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Year: 1876

TO the Editor af The Tribune.


CHICAGO, Aug 26.-There are proper times
and places where all may smoke tobacco II they
desire it. Gentlemen who think will choose
those proper times and places, and not make
themselves nuisanccs BY giving needless offense
to travellers on the street-cars who do not like
the fumes Of other peoples weeds. But there
are Doors and unclcanly and selfish people, both
men and women, who care for nothing but self
qualification. So long as the car companies per-
NIT these boorsh and selfish people they will
offend decency III spite of all protest or remon-
STRANGE. The question is, how to induce the
demands Of the more cleanly portion Of tue
community. The question resolves itself into
one Of finance: What will or will not pays l
think there is a why to avoid the smoke. There
are always men who are ready to engage in
any honorable business that will pay.
II this is so, there is opportunity
just now for the establishment in Chicago Of
paying omnibus lines in opposition to the to-
bacco-plagued street-ca1s. Put on clean, COM
Portable omnibuscs on which smoking ia pro-
hibited. Then let all who will smoke take the
cars, and all ladies and others who wish to avoid
the smoke and pools Of tobacco spittle, all non
smokers, and all who are willing to give up to-
bacco on the public conveyances, take tue clean
omnibuses. See if that won't solve the difficult
tt. I for one will agree to promise the men
who will start such omnbuscs that they shall
have my ncke1s for one year to try the matter.
Who will vote for anti-tobacco omnbuses to run
against the tobacco-cars! Then see whether
cleanly people have any rights which the uu-
cleanly and boorish arc bound to respect. The
bus lines will pay. A CLBANLY SMOKER.
Year: 1876

We know party in New York city
whose bees obtained their honey en-
tirely from the waste of sugar house
and such flowers as the public parks
afforded The honey is fully equal to
the best, and as it is evident that the
quantity of refuse which may yield
honey is enormous in city like New
York, its utilization in this way might
be profitable to many who will take
the trouble of entering into this busi>
ness, which, by the way, is one of the
most profitable. Thus. for instance,
q lady who started five years ago with
four bee hives, which she bought for
$40, declined to take 81 500 for her
stock, Notwithstanding in the mean. .
time she had sold % hives and 436
pounds of honey at 35 cents pound.
A man who FIVE years ago started with
six colonies, cleared 5000 pounds of
honey, and has now 81 colonies.


AS such business can as we'll be
conducted on house-top or in back
yard as on farm, if only some honey
yielding material is near at hand, we
do not see why itshould not be under
taken by many an intelligent house,
wife who is anxious to occupy herself
with something profitable and anus
ing,
Year: 1876




WASHINGTON, August 14.-Despite
the provisions of the legislative bill
the employees at the government print
ing office, enraged at the action of the
house committee on printing have been
assessed to raise a sum sufficient to
send two energetic men into the Elevs
enth Ohio district to defeat the re-elec
tion of Mr.. Vance, who is chairman
of the printing committee. Vance is a
practical printer. and the object in
sending these emissaries is to persuade
all the prisoners In his district that he
ought to be defeated for doing his du-
ty in investigating as corrupt and ex-
travagant branch of the public SER
viceas has been examined this session.
Vance has the evidence of the collect
ion of the money, and were Congress
to remain in session the charges
would be promptly investigated. How.
ever. the question of fact will be the
same at the next session, and should
he be defeated, tne next Congress will
be called upon to decide upon the eli
gibility of the successful candidate
elected under such circumstances,
Year: 1876

Man is the most wonderful Of animals.
Among the strange things which he can
do, he can eat poison with certain de-
gree of impunity. 1t is only necessary
to be prudent, regular, and careful about
the doses to survive for a considerable
period. A certain quantity of opium
kills. Four or five grains are almost GER
tain death to person not in the habit OF
using it; but any one can learn to eat
twenty or thirty grains alta dose. 1t be-
comes the necessity of second nature,
and though it shortens life, it does it SO
slowly that it's operation in this respect
is not alarming. So coffee, tea. and to-
bacco are poisons. 1t requires ROME hardi-
hood to get accustomed to the latter. A
drop or two of the essential oil of either
of these narcotics, or very concentrated
decoction, will kill; yet how many mil
lions of men use all three every day OF
their lives. There is some arrangement
of the nervous system-some diminutlon
of their strength-probably some short
ening of life; yet how few hesitate to
use these fascinating luxuries! And
arsenic is very decidedly a poison, yet
there is at least one country in the world
where it is habitually eaten. A young
man of seventeen, say, begins by taking
three grains at dose, which is gradually
increased, until he gets up to thirty.
three grains. 1t does not do to exceed
that quantity; nor is it safe to leave of
suddenly. When the arsenic-eater ar
riyes at the age of fifty, he gradually
diminishes the dose. The immense
quantity of poison passing through his
system does not prevent his reaching the
age of seventy or eighty. For all this, it
is our opinion that the more simple our
food, and the less poison we take of any
kind or in any form, the better. Prob
ably no man, at the end of his life, was
ever sorry he had taken little opium, or
brandy, or tobacco, though some may
have been sorry for taking too much.
Year: 1876

Worth is sending out grenadine dresses
finished with colors.


Lima lace sacques are not 80 much
sought after as formerly.


Black chenille scarfs edged with cor
responding fringes are fashionable.


The present is q favorable season for
suits of light tissues of every description.


The weston is novelty made of the
same material as the dress, and cut ex-
actly like gentleman's vest.


A new fall dress called the robe valcis
has the waist cut low in the neck and
sewed to the skirt. Over the breast and
hips there are number of seams taken
in to the exact shape of the body; this
corsage consequently exacts a slender,
graceful figure.


Flowered galloon is in great demand {;
this consists of wreath of flowers en-
broidered upon black velvet.


All kinds of embroidery are fashion
able.


The latest bridal dresses are trimmed
with elegant embroideries.


Imitation thread laces, called French
laces, are popular in black lace.


For lace polonaise guipure net is again
preferred.


Pansy dress for boys from two to six
years OF age.


Many of the Partisan toilets have two
bouquets, one at the throat and one at
pocket. Mixed flowers are used in these
ornaments; the popular combination of
colors in red and blue.
Jardiniere bouquets are those composed
of both field and garden flowers. They
are very fashionable either for wearing
on the pocket, on the side Of a jacket, in
the center of the bodice of dinner
dress, or on the left shoulder, if there is
fichu.


The artificial flowers so largely used
for decorating toilets this season, are
made on such flexible stems as to copy
nature so closely that it is almost inn
possible to detect that they are not real


1t is difficult to decide whether flowers
or feathers preponderate in the new sum-
mer straw hats.


A revolution in the make of bodices is
seen in those without any shoulder
seams, but merely the seam below the
arm which unites the front to the back.
Year: 1876

IN. Y. Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.


Mr.. Trowbridge's comical story in
poetic verse, in the July number of Hdr-
per's Magazine, of a fashionable belle who
lost her wig and false teeth overheard,
which were recovered in time to allow
her wedding to one of her suitors, had a
counterpart in half of the story last week
in the experience of the party who at
tended the yacht race on a steamboat.
The sufferer is well.known society belle,
who has more than once graced the
upper.deck of Col. Delaney Kane's Pei
ham coach, and is understood to be en-
gagged to Wall-street broker. She is
only nineteen, and has been noted for
her wealth of blonde hair. Dressing in
halfmourning on account of the death OF
a relative, the combination of black and
blonde has given her distingue appear
ance, well-known to the swells OF the
avenue. Last week on the occasion of a
Yacht race she wasnoe of private party
on board small propeller chartered for
the occasion, and, as the wind was gusty,
and the sea made sad work with the
stomachs of the party outside of Sandy
Hook, there was an utter abandonment
of all pretense of personal appearance.
Our belle suffered with the rest, when
she sought relief by removing her hat.
A sudden puff of the wind the next mo-
ment caught her hair and stripped her
head of its covering. In other words,
her mass of blonde head-rigging was
blown overheard, and the poor girl was
in a rage of despair. Her lady friends
rushed her into the cabin and tried to
console her; but half of them were de-
lighted with her mishap, and the other
half said to themselves that it served her
right. They managed to arrange her
remaining hair so that it looked passably
well, and she returned to the city, If not
crestfallen, at least bereft of her wealth
of hair, and her reputation as blonde
beauty forever DESTROYED.
Year: 1876

The Lacrosse Democrat The old
Winnebago Chief, Nee-ha-ga, made his
appearance in this city yesterday, having
arrived in safety from Fred Moore's Ne
braska reservation. His son Jo," who
has "civilized and cultivates p farm up
in Jackson County, sent out there this
spring and paid the passage of his father
home, while he is coming in a canoe.
Nee-ha-ga is probably the oldest living
human being in Wisconsin, and is from
one hundred and six to one hundred and
twenty years old. He was very old
man when Lacrosse was first settled over
thirty years ago, and is still hale and
hearty and preserves his taste for fire.
water with remarkable freshness. He
still bears with him his badge-a skunk
skin bacco-pouch-and will probably
be here during the next quarter of q
century.
Year: 1876

The only train from Vera Cruz to the
City of Mexico leaves about midnight,
and one entire car is devoted to the es-
cort of fifty soldiers, whose duty it is to
see the passengers safely through the
region of lawlessness and rebellion.
Year: 1876

To the list of substances capable of
furnishing illuminating gas of good quail
ty cork is now to be added. Expert
ments made in France with this article
have, it appears, given results both
economical and satisfactory, and the
material is to be made use of for public
illumination, works for burning cork
having already been established.
Year: 1876

EDWIN ADAMS is about to appear in
the role of public benefactor. He has
secured number of the barkless dogs OF
Australia and will bring them to this
country. They are not exempt from
hydrophobia, and their morality is
scarcely better than that of the ordinary
canine nuisance, but they are quiet at
night.
Year: 1876

Young man, if you should see your girl
gazing intently ut your feet, don't shift them
about uneasily, or draw them up and sit
down on them, under the impression that
she is overwhelmed with their immense size.
She is merely taking their measure, mentally,
for pair of slippers, on the toes of which
she intends to work blue dog with n green
tail and scarlet ears.
Year: 1876

Utica belle snores in three languages.


The flour of oveliness-Pearl powder.


A man who chews tobacco Should never
choose WIFE,


A literary CbinOman--thc one who broke
into the book store Mt Olympia.


When is wife like great coat? When
her husband is wrapped up in her.


Speak as you mean, do as you profess, and
perform as you promise.


Why is n rooster on fence like nickel
Head on one side, tail on the other


Why does grass resemble a penknife
Because the spring brings out the blades.


Why is n pig q good mathematician
Because he is good on the " square-root."


If the young would remember that they
may be old, and the old would remember
that they have been young, the world would
be happier.


"rm not much for shtump spakin," de-
clared candidate at Dubuque, but for
honesty and capacity and integrity | bate
the divi-so do"


What is the difference between the outer
wall of a bridge and two nice young ladies'
The one is a parapet, and the other is q
pair-o' pets, Of course.


A lady in menagerie being asked why
she so closely scanned the elephant with her
opera glass, replied that she was looking
for the keyhole of his trunk


4 new style of boys trowsers has been in
vented in Boston, with copper seat, sheet
iron knees, riveted down in the seams, and
waterproof pockets, to hold broken eggs.
A Chicago paper says that not one man
in fifty knows how to carry ladder easily
The best way is for man to carry the hoIeS
and hire boy to carry the rest of it,


Women do more head work than men ;
that is, it takes some women four hours to
do up their hair for an evening party, while
a good smart man can do his up IN three
hours and fifty seconds, easy.


Snow-aakes and apple blossoms Is
what they call Senator Christiancy and MS
young wife in Washington.
Year: 1876

whose real self was long ago given to half a
dozen others. 1t is an actual partnership
which has more to do with our prosperity
than any other, and here we find the rea-
son why one OF the parties so often puts in
fraudulent capital. There is not a fash
ionable circle, not town or village, in
which the records of our domestic life do
not bear evidence of the debasing influence
of this authorized universal custom of firta-
ton before marriage and Platonic friend
ship after. Here is the secret of indiffer-
ence of wives and husbands, of their
neglect of their children, of the reckless
excitement by which they try to forget their
bondage, and the divorce and adultery suits
by which they end it.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1876

1t is said when John C. Calhoun was in
Yale College he was ridiculed by his fellow
students for his intense application for
study. "Why, sir" said he, am forced
to make the most of my time that may
acquit myself creditably when in Congress.
Do you doubtit? assure you if I were not
convinced of my ability to reach the
national capital as a representative within
three years, l would leave college this
very day!' Let every young man thus
have faith in himself, and earnestly take
hold of life, scorning all props and but
tresses, all crutches and life preservers.
Let him believe, with Pestalozzi, that no
man on Gods earth is either willing or able
to help any other man. Let him strive to
be creator, rather than to borrow. In
stead of welding the rested sword of
valorous forefathers, let him forge his own
weapons, and conscious of the God in him
and the providence over him, let him fight
his own battle with his own lance. In,
stead of signing for an education, capital,
for friends, and declaring " that if he only
had these, he would be somebody" LET
him remember that, as Horace Greeley
said, he is looking in the wrong end of the
telescope; that if he only were somebody
he would speedily have all the boons whose
absence he is bewailing. Instead of being
one of the foiled potentialities of which
the world is so full-one of the subjunctivt
heroes, who always might, could, would ol
should do great things, is what nobody car
understandable him be in the imperative
mood, and do that of which his talents arr
indicative.


This lesson Of selfreliance once learned
and acted on, and every man will discove
within himself, under God, the element
and capacities of usefulness and honor
"Getting on in the world"
Year: 1876

Our DAUGHTERs.-Mrs. Rev. DIR. Ter
hume addressed the Women's Christian
Association in session at Pittsburg last
Thursday on "Our Daughters" She put
the old question What shall we do" and
"what can we do to make our daughters
Independent of marriage and home, if
needs be?" She sletched the difficulties
that environ the path of the girl that must
depend on herself for support, and then
made the following suggestions as to educat-
ing tour girl,'' so that we may not fear for
her future


First, we should make of tour girl " a
practical housewife. 1t has been said, by a
man, of course, that no woman who can
make bed, broil beefsteak and make coffee
properly need be troubled about her future
By housewifery she did not mean a mere
prettiness of cakes, jellies and triAes, but {
thorough acquaintance with domestic econo
my.


Secondly, let us begin to teach our pupils
order; the first law of the household, as i
is of Heavep--that rigid ordering of time
and duties, which is better known under
the name of system. Our husbands have
business hours, and SO have washerwomen
but ladies have none.


Thirdly and lastly, we will have he
taught some useful trade, to be selected
with wise regard to her tastes and aptitude
Trade, not accomplishment In the cit!
in which the speaker lived there was
music teacher to every block.
Year: 1876

Why should the beehive be taken as a
symbol of industry? Not bee is to be
seen all the Winter long, while the cock.
roach is up at five o'clock in the morning,
and never goes to bed till midninght.
Year: 1876

The indianapolis Sunday Herald publishes
this article:


He came into this world on the oath day
of July, 1856, and in view of the fact that
hewa Of the male gender his mother called
him Bill" lie was born, not "beneath
the aspect of a bright-eyed STAR" but in
Smyrna, Del, dirty little village of five
hundred inhabitants, where the stars never
shine, and where, owing to the dampness,
bull frogs "make enight hideous" with their
croakings, and dogs fennel grows in the
middle of the streets. At the age of twelve
his infantile mind began to grasp for food,
and his father, deeming him old enough to
indulge in that luxury, provided him with
| slate, books and pencils and started him off
to the village school, which at that time
was located on the corner of Hoboken street
and Pig Tail alley. For a while he got
along swimmingly. But one day, being of
pugilistic turn of mind, he engaged in a
little fistic discussion with one of the boys,
the bone of contention being a mince pie,
made, it is fair to presume, from one of the
village dogs. How long thefght lasted de-


ponent knoweth not. Suffice it to say that


William was licked in a way he despised,


whereupon he threatened to appeal his


case to the teacher. To avoid the result of


an interview with that parsonage his an


togonist compromised the matter by pre-


senting him with fifteen cent copy of


Richard III. This was the turning point


in Billy's life. He read the play and sud-


denly became imbued with the conviction


that he was intended for an actor and an


actor he determined to become at once.


Now, while the youthful aspirant was cred


hot" with the "stage fever" there chanced


to pass through the village of mud stroll


ing band of minstrels, and Billy, thinking


this good chace to carry his purpose into
effect, abandoned the school on the corner


of Hoboken street and "Pig- tail alley"


cQnceled his books in hollow stump, and


took "passage" with the wanderers. From
that until the present time there are many
links missing from the chain of his career,
and of him nothing definitely was known
until he materialized in this city short
time since. When he came to the surface
in the city of concentric circles he engaged
rooms in the Grand Opera Hotel, and it is
within the walls of that building that he


"makes night hideous," with horrible
l disregard for the comfort of both his room
mates, and those around him. At the dead
of night while apparently sleeping the
; calm, sweet sleep of the innocent, he will


suddenly stand up, rub his eyes, and with


a voice like the roaring of the sad sea


waves" shout, a Ia Richard III, "A horse, a
u horser "Bind up my woundsr' This may
u be all right, but there are persons who fail
u to see it in that illumination, and as human
" forbearance has its limits there is liable tc
% be trouble in Denmark ere the moor
Il changes again her circled orb. Before it il
. too late, beware you man from Smyrna
~ ha! ha!
Year: 1876

1t is said that the old Romans also loved
Office, but they never had the feeling which
an American constable has-never felt that
their shoulders carried over half the burden
of government.-Detroa Free Press.
Year: 1876

heart warmed, freshed with the old dead
fires. We were happy, Edna and I. Out
of the baby's grave rose up my strong,
manly son to carry name in honor and
pride. 1t will have noble meaning when
1 am gone than ever in the past.
Year: 1876

The day has gone by, according to the
Detroit Free Press, when you can chain a
grasshopper to an astronomers telescope,
and make the star-gazer believe that he has
discovered new breed of horses in the
moon.
Year: 1876

A wife will hardly ever notice whether
her husband has had his hair cut or NOT
but let him go home with strange hairpin
sticking in his overcoat and she'll see it
before he reaches the gate.
Year: 1876

If had known in the morning
How wearily all the day


The words unkind


Would trouble my mind,
1 said when you went away,
Iwould not have vexed you, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;


But we vex our own"


With look and tone
= e may never take back again.
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;


But oft for " our own"


The bitter tone,
Though we love "our own" the best
All, lips with the curve inpatient
All. brow with that look of scorn!


'twere a cruel fate


We're the night too late
Toundo the work of morn!
Year: 1876

Several young men have been expelled from the academy at Annapolis because "they will not tell who dld it." In the theory of discipline their act is an of fense in the theory, of schoolboys the world over their act is one of generous devotion and lofty virtue. Is there any theory or any line of conduct on which these two can be reconciled2 Evidently not. It is not possible at school any more than elsewhere in the world to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds at the same time. Persons responsible for the good order and discipline of colleges of every grade have pretty we'll made up their minds that some old fashioned but one sided and ruffianly sports of the students must be stopped j; and that resolution is 90 evidently just that all reasonable steps which may be deemed necessary to give it effect must be regarded as good. The supremacy of order in an institution of learning Is of more consequence than the fate of half dozen students and if practical jokes of barbarous nature can be stopped anywhere they may be certainly in school where the relation of pedagogue and pupil is assimilated by the nature of the case to that officer and soldier. But we would simply call at- tention to peculiar, practical result ill the case. Here are some scores of gen. tlemen who may be called upon in the future to serve the country in battle, and we should stimulate in them the generous and gallant qualities of human nature. But what do we do9 There are two groups, those who are found out and those who are not. To defend those who are not found out, and who are commonly the leaders, the others "die game. To be equally generous the un- discovered should, as soon as the case was seen to be critical, disclose them selves come fairly out, acknowledge their acts and "stand the racket" It is cowardly to do otherwise, and they dc otherwise. They remain in the school: the gallant boys, the victims of mis. taken sense of honor, are expelled. Thus the discipline of the school dis. eliminates against the very qualities "ilch tne sUhool should endeavor to cultivate. York Herald.