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Year: 1872

Don't be afraid of little fun at home.
good people! Don't shut up your house
lest the sun should fade your carpets; and
your hearts, lest a hearty laugh Shake
down some of the musty old cobwebs
there. Ifyou want 10 rum your sons, let
them think that all mirth and social enioy-
ment must be left on the threshold without
when they come home at night. When
once home is regarded as only place to
eat, drink, and sleep in, the work is begun
that ends in gambling houses and reckless
degradation. Young people must have
fun and relaxation somewhere if
they do not find it at their own
hearthstones, it will be sought at
other and perhaps less profitable places.
Therefore, let the fire burn brightly at
night, and make the homestead delightful
with all those little arts that parents so
perfectly understand. Don't repress the
buoyant spirit of your children. Half an
hour of merriment, round the lamp and
freight of a home blots out the remem-
brance of many care and annoyance
during the day; and the best safeguard
they can take with them into the
world is the unseen influence of bright
little domestic sanctum.--N. Il. Farmer.
Year: 1872

The day that the little chicken is pleased
is the very day that the hawk takes hold
of him.


Eggs ought not to dance with stones.


Before you speak turn your tongue over
seven times.


When you go to the donkey's house don't
ask if his ears are long.


A little dog may have courage before his
masters door.
It's only the shoe that knows whether
the stocking has holes.


Good soup may be made in an old sauce
pan.


The cock wears spurs, but he is no horse
man for all that.


Pardon does not heal the wound.


A pig that has two owners is sure to die
with hunger.
Very bad is not death.


Reproach is heavier than barrel of salt,
A promise is debt.
Flies arc caught with syrup, not with
vinegar.
Year: 1872

1T is not fair that lady should be
obliged to lift her Sewing Machine when
ever she needs to move it. Casters are
now made especially for Sewing Machines
of all styles. 1t is wonderful invention
and should be universally adopted.s
Year: 1872

1t seems the Grant Radicals of Penn
sylvania have decided at last not to with
draw Hartranft from the canvass for Gov
crnor. They are truly in bad way.
They'll be damned if they do and
they'll be damned if they don't" They
had either to swap horses crossing TIA
stream or continue to ride the spawned,
wind-broken nag which they we'll knew
would not carry them safely to the shore.
In their desperation they chose tho lat
tar alternative, and that's about tho last
Of Hartranftl
Year: 1872

| thought that my heart had grown cold
Aad to loving had sighed its adieu,
But in spite of myself aud of fate,


am oftentimeS thinking of you.
The language Of passion is sweet,


And it fails on the soul like th3 dew,
But | know it but lures to deceive,


Then why am thinking Of you!
Could fy frcm this wilderness world,


To a heart that was loving and true,
Could live all my life ny your side,


would live and die thinking Of you.
But | know when season had passed


You would fly to love that was new,
And |, in my sorrow fOrSaken,


Should ever be thinking of you.
The chaplet alone love should weave
Is amaranth, fadeless and blue,
But yours is of roses that wther,


And the roses are mingled with true.
| have suffered too c.piy already,


My brow with such wreath to endue
Lay it low at the feet Of another,


For will have done thinking of you.
Year: 1872

There ore many young men who arc 10
the habit Of excusing their idlcuess and in-
efficiency with tho plea that they can do
nothing without capital. The lack Of
means is tho ready reply they make to
every appeal to action. They imagine
that they possess in themselves oil tho
prerequisites to success but capital II
they only had capital, in addition to their
other imagined virtues, they would 90
great things in the world, they would as
tonish the natives with the holdness and
brilliaucy OF their enterprise. They would
grow immensely rich, and then lay the
world under perpetual obligations to their
gratitude by the maguidccucc Of their ben
efac,ious. This is the way they think and
talk. and they roll the vain glorious idea
over 10 their minds until they become TO
imagine that the world is an immense loser
by their poverty. q


These persons forgetoue important-fact
that oil capital is the product Of labor
That nearly all rich men 10 this country
were once poor. That nearly every per-
soual fortune they can enumerate Is either
the product of,its owners toll aud skill, or


How did the makers Of these fortunes
the representative Of bis fathers toll and
skill. siii


90. along without capital? Had they
spent tho vigor Of their youth in idle and
foolish lamentations over their poverty,
they would have lived and died poor, and
left nothing but an iheritauce Of honesty
behind them. Capital allied to labor aud
| skill can work wonders 10 the way Of ma
Year: 1872

Auu IVW IuV t''nV VI D"'J N'~J ~Sf
ure from Salem may be dated the decline
Of the foreign commerce Of that town,
She had been the monopolizcr Of the East
India trade; but when Gray took his stocks
and bis ships to Boston he took with him
the impulse which wa; to change the base
Of the India and Chinese traffic.


OF the many curious and entertaining
stories told Of Billy Gray, | will relate the
following which was recently given me BY
one who knew him we'll:


While Mr.. Gray was in Salem, and Of
ter be had become the heaviest business
man in the place, be desired an apprentice
for bis counting room-a youth who should
come with The desire aud will to be mer.
chant, and who should possess such quail.
ities as would ct him for o confidential
clerk and correspondent when the time OF
need should come; for the merchant had
made it a rule to bring up those employees
who we're to be most sacrcdly trusted under
his own eye. Accordingly be advertised


\
his want, and appointed time when be
should receive applicants.


Over in Bevery lived widow named
Atherton, who had been anxious to obtain
q situation for her son, bright-faced, fair.
haired boy Of fifteen. She was very poor
and felt that she could keep her child no
longer at home. She gained knowledge Of
Mr.. Gray's want and bade her son apply
for the situation,


"But," said the lad trembling, IL dare
not 60 there He wants an apprentice for
bis counting house and apprentice. not to
trade, butto the profession Of merchant.
The sons Of rich men will apply. lshould
stand no chance"


Don't be frightened, Thomas Re-
member that Mr.. Gray was once as poor as
we are. He will Judge by their merits
and not by standing Of their friends Al
any rate, it cannot hurt you to apply you
arc not afraid Of Billy Gray"


"No, mother" replied the boy, proudly
lifting bis head, I'm not afraid Of the
man. II fear no true maD,-butl l shrink
from an attempt which is almost sure t.
result in o failure. And again, | know
that the sons Of more prosperous people
will be there; for this advertisement carries
| 10 its extent the idea that the apprentice
selected is to come up in the merchant
sanctum within bis private Office. Lool
at my clothes. They will laugh at me,


my boy. l have seen Billy Gray dress
cd in shabbier clothes than are those yot
now wear If you would please you
mother. Co."


And Thomas Athertou went. Arrive'
at the Office Of the merchant be found
Year: 1872

aud custom of the time and dares TO be
true to the noble instincts Of the heart,
and live simply and honestly in a
small and quiet way, would create re-
form If not revolution. The question
comes TO every young heart. Which
shall sacrifice, the instincts and atfec-
tions Of the heart, or the shows and
shams OF society," Alas, that so many
yield the former to the latter For love.
is the religion of the young; and who
ever sacrifices it for fashion, commits a
sacrilege for which nothing on earth can
atone. Love is not thing to be
ashamed of or laughed at, but senti-
ment to be cherished and glorird in;
and, at any sacrifice it may require, is
cheap so long as it adds fuel TO the pre-
cious flames which purifies the heart,
refnes and ennobles the character, and
makes q manhood and womanhood
worth the saving and worth the name.
Year: 1872

The Allentown Chronicle publishes
the following invitation free of charge:
"If the middle aged party who spoke to
young lady at Centre square. in blue
bonnet, will call upon her brother. be
will find something to his advantage
meet his eye"
Year: 1872

As an appendix to the bulletin Of the balances
in the Treasury, there comes compliment state
ment that the Treasury is highly pleased With
tho effect upon the business Of the
country Of it's recent Wall street
operations in gold and currency
II for no other reason, SecretarJ Boutwell,
should fedcitate himself that his juggling with
the gold market has not produced smother such
disaster as Black Friday. 4 Secretary Of the
Treasury who, in one week, tRica violates the
pledge given to the business Of the country by
his last monthly announcement, may be pleased
himself with tho result OF his operations, but
will find few business men to agree with him.
Year: 1872

The horse disease, great a ca
lamity as it has been, has had
one good effect. 1t has awakened
the energies of scientific men to
a determined effort to meet the
great necessity that exists for
some other means of operating
street cars than by horses, and
it is now stated on most reliable
authority that the problem has
been solved. The motive power
is steam but the method of ap-
plication is entirely different
from any heretofore known, and
it secures absolute safety, econo-
my, cleanliness and speed. In
stead of having an engine or
dummy" on the track with fur
mace fires and smoke stack puff
ing and belching out its volumes
of smoke and sparks along the
street, there are placed on each
hne number Of small locomo-
tives, with quiet compound en-
gines. These locomotives are
supplied with movable boilers,
capable of containing about three
hundred gallons of water This
water is heated at the beginning
of each trip, by connecting the
boilers with the stationary fur
mace at the outer depot, and it
is claimed that enough of steam
can thus be furnished to run the
car a distance of nine or ten
miles.
Year: 1872

A writer in the Washington
Star asks: Has it never oc-
Cured to your mind that flies
have something to do with the
spread of small pox? This season
they are everywhere, in utterly


unlimited numbers, and, aided


by the wind, probably there are


no greater visitors in the world.
Clean and dirty houses are alike
filled with them. The most in
genious devices of housekeepers
fail to expel or exterminate them.
1t is hardly possible to exclude
them from the hospital or the
sick chamber, and the small pox
patient is the recipient Of their
provoking attention. Escaping
from the chamber of the sick,
they are blown about, with the
virus of this loathsome disease
upon their wings and legs, and
then perchance light on some
person constitutionally suscepti-
BILE to take the disease, and who
may accidentally have the in
cision by which it may be con-
veyed, Ifyou have a scratch or
a cut upon the face, the flies are
sure to seek it out and lightupon
it. In this wise, against all pre-
cautions of the widely-abused
board of health and Of the public,
may not the small pox be spread
by flies.
Year: 1872

Every man who voted for
GRANT or those who refused to
go to the polls to vote, may look
for an increase of taxation. The
increase will come, and all, ex-
cept the holders of bonds, will
have to pay an equal share. Not
a word did we hear of the in
crease of taxation before the
elections; the GRANTEES were
silent upon the subject. The
first thing will be an increase Of
pay of Long Branch GRANTS
office, commencing with the old
drinker and smoker himself
causing considerable of an in
crease in taxation. A Washing
ton correspondent of the New
York Times, the leading GRANT
organ, favors and predicts a re-
grading and increase of the sal
aries of the most important Off
GERS in the civil service, as one
of the first acts of Congress. The
correspondent says:


"The salary of the President
must be raised between now and
the 4th of next March in order
to have it take effect during any
part of President Grants second
term. It is certain that he will
not ask to have his own salary
increased, nor will he exercise
any influence to have it increas-
ed; but if the proposition is made
in Congress to raise it $4,000
per year, it will hardly meet
with much opposition. It is
more likely that an appropria.
ton will be made for a new exc.
cutive mansion. 1t is an ole
plan to have a dwelling house
for the President in a different
part of the city and use the
White House as an Office, ant
now it is quite time for it to bt
carried out"
Year: 1872

A FEW days since, a young
lady Of Urbana, who had been
i'll a short time, died, and the
body was prepared by sorrowing
friends and attendants for inter-
ment and placed in the coffin.
The night before the day of the
funeral, a number Of young lady
watchers were seated in o room
adjoining that in which the coffin
had been placed, when, greatly
to their CONSERVATION, the figure
of the dead girl appeared before
them and spoke family. When
the Mortified attendants had
somewhat overcome their fright,
seeing that the. supposed corpse
was really thing Of life, they
took measures to care for their
friend SO startingly restored to
almost from the very
grave, and she received proper
attention, and is now, it is said,
likely to recover. This was
doubtless one Of those cases of
suspended animation, which fire.
quently occur, and, naturally
enough, create o sensation.
Year: 1872

sGS" The absurd claims, set up by the
Urant Government before the Geneva
Commission for incidental damages on ac-
count of the Alabama, have doubtless been
preferred in order to get up some excite
ment to favor Grants renomination
to the Presidency. win the Amer rican
people countenauce such doings? We are
in no condition to enter into II war with
England, Our debt is already too large
and the taxes too heavy for the industry of
the country.
Year: 1872

For the Daily Gasstte.


Mr.. Z. r. JOHNSON Will you allow me
space through the columns of your paper to in
quire Of The city authorizes by what authority
they allowed the Republicans TO fire salute Of
100 guns faom piece Of artillery in celebrating
the election in North Carolina When on last 4th
OF July National Holiday, the Mayor ordered
the arrest OF three members of one Of our fire
companies for firing salute from email can.
non. l also noticed that the Police instead Of
threatening TO arrest the frat man who fred the
gun as they did on the occasion referred TO were
busy in keeping the way clear from the Timber
to the piece. Now il they are allowed to IRE
salutes oyer an election why should not our IRE.
men be allowed to do the same in celebrating
Our National Birthdsy? JusrIcF
Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, February 2l.-ln the
Constitutional Convention, at Charles
ton, W. Va, yesterday the committee
of the Whole terminated the discussion
which they have had for the past four
days, upon the report Of the committee
on Taxation and Finance, omitting, by
a vote OF AZ to %, a clause in
the present Constitution, and espe-
cially providing for the payment OF the
Indebtedness to the State Of Virginia,
incurred by the separation and estao-
lishment of West Virginia, and leaving
the Legislature with the authority 10
provide for the payment Of any liability
of the State prior to the adoption OF
the Constitution. County and munlcl'
corporations are not allowed 10 be-
come indebted in an aggregate
exceeding FIVE per centum on the
value of taxable property, and counties
are not permitted to assess taxes the
aggregate Of which shall exceed seventy
cents on the one hundred dollars valua.
tion, except by vote Of three-hiths OF
the people in the county, and except for
the payment Of the Indebtedness at the
time of the adoption OF the Constitution.
Year: 1872

rho Sale Of Arms TO France.


The Senate has exhausted another
Jav over the French arms inquiry.
Morton and Conk'ing, after taking the
whole night to recover from Schurz
terrific assault Of yesterday, wen'
through with four hours OF dreary
twaddle to show how poor the case was
and how badly they suffered from their
treatment at the hands Of the Missouri
Senator. Conkling's amendment look
ing TO the invest cation Of the Senators
engaged in holding a correspondence
with foreign government was adopted
unanimously, none voting therefor with
more eagerness than Schurz and Sum
ner. Before any more votes are taken
there will be further speeches.


The Consular Appropriation Bill


The debate in the House to-day was
confined altogether to the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill
Dullness and general inattention pre-.
vailed among Il, ~ aQuornm
that was in Attendance during the prln'
cipal portion OF the session. Consider
able feeling was developed, however,
upon General Banks motion to raise
the Russian mission to first class.
Messrs. Brooks, Wood, Morgan and
other parties spoke zealously in its
favor. General Butler was positive
and even belligerent in his demand
that,we should dignity our diplomatic
relation with the only power which
exhibits a friendly spirit towards US,
and on which we could rely in case Of
complications on the Alabama claims
business. His bellicose remarks were
well received, and he shook hands with
himself cordially when he subsided.


The Whisky Tax.


Commissioner Douglass to-day sent
10 the committee on Ways and Means,
at the request OF the chairman thereof
a till which has been prepared at the
Revenue Department, and which pro-
vides for the consolidation Of the present
taxes on whisky. 1t has been ascer-
tained 10y careful computation that the
various taxes now imposed on whisky
amount to l. cents per gallon. Under
the present bill this tax will be levied
in bulk. 1t does not propose to reduce
the tax at all, nor to raise it, but simply
make it collectable at one time and in
a manner which is much cheaper than
the present complicated system.


United States Marshal Goldborough,
OF Maryland, has fallen into disfavor
with the Administration, because Of his
failure 10 summon black jurors His
removal is now being agitatei by the
Attorney General. ALPHA.
Year: 1872

A farmers wife writing to the Gin
cinnati Gazette says; Il keep my
ashes dry, and when put in the hop
per preparatory to making soap, I
have from a half to one peck of un-
Sacked lime put in with the ashes.
Before putting the grease in, l
swing the kettle of the fire and let
it hang a few moments, II there is
any potash in it, 1 take n shovel and
take it out. For if there is much
potash in it, it will not make good
soap.


81 pack the ashes well, adding
water enough to dampen them
Then put three or four buckets of
water each day for two or three days
until l think it sufficiently soaked.
And lastly l pour on boiling water
TO run the lye of. AS soon as 1
have enough run off to commence
boiling l put my kettle over the fire
and boil the lye as fast as it will
boil, still adding more lye as it boils
down. In this way 1 continue for
whole day. BY evening it viii prob
ably be sufficiently strong to eat n
feather in passing 1t three times
across the liquid. / now put my
grease ia, (all I think it will cat, }
still boiling as fast as / can without
its running over. If it eats all tue
greas up l add more. now leave
my kettle standing over the fire all
night. In the morning If there are
any scraps Of grease that are not
eaten up, l boil again for an hour
or two, and II they do not dissolve
I take them out. Then / take out
a few spoonfuls of the soap and set
il away a little while to cool. When
cold, if there is lie under it and 10
appears free from grease, set my
kettle of and hang ON another one
to boil more lye. Managing in this
way, generally can make from six
teen to eighteen gallons Of nice white
soap in two days, and often In ono
day and q night.


Il think that BY pursuing this
plan or a similar one, any one can
make n strong soap"
Year: 1872

Mr.. EDITOR You lately gave
some extracts from Chambers
Journal respecting the singular
properties of the number 8. They
were curious and interesting, but of
no practical use. I now propose to
give from memory a property of the
number 8, which I found useful to
me as a book keeper for 80 years.


I will first state that many per
sons, like myself, are prone to trans
pose figures; yet they are uncon-
scious of it, and do not see that
their besetting error is a transposi-
ton of figures, and after repeated
examinations of their posting, fail
to detect it.


We will suppose a keeper
has taken off his balance, and the
DR.. and Cr sides will not agree;
subtract the smaller from the
larger amount, and divide by 9. If
no remainder the error is a trans
position of figures, and he had bet
ter get some one to call his figures,
or he never will find it.


Example:
Year: 1872

Place the figures any way you
will, and the result is the same. A
few years ago this fact was stated
in some arithmetics, but no use sug-
gested and no reason given why this
was so. practiced it many years,
not knowing the reason why, nor
could professors Of mathematics
tell me the reason why, and I tried
for years to find it out to satisfy my
own mind, and in 1864, when we
were allowed to think as much as
we pleased provided we did not
talk, I believe 1 found the reason
why this was so. But before giving
the reason, I will state a singular
fact that may not occur again in
thousand years. In 1884, Thomas
Adams (who died cashier of the
Planters Bank at Pulaslli) was
book keeper of the Union Bank at
Nashville. He had made out his
balance sheet to submit to the
Board. It balanced, but it was
wrong, and an examination found
it to contain one error on one side
and two errors on the other. All
three errors were transpositions.


Here is the reason why:
Year: 1872

A yankee has invented a device
for preventing a horse from kicking
in harness. The hind legs are strap
ed at the knee joints, with q strap
running through ring on the sur
cingle, so that when one foot ad-
vances the slack slips through the
ring for enough to allow the other
leg to remain behind.