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Year: 1875

ua, tse largest circulation of any paper Tn the state, outside of Little Rock, and Is not surpassed by any other paper Tn the South west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people.
Year: 1875

novel play of Hamlet" The com pany consisted of three boys and a hostler, and Mr. Gurley's hired girl was to be the Ghost if the troupe could guarantee her fifty cents per night. Young Gurley suddenly bloom ed out as a professional, and when his mother asked him to bring in some wood, he replied:

 "Though 1 am penniless thou canst not degrade mer'

 s'You trot out after that wood or I'll have your father to trounce your' she exclaimed.

 ''The tyrant who lays his hand upon me shall dier' exclaimed the boy but he got the wood.

 He was out on the step when a man came along and asked where Lafayette street was.

 "Doomed for certain time to roam the earth." replied Gurley in hoarse voice, holding his right arm out straight.

 II say-you. where is Lafayette street~ called the man.

 "Ah. Could the dead but speak -ahv' continued Gurley.

 The man drove him into the house and his mother sent him to the grocery after potatoes.

 q go, most noble duchess" he said as he took up the basket, ''but my good sword shall some day avenge these insults3'

 He knew that the grocer favor ed theatricals, and when he got there he said:

 ''Art thou provided with store of that vegetable known as the 'tater, most excellent duke"

 "What in thunder do you want?" growled the grocer, as he cleaned the cheese knife on a piece of paper.

 sThy plebeian mind is dull of comprehension answered Cur ley.

 Don't try to get off any of your nonsense on me, or I'll crack your empty pate in q minute" roared the grocer, and ''Hamlet' had to come down from his high horse and ask for peck of potatoes.

 "What made you stay so long" asked his mother as he returned.

 "Thy grave shall be dug in the cypress glade" he haughtily an swered.

 When his father came home at noon Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed the boy was going crazy and related what had occur red.

 "I see what ails him." unused the father; "this explains why he hangs around Johnson's barn so much"

 At the dinner table young Cur ley spoke of his father as the ''il- lustrious count" and when his mother asked him if he would have some butter gravy he an swered:

 "The appetite of n warrior can not be satisfied with such non sense.''~

 When the meal was over the father went out to his favorite shed tree, cut a sprout, and the boy was asked to step out into the woodshed and see if the penstock was frozen up. He found the old man there and he said;

 "Why most noble lord, l had supposed thee far away"

 "I'm not so far away but what I'm going to make you skip"' growled the father. I'll teach you to fool around with ten cent tragedies! Come up here."

 For about ten minutes the wood shed was full of dancing feet, fly. ing arms and moving bodies, and then the old man took a rest and inquired:

 "There, your highness, dost want any moreY' r "Oh!no, dad-not darned bitr' walled the young manager" and while the father started for down town he went in and sorrowfully informed the hired girl that he must cancel her engagement until the fall season. Detroit Free Press,
Year: 1875

WEST EATON, N. T., April 10.


What is the cause of the winds changing
from one point Of the compass to another ?


A. T.


The motions of our atmosphere are in a
great degree obedient to the same laws
that govern the denser fluids. If we re-
move quantity of water from pail, we
notice the surrounding water rushes in to
take it's place and restore its equilibrium.
So, if a portion of the water is rarified by
heat, it rises, colder water rushes in to fill
its place, and thus current is produced.
Similar effects are found to follow similar
causes in the atmospheric fluid. The im-
mediate effect of solar radiation by which
heat is communicated to any portion Of the
earth's surface, is to generate an upward
movement in the atmosphere, cold air flows
in to take it's place, and thus currents of
air are produced. The course of these cur
rents change frequently, from the fact that
the originally warm currents will meet an
other above much colder, become cooled,
and settle to the earth again, where, until
it becomes once more rariied, it takes an
upward course. So current of air may,
in it's circuit, change its position several
times from an upper to lower stream.
Year: 1875

Home is home be it ever so homely.
Hope is good breakfast, but a bad sup.
per.


Have your cloak made before it begins
to rain.
Idle folks have the least leisure.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.


Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Liars are not to be believed when they
tell the truth.


Make hay while the sun shines.


Never split wood against the grain.
Never light your candle at both ends.
Never make a mountain out of mole
hill.
None are SO deaf as those who will not
hear.


One is not so soon healed as hurt.


One eyewitness is better than ten hear
say.


One bad example spoils many good pre-
cepts.


One hours sleep before midnight is
worth two after.


Praise fair day at night.


Patience and time run Through the longest
day.


Quick at meat, quick at work.


Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Strike while the iron is hot.


Short reckonings make long friends.
Temperance is the best physic.
'TiS the second blow that makes tha frav
The best physicians are DR.. Diet, DR..
Quiet, and DR.. Merryman.


Welcome is the best cheer.


Where there is will there is way.
When the will is ready the foot is light.
What may be done at any time is never
done.
Year: 1875

THE CONQUEST OF DEATH.
Death and a lady rode in the wind


In starry midnight pale,
Death on bony horse behind,


With no football upon the gale.
The lady sat wild-eyed steed,


Eastward he tore to the morn;
But ever the sense of a noiseless speed,
And the sound of the reaping coin!
All night through the headong race
Sped they to the morning gray,
The dewdrops lay on her cold white face
From death or the morning, say?
Her steed's wide knees began to shake,
AS he flung the road behind;
The lady sat still but her heart did quake,
And cold breath came down the wind.
When. 10! a fleet bay horse beside,
With silver name and tail
knight bareheaded the horse did ride,
With never coat of mail.
He never lifted his han | to death,
And he never couched a spear;
But the lady felt another breath,
And voice was in her ear.
He looked her weary eyes through and through
With his eyes so strong in FAITH;
Her bride hand the lady drew


And she turned and laughed at Death.
And away through the mist Of the morning gra,
The specter and horse grew wide;
The dawn came up the bright old way.
And the lady never died.
Year: 1875

WoMAN's GENIUs.--A drayman lately
unloaded barrel of flour ON the front step
of a house on Grand River avenue, and the
woman of the house went out to roll it in.
The barrel was about an inch longer than
the width Of the doorway, and the woman
found this out after awhile. Then how to
get that barrel in she did not know. Two
neighbor women came over, and the
woman's daughter came out, and it was
finally decided that the barrel would have
to be unheaded on the steps and the flour
taken out. Tt was very serious affair
with them until youth of twelve years
came along and took In the situation.
They told him that the barrel was too long,
and when he whirled Il around and stood
it ON one end and bounced it into the hall,
the four women held mp their hands and
murmured: ]" Lal now. u--Desross Free
Press.
Year: 1875

The Danbury man wrote from Europe
pathetically: tYou have seen the picture
of shepherds with the proverbial crook in
their hands. / didn't think that party
could be shepherd without this crook.
was glad the first man l saw carried one of
these crooks. didn't know what crook
was for, but always believed it was badge
of the occupation, whose origin could not
fathom, handed down from centuries, since
the time sheep were invented. Imagine
my genuine disgust when saw this shep-
herd use his sacred crook to capture the
straying animals by catching hold of their
hind legs and tripping them up. The
awful truth came upon me like flash, and
sat down a broken-hearted man. I had
thought it beautiful emblem, and it proves
to be hind-leg sDatcher. Thus floated
the wind from another sweet vision of my
youth. must have more salary, or will
sink into an earlier grave, fear.''
Year: 1875

think you, in answer to subscriber
last winter, said Treasury notes, called
greenbacks, were not subject to taxation.
I think you cited law of Congress to that
effect. A paint brush that oil and lead
have dried in it, is there any way to restore,
and how?


Ans.-1 We cited no law, but it is a
fact that Treasury notes are not liable to
taxation. 2 Soak it in benzine or naphths,
and it will become soft.
Year: 1875

/ When and how did Mohammed form
his first church and at what place?


J. s.
Ans.-Mohammed was born in Mecca in
May, 571. In his fortieth year he assumed
the prophetic office and displayed his views
and principles to his domestic circle. His
first convert was his wife. The progress of
the new sect was at first very slow, and
three years were employed by him in
tho conversion of fourteen proselytes. 1t
was at this time that his first church may
be said to have been established at Mecca.
Year: 1875

After the storm, calm;


After the bruise, a balm;
For the i'll brings good in the Lords own time,
And the sigh becomes the psalm.
After the drought the dew;


After the cloud, the blue;
For the the sky will smile in the snn's good time,
And the earth grow glad and new
Bloom is the heir of blight,


Dawn is the child of night,
And the rolling change of the busy world
Bids the wrong yield back the right.
Under the fount of i'll


Many a cup doth fill,
And the patient lip, though it drinketh Oft
Finds only the bitter still.


Truth seems oft to sleep,
Blessings slow to reap,
Till the hours of waiting are weary to bear
And the courage lie hard to keep!
Nevertheless, / know,
Out of the dark must grow
Sooner or later, whatever is fair,
Since the heavens have willed it go.
Year: 1875

WASHING COTTON GooDs.-W ashing cot
ton goods without injuring the colors is
done by placing the goods in bucket of
rain water SO hot that the hand cannot be
held in it, and added to this as much bran
asthe fabric would weigh. Stir it lightly
with stick and let it come to boil. Let
it cool until the goods can be washed out as
usual, then rinse and dry, and you will find
the clothes pure and clean, and the colors
bright as ever.
Year: 1875

HAND Dressing. preserve the
smoothness and softness of the hands, keep
a small bottle of glycerine near the place
where you habitually wash them, and when
ever you have finished washing, and before
you wipe them, put one or two drops of
glycerine on the wet palm and rub the
hands thoroughly with it as if were soap !;
hen dry lightly with the towel. Household
work and bad weather will not prevent your
skin from being smooth and soft, if this
plan Of using glycerine is followed.
Year: 1875

About three months ago. IN the edge


Russell county, Kentucky, child was born
into family in which other children had
previously made their appearance from time
to time, all Except the last) being well
formed and healthy This is an unusual
product Of nature. The body, from the
head down to aboct the hips, is in form
and color, with few exceptions, very much
like other white children around the hips
it is perfectly black, it's legs being like
those of an ordinary child. The head also
is spotted, and the hair upon il is as stiff as
the bristles Of hog. The sex of the child
cannot as yet be determined. The mother
gives the following explanation of the freak.
short time before the birth of the child
vicious wild hog broke out of his pen,


which was near the house, and with de-
vouring intent Immediately made at the
child that was playing in the yard. The
mother witnessed the scene, and so irni


nent was the danger that she was greatly
terrified She sprang to the little ones
assistance just in time to save it from the
furious animal. The hog was of that kind
known among farmers as "listen,' that is,


having a stripe across its shoulders the
remainder Of his body was spotted, The
marks on the child correspond to those
color marks on the hog. The hair ON the
child's head is simply number OF stiff
bristles projecting ent from the skin Up
to this time it has been healthy and bids
fair to grow up to youthhoOd
Year: 1875

To TAKE OUT BRUISES IN FURNITURE
Wet the place well with warm water, then
take some brown paper five or six times
doubled and well soaked in water, lay it on
the place, apply on that hot flatiron till
the moisture is evaporated, and if the bruise
is not gone repeat the process. You will
find after two OF three applications that the
dent or bruise is raised level with the sur
face. If the bruise is small, soak it well
with warm water, and hold a red-hot poker
very near the surface, which is to be kept
continually wetted, and you will soon find the
indentation vanished.
Year: 1875

A Pittsburg man has invented machine
for making maple trees leave out in March.
He bores an anger hole into the trunk near
the ground. A hydraulic force pump of
immense power is applied to the hole and
warm sap forced into the pores of the wood.
Luxuriant foliage was produced on tree
two feet in diameter, within six hours
The success of the experiment is creating
much excitement among the farmers and
grangers.
Year: 1875

VVANTED-YOUNG MEN TO LEARN TELEGRAPH
w operating; permanent employment and good salary
qualified Call o address TELEGRAPH IN
SrRUCT1ON COMPANY, corner 9Th ST. and Broadway
Ana ninrs
Year: 1875

We are in receipt of the annual re- port of Gen. A. V. Kautz. commandipg the military department of Arizona

 It came to hand too late for publica. ton today, but next week all of ii

 save a few merely formal paragraphs. will appear. It bears date August 31. and therein may be the explanation why certain expressions are used by the General. In a department like this where very short period of tune works considerable change in i'm portant particulars, what may appear proper and even necessary to say now might not six months hence: therefore we shall give the Generals report without criticism, believing that if it were to be written today, some of its expressions would be omitted or modi. hed- We are firmly impressed with the belief that Gen. Kautz desires to exercise only legitimate military power
Year: 1875

A TASTEFUL and truthful philosopher says
that competition is the demon that riots on
the woes of mankind. 1t surely builds
side by side the palace and hovel, clothing
in purple and fine linen the more fortunate
or unscrupulous, while the unsuccessful or
incompetent shiver in rags or, disheartened


and degraded, rot in idleness and dissipa-
ton. 1t nourishes envy and hate and re-
venge with the less fortunate, and pride


and hardness of heart with the successful,


and in all classes it develops q spirit Of
grinding exaction, Of cruel, heartless ex-
tortion and unscrupulOus injustice, fraud
and robbery. il murders commercial honor
and strangles faith and mutual confidence
among men. Il knows no law but self-in-
terest, and acknowledges no master but
policy. Its end is success by any and all
available means, and it scruples not to
trample on every human interest, every sa-
cred right, every holy principle that cannot
be bribed or eoerced into its service. Com
petition had its birth in the inverted self
hood Of man It repudiates the Father
hood Of God and the brotherhood Of man.
Il is practical piracy and essential atheism.
And Jet Il Is the one great lesson taught n
from earliest infancy, and reiterated and
enforced at every step Of our progress
through life. L Is made the mainspring Of
every action, the Inspiration Of every effort.
Year: 1875

All the good things which we ever come
to be or do, as men and women, seem to be
the fruitage of our childhood. As children
we had this or that taste, affection, ambi-
ton cultivated, or at least born in US, and
now 1t has grown stronger, and colors the
soul. The passions and evil dispositions,
too, that trouble us now are. the nettles
whose sprouting roots we remember to
have seen in childhood. We succeed, spir-
itually, best in the course IN which we
started. We maintain that truth with most
strength and fervor which we saw then.
We practice that virtue, and we desire it
most in others, which in childhood seemed
to US the most beautiful. Our affections
turn the way they began to curve originally,
and now encircle the realities whose ap-
pearances then delighted US. Our sensitive
ness to what Is divine presents the same, if
harder surface, to the impressions which
come from heaven. We do little more
than carry out our childish wishes; and
where, as children, We did not have
WASACo AOA I'O SASoO ohO SOOO, We 0O AOb
have them now. All our vantage ground
was given to us then; all our harvest was


7.-1t.-.---.,l ;s ,r,e of con,-
motion and tragedy. There IS seldom IN
it simplicity enough to introduce a new
affection There is seldom unemployed
strength enough to espouse the cause of a
new truth and fight its battles. In moral
struggles we barely maintain our own.
Nearly all we can do is to protect the affec-
tions and faith of our childhood. Conver-
sion is only the reawakening of childhood.
We arc exhausted repulsing spiritual foes
who are never quite conquered. If then
more had been in childhood, if more good
affections, more conscience, more moral
hope, more faith in God and heaven, more
high impulse had been impaired to US then
from this deeper soil would have sprung a
richer growth, on this broader base would
be built a nobler manhood. Before the
child knows there is law, he should learn
there is love. Lead instead of drive, in the
pursuit of the beautiful and good. Only
parents can do this work, and they should
do it remembering their work not only af-
fects good citizenship, but eternity.
Year: 1875

The Burnet Bulletia is an eminently pious
organ of the unterrifed Democracy, and
most sensible withal when showing the alb
surdity of the horrible patchwork pro-
posed to be applied to the present oongeries
Of absurdities constituting the organic law
of the State. In reprobahon of the pur-
pose to amend the existing Constitution,
that higher law" the apothegms Of our
Savior themselves may be quoted, We
must not put new wine into old bottles, or
patch an old garment with new cloth.
People should not forget, therefore, that
divine and secular wisdom alike condemn
the proposed amendments and the Constr
tuition proposed to be amended.
Year: 1875

If any citizen of Mississippi fail, for thirty
days, to pay his privilege tax he can collect
no debt due himself Ames signed the
bill. 1t was right and wise enough for a
negro Legislature to pass it but that white
man should have signed it amazes man
kind. In negro lawgiver's eyes the first
duty of man is to pay taxes for the simple
reason that the negro pays none and ham
dies and pockets deal of it. So in Texas
of towns governed by non-taxpayers. We
note the follies and crimes Of the rabble
when masters in other States, that we may
provide against their injection into Texan
legislation.
Year: 1875

DISPATCHES to the Neios from New York
are such as are termed glittering generali-
ties. The NeSos' New York special, when
he don't know anything, can talk more like
a man that knew = sight and didn't care
just then to tell it, than any witness in the
Beecher case. There is a quarter of a col
umn from this reporter about the doings
and purposes of the international Railroad
people, and aside from little vigorous
puffery, by which Moody and Galveston
are struck with the lightning Of splendid
illumination and soft solder, there is abso-
lutely nothing in it.
Year: 1875

MEN must look to God for strength, but
straightway they must pour out this whole
strength upon the awaiting world. The
clouds must draw their treasure from the
sea; but having stored their great white
mists stolen from the ocean, they must at
once march away to thunder over conti-
nents and exhaust their blessings over fields
that reach from the pine to the palm.
Year: 1875

To strive for the mastery among men, to
struggle for pre-eminence and the topmost
height, not of excellence, but of wealth
or position or power, even though we tread
on the neck of every competitor and tram
pie under foot every human affection, this
is the one supreme ambition, the one alien
crossing object of human endeavor.
Year: 1875

between the people and the church against
powers and principalities and thrones and
selfish despotisms. If the Pope lead in
such conflict he may we'll have his abiding
place in republican America.
Year: 1875

tNorval in the Southern Homestead.


Could we not bill two birds with
one stone-raise our own meat and
improve our land, if we were to raise
sheep on our farms more tlan We do?


know that mutton is not a favor>
ito article Of food with our people
but believe that If they would eat
more of it and less of fat bacon, they
would be stronger, healthier, and less
liable to ihfammatory disease.
/ can understand how people liv-
ing in cold climante prefer very fat
meat, because it is necessary to sup,
ply tho carbon to maintain internal
heat. We know that Laplanders
drink train oil, and the Russians will
eat tallow candles with q relish, but
l cannot understand people living in
our warm climate making fat bacon
their principal animal food. Mutton
is the cheapest, most nutritious, and
consequently the most wholesome
food we can eat. l think it is Liobig
who says. in his animal Chemistry"
that the prize fighters in England,
when training for barbarous encount>
ers, use mutton almost exclusively,
never allowing the use Of pork or ba>
con. 1t is not necessary to present
at any length the other consideration,
nomely, the value Of sheep as renova>
tors Of worn lands. That is not de-
MED, l suppose. by any intelligent
farmer.


Taking into account the small cost
Of keeping a sheen, ard the value Of
the wool aud the manure, the meat 10
the cheapest animal food We can
raise.


We cannst expect to see mutton
introduced at once as substitute Tor
pork, but we may hope to see it used
instead of portion OF the pork which
we eat. What | want is to mix nut
ton with hog and hominy-to find a
fine, fai. JUICY leg OF Southdown or
Cotswold mutton on farmers table
now and then instead Of the inevit~
able fat bacon swiming in ils own
grease. Then, the econony being
conceded, the sanitary advantage
comes in. II we we're to eat more
mutton aud less pork, we should Do
less liable TO ishamustory diseases
and less liablssto dyspepsis.
Year: 1875

Or. William A. Hammond last night read before th1
New York Neurological Society paper on the cause Of
vice President Wilson'S death About loo members
were present. and listened the paper with the most
profound attention. The subject was treated from
purely medical standpoint and the substance Of the
entire matter that the speaker believed that the
physicians who attended Mr. Wilson were mistaken IN
thinking that death caused by apoplexy Dr.
Hammond considered that the real cause OF death was
the plugging up OF the blood vessels at the upper part
OF the spinal cord.
Year: 1875

Several important votes were taken in the
Legislature, yesterday. The Wilmington y
Western bridge bill passed the Senate finally,
and the House roconsidered and pasaed the State
Work House act. The general incorporation
act passed the Senate, and goes to the House.
Year: 1875

THE GRANT COUNTY HERALD has an editor of the right stamp, else we are much at fault in judgment, His book review in last weeks paper, was quite good, and the general tone of all other matter shows well.
Year: 1875

A PRIVATE FAMILY WILL LET A SITTING ROOM
n and Bedroom, neatly furnished without board also
Bedrooms fre gas and bath references exchanged
~ University place, near Fourteenth street