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Year: 1876

Under the inspiration of the new year
several of our city pastors will make fear
ture of the day in their sermons to-day.
Among them we notice Messrs. Macarthur.
Lightbourn, Phelps, Saunders, Pullman,
Mccarthy, Seitz and Harris The last named
will deliver the Salutatory Of 1876 and the
first named from the watchman's outlook
will tell US what he sees in the distance, and
offer appropriate suggestions for the occa-
sion. Mr.. Phelps will take little from the
old as well as the new year, and furnish Us
with things new and old and Mr.. Seitz will
shake out the old clothes of the dead year.
to see if there is among them any article thai
will fit the new. DIR. Deems will enter upon
a new year of his ministry with the Church
of the Strangers, as well as a new one of his
life, and will therefore preach New Year
church anniversary sermon But all OF our
city pastors not thus inspired by the new
year Some of them realize that to many OF
their hearers every day is the beginning of
new year or the ending of an old one, and
hence they preach as if it were their
last opportunity Christ and Him cruci-
fed. Mr.. Leavell will therefore present life
as thought and every day as day of saliva
tion. DR.. Armitage will picture an old age
as forsaken of God, and young life in the
same condition, so far as the Prodigal Son
can illustrate it. Mr.. Willis will expound
the parable of the sower and present
the prize which awaits the success
ful winner in the race of life. Mr..
Merritt will draw from the royal feast such
lessons as it contains, and Mr.. Johns from
the barren fig tree the lesson of the seeming
in contrast with the real, the almost per-
suaded with the fully persuaded. Mr.. Knapp
will make it clear if any one doubts it, that
the abiding and abounding Christian is the
victorious one, and that the human heart is
the DEVILS resting place Mr.. Kennard will
deliver Christmas sermon to his people and
explain to them the visit of the magi and the re-
lation of baptism to other Church ordinances
Bishop Snow will explain how and when the
earth is to be filed with the glory of God
And thus, in part, will the pastors of the city
inaugurate the New Year 1S76-the Centen-
NAL of the nations existence. We wish
them peaceful and prosperous year spiritu-
ally in their several fields of labor.
Year: 1876

sition of the Chamber. Many republicans
came in by the supplementary elections.
All vacancies made by deaths or designations
were filed in favor of the republicans or
Bonapartists, and these soon had vote that
enabled them to give the victory TO either Of
the monarchical factions they acted with, and
thus the monarchy was made impossible in
Chamber that had i've hundred monarchi-
cal votes.


But the Chamber, while they divided on
what seemed the great essential point, acted
with patriotic unanimity on what were, in
fact, the really essential points of the situa-
ton 1t paid the indemnity, relieved the
country of the presence Of the enemy, estab-
lished an effective machinery of administra-
ton, and finally gave the Republic stable
foundation in the constitution of 1875 BY
that constitution the National Assembly con-
sists of Senate and a Chamber Of Deputies
the differences in the representative character
of which houses is substantially analogous to
the difference between our Senate and House
of Representatives By these houses acting
together the President is chosen for the term
of seven years, and is re-eligible. This is
essentially the same outline of government
as our own, and it is frame upon which can
be organized a government Of an aristocratic
character, as our own was in the early days
of the Republic, or which may hold to the
limits of formality very liberal democracy.
Thus it is a scheme upon which with repub-
lican forms government can be kept in re-
lation with the actual condition of the people
as to democracy or aristocracy. 1t is con-
sistent with an extensive range toward one or
the other, and this is its great excellence,
and promises to give it permanent success
in Franco
Year: 1876

Independence OF its policy, its complete
abstention from all European disputes and
its complete exclusion of European Powers
from any part in its decisions on American
topics. An answer to these structures is
now put forth in the government organ. 1t
is said that the government did not regularly
send Cuban circular to the several Pow
ers, but that it called their attention TO the
part of the Message that relates to Cuba !;
and that there is nothing in the spirit of the
Monroe doctrine which makes such course
improper. AS to the matter of fact if the
President inserts in his Message the parts of
circular intended for foreign contempla-
ton and then automatically requests several
foreign governments to give him their opin-
ions on those parts of his Message, how is
this essentially different from the allegations
of our Vienna despatch? AS to the Monroe
doctrine, if we ask the approval of foreign
governments for policy which we propose,
do We not thereby admit that they have
such right to disapprove as we would be in
honor bound to notice and is not this an
abandonment of the essential point of the
Monroe doctrine?
Year: 1876




Nothing illustrates more forcibly the prog
ress of the world during the first century OF
the American Republic than the HERALD IT
self does on this ID of January, 1876 We do
not say this as boast, but 2s fact; for 1t Is
in the very nature of great newspaper that
it should inevitably summarize and include
human affairs as they are. Shakespeare said
of the stage, and it was true of the stage IN
his time, that it was its end to hold the
mirror up to nature. That is now more true
of the press This number of the HERALD is
the product of the worlds best achievements
in science invent ton, skilled labor
and culture In its mechanical depart
ments it represents more arts than we have
space TO enumerate. In the application OF
practical science to the photographing of the
face of the world for one day-if we may use
that metaphor-it is contrast to the
journalism of a century ago even greater than
the contrast between the painfully executed
manuscript works of the monks in the four
teenth century and the printed books which
issued from the magic press of Gutenberg or
Faust.


We will pass over that vast system of news
gathering on this continent, and ask our
readers to give their attention to one single
fact A century ago a sailing vessel, painfully
struggling with the ocean and the winds,
brought our ancestors the tardy
and meagre reports from Europe,
which in their unconscious simplicity they
dignifed by the title of news. Three
months sometimes elapsed before even Eng
land was heard from. What leap journal
ism has made since l776 To-day the HERALD
prints letters written yesterday in all the
capitals of Europe. Our mails are carried
over electric bridges and our letters cross
the ocean in an hour This is not sim
ply our own enterprise. 1t is the
utilization of all the arts, sciences and in
ventions that can in any way be made to
carry journalism to its highest point of value.
The ocean telegraph, fast presses and fast
trains are used to collect news from every
quarter of the globe, and to distribute it
over continent


To-day we have cable letters from Paris,
London, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Athens and
HCAA"ASAA
dition in Germany, France, Austria, Russia
and Turkey. They tell us of the dangers that
threaten the autonomy of Belgium and
Switzerland. They reveal the new policy of
Bismarck toward the Catholic Church.
They give important facts concern
ing the Vatican. They inform US
of the latest gossip in literature, art, music
and the drama The finances in London and
the Continent receive thorough attention.
They report the movements of celebrated
men and women. They give the complete
history of Thomassen. They epitomize, in
fact, the events which occurred in all
Europe on the first day of the year.
Is there anything that human ingenuity
has achieved in the past one hundred years
that is more suggestive than this? We think
not journalism is the mirror Of mankind,
and the feat of travelling around the world in
eighty days is eclipsed by the accomplished
fact of encircling it in one.
Year: 1876

Our despatch from Vienna published
some days since, made the country ac-
quainted with the strange circumstance that
the President had gone all the way to St.
Petersburg to endeavor to drum up moral
support for his Cuban policy, which had
proved distastefu to the American people,


because, deeply suspicious of his intentions,
the people believed that that policy was
adopted as q mere cover for the attempt to
overcome the repugnance to third term.
We pointed out at the time that this request
for moral support" was as repugnant to our
traditional policy as the third term itself;
that the fathers and founders Of this Repub-
lie not only did not send round a platter to
European capitals for diplomatic and politi-
cal cold victuals but they maintained that
tho safety of this government Law in the total
Year: 1876

Mr.. Bowen EXPLAINS. In suit for libel,
which grew out of the great Brooklyn scam
dal, it was shown the other day that Mr..
Bowen had made contract with Jay Cooke
to use the Independent, newspaper of an aw-
fully high moral tone and the purest con-
ceivable piety, for the propagation and as


sistance of that enormous swindle the North
ern Pacific Railroad. Mr.. Bowen now ex-
plains that he never made such a contract
with JAY Cooke, but that on the contrary he
made verbal agreement (which was put in
writing" distinction so delicate that no
court of justice could see it; and that con-
tract or verbal agreement put in writing"
or whatever else it may be called, it did not
bind him more than ten minutes" That


is the peculiar weakness Of the whole Brook
lyn lot Their contracts never bound any
of them for more than ten minutes at a time
Year: 1876

The NEW YEAR has been ushered in.
Yesterday the renewal Of hope and good
resolves was pledged in the wine Of hospi-
tality. Festivities were everywhere, and
before and after the annual family banquet
the streets were merry with the incessant
passage Of the callers. who wearied not until
midnight, and even later were joyial OIL their
Lomeward way.
Year: 1876

The public should bear in mind that the genuine
" Diamond Spectacles," which have proved them
selves the best thing of the kind in Market bear the
de.mark a small diamond stamp, on every pair.
Buy only the genuine article and you will be fully
satisfied.
Year: 1876

Been IN general use for twenty years. Everywhere
Droved the NEST SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL,
and EFFICIENT medicines known. They are Just
what the people want saving time and money, avert
ing sickness and suffering. Each single specific the
well tried prescription of an eminent physician.
Year: 1876

Dark colored glasses are the best, the
roots being impatient Of light. NOvem-
Der is good time to begin the culture
of hyacinths In water. Nothing can be
more simple than the modus operdndi.
Almost ali the single varieties named
above are well adapted for growing in
water. Having selected good bulbs, fill
the glasses with soft rain water, place
the base of the bulb near to, but not
touching, the wate:. Set the glasses in
cool, dark closet for about six weeks.
or until the glasses are well filled with
roots; during that period keep the glas-
ses filed, but never allow the bulb to
touch the water. 1. is not necessary to
change the water over once month
by placing piece of charcoal in the
glass it will keep the water fresh and
free from decomposition. Never use
guano or any kind of manure mixed
with the water; they succeed better


without it. / knew an amateur who,
to have an extra display, treated his
bulbs to a dose of ammonia, which had
ITO HIM the unlooked-for effect Of en-
tirely running his show for the season.
There were only two out of about fifty
bloomed-a memorable lesson for him.
Bring the plants gradually to the light
they will soon be enabled to stand the
full sunshine. The more sunshine they
enjoy, the stronger the spikes and the
more brilliant the colors of the flowers.
Year: 1876

Seldom does year pass during which
some illustrious name is not added to
the long list of those who are sleeping
their last sleep in the cemetery of Mt.
Auburn. This year the grass is grow
ing for the first time over the grave of
Charlotte Cushman. 1t is no longer
ago than the Autumn of 1874 that she


rode out there for the purpose
of selecting lot, requesting to
be shown one where there was an sun
obstructed view of Boston," She was
conducted to one a long way from the
entrance, away over the beautiful coun-


try, which lies fair and and green and


peaceful beyond the inclosure OF the
city of the dead, to reach which she
had to pass the graves of many of her


old friends of whom she spoke tenderly.
When she arrived at the small triangu-
lar lot designated, she stopped, satisfied,


and gazing yearningly at the distant
roofs and spires, she said ''See, yonder
lies dear old Boston," and expressed
her great delight in the place she had
chosen saying, "This is a delightful
spot;" and returning to it for second
visit some weeks later, she seemed hap
DIV i'm the certainty that her last resting
place was to be in sight of the city of
her birth. TO that delightful spot" F"
in little more than year afterward,
she was borne, from the very Stone
Chapel, the Kings Chapel, in which
she had been wont to worship, before
whose altar her lifeless body had rested
for a few hours while the funeral hon.
ors were being paid, while friends and
strangers, and the girls of he Cushman
School heaped flowers-laurel and ivy.
pond-lilies, forget-me-nots, and immor-
telles-upon the casket where she lay,
with a lily-of-the-vally in her hand,
while along the arches of the venerable
church thrilled the solemn music of
chant and hymn. Not many weeks
after her death, while rambling about
Mount Auburn we came upon her soli-
tary grave. The prospect was enchant-
ing. Turning little to the right, we
beheld scattered farm-houses, villages,
wooded knolls and green fields, making
lovely landscape, outlined by gentle
hills, and in the rear valley river and
meadow, willow skirted. In front, in
full view, perhaps four miles distant,
lay 'sDear old Boston"-the stately
pile of buildings crowned by the burn
ished dome of the State House, close by
her birthplace, whose chimes had
been among the most familiar OF her
childhood. Her grave, as yet unsodded
was in the center of the three-cornered
lot on tile fair slope looking toward the
sunrise; and so, with her face toward
the city she loved, and her feet to the
East, she awaits the resurrection morn
Year: 1876

The greatest feat of an Arab hunter
is to capture an ostrich. Being very
shy and cautious, and living on the
sandy plains, where there is little
chance of taking it by surprise, 1t can
be captured only by well planned and
long-continued pursuit on the swiftest
horse. The ostrich has two curious
habits in running when alarmed. 1t
always starts with outspread wings
against the wind, so that it can scent
the approach Of an enemy. ITS sense'of
scent is SO keen that it can detect an
enemy at great distance long before
he can be seen. The other curious
habit is that of running in a circle.
Usually five or six ostriches are found
in company. When discovered, part of
the hunters, mounted on fleet horses
will pursue the birds, while the other
hunters will gallop away at right angles
to the course the ostrich has taken.
When the hunters think they have
gone far enough to cross the paths the
birds will be likely to take, they watch
on some rise in the ground for their ap-
proach. If the hunters hit the right
place and see the ostrich, they at once
start in pursuit with fresh horses, and
sometimes they overtake one or two
the birds, but often one or two of the
fleet horses fall completely tired out
with so sharp chase.
Year: 1876

Nearly all the paper which is used in
Central Asia is manufactured at Khok-
and, and at Tcharku, little village in
the khanate of Khokand. The process
of making it is rude and slow. yet inter-
esting As hint of the achievements of
the native Asiatics in the industrial
arts. We extract an account from the
interesting works of Mr.. Schuyler on
"Turkista': ''The rags are alternate
ly pounded and macerated until they
are reduced to thick pulp, which is
then collected into round ball. Por-
tions of this are then placed in tub of
water and well mixed together. The
paper-maker takes an oblong sieve,
made of thin glass stretched over
wooden frame, and puts into il quan


tity of the pulp-shaking and inclining
it until it is equally distributed over the
surface. After allowing it to stand for
a few moments, he turns it out on
board. In this way one man can make
about 300 leaves per day which are
placed one on the other, with layers of
felt between, and submitted to heavy
pressure to squeeze out the moisture.
In the morning they are taken out, and
hung for drying on wall exposed to
the South. The sizing and polishing
are done in the bazaar, by different
set of workmen. The size usually em-
ployed is a kind of dextrine found
i'm the roots of the .Shirash, a plant of
the lily family; and the polishing is
made by a smooth, heavy stone. By
this process the value of paper is nearly
doubled from ten to thirteen or 20
cents sheet. Imperfect paper is,
however, never thrown away; for at
the time of sizing, holes or assures are
patched up with their strips, and the
surface is made so even that the defects
can only be discovered by holding the
sheets up to the light. This paper,
which is usually gray, although some
times colored pink and blue, is very
tough and firm, and excellent for the
gummy ink with which the natives
write. For the purposes of the Europ-
cans it is of little use, and the Russians
have to import all the paper they re-
quire.''
Year: 1876

One good lay brother found difficulty
in mouthing the names of Shadrach,
Meshach, and AbednegO, and when he
came to them again, he said, naively,
''Please, the same three gentlemen as
BEFORE One who had resolved he
would take the people by guile said.
in expounding "All the world went
out to be taxed etc; This Is figure
of speech called by the learned an hy-
perbOle, a sort of exaggerated state
ment;" and added, by way of applica-
cation, IF said you were all asleep,
it would be an hyperbole for not more
than half of you are in that condition. y
Great care should be taken to be very
exactly truthful in pulpit ministratiOns.
A great gun of party, in one of his
sermons, said, "a striking illustration
just comes to my mind,n which was
very telling; but a friend of mine, a
physician, happened to hear the
preacher deliver the same discourse
again, when the same apt illustration
just came to his mind in the same place
In the sermons. My friend got into a
way of sceptical suspicion that injured
him for years and made him sadly
doubtful OF pulpit integrity. \ preach
ing pedant in Leicester. who had a





introducing his text with learned NOR
sells of criticism. For instance, he
would say, "Our version does not give
the real Specification of the original
Greek text. Tholuck says it ought to
to read thus; but the more recent Ger
man expOsitors say it ought to read
thus; but | say this is the right render
ing.n And So the stockingers stared
and were taught and edited. That
Gods people were like evergreen
leaves, it is said, excited the cry in a
Methodist meeting, Lord. send us a
leaf." And the fact that hens were
among the most grateful creatures,
never drinking without lifting their
bills upward, produced the esupplicatory
exclamation. ''Oh that we were all
hens :" The clerical John Berridge
said some strange things, and wrote
still stranger in his correspondence
with the Countess of Huntingdon.
Rowland Hill was naturally wit, and
often uttered odd things. So did Mat
thew Wilks. But either wit or humor
would require careful watching and be-
ing kept under check of good sense, or
the pulpit will become a grinninc-
post, and not rOstrum OF sound speech
which cannot he condemned. But
many persons like these things, as the
old man who listened to Rowland Hill,
in his latter days, said, "Bless his dear
heart he Is as funny as ever. .7-FOrty
Years Christian Ministry.
Year: 1876

We haye not been in the habit
of regarding Secretary Fish as
particularly scholarly in the use
Of language but in his recent
interview with a correspondent
of the World he evinced a very
nice discrimination. Speaking of
his uOte to MI. Gushing, be said ::
There we're sOpe points in that
note which l, for one, anticipated
would arouse discussion, aud
even argument"


1t is pleasing to have this as
surance that the SECRETARY fully
comprehends the distinction
which his own diplomatic cDrres
pOudence 80 amply illustrates,
that discussion is not always ar
gument.
Year: 1876

with silent contempt.


Fish are provided with air
bladders, 80 that they can rive
from the depths of the sea by
simply filling the bladders with
ar. IT any one is disposed to ask
where they get the air for such
Imitation, let him understand in
advance that this article is not
intended for the solution of petty
cOnundrnms.


There are many interesting
rumors about which might be
mentioned, but the foregoing
facts may he considerable of.fish.
al.
Year: 1876

If there is no danger and no
apprehension Of war, why is that
Secor Robeson is spending 80
much haste in getting monitors
ready for sea I We are told that
fourteen OF these vessels will be
in condition for actual service
before the end of the month.
These monitors have nearly all
been laid up tor years. They are
useless for any other purpose
than fighting, and to put them all
in commission implies great ex-
pense. Unless there is expectation
or dread of war, Secor RObeson is
wantOnly wasting the public
mQney.-Er.
Year: 1876

The readiest and most useful remedy
for scalds and burns is an embrocation
of lime-water and linseed oil. These
simple agents combined form a thick,
cream-like substance, which eflectually
excludes the air from the injured parts,
and allays the inflammation almost in
stantly. A case is recorded where a
child fell backward into a bath-tub of
boiling water, and was nearly fayed from
her neck to below her hips. Her agonies
were indescribable but her clothing be-
ing gently removed, and the lime and
oil preparation thickly spread over the
injured surface, she was sound asleep in
five minutes. Subsequently, the parts
were carefully washed with warm milk
and water three times day, the oil
dressing renewed, and the little patient
rapidly recovered. Though all the
scalded skin came of, she did not have a
scar. This remedy leaves no hard coat
to dry on the sores, but softens the parts
and aids nature to repair the injury in
the readiest and most expeditions man.
ner. This mixture may be procured in
the drug stores, but if not thus accessi-
BILE, shake lump of quicklime in waAer,
and as soon as the water is clear, mix it
with the oil and shake it well. If the
case is urgent, pour boiling water over
the lime, and it will become clear in five
minutes. The preparation may be kept
bottled in the house, and it will be as
good six months old as when first made.
Year: 1876

1t is better for you to pass an evening
once or twice week in lady's drawing
room, even though the conversation is
slow, and you know the girls song by
heart, than at a club, the tavern, or a
pit of the theater. All the amusements
of youth to which virtuous women are
not admitted, rely on it, are deleterious
in their nature. All men who avoid fe-
male society have dull perceptions, and
are dull, and have gross tastes, and revolt
against what is pure. Your club swag-
gerers, who are sucking the butts of bill.
lard cues all night, call female society
insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a
jockey; beauty has no charms for blind
man; music does not please poor beast
who does not know one tune from an.
other; but as pure epicure is hardly
tired of water sauces and brown bread
and butter, protest can sit for whole
night talking with a well-regulated
kindly woman about her girl Fanny, OF
boy Frank, and like the evenings enter
tainment. One of the great benefits
derived from woman's society by man
is, that he is bound to respect her. The
habit is of great good to your moral man,
depend upon it. Our education makes
us the most eminently selfish men in the
world Thdckerdy.