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Year: 1873

The time is coming when there will be no
more Shlpwrecks, when ocean steamers will not
sink or disappear, and when coasters need no
longer fear the dread lee shore. 1t will not be
this year or next, but it sometime will be, if we
can credit a recent article by Prot Winchell,
of Michigan. 1t appears-or rather is, though
it does not yet appcar-that the waters of the
earth are drying up. The earth is cooling, the
water works its way deeper and deeper into the
crust each year, and in the course of time it
will be soaked up without evaporation; ocean
and atmosphere alike will be drawn into the
cold embrace of the earth, which will be left
frozen desert, floating through space through.
out all time, like an empty ship in the Arctic
seas. His theory is that as order came out of
chaos by the cooling of the exterior OF the
melted masses, so this same process is to
continued to the end. He finds confirmation
for this in the present condition of the moon,
which, undoubtedly, once was what the earth
was but it has gradually cooled off to be "a
fossil world, an ancient cinder suspended in the
heavens, once the seat of all the varied and
intense activities which now characterize the
surface of the earth, but in the present period
a realm of silence and stagnatiOn."


Other heavenly bodies show other stages OF
the process. Saturn in its ring condition is the
freshest; then Jupiter, where watery mlSts arc
beginning to gather in vaprOus envelope,
i producing ram tueu tue earll, as IL Is anu
then Mars, which is entering upon the decline
of the organic phase and where rains are in
frequent and cold is encroaching. Last of all
is the earths moon, as already described. The
reason why the moon has become desert be-
fore the earth is, that it is forty nine times
smaller, and hence cools forty nine times quick
er. If any one, therefore. can just find when
the moon began to cool and how long time the
operation occupied, he can make an easy calcu
laton as to the length of our future and the
value of 999 years leases. The theory doe.
not precisely accord with the idea that we are
to be destroyed by heat, unless that be inter
preted in the negative sense Of destroying Us
by leaving us, and the present condition of the
Atlantic Ocean, or even nearer home, of Con
necticut river, does not seem to imply imminent
danger of lack Of water. Still with such q
prospect, even in the remote future, men car
laugh at the raging waters especially since
many of them, forestailing the disappearance
have already adopted a substitute for it as at
article of consumption and daily ueed.-Hart
ford EOnr1Nf
Year: 1873

The DaqJuy Ne,cs says 1t is little singu-
lar how well pair of boots can be made to fit
at the store. You may not be able to get your
foot only part way down the leg at the first
trial, but that is because your stocking is
sweaty, or you haven't started right, and the
shoemaker suggests that you start again and
stand up to it. and he throws in a little powder
from pepper box in to aid you. And so you
stand up and pound down your foot. and
partly trip yourself up, and your eyesistick out
in an unpleasant manner, and every vein in
your body appears to be on the point OF burst
ing and all the while that dealer stands around
and eyes the operation as lntently as if the
whole affair was perfectly new and novel to
him. When your foot has finally struck bot
tom, there is faint impression on your mind
that you have stepped into an open stove, bat
he removes it by solemnly observing that he


never saw boot fit quite as good as that.
You may suggest that your toe presses too
! hard against the front, or that some OF the
! bones in the side of the foot are too much
smashed, but he says this is always the way
with a new boot, ana that the trouble will en-
| tircly disappear in few days. Then you take
! the Old pair under your arm and start for home
rs animated as a relic of 1872. all the while


feeling that the world will not look bright and


happy to you again until you have Drained that


shoemaker You limp down town the next day.


and smile the while with your mouth, while


your eyes look as if you were walking over an


oyster bed barefoot. When no one is looking


you kick against post or some other obstrue


ton. and show fondness for stopping and


resting against something that will sustain
, your weight. When you get home at nigh
, you go for those old boots with an eagernes
5 that cannot be described and the remarks tha
5 you make upon learning that your wife ha
t disposed OF them to widow woman in tn
e suburbs, are calculated to Immediately depop
g renerallv
Year: 1873

NOT MATED.-Some families seem born to
ill-luck. The following tells of the experience
of family of girls in Maine: Four girls of
Augusta were married at the same time and
place about year ago One of them left her
husband three weeks after marriage. Her
excuse was that he insisted that she should
wash herself at least once a week. The second
got a divorce from her husband two months
after marriage because he called his mOther-in-


law "a id old meddng nuisance The
third has separated from her husband because
he eats raw onions. And the fourth has ap-
piled for divorce because her husband always
makes her GO to bed first, and then gets into
bed with cold feet, and warns them on her
calves! The chances in Maine for married
| happiness is not brilliant.
Year: 1873

A leading medical Journal says that sleeping
rooms should always be arranged, if possible;
so as to allow the head Of the sleeper to be
turned toward the north. Frequently, in cases
of sickness, person will find il impossible to
obtain rest if his head is in any other direction,
and often a cure is retarded for long time.
Year: 1873

A man up in Lehigh county is in guam
dairy. About FIVE years ago he had an omnibus
dream, and, being trihe superstitious, he
thought he was going to die: SO he purchased
a handsome and expensive coffin, which fit him
to st" He not only still lives, but he has
grown six inches taller since investing in that
puts bay window in the head, or knocks out
the foot board, he cannot lie down in it
straight, like respectable corpse should. He
is now undecided whether to enlarge his coffin,
and thus spoil its symmetry and beauty, or 70
have six inches taken off his legs. 1t is Q
"grave" affair, any way you look at it
Year: 1873

A "charm doctor" died lately in Buffalo,
and horseshoe. a stuffed frog, filbert nut
and an English shilling, all folded together in
cotton cloth, were found suspended about his
neck He was honest enough to believe in his
own medicines, at any rate.
Year: 1873

The old practice Of prescribing medicated
bacon for lung diseases is beginning to come
into favor again, which will give the graceful
pig chance to root out the prejudice under
which he has so long suffered.
Year: 1873

HEALTH AND TALENT.-It is no exaggera-
tion to say that health is a large ingredient in
what the world calls talent. A man without it
may be giant in intellect, but his deeds will
be the deeds of dwarf On the contrary, let
him have quick circulation, good digestion,
the bulk, thews and sinews of man, and the
alacrty, the unthinking confidence inspired by
these, and though having but tlimbleful of
brains, he will either blunder upon success or
set failure at defiance. 1t is true, especially in
this country, that the number of centaurs in
every cOmmunity-of men in whom heroic
inte llects are allied with bodily constitutions as
tough as those of horses-is small that, in
general, a man has reason to think himself
well off in the lottery of life if he draw the
prize of healthy stomach without a mind, or
the prize of fine intellect with a crazy
stomach But OF the two, a weak mind in a
herculean frame is better than giant mind in
a crazy constitution. A pound of energy, with
an ounce of talent, will achieve a greater result
than pound of talent with an ounce of energy
The first requisite to success in life is to be a
good animal. In any of the learned profess
slons vigorous constitution is equal to at least
| fifty per cent. more brain. Wit, Judgment,
Imagination, all the qualities of the mind,
| attain thereby force and splendor to which
they could never approach without it. But
intellect in weak body is like gold in spent
swimmers pocket" A mechanic may have
tools of the sharpest edge and highest polish
but what are these without a vigorous arm and
hand? OF what use is it that your mind has
become a vast granary of knowledge, if you
have not stength to turn the key ?-Getting on
az The World
Year: 1873

Last evening the Evening High School was opened
in the Thirteenth street school for the educational
year. The rush OF those who sought to be admitted
was very great and IL was evident that In point Of
popularity the year would be success. Several
members OF the Board OF Education were present
and took great interest In the proceedings. 1t
would appear that this course Of study Is exceed.
ingly difficult and the scholars must be very pro-
fcient to be able to enter.


The exercises began at halfpast seven and were
over little after nine. They were OF the usual
order OF such things and all worked as smoothly
II the school had been running along without stop
for years. Some strangers we're present. but not
many, and indeed, all gave evidence OF what a
thoroughly useful Institution the Evening High
Schn ia
Year: 1873

A resident of Atkinson (Me.l owns an
expensive dog. He killed nine sheep be-
longing to neighbor of his master; the
case went to the Supreme Court, and the
result was that the owner of the mutton
eating canine was compelled to pay 5000.
Year: 1873

The Railroad Committee of the Brooklyn
Common Council held another meeting last evening for
the purpose hearing the views Of citizens relative TO
the bill now before the Legislature providing for
motor the Atanuc-aye. Railroad W. ID. Snow and
others appeared. and opposed the bill on the grounds
that there nothing about the motor. and that
attempts making put the bill through the Legs
lature by false preenses. They claimed that If 1t
new and improved motive power II would not be wise
allow its the best commercial streets. and that
the Legislature had right TO pass the b IL would
give the railroad corporations authority To do ust
they pleased, independent OF Common Council restric
tiOns.


The Finance Committee resumed their investigation OF
the accounts Of the Eastern District Dock Master Pat
rick Clark last evening and took the testimony Of six
or seven merchants who used the docks last year and
paid the wharfage The whole amount returned 10 the
City Treasurer by Clark ti50 T.. Bergen produced
memorandum book previously referred TO- showing that
lie alone paid the Dock Master s5l 10 which was To be
added per cent for collection This he paId by checks
now In existence. The ship Mary Ann paid $40 day for
wharfage. She had cargo Of slaves, aud Obliged
70 dIseharge her cargo and reload again. as sbe had
sprpDg leak. Witness made bargain with Clark 70
Year: 1873

The performance of Der Freyschutzn last
night in Itahan was IN respects Of the most
creditable incidents of Mr.. Marezeks season There
was indeed evidence of particular IN the prepar
ations beray in the appointments but on the other
hand there was much less Of that conspicuous inefi-
cency in leading characters of the cast which have
had to lament 80 often under the present management
Not only Madame Lucca but NJ. Janet also admira-
ble and the Mar of Sig. Vizzan and the Anna of Miss
Doria were much above the ordinary of those two
painstaking artists. Madame Lucca's Agdthd is not
remarkable for picturesque action nor for any original
effects whatever and yet IL is highly impressive per.
sonation owing its strength entirely to the finished and
eloquent delivery Of two familiar numbers The first Of
course ia lthe prayer and OF the lid Act Come
una pold Tor in German Vie ndhte mir der Schinmer.
the first part of which sung with great expresso<
although truth TO say, cannot call IL specially
sympathetic. nor a very smooth example of the
cantable style. The joyous concluding portion OF the
scena, however, superb, aud the whole house
was reused by II. The second piece IN which
the prima donna has opportunity for display is the
beautiful prayer the IytA Act Sc e nubi (Und Ob
die Boie) which Madame Lucca makes even more ten
der and delicious than the first In the the opera
the part Of Agatha is remarkably undressing NJ.
Janet by far the best Cdspdr who has been seen at
our Academy Of Music for many years, and it wOuld he
unfair TO withhold word OF cordial praise from Sig.
Vzzam not only for his arla Per bOsehi (Durch die
WdIderl, but for his bearing generally throughout the
evening. And for the rest-well, Is 1t worth while TO
repeat the protests Of 20 many years against
the sepulchra wenlch and the gorgeous Reichardt Is
IL worth while to rail against the supernatural
machinery which always makes the lid Act OF this
opera ridiculousi The monsters were all therc-tbe
dragon with a blazing eye and a brokea tail the SOW
with Roman candle In her teeth, the goblin who could
be persuaded TO of the stage the skeleton
who refused TO he pushed there, too was the witch
in the air, who got disarranged midway OF the scene
and turned to the audience back OF palpable paste
board IL Is enough say that the Scene was rather
worse than usual, and the only reason the audience
did not laugh longer is that they were ehooked with
the smoke.


lFor Drama Senond Pag,l
Year: 1873

The Cincinnati express train on the Penn
sylvana road due Jersey City Tuesday night was
saved from frightfu disaster by young lady, who
discovered huge bowlder weighing about three tons,
lying across track and Immediately toward the
approaching train and signaled the engineer by waving
her shawl The affair took place at Bushs Curve, 90
miles from Jersey City.
Year: 1873

It is astonishing to see how the salmon crowd the rivers of northern California and Oregon, at the spawning season. The Indians then gather from a considerable distance, to spear and trap these fish, which they dry for winter use; and you will see at this season many picturesque Indian camps along the river. They set crotch of two sticks in salmon pool, and lay a log from the shore to this crotch. Upon this log the Indian walks out, with 8 verylong spear, two -pronged at the end, and there armed with two bone spear heads, which are fastened to the shaft of the spear by very strong cord, usu- ally made of deers' sinews. The In dian stands very erect and m really fine attitude,- and peers into the black pool until his eye catches the silver sheen of salmon. Then he darts, and instantly you see @ commotion in the water as he hauls up toward the surface a struggling twenty-five or thirty pound fish. The bone spear-heads, when they have penetrated the salmon, come off from the spear, and the fish is held by the cord. A squaw stands ready on the shore to haul him in, and he is beaten over the head with club until he ceases to struggle, then cleaned, and roasted on hot stones. When the meat is done and dry it is picked off the bones, and the squaws rub it to fine powder be- tween their hands, and ir this shape it is kept for future use. From one of these pools a dozen Indian spearmen frequently draw out four hundred sal mon in day, and this fish forms an i'm portant part of their food. Of course they kill a great many thousand female salmon during the season; but so far, l believe, this murderous work has not been found to decrease the number of the fish which annually enter the river from the ocean, and go up it's head waters to spaWn,
Year: 1873

This, when they wanted the rope low cred and I piped away, and then the rope stopped, and began to come down. I shouted to you to hold on and keep your heart up; but I don't think you heard me, for when your. face came in sight it was white, like death, and your eyes closed-bat you still holding on, till, as I say, you came within three feet of the floor, and then you gave quiver and fell and caught you in my arms, for you were in dead faint. Butwhat were you about, to let them draw you up like that ?"

 Then told him of my gymnastic feats. &

 "Oh, then, I suspect you shook the rope. That's the signal to pull up, and up they pulled, and never knew what sort of a load they were pulling up. The men are working double shifts now, and in hurry to get finished"

 When I left St. Paul's, I felt weak and nerveless, as if I had just gone through long illness. I couldn't start next morning, I was so upset and I have written this account of what hap pened to me, as sort of outlet to my feelings ; for don't think shall talk much about St. Paul's when I get home. ...e
Year: 1873

GARDEN TRucK.-A writer says city people do not know what it is to have fresh vegetables and fruits, as country people do. That is so. We live in the country ourself, says the Dan6awy Nesos, and we endorse this. We hope city people will mt it .hs when they to order for dinner. And we hope they will bear in mind that the stout looking man along side of them who is ordering in quantities is the country dealer, and that twenty-four hours after they have deyoured their stale vegetables and fruits, he is selling to us and other country people nice fresh fruits and vegetables, at an advance of 15 and 20 per cent. over what the unfortunate eity people paid the day before,
Year: 1873

My darling tries with all her art To hide young Love within her heart, But, prisoned in that tender nest, He frets and frets, and will not rest; And soon the little rogue I spy At play within her laughing eye. My darling tries with all her skill To bind young Love unto her will, But work such witchcraft as she may, The pretty rebel hath his way. lie decks her cheeks with bushes rare, And fingers in the dimples there; In glance and blush and smile spy All that my love would fain deny.
Year: 1873

.


tercsting 10 shipping Merchants.


Before Judge Benedict.


An important decision touching the rights OF
wharfage has just been rendered by Judge Bene-
dict Ii. ID. BoOkman and others brought action
against the canal boat Ann Ryan, her tackle, &C.,
to recover double wharfage, which presents va
rious questions to the effect OF the laws OF the
state Of New York on the subject OF wharfage and
the jurisdiction OF the Admiralty to enforce de-
mand OF this nature.


The Court holds that the general question as to
the Admiralty jurisdiction over demands for
wharfage must be decided IN the affirmative in ac-
cordance with previous decisions both OF this Court
and the Court OF Appeals and then proceeds to ex
anime he questions in this particular case. The
libellant computed his wharfage at Two cents per
ton according to the statute OF 1870 and bases his
demand Tor double wharfage on the first section
thereof The defendant claims that his vessel
comes within the exceptive clause OF that act,
which says that 'all canal boats navigating the
canals, &c, shall pay the same as heretofore" The
Court says the evidence shows that at the time she
used the ibeliant's wharf she was engaged in max.
ing voyages about the barbor and 10 New Jersey,
ana as the exceptive clause spoken of was
intended 10 favor canal navigation only,
she does not come within its purview. IL
was next conteDded that the statute re-
lied on was Unconstitutional because it was tax
on tonnage This, the Court holds. Is not So be-
cause wharfage charges are not duties bat con-
sideration for the use OF private property, which
pollcy, though that does not change the character
Of the Charge. In the absence of any
United states states ,,ns law on the subject the
regulations OF commerce. The last clause
provides that "any vessel leaving the wharf with
out paying wharfage, II demanded. shall be liable
TO double rates. and as the libelant proved de-
mand and departure OF the boat without paying
the single wharfage, this claim for double wharf
age IS good, Tor the jurisdiction OF the Admiralty to
enforce demand does not depend on It's origin,
but on its nature as derived from it's relations to
navigation The right to his lien follows as a mat
Ter Of course Inere must be decree for the
Year: 1873

ESSAY ON THE WHEELBARRoW.-I
YOU have occasion to use a wheelbar-
row, leave it, when you are through
with it, in front of the house with the
handles towards the door. A wheel
barrow is the most complicated thing
to fall over on the face of the earth.
Al man will fall over one when he never
would think of falling over anything
else; he never knows when he has got
through falling over it either, for it will
tangle his legs and arms, turn over with
him and rear up in front of him, and
just as he pauses in his profanity to con-
gratulate himself, it takes a new turn
and scoops more skin off him, and he
commences to evOfHte anew, and bump
himself on fresh places. A man never
ceases to fall over wheelbarrew until
it turns completely on its bacls, OF
brings up against something it cannot
upset. It is the most inoffensive look
ing object there is, but it is more dan


gerous than u locomotive, and no man
is secure with one unless he has q tight
hold of its handles, and is sitting down
on something. A wheelbarrow has
its uses, without doubt, but in it's leisure


moments it is the great bIighting curse


ON true dignity,-[ Danbury News.
Year: 1873

1t has been recorded by some anti
cOnnubial Wag that when two widOwers
were once condOling together OH the re-
cent death Of their wives, one of them
exclaimed with u sigh" Well may |
bewail my loss, for had so few differ
ences with the deceased that the last day
of my marriage was as happy as the
first There I sqrPass you said his
hanniGstfn
Year: 1873

A Georgia cOlOred preacher during
funeral sermon, lately, said: che ru-
inmates no longer among us; he have
exonerated from the syllOgisms Of this
worlds discrimination and when he
will meet him dar to row him over on dry
land to the silverstering city,
Year: 1873

A contented old gentleman of this city
has discovered that one can enjoy all the
advantages of the sea-beach without
going there. By placing Il large conch
shell to his ear he realizes the roar of old
ocean. He puts quantity of rock salt
in his bath, an operation superintended
by his cOlOred servant, who, having
formerly been a slave at the South, rep
resents the serf. Nothing can be more
COmplete:-FEX.
Year: 1873

A minister said he once preached q
very peculiar rsermOn-soothing stirring
and Satisfying. 1t was so soothing, that
the congregation went to sleep; so stir
ring, that the remainder left before he
had finished; and so satisfying, that
none of them ever came to hear him
again.
Year: 1873

ANashville paper says there was never
before such glorious crop of "pairs"
in that city us there has been this season.
Nearly every front gate is loaded down
with them on pleasant evenings.
Year: 1873

1t is stated that Horace +. Clark, Augustus
sche Jay Could and others interested in the Chicago
and Northwestern corner" who are still heavy
holders that stock alarmed at effort of the present
directors OF the Company TO issue large amounts
of new stock against the wishes OF the holders
IN this city are striving TO secure control OF
the sroad and thus put 1t out OF the power OF
the present direction, which is said 70 very little
stock TO interfere with their operations About Oct 80
OF last year tins attempt 10 issue new stock assumed
such a shape that Horace J.. Clark teleUaphed 10
Chicago for "A legal opinion to the power OF the
directors 10 make such issie Beyond the conversion
of the Peninsula bonds into Southwestern stock no
additional stock has been issued.


now reported that attempt will be made by the
holders mentioned above 10 set aside the classification
OF the Directors which prevails so largely in Illinois cor
poratIons and feature OF the Chicago and North
Western Railroad Company and 20 obtain the election or
a new and full Board OF Directors, instead OF "A small
portion which end legislation will be asked FOR at an
early date from the Illinois Legislature.