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Year: 1875

Why have birds gizzards? Because
having no teeth, the tough and fibrous
giZzards are employed to grind the food
preparatory to digestion.


Why does a black down grow under
the feathers of birds as winter approach
es? Because the down is anon-condue-
tor of heat, and black the wsrmest col
or.


Why have ostriehes small wings? Be
cause, having long legs, they do not re-
qulre their wings for flight; they are
merely used to steady their bodies while
running.


Why cannot fesh-eating animals live
on yegetables2 Because the gastric juice
OF nesh-eating animals, being adapted
to the duty which it has to perform, will
not dissolve vegetable matter.


Why are there so many bodily forms
in the animal creation, Because the
different creatures which God created
have different modes of life, and the
form of their bodies viii be found to
present perfect adoption to the lives
allotted to them


Why have birds with long legs short
tails! Because the tails of birds are used
TO guide them through the air by steer
age When birds with long legs take to
flight, they throw their legs behind, and
they serve the same purpose as a tail


why have fishes air-bladders2 Be
cause as the density of water varies
greatly at different depths, the enlarge
ment or contraction of the bladder regu-
lates the relation of the specific gravity
of the body of the fish to that of the wat
er in which it moves.


Why are wcodpeckers' tongues about
three tunes longer than their biIlsl Be
cause, If their bills were long they would
not bore the trees 50 efficiently, and
when the trees are bored, and the in
seets alarmed, they endeavor to retreat
into the wood; but the long thin tongue
of the woodpecker fixes them on its
sharp, horny point, and draws them in
to the mouth of the bird.


Why has the elephant a short, un-
bending necks. Because the elephants
head is SO heavy that it could not have
been supported at the end of a long
neck, or lever, without a provision Of
immense muscular power. Accord
ing to Cuvier the number of mus
eles in an elephants trunk amounts to
40, 900, all of which are under the will,
as it is owing to these that the proboscis
can be protracted or contracted at plea
sure, raised up or turned to either side,
coiled around on itself or twined around
any object.
Year: 1875

i FEW HINTS FOR 1S75.-It is better
to live in a little, mean, two-story frame
house, than in Jail; il is a good thing,
when you are talking of another mans
defalcatiOn, to make sure that you could
have handled as much money, with like
opportunity for dishonesty, and not fall
en- before temptation. 1t doesn't pay
to worry over what will happen to your
wife il you were taken away; she may
get better husband. II you are won
dering what makes your former school
mates hair so gray, or what makes such
a one so wrinkled, or why such another
one is growing so stout, just take look
in the glass. Do not imagine, because
you have resolved to practice charity
and to speak well Of everybody, that
every body has made the same resOlu-
tiOn regarding you. If you are heart
sick with regret that you were not more
tender and thoughtful towards the dear
ones you have lost, just try to avoid
further repentance in the future by
being good to those still left to you.
Don't put of enjoyment. II you are
not ready to enjoy things as they come,
when you are ready they won't come.
Planning TO enjoy friends and fortune
in the future IS a most insecure invest
ment; the chances are wOfully few that
you, your friends, and the fortune will
all come together in the future. If you
have any good deeds to do, or happiness
to enjoy, to-day is the time. IL is only
when we are arguing ourselves into the
committing of some act where we believe
the end will not justify the means, that
it pays to wait till tomorrow. In such
a case one cannot wait too many to-
mOFrows.
Year: 1875

IL one of the Cincinnati newspaper
offices there is an editor to whom is as
signed the duty of writing editorials on
questions under consideration by the
Ohio Legislature. The young man
branched in rankly at the beginning Of
the session, worked off two or three head
ed articles, then dwindled To a daily par
agraph, and finally stopped altogether.
His chief met him an evening or two
since in n billiard room playing pin pool.
He had been there from noon until mid
night every day for month. Being ask
ed what he meant by neglecting his
work, the young man offered to bet his
chief a suit of clothes that the Legisla-
ture had not done a thing during the
month OF. January that was of sufficient
Importance to deserve even a paragraph.
But the wary senior had read the Column
bus reports and refused to take the bet


Did an Ohio Legislature ever give so
little return for its wages as the present
one: If 50, whenl-CieceidRd LeGdeT.
Year: 1875

How A LITTLE Boy DIED.-The Yir-
ginia City New Enterprise Of January
18th, has this little paragraph:


Little Eddie Nye. who was run over
by fiat-car last Friday evening and so
badly injured that he died the next
morning, was a rarely bright child, and
one of the best children in the city
Just before he died he sang The Beau
tiful River" with a voice as sweet as
though he had caught the tones from the
softer shore on the brink of which his
spirit was then trembling. After the
song, he repeated little prayer, which
his mother had taught him. The child
all his life had lisp, and this last pray
er fell from his tongue without halt or
quaver, but rather, steady and clear,
and yet with a far-of tone, as though
anOther's voice of infinite sweetness had
seized upon his lips in the supreme mo-
meDt, to leave an echo in his anguished
mothers ears, which should last as long
as life. Shortly after the little prayer
the sunny eyes closed, and little Eddie
was gone. On Sunday his funeral at
traeted the whole city, and there was
not a dry eye around the child's bier.
Year: 1875

Our county fair is Just over; but John
sons COtswold ram did not take the
prize that was offered for the best ami
NAL of that kind. Judge Pitman was
chairman of the committee on rams, and
he manifested the deepest interest iu
JOhnsOn's ram; indicating clearly that
if any sheep ought to take prize that
one ought to. JOhnsOn's ram was by
itself in pen with high board fence
and before adiudicating the prizes the
judge thought he had better go in and
make a close examination of the animal
for the purpose of ascertaining the fine
ness of its wool, etc. As soon as the
judge reached the interior, he walked
toward the ram, whereupon the ram be-
gan to lower its head and to shake it
ominOusly. Just as the Judge was about
to feel the fleece, the ram leaped forward
and planted its head in the Judges stom-
ach, rolling him over on the ground.
Before the judge had time to realize
what had happened, the ram came at
him again and began n series of promis-
cuous butts, each given with the precis-
ion and force of pile-driver 1t butted
the judge on the back, on the ribs, on
his arms, on his shoulder-blades, on the
bald place on his head, on his breast,
on his shins; it butted his nose, it but
ted his watch into mass of loose cog
wheels, it butted his speetacles off, it
butted his high hat into blaek-silk chaos,
it butted hilH over into the corner and
up against the fence, then it butted
four boards out of the fence, butted
down another of the committee, butted
three small boys into fits, butted the
money-taker at the gate, and then fed
out into the country, butting harmlessly
at the fresh air The judge did not dis
tribute the prizes that day. When they
collected him from various parts of the
pen, they wiped the mud from his trow-
sers and the blood from his nose, and
sent him home with a perennial stom-
ach ache and n determination to start
after the wandering mutton the first
thing in the morning with shot gun
Aar AdeleT, IN DanJuTy Relcs.
Year: 1875

THE beauty Of keeping a goat is, that
he isn't particular what yOn feed him on.
A Buffalo Billy got into the house the
other day, during the fanily's absence,
and managed to make a respectable
meal on a Panama hat, three linen
bosom shirts, a box Of Havana cigars,
and part Of a new bonnet.
Year: 1875

The city of Covington, KY, recently
paid about S13, 900 for removing bodies
from an old graveyard lot, and grading
it, but after the money was expended il
was asceTtsined that the lot was decided
to the city for a graveyard, and could
be used for no other purpose by the city.
So the city had TO leave two or three
dead bodies buried in the lot to keep the
heirs Of the grantor from pOuneing on it.
Year: 1875

Full news has come of the foundering of the Steamship Pacific which started from Victoria on Thursday morning and sank forty miles south of Cape Flattery that evening. One hundred and t~enty lives were lost and only one man was say ed. N
Year: 1875

CRoss AND SrCxLY CHILDREN can be made healthy and strong by regulating their stomachs and bowels with Castoria. It is more effective than Castor Oil and is as pleasant to take as honey. For Wind Colic. Sour Stomach, Worms and Costiye- ness, there is nothing in existence equal to Caetoria.
Year: 1875

SHE STRIKES FLOATING WRECK AND DIsAP-


PEARS IN FOUR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND


CREW SAVED.


Intelligence received in this city early yesterday
morning that the steamboat Lizzie Baker tho route
between Savannah and Pilatka, Fla was sunk Sat-
urday afternoon while crossing the bar at the north OF
the St Johns River Appended to the telegraphc
nouncement, however, was the pleasant information
that the passengers and crow TO the number OF thirteen
had been rescued in small boats and that no lives
lost The possibility Of the Baker being on her down
trip and having on board many passengers from New
York their way to Florida for the winter at first
caused considerable excitement among those apprsed
OF the disaster but this fear allayed by posi-
tive news that she was the trip from Pilatka TO
Savannah


The sinking is attributed the striking OF floating
wreck, unfortunately not discovered in
avert the collision, and the speed of the Baker such
that II tore big hole in her hull and she filled 30
rapidly that nothing but her upper works visible
In four minutes after the accident. Quite q heavy
was running at the time but by excellent management
there orderly though hurried leavetaking, and
all were landed safely the Shore The cargo which
included eighty bales of cotton Is doubt lost with
the vessel and there is but little probability Of any OF
the baggage Of the few passengers on board having
been saved.


1t the custom for the Lizzie Baker P. La Rose
captain and owner to connect with the New York
steamers hence to Savannah leaving the latter place
on wednesday morning at nine O'CLOCK, on the route
to the mouth Of the ST. Johns River She
nugged the Shore closely all the way down
the coast steamng between the many Islands
that line it, and before nightfall she
had usually put asern of her the dangerous por-
ton OF the run Landings were made at Doboy,
Darien, Brunswick, St. Marys, Fernandna and Jack
sonvie, up and down. and the Baker returned to Sa-
vannah every Sunday morning She carried her own
passenger list and the mails therefore the names OF
those board at the time of the disaster only known
to her officers, there being way TO send duplicate
lists to Savannah in advance of her arrival


The lost steamboat was built in Albany, N T. In 1884
Her former owners were Messrs caghorn & Cunning
ham, and she has been mostly engaged the Southern
local trade She of wood about $50 feet IN length,
u feet BEAM feet inches depth of hold and 607 tons
burden. She fitted with one tubular boiler and
beam engine 40 inches diameter of cylinder with feet
stroke Of piston. Her cabin deck. The loss Of
vessel and cargo is estimated ut $50. 600
Year: 1875

THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIS MENTAL CON-
DITIoN.


Governor Tilden's commission to examine into the
mental condition Of Jacob Staudermann the con-
demned murderer held another session in the Tombs
yesterday, DR.. 0rdronaux conducting the investga-
tion.


The first witness called was James Campbell OF No
AZ Park street He had known Staudermann five or six
months previous to the shooting; him every day
two or three times working in building with
Staudermann, where the latter had his shop had
versations with him; Staudermann at one time drew a
knife; he talking about Miss seidenwad, and
threatened that If she did not marry him he would
take her hie he showed revolver also, and
expressed determination to shoot her If she
fused to marry him. she did not for him !;
the day he lost the pistol and witness OF
taking it he came into the shop where witness was
and, drawing shoemaker's knife, threatened to stab
him with II II the pistol was not given up at the
time Staudermann had the pistol his left breast pocket
witness tried to take 1t from him. but did succeed
never saw anything especially strange about him
at any other time; thought him man of ordinary IN
tellgence, without much education when he the
shop he cool but when he commenced to talk no
became very much excited witness threatened strike
him with talor's lap board and he then dropped the
knife and ran out OF the shop; he would haye cut wit
ness with the knife witness had not met him with the
board -


To Counsel-Did not have him arrested, because
was never in court in my life and he had gone away
up town.


Henry Zctzech, of No. IL Forsyth street. testified he
had known Staudermann from the time he had gone TO
board with Mr.. Seidenwad witness boarded there also;
saw him daily; did not regard him very intelligent
man he seemed unable TO take of himself
saw him pay any attention to Miss Seidenwald thought
1t was all imagination Staudermanns part heard he
was going TO shoot her. and witness laughed at the
idea, he laughed because he did not believe it,


Sophia Haversack, of No las Third avenue testified
she had known Staudermann for three months before
the shooting This witness and other witnesses testi
fed TO some curious eccentrcties the part of the
prisoner and to his expressed resolution to take the


e OF the deceased and 10 his threatening utterances
certificate from Dr. Conrad, of Neudetheim Ger
many testified 10 the fact Of the prisoner having
tanned fall in his youth, already testified TO- and
that he because Of this fall considered insane


Another witness testified that from the utterances Of
the prisoner, he did not look upon him insane
man, but as q bad revengefu man in which points
several others corroborated him
Year: 1875

Considerable anxiety is beginning TO DO felt respect
ing the missing French Transatlantic steamship
L'Amerique Some nautical men are OF the opinion
that she has gone down. while others OF the opinion
that she has drfted down into the Bay OF Bscay
HERALD reporter called the Office Of Mr Dc Beoian
agent OF the line last evening, but that gentlemen had
no news TO impart He said that he feels no uneas-
ness respecting the missing vessel LAmcrque
left here the 18th OF November News OF her break
ing her shaft eight days later received the
23d ult The China, which carried the news TO Queens
town, took off thirteen of LAmerique's passengers
and the mails. On December she was spoken by
the North German Lloyd steamship K0ln in latitude
40 deg 40 min north longitude IL deg west In the
regular southern track Of transatlantic steamships
bound for these lattudes. The HRRALD has already
published list of her passengers She is thirty
days out to-day. The German steamer Smidt once
took forty days to cross the Atlantic.
Year: 1875

terday and report was submitted 10 them by Alder
man Strong, OF the Thirteenth ward concerning the
hMempsIead M reservoir II was very long, but said IN
enect that the lawyers sustained every claim which had
Deen made by those who planned and constructed the
reservoir They likewise sustained tho validity OF the
contract and the claims OF the contractors with groat
unanimity and positivenesa Specifications were pre-
pared In view Of the probability that the Common Coun
Gil would order the work to be completed, the specl


cations being prepared with ayew 70 making contract
with kingsley keeney upon basis Of completing the
work and taking the $500 600 satisfaction Tor such
completion and all back claims. The committee say
that common dictated that the contractor would
submit TO existing circumstances and that II was 10 the
interest Of the city 10 shake OIL contract which should
never have been made II improvident contract
but in the opinion OF the ablest lawyers II valid,
subsisting contract, and binding upon the city. AL
this labor seemed 10 be lost at the last moment upon
the appearance in the public press OF statements that
proceedings to be instituted to test the valid
in its creation and execution. Then there the
question with the committee as TO whether IL would
not be better TO avoid the result OF thssu The
mttee was divided They were unwilling TO proceed,
and yet unwilling TO abandon the work, and they
finally decided TO submit the matter to tho Board and
await further developments. In regard 10 the PROPOSE
tion OF Mr. Burden TO furnish water for the city for the
interest on 5000, 900 year. the committee say they
hadn't time 10 give II that consideration its importance
demands, but they do not regard his proposition a
substitute for the subject referred to them The
preparation OF $500 900 could not legally be made to
carry any such scheme into execution. They think
that Mr. Burdens proposition should be thoroughly
examined by competent board OF hydraulic engineers,
and Mr.. Burden asked that such course should be
pursued, he TO have the naming OF one Of the en-
gneera This was not objected to, except as TO the
expense ii would create but this would be Insignificant
when compared with the benefits expected by Mr. Bur-
den TO result from his plan. IL would cost about
SOC, 600 to make such an examination. In conclusion
the committee offered the following resolution


Resolved, That the subject matter of the completion
OF the Hampstead reservoir be laid upon the table


MI Parsons has not yet served the papers the
defendants OF the Ring, and he thinks he can hardly
De ready 10 serve them before the end OF the week
Year: 1875

To THE EDITOR or THx HERALD


Will you permit me explanation in regard 10 yoar
illusions in two editorials OF the 18th trea
ing OF the Boston Preachers meeting


You assert the authority OF reporter, that de.
clared in my address on that occasion that ''Grans
was the saviour OF his country and that the people
could not dispense with his services.n Now, tho
truth that alluded to General Grant in an
way shape whatever, and in tho whole
course Of my remarks | had not tho most distant
thought or allusion concerning what followed In
deed, do not believe that single individual came
there with the slightest anticipation OF what would be
said by the Bishop. And again, in another editorial,
you say that the Bishops speech only souorous
Endorsement OF what the preceding speaker had said.
But the whole tenor Of my speech, from beginning TO
end, ceusure OF ecclesiastical interference with
civil government In Europe, and as such the logical
sequence could scarcely be the intermeddng Of
the Methodist Church Win national potica


Now the truth Is that tho whole spirit Of this meeting
has been totally misreprcsented by OF those who
have given this matter 70 the press am layman OF
the Methodist Church, nota divine, as you seem 10
clergy and laty Of said Church, and say for them,
for myself that the great body OF them are totally
opposed TO any interference Church, with matters
OF State and those VINO accuse them Of such 40 them
rank injustice.


The very occurrence In Boston not what " 10
made TO appear Bishop Haven had just returned to
his friends and colleagues from tour aud stay IN the
South. They requested him to address them. He did
So and they thanked him Tor complying with that
quest without the least thought in my opinion that
they Endorsing bis views or committing them
selves TO any public policy; aud know that the great
body OF Metnodsts Of tho country deeply regret that
the action is 50 construed


viii you in justice 70 aud the Church. be pleased
10 give this communication prominent place your
columns that the true state o the case may be seeu ny
all. Respectfully, WILLIAM WELLS


UNION CoLLEGR. Dee IL 1874
Year: 1875

NEW SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTING OUTDOOR


RELIEF TO BE INAUGURATED DURING THE


COMING WINTER


The Commissioners of Charities are now about com
proper TO institute new system for the present
winter. Two years ago Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt who
then chairman Of the Bureau of Charities saw the
great Importance Of change in the manner of dis
trbuting the outdoor relief The present Commits
soners, therefore, propose to refer to Mr. Roosevelt
as OF the State Commissioners Of Charities all ap-
plicants for the position OF district visitor that he
may have opportunity of learning their qualinca-
tons for the post These visitors will be expected to
work in harmony with the volunteer committees and
by this it is hoped less will be wasted on the
undeserying and the really destitute will receive the
required assistance -'r- -. -. =


The Board Of United Charities have also feddested
the officers OF the ST. Andrews and st. Georges So
cietes to undertake the formation OF q committee to
supervise the distribution OF outdoor relief the First
district Of the city comprising the First Second Third
and Fourth wards The representatives In the Board
the above named societies have slgnded their readi-
ness TO Undertake the preliminary organization, with
the understanding that the committee is 70 be entirely
uhsectarian In It's character This committee will have
nothing to do with the distribution but will simply
operate with the visitors appointed by the Commission
OF Charities and Correction in finding worthy OBJ
ects and putting them their guard against the un.
worthy The conmttee viii be organized as soon as
sufficient number OF volunteer visitors be obtained
and all those societies individuals who desire to CO.
operate in this most excellent work requested Ia
communicate with those parties undertaking tho organ
zaton at the office of the TWO societies mentioned No.
g RrOadwav
Year: 1875

For several weeks prior to the month OF November
the Brooklyn police much exercised by the fre.
quont occurrence OF basement robberies y The de-
scrption obtained from persons who saw the rogue
eavingor entering by the basement doors Of houses
all corrcsponded, but u fell to the lot Of citizen to
effect the capture The man was taken while in the
act OF leaving house In the Eastern District with
quantity OF the stolen property in his possession He
declined TO give his residence, but II was discovered
that he had been stopping for months at hotel in the
Bowery, New York. from which he had disappeared
that day He was identified by several people who had
been robbed. His name is John De Graer He was
tried IN the Court OF Sessions, Kings county, before
pleaded not guilty. When arraigned for sentence,
however, he admitted his guilt He was sentenced to
the Penentary for i've years charge and three
years and a half On th@ ~.heT.