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Year: 1875

Anything TO get the best of the peo-
pile seems To be the motto of those who
lobby bills through Congress now-a-
days. The last trick played upon the
unsuspecting and always confding
public through their representatives
in Congress, is the passage of bill
doubling the postage on transient mail
matter. 1t does not effect publishers.
The postage on the HERALD, sent to q
regular subscriber, is the same now as
heretofore, but if we or any one else
send a copy of the DAILY HERALD to
friend, it must bear a two-cent
stamp or the Postmaster will
throw il into the waste-basket, in
place OF depositing it in the mailbag.
People will do well to bear in mind
that any transient newspaper, which
means newspaper not regularly
mailed from the publication office, if
as large RS the DAILY HERALD must
De prepalu 10 the amount OF TWO cents.
The WEEKLY HERALD and the HER
AID pamphlet, both of which under
the old law required but one cent
postage each, now require two cents.
This contemplate trick on the people
was lobbied through Congress by cer-
tain impecunious express companies
in the East, who found that their
heavy charges on packages were fore
ing everything admissible through
the mails. While pretending to ask
only for an increase of the rates on
packages and merchandise, they have
doubled the postage on transient
newspapers and magazines.
Year: 1875

THE school textbook epizootic has
broken out In Missouri. The people
have revolted against the repeated
changes that are imposed upon them.
The latest phase of the disease is the
introduction of bill into the Legis-
lature providing that books once in
troduced shall not be changed within
a period of five years.
Year: 1875

CHRIsTIANCY, the new Michigan
Senator, is one of those extremely lib
eral and fair minded men that one
meets but once in lifetime. He is
willing that everybody should act on
a non partizan basis so long as they
act on the side to which he belongs.
Year: 1875

STICK TO THE BRooMsTICK. Did you
1t is one of the most lndicrous scenes in
everyday life We recently observed the
process indeed, we paid more attention
than the hen did, for she did not mind il
at all, and laid an egg the next day, as II
nothing had happened. In fact, that hen
will now know for tho first time TINT she
had served in the capacity OF target.
The predatory fowl had invaded the pre-
cincts OF flower bed, and was industri-
ously scratching for tho nutritious seed or
early worm, blissfulIy unconscious Of inn
pending danger. The lady now appears
upon the scene with a broom. This she
drops, and picks up a rocky fragment OF
the Slurian age and then makes her first
mistake they all do it-Of seizing tbs
projectile with the wrong hand. Then,
with malice aforethought, she makes a
further blunder of swinging her arm per-
pendicularly instead OF horizontally, and
thereupon the stone flies into the air, do
scrlbng an Irregular elpllcai curve a"u
striking thu earth as far from the hen as
the hen stood at tho time and in course
due west from the same, bearing by the
compass north. northeast by half foast' Az
the second attempt the stone barely missed
the head of the thrower herself who SEQ
ing that any fui ther attempt would 10
suicidal. did what she might have done
frst-started after the hen win an olI
and familiar weapon; The moral OF
Which is; Stick to the broomstick.-


Pr0rilsIcs H"ald'
Year: 1875

Men become bald Why? Because
they wear close hats and caps. Women
are never bald. Sometimes from long.
continued headache, heat in the scalp,
bad hair dressing and other causes women
may have oare spots here and there; but
with all these causes combined, You new
er see a woman with a bare, shiny, bald
head. And you mover see man lose n
hair below whore the hat touches the
skull. 1t will take it off rs close as you
can shave it down to exactly that line, but
never hair below, not even if he has
been bald fifty years. The common stiff
black hat, as impervious as sheet iron,
retains tho heat and perspiration. The
little hair glands, which bear the same
relation to the hair that the seed wheat
does to the plant above ground, become
weak from the presence of moisture and
heat, and finally become too weak to sus-
tain the hair. 1t falls out, and badness
exists. A fur cap we have known to
produce badness in n single Winter. A
man with good head of hair needs but
very little protection whore the hair
grows. Women who live much within
doors and are therefore susceptible to the
cold, oil their hair and plaster it down
/ hard and fiat on their skulls, SO as to de-
stroy nine-tenths Of its power rs a non
conductor, nave wotn for years postage
/ stamps of bonnets, stuck on the back OF
their skulls, and then going out Of furnace
heated parors, have ridden for hours in u
very cold temperature, without taking
cold and without complaint.


/ Man, with his greater vigor and out
door life, with his hair not plastered down
but thrown up loose and light, could no
doubt go to the North Pole as far rs that
part Of his person is concerned, without
any covering. Yet we men wear i'm.
mensely thick fur caps and do not dare tC
step out into the chilly atmosphere for 4
weak, silly and really Il serious error


The Creator knew what he was about
when he covered a mans head with hair


1t has a very important function in pro
tecting the brain. Badness il n serious
misfortune. 1t will never occur in Il man
who will wear a common black high silk
hat with five hundred holes in the top, So
that there shall be more hole than hat.
This costs nothing; the halter will do it
for you when you purchase the hat. II
the nap be combad back tho wrong way,
no one will notice the popularity. The
hat will wear quite as long hatter'
say longer because it is dry inside, in
stead of moist. In brief, there is not Il
single objection to it, whilo it will surely
prevent badness and keep the top Of tho
head cool and prevent much heodoche.
Year: 1875

YESTERDAY a long haired man mount
ed box and commenced Ny friends,
who hath rednesI Of eyes ? The drunk
ard. Who hath woe? The drunlard.
The Lord sent US pure water There is
nothing like W" At that moment, a
boy who was throwing water from hose
used round there accidentally turned the
stream upon the strangers back, aud he
jumped down, and said it was case Of
assault, and ran for warrant lie said
no human being could throw cold water
over him without beng made to suffer
for it.-DsnpeT Neps.
Year: 1875

Each part will contain % quarto pages, in
cludIng the heavy front-piece, on heavy plate
ated in red and gold. will be given with the
hrst part, and the printing of the entire work
will be q worthy representation OF the "Alden
Press.n which Is o guarantee of something
beautiful and valuable. fi ~
Year: 1875

Printers are naturally in for a
joke. They are proverbially fond


of fun; but TO look at them you


v ouldn't think it. Here is a good


joke a "printer-man" played On


his fellow Iodger in Pottsville: A


certain insurance man in town.


who boards at the same hotel with
one OF the hight compositors of the
Journal, in order to save the


subscription price to newspaper,
eQtered into an arrangement with


the printer to get the news az
soon as he got up. The printer


was to write out a brief sketch
| Of all the news and stick the pa
per under the insurance mans


door. A few mornings since
the latter got up and dressed
himself, excepting one boot and
stocking and his coat, when | C
espied the paper under his door.
He picked it up and read aa
follows: "Grant assassinated.
Country in an uproar. Mrs.
SartOris and Mrs. Grant carried
off by masked kidpapperS while
insensible. a member of the


Cabinet supposed to be the as
sassin. 100000 reward offer
ed by Congress-" Without
completing his toilet, he rushed


out Of the room and wakened
up several boarders, told them
of the great news, and scared
them out of their wits. We
leave our readers to conjecture,
if they cap, the disgust of the
whole party when they found
how they had been sold. The
insurance man has sworn to sub
scribe to paper. q.
Year: 1875

When the Grand Trunk Rail


way of Canada was completed in


1860, many of the farmers had


never heard of. much less seen, a


railroad, but it soon got reported


around that passengers could trav-


Ell by it, and even cattle. 4


backwoodsman who was indebted


to country merchant was pushed
Iby the latter for payment
Eof the amount due, and the only
means of liquidating the debt was
by taking a fat OK to the Quebec
market. For this purpose he tied
his OK to the back of the cart, and
drove to the railway station, a
distance of nine miles. On sur
veying the train and seeing an
iron railing around the car he
concluded that that was the place
to tie his OK, which he accord
ingly did, taking place in sec
ond class car himselfiorward. Pres
emily the train began to move off
slowly. The poor man became
idgety, the speed still increasing,
until large drops of sweat became
visible on his brow. By this
time the conductor had reached
his car to collect the tickets.
Nearly out of breath, the man
ran to him, exclaiming:


"My dear conductor, my OK will
never be able to keep up at this
pace; it is not possible"


"Your OK! Keep up to this
pace! What do you mean? 1
don't understand you. Have you
oxen on board?'


"Not on board; of course. l
tied him to the railing of the
hind car"


"You tied your OK to the railing
of the hind car? Who tod you to
do so?'


"No one; but that is the way
we always do in the country"


Of course the conductor could
not stop his train before
reaching the next station, when,
needless to say, on looking for the
OK, they found attached to the
rope a pair Of horns with a small
portion Of the neck.


The humane conductor made q
collection among the passengers on
the spot, realizing larger amount
than the OK would have brought
at market, which he presented to
the crest fallen farmer, who i'm
returned home vowing
he would never have oxen taken
to market by railway again. He
has kept his word, and to this day
leads his oxen to market behind
his own cart.
Year: 1875

/ ITOLl buS Ut l@oulS AAS puOiiNHAi'


Starting Curd is a thrifty ne


gro living near Bristow, KY
! He and his wife wanted to give


a fine supper to a few select


friends, and bent their talents
! to doing a nice thing. Curd's


wife suggested to Curd that it


would be correct to have Il large
| tall candle for the centre Of the
table to illuminate the viands
and the happy faces around the
| festive board. Curd thought
so to, and went to town to make
the purchase. He stated to the
Storekeeper that he was going
! to have a frolic and wanted big
candle for an illumination. The
storekeeper put up for him the
biggest one he had, and Curd
carried it home. Mrs. Curd, up
on inspecting the article, said it
was not the right thing. She
wanted a candle. Curd said it
was right, the very latest style
of Illuminating candles, and
Mrs. Curd' gave it up. The
candle was fixed in the centre


of the table, and when the
guests were seated and the even
ing meal had fairly commenced,


Curd slyly applied a match to
his boss candle to astOnish his
guests with an illumination
1t was a grand success, and i'm
mediately commenced sputtering
and spouting and vomiting balls
Of fire. The company stayed
not upon the order Of going,
but went at once. Curd tried
to blow it out, and then stop
the volcanic eruption with his
hand, and got damaged. A
kissing, blazing ball flew on his
bedand set it on fire. At length
the combustion simmered down
and the illumination was at an
end, and the bed was. put out.
The feast was over, for the black
looks of Curd's guests, as they
returned to get their hats and
things, plainly showed they
thought it had been done on


purpose. They went sulleniy
away, and refused to be COM
forted. Curd's wife, sinking
among the ashes of her once
happy home, said, 81 told you
So" Her new counterpane was
ruined, and her best bed wreck.
The next day Curd went to town
with his mind full of questions
for that storekeeper, and he had
visions Of u suit for damages.
The storekeeper explained that
he had gathered from Curd's
manner Of asking for the arti-
Gle that he wanted that kind Of
illumination which is produced
by Roman candle, and accord
ingly sold him one. Curd was
thoroughly illuminated and en-
lightened. He knows better
now, and the next time he makes
a feast he will try to get along
with plain tallow dips, but it is
not likely he will ever be able
to recover his friends.
Year: 1875

In Holly Spring, Miss as is
customary in most places, horse ra-
cling takes place over a level piece
of the public road. Lately, in Il
contest that had called together
hundreds of spectators on Sunday.
half the distance had been run,
when tree at the roadside was
blown over by the wind. a
branch struck one Of tue rider,
killing him instantly.
Year: 1875

The last natural curiosity story
comes from Portlandvllle, Dakota.
Some people who were drilling a
well struck "a cavity about thirty
feet down, from which a hot
stream burst, and has been es,
Gaping ever since 1t warns the
country round abont 50 generally
that the snow has melted away,
and the wild animals of the coun-
try congregate at that place at
night for the comfort of it.
Year: 1875

What changes a few years
bring about-don't they? Yes
terday tie citizens of Arbor Hill
were aware of woman madly
tearing along, potato masber in
hand, giving chase to her husband
who was flying from her presence
like deer. Eight years ago the
same female took a medal at an
Eastern seminary for a eradua-
ting essay on "Repose of Charac-
ter"
Year: 1875

A Western paper says: 1t
is simply absurd to talk about
woman being qualified to fill
every position in life that a man
fills. For instance. what wo-
man could lounge around the
stove in a country grocery and
lie about the number of fishes
she caught last summer?
Year: 1875

Mr.. Beecher thinks the wick
eldest thing in the world is to
thump a child on the head. -
This is undoubtedly true. The
best way to punish a child is to
pour hot beesWax down its back.
Year: 1875

"Go away! Leave me with my
dead Let me fling myself on
his coffin and die therep' That
was in Nebraska six months ago,
and now the widow has won an
other trusting soul, and number
ones portrait is in the attic, face
to the wall.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1875

81 see very little of you," said


an old gentleman at a ball to a
young lady whom he had not
met in a long time before. "I
know it. was the artless reply,
"but mother wouldn't allow me
to wear very low-necked dress
tonight, the weather is so cold" "
Year: 1875

The ghost of Noah Webster
came to spiritual medium in AL
ALBANIA, not long since, and wrote
on slip of paper: sit is tite
times" Noah was right, but we
are sorry to see he has gone back
on his dictionary. a.,a
Year: 1875

CARE OF HoRsEs' LEGS. - Few men
who handle horses give proper attention
to the feet ana legs especially is this the
case on farms. Much time is often spent
in rubbing, brushing and smoothing the
hair on the sides and hips, but the feet are
not properly examined and cared for.
Now, be 1t known that the feet of II horse
require more care than the body they
need ten times as much, for in one respect
they are almost the entire horse. All
the grooming that can be done won'tavail
anything if the horse is forced to stand
where his feet will be filthy. In this case
the feet will become disordered, and then
the leg will get badly out of fix, and with
bad feet and with bad legs there is not
much else of the horse fit for anything.


Stable prisons generally are terribly
severe on the feet and legs of horses, and
unless these buildings can afford dry
room where horse can walk around, lie
down or roll over, they are not half so
healthy and comfortable to the horse as
the pastures, and should be avoided by
good hostlers in the country.


When the ground is wet in the spring
and fall of the year, horses are liable to
be afflicted with scratches and crease in
the heels. To cure and prevent these
disorders, the parts should be well washed
with emolent soap, and afterward rubbed
dry with soft cloths, after which they
may be touched with sweet oil or healing
ointment, and the animal should be kept
out of the wet as much as possible. e.-Ec.
Year: 1875

Alice Cary was n shy, awkward school
girl when she first knew Mr.. Cheney, and
had never before seen any person so
refined, so gentlemanly and well bred.
He was greatly superior to the people
among whom he took up his residence /;
not that his mental endowments were
very great or better, perhaps, than those
of some of his neighbors, but his had been
brought out by education, and found
expression in graceful manners and polish
ed phrases, while theirs were imbedded
in the clownish tetters from which their
position and circumstances of life had in
no way tended to free them. Chiefly
through his instrumentality, in the course
of few years the neighborhood of Clover
nook was changed from thinly inhabited
and ill-cultivated district to one abound
ing with vineyards and orchards, and
dotted with public edifces and private
residences, surrounded by green lawns,
fringed with clipt hedges.


As years passed on the shy, rustic
school girl grew to womanhood, and the
proud and cultured neighbor of whom
she had stood in such awe, learning OF
her thirst for knowledge, lent her books
from his library, and encouraged her
efforts toward self-improvement, The
appreciation of the same authors formed
bond of kindred tastes between them,
and was the beginning of more intimate
acquaintance, an interchange Of thought
and feeling. For him it was intellectual
companionship, aud the charm of contact
with fresh, growing mind, filled with
beautiful thoughts and earnest spirations.
For her it was an education of mind and
heart, the revelation of new life, the
" opening of sealed fountain in he,
bosom" What wonder il he who wa


her ideal realized, the highest type o
manhood she had ever known, shoulC
win her heart -? He did win it, and il
the highest sense of the phrase she neve


loved another. In every case of hear
L. history there is much that is sacred t


those Immediately concerned, and shoul
never pass beyond them into the cold an


curious world.


1t all happened many years ago, an


the particulars of the story are known t
few. Suffice it to say that this was th


first and only love of Alice Cary's life
, and it ended there. Mr.. Cheney wen


East and married, and she read th
announcement in newspaper. Late
she left Clovernook, around which clun


so many bitter-sweet memories, and wer


to New York, where she made her HON
during the remainder Of her life, an
gathered around her a circle Of apprcca


tive friends, many Of them gifted an
great. Though many priced her wort
and sought her hand, she never forgot til


love-dteam Of her early womanhood


Around it clustered all the bright an


tender associations of youth ; and as sh
receded from it and her hair grew gray
it gathered a pathos from the year
, and graves between. Cor. Gin. Com.
Year: 1875

If you have anything to sell, advertise
it. If you have a desire to do more bust
ness, advertise. And don't give it up.
If it pays to advertise during one month,
it will pay to advertise all the time. Ju-
dicious advertisers never cease their efforts
but they change their style frequently
and continually present themselves in
new dresses and new verbiage. Change
your advertisement but don't discontinue.
Year: 1875

TINS is the way ST Loui. takes toinsu't
the Louisville girls with the suggestion
that their feet are large: y Louisville
girl was shot in tie foot a day or two ago.
and the doctors are now engaged in mining
for the bsll. One Of them has worked
his passage into :he foot for SO great
distance that they are Obliged to let his
provisions down 10 him by rope.
Year: 1875

The PIN-BAcK The Yreka U1aion's
devil is delighted with the new pin-back
frocks. He and his hollyhock went out
walking last Sunday night, and just for
experiment imagined it rained, and be
says they could just snug up under one
umbrella lots easier than they could last
Winter.
Year: 1875

parts OF the country are good. Still,
three heavy storms in one day may
fairly be considered almost too much Of
3 good thing.


FLOOD IN NEW YORK CITY.


New York World, Tuesday,


Third avenue, between Fortieth and
Forty-sixth streets, was flooded yester-
day as it has not been in years before.
At the lowest points the cellars were
more than half filed with water, and
the streets were washed by rushing tor
rents. In some cases the iron covers to
the "man-hOles" of the main sewer
along the avenue were blown off by the
compressed air forced out by the sudden
influx Of water. The flood in the cell
lars was due principally to water forced
back to the drsin-pipes leading to the
main sewer, which runs parallel with
the avenue several feet below the middle
OF the street. The cause OF this setback
OF water, Is said to be the lack Of a SUI
ficient number Of cross-seWeIs to carry
the wster into the river in times Of
sudden and heavy storms occurring
simultaneously with high tide in
the East river. Yesterdays storms
were unusually sudden and violent, and
VIC 1dAL lCAA az bllC DOul vi ulku
tide, and the consequence was that the
trades-peOple in the district above men
toned were surprised by a sudden rush
of water in their cellars. Many Of them
live and conduct their business below the
street level, and so sudden was the flood
that they were knee-deep in water before
they had discovered that the rain was
violent, their goods and household fur
niture suddenly beOinninC n float ahOut
on the rising tide. In some cases help
less invRlids left alone ran narrow
chances of drowning, and in one or two
instances sleeping babies were sfoat in
their cradles before they could be carried
up to dry land. Cellar-stOred goods were
in most cases submerged before
they could be removed. Bakers
and cOnfectiOners, especially abundant
in this neighborhOod, had their sugar
and flour pretty generally soaked and
spoiled. Those who occupied cellars for
dwellings and shops had no place above
into which to remove their goods, and it
would have done no good to remove
them to the street for the rain was fall
ing in sheets, and would have saturated
them as thoroughly as the floods below.
As it was, they had all they could do to
get their wives and children out Of
harms way, and traders Waded about
among their goods endeavoring to place
the most valuable in the safest place.
Although the loss in the aggregate is
not large, yet upon some it falls very
heavily. Some of the poorer people had
all their bedding saturated, and their
dwellings made uninhabitable in cOnse-
quence Of the dsmpness.
Year: 1875

weeping; men who had not shed tear
for many years, now wept like schidren.
One young man, who had resisted with
scorn the pleadings of a loving mother
and the entreaties of friends to strive to
lead better life, to desist from course
that was wasting his fortune, and ruin
ing his health, now approached the child,
and taking both hands in his, while
tears streamed down his cheeks, ex-
claimed with deep emotion:


GOD bless you, my little angel. You
have saved me from ruin and disgrace,
from poverty and drunkard's grave.
If there are angels on earth, you are
onel God bless you, God bless" and
putting bill into the hands of the
mother said:


please accept this triie as a token of
my regard and esteem, for your little
girl has done me a kindness l can never
repay; and remember whenever you are
in want, you will find me true friend, -
at the same time giving her his name
and address.


Taking her child by the hand, she
turned to go, but pausing at the door,
said:


God bless you, gentlemenl Accept
the heartfelt thanks of poor, friendless
woman for the kindness and courtesy
you have shown her." Before any one
could reply she was gone.


A silence of several minutes ensued,
which was broken by the proprietor, who
exclaimed:


Gentlemen, that lady was right, and l
have sold my last glass of whisky; if any
of you want more, you will have to go
elsewhere"


"And I have drank my last glass of
whisky" said young man, who had
long been given up so utterly beyond the
reach of those who had deep interest
in his welfare, as sunk too low ever to
reform.