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Year: 1870




s. The Emperor Mapo-
leon stakes his dynasty on success.
no one knows better than he that
sn such an enterprise, begun in
despite of European opinion and
e1ainst the remonstrance of his
nearest ally, the only safety lies
ina series of brilliant victories,
followed by a triumphant peace.
To extort such a peace from any
ffst clas State is a work which
may test the highest qualities of
General and army; but when it
can only be won by trdmpling On
He neck of q nation of forty millions
s5e enterprise IS hazardous indeed.
Tie Germans, on their side, nell
knopo that to yield a0ould be political
rain. What they lose they can neU-
er reooUer; the position they ac-
cept at the close of such a war
hey can never escape from. The
war is for the Rhine, which has
for centuries been the avowed OBJ


iect of French ambition. If the
French succeed in conquering it
and holding it under a treaty of
peace there is not the smallest
hope that it could ever be won
again by Germany. The left
bank would become as indisputa-
bly, incorporated with France as
Alsace, and the territory of the
defeated and once more divided
Fatherland would be permanently
curtailed. Can it be supposed
that a nation which sees in the
future the possibility of a loss so
overwhelming will not strain every
nerve in defense Of its safety, we
might almost say its existence ?
Every German has passed his life
in pondering on the very strug.
gle, which has come at last. At
last! after being threatened by
France as long as each man can
recollect, in speeches and essays,
in plays and rhymes, in the con-
versation of high and low. The
Germans. on their part, have been
singing about the Rhine as long as
they can remember with display
of patriotism which would make
any section OF the people ludicrors
and despicable to their country
mans eyes and their own if they
held aloof from the present con-
flict. What is passing is what
might have been expected. The
South German States stand by
the national flag which is held
aloft by Prussia, and the feeling
at Vienna, and in the German
provinces of Francis Joseph is al
ready such that a court with
French sympathies will have to
conceal them carefully, if not
abandon them altogether.
Year: 1870

An experienced physician has
discovered, in the course of long
and varied practice, that every
one wishes to go to heaven; also,
that most people are willing to
take a great deal of very disa-
bic medicine first.
Year: 1870

A gentleman who went to q
down town theatre, in New York
a few nights ago, left his watch,
chain, purse, etc, at home for fear
he might be robbed or garroted
on his way there or back. When
he got home he found the house
had been entered and all his sill.
yer, jewelry and valuables of ev-
cry description had been carried
OF. He says: "How is a fellow
to know what to do?"
Year: 1870

A young German paid the ex-
penses to this country of Ger
man girl whom he intended to
marry. At Pittsburg she discard
him for an American lover, and
now he sues her for $205, which
it cost him to bring her to this
country. Among the items in
the bill were the passage money,
pay for 4 tickets to the New York
theatres, and sundry bottles of
wine and glasses of good old lag
er beer The bill was afterwards
reduced and the second lover paid
it.
Year: 1870

The Louisville Courier-J0otrnal
is responsible for the statement
that General Grant is said to
have had an endless chain of pleas
ures at Long Branch. 1t consis-
ted of taking a drink every fifteen
minutes and then sitting in the
shade and wondering if it wasn't
almost time to take another"
Year: 1870

The surest way to speedily
raise a largerevenue, according to
a horrid crusty old bachelor, is,
to tax every mans smartness and
every woman's beauty, and let
each state the quantity.
Year: 1870

"See, here, Grips, I understand
you have superior way of curing
hams. / should like to learn it. J"
"Well, yes, l know very well how
to cure them but the trouble
with me just now, is to find out
a way to procure them y
Year: 1870

An Iowa clerk has been in the
habit of weighing out powder
while smoking cigar. His last
experience in that line lost him
his situation. The funeral was
quite generally attended by friends
of the deceased.
Year: 1870

HoPE AND COURAGE. True hope is
based on energy of character. A
strong mind always hopes, and has
always cause to hope, because il knows
the mutability of human affairs, and
how slight circumstance may change
the whole course Of events. Such a
spirit, toe, rests upon itself it is not
confined to particular objects; and il
at last all should be lost, il has saved
itself its own integrity and worth
Hope awakens courage, while despon-
dency is the last of all evils il is the
abandonment OF good-the giving up
of the battle of life with dead nothing,
ness He who can implant courage
in the human soul, is its best physician
To seek to govern men by their fears
and their wants, is an unworthy pur
pose the desire TO rule by means u
cowardice. Love inspires courage
and hope, and this is double the givel
and preserver oflito. Whatever teaches
us boldly to combat the manifold evil
and assaults of life, enables us to VIII
the crown of victory. Special care
therefore, ought to be taken in educa
ton to teach what true courage is-al
well in social and domestic as in pub
lie aifairs-and by what means It ma,
be best sustained.
Year: 1870




WHO WILL CARE.


Who will carey
When we lay beneath the daisies,
Underneath the churchyard mold,
And the long grass DER our faces
Lays It's fingers damp and cold,
When we sleep from care and sorrow,
And the Ills Of earthly life
Sleep, to know no sad tomorrow,
With It's bitterness Of strife


Who will carel


Who will carei
Who will come to weep above us,
Lying, oh so white and still,
Underneath the skies Of simmer,
wien 81 n~tase's puisrs thrm
To new life, glad and tender,
Full Of beauty, rich and sweet,
All the world is clad in splendor
That the years shall e'er repeat


Who will care


Who will care
Who will think Of white hands lying
On a still and silent breast
Nevennore to know Of signing,
Eyermore to know Of rest
Who will carel No one can tell Us,
But II rest and peace befall,
Will it matter If they miss us,
Or they miss us not at all


Not NJ all
Year: 1870

An urchin of seven or eight years
went into barber shop in Racine,
and ordered the barber to cut bis
hair as close as his shears would do
i. He was asked if his mother
ordered it in that way. "No," said
he, "but school commences soon, and
we've got school nam that pulls
hair, and I'm bound TO fix her this
term, you may bet"
Year: 1870

The universal amnesty declared by the new
government Of France has opened the gates to
all the exiles, and there is a general homeward
fight of birds of many feathers not lately seen
in Paris. With the rest come in the Orleans
Princes, who evidently have notion that
these are times when it is good to be on hand
Undoubtedly the downfall of one government,
closing game, as it were, leads to shuttle
and new DEAL and any suit may turn up
trump. But the fact appears to be that France
means to resolutely try republic, so the king
lings cannot count upon France. Next to the
French nation the best friend to have in France
just now Is doubtless the Prussian himself, and
we believe the Orleans Princes must count
without him also. Germany has declared that
she wars for German purposes only, and put
ting an Orleans on the throne of France can
not by any subtlety, be twisted into German
purpose. Perhaps 1t may be considered by
Prussia that the republic 10 necessarily mimi
cal to her, and her objection to that would
open the field to the Orleanists as available
candidates for the throne. That is their only
hope, and that is remote. Paris, however, Is q
pleasant place to VISIT especially when II is
ones homo, and he has been away nearly
twenty yearss
Year: 1870

AMERICAN FLAGS WERE DISPLAYED on the
City Hall yesterday 10 honor Of the proclama-
ton of the French republic. In 1880 there
was the grandest procession ever witnessed in
the city of New York In honor Of the downfall
of Charles the Tenth and the establishing of q
republic in France. In 1S4S there was a re-
markable display of bunting in honor of the
formation of another republic in France.
These demonstrations were witnessed by the
present generation; bat like the illusion of
dream or the mirage upon the desert or the
ocean, republicanism, as power, was swept
away from the soil Of France before the French
people really had the opportunity to compre-
hend the situation. Republicanism is the root
Of the political policy of the French people,
but, unfortunately, imperialism has beee, re
blossom and The fruit
Year: 1870

Nothing 80 dramatic az the flight Of the
Empress Eugenie from Paris has occurred in
the annals Of royalty since the sad departure
OF Marie Antoinette from the Tuileries. The
Empress LETT the palace on Sunday as soon az
the news Of the capture of the Emperor was
confirmed. She left by the quay, accompa-
MED by a single servant. Her departure was
so hasty that her room was left in disorder.
Trunks were piled In confusion on the floor.
bonnets and dresses were lying about In heaps.
and the bed was not made, while In the rooms
of the Emperor and the Prince, which had not
been occupied for many night, everything
lay as they had left them weeks before. The
Emperor's books and papers, cigar boxes, re-
volver cases and phials containing phosphate OF
iron, remained as he had left them when first
departing for the German frontier. An un-
finished historical exercise remained unfinished
on the desk in the young Princes room, and
his leaden toy soldiers, with which, probably,
his father had been teaching him the art Of
war In preparation for Saarbruck and Wis
sembourg, lay defeated and overthrown on
the carpet Perhaps Eugenie, as much
the wife and mother as the Empress, had
allowed the rooms of her dear ones to remain
just as they had left them to remind her more
forcibly of the absent. Perhaps she anticipated
with housewifely glee the pleasure so methodi-
cal man as the Emperor would take in
resuming every detail of his business or his
studies when he came back just at the point
where he left of, and 30 bright boy as Louis
would feel in fighting his victorious battles
over again with the leaden soldiers that he
had last seen in disorder.


But they have not come back, and will not.
The Empress flies secretly and in terror to
meet them where they are prisoners, while tho
republican National Guard eat their meals In
the great dining halls and drink the royal
wine In the cellar, and q republican populace
tears the imperial insignia from the chairs and
railings that only the day before acknowledged
the grand presence Of Eugene herself.


With the sad fate Of poor Carlotta fresh In
our memories, what dreadful sense Of retri-'
butive justice hangs over this great reversed
Year: 1870

TEE VERMONT ELECTION. N.-The first gun
-La the fall campaign is heard in Vermont. As
usual the republicans carry the State by a
majority about three times the whole demo-
cratic vote But little interest was felt in the
election by either party, consequently the vote
is small, though little heavier than last year.
The Senate will probably be unanimously re-
publican and the House about two hundred
republicans to thirty democrats ~,
Year: 1870

THERE Is A RUMoR that United States
Marshal Sharpe is to be displaced, to make
room for the reinstatement Of ex-Marshal Bob
uurray, This change will probably meet GER
lain exigencies contingent upon the enforce
,uent of the new election law Of Congress.
Year: 1870

The FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE FINANCES
OF THE WoRLD.-The markets here and abroad
are all unsettled by the prospect of such a ter
rife revolution as may follow the proclamation
of the republic in France Gold yesterday ran
up to ll5s on the apprehension Of an European
war, but subsequently fell to 1144 when it was
reported that the head Of the provisional
government of France had left Paris to make
terms of peace with the Prussian King.
Year: 1870

LYNCH, BEATTY L. OKANE claim the honor of
exhibiting to the public the first arrival in
the city this season of SPRING DRY GOODS
from the Eastern Markets and on account Of
the great reduction in the price of all manufac-
tured articles, claim also the honor of first estab
fishing in this market the scale Of prices under
the new order of things. On looking over and
pricing sundry articles with which We are famil.
lar, VIC were really astonished to find that in many
cases the prices are lower than they were before
the war.


The firm of Lynch, Beatty and O'kane are so
we'll known all over this county, aud their bust.
ness reputation is so we'll established, that it is
almost superauous to add the assurance that they
not only present in their new stock the choicest
in the market, but that the amazing reduction
of prices with which they open the spring trade
ls not mere ''flam," but permanent matter to
be adhered to throughout in good faith.
Year: 1870

some REvIvAL-They had q small revival at
one of the churches in Seneca last week,-that
is. one chap contemplated joining the church
"for q minute" He had boarded at hotel in
that city about week. Being scarce Of funds,
he went to church and manifested a vigorous
determination to mend his ways and take the
anxious seat. The next morning the landlord
of the hotel aforesaid was looking anxiously for
his boarder, and will take anything on a dollar
for the board BILL "Sich is life !"
Year: 1870

BEwIrCnlNG.-In all our travels yesterday,
We saw no more bewitchiug eight than that Of
lot of fogs in the court house square! They
were apparently doing we'll, and gruuted with
evident satisfaction as they rooted up the grass
in every direction, and seemed to be quite at
home. We did not look further, fearing We
should find flock of geese in the court room,
or a drove OF sheep III the Sherff's Office. The
conundrum Is, why is this taus
Year: 1870

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY Mr.. Hull has gone
to New York to purchase new goods. He pro.
poses to fill his shelves with the largest and most
splendid stock of fine goods ever offered for sale
in Ottawa, and he is confident that his low prices
and the superior quality Of his goods will enable
him to defy al competition.
Year: 1870

STAND FROM UNDRR.-Mr F. c. Prescott, the
proprietor Of the hat and cap store at the north.
east corner Of Court House square, is filling up
his spring stock. He is now east getting new
supply, AID will soon be ready, with a most
beautiful assortment of all the spring styles, at
the latest reduced prices, to fill all orders.
Year: 1870

BosToN man, who found another person in
the bedroom with his wife, went of and sat on
the wood-pile and cried, because he had never
been introduced to the chap. lie was afraid he
would do something rash ii he stayed there, so
he left them to fight it out.
Year: 1870

GRAMMAR" Mr.. Argus. What does it
matter to poor John Oxnard. think you, that
you condemn him in grammatical phrase to
be the prey of internal fires? We have never
said aught against your grammar, and should
have hesitated to denounce you as a modern
Torquemada had we known that the latent
humanity OF your nature would have induced
you too days afterwards to interpose re-
iuctant comma, invisible before, between your
victim and destruction. The surreptiHous
comma looks as if it had been got into posi-
tiou only after a severe struggle, in which the
strength of its moral convictions has been
overcome by physical force. And the worst
OF 1t is that it doesn't save John Oxnard after
pllf
Year: 1870

THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE of the late Miss
Betsey Thomas, the last article written by the
late William Willis, will be reproduced in the
PRESS of tomorrow morning owing to the de.
mand for it which has existed both before and
after the authors decease.
Year: 1870

l arrived in New York, few DAYS
ago; and Immediately took rooms at
the Astor House To be sure had no
money to pay for them; but why think
of pay if We are only good? have
always made it rule to have the best
of everything, even if l am obliged to
get trusted for it. This sterling max
i'm was instilled into my mind by a
kind father; and who shall say that
gray haired old man is not proud of
his orphan boy?


But the times are so hard just now
that l find it very difficult to make both
ends meet, and lay up money besides.


l had not been at the Astor more
than one day, when the clerk brought
me my bill.


sis it customary" said l, "to pay by
the day."


at is with men of your stamp!" he
replied.


"What kind of stamp do you take
me for?" said l.


Ou IOOk IKE a TWO cent stamp,
he replied-"mighty thin; if anybody
should wet it once, you'd stick like
thunder; but we don't propose to try
it. You either pay this bill, or get out!
Have you any money!"


my estimable young FRIEND" l re-
piled, "you have probably heard of
DR.. Ben Franklin, long since deceased.
That eminent physician was at one
time in the proverb business, and did
very good thing. He said, among 9th
er things that time is money. Now, l
havn't got any money, but, as regards
time, l am IN affluent circumstances,
and if you will receipt that bill, l will
give you a check for as much tine as
you think equivalent, and throw you in
a couple of hours for your trouble" ;"


He made no reply, but from the fact
of the reporters coming up immediate
ly thereafter, removing my trunk to
the sidewalk and hustling me out after
it, l inferred that | wasn't considered
a financial success.
Year: 1870

A CHINAMAN's REvENGE.-A tragi-
cal affair of Woo-sung lat the mouth
of the river) gives us another view of
the Chinese officials and soldiery.-
Through some petty disturbance in an
opium shop kept by some fascinating
native ladies, two men belonging to
one of the chinese gunboats stationed
there, were sentenced by the mandarin
in charge of the fleet, to an indefinite
number of blows, which were duly in
fiicted. Smarting under the severe
treatment, one of the victims vowed
vengeance. He watched his opportu-
nifty, and in the middle of the following
day, when the mandarin was, accord
ing to his custom, locked in the sweet
arms of Morpheus, he stole into his
cabin and buried the fatal blade in his
heart. Seizing the body in his arms
before an alarm could be given, be
carried it on deck and plunged with it
into the muddy waters of the Wong
poo, then running strong ebb. The
tidal stream carried the bodies as far as
the North Spit, where at low water they
were found, the mandarin locked in the
death grasp of his assassin Shang-
hal Correspondent New York Tribune
Year: 1870

EXPANDING THE LUNGs.-Step out in
to the pure, open air, stand perfectly
erect, with the head and shoulders
back, and then fixing the lips as
though you were going to whistle,
draw the air through the nostrils into
the lungs. When the chest is about
full, raise the arms, keeping them ex-
tended, with the palms down, as you
suck the air, so as to bring them over
the head just as the lungs are quite
full Then drop the thumbs inward,
and after gently forcing the arms
backward and the chest open, reverse
the process by which you draw your
breath, until the lungs are quite
empty. This process should be re-
peated three or four times day. tits
impossible to describe, to one who has
never tried it, the glorious sense of Wig
or which follows the exercise. We
know gentleman, the measure of
whose chest has been increased some
three inches during 80 many months.
Year: 1870

E Frank" said an afectionate
mother the other day to a promising
boy, "If you don't stop smoking and
reading so much, you will get SO after
awhile that you won't care anything
about work." Mother" replied the
hopeful, leisurely removing a very
long cigar, 81 have got so now"
Year: 1870

R A Cincinnati Judge went in
swimming and the boys stole bis
clothes, which compelled him to walk
home through thickly populated
street dressed only in an umbrella and
a chew of tobacco.
Year: 1870

H The way in which South Sea
islander satisfied case of conscience,
is this: The missionary had rebuked
him for the sin of polygamy, and he
was very much grieved. After a day
or two be returned, his face radiant
with Joy. "Ae all right ncw-one
wife; me very good Christian. -
"What did you you do with the 9TH
err" "Me eat her up"
Year: 1870

R A Terre Haute girl perpetrates
the following excruciating bit of poe
try:


"since of your love l was bereft


I've lost some ninety pounds in heft,
And now have scarcely ninety LEFT


How could you be so cruel, John"
Year: 1870

WRlrING.-One system should be
taught thoughout the primary, sec
ondary and grammar schools, 50 that
as the pupils pass from one grade to
another, they will not be obliged to
unlearn what they have already ac
quired in regard to the distinctive fea-
lures OF that system. Thus the pupils
will the more readily perfect and car
ry ont the principles they have already
partially become acquainted With
such as the movements Of the hand
and arm; analysis and rules for the
formation OF the letters; position OF
sitting; the manner OF holding the pen;
uniformity in spacing; neatness and
elegance OF style; legibility, ease and
rapidity OF writing.


The constant use of the blackboard
or charts, in contrasting the proper
forms OF the letters, with the errone-
Gus forms made by the pupil, is indis-
pensable in teaching writing. =


The copy written upon the board
b, the teacher must always conform
to the system used. The pupil must
not be allowed to write rapidly, before
he is able to write legibly.


The great aim Of the teacher must
be to impart a plain, neat hand-writ-
ing, devoid of flourish or ornament;
for no other style is suitable tor busi-
ness.