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Year: 1872

are informed BY the Times, in which the Russian
Empire presents itself to the minds OF Englishmen
And then comes this sentence :-"The first Is that
OF q progressive and educating Power. which,
though backward In comparison with the old States
OF Europe, is yet the destined instrument in the
hands OF Providence for bringing the vast hordes
OF Asia out OF the night OF barbarism to at
least the early twilight Of civilization" This is, Of
course q highly generous and philanthr0pic motive |;
but II Is so high and generous that one Is
almost inclined to doubt its genuIneness. Is this
peaceful way OF accepting the inevitable. OF good
humoredly recognizing dfts accomplish And the
Times itself seems to feel this because shortly
after 1t goes on TO say that there is another and
very different way OF looking at Russian progress
In Central Asia. "It is that settled antagOnism


must prevail between the two European Powers
which are called to rule over ASIA and that,
though we may have neither the right nor the
power to interfere with Russia so long as she con-
dnes her aggressions to the barbarous tribes in
her neighborhood, there are limits which we must
forbid her to pass II we would preserve our innu-
ence in Asia. To the minds OF this more Jealous
class there is something which argues baseness
and degeneracy in placarding humanitarian senti-
ments in lace OF an aggressive military empire"


So far as one can see, the party tnat wishes for
active opposition to Russia In Central Asia Is be-
coming daily smaller. "F0rtliy yourself well behind
the Himalaya Mountains, reconcile the people to
your rule and you need not lear for India" that Is
the tone now most In favor. Whether this be
really the wise and safe way OF dealing with the
advance OF Russia, time must be LEFT to show.
Year: 1872

This true the old method OF treating the long
abused and much abused human body 1t longer cOnsd
cred wise to put patient to the order him
OF disease in which already undermining the
OF his system True itself the side
aud endeavOrs her in her agans; disease This


is the province OF osteers stomach Bters, the
proved tonic advertised in this country
mended as fall medicine excellence for it is the
that bousneSs dyspepsia and maarous especially
prevalent The ramr exhausted by lhe heats of
relaxed and feeble at its close requires may
MANDS, artificial assistance Afford il in
siea doses OF Hostetters Stomach ttrrs and
ferred to may be escaped Throughout the
the steamng auva of the Southern rivers varieties
OF periodical fever probably rife to-day. Had
HOsteters Bitters been commenced by the
ago e. before the unhealthy even-eghths
them would in all probability be in their health at the
present time So much for want OF much
not Keeping in the house. and using daily the Best safeguard
against epidemic and endemic tevers.


As hocks OF imposers and mitator trying follow
the wake OF the American remedy therefore be sure
that the article buy is and by proper
trademarks The true article obtained in bottles
Beware 81 the spurious bters sold The gallon keg
Year: 1872

THE PEOPLES STAMP YALUR-The Government endorse
ment wh ch gazes the sale OF PLANTATION BTrERs not
the only stamp affixed TO that famous Vegetable Tonic 1t
bears in addition TO that official sanction the STILL MORE
VALUABLE STAMP OF P6BLIc APPROPRIATION This
voucher of its properties Tonic Corrective and Altea


ve is OF mnch earlier date than the Government
for millions OF sick had the Grand
cfc of the Age long before Congress thought taxing
1t is in detail
properties OF wonderful Vegetable The
reference that be offered who desire the full
ticular of its General Public. those
have tried il remedy for dyspepsia, constipation bilious
intermittent levers nervous debility. rheumatism
sickness low spirits loss OI vital power what Plantation
Btterhas done and
make to your inquiries.
Year: 1872

CASH VERSUS CREDIT-A movement is
making, according to the american Grocer, to
introduce a new system of dealing at grocery
stores with those customers who pay cash for
their purchases. On the present system those
who pay in this way have no advantage over
those who take credit or who give much trouble
before they pay their debts, if they pay them
At all, and it is now proposed to follow a plan
at work in England, by which cash customers
are allowed bonus of certain rate per cent.
on their payments.
Year: 1872

1t is at last definitely settled that the trial of
VIM. NJ. Tweed shall commence on Monday
next in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, coun
sci for both sides making an agreement to that
effect before Judge B-ady this morning,
though the Attorney General, Mr.. Barlow,
was in favor of proceeding with the case at
once. A motion was male to postpone the
case of Thomas e. Fields, and others, implca-
ted with him, but after deal of argument,
pro and con, the court adjourned without def
mite action. 1t is the intention of the prose-
cutlOn to push the Tweed case to a conclusion
before the Presidential election, so it is said, in
order to correct the impression that some sort
ola political bargain has been made with "the
Boss, with view to hell the administration
party
Year: 1872

DANCING IN GEoRGIA.-The following
is the way they call out tho figure of a
"reel" in Georgia: "Dance to the gal
with tho yellow shawl; now down out
sdos and up the middle turn to your
partner, Isaac Smach, and now TO that
entire stranger; sachez to the right and
left; ra dc tan, da due dc; now to Peter
Schwtehall's daughter; turn to your part
ner, every one set to the girl with the
flaring frill; balance one and spin about
to the girl with the hole in the heel Of her
stocking"
Year: 1872

A MIDDLETowN man took some pills
the other day by the advice Of his wife.
Soon after he felt i'll, and the neighbors
wondered if they were going to have a
case OF husband poisoning. On examin-
alton and inquiry it became evident that
he had taken percussion caps, and now
she fears that he will go off, and leave
her desolate, deserted and undone.
Year: 1872

LIVE as long as you may, the first
twenty years form the greater part Of
your life. They appear so when they are
passing they seem TO have been so when
we look back TO them, and they take up
more room in our memory than all the
years that succeed them.
Year: 1872

THE New York W0rld's idiot pro-
pounds the following fearful conundrum:
What is the difference between the girl
of the periods seat on horseback and her
gait in walking? One is a side-saddle
and the other a sad sidle.
Year: 1872

A WEsTPoRT, Massachusetts,, dog at
tackled circus elephant in the street the
other day. An eyewitness says that the
dog in about one minute was spread out
over several yards Of ground about the
thickness of sheet iron. Too thin !
Year: 1872

IT was happy thought Of DR.. Doro-
mus to say that if he were challenged to
fight duel, no would suggest to his OPP
ponent that both should take poison, and
then sit down and play poker for the ex-
elusive use Of the stomach pump.
Year: 1872

AN English peer recently tried TO dis
franchise himself. When the last reform
bill was before tho House of Lords, tho
noble lord offered an amendment that no
one should be allowed the franchise who
could not write his name in n legible
hand. The clerk whose duty it was to
read the amendment to the house was un-
able TO dccipher it SO wretchedly it was
,ur;tfnn
Year: 1872

SPINKs is not going to do any more in
conundrums. lie asked his wife why no
was like donkey, and she said because
he was born so. He says the right an
swer is very different from that.
Year: 1872

An ancient leap year custom, peculiar
to Spaniards and Mexicans, is described
as follows by paper published IN the
southern part of California, where it is
still practiced: The names of ladies
and gentlemen known to be mutually ac-
auainted, are written upon slips of paper
and deposited in hats. the name of lady
being drawn simultaneously frou one hat
when that of gentlemen from another.
the two whose names are thus drawn to
be oompadres and comaGr s to each other
for the year. The obligations incurred
toward each other by the relationship
are very simple. The gentleman is to
be the escort of the lady on any and
every occasion that she may desire !; and
she. in turn, must consider herself engag-
ed for any and every entertainment which
he may wish to attend. OF course the re-
lationship can be dissolved by mutual con-
cent, either temporarily or permanently
the period for which the agreement il
made.
Year: 1872

Wearers of paper collars may be inter.
ested in the reports on the manufacture OF
paper in Japan, which have lately been
printed for the British parliament. There
seems to be no reason why they should
not wear not only paper collars but also
paper shirts. aud washable paper coats
and trousers. by taking advantage of the
process described as follows:


Mode OF making paper cloth. warran-
ted to wash. Take some of the paper
called 'hosho' or some of the best 'senka,
and dye it of the color required Boil
some of the roots called 'kon- max VINO
DANA, with the skins on. try tkem with
the inner portion of d rice stalk when
it penetrates easily they are sufficiently
boiled Peel them and let the water run
off, and then pound them into paste
Spread this paste on either side of the
paper, and let it dry in the sun till quite
stiff Then sprinkle water on it until it
is thoroughly damped, and leave it in
that state for night The next morning
roll it upon bamboo of the thickness of
the shaft of an arrow, and force it with
the hands from either end into crumple
in the center unrOll it from each side
and corner of the paper. Then crumple
it well in the hands by rubbing it togeth-
er until it becomes SOFT and then sprinkle
water on it to damp it. Pull it out
straight and smooth. fold it up and
pound it with a wooden mallet. 1t may
then be put into water as much and as
often as is liked without sustaining inju-
ry, having become a strong and lasting
material.


This cloth is made principally in the
damiate of sendal. Boxes, trays, and even
saucepans may be made of this cloth
and saucepans thus manufactured sustain
no injury over strong charcoal heat
Bags may be made of it, in which wine
may be put and heated by insertion in
boiling water


A new alloy of copper and iron has
been invented which is regarded as dis
covery of much practical Importance.
The blending of the two metals produces
substance of great strength, which, it
is said can be tempered to greater hard
ness than steel, and when soft is easily
worked One of the most important ad-
vantages claimed for this new alloy is that
it is not liable to oxidation on exposure
to the atmosphere. But the principle OBJ
ject of the invention is to make perfect
ly maleable metal which can be tempered
to the utmost hardness, and which being
cheaper than fine steel. can be substituted
for it in many important applications for
which the latter is now rarely employed.
The test to which the new alloy has been
submitted shows its peculiar adaptation
tor the purpose in question.
Year: 1872

A Western grocer declares he has seen
a rat 60 to basket Of eggs. take one in
his paws. roll over OH his back, resting
the egg on his abdomen. and holding it
there by his legs. flap his tail as signal
that all was ready. and out would come
two other rats, seizs the first one by the
tail. drag him up stairs on his back. egg
and ALL We think that an egg straordi-
nary tale.
Year: 1872

You may get through the world, but twill be


very slow,
If you listen TO all that is said as you go;
You'll be worried and fretted, and kept in a


stew,
For meddlesome tongues will have something


For people will talk.
If quiet and modest you'll have it presumed
That your humble position is only assumed ;
You re wolf in sleeps clothing, or else


you're fool,
But don't get excited, keep perfectly cool,


For people will talk.
If generous and noble, they'll vent their


spleen,
You will hear some loud hints that you're


selfish and mean;
If upright and honest. and fair as the day.
They'll call you rogue in sly, cneaking


way,


For people viii talk.
And then if you show the least boldness of
Or slight inclination TO take your own part,
They will call you an upstart, conceited and
But keep straight ahead, don't stop to ex-


plain.


For people will talk.
IF you dress IN the fashion don't think to


escape,
For they criticse them in different shape
You're ahead of your means, or your tailor $


unpaid,
But mind your own business, there's nought


to be made,


For people will talk.
Now. the best way to do is to do as you please,
For your mind, if you have one, will then be


at ease,
OF course you will meet with all eorts of


abuse.
But don't think to stop them. it aint any use,


For people viii talk.
Year: 1872

BOYS" said a school teacher the
other day. "what is the meaning Of all
the noise in the school Z" at is Bill
Smith. sir who is initiating a locomotive"
Come up here William" said the teach
er. ''If you are turning into locomo
tive, it is high time you were switched
of.
Year: 1872

The following remarks of the London
Spectator are suggestive and worthy of
consideration


"We are often asked if there are no
signs that the expensiveness of Eng
l;sh society, especially in the higher
ranks, may speedily begin to decrease.
We see no signs of it, and hold it to
he much more probable that we are on
the eve of an era of ostentat;on as
tawdly and of extravagance az
pitiable as that which marked the
Regency. This is the American
tendency, and We see nothing, no new
and strong idea, which should mark off
the manners of our society from those
OF the wealthy in the United States.
Public life is becoming rather less than
more attractive to those who have all
but power. The taste for art, which is
developing RAPIDLY, is the most expen-
sive of all tastes except the taste for
gambling, and that i not on the de-
crease. The millionaires are becoming
more numerous every day, and they
certainly do not spend their wealth
more for the public benefit"
Year: 1872

A gentleman was prying about the
little settlement of Avatcha, i'm KANT
chatka, in search of whatever he might
find, and he found low, dark room in
an old og-cabio. The only light that
entered it came through one small pane
of window-glass. One corner had in it
q platform about five feet high, which
could be reached by three wide, wooden
steps. Another corner contained q
rude oven made of cobble-stones,
thrown loosely together over an iron
rame-work, under which lay burned
pieces of wood, and close by were two
old barrels with little water in them
Not being able to guess (and he was a
Yankee) what the little, old, gloomy
den was made for, he went in search OF
information, and learned that it was q
Russian steam-b bath. The steam is
produced by throwing cold water up
on the hot stones, after a fire has been
made and the fowl air allowed to escape
so that the bather can enter with safety.
The heat becomes unendurable in q
short time, and the bather comes down
from the platform to the lower step,
which is the coolest. After perspiring
sufficiently, the bather steps into a bar
rel of hot water, which has been heated
by throwing in the stones. The second
barrel contains cold water for the final
souse. The Avatchans are very fond
of this bath.
Year: 1872

The mind of man utterly fails to
realize the immensity of space, and
no one unaccustomed to the use of
the telescope can have any adequate
idea of the difference presented by
the heavens when viewed by the
naked eye, even upon clear night,
and the scene which is disclosed to
tie eve and mind of the astronomer.
How difficult it is to realize that
each star IN the sofemn depths OF
the universe is a sun like our SUP,
but separated one from each
others and our own by distances
almost beyond the power Of man to
compute


Only about 5000 stars can be dis
tinctly seen and counted by the
raked eye, while an ordinary tele-
scope reveals he paesence of some
thing like 100000. Herchel's great
1S-inch instrument, it is estimated
shows 1S0,000,000. while the great
Rosse telescope, by its vast pene-
trating power, is supposed to open
up to our vision not less than 700,-
000,0O0l And yet, when the
whole heavens is swept by this
telescope, we have only penetrated
a distance into space from our stand
point on this globe, which, when
compared to the imsensity beyond.
is no more than the space occupied
by the room where we write or read
is to the immensity of depth pene-
trated by the last mentioned instru
Year: 1872

The following beautiful chemical
experiment may be easily performed
ty lady, to the great astonishment
of a circle at her tea party:


Take two or three leaves of red
cabbage, cut them into small bits,
put them into a bas n, and pour a
pint of boiling water on them let
it stand au hour, then pour it off
into a decanter. 1t will be fine
blue color. Then take four vine
glasses: into one put six drops of
strong vinegar into another six
drops of solu ion of soda into q
third a strong solution cf alum and
let the fourth remain empty. The
glasses may be prepared some time
before, and the few drops of color
less liquid / hat have been placed in
them will not be noticed. Fill up
the glasses from the decanter, and
the liquid poured into the glass con
tanning the acid will become beau
tifnl red the glass containing the
soda viii be fine green that pour
ed into the empty Que will remain
unchanged. By adding little vine
gar to the green it will Immediately
change to led, and on adding a
little solution of soda to the red il
Will ussume fine green. thus show
ing the action of acids and ak Les
on vegetables blues.
Year: 1872

Joshua Jeflries is mentioned by
the Prnntical Planter as one Of the
most successful apple growers in
Pennsylvania. His orchard is locat-
ed on a hillside sloping gently to
the south and southwest. is of lime
stone soil, and made fertile by sur
face application Of manure. This
system he has pursued for fifteen
years. Trees, he maintains, should
be fed regularly. not too much, but
Just enough to enable them to main
tain healthy, moderate, uniform
growth. He applies the washings
of the roads on his own farm, al the
refuse ashes and those made in the
neighboring lime kilns in burning
lime with wood, and also manure
from the cattle yards. Whenever he
has a spare load of fertilizing mat
ter It goes to the orchard. Spread
ing these materials on the surface,
although a green grass sod is on the
ground all over it, the soil is so mel
low he can kick it up with his foot
the young roots coming to the sur
face, or nearly SO, not being more
than an inch or so under it for their
food. There they come in contact
with light, heat. moisture, the i'm
portant elements of plant fooi.
Trees treated under this system are
healthy, strong and vigorous. AL
though in a deep valley, liable to the
late spring frosts, he secures crops
OF fruit, while his Heighbors in more
favored localities fail.
Year: 1872

Deserve friends and you will have
them. The world is teeming with
kind hearted people, and you have
OILY to carry a kind sympathetic
heart in your own bosom to call
out goodness and friendliness f;om
others.


1t is a mistake to expect 70 receive
welcome, hospitality, words of cheer,
and help over rugged and difficult
passes in life, in return for cold sell
fishness, which cares for nothing in
the world but self.


Cultivate consideration for the
feelings of other people, if you
would never have your own injured.
Those who COMPLAIN most of i'll
usage are the ones who abuse them
selves and others the oftenest.


Ii life to you is not all You would
have it, seek to make it better and
more enjoyable yourself. For at
best life Is what we make 1T.


Employment for the mind is what
thousands of women are in need of
After the piodding routine required
Tor mabeIidl uSCcSSlbiCS be~o O~CH
gone through with for the day, and
the tired body requires and enjoys
rest, the minds of many women
reach cut hungering and IhirstiDg
after intellectual food. Not having
that craving satisfied is what causes
unhapi mess for many whose lives
seem dark and barren.


Open the windows of your heart,
and let light into the dark, un-
healthy places you have for years
dampened with your tears.


Send disappointment to the winds
take life as it is, and with a strong
will make it as near what it should
be as possible.


Receive at once the potent power
which viii lift you above the ills OF
life, in the thousands of books
which can be had in this age Read
books, pamphlets and newspapers-
anything useful. Instructive, anus
ing, and full of lessons. Get Soul
mind off yourself at some rate, ol
/ you are doomed never to amount &
anything or have friend worth hav
ing.
Year: 1872

The noblest men I know on earth,


Are men whose hands are brown with toll
Who, backed by no ancestral groves,


Hew down the wood and til the soil;
And win thereby prouder name


Than follows the king or warriors fame.
The working men. whate'er the task.


Who carve the stone or bear the hod,
They bear upon their honest brows


The royal stamp and seal of God:
And worthier are their drops of sweat


Than diamonds in a coronet.
I.


God bless the noble working men,


Who rear the cities OF the plain.
Who dig the mines. who build the ships,
And drive the commerce OF the main;
God bless them for the toiliDg hands


Have wrought the glory Of all lands.
Year: 1872

AaIt Oh AHf Ives


tEHtf -yFfii uiftfa Js-s'ssA \ slL4s, parsrrs =
light have the sense % understand
the use Of shades to protect the
eyes? We see persons sitting hold
ing their sewing or other work be-
fore or near to a lamp, when the
light is blazing full into their eyes
1t is plain that the object that they
work upon can not be seen with so
great distinctness while the field of
their retina is already occupied by n
blaze But they work on for hours,
and though the next morning their
visual organs tell Of the abuse by
redness and Inflammation, the work
ers are too dull to learn the lesson
of experience offered them. Circu-
lar paper shades can be obtained
for a few nts, and those not only
protect the eyes from the excess of
light, but serve as a reflector behind
the blaze, increasing the illumina
tion one-half.


Besides the above mentioned,
there is that of the varying quantity
of light thrown into the eye by its
beng suddenly and alternately dl-
rected towards the blaze, or obiique- =
ly away from it, by which the pupil
has not time to adapt itself to the
increase of the glare whereas with
the use of the shade the illumination
would be uniform. The number of
persons in the community having
spots, light or dark, in the field Of
vision, and arising from injury to
the retina by the ill-usages which
we are mentioning, is greater than is
commonly imagined. 1t must be
borne in mind that these spots are
a serious step toward amaurosis and
gutta-serena, such as plunged in
darkness the latter days Of tho great
Milton, and many others more EN-
inent for their talent than their
caution. Look well to the preser-
vation of your vision.
Year: 1872

Two Pennsylvania women called
for their husbands at a barroom the
other evening. One broke the ice
pitcher over her husbands head, the
other satisfied herself with doing the
same for two decantors, but made up
for it by throwing cat and her kit
ten into barrel of cider these lit
tie bursts of playfulness over they
took their husbands to their quiet
homes.
Year: 1872

A girl Of sharp wits in a Western city dis
covered recently that her lover was about 10
take another girl to ball. She thereupon
bribed his hackman to permit her to take the
reins at the proper moment, and instead Of drv-
ing the pair to the ball. room. she took them
several msles out of town to dense wood, where
she left them exposed to pelting rain storm
the young lady in low.necked muslin dress
and kid slippera, and her escort in full party
toggery aud thin botts. Their situation was moi
comfortable, but they found shelter in neigh
boring farm house, where there happened to be
an accommodating minister, aud the two, being
lovingly disoosed by reason Of their misadsen.
tnrea, we're married. The other young woman
now sits in sackclo,h and ashes, sadly broodini
over her misadventure.