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Year: 1875

An Indiana man has sued for a divorce on the ground that his wife has hit him on one spot on his head with the rolling pin for nineteen years, and his physi- clan tells him that he certainly will have softening of the brain unless the woman selects some other point. She declares she is too old to change her habits. Hence the suit.
Year: 1875

wasted at his table. If q person took, as many do, larger quanti- ty of butter than they needed, and left it sticking upon the edge of a plate, he would politely pass the bread, and when informed that they did not require any more, as sure them that with all that but ter to be eaten, they must want some bread. I often think of the old quaker when see the habits of wastefulness which prevail ev- anywhere about us, and especial ly when I see how largely it in

 fuences, for evil, our social as we'll as domestic life. In speak ing of waste, it is not a question of whether we, individually can afford it, but whether it is right in itself, and how far we are res ponsible for it, and for the wrong that it causes. Waste at home is responsible for more than one half of the crimes abroad. Waste is akin to dishonesty. The servant who will throw good food into the slop-pail, will take money if she thinks no one will find hel out. It Is an old saying that g woman, gets rid of more with 6 spoon than man can bring in with a shovel, and in this country we have abundantly proved the truth of it. The waste begins by leaving butter on the plate, throw

 ing good bread to the dogs, and ends in the reckless waste oi manhood, of womanhood, in the miserable waste of life itself What men work hard for it is the duty of woman to make the best use of yet how often are good men discouraged, and rendered desperate, by seeing careless in. difference on the part of theil wives, active participation in the shameful misuse of what their daily labors bring into the fami- ly. Men would be freed from half their anxiety, if their homes were thriftily and economically cared for, if wives performed part of the household work, and train ed their daughters to be their assistants, instead oi leaving all their interests In the hands of ignorant, blundering, il well meaning servants. The waste does not begin or end with food-it is all-pervading. It eats pots, pans, tea-kettles, boil CTS, kitchen ranges, carpets, oil cloths, brooms, knives, spoons, crockery and water pipes, as ra- venously as it does meat, sugar and flour. It is not only injuri- ous but it is destructive. It eats up time, house and home, and f. nally the human beings who once owned and occupied them. Waste is a grievous wrong to others, but it is a still more grievous wrong to one's self.- The meat you leave untasted, the bread that is thrown into your ash barrel, the fruit that rots be- fore you can eat it, would restore the lost strength of your neigh Dor round the corner, or across the way; but it would do still more for you; it would educate your children and household, teach them their duty toward yourself as we'll as others, and save souls and bodies from death. likeness and waste arc the devils chief agents.
Year: 1875

A young man, fond of daring, dressed himself up in Indian cos tune and went down on a Missis- sippi family 'just for fun" They kept his body in ice three days for his relatives to arrive.
Year: 1875

EVery nature must nave bHe subsoil blowing of sorrow before it can recognize either it's present poverty or possible wealth. The man who loves children, and whom children instinctive- ly love, is always 2 man with heart good, and pure, and sympathetic.

 It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let man stand in what direction he will, he must necessa- rily turn his back on one-half the world.

 A wag of a..gourmand who had made himself ill by feasting on fish, said he embodied the trio ci the fiery furnace, thus--shad rack, me-sick and abed- d-we-go.

 A boy who will yell like a Tartar if a drop of water gets on his shirt band when his neck is being washed, can crawl through sew CT after q ball and think nothing of it.

 A little girl, hearing her teacher spoken off as a painstaking woman, remarked that the scholars were the "paintakingest," for they were generally whipped all round every day.

 A gentleman said to his gar dener, George, the time will come when a man will be able to carry the manure of an acre of land in one of his waistcoat pockets" To which the gardener replied: "I believe it, sir; but he will be able to carry all the crop in the other pocket"

 How TO MAKE WHITEwAsH.- The season for whitewashing and house-cleaning is at hand. Few persons know how to calcine a wall so that it will not miscolor every article of clothing that hap pens to come in contact with it. The materials are not expensive, but skill and judgment are requir- ed in their selection. Here is the recipe: Soak four ounces of white glue in a quart of warm water for twenty or twenty four hours, then add pint of water, place the yes sel (tin) in kettle of hot water over the fire, and agitate the glue until it is thoroughly dissolved and the solution quite clear. Now put five or six pounds of powder ed Paris white (costs three cents a pound) into a large bucket, and add hot water till of the consisten- cy of cream. Then mix the glue with it, stir it well, and put on with an ordinary whitewash brush. It is of the utmost importance that the calcining mixture be spread smoothly, and if too thick, q little water should be added. The quantities given above is suf- ticient for two coats on q large room eighteen feet square.
Year: 1875

If a colored theological students in Mississippi, concludes his course of studies and writes his first sermon without being shot in the leg for fooling around hen coop, he is considered promising man,
Year: 1875

All bills with our advertisers are to be settled at the end of every month without fail, and advertisements not settled for at that time will be discontinued, without no tice, unless special arrangements are made
Year: 1875

In Office or otherwise to signify their condemnation
OF the disrcspect shown by him to Her Majesty The
noble lord remarked that the chief magistrate Of Dub
ln the most public occasion that has occurred
for many years deliberately offered dsrespect to Her
Majesty by proposing the health of the Pope before the
health OF the Queen This was evidently done In com
pance with the wish Of the Roman Catholic clergy for
the purpose of asserting the supremacy of the Pope
over that of the Queen Of England


The LORD CHAScEILoR-ln the absence of the noble
duke the Lord President Of the Council il falls upon
me answer the question which has been put the
paper | think | had better say that Her Majesty's
government do not propose to intimate to the Lord
Lieutenant any opinion the entertainments which
no ought or ought not 10 attend in Dublin.


SERMON oAPEL on o'coNNELL.


The great religious function of Thursday found sort
of echo last Sunday in the Cathedral at Marlborough
street. There grand high mass at twelve O'Clock
at which Cardinal Cullen presided Many of the dis
tngushed Irish and foreign ecclesastics who had
to Dublin for the Centenary, present. The Lord
Mayor, accompanied by several members Of his family
and some Of tho Town Council assisted in the corpora
tion pew. After the gospel Mgr. Capel assembled
the pulpit and preached eloquent sermon the
tcSt:-"I must work the works of Him that sent mo
while it is day; the night cometh when man can
work. ''-st John tx, A.


IN CELEBRATION.


AS illustrating the extraordinary interest taken by
the Irish people in the proceedings connected with the
O'Conne Centenary celebration it may be worth while
TO refer the enterprise displayed the occasion by
the leading journal of this country in its efforts keep
pace with the popular demand On the morning follow
ing the festivities the Irish Times gave its readers
addition to its usual complement of flysix closely
printed columns supplement oftwenty eight columns
twenty five columns of tho Times being specially do
voted to highly interesting report of the Centenary
proceedings and ccverly written rfSaDt< OF the leading
incidents which marked the stormy life of o Connell
Year: 1875

officer Grogan, of the Fifteenth precinct killed mad
dog yesterday at No. Washington place.


The forty fourth exhibition of the American Institute
will opened the Rink Sixty third and Third
avenue September s, ut two p NJ


At seven O'Clock yesterday morning the body of an
unknown found floating in the North River, at
the foot of Fifty ninth street. 1t removed to the
Morgue.


William Cannon a child OF eight years of age resid-
ing No. Norfolk street. fell from the roof of his
residence a distance of five stories and fractured his
skull He removed to Bellevue Hospital
Year: 1875

These fares average 81 lower than the standard first
class fares heretofore in force but somewhat higher
than special fares for limited tickets that have
current The sale of regular tickets according to the
! above schedule will begin on Monday.
Year: 1875

During the week the agents of the New York Central


Erie and Baltimore and Ohio lines met in this city and
readusted the schedule of passenger East and
West The arrangement will take effect TO- NOR
row. The following arc the compromise figures agreed
Year: 1875

81 a SAD SToRr OF DISTRESS AND SUI
cIEE-ALiving in a wretch hoyel in
Lemon Alley, few doors west of Paw.
son street, in West Baltimore, were a
man and wife named Kenner, the
husband, Benedict Kenner, sober,
well-meaning German, who had been
laboring man1when employed, but for
several months had been without work,
and lived with his wife in a state of
utter destitution, deprived of even the
conmonest necessities of life. The
little house was, TO say the most
scan,ily furnished, and everything
within and without indicated the abode
of the worst kind of proyerly. For
weeks the husband had been vainly
striving for employment throughout the
city until he had become wholly dis
heartened aud depressed in spirits.
His wife was sick, moinentarily expect


ing childbirth, and both were without
food. The dreadful reality of the sit
uation appeared TO have preyed so upon
the mind OF the husband as to affect his
brain, he lately exhibiting temporary
spells of abstraction and seeming un-
consciousness. His vile frequently
urged him to make more efforts TO
obtain work, but he was bereft of all
energy or disposition to try again. On
Tuesday evening she told him that in
her condition it was impossible TO bear
more sufferiugs than she had already
endured and unless something was
done TO obtain food she would have 10
beg home in the house of relation.
and the two must separate This de-
termination was not the result OF any
quarrel, but was talking over quietly
as an inevitable necessity unless some
brighter prospects arose. The hus-
band promised to make one more en-
deayor to find employment, and went
out with that purpose. In the evening
about 10 O'Clock he returned home, and
found his wife absent. Supposing her
TO have carried into effect her determi-
nation. he at once proceeded TO the
cellar and there, by means OF hand
kerchief made fast to staple in the
ceiling, formed a slip nose Mounting
a barrel, he placed his head within the
knot, aud kicked The barrel from under
his feet. lie hung there until quite
dead, it is supposed, when, the hand
kerchief breaking, the body fell to the
floor The wife returned in the even
ing from the house of neiyhbor next
door, where she had gone, and waited
up all night for her husband. lester-
day about noon she had occasion TO
go TO the cellar, and there discovered the
lIfeless body. Coroner Ogle was noti-
fed, and upon summoning a jury OF
inquest verdict of suicide was render
ed. The deceased was a man OF about
twenty-seven years of age, and has been
married about one year. His remains
we're taken in charge of 10y the city for
interment.-B Bahimore American.
Year: 1875

Can you afford to work hard all day.
and read. study, or court the sagaries
of society all night, thus wasting Your
vitality, exhausling your nervous sys-
TEN, aud bringing on premature disease
decay and old aye


Can YOU afford to eat hastily and then
rush to study or business, Withdrawing
the. nervons energy from the digestive
system to the brain aud muscles, aud
thus inducing dyspepsia, in few years
at most, TO scourge and haunt and make
you miserable for years or for life?
Can you afford to live on rich or
highly seasoned food, eat champagne
suppers, because an artificial appetite Is
thus gratified, rendering gour, dyspep-
sia, apoplexy, in the middle OF life, al
most a certainty?


Can you afford to commit suicide
through the indulgence of appetite and
passion;a adopting the fools motto, "a
short life and merry one ?


Can you afford to indulge in fast liv-
ing, dressing beyond your means, driv-
ing livery horses, or keeping horse
yourself, when your income is not ade-
quate TO such expense!


Can you afford to smoke and chew
tobacco, thus spending from five to
twenty or thirty dollars month. in
juring your nervous system, and there
by transmitting to children weakened
constitution, making them punny lnva
lids for litei
Can you afford to make money at the
expense OF your manhood, your health
your just ,respectabii,y and integrity


Can you afford to gain the whole
world, and thereby make yourself
moral wreck !


Car you afford TO rob your mind, tc
clothe your back with silks and satins,
and CRAFTY mere love of display


Can yon afford to be tricky,and there,
fore ,letraud your employer OF the just
service you owe him, even though you
get your pay, thus making yourself
moral bankrupt! '
Year: 1875

DAILY LrrE--Is our daily life what
it ought 10 be- hat it might be : Do
we allow petty yexations and trivial
things to sour our temper and darken
ourbrow hejmpulsive natureto getthe
better of us! That inpatient word Just
now; you were fretted, but did it make
you feel any more pleasant ,Those
light and trlfliRg thoughts; they have
gone to give their account against you.
That witticisni al another's expense you
mean no harm, but was it, after all, quite
right, and doing just as you would be
done byi -.t 5.. -.


And then the words that are uDspo-
ken, the opportunities neglected; which
might be productive of SO much good !
How much evil We do when we might
do good How little We practice when
we preach J How little we do unto
others what we would that they should
do unto US! How selfish We are, and
ready to listen to the promptings Of self
interest! How we permit little jealous
les and animosities TO rankle in our
hearts, and pride, vain. and impotent, to
fill i'll How little of charity do we feel
tor an .erring brother or sister, AS if We
never erred ourselvesl How imperfect
and incongruous are our lives ia
q l. 4 ID
Year: 1875

A WRECK OF A MAN.-W hat wreck
so shocking to behold as the wreck of a
dissolute nian-the vigor of life exhaus-
ted. aud yet the first steps in an honora-
bic career not taken--in himselfa lazar


house of disease; dead, but not by hea-
thenish custom of society, not buried :!
Rogues have had the initial letter OF
their title burnt into the palms of their
hands; even for murder Cain was only
branded on the forehead; but over the
whole person of the debauchee or the
inebriate, the 81 gnatures of infamy are
written. How nature brands him with
stigma and opprobrium! How she
hangs labels all over him, to testify her
disgust at his existence, and TO admon-
ish others to beware of his example !
How she loosens all of his joints, sends
tremors along his muscles, and bends
forward his frame, as if 10 bring him on
all tours with kindred brutes, or TO de-
grade him to the reptiles crawling.
How she distigures his couDtenance as
if intent upon oblitcrating all traces of
her own image, so that she may swear
she uever made him. Such man may
he seen in the streets of our cities every
day; if rich enough, he may be found
in the saloons. and at the tables Of the
Upper ten, but surely TO every man
of purity and honor,to every man whose
wisdom as well as whose heart is uD-
blemished, the wretch who comes crop
ped and bleeding from the pillory, and
redolent with its appropriate perfumes,
would be guest oil a companion tar
less offensive and disgusting.
Year: 1875

Why is it that the Church is not bet.
ter supported! Many men believe that
their wives are too deeply Interested in
their pastors; and it is too often the
case that the Church is mainly support
ed by ignorant women. When you
come to solid sense you don't believe
half the ministers tell you. They know
no more about the future than you do.
None of them have been to heaven and
got back again. If any one has lost
husband or child through detauchery
or abuse, they tell her not to cry, for
her loved one has gone straight TO heav-
en-. Why not worship at home, aud
erect affairs by cur fresides Paul has
told us that We are the temple of God,
and if we defile ourselves We def!e that
temple. Have any Of us temple that
God could reign in. Let the preachers
go, and they will soon find better en-
rloyment 1t has been poor year for
preachers anyhow. We want more hu-
inanity instead of more Christianity.
Just as soon as the intelligent part of
the people begin to think, just that soon
the Churches will have to close their
doors.


In this style of argument, improving
as she went, and eliminating in a grand
climax of thought, tie lecturer proceed
ed for an hour and half. Much OF
what she said was greatly applauded,
and not person left the hall until she
had bowed herself from the stage at
the close of the lecture.
Year: 1875

The idea of asking whether Mrs.
Woodruff will say anything in her lee
lures to make one blush Blush for
sooth. Reserve your bushes for the
communion with your inner thoughts
and consciences. Mrs. Woodhull Will
say nothing Lut what is truth, and
healthy truth at that. And why should
people blush ut truth? f
Year: 1875

A darling little child looks up into
its mothers face and says, Mamma,
who made me T. The mother, wishing
to stop the chid's inquiries, replies that
the doctor brought it in his pocket, or
some other absurd nonsense. Very
soon the child learus better, and, per
haps, is told by the vagabonds of the
street Then as the awful truth is forced
upon her that her mother mas told her
falsehoCd, what barbcd and poison
ed arrow is that which erters her
breast The child questions what there
was about her birlh that her mother
was ashamed Of How much closer
would have been the tie which binds
the mother and cid, hal she told b +
darling that she carried ii for a long
time under her heart, and suffered al
most the agony Of GcthSelnane to bring
it into this world Our mothers must
be pure minded enough TO talk with
their children about these things. When
will the time come when they will make
the acquaintance of their families? The
mother is not the contessor OF the boy,
and she is shocked if lie even hints at
this subject Virtuous women are i'll
tclligeut Ignorance is not virtue,
Prejudice has it origin in the vilest iS-
norance. Tell the world the open trnth,
and say that you are ignorant of these
matters, not prejudiced. Then there
will be no necessity for reviyals III re
ligion. This sort Of teaching will do
more good than all the Moodys and
Sankey's or "gnsh" preachers that can
be hunted out of the Garth.
Year: 1875

Of the power Of the truth in science
may be in order here There was that
crazy man Fields He was regarded by
Congress as a fit subject for the lunatic
asylum when he asked Congress for an
appropriation to further his plans with
regard to his inventions, and yet fifteen
years later these same scotfers are walk
lug up to the telegraph offices and send
ing their messages to the other end Of
the world.
Year: 1875

I doubt not that there are five hun
dred women in this city tonight who
are almost dying with curiosity to know
what | have to say, but dare not come.
The men have kept them i'll bondage so
long that they dare not do their own
thinking. lntelligen: men do not make
prostitutes; they have no time TO sup
port any other women than their wives.
Many Of you men said to your wives
tonight, you had better rot go to the
lecture, but |, big Injun, I'll go. The
man who dare go to Il place that is not
fit for his wife TO go, is not fl to share
the same house OF the same bed with
her. You are proclaiining your own
conduct to the world.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Kemble, writing in the atlantic
upon the unaccOuntable forms which
childish fears will take, cites some in
stances:


The objects that excite the fears of
children are often as curious and unac-
countable as their secret intensity. Miss
Martineau told me once that special
object of horror to her, when she was
child, were the colOrs of the prism, a
thing in itself so beautiful that it is diff
fcult to conceive how any imagination
could be painfully impressed by it; but
her terror of these magical cOlors was
such that she used to rush past the room,
even when the door was closed, where
she had seen them reflected from the
chandelier by the sunlight on the wall.


A bright, clever boy of nine, by no
means particularly nervous or timid,
told me once that the whole story of
Aladdin was frightful to him; but he
never was able to explain why 1t made
this impression upon him. A very Curl
Gus instance of strong nervous impress
sion, not, however, in any way connected
with supernatural terror, occurred to a
young girl about eight years old, the
daughter of friend of mine. The
mother, the gcntlest and most reasonably
indulgent of parents, sent her up stairs
for her watch, cautioning hei not to let
il fall; the child, by her own account,
stood at the top of the stairs with the
watch in her hand till the conviction
that she should let it iall took such
dreadful and complete possession of her,
that she dashed it down, and then came
in a paroxysm of the most distressivc
nervous excitement TO tell her mother
what she had done.
Year: 1875

Did you ever see man try to find a
shirt or handkerchief or something in
the bureau-drawer where his wife keeps
her clean linen 1t mostly happens when
he's in hurry, when he's got his fire.
works temper on, and his wife has got the
baby on her lap, or she is up to the
elbows in dough.


He finds the white clothes arranged in
such symmetrical layers as only a wo-
man after long experience can accom-
plish, and he dives in a good deal as he
would fish for nubs of kindling in bar
rel of shavings, pitching everything right
or left on the floor; meanwhile, as he fails
to get the desired article, strewing and
swearing and Offering up selected express
sions of relief to his feelings in sup
pressed tone of voice, and vowing, in a
way especially designed to reach the ears
of his wife, "that it beats the old
what's his name?-a thing can't be put
where it can be found"


About this time the wife yells out from
below that the article sought is right ut
the top, when he sarcastically wants to
know if he supposes he has "got no
eyes," then tears around into that men



ing that the shirt amt there, for he has
got clear to the bottom.


And then he gathers everything up in
a bunch and rams them back anyhow,
just as he can grab them in savage hand
fuls, tearing around and jerking things
all over with a nervous looseness. Then
he sings out in sort of abstracted way,
M ifaddressing no one in particular, that
he can alwaystell where to find anything
he needs at his place Of business in a mo-
ment; that he keeps place for every
thing, and everything in its place.


just about the time he has worked
himself into great worry of boiling over
impatience, and got the whole room in
litter, his wife glides in and lays her
hand on the missing article, right In the
drawer, where he had jerked Il out and
rammed it back again, in that quiet
way a woman has Of maddening a
choleric husband into a fit state for the
lunatic asylum.