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Year: 1872

A pretty good story is told Of a
citizen of Elizabeth, n. J., who went
to the cars to see his daughter of.
Having secured a seat for her, he
left the car and went round to her
window to say a parting word


While he was passing out the daugh-
ter left the seat to speak to a friend.
and at the same time a prim-looking
lady who occupied the seat with her
moved up TO the window. Unaware
of the important changes inside, our
venerable friend hastily put his face
up to the window and hurriedly ex-
claimed: "One more kiss, sweet
pet" In another instant the point
Of blae cotton umbrella caught his
seductive lips, accompanied by the
passionate injunction Scat, you
gray headed wretch" He Seated.
Year: 1872


DISTINCTION.
J Come all We fair maidens and lend me an ear
And dolorous ditty you shortly shall hear
OF gallant so loving and maiden so true,
And famil that lived in the Fifth Avenue.
This family, you see, was a grand family,
With greenbacks and gold and tall pedigree;
For the father was Shoddy, the mother was Oil,
And the brain of them both in a thimble would


boil.
This father so rich had one daughter so fair,
That none on the hill with her could compare;
In her short dress so sweet and her chignon
quite new,
She'd scare horses, you know, on the Fifth


Avenue.
The father gave dinners, but the mother, you


see,
Being vastly genteel, had her little soires.
The daughter each season gave a German OIL


two,
That killed with envy the girls of FifthAvenue
The lovers came thronging this maiden to win
Her beauty they loved, but they loved more


her tin.
There were lawyers and doctors, and parsons


few,
Paid their court to this belle in the Fifth


Avenue.
There was Baron Won Kraut and Count


Devilletray,
Sir scallywag Bags and Signor Bouchey,
And real live prince with his name such q


fam,
It began with sneeze and ended in d-n.
To none of them all did this fair maid incline;
She sought with true love true love to en-


twine;
Brought up on Ward Beecher, she rose above


pelf,
The youth OF heart she would love for himself
One day her dear pa took his afternoon nap,
And awoke from his dreams at the sound of a


snap,
And opening one eye, in a corner within
Saw BOachy a-kissing his daughter like sin.
The parent arose with wipe on his pate,
Rolled into the room like buffer of state,
And trembling With rage, but fixed as a post,
Stood like Booth when he sees that old pump


of ghost.
Now William was handsome as handsome


could be,
And consented to serve for fixed salary;
To dismiss him was ruin, but the daughter


take care!
Twas rough travelling, tell ye, up three


flights of stair.
She wasn't locked up-oh, no, that amt done
In these modern times under iberty's sun;
But six maiden aunts and the parson you see,
Jumped onto this girl of the first family.
They talked and they talked, and she pined


and she pined,
Till first-elass consumption well-nigh defined.
Then the parent consulted old Doctor Fee-Je,
Who went with this father the daughter to see.
70 father" she cried, "yOu will soon break my


heart"
And she sighed like bellows and wept like a


water-cart.
You'll permit me to marry my William so


truef"
But he mildli responded, 'TIlbe id if I do"
Then in the wilest despair one evening SO


damp,
She blew herself up with a kerosene lamp.
Remorse seized the father, on his daughter he


cried,
And drank Plantation Bitters till in anguish


he died.
Then William grew reckless this ruin to see,
And he went down. and down till he joined


Tammony.
ae committed six murders, and then the great


clan
Did finish him up as a job alderman.
Year: 1872

cost there lies the pathos of many a sacri-
flee.


"Why, mother, what ails your" Alvin
asked in alarm.


go, nothing" she answered "only am
getting old"


Nonsense" exclaimed Alvin, "you are
worth more than half the young women in
the country you have been overriding.
and now you must rest, and be taken care
Of" He put his arm around her, and she
drew Huldahs hand through her own, on
the other side thus they walked over the
grass, sprinkled with white clover. Alvin
was in high spirits, so glad to be back,
with much to tell of himself; Huldah was
SO quietly, supremey happy she could not
speak word but Patience felt If she
could have faded out from between them
they would scarcely have missed her.


The house was just as she left it but as
she opened the door and heard the slow
ticking of the clock, 1t seemed as though
years not hours had passed since she went
out so elate and glad. She sat down in her
chair not the woman she had been. Her
heart beat slower; her hair appeared to
have turned from gray TO white in single
experience. She had passed the dividing
ridge of life and was going down on the
shady side. She stayed her head with her
hand, and whispered to herself, "not my
will but e.'-Golden Age.
Year: 1872

The New York Times, in an editorial
urging the duty OF selecting as Representa-
tives to Congress the very best men the
country affords, says:


During the next two years, the work of
Congress will require extraordinary quail
fications in its members. With the re-elec-
tion of Gen. Grant, the questions directly
involved in the reconstruction of the
Southern States will be practically with
drawn from the legislative field. The po-
litical and civil rights of all are clearly de-
fined by existing laws, and with the exc
cuton of those laws by wise, firm and
friendly hand assured for another four
years, the rights referred to may be regard
ed as established. The questions which
will take their place will be those of gener-
al administration, and while scarcely less
important than those arising out of recon-
struction, they will be even more compli-
Gated in detail and more delicate in their
relations to the prosperity of the country.
Included among these questions, and the
one of more radical Importance, will be
that of civil service reform in its widest
sense. The duty of the next four years
will be TO remove from our politics the
many and varied evils growing out of the
distribution of civil offices as rewards for
political services-a reform in which the
President has done so much that he deser-
yes the cordial support of Congress.


Another of the questions affecting the
material prosperity of the country, Will be
the adjustment of the revenue. The teach
ing of the last four years is conclusive that
our system of taxation will be the subject
of continual discussion and of probable
modification, until some of its more extra
ordinary features are gradually removed.
Still another question which must arise is
the relation of the General Government to
the gigantic corporations growing up in
our midst-corporatons whose extent, in
iuence, and power were never contempla-
ted by the authors of the Constitution, and
the development of which constantly pre-
sents new and important problems to the
National Legislature.


All these questions will require men OF
ability and probty to deal with them. IT
the Republican Party is TO retain the as
tendency ii now enjoys in Congress, it
must not only preserve the general high
standard of its present Representatives,
but it must increase the number of its ORR
gina and Influential men in Congress. On
the other hand, the next Administration
will afford splendid opportunities for indie
pendent men, representing Independent
consti uencies. The field is everywhere
inviting for the very best men of all par
ties and in the interest Of our common
country, without reference to mere party
advantage, we urge our citizens every
where to endeavor to secure this kind Of
men.
Year: 1872

REPUBLICAN MEETING.- There will
be meeting of the Republican Club of
Monroe ward, at Third Street Methodist
Church, this Tuesday evening, at half
past seven O'Clock. A full and prompt at
tendance is desired.
Year: 1872

The busy cnrrespon lents who have


been buzzing about Sumner, have learned
that he reports to his Senatorial friends


that he has not said he was going to the


Cincinnati Convention, nor that he has


been asked and had consented to become
its presiding officer. He says he hassome
hopes that Grant will not be re-nomiEa-
ted, in which event he will support the
nominees of the Philadelphia Convention.
If the Liberal Republicans should nomi-
nate Charles Francis Adams or Senator
Trumbull, he would probably support
either one but in order to give full un-
derstanding Of his position. Mr. Sumner
avows his unalterable hostility to Grant
without. however. indicating what he will
do to defeat his reelection.


r. We do not see what he can do after
Congress adjourns. There will be no
Congressional Globe to print his resolu-
tions and speeches; no Associated Press
reporters to send abroad, daily. his ut
terances more Of the old rebel element
Of the Washington society to applaud
him from the galleries. He will be with
the plain people of Massachusetts, who
are in favor of economy and reform, and
who are, according to Senator Wilson of
that State, almost unanimously in favor
OF the reelection Of President Grant.


Senator Sumner is disappointed man.
He wants to be President he feels that
his long and eminent services should be
be rewarded by the party but sees that
Gen. Grant is the most popular candi-
date. 1t is hard for him to stand aside
and give place to another. But greater
men than he have surrendered their
claims to that exalted position, and we
regret that he has not the patience.or
philosophy to gracefully submit to the
will of a vast majority Of his political as
sociates. we believe he will not be found
opposed to the Republican party in No
journal.
Year: 1872

John Bull will not be content until
| he can 80 to France dry shod. For many
| years the project of bridging or tunnel
| ing Dover Straits has been considered,
| and various are the schemes that have
| been brought forward to accomplish
this object. The best engineering skill
has been employed, and the most care
full examinations and estimates have
been made, with view of determining
its practicabjlity and probable cost. The
necessity for such work is more and
more felt each succeeding year, and the
enormous traffic now in passengers and
freight seems to demand that the work
be undertaken. 1t is an enterprise of
vast proportions, and will require an
enormous outlay and consume many
years before it can be completed.


The various plans for bridging the
channel, including the visionary scheme
of suspending the structure on balloons,
we believe, are all abandoned, and the
only practicable method of getting Il
railway across to France will be to 90
under the sea. The work, therefore, of
cutting a tunnel has at last been en-.
tered upon, and a company has been
organized and registered in London for
commencing the work. About e. 100000
will be first expended in sinking shafts
and the roughly testing the feasibility of
plans. If the experimental shafts prove
successful, books will be opened for
further subs scriptions to tho stock, and
the work will be pushed vigorously.
The completion is only question of
time. Five years have been thought
sufficient, but it seems hardly possible
that so gigantic an undertaking can be
accomplished in SO short y space. The
cutting will be comparatively easy, un-
less the geologists are at fault; for the
only resistance is said to be a soft chalk
rock that can be easily bored. There
will necessarily be great danger con-
nected with tho work, from the liability
OF letting in the sea and the difficulty
of securing ventilation during the prog
ress of excavation. When completed,
the tunnel will be twenty three miles in
length, and fresh air will probably have
to be forced through its entire length
by artificial means. II modern engin-
cering is able to provide for this, there
can be no doubt of the success of the
undertaking.


Both countries are expected to join
in the expense of the enterprise, but
the laboring oar will fall to England,
since the finances of France have been
so severely crippled in the war with
Prussia. This is probably, all things
considered, the most gigantic and diff
cult piece of engineering that was ever
undertaken.
Year: 1872

The first general frost throughout the
Northwest, on the 9th ult., so far as
advices are received, found the corn
crop either safely in shock, or out of
the way of damage from matured
growth. The frost will assist in drying
it out, ready for husking, and the
probabilities now are that the present
corn crop of the West will be the great
est one ever gathered. Indeed, it has
been estimated to aggregate 100000
600 bushels, which if added to the sur
plus left over from the preceding two
immense crops, will make an amount of
corn probably greater than we shall sec
Tor many years to come.


The probable consequence Oh such :,
vast store of grain, with the low prices
that will naturally follow, is that much
of it will be wasted; but, if securely
cribbed and carefully saved, it may yet
become mine of wealth to those
farmers whose means will allow them to
save it.


There is no crop so easily saved as
corn, no crop so little liable to loss in
the hands of the farmer; and, sooner OF
later, it must be worth rcmunerativc
prices. Our advice to the farmer is
Carefully save and crib whatever sur
plus you may have. The time will
come when it will pay the labor so
piven if
Year: 1872

What am about to say appears very
simple, yet there are some simple things
about a poultry yard that every one
who undertakes to raise poultry does
not know.


1t is very simple thing to cut a
chickens wing to prevent its flying, but
very few know how to do it in proper
manner. When cut a chickens wing
| get some one to hold it, and l take
hold of the wing and stretch it out, and
with sharp knife commence near the
body, leaving three or four of the quill
feathers next the body without cutting,
and cut all the rest, except three or
four at the tip end. That will take the
wind out of their sails and prevent fly
ing. The feath, rs left at the tip of the
wing enable the hen to keep her eggs
in place if you let her sit the ones next
the body prevent the cock tearing her
with his claws, and when the wing is
shut up it does not disiisure her.-C6r
POultrk Wsrid.
Year: 1872

Tho Je6ersonian, of West Chester,
Chester county, Pa, describes some OK
traordinary milk pans lately made at
that place for the dairy of Enos Ber-
nard. They each measured twelve feet
in length and four in width, and were
about six inches in depth. They were
double bottomed, with vacuum of
about one inch between, which space
was divided into four compartments by
partitions running lengthwisc, and were
so constructed as to allow water to pass
up and down the length of the pan,
thus keeping the milk cool or warm at
the option of those having it in charge.


The four pans had capacity sufficient
for containing the milk of one hundred
COWS, which number, we understand,
Mr.. Bernard keeps. 1t is said by those
who have tried this new kind Of pan
that much greater amount of cream
is obtained from the same quantity of
milk, besides obviating considerable
trouble and labor. When the cream is
skinned from the surface the milk is
drawn off at the bottom Of the pan
into buckets or whatever other vessel is
selected
Year: 1872

A young man of our city has been
engaged tor the past six weeks i'll writ
ing to fair damsel of Brooklyn. He
formed her acquaintance through the
columns of the Waverly, and last even


ing, according to engagement, went over
to New York, in Canal street, where he
was to meet his unknown correspond
ent. He entered the house, and was
soon in the presence of q young lady of
about 10 years, who had the appearance
of Just being convalescent after q ten
wears drunk. He was soon told that
she was the lady in question, and asked
"what he proposed to do about it p
she seemed in 4 great hurry, rather too
much so, for our Jersey boy, who told
her that he had no proposals to max e
except to have the door opened far
enough to allow the exit of his person.
The demi mode, for 80 she was, flew
in terrible rage, and gave her visitor
to understand that lie could not occupy
her time, and make engagements with
her, and not expect to reimburse her
| Tor all her trouble, and told the fright
ened youth to "shell out, Or prepare tor
a tus,le - He preferred to "shell "
rather than have q "tussle" with such
n muscular female, and gave her the
co ntents of his pocket. book, with the
exception of three cents to cross the
ferry, which amounted to little over
$ll. He told our reporter that he was
satisfied in getting Oil AT that price, and
that he would have given twice that
amount sooner than have any difficulty
with her. lie has solemnly vowed
never 10 read the Waverly or correspond
with au unknown person again. He
has 10 particular affection for Brooklyn
ladies now.--JerSsy City Journal.
Year: 1872

RoNE has increased greatly in popuia'
ton since it became the capital OF Italy,
and The demand for houses is SO great
that improvements are being made IN
every direction. Not sewer is dug or
a foundation laid without the discovery
of many rare objects of art-the debris
Of the ancient city.
Year: 1872

A CHEAP ICE-HoUsE.-FrOsty y


nights remind Us that the ice crop for


the warm weather Of 1872 will soon


have to be gathered and plans for ice


houses will soon be in demand. Any


builder Of architect can design and
put up an elaborate ice-house which


may or may not preserve the ice in
trusted to its keeping; but cheap
makc-shift ice-hOuse which will serve
a temporary purpose until better
one can be erected, is greatly to be
desired. We know from experience
that very simple structure will
serve every purpose, and the follow
ing directions, from the Country Gen.
tleman, seem to meet the required
conditions: Throw down a dozen
or two of old Fails or poles on piece
of ground sufficient inclined to carry


OF the water, fill the crevices be.
tween the holes with sawdust, cover
with old boards, slabs or bark-gct
from the sawmill few loads of slabs,
take four say II feet long, notch the
VihCis ihV o iOS hOuSo, oCt IuCiu WI
the platform, and you have crib
about ten and half feet square by
the width of the slab deep; fill this
crib with sawdust and pack it down
hard. Cut your ice SO that it will
pack close, and eight feet square lay
it OH the sawdust, put on another
crib of slabs and ill up and pack


hard with sawdust all around, and so
60 on until you get up SIX or eight
feet; then put foot and half of
sawdust on top; over this put shed


roof of slabs-One end of the slabs !
nearly to the ice, raising the other
three feet. Ifice is all that is want
ed, It will keep in this manner as
we'll as in a vanished house. Let a
farmer once get in the habit Of keep |
ing ice, and he will soon find way
to make something better than crib /
to keep II in-and | think this cheap |
plan will be apt to gst him started. |
Year: 1872

THE Comptroller of the Currency
writes the Commissioners of Internal
Revenue that it has been decided to
refund the tax paid by judges of State
courts on salaries received by them
from the respective State Trcasurers.
Beyond this, the department does not
feel authorized to 60.
Year: 1872

This is the most stylish way to
wear lace shawl: Loop it up on both
shoulders quite high, leaving all the
sleeve of your dress to be seen; then
fix on waistband of black ribbon
over the shawl, and draw all the full
ness to the back, making 1t as q
boufdnt as possible over the hustle
cross the front ends smoothly on the
breast, and also conilne them un-
der your waist.belt.
Year: 1872

IN his annual Report to Congress,
the Secretary of the Treasury states
that more than eighty millions, out
of the hundred millions of five
twentcs called in, are in the possess
sion of the department; seventeen
millions by payment of coin, and the
rest by exchange for the new five per
cents. The completion of the pay
ments and exchanges is expected to
occur soon. Gold has fallen to no.,
under the increased supply on the
market by payments on account OF
the five twenties.
Year: 1872

A REMARKABLE surgical operation
was recently performed upon a child
In Rochester, Vt. It had hare lip,
n divided upper jaw badly protrudlng,
the palate entirely wanting and the
mouth nearly 90. To secure a mouth,
the child was etherized, It's upper lip
severed from the jaw, tho jaw broken
and the divided ends brought together
20 securely that no crying or effort Of
the child could remove them. After
ten days the bones were found united,
the lip healed, and the child has q
mouth and Is doing we'll.
Year: 1872

JNOk SALE--A' CORNER LIQUOR STORE, WITH


IL Stock and Fixtures and two years lease on the best
part of Tenth t56 corner OF For yrst street


will be disposed Of at for cash. the owner leaving
Year: 1872

FULL LIST OF DELICIOUS sYRUPs.
Carbonic Acid Water or Soda Water as 1t is popu-
larJ called, when properly made from pure mate
ras and kept out of contact with deleterious metals
like copper, lead or BRASS refreshing and whole
some drink grateful alike TO the thirsty and to the
invalid. Such Soda Water is drawn from our Arctic
Apparatus, where we shall be glad TO see all who
enjoy this agreeable beverage


No intoxicating liquor Is dispensed from our
Fountain.


SMITH 4 PAINTER, Pharmaceutsts,


SeNnnlh and Markell Atrneta
Year: 1872

then broke out into terrible denuncia-


ton of dram-shops and "whuskey,"


which it did my soul good to hear


Cough never surpassed the red-hot We


hemence Of the old mans philippe


against the horrible and detestable


damnation of whuskey and livery kind


O. strong drink" He is heartily in


favor of the prohibitory movement, but


has no faith in parliaments, and none at


all in any living man now controlling civil


affairs. He gave us an intensely ludi-


crous picture of a night he once spent in
Parliament listening to an infinite bab-


Element OF windy talk, and endless


grinding of hurdy-gurdies, grinding out


lies and inanities." l." But at last the old


Duke of Wellington arose, and then,


said Carlyle, "he stammered away for


fifteen minutes; but he was the only man


in the House who gave me any credible


portraitHre of the facts. / asked him


his opinion of the man whom We in


America honor as the most eloquent


and brave of living British statesmen.


Carlyle's s contemptuous reply was, Only


shop-keeper--a mere bagman-a man


who treats England as only bag shop;


he ought never to go into the House OF


Commons without white apron tied


under his arms 20 for another


Oliver Cromwelllp exclaimed the old


man. II have gone down to the very


bottom of divers speeches; and let me


tell you that nothing in Demosthenes or


any other man can compare with him


in the piercing into the veritable and


credible core of the fact. But in these


days parliamentary eloquence is only


detcstable and damnable babblement
of imposture and lesi" And this red
hot lava of denunciation was poured
out in one unceasing stream for nearly
half an hour, until he wound up by con-
signing pretty much everything and
everybody to "bottomless pool of
everlasting damnation in whatever
meaning you may give to that word.
This wonderful harangue was deliv-
cred in broad Scotch brogue, and
with the most ludicrous twistings of
countenance At times the old man
stopped and laughed heartily at his own
caricatures. In fact was constantly
puzzled to detect whether he was in
uOWHrlgut ehrueSl, UT was only du luJel-
lectual Samson pulling down everything
right and left to make sport" for his
guests. But there was some
thing indescribably sad in the spectacle
of this powerful old Scotchman hurling
contempt at almost everything under
the sun, and venting an utter despair of
anything hopeful in the providence of
God or the future of humanity. Car
lyle, in days past, has uttered some of
the grandest truths which our times
have heard. But his cynicism has grown |
morbid. And as the old man shambled |
away in his blue gown looked after him |
in mingled amazement and tenderest
pity. He is the psychological marvel of |
the age. Such astonishing acuteness,
and yet such astonishing absurdity-
such faith in the Everlasting facts |
and yet such scofing scepticism-such |
hatreds of wrongs, and yet such defenses
Of certain wrongs-were never before |
combined in any man of genius in our
generation. 1t is strange that Bible
owing Scotland should be represented in
she same era by Thomas Chalmers and
Thomas Carlyle. ar