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Year: 1875

-"You never saw my hands as dir
ty as that" said a mother reproach
fully yesterday to her little eight-year-
old girl. Cause | never seen YOU
when you was little girl was the
prompt reply.
Year: 1875

The New York Herald draws from the Virginia City (Nev.) fire the lesson that all our cities are built too fimsily and of too combustible materials, and asks whether, even in that great metropolis, we cannot learn something by this fire. Says the editor Our water supply is abundant. it is true, and we possess 8 most efficient corps of tiremen, trained to battle with the dreaded element but our building system is so bad and danger ous as to invite destruction on the city. There is scarcely a row of. tenement houses in New York that is not source of danger. Party walls are mere thin mockeries of the name. Flooring joints are recklessly built into chimney breasts. Roofs arc light and often covered with an incendiary compound of pitch. and paper. Wooden fences, rendered highly infiammable by long exposure to the summer heat, extend from house to house and from end to end of every blsck, forming the most perfect con- ductors of flame in case of fire. New York has hitherto escaped by a miracle. Let us reform our building system and meet the mercies of God half way by exercising the intelligence with which He has gifted us. Aa# -
Year: 1875

Mir. Porter, of Detroit, Aas so many irons in the firs that he never has time to sit down and explain things. His son John traded dog for 8 steel trap the other day, supposing it to be rat trap. Then he set the trap on the front steps, supposing that to be the best place. If his father had been different man the boy would have had more perception {; but Mir. Porter never sat down, took the lad on his knee and pointed out the straight and narrow road which the suc- cessful rat catcher must pursue. John was in bed and asleep, and his mother was sewing a three-cornered patch on his pants, when MT. Porter came home and stepped into the trap as he un- locked the hall door. He yelled "Git out 1" and "Murderl" for three straight minutes, and when the neighbors gathered and pried open the trap he went in and licked John till his arm was tired. The boy was next day packing up collar box, knife and pair of stilts, intending to run away. He can't be blamed. Fathers should sit down and explain to their sons all about rat traps and all about the best place to catch rafa
Year: 1875

It has been proposed to establish a pigeon post between Europe and the United States, and an ocean homing bird of great docility has been discovered in Iceland, which is said to be admirably calculated for the purpose, being able to fly at the marvellous rate of one hundred and fifty miles per hour.
Year: 1875

XANTHINE is superior to all other preparations
for the hair now before the public. 1t renders the
hair soft and glossy; leaves the skin clean restores
the hair to its original color In narveously short
Year: 1875

Captain Mcdonnell Of the Eighth precinct, arrested
yesterday evening the notorious coored desperate
JEFF Saunders who with ''Bay'' Henry, serving a
sentence of five years Sing Sing, concerned in
the negro riot and murder which occurred in Broome
street the 18th of last July.


The details OF the terrible tragedy published in
full in the HERALD on the following day. Saunders
succeeded IN evading arrest, and until yesterday
mis- whereabouts remained unknown. He was
found by Captain Mcdonnell at No I'll
Washington street, where he stopping
with coored people. Since the murder
he has kept himself secreted in Mott Haven, Conn.
The temptation come back to his former haunts was
too great for Saunders to resist and he arrived this
city yesterday morning He locked up in the
Prince street station house.
Year: 1875

The panorama as it may properly be called, of the
German siege of Paris, which is now exhibition at
the Colosseum, is work of art in the true of the
word Mr. Lenard the artist, has succeeded in plac-
ing very graphic picture Of Of the most thrilling
episodes in the history of Paris before the public 1t
is view, extending from the heights of Chatillon, in
which the spectator is supposed TO stand the de-
voted city and its environs The various incidents of
siege and all the cruel hardshps OF war define
ated with mastery SKILL The figures, horses and men,
particularly we'll executed and tho realism is further
heightened by portrature OF camp life, embelshed
with uniformed figures, modelled from life. Notwith-
standing the sensational character OF the subject there
is much to admire in the artistic finish Of the land
scape and the natural manner in which the pomp OF
battle is placed upon the The exhibition is
deserving of praise for clever presentation of q
scene which cannot fail to interest every one
Year: 1875


To THE EDITOR THE HERALD
Are ladies to be deprived OF hearing Herr Wachtel
at the matinees? There many situated that it
impossible for them to attend evening opera and
therefore depend entirely the afternoon perform
ances.


Through the instrumentality Of your most valu-
able paper we hope to have the pleasure OF hearing the
great German tenor often during the remainder OF the
season. Yours respectfully, A. s. H
BROOKLYN, Nov H. 1875
Year: 1875

In its soreness over its defeat in
the matter of restricting suffrage,
the Statesman has gone raving stark
mad. Now, the known and accept
ed enemies Of the Grangers, espe-
cially Democratic Grangers, would
charge the reverse of the result on
the poll tax vote in the Convention,
up TO them as a most grievous fault,
but with this inside enemy, whyl a
virtue must do duty, for the nonce,
as great crime. The time has
passed in America when the fran
chise can be taken away from the
citizen by other power than his own.
Our only remedy for a possible
abuse is, to so educate and prepare
the citizen for an intelligent exer
else of the right as that the country
will be benefited, rather than inju
red by his privilege of the ballot
Pure patriotism is not always an6
only found in the breast of a maj
with a healthy bank balance.
Year: 1875

The danger of delay is being full
ly illustrated in the growing dissat;
isfaction over the State with the
Convention. To say there
is no cause for i'll humor on
this poin. would be doing great VIC
olence to truth. Perhaps the most
serious injury likely to arise, aside
from the money squandered, is the
fact that the delay gives such dis
affected journals as the Statesman
and the News opportunities to hatch
up such vile ISLANDERS as the former
has already done with regard to a
certain baseless coalition, of which
1t has written for week. Among
well informed people, men who
think, and who have read the sheet,
the effect will not be observable,
but to the Radical foes of Texas, to





sore heads and cavillers it will con
stitute sweet morsel, and will be
rolled under the tongue with the
same gusto that misapplied appro-
priation was in the palmy days of
the Davis administration.


Let il be remembered that the
Statesman has labored with might
and main to create schism in the
ranks of Democracy, ever since II
failed to get the public printing,
and the News never could, with the
least satisfaction utter clear Dem
ocratic sentiment. Then, too, the
present Convention is the child of
Radical hate, and the efforts of Rad
icalism, to protect its own offspring
only natural. They stand pledged,
with all their power and
address, to force defective
Constitution through, that its defeat
may be assured before the people,
as they expended the force and en-
ergy of their party to defeat the call
of the Convention, and in the same
line and for the same purpose. One
of the great dangers of delay is,that
1t creates, as before remarked, dis
satisfaction in our own ranks, thus
playing directly into the hands of
our bitterest foes.


No one need be deceived by the
course of the papers named, because
every one expected them to take ex
actly that course. Their prime OBJ
ject Is to defeat the Democracy, ,and
they know that the vast majority OF
Grangers, in their political faith, ARE
Democrats, and if they could faster
some such change as n coalition witt
Radicalism upon the Order, tn,
weight of the obloquy would fal
upon the Democracy, which the,
hate with deathless fervor, ant
which the monstrous connection
existing only in the disor
dered brain of the Statesman, wa
designed to accomplish.


BY delaying the day when tn
new Constitution is to be submitte,
to the people, the Convention j
playing indirectly into the hands o
the disorganizers, and unwittingly i
is lending itself to the nefariou
purposes of the renegades and con
spirators who are wreaking thei
petty spite upon a party which will
never lend itself to their unholy de
signs upon the Treasury of State
they had hoped to plunder withou
let or hindrance throughout Coke,
as they did Davis administration.


Patrons may smile at this wea
effort of an open and avowed ene
. my to injure them and soil the skirt
of the Order, but it is the task O
the Democracy to meet and crus
the foe, under this new disguise.
Year: 1875

s0The papers are discussing the
relative merits of the two plans OF
advertising by drummers or through
the papers. Now, we may not be
considered impartial testimony, but
nevertheless, it is our honest convic-
ton that advertising through the
papers is not only vastly cheaper,
but, beyond all expression, better
and more effective. As this is n
matter affecting the interests OF
consumers of all classes, because
they, in every instance, pay the ex-
pense, it may not be out of place to
say that the cheapest is the best. A
good drummer" costs a house at
least twenty-five hundred dollars
per year, at least that much more
in expense, and then he can see only
a very small part of the people who
can be reached by the papers, at a
cost several hundred per cent. below
the drumming plan.
Year: 1875

THE FALL RIVER STRIKEs.-There
are fifteen thousand operatives on
strike at Fall river. They knocked
off work week ago, because the
manufacturers announced 6 slight re-
duction in wages, consequent upon
trade depression. 1t does not seem
probable that the present strike will
last as long as some previous ones,
however, for the store keepers, grown
wise by experience, have resolutely
refused TO give the strikers credit for
provisions and other necessarieS, giving
notice that if the help can afford TO
take a vacation of thirty days, they
can pay cash for their goods, and
that no credit will be given until they
return to their work. There IS q good
deal Of sound common sense about
that proposal In, and if it had been
adopted some years ago strikes would
perhaps not have been so frequent. 1t
does not, however, follow that the
hands are without recourse. Judging
from the number of them it is not i'm
probable that they control the local
government; 10 which case they would
be able to call upon the board Of
supervisors 10 levy special tax upon
the employers, for the support Of des-
titute persons. Strange as such pro-
ceediDg may appear, it has become
quite common in the mining regions
Of Pennsylvania, and indeed in many
other places where there are but two
classes-labor and capital the former
possessing all the votes, and the latter
all the money. The condition Of
" "bloated mOnOpoliStS under such a
state Of things may be imagined.
They are not only compelled to sup
port strikes against themselves, but
are made to pay for whatever public
buildings or works of general utility
may be required in the neighborhood.
The ballot decidedly compIicates
things in cases of this kind, and labor
quite frequently succeeds in making
capitals life burden to it.
Year: 1875

OREGON WHEAT CROP.-Ilarvesting
is fully under way in Oregon, and sut-
ficieut returns have been received 10
fix the yield of wheat as compared
with that of last year. According to
the published reports, taking the
Umpqua and Willamette valleys as
a whole, the yield will be more than
last year, but not as much as was
claimed it would be some lime ago.
The breadth of fall sown wheat was
all of two-ifths more than the pre-
vious year, and although considerable
was reported frozen out still the loss
was far below reports given. Spring
seeding was not as great as heretofore,
but, taking fall and spring together,
the average seeded was more, and the
increased yield Of fall makes good the
deficiency in spring. The quality Is
proving up 10 the average.
Year: 1875

EGYPT has abandoned the friendship
of France 10 place herself under the
protection of Germany. This Is an
other victory for Berlin diplomacy,
but it is an act of questionable wis
dom on the part Of the khedive.
Other nations besides France have an
interest in keeping Germany out of
the Mediterranean, and in case Of
trouble the Egyntian ally of Germany
would be likely TO receive severe
handling, whatever the ultimate issue
Of the struggle between the principal
powers might be.
Year: 1875

THERE is a man in Paris, named
Ducasset, who saw the head Of Nor
eau, the murderer, when it fell from
the knife of the guillotine into the
basket. He has seen it ever since
sometimes falling, sometimes going
up. Lately several other heads have
joined it. They bounce against one
another all around him, and come
plump into his face, and feel cold and
diSagreeable. He has been taken into
custody, and deprived of his liquor.
Year: 1875

THE peace of Europe is again in
danger. This time from Herzegovina.
Not that this minute speck on the
map is likely to do much damage by
itself, but it has the same relation TO
latent destructive forces that a match
has 10 barrel of gunpowder. The
latest accounts show the insurrectlon
increasing in strength. and at any
moment the ServianS may take hand
ii. Should this happen there would
probably result such an explosion as
would make the iSst war between
Germany and France Seem only very
small affair.
Year: 1875

PEACE.-The world seems to be really
peaceful about these days. The wolf is
dwelling with the lamb, and the leopard is
lying down with the kid, end the calf and
the young lion and the failing together; the
COW and the bear ara feeding together, and
the hon is eating hay like an ox-an accord
ing TO the prediction Of Isaiah There are
some people with an unpronouncaLle name
worrying Turkey little and disturbing her
repoSe, q few uneasy Mongolians switching
their pig-taiis and shooting match-locks at
each o;her in Central Chine, and = chronic
row or two Of small dimensions going On as
usual in South America The dove is build
ing her nest in the mortar, and the spider
weaving It's web across the cannon ; mouth.
and peace ii sitting under her H.; tree. All
things considered, the world in august, 1879,
il getting along about as well as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances.
Year: 1875

THE' PRESIDENTIAL TICKET.-Eastern
papers are discussing the merits Of the
various persons named as possible
candidates for President and Vice
PresiGant. The general current seems
TO favor the n0mination Of a candi-
date for the first 2tice from the West,
although 1t is quite certain that in
both conventions the names of New
York statesmen will figure promin
emily. Il has been suggested that IN
the event Of the nomination OF an
Eastern or Western man for Pfesi-
dent, it would be well to have .
Southerner for Vice President. To
this suggestion the RichomOnd Fhig
responds. as follows:


We have seen several indications
of q disposition in some quarters to
bring forward the name Of some South,
EN- man Of well known national feel
ing in connection with the nomination
for the Vice Presidency. It should
be understood at once all over the
country, and especially throughout
the North, East and West, that the
democrats and conservatives Of the
South have no such desire, and We
think we may safely that in the event
of such a movement i'll the National
Convention they would expect their
delegates TO meet it with earnest re-
monstranee and united resistance.
The time has not yet arrived when
any man of the South who was in
sympathy with the confederate cause
could be prudently brought before the
country for President or Vice Presi


dent. And no man who was not in
sympathy with that cause could be
consistently " pat upon the ticket with
the view making him the representa-
tive OF the Southern sentiment and
spirit Of reconciliation. Such men as
Ransom and Gordon and Lamar are
OF inestimab!e value TO the South in
the Senate Of the United States, and
IN the House Of Representatives but
II would be otherwise with either Of
them as candidate for the first or
the second office of the government.
The day will come when the South
may safely enter the lists for the high
est political prizes as she did in other
days, but 1t has not come yet. And
our Northern friends must not be too
impatient 10 testify their feelings of
fraternity by SO bold demonstration.
Year: 1875

MIsslssIrPr.-The St. Louis Rep,tb-
{icaV says that an earnest attempt
will be made by the democrats to car
ry Mississippi at the coming fall cleo
ton. Ever since the war that State
has been regarded as hopeIessly under
the control Of carpet baggers and col
orcd voters. The latter constituted
majority Of the population, and were
completely under the influence of the
former. Bat there is now a question
whether the apparent numerical supre-
macy of the blacks is founded on fact.
The census OF 1870 is known to be
grossly inaccurate, ana the persistent


refusal Of the whites TO register and


vote has confirmed the impression that
they were in the minority. But now


two influences are working in favor of
the conservatives. First, the whites


intend to vote at the coming election;


second, the better part of the colored


voters are disguised with the Ames
government. They have discovered
that when 4 whole party turns to steal
from The State, the pro rata OF spoiis


that reach the rank and file is very


small. Iaymapy instances, also, it is


said that the colored voters are arriv-
ing at more correct ideas in regard to
the responsibilities OF citizenship. Many


of them desire to perform their new
duties as wisely as they know how.
They are discovering that they have
been used by the carpet, baggers for


the latter's own selfish ends, and signs
of rebellion are visible in all quarters.
Year: 1875

ABOUT EArINa.-''Do not go to bed
when You are hungry" saws one phys
clan. while another ccunsels an oppo-
site course; but the following advice
seems reasonable. Eating a hearty
meal at the close of the day is like Civ
ing a laboring man a full days work to
do just as night sets in although he has
been toiling all day. The whole body
is fa:igued when night sets in. the stom-
ach takes its due share, and To eat hear
ty at supper and then go TO bed is Civ
ing all the other portions and functions
of the body repose, while the stomach
has thrown upon it four or five hours
more additional work, after having al.
ready labored four or FIVE hours to dis
pose Of breakfast, and . still longer
time for dinner. This ten or twelve
hours Of almost incsssant work haa
nearly exhausted its power; it cannot
promptly digest another full meal, but
labors at it for long hours together,
like IN exhausted galley-slave on new
ly imposed task. Had it voice, it might
strike" lacking it, the duty is silent
ly performed. The result is that by
the unnatural length of time which the
food is kept N the stomach, and the
imperfect manner in which the exhaus-
ted organ manages it. it becomes more
or less acid; this generates wind, this
/, distends the stomach, this presses up
itself against the the more Welding
lungs, confning them to largely di-
rIinished space; hence every breath ia
ken is insufficient for the wants of tho
system, the blood becomes foul, black,
and thick. refuses to flow. and the man
dies, or in delirium or fright leaps from
n window. or commits suicide Let any
reader who follows an inactive life for
the most part, try the experiment for a
week of eating absolutely nothing after
a one or two o'clock dinner, and see If
a sounder sleep and vigorous appetite
for breakfast AMI hearty dinner are
not the pleasurable results, to say moth
ing of the happy deliverauce from that
disagreeable fullLcss, weight, oppres-
sion, or acidity which attends overeat-
ing. The great renovating and vivacity
which long, delicious, and connecting
sleep imparts, both to mind and body,
will Of themselves more than compen-
! safe for the certainly short and rather
dubious pleasure of eating q supper
with no special relish.
Year: 1875

TOBACCO AND BAD MANNERs.-Jar-
YES, the art writer. pronounees tobacco
the active agent in the decline of fine
manners in Europe. Whatever the
benefit or the harm the use of tobacco
may do the consumers body, its COM
mon tendency is to render the mind
Indifferent to the well-being of his
neighbors. The supreme test of the
virtue of the knight in the days of chiv-
airy, which was the highest ideal of
fine manners, was his self-denial and
desire to succor the oppressed. The
severest test of the modern gentleman
is his willingness to forego his pipe for
the comfort and health of another. 1t
takes thoroughly well-bred man to
withstand this form of self-indulsence
when it can only be practiced to the
annoyance of another. Germans are
the worst examples of bad manners in
this respect, for it never seems to en-
ter into their comprehension, however
courteous and willing to oblige in other
! matters. that what is n sensual happi-
ness to them may be absolute misery
to another. Frenchmen are rapidly
losing their proverbial politeness also
by this species se,f-icdufgenee. Eng
lishrnen AID Americans, To certain
extent, invoke the law to protect them,
and with both peoples there is more
consideration for the rights and welfare
of others than obtains in general
among civilized nations. But selfish
ness of this sort has taken less firm root
in Italy than elsewhere, precisely be-
cause amenity of manners and consid-
Grafton of others in public are still the
social rule. Not only do Italians re-
frain from smoking where it is prohibi-
ted, but l have seen them voluntarily
give it up, when they noticed that il
incommoded, where by regulation they
were entitled to smoke, and this no:
only by gentlemen but by PEASANTS
On the other hand / have known a
German of rank with his daughter get
into ladies' compartment in q railway
carriage and insist on using his pipe


despite the expostula.ions Of the lady
occupants, who were compelled to ap.
ply to the guard for protection, when
be was made to go into the smoking
carriage, the scene occurring in Italy


As he reluctantly went, his daughter
angrily turned to the ladies, exclaim.
ing, "See what you have done to my


poor papa; you make him leave his
place to smoke away from me-" The
! tendency of an inor,iinate use of tobac.


co to develop boorish manners requires


no better illustration, for it is one which


is nowadays too common not to have


been experienced By most persons vi:


travel.
Year: 1875

GA bachelor editor flies into a
rage and storms at his washerwoman
in this style: I've give our washerwo-
man notice that we hereafter want our
own clothes. Last Sunday we put on
another fellows shirt, but couldn't wear
it at all. It was all ruflled around the
top and looked real handson1es butthere
was no place for . collar, and il hadn't
any bosom, though we are bound TO say
there was plenty of room for one. Yet,
it was handsome shirt; but we don't
have ours made that way, particularly
about the bosom and sleeves"
Year: 1875

The precentor in the parish church of
st. Vigean's came to pause in the mid
die of verse, and quietly exclaiming,
Betsy, woman, you are singing the
wrang hymn composedly resumed the
tune as if nothing had happened.
Year: 1875

Sleepless people-and there are many
in America-shOuld court the sun. The
very worst soporiic is laudanum, and the
very best is sunshine. Therefore it Is
very plain that poor sleepers should pass
as many hours OF the day as possible in
the sunshine, and as few as possible in
the shade.
Year: 1875

A citizen of Providence, failing last
week to get his usual supply of water,
concluded that the pipe was frozen, and
spent nearly a day in endeavors to thaw
it out. He found that the water had
been shut off for non-payment of tax.