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Year: 1873

Ihe San FRANCISCO reuOrtorS construct
interesting stories like the following when
short of copy; During the recent season
of celestial festivities many American,
avaled themselves of invitations to visi!
leading Chinese houses of the city and
partake Of the hospitalitics of tie in
mates, the principal cause being a desire
to witness the curious customs of the
Orient. Among the Caucasian ladies
who were the guests of the Chinese was
belle of New York, a young lady Of
rare beauty and intelligence, combined
with keen wit and thorough mastery
of the graces of the drawing-room, and,
above all, possessed of fascinating amia-
bility and benevolence. She has allcvia.
ted suffering in numerous INDECENT fami-
lies of Gotham, and is held in grateful
remembrance by numerous proteges in
Mission School and in the higher cir
clea she has moved with equal potency
She eluded all the Establishments of New
York gentlemen and mingled among the
social lights Of San Francisco with simi
lar effect.


She came here to avoid the rigors Of
an eastern winter and to visit friends OF
her youth, and until her visit to the
Chinese quarters, was happy and conten
ted, even the gayest of the gay. In the
accountant of large tea store she met
as she thought, her fate, and at once fell
in love with him. lie is an intelligent
Celestial, of a graceful figure and manly
bearing, taller than the average Of his
countrymen, and appare ntly about TWEEN
ty.six years of age Hi. complexion is
fresh, clear and nearly white, his cheeks
showing just dash Of the ruddy tint
of the pippin, and his teeth seem very
pearls. She was first attracted toward
him by the rap idi;y with which lie fig.
ured, through the aid of his button rack
and, after an introduction, was captiva-
ted by the charms of his conversation
and especially his analysis of Confucian
lore. The young accountant was smit
ten by Cupid's dart, and by his delicate
attentions, in vogue in polite life allowed
the fair inamorata to see that he was will
ing to be a captive.


After the young lady had returned
here with her friends, she remarked thai
the Celestial clerk was the incest gentle
man she had ever met. No one though,
strangely of this remark. and no special
attention was paid to it But as time
passed away and the young lady contin-
ued to praise the Celestial, and there wa;
an increase rather than abatement of her
regard for him her San Francisco friends
called her to account and endeavored &c
change her taste. All remonstranc(
failed to wean her affection from the Gel
estal, and the case each day assumed a
more hopeless feature. The abnorma
affection intensified and seemed incura
bic, and an estrangement between her
self and friends occurred on this occount
and there was social earthquake in the
home where she figured as guest. Hel
friends were finally compelled to haster
her return eastward to avert an alliance
which would have rent the atmosphere
of social propriety like thunderbolt.
Year: 1873

AUGUST BELMONT owns one OF the
large boxes at the Academy Of Music in
New York. 10 is his and his heirs as
long as the building stands, and the fam
lily can always attend any performance
there whatever without paying. The
price paid for this box was seventeen
thousand five hundred dollars.
Year: 1873

A gentleman who lives on Browns
Run, Butler county recently killed a
goose; and while domestic was dress
ing the fowl she found gold ring in its
nav. The ring looked as though it had
been ground off on the edges, Or had
been melted by intense heat. 1t was
lost by member Of the amily ten years
ago.
Year: 1873

AN Oregon youth is ascused of dress
ing up a straw woman and giving it a
sleigh ride through the town, after his
bashful approaches had been rebulfed
by the genuine article among his female
acquaintance.
Year: 1873

\ GENTLEMEN in North Carolina built
a fire in his house on his wedding day.
twenty five years ego, and has Kept it
burning night and day ever since, and
declares his intention never to permit it
to die out while he lives.
Year: 1873

An English Judge recently said he


hoped never to see the day when the
Jury would be number less than twelve


as it generally happened that on the
jury there was some one who had pecu


liar knowledge Of the kind of question
to he tried
Year: 1873

TNHE Fourth Grand Gift Concert authorized


Il by specia act Of the Legislature for the
benefit of the Public Library of Kentucky
will take place in Public Library Hall, al
/ I.nuisYilla- x KantnckX-
Year: 1873

THE JAPANESE CABINET has experienced q
profound ministerialist sensation, caused by
the discussion Of the question Of the propriety
and policy of war against Corea. There was
resignation Of portfolios and retirement of
statesmen, youthful and fossilized, from the
service OF the Mikado. The crisis was only of
Temporary duration, however, and the Council
was reorganized on the peace principle.
Year: 1873

backs possible Two classes Of currency, one
legal tender and the other an irredeemable
promise to pay of q bank, but both dependent
upon the faith and credit of the government
for their circulating value, are anomalies which
in themselves should be convincing proof
that the baleful system ought to be swept
| away.


| In this connection we have a word to say to
Mr.. Blaine. Congress meets q week from
to-day, and it may be regarded as certain that
he will be the Speaker of the next House OF
Representatives In naming the Committee
on Banking and Currency this time he must
consult the real interests of the country.
Heretofore it has been under the direct in
fuence Of the national banking system. Its
chairman was banker and some of its leading
members were bank officers. From such a
committee it was impossible to obtain fair
report on any financial proposition; it was
particularly impossible to obtain any recon-
mendations inconsistent with the interests of
the national bank monopoly, however neces-
sary to the interests Of the country. With
such committee controlling the currency
question, and more anxious to legislate in
favor of the banks than of the people, reform
is impossible. If the banks did not believe
they had Congress in their power they would
not have dared to show the recklessness they
have exhibited. If the Treasury Department
did not believe the banks controlled Congress
it would have done its duty in enforcing the
law, and the majority OF the banks would
have been compelled to go into liquidation
for falling to make currency payments in
the late panic. This failure on the part
effects of the panic than any other single
cause. The attention of Congress must be
directed to this subject and Mr.. Blaine owes
it to the country that the committee shall be
so constituted that its deliberations may not
be entirely in the interests Of the banks.
While these institutions remain constituted
as they now are there is no business safety for
the country The banking business must be
left to the people just as the fishing business
or any other business is left to them. Con-
gress has no right to create special class of
monopolists, and it is especially unjust that
the credit of the government should be
hypothecated for the franchise with which
these monopolists are clothed. If the United
States are responsible for the currency of the
country they should have the benefit of the
whole, and not merely of part of it; while,
with the national bank circulation in the way,
it is by no means certain that we can have
either a convertible or an elastic currency
Year: 1873

and Hopes OF the Exposition.


We print this morning the closing 9chapter
in the history of the Vienna Exhibition. The
substance of this report has been anticipated
by telegraph, but we cannot permit this stu
pendous effort of Austrian enterprise and in
dustry to pass into history without giving
some thoughts that occur to us. The progress
made by the Austrian people during the last
forty years is so marked that we cannot but
congratulate the Emperor and the liberal and
wise men by whom he is surrounded upon the
important changes he has made in his Empire
Perhaps the most instructive feature Of the
Exhibition is international. Austria has
shown every desire for sympathy and COM
merce with other nations. Apart from the
mere display of wealth and industry in the
Industrial Palace we have had convocations
of scientific men, the results of whose deliber-
atoms will be q valuable contribution to scien-
tifc literature. As we are about to have an
Exhibition Of our own we shall do well to learn
the lessons of her failure. We see in the first
place that, while the Industrial Palace, as an
architectural contrivance, was unsurpassed in
Its way, Tor purposes OF observation 1T was
failure What our builders in Philadelphia
must do is to make an exhibition building that
will not exhaust the interest of the visitor be-
fore he passes through one-ffth of its corr-
dors. II must not be long days journey
from the modern industry of the United States
TO the older industry of Turkey. There must
be none Of those police restrictions which took
all comfort from the visitor and made day
in the Prater as perplexing almost as on initia-
ton into secret society. Nor must our fell
low citizens Of Philadelphia fall into the error
Of building new city at the expense Of their
visitors. We do not expect in Philadelphia
an exhibition as large o. as varied rs
in Austria Before we can expect any foreign
exhibitors to be really serious and anxious
about coming to Philadelphia we must mend
our protective laws 80 that the tariff will not
be virtually dyke to prevent German or
French taste and English ingenuity from COM
ing and making themselves manifest So far
from hoping to make any money in pccu-
Year: 1873

A Good Word for Christian Hero


In the appeal Of Captain Fry, OF the Vir
ginius, to the council Of war at Santiago d'
Cuba for the lives of his crew, we have the ap
peal of brave man, worthy the heroism O
sthe brave days Of old Rome"--of her
whose courage, chivalry, tenderness and fidel
ity towards his followers is hardly surpassed
by any of the glorious examples OF history,
And what an unhappy life was his
and what melancholy death How
saddening are these words of his ap
peal tor his unfortunate crew :-s'Ths
council well know that am not pleading fol
my life / have neither home nor country
A victim of war and persecution, | have
been shut out from the road to prosperity
until am unable to provide bread for my
wife and seven children, who know what It II
to suffer from the vicssitudes OF my hfe MY
life is onetf suffering, and it is not for myself
that implore. The poor Bosa, poor gen
tleman, with heart as tender and compass
sionate as that Of woman, who thought more
of others than Of himsolf-pardon him. Th
poor fellow Is my servant hircd to wal
unon mo in port and il not inscribed
Year: 1873

Admiral Polo ON the Outrage.


The Spanish Minister at Washington, in on
interview with q HERAID correspondent yes
terday, gave what may be substantially taken
as the orthodox Spanish view Of the Virginius
outrage OF course, Admiral Polo has felt the
American pulse, and finds that the indigna-
ton here is limited to very small
number particularly, no doubt, the entire
American press. He is careful to think that
the regularly documented virginius was not
entitled to American protection. Her cap
ture on the high seas was, he considers, all
right because as he remarks, 'the American
Consul at Kingston did wrong in
clearing her." This is exceedingly cool, but it
is Spanish. We had better, indeed, remove
the Consul at once and appoint the butcher
Burriel in his place if we wish to learn how
to administer our own laws, of which we have
hitherto supposed ourselves the judge. Then,
as to the butchery at Santiago it was all right
also. They have municipal law, and if they
sent man-of-war to New York and captured
the Cuban Junta on Sandy Hook, they would
calmly butcher them as soon as the man-of
war entered Cuban port. Then we are to
think of the ''sister Republic" if we still find
it in our hearts to say word against the
bloody minded ruffians who slaughter
our citizens at will We confess
that all this is very poor pleading in a
bad cause, but then the Spanish Minister
must be respected for doing the best he can
for it. 1t is, however, something quite re-
lieving when the brave Spanish sailor throws
off the diplomat and tells u.s. there is Cuba;
stake it if you can." He is hardly certain
that we could not take it; but then there is
q tough fight in store for us. When we
have got it, he asks, what will we do
with it ? He has learned from some intelligent
Americans, possibly marines, that 'the Cubans
are incapable of self-government" but there
is little use in discussing that question just
now. 1t will be settled in it's own good time,
even if we are compelled to take Cuba for
ourselves.
Year: 1873

MARY way from the Exhibition at Philadelphia
we should feel at the outset that if every dol
Lar is lost that is given to the Fairmount Pal
ace, and if there are large deficiencies to be
paid by the national government we shall
have true success if we make upon the world
as fair an impression as Austria has made if
we can show that our industry is as far
advanced as that of the people who only few
years ago were despised by us for their super
stition and ignorance and apparent decay.
Year: 1873

situdes Of those best laid among mice and


men. There are times when o nation will NOD


be turned aside from its just purpose by
thing of tricks and hollow bombast Spain
and the United States have been raving st
each other through their respective diplomats,
and Secretary Buchu has begun to turn and run.
He is somewhat dismnyed to find that tho
indignation reused by the virginius outrags
will not down at his Buchu bidding. He must
do something to gain time, and he querulously
whimpers, 1.-THE country has given itself up
to passion" He finds that while his crescendc
pleased the nation, his dininuendo is secuted
as the sign of trimmer and Q
craven. He may sneer and sniggel
in his sleeve, but if he loves his
place he will change his tune. To
Secretary Buchu national honor is moth
ing. He will endeavor to save as much Of his
plan as he dares, and we may not be surprised
if we learn that he agrees to take the word OF
impotent Spain for the fulflment of oil his de-
mands, except the abolition of slavery If he
succeeds in palming off this upon the coun-
try he will triumph SO far that as Spain
is unable to give US any redress in
Cuba, the country will be left with
an empty apology in its ears, amid the
renewed rejoicings Of the savage Spanish
wretches who dragged the mutilated corpsea
Of Ryan and Varona around the streets of San
tiago de Cuba. We shall see how Secretary
Buchu acts, and if his quackery can cheat the
nation out of its due the people will put this
latest humiliation, along with the others they
have suffered, in the museum, where will be
gibbeted for all time the shameful doings we
have seen perpetrated in the age Of Buchu.
Year: 1873

It appears by q careful computation that there are moro people engaged in hquor selling in New Haven than there are employed on the new postoffice build ing m New York The government has been notified, and will immediately put more men on the postofice.
Year: 1873

An Cxu.rrY BoY.-You can always
tell boy whose mother cuts his hair
Not because the edges OF it look as If il
had been chawed off by an absent minded
horse. bu, you tell it by the way he stops
on the street and wriggles his shoulders.
When fond mother has to cut her boys
hair. she is careful to guard against any
annoyance and muss by laying \ sheet on
the carpet.


II has never yet occurred TO her 10 sit
him over bare floor aud pu. the sheet
around his neck. Then she draws the
front hair over his eyes. aud leaves il
there while she cuts that which is at the
back; the hair which lies over his eyes
appears to be surcharsed with electric
needles, and that which is silently drop
ping down under his shirt band appears
to be on fire.


She has unconsciously continued to push
his head forward until his nose presses his
breast, and is too busily engaged to notice
the suuiiiing sound tha, is becoming
alarmingly frequent. In the meantime ho
is seized with an irresistible desire to blow
ulS UtSt, but WAT
chief is in the other room.


Then fly lights on his nose. and does
it so unexpectedly that he involuntarily
lodges, and catches the points Of the
shears on his left car. At this he CON-
mcnces to cry and wishes he was a man.
But his mother doesn't notice him. She
merely hits him on the other ear. TO in
spire him with confidence, and goes on
with the work When she is through she
holds his jacket collar back from his seek.
and with her mouth blows the short bits
of hair from the top Of his head down his
back.
lie calls her attention to this fact. but
she looks for new place on his head aud
hits him there. and asks him why he didn't
use his handkerchief Then he takes his
nwfully disfgnred head to the mirror and
looks at it, and young ns he is. shaddcrs
as he thinks Of what the boys on the
street will say.
Year: 1873

INSTINCT or ANrs-An observer Of the
habits and instinct of ants relates that a
vase on the mantle-shelf in his sitting
room, which was usually filled with fresh
violets. was haunted by very small red
ants. The insects issued from hole in
the wall above. and gradually increased
in number until they formed an almost
unbroken procession. lie brushed them
to the floor for several days. but. as they
were not killed. the result was that they
formed n COLONY in the wall at the base of
the mantel, aud. ascending thence to the
shelf. the vase was soon attacked from
above apd below. lone Day" says the
writer. Il observed a number of ants,


perhaps thirty or forty. on the shelf at the
foot Of the vase. Thinking to kill them.
| struck them lightly with the end of my
finger. killing some and disa bling the rest.
The effect of this was immediate and un-
As soon as the living arrived
near where their fellows lay dead and suf-
feriug. they turned and fed with all pos
sible haste. In half an hour the wall
above the mantel-shslf vas cleared
Year: 1873

Does the dark and sound'ess river


Stretch so wide
The homeward rolling tide
Over which have crossed
Our loved and early lost
That their sealed eyes may never see


The further side.
Where still amid this toll and misery


We hide ;?
Is the realm of their transition


Close at hand


To this our living land ?
Nearer than We dreamr
Can they catch the gleam
OF our smiles and hear the words We speak,


And zee our deedsf
Ana. looking deepee shan oar eyes may sesk,
Year: 1873

To COMPROMISE is to jeopardize not
only or State government, but the
rights OF cvcry State in tho Union. Our
sister States have their eyes upon us
anu will hold us to a strict accountable
ity for tho use VIC may make OF our op-
portuntiCs.
Year: 1873

A fatal accident occurred few DAYS
ago about ten miles from Nashville, on
the Hiilsboro pike. A negro woman
had secured her clothing about her by
wrapping piece of rope several times
around her body, and was riding along
the pike in an express wagon. One
end Of the rope, by some means, became
disengaged, and caught in a wheel of
the vehicle, by which she was thrown
violently and head-foremost upon the
pike, breaking her neck, and causing in
slant death.
Year: 1873

figure and complexion that more costly ia
brics do not possess. And the ladies who
would wear them and make the most of
them would look 50 charmingly that their
very husbands would fall in love with them
or, If the unappieciative wretches should
fail to do so, other women husbands would .
and that large class of untortunates who are
nobody's husbands would quite adore them.


-PTOlideEcs Journal.
Year: 1873

House plants taken up in autumn for win


dow gardens, may be kept more neatly in
the pots By covering the surface Of the soil
in them with about an inch of clean, coarse
sand. This prevents the sides Of the pots
from being defled by the earth when they
arc watered, forms into smooth, eyen sur
face, and prevents the formation of any
crust from watering Country Gentleman.
Year: 1873

THE TRIBUNE has just printed, in an extra


complete resume Of the entire CREDIT
MOBILgR NVBSTGA ALTON The reports which have for two


numbered the papers carefully condensed winnowd OF
matter and intelligent shape without
The public thus have gathered together in single
result Of the investigation IN form for
preservation ready Single copies Of the sheet sent
t o Is cents five copies for 25 cents
The discount the trade.
Year: 1873

GREENBACK.-All the green
back" paper used by the Govern
men: is made by a mill near
Westchcster, Penn. The pro-
cess is a peculiar one. The red
scratches appearing on the SUR
face is part Of the paper itself
formed by almost infnitesimal
pieces of red silk, mixed with
the pulp in the engine, after it
passes through the screens.
which would otherwise separate
it from the mass. BY a peculiar
arrangement a shower ofshort
pieces Of fine blue silk thread is
dropped in streaks upon the pa
per while it is being formed. The
upper side upon which the blue
silk is used for the face Of the
note, and from the mahher in
which the threads are applied
shows them more distinctly then
the lower or reverse side, al
though they are imbcdded deep
ly enough 10 remain fixed.
Year: 1873

avenue, near seventy-frst street. The detect
i've sprang from the car, but his man had dis.
appeared. For two days the officer paraded
that neighborhood, but to no purpose On
the third day he extended his walk as far
along Seventy-frst street as Fifth avenue.
AS he glanced toward the park he thought ne
recognized McMurry near the Casino, some
three hundred yards away. He went toward
the spot and examined the neighborhood
thoroughly, but saw nothing of the man. The
New York detective before referred to hap.
pened to be at the Casino on business, and
recognizing the Ohio officer said: "If you'll
come with me to that octagon building, they'll
show you the whereabouts Of the fellow you
want, if he's in the park, in two minutes"


AFoRGER CAPTURED.


Detective Lambert went to the Octagon &C.
cordingly, and explained his wishes. The
camera was put in motion, and in thirty Sec
onds he discovered McMurry seated in an ar
Dor, not two hundred yards away, calmly
smoking cigar. In FIVE minutes time the
officer had his man. II watched the whole
proceeding" said the New York detective to
the Sun reporter, "as it was cast upon the
table. I saw Lambert approach, McMurry
start and try to dodge him, and the detective
grab him and bear him down to his knees.
Then I saw Lambert put the handouts away,
and McMurry quietly light fresh cigar,
and hand another to Lambert, and both walk
off apparently the best Of friends"


Last Wednesday lady residing in Fifth
avenue visited the park with two friends, &C.
companied by her little boy of four years.
While the lady and her friends were chatting
together in an arbor the child strolled away,
and when the alarmed mother became con-
scious of the fact he was nowhere to be seen
Search was made in every direction by the
lady and her friends, but to no purpose. AT
LEM 9th an officer who was consulted by the
distressed woman, directed her to the Octa'
gon. Thither she and her friends went. The
camera, like good angel, went to work to
disclose the whereabouts of the lost boy, and
in few minutes small white speck was dis
covered in the sheep-pasture. "That's most
likely your child, madam" said the expert in
charge of the camera.


LOST CHILD FOUND.


The lady examined the speck carefully, and
there sure enough was her darling, every fea'
ture and limb discernible, lying curled up on
the grass fast asleep.