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Year: 1876

JENNIE SMITH writes to the Courier
Journal in this confiding way My
aunt was here last week, and told me
many things She told me that there
was minister Of the gospel passing
through the country who professed TO
tell fortunes, and there was a man
who had lost an axe, and asked him 10
tell where it was. The preacher PIT
the lamps out, fixed a cooking pot
bottom upward and pnt a CHECKED in
it, and told all who we're in the church
to come and rub their hands over 1t,
and the chicken would crow when the
one that was guilty should rub his
hand over it. They all came, and
when they gos through he looked at
their hands, and there was one who
had not touched the pot. The preach
er told him to go and put the axe back
or he would expose him."
Year: 1876

A BRAVE WoRkMAY.-We have
much pleasure in recording an act of
courageous self control and presence
of mind which may be compared
with advantage to the honors won by
deeds of daring on The field of battle,
Two workmen were engaged in fix
ing q lightning conductor on the sum-
unit of the steeple at Villesnr-Ourthe,
Belgium. To accomplish this some
what difiicrlt and delicate task it was
necessary that one of the workmen
should stand on the shoulders of his
companion. While in this position, a
violent gust Of wind made him spill
some molten lead, which fell on the
hand and forearm of his friend. Not
withStanding the sudden intensity of
the pain thus inflicted, the victim of
this accident had the courage to
remain moliOnless while the lead burnt
its way into his flesh. He knew that
the slightest movement might suffice
to percipitate his companion from a
hight of seventy feet into the street
below, and he bTavely endured the
pain rather than imperil the life of his
fellow worker. NJ. A. Kari<, slater,
at AnthiSne, is the hero of this brave
deed, and his name is worthy Of public
record.-L0nd0R Builder.
Year: 1876

How To HANDLE SHEEP.-A great
many farmers and their help handle
sheep in a wrong way, often pulling
ont handfuls of wool, when this
might just as well be avoided as not.
An old sheep raiser says: "When
about to catch a sheep, move careful
ly toward the one to be taken, until
you are sufficiently near TO spring
quickly aud seize the beast by the
neck with both hands. Then pass one
hand around the body grasp The brisk
ct, and lift the sheep clear from the
ground. The wool must not be pulled.
Ii the sheep is heavy one, lie: one,
band and wrist be put around
the neck and the other passed against
the rump." That is good advice as
when sheep are roughly handled, if
the wool is pulled, the small bruises
will render them less tame, and more
difficult to handle.
Year: 1876

GRAcEFULNEss IN GlRLs.-The Hiu>
doc girls are graceful and exquisitely
formed. From their earliest child
hood, they are accustomed TO carry
burdens on their heads. The water
for family use is always brought by
the girls in earihen jares, carefully
poised in this way. This exercise is
said TO strengthen the musIes of The
back, while The chest is thrown for
ward. No crooked backs are seen in
Hindoostan. DR.. Henry Spry, one OF
the company's medical officers, says
that this exercise Of carrying small
vessels of water on the head might
be adyantageously introduced into
our boarding schools and private
families, and that it should entirely
supersede the present machinery OF
dumb bells, black boards, skipping
ropes, etc. The young lady ought to
be taught to carry the jar, as these
Hiudoo women do, without ever
touching it with her hand" The
same practice of carrying water leads
TO precisely the same results in the
south of Spain and in the south OF
Italy as in India. a NepoIitan female
peasant will carry on her head vessel
full of water to the very brine over a
rough road and not spill a drop of it,
and the acquisition of this art or
knack gives her the same erect and
elastic gait, and the same expanded
chest and well formed back and
shoulders.
Year: 1876

BABIES IN LAPLAND.-The Lapland
mothers are not in the habit of stay
ING at home with their babies. The
laps are a very religious people, and
take long journeys to hear the pastors.
As soon as the family arrive at the
little wooden church, and the reindeer
are secured Tho father shovels a snug
little bed in the snow, and the mother
wraps the baby in skins and deposits
1t therein. The father piles the snow
about it, and the dog is set on guard,
while The parents go decorously into
The church. Often as many as thirty
babies may be seen laid away in the
snow about the church.
Year: 1876

GETTING MOSEY.-The most unfor>
tunate day in the career OF any Young
man is the day on which lie fancles
there is some better way 10 get rlon-
ey than TO earn it; for from that feel
ing spring the many extravagant AMI
visionary schemes which are Indulged
in for the purpose Of gaining -iveil-
hood without labor. When a young
man once becomes throughly infected
with this feeling, he is really TO adopt
any means for the accomplishment Of
his object; aud ii hi, plans are fustrat-
ed and be is foiled in his efforts, upon
the very crest of the wave which he
has already mounted and IN full view
is the temptation TO crime, to shield
him from disgrace which he thinks
must inevitably follow in the weak de-
feat. TO those he yields, and the first
he realizes he finds himself The viola
tor of the law, and criminal in the
ewes of the community, and an inmate
of the prison, waiting trial, all
brought on for want Of little manly
firmness in The outset of life to prompt
him 10 choose an avOcatiOn IN HE
where the penny earned would bring
with it its sure reward Then let our
young men spurn the idea of obtain
ing money without rendering an equiv
alent let them be ready and willing
to occupy the positions in life which
will give them the best possible OPP
portunity to develop their natural tai,
ent, ana do good TO others while help
ing themselves. In this way we may
have a nation of noble men and wo-
men, which shall be source Of prof.;
and pleasure to us, and an object OF
wonder and admiration 10 the world
At large.
Year: 1876

A PATENT BUTroN.-It is SAID that
q button has been invented and pat
ented in America that is infinitely bet
ter than the one described in the dress
maker and milliner as requiring no
sewing on. The American self attach
ing button can be set on in two sec
onds AID removed in one, will hold
more firmly than any other button csn
hold, and it is fastened by a much
more simple arrangement than a fas-
tener and spring like that of the Eng
lish self attaching button.
Year: 1876

OuR prosperity as people will be-
gin when rascality in office. and ex-
travagance and folly in public and
private life come to an end. 1t is be-
cause the people have been plundered
and the government robbed that
business men suffer, and 80 much
poverty prevails. The first step to
secure real restoration of business is
TO place honest men ip office.
Year: 1876

We shall advocate the cause of education among
ourselves and chillren By all just within
our power We especially advocate for our agricul-
tural and industrial colleges that practical a,rieul
ture domestic science and all the arts which adOrn
the home, be taught in their courses of study.
Year: 1876

city, unrelieved as they were, by single strip OF
bunting During the day Mayor Wlckham and dis
tngushed party visited the various institutions on the
island.


PULPIT AND RosTRrM


As htting the day celebrated by special
services In many OF the principal city
churches. Various political organizations heard
IRON their accredited spokesmen, but the
shades OF party for the day lost in the eugence
OF our celebration nation united and free As
night closed tho work Of pyrotechnic demonstration,
relaxed during the day, vigorously taken up;
there grand display in the City Hall Park and at
Mount Morris Square. The unwecome feature of all
this enthusiastic display the number Of casualties by
which many viii, in later years, remember the Cen
tennial Fourth Of July; but considering the unusual
magnitude OF the demonstration all the city, is
u matter OF congratulation that accidents were not
more numerous and OF graver character
Year: 1876

-Four white men, while out hunting
about two miles from Deadwood, killed
a deer, and while they were skinning it,
one of them saw an Indian approaching
them, leading his pony. He was prob
ably trying to surprise them, but, being


rcertain Of their exact position, he had
AZ ,,roached too near, and they discover
ed him first. One of the party snatched
up his shotgun, loaded with buckshot,
and fired both barrels, bringing down
the Indian and his pony. The confident
manner in which the Indian had walked
toward them had led them to suppose
that he was supported by number OF
others, and 80 they quickly retreated to-
ward Deadwood for re-enforcements. A
party started out to scout the country,
and, on reaching the spot where the deer
lay, the men saw the body OF the Indian
by the side of his pony, and, thinking
him dead, they rushed forward. This
action was fatal to one of the party, tor
a shot from the Indians rifle struck him
in the heart. A volley from the others
killed the Indian instantly, however,
and his body was quickly surrounded by
the white men. The Indian had been
almost riddled with buckshot, or shoul-
der and both legs having been broken,
yet he had managed to bandage his legs
and 20 take unerring aim with his
wounded arm. Knowing that his life
would be taken without doubt, he had
prepared to sell it as dearly as possible,
and; lying on his back, he rested his
rifle on his wounded legs and shot dead
the foremost of his assailants. In his
mouth was another cartridge ready to
reload. His rifle was the best and latest
breech loading arm issued to the army
in 1875, and it was probable that he had
obtained it in the Custer or Reno fight,
since an old bullet mark in the grip OF
the stock showed that it had been in &C.
ton,
Year: 1876

1t requires six men, according to the
San Francisco Ne,Os Letter, to put up a
car window. A young lady gets in, and
having bumped around in her seat for
about five minutes, she turns and re-
quests the gentleman just behind her to
perform that service. This is near
sighted individual, who peers around
the window frame some time for the
catch, and then-of course the window
sticks-jerks his finger half off and sits
down with red face, amid the giggling
of the schoolgirls opposite. Next, the
man in the front seat puts his lavender
colored knee on paper of cherries be-
side him, clutches and yanks at the
knob, and finally falls over into the
young lady's lap. The cause of all this
misery now remarks that cit doesn't
matter" aud then smiles sweetly at a
pale young man with long hair. This
martyr turns white, rises, and buttons
up his coat for the death struggle. On
the eleventh pull he bursts blood
vessel somewhere, and goes into the
toilet compartment to bleed. A simple
minded mechanic now comes forward
with his tool bag, from which he takes
crowbar. Just when he is about to
use this the conductor happens by, and
slides the window airily up with gen.
tie twist of the wrist.
Year: 1876

At banquet given in Paris to the
French labor delegates upon their re-
turn from the Philadelphia Exhibition


one of them said: elm the great
American republic, so Landed by our
public men, we found the relative posi-
tion of employer and workman the same
as it is here. There, as in France, capt.
tai is the master. The workmen IN
America have every possible liberty;
they have many more schools than we
have in France; but. notwithstanding all
this, and in spite of the abolition of ne
gro slavery, the slavery of the whites
still fourishes. Many as are the privi-
leges which the workman is accorded,
and which he does not possess in Eu-
rope, he remains workman still; and
these privileges are OF little use to him
as long as he is not allowed to have q
share in the profits with his employer.
Year: 1876

In order to form q correct estimate of
the result of the great explosion on the
Hallet's Point reef, says the New York
Herald, we must recall in our memory
it's condition previous to the commence
ment of the excavation. It was then q
we'll recognized danger to navigation;
it's ragged shelving surface, projecting
outward into the channel of He'll Gate,
was like great trap set for the unwary
navigator, to touch which was destruc.
ton. The shallow water that whirled
over it had sufficient velocity to draw a
vessel right on it's most dangerous
ridges, and in order to avoid it the pilot
was compelled to steer so close to other
distractions that it became merely a
choice between two evils both equally
threatening. Now, however, the series
of carefully made soundings over the
site OF the reef shows that this monster
obstruction has been completely shatter-
ed. The columns that supported the
rocky roof and the roof itself lie in frag-
ments at the bottom of the great excava-
tion, like the ruins OF mighty temple
crumbled almost into dust by the shock
of On earthquake. Where the shallow
currents rolled over the reef the sound
ing line now indicates depth Of water
in which an ironclad might float in
safety, and, instead of edging away from
the shore and risking destruction in or
der to avoid it, the steersman can bring
his vessel within fifty feet Of Halett' g
Point without endangering her. Such
is the result of General Newton's work
at He'll Gate. At one blow he has de-
molished the rocky structure that has
taken untold ages to form, and opened
wider the gate Of the river for the COM
merce of the future.


With highway for commerce 80 free
from danger wonderful change will
take place in the appearance of the up
per East river. Great steamships and
tall masted barks will line the wharves
Factories, villages and cities will cove,
the now vacant spaces on Long Islan6
and Westchester close to the water line
and send their productions to the shore
for shipment to every part of the globe
New York will outgrow the narrow
island on which she stands and vii
spread over such au area as will make
her the rival, in size a.: we'll as wealth, o
the great English metropolis.
Year: 1876

He was three and twenty and she was
two or three years younger, and they
had been married only two or three
days. They were standing at the corner
of Broadway and Canal street, New
York, waiting for q car to Central Park,
when, all of sudden, the bride laid her
hand on his arm and whispered:


"Darling, s'pusen y u ehonld get
killed and should be left in this great
city all alone i


"Never thought Of it before" he re-
piled, backing away from the curbstone
a little. Then, pulling long, red wal
let out of his hind pocket, he counted
out four ten.cent tshinplastersand handed
them over with the remark:


"You are right. In the midst of Life
we are in death, and you might as we'll
be prepared in case anything happened
to me-"
Year: 1876

It will be clearly seen that the ratio OF
consumption is much greater in Ameri-
can than in European cities-particular-
ly in New York. This is partly due to
various improvements Of baths, etc., in
modern dwellings,, to the extensive use
of water for manufacturing purposes,
and to a free use of water in various
other ways. But that there is in many
places needless waste Of the Oroton is
unite certain,
Year: 1876

from arrangement than ever. She talked


necessarily of her dead husband and
squandered her money. Two years
ego, during lucid period, she went to her
father and told him that she wanted him to
have some of the benefit of her money, and
purchased for him . farm near Ridgely,
Csrolins county, Nd, for which she paid
$1,000 cash. They lived there quite happily
until last summer, when be swoke one night
to find his daughter trying to cut his throat
with razor, and he had to hy for his life
going back to New York, and stopping on
his way to see his old friend Mr.. Taylor
with whom he had worked both here and In
New York.


His daughter continued to live on the
farm until last September, surrounded by
the greatest luxuries. She ordered her
liquors from New York, and also large
quantities of the provisions she consumed
But she left and came here, and the circum.
stances of her stay in this city we have told.
Her iather, who is living In New York, has
taken charge of her, and she will no doubt
DC placed permanently in an insane asylum.
Year: 1876

great success has been added another hum
BILE victory Of peace. When tho teams from
tho different countries who honor us with their pres
ence here entered upon this match we all knew and
understood full well that those who victorious
ing merry and exulting our victories let US be
grateful TO those who honor us by their and
contributed so materially and so handsomely to the
celebration OF this centennial year, OF which
We arc all SO proud. loud applause) We
have found upon our beautiful range at
Creedmoor the Irishmcn that had there before
tCheers) Not satisfied with two defeats they bucked
on their armor third time and came boldly TO tho
front And victory was almost theirs You know tho
next best thing to success In rifle match is being
good second, and that honor belongs TO the Irish
Cheers) They have another chance. Next week, on
strength against those hardy OF Ireland and with
what result would be very difficult for any OF here
tonight 10 say. Believe me- fellow ctzons, that the


AMERICANS HAVE ENOUGH TO


to maintain their position next week. Allow me now
TO thank you for tho kind manner in which you have
received these gentlemen from abroad. see am
likely TO say too much. was going TO speak OF the
Scotch the Canadian and the Australian (Crios OF
bcna Of the gentlemen who were abroad last year beg
you to accept their sincere thanks for the
Se have ySa
would welcome them we all, in view OF the great re-
cepton that they gave us, felt a little jealous OF tho
manner IN which they might be received. While they
every hand. Wherever you see them givo them manly
treated US abroad. Trea. them so that they may
80 homo and say that they have had good
time and will be anxious TO come back again
and we certainly do hope they will come again.
know that while the sco,chmen, well the other
gentlemen who have lost gracefully accept defeat they
are not satisfied. iineman gives up He always


lives in the belief that day he Is going 10 do better
and know that in their hearts to-day they all feel
capable OF beating the Americans, and don't know
but they will-(cheers)-and hope the time OF their
doing II will not be prolonged beyond tho year 1871
thank you, gentlomen Tor this kind reception to my
sclf. (Cheers)


AFTER THE PRESENTATION.


Before tho performance at Gimore's Garden had con-
cluded the Irish team left the building and. under
duct Of some OF the Americans, were brought to tho
Gale Brunswick, where hasty collation. was
served up. couple Of brief speeches by
Major Leech and General Knox the
only formal features of the OCCASION At Dslmouicos
the other teams supped, and considerable time was
passed in the exchange OF civitics Before the sepa-
ration OF the teams 1t was agreed that tho Goiger
trophy match which to bo shot to-
morrow. would DO adjourned In consequence
OF the foreign teams being entertained by the cy aud
visiting the institutions. Tomorrow Major Leech Is
TO decide whether tho Irish shall contest the return
match with tho Americans IN team of six or eight,
end meeting OF the Americans is called at tho Hon-
man House 10 choose a team for tho contest.
Year: 1876

The Aldermanic Committee on Centennial. OF which
Mr. Colo Is Chairman met In secret caucus yesterday
to prepare for the entertainment at the institutions
day OF tho visiting rihemen. All tho reporters
carefully excluded, but one who accidentally found
himself in tho room requested to retire After tho
adjournment all the members OF the committee
who were refused " divugc the names OF the
invited guests IL is understood that tho entertain
ment will include ten kegs Of lager beer.
Year: 1876

A PETRIFIED MARINE MONSTER
Sonoma county abOunds in vegetable,
animal, and geological wonders. The
latest notable development is the dis
covery of the partly petrified remains of
a monster of the deep on hillside on
Watson's ranch, on the line of the Ma
rim Narrow Gauge Railroad, between
Valley Forge and Freestone. While at
work, three days ago, in a cut, gang
of men, at depth of fourteen feet, came
upon a peculiar formation, which pre-
sents almost certain indications that it
was once the body of a whale. 1t lies
lengthwise of the cut, and is about fifty
feet in length. Alexander Vandernoot
brought to town specimens of the bony
part of the creature. They are soft and
porous, and there can be little doubt
that they are parts of the body of a
member of the finny tribe. At the
same place were found petrified shells of
different kinds, and a substance two
inches long and about one inch in di-
ameter at the base, which had evidently
been the tooth of some animal. A bone,
four feet long and about eight inches in
diameter, sharp at both ends, was also
found. Bowlders nearly round, and
weighing from 100 to 900 pounds, are
numerous in the cut.-PetdLunlG Argus.
Year: 1876

The following reference to Abigail
Adams we find in a recent eastern ex-
change, and respectfully refer women
who shave all the rights they want"
and sit in supine Indifference regarding
the condition of those less fortunately
situated, with unconcern as selfish as
degrading, to read, ponder, and do like
wise:


Again, Abigail Adams was happily
married, but she had the courage to
speak for other women less favored.
She could look out from her secure shell
ter by her husbands side and see how
other mothers suffered at the hands of
the law. So long as the law, now as
then, gives to the father absolute au-
thority over his child, the power to send
it whithersoever he will, away from its
mother, standing faithfully at his side,
the power to will it with his dying
breath to other care and guidance than
hers, no wonder that this far-sighted
woman of the Revolution told the men
of the day that they were ungenerous
and cruel. The women of this '76 pom
der these things in their hearts. They
rejoice with unfailing gratitude in the
victories won, the difficulties conquered
and the power and freedom the old cen.
tury has brought, with its declaration
of rights to all men; they look wistfully
into the new, requiring that it shall
give unto them also some surer GROUND
to stand upon than the shifting sands o.
fortune and the caprice or indulgence o.
the law-making sex.