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Year: 1875

Jennie Junc's Correspondence, Blilim2re AmeIi-


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The sensation Of the week in the Illton- Beech
er case has been the unexpected appearance up
on the witness-stand Of the wct-nuise who lived
in Mr.. Tiltons house for the first three or four
months after the birth of the last child Ralpl.
Her evidence seems 10 have made itr impression
mainly from its sllddgnucsr, and because jC wa4
totally unlocked for. There Is really little in it,
and nothing at all that IL conclusive. In au or.
dInary case 1t would have been taken to niece4
IN moment, and the witness added to the long
list OF kev-hole a-sa-sns, who murder the rcpu-
tation OF people by the ASSISTANCE of their own
impure lnaglnatOns. Nothing could have been
more obviously false or absurd thau tho eXlrcs-
sion dear father, which she put into the mouth
of Mrs Illton when addressing Mr.. Beecler. 1t
IS the form N which an Irish Catholic girl would
naturally address the priest, but tls tile Gurthest
removed from the ordinary method Of address.
ing dear friends and there has been no other
evidence to show that Mr5. Tilton ever used it,
This slngularlty OF ltaef should have discredited
her Whole story All experience of trials more
over, in which domestic life is laid bare has
shown how much the supcliorz in social position
are at the mercy Of tie imagininga Of
their interiors and dependents. Having lit.
tie OF personal interest outside the family
every act collectively and Individually il ma
ter for continued talk SUSPICION and rul1uirc
nor Is it unnatural that the mistress tile house
should place herself under the ban of the kitchen
much more frequently than the MASTER Men a.
rule are very good to female servants few
would address them with half the blusgueness.
not to say brutality, with which they sometimes
favor their wives the wife is made responsible
for their shortcomings, aud it is to her tic harsh
language il addressed, which they provoke not
to them a fact which docs not Increase Eer am.
ability, but which mneasurably enhances
their idea OF their own importance in conlar-
son with her.


Then she is obliged to refom tile social dn
ties, she mas TO receive the callers and friends
and there are thousands OF ordinary circumstan
ces constantly occurring which, perfectly simple
and innocent of themselves, may be turned ana
twisted to an improper meaning, if there is one
sufficiently vile of heart and false of tonpuc to
do it, and add the sufficient dash of falselood to
make the story seem more like truth When
men commit Irregularities it ii usually outside
OF their own houses and beyond the ken of the
argns eyed damsels of the dining room and the
kltchen, but the wives are always at home. IN
der their surveillance, and women have tll,donlt
edly suffered as much from the petty domna
tion OF some despots Of the Kitchen who have
managed to worm themselves into the good ara-
ces of .the master of the household, as ever
prisoner did from spy, jailer and tyrant.
Year: 1875

Find fault civilly.
Never scold.


Never punish in anger.
Never give a command you do not
mean to have obeyed.
Never threaten.
Do right.


When you consent, do so cordially.
When you refuse, do so finally.
Command often.
Behave well yourself.
Act and speak as if all would behave
well.


Make strange if any one misbehaves'
Govern much by your eyes.
Study selfpossession.


Have few rules.


Anticipate misbehavior.
Let discipline be just and impartial.
Never give an unnecessary command
The best teachers are those under
whose blackboards we find most dust.
Year: 1875

Women are beginning to obtain new
privileges in Minnesota. At the late
election a large majority was given for
a constitutional amendment providing
that any woman of q years of age and
older may vote at any election for officers
of schools, or any measure relating to
schools, or any office pertaining to the
management of schools.
Year: 1875

They have found petrified Nor
mon in Utah, and from the number of
dents in the head, evidently made with
a poker and fat iron, it is judged that
he had at least thirty-three wives.-Nor-
ristoun Herald.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Mr. Butler, Of
Massachusetts,, introduced a resolution call
ing upon the Secretary Of the Treasury for
information as to whether the portraits Of
living persons have been engraved for the
purpose of printing them on the notes or
currency Of the United-States.


Mr.. Poland made majority report from
the committee appointed to investigate af-
fairs in Arkansas, recommending that no
action be taken in the case. The commit
tee conclude their report as follows;


The new Constitution we regard as Re
publican in form, and in many respects an
Improvement on that Of 1865. The COM
mittee are satisfied that the convention to
frame the Constitution and the CUnstitu-
tion itself, were voted for and are satisfac-
tory to a msjOrity of the voters and people
in the State. The State officers were
certainly elected by a majority Of the votes
cast, and we think by majority Of the
votes in the State. The condition Of the
State has been as peaceful since the new
government was inaugurated as it ever has
been. Themass ofthe people on both sides
are inclined to peace and good government,
and to allow all the enjoyment Of their
legal rights, but there is a class Of men, the
outgrowth OF the former state Of society,
who delight in disturbing and depriVing
the cOlored people and Northern people Of
their rights. These are young men who
cannot be restrained. This class Of men,
Year: 1875

TIE delights Of hunting iH OREGON de-
sCribed by an old hand: "GOing u the
mOuntaia side / espied big buck sand
ing by a FIR tree; i leveled my OIL gun,
which carries a half ounce ball; a. The
crack Of the gun, and as soon as the smoke
cleared away, l saw my deer lying az the
root Of the tree; ran up and cut its Tind-
pipe. As / was standing locking as my
deer kicking around, saw honey running.
out Of the tree where my bullet went in
/ was in a big hurry to find something 70
stick in the tree 70 stop the honey from
wasting. l grabbed down to geJ some
thing, and there was pheasant; ] grabbed
its head and Wrung it Od aEd stuck its
neck in the tree and stopped the honey
from wasting. After 1 had my deer fixed
up,I commenced looking for my pheasant;
when jerked its head of its body went
into band Of quails, and killed ten Of
them.n
Year: 1875

TIE idea of reputation is not the
idle fgment of a restless brain, but is
a something which has taken firm hold
on the minds Of many, and Is come to
be regarded as one Of the necessities
of the hour. Resolutions have been
offered. ave, bills have been carefully
prepared, presented, and printed which
mean simply repudiation. Honorable
Senators have told ne that they
were not only in favor Of the passage
OF such bills, but were elected on
platforms which advanced such
action. Leading gentlemen however,
from the other side Of the question,
tell me that the people Of the State do
not demand it, that IN no instance
where a repudiationist had opposition
was there one elected, and that only
those gentlemen who fought merely a
nominal opposition were chosen on
rgpudiation platform.--NoshUltLe Cor
Tettpondelaee Of the Louisville Courier
Journal
Year: 1875

DRAMATIC scene at the reading Of a
will. A rich dame who recently died at
an advanced age at FOntainebleau, left a
will containing, among others, a bequest
to her physician Of all the oiects contained
in an Olden oak chest Of her cabinet de tOi-
lette, for s'his elightened care and the sage
instructions which he had enabled her u
live to such an advanced age. aThere was
great cOmmOtiOn among the heirs when
this clause in the viii was read, and great
er curiosity to know Chat treasures had es-
caped them The notary handed the key
70 the doctor, who on opening the chest
found all the drugs and pOtiOns that be
had ordered for his patient during the
past twenty years.
Year: 1875

Whoever has studied the condition of
Spain or watched the course of events in
that country for the last year and half
will not be surprised at the collapse of
the Republic, and its fate was foregone
conclusion from the moment Serrano
ousted CASTELAR, and took the Government
into his own hands. 1t never had the
real support of the great body of the
Spanish people, while the nobility, the
aristocracy, the clergy, and large part
of the army were hostile to it from its
inception. 1t was the brilliant dream of
small number of men who were more
theoretical than practical in the charac-
teristics, and who would not even work
together six months without quarrelling ;
and their bubble broke at the first real
emergency. Spain had no material to
make a republic out of, and the history
of three hundred years has untitled her
for that form of government.


Rcpublicanism in Europe owes much
of its vitality and vigor to the character
and mistakes of its antagonists. The stuff
kings are made of is the strongest argll-
ment against the old monarchical mock
cry. Alfonso, who has just been pro-
nounced King of Sprin, is in his eighteenth
year. He is merely boy, and not over
bright or well informed at that. The
worst thing about him isthat he is the
son of his mother, who, unfortunately, is
the daughter of her mother. Serrano is
supposed to have the grounds for affec-
tionate interest in Alfonso that father
can have in his son but all claim to the
crown on the score of legitimacy is pre-
posterous. Nobody pretends that Alfonso
has drop of kingly blood in his veins,
But there is charm in the kingly title
which works magical effect on the ignorant
populace, and Serrano was astute enough
to see that the only hope of conquering
Carlism was in gaining the nation a
nominal king of some sort, and Alfonso is
merely the pasteboard mark behind which
he can do what he pleases without con.
tradiction. The new king un-
doubtedly will have the sanction of Ger
many, and all the crowned heads in
Europe will bid him welcome. The effect
of this change on the relations between
Spain and tho United States cannot be
calculated ut once. OF course it will de.
stroy all the sentimental delicacy grow.
ing out of sympathy for an infant sister
republic struggling into life. The Cuban
question will now have to be settled on
| its own merits, and our Government will
insist on having its rights, if it does not
interpose to stop the inhuman butcherie.
on that beautiful island.-Ne,o Yorl
| Gr0Dbic.
Year: 1875

An excellent illustration of the depos-
iton of frost may be obtained from the
frozen moisture so commonly found on
the inner surface of the panes of glass on
bedroom windows, when the tempera-
ture of the outer air is lower than thirty
two degrees Fahrenheit. The cause of
course is to be attributed TO the cooling
of the air in the room by the colder air
outside. Now, an exceedingly neat ex-
pertinent may be made, with but little
trouble, by which the effect of radiation
on the deposition of frost can be studied:
Cut out two small pieces of tin-foil, and
fix one on the inside of the window and
one OH the outside, observing to place
them on different parts of the pane, so
that they may not face each other. In
the morning it will be observed that the
deposit of frost is appreciably thicker
on the piece of tin-foil that is on the
inner surface of the pane than on the rest
of the window, while it is entirely want
ing on the portion of the glass covered on
the outside by the tin-foil. Clearly,
therefore, the inner tin-foil must have
made that part Of the glass under 1t
colder than the rest, and the outer foil
the portion under it warmer. The ex-
PLANTATION is as follows: Tin-foil is a
good reflector of heat, and, consequently,
a poor radiator. The foil on the inner
surface of the pane allows the glass be-
meath it to grow colder than the sur
rounding portions, by the protection it
affords to the heating of the glass by
radiation from the apartment, since 1t
reflects nearly all the heat of the apart
ment that would otherwise have passed
into the glass at this point. On the con-
trary, the foil on the outer surface of the
glass prevents the radiant heat Of the
apartment from escaping through the
glass at this point. The part 80 pro-
tected will consequently be warmer than
the rest of the pane, from the smaller
quantity of heat that it loses. The in
genuity of the interested reader will en-
able him TO vary these experiments in a
! variety of ways.
Year: 1875

hung up my stocking to the knob
Upon my chamber door,
And hoped TO have It nicely filed
As In the days of yore.
think IL Is crying shame


Old Sanity comes no morel
I'm sure like my candy-horn
As well as when boy
And could ride hobby-horse
And blow q trumpet toy,
Nor do yet deny myself


One single youthful Joy.
am not growing old IT'S falsel
I'm younger now than when
Upon a table battlefield


fought my mimic men.
I'm just as fond OF ginger-snaps
And cookies, now as then.
really think II is too bad,


Fer when Igo to see,
With faith In good st. Nicholas,
There Is not cen a tree
Upspringing through the parlor floor,
As there was wont TO be.
What have become Of hoops and tops,
OF marbles, balls and slcds,
And all the ruddy wax on dolls,
With tow upon their heads,
Who used to wink facetiously
From out their tiny beds?
Good Sanity has deserted me


For boys OF lesser size,
And though think II very hard
To miss the old surprise,
Perhaps, who knows? 1 am too old
And Nicholas Is wisei
Year: 1875

A SIMPLE decoction of the leaves OF
the chamomile will destroy all species OF
of insects, and nothing contributes so
much to the health of a garden as mum.
Der of chamomile plants dispersed
through it. No greenhouse or hothouse
should ever be without it, in green or
dried state; either the stalks or the
flowers will answer. 1t is a singular fact
that If plant is dropping and apparent.
ly in dying condition, 1t is estimated
that in nine cases out of ten, it will re.
cover and become healthy if you plant
chamomilc near it.
Year: 1875

Good ship, for far Australia
Sail with friendly wind
Bear joyful hearts within YOU,
Leave aching hearts behind
No storm alarm you,
No wild wind harm you.i
She sails for far Australia
And speeding on her way;
Flies DER the crested waters
Like ocean bird at play.
The bright moon glancing,
The bright waves dancing.
But 10 at sorry midnight
A mightier light than day
Bursts from the ship that madiy
Now plunges ON its way.
Up mast and sail go leaping
Red flames, when, all are sleeping.
Up through the open matches
The maddened wretches pour,
And fire fire everywhere
The wild flames lap and roar
No hope deserving;
God, what dying
And not TO far Australia
Sailed with happy wind
The goodly ship Cospatrick.
And hearts she left behind
Shall aye In aching
Mourn to their breaking.


-Graphic.
Year: 1875

THE Houses of Parliament-the House
of Commons and the House of Lords
stand close by the river at Westminster,
with the Abbey in the rear. Probably
you will be more pleased with them than
with the other buildings that you have
seen in London. For, while they are large
and imposing, they have sort of airy
grace, which is produced by numerous
towers, spires and abundant scroll-work.
To what can | compare them? They
seem so finely wrought that they might be
woven of lace instead of stone, and they
realize all ones ideas ofa palace, even OF
fairy palace. At night, too, when the Par
lament is in session and all the windows
stream forth light, they are still more
beautiful and still more inviting to the
fancy, The interior is also exquisitely
grand; and this is the great legislative
hall where the Queen, the Lords and Com
mopers meet in council to frame laws for
the people.


Westminster Abbey is much older and
nobler building than the Houses of Par
lament Within its walls rest the re-
mains or monuments of all those English
men who have distinguished themselves
by brave deeds in peace and war. " Vic
tory or Westminster Abbey!" cried Lord
Year: 1875

THE st. Albans (Vt.) Register tells the
following story of a remarkable aAatomi-
cal phenomenon:


Recently very valuable horse be-
longing to Mr.. Gaylord, ofBrookfield, was
thrown down by a rolling stone in the
road, while on the road to Randolph Cen
ter. After striking the ground the horse
turned complete somersault landing on
his head toward the carriage. The horse
gained his feet and began feeding. For
week he seemed perfectly well, and was
driven as usual, going to West Randolph
and to Washington IN the time and doing
ordinary farm work, and working on a
moving machine. A week after the acci-
dent the horses head began to droop, and
signs of disease to appear. 1t continued
to eat well, and twelve days after the acci-
dent died suddenly. DR.. S. E. Root and
another physician were summoned to ex-
whether its death was the result Of the
accident or not. Upon examination
it was found there was fracture of
both the fourth and fifth vertebr9 of the
neck. From the fourth piece was
broken off about two inches long, one inch
wide, and nearly half an inch thick, and
from the fifth piece about half as large.
Also piece about three-fourths of an inch
by an inch was scaled from the body of
the fifth, and many fine fragments were
found in the wound. There was no ex-
ternal wound The spinal cord was not
broken into by the fracture, but irritation
had finally set up inflammation in the
membrane of the cord, and this caused the
death of the horse
Year: 1875

SOME time ago a gentleman, speaking of
a farmer in this ncighborhood, said he was
a lucky man, for whatever crop was the
highest in the market it always happened
that he had cultivated largely of that par
ticular article that season and succeeded
in raising a good crop. He said that if
anything the man did not appear to have
even as much intelligence as his neigh
bors, but by sheer luck he was getting
rich, while many others could hardly hold
their own.


A couple of weeks ago we rode by this
mans farm and were struck with the su-
periOr excellence of the shocks in his wheat
field, and few days since we found that
grain in stack and the stubble already
turned under. We therefore came to the
conclusion that his success was not the
result of luck, but Of industry and the ap-
plication of brains to his business. He
may not understand the currency question
or be able to solve intricate theological
problems, but he certainly does know
when and how to do the work on his farm
a little better than some of his neighbors
who put on more airs. They may have
the heaviest brains, but he puts his to
work where they will do the most good.
They may really know the most, but he
puts the most of what he knows in praC
ticc He does not work as much as some
others, but carefully considers beforehand
how, when and where his efforts and those
of his hands can be spent to the best adj
vantage; and the consequence is that so
little of his labor is lost that in the end he
accomplishes much more than the mere
plodder.


From all of which we draw this moral ::
First of all, put your brains in your bust
ness and learn how, when and where to
do; and secondly, do what you know is
best. For instance, if you know that it is
best to SOW fall grain early try to SOW dur
ing August if possible, instead of waiting
as you generally do till the last of Septem-
Der and October, and then curse your
"luck' when it winter er-kills.-Nanhattan
(han.) Nati0naltst.
Year: 1875

The Roman Catholics during the past
month, for the first time, celebrated mass
in the State Prison at Charlestown, Mass,
as the last Legislature passed law pro-
viding that no prisoner should be denied
the liberty of worship according to his
own conscience,
Year: 1875

AN English boy was fatally injured
through an act of carelessness not at all
infrequent among farmers and their boys
in this country He was sliding down
the side of hay-stack, when he struck
upon the prongs of a pitchfork leaning
arainst the stack. One prong entered his
hack and broke off, leaving six inches of
steel imbedded in his body.
Year: 1875

The London correspondent of the Liver
pool Courier writes to that journal: " Tt
has been limited from time to time that one
of our wealthy London journalists has
"under consideration" the practicability of
printing its sheets in several of the great
towns simultaneously, in order to secure a
distribution of it's copies as early as the
various local journals which are so fast de-
preciating the circulation and once para
mount influence of their London cotem-
poraries. How can this staggering feat be
accomplished? The leading Journal had its
attention drawn some weeks ago to an
electric machine in operation at the London
Stock Exchange, by which the fuctuating
quotations are teleglaphed to number of
city Offices, where an instrument, composed
Of movable figures on q dial-plates, is made
to record changes from hour to hour. Tf
an electric current can be made to manip-
ulate movable figures, it was conceived
that a system of mechanical type-setting
might be carried on simultaneously in a
number of distant places, the operation
being directed from a central Office in Lon
don ; the news being there collected from
all parts of the world, and that the g copy''
might be put in type at several provincial
offices simultaneously by operating on an
electric keyboard, or a number of key
boards, controlled in the central Office.
Year: 1875

\ man and his wife, seeking to break
themselves of a habit Of fretting and scold-
ing, entered into an agreement of this
nature: The one who first lost temper
with the other or with the children was to
be published as ''scold." The medium
through which this humiliating intelligence
was to be communicated to the world was
not specified in the contract, but the hus-
band understood that it was to be through
the Bransaeicker. The wife nearly bit the
end of her tongue off the first days trial,
swapping up the harsh words which tried
to escape her lips. But both were dismally
peaceful until the afternoon of the second
day, when the husband flew into passion
imply because one of the children polished
his stockinged feet with blacking brush
while he was taking his usual nap. At
the first burst of anger, his wife quietly
arose and put on her bonnet.


"Where are You going? he inquired
suspiciously.


TO publish you," she replied.


"oh, well, go ahead the boys at the
office won't give me much of blast.'
p But Pm not going to the printing
office.''


"Where, then ?" he asked in surprise.


"To the sewing society,""
. That brought him to terms, and long and
he begged her not to make his
weakness known throughout the length
and breadth of the land. Finally, in con-
sideration of new silk dress, by him to be
delivered, she agreed to let him off. But
it was a narrow escape.-1Ae Brunsosekeg.
Year: 1875

say, can you see by the dawn's early light
What proudly We hailed at the twilight's last
cleaning P


Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the per-


ious fight.


Der the ramparts we watched were SO gallantly


streaming!


IND the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air
ave proof through the night that flag still


there;


, say. does that star-spangled banner yet wave
Der the land of the free and the home of the brave
On that shore dimly seen through the mists of tbs


deep,


Where the foes naughty host in dread silence re-


poses,


What is that which the breeze, DER the towering


steep,


IS it ftfully blows now conceals now discloses?
Now it catches the CLEAN of the mornings first beam
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
T is the spanged banner o long may it wave
Der the land of the free and the home of the brave
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battles confusion
home and country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed ont their foul footsteps pol


luton.
No refuge sould save the hireing and slave
From the terror OF flight or the gloom OF the grave
And the star-spanged banner in triumph doth wave
Der the land of the free and the home of the brave
0, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the wars desoa.


ton!
Best with victory aud peace may the heaven-ressued


land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us


nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it lie just,
And this be our motto In God is our trust p;
And the star-spanged banner in triumph shall wave
Ger the land of the free and the home of the brave