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Year: 1875

The Picoynue, in describing the new
Office of the State Superintendent of Public
Education, has shown a wonderful power
for romancing. Its assertion that the
apartments OF that functionary 'are posi-
lively magnificent excited much curiosity
and caused representative Of the REPUB-
LICAN, who has taste for ali that is beau
tiful in art or nature to call and investi
gate the grandeur Of the aforesaid apart.
ments. This was done not only for the
purpose of feasting his eyes on the mag
niicen5 scene that had been pictured by
the Pic, but for the reason also that if
the Pics story did not prove to be all
DER drawn tale, to find out to what ex.
tent the Superintendent had ''let the school
fund bleed" A visit to the apartments de-
seribed is sufficient to satisfy any person
who is q judge Of what is really magnifi-
cent and costly that the Pic. had only been
romancing when it gave a description
OF them. There is positively nothing new
or costly in the apartments. The furniture
is the same that was used in the old office
even to the carpet; and that being found
too small. has been patched With mating to
save the expense of a new one large enough
to cover the room which now constitutes
the chief Office OF the Superintendent of
Public Education. The apartments have
been newly papered, and this is all that is
new about them. The cost of the removal
and fitting up Of the new apartments could
not have amounted to much over
$780, If on this amount the Superin.
tendent has produced something that is
positively magnificent" ne deserves credit
rather than implied censure.
Year: 1875

After all, neither the bad writer, the
weary compositor. nor the vindictive proof
reader is always to blame for newspaper
errors. There is an evil spirit who presides
at every printers case and whispers in his
ear the word that reverses the meaning of a
sentence and makes it say precisely the
opposite of what was intended. The most
intelligent compositor iqDthe wond could
not hit the words necessary to make the
piece of manuscript in type. 1t is easy
enough to mistake a word, but to always
light upon one that can take its place and
exactly reverse the meaning of the writer.
requires skill that is more than human.
If there are any scientific persons who can
explain this thing in any other way, let
them speak up.-LonisriNe Courier. journal.
Year: 1875

At twelve o'clock yesterday tho officers of
the army stationed here called upon Gen
eral Emory, at army headquarters, to bid
him farewell. The leave taking was very
affecting, the young officers of the army
parting with regret from the old veteran
who had done so much for the service and
had served his country SO well. The band
of the Thirteenth Infantry was present,
and gave the General a parting serenade.
General Sheridan will be here next week.
He would have returned earlier, but mat
ters Of Importance connected with Indian
affairs have detained him at Chicago.
Year: 1875

mother to her New York home, and Mrs.


Fay permitted her to do so. Mr.. Fay did


not know what had become of the child and
offered reward for her. He was told by
one Dickinson, New York lawyer who
had conducted his divorce suit, that the girl
was In Henry street with her mother. and


Mr.. Fay obtained q warrant. for tbs mother
and she was taken TO Brooklyn. Yesterday
she was arraigned before Justice Riley and
she pleaded not guilty to the charge of ali
ductiDg the child. She says that she paid
Lawyer Dickinson $3.50 on condition that he
would prosecute her no more. She met him
q few days ago and he said to her that Fay
bad offered reward for the little girl. She
turned quickly, saying: "Oh, you wont tell
him she is with me, will your" and be an
8 wered her that he would not. He then
went straight to Fay, she says, and told him
where the child was. Mrs. Fay is in jail
awaiting examination.
Year: 1875

THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE, THOUGH OFTEN
BLOCKED WITH OBSTACLES, RUNS SMOOTH
AT LAST.


The New York Mercury says that about
two years ago Henry Beermsu, a young
man residing in Hcboken, made the ac-
qusintsnce of Sophia Urle. stylish young
lady residing in Ogden avenue, Jersey City
Heights, and his attentions we're accepted
so lovingly that he soon became her ac-
cepted lover. They attended q number of
picnies together, and when the ball season
came on they did not miss an enter
taiDment. About year sgo she told him
that the marriage ceremony could not be
put of much longer or there would be q
third party to it. They quarreled, and he
went awey in anger. A short time after
ward Henry, Junior, made his appearance,
and as soon as Sophia was well enough, she
went before justice of the peace and
brought suit against Henry. She won, OF
course, and Henry was obliged to pay SO 90
per week for the support of mother and
child. His bondsman sold out and moved
away soon afterward, and Henry moved to
New York. His neglect caused another
suit before Justice Volhsrt, and several
warrants were issued, but the constables
were not sharp enough, to catch Henry on
Jersey soil, and


HE SNAPPED HIS FINGERS AT THEM


~ ~tOW LOAhs ~ Aoos oOpu1o IcoOAfOO W
go to him herself instead of sending officers
of the law, and she did. The charms that
had won his trst love were potent again and
Henry returned to his inamorita. He had q
long talk with the mother of his boy, now
eight months old and the very image of its
father. At last he promised to GO over to
Jersey and seer her, on condition that no
trap should be sprung on him. He went
over on Friday evening and talked the mat
ter over; said he y as sorry, kissed the girl,
and said he was willing to marry her at once
II she wanted to. She did not stop one min
ute to talk about what dress che should
wear, but called her father and told him the
good news. The old man went for Justice
Volhart, and about midnight the justice
went to the house of joy. Sophia and
Henry were made one in a few seconds, and
they killed the fstted calf, fguratively. The
merry-making ended at an early hour yes
terdsy morning, when the justice christened
the boy Otto August Frederick, and the
father is just as proud of his wife and child
as IL the course OF true love had been smooth
as glass.
Year: 1875

Expressmsn and others who haul heavy loads
70 and from the United States navy yard have
been complaining for long time past Of the
wretched condition Of Ninth street east, from the
north corner Of the yard wall to the east gate of
that establishment. Nearly all .the material
hauled to the yard has to enter through this
gate, as It 10 the most convenient to the store
houses, which are located on the east side Of the
Ing the yard for 5hipment TO other stations; but


In consequence Of the bad condition OF Ninth
street, the west gate, leading out on Seventh
street east, has to be frequently used as q means
OF exit and entry for heavy teams. This requires
them to make an almost complete circuit OF the
yard before reaching this gate or the store ac-
cording to the direction In which the team is
golng. The Navy Department cannot use its
funds to put the street named in good condition


and the District authorities, by all means should
see that It is placed in proper repair It will be
o great oenent to large class Of our business
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia and Keading Goal and Iron
Company has ordered the stoppage of thirty OF
its forty collieries in the Pennsylvania mining
regions, and twenty-five individual collieries
will also suspend during the course OF next
the suspension will be general, and over ten
Thousand men be thrown out of employment.
Besides this, work will be stopped at the various
iron mines Of the Reading Goal and Iron Com
pany, now employing over SIX hundred men;
condition of the Eastern markets and the close
of navigation. Fortunately, the miners are SAID
to have been very economical since the resump,
tion of work in June last, and are in measure
prepared for the present lockout
Year: 1875

There was Cabinet meeting yesterday, at
which the Presidents message was again under
consideration. General Babcocks request for a
court OF inquiry in reference to the charges
against him of completely in the whiskey frauds
was also considered and though nothing dein-
ito is known AZ to the action in the matter, it
IL believed the request will be granted.
Year: 1875

POSTAL SERyIcE.-Postal service is ordered or
the Kent County Railroad between Clayton and
Chestertown, via Masseys, to begin at once.
This will make Clayton the permanent eastern
terminus of the Kent County Railroad.
Year: 1875

Among the many agents for the spread
of infectious diseases are, Il seems sour
domestic pets. For the propagation of
fever dog is as bad, or worse, than a
drain, and a case is referred to in the
Sanitary Record, in which scarlet fever
was carried from one child to another by a
fayorite retriever. They are, however,
probably not more dangerous 10 this re-
spect than books. No one who takes up
q book from library ever troubles himself
or herself as to the antecedents Of the
volume il may have just left the hands Of
a fever patient.
Year: 1875

The world stretches widely Ueiore you,

 4 field for your muscle and brain; And though clouds may oilen noat Der you And often comes tempcstS and rain, But fearless of storm which o'ertahe you

 Push forward and through like man Good fortune will never ior.ake you,

 If you do as sear rignt as you can. Remember, the will 10 do rightly,

 If used, will The evil contound; Live daily by conscience, that nightly

 Your sleep may be peaceIuI and sound. In contests ot right never wayer-

 Let honesty shape every plan. And life will of Paradise sayor,

 If you do as near right as you can. Though foes darkest scandal may speed, And strive with their shrewdest Of tact To iDjurc your fame, never heed.

 But justly and honestly act; And ask Of the Ruler of Heaven

 To save your fair name as man, And all that is asked will be given,

 Ifyou do as near right as you can.
Year: 1875

A young WAGNER had become,
unfortunately, much addicted to
drinking, and his intemperate hab-
its had brought upon him a serious
illness. The doctor whom he con-
suited said to him, "Unless you de.
termine to give up the brandy-bot-
tie, 1 cannot answer for your ever
recovering; brandy is poison for
young men,"


The sick man replied, 81 can't
give up the drink altogether, have
been too long used to it to do with
out it. I must, at least, drink this
little flask every day"


"Very well, said the doctor, then
I must think of some other plan"


On the following morning he
brought with him what looked like
a very large pill box, filed with peb-
bles, and said, "If every day you
throw one of these little stones into
your brandy-fask, in time the
liquor will do you no harm"


The sick man imagined that there
must be some special virtue or mag
ic in the pebbles themselves to make
the brandy less injurious, and aceor-
dinghy ne put every day a fresh one
into the bottle. In that way he
drank, without being aware of it,
few drops less every day, and when
the flask had become so full of peb-
bles that it would hold no brandy,
he had become altogether and life
broken of the deadly habit of in
dulging in strong dink.


A slightimprovemente every day


Will wear at last the fault away


1.-THE safest way for man, as well
every one, would have been never to
have commenced the bad practice
of drinking. He could have given
up the habit at once, if he had re-
membered Gods promise to help the
weak. Nothing is too small or too
great to ask Coos help about. He
is aways ready to help the tempted.
Year: 1875

Do not laugh at that drunken man
reeling through the streets. How
ever ludicrous the sight may be, just
pause and think. He is going home
to some tender heart that will throb
with intense agony; some doting
mother perhaps who will grieye over
the downfall of him who was once
her sinless boy, or it may be fond
wife whose heart viii almost burst
with grief as she views the destruc-
tion of her idol; or may be a loving
sister who will shed bitter tears
over the degradation other brother,
shorn of his manliness and self-res-
pect. Rather drop a tear in silent
sympathy with those hearts so
keenly sensitive and tender, yet so
proud and loyal that they cannot
accept sympathy rendered them
either in word, look or act, although
it might fall upon their crushed
and wounded hearts as refreshingly
as the summer dew upon the wither-
ing plant. As your eye follows the
inebriate's uncertain footsteps, re-
cord a solemn vow in heaven, that
while your life endures, you will do
all that within you lies to further
the cause of temperance and to make
it crime to sell or drink intoxi-
cants.
Year: 1875

The late DR.. A. L. P. Green had
more common sense than most men,
about everything. His panacea for
boys popping open church doors
and looking in was to have a stew
ard or two sitting in the back part
of the church, so that these urchins
with their hair split in the middle
could see them and be deferred
from annoying the congregation.
The church officials will, of course,
have instructions to take down
names and hand them to the At
torney-General. Boys, you had bet
ter desist, there is an enemy on
your track.-Franklin Review.
Year: 1875

A goodly number of horses were
sold on the square last Monday.
They went cheap. We understand
that Maj. Crawford bought one just
to lend to his friends. We claim
to be of that class. Who is not,
now?
Year: 1875

A Philosopher in America cant
get more than fifty dollars a week
for his work. while leading negro
minstrel can make Eve hundred dol
lars in that time. And yet when an
Engiishman happens to say that our
tastes are low, and that ignorance Is
gnawing at the vitals OF the repub-
lie, the American eagle looks around
for some place where it can get up
and scream.
Year: 1875

MALE ORPHAN AsYLrM.-The board o.
managers of the Male Orphan Asylum VII
visit this institution this afternoon Tor the
purpose OF considering the proposition o
the president to teach the boys some uselu
employment during part OF the time Whlcf
is now deShted to study.
Year: 1875

WATER GAP, Pa, March 27.-The ice
gorge, which is seven miles above the Gap,
still remains the same. The strong resist
ance by the ice in the Gap has been lessened
by cutting channel through the middle.
The rain last night has made no visible i'm.
preston. The weather is warm and snow
melting rapidly. Should the weather re-
main thus for two or three days the break
is inevitable. Tbs gorge consists Of one
hundred and fifty miles Of ice thrown into
space Of eighteen miles. 1t is now thirty
feet thick
Year: 1875

The endless difficulties, perplexities
and Estates of mind" into which writers
upon hygiene are constantly getting us
with their contradictory notions about
what we shall eat, and, what we shall
drink, and wherewithal we shall be
clothed, is something fearful to contem-
plate. 1t has long since been said that
if a man partOok Of food which all
agreed upon as perfectly healthful, he
would starve to death directly. 1t seems
to be the delight Of some writers to over
throw the few principles which por-
ton of mankind have considered be-
yOnd a question For example, sleep
ing with the window open has long
been regarded as ''the" thing to do i'll
order to live long and happy, and some
of us has endured martyrdom for the
sake of principle, and dressed and un-
dressed, and shivered and shook in our
determination to live according to the
rules of health. But all to little pur-
pose, if the following is correct DIR.
Hall SAYS: Cold bcdchambers always
imperil health and invite fatal diseases.
Robust persons may safely sleep in a
temperature of forty or under, but the
old, the infant or the frail, should never
sleep in room where the temperature
is much under fifty degrees Of Fahren-
heit. All know the danger Of going
direct into cold from a very warm
room. Very few rooms, churches,
theaters and the like, are even warmer
than seventy degrees. If it is freezing
out Of doors it is thirty degrees-the
difference being forty degrees moro.
Persons viii be chilled by such d change
in ten minutes, although they may lie
actively walking. But to lie still in
bed, nothing to promote the circulation
and breathe for hours an atmosphere Of
forty and even fifty degrees, when the
lungs are always ninety eight, is too
great a change. Many persons wake
up in the morning with inflammation of
the lungs who went to bed well, and are
surprised that this should be the case.
The cause may be often be found in
sleeping in q room the window of which
has been foolishly hoisted for ventila-
ton. The water cure journals Of the
country have done an incalculabIe i'll
jury by the blind and indiscriminate ad-
vice Of hosting the window at night.
The rule should be everywhere during
the part Of the year when fires are kept
burning, to avoid hosting outside win
dows. 1t IS safer and better to leave
the chamber door open, as also the fire
pIace-then there is a draft up the
chimney, while the room is not so likely
to become cold. If there is some fire
in the room all night the window may
be opened an inch. 1t is safer to sleep
in a bad air all night with temporal
ture over fifty, than in pure air with
a temperature under forty The bad
air may sicllen you, but it cannot kill
you; and cold air can and does Kill very
often.
Year: 1875

without well-marked meaning is a
body without soul; but that the slight
est intrusion of pretensiOn or assertion
of wealth into that meaning only gives
vulgarity as a soul to the body, and
makes it offensive, when it might have
been on duIl.-Scribnel's M0nthty.
Year: 1875

The expediency Of converting the
Los Angeles and Independence Rail-
road into a transcontinental line is
attracting considerable attention in
San Francisco. Capitalists have been
turning the matter over, and they
have discovered fact set forth in the
HERALD some months ago, which is
that starting from the Point Of Rocks
on the Mojave, on the line of the Los
Angeles and Independence Road, four
hundred and ninety miles of track
will connect with the Utah Central
Road running South from Ogden, and
thus give US a through line to the
East. To build this less than 500
miles OF road, little expense beyond
the cost Of ties and iron need be in
CURED, as the route is level and hardly
any grading necessary.
Year: 1875

THE late cold snap did not damage
the crops of the county as much as We
feared. 1t was of short duration, and
the genial, warm rays of the sun seems
to have reinvigorated vegetation.
Many of the farms sowed after the
heavy Winter rains on the high lands
will doubtless be cut for hay; but all
the volunteer crops and those that were
seeded before the Winter rains will
produce good grain crops. The farm
ers will not forget this lesson-early
seeding always produces good crops in
Southern California. The prospect for
a good fruit crop was never better.
Year: 1875

SALT LAKE, April lst.--In the trial
Of George Reynolds for polygamy the
jury was charged by Judge Emerson,
who quoted the law Of 1862. The
Judge said that religious belief had
nothing to do with the case. The law
was constitutional. The jury in half
an hour brought in verdict of guilty.
The defense moved to set aside the
verdict for the reason that the defend
ant had never been arraigned and ask
ed to plead, and had never had the in
dictment read to him, which appear
ing to the satisfaction of the Court,
the motion to set aside was granted.
Afterwards the defense waived new
trial, with the view of taking the case
to the Supreme Court Of the United
States. The defendent was afterwards
arraigned and pleaded not guilty, and
was set at liberty on his giving 5000
bail.


1t is expected that the trial of Geo.
OConnor for polygamy will COM
mence- to- morrow.
Year: 1875

Thirty days have gone by since the I'm
pOrtant" commenced selling out great
clothing, boots, shoes, etc., and everybody
that did buy will tell you how we'll pleased
they are and what bargains they received.
buyer in New York in January and February
and part of them we are receiving now. They
are Without doubt the prettiest and incest
goods ever brought TO this city, and we wish
the public to please bear In mind that all new
goods will be sold at the same reduced prices.
DO not fail to stop in, examine our stock, hear
the prices, and you will say the best and
cheapest place to buy goods is at the


"IMPORTANT,"


ap3 Under Lafayette Hotel.
Year: 1875

Is within the reach OF all, and we will guar
aniee 10 10 do Its work as well as the Alden or
any o.. her process. We are now ready to fur
nish this machine Of any size to suit families,
with fun instructions for operating.


County Rights for sale and
Year: 1875

Comfort is an expressive word, and one
the real meaning Of which, applied 10 each
one of us personally is not fully realized.
As people we seem TO try how we may
make ourselves uncomfortable and all be-
cause we do not appreciate what consti-
tutes that real enjoyment, which is in fact
more than enjoyment-persona comfort.
We are too much afraid If we make our
selves comfortable that we shall overstep
the bounds Of politeness or create the unfa-
vorable criticism Of those higher, 1t may
be, in the social scale than we are, of whose
opinions we stand in mortal fear. Away
with such false notions of personal inde-
pendence, such mock adherence 10 The tyr
amy OF fashion. When we learn that we
have right TO wear tight shoes or 60 bare
footed, to stand on our heads, (the men, of
course,) TO smoke, TO strain ourselves up In
oorsets, or wear none at all, Just as we
please, If we are comfortable in so doing,
ana do not interfere with the happiness
or enjoyment of our neighbors so much
the better will 1t be for us and so much
will we have advanced towards truer and
more sensible manner of life. Especially
at this season should we all be firm advo-
Gates OF personal comfort; we are glad 10
notice increasing evidences of some break
ing Of the chains of fashionable folly, and
the development of some personal COM
fort, and some independence of character,
among the residents of our cities and large
towns. If we want 10 lounge on the sofa of
an after dinner hour; if we want to tumble
the mattress in our sleeping room in the
afternoon; IL we want to wear loose easy
dresses innocent of overskirts and frills
and unnecessary appendages; if we want
10 sit under the trees on our lawns and
smoke, or read, or sew, or play croquet
or If we want TO do anything or place our
selves in any position where we shall en-
Joy personal comfort-in the name of all
that is sensible and lawful let us do it.
What If the bed is tumbled, and the rooms
cluttered up, and Mrs. Smallrite does see
us in calico dress, so long as we are COM
fortablef Is it anybody's business but our
own that we play croquet, or lounge on the
veranda, in sight of passers-by, or smoke,
or read wholesome novels, so long as we
pay our bills, observe the moral law and
the golden rule, and don't talk about our
nelghbors7 Then let us, this sultry OPP
pressive weather, take comfort in any way
or at any place we please, where we do not
make breach of good manners, or tres
pass upon the rights of others. As much
as possible, let us live out of doors-the
veranda, the garden, the summer house
are preferable many times in the day, to
the parlor or library-and let US make our
selves comfortable by taking advantage OF
the pleasures they offer TO us. This grand
summer weather, always loo brief in this
northern cline, let us make the most OF
our means for personal enjoyment, and re-
joice in breaking away from a slavish ad-
herence TO fashion and ways which do
nothing but render us personally uncom-
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