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Year: 1873

1t is easier to be good business man than
a poor one. Half the energy displayed in
keeping ahead that is required to catch up
when behind will save credit, give more time
to business, and add to the profit and reputa-
ton of your work. Honor your engagements.
If you promise to meet man, or a certain
thing, at certain moment, be ready at the
appointed time. If you 60 out on business,
attend promptly to the matter on hand, and
then as promptly 60 about your business.
| Do not stop to tell stories in business hours.


If you have place of business be found
there when wanted. No man can get rich by
sitting around stores and saloons. Never
"fool" on business matters. If you have to
labor for living, remember that one hour in
the morning is better than two at night. If
you employ others, be on hand to see that
they attend to their duties, and to direct with
regularity, promptness and liberality. DO
not meddle with any business you know moth
ing of. Never buy thing simply because
the man that sells it will take it out in trade.
Trade is money. Time is money. A good
business habit and reputation is always mon-
ey. Make your place of business pleasant
and attractive; then stay there to wait on
your customers.


Never use quick words, or allow yourself to
make hasty or ungentlemanly remarks to
those in your employ, for to do so lessons their
respect for you and your influence over them.
Help yourself and others will help you. Be
faithful over the interest CO nfded to your
keeping, and all in good time your response
bilities will be- increased. Do not be in too
great haste to get rich. Do not build until
you have arranged and laid a good foundation.
Do not-as you hope to work for success
spend time in idleness. If your time is your
own, business will suffer if you do. If it is
given to another for pay, it belongs to him,
and you have no more right to steal it than to
steal money.
Be obliging. Strive to avoid harsh words
and personalities. Do not kick every stone
in the path more miles can be made a day
by going steadily on than by stopping to kick.
Pay as you go. A man of honor respects his
word as he does his bond. Ask, but never
beg. Help others, when you can, but never
give when you cannot afford to, simply be-
cause it is fashionable Learn to say no. No
necessity of swapping it out dog fashion, but
say it firmly and respectfully. Have but few
confdants, and the fewer the better Use
your own brains rather than those Of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself Be Wig
liant. Keep ahead, rather than behind the
time. Young men, cut this out and if there
is folly in the argument, let us know.
Year: 1873

SURGICAL OPERATION ON A HEN.-A gen.
tleman living in Lexington, Massachusetts,
bought some hens of a neighbor. After get
ting them home he noticed that one of them
had an immense crop, which hung down near
ly to the ground, and seemed to cause her
much trouble, if not considerable pain. Be-
ing of kindly nature, and always desiring
to alleviate the suferings Of the afflicted, be-
sides being somewhat of an amateur surgeon,
it occurred to the gentleman that he might
perhaps relieve the hen Of her unnatural bur-
den. He accordingly procured sharp in.
strument, and making an incision through
her neck into the crop, took out large dish
cloth, which in some greedy moment poor
biddy had swallowed. He then, after apply
ing water and lard to the wound, sewed it up,
and the hen is now apparently as we'll as ever.
Year: 1873

par A geological item of interest comes from
Vicksburg, which has an eccentric tom cat
that persists in sitting on nest of hens eggs,
evidently for the purpose Of Matching them, as
he is never absent from his charge, except for
the purpose Of supplying himself with food:
At last accounts three of the chickens had
broken she'll, and were kindly cared for by
their strange protector, who Immediately cast
the empty shells out of the nest and went on
with his incubation. That cat should i'm
agne himself to be hen is one of the most


wonderful instances of monomania on record.
Year: 1873

At the North, the leading daily newspapers
are printed, not from type, but from stereotype
casts otherwise it would be simply impossible
to strike off their huge editions with sufficient
rapidity. The principal magazines, and other
periodicals, and most books, are also printed
from stereotype or electrotype plates.


The process of stereotyping consists in ma
king 'matrix" of five or six sheets of paper
pasted together with a peculiar paste, and
wetted thoroughly to pulpy state In twen-
four hours this is ready for use. It is then
beat into the "form" of type by hard brush,
until the impression is thoroughly made, after
which it is we'll dried in hot press. This is
the paper mold. Any number of casts may
be taken with expedition, and the type is sub.
ject to no appreciable wear. This method
answers admirably for newspapers, but the
process has defects, especially when applied
to fine book work, or the reproduction of en-
cravings, and for these purposes it has, of late
years. been almost entirely superseded by the
more costly, but far more satisfactory process
of.electrotyping.


This process may be briefly described as fol-
lows: an impression Of the page is taken in
wax, forming peIleCL molu. Aho AoSo VI
this mold is covered with plumbago, to give
it metallic surface. The mold is then sub
jected to galvanic action in tank filled with
astrong solution Of sulphate Of copper. A thin
film of copper is instantly deposited on the
surface of the mold, increasing in thickness
until the coating forms "shell" about as
thick as stout paper. This thin she'll is
strengthened by being "backed up" with type
metal the plates are then planned to uni
form thickness of about one.seventh of an
inch, and secured upon block Of wood.


The electrotype is perfect facsimile of the
original page or engraving, the minutest lines
and points being reproduced with absolute
precision. Besides giving clearer impression,
it is more durable than the stereotype, and al
togethersuperior in artistic effect. Most of the
great newspaper and book concerns do their
own work of this kind, but there is an i'm
mense amount required by the community
generally, and in all large cities there are nu-
merous establishments making specially Of
this line of business.
Year: 1873

How TO SLEEP-With many the inability
to sleep, as growing habit, is the first step
toward certain madness in every disease it is
an omen of i'll. Hence, to cultivate sound
sleep, do not sleep moment in daylight.
Go to bed at regular hour, and never take a
"second nap" after waking of yourself in the
morning. Take nothing after dinner but a
piece Of bread and butter and one cup of hot
tea for drink-not green tea, as it makes many
wakeful. Never 60 to bed with cold feet.
Read nothing after supper, listen to nothing,
talk about nothing of very exciting charac'
ter avoid carefully every domestic unpleas-
antness, as to child, servant, husband or wife.
Let no angry word be spoken or thought har-
bored for a single instant after tea-time; or
sleep may not come before the morning light.
Grown persons generally require about seven
hours sleep in summer, and eight in winter.
Few, indeed, except invalids, will fell to sleep
we'll who go to bed at regular, early hour,
on light supper, in large room, and clean,
comfortable bed, if there is no sleeping in the
daytime, and not more than seven hours in
any twenty-four are passed in bed. One
weeks faithful trial will prove this. Children
and all persons at school, should take all the
sleep they can get, and should never be walked
up in the morning after having gone to bed
at a regular, early hour. Every humane
parent will make it religious duty to arrange
that every child shall 60 to bed in an afec:
tionate, loving and glad spirit. If wakeful
during the night get up, draw on the stock
ings, throw off the bed cover to air it, walk
the floor in your nightgown, with the mouth
closed, all the while rubbing the skin briskly
with both hands, until cooled off and little
tired. Except from August first to October
6rst in fever and ague localities, chamber
window should be open two or three inches in
length.-Herald Of Health.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE WHITEwAsH.-A cheap
and simple mode is, to put unslacked lime
that which is in the form Of the original
rock-in vessel, pour boiling water on until
covered; place cloth over the vessel so as to
con6ne the most minute particles of the lime,
they being the ones which most perfectly pen
Year: 1873

citrate the surfaces to which wash is applied,
and, consequently, remain the longest. AT.
terward dilute the wash to the consistency OF
thick cream, and apply it thoroughly and
quickly, thus securing a white, light-gllvlng
surface, with body capable of absorbing,
and thus rendering harmless, the bad air and
gasses which may be formed in the cellar, as
also in the poultry, the meat, and other out
houses in the vicinity of the dwelling.
Year: 1873

The late extraordinary fog which prevailed
over London and for fifty miles round St
Pauls for three days has been followed by
heavy storms throughout England, culminat-
ing in a regular hurricane at Sheffield yester-
day. From the violence of the wind large
number of buildings and chimneys were
blown down in the city and many persons
were killed. One immense chimney in falling
crushed building and steam boiler within
it, and from the resulting explosion several
persons were killed or wounded. Naturally
enough, from this unusual and wholly unex-
pected visitation, great excitement prevailed
in the city and dense crowds of frightened
people filled the Streets The climate of Eng
land within the last fifty years has evidently
been undergoing great change. The numer-
GUS railroads intersecting the kingdom in
every direction, the growth Of manufacturing
cities and the steady reduction of the area of
the forest lands throughout the island have
doubtless been among the causes operating
therein to change the old regular order of the
seasons and to give to England climate of
violent transitions, including the summer
heats of New York and the opening winter
storms of Nebraska If SO, then, within the
limits of century the change in her climate
may become question as important touching
the future destiny of England as her short
ened supplies of coal.
Year: 1873

1t is reported from Spain that General
Lizarraga, of the Carlist forces has laid his un-
holy hands on the exciting Santa Cruz; and
in consequence we shall probably see that,
savage as the Spaniards can be where it is
safe they will probably be mild and lamblike
enough in presence of this ferocious priest
Santa Cruz, though priest is by his nature
a cutthroat of the first order He is one of
those characters who rise in troubled times,
simply because they are superior to the re-
straints of ordinary humanity, and his fame,
as it now stands, is due to the absolute and
outrageous incongruity between his acts and
the character Of his priestly Office. He became
a soldier in the Carlist revolt against republic
can authority, and at the earliest possible OPP
portunity revolted against the Carlist military
authorities and resisted the DEGREES OF Liar
ragay his commander. He has been tried by
an irregular court for his offence against dis
cipline, but without result, as he was then at
large and with his armed supporters near.
He is now, perhaps, in custody, but nothing
will be done with him. as Don Carlos dare not
assent to his death.
Year: 1873

The monarchical party in the French AS
sembly are discovering new difficulties, and
in their own way they are preparing to meet
them. The late supplementary elections have
produced results not quite to their mind.
France is becoming more and more republi-
can, and the new delegates ore not of that
stripe of politics which the men now in power
most love. The Right have become somewhat
alarmed, and according to one of our
dispatches of this morning they have resolved,
while they have the power, to check the
growing evil. II is said that they intend 10
alter the suffrage law, by which four millions
of Frenchmen will be disfranchised We
will not say that such measure will not be
carried, but we will say that any such attempt
to put down republican sentiment will defeat
its purpose. 1t will rouse the republican
spirit of France; and what is almost as good,
it will secure for the republicans of France
the sympathy of the world Disfranchise-
ment is o much more dangerous experiment
than enfranchisement. Nations, like men,
must be trusted; and as with the one so with
the other what has once been conceded as a
right cannot safely be withdrawn. If this
rumor speaks truth ave may look for lively
times in France.
Year: 1873

The ex-Empress Eugene paid visit yes
terday to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.
No doubt the dethroned Empress was kindly
welcomed by the reigning Queen, for the
widow of Napoleon will find the readiest and
most heartfelt sympathy from the widow of
Prince Albert. And while Victoria, regular
sovereign by divine right, can find, perhaps,
but little to admire in the French Republic,
there are with her many recollections of the
Second Empire calculated to keep fresh and
green her respect and affection for Eugene,
such as the entente cordiale between England
and France, dating from their alliance in the
war of the Crimea, the interchange of royal
hospitalities between the Tuileries and Wind
sor Castle, and even the retreat which the un-
fortunate ex-Empress has ch hosen on the soil
of England Nor can we doubt that the ex-
Empress had much to say to the sympathizing
Victoria of her prospects and her hopes for
the future, or that she was encouraged bravely
to hope for the best. There is something,
too, SO touching and heroic in the confirmed
friendship of these two distinguished women
that it cannot fail to strengthen the universal
respect which is entertained for the one and
the universal sympathy which is felt for the
other
Year: 1873

exceeding merits of Chief Justice Buchu
Il is not to be wondered at that even the words
Of Chief Justice Buchu himself should be
potent in the White House. All the Buchu
family are glib of tongue and convincing OF
speech. Who else but . Senator Buchu could
have convinced the English people that the
"Buchu Silver Mining Company of Utah, Linn
ited." was good Investment? Who else but
Ghoul Buchu himself could have convinced
the wicked people of Wall street that Ghoul
was q good name for fair to middling Chris
tian and pious man? And who but Attorney
General Buchu could show the President and
the Senate that Chief Justice Buchu would
sound well in the government directories and
the HERALD Almanac? And, withal, no one,
except Buchu, could bear himself with
proper humility when offered high station.
Does anybody suppose that Attorney General
Buchu was not aware of the honor the Presi-
dent and the people were doing themselves in
naming him Chief Justice Buchu2 1t would
be mistake to think SO. All of the Buchu
family. though they are modest, have yet a
proper appreciation of themselves From
Ghoul Buchu down they possess humility as
remarkable as that of Uriah Heep and when
the President offered him the place Chief
Justice Buchu said, in the exact words of
Uriah -'I thank you, Master, mean Mr..
Copperfeld"


As matter Of course we have no intention
of dismissing Chief Justice Buchu with a
single article. A man of his supereminent
merits is entitled to more than one tribute to
his virtues. Indeed. so heartily do we 60 into
the work of praising and exalting him that we
cannot refrain even now from glorying in one
of the great advantages of his exaltation. 1t
will be remembered, after the Buchu poll
ticians of Louisiana had overturned State
government and set up fraud instead, that
when their wronged opponents telegraphed to
Washington that they were coming to ex-
plain the situation, Attorney General Buchu
answered, if not in these words, to this in
tent:-'Give yourselves no trouble. know
all and have settled everything. Buchu for
ever" Such knowledge in Chief Justice is
invaluable, and in political controversies, to
say nothing of suits affecting the Buchu Loan
and Trust Company, the Buchu Savings
Bank, the Buchu Silver Mining Company of
Utah. Limited, and the Buchu Pacific Rail
road, tits delightful to know that the inter
probation of the law and the administration
are in the hands Of such q capable jurist as
Chief Justice Buchu.
Year: 1873




The Senate was blocked yesterday over the
question of Pinohback or no Pinchback. Sem
ator Morton took considerable time to brow
beat the Senate in his usual forcible style
in seeking to convince all concerned that
black was whitehall Pinchback was genuine
metal. His principal argument was that the
President had recognized the Kellogg Legis-
lature, and the House had followed suit and
that, therefore, the Senate should not exhibit
any spirit of manliness by calling the legality
of the Legislature in question. The Senator
said it was not question Of politics, but
question of law. Mr.. Morton as a towering
firebrand Of unconditional woe to democ-
racy is an old character; but his transposition
of the pretended for the actual motive in
Pinchback's case fits him for the leading part
in "Cool as a Cucumber 1t Is somewhat
astonishing that he condescended to make any
apology for his motion. when he can threaten
the President on any recalcitrants as old
grannies do the ''bogy" upon small boys.


Mr.. Tremain. in urging his Bankrupt law
upon the House, was not slow to hang up the
Executive sword over the head Of every men,
Der who did not want the Bankruptcy law
repealed. This had moro effect on
the House than any hint that the
measure was intended to help pet firm
Of Buohu bankers, and the repeating bill
was passed by the House after it had been
amended by Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, in sec
ton which preserves the laws for all pending
suits whereon adjudication Of bankruptcy
has been made, but cuts down the Court fees
fifty per cent The Senate and House
are being subjected to severe tests by
the analytical chemists Of the administration
to see if any traces of the poison of rough
shod-rule manliness can be found. The re-
suit, SO far, must be encouraging to the White
House doctors.


Back pay and increased salary came up in
the House yesterday in the shape of a new bill
from the select committee. 1t is very funny
one respect 1t is prepared to sacrifice both
the back pay and increased pay of
the Senators and Representatives, while
in the shadow of the constitution its
own increased pay is snugly entrenched. It
will, of course, be always within the power
of the President to ''cover" his increased
pay into the Treasury. 1t seems, indeed,
as if the House would go through the form of
looping off $4,000 from the salary of $500,
while retaining little elastic margin of
actual travelling expenses to make up for
mileage. An accepted amendment to the bill
provides that the reduction take effect from
March 4, 1873, instead of thereafter" as the
bill reads. As mandatory disagreement
of the back-pay steal was impracticable,
so far as moneys drawn by members of the
last Congress goes, the Secretary of the Treas
ury is ordered by the bill to "cover'' back
all that remains unpaid, and to do the same
with all the conscience money he can get
This will not be much.
Year: 1873

BOSTON, Dec. 16, 1873


Alta melting Of the President and Fellows OF
Harvard College to-day the following entry was
made upon the record =


The President and Fellows have heard with deep re-
gret and strong sense OF personal bereavement OF
the death at Cambridge. on the l3tn inst, of
Louis Agassiz They desire to record the ser.
during the ID years OF his connection with II.
He has illustrated the university by his scientific re.
searches BY his direct teachings and by his example
he has raised up generation OF younger teachers OF
natural science who cultivate this SPIRIT
yo'ion and spread abroad his methods OF instruction He
has exertcd q strong influence upon the whole
university to broaden its foundations quicken
Its enthusiasm and liberalize its discipline BY
the just influence OF his unsclnsh en- husu sn
and by the extraordinary persasveness OF his
presence and speech he has founded and bult up the
Museum OF Comparative Zoology at Harvard College q
very important to the OF the uni
versty Finally by the Inspiring force OF his simplicity
sympathetic ardor and natural eloanence ne has
awakened in the minds OF thousands of his adopted
countrymcn warm interest In and respect the pure
science to which he was voted thus the
aith Of the community In the dignity aud worth of ali
liberal culture -
Year: 1873

FINANCIAL SUccEss.-Mr. Richardson be-
heves that Congress will authorize him
to make up the deficit in his accounts
by new loan and not by renewed
TAXATION on articles already relieved of the
fiscal burdens Of the war. SO we reach an
altogether ridiculous point in our financial
history. We have paid of our debts SO fast
that we must borrow money to keep afoat. We
are SO rich, SO prosperous, SO magnificent, that
we must needs set splendid example to the
world at large and pay off forthwith our enor-
nous national obligations, that the dazed
fnanciers of old-fashioned countries might
hold up their hands and open their eyes in
mute wonder; and then, as consequence Of
the inherent rascalities of our financial system,
comes halt and instead of continuing to pay
our debt we find we cannot pay our current
accounts. Queer playing at government they
have in Washington