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Year: 1876

WHAT STOPPED The ARGUMENT Two
men with spare time on their hands seeing
some arm chairs in front of a furniture
store on the sunny side of the street,
thought they would sit down minute or
two and smoke snd talk up specIa payment
50 they sat down, and the man who was on
the negative de carefully fixed his chair
legs on two bars Of the grating over which
il stood. and they began to talk very earn
estly. Things went on all right till. getting
excited, the man on the grating said


II tell you. if ever specie payment is re-
snmed there will be the greatest fall. and
then he gave his chair ii hitch and il settled
back az though it hind legs had sort OF
struck in, and it went back so tar that he
shor oIt over the left hand side and bit his
cigar in halves and skinned his elbow.
When he got up he had forgotten the
thread OF his narrative, and observing too,
the bland appearance of the bystanders,
he suddenly remembered that he'd got to
catch that car, and he went and caught it,
Year: 1876

Alas! little does the world know how
many broken heart is hidden under a
cold and stern demeanor of the face; little
does il dream of the anguish that stified BY
the rigid lip OF pride. or what feelings lie
buried, but alive forever in the heat of
those it looks at daily. as monuments of
hard unsympathzng selfshness. 1t is
written. Every heart knoweth its own
Bitterness and that concealment has been
ordained by the same wisdom which has
given to us the knowledge of the fact.
Year: 1876

Nobody ever gains anything by mean


ness and yet meanness is quality often


manifested by men from whom we have


right to expect better things. Observ.


ers take notice and shun those who prac.


tlce 1t. How often have we observed


meanness practiced by those in Temporal


ry power upon those who, for the time


being, happen to be in an inferior posi-
tion, and how often have we observed


those interiors rising into the high places


OF society, and becoming the dispensers
OF favors to those who have arbitrarily


injured them when they possessed the


power, and how often have we heard


people recklessly criminate others whom
they thought too insignificant to be of
service to them, and after series of
years and a change of circumstances. we
nave known these same people to bitterly
lament that they had forfeited the favor
OF these once insignificant individuals
by their imprudence. 1t costs man
nothing to be magnanimous, and as a
matter of policy merely he cannot make
a better investment What is more than
all, and above all, magnanimity ennobles
the charater of man, and ensures him
the feeling of selfrespect which mag.
unanimous men enjoy throws charm
about their whole existence, and not on
ly do they have capacity for the high
est enjoyment but they are enabled to
promote the welfare of Others, the reAec- |
ton of which upon themselves consti- |
tutes the only elevated happiness which


human nature is capable of experiencing.
Year: 1876

TAKING PASSENGERS ABOARD TRAINS
AS the centennial approaches, all sort.


of devices for saving time and money


are in order. With view of fascilitat.


ing rapid transit, Pittsburg man has
invented an apparatus for taking passen.
gers on and putting them off without
stopping the trains at way stations. The
candidate for ride to Philadelphia is
placed upon platform, where he waits
like mail bag to be taken in. As the
train approaches, machine like the ton
of table, working on an elbow-like
JOINT, reaches out suddenly, strikes the
awaiting traveller in the middle, he falls
forward on the table, and before he is
aware of it, the conductor is holding
him by the collar, while the train clerk
goes through his clothes for his ticket or
cash fare BY the time the traveller has
recovered his breath he is fifty miles on
his journey, and the porter of the parlor
car has blackened his boots and busted
his clothes ELmira Advertiser.
Year: 1876

COUGHING. The best method of ceas-
ing cough is to resist it with all the
force of will possible, until accumula-
tion of phlegm becomes greater; then
there IS something to cough against, and
IL come up very much easier and with
half the coughing. A great deal of
hacking and hemming and coughing in
lnvalids is purely nervous, or the result
of mere habit, as is shown by the fire.
quency with which it occurs while the
patient is thinking about it, and its COM
parative rarity when he is so much en-
gagged that there is no time to think. or
when the attention is impelled in another
direction.
Year: 1876

The funeral rites Of kings and their


wives in some parts of Angola, Africa


are peculiar. A shallow pit is dug in


the floor of the hut in which he or she


died, just deep enough to contain the


body. This is placed naked in the trench


on its back, and then covered with a


thin layer of earth. On this three fires
are lighted and kept burning a whole
moon or month, the hot ashes being con-
stantly spread over the whole grave. At
the end of this time the body is usually
sufficiently baked or dried it is then
taken out and placed ON its back on an
open framework of sticks, and fires
kept burning under it till the body is
thoroughly smoke dried. During the
whole time the body is being dried the
hut in which the operation is performed
is full of people, the women keeping up
dismal crying day and night, particu-
larly the latter, When the body is COM
pletely desicated it is wrapped in cloth
and stuck upright in a corner of the
tent, where it remains until it is buried.
sometimes two years after The reason
of this is that all the relations of the
deceased must be present at the burial
ceremony, when the body is wrapped in
as many yards of cloth as they can pos
sibly afford, some of the kings being
rolled in several hundred yards of diff |
ferent cloth. AT the close of the burial !
a wake or feast, consisting of dancing,
with firing of guns with consumption of
rum, roast pig and other food, is held
for the whole night. 1t is believed that
the spirit of the dead person will haunt
the town where he died and commit
mischief, if the wake is not held.
Year: 1876

The Times of Marshall, Iowa, tells the


story of recent passage at arms between


ex-Gov. Stone of that city and Judge


Hubbard of Cedar Rapids Gov. Stone


while in the executive chair, appointed


Judge Hubbard district judge to fill a


vacancy. The two attorneys were trying
case in the circuit court, at Toledo.


The suit was important and the fight a


bitter one. Finally they both SO far
forgot themselves as to get into a wran-
gle across the table, and shook their
fists in each others face. The court re-


buked them severely, saying that it was
shame that two gentlemen, one of
whom had been district Judge and the
other governor Of the State, should con
duct themselves in manner so calculat-
ed to bring odium on the administration
of justice, and, said he, Gentlemen, it
must stop. You will both be seated"
Judge Hubbard sat down as directed,
but the governor continued on his feet.
turned to the court, and shaking his long
index finger at the opponent, remarked
" Yes your honor, and | made that man
there a judge. He would never have
worn the ermine if it had not been for
me-" To this the in-no-ways-discomfted
Hubbard replied: And, your honor, it
was the most sensible act of his whole
administration" A grin spread itself
out ON the faces of the spectators, bar
and court, which became roar as the
governor sat down and, shaking his head
sadly, added /" 1t was the only act of
my administration that was ashamed
Of, and may Heaven forgive me for it.
Year: 1876

We have got our safe fixed now. The
keys are so distributed that five persons
are necessary to open it. One ofthese is
mail clerk, another is the chief of police,
the third is tax collector, the fourth is
butcher, and the fifth is the jailer.
With this combination it is simply i'm
possible to get our poetry.-Dan5ury
Ne,cs.
Year: 1876

/ We gone down life's pathway


Many long and weary mile,
L We seen my share of the grave and


gay,


Drank deep at their fountain ere.


while.
This was in the long, long ago,


When life was just begun;
But fear naught, for l know
mag lean upon my son.
Old age is weary lbad


And life is a burden at best,
But at the end of the road


The tired soul shall rest;
Yet how bard would old age be,
Had not God given me one
Who my support shall be;


L m1y lean upon mtg Sdh.
These eyes once keen and bright
And sparkling in their liquid depths,
Are sunken now and mock the light
And scarce can guide my steps.
My form is bending fast,


| know my task is nearly done,
But It will be pleasant till the last,
For L wW lean upon ma son.
Year: 1876

Come all We young men
In your Youthful might. .
, Prepare for the conflict
In the cause Of Tho right,
That you may stay the
March of Radical tricks


By voting Sam. Tilden and Hen


dricks.
Comenow an d vote the


Young mans candidate
And crush the power


Our cause doth hate.
Up now and work


AS lively as a cricket,
Mover falling TO vote
The Young Mans ticket.
Sam. Tilden is a man


Ofhonor aud of truth
Andi Is the candidate.
OF the Country's Youth.
The Radicals arc old


And grown quite crazy
And the hope yf the country 8
In Young Democracy.
So up and be doing,


Engage in the fight
For love of your country
And the cause of the ri2bt.
Year: 1876

the Vetmont states prison. AnC


there can be little doubt that i


even handed justice were dealt ou,


to them the whole party would be
sent speedily to some penitentiary
Harrington who vas at the time
| U. s. Attorney for the Districr


has been once tried and although


the proof Of his guilt was most


conclusive the incredulous jury


would not believe and could not


agree that he was guilty. Lucius


Robinson DOW State Comptroller,
has been selected by the Saratoga
Convention to FIJI the position
IySlsh Mr.. Seymour's health com.
PEELED him to decline Th.re is
no citizen of New York from whom
a wiser, more upright, more eff


cient, more dignifed, and more
useful administration of the State
government could be. expected.
His nomination is a gratifying is
sue to a complication which has
Justly been regarded with regret
and anxiety. Carl Schurz has
been ordered to alter his style Or
stop stumpiug. He was beyond a
doubt actually hired either by
promise of downright pay or future
position to make certain number
o. speeches for Hayes but mistak
ing the cue he undertook to cut
adrift from Grantism and abused
the ADMINISTRATION in no measured
terms. This coming to the knowl
edge of Chandler, who is running
the campaign, he sent Carl per"
emptory orders to stop that kind
Of talk or else be silent: Carl did
not know what else to say just
then 30 he has taken a back seat,
to think over matters. He may
be heard from again trying to rub
out the dark stains he has stamped
upon the party. Pinckback has
received the price fixed for his
servicee to Be rendered in the
Hayes and Wheeler campaign by
drawing full pay for the time he
was claiming a seat In the Senate
Of the Uhited States, to which he
aspired with about as much right,
as he might have done to the
throne of the Sultan Of Turkey
On the 25th Of August, he was
paid from the contingent fund of
Senate, SIC, ,066.9O every dime of
which was barefaced plunder. The
Republican majority who voted all
this money into Pinchback's pock-
ct were not able after three years
to give him a seat. There were
always a few upright men who
would not follow Morton's lead in
this matter and who United with
the Democrats to prevent a repe-
tition of the deliberate villainy
that was perpetrated in the case Of
the notorious George E. Spencer.
From the beginning to the end the
pretence of Plnchback to a seat in
the Senate was an audacious fraud
known td the whole country and
to the Republicans who pressed it,
and to the Committees of both
Houses who investigated the sub
.iect to be without shadow of
substance.


A large meeting Of citizens of
Irish birth aud lineage was held
here last night to make arrange
ments for such action as might be
deemed proper in paying respect
TO the memory af Ex-Governor
Henry A Wse, of Vir inia, who
died at his residence In Richmond
on the 18th inst. RENO.
Year: 1876

THE Missouri Republicans seem
to be bidding for the "Confeder-
ate" vote. They declared that
"the Republican party stands ever
ready to welcome to full fellowship
and oil person who have ever been
inAthe councils of camps Of the re,
bellion upon the single condition
Of belief in and support of
republican principles" So they
are ready to open their arms to
them if they vote the right ticket.
Let jeff Davis repent and be saw
ed. Here is a chance FIR him to
become the Republican candidate
for governor in Missouri.
Year: 1876

"THE Republican majority of
the Senate has done nothing to
establish q claim to public conf
dence, whereas the raw and un>
trained Democratic majority of
tbeHouSe in spite oft tho bIunders of
inexperience, has done much which
a sound public sentiment will ap~
prove IN Y.cHerazd.
Year: 1876

A student who wenG to Agassiz at Penikese has published an account of his experience with this teacher. He ex- pected lecture or formal lesson, but got nothing of the kind. The professor gave him fish, and told him to look at it. He looked long time, reported progress, and was told to keep on look ing, and so from time to time. He looked till he got heartily tired of the fish, but was astonished when he found what 8 number of things he had learned about it that he had not dreamed of when he began, and that books would never have told him. Most of all, he learned how to study the next object that should fall under his eyes. The point of the lesson, the central idea of the teaching of Agassiz, was that the object of instruc- tion was to teach him to observe. What was to be observed was 8 matter of in ferior importance. The humblest ob- ject, with proper study, would yield a rich reward in knowledge.
Year: 1876

To hide grief behind smile,

 To laugh when ev'ry nerve is wrung, When ev'ry careless, merry word

 Wounds deep as though an adder stung; To sing strain of needless joy,

 To carol like happy bird, When aches the soul with saddest pain,

 With pain that every strain hath stirred; To dance along tho path of life

 As though 'twere strewn with flowers sweet, When ev'ry step relentless thorns

 Pierce sore the wesry, heavy feet. We learn, we teach life's bitter leaven, God grant we may forget in heaven
Year: 1876

HELP THE AGED PooR.-A benefit has
been rendered by the ladies of this city to
the old people under the care of the Little
Sisters of the Poor, to take place at the
Opera House on tie Wednesday evening,
April 10. The Little Sisters labor zealously
for the support of the aged persons under
their care, who would otherwise be tax
on the community, and as they are now
much distressed for means to carry on their
noble institution, all who admire genuine
charity will wish the enterprise tbs fullest
success and lend their assistance to make
it go.
Year: 1876

The hour of bereavement is the COM
mon lot of us all and we come back
from the newmade grave when we have
laid our loved ones to sleep, come back
to the vacant chair, the desolate room,
the empty life-oh, how empty Yet
not for all this do the cares and duties
of life press on us with any less weight
or diminish aught of their demands.
Wisely is it thus ordered. To sit down
and nurse our grief to give full rein to
the indulgence of sorrow and tears, is
the worst possible thing for US and for
those around us.


If grief opens our hearts to feel the
woes of others, inclines us to forget self
and selfish sorrow in binding up other
bruised and bleeding hearts, leads us to
double our diligence, that before we
TOO are summoned away, the whole work
given us to do shall be done and well
done it will be possible in some near
Autu'S ioA uS W say liOHl the utdIb LII
is good for me that | have been afflicted"


Bitter as is the cup of bereayment,
cruel as are the pangs of separation at
the jaws of the sepulchre, lasting as is
the sense of loss, yet, from those all
good may be evolved, for only those who
have had this baptism, know how to
feel others woes, to speak words of con-
ISOLATION and to keep silence when no
words can be of any avail Death runs
his plow-share through our household
tearing up the sod, cutting off at the
root roses and violets, and the tender
blossoms whose fragrance cheered our
lives, wither and perish, but by and bv
richer harvest justifes the ways of
God ; and, as little by little, our affec-
tions are transferred from this to another
world, and the fruits of patience, hope
and resignation ripen above the sod
thus rudely up-torn, we begin dimly to
perceive that "whom God loveth be chas-
teneth."
Year: 1876

OnsOuhdness OF Dfaln Is oIten Known
only to its possessor. There is a stage OF
consciousness in which person may be
necessarily at war with himself, and with
the prompiings of double mind urging
him to do and say things abhorred by
his better self


T" i am not conscious of the decay"
wrote patient to his adviser, or sus-
picious Of any of the powers Of the
mind. l am as we'll able as ever | was
to attend to my business, My family
suppose me in health, yet the horrors of
mad house are staring me full in the
face. am martyr to species OF per-
secution from within which is becoming
intolerable. | am urged to say the most
shocking blasphemies, and obscene words
are ever on my tongue. Thank God, |
have been able to resist; but i often
think | must yield at last, and then l
shall be disgraced and ruined" The
famous Bishop Butler is said to have
been engaged in such conflict for the
greater part of his life.


Akin to this phase of unsoundness is
the desire so commonly felt to throw
ones self from height, or to give utter
ance at inappropriate times, as when
Charles Lamb burst out laughing at
funeral. In such moments of tempta-
ton the mastery of reason over the in
clination distinguishes the sane from the
insane, and it is only the sustained &c
centricity of thought and mode of life
which points to condition of the brain
betokening insanity.


Very noteworthy are some of the early
symptoms of disorder. OF one of these,
the undue exaltations of the senses, an
instance is given, where the, patient felt
such an extraordinary acuteness of hear
ing, that he heard the least sound at the
bottom of his house, and was able to tell
the hour at a distance which he could
not ordinarily see the hands.


Sometimes incipient disease is indicat-
ed by a perversion of the sense of touch,
as in the case of patient who, from the
fancy that everything he touched was
greasy, was continually washing his
hands. Other well marked symptoms
are the loss of memory, deterioration in
hand writing, the use of wrong words in
conversation, and double vision.
Delicate as the organization of the
brain must be, it is surprising to read of
the hard knocks it can bear. not only
without injury, but even to its advantage.
One man who lost half his brain through
suppuration of the skull, preserved his
intellectual faculties to the day of his
death and the brains of soldiers have
been known to carry bullets without APP
parent inconvenience, and to undergo
operations for the extraction of foreign
bodies without loss of power.


A physician who was afflicted with an
abnormal cerebral growth which pressed
upon the cavities of the brain, so as to
paralyze one side of the body, and rem
der him speechless, retained possession of
his reasoning and calculating powers un-
til he died. One of three brothers, all
idiots, after receiving a severe injury on
the head gained his senses, and lived to
be clever barrister A stable boy of
dull capacity and subjected to fits, had
his wits sharpened by the kick Of a
horse, which necessitated the abstraction
of portion of his brain and no less
parsonage than Pope Clement VI, owed
the improvement of his memory to a
conclusion of the brain
Year: 1876

TIT FOR TAT.-Two lawyers in a coun-
ty court-one of whom had gray hair,
and the other, though just as old man
as his learned friend, had hair which
looked suspiciously black-had some al
tercation about question of practice,
in which the gentleman with the dark
hair remarked to his opponent "A per-
son at your time Of life looking at .he
barrister's gray head" ought to have
long enough experience to know what is
customary in such cases" " You may
stare at my gray hair, if you like. My
hair will be gray as long as live, and
yours will be black as long as you dye
Year: 1876

or less if necessary. Remember l am going to sell
my goods, no matter about the price those in want
of Clothing Hats or Caps. had better call and see
me before buying elsewhere for will not be un-
dersold by any Call early while the assortment
is good.
Year: 1876

How Was THIS TOAD TREED ACTON
(Ont.) Free Press A remarkable Incl
dent occurred at Brown e Hall s sawmill
last Saturday, whilst pine log was be-
ing sawed up into lumber. The outside
slab and one board had been cut off, and
while the workmen were turning over
the log they were surprised to see a large
toad poke his head out of a hole in
which be was imbedded, and where he
had barely escaped being cut up by the
saw. How the stranger got there is a
mystery, as he was completely encased
in the wood, with no possible means of
ingress or egress. As the log was the
fourth OF fifth from the butt of the tree,
his position must have been at least so
or 60 from the ground, and he has, no
doubt, grown up with it from infancy,
being, probably, hundreds of years old.
The animal was quite fat and nearly as
large as a mans hand He was perfect
ly blind, but when taken from his bed
he made use of his limbs to crawl away.
The tree was perfectly sound, with the
exception of decayed spot Of about a
foot in length below the hollow place in
which he was imbedded. How did he
get there, and what did he live on?
Year: 1876

A WONDERFUL ALABAMA LAkE.-The
following is from the Montgomery Ala. }
Bulletin cat the Dickinson Place, on
Dullard Greek, near Six-mile Station, is
a ten-acre field which is nothing more or
less than subteranean lake, covered
with soil about eighteen inches deep.
On the soil is cultivated q field of corn,
which Will produce thirty or forty bush
els to the acre. If any one will take the
trouble to dig hole the depth of a
spade-handle he viii find it to fill with
water, and by using ahook and line, fish
four and five inches long can be caught.
These fish are different from others in
not having either scales or eyes, and are
perchike in shape. The ground is black
mari, alluyial in it's nature, and in all
probability at one time it was an open
body of water, on which was accumulat-
ed vegetable matter, which has been in
creased from time to time, until now it
has a crust sufficiently strong and rich
to produce fine corn, though it has to be
cultivated by hand as it is not strong
enough to bear the weight OF horse.
While nooning the field-hands catch
great strings of delicate fish by merely
punching a hole through the earth. A
person rising on his heel and coming
down suddenly can see the growing corn
shake all round him. Any one having
the strength TO drive rail through this
crust will find, on releasing it, that it
will disappear entirely. The whole sec
ton of country surrounding this field
gives evidence of marshiness, and the
least rain produces an abundance of
mud. But the question comes up, Has
not this body an outlet? Although
brackish the water tastes as if fresh, and
We have 10 doubt that it is anything
else than stagnant. Yet the fish are eye
less and scaleless- similar to those found
in caves. Tt is subject for study, and
we would like to have some of our pro-
found citizens investigate it.
Year: 1876




AS USUAL, the Democrats around the
bulletin boards were noisy, blufy and
arrogant, and claimed everything as a
glorious victory. They always remind
me of friend of mine with whom I
frequently played the sinful game of
sledge. Atthe conclusion of each hand,
he would remark with calm confidence,
"Well, I made high, low, jack and the
game" and then I would have to set to
work and argue him out of all The points
[ had happened to make. There is one
advantage about this mode of procedure,
it gives the one practicing it the best
show for the doubtful points.
York Letter.