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Year: 1872

RATHER CLOSE QUARTERS A Missouri set
tier on the Union Pacific Railroad strayed
few steps in the woods, recently, in quest Of
squirrels, provided with only single barreled
gun. The first game he saw was a bear OF
mOnstrous proportions and unmistakabe can
nbal notions. He let fly at bruin as the ami
able creature advanced but missed him.
There Was a race-literally for limb or life
and the hunter succeeded, just as the cavern
Gus jaws Of the beast touched his skirts, in
swinging upward on a hospitable limb, where
he thought he was secure-for time at least
The BEAR batiled in his onset adopted a Fab
ian pollcy-grlmly waited, sitting on his haun.
ches, in vicious contemplation of the moment
when his victim should descend. Bears, like
mortals, lose patience and, when the hunter
was attemting to climb higher, the brute was
enabled to seize one leg, and tore the foot
almost completely off. The wretched man,
rendered frantic with pain, thrust one foot in
hollow place in the tree, and, seizing his
knife, made a strike at the bear S head The
bear, with one vigorous sweep of his paw
struck the weapon from the mans hand. For
a moment the poor wretch gave himself up as
lost; but suddenly he remembered that his
pocket was filled with salt. which he had in
tended for sheep. At once salt was his safety.
AS the beast thrust bis head up, handful of
salt was dropped square into his wicked eyes,
and with hOwls of pain he fell scraping and
clawing to the ground. Dealing this out on
the homeopathic system at each onset of the
bear the hunter passed the day and night ;
until, finally-long after noon of the next day
the people, alarmed by his long absence,
searched the woods, and rescued him from his
perilous position.
Year: 1872

How TO CHOOSE A HUsBAND-Neverm mar
ry man until you have seen him eat. Let
the candidate for your hand, ladies, pass
through the ordeal of eating soft. boiled eggs.
If he can do it, and leave the tablecloth, the
napkin, and his shirt unspotted-take him.
Try him next with a spare rib. If he accom-
plishes this feat without putting out one Of his
own eyes, or pitching the bones into your lap,
name the wedding day at once-he will do to
tie to.
Year: 1872

A LrLLIpUr1AN Out in Illinois there is a
child, now three months old, weighing but two
pounds. Its length is only seven inches, and
its face about the size of watch crystal. Its
tiny arms are so slender that small fnger-ring
can be slipped on either of them to the should
er. This little creature is already making quite
a noise in its part of the world, and hundreds
have called to see it. Its parents are of stand
ard size.
Year: 1872

FREE LOVE Here is the free love mar.
riage vow, as finally adopted:


''We promise to love each other, and live in
the same brown stone front till we are tired of
each other, and see some one we like better"
Year: 1872

An eccelent old deacon who, having won a
fine turkey at a charity rattle, didn't like to
tell his severe orthodox wife how he came by
it, quietly remarked as he handed her the fowl
that the Shakers gave it to him.
Year: 1872

daughters, grown and married, living in
his house. BE always breakfasted alone,
unless he invited his eldest son to eat
with him. BE arose somewhat later than
the family, who had breakfasted before
him-the men, mean; for the women
and children are apart, and had very
merry time over their meals. When he
had breakfasted, he went out into his cor
ridor or piazza. There stood his sons
and his major domo and his vacqueros
hat in hand Then the horses, which
had been saddled since daylight, were
brought The oldest son held his faith
er's stirrup while he mounted, and when
he was seated in the saddle the rest fol-
lowed Then he gave to each his Or
ders for the day-to Martin the tannery,
to Antonio the horses, to Thomas
cheese, or the calves; and when at last
all this was received, always in silence,
he gave the word, and out into the plain
they rode as though shot from bolt.
The old man rode at the head; and as he
galloped he called in that low, soft
voice which they almost all have, "Pe-
dro, and Pedro drew up alongside; II
do not want that manda of horse ON the
hill yonder." Isl, Senior" says Pedro,
and gallops off. Antonio, these calves
should not be here; they must be nearer
the river" and so on, always in a gal
lop, seeing everything with his practiced
eye, and issuing his commands as he
rode. About four he returned to his
dinner, which his sons ate with him.
After dinner he sat in his corridor, made
and smoked paper cigars, and contem-
plated himself.


On Sundays and fast days, said my
friend, the family rode to church, all on
horseback graceful cavalcade, for the
women rode finely, and the horses, which
we Americans ignorantly despise, are
yet the best saddle horses in the world.
In this, by the way, every man who has
ridden them will agree. Then came the
gold discovery, and the American, and
the sudden and great wealth which
spoiled all this simple life. Then they
became too proud and too careless to
milk, and so now you find no milk on
the ranches. They could buy clothing
and all kinds of supplies, and so their
useful and ingenious industries perished.
They came to the towns, dressed in alb
surd gold and silver lace, and with gold
Gtirrups and gold-mounted saddles, and
wasted their money in gambling houses;
and so their business was neglected.
Finally they thought it genteel to ride
in carriages, and so they gave up the
most graceful and healthful exercise
which man OF woman can have. / still
remember my old friend Don Thomas
standing here, looking with silent dis
gust at his family climbing into cum
brous coach, and then turning to me
with the words, They are young and
may risk it, but for my part | am deter
mined never to hazard my life in one Of
those things while / have strength to sit
on horse back" | do not doubt it
was happy life they led-these old Cal
ifornians. But it did not belong to the
nineteenth century, and the railroad will,
in year or two, leave no vestige Of it
this side of the Mexican border.
Year: 1872

Lady Davies Recolloctions of Society,"


Ny grandmother and my aunt, Lady
Emilia Drummond, were one day In at
tendance upon Marie Antoiuette, being,
like the rest of the more demure mem
hers of the court, in open carriages.
But the queen was riding on donkey
as indeed we're various of her younger
favorites. Suddenly, however, the whole
cavalcade was stopped, for Marie Al
toinette's donkey, having felt a sudden
inclination to roll on the green turf, had
thrown its royal rider, and she. being
quite unhurt, remained seated on the
ground, laughing immoderately. q.


As soon, however, as she could COM
mand her countenance, she assumed a
mock gravity, and, without attempting
10 rise from her lowly position, COM
manded that the grand mistress OF the
ceremonies should at once be brought to
her side. Nobody could imagine what
her Majesty was about either to say or
do; but when the lady thus suddenly
summoned TO her presence stood, IN no
good temper and with dignihed aspect
before her, she looked mp and said
" Madame, have sent for you that you
may inform me as to the etiquette to be
observed when a Queen Of France and
her donkey have both fallen-which OF
them is to get up first
Year: 1872

It is gratifying to learn that Secretary Bout
well is in no haste to add q pail Of wafer to the
barrel of sugar which constitutes tho currency
Of the United States. We are assured that he
will not do this until it becomes necessary. The
tenor of the Washington dispatches rendered
into good English is something like this: 1.-THE
Government will not deprecate tho currency
till it ought to be deprecated. 1t has NO prop
erty to throw into the gap made by the Boston
fire, but it has some Of the finest soap bubbles
in tho world. II there should be scramble tor
the property not destroyed by the Boston fire, it
will set some Of these bubbles going; and, prob
ably in choosing them, the public will forget the
fire and recover their sonses." 1t is to be re-
marked that the public and especially the Bos-
ton public, have shown an uncommon degree Of
sclt-posscsson in the presence of this calamity.
They have not lost their senses, and are in no
danger Of losing them.
Year: 1872

The Erening Journal sayH that '' Chief Justice
Lawrence has shown himself to be an audacious,
arbitrary, and infamous tyrant, and man whose
ideas are totally at variance with the spirit Of
our free institutions, and person in no wise fit
to be intrusted with the power of IN official Of
his present high position" We rather like
pluck in newspaper, and We arc more gratided
at its exhibition in this instance, as it is the first
time in several years that the Journal has
shown any. But we think that the epithcts
which it applies to Judge Lawrence are calculat-
ed to neutralize rather than to awaken sympa-
thy for itself. Instead of railing at the Court,
the Journal should urge the State Legislature
to amend the law Of contempts, and bring it into
conformity with the law OF the United States in
that behalf
Year: 1872

The st. Louis Globe, in summing up the ef-
fects of the Boston fire, says: The Interrupt
ton to business in Chicago will be more serious
than year ago; the failures will be more nu-
merous. The whole country will suffer Chicago
will be ruined" This is comprehensive state
ment Of the case, which does vastly more credit
Of the Globe than toits
discernment or Judgment. We have no doubt
that these sad words are written in gorrow, and
therefore hasten to assure the Globe and its
editors, who evidently need the informa-
tion more than its readers, that Chi
cago will not be ruined On account Of the Bos-
ton fire. a city which could subscribe so large q
sum the morning after the reception Of tho news
OF the Boston fire does not stand in imminent
danger Of financial annihilation. St. Louis
would rejoice at this for with the destruction Of
Chicago, which the Globe thus confidently pre-
diets, the stable topic OF St. Louis newspaper
comment would be withdrawn; and the incon-
tive to enterprise which st. Louis merchants
have found in Chicago's SUCCESS would be taken
away, and might materially damage the prospects
Of q city that are otherwise good.
Year: 1872

The prevalence Of the horse disease caused
two of our city Cur companies to substitute
steam dummies for horses, with results that,


if not completely satisfactory at present, yet
promise an important revolution in city locomo-
attached four or five heanly-1aden cars to d
"dummy," and made the trips between Ran
dolph street and Twenty~second street in about
half an hour, as often US the two ss dummies " at
their disposal could make them. The rate Of
motion is considerably faster than that made by
horses but subject to somo drawback owing to
the frequency with which the '' dummy" gets of
the track. The North Side Company, we
believe. made its trips from Grace1and
Year: 1872

The horse disease, which is happily disap-
pearing among us under the genial influence
of our Incompatible weather, vas responsible
for considerable proportion Of the losses sus-
tanned in the Boston fire. To begin with, its
prevalence there had rendered it impossible to
move the goods which had been sold. In a sin
gle instance, 100000 Of goods were burned
which had already been sold, and which would
have been sent away had not the horses been
disabled. When the fire came, the lack Of
horses formed serious obstacle in the way Of
the Fire Department, and it was also impossible
to move of valuable stocks Of goods that
seldom come singly.
Year: 1872

The same reasons which prompted the Mayor
to recommend to the Common Counci1 new and
Increased protection against the outbreak of
fires, should influence all housekeepers and
house-oWners to take greater Individual precau-
hon than they are in the habit Of exercising.


As in the time OF prevailing burglaries men are
in this era of prevailing fires every one should
epioin more than ordinary care upon all who
Year: 1872

While the Chicago subscription Of S150,000
was prompt and appropriate expression OF the
sympathy and gratitude which Chicago enter
tains for Boston, it should bo remembered that
the Boston fire has furnished no parallel to that
Of Chicago in the suffering Of tho poor and
homeless. It would be high estimate to say
that 10000 had been thrown out Of en-
ploynent by the Boston fire. Thcse
must bo cared for; but there arc not
$4,000 or 75, 5,000 people thrown out of employ
ment and shelter ut tho same timo as among us.
For tho large class Of Chicago people who have
been unable to recover aud who arc still needy,
relief will be- as necessary this second winter,
and oven during the third winter, as it was i'm
mcdiatcly after the fire. It was for this reason,
We presume, that the Chicago Kelicf and Aid
Society limited their donation to $1UU,0G0
Year: 1872

rev persons can witness these trains OF passen-
gers gliding smoothly and rather rapidly through
our Streets at an evident great saving Of cost to
life, without feeling that, sooner or later, this
temporary mode of 1ocomotion will be made uni
7ersally preferable, and will be permanent. We
concede that there are mechanical and equine
glnes now in use have not weight enough to hold
the track as firmly as they need to, and the track
is not well adapted to their wheels. Moreover,
the horses who havo become educated to the
locomotive, with it's noise, and smoke,
and putting, apparently see sufficient
resemblance in the rallway-engiue to them
selves to understand it. But they do not yet
comprehend the dummy. The very effort which
has been made to conceal the source Of motion
and to consume the steam and smoke render
The invention all the more mysterious to its
equine brother, whom it superscdes. Whether
horses would not become accustomed to the
dummy in time, if they should see it as often as
the locomotive, may be doubted by some, but
the weight of veterinarian counsels is against it.


All those difficulties, however, are those of de-
tail. They can be overcome it it is once estab-
lshed that passenger cars can bo drawn through
cities moro economically, safely, swiftly,
cheaply, and conveniently by steam than by
horsepower. OF the economy Of the use Of
steam there can be no doubt. The dummy re-
quires no ca1ding down it feeds itself while on
its journey ; it involves no expense when not at
work +; 1t almost never wears out; when broken it
can bo mended; il is never sick and it can be fed
on coal, which is infinitely cheaper than hay,
outs, bran-mash, and condition powders. The
dummy takes its five or ak cars at time, ac-
cording to tie demand, and, getting them
quickly out of the way, relieves the streets,
where the drawing OF an equal num-
ber of cars by horses would
block them up. It WAS objected to the street
cars. on thei, introduction, that they would
result proved that, by conveying more passen-
gers in less space, they relieved them. So it is
now objected to the dummy system that it OBJ
structs the streets; but, in fact, whatever sys-
TEN Of transit conveys the greatest number OF
passengers most rapidly and at least expense,
affords greatest relief to all our thoroughfares.
As to constructing dummy that will hold the
track, or track that will hold the dummy, We
cannot think Of these details as very difficult
amons people who daily ride behind 1ocomo-
tives at the rate of mile in minute and half
without thought of getting off the track.


The only serious objection is the tendency
Of the dummy to scare the horses, and this, re
doubt not, will be found to disappear as the
horses get over their scare. With proper tracks
and dummies, We believe rate Of motion two
or three times as great as our present horso-
car rate would be feasible, thousands OF horses
would be saved to other and humaner uses, and
the cost Of fares would in time be diminished
one-half, first to the companies, but ultimately
to the public.
Year: 1872

Our streets yesterday we're lively again with
traffic and travel The Chicago City Railway
Company and ell the stage lines are in
operation. So long as fair weather lasts, there
is no danger, Sanitary Superintendent Rauch
thinks, in the careful use of horses.
Year: 1872

No appropriah on can be lawfully made. in the
opinion Of their legal adviser, ty the County
have surmounted this difficulty by request to
the Relief and Aid Society to send Boston
$4,000 in behalf Of Cook County. In retrsn,
they promise to extend assistance to that amount
ir{ar
Year: 1872

The forthcoming report Of the Internal Rev
enue Bureau will chow an increase in the taxes
collected this year on spirits, tobacco, and malt
liquors over the receipts last year. The income
tax Yields nearly four millions less than in
Year: 1872

which the hotel is built the fire might have be-
come unmanageable before the engines arrived.
The sufiocation OF the servant girls must have
been almost instantaneous. They could easily
have escaped on the roof had they been awake
and aware Of their danger"


What Lord Caithness, a Boarder, Says.


'sweli SIR" said Lord Caithness In his pleasant,
goodhumored way. 'this fire was serious thing
q very serious thing The loss OF lives was 80
frightfull did some pretty hard work, and my
butler did some good work, too. was playing the
hose from the time the fire was discovered until IL
was subdued. l was quite surprised to see every
body 80 quiet. must say you Americans take
things very coolly-much cooler than we do
over the wafer. All l can say is that If
the fire had the
no hope for the hotel; the fire would have spread
over all parts of the house. was just about to re-
and Immediately assisted In playing the hose:
Once went out to see the engines, and when
let me in. told him this was not the first time I
had been playing the hose at nre, and that was
Lord Caithness. and he finally let me in 1idn think
the way things were conducted. The firemen GER
f1ny haye equs1y Been az in have had
considerable experience in playing the hose.


What Ellen Keefe, One OF the Servant


Girls, Says.


Ellen Keefe, servant girl who leapt from one
roof to the other and is now confined to her room,
said:-I was In room 514. l was just about
smothering when rushed out OF my room. was
blinded by the smoke and rushed back. l broke
open the window, jumped through the glass and
went out on the roof. did not feel safe there
and Jumped on the lower roof which is ten feet
below the other. did not have a stitch
Of clothing on was just going to bed and
pulling the bedclOtheS over me, when heard one
OF the girls cry, "Fire" was swallowing gas; I
know It was no SMOKE but gas, that was inhai.
ing. l was black as coal this morning. nave
lost everything had and have been two years in
the came room. 1t seems to me that Jumped way
down to the sidewalk, for remember that police
Year: 1872

OpinhOnS OI Generol Sn0AeT anu Cn1ef


Engineer Pcrley.


Among the Official gentlemen earliest at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, after the dre had broken out and
the alarm had been given, were Commissioners
Blair and Galway and the Chief Engineer (Perley)
OF the Department. General Shaler yesterday
morning made thorough inspection OF the
scene OF death and destruction. He was found
In the afternoon by representative Of the HERALD
at the headquarters OF the department in Mercer
street, and had formed somewhat OF an opinion OF
the management OF the fire and OF the pitiable
deaths OF the unfortunate sewing women in the
top story.


s'From all that you could gather and perceive
with your own eyes what do you think, General,
was the origin OF the nrem


or most likely II started, as was stated In the
HERALD this morning, from a portion OF the
stairway becoming ignited by the excessive
heat from the hot-air pipes that were In
almost immediate contact with the wood
Indeed, most OF the facts which have gained and
which have verified by my own observation
since | read them, l 1rst learned from the
liarties about fires which break out In i'm
mense buildings like this hotel that are
not always taken into consideration. have
known cases where the flames would start at the
very loot OF the shafs up which was stretched the
winding stairway and leap almost to the roof i'm
Year: 1872

which the hotel is built the fire might have be-
come unmanageable before the engines arrived.
The suff0cati0n Of the servant girls must have
been almost instantaneous. They could easily
have escaped on the roof had they been awake
and aware OF their danger"
Year: 1872

MANY ladies express great dislike
for the dolly Warden" costumes,
and confidently assert that they will
never be seen wearing them. II the
fashion lasts any length Of time, how
ever, we would not be too sure that
they would not change their minds.
Year: 1872

Miss Martineau truly observes
that of all happy households that IS
the happiest whore falsehocd Is
never thought of. AL peace IS
broken up when once it appears
there is a liar in the house. Al
comfort is gone when suspicion hae
once entered when there must be
reserve In talk and reservation ~
belief. Anxious parents, who ar
aware of the pains of suspicion, vii


place general confidence IN then
children, and receive what they Say
freely, unless there is q strong reason
to distrust The truth of any one.


such an occasion should uRhappIly
arise, they must keep the suspicion


from spreading as long as possible.
and avoid dIsgracinG their poor
child, while there is any chance o


his cure by their confidential assis-
tance. lie should have their pity
and ass.duous help, as il he were
suffering from some disgusting
bodily disorder. II he can be cured,
/ q Will become duly grateful for the
s AlEttliAAEA4 l. II NA4C OAAAA|NN ~ Atlt4
means must, Of course, be taken to
prevent his example doing harm.
We fear, that from some cause or
other, there are but few large fami-
lies where every membcy is alto
geiher trathfuI. Some, who are not
morally guilty, are intellectually ~
capable of accuracy but where ali
are SO organized and so trained as
TO be wholly reliable in act and
word, they are a light to all eyes
aud JOY TO ali hearts. They are g
pubic benefit, for they are point OF
general reliance; and they are
privately blessed within ana with
out Without, their life is made
easy by universal trust and within
then home and their hesr rts they
have the security OF rectitude ald
the gladness Of innocence. II we
invoke Wisdom, the will come, and
multiply such homes iii our land.
Year: 1872

Although friction matches are as
common as nails, very small pro-
portion of those who use them un-
derstand the principle on which they
operate. It Is, in fact, very sim pie
affair. The tip of the match is a
combination of sulphur and phos-
phorus. Tue phosphorus ignites at
the heat of one hundred and twenty
degrees, which a sight friction will
produce, and this IN turn ignites the
sulphur, which requires four hundred
and fifty or five hundred degrees.
The flame of the sulphur sets fire to
the pine wood, of which the match
is composed, and which ignites at
about six hundred degrees. The
combination is necessary, because
the phosphorus alone would not kin
die the match, while the sulphur
alone would not ignite with the ordi-
nary fric ion.