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Year: 1872

The idler Is an annoyance -
nuisance. He is no benefit to any.
body. He is an intruder IN the hssy
thOroughfare Of every day life. He
stands In our path, and we push him
eOntemptnously aside. He IS Of no
advantage to any one. he annoys
busy men. He makes them unhappy.
He is cypher IN society. He may
have an Income 20 suppors him in
idleness, or may sponge or his good
natured friends, but in either case ne
is despised. Young men, DO some
thing in this busy buAtling, wide
awake world. Move about for the
benefit OF mankind, II not for yourself.
Do not be idle. Gods law Is that by
the sweat Of our face We shall earn our
bread. That Is q good Ons and the
bread we earn is sweet. Do not be
idle. Minutes are too precious to be
squandered thOughtlessly. Every
man and every woman, however ex-
alted or however humble, can do
good In this short lie, If so inclined
Therefore do nc 6s sdle.
Year: 1872

A person having been mentioned
who had been notoriOusly unfortunate
in his first marriage relation, and YET
had soon afterwards married again,
was asked if it was not rash TO embark
anew in an adventure which he had
already found to be so DISASTROUS =
mo, y said the philosopher, elevating
mis- hand aud his scountenance glowing
with enthusiasm, cit was the triumph
Of hope over experience"
Year: 1872

A wretch broke of an engagement
for the following cogent reasonn -
"You know a case is a fearful nuisance
and l always carry my cigars loose in
my vest pocket. The necessary
amount Of affection toward Molly was
awful rough on 'em. Never came
away from that house but every one
of 'em was smashed. Couldn't ex-
pect a fellow to waste good tobacco
that way, could your"
Year: 1872

Subtract from a great man all that
he owes to opportunity and all that
be owes to chance, all that be has
gained by the wisdom Of his friends
aud by the folly Of his enemies, and
the giant will often be left Pygmy.
-RQriOfp
Year: 1872

1t is a well-known psychological
fact that the conscience of children Is
formed by the influences that sur
round them; and that their notions Of
good and evil are the result OF the
moral atmosphere they Breathe
Richter.
Year: 1872

Generosity during life is a very
different thing from generosity in the
hour ofdeath; one proceeds from genu-
inc liberality and benevolence, the
other from pride or fear.-Horoce
Mann.
Year: 1872

FATAL ACCIDENT.-Eleazer Marshall, a re-
spectacle young married man, was killed at
South Paris yesterday by being run over by
freight train. He had been loading some bags
of grain upon platform car when the. train
commenced to move slowly;-he grabbed the
last bag and while in the act of throwing it up
on the car his foot slipped and he went under
the wheel which passed over the middle of his
body killing him instantly. Marshall resided
at West Paris - =
Year: 1872

W s..~ .-'-O."S ---Si iiA A'SI'
York, and the girl temporarily sheltered


At length the society sent the two lads to
homes in the west, and the girlwas adopt
ed by gentleman Of property, near the
city. The latter never knew that her
adopted father was not her own. The
boys have now grown up and acquired
property-one being a druggist and the
other a farmer. They have been extreme
ly anxious to communicate with their SIS
ter, and have been in correspondence with
her guardian for some time. During the
past week they have revisited the city for
the first time, very well educated young
men, in good circumstances. They visited
the Girls Lodging House, the Newsboys'
and other institutions Of the society. Tho
adopted father of their sister consented
that they should see her in his Office, pro-
yided they did not disclose their relation
ship, as she was only fifteen, and he wished
her TO suppose herself his daughter, 50
that her affection might not be weakened


Tor few years longer. Shs.is to inherit


his property. They felt the proprlety Of
this, and had their interview with her last


week, without discovering their relation


ship, and then returned, well satisfied, to
the west.
Year: 1872

The Thiers government has not yet
recovered from the fright by the Com
mune. 1t is still Furnishing the members
of that revolutionary league, without
mercy and without reason. The courts
are daily called ON to condemn men,
whose only crime is that of once having
worn the uniform Of the Commune,
though they would long since have
ceased to be dangerous, if full amnesty
had been granted them after the fall of
Paris. They were hurried into revolt
by the wild fury of the times, rather
than by any settled hostility to an es-
tlbhshed government. The severe pun
ishment inflicted upon them will make
more converts to communists principles
than all the harangues of living adyo-
Gates In many cases the treatment of
the Communists prisoners, before being
brought to trial, has been worthy the
days of the Bastile. Such 2 policy is
as far from being wise as humane.
In what striking contrast does its author
stand to- Roscl the young and brilliant
leader of the Commune, who, in the last
letter he wrote PrcyioUs to his execution
addressed to his friends these noble
words-I charge you, if ever tic party
which l have supported should attain
power. and if it should threaten its adj
yersaries with its vengeance, to make
Il se of this letter, to tell them that, AT
my last hour, | earnestly ask those who
have the honor to defend liberty not to
avenge its victims; that would be un7
worthy of lihertey, and of us who are
dead" Could not rhiers learn both
wisdom and humanity from this his
most illustrious victim?
Year: 1872

THE BALLOT Box IN TIE HOUSE OF
LORDS. midnight on Monday even
inc the House of Lords, after s protrac-
ted debate, came to vote on the ballot
bill The bill was passed to a second
reading by a vote of eighty-six against
ffty-six. 1t ought to be remembered
that the bill has already passed through
the House of Communs. The fact is
1hat the ballot, which was at one time
grand party cry in England, has ceas-
ed of late years to command any very
general interest. 1t is kind of fore
gone conclusion that the ballot must
pass into law. Mr. Gladstone, who was
long opposed to it, has become con
vert, and has lent it lukewarm sup
port. But it was matter of common
talk during its passage through the
lower House that the debates on the
ballot were, of all others, the dullest,
the most uninteresting and the least
cared for 1t is not by any means GER
tail that the Lords will pass the bill to
a third reading. 1t is just as likely as
not that they will throw it out. 1t is
certain, however, that if the bill is voted
down in the upper House, the Commons
will send it tupto them again next session.
Tlere is a reasonable presumption that,
as the bill has so often been approved
by the Commons, and as it is certain
to come up again and again, the Lords
may agree to make the experiment. The
ballet bill once passed into law, England
win be one stage nearer the Republican
goal
Year: 1872

As the result of series of experiments
on the destruction of low forms of life
by heat, DIR. Grace Calver demonstrates
that the germs of disease will withstand
a temperature of three hundred degrees
Fahrenheit. Exposure to such a heat as
this Injuries the fbres of all kinds of
cloths so seriously that they are unfit for
further use. 1t is, therefore evident
that the mere agency of heat cannot be
depended upon for the destruction of the
germs of corpuscles attached to the
clothing of persons who have suffered
from any contagious disease. The ne
cessity for change in opinion regarding
the power of chlorine gas to accomplish
this purpose is urged in a recent report
of the New York Board of Health on
the disinfection of clothing and rooms
that have been exposed to contamination
by small pox In the report in question
carholic acid is especially recommended
for the disinfection of clothing and bed
ding, and sulphurous acid gas, prepared
by burning sulphur, for the disinfection
OF rooms. The latter substance especial
ly seems to have the power of utterly
destroying the germs of smallpox, while
chlorine frequently fails altogether or
only accomplishes the object in an i'm
perfect manner.
Year: 1872

GENEVA ARBITRATION. In a special
telegram to the New York Times, from
London, the statement is made, on the
most trustworthy authority, that the
English Cabinet confidently expects that
the requested adjournment of the Gene
va Board will be conceded On the
other hand, comes q statement from
Washington to the effect that our Gov
ernment has resolved to resist any such
demand The only comfort that can be
extracted from the present state of dis
fracting uncertainty about the fate of
the Treaty is to be found in the fact
that so far as the proceedings at Geneva
are concerned, the suspense will soon be
over
Year: 1872

We find the following in the Rural South
land cit does not seem to be very gener-
ally known" says an exchange, "that the
cucumber is one of the most useful vegeta-
bleS we have, and can be dressed in Il
greater variety of palatable ways than any
other, except the tomato. 1t is better than
squash and more delicate than the egg
plant prepared in the same manner; can be
stewcd, fried or stuffed, and above all, can
be parboilcd, mashed up in batter and fried
rs lritters, more pleasant and easily pre-
pared than any vegetable or fruit. When a
cucumber Just becomes too old to be used
raw or for picking, it is then at its best for
cooking-and may be used for that purpose
even until the seeds become hard. A raw
cucumber is, for most persons, an indiges-
tible abomination, however much they may
admire it's flavor and odor.


BEST TINE TO CUT BUSHES. Twenty
years ago bought Il pasture of good soil,
but badly overrun with bushcs-roses,
blackberry, bayberry, and barberry. For
several years thereafter, az opportunity
occurred during the summer season, the
bushes were cut, and | had an opportunity
to observe the effect upon their life when
cut at different times. 1t was uniformly the
case with all kinds, that when they were
cut in the later part of August or in Sep
tember, they were most in ured if not killed
by the proceeding. The roses were nearly
all killed by one cutting at that season, and
the barberry, especially those Of large
growth and which were in fruit, never sent
up a shoot from the stump or root The
blackberry was more difficult to eradicate
with the scythe, but were then, and are
now, kept down better when cut late in
summer than at any other time. am con-
tldent the time mentioned IS the best to
destroy any plant by cutting up; and L
think it would be more etfectual if done
before the foliage drops in autumn, while
the plant is growing and too late to make a
new growth before winter. Country Gen
tleman.
Year: 1872

The only way to meet afllction is to
pass through it solemnly. slowly, with
and faith, rs the Israeltes pass
ed through the sea. Then its very
waves of misery will divide and become
to us q wall on the right side and on the
left, until the gulf narrows and narrows
before our eyes and we land safe on the
opposite shore Miss Muloch.
Year: 1872

western editor lately gave notice that
he intended to spend fifty dollars for -
new head Tor his paper. The next dav
one OF his subscribers dropped him the
following note: 'Doa't do it, Better
keep the money and buy a new head for
the editor"
Year: 1872

RuNAwAYs are oftener occasioned by
poor harness than by any other cause. To
be safe, buy your harness of of Elias Jacka,
next door above Vivians Drug Store.
Every piece warranted of good stock and
well made
Year: 1872

For Jewellery Of any description Joe
Cartwright SAYS the ladies' will do we'll TO
call on him. His stock is the largest and
most attractive, of any in the county, and
his prices are not to be got under by any
dealer.
Year: 1872

LOOK is sufficient to satisfy any one
that Daum Il Schiling have the most at
tractive and complete stuck Of boots and
shoes IN this market. They also make to
order and guarantee satisfaction, boots
aud shoes for all comers. Go there at least
before you buy.
Year: 1872

NEVER MIND RISING EARLY.-An this
talk about early rising is moonshine The
habit of turning out of bed in the middle of
the night suits some people; let them enjoy
it. But it is only folly to lay down general
rule upon the subject. Some men are fit for
nothing all day after they have risen early in
the morning. Their energies are deadened,
their imaginations are heavy, their spirits are
depressed. 1t is said you can work so well in
the morning. Some people can, but others
can work best at night; others, again, in the
afternoon. Long trial and experience form
the only conclusive tests on these points, As
for getting up early because Professor Gam
mon has written letters to the papers proving
the necessity of it, let no one be goose
enough to do it. We all know the model
man, aged eighty-'T invariably rise at five !:
l work three hours, take a light breakfast
namely, cracker and pinch of salt-work
five hours more; never smoke; never drink
anything but barley water; eat no dinner.
and go to bed at six in the evening"" If any,
body finds that donkeyfied sort of life suits
him, by all means let him continue it. But
few people would care to live to eighty on
those terms. If a man can't get well wither-
ed and crumbled up on easier terms than
those, it is almost as well that he should de-
part before he is a nuisance to himself and
bore to everybody else.
Year: 1872

Upon the first page of last weeks MINER, we printed some correspondence concerning the Thirty fifth Parallel Railroad. Although it is reported that the proposed aid from me city of San Francisco to the Atlantic and Pacific Company, which has Government charter and land grant for a road over this parallel, is not likely to be given, we yet do not despair of the early construction of the road.

 So far from being weak or bankrupt corporation, as some would have it, we un- derstand this company to be one of the most substantial yet organized in the Pacific Rail- road interest. Its directors are among the most respectable and wealthy citizens of Boston, New York and St. Louis, and its operations thus far, in Missouri and the h. dian Territory, have been conducted in an able and liberal manner.

 The road, so far as built is, we are assured, equal to any west of the Mississippi, and but for the lack of land grant in the Indian Territory, it would, by this time, have been completed to the Rio Grande-perhaps to the Little Colorado.

 If Congress performs its original agree ment with the Company, and by the organi- ration of the Indian Territory, or in any way, secures to it the land grant the work will Dc vigorously prosecuted. In any event the 35th parallel is too inviting and impor- tant route to the Pacific to be long Cnoc- cupied, and we are yet confident that the iron horse will travel over it as soon as over the 32d parallel, with all the advantages the Texas and Pacific Company, under the ire pressible Tom Scott, now seems to enjoy.

 4 rumor comes to us that the Central Pa cifc Company, of California, is negotiating for the control of the Atlantic and Pacific company's interests, and will, if successful, push the Southern Pacific Railroad of Cali fornia, (now nearly finished to Bakersfeld) to the Colorado river and rapidly build the road across this Territory and New Mexico, cia the 35th parallel, expecting to secure an outlet to Missouri through Colorado and Southern Kansas.

 In such case, the whole trouble in the h. dian Territory would be avoided, and the road might be speedily completed from San Francisco to St. Louis.
Year: 1872

A preliminary report of what Lieutenant Wheeler and his aides have done for science and their country, is already printed, and the Lieutenant will please believe us when we say that we are duly gratified for his remem- brance of the MINER. -

 His allusion to the murder of poor Loring and other members of the expedition: by Date Creek Apache Mohaves, is quite sympa- thetic, and his knowledge of the Apache question leads him to favor a war policy for the subjugation of said savages.
Year: 1872

Money is said to be scarce, just now, in and around Prescott, yet our merchants do not complain of trade.

 The Quartermaster's Department will soon have funds; Paymaster Nelson will soon dis gorge some greenbacks; farmers will soon dispose of their grain, Sc., and money will then be little easier to get hold of. For our part, we mean to live in hope, if, perchance we should have to die in despair.
Year: 1872

At latest dates from New York, O'Conor had not refused or accepted the Louisville nomination. In answer to letter from the Mayor of Troy, he is reported as saying:

 "I am only one among forty millions. My consent or approval is not necessary to any public act of the many, of few, or of one. "
Year: 1872

SOME few years ago gentleman IN
England who had been dining mot
wisely but too WE'LL" In the course OF
the evening drew n check for = large
amount, and having signed it poked It,
BY means OF a stick, into box placed
at the gates Of charitable institution
to receive the donations OF paSsers by.
When he regained his sobriety the
next morning he remembered with
horror his liberality Of the previous
night. and addressed moving appeal
to the managers Of the institution In
question to restore him the amount OF
the check. which he found had been
cashed before he had had time to dress
himself aud drink one bottle OF soda
water. As IL was found that the un-
fortunate man had absolutely LEFT him
self penniless, the managers, it is be-
lieved, kindly allowed him small
sum to carry him on until the next
quarter, but the shock was too much
for him. and after n few days Of in-
tense mental agony he fell into state
Of total abstinence, from which he
never rallied.
Year: 1872

The indolent habits Of the Orientals
are well illustrated by the following
bon mot, which. in the regions Of the
East, has assumed the character OF an
adage: NO man should run when
he may walk. walk when he may
stand, stand when lie may sit, or sit
when he may lie down." -a-.
Year: 1872

THERE Is a man living in Chautau-
qua county, NY. who buried his wife
nine years ago. Like many another
man he married again. About two
weeks ago he got into dispute with
his present wife, and during the con-
troversy told her that the dead wife
had been the better looking woman OF
the two. The new wife denied it-he
insisted-and finally said his dead wife
had miniature Of herself on her per-
son, and he would dig up her body and
get II, so as to satisfy the dou6ter as
10 the truth Of what he said. Accord
ingly he got pick and spade and pro-
ceeded to the graveyard and in short
time disinterred the body, found the
locket and brought It forth.
Year: 1872

There will be an examination before Mayor Brest
tonight in Trenton, In the case Of George Reegch
and Ludwina, his wife, being the defendants, and
the sufferer, daughter of theirs, seventeen years
of age, who was it is alleged beaten so savagey on
Sunday night, that medical aid was necessary. She
is now In bed, unable to get up, from the injuries
inflicted upon her. The girl had been at service at
the house OF Mr. Peter Fell in the Seventh ward and
the parents watched for her to come out and then
attacked her. They were both arrested and held
to bail in the sum of 900 for an examination to-
night. The girl denies that there was any cause
for the beating but the parents tell q different
story The family are Germans. The father and
mother came to this country first and soon after
they sent for the daughter, who, when she arrived
went out to service.


The father has been working In the rolling mill,
not earn any money. His city tax, nineteen dol
lars, was due, and he went to the house where the
girl was In service to ask her to lend him seven
dollars. as he had all the tax money except that
sum. The girl refused to lend the money, and
called her father d. old fool. The father and
mother were near when she came out OF the house.
and they allege that she Is form
ing incOngruOuS relationships with man
much too old for her. The father, feeling exasper-
ated that he had paid her passage to this country
and that she would not help him In return, took
head against wall. He admits that but says he
did not do so until after she had struck him. The
girl alleges that her mother also struck her; but
Mrs. Hirth, who saw the ARRAY, says that the
mother did not strike the girl, but merely went up
to her as she stood crying and spoke to her.
Year: 1872

EVERY industrious, wide-awake person
can find ways and means of earning mon
ey, but after it is fairly earned the great
trouble with everybody is that it slips
away so easily. Every time you turn you
will find ways and means for spending
money. Now the great art in spending
well, is to make every dollar show where
it is invested. There are so many thou.
sand ways of disposing of it, which never
seem to give any returns.


When young man calls a circle about
him in a saloon, and treats all to glass,
or plate of oysters, he will have nothing
left to show for his money. He has not
even made gain in the respect or affec-
tion of Others. If the same sum had been
invested in food for suffering family, it
would have yielded him the best interest.
Deeds of real charity are always paying
investments.


When young man indulges in his
three cigars day, he will have only the
satisfaction of seeing his money vanish
into smoke. The money spent weekly in
this hurtful indulgence might buy many
things he stands greatly in need of, or
they would accumulate rapidly a little
sum towards buying himself a home.
Smoking, wine-drinking, young working
men are apt to live in other peoples
houses all their days. They are regular
trolling stones" and no moss, in the
shape of tasteful home, with clustering
vines and beautiful trees with fruit.laden
boughs, ever gathers about them.


Young housekeepers need quite as much
to learn the art of spending well. A dol
lar invested in a nice covered dish for the
table, useful mat for the hall, a beauti-
ful tree for the front door yard, will give
a hundred'fold the pleasure that it would
in strip of trimming about the hem of a
dress, or fat chicken for the table, which
leaves you no better satisfied than if YOU
had dined off an inexpensive chop. Think
well over every dime you pay out, and re-
solve TO put il to the best possible account.
The art of spending is even more i'm
portant one than the art of earning mon.
ey. You may gain it by the spadeful and
yet fritter it all away by the spoonful -
Prairie Farmer.


-
Year: 1872

sss- A few months ago Mr.. Greeley said,
referring to the possibility of restoration of
the Democratic party to power "Whatever
chastisement may be deserved by our ma
tional sins, we must hope that this disgrace
and humiliation will be spared us. Though
you paint an inch thick, to this complexion
you must come at last The brain, the heart,
the soul of the present Democratic party is
the rebel element at the South, with its
Northern allies and sympathizers."
Year: 1872

A correspondent Of the london
Queen says: Calmly looking on at
the unseemly controversy now
raging between the sexes, and gath
ering from the current literature
what man expects from woman, we
fear there is nothing in store but
failure on the one side and disap-
pointment on the other. In the
first place, the being that man de-
scribes as hclp-mate for him is
not to be found on earth-was not
found in Paradise, amid the inno-
cencc, freshness and beauty of the
first creation. In early ages of the


world the sons of God became


enalnored of the daughters of men !;


the reverse is now the case-thc
sons of men are aspiring, in theory
at least, to the angels of heaven.
The impossible woman, that every
man seeks for and no man ever
finds, is an angle--not only a per-
feet being, but not compound OF