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Year: 1876

ACCUSATION.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, May n, 1876
Geo. r.. Rowell & Co., through the medium Of
their 4" Newspaper Directory simply practice
a genteel species OF blackmailing. Newspaper
publishers who decline 10 patronize the kowell
Advertising Agency find their business grossly
misrepresented IN the Rowell Directory" BY
paying the blackmailers small sum you can
have your circulation exaggerated and your
business indefinitely magnihed in the "Ameri-
can Newspaper Directory" The Enquirer does
not patronize Mr.. ROweli


ANSWER


On page 6lj Of the Directory for the
current year may be found the Enquirer s
advertisement Its order for the same
is on file This would indicate that the
Enquirer is not above lying


On one occasion the Enquirer furnish.
ed for publication in the Directory = re.
port Of its circulation, sworn to before q
notary, which, on investigation, was
found to be an enormous over statement
This would indicate that the Enquirer
does not stop at lying.-LA American News
paper Reporter.
Year: 1876

and all public speakers who have been greatly
embarrassed by their Teeth dropping at the
most inopportune times, can now get set o
Teeth which will remain firmly in place undel
all circumstances.
Year: 1876

On hearing her story. found that
Robert had left out the tale of his own
griefs. That he had warmly loved a
gentle girl, but never let her know it :
had sacrificed his own happiness to
spend his life seeking me, and caring
for my wife that she had married an
other, and Robert was forced to see
her the very unhappy wife ola poor,
miserable wretch.


And what said the little woman,
when she knew that | had STAYED
away all these long years. had blasted
her life, disappointed my brothers.
life love. made deep misery for four,
by my stupid belief of a piece of gos-
sip that, even to hear repeated, she
SHRINK from as though it would with
er her? l always knew she was au
angel. She said, though with quiyer-
ing lips and fearful eyes:


"Dear Ralph, let us speak of it new
er again. 1t was dreadful mistake
Let us be happy in the years we have
yet to live, and leave it to another
life to adjust the errors of this"
Year: 1876

Within the last ten years the progress
of discovery in every department of knowl-
edge has made new work of reference an
imperative want.


The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science
and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts and the convenience
and refinement of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurl ed,
involving national changes of peculiar mo-
which was at its height when the last vol
ume Of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and new course of CONNER
cial and industrial activity has been COM
menced. Large accessions to our
Year: 1876

which are introduced for the first time in
the present edition have been added not
for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lucidity and force to explanations
in the text. They embrace all branches of
science and of natural history, and dep ct
the most famous and remarkable features of
scenery, architecture, and art, as well as
the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures, Although intended for in
struction rather than Establishment, no
pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa


The great political revolutions of the last
decade, with the natural result of the lapse
of time, have brought into public view a
multitude of new men, who's names are in
every ones mouth, and whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars.
Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sieges have been maintained, of which
the details are as yet preserved only in the
newspapers or in the transient publications
Of the day, but which now ought to take
their place in


PERMANENT AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY.


In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent dis
coveries in science, of every fresh produc-
ton in literature, and of the newest inven-
tionS in the practical arts, as well as to give
succinct and original record of the prog
reSs Of


POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL EVENTS.


The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
. successful termination.


None of the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been


PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,
forming in fact new Cyclopaedia, with
the same plan and compass as its predeces-
sor, but with far greater pecunlary expen-
diture, and with such improvements in its
composition as have been suggested by
longer experience and enlarged knowledge.
Year: 1876

AT ball lately in Paris, very stout
gentleman, proprietor of bad catarrh
and very charming wife, insisted, very
inconveniently, at the close Of a waltz,
that madame should return to the bosom
of her family. "Never mind" she said
to her partner task me to dance in the
next quadrille, all the same will find
way to stay for it," Slipping out while
the set was forming, she went into the
gentleman's dressing room, found her
husbands hat, and threw it out the win
dow then returning, and requesting her
spouse first to find his hat and call car
riage, she accepted partners for the next
six dances, quite sure Of two hours before
the hat could be found.
Year: 1876

The space opposite the Orange Free


State, occupied by Peru. would be quite


interesting if their mummies did NOT


occupy the centre of the enclosure


These mummies, Of which there are sew


eral. are disgusting to look upon, some


with grinning jaws. others with the


mouth filed with dirty cotton and se


cured with fat piece Of pearl which is


held in place by string around the


head; one l noticed had q small spoon


thrust through the cotton, for what pur-


pose do not know. There is also a
collection of skulls on top of the cabinet


which contains the mummies. Some
are Of the Peruvian Indians, others Of
the gentry. Wire-work is shown to
perfection. especially in beautiful box
composed of silver wire, and is exoui-
site in design and finish A bust of
President Grant in colored wire is GER
tainly work of art. but very tire
some subject just now Any quantity
Of antiquities in earthen ware are shown
of the rudest description both as regards
form and painting, also some baskets in
this same category. looking at least
1000 years old. A large piece Of silver
ore is exhibited under glass and also
another mass of ore, which was not
tending to show the wealth of
that sunny land. Silk worms, wines
and minerals form part of the products,
llso coffee. rice. wool, sugar and segars.
A beautiful lot Of Panama hats form
part of the exhibit, and can be bought
Year: 1876

THEY killed the good Horace Gree
lev by their foul-mouthed abuse in
1872, and now they are trying the
same game on Uncle Sammy Tilden;
but the democratic candidate has a
sound head set OH broad shoulders,
and they will find him a harder nut to
crack than the old republican philoso.
pher.
Year: 1876

Tn India, where it is often quite im- possible to obtain good water, there is a kind of provision of Providence for the purifying of impure and muddy water which'is we'll worthy of notice. Were it in America, it might be called an ''institu. tion," so common is it's use. It is a seed, which, on being rubbed again and again on the inside of the common earthen water-pots of the country, has the power of precipitating the earth and impuri. ties, leaving the water tolerably clear, and to degree suitable for use. Dur ing our itinerancy of two weeks we have had occasion almost constantly to use the very repulsive looking tank-water of the country thus purified. At only one of our encampments have we had we'll water, and then the natives much preferred the common surface or tank. water to this. Habit, usage, and cus- tom are almost omnipotent in India, and many yearsemust pass before Hindoos will learn that their purifying seed does not remove the poisonous taint that pro- duces fever and cholera and does nothing to destroy animal life that brings the very common and troublesome Guinea worm, so often making life almost or quite burden. It is source of satis- faction to us that this purified water is rendered harmless by boiling, and there son for the use of "the cup that cneers but does not inebriate," than can be found where one has access to ''the old oaken bucket" of former times and happy memory. ry.-MiSsionary Letter.
Year: 1876

There's a lone cool nook where the shade is deep, And the waves of a river softly run To the shore where odorous muskrats creep From dripping roots when the day is done. Between guaan 9ushes and silver reads, l. Where dragon flies are ever at play, so 4 winding path to the water leads,

 And there aboat lies rocking away Rocking, rocking at rest and asleep, In that lone cool nook where the shade is deep. when the day is hot you can lie at rest

 In the boat and dream till the sunlight fades, While the loving sounds that the ear loves best Are whispered by waves and the long reed blades, And vine with trumpet blossom of red Is lightly flung on the branches high ofa leaning tree. In such bed,

 Forgetting the world, you may idly ne, Rocking. rocking at rest and asleep, In that lone cool nook where the shade is deep. And at night when the sky is full of stars, When shadowy birds fit down the shore, And the water snake glides to the sandy bars. You may touch the waves with noiseless oar Till you float far out on the shining stream Where winds from the corn land freshly blow; And there you may gently drift anA dream. With stars above you and stars 6elow- Drifting, drifting, may dream and rest

 On the peaceful rivers cool sweet breast.

 -WdshingtoS Star.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of a London paper says of the Servian women: "They wore on their heads red kerchiefs, with the ends hanging down their backs bound on their heads by velvet fllet embroidered with coins, in which were often stuck flowers, chiefly of red and white. They were generally dressed in white, but invariably with the brilliant apron sewed down to the. skirt, and of- ten with gaudily-embroidered stomach CT, or perhaps breastplate would be tho more descriptive term, studded with coins on black velvet. The working dress of the women in the fields is a short jacket, braided and slashed in the fashion and of the cut of that worn by the men, a red and yellow kerchief crossed over the bosom, petticoat striped mostly in the parallel stripes of Moorish pattern. but occasionally in the checkers, which make the pattern tartan, a tap estry-Gke apron of brighter colors than the petticoat, and bare legs and with a certain EsraJenueS5 anu respect in every gesture; their faces are almost always good, and often quite in- tellectuaI and chivalric, but in muscular development the peasant women of Ser via can give their husbands q stone and Q beating.

 PROFESSOR SWING ON SPELLING

 MATCHES.

 Professor Swing, of Chicago, being in- vited to attend n spelling match. not con" tent with simply declining the invitation, saw fit to cast the following foul and gratuitous aspersions on his and our vcrna- cular DEAR SIR E:-I shall be out of the city on Friday evening, and shall not be able to attend the spelling tragedy of that even ing. Could I be present, my remarks would be of melancholy nature. When look out upon the outrageous conduct of the vowels and consonapts that make up our English, the scene is "sad and dreary," and "I would not live always" The Eng fish language should be abolished. No douat intemperance will pass away, the sources of the Nile will be approached by railway and will be decorated with q depot and restaurant, bishop will be agreed upon for our diocese, the North Branch will abound with brook trout, but tho man who shall look out upon that happy age, will sit down at his table and mourn as he tries to spell out a simple letter to his grandmother, and the lunatic asylum will be full of those who went crazy oyer m effort to stand up last in spelling school. With inexpressible grief, yours,

 - DAVID SwINa.'
Year: 1876

Daily multiplying indications of popular
favor toward the Republican nominees attest
the wisdom of the national convention in the
selection of the ticket. Though there was no
striking display of enthusiasm when the final
ballot was announced, all felt that the choice
was one TO be approved, and this feeling has
been followed by constantly deepening con-
viction that it was a wise and happy one. 1t
is ticket of character and solid worth, and
one to be proud Of This pride is fast be-
coming enthusiasm. Indeed the Republicans
have abundant reasons for qualification. Six
months ago the prospect for Democratic
restoration was alarming. Since the adjourn
ment of the Cincinnati convention that pros
pect has shrunk to the dimmest of possbili-
ties. The feeling is widespread that no man
can be named at st. Louis who has reason.
able probability of occupying the White
House next March. For the first time since
1868 the Republican party is united. There
are no malcontents in its ranks. The lead
ers of the Fifth Avenue conference have given
in their adhesion to Hayes and Wheeler, and
the Liberals of 1872, almost to man, are
once more in the Republican camp. The
nominations appeal alike to the strong parti-
san and to the man of moderate views. The
one is content with the orthodoxy of the can
didates, proud OF their achievements, and
confident that in the future as in the past
they will prove faithful to the party creed
and earnest in their labors for party success /;
the other is pleased with the purity of their
personal character, their record as advocates
of political and economical reform, their in
egrity an ability, and the good administra-
tion which their candidacy promises.


t There is much in the character of the two
men to inspire both confidence and zeal.
Gen. Hayes is gentleman whose life has
been a history of well fulfilled duty and patri-
otic labor. Modest and unobtrusive, he has
never attempted to push his own fortunes,
even when such endeavor would be perfectly
proper. But the people of his State have dis
covered his merit, and have advanced him
from post to post as in every position he has
filled he has developed qualities which have
fitted him to go up higher. The regard in
which he is held receives striking illustra-
ton in the fact that he was the second choice
of every faction in the Cincinnati convention.
A Greek commander was once chosen for a
similar reason, and the instance is cited as a
proof of the wisdom of antiquity. Mr..
Wheeler is known to the country as man of
strong intellect and wide culture and con-
servative views, who has made his. mark in
whatever he has attempted, who commands
the admiration of his friends and the respect
of his opponents, and whose famous compro-
mise is regarded as singularly able and wise
political measure. With so good ticket the
Republicans have no cause to fear any nomi
nations that st. Louis may make.
Year: 1876

THE FINANCIAL PLANK.-On the financial
question, the resolution of the convention at
Cincinnati must be interpreted in the light Of
facts. 1t was reported by Governor Hawley,
and it is curious fact that its vagueness,
which some regard with suspicion, was due to
his unyielding opposition to any approval of
the act of 1875, which he voted against, and
has always regarded as entirely insufficient for
resumption. As a positive hard-money man,
hostile to initiation in any and every form, be
demanded at the time that act was passed
something less open to objection and more
faithful to the nations pledges, aud to this day
refuses to commit himself to a measure which
was intended to cause, and under some circum-
stances might permit, dangerous imitation.
His position, therefore, is not to be confounded
with that of men who demanded the repeal of
the resumption act; he demands something
better, they something less or nothing. But
Mr.. Hawley's position prevented emphatic en-
dorsement of the act, while the committee was
not disposed to demand anything better. 1t is
pity that the convention had not adopted, in
place of its resolution, the recent emphatic
declaration of Governor Hayes against any re-
peal of the resumption act, unless with surer
and more speedy means for resumption. That
tion and probably that of the majority in the
convention But we have all along declared
that this year 'the candidate must be the plat
form," and it is fortunate for the Republicans
that in regard to the financial issue, they have
in the candidate himself a platform which is,
better than that of the convention.-N YORK
P,JbLic
Year: 1876

business to find out what is right, and then
nelp to make public sentiment right. Defeat
on right platform is to be preferred to
victory on wrong one. An initiation victory
at best would not be our victory; it would be
a Democratic victory"
Year: 1876

RESUMPTION is apparently the rock upon
which the st. Louis convention will split.
But these Democrats will sacrifice all the
principles they ever pretended to hold when
the hunger for Office possesses them, and just
now their appetites are stimulated by the
taste of plurder which control of the House
has afforded them.
Year: 1876

The spectacle of John Morrissey, the great
orator of New York, addressing the Louisi-
ana Tigers in behalf of Tilden must have
been edifying. But nomination brought
about by the union of the gambler and the
ku-Kux will not be likely to arouse the
country 10 very high pitch of enthusiasm.
Year: 1876

FASHIONABLE FUNITURE.-Dickens, in his
description of the Veneering family, stated
that their character assimilated with that of
their furniture-"they smet too much of the
workshop, and their surface was triAe
sticky This might apply to much of the
modern furniture. 1t appears thin, "shammy,'
and new, and, like the Veneerings themselves
is adapted to new society of the mushroom
order. 1t is pitiable to see those honest men,
who are respected and revered in their busi-
ness circles, made to play the part of buffoon
BY their wives and daughters, who, like Mrs.
Potiphar, believe that, because they have be-
come rich, they are entitled to move in "our
best society,"" The height of their ambition
appears to be span-new house in a fashion,
able quarter of the town, to make all the dis
play which money can afford and see that they
are not outdone in the elegance of their enter
tainments nor the richness of their appoint-
ments. They dash into an element for which
they are entirely untitled, and show them
selves to the worst possible advantage. After
procuring the most snowy house they can find
one of those built by the yard by some enter
prising speculator who, like the parties we
have Just described, fancies he knows what ia
exactly the thing-then the furnishing becomes
the all-absorbing question; and the poor man
who has labored the best years of his life to
obtain for himself only discomfort, and in his
old age is forced to enter field in which he
has had no experience, is dragged here and
there from uphosterers' to china shops, in
order to prepare for his first lesson in being
fashionable


First comes the matter of carpets; and how
csn Madame or Angelina decide upon the best
pattern when bale after bale is being unrolled
by the indetatigable salesman, whose only va
Ration is that the last surpasseg any he has
previously shown; and while they listen to his
ceaseless strain that one piece is UNIQUE" an
other striking" etc., the bewIldered women
look from the Brussels to the tapestry, from
the Persian to the Administer, until their eyes
are fairly dazzled by their Kaleidoscope hues
All this while Pater-familias, wearied with the
endless rounds, and disgusted at having to
leave his plain but comfortable home in Rut.
gers Street, has stood in patient waiting and
anxious to bring the matter to an issue, says,
Take the rose pattern, the very one that An
gelina moment before had decried as "a
fright" The uncertainty is brought to an end,
however, by the clerks asserting that Mrs. v
has ordered the Administer for her parlor and
the Persian for her boudoir; and as this lady is
the acknowledged leader of lthe society into
which our new friends have affected their en-
trance, the matter is concluded, and the sales
man marches off in triumph.


In this manner is selected most of the furni-
ture throughout To pronounce a thing ''new''
or in the height of the fashion seems sufi-
cient to procure instant selection; and the false
styles of various countries and different ages
are mixed up promscuously, showing igno-
rance and bad taste.-Harper'S Magazine for
july.
Year: 1876

The Brooklyn Yacht Club met at the corner OF Court
and Montague streets last evening Mr. O. W. ostrander
presiding. After the approval OF the minutes OF
the previous meeting the chairman called on
Mr. J. b. Norris 10 report the result OF the
action OF the committee appointed at the
previous meeting to discuss with the members
Of the Atlantic Yacht Club the subject OF consoda-
ton with the latter organization Captain Morris read


report stating that he had communicate informally
with members OF the Atlantic Club and that in reply
the Secretary nrst notified him that they would call a
special meeting Of the club TO consider the subject
been called, and the question Of definitely
negatived BY unanimous vote The letter containing
this information also informed him that a committee OF
equal number with that Of which he was Chairman
namely, sevcn-had been appointed to confer with his
committee and inform them Of bis action To this he
reorted that II was scarcely necessary appoint
mitee 10 discuss question disposed Of previously by
the action Of the club hence there meeting HIS
report was adopted, the matter Of consolidation being
beyond the limits Of possibility


The following gentlemen were elected members OF
the club :-hessrs Jacob Bergen, y. G. Brown Of Bos
Son, and s. X. Thurston. OF Long Island


on motion OF Mr.. Manning, q committee OF Eve waS
appointed 20 make Inquiries the possibility Of
meeting the Boston Yacht Club during the
and suitable time, and for the enhancement
Of the enjoyment OF the members OF both clubs
some slight alterations were made in the bv-laG
as suggesled BY the Board OF Trustees Hon. c. G.
Gunther proposed for membership Mr. Barney vii.
lame The subject Of club Of yachts and
the OF certificates containing brief history
OF each we're referred 10 the Regatta COMMITTEE
Year: 1876

&C, developed one fact more clearly tnan
ever to day and that that the Governor
has very few friends among the members OF his own
party The secret OF the whole struggle is that tne
Governors Canal Commission 10 anxious, before max
ing their report TO what the joint committee mas 70
say thus profit by what they may suggest OF may
have discovered the joint committee being equally
anxious 10 know before they make their repors
what the Canal Commission will say IN theirs
as 10 certain matters the committee also in
vestigated. They are determined not 70 report
tll the COmmissioners report is made pubic But
hat can the matter be that the statement is made that
The resolution Mr. Halliday offered, and which in us
original form is considered Objectionable by hr
Faulkner the chairman Of the Assembly portion or
the Joint committee was drawn up not entirely py
Mr. Schuyler the so called Auditor, but that General
sherman, who a member Of the committee, bad
good deal 10 do with t.


BILLS REPORTED.


The Committee Cities to-day reported the bill re-
ducing the salaries OF Of the New York officials,
the gist OF which bill gwen the HERALD OF Sat
urdsy They also reported favorably the Brooklyn
charter amendments introduced by Mr. ogden TWO