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Year: 1875

If anything could intensity our re-
gret at the untimely loss of Mr.. Gree
ley, it would be the consideration that
he did not live to witness celebration
in Boston of the battle of Bunker Hill,
with the soldiers of the Confcderacy
and the soldiers of the Union partici-
pating in the festivities. Now we can
understand how clear, how just and
true and philosophical, how perfectly
statesmanlike were his opinions and
his desires. Vain and empty now
seems the babble, as venOmous as it
was noisy, by which that wise man
was assailed. He lived and thought
and planned few years in advance OF
his time, and we have only just now
come up with him.-Nec York Tri-
bune.
Year: 1875

Men and women, and especially
young people, do not know that it
takes years to marry completely
two hearts, even Of the most loving
and well-sorted. But nature allows
no sudden change. We slope very
gradually from the cradle to the sum-
NIT Of life. Marriage is gradual, a
fraction of us at a time. A happy
wedding is long falling in love. I
know young persons think love only
belongs to brown hair, and plump,
round crimson cheeks. So it does for
its beginning, just as Mount Wash
ington begins at Boston Bay. But
the golden marriage is a part of love
which the bridal day knows nothing
of. Youth is the tassel and silken
flower of life; age i, the full corn,
ripe and solid in the ear. Beautiful is
the morning Of love with its pathetic
crimson, violet, purple and gold, with
It's hopes of days that are to come.
Beautiful also is the evening of love,
with its glad remembrances. and its
rainbow side turned toward heaven as
we'll as earth. Young people marry
their opposites in temper and general
character, and such a marriage is COM
monty good match.


They do it instinctively. The
young man does not say: "My black
eyes require to be wed with blue, and
my over-vehemence requires to be
little modified with somewhat of
dullness and reserve" When these
opportunities come together to be wed
they do not know it, but each thinks
the other just like himself.


Old people never marry opposites
they marry their similars and from a
calculation. Each of these two ar
rangements is very proper. In their
long journey these young opposites
will fall out, by the way,a great many
times and both get away from the
road; but each will charm the other
back again, and by-and-by they will
be agreed as to the place they will 60
to and the road they will 60 by, and
become reconciled. The man will be
nobler and larger for being associa-
ted with SO much humanity unlike
himself and she will be nobler wo-
man for having manhood beside her
that seeks to correct her Deficiencies
and supply her with what she lacks
if the diversity be not too great, and
there be real piety and love in their
hearts to begin with. The old BRIDE
groom, having a much shorter jour-
ney to make, must associate himself
with one like himself.


A perfect and complete marriage is,
perhaps, as rare as perfect personal
beauty. Men and women are mar
ried fractionally now a small fract-
ion then a large fraction. Very few
are married totally, and they only, I
think, after some forty or fifty years
Of gradual approach and experiment.
Such large and sweet fruit is COM
plete marriage" and needs a very
long summer to ripen in, and then a
long winter to mellow and season in.
But real happy marriage Of love
and judgment, between a noble man
and woman, is one of the things so
very handsome, and if the sun we're
as the Greek poets fabled, a god, he
might stop the world in order to feast
his eyes with such spectacle.-The-
odore Parker.
Year: 1875

The mule is becoming popular,
Of late; and with good reason, for it
costs less to breed and raise mule
colt to a suitable size for sale than a
horse less time is required to pre-
pare them for market, and the young
mule may be sold at any time more
readily at better paying prices; less
liable to accidents, and more money
can be made out of them, and yet
mankind are reluctant to engage in
their breeding.
Year: 1875

you will kill 1t as deal as YOU ever
saw a field of grain killed by getting
ripe.


That it lives so much longer than
any other red clover, is proved by the
fact that one field has been growing
seed for the last five wears in Niagara
county, New York, and shows no
signs of failing yet, and saving seed
on clover fields is the fastest way to
kill it, except not cutting it at all, or
pasturing it off very late in the sea-
son, and thus depriving it Of winter
protection.


That it Is the cheapest, is shown by
the fact that the seed is SO much
smaller than the medium, and the
price seldom increases enough to cor
respond with the difference. There
are in a bushel Of the large kind 2l,-
llS,OS0 seeds, ahd in bushel Of the
medium kind 1928, 200 sc, ds,
making a difference of 1924, $50 seeds,
and when put into dollars and cents
brings the medium seed just as dear
at 81 90 as the large kind is at S5.05 !;
or put the medium at S6 and the large
kind at S15S, or the medium at 50
brings the large at SlO.l0 showing
more differer ce in price than has
generally been made.


That in lis nature it branches more
than any other kind is shown by the
fact that the other kinds do not live
and keep green through the season
as the large kind does. When the
cattle bite off the medium kind, it I'M
mediately dies down to the root, and
starts from the root anew, and after
it blossoms it soon begins to dry next
to the head, and soon dries TO the
ground whether it is cut or not, and
the next crop starts whether the first
is cut or not if the season is favora-
BILE. Not so Of the large kind, for that
when properly fed remains green the
whole season, without starting new
from the roots till very late.


\ great variety Of rules prevail in
sowing the seed of clover. Some
farmers think three quarts sufficient
: for an acre, while Others use ten
quarts. From such a great variety
of rules it must be evident TO all that
some of them are ,ntirely out of the
way, either wasting seed or losing the
use of their land by not putting on
seed enough for full crop. | recon-
mend four quarts to the acre of the
large kind of clover, which even y
sown puts sixty-seven aeeds on every
square foot. That must make it
thick enough if it is taken care of,
Year: 1875

An atrocious tragedy was commit
ted in ToQnerville, Utah, last Thurs
day, whia for some unacccuntable


reason, was not reported by telegraph.


Richard Fryer, who has lately labor d
under the hallucination that be was a
second Jesus Christ, entered his house
in the evening and found Thomas
Batty, friend Of the family, lighting
d fire in the CRATE. Believing that Batty
was an emmissary of the devil who
was trying to burn his premises, the
lunatic rushed for q pistol and shot


him through the bead Mrs. Fryer,
paralyzed with fear, crouched in Il
corner, and was shot through the
heart by the demoniac husband. The
next thing he did was to go to a
cradle, where his infant child was
lying asleep, and deliberately blow
its brains out. This was the crown
ing act of the almost unparalleled
tragedy. Fryer then sailed forth
into the village, armed with revolver
and a gun, proclaiming himself the
Lord, and saving that be had slain
the devil and several of his imps
The sheriff, being unable to arrest


FRYER, and fearing that still othel
! lives might be sacrificed, killed hin


with shot from navy revolver


Ba,tv, Ms. Fryer, the babe aud th'
Year: 1875

The old Barnaclc family won a
reputation III the good old days by
inventing the way not to do it. but
it was left to prominent United
States official here to evolve out Of
his inner consciousness the way just
how to do it. In the first Of April,
1873, it is said, the handsome official
employed about his Office tinc-!ook-
ing colored boy, named Pierce, as
messenger for the government, at
some fifty dollars per month.


TIE boy did his work well and was
regarded a. valuable adjunct to the
office, so much 50 he was put upon
the paw rolls in 1874 as laborcr, and
received SIj per month. At this
time. this official, disliking to see 80
much native vitality 90 to waste, had
the boy to take up his abode with
him in the Fourth District. 50 that at
the residence of this distinguished
gent be might have scope Cor afer-
noon exercise in the exhilarating
sports of watering the streets, sweep
ing the walks, and other little amusc-
ments tcndiugs to stimulate the mus
cles.


lie was only charged $40 per month
for this enjoyment in cash. He would
draw his pay Of seventy-fve dollars
in the Custom-H House, and that night,
like a good little boy, would 20 to his
quiet home with the man Of the Gus
tom-House, paydown his forty dollars
board money, and then attend to his
evt ming gymnastics.


I 1t is evident, from all this, that
this official had a very thrifty mind.
The government paid his servant
Seventv-ive dollars-he took out $40
for board-and The boys services at
/ the table aad about the house came
in gratis.


During a late thunder storm 4
bright idea struck the colOred boy
and it was, that be was emerging at
the end of every month at the small
end of a very small horn, and he ac-
. cordngly expostula,ed. His protest
against the labor imposed upon him
was received not exactly with that
favor be expected as boarder in the
house of high government official,
and he was respectfully requested to
leave both the palatial residence and
his place in the Custom-iIouse. He
is now added TO the long list O. ar
dent admirers of the facetiouS, portly
gent who does not live far from Fe-
licity street.-N. o, bulletin.
Year: 1875

corn and put it on 20 boil in water
sufficient 10 cover it, aud as the corn
swells. more water must be added, 50
As to keep it covered all the time it Is
cooking. After boiling four hoarS,
add the cans and pork, which being
done, the hominy may be sent to
table. ShonId the pork not make it
sufficiently salt more may he added.
This is very nice warmed over the
next dav.
Year: 1875

CREAM CANDY-MoLAssEs CANDY.


To every pound Of sugar add one
teaspoonful of cream tartar; put in
one-balf fteacup Of water and set over
slow fire. Occasionally drop some
in cold water; when it hardens it is
done enough; pour on some fiat
surface. Put 10 a few drops of flavor
ing if you like and let it stand a few
minutes then you pull until it is
white and make into sticks. You can
exercise your own ingenuity about
their shape. The children pronounce
| it Just splendid! Molasses candy is
made in the same way, using molas.
ses instead of sugar and emitting the
iay yoring and cream tartar. | think
this candy is improved by stirring in
nuts of any variety which may bt
convenient Country Gentleman.


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Year: 1875

Money, IN political economy, Is
word in continual use all over the
world wherever commercial inter-
changes exist, ,and perhaps there is none
the meaning of which in connection
with the business they have in hand
is more distinctly understood by those
who use it; and yet on the other hand
there is none of which it is more diff
cult to give comprehensive account
or strict definition. Money is often
spoken of loosely as the same thing
with capital, but they are different.
Before anything is money it must be
such that you can go into the market
and Immediately use it in purchasing
commodities or paying debts. The
plan: of railway and the machinery
of mill, so long as they are in full use,
are capital, and are capital which prob
ably has once been money; but they
are money no longer, because you can.
not use them in making payments,
though they have perhaps become more
valuable than ever they were.


The confusion of capital with money
was the mistake made in issuing the
French assigpats on the security of the
forfeited landed estates. Each assig-
nat was a promise to pay, but when
payment was demanded it coald not be
made, because land was not medium
for making il. 1t is of the. essence OF
money, then, that it Is capable of ma
king immediate payment either TO sat
isfy a seller or creditor. What we
are familiar with as the most approved
form of money, as the thing that will
be most certainly received in payment
over the civilized world, is coin of the
precious metals. The reason why the
claim of these is so universally accept
ed is that they do not merely represent
value as we shall find other kinds Of
money do, but they really are value or
or nearly so.


If the dealer sells coat for gold ca
ole. he knows that the eagle does not
DEPEND, like a ten-dollar bank note, on
the solvency of the issuer, but that it
has value put into it by costing about
as much labor and skill in bringing IL
into existence as the coat he gives
for it.


Money Transactions are distinguished
from barter, in which one commodity
is exchanged for another, as where the
shepherd in primitive times gave the
agriculturist sheep for a measure OF
corn. This distinction is extremely
useful, since the invention of eircula-
ting medium which supersedes the mar
row, cumbrous position of barter, by
facilitating transactions of every vsri.
ETY. OF importance among all sorts Oh
people, is grand advancement in civ
iliZation.
Year: 1875

SrLKISs had the moral hariihooa 70 20
home the other evening without fulfilling
his wife 5 orders to bring her home the latest
fashion paper. The sentence Is that he be
condemned to take down the hall stove, and
stow away the pipes in the garTe' without as
sists.ce. He talks Of a suit fUr damages
Year: 1875

The Portland (Me.) Press tells the
story of ayoung lady of that city who
became acquainted with a Boston
drummer on the cars, allowed him
to visit her, and finally consented to
be his wife. She afterward repented
of her hasty promise and wrote him to
release her, but he wouldn't. She
received letter from Boston law
yer, Tuesday, stating that her waste
be husband had retained him as coun-
sci, and that unless the marriage took
place at the time set a suit would be
commenced against her for breach Of
promise. AS the young lady is worth
handsome property the result is
anxiously looked for,
Year: 1875

dinary manner, without having re-
course to "r," which I always sup
posed had something to do with beer.
I thought I had better tell him every
thing at once, SO I went to his study
as soon as luncheon was over.


"What is it, my little girl?" he in
quired. I rarely enter his special
fortress, so he knew that l had some
thing to say.


Il want to be married, please,
Uncle Edward" I answered, looking
down very modestly, but still glanc-
ing at his face. 1t went very grave.


"Have you heard from Lord Chat
teris ?" he asked.


mo, Uncle Edward, it is not he.
It's Guy-Guy Wrey!' and then l
told him all about it quite from the
beginning.


l am sure l am not in the habit of
crying, but had commenced during
the morning with Guy in the picture
gallery, and finished up now on Un-
Gle Edwards shoulder. He took it
beautifully, and said lot of kind
things about not standing in the way
Of my happiness if I was quite sure
about being fond of Guy; and it
seemed that be had been an old friend
of Guys father, which impressed him
favorably about the son. So I left
the study as happy as it was possible
to be.


1t is all settled now, and in very
short space of time Kate Hethering-
ton will no longer exist. Guy is very
jubilant just at present, for a picture
of has been a very great success, and
he has sold it for six hundred pounds,
and is busy calculating how much he
can make year by an impossible
amount Of industry, which certainly
shall not allow him to undergo. My
prospect Of happiness is very bright
though it is certainly most deplorable
and unfortunate that it should have
been brought about by conduct which
of course all right-minded people can
only term $50 Unladylike!
Year: 1875

So DEAR to heaven is sanity chastity,
That when soul is found sincerely 20,
A thousand nveried angels lackey her,
Driving far of each thing Of sin and guilt,
And In clear dream and solemn vision
Tell her Of things that no gross ear can hea.
TIL Oft converse with heavenly habitants
Begins TO cast = beam on the outward shape,
The unponuted temple of the mind,
And turns it BY degrees to the souls essence.
Till all be made immortal.
Year: 1875

AFRICAN KINGS CURE FOR TooTHACHE. -
A correspondent at Cape Coast Castle, writing
on the 18th December, says:


king Bley still holds his position within his
stockade. but is rather short of provisions His
majesty has most valuable acquisition 10 the
shape Of secretary who can actually read and
write. The letters of this official to the differ
eut commanding officers Of the British men-o Of
war are worthy of study. attach specimen
or two: Dear and honorable Commander =
Your shell 60 to good point tomorrow 4. e.,
yesterday, and kill much enemy. l send you
6 fowl for officer to eat. and hope your helth
good god bless your majesty, my dear and un-
BILE commander your servant King Bley. Please
send me piece pork aod bottle Of rum Dear
Commander-I hope your helth good. My spy
tell me enemy still in bush. have bad tooth
ache, so please send me piece Of pork and bot
tie of run, particular rum, as my toothache
very bad. Your umble servant King Bley.
Upon receiving the rum alone his majesty
writes: Dear aud umbIe Commander your
Majcsty-I am sorry you no. send me the pork
as my toothache much worse this day. You
think pork bad for toothache, p ease send me
more bottle rum. Your servant King Bley.
Year: 1875

The condition of our navy at this time Is subject of satisfaction. It does not contain. it is true, any of the powerful cruising iron clads which make so much of the maritime strength of other nations,

 but neither our continental situation nor our foreign policy requires Shat we should have large number of ships of this char acter, while the situation and the nature of our ports combine to make those of other nations little dangerous to us under any circumstances. Our navy does con- tain, however, . considerable number of iron-clads of the monitor class. which. though not properly cruisers, are power ful and effective for harbor defense, and for operations near our own ports. Of these all the single turreted ones, fifteen in numbers have been substantially re- built, their rotten wooden beans replaced

 with iron, their hulls strengthened, and

 thelr engines and machinery thoroughly repaired so they are now in most efficient condition, and will be ready for sea as soon as they can be manned. The five double turTeted iron cIads of our navy. by far the most powerful of our ships for fighting purposes, are also undergoing rs.
Year: 1875

Coon REASONS. Ben Wade de-
clincs to be the Republican candidate
for Governor Of Ohio for two good rea-
sons One is that he has not voice
enough TO out-drown tho roar of tho
lion Of the Ohio Democracy, tho 9th
or Is that the Office must seek the man
and he seems TO think tho Office Is not
seeking him this year. The reasons
are satisfactory.
Year: 1875

A Boston artist, who exccls as an
animal painter saw as he was passing
through one OF the rural towns OF
Massachusetts, q very animated look.
ing bull Thinking he would like to
take him on canvas he got permission
of the owner, an honest old farmer, and
in due time produced an excellent like
ness OF the ull,which hc sold for 5000
On seeing the farmer soon after, he
told him he bad sold the picture of bis
bull for 5000. aGood gracious r. said
the old man "why, would have spld
the hull for lose than that !"
Year: 1875

and the peerless Queen OF the Concert-Room fafter
the most glorious success ever achieved by any
singer In America since the advent Of Jenny Lind]
Will appear for the first time here in fsr .sEg.Ia
Year: 1875

1t is related that an Indian once found
young lion, and as he seemed weak and


harmless, never attempted to control him.


But every day the lion gained in strength,
and became more difficult to manage


At last, when excited by rage, he fell
upon the Indian and tore him to pieces


1t is thus with evil habits and bad pas
sions. Have you an ungovernable tenn
per? Do you get SO angry that you can
not, or think you cannot contain" your
self2 If so, you have an untamed lion


Is your appetite for stimulant or narcot-
les so overpowering that you become al
most delirious without them2 The lion
has already got the mastery, and will
bring you down unless you cast him off
Look into our jails, prisons, and poor
houses, and see the miserable victims
there with mouths full of filthy stuff, and
their bodies reeking with the stencil of
whisky or tobacco, and you. will see how
much more there is of the animal than
of the god-like human in such. perverted
and fallen creaturesl The lion has them
by the throat, and will not let CO. He
has crushed them to earth, and they lie
in the agony of faithless and helpless de-
spair. Reader, do you rather admire the
like to see the lads indulging in the weed
And is the sparkling wine so delicious
and exhflarating2 Look out The lion
grows upon that which feeds it; and
though you are master to-day, you may
be slave tomorrow. What are your habits?
Look out l-PhrenologicaL Journal
Year: 1875

l. Never try to skate in two directions
at once. 1t always ends in sorrow.


2. Eat few apples for refreshment' S
sake while skating, and be sure to throw
the cores on the ice.


3. Sit down occasionally, no matter
where. There is no law to prevent a new
beginner from sitting down whenever he
has an inclination to do so


A. When you meet particularly hand
some lady, try to skate on both sides of
her at once. This is very pretty, and
sure to create a sensation.


s. Skate over all the small boys at
once.


6. If you skate into hole in the ice,
take it coolly. Think how you would
feel if the water was boiling hot


I. If your skates are too slippery, buy
new pair. Keep buying new pairs till
you find a pair that are not slippery.


8. In sitting down, do it gradually
Don t be too sudden; you might break
the ice


9. When you fall headlong, examine
the straps of your skates very carefully
before you get up.


10. Wear heavy overcoat or cloak till
you get thoroughly warmed up, and then
throw it off and let the wind cool you.


II. After you get so that you can skate
tolerably well, skate three or four hours
skate frantically-skate till you can't
stand up
Year: 1875

What an amount of discomft wet boots
entail, and how well we all recall the
painful efforts we have now and then
made to draw on pair of hard-baked
ones which were put by the fire overnight
to dry Once on, they are sort of
modern stocks, Obstructive of all comfort,
and entirely demoralizing to the temper.
The following plan, it is said will do
away with this discomfit;


when the the boots are taken off, fill
them quite full with dry oats, This grain
has great fondness for damp,
and will rapidly. absorb the least yestige
of it from the wet leather. Asit quickly
and completely takes up the moisture, it
swells aud fills the boot with tightly
fitting last, keeping its form good, and
drying the leather without hardening it.
In the morning shake out the oats and
hang them in bag near the fire to dry,
ready for the next wet night; draw on
the boots, and go happily and comforta
bly, about the days work"