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Year: 1872

A healthy old apo from the Cape OF Good Hope
With fine head Of hair and q tail like a rope,
On hearing that Darwin had ventured to claim
Relationship with him. pronounced it shame
Said he: Twas provoking enough to be called
A quadrumanous mammon; but nothing has


CALLED


My sensitive nature to such an extent
As this mot presumptuous claim of descent.
This man whose audacity made me so spunky
Wrote II volume to prove his grandfather a


monkey,


And that every man has some ancestor dead
With a prchensile tail and elongated head.


readily grant that some men are MS good
As any orang -outang found in the wood
But fellows like Darwin are going too far
In trying to be something more than they ar


So enter my protest against the gre at wrong
And the jacchus puIgaris my wall shall proong,
Else Darwin to Ccylon would cmigrate soon,
To pass himself off for "A sacred baboon."
Year: 1872

The Troy Whiy tells the following
story: "Onc of our prominent physi-
clans, making his daily rounds to see
his patients, had occasion to call at u
house where there were no facilities to
fastcn his horse. He left it in the care
of n small boy of the lsraelitish faith,
whom he happened to see in the street.
On coming out of the house he naturally
enough expected to find his trusty ser
want treating himself to a ride; but no
-Mordecai knew the use of time and
value of money little better-hc was
letting the horse to little boys in the
block"
Year: 1872

EVERY iron rail on the north and
south railroad, SO far as | have been
able to examine, is a perfect magnet,
the north end attracting the south pole
and the south end the north pole of a
magnetic needle. So also in Il rail on
such a railroad the lower flange attracts
the south pole, and the upper fange the
north pole of a needle.-Dr. Richard
O,oen, Of Indiana State University.
Year: 1872

About two years ago a smallpox hos
pital was established at Hampstead,
near London, on account of the in
creasing prevalence Of that disease. The
superintendent lately published an ac-
count Of his observations in that hospl-
tai of the effects of vaccination in miti
eating the severity of the disease. Moth
ing could be more conclusive than the
result. The percentage of deaths among
those admitted without vaccination
marks was 55.43. Among those with one
mark the percentage of fatal cases sank
to 1888; among those with two marks
it was 1929; among those with three
marks only 1888 per cent. died; only
S. SO of those with four marks, and only
6.l3 of those with five or more marks.
or cases of smallpox after successful
re-vaccination there were but three out
Of 6,22l, but there were many cases to
prove the fallaciousness of the doctrine
that persons not susceptible to vacci-
nation are proof against smallpox. But
the conclusion is that successful re
vaccination after the age of fifteen years
is sure protection against the disease.
Cases are rarer than those of second
small pox, and are very mild when they
do occur
Year: 1872

A man in Pennsylvania has invented
a rat trap that is made to operate upon
the selfish passions of the poor rat and
lure him into trouble. The Nechaaic
and Farmer, in description of the trap,
says that mirror is set in the back part
of the device beyond the bait, and as his
ratship is out on Il foraging expedition,
he espies the bait, and at the same time
believes his own image in the mir
ror to be another rat making for it
on the opposite side. This is too much
for rat nature to stand and be cool over,
so he rushes for the bait. But, alas
the noble rat has fallen; for Il sharp,
two-tined fork has come down upon his
luckless head and penetrated through
skin and skull and in the brain, where
one short moment before rankled av,
arice, now rankles two of deaths ar
rows. But that is not all. The gullet
down which was expected a sweet NOR
sci to pass, is now pierced and bleeding
for another spear has entered it from
J below.
Year: 1872

IN. AkLlDGE. ftllNSltldn 10 INC North
Statlordshirc (Enrland) lnlirmary, and
one OF the pottery inspectors under the
Home Office, writing III regard to dis
eases prevalent among potters, says that
where tea is used several times IL day it
produces Il deterioration of health among
the laboring classes and lowered
vitality in the rising generation. Ladies
who love cold tea should take warning
from this, since for certain medical rca-
sons they are peculiarly liable to be in
jured by it.


QUITE n table phenomenon was OBJ
served in Williamsburg, N Y, after the
severe thunderstorm of Friday morn
ing. Within a certain circumscribed
area millions of curious worm-lke
beings, each with an appendagc of tail,
were noticed. They filled the cutters.
and wherever there was hole they fell
into it, and were eaten by the hogs
which rooted among them; and thou
sands of sparrows seemed to have been
collected at the place for the sake of
devouring them.-Neo York World, 10Th
INST


NOVEL but practical idea has been
recently originated and successfully
carried out in Atlanta, Ga, which might
with equal facility and benefit be
adopted in other cities. The city water
works have been successfully applied as
a motive power for the running of light
machinery. The proprietor of print
ing establishment of that city, using
the water from an ordinary street pipe,
is enabled to run all his presses at d
great saving of labor and expense.


A LADY entered Brooklyn drug
store recently, and placed a live mouse
on the counter. The little animal had
q very sore head, and the doctor was
asked whether he knew what the mat
ter was. He was also in formed that it
had been brought from the tenement
house l56 Hudson avenue, near York
street, where there have been sevt raj
cases of smallpox. After examining
the mouse, he found that it was covered
with sores. He sprinkled some disin-
fecting powder over it, and in short
time it died. 1t was then dissected,
and a clear case of smallpox in its worst
form was revealed. The remains were
inclosed III a glass jar, land are to be
sent to the hospital for further exami.
nation, as it is believed to be the first
case of tn e kind ever heard of.


The moon is our nearest celestial ac-
quaintance, but it has the safe distance
of 247 900 miles. Great as is the space
between the earth and the moon, the
sun could not pass through it; but per-
haps q still better idea of the sun can
be obtained from the fact that if it
should be entirely followed out, and
the earth placed in the center, there
would still be room for the moons en-
tire path, and an unoccupled space OF
POI 900 miles in diameter all round
for the diameter of the sun is $4,000
miles
Year: 1872

The ASN STREET AND PARK Row CORNER.
The new Post Office is progressing towards
completion. When il is finished there will be
mo more important business location in the
city than the north corner of Ann street and
Park row, opposite the HERALD building. Yet
fhat property is now suffered to remain in a
half ruinous condition, either unoccupied or
Infested with saloons and gambling dens.
The public necessity will soon demand the
widening OF Ann street to Nassau, and the
sharp, unsightly corner should at once be
removed and give way to handsome building
pet back q proper distance to meet the require
rnent of the wider street. Such piece of
property would be of great value, and would
command high rents, besides being an impor-
liant public improvement. No building site
in the city offers q more favorable prospect
Tor investment
Year: 1872

Fatal Fire at tho Fifth Avenue


Hotel-A Terrible Calamity.


We are panied to announced tho occurrence
of terrible calamity at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel last night. About half-past eleven
o clock the intelligence that the hotel
was on fro spread with rapidity through
the city and drew many thousands Of people
to the spot. It appears that the fire was
for some time kept as quiet as possible. appa-
rently with the hope that it might be subdued
without creating panic among the guests
This precaution helped to bring about the ter
rible result. The fire originated on stairway
leading from the landing to the sleep
ing rooms occupied by the female
servants, and ran rapidly up tho
stairs, cutting off the poor girls from escape
As nearly as can be ascertained at the present
writing, the fire was discovered soon after
eleven clock by one of the guests of the house,
and by the time assistance could be procured
access to the upper rooms by the stairs was
impossible The girls, tired out with their
days work, were doubtless sleeping soundly,
and were probably, for the most part,
suffocated in their beds, or burned
in their attempt to escape. In the
early part of the fire two females
were taken out Of one of the rooms
on the fourth floor, badly burned, and were
conveyed to the hospital. The bodies of the
others were not found until after one o'clock,
when the fire had been subdued. Thirteen
bodies were discovered in the sleeping
apartments.


We are unwilling at this time to condemn
the parties in charge of the hotel, but it is
stated that gross carelessness was apparent in
the condition of the warming apparatus and
that there was too much anxiety to keep the
fact of the fire secret and too little effort made
to save the unfortunate girls. There appears
to have been very insufficient provision
against such a disaster as that which
has now occurred, and it is probably
fortunate that the fire did not break
out at later hour The whole subject
will no doubt be thoroughly investigated.
Although we hear at present Of only thirteen
deaths it is feared greater number may have
occurred.
Year: 1872

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON represents that
the President is about to revive the St. Do
mingo scheme; that he interprets his re-elec-
ton as an endorsement of O policy which, by
the way, was out of existence at the time of
the Presidential contest, and that Secretary
Delano is bound on mission of Dominican
annexation. SO, according to this story.
We are to have a new star added
to the flag before another year
rolls round, and are to welcome President
Baez to seat in the United States Sem
ate. On the principle that no rumor is too
absurd for the meridian Of Washington, this
one may be allowed to pass. But President
Grant is more likely to covet the renown of
restoring peace and constitutional rights to the
States already in the Union than of adding to
their number
Year: 1872

MISS NELSON, THE '.BRIaHr PARTICULAR
guests who were disturbed by the fire at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last night Miss Nelson
is so great an acquisition to our dramatic
circles her youth, beauty and genius have
made her SO deseryedly popular, that every one
will regret the inconvenience to which she
may have been subjected by our mysterious
''fre aend," who attacks newspaper estab-
lishment one night and a fashionable hotel the
next. However. we trust the mishap will not
deprive our citizens even for single evening
of those admirable presentations which have
SO delighted them, and which have stamped
Miss Nelson as an actress Of extraordinary
merit
Year: 1872

Tho Mutual Liso Insurance War,


In another portion of the HERALD will be
found memorial, signed by a large number
OF policy-holders of the Mutual Life, addressed
to the trustees of the company, plainly calling
on them to reconsider their determination rel
ative to the proposed reduction Of rates. 1t
takes the strong ground, based on the opinion
OF the three actuaries. that it is an experiment
tai revolution of doubtful legality, and tends
to hazard the funds accumulated by the pres
ent policy-holders to the benefit Of members
coming in under the proposed reduction. 1t
concludes by protest against this action Of
the trustees, as an unjustifable exercise of
their official functions. These memorialists,
then, take up the cudgels for themselves, as
well as for the eighteen companies, and we
shall doubtless see, under the pressure they
will bring to bear, the whole matter taken out
of it's present field and argued with more
show Of fairness and less Of special pleading.
What we especially look for is an examination
into the matter by impartial experts and
final opinion rendered between, of course the
trustees and the policy holders for, no matter
hcw the result can affect the other companies,
they will scarcely expect to be Of the parties
at present asking Judgment We are anxious,
however, that all sides should fearlessly make
their statements. The subject takes in very
wide range of clients and touches a great
many interests which would not appear at
first sight. For our own part we believe that
no step should be taken wantonly or under
false pretences by which the smaller COM
panies would inevitably be ruined and others
endangered in the same manner. We are not,
however, prepared to say that all the little
struggling companies have q perfect raison
Tetre. They have been ''drummed' into
existence as Connecticut hats are forced on
the market by persistent and able ''drummers"
all over the country, who are often rather
more apt to grab their commissions than do
justice to the company or the individual
Every bad risk taken tends to weaken the
company and endanger the policies of the
healthy, paying policy-holders. These are
some of the evils that threaten the small COM
panies at all times; yet we do not think that an
honest reform should begin with bringing
inevitable suspension upon them. 1t lies, we
imagine, in policy of consolidation on some
well defined basis, by which uniform rule
and limited expenditure would result. The
evil threatened in this case is the creation of
monopoly, which might, we believe, be
checked by satisfactory laws limiting the scale
both as to maximum and minimum. 1t is
palpable that the present condition Of life
insurance is by no means such as it's friends
would wish, and, if thorough examination
of all the bearings Of the subject be achieved,
this ambitious attempted innovation by the
Mutual Life may work good after ALL
Year: 1872

AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW
JERSEY. proposition to call convention
to amend the State constitution of New Jersey
is being discussed in the New Jersey papers.
The Trenton Gazette thinks there ore several
particulars in which the constitution needs
revising and amending, but doubts if the pres
ent is the best time to undertake this impor-
tant work. The charter of the Camden and
Amboy Railroad Company has been considered
the constitution of the State of New Jersey for
so many years that it would be pity now to
disturb the repose the citizens enjoy under its
blissful egis But if it is proposed to amend
the constitution of the State in earnest, then
the sooner the work is commenced and
finished the better.
Year: 1872

Year.


The elaborate statement of the condition Of
the city finances and of the estimated expenses
of the city departments for the coming year,
published yesterday by Comptroller Green,
presents some noticeable features. When
compared with the amounts appropriated last
year it appears that the Commissioner of the
Department of Public Works, Mr.. Van Mort,
asked this year about two hundred thousand
dollars less than he received in 1872, and was
allowed two hundred thousand dollars less
than he asked. The Department Of Public
Parks asked this year thirty thousand dollars
more than the whole appropriation Of 1872 and
received twenty thousand dollars more, showing
an increase ofexpenditure. The Department of
Finance asked five thousand dollars more than
last years appropriation. For claims and
judgments against the city over four hundred
thousand dollars advance over last years
amount was demanded. The Department OF
list. This department was largely within the
appropriations in its expenditures for the
current year; but the low estimate given to
the Board Of Apportionment was still further
reduced by two hundred and eleven thousand
dollars, so that the appropriation for 1873 is
five hundred and eight thousand five
hundred dollars less than for the current
year-a reduction of nearly twenty-five per
cent Of other appropriations those for the
Fire Department. Police Department, Depart
ment Of Charities and Correction and the
Department of Public Instruction have been
increased in consideration of the growth of
the city and the consequent extension of their
duties and expenditures.
Year: 1872

How oft say, What shall 1 do


To keep these children quiet 7"
If could find good receipt,


certainly should try II.
But what to do with these wild boys,
And all their din and clatter,
Is really quite grave affair


No laughing, trifing matter.
"Boys will be boys"-but not for long;
All could we bear about us
This thought-how very soon our boys
Will learn to do without us!
How soon bat tall and deep-voiced men
Will gravely call us "Mother -
Or we be stretching empty hands


From this world to the other.
More gently we should chide the noise,
And when night quells the racket,
Stitch in but loving thoughts and prayer,
While mending pants and jacket
Year: 1872

extent the shape of the earth. The


center of gravity will have shifted


some three or four miles to the south.


Then comes u change. The earth


will have passed around to the other


side of this imaginary orbit, or rath-


er, its projected axis will have top


pied over, and the sun will shine on
| the south polar regions seven days


longer than on the northern. The
effect will be to melt the cap of ice,


and in the course of centuries cause
q general breaking up Of that sec
ton of the ice cap that has pushed
itself beyond the antartic circle
Then comes the mighty catastrophe.


While the freezing was going on
and the ice accumulating in the south
polar regions the earth's center of
gravity had shifted a few miles along
its axis in the direction of the south
pole, drawing with it the vast body
OF water on the earth's surface. A
glance at the map of the world
shows that nearly three-fourths of
the water surface of the earth is on
the southern hemisphere. When we
remember than the southern oceans
are much deeper than the northern.
we can form some idea of the vast
prepondelarce Of water in tie South
ern Hemisphere, which according to
N. Adhemer, has been increasing
ever since the last loluge established
a temporary equilibrium. AS soon
as the ice cap is broken, the waters
will rash back the Northern Hen1is-
phere and will oyerwhelm islands
aud continents in their flow. New
oceans will be formed il the North
err Hemisphere and rew continents
will a;'ise in the southern. The most
comforting part Of this theory is that, |
according to NJ. Aahemer, we still
have six thousand three hundred |
years Of grace before the deluge
oyertalEe., Us, in which time we can
get 1e:uy Our arks," and MAKE /
preparations for saving q fragment
Of the destruction.
Year: 1872

and announced his intention to put
into effect the full rigor Of the law


against all those in Spain who should


dare to speak word i'll favor of JUS


tice to Cuba. He represents not q


single principle which appeals to the


hearts Of liberal men in the PENN


sula. He showed strong symptoms


of a re~actionary tendency even dur


the lifetime of Priln but was pre-


vented from absolute apostasy by


his personal allegiance to that sa-
gacious and cool-headed statesman.


Since the death OF Marshal Prim, he


has thrown of all disguise, and
seems now only intent to defeat and
destroy the great party to which he
owes his political existence. He pos
sesses few of the qualities of leader
ship. He is especially unfortunate i'll
his temperament and bis manner. He
never speaks i'll tho Cortes without
raising storm. His a{1irmities of tenn
per have several times produced scan
lous scenes in open Parliament. Yet
to this unprofitable servant the King
has chosen to link his fortunes. If
he does not soon learn enough of the
the theory and practice Of constitu-
tional government to enable him to
break loose from his fatal connection,
his royal father will do we'll to let
him come home the next time he
asks perlnission.-M Y. Tribune.
Year: 1872

The crowds in attendance at the State FAIR
during the week made furious assault on the
mammoth stock of Reddick & Gillen, and for
several days it looked a. il the staunch old house
must surrender to the rush, but we are enabled
to assure the grand public that the foresight of
the indomItable Hughey was equal to the occa.
sion, and left enough over to 90 right along as
before without the slightest break in the variety
and completeness OF the stock. Every line is
still full, and such departments as give signs of
weakness are promptly filled with new arrivals
ordered in season by telegraph.


1t is to be borne IN mind that this firm buys
all its goods or the manufacturers or importers
direct, without the Intervention Of jobbers or
middlemen, and always for cash, thus saving
from to 10 per cent on time purchasers, and
the saving thus made eAures to the exclusive
advantage of their customers.


The stock of fall goods now in store is be.
lieved to be much superior, both in extent and
excellence, to any other in the city, point on
which all they ask is that the public call and
satisfy themselves.


To name such stock here in detail is of
course impossible but we can say generally,
that in the way Of


DRESS GOODS,


the stock of Irish and French poplins is peerless
the line of gros grain and black silks, the finest
ever offered in this market; Empress cloths, Me.
rinoes, Ottoman and Satteen plsids, popln plaids'
and SO on to the end Of he list, quite unapproach
able anywhere else. The stock of
sHAWIS.
| Is also very complete, embracing all grades of
Brocha, Paisley, Ottoman stripes and woolens in
| every variety. In


STAPLES AND DoMEsTICs
! OF course the stock is fully up to the demands
of the heavy fall trade anticipated. In short
let it be understood that the house Of Reddick &
Gillon is up to the times in every detail and
would be, in spite Of dozen Of State Fair
rushes
Year: 1872

DUTY.-It is but seldom that we call the at.
tention of the public to our business through
the newspapers, and We would not on this occa.
sion but that We feel it our duty to do So The
times are close, especially with farmers, and We
have determined to make our prices on goods to
correspond with the times, .. least for the next
six months. For this reason we believe it our
duty to advise the people of our determination,
80 that they can take advantage of the low price
at which We sell Boots and Shoes, Hats and
Caps and Groceries: As the profit on goods will
be teo small to allow US to give any time on
purchases, our terms must necessarily be strictly
cash. LYNCH, BEATTY & O'KASE.
Year: 1872

AlsChuler is ahead. He has now a world of
new goods. His store on the corner of Main
and La Sale streets, lately enlarged to hold
his immense fall stock, is now full from bot
tom to top, shelves, counters and every avail
able nook and corner crammed with fine as.
sortment suited to the fall trade. He now
takes his proper place leading clothing
merchant OF this city, place which his means,
experience, and large run of custom Justly de-
mand for him, which he will hold in spite of
all opposition. He has everything in the
ready-made clothing line from any single gar
ment to complete sult for any man, no mat
ter what his position in life may be. He can
suit every one in quality of goods. He has
also splendid line Of furnishing goods, and
the largest and best lot of trunks in the city.
He also has tons of beautiful new piece goods
of the very latest styles, and Is prepared to fit
any one in tip top business or dress suit to
order on the shortest notice. Call and see for
yourself
Year: 1872

SAPE RoBEED.-About two o'clo,k yesterday,
as hr. Burr clerk in the Office Of Richardson &
for minute or two 10 iaform the men employed
abou. the warehouse that they nigh. close up
FOX the afternoon AID go to the state fair, some
thief entered the Office. slipped behind the
counter, and took from the opea safe a roll o.
the money was missed, the clerk is confden. he
saw it in its place. The crowd continually pass
ing the office was SO great that of course the
thief was foon lost IN it beyond the possibility
Of detection.
Year: 1872

principle which have originally from the
Greek quoted in the Now Testament,
EVIL communications corrupt good
manners" They are exceedingly afraid
that in some way | have been contami-
mated by association with my neigh.
bors who are alleged to have boon in u
state of revolt in tho year tSGI