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Year: 1876

The need of more extradition treaties is rem
dered apparent by the, impunity which the
foreer Winslow enjoys IN Holland. It's stated
that any valuabes that may be found with
him are to be handed over to the American
Consul, but it is doubtful whether an order to
that effect can be legally enforced.
Year: 1876

The witnesses in the lottery suit are generally
rcticent. The main facts as to the business
should not, however, be difficult to verify.
We present TO our readers this morning COM
plete sketch of the lottery business carried on
IN this city for several years past; and the
swindling methods through which large for
tunes were made by the operators are also in
dcated. There are many names widely known
among New Workers in the list of those who
have shared in CIis nefarious pursuit.
Year: 1876

A portion of the defense in the BabcOcb suit
is indicated by the discovery of another Bah
cock, who was unquestionably leagued with
the whisky thieves. 1t seems doubtful, how
ever, whether large part of the load can be
strapped on the back of the new-found scape-
goat the prosecution appear as confident oi
success as at any time during the trial.
Year: 1876

Already il is apparent that there ia wide
difference of opinion among property owners
along the designated routes for rapid transit
railroad. Perhaps greater number would fa-
yor. or at all events cease to oppose the project


if the details of construction and appearance
were more fully made known. 1t is great
point gained that the railroad is TO be in the
middle of the street instead of over the side
walk but residents along the route are almost
equally anxious about some of the other fea-
lures of the structure, such "a whether it will
Year: 1876

The following anecdote about Sub
Lieutenant de MacMahon, son OF the
president of the republic, was lately re-
lated by one OF his comrades He was
passing through Versailles, proud OF his
officers uniform, of which, however, a
false collar of not very regimental ap-
pearance diminished the severity. The
young officer passed q colonel who,
after having returned the salute. stopped
and reprimanded him for his unmilitary
appearance, and asked his name. But
scarcely had he glanced at the card pre-
sented by the young man to n he e1-
pressed his surprise at not having recog'
nized the son of the marshal, and was
profuse in his politeness. every well,
colonel, card for card" said the young
man. "I must ask for yours because L
have not the honor of knowing your
name" The colonel at once handed his
card. and the other at once went to the
EIysee to make complaint to his faith
ar. An hour after the colonel and sub
lieutenant were both ordered to contine
themselves to barracks for four days
one for his non ,regimental costume, and
the other for not having punished the
offanse
Year: 1876

This is all is it much, 10y darling? You must


follow your p&tb i'll life,
Have head for it's complex windings, hand


for its sudden strife.
The sun will shine, the flowers will bloom !;


though my course mid thu all is DER,
would not that those dear living eyes should


light in their joy no more;
Only jast for the sake of the happy pas and


the golden days that have been,
By the love we have loved and the hopes We


have hoped, will you have my grave kept


green?


Just moment in the morning, in the esger


fush Of the day,
To pluck some creeping weed, perchapce, or


train the white rose spray;
Just moment to shade my v.olets from the


glare Of the noontide heat,
Just tear and prayer in the cleaning, ere


you leave mo with lingering feet.
All it is weak and foolish, but think that


in Gods serene
shall know, aud love to know, mine own,


thst yoo keep my grave SO green.
would fain, when the drops are FLASHING
against your window pane,
That you shoul1 bsjthinkiug wistfully Of my


grasses out in the rain i;
That when tie winter veil is spread DER the


fair white world below,
Your tender hands twire the holly wreaths


that mark my rest in the snow.
My clasp on life and hte's rich gifts grows


faint and cold, ween,
Yet, oh would hold it to the last-tLe trust


of my grave kept gieen.
Because it is by such little signs the heart and


its faith are read;
Because the natural mau must shrink ere he


'ins the forgotten dead.
The heavenly hope is bright and lure, and


calm is the heavenly rest,
Yet the human love clings yearningly to all it
has priced the best.
We have been so happ?, darling, and the part
.- ing psng is keen:
All soothe it by this last VOW to me-you will


watch tbs5 my grave keeps green?
Year: 1876

John Hamilton, the man who made three desperate
attempts to commit suicide by jumping into the Morris
Canal at Jersey City, aud rescued each time and
finally lodged First precinct station was brought
before Justice Reese yesterday and sent to the County
JAN tor thirty days
Year: 1876

The closing of the New York hotel
has been made the text of a number of
articles in the press of that city, which
hotel proprieters and managers would
do well to study. In the first place,
the rents of these establishments are
so enormous that the scale OF charges
which they are compelled to make are
utterly inconsistent with the pockets
of the period" For instance, at one
of the leading establishments OF this
character twenty cents are charged for
an egg, when dozen of them can be
bought in the market for twenty-five;
Two potatoes, neither new nor Bermu-
das, cost fifteen cents, and Delmonico
will not serve a cup of coffee for less
than forty cents. The moral of these
extravagant prices is that there are
not five customers at the bars during
a couple of hours in the evening, and
the dining room of one high priced es-
tablishment is almost deserted" Hotel
charges are now practically as high as
they were when gold was ITO, Lotwith-
standing the great reduction in all the
necessaries of life. When hotel men
learn to accommodate their prices to
the times we shall have fewer COM
plants about the lack of business, and
fewer suspensions and fail Tres in that
line.-Balt, Sun.
Year: 1876

Senator Jones of Nevada, has made
his elaborately prepared speech in the
U. s. Senate, speaking two days, in
favor of coming silver dollars and in
creasing their legal tender value, max
ing it correspondent with that of the
gold coins The movement is looked
upon with much distrust by bankers
and others, most experienced in finan-
cial matters, who fear it may prove an
entering wedge to double standard. "a
thing almost impossible to maintain.
While silver is a commodity over al
most all Europe it cannot be held of
prescribed value here, and it would
certainly be unjust to issue money as
specie that does not represent the full
value of the gold dollar. The silver
dollar will bring its worth, no more;
and if, when discredited, it should be
forced on public creditors at a price
greater than its real value, it would
smack of reputation. The hardship
of the thing is shown in the fact that
silver is now much cheaper than gold.
Year: 1876

Burlington Hapkeye: A Garden
Grove man recently caught rat in
his kitchen that had valuable gold
ring around his neck. The rat had
evidently slipped its head into the
ring in its younger days, for the neck
had grown up all about its 1eweiry,
which was far too small to come on
the same way it was put on. And
everybody in Garden Grove has ne
elected business and gone to rat hunt
ing, In the hope of finding an old,
notify, respectable looking rat with a
two hundred and fifty dollar gold
watch in its vest pocket,
Year: 1876

gally. Especially was she annoyed be-
cause it was found to be contrary to
statute for husband to deed real prop
erty directly to his wife; and the farce
which everybody understands, but
which the law to this day render neces-
sary, that some individual, not wife,
(for that fact would invalidate her indi-
viduality) must actas go-between if any
man resolves to rise superior to common
law, and thereby deal justly by the
woman who is simply servant with
out wages, had to be enacted, thus cost
ing Madge several extra dollars of her
hard-earned money that were badly
needed for another and anticipated pur-
pose, and well-nigh eXhausting her al
ready outraged patience by the lack of
common sense with which legal statutes
are encumbered.


But the ordeal was at lastrever,
and the twain proceeded homeward,
passing, in their journey, the little log
Jail where Morris Morrison was gazing
hopelessly through an iron grating out
upon the misty atmosphere, and long
ing with impatient eagerness for the
next session of the Circuit Court.


RIO ba continued
Year: 1876

Charles Thompson write to the Scien-
ifc american that he has not seen a
bed-bug or flea in his house for many
years, and adds: If an army of them
were to be brought in, mercury would
speedily eXterIninate them; but [ think
cleanliness the best, and perhaps the
only preventative. The common house,
fly do not molest, believing it more
than cOmpensates for its trouble by
clearing the atmosphere of effluvia, and
the animalcules which always arise
from the putrefaction of decaying sub
stances during the warm weather. So,
also, with the birds, which are quite
numerous here, during the summer.
Instead of shooting them, or setting up
scare-crows to frighten them away, [
throw out every possible inducement
for them to build their nests in my
fruit trees The birds capture a large
share of the insects in the 'larval state,
and thus the millers are prevented from
deposting eggs for a future crop Of
worms. AS to the loss of fruit by the
birds, the latter are always sure to be
found on hand in force in the season of
ripe fruit, whether they come early
enough to take the worms or not. For
the residue of insects which lnfest my
vegetable garden, | find that the labo-
ratOry of the chemist furnishes ma
terials fatal to them all, among which
the white heIlebore and cayenne pepper
are of the most utility.


The bug or worm which cannot find
vegetation unflavOred with these art
icles will seek it's breakfast elsewhere,
and leave my garden unmOlested. A
few drops of carbOic acid in a pint of
water will clean house plants of lice in
a very short time. If mosquitoes, or
other bloOd-suckers infest our sleeping
rooms at night, we uncork bottle of
oil of penny-royal, and these insects
leave in great haste, nor will they re-
turn so long as the air the room is
loaded with the fumes of that aromatic
herb. If rats enter the cellar, a little
powdered potash thrown into their
holes, or mixed with meal and scat
tered in their run-ways, never fails to
drive them away. Cayenne pepper
will keep the buttery and store-rOom
| free from ants and cockroaches. If q
mouse makes an entrance to any part
of your dwellings, saturate rag with
cayenne in solution, and stuff it into a
hole which cannot be repaired with
either wood or mortar. No rat or
mouse will eat that rag for the purpose
of opening communication with de-
pot of supplies.
Year: 1876

ASTOR'S CHILDREN.-Wm Wm. i. AstOr
had a superior wife, and she strove to do
good among the poor; but there were
difficulties in the way, as the public
generally understood. They have two
daughters, married to men of characte er,
their names being Cary and Delano,
and they live up town in handsome
style. There are three sons-Henry, a
weak-minded man who has been kept
carefully out of the public gaze, William
and John Jacob The latter is a portly
man of large build and has passed his
fOrtieth year. He is heir apparent to
the largest part of the estate, it being
the intention of the old man to keep it
unbroken as long as possible. OF Will
liam, the second ssh, so little has been
beard, that were it not for his expected
wealth, he would be merely one out of
our million of Inhabitants. Henry was
kept for many years at the farm in
HarrytOwn between New York city and
Albany, and as he is mentally deficient,
it was intended to make that an asylum
for him. He defeated these plans, how
ever, by making match with coun-
try girl, who had no objections to hitch
on to an opulent family, and the latter
was taken bysurprise at an event which
Shows how love laughs at capitalists.
John Jacob married about twenty-five
years ago, and the oldest son has just
graduated at the law school. The Oh
ject, no doubt, was to give him such an
acquaintance with this profession as
will enable him to manage the vast es-
tate. FAstead of setting up his sign and
waiting for clients, he will find enough
to do in that Office, which contains the
deeds to forty acres of land in the most
important city in America. To go back
to the idea of the Centennial, what a
difference between the young Astor oi
the present day and his ancestor who, a
hundred years ago, was helping his
father draw pork on the banks of the
Rhine
Year: 1876

A FEARFUL WARNING.-A DakOt Nh
man got mad at the editor and stopped
his paper. The next week he sold all his
old corn four cents below the market
price; then his place was sold for taxes
because he didn't know when they were
due; he lost the nomination for super
visor because he only heard of the con-
vention three days after it had ad-
iourned; he lost ten dollars by betting
on Columbia two days after Cornell bad
won both races. Then he paid a big
Irishman with a leg like derrick So to
kick him all the way to the newspaper
office, where he paid four years sub
scription in advance, and made the edi-
tor sign and swear to written agree
ment to knock him down and rob him
if he ever ordered his paper stopped
again.
Year: 1876

The Boston School Board has ap-
pointed a committee to cooperate with
the Principals of the schools, in order to
secure simplicity of dress among the
pupils on the day of their graduation.
This is a practical measure in the inter-
est of dress reform. 1t was done on
motion of Miss May, who beads the
committee, and is another evidence of
the accession of good sense to the coun-
sells of school committees by the election
of women.
Year: 1876

THE Commercial is of opinion, quite natu-
raj, that the Democratic party never re-
formed anything. That may be in applica-
tion to the Republican prrty, because it is
too deeply in corruption to be reformed
But it has been the means of the New York
Conference crying REFORM" having be-
come aware of truths brought out by Demo-
cratic investigation. 1t has shown up one OF
the greatest knaves that ever occupied the
presidential chair, and the most dishonest
office holders that any party ever foisted
upon the people. The Commercial is sore
over its defeat in the recent factional fight,
and should take seat with the soreheads
OF the New York Conference.
Year: 1876

THE New York Police Board has rendered
decision that weiss beer is not intoxica-
ting. This is the same kind of imagina-
ton that makes all men who are fond Of
beer think while under its influence that
they are sober and the rest Of manhood il
bcastlv intoxicated.
Year: 1876

He suggested that uniform hour ought TO be adopted
for holding the Ia all schoolsfom two TO half
past three o'clock T. NJ The true object Of the session
should be the study OF the Scriptures better class
OF teachers should be secured II discipline cannot DO
enforced s better 10 let children play on the street
rather than In the church the Sabbath day Every
thing that does tend TO the purpose OF the
school should be excluded and there should De as
little as possible 10 do with prizes and rewards IL
would be we'll 10 separate the library from tho Sunday
school and to have church library open
on week evening, and the best men and women IN the
church should take an interest in the school AS few
olhceTs possible should be choscn-superintendent
and secretary, he thought would be quite enough All
expenses Tor the school should be provided for as light
and fuel provided praise session Of half hour,
before the morning preaching service, Mr. Terry
thought, would be good thing.


Judge f. |. Fancher read an essay in the afternoon
the law as related 10 religious corporations He
In the eye OF the law In regard to the election OF
trustees church members OF both sexes and members
OF congregations have right 10 vote provided they
contribute TO the current expenses OF the church And
basket collections come within the meaning OF contr
buttons In Brooklyn, however, members OF the
church only may vote. Trustees cannot legally mort
gage church property without the consent OF the
Jory OF the church members, nor can they sell
without the consent of the church and the civil
courts Trustees who refuse statedly to attend the
church meetings hold oice and their places
may be declared vacant But they attend the church
meetings they may absent themselves from the Official
meetings and yet hold olco until fresh election should
give relief The trustees have charge OF the tempo
rates OF church, but they must hold all funds for
the use OF the particular church by which they are
elected They cannot divert 1t TO any other purpose
When they sign bond or mortgage on the church
property they become personally responsible The
proper way to sign such legal documents is by the
porate Of the society, with John Doe President


TRUSTEES MUST BE MEMBERS
OF the church society IN which they hold office and
when they lose their membership for any they
lose their Office ALSO Previous 10 the act OF 1875 a
congregation might change its and denomination
without any regard TO those with whom 1t affiliated
and could take the church property with IT, But this
cannot bo done now without the consent of court
OF equity In this State and Pennsylvania and
some other States Christianity is part OF the common
law, and Is offence against tho law TO profane the
namo Of God or Jesus Christ to speak against the
Holy Scriptures Jurisprudence is held to embrace
things divine we'll rs secular. Judge Fancher
quosted TO furnish copy OF his essay publication and
Drs. Crawford and wheatley were appointed COM
mittee TO publish.
Year: 1876

Parliament at its last session cut
down Queen Victoria's allowance to


So, 270 per day, and now the poor girl
speHds hours sitting with a fashion
magazine in her lap and holding an
old dress in each hand, wondering how
she can contrive to make one now one
out Of the two. Heaven help the poor.
Year: 1876

WHEREAS, A joint resolution of the Sem
ate and House OF Representatives was duly
approved on the 18th day of March last,
which resolution is as follOws


"Be 10 resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives OF tie United States of America,
in Congress assembled, That it be and is
hereby recommended by the Senate and
House Of Representatives to the people of
the several States that they assemble in
their several counties, or towns, in the app
preaching Centennial anniversary of our
National independence, and that they
cause to have delivered on such day an his
torical sketch of said county or town, from
its formation, and that a copy of said sketch
may be filed in print or manuscript in the
Clerks Office of said county, and an
additional copy in print or manuscript be
filed in the office of the Librarian of Con-
gress to the intent that a complete record
may thus be obtained of the progress of our
institutions during the first centennial Of
our existence;" and


WHEREAS, It is deemed proper that
such recommendation be brought to the no.
tice and knowledge of the people of the
United States, now, therefore, /, Ulysses s.
Grant, President of the United States, do
hereby declare and make known the same,
in the hope that the object of such resolu.
ton may meet the approval of the people OF
the United States, and that proper steps
may be taken to carry the same into effect.
Given under my hand, at the City OF
Washington, this 25th day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1876, and of the independ
euce of the United States, the one hun
dredth. By the President,


us. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

Exaggerated notions are current about
harems and harem receptions, notions
born partly of the seclusion of the female
portion of the household in the East.
Of course the majority of harems in
Egypt are simply the apartment of the
one wife and her children. The lady who
enters enc of them pays an ordinary call,
and finds no mystery whatever. Ifthere
is more than one wife, a privileged visitor,
able to converse with the inmates, might
find some skeletons behind the screened
windows. IL is also true that foreign
lady may enter one of the royal harems
and be received with scarcely more cere-
mony than would attend an ordinary
call at home. The receptions at which
there is great display, at which crowds
of beautiful or ugly slaves line the apart
ments, at which there is music and
dancing by almehs, an endless service of
sweets and pipes and coffee, and dozen
changes of dress by the hostess during
the ceremony, are not frequent, are for
some special occasion, the celebration of
a marriage, or the entertainment of a
visitor of high rank. One who expects
upon a royal invitation to the harem to
wander into the populous dovecote of
the Khedive, where languish the beauties
of Asia, the sisters from the Gardens of
Gul, pining for new robe of the mode
from Paris, will be most cruelty disap-
pointed Chas, Dudley Warner in "Nun.
neries and Mostens."
Year: 1876

SCoRcHEs made by overheated Hatirons
can be removed from linen by spreading
over the cloth a paste made of the juice
pressed from two onions, one-half ounce
white soap, two ounces fuller's earth,
and one-half pint vinegar. Mix, boil
well, and cool before using.


In papering walls, be sure to remove
all the old paper and paste, and scrape
them perfectly smooth. Dampen the
old paper with cloths wet in saleratus
water, and it will come off easily; fill up
the cracks with plaster of Paris, and il
there are any traces of bugs, wash the
wall all over with a weak solution OF
carboiic acid and water this will purify
the wall and destroy all mold and YER
min. The best paste is made out of rye
-four, with two ounces of glue addedN to
each quart of paste half an ounce will
make the paste better. People do not
understand how dangerous it is to paste
new paper over old paper and paste.
Many deaths have ensued from this
cause; the air of many sleeping rooms
have been thus poisoned. In some old
houses several layers of paper have
been found upon the walls of rooms and
their inmates have died and none could
tell whence came the disease.
Year: 1876

One more influence, which is of more
importance than most trustees of educa-
tional institutions seem to suppose, in
making the school pleasant place, and
I shall have done for the present. 1t is
to have pleasant schOol-house. Give
the children school house that is habit
able and looks inhabited-a place that
in its order, neatness, comfort and judi
cious OrnamentatiOn may remind them
of home. Set your school building in
some beautiful spot, adorn it with the
appliances of art, and let both art and
nature become with you co-educators of
immortal souls. There is in our lovely
land no lack Of pleasant places in which
we may cast the lines of youthful school
life. There are such places all around
us. Yet it seems at present as much the
creed of the average school committee to
erect their buildings on some barren and
famine-stricken spot which nature had
long left out in the cold" as it is the
orthodox faith of railroad constructors to
place their depots in places where you can
not by any sort of strategic movement
see any portion of the town they are sup
posed to ornament and dignity. Why
they do so is one of the great many
things for which am utterly at loss to
accOunt-unless it is because there are
wise people still extant who believe that
safety consists in not seeing beyond your
nose, and that all duty should be COM
bined with decorous dullness, that TO
be respectable one must be duly dismal.


"For my part say nothing, lest we clash


In our opinions"


and only stop to express the charitable
hope that soon all such old fogies may
be-gathered to their grandmothers.-
Louisville Home and School.