trap, and presently lifted ont alother beauty, then another, and another, until she had captured four oi the largest fish we had seen-one weigh ing two aud half pounds, and surpass ing any we had taken with the hook

 Having thus justified her own skill, she handed her angle to the major, at the same time instructing him how to use 1t But neither he nor l had the daint, glibness of hand to execute the tricl successfully, and after several awkwart failures each, we gave up and returned to the house.
Year: 1872

THE PEAR SEAsoN.-The season of pears is upon us and how to preserve, ripen, stew and bake, are the prevailing questions among honsekeepers. The market is overrun with splendid looking fruit, much of which is too hard for eat ing. How to make it ripen well and rapidly is knowledge confined to but few. One of the most extensive fruit cul- turists in Pennsylvania has just given to the world his method, and we. believing the information to be as valuable as it is timely, give it herewith: The requisites are cool room and woolen blankets. The pears are to be spread upon one blanket and covered with the second. Treated in this way they ripen rapidly and without mealiness, the Bartletts com ing out a fine golden color and the Sckels rich and ruddy-looking. At least halt the fruit is spoiled by the ordinary in- door method of ripening, and housekeep- CTS will hail with delight any new and et fective means of attaining the desired end without loss or vexation of spirit.-Er- chdnqe.

 An Ohio lady sent back book she had ordered because the leaves were uncut. She thought it was an unfinished copy and was right.
Year: 1872

Somebody who seems to have been annoyed beyond the point of patient en- durance, says {: II made VOW long since, and I record it here, never to apologize for stepping on trailing skirt, outside of the proper place to wear one. Like many another nuisance, the way to abate it is to treat it without mercy and unless my plan is in harmony with the will of the Lord, shall be confronted on the judgment-day with an appalling number of torn and ripped 1 ,lress skirts
Year: 1872

A TRUE PICTURE. mauy men there are who have ground and ground to make money, that they might be happy by and by, but who, when they have got to be 50 or 60 years old, have used mp all the enjoyable nerve that was in them ? During their early life they carried toll, and economy, and frugality 10 the excess ofstinginess, and when the time came that they expected joy, there was no jey for thsm. -ksesssE
Year: 1872

The Elmwood Collar is just the thing for hot weather. The folded edge. and perspiration proof finish prevent it's breaking down under any circumstances. You can wear it longer than any other collar. Ask your Furnisher for the Emwood. od.-C0n.
Year: 1872

How SHE DID IT.-I will tell you a rather barcfaced story of how Dublin chambermaid is sad to have got twelve commercial travellers into eleven bed rooms, and vet to have given each a separate room. Here we have the eleven bedrooms
Year: 1872

Among the passengers on board was young man from Sharon Springs with his young wife. They were married op Wednesday night and were on their bri- dal tour. The lady was drowned, and tonight the gentleman telegraphed to the clergyman who married them to be ready to offciate at the funeral. Cyrus Butler, of Providence, when swept from the deck was supporting his wife and two children in the surf They were torn from hlm, and he was thrown upon the shore to see them wrestling helpless in the turmoil behind him. Mrs. Cir rard, a passenger, belted preserver around her two children and fastened it to her own and plunged bravely in and was saved. It was time that demand. ed a1l the heroism of man's nature, and to the credit of our race be 1t said it was nobly displayed. One gentleman bore an elderly lady safe to land, dashed in to rescue another, was caught by the un- dertow, and recovered only at the point of death. Other scenes there were where men were swept within reach ot the hands outstretched to save them, and were hurried away by Hhe receding wave till when at length they were secured it was with the vital spark extinct. Many of those who were finally saved were with bones broken by the drifting de- bris of the wreck, and at death's dcoI from exhaustion.
Year: 1872

K1LnED.-The cheetah, or hunting leopard, one of the most interesting ani- met with sad fate. The cage occupied by this animal was next to that of a large and powerful Asiatic tiger. Sometimes the cheetah used playfully to extend paw through the bars to culti- vate the acquaintance of the latter. A few days since the tiger seized the un- lucky cheetah by protruding limb and with an extraordinary display of strength, actually dragged it through the iron bars and killed it befole the keepers had time to interfere.
Year: 1872

Every other title has to be left out at


this time, for there was not the shadow
of Liberalism or Republicanism to be
perceived at that meeting, and every
thing went on there in the old Demo
cratic style of bribery and corruption.


At the nomination for State Senator.
Judge Reed had a good majority IN the
several ballots until billet doux'
handed to tie leader of town delegation
turned the scale and the Judge was de-
feated. Before the balioting for Regis
ter, several candidates told the conyen-
ton that they had been promised the
nomination by the present six yearly in-
cumbent and asked for it again said In
cumbent acknowledged the soft impeach'
ment, but claimed that his dear
friends were In favor of his re -nomlna-
ton once more and that he would take /;
again-so be sCdS re nominated. Thus
we might so on with the whole list, II
the subject was not too nauseous fol
plation. Every we'll meaning,
unbought Democtat is disguised with the
whole transaction and it will be the OWL
fault OF the Republicans if they do not
defeat the entire Democratic ticket at the
ensuing election in Manitowoc County
Year: 1872

1t is with unfeigned pleasure we pub.
lisk to day the following letter of accept
ance by Hon. HENRY BAETz Of his
nomination for Member of Congress.


The letter itself shows the noble type
of the man. gives strength to his party :
confidence to his friends and the assur-
ance to all, that he is the candidate best
adapted to fill the Office be is nominated
for most honorably to himself and highly
satisfactory to his constituents, to the
people of our State and to the American
nation.


MADISON, Sept. oath 1872.
Hon. EHhu Coleman, Chairman Of the


Committee of the Fifth Congressional


District, FOND du Lac,


DEAR SIR On my return from St.
Paul [ found yours of the 10th inst,
notifying me of my nomination for Mem
Der of Congress in your Congressional
district. While l cannot but feel hon
ored by the preference the Convention
has manifested in selecting me as its can
didate to SO high ard responsible posi-
ton, still [ had hoped and expected from
what had passed between me and my
Republican friends in your District prior
to the Convention, that different result
would haye been reached.


I was and still am of the opinion that
there are others in the District better
qualified for the position, and moro popu-
lar than myself, and that you would
come to the same conclusion. In this |
am disappointed and End myself in the
disagreeable position Of setting up my
own judgement against the judgement OF
the Convention, and of ignoring the
many favors [ have received at the hands
of the Republican party, or of accepting
your nomination. [ cannot hesitate
my great confidence in the Republican
party my gratitude to the many friends
in that party who have done so much
more for me in the past than deserved,
lead me to sacrifice my own feelings and
wishes upon the subject and consent, as
[ now do, to become your candidate. l
shall go into the canvass with the deter
mination of achieving whatever success
may honorably do, in the hope that, il
not elected myself, I may at least be in
strumental in contributing to the trlum-
nhant re- election Of one Of the best
Presidents we have ever had.


have seen the resolutions adopted by
your Convention and heartily endorse
them. With much regard


Your obedient servant


HENRY BETZ.
Year: 1872

Major Henry Batz, our popular State
Treasurer has been nominated by the
Republicans of the Fifth Congressional
District, for Congress, against Eldredge.
We consider this one ofthe very strong
est nominations that could have been
made. The major is popular and de-
servedly so. We heartily endorse the
following from the Wisconsin,, on this
man in his district, and if any one can
wipe out the great Democratic majority
there, he is that one- He Is man ol
large information ard unusual ability


and if sent to Congress would perform
the duties of his position with zeal, Il
deity and wise discrimination '"-Ee
Year: 1872

The knowing ones tell US that
the only way to get pure Port
wine is to go to Opor:o, raise the
grapes, press the wine, put 1t into
the cask yourself, and ride on 1t
al the way home.
Year: 1872

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT PASSED


AT THE PRESENT SESSION ENTI-


TIED "AN ACT TO REVIVE AND


EXTEND THE CHARTER OF THE


RELIEF loan ASSOCIATION OF


CHARLESTON.


SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tivcs, Of the State of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in Gene
raj Assembly, and by the authori-
ty Of the same:


That the first Section Of the Act
to revive and extend the charter
of the Relief Loan Association OF
Charleston, be so amended as to
read: Passed on the twenty-hrst
day of December, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hum
dred and 6fty.seven, instead Of
the twentieth day Of December in
the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ftty-six.


Approved March IS, 1872.
Year: 1872

A dentist in Delaware city is respon-
sible for the following: A lady having
had tooth extracted, accompanied
with considerable lacoration of the gum,
returned about three weeks after the
operation, complaining of shooting
pains in that portion of the mouth, with
a feeling of swelling in the gums. Sup
posing it merely the effects of the shat
tered condition of the jaw. bone, the
doctor told her it would soon pass away,
advising some soothing lotion. Three
weeks later the lady returned, insisting
upon 1t that new tooth was growing
in the place of the old one, upon which
the dentist made more careful exam
ination, when he discovered two pri-
mordial leaves of blackbury bush, and
upon extracting them, found that fibres
an eighth of an inch in length had
forced themselves into the pulpy flesh.
The lady then recalled the circumstance
of having eaten blackberries with cream
the evening following the operation,
and supposed that one of the seeds had
found a lodgment in the soft wound


where it had terminated and develop
ed. If that don't beat Grant or any
other man nothing will.


ga RURAL reporter says procession


timed their steps "to the dulcet notel


of the inflow. drum" Mellow drum Il


good.
Year: 1872

A MAN out west said he moved so
many times during one year that when
ever a covered wagon stopped at the
gate chickens would fall on their backs
and hold up their feet in order to be
tied and thrown in.
Year: 1872

The sun, who smiles wherever he goes,
Till the flowers all smile again,
Fell in love with bashful rose


That had been bud till then.
so he pushed back the folds of the soft, green


hood,


That covered her modest grace,
And kissed her as only lover could,
Till the crimson burned in her face.
But wo for the day when his golden hair
Tangled her heart In net,
And wo for the night of dark despair,
When her cheek with tears was wet
For she loved him as only n maiden could,
And he left her crushed and weak,
Striving in vain with her faded hood
To cover her guilty cheek.
Year: 1872

II was an awful fate for such little
boy. His father had bought for him a
miniature music box which played four
tunes. IL was long and narrow, and
not much larger than ten cent note.
So one day, just after the music box had
been wound up, Thomas got to fooling
with 1t, and placed it in his mouth, and
accidentally swallowed 1t. When Tho.
mas went down to dinner, certain
strange strains of mysterious music
seemed to be waited from under the Ia.
BILE, and the food became cold while the
family groped around on the floor try
ing to discover whence the sound came.
But the truth was discovered at last.
While the family was at prayers that
evening Thomas got the hiccups, and
the music box started off all of sudden,
with "Listen to the Mocking Bird"
Whereupon his father rose from his
knees, and grasped Thomas by the hair,
and shook him up lot, and asked him
what he meant. They tried their best
to get the music box up, but 1t stuck
fast, and every time they would pour
some new kind of an emetic down Tho
mas throat the machine would give q
sort of fresh squirt, and grind out Home
Sweet Home,' or 'Thoult Never Cease
to Love- And so they were compelled
to permit that music box to remain up
on the interior, and it made him mise.
rable, because just as likely as not while
he was lying asleep in bed in the mid
die of the night, the melody works in
side would begin to revolve and would
play "Kathleen Mavourneen" for two
or three hours, unless the peg happened
to slip, when it would switch back
again on "Listen to the Mocking
Bird" and rattle that tune out until
Tommy's brother would kick him out
of bed in wild despair and make him
feel miserable. And the same way
when he went to church. Very likely,
right in the midst of the most solemn
part of the service, when everything
was hushed, that undigested harmoni-
con would give preliminary buzz and
reel off "Thoul't Never cease to Love"
And it will kill him. Unless that mu-
sic box can be got out Thomas will die.
Year: 1872

Every community is cursed by the
presence of a class of people who
make it their concern to attend to
eyerybody's business but their own.
These people are the meanest spoci-
mems of humanity which providence
permits to live. 1t is known that
large class of persons are disposed to
speak i'll of others, and that thing is
sin from which few can claim to be en-
tirely exempt, but there is a distinct
class of tattlers, who make talebearing
the constant aim of their lives They
pry into the private affairs of every
family in the neighborhood; they
know the exact state of one neighbor's
feelings toward another; they under
stand everybody's faults, and no blum
der of impropriety ever escapes their
vigilant watchfulness. They are par
ticularly posted in everything connec-
ted with courtship and matrimony-
know who are to marry, and can guess
the exact time when it will take place.
They watch every party suspected of
matrimonial intentions, and if there is
the slightest chance of creating dis
turbance, excite jealousy, or break up
a match, they Immediately take ad-
vantange of it, and do all in their
power to keep people in constant vex-
alton. They go from gentleman to
lady, from mother to daughter, from
father to son, and in the ears of all
they pour dark and bitter whispers of
slander and abuse, and at the same
time pretend to be the most sincere
friends of those they talk to. Their
black and nauseous pills of slander
are coated with smiles and professions
of love.


Tattlcrs are confined to no particu-
lar class of society. They belong to
all classes, and operate in all. We
find them among the rich and among
the poor-the upper ten and lower
million in the church and out of
it. They are people who have no high.
or ambition than to be we'll informed
in regard to other people = business, to
retail scandal to the ncighbors, and
cxult in tendish triumph over the
bruised hearts, wounded feelings of
their victims, Contempt ofsuch grace
less creatures should know no bounds,
and no words can express infinity.
What punishment they deserve can
not he known, but AS sure as eternal
justice reigns, they will receive the re-
tributi0n IN proportion TO the magni-
tude of their offcnse against the law of
God and the interest of injured hui
manity.
Year: 1872

The best time for painting the ex-
terror of buildings is late in autumn
or during the winter. Paint then ap-
piled will endure twice as long as when
applied in early summer or hot wealth
or. In the former it dries slowly and
becomes hard, like glazed surface,
face, not easily affected afterwards by
the weather, or worn off by the beat
ing of the storms. But in very hot
weather the oil in the paint soaks into
the wood at once, az into sponge
leaving the lead nearly dry and nearly
ready to crumble of. This last diff
Guilty, however, might in a measure be
guarded against, though at an increas.
ed expense, by first going over the sur,
face with raw oil. BY painting in cold
weather one annoyance might certain
ly be escaped, namely, the collection
Of small flies on the fresh paint.