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Year: 1873

A rural editor, lamenting the
death of cone Of the best adver-
tisers and subscribers we ever
had' thus touchingly concludes
his obituary eulogy: ale pos
sessed the love, confidence and
esteem of all who knew him and
some who did not, and, save a
slight poker debt to Mr., did
not owe a cent in the world"
Year: 1873

Too MEAN TO LIvE.-The
tmeD who were too mean to live
have actually died-died by their
own meanness. They were broth
ers, who lived in Illinois; two
miserly butchers, worth $4,000,
and with a goodly pile of wood
at the door. Coming hoGe at
night to a cold house with a cold
owe, each went to his cold couch
to sleep away the terrible cold Of


the recent Arctic wave. But the
wave was too much for them, and
they We're found in their beds dead
and frozen stiff. Possibly this i'll
wind will blow good to some poor


suffering heir. t..s.
Year: 1873

What a grand thing it would be
if the French vintage would en-
tirely fail, Tor then the manufac-
turers Of Imported champagne"
in this country would have to stop
selling their vile stuffs for time,
or they would have to sail under
their own flag.
Year: 1873

Tue CHANGES WHICH AaE TO ne MADE, AND THE


IMPROVEMENTS To be ADDED.


The alterations preparatory to improvement
in the Post Ollice Building have been commenced
and will be finished in from 60 to 30 days, Dur
ing thil time the post olioe will be removed to
dcClarys building, Market street above Sixth.
and in a day or Two tue work OF removal will be
begun.


The plan of alterations has been determined
upon, and the drawings have been rccslved
from Washington No change will be made III
the location OF tine post office but several chang
ss will take ptacs in it's arrangement. The Of
dee of tho postmaster will bo removed to the OPP
posite side of ths hall to the room lately 0ccu'
pied by the CoectOrof Internal revenue PIet-
lyman, and tho room at present used by MIR.


Lewis will be converted into the money order
registry Office Tue partition will be torn down.


and it will be separated from the main room
only by a railing. The boxes now IN use VIII be


removed to the rear end OF the hall, under the
stairway, and JOhnson's Patent Rotary Lock Box


will be substituted in their stead.


This box has glass front so that the contents
may he seen without opening. Each box will be
provided with two keys, one Of which Will be


given to the renter and the other will be retained
by the postmaster 1t Is the intention, also, to


keep the box delivery department. of this office
open all night, 20 that persons may obtain thelr
mails at all hours. -
The general distributing department will be
removed from the rear end of tue main room
to the basement Immediately under it's present
| location and connection will DO kept up with
| the floor above by means of an elevator. The
offices of the Collector of Customs will remain
| AZ at present.


The general features Of the second floor oi
/ the building will be preserved but there will be
some slight change in the occupants OF the Of
| fees. The room lately occupied by the Assessor
/ of Internal Revenue will now fall to the clerk o


the U s. Court, s. Redmond Smith, and the
| hot, = nd u
| be fitted up for District Attorney Higgins. The
i Judges platform in the court room will be ex
i tended further from the wall. The WALL
| throughout the building will be whitecoated.
These are the general changes IN the building
/ There will be other minor ones winch We can
/ not now notice.
Year: 1873


1.-THE moon had climbed the highes
hill " John Lowe. 1750-179S,) Wa
tie author of this fine pathetic lyric
1t was written on the death of gen
tleman named Miller, a surge on at sea
who was engaged to "Mary"-Mis
AiYds. The poet was tutO
in the family Of the lady's father, ant
was betrothed to her sister.
The moon had climbed the highest hill,


Which rises Ger the source of Dee,
And from her eastern summit shed


Her silvery light on tower and tree;
Then Mary laid her down to sleep,


Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea,
When soft and low, a voico was heard,


Say, "Mary, weep no more for me-"
She from her pillow gently raised


Her head to see who there might be.
And saw young Sandy shiv'ring stand,


With yisage pale and hollow eye
"0h, Mary dear, cold is my clay


Ii lies beneath the stormy sua.
Far, ia" from thee sleep in death


So, Mary, weep no more for me
"Three stormy nights and stormy days


We tossed upon the raging main;
And long we strove our bark to save,


But all our striving was in vain.
Even then when horror chilled my blood


My heart was filled with love for thee
The storm is past, and at rest,


So, Mary, weep no more for me
'0h maiden dear, thyself prepare


We sooU shall meet upon that shore
Where love is free from doubt and care


And thou and shall part no more
Loud crowed the cock, the spirii fed,


No more of Sandy could she see,
But SOFT the passing spirit said,


"Swaet Mar weep no more for me-"
Year: 1873

thrown into it set it On fire and the
explosion followed. This is the ONLY
rational explanation of the occurrence
Il repetition of which may easily be
prevented with proper care on the
part of those who have the gas under
their direction. r. hin
Year: 1873

The Council Bluffs Qowa) Nonparei1, of
December 5, has the following: We are glad
to see that many of our citizens are taking
advantage of the low price of corn to lay in
heavy supplies of it for fuel. We have ex-
perimented with it in the last week, and find
that it is an admirable substitute for both
wood and coal, and that at present prices
there is both economy and comfort in it's use.
A ton of corn, 80 bushels, at TIC per bushel,
is $500. We consider this equal to cord
of hard wood, as supplied and measured in
our market. at 81; the cutting OF this cord
s15o-total, $3.50; thus making a saving
of nearly SO cord. For kitchen fuel it is


superior to wood, except hickory, and cheaper
than that. 1t makes very hot fire with a
great deal of blaze. We judge that three
tons of corn are equal to the heat of one ton
of hard coal, while in economy of its use
it is eqnal to one and a half tons of coal. In
small families and small houses there is al
ways great waste of hard coal, while there
is none in the use of corn. Besides this,


there is the public benefit of retaining in the
country all the money we send to Penn
sylvania for coal, and feed our farmers by
consuming their products. , VI. ....
Year: 1873

Figures are extraordinary instrumentalities
in the service of mathematicians. With them
they measure the dimensions of distant worlds
moving swiftly in their orbits, and even cal
culate the weight and density of planet with
slate and pencil. So accurate are those
calculations that were it possible to place
Jupiter in pair of scales they would verify
their statements.


There is a simple matter in figures, viewed
without reference to laws, which an infidel
admits are Interchangeable and eternal, but
there is so much indicated, one must be will
fully blind who does not see that figures in
the arrangements give to them bear witness
to unerring truths and carry the mind on
ward1y to the contemplation of the attributes
of a divinity recognized in the physical con-
struction of universe.


Any number of figures multiplied by five
will give the same result if divided by two.
But remember to add a cipher to the answer
when there is no remainder and when there
is, whatever it may be, annex five to the an
swer. Multiply 464 by five, and the answer
will be 1880. Divide it by two and there
will be 232. There being no remainder, now
add cipher, and next $50, and multiply by
five. The answer will he 1,785. BY divid-
ing the first sum by two, there is 178 and a
remainder. Place five at the end of the
line, and the result will be again 1885. The
science of figures is an unexplored domain.
Year: 1873

AFTER some time spent i'll experimenting
and contriving, the new gun with which the
German army IS to be equipped has at last
been completed, and the right Of manufac-
turing it given to private establishments, in
order to hasten rapid supply. This weapon
will carry about the distance of an English
mile with sure sight. 1t can be made to
shoot rounds per minute, which is two more
than the Wender gun has accomplished.
The weapon itself is very light and easy to
be handled. AS it is superior to either the
Wender or Chassepot gun, it promises to ac-
complish the object for. which it was made.
It is understood to be the aim Of the German
government to furnish the army with this
gun as soon as possible, so that at the expir-
alton of three years, at most, the whole force
will be equipped. Europe regards this prep
aration in peacable times with anxious eyes.
Year: 1873

Is any change produced on man by a
change in the velocity of his motion round
the axis of the earth? If dweller in lati-
tude 60 degrees was suddenly to change his
residence to the equator, he would double his
velocity. At latitude so degrees he travels
round with the earth at the rate of 500 miles
all hour; at the equator, 1000 miles an hour


IS azy carried s around iso 'ni miles nur en hour
while the man at the North Pole calmly re-
wolves once in "a hours. Of course the mo-
ton is unfelt, because all things move TO-.
gether; but the change from a tropical to an
artic climate is 50 great that it may possibly
produce physical or mental effects of which
we are as yet unconscious Of course the
steering. of a ship from north to south must
be sensiblY affected by the constant accelera-
ton from west to east. On the long railways
of Russia, too, it is said that the rails are
uniformly more worn on one side than on the
other, in consequence of this force. .-Loston
Journal Of Chemistry.
Year: 1873

Why do not people go to church more ?
One thinks it is this and another thinks it
is this, and another thinks it is that. You
can open church in hOvel, and let d
voice 20 forth that it has the power of
touching men, and you will find it crowded
and thronged. You do not want the cobs
that used 70 have corn. That which men
want is sappy food, refreshing food. Men
are willing to be dealt with, TO have their
sins flashed in their faces; willing to have
their consciences aroused, but do not want
20 be handled. They want a preacher that
taxes hold of them in some waye and, if he
can. do more than that; if ne ean give 30
them that which every man consciously
needs--somo m.n have aspiration. and
some more indulge IN superficial thought
and if he can give biz: strength to bear h!s
burden.


Men that are sore in 'ift; ,,en .vho are :n
sorrow: women who don't know how to
bring up their children, and who are con-
tinually having more and more added 30
their flock, people who want to know wbera
the next hod Of coal is coming from; people
who are afraid Of the sheriff; men who are
pricked with the 10000 nettles of human
!ife.~they come 20 church and hear long
discussion on the fall of Adam. Wells that
is not inOpportune, but still they're so fat
themselves that they feel as if they would
like TO know something that deadens the
struggle that is going on within them' they
want some one who will take part with
them. a ministeY who brings God down to
the side of men. not as an everlasting con.
demner, but one who brings God down as a
present help IN .ime OF trouble o-eHe".y
Ward R.ecIer.
Year: 1873

When d man commits peccadiliO that
every body denounces, even though there
may be no statutory punishment, he gener
ally tries to sneak around the opinion of mis-
censurers. Almost all of the back pay
stealers have tried to dodge the conse-
quences of their vote. Some few indeed,
said they had right to steal Some have
kept silent, hoping the affair would blow
over. But every one who has tested the
opinion of his constituents on the question,
has come to grief, and NO doubt all will
meet that fate in the end The latest is the
long bearded Farnsworth, who tried to
bribe the people of his district to forgive
him. And this is the account of the success
he had, as given in the last number of the
Republic:


Farnsworth, of Illinois, was one of the
leading spirits in the Liberal Reform move
ment. The people of his district concluded
that they had enough of his congressional
wisdom. for a time at least, SO they closed
his public record with the last session of
Congress As he was about to retire from
office he drew his share of the salary grab,


and. with a heart as heavy as his pocket


book, turned his face hemeward. Soon
after his arrival the ground swell Of public
Indignation reached him. The people were
down on the back pay business and all who
had taken a share Of the plunder. Here
was a chance tor the virtuOus Farnsworth.
He would stenounce the measure as one Of
the iniquities of the Republican party, and
at once proceed to put the money "where


it would do most good" So with flourish
Of trumpets ne placed himself on record,
and made equal division of his $4,000 among
~ Ia. Il, tr,a NJ h.
taxpayers would throw up their hats, cheer
the honest FaIpswOrth to the echo. pocket
the funds, and return him to Congress. But


they didn't do any such thing. They failed
to comprehend why they should take money
that it was wrong for him to accept. If he
had no right to it, they certainly had none.
Ii it was stolen property they would be re-
ceivers of stolen goods if they should take
it, SO several Of the counties refused to ac-
ceDt it from the benevolent ex-Congress
man. But McHenry county did take it,
and the gallant General congratulated him
self that the honest old farmers Of that
county, at least, could be depended upon


when he needed their help. Their indorse-
ment has come sooner tEan he expected.
1t must be melancholy satisfaction to him
to know that they have taken his money
and have now taken what little reputation
he had left. Poor fellow; he had better
kept his five thousand, or returned it to
Uncle Sam, 10 whom it belonged. This is
the way che honest farmers of McHenry
county treated his gilt at recent conyen.
tion held by them:


Resoised, That ~s th- farmers Of Nc
Henry county. ia contention assembled. do
disapprOye the action OF thsir county super.
sisors liz accepting the pro rata share OF tho
pIbljc money stolen from the Cnite1 States
treasury by "ur Late Representative jI Con
gresss
Year: 1873

The Coal CoRNER.-The advance in price
" hich was obtained at the Scranton coal sale
on Wednesday, points the moral of the coal
trade prospects with an unerring certainty.
The usual amount of coal sold is one hundred
tons-or was, within a year of the
present sale. Now, upon the sale of seven
ty-tive thousand tons, the increase upon the
average since July of last year is about 81 40
per ton, and this in the face of a market
which is overstocked with coal from the
Schuylkiil and Wilkesbarre regions. The
advance from the sale of June 80 is about
eight cents per ton on stove and thirteen on
chestnut, which are essentially the " family
coal " sizes, while the advance in steam boat,
CRATE and egg was much larger. These
last named sizes touch the manu- facturing
interests, which are usually heavy purchasers
of Scranton coal. Given this advance in the
wholesale auction room prices, add profit
at least fifteen cents for the middlemen or
wholesale dealers, and the result in an ad-
vance at retail may be seen without much
trouble. Another very significant fact is.
that no lump coal was sold The size is
used by the railroad for its locomotives, and
when 8 strike " is impending, or a &" "turn
OUT advisable, for the company's interests,
the lump coal is held back So that the rail-
road may not be short of the supply for its
own use. Again. Withdrawing the lump
and selling only seven thousand five hum
dred tons of steamboat, was the pretties,
way to run up the price of the large sizes


Add to the incre ase of the price obtained q
rise on freights from the demand for vessels
and the short time left for the average
length of the shipping season, and it will b
obvious that the Land of trumps in the caa


market has been we'll played. There may


be no remedy, and the public must pay The
bill of the adVance-the features of the Goa


corner are at least worth noting.-N. Y
| Com. Advertiser.
Year: 1873

The PATENT COMBINATION STEP LAD


DEk-Perhaps the subject is not of gen.
eral interest, but feeling of benevolence
prompts US to warn the public against the
Patent Combination Step Ladder which
has recently been introduced to the mar
ket. We purchased one because the men
showed us that by simple movement Of
a set of springs the ladder could be in
stantly turned into an arm chair, and
from that into an ironing table and then
back again into a step ladder, just as we
desired. When our hired girl went to wash
the windows, upon getting the ladder home,
she stood upon the top step. and she hardly
had her foot down before the concern shift
ed suddenly into an ironing table and
broke her leg. Then we concluded to use
it as table, and on Tuesday half a dozen
shirts were laid upon it to be ironed' At
the first touch of the fat iron the machine
gave jerk, ground up two shirts to rags,
knocked the fiat iron over into the next
yard where it nearly Drained Chubb's wife,
and after few convulsions of the appar-
atus there stood step ladder. Then we
determined to use it exclusively as chair,
and it worked we'll enough for awhile
But one day the nurse placed the baby iu
Year: 1873

Crows AND BLUE JAYs.-Crows GER
tainly are great destroyers of smaller birds.
Many time have been awakened before
sunrise by cries of distress from robine
and other birds near my house and found
the cause to be crow going from nest to
nest swallowing the young birds and eggs
On one occasion | reached the window
just in time to see crow start from a
nest, within twenty feet of me, with a
young robin half fedged in its beak. Hear
ing the notes of young crows near by |
followed with my gun, and arrived in
time to see the old crow tear the young
robin in pieces, and feed it to her young
crows. A shot disturbed their feast
These young crows had been some days, if
not weeks, out of the nest.


Blue jays eat the eggs of other birds
They Lay eat the young also but l have
never seen it done.
Year: 1873

it for a moment, while she went for some |
thing, and just afterward the spring had
another paroxysm, there was a tremulous
movement in the legs. violent agitation
Of the back, then tremendous jump and
the baby was pitched up on the chandelier,
the machine turned three or four somer-
saults, jammed itself half way through the
window sash, and presented the appear
ance of an ironing table. 1t has attained
such degree of sensitiveness now that it
goes through the drill if anybody comes
near it or coughs or blows his nose close
at hand. We have it stuffed away in the
garret, and sometimes in the middle of
the night rat will jar it, or a roach will
run against it, and we can hear it rattling
around the room, getting into service as a


ladder, chair and table. fifteen or TWEEN
ty times in quick succession. 1t is prob
able that we would close that step ladder
out for less than cost. 1t has too much
animaton-too much frivolity for quiet
family like ours.-Mar Adeler.
Year: 1873

In Mr.. Wares excellent grafton before
the Boston authorities, on the Fourth. was
this timely passage:


Politics is noble science, but the party
intrigue and chicanery threaten the very
life OF the republic. These get into all
our responsible places, and rule out prin-
ciple and brains, from custom-houses to
school committees. The great interests of
the republic must not and cannot remain
at the mercy of intrigue or transient gusts
Of popular opinion. We put men into
office who fatter us by calling themselves
our servants, and once secure in their
places, the manipulations that will keep
them there, like the animals spoken of in
Scripture, they turn again and rend US.
Year: 1873

CANT SEE JoKE.-Gough says: There
are people who can make nothing out of a
joke. If you say to such man, e" | can't
drive joke into your head with sledge
hammer" he will solemnly ask, d" Do peo-
pie drive jokes into other peoples head
with sledge hammer ?" He lately travelled
with such a man. He told him the little
story of the darkey who appeared with a
very nice hat on, and when asked what
the hat cost, didn't know the storekeeper
wasn't in when he got it; and this man
said he should think he'd have asked the
clerk Then he told him of the man who
had box of cigars under his arm, and
when asked what he had, replied, Tickets
to my wife's lectures and the same gen.
tleman said he couldn't see the connection
Year: 1873

BATHING IN LAKE TAHOE IN THE SIERRA
is we'll known that it is more
difficult to swim in Lake Tahoe than in any
lower-country water. This is due to its
great purity and consequent want of density
of the water. 1t is easy to strike out with
the arms and legs, but difficult to keep the
body afoat. Swimming in Tahoe and swim
ming in the river at Sacramento are, for
instance, two different exercises altogeth ther.
In the one case, one softly paddles through
water 30 mingled with mud as to have
reached the consistency of thick pea soup or
Cruel of not very tremuIous thinness while
swimming in Lake Tahoe seems like slow
flying through cold air, with the wings left
off. The water of the lake is 50 pure that
the body and limbs while Immersed are as


white As marble they are, in tact, ghastly
in their Wilderness,
Year: 1873

A teacher in one of the Southern States
was sitting at tho window of her room,
watching two negroes loading goods into
. cart. One of them was disposed to
shirk. The other stopped, and looking
sharply at the lazy one said:


Sam. do you expect to 60 to heaven


Yes" " Then take hold and lift :"
Year: 1873

"Cannot something be done to prevent
young ladies from being insulted on the
streets at night ?" asks an exchange
There can, just have the girls mother
tuck her into bed about eight o'clock
in the evening and lock the door on her.
-Gazette
Year: 1873

Life is like roll of costly material
passing swiftly through our hands, and We
must embroider our pattern on as it goes.
We cannot wait to pick up false stitch,
or pause too long before We set another.
Year: 1873

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
LOUISIANA INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE


Deliberating Oh Supreme Court Decision
PNEUMATIC TUBE 70 CHICAGO
NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
SNOW AND sEEEg At NEW SORB
THE. CAR-AOOE MURDERER
CHECKING GERMAN EMIGRATION
INDEMNITY FOR PORTO RICO SLAVES
Public ,NDIGNATIOS UNBoUNDED


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