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Year: 1872

ourselves Of our two splendid rivers as o
means of city travel.


Above all these temporary expedients, how
ever, looms up the absolute necessity Of some
solid and sufficient plan of rapid transit for
the growing metropolis. Year after year we
see buildings springing up in the upper part
of the island, and with the annual increaseand
the spreading out Of the population comes new
demand for some means Of quick transporta-
ton between the Harlem River and the Battery.
At present we have nothing but the wearisome,
inconvenient horse cars, with the exception Of
the Greenwich street lamppost elevated road,
which only runs to Thirtieth street, on the
west side, and is out Of the way for our busi-
ness and laboring classes. BY comparison,
this is the best means Of transit now at our
command, and it is desirable that it should be
extended to Fort Washington as speed
| lily as possible. The Vanderbilt tunnel
is under way and will be o gain to the people
so for as it goes; but after all both these
roads, when completed, will only afford q
partial relief to the city. We really require
two viaduct railways, one on the east side and
one on the west side Of the city, running from
the Battery into Westchester county, with
cross lines, either underground or elevated,
OF convenient distances along the routes.
These alone will fully accommodate our
population in ten years from the
present time, and these alone will efficiently
help the city forward swiftly to the magnificent
destiny in store for it in the future. Oul
! present difficulty will serve TO impress upon
Year: 1872

A writer thus happily alludes to a
remarkable popularity of the down.
trodden sex:


Did you ever see O woman throw a
stone at hen? 1t is one of the most
iudicrous scenes In every day life. We
recently observed the process-indeed
we paid more attention than the hen
did, for she didn't mind it at all, and
iaiu an egg the next day as If nothing
had happened. In fact, that hen will
now learn for the first time that she ser.
we'd in the capacity of target. The
predatory fowl had invaded the sacred
precincts of the flower bed, and was
industriously pecking and scratching
Tor the nutritious seed or early worm,
blissfully unconscious of impending
danger. The lady now appears upon
the scene with a broom. This she
drops, and picks up rocky fragment of
the Silurian age-''they all do it,"-
seizing the projectile with the wrong
hand. Then, with malice aforethoupht.
she makes the further blunder of swing.
ing her arm perpendicnlarly instead of
Observation-Disclosures the stone
flies into the air, describing an irregu.
lar, elliptical curve, and strikes the
surface of the earth about as far from
the hen as the thrower stood at the
time, and in a course due west from
the same, the hen then bearing by COM
pass N. N. e. by E. half east At the
second attempt the stone narrowly
missed the head Of the thrower herself,
who, seeing, that any further attempts
of the kind might have been suicides,
does what she might have done at first
starts after the hen with an old family
weapon, The moral of which is ''stick
to the broom stick"
Year: 1872




No answer.


lie burst into passion of childish
tearS. His mother tried to soothe him
as one would soothe fretful child.


"Where is she ?"


"She has worn herself out watching
over you. One night when you were
raving in delirium, you said something
which frightened her so that she has
never been herself since. DIR. Grav
thinks that her mind was in a weat
state. She mourned good deal for her
brother, who was not killedin the armv
as was supposed, but came home few
days before you did, and wandered of
tho edge of the deep cut, on his way to
the village, and was dashed to pieces.
the same night that you came SO near
freezing to death on your way to Eagel
Crag.


Her brother The only tieof relation
ship she had ever known-the brother
whom she had loved with such idola.
try.


Escaped from death in India, and seek
ing the sister who mourned him as
dead, only to be stricken down by the
jealous hate of one who should have
been his guardian and protector


lie turned his face to the wall with
the groan that seemed bursting his
heart.


From that day he failed rapidly, and
one bright morning, when the flowers
bloomed and the birds sang blithely, he
called in his weak voice for Robina,


They brought her in, pale and help.
less as child, and laid her on the bed
beside him.


My little Robin" he whispered
fondly, touching her hand reverently
81 have heard the all, and 1 obey.
Only before go, 1 have a confession to
make, for cannot go till you have for
given me-"


She laid her little hand on his.


II know all, dear John. That night
when you were i'll in your delirium you
revealed all. May He forgive you,
John, as fully as 1 do. Let us pray
together


A golden robin, swinging on the ma
pie bough outside, at that moment be-
gan his clear, warbling song.


Long ere the warble was ended, their
lips had ceased to move, their hearts
had ceesed to beat.


In the little garden Of Eagle Crag,
where bids revel in the wealth of
bloom, Hans, now a strong, hale man,
spends part of every spring in prun-
ing and training the flowers she loved.
and which they terded and trained
together. They lay side by side In the
village cemetery.
Year: 1872

"IT ISN'T CATCHING" "-Tho following
little story, too good not to be repeated,
is told at the expense Of a young lady
school teacher, not thousand miles
from this place, who is very properly
anxious in regard TO the prevention of
smallpox in her school, and therefore
strictly enforces the rule that whenever
a case OF slckness'ls reported in the
family OF any one of her pupils, the
pupil must bring certificate from the
family physician stating that tee
disease is not contagious, failing In
which the pupil must remain away I'M
til all danger ID over A few days ago
she was informed that one of her pupils,
little girl, OF Teutonic extraction, had
sickness in her family. On being
questioned, the little girl admitted that
'she had sick at her house :" that her
mother was sick, and that she had
"marks on her face" She was accor-
dinghy sent home. She returned in
few days, however, and reported that
her "father was sick now." Shs EaJ
again sent bome, with orders aot to
come again without certificate from
the family physician. The next day shs
returned to school and shyly siding lo
to the teacher, with her finger ia hsr
mouth and her little bonnet swinging
by the strings, she said; Miss--,
we've got leetle baby at cur houss,
but mother tod me to tell you ii isn't
catchin." The teacher said she was very
glad it vast Catching and told the
pupil to take her seat.
Year: 1872

ihe iuiOt bOys
II had pleased God to form poor Ned
A thing Of idiot mind,
Yet to the poor unreas'ning boy,
God had not been unkind.
Old Sarah loved her helpless child,
Whom helplessness made dear:
And he was everything to her,
Who knew no hope or fear.
She knew his wants, she understood
Each half articulate call,
For he was everything TO her,
And she TO him was all.
And so for mahy year they lived,
Nor new no wish beside;
But age at last on Sarah came,
And she fell sick-and died.
He tried in vain to waken her,
He called her DER and DER:
They told bin she was deadi
The words TO him no import bore.
They closed her eyes and shrouded her,
While hestood wondring by,
and when they bore her TO her grave,
He followed silently.
They laid her in the narrow house.
They sung the fun'ral staye:
And when the fun'ral train dispersed
He fingered by that grave.
The rabble boys that used to jeer
Whene'er they saw poor Ned,
Now stood and watched him by the grave,
And not a word they said,
They came and went and came again,
Till night at last came onl
Yet he still fingered by the grave
Till every one had gone,
And when he found himself alone
He swift removed the clay,
Then raised the coffin up in haste,
And bore 1t swift away.
He bore IL to his mothers cot,
And laid it on the floor,
And with the eagerness of joy
He barred the cottage door.
Then out he took his mothers corpse,
And placed 1t in chair;
And soon he heaped the hearth,
And made the kindling fire with care,
He had put his mother in HER chair,
And in its wonted place,
And then he blew the fire, which shone.
Reflected in her face.
And pauslng now, her hand would feel,
And then her face behold;
WHY. mother, do you look so pale,
And why are you SO cold?'
IL had pleased God from the poor wretch
His only friend to call;
Yet God was kind 10 him, and soon
In DEATH, restored him ALL,
Year: 1872

Boston virtue is getting startled on the
subject of masked balls. The Germans,
who are famous for getting up all sorts of
Jolly entertainments, set out to have one Of
their funny masquerades in that sedateSm
tropolis on Monday evening, and had all
their preparations well under way, when,
on Saturday last the sleepy authorities
aroused themselves and bethOught them
that there was somewhere in the volumes
of the general Statutes" provision which
forbids "any masked ball or other public
assembly at which the company wears
masks or other disguises." Boston officials
are very sensitive on the subject of enforc-
ing laws and they determined at once to
spoil the hilarity of the jolly Germans by
forcing them to have their ball in bare
feed manner or not at all. Evidently the
morals of Boston would be endangered by
The appearance of domino in music
hall. The upshot was that when the gay
masqueraders entered the hall detective
handed each paper which, instead of being
aprogramme of the performance, proved to
be respectful request to the ladies and
gentlemen to ''dispense with the face masks
they have brought this evening" Imagine
tie feelings of the proud cavaliers and fair
ladies. Boston will have TO be looking out
for the German vote, and the political par
ties win no doubt make an issue on masks
or no masks.-HdrtfOrd Post.
Year: 1872

The telegraph announces the election Of
Col. Tom Scott to the Presidency Of the
Texas Pacific Railroad. This will be graft
flying intelligence to the people Of Tennes-
see, if. as we understand to be the purpose,
It shall bring the main trunk Of that great
highway for the world through our State.
The Southern Railway Security Company,
Of which Col. Tom Scott is the controlling
spirit, own the East Tennessee road from
Chattanooga to Bristol. They are negotia-
ting with an almost certainty of success for
the lease of the Memphis and Charleston
road. We are informed that it is
the purpose of this Railway Security Com
pany, if they make the lease, TO establish at
an early day line Of steamers from some
point on the James river to a European
port, and thus induce emigration directly
to the Southern States.
Year: 1872

THE Grant administration appears to be
very jealous of the representatives in this
country of foreign nations. The New York
Tribune claims to have learned from un-
questioned authority that Baron Gerolt,
the veteran Prussian Minister at Washing
ton, who went home soon after the close of
the war between France and Germany, was
not recalled by the exigencies Of German
politics, but on complaint Of officers in our
own service. These suggestions, it says,
resulted in a severe rebuke to Baron Gerolt
and afterwards in the acceptance Of his
resignation. The charge against him was
of undue zeal in the service Of his govern
ment during the late war with France,
though in what this ''undue zeal" consisted
is not stated. Is it possible that we have
here another instance Of the same botch-
work of the ADMINISTRATION in diplomatic az
fairs which resulted in the Catacazy scan
dal2
Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, Feb. 17.-There was fine
prospect for a continuance Of the troubles
over the Kemp-Saylor contested election
case this morning. Objection was made to
Saylor's voting on any motion, but an ad-
jOurnment until Monday delayed the trouble
until that time. There will probably be
trouble at that time when the Democrats
will make an attempt to correct the Senate
journal so as to make it declare that Say
lor was not legally elected.
Year: 1872

A minister took for his text: "The flesh,
the world and the devil" and informed bis
astonished audience that be should dwell
briefly on the flesh, pass rapidly over the
world, and hasten as fast as be could to the
devil
Year: 1872

AN exchange indulges in the following
sensible reflections regarding ladies' head
dresses at the theatre: "If a man were to
take his seat at any place of public gather
ing or amusement and keep his hat on he
would be hissed, or hustled out or handed
to the police. But women, night after
night, 60 with the most prepOsterous pile of
rigging on top Of their heads, just as high
as mems hats, and keep the unhappy men
behind dOdging the 'never-quiet pile, and
never giving one moments clear view of
the stage or the performers. Perhaps it
would be well to revive the old Puritanic
text: Top knot, come down."
Year: 1872

THE New York Worlds correspondent
separates the fashionable bellies of Washing
ton society into two classes, from the ap-
pearance Of their nude shoulders at recep-
lions. There are those who 60 into the daily
bath and look clean; and those who rely on
a scrub for special occasions and look
greasy. The first appeals to the taste;
while the last causes the taste to appeal to
a Turkish bath or a charitable yesture.
This critic deserves the "Order Of the Bath"
Year: 1872

The equine pestilence appears to be slowly but
surely extending itself over Westchester county,
to the dsmay Of street railroad stockholders,
livery stable proprietors and many others directly
interested in horsenesh. At Yonkers nearly every
livery establishment In the city has horses pros
trated with the disease, no less than fourteen
being sick In one stable. The pampered steeds of
well-tO-dO citizens are not exempt from the
malady, while on the streets yesterday some of
the poor beasts Of burden gave evidence
OF their inability to toll by their
slow gait and distressing cough
In Morrisania the contagion seems TO be still
spreading, but as yet no serious detriment to bus
ness has been 0ccasioned. The Fordham Avenue
Railroad Company is still running the usual num-
ber Of cars, although five six OF their horses. in
addition TO those already reported, were laid up
with the disease yesterday A brewer named
Huepfel, having had six seven Of his horses at
tackled with the prevailing malady, was advised to
administer tncture OF aconite, but instead OF Civ
ing 1t In doses OF five drops, mistake was made,
whereby each suffering animal was compelled to
swallow five ounces OF the poisonous drug. IL was
thought last evening that none Of the horses thus
dOsed could survive.
Year: 1872

straw and Cushions To BE Retained In


the street Cars.


At an informal meeting OF the Board Of Health
held yesterday afternoon arguments were listened
to from the Presidents OF the various lines OF city
railroads in opposition to the abolition OF cush-
ioned seats in the The several sections added
to the Health ordinances some time since
relating to this subject were discussed,
and the whole matter is to be brought before
the Board at an early day. The night scavengers
again presented themselves before the Sanitary
Committee to urge upon that body full sense Of
their impoverished condition consequent upon the
introduction Of the improved system Of excavat-
ing. The Sanitarians lis tened to the 'bucket" men
with great patience, but when their counsel
had finished his harangue It was plainly
Of the city Of New York suffer in health and neon
gers Applications for permits to work under the
old system were handed in by the Secretary and
laid on the table. These men do not seem TO under
stand that the "bucket" system Is abolished by
law and cannot be restored. The object
OF the people in establishing Health Board Is to
nels Of disease, and the Board would not be carry
ing out that intention II they were now to take
the poor who live in tenement houses.
When the counsel for the "bucket'
ence between the two methods. lie showed con-
clusivey that the fight was kept up by house agents
and others having control OF property for landlords
who did not wish to mix In the management OF their
estates themselves These agents were In the habit
OF employing scavengers to excavate sinks at
q low figure, and then charging ten times
the amount for the work to the landlord This
could not be done under the new order OF things,
and the agents were making desperate struggle
to bring back the paying arrangement The lves
comfort or health OF the poor had no weight with
them. The only heaviness they wished to feel
should be In the region OF their pockets. The
Sanitary Committee reserved It's decision on the
subject until Wednesday next.
Year: 1872

No fatal case has yet occurred in any OF the rail-
road or private stables but nearly all the horses in
the district are affllcted with the disease. There
we're comparatively few horses worked yesterday,
their owners preferring to suspend business rather
than work them. The railroad companies, how
ever, ran their cars nearly as regular as possible.
Nearly every hOrseman has remedy OF his own
for the disease, and 1t is not improbable that be-
tween the multiplicity OF prescriptions given many
q noble horse will perish
Year: 1872

Several cases are reported over those OF yester.
day. The veterinary surgeons are kept busy day
and night. None Of the animals have yet died from
the disease. Some OF the horses have been so
slightly affected by the contagion that they can be
seen still working in the streets The alarm is
abating considerably.
Year: 1872

The Fire Department seem, up to the present
time. rather fortunate with their horses. Out OF
$50 only fifteen have been stricken with the disease,
and none are considered dangerously Ill. The
horses in the department first began to show symp-
toms Of illness two days ago, but the men
who have charge Of them had no idea
that anything serious was the matter,
and paid little heed to the coughing Of the
and the general prostration set In the men be-
came alarmed and the veterinary surgeon was at
once called In. The latter became satisfied that the
horses had caught the prevalent disease and at
once had the stables ceansed and disinfected. The
horses then taken care OF properly and besides
giving them the mash hot, they were made TO per.
Year: 1872

AAI ~ An OCCUPATION FuE WOMAN.


My own belief is, that we have no
grounds for and no right in making any
difference whatsoever in human beings
on account of sex, either in their edu-
cation or occupations, more than Nature
has done; and that half of the troubles
we find in the world would arise from,
and are just judgment upon, our pre-
sumption in making any distinction be-
tween them in fostering the self-conceit
OF the one and sacrificing the independ-
ence of the other. Let the same educa-
tion, from the first to the last, physical
and mental, be furnished for both sexes;
let it be accepted that, as they will need
the same physical sustenance, so they
will need the same intellectual food;
that the two who will in time become
one flesh shall be in union and harmony
with each other, i'm attainments and de-
sires, in their minds as well rs their
bodies, and then we shall have the per-
feet harmony in difference.


The compensation which appears to
me Nature makes to women for the
comparative Withholding of muscular
strength, is endowing them with greater
power of endurance in the first place,
and gift OF natural aptitude and quick
ness, WHICH, Nnen IL exists IN men, we
call mother wit. Thus we see that whilst
men become irritated and impatient of
the repetition of little troubles and would
put violent end to them, women, like
charity, are long suffering and kind over
vexations, which in their connection
with their children and other cares often
last daily for years. The quickness and
aptitude they have may be the support
which nature gives them through their
instincts, as a balance to mems muscu-
lar superiority; and this seems to me to
indicate that the sensitive touch and
quick perception and delicate hand point
out the practice of art rs peculiarly
adapted for wOman's occupation, be-
ing i'm itself the most refined and deli
cate of all manual labor as it is also the
most perfect expression OF the impress
siOns we receive, through our eyes, OF
physical phenOmena.-Fd Waller Smith.
Year: 1872

The following is said to he the means
used by the professional Iat catchers OF
Paris to destroy the vermin:


GFThey take q deep tub with water on
the bottom, and little elevation in the
middle like an island, on which is only
snace for lust one rat to sit on. The TOP
is covered and has a large balanced
valve. opening downward; on the mid
die of this valve piece of fried pork or
cheese is fixed, and when the rat walks
on it to get the cheese, the valve goes
down, drops the rat in the water, and
moves back in position. A road is
made from the rat hole to the top of the
tub, by means of piece of board rubbed
with cheese, so as to make the walk at
tractive for the rats. In the course of a
single night some ten or twenty, or
even more rats may go down; and If the
island were not there, they would be
found most all alive in the morning
quietly swimming around; but the pro-
vision Of the little island saves the
trouble of killing them, because tnelr
egotistic instinct of self-preseryat!iOC t!On iCtl
causes them to fight for the eXeiusiEe
possession of the island, of which, IN Tue !ls
morning, the strongest rat Is louhu hu,,. III
solitary possession, all the othSrs OeiNS
killed or drowned around hlm; l. ,o+


This may do for Paris. we uO HO'
know how it would answer neie'
Year: 1872

! wishing to live; but l feel that God sa'
/ the pride and wickedness of my hear
and has brought my pride and haught
: ness low. I have suffered much, bot
mentally and bodily, but now. feel pei
fectly resigned to abide His time, an


which l know will not be long"


They were interrupted here by til
entrance of the party, preceded b,
grandma Marsh.


"There is the invalid, Mr.. Pierpont
You must exert your lively influence il
trying to establish her health one,
more" said the old lady, leading hin
forward.


For an Instant Clarance started, 81
great was the change in her who haC
once been the life of their circle; ther
taking her hand which trembled so vio-
lently within his own that for a moment
he could not help preceiving her agita-
tion, he received her congratulations
upon his safety and apparent happiness.
After brief conversation and receiving
strict injunctions from all the party to
hasten and recover her health that she
might return to New York with them,
her friends bade Blanche goodbye.


''But where is Robert?D asked Harry,
looking around.


"LOok there" whispered Adele, as
she pointed out of the window.


Sauntering up the park, with her
breakfast shawl partly around her
shoulders, while she coquetted with the
other half, was Cordelia, accompanied
by the missing gentleman.


Laguhing as they caught the eye OF
Harry fixed upon them with a roguish
look, they joined their friends, looking
so radiantly happy that Blanche could
not refrain from dropping tear as she
contrasted herself with her cousin, not
that she was envious Of her happiness
on the contrary she rejoiced with her
but it brought vividly before her her
love, the past and present, and alone all
the remorse at the deceit she had prac-
ticed upon her dearest friend; and was
it not enough to cause her to shed
tear? Instead Of being happy in the
the possession of a love which she tried
to gain by artifice, she was daily called
upon witness her dearest object the
idol of another, of the one she would
have wronged. Poor girl! could she
only have recalled the past! Had she
but have checked her Inflated passion
in the beginning, and saved herself from
the shame and retribution which al
ways follows deceit and falsehood!
But her young life was fast ebbing away.
Consumption had already marked her
for another victim, and ere another
spring gives place to summer, she will
be sleeping beside the lovely Grace.


no be continued.