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Year: 1872

As for dresses suitable to certain persons,
| need sny but little. There are many books
on the etiquette of dress, showing whpt is
proper to be worn in the morning and in the
evening and at MONDAY. A few very simple
rules will suffice here Those who are very
stout should wear nothing but black those
who are very thin should put a little padding
in their gowns; and neither should be in the
least decoleted. Perpendicular stripes 10
dresses give height, and increase fulness, and
are therefore particularly suited to very
slight, small people, and particularly untitled
for stout figures. To fair persons blue is be-
comng-but not very blue. Dark blue, or
too brilliant blue, is extremely unbccoming
to that kind of complexion, and makes the
skin yellow and the hair sandy. 1t is the
old, pale, dull blue that really makes sand
gold. Pink, especially the old.fashioned
yellow pink, is, when not too brilliant be-
coming to all complexions except that which
goes with red hair. A light green may be
safely worn by the very dark, the very rosy,
and by the very pale when the skin is ex-
tremely clear; but to ordinary English faces
it is trying color, though there are people
who look well in nothing else. Green, mixed
properly with pale blue, is very becoming
indeed. Gray is the most beautiful color for
old and young--I mean the soft silver gray
which is formed by equal parts Of black and
white with no touch of mauve in it. 1t ad-
mits of any color in trimming, and throws up
the bloom of the skin. Rose.color, for some
people, is pretty, and not unbecoming.
White, so disastrous to rooms, is generally
becoming in dress-only very coarse COM
plexons are spoilt by it.


Short women should never wear double
skirts of tunics-they decrease the height so
much unless, indeed, the tunic is very short
and the skirt very long. So also do large
sprawling patterns used for trimmings. Let
these be left to women tall enough to carry
them of. Neither let very little woman
wear her hair half down her back let her
ili it clean up as high as possible.-N. Paul 4
Magazine.
Year: 1872

Ones viel Of Christ is greatly affected by
his experience. If there be man who ha,
never had fierce fight with his passions and
been conquered who has never stood before
the bar Of his own C nscience and heard it
read off terrible verdicts against him; who
has never sought earnestly to lift himself to
a higher moral level TO find himself tired
out and despairng as over a bafiled aud fruit
less effort VIII has never shuddered over the
majesty Of Gods broken law and longed for
the assurance Of reconciliation aud safety
who has never surprised his own inward lips
quiveriDg with the publican's plea, " God be
lnerciul TO me a sinner !" who has never
loneed for mediator and helper that could
assure his soul and lift his sinking weakness
into Il victorious strength If there be man
who has felt nothing Of all this, or only a
little Of it at long intervals, he is very likely
TO find in Christ only rare teacher, an un-
selfish friend Of his race, and noble martyr
Of TRUTH instead Of seeing ia Him at once
the divine Redcemer of souls and the Lamb
of God taking away its sin through his sacri-
fee. But when one has gone through the
fearful experience OF Paul while seeking jus.
liiication by the law, as he details it in the
seventh chapter of his epistle to the Romans,
or through thet Triumphant afier.experiebce
parratlG 10 tiay Eleventh and twelfth chapters
Of his second tpisIe to the Corinthians he is
likely to uniis with him 10 the confession that
he is God over all, blessed forever" and
that in Him " dwelleth all the fullness Of the
Godhead bodily. y.'-Christian Adrocate.
Year: 1872

The atlantic Monthly says "A woman,
notwithstanding she is the best Of listeners,
knows her business. and IL is womaus busi-
ness TO please. | don't say that it is not her
business to vote, but do say that the woman
who does not please is a false note in the har-
monies Of nature. She may not have youth,
or beauty, or even manner, but she must have
something 10 her voice or expression, or both,
which it makes you feel better disposed tow.
ard your race to look at or listen to. She
knows that as well as we do and her first
question after you have been talking your
soul into her Consciousness is, Did please
"A woman never forgets her sex. She
would rather talk with man than an angel,
any day. Womenly women are very kindly
critics, except to themselves, and now and
then to their own sex. The less there is Of
.ex about woman, the more she is to be
dreaded. But take real woman at her best
moment-wel dressed enough to be pleased
with herself not SO resplendent as to be
show aud a sensation, with the varied outside


Influences that set vibrating the harmonic
notes Of her nature stirring in the air about
hes-and what has social life to compare with
one Of those vital interehanges OF thought
and feeling with her that can make an hour
memo able What can equal her tact, her
delcacy, her subtlety Of apprehension, her
quiekness to feel the changes Of temperature
as the warm aud cool currents of thought
blow by turns2 At one moment she is mi.
croscopicaly intellectual, critical, scrupulous
III judgment as an analysts balance, and the
uext as sympathetic as the open rose that
sweetens the wind from whatever quarter it
6uds its way to the bosom. 1t is in the hos
ptablo soul of a woman that a man forgets
he is a stranger, aud SO becomes natural and
truthful, at the same time that be is mesmer.
zed by all those divine differences that make
her mystery and bewilderment.
Year: 1872

Look most to your spending. No matter
what comes in, IL more go,s out, you will al
ways be poor. The art is not in making money,
but in keeping it; little expenses, like mice
in barn, when they are many, make great
waste. Hair by hair, heads get bald straw
by straw, the thatch goes of the cottage and
drop by drop, the rain comes in the chamber
A barrel is soon empty, If the tap leaks but a
drop minute. When you begin to save, be-
gin with your mouth many thieyespass down
the red lane. The ale jug is great waste.
Ia all other things keep within compass. Never
stretch your legs farther than the blankets
will reach or you will soon be- cold. 10 clothes
choose suitable aud lasting stuff, and not taw-
dry fueries, To be warm is the main thing;
never mind the looks. A fool may make money,
but it needs wise man to spend it. Remem-
Der it is easier to build two chimneys than to
keep oae going. you give all to back aud
board, there is nothing left for the savings
bank. Fare hard and work hard while you
are young, aud you will have chance to rest
wheu you are old.
Year: 1872

Always avoid the company n which you
are willing to tell a coarse jest, because for
you it is demoralizing company. Grossuess
is never humorous, profanity is never admirs-
bic and If your manner and speech once
begin to ravel out upon that edge, all it,
m,uliness AMI charm are in danger-G. W.
Curtis.
Year: 1872

Nothing lowers a man, If thereby he
honors his Lord. 1t is not possible for any
gody work to be beneath our dignity; rather
ought we to know that the lowest grade Of ser.
vice bestows dignity upon the man who hear
tily performs it. Even the least and most
obscure form of serving Christ is more high
aud lofty than we are worthy to undertake
Year: 1872

Az ingenious Mississippi negro thought
he would kill n sheep by holding it in
front ofan approaching locomotive. The
animal escaped with Il broken leg, but
the ingenious Individual was made the
subject Of funeral Grafton.
Year: 1872

a MARRIED lady in Connecticut recent
ly fell into a river, and would have been
drowned except that her cries attracted
the attention cf her husband, who mis-
taking her in the dark for another wo-
man, worked like beaver to get her out.
Year: 1872

A KANSAS man sent for minister to
preach his wite's funeral sermon and in
cidentally to marry him, at the close of
the discourse, to II young woman whom
he had selected on the death ofhis spouse.
Year: 1872

TINS is the heading of n paragraph
in Il western paper recording suicide :
" lie blow his head off. Bilious poor dis
heartencd-thc gun muzzlo in his mouth,
his toe on the trigger, and up goes his
hair ~
Year: 1872

SEVENTEENTH VOLUME!


SEVENTEENTH VOLUME!


SEVENTEENTH VOLUME!


SEVENTEENTH VOLUME!
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME !
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
Year: 1872

FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS wheth-
or in Young or old, married or single, at the
dawn of womanhood or at the turn Of life,
these Tonic Bitters have no equal.


no SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. ga


They are u Gentle PurGatiVe as
well as II Tonic, possessing also the pecu-
liar merit of acting as Il powerful agent in re-
lieving Congestion or Inflammation Of the
Liver, and all the Nisceral Organs.
Year: 1872




case to convict of mansaughter in the third degree
n they were satisfied that the prisoner was In the
heat OF passion when he fred


Nfnth-If the jury should find that the killing was
not murder, nor justi6able homicide, and was not
embraced In the statutory definition OF manslaugh-
ter in the first, second or third degrees, they may
find the prisoner guilty OF manslangiter In the
fourth


7enth-Thc killing OF the deceased would be justi-
fable and the verdict OF the jury should be not
guilty provided they should find that at the time OF
the firing the deceased had pistol In his hands
and was apparently preparing TO fire at the pris.
Oner, and the prisoner believed he was in imminent
danger OF losing his life OF sustaining great
bodily harm from the firing OF such pistol.


GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE CASE.


Mr.. Tremain then made the usual compliments to
the jury and followed by enlarging upon the duties
aud responsibilities OF the counsel for the defence
The prisoner alone and singe-handed was strug-
Cling for his life against Oil the power OF the Com
alike at the command Of the District Attorney, and
In addition to the influence that gentleman de-
rived from his official position he had been as
sisted by two OF the most learned and able gentle
but but one @ hope Of escape and Of being saved
1o na 'nt Tas y the tSs, Ss had Of eSss s
been engaged, had he felt so mpellcd to entreat
the jury to cast aside from their minds the test
comments Of the newspapers upon IT.. At the
inquest the Thomas Harts and Patrick Harts and
others had been used to influence the public mind
and there had been sown broadcast the impression
that the prisoner had tracked Fisk from the H0r
man House to the Grand Central Hotel. and had
formed q premedtated design to kill him. Thus
the prisoner had been hunted down by the hounds OF
the organized conspiracy against which he was con-
tending, and which had been endeavoring to strike
him down. while for six long months he had been cut
or from all active communication with the public
and had had his lips scaled by his own conviction
that by silence alone could he save his witnesses to
the truth from being tampered with by his enemies.


WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS HAyB DONE.


Mr.. Tremaln then launched out into an attack
upon tho newspapers for publishing the accounts
Year: 1872

Between the original producer and
the consumer there is a great gulf
fixed, which, while neither of them can
possibly pass it, swallows up vast
amount of the substance of each OF
them. Thus we find the cost of pro-
ducing the refined products of petro-
leum, together with freights and all
other expenses, amounts to forty
millions, and the cost to consumers is
seventy millions; the vast difference of
thirty millions being swallowed up in
this gulf, occupied by those who go OF
come between the "parties of the first
and last parts.n
Year: 1872

One of Edgefeld's skillful daughters,
Mrs. E. H Chamberlain, of the Dark
Corner section, recently sent to the
Advertiser men (only for inspection, of
course) balmoral skirt, woven by her
self, or under her eye, which is described
as a marvel of skill and beauty. The
body of the skirt is woven of rabbit
hair (not dyed) producing pretty drab
and is wonderfully thick, soft and
fine; while the bordering, broad and OF
the most brilliant colors, is entirely OF
wool. The bordering is woven double
the rabbit hair part single. And the
manner in which the double and single
weaving are made to meet would excite
the admiration of a Lyons velvet.
weaver. Mrs. C. has long been eminent
in this line
Year: 1872

There's a far-off mystic country


Summed by Hopes eternal CLEAN.
In whose fair and pleasant valleys


have wandered in a dream.
Where the brooklets run to music


'Twixt their emerald banks along.
Where the forests wave in anthems,
Swayed by breeZes winged with song.
There the whole great heart of nature
rhrobs with melody for aye.
And the flowers that bud and blossom.
Never wither. fade and die.
But for me the cline is distant.


Distant far as mornings beam,
Though in its fair and pleasant valleys
have fingered in a dream.
And O pure and radiant being


Leads me gently by the hand.
When through slumber's ducky portals
Joyfully I seek that land
And beside me in her beauty.


Lingers like the shimmering beam
OF some star that shines in heaven.
Till waken from my dream.
That mysterious, far-of country


Is the glorious land of Love.
Where love is love forever,


And all other things above
And my heart yearns toward that being
As I breast Iife's rapid stream,
Ever distant from me, waking,


Ever near me in my dream.
Year: 1872

To DEcoY Pig, instead of driving
him, some ingenious chap recommends
tying the end of a strong cord to an ear
Of corn, drop it in front of the pig, five
or six inches from his nose, and COM
mence walking away with it slowly in
the way you wish the pig to go. II he
gets disheartened at the prospect OF
getting hold of it, allow him slight
pjbble, and thep proceed,
Year: 1872

EDITORS APPEAL-I visited the EX-
position opening last night, and am
proud Of the fine building erected by the
energetic mechanics of our city. Com
binations will work wonders. Our peO-
pie are rather on the order of Rip Van
Winkleism, but when they DO wake up,
they 20 in with a vim that is truly as
tonishine. Our building is not as large
as the building at Nashville, but, L
think, is a handsOfi1er style of architect
uUe, on first entering is more agreeable
to the eve, but the tramp, tramp, of
many thousand feet on the floor is
hard On the hearing faculties,
and reminds one of the days of
1851, when we were drilling in halls
neutrality-suspicious. itwouid be
a good idea to cover the fioof with saw
dust, or request all consumers Of the
weed TO leave their chews of tobacco
with the doorkeeper until they come out.
I suppose Pickett would be willing to
have nice shelves arranged, and man
to label each chew.


was in Arkansas about two weeks
ago, and everybody and his family wish
to attend, and viii do so, as the mana
gers have made arrangements with the
Steamboats, and all railroads running
into Memphis Except the Little Rock
road, and learn they demand the pound
Of fiesh), to charge only one fare for the
round trip. Now, don't you think the
hotels ought TO reduce their prices some?
All ought to show spirit of liberality.
My Country cousins" have all written
they were coming. and I think it is so
nice to stop at hotel. " i'll you please
inform them that l will commence
boarding Monday for a month, but will
be happy to meet them at the ExpOsi-
ton building. Yours truly,


"BALD HEAD"
Year: 1872

At the finishing Of the old Mad
River and Lake Erie Railroad. VIII
liam CoWel was a prominent eontrac-
tor who had had the confidence Of
the company for several months be-
fore the completion of that psrt be-
! tween Sandusky and Bellevue. He
had also the confidence Of his work
hands; always paying punctually at
Estimate, " as the pay day was then
callen. When he went from Marga-
retta to Norwalk for his last payment
on final settlement, MS money was
stolen and the thief was locked up
in the county jail Public sentiment
was now against Cowel. AS be
owed several hundred dollars and
was transient person, it VAS be-
heYed that he was willing to be
looped IN order to defraud his credi-
tors, Few believed to the contrary,
ana sold their claims at 9 prest sac
rifice. A few weeks before this he
had married the daugter of Mr. Nc
KissOn, one one of the old settlars of
the township, living at that time
about seven miles from Sandnskv y,
the railroad. While the excltsment
was at its highest pisch. Mr.Coven
compromised with the thief,by which
his money was restored and he re-
turned to his wife who yet lived with
her father. In a few days he was
missing. He was last seen on his
way to the Seven Mile House in
company with the man who had sto-
len his money. He had with him 6
watch borrowed from his brother-in-
law. All was now plain. Il told
you so" came from the. knowing
ones, and many good people com
mented on the general depravity Of
the human race and strangers in par.
tieular. The matter died away ex.
cept in the mind of the devoted wife
who declared herself to be a widow
and that she had lost a good man.
In year or so she married
again. Tina passed on and the thief
aforesaid was called to his final ac-
court. On his death bed he con-
fessed that he had, thirty years be-
fore, murdered Cowel and buried his
body in the sand hill which is situs-
ted near the Seven Mile House.
There is little or no doubt that this
story of the confession is tue. The
writer has it on good authority. The
name of the murderer we Withhold,
but we give these facts to the public


in justice to the unfortunate victim
who was believed to be e sWindler.
He disappeared in 1888. William
/ CoWel was an honest man. We are
assured on good authority that the
claims against him unpaid did not
exceed twenty five dollars, and this
trife he intended to pay. He had
one weakness; he loved a dram
though he was not drunkard-and
| through this he was lured into the
company of his murdereT.-Mon-
r0eUiLle Spectator.
Year: 1872

Deeply buried beneath its Opaque and slug |
gish veil of flesh the soul carries on its multta-
rious operations without cessation. Dreaming
is when, by some cause, a part of the veil is
lifted, or a mOmentary perfOratiOn made in the
mask, so that a glimpse OF the interior actlvl-
ties shines through and fastens clcw on the
outer world for waking recollection to seize.
Hazlitt eloquently asserts this theory in his
Round Table" 1t is now the popular the
ory propounded by most writer's on the subject
But it is a hypothesis more recondite than Is
warranted by the facts. No proof has yet been
advanced reaching to so remote conclusion.
That bodies throw off ghosts, which assail the
soul and produce perceptions, is puerlle
though interesting device Of the early cropping
of speculation That guardian angels and
tempting devils mould our sleeping fantasies is
figment of superstition. That the mind never
rests from it's abors is a metaphysical concelt
unsustained by adequate authority We are
therefore to reject these three theories of dream
ing, and seek some simpler statement, more in
conSOnance with nature and reason. Though
| there is ample evidence to demonstrate that we
| frequently dream without retaining any remem-
brance of the dream, it by no means follows
that we never sleep without dreaming And,
! indeed, on all physiological grounds the prOba-
bilities seem irresistible that in healthy and


perfect sleep the mind is without the slightest
| touch or GUNNER or dream. n series OF


images or perceptions may be caused in us by


outward influences producing sensations, by III


ward operations summOning up ideas, or by the


two, conjoined, constituting more complex


mental action. When awake we spontaneously
discriminate between these two with distinct


ness, and have power in degree to order them


at our will. But when we are asleep we know


no difference between external influences and


internal operations. Then our experience is


entirely at the mercy Of fortuitous causes and


the law of association. In our sleep one faculty


or sense may act alone; but in our waking state


they act, as it were, simultaneously, correcting


or confirming each other. In dreaming, the


mind for the most part furnishes its own mate
rial; in wakefuness, Nature conformity furnishes


it. There the action is recollection and ar
rangement; here it is perception and assmila


ton. When the sleep is complete we do no
dream at all. When the senses are closed, bu
the mind partially wakes, we dream, but retaiI


no memory of it. When our sleep is so super
} fetal or disturbed that it is accompanied b!
sensations, however fragmentary or vague
traces of these sensations left on the brain sug


gest the associated dream to us when we awake
) or perhaps long afterwards Such is the mos
rational account as it has been developed o
late by several authors.
Year: 1872

NARROW STREETS. English journals,
criticising American cities say that New York
ought to have narrower streets, with higher
houses, as protection against the excessive
heat of the sun. The Washington Star, con
sdering these remarks as slur upon that city
of magnificent distances, asserts that Wash
ington, with the thermometer up among the
uineties, has very few cases of sunStroke, and
as reason for this exemption gives the fact
that the wide streets are open to every breeze
that blows Boston. with its narrow streets it
is asserted, is uncomfortably hot on some days
in summer, and in New York. it is contended,
the streets are too narrow and the houses are
too high, so that columns of heated air are en-
closed therein, which no breeze from the ocean
can dissipate, Although at this season Of the
year, the heat Of the sun is at times oppressive
yet there is no doubt that the damp atmOs
pbere of narrow streets with high house is very
unhealthy, and that wide avenues, exposed tt
the ihuence of sun and wind, are much more
| healthy.
Year: 1872

A TEMPERANCE ADvoCATE.-A Meriden
man returned from the club a few nights
ago, got into the wrong house, and had just
pulled off his boots preparatory to seeking his
little bed, when the proprietor appeared, and
with some difficulty conducted him home.
was still so befogged that he insisted that his
friend (who, by the way, is strict temperance
man) should be put to bed, assured him he
would never say word about his being 8 in
tos-t Gated pointed out to him the evils of
incompetence, depicted the sorrow of his wife
if she should ever know Of his condition,
begged him never to touch another drop of
liquor, and even went so far as to produce a
bill for goods from one Of our merchants, which
he insisted was temperance pledge, and with
tears urged his friend to sign it, promising to
stand by him through 6 thick and thin y if he
would do so. 1t is needless to say the temper
ance man didn't 1" sign"
Year: 1872

How is it that women manage to look so cool
in warm weather? A man will go along with
open vest, handkerchief in hand, hugging
narrow strip of shade on the sidewalk with
dogged esperation that projecting celar-doors
and dry-goods boxes we'll nigh heighten to in
sanity, and making show of himself like
boiled carrot steaming from the pot, while q
woman-a young woman-will turn out in e
streaked dress, put on some kind of fy-net
around her waist, little friling, some blue
ribbon and lace collar, and sail along under
MONDAY sun looking as cool and graceful as
Norway pine on its native hills. Why is itR
Year: 1872

singular fact is that the colored people, whose
superstitons have become proverbial, did not
pay much attention to the announcement of an
approaching comet, although they were .gener-
ally aware that there was talk of such. In con-
versation with darkies of various grades and
colors, the writer found that they all laughed at
the idea Of any human being predicting the final
smash.up. A decent washerwOman of ginger
bread hue, on being questioned as to her fear
on the subject, went straight to the Bible for
some texts appropriate to the occasion. Her
verdict was, that ''if de Lor' was a-gwine to
destroy all things, he wouldn't put it in the
newspapers first.