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Year: 1872

CHIOAGa, October 9.-po-day has
been observed here by many people as a
sort Of holiday, and the streets Of the
rebuilt district have been unusually full
Of people in their best attire, viewing
the wonderful change that has been
wrought since this day year ago.
Hundreds came in nom the country,
from various railroads, and added to the
throng of citizens who crowded every
thOroughfare.


The Board Of Trade held no session,
as to-day had been fixed as the one on
which they would take possession of
their new hall, in the magnificent build
ing erected by the Chamber of Com
merce upon the site of the old one. AT
the hour Of noon the members formed in
procession, in front Of the hall they
have occupied since the fire, and marched
to their new hall, headed by brass
band. The hall, which is much larger
than the old one, was uensely packed,
not only the members of the Board be-
ing present, but hundreds Of prominent
citizens in other branches Of business.
The platform was occupied by the Off
Gers and members, and various
committees of other Boards of Trade.
Mayor Wedill aud many old well known
cit tizsns were also seated there. In the
gallery was stationed the Vass Light
Guard band and the Chicago Glee Club.
Exercises commenced by playing
"Home, Sweet Home' by the band,
and singing Of HAuld Lang Synei
by the Glee Club. Daniel A Jones,
Esq, President af the Chamber Of Com
merce, then formally transferred the
new hall to the Board of Trade in neat
and brief speech, in which he re-
viewed the work Of rebuilding from the
commencement, when less than year
ago the Directors of the Board met, and
resolved to replace its old Chamber by
one which should be superior in every
respect to the day of its completion. He
awarded great credit to the contractors
for the various branches Of the work, for
the energy and skill they had displayed,
and remarked as a matter Of congratula-
ton that no accident had belallen any
one connected with the work. He closed
by expressing a hope that no act of the
members Of the Board would ever tend
to clog the wheels Of commerce, but that
every effort would be made to facilitate
the constantly increasing trade Of the
city.


Speeches were made by several, and
the ceremonies were kept up several
hours
Year: 1872

The elements which enter into the com
position Of the material Of glass are slick
or flint, soda, potash, lime, clay or its me-
talic basis, and minimum Of red lead, the
matter which colors house painters prim-
ing. They are mixed together in the cru
chile Of the glass house, and then combined
or melted by the aid of fire. The temper
ature Tin all cases) at which fusion is at
tanned, varies with the kind of glass and
the ingredients of which it is composed.
Window-glass is made of flint, soda, and
lime bottle-glass, Of flint and iron lin the
shape of ferruginOus sand), soda, lime and
clay and so on for other kinds of glass.
The greater the number of bases used in
the composition, the more easily they are
melted into glass. Hence, for cheap glass
es, such as bottle-glass, the manufacturer
mixes as many different elements as posi-
bic, in order to obtain his result at the
least possible expenditure of fuel. Never
theless, as often happens, what is gained in
one way is lost in another for the greater
the fusibiity Of the glass, the more it is
liable to decomposition by atmospheric and
other influences.


This decomposition is evidenced by curl
Gus and even beautiful phenomena. Old
window glass, and especially stable window
glass, manifests incipient decay by the in
descent tints which cover its surface. Bot
ties that have long been buried in the
earth or submerged in bonds become most
striking and ornamental specimens, from
gorgeous hues which they display their
transparency is gone, and they are coated
with small scales shining with metallic lus-
tire. By exposure to great heat and grad
ual cooling, glass also becomes unvitrifed
and opaque, presenting great resemblance
To crOckery, and named, after its discover
er, Reumurs porcelain. The opacity re.
suits from the formation of microscopic
crystals of one of the earthly silicates which
constitute glass, in consequence of volatili.
zation Of the alkaline Ingredient. Such
porcelain is in request for decorative pur.
poses nor is this the only way in which
decomposition of the original compound
has been turned to account.


Soluble glass 10 obtained by melting in
9 crucible . mixture Of fifteen parts o.
quartz reduced 10 fine powder, ten part
of carbonate Of potash, and one part o.
pulverized charcoal. For use, il il broker
up into little bits, and then dissolved il
Year: 1872

boiling water I'll the solution has the con-
sistency of syrup. 1t is somewhat muddy
and has an alkaline taste. Nevertheless,
it must be very pure not TO efloresce under
the action of the air after a certain lapse
the action Of the air after certain lapse Of
time. A good plan is to cover the articles
to be protected with several coats Of the
soluble glass, beginning with a weak solu-
ton, to be followed by more concentrated
liquid. Its efficacy is also increased by
mixing with il some other incombustible
substance powdered clay, for instance. -
All the Year Round.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Horace Dresser has made an in
genious argument in the Jersey City
EUeHiHg Journal TO prove, first, that in
asmuch as suffrage is, or ought to be,
the concOmitant of citizenship, therefore
the State Constitutions and enaetments
which forbid women TO vote are a null
lification of the Federal Constitution,
which guarantees to the people of every
State Republican form of government;
and, second, that the President of the
United States, being bound by his oath
of Office ITO take care that the laws are
faithfully executed" and to "preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution, !"
therefore he has power to remove all
obstacles TO the exercise of wOman's
right OF suffrage by proclamation
similar to President LincOlu's edict of
emancipation, and it is his duty to issue
such a proclamation and enforce it. We
cannot help smiling at the practical
absurdity of such a proposition 10 the
Executive, at a moment when he is
sharply censured for having carried out
the specific instructions of Congress by
enforcing the ku-Klux law.
Year: 1872

Gerritt Smith, the veteran abolition
ist, in recent speech, speaking OF the
Republican party, says: "The condition
of its continued existence and power is
that it shall continue to be 4 reform
party. Grandly did it begin its reform
atory career. Ii fought for the life of
the nation, and saved it; it fought
against the guilty rebels Of the South,
and the more guilty rebels of the North,
and conquered both; it fought against
slavery, and killed it; it fought for the
rights of the black man, and won them.
Its work is not yet done. Many other
reforms are urging themselves upon its
adoption. Ere this it should have ac-
corded the ballot to woman. The wide
step in this direction, taken IN the Phil
adelphia convention, should be followed
up without delay"
Year: 1872

The idea of reclaiming the Colorado
desert by means of artesian wells has
been broached. 1t is thought that a
large subterranean stream runs under
the desert, and that all that is necessary
is to bore deep enough to strike it.
Congress will be applied to for a grant
as a recompense for boring these wells.
Year: 1872

Senator Cameron adorned the de.
bate upon the tax and tariff bill with
a charming dissertation upon Ameri-
can fruits and flowers. He says:


"There is the rose. There has been
no improvement on the rose in thou
sand years. You can make it produce
more and oftener in the year, but the
old cabbage rose that every man not
over fifty years Of age must rememem-
Der that ornamented the garden of his
mother, is the most fragrant not only
Of all the roses, but of all the plants
which give pleasure from their per-
fume.


"First in the year is the crocus, with
out any fragrance and then comes
the hyacinth, which makes every man
who puts it to his nostrils glad and
happy. After a while in short success
sion comes the lilac, and then we all
believe the lilac is more beautiful in
its fragrance than the hyacinth was |;
but we forget that directly when the
rose comes, which is the queen of all
the flowers. After awhile comes the
jessamine, and then is the honeysuckle.
We have the most delicious of all that
tribe in our forests. The wild and the
red honeysuckle Of the mountains of
Pennsylvania and New York in its
fragrance is equal to all that were ever
brought here from abroad, and vet we
are bringing from every part of the
world, for there is variety in every
and all honeysuckles of every grade
and of every color, and the jessamine,
which is cousin of the honeysuckle,
is brought to us from abroad, when we
produce it here, in the South particu-
larly, more beautiful and more fra
grant than it is abroad"


Is not that a delightful bit of nature
to fold away in the dry and dusty Con.
gressional Globeg The venerable SEN
ator should be rewarded for his gallant
defense of our native fora with
wreath of flowers.
Year: 1872

The most faithful lover who has a
name, and being, outside of trashy
novels, lives in Danbury. The parents
of the young lady are opposed to this
championship, but it don't make him
proud. Sometimes the old gentleman
reaches him with his boot before he
can get over the fence, but the young
man doesn't lay up ill-feeling on ac-
count of that; he only smiles at the
despoiler Of his pants when he meets
him, aud calls it "heaping Goals of
fire on his head" Saturday evening
he thought he would get up surprise
for the old chap. He put paving
stone in each of his coat tail pockets,
and started for the fence as usual. The
old man let out for him with increased
enthusiasm, and caught him-caught
him good. Then he laid down on the
grass and said-"I die by the hand of
an assassin" But the young man
passed on without word, and smiled
the most heavenly smile of forgiveness
ever seen of that street.


Everybody should learn to swim.
Swimming is an accomplishment which
all persons, male and female, should,
if possible, acquire. There is no tell.
ing when or where it may be brought
into practical use for saving of life,
while, as source Of healthfui and de-
lightful recreation, it holds a front
rank. 1t is healthful sign to note
the fact that fresh water bathing by
ladies is becoming every year more
in vogue. A few years ago any other
than saltwater bathing was not to be
thought of, but now ladies find that
there is just as little impropriety in
putting on their bathing dresses and
taking bath in river or creek, as
in the surf at Cape My or Long
Branch.


A Paris correspondent relates a
story which may be taken as an illus
tration Of sublime impudence. He
states that a gentleman walking with
his little boy on the banks of the riv-
er, the child slipped over the bank in
to the water, and would certainly have
been drowned but for the lage of a
man who was fishing, who jumped in
and saved the boy. The father thank
ed him cordially, but asked him if he
would add to the obligation, as he was
already wet through, by swimming for
the boys cap.


A farmers wife in speaking of the
smartness, aptness and intelligence of
her son, said: "He can read huently
in any part Of the Bible, repeat the
whole cateehism ana weed onions as
we'll as his father" "Yes, mother"
added the young hopeful, "and yester-
day l licked Ned Rawson, throwed the
cat into the well, and stole old Hick-
ley's gimlet."


Two women, an infant, and a bottle
milk caused a great commotion on the
Jacksonville train at Columbus, In
diana, two days since, by the accident
al loss of the child's sustenance, which
dropped out Of the car window. The
younger woman pulled the bell-cord,
stopped the train, and sent Il young
man after II.


Two suitors for lady's hand in
Kansas City, not being able to settle
the case by arbitration, repaired to a
graveyard, just after daylight on the
Fourth, and pommelled each other af-
ter the rules Of the London prize ring.
The lady herself was present, and drove
away with the one whom the referee
declared the winning man. !
Year: 1872

This, alas was the economical
sweetness of my friend Gus, who could
live in a $4,000 garret with the man
she loved. These are the economical
young ladies who come to Saratoga
and deceive us poor fellows-who talk
garret, get our solitaires and then come
the elevator and lunch from belmont
co dodge on US. These, alas are the
young ladies who gain our honest love
just to steal our money for S400 sage
green dresses, with aCdtteaus and polo
naise all cut on the bias, or sell US.
These are the dear creatures whose
magnanimous fathers generously give
away to us--saying, "Take her Adol-
phus, and be happy-alas if you
can IN Y Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1872

An influential and respectable citNen of East Canaan, while on return from Hart ford last week, found himself seated direct ly behind an evil-disposed resident of the aforementioned city, who was spelling for row. After trying in vain to satiate bis desire by provoking quarrel with Con- ductor Eggleston, he turned to the afore- said gentleman, and asked his opinion con- corning his controversy with the conductor An objection was raised to expressing an opinion upon the subject, but finally after being urged and abused for not SO doing, he ventured to remark that he thought that MT. Eggleston's conduct upon the occasion had been that of gentleman, while his had been otherwise. Whereat " old Hart ford " waxed indignant and informed MT. - that for the simple sum of l5O cents, he would kick him as he had never been kicked before. The required amount was immediately handed over and told Hart ford pitched in. We have not ascertain ed whether the said party of the first part performed his part of the contract in 8 good substantial manner, but it is quite evi- dent that the sad party of the second part in common-sense view. was justifiable in the course that he pursued. Casting aside all sensicsl, nonsensical and legalistic views of the transaction, and looking at it. in a political light, Gas all transactions of this nature should be looked at under govern ment that maintains rigid protective tar iff for the promotion and encouragement of home industry,) we think that it is estab- fishing bad precedent. For any man who will so disregard home talent and in dustry, as to pay 8 Hartford kickist l5O cents for the same amount of labor that he could have obtained in his own town for less money, from men who can stand up and kick higher, harder, longer and cheap CT than any other men this side of Mule vile itself, establishes thereby an example which is thoroughly antagonistic to that branch of political economy, which Hor- ace Greeley and maintain to be the foun- dation of all our prosperity and happiness.

 PoL1TIoKIsT.
Year: 1872



 News items are very scarce article in this place, but for fear that Cornwall will be forgotten by your readers, l will at- tempt to note few lines of what may not be very interesting matter. The lecture room which some had thought and hoped was failure, has at last become a sure thing, and is to be built as soon as the subscription is accepted by the society,". The Tobacco beds are nearly all sowed and the inhabitants of this place propose to go into raising the tweed" on 8 larger scale than ever, notwithstanding the Rev. Mir. Prince says that '' the raising of that most polsonous weed of the soil is not a means of grace, but the Reverend must remember that it took several hundred pounds of the tweed to build the lecture room, and pay the minister's salary, and SO be must not go back on the tobacco raisers. no. ticed an item from 6 Cornwall Centre cor respondent, and he went on to tell " that out of the nine families in that "hamlet there had been four yound ladies married within the past year, and at Cornwall prop CT only one in twenty seven years. Strange the youad ladies will act SO. The gentle men of that hamlet do not behave badly but are very peaeefM people, and will have to remain SO as the ladies are all mar ried and gone from that ''hamlet." If per. sonal appearances are not deceitful we will ''see" his four marriages and ''go' several better another year. X. Y. x.
Year: 1872

Bridgeport has got promising boy-burg- lar. He broke into house few days ago, and to direct suspicion in another quarter, he put on mans pair of boots, raised window that it might appear the entrance had been effected in that way, and dropped note in the hall, purporting to have been written in New York, in which the writer said he would stop at Bridgeport and go through Jones house. The ruse threw the detectives off the track and no knowledge of the thief was obtained until he was arrested in New York on &C., count of his suspicious appearance, when he confessed the whole affair. For boy only 13 years old this will do.
Year: 1872

Editor Pease of the Salisbury News beamed in upon us on Saturday. He is looking beautiful.-Berkshir Courier.

 That is just the spot Brother Rogers, where we have been aching to get you for a long time. Everybody knows that you are the homliest man on the continent, and everybody else (excepting perhaps few of your readers) knows that we are the hand somest, and it was the principle object of our visit to your sanctum, to so completely charm you with our presence, that after we were gone you would tell your 2,448 read CTS all about it.-SALIsBURY NEWS.

 As for our own looks, we have always managed to get along pretty well in a crowd, and our photograph has not been much sought after by prolific mothers to frighten their refractory offspring into good behaviour. But as for Pesse, we nev- CT thought he was the best looking one in the pod, and we don't think he need to run when the beauty-killer comes around. Yet however lavish Nature may have been with hlm in regard to looks, the above insipid extract from his paper and the fact that he brags about his own beauty, shows that Nature was not remarkably beneficent with him in some other respects. Selah. h.-Berk- shire Courier.

 Aha! then Mature was not remarkably benefcent with us in some other respects. " and the extract from our paper "insipid, eh? which, rendered in 8 language that "insipids can easily comprehend, means, literally, we suppose, that we are not quite as heavy in the loft as he is, 8 fact of which we have never made the slightest pretention. While penning the above item the idea did not occur to us for 8 moment that Rogers was 30 sensitive on the point under discussion, viz. beauty, and being on the most friendly terms with that gen. tleman, did not for a moment suspect he would be offended at it and call us weak in the upper regions; our article "insipid, Sc., &c. The item was intended purely as joke, and we feel assured it was 90 un- derstood by all who read it except Rogers and as joke was so plainly stamped on its every feature, we are at loss to under. stand, lowing doubtless to our weakness al the top) how the editor of the COurie, could get out of it sufficient material to create such malignant item in reply as appears in his journal this week. We seek no controversy with the Courier, for the reason perhops that we are afraid oul weakness would not carry us successfully through the contest, and while we do not choose to belittle ourself by replying to his remarks in the spirit in which they were made, we shall endesvor to re member the hSgh compliment paid us this week, by tho editor of the Berkshire Cou rier, through the columns of his journal.
Year: 1872

A crazy leap was made by one William Bell, in New Haven. He had been carous- ing and drinking, and ran out of saloon without paying for some oysters: Running upon the Chapel street bridge he jumped over upon car standing upon the track below and then to the ground. In doing this he received such injuries that he had to be cared for and sent to the hospital.
Year: 1872

WAsmNdToN March 81.


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The Conference Committee on the bill for the
reporting and printing OF the Congressional de-
bates have agreed on a modification, providing
for advertising for contracts.
The Bill designating site for railroad depot
came up again and fillibustering was resumed to
nreyent action
Year: 1872

A mother, who had with her a little
daughter, was examining the figure of a
horse on a tombstone, and wondering OF
what it was an emblem. There was
nothing to explain it in the inscription.
Mamma" said the little one as they moved
away, 81 shouldn't wonder if she died OF
the night-mare.'
Year: 1872

A well known correspondent steps
forward to-day to the chief point. i'll
the great question of this present day.
1t is the public life of this country
that is now on its trial. AS human
nature is constituted i'll this part OF
the world, strong drink is necessary
concomitant of public life. OF course
the necessity of the link will be de-
MED, as we shall be told that public
life can be, and, indeed, is, conducted
without these dangerous stimulants
and restoratiyes; but when the peo-
pie who say this also tell us, it is to be
feared, too truly, that the inhabitants
of these Isles spend ahundred millions
IL year in strong drink, for the most
part with the utmost publicity, they
admit what is as good as necessity for
the purposes of this question. More
over, what is on trial is strictly and
only public life for it is the public
houses we all have. our eyes upon.
Our correspondent observes, what ILL.,
deed, all know, but some choose to
blink, that working-men, indeed, all
our countrymen, must have society.
It's "a universal, natural, wholesome
craving and it may be said that ev-
erybody, whatever bis calling, rank
and position, is the better for frequent,
free conversation with bis equals at
least, and occasionally with those
above and below him. 4 class which
claims itself to meet in society, with
every appliance which can open the
heart, quicken the spirit, and set free
the tongue, can only deny this happi-
ness to other classes upon the suppo
sition of their being its brutal, miser-
able slaves. OF course there is a good
deal OF talk about the laborer OF the
working man spending his evenings
at home in the bosom OF his family,
| but the British hearth only requires to
| be described, as it too often exists, to
be found IL sad illusion. There is
good deal that we may say on this
subject, and good deal also that we


have 10 right whatever to say, it be-


ing simply an. impertinence. We
have right to say to the working


man that he ought not to get drunk,
| that he ought not to spend on his
drink what Is due to his wife and chill
dren, his creditors, or his own better


ment that he ought not to make


himself a public nuisance or a mere


beast; but we have no right to tell
him when he feels the want of a slight
stimulant, OF Graves for social inter


communication, that it Is not for such


as he is to demand the costly indul-


gences. Public life is an essential


part of the life of all countries. The


climate and the several industrial re-
gulirements of this country prevent
that social intercourse.
Year: 1872

skill with which the Calcutta police
are at present handled. The crowd
quietly dispersed after the body was
cut down, and at Z O'Clock the road
and ground in front of the prison were
clear. The hanging of a miserable
wretch like the murderer is but sorry
compensation for the loss of the good
and gentle life he took; but it is even
lessened by the reflection that the as
sassin Guild have died without a ray
of light bel lg obtained to clear up the
dark mystery of the cause which led
to the foul and unnatural murder of
the highest judicial functionary in In
dia.n
Year: 1872

The most recent trapeze accident Isl
that of Mile. Geraldine, young wo-
man whose performances have often
received great applause. The girl
was practicing with Mr.. Leopold the
prodigious flight through the air from
the dress circle to trapeze hanging
from the ceiling near the stage, and
when in mid air she loosened her
grasp and was precipitated with inn
mense force upon the footlights. She
was taken up mangled and bleeding,
and was not expected to survive.
This horrible affair, which occurred at
the Union Park Theatre, New York,
took place at rehearsal.