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Year: 1876

hind the scenes before the show begins
and furnished by the lady of the house
with a minute description of the salient
points of the reception, wedding, din
ner-party, or whatever it may be. This
is done in order to avoid mistakes
which, in the days of laundering male
jenkins, were sometimes very embar-
RAISING. Not few write accounts of
their entertainments themselves, and
send them to the local newspapers,
when jenkins fails to put in an appear
ance-any thing rather than to fail of a
notice. The men are as vain and fool
ish about these things as the women.
l have seen a grave-looking Congress
men go up to jenkins at a reception
and give him description of his wife's
toilet, and then spell his own name and
that of his beloved carefully, SO that
there should be No mistake about it.
Year: 1876

A preacher took up collection on
Sunday and found, when his hat was
returned, that there wasn't penny
in it. Il thank my God" said he
turning the hat upside down and tap
ping the crown of it with his hand,
"that I got my hat back from this
congregation
Year: 1876

An upper and lower mill


Fell out about their water:
To war they wcnt-that is, to law
Resolved to give no quarter.
A lawyer was by each engaged,
And hotly they contended;
When fees grew slack, the war they


wagcd,


They judged were better ended.
The heavy costs recurring still
Were settled without bother
One lawyer took the upper mill,
The lower mill the other.
Year: 1876

At the marriage Of an Alabama
widower one of the servants was asked
if his master would take bridal tour.
Dunno, sab; when old missu's alive
he took paddle to her; dunno If he
take bride to de new one or not.
Year: 1876

\ Western editor is preparing a
list Of delinquent subscribers to send
to Moody and Sankoy for prayers.
Ii successful we guess We will do the
same thing with some who have been
taking the CLARION a long time.
Year: 1876

The paper of DIR. @. J. Blake, read
before the American Social Science
Association, on the method by which
teachers should ascertain defects of hear
ing in their pupils, calls attention to the
importance of recognizing the existence
of class among school children for
whom special provision in the way of
education must be made This was
shown by the fact that out of 8,715
cases of ear disease, accompanied by i'm.
pairment of hearing, 2,175, or twenty
five per cent. were children under
fourteen years of age, these statistics
being taken from children in public
schools; also that in about twelve per
cent. there was an existing aural disease
an enable to treatment. In the opinion
of the writer the seriousness of the con-
dihon of schools in this respect was not
great enough to justify the resort to an
additional department to the schools.


The instruction of partially deaf chill
dren in school set apart for them was
Objectionable and unnecessary for
number of reasons, but if they be re-
tanned in the schools with other children,
it became necessary to rate them accord
ing to degree of individual disability, in
order thai proper allowance might be
made for their defective hearing. To
this end careful examination should be
made in each case, to determine the de-
gree of deafness as tested by the dis
tance at which the voice of the teacher
can be heard in ordinary conversational
tone, and again by the pronunciation of
consonant tones. These tests could be
made by the teacher, and the following
directions for making them were given:
The teacher should always occupy, in
testing the different cases, the same po-
sition, preferably the rostrum or seat
usually occupied by him in school hours.
He should speak in the same tone of
voice used in the schoolroom exercises.
The child to be tested should be placed
in front of the teacher and at the ex-
treme limit of the furthest line of seats,
and gradually advanced toward the
teacher at certain intervals, the tests
being repeated until point is reached
Mt which the child can hear distinctly


This point should determine the place
the child should occupy in the school
room. The ears should be tested sep
arately, the ear to be tested being turned
toward the teacher, while the other is
artifcially closed. The child should be
required to repeat distinctly the words
as he hears them. The paper strongly
recommends the establishment of med
ical supervisor of schools; the post to
be occupied by competent physician
who had made the matter of school
hygiene study, and his whole time to
be devoted to the duties of his position.
Year: 1876

Professor Clerk Maxwell says: The
mean energy in one cubic foot of sun
light is about 00000000882 OF q foot
pound, and the mean pressure on a
square foot is 0. O.0000000882 of pound
weight. A fiat body exposed to sunlight
would experience this pressure on its
illuminated side only, and would there
fore be repelled from the side upon
which the light falls. Calculated out,
this gives the pressure of sunlight equal
to about two and a half pounds per
square mile. Between the two and half
pounds deducted from calculation and
the fifty-seven tons obtained from exper-
iment, the difference is great, but nc
greater than is often the case between
theory and experiment.
Year: 1876

The idea of saving gas is getting to be
little less than mania with some of our
city officials.


What are you coming home at this
hour for9" asked the wife of one, as he
came stumbling in at six o'clock. the
morning after torchlight reception.


Oaush, my DEAR" was his naive re-
ply, 81 dim want to come in the MI.
but wait til morn'-ter save 'er gas. YOU
shee."


She couldn't see it in that light, and
told him SO as sheled him into the house
by the ear.
Year: 1876

The cooler weather has not leSsencd the
migration from town to country i'll any per-
ccptible degree. With the first days of August
begins the season of stated holidays for sala-
ried men and women, and they are not going
to he cheated out of their annual fortnight of
fun or rest by any illtimed tumble in the
thermometer. The fshing-posts along the
beach and inets swarm with young mus
tached clerks, nautical from shirt to shoe-tie,
clergymen of the more muscular sort, grizzly


haired old fellows in trade or the law. whose
one fragment Of romance and youth is tho
Year: 1876

Much time was wasted yesterday in the
House in speech-making over the dead issues
of the war. AT the close OF this display OF
pyrotcchncs the House proceeded TO business
and passed by an overwhelming vote the
Blaine amendment TO the Constitution. which
is designed to check the sectarian use OF school
funds. The vote in the House foreShadows an
equal popularity when the measure Is put be-
fore the State Legislatures.
Year: 1876

The season for camp meetings has now fairly
opened. In recent years this class of religious
exercises has been fully organized, and as now
conducted they mostly preserve all the good
and avoid all the bad features which formerly
characterized them. The correspondence on
our ninth page describes the meetings at Shelter
Island and Ocean Grove.
Year: 1876

Although Sitting Bulls plan of campaign is
as vet a matter of conjecture, it is quite clear
that he has the alternative Of retiring to a
very strong position in the Big Horn Noun
tains. A letter from Washington sketches with
some detail the obstacles ard dangers that our
troops may have to encounter
Year: 1876

Lord Dcrby's views on the Eastern question
are clearly stated in the official papers, sum
morized in our London letter. What said
tbc Russian Embassador to him last month
is the drift and Object of British policy 7 "
The British Foreign Minister replied, in
effect that he was disposed to let the fight go
On, and give no advice until either side was
beaten. This cold, passive policy Lord Derby
still pursues but he does so probably as much
from necessity as from choice.
Year: 1876

The refusal to grant an injunction against
the further construction of the East River
Bridge, Oh the ground that it will require the
lowering of the topmasts of score OF vessels
annually, will be recognized as just, and it is
to be hoped it viii put an end to a very idle
controversy which is retarding most impor-
tant public work. The decision of Judge Sedg-
wick in the Gilbert Elevated Railway case
Year: 1876

The people of France, notwithstanding
the brlliancy and wit supposed to be char
actell>tlc of them, are not Il well educated
people. There are over So per cent Of the
population above six years of age who can
| neither read nor write. OF the population
| over twenty years of age, nearly one half
can neither read nor write
Year: 1876

Wc wrote several articles 10 show the
importance Of the walking gait, aud to say
that Inducements should be offered for
fast walking by agricultural societies; and
we are pleased to see that some Western
and few Eastern societies have offered
such prizes. We Americans are much
inclined to run to extremes, and fora few
years the trotting gait has been talked Of
almost as the only desirable thing about a
horse, whereas this gait has about the same
relation to the general usefulness Of the
horse as the cut Of mans coat has to its
durability. This may, perhaps, be con-
sidered an exaggerative Illustration, but
there is only small fraction Of the TO-
100000 horses in this country whose use.
falness depends upon trotting at all. The
great use Of horses must be found 10 the
walking gait; and when almost the whole
consideration is given to trotting, it only
shows the tendency Of the American peo-
pie to monomania We have an admira-
tion for fast trotter as we have for
good picture. but We should not allow this
incidental quality of the horse to divert
attention from those points that make up
this great value. The tulip mania was

not more absurd than that of elevating the
trotter above all other horse flesh.


We want horses that can walk five miles
per hour, and this class of horses are Of
immensely more importance than the trOt-
ter. This walking gait can be improved
as rapidly as the trotting gait; and If ag-
ricultural societies win take this matter in
hand, aud offer half as much for the fast
est walker as they have done for the fastest
trotter, it will increase the average walk
one mile per hour in five years. The
Spirit Of the Times seconds this movement
and says;


II is positive luxury TO ride or drive
a horse that can walk off with you at the
rate Of five miles au hour. 1t is such
relief to feel, when you ease up your horse
from his swinging trot, or lope, that you
are yet making respectable progress. For
our own private use on the road, the walk
is the gait which We prize above all others,
and anything which promises to increase
the number of fast walkers shall receive
our hearty encouragement -StockJornol
Year: 1876

Now we have had to do with the fact
that Chinese as immigrants are unlike
any other. They come like locusts and
90 like them They do not come to de-
vslop wealth, but they come to carry it
off. The industrial economy OF this
people enriches no country but their
own. As immigrants, therefore, they
cannot be put on the same basis as the
immigrants of any other country. New
er before in the history of Anglo Saxon
civilization was there such an imrni-
grafton as this. Never before did a
people come to a western country in
clouds, with the declaration: We want
nothing but your money; we have no
interest in your institutions; if you
convict our criminals you pay the costs:
we will not even give our bones to en-
the thousand Chinese landing to-day or
tomorrow which touble thoughtful cit
liens SO much as the momentum of this
ing. A few thousand Chinese would
create little anxiety. But the ultimate
fact is that a strong immigration like
this will not only embarrass many indus
tries, but it will poison other and better
sources of immigration.


Do the Chinese spread over the coun-
try, take up farms, and build school
houses. highways and bridges ? They
do nothing of the sort for themselves.
They represent a totally different indus
trial economy, and one which never can
be naturalized in this soil. Thisis the vital
difference. Nothing can be done with
such an immigration. The Chinese
immigrant, because he does not belong
to this country, and never will, can con
front the white immigrant with the fact
that by bringing his peculiar customs
he can live at halt the cost and work
for less wages. He is willing to suffer
that at no distant day he may gather ur
his gains and depart. 1t is impossible
to pour two streams of immigration &c


unlike as these into one country ane
make both alike contribute to its pros


perity. One must increase and tht
other decrease.
Year: 1876

The Worthington Journal says:


..Our reporter went down to Mr.. Sut>
toms Okabena Mill last night to witness
the operation Of generating steam by the
use Of slough hay. Yesterday was spent
in preparing the furnace for the recep>
ton Of the pressed bales Of about one
hundred pounds each. The fire was
started about five o'clock ,and the engi>
neer reported sixty pounds of steam in
sixty minutes-fully as quick as that
amount OF steam could be raised with the
best wood and coal. It has been found
that one ton will last four hours-six tons
per day. It is, of course. too soon to
give an exact estimate of the cost of this
kind of fuel, but enough is known al
ready to demonstrate that it is more
economical than either wood or coal.


eve congratulate Mr.. Sutton on his
success, in solving this question, and we
are glad, too, that market is found at
our own doors for our superabundant
prarie grass


Hay and straw are being extensively ly
used in the great prairie regions OF
Iowa and Minnesota for fuel. They cost
less labor to prepare than wood, even
where wood is abundant; and where it
is not, they constitute an excellent sub
Stitute.
Year: 1876

reference to the public veal. By the
lavish use Of money at the drinking SAL
oons, and the false issues dwelt upon by
paid orators, the industrial classes have
been intoxicated to such an extent as to
be oblivious to that phase OF the cam
paign in which their own interests are
wrapped up. The leaders in these con-
flicts use strategey to accomplish their
ends. Anything to overcome opposition
or defeat the enemy is their motto.
When they succeed, the spoils of Office
must reimburse for the wastes of defeat
or the costs of success. To divert atten-
ton from the objective point they seek,
one industry is not unfrequently arrayed
against another, while few prominent
ones from the several industries are
brought in to participate in the profits of
the ring. Thus, by creating stampede
down an old beaten trail. the money-pow-
ers hasconducted another campaign and
received the votes of the peoble to secure
them in their ill>gotten gains.


The interests of this power were
most prominent on both sides, so that, no
matter which should win their purposes
would be served. The great multitude
of producers have been vanquished by
the superior organization, equipment and
skill of their natural enemies-the money
lenders. The South has been led to
believe that political power is what she
most needs; whereas, the facts is that
plenty of money, at low rate ofinterest
would revive her prosperity and render
happy and contented her people.


The North has been persuaded that her
chief interest lay in preventing the polit
ical success of the South; whereas the
great question that underlies all indus
trial activity both North and South, with
out which commerce must languish anc
decay and civilization retrograde, ha'
been ignored and set at naught."
Year: 1876

We have always favored legal pr0hib.-
ton. anc in spite of the wretched b0tch
that has been made of it by intriguing poll
ticians and hot-headei advocates. who are
ever ready to assume tue - management ol
any reform that may be before the public,
we favor it still. We believe that the
principle stands good in reason and in
statute both, and doubt If there ever was i
time when it was so needed as it Is to-day
in those villages and cities where the Re
form Club movement has been working out
salvation to the Incorporate. For no man
needs Just the protection that legal prOhihI
tion, and, so far as We see. legal prohihi-
ton alone, can give him, so much a. he who
is striving to escape the terrible fascination
OF strong drink. Then it is that the oppoI-
tunity OF buying what his Unsuitable appe-
tite Graves is fraught with a peril to his
soul. To banish the sight and smell OF IL
quor from the streets to shut up the drink
ing shops where he has been accustomed to
resort; to put the ban of law and penalty
upon that which he is fighting, helps IN hls
battle beyond what one who has not watch
sd the conhict between the higher nature Of
a drunkard can imagine. To such a per
son thus placed, legal prohibition stands
forth il a light in which the average politi-
clan has never contemplated 1.-THE light Of
God-send.- W. H. H. Murray
Year: 1876

home. When sued him, and the case came
up in court, the judge instructed the jury
that the evidence that leg belonged to
man was that he had it, and as Barclay had
this leg, the presumption was that it was
his. But no man was ever known to have
three legs and as Barclay thus had three,
the second presumption was that it was not
his. But as Gum did not have it, the law
could not accept the theory that it was
Gums lee, and consequently the law couldn't
tell who under the sun the leg belonged to,
and the jury would have to guess at it. So
the Jury brought in verdict against both
of US, and recommended that in the uncer-
tainty that existed the leg should be buried.
The leg was lying during the trial out in
the yestibule of the court room, and We found
aiterward that during the trial Bill Woods
dog had run off with it, and that settled the
thing. Queer, wasn't it, Philadelphia
BitAtfiR
Year: 1876

b. II. BRIsrow Judge Ballard, of the
United States district court for Kentucky,
an appontee of President Lincoln, man
Of very high character, and one of the
original emancipatiOnists Of his State, says
Of Secretary BristOw


| have known BristOw well for fifteen
years, and have been intimate with him
most Of this time. | feel therefore that
can speak with great confidence of the
qualities both OF his mind and heart. Allow
me, then, to say that he POSSESSES clear,
comprehensive intellect and a sound jadg
ment, and that for uprightness and purity
of character no man living surpasses him.
When | first became acquainted with him
he was, as his father before him had been,
an emancipationist. lie was then colonel
in the service of the United States, and thus
bore testimony as well to his patriotism as
to the depth and sincerity of his conviction.
lie has always been the enemy of
slavery, and, in my opinion, he Is As true
Republican as can be found in the land.
1t would give me great pleasure to see Mr..
Adams President of the United States, but
more than doubt whether he can be elected.
1t will he difficult for the Republicans to
elect any man: but. if they are TO succeed,
| am persuaded it is to be done By select
ing as their candidate some man not only
distinguished for intellect and purity of
character, but one who is in some sense
the represcn tative of purity-the embodied
opposition of corruption. No fair mind can,
| think, doubt that that man is Bristow,
for certainly he. of all the prominent Re
puhlieans in the cnuntrv stands most ifen-
tilted with efforts to expose corruption, and
to bring swindling officials to justice. The
purity OF his life is known to all of his
acquaintances, and it has now been attest
ed to the whole country by the wicked and
vain efforts of his enemies and rivals to
assail it.
Year: 1876

1t is said now that it is not the thing to
make long call on lady, and, to obviate
any danger Of their straying too late, most
of our conscientious young men arrange with
the milkman to rap on the parlor window
mornings when he comes sround.-Nor-
,rich Bulletin
Year: 1876

TROUBLE AT THE FATR-GRoUNDs YEsrER-
DAY-A C0LoRED MAN Twice SHor BY Mr..
JOHN CARR.-About half past 4 O'Clock yes
terday evening, while the races at the Fair
Grounds were in progress, a cofored man
named Henry Gaines was shot twice by Mr..
John Carr. Carr was employed as watch
man to keep men and boys from climbing
over the fence and to preserve order. Du-
ring the afternoon he had trouble with se-
yerai parties who insisted on coming in
free, and he had to 60 outside and drive
away some OF the unruly ones.


Carr stated after the shooting that Gaines
got over the fence ind was making his way
towards the crowd, when he was discover
ed and driven back; and that after getting
outside he used abusive language and made
threatening demonstrations.


One person said he saw Gaines have pis-
tol In his hand. Carr, standing upon the
middle rail of the fence, shot at him twice.
One ball took effect in the stomach, and the
other in the left OF the forehead. DR.. Cul-
len was summoned to the relief of the suf-
fcrer, and after an examination OF the
wounds pronounced them not dangerous.


Gaines was put in wagon, and in charge
Of Policeman George w. Epps was removed
to his home, on Baker street.


Carr was walking off across the field, cut
ting at the blades Of grass with cane, in an
unconcerned manner when he was over
taken by Captain Charles FL. Epps. He was
not disposed to be very communicative
about the affair, and had no weapon on his
person. He was carried to the Third sta
tion-house and locked up. There he was
visited by number of friends.


Justice Isbell consented to admit accused
to bail in the sum of $1,000 inasmuch as
Gaines's wounds were thought to be of no
great consequence.


A reporter of this paper visited Gaines at
his home last night, and found him in bed,
suffering considerably from the wound in
his head. The other didn't seem to trouble
him so much. He declared that Carr shot
him without provocation; that it was true
he had gotten over the fence and gone in
side the grounds, but that he had the per-
mission of Mr.. Carr to get some water
from the pump, and that after getting
the water he promptly retired from the
grounds. Somehow Carr followed him, ac-
cording to his account, and provoked n
quarrel and shot him. Gaines asserts that
he was wholly unarmed; that he had done
nothing to arouse Carr's ire; and that he
was within three or four feet of Carr when
the latter pointed the pistol down at him.
Evidently Gaines did not tell everything.
He was not candid. He seemed to bear but
little animosity towards Carr.


Carr until lately kept saloon on Frank
lin street opposite metropolitan Hall. Some
months ago he was before the courts for
shooting woman of the town, but got off
through her entreaties.


Gaines is plasterer by trade, and is about
thirty years of age.


Carr will 60 before the Police Justice this
morning, but will probably not be exam
ined, as Gain rs cannot possibly be present.
Year: 1876

DEMOLITION OF A CHURCH BUILDING
The work OF taking down the house OIL the
corner of Broad and Twenty.ffth streets,
formerly used as place OF worship by the
members of the Third Presbyterian church,
is being rapidly pushed forward. Work
was to have been commenced on the new
structure, Broad and Twenty-sixth streets,
on Monday, but as the subject Of grading
Broad street eastwardy from Twenty-tifth
is under consideration the building COM
mittee of the church have thought it best
to wait until the grade is established. The
Joint Committee on Streets OF the two
branches of the Council and the City EnSi-
neer win meet on the ground tomorrow
afternoon, and determine whether or not
the street shall be graded, and fix the lines
Of cutting and filling should they decide to
alter it.
Year: 1876

The HEBREW MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION =
The ladies Of the above-named Association
on yesterday paid their annual tribute to the
memory Of the departed brave Of their
faith.


The beautiful section which is the resting
place of Hebrew Confederate soldiers was
made one glowing mass of flowers, as, in
fact, were ell the graves OF soldiers through
out the cemetery.


The ladies were kept busily employed in
receiving and distributing the many floral
gifts OF their friends, and they express
thanks to all who so literally aided them in
their labor of love.