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Year: 1873

The SHAu's VISIT To The QUEEN.
a DAYS rest the Shah went TO Windsor
Castle and called on the Queen. What
that suggests to the readers mind i this
That the Shah took hand satchel and um


brella. called n cab and said he wanted to
20 to PaddingtOn station that when he
arrived there the driver charged him six
pence too much. and he paid it rather than
have trouble that he tried now to buy
ticket. and was answered by ticket seller
as surly as hotel clerk that he was not
selling tickets for that train yet that be
finally got the ticket, and was beguied Of
his satchel, by railway porter at once.
who put it in first class carriage and got
a sixpence. which the company i0rbids him
To receive that presently when the guard
Tor conductor) OF the train came along the
Shah slipped shilling into his hand and
said he wanted to smoke, and straightway
the guard signifed that it was ali right
that when the Shah arrived at Windsor
Castle he rang the bell. and when the girl
came TO the door asked her If the Queen
was at home, and she left him standing in
the hall and went to see that by and by
she returned and said he would please SIT
down in the front room and Mrs. Guelph
would be down directly that he hung his
hat on the hat rack, stood his umbrella in
the corner. entered the front room and sat
down or a hair cloth chair that he waited
and waited and got tired that he got up
and examined the old piano, the dressing
/ Autographs on the walls and the albums OF
! photographs of faded country relatives on
| the centre-table. and was just about to fall
| back on the family Bible when the Queen
entered briskly and begged him 70 sit down
and apOlogized for keeping him waiting,
| but she had just got a new girl and every
/ thing was upside down, and - forth and 30
| on: but how are the family and when
/ did he arrive, and how long should he stay :,
/ and why didn't he bring his wife? knew
/ that that was the picture that would spring


up in the American readers mind when it
was said that the Shah went to visit the
/ Queen, because that was the picture which
/ the announcement suggested to my mind.


But it was far from the facts, very far.
| Nothing could be farther. In truth, these


people made as much of 4 to-do over mere


friendly call as any body else would over a


conhagrati0n. There We're special trains


for the occasion there was a general mus
ter Of princes and dukes to 20 along, each


one occupying room 40 there were regi-


ments of cavalry to clear the way; railway


trains were turned into flower gardens, and
! sheltered with flags anda manner Of gaudy


SplendOr; there were multitudeS 1t people


to look on over the heads of interminable


ranks of policemen standing shoulder to


shoulder and facing front there was bray


ing of music and booming of cannon. All


that fuss, in sober truth. over mere off


hand friendly call. Imagine what it would


have been if he had brought another shirt


and was going TO stay m0nth.-Mdrl


Train.
Year: 1873

Il Mount Washington correspondent o
the Boston Transcript, details the eminently
sensible manner in which two Boston girls
in the passage of a dangerous precipice
saved the life of gentleman of the party
rescuing him from position of certain
death if dependent upon his own exertions
One of the young women, lying fiat upor
the ground, slid out over the bank from
which he had slipped, clinging, meanwhile
to the feet of the second, who, in turn
clung fast to a sharp rock above. The gen
tleman was drawn up slowly and with great
effort, having, with pardonable indelicacy
grasped his preserver about the ankles.
Year: 1873

Lewis Vondell ofMontpelier had his right
arm caught by a wood saw at Braintree
station, badly lacerating the arm, making a
wound some seven inches in length. and
saving the bone of the arm one-third off.
lacerating the muscles and shivering the
bone of his left thumb Hopes are enter
tanned of saving the arm.


A large amount of business was transact
ed says the Montpelier Freeman in Roxburv
during the shower of the 18th. Rabbi
Ditty's barn was struck and DESTROYED. five
tons Of hay being consumed at the sane
time. The house of Mrs. Mary Martelle
was also struck in the same shower. the
lightning passing down the chimney-tak-
ing the top off as it went-d0wn through
the stove pipe into the stove, lifting the
top Of the stove off and turning the stove
square round before it passed out at the
side of tine house.
Year: 1873

A Butler county man has been victi-
mized by accepting, as he supposed, an
agency for patent roofing. He finds
now that the agreement he signed is a
note for $3.50. He spends at least four
dollars advertising that he will not pay
the note. If he had spent two dollars
in paying for the county paper and then
read it, he need not have been victimiz-
ed. Now he will probably have to pay
the note. All kinds of swindlers are
operating through the county, and we
would warn our readers to keep clear
of them. Do not sign your name to
any paper without thoroughly under
standing its contents. If man wants
to sell you, for trifling sum, a receipt
or a patent for making your fortune, or
to sell you goods at less than cost, set
him down for swindler, and kick him
off the premises, if you are able.
Year: 1873

| To-day saw friend who has lived
here many years, and was helped out
of several little difficulties by A, the
former vice-consul. He was very clev-
er, and knew how to manage the Judge
which seems to be the key of the whole
administration of Roman law. My
friend said he had servant whom he
caught stealing, and turned him out oi
the house. The servant brought suit
against the. master for a months
wages. He sent for A, who said he
would see the business settled. He went
to the judge, and made his statement
at the same time presenting his honor
with a five-franc piece SNAKE yourself
easy,". the judge, 81 will attend to
the matter" The complainant was
told to go about his business; and if
he was ever caught trying to cheat
foreigners again, he would be sent to
prison. Now, this was simple and ef-
fective method. A little oil applied to
the wheels of justice, the car moves on,
and your business is done. Nothing
more is required. Unfortunately, my
prejudices are so fixed, that could not
consent to bribe judge or even GRIM
inal; and if that skillful Vice-Consul
A., had not gone to that other world,
where it may be hoped justice is both
swift and accurate, he could not be OF
use to me.


| Jan. ia bitter cold morning is
this in Rome; and it is early work to
be at the judges house at nine O'Clock
but we do it, and, as might be expected,
are kept waiting an hour or more. The
house is very cold with brick floors
and we sit shivering. On the other
side of the room are ranged four or five
witnesses for the other side.


After waiting an hour and half, M.
is called into the other room, where she
finds the judge in his dressing-gown
and slippers, also the two lawyers. l dc
not hear what is going on there, but in
distinct murmurs varied by an OCCASION
al laugh. They keep her about two
hours to tell what she knows of the
agreement. When she comes out she
looks tired but amused. Says after she
had told all she knew, and they had
written it down, they asked her to
swear to it. "Read it over to me first
1 wish to know what L am swearing
to-" Again she made them read it.
that she might be sure. "You are very
CAREFUL" said the judge. 81 wish all
witnesses were as careful to know what
they are swearing to-" YES" said M.
sit is serious thing to swear falsely
and do not wish to be in danger of do
ing it. In my country. a witness who
swears falsely is liable to be sent te
prison for twenty years." What
twenty years, imprisonment for falst
swearing only" The judge was as.
tonished; the lawyers held up theil
hands in amazement at such tyranny
practiced in a free country. Indeed
the judge became more and more agi
tated the more he considered this phe
nomenon, till M.thought he might have
a conculso, which is a common termina
ton of too much excitement among
this sensitive people. But the examin
alton of this witness ended withou
such catastrophe. On the whole, th'
court seemed never to tire of askin:
questions of so intelligent and lively {
witness; and 1 think they prolonge'
her examination unnecessarily. - Ot
and Ne,o.
Year: 1873

1t is rather expensive to tell town
clerk of Massachusetts, young lady is
older than she really is, besides being
peculiarly narrowing to the feelings of
the lady herself. There was young
man who wanted to marry a young miss
of fourteen. He told the clerk she was
sixteen, and for that little act of his
imagination he was fined $500.


A poetic Hibernian explains that love
is commonly spoken of as "name'
because it's a finder sentiment.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, August II, 1873.
In obedience TO a lightning iasn from the
HERALD Office your correspondent sailed into the
broad Nicolson.paved highways Of this grand new
city, and scaled the stairways Of divers and sundry
OF its magnificent buildings to learn what certain
OF its leading men thought OF the possibility Of
third term for Grant, and how they regarded
the HERALD's discussion Of the movement to Sc
cure this unprecedented honor. The result is
given.
Year: 1873

fellowship to God; whose love, draw
ing each to Him, has drawn them al
to eachother. Then, too, the race vii
live in light-they will discover in them
selves such power and wealth, and out
side Of themselves such opportunities,
that they will make the earth a better
paradise than the first. It will be in
accordance with the beauty and health
and gladness Of chat day, also, for God
to make such revelation of his personal
glory, as will Tighten the very earth.
All will see, in that day, l doubt not,
the glory which Moses and Ezekiel and
Saul and John saw. The earth will be
full. But


3rd uhat IS tnuolved IN the hearth
uHerance Of this ~orshipfM pray
err?


Of course any one can repeat it, and
every sensible man will assent to the
sentiment, but the heart uttcrance OF
it means, that you have caught a
glimpse of Gods glory yourself-t that
the glory has shined in your heart,
making darkness flee away that you
are at one with God-that you accept
his will as your own choice - that you
are committed to use what you have
and what you are, as in God 5 kingdom,
that you may establish it, and make it
honorable in the earth-that you count
it all JOY, either to do or suffer, that
you may show the glory of God to
others, and persuade them to come to
Him and open their hearts to receive
His glory that you are in sympathy,
and ready to cooperate with God and
Christ and His church, in every effort
to bring to pass the thing hoped for in
this prayer ; in short, that the prayer
already finds its answer in your expert
ence.


Is this prayer. then, the outgoing
Of your heart to-day, friends? Bless
ed are We who have seen His glory and
whose faces shine by the reflected light
thereof, even the light Of His glorious
truth and love.


If you have not seen it, then, until
you do, my sisters and brothers, cease
not to cry with Moses, 80, Lord,
| beseech thee, show me thy glo-
Year: 1873

You have no power III that which
is past. Life that IS lived stands
ghastly as a Graye-stonc. 1oa cannot
change it particle. You cannot
obliterate fact. You cannot altar
the proportion Of single element
But the future is mutabe. 1t is as
plastic as clay in the hands of the ar
tist. With the future anything can
be done, if you have but the heart to
do it. Then build out of the future
Quarry in its mines. Bring from it
materials for your wants and uses
II. II. Beechcr.
Year: 1873

An old German minister is said to
have prayed 90 Lord when [ try
to do little thing for Thee, and give
up something near to my heart, thou
comest and givest me back thousand
times as much.'
Year: 1873

Did you ever know good man
or pure woman utterly ruined by
outside attacks upon their reputation:
| never did The abuse Of good man
IS commonly the headwind that fans
the fires Of his own furnace and gives
him the greater headway. No true
man was ever pat down and kept down
while he was true to conscience and to
God. When character is destroyed,
it is never murder; it is suicide.--
Cry!er.
Year: 1873

TO resist temptation once IL not a
sufficient proof OF honesty. II a ser
yant, indeed, were to resist tne consin-
ued temptation nf silver lying in a
window, rs some people do. when he
is sure his master does not know how
much there is Of it. he would give a
strong proof Of hoHesty But this is
a proof to which YOU have no right to
put mao. You know, humanity
speaking, there is certain degree Of
temptation which will overcome any
virtue. Now, in SO far as You approach
temptation to man, you do him an
injury, and if he is overcome you share
his guilt.
Year: 1873

If We had keen vision and feeling
Of all ordinary human life, it would be
like hearing the grass grow and the
squirrels heart beat, and we should die
Of that roar which lies on the other
side Of silence. As it is, the quickest
Of Us walk about we'll wadded with
stupidity. George Eliot.
Year: 1873

Men who see into their neighbors
are very apt to be centemptuous but
men who see through them find some
thing lying behind every human soul
which it is not for them to sit in judg
ment on or attempt to sneer out Of the
order of Gods manifold universe.
Holmes.
Year: 1873

Every conversation with company
at your table is an educator of the
family. Hence the intelligence, and
the refinement, and the appropriate be-
havior Of family which is given to
hospitality.
Year: 1873

representative OF the firm A. Gross Co.,
candle manufacturers, SAID they were working
their full force, usual. Trade was very good
indeed; they had not been so busy for twenty
years as they we're now ''Candles,n he said, 'are
not articles OF luxury, but OF necessity. In the
West, where new territories are constantly OPEN
ing, there is demand for candies which Is
continually on the increase. II would be the
height OF cruelty TO discharge our men just
when winter sets In, and we are glad that we
have no occasion TO do sou Collections he added,
were little slow IL was true but there were
always some men in times like these who were
glad to have pretext for not paying their debts,
and some men never paid at all. The panic had
not materially affected the price OF candles. On
September they were twenty cents pound (or-
binary candles), and now they were about nine
teen cents a pound, only one cent cheaper. He
thought there would be no further reduction Of the
price, and that trade was In very healthy condi-
tion.


Another candle manufacturer was called upon.
and he gave also encouraging account OF the
present prospects OF the candle trade. Candles he
said, were now In greater demand In this city than
they had ever been before, and no failures IN this
line need be anticipated
Year: 1873

The starch manufacturers are not much affected
by the stringency in the money market. One OF
the most prominent OF them in Park place said
The starch business was less affected by the mon-
etary crisis than any other branch OF business.
The collections were very good, indeed, particu-
larry when compared with other lines. Starch was
cniehy purchased by class OF customers that were
not speculative In answer to the query, whether
prices lower tnan they were before the panic
he said tney had mot deprecated paftIclen lor
two years. There were no worAmen employed In
tnis city, as all the factories were
outside OF New York. The two largest
firms had worked their fun force as
usual and he thought this years Production would
be in excess OF tnat OF any previous year. The
sales were not quite so brisk as before; customers
were not buying 20 large quantities, but tney were
purchasing smaller quantities oitener. The price
o starch was at present from nine to twelve cents
pound, and THIS was the same price that pre-
vailed before the "crash.''


Another manufacturer said that there was a
slight lalling Oh in the amount OF sales, which
owing 10 the panic and also TO the late season.
The trade was IN very healthy condition and
there had been no lailures thus far. Starch, he
said. was as necessary as meat aud people could
without
Year: 1873

80 general are the effects OF the money panic and
80 utterly beyond the antcipations or the most
cautious that almost all the large manufacturers
direction. The decrease OF trade and the conse-
quent falling or OF income has operated upon the
small jobDers who puy direct from the manufac-
tories, AMI they ind themselves unable TO meet
their bills when due. The entire community OF
consumers have, in anticipation oil worse days to
come, cut their living expenses down TO
the very closest possible figure. House
furnishing establishments and merchants OF all
kinds find that their daily sales decrease with
each week. Even the grccsrs, butchers and bakers
complain that the community eat less than at any
previous time within their recollection. Money
which has been usually expended Tor winter cloth
ing finds reader use Tor coal and rents. Men who
always rode to their places OF business now find 1t
very convenient to walk.


The reaction or this spasmodic effort al economy
throughout the entire metropolitan community
has been TO bring a very severe strain upon the
establishments vi ich have large amount OF capt.
tai invested ana whose heavy running expenses
have to be met by payment for goods sold
on time. The men who sell strictly for cash know
on closing their doors for the night the exact
status OF their business; but the wholesale trade
is compelled 10 give credit and now finds itself
greatly tried 10y its customers Tie present condl-
tion oil affairs, uncomfortable as II is cannot be
attributed to any thing other tnan sudden fit OF
economy caused solely by the shortness OF the
supply oi ready cash.


Reporters OF the HERALD yesterday visited many
OF the manufacturing firms OF this city ana por-
ton OF the Information OBTAINED Is given below.
Year: 1873

On window sill of the COngrega-
tional parsonage at Whately, Mass, a
pair of robins lately built a nest be
tween the sash and closed blind, the
other half of the blind being open.
The blind was warped and sprung
away from the window toward the
top. When the nest was apparently
done it seemed too small, and sec
ton of the open nest was against tne
glass. Another nest was built on this,
and still the space was too small, when
still a third one was built, which suf-
feed for a family Of three. The whole
structure is ten Inches nlghI ana one
nest fits into another Ike . pile OF
dishes, and may be taken out and set
in
Year: 1873

A newly landed Englishmsn rode
sixty miles on locomotive to watch
how the ow-catcher operated, but it
did not catch COW after all. II was
satisfied with the Boil it had already
caught
Year: 1873

We very rarely love those whose
love we have not either possessed or
expected-or, at any rate, for whose
love not .hoped-but when it las
once existed, all usage will not de-
strOy it.
Year: 1873

When a character is strongly mark
ed in the face, it may be considered as
an index 20 the mind, to express
which with any degree of justness in
painting requires the utmost efforts Of
q great mind.
Year: 1873

The striking difference between a
young man and a young woman is
illustrated by eroaker who says that
the first thing 8 young man does when
he sees a friend with new hat on Is
to take it off and sefeneiy try At on
his own head; but when young lady
sees one OF her acquaintance with q
new bonnet she Just lifts her nose and
sereneiy wonders "where the thing
got that fright" a .s-r 1sd
Year: 1873

Hush the night is calm and quiet.


And the crescent moon hangs low;
Silence deep and wide hath power,


And the South winds wander slow
Through easement whereethe curtain
Family rustles to and fro
Like spirit softly sighing


Fits it all the chamber round.
Where the dim lamp, fading. dying,
Just dispels the gloom profound
Hangs above two happy dreamers,


BY loves perfect promise crowned.
Even through the gates of slumber


To the shadowy land of rest,
He still clasps his long sought treasure
Closely, closely to his breast,
With the ardor of passion


Long denied and long repressed.
With his lips still warm with kisses


Close and clinging as his own,
Signing still in happy dreaming


For the joy his heart hath known
Sweetly, peacefully he slumbers


In the arms about him thrown
And she gazed at him, thinking


Not of all her dreary years
Only of this isle of glory,


Reached with many doubts and fears,
Over loves frail bridge of rainbows
Fading in midst of tears.
Then she nestles still more closely


To the heart so kind and dear,
Whispering Love me. love me, darling,
Ali my hope and rest is here,
And without thee life is nothing
But desert cold and drear
ooh that every night my slumbers
Might be SO supremely blest,
Bounded by thy dear embraces,


Kissed from passion into rest;
I would ask no better haven,


Sheltered thus, and thus caressed."
Fan them gently, odorous South wind,
And begone on pinions feet.
Nothing in thy nightly journey
Shall thy wandering vision greet
Half as perfect in fuifllment,


Satisfying and complete.
Year: 1873

sparkle like coronet of jems, and then | look
smoke lazily curled up from that inexhaustible
crater, waiting itself away, to be lost in space
under that quiet blue sky, and still looking, my
eyes roamed over that beautiful country with
its glorious scenery, and while thinking upon
and viewing these surroundings, could but
compare this to that scene of desolation that
had happened here eighteen centuries before.
Dear friends, dear reader, should you ever
happen to be at Naples, you must not fail to
spend day at Pompei and Herculaneum.


OCULAR"
Year: 1873

How HORSE THIEF WAS DETECTED The
horse which was stolen from the Rev. Mr.. Les


lie few weeks ago had been taught to extend
its front foot whenever asked by any one stand
ing near its head. The thief was Ignorant of
this, as he was Of the neighborhood through
which he was travelling. Fortunately for MIR.
Leslie, every boy along the road knew the
horse because of the footlifting. The thief stop
ped at farm house in West Virginia, where the
and asked for dinner. The little boy who rode
the horse to the stable recognized the horse as
Mr.. Leslie's and to confirm it asked for the foot,
which proved the matter. He ran to the house
and told his father, who at once commenced
catechising the stranger, which resulted in his
arrest and imprisonment and the recovery of
the horse Christiansbug (Ka) Messenger.
Year: 1873

PAY UP-'Pay up! IF You have money
pass it along. Haul out the old purse, and
hand over the dollar; you owe it; it is not
yours pay it! You do not know when you
will ever see another dollar? Perhaps you new
er ought to see another, till you learn what mon
ey is made for, and cease to hoard it up. But
whether you ever see another dollar or not, this
one is not yours, that is clear, if you owe it for
an honest debt. Pass it along, pay your debts,
and trust in God TO bring it back again 10 his
and the way to use it is to pay your debts A
few dollars used in good community will pay
all the debts, and leave everybody clear, and
with as much money as they had at the begin
ming; few dollars boarded makes everybody
trouble, and does no one any good "-Er-
change
Year: 1873

thing on each soldiers cheek that for
the moment washed away the stains
of powder. Tenderly they took him
up, and when the battle was over an
escort of honor, appointed from among
the leading Confederate officers, bore
him back TO his own camp, under a
flag of truce, on a rudely constructed
funeral bier, with his martial cloak
around him. In life he had touched
that chord of human sympathy which
makes all the world kin--and in death
its harmonious vibrations silenced all
resentment and thrilled the hearts
alike of friends and foes with a nobler
passion than hatred or revenge.


In connection with the above inter-
esting sketch, we republish as follows
the beautiful verses alluded to above.
of which Gen. Lytle was the author
ANTHONY WITH CLEOPATRA.