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Year: 1873

A lady had gone to visit a young
couple Of the better class of the poor.
They had no children, and the husband
being stoker on the roilway, they
were above the reach of want, Under
those circumstances it seemed to the
visitor that they might have attended
to their religious duties at least to the
extent of going to church on Sundays,
and she ventured to intimate as much,
to the young woman, who was stand
ing rather idly. at the door. "Will
you please walk in till l show you
something?" was the woman's an
swer and she conducted her visitor to
the little kitchen, where her husband
sat by the FIRE. He had just come for
half an hour to have his tea, and was
watching the kettle with the most alb
sorbing interest. He was, of course,
in his woi king clothes, and his face and
hands were of deep oily black, after
the manner of stokers. "Now, ma am"
said the woman pointing to him, "you
see that there man. That's my hus-
band, and I'm bound to do a part by
nlm, dlu IOuISI1, odlu Iho
visitor, anxious to uphold the duties
of matrimony. "Very well, then,
would you like to know. how pass my
Sundays? A washing Of he! Never a
blessed moment has he TO wash HIM
self through the week out early and
late, and half of the night too, and
blacker nor any crow all the while.
Well, on Sunday it is fitting aud pro-
per that he should try to look like a
christian if he can; so he sets me to
it after we eats our breakfast, with q
bucketful of soapsuds and scrubbing
brush, and l rubs at him, off and on
all day, TIL my arms ache iearfully,
and then after we has our tea he
says to me, Come, Sally, have another
try, there brave wench,' and / goes
at MIN again and sluices him down
till you'd think born nigger'd come
out white; and, if you believe me,
ma'am, when l poiishss him off with
dry towel afore he goes to bed, he's on
ly light brown after all" What
was to be said to such stubborn facts
especially when the good woman
finished with the unanswerable argu-


ment, 80 you see, ma'am,. them as


wants to live religious has best not to


marry u stoker." r.
Year: 1873

The way to make easy times is as
clear as daylight.


Let every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once if it is possible.


Be willing to make sacrifice in or
der to meet promptly all your engage
ments.


Stop grumbling at the faults or mis-
takes of others, and attend faithfully
to your own affairs.


Deal fairly, leniently and cheerful
ly with all persons who owe you or
are in pecuniary trouble.


If you are out of debt thank the
Lord, and then go around among your
friends, and enemies too,. if you have
them, and render them all the assist
ance in your power.


Don't hoard your money; but loan
it or use it to relieve the needy, on
the same principle as you would give
bread to the needy in day of famine.


Do what you can in every way to
relieve pecuniary distress, to check
the current Of financial embarrass-
ments and restore public confidence.
Year: 1873

John Ploughman once said, 81 never
know a good horse which had not some
odd habit or other, aud | never yet
saw a minister worth his salt who had
not some crochet or oddity. Now
these are the bits of cheese that cavil-
ers SMELL out and nibble at; this man
is too slow, and another too fast; the
first is too Aowery, and the second is
too dull. Dear me, if all Gods crea-
lures were Judged in this way, we
should ring the doves neck for being
too tame, shoot the robins for eating
spiders, kill the crows for swinging
their tails, and the hens for not giving
milk. When a man wants to beat q
dog he can soon fnd stick, and at
this rate any fool may have something
TO say against the best minister in
England"


A California paper discharged its
local editor because he was SO much
occupied in trying to throw four skies
against some bar.keepers tray full.
Year: 1873

Who can read without emotion the story
oftwo little girls in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The eldest was seven years OF age, the
youngest only five. A drunken father left
them alone in their room for six days with
only small loaf OF bread for food. When
the children were found the elder sister
was nearly dead, having refused to eat OF
the bread so that her sister might not sur
fer, We hear great deal of heroines Does
history furnish an example equal 10 this
Year: 1873

STEAMERS Losr AT SEA In the last
three months eleven English steamers
have been lost ut sea with all on board


This fact is appalling, and mus. be a,,rib-
uled to their construction. II has been
stated that these steamships were new
bu, built Of inferior iron, with a length
ten times their width and depth Of hold
equal to their width. with the idea Of a
gain Of freight combined with speed An
other mistake. the International Steam
ship Company declare. is, that steamships,
launched in the ordinary way, arc apt to
sustain damage near the midship sec,
ton. To remedy this the corapany sug-
gcst that steamships Of great lengt should
be built in docks and aoated out. The
record Of these losses is apt to grow. us-
less some measures are adopted requiring
steamships to be built with view to safety y
rather than quantity Of freight and speed.
Year: 1873

Our thanks are duo to Lewis Thompson
Esq. for a copy Of bill. introduced BY
him into the Legislature at Dover. entitled
d" An act for the protection Of married
women" Wo would like to have laid
this bill before our readers, but could no,
for the want Of room
Year: 1873

On Wednesday tho Pope gave audience
to several officers Of the United States Navy
now in Rome. In tho course Of conyer.
sation his Holiness asked how he would
bo received in America. The officers re-
piled that the people Of that country would
regard his residence among them as a
great honor.
Year: 1873

saw in the TINES of the 30th ult a com:
munication from observer" complaining OF
the conduct of some of the congregation OF the
church where he attends ia not COZ forming to
the customs and publishing them to the world
in order to bring the reproach and censure OF
the world on them. Was Observers object,
in so doing, to benefit or injure them anu
while their conduct may have been improper
was not his more so? and not only improper
but in direct violation of Gods WORD, Whlc1
teaches that if aught exists between US ana
our brother to 90 to him and tell him his
faults between him and US alone, aud II he
will not hear then, to take one or two others
with its and if he will not hear then, tell 1t to
the church but Observer in violation OF this
nIo;n and express command publishes them in
one Of the publicprints of the day. Observer
NAV think that they we're not brethren but let
him read the teachings of Jesus as to who is
our neighbor and our duty to do good to all
men. 4,


We have other instances in the scriptures of
the course pursued with medlers In the buls-
ness of others that does not concern them /;
one individual said to Jesus Are there few
that be saved p Jesus did not answer his
question but told him what to do. Again, Jesus
rebuked Peter when he inquired of him And
what shall this man do?" Jesus said, IF
will that he tarry till | come, what is that to
thee; follow thou me.


Sportsmen inform US that wild geese while
feeding set one of their number to watch and
give tho alarm in case of, the approach of
danger, and the watch goose is the poorest of
the flock. Has Observer volunteered to be
the watch for his flock if so, may there not
be danger of his becoming poor and not be
able like Caleb and Joshua of old to go up and
possess the land, but perish in the wilderness.


~. UNCLE JAKE.
Year: 1873

The managers Of the city7cOhpdign, on the
part of the City Council, are preparing for the
annual election. All the city jobs that can be
thought Of will be commenced in a week or two
and every idle negro that can be found will BE-
put to wOrkw with view to securing his vote
where II will "'psy the best" in September


The taxes are high although the rate Of the as.
seSsment willnOt net heamount Of the approprla,
tIOnS made in January. Another floating debt will
therefore, be the consequence. But this will moi
disturb the equinimlty Of the City Finance Com
mittse. If they can only manage to secure full
working majority at the next city election. They
are al work to carry the first and third wards
They will then show their hand more fallyi in the
levy of taxes next year having enough EN-.
ploye9s ready to put in any of the wards where
they have inspectors, they will be ready to run
the riSk Of loaing one or two members. 3T y
Year: 1873

We copy an article from the Philadelphia


Telegraph, headed "Down the Delaware. ~
IL points out the numerous places to which


the people Of that city may go during the
hot season and spend a day or two In recreation,
AndenjOy hne fishing and bathing In reaching
these piaees in the elegant steamers that ply up
and down the Delaware, they are compelled to
pass Wilmington several times day. But ouI
people might As well be resldenis of the village
ofNewport or some town FIVE or ten miles distant
from the Delaware instead Of within mile and q
half. II was the utmost folly to run the lines Of
the city to the Delaware five do not intend to
possess Its shores. Hadwe good carriage road
70 the Delaware, Wilmington would soon be.
come the most importGnt landing on tho nobl6
River for these steamers, and we have no doubi
that the owners Of the numerous boats would
very soon erect wharf In order 10 receive and
land freight and passengers. 1t would bS very
pleasant for our people to enjoy the opportunity
Of going to the numerous places spoken of in the
article 70 which we have alluded above.
Year: 1873

VALUABLE PROPERTY AT PCB4c sALE.--We
call attention to the advertisement of the valua-
BILE property Of the late EIIHU JEEFERsoS, Esq,
deceased, In another column to be sold to settle
the estate. This property is Of the FIRST quality.
The farm near blackbird has been highly cuItiva-
ted, isadmirably situated aud should command u
ready sale at high figure, notwithstanding the
stringency Of the money market.


The property In New Castle Is equally choice,
and now that that place is likely soon TO loom up
iRto quite q city, should be looked after By
thobs who desire tomakea sure aud heavy paying
investment. lsQ li.lza tar
Year: 1873

A man recently attempted to rescue
his confederate, who was confined in
the Sacramento Jail under sentence
of death for murder, but was discover
ed inside the prison walls by the Jail
or, and after little fusil between the
two, shot dead by the latter. The
Jailor is reported to have given in
this testimony as to what he did when
aroused out of his sleep:


81 heard the inner bell ring at 1:30
o'clock on the morning of the 10Th; it
was the gate bell of the jail; got up
and put on my boots; took the key Of
the cell and my revolver and went
into the Office cell; put on my pants
and picked up a self-cocking six
shooter; stuck it in my waist belt
got the key that unlocks the big IRON
door that leads in to the jail yard, the
key that unlocks the gate of the yard,
and the key that unlocks the cells,
and my revolver; went out OF the Of
flee cell and locked the door, and
slipped a couple of derringers in my
pocket; after which 1 went to the
turkeys room and procured q navy
revolver and three single-barrelled
pistols. Meantime, thinking perhaps
myiOwn pistol might miss fire, l took
down Henry rifle, and also placed
q seven-shoOter in my boOt.n
Year: 1873

Is it possible to do too much work
for Jesus9 Is there any danger that
Christians will Overtask themselves
in the service of their Master? Ought
we to impose any restraint upon our
services when the Lord calls, lest in
our zeal to follow him we overstep the
limits of the strength which he has
given US?


We do not believe that one Chris
ton worker in a hundred breaks down
with excess of work for Christ.
Work poorly systematized, work per-
formed in a needless, clumsy manner,
work hurried over, done in a self-suf-
ficient, vain-glOrious spirit, without
patience, without faith, without pray
er, without conservation, this may
well break down the health and de-
strOy the usefulness of any man.
But the Master does not say restrain
your zeal, for well he knows that
none of US have not too much of that.
But he would have US believe that his
special blessing and protection is Civ.
en- to those who are earnest in labor;
that self-saerifiee is the law of Chris
tian living, and that to work while
the day lasts, doing all with ones
might, should be the burden of every
Christ-like soul. For the night com
eth when no man can work.
Year: 1873

The prize-package boy is doomed.
No one who has travelled on an Amer
lean railway has failed to meet him,
or to be tempted to murder by his
shrill voice and persistent impudence.
His packages, consisting OF unwhOie-
some candy and occasional bits Of
brass jewelTy, are revolving 10 any
properly constituted mind f; while the
BOY himself, with his Objectionable
voice and his eXasperating habit OF
perpetually sIamming the car-dOOrs, IL
lOathsOme in the last degree. The
Assembly has passed bill suppress
ing him upon all the railways Of this
State, and other legislatures will have
to follow this example, unless they
are willing to see our railways built
up at the expense of their own. There
is b1t one effect Of the bill which can
prove anything but an unallOyed
blessing. Heretofore the first thought
Of any one reading of a railway cOlli-
sion. has been the wild hope that
prize-package boy had been killed.
With his suppression will vanish the
only possible consolation which can
ever be drawn from a railway aeci-
dent in this State.-N y TINES.
Year: 1873

Unquestionably the murder Of Ger
eral Candy was a horrible case OF
bloody perfidy, and the demand for
vengeance upon the murderers is per
fectly natural and proper. But was it
any worse than the murder Of Presi-
dent Lincoln ? We ask this question
for the benefit Of those papers which
are now elamOring for the extermina-
ton of the Indians generally, but
which either openly apolOgized for, or
secretly sympathiZed with the other
dreadful erime.-Er.
Year: 1873

Young folks should be mannerly.
How to be so is the question Many
a good girl and boy feel that they can't
behave themselves in the presence OF
company. They feel timid, bashful
aud self-distrustful the moment they
are addressed by a stranger or appear
in company. There is but one way
to get over this feeling, and acquire
easy and graceful manners ; that is, to
10 the best they can tll the time at
home, as well as abroad. Good man.
ners are not learned by arbitrary
teaching so much as habit. They
grow upon Us by use. We must be
courteous, agreeable, civil, kind, gen.
tlemanly and womanly at home, and
then it will become a Kind Of second
nature to be so everywhere. A coarse
rough manner at home begets a habit
of rOughness, which we cannot lay of
if we try when we 60 among stran-
gers. The most agreeable people we
have ever known in company are
those who are perfectly agreeable at
home. Home is the school for all
good things, especially for good man.
ners.
Year: 1873

A subscriber to the Lyons IN. YD
Republican, who cut off his patronage
because the paper did not suit his
views, and was surprised that the
paper was published not withstanding,
was thus addressed by the editor: SIT
was pretty close work for a while,
We confess; but by emitting to put
sugar in our tea, and by buying a
cheaper grade Of paper collars and
reversing them for the second or third
time, we managed to rub along until
a new subscriber came and took the
place Ofour respected, !, disgusted friend
and then Richard was himself
again. Nothing but rigid economy
will carry one safely oyer such a
calamity as the less OF fasubscriber."
Year: 1873

\ few nights ago well known
business man INDUCED too literally
in the eXhilarating beverage until a
late hour. About midnight he set
out for home, which happens to be in
a three story tenement house on Daily
street. Instead of going to his own
door he walkeI confidently up to his
neighbor's door, and pulled the bell
boldly. Some time elapsed before
the door was opened; the whiskified
individual became outrageous, and
began to act in a most violent manner.
The door was opened, and to his hOr-
rOr, by a stranger. His wrath in
creased, aud in less time than it takes
to write this, he had hurled him
headiOng out upon the street He
then locked the door and went up
stairs, but nothing seemed in its
proper place, and he found progress
sion almost impossible. He finally lit
4 match, and a glance at the sur
rOundings convinced his muddled
brain that he was not in his own
house. He got out, therefore, as soon
as possible, and fortunately Just in
time to escape q thrashing from the
enraged proprietor, who had effected
an entrance by the back door.
Year: 1873

A Wisconsin Justice of the Peace
divorced n couple recently as follows
Ne stood them in tho middle Of the
Aoor, backs together, and as they walked
away from each other, he repeated the
marriage ceremony backwards.
Year: 1873

The Attorney General of Indiana has brought
suit for sOOOO against John c. shoemaker ex-Audtor
that amount being the interest upon the Sinking Fund
which he received while state Auditor and used as ns
own private means without returning IT 10 tne state.


That was most ferocious revenge which au
indignant young in Utica. because she wa-
bidden the wedding of friend. She just sent In
bill Of $50 for twenty weeks board Of a canary bird.
which she had cared for during the friends Winter IN
Albany. This Is the very first bill for boarding bird
which we have ever heard or.


The Temperance Women of Concord, y. IT,,
have begun the business OF suppressing the liquor traffic


most vigorous way They visit the hotels and dram
shops and request the Grog-seers to discontinue the
business. The of call is made also at The drug
politely treated, bat in do their Establishments
appear to have prevailed with the evil doers, though
several were kind enough to offer To sell out at All alarm


ing sacrifice.


In the western part of Taunton bristol
Co.. Mass). an OK which had escaped from a drove has
been roaming about occasionally taking excursion
into the neghboring towns of Rehoboth and Dghtou,
garding roads, eapng walls and fences and taking
to the woods whenever sttempJ made to capture
him. Such opportunity for hunt not to be- dis
with TO him down. and for hours the chase
tnued. rTIe made good fight for his life. Some Of the
pursues reed" and Others narrowly escaped the
creatures horns. But bullet from rife al last
brought him down. Fine sport, was MT itl


There is an old negro living at Norwich
Conn, who formerly slave, owned by Col Robart
n retired Revolutionary Oncer, residing at lOnkers, N
Y sketch of the life Of this old embodying in
teresting personal recolections is in preparation.
are informed by The Norceh Advertiser; that paper
furnishes extract from the narrative in which the
aged negro speaks OF Aaron Burr and thus details
Of his movements, subsequent TO the duel with Ham-
ton, in sOi: burr went first to his own home in New
York near the old State Prison, on West Broadway.
The next day between 3 and in the afternoon,
were putting up new yard fence. there appeared
cloud Of dust down the road. Some said
that IL was somebody riding, for the day quiet
it could not be the wind. BY and by up and
gave note 10 master that said he comlng Pretty
soon he came up himself In his fOur-horse coach. His
head was bowed down. and he didn't say word; hut
then his head was always bowed down. He caught 4
right hold OF masters hand. and they went into the
house and didn't him again till the next evening
The day that Hamilton buried bad day for
him. and he didn't eat any dinner, 20 out for his
walk the river but he walked and fro along the
corridor up stairs with his hands behind him. We
could hear the funeral guns sounding up from New
York. Burr kept his servant in the room with him
night and day, and he had OF pistols and sword
In his with him He stayed with my master some
tme practiced good deal at target shooting down
by the river bank. aud myself have seen white birch
where he had shot II balls into space larger
than my hand"
Year: 1873

Peter ]. Mcdonald has just completed
the model of a steam plough of his own
invention, and an application for a
patent has been forwarded to Washing
ton. The machine is novel one. 1t
consists of pair of uides or ways, tif
teen feet in length, projecting nearly
at right angles with and in front of an
ordinary traction engine, supported by
a triangular frame, and to which are
suspended the ploughshares. BY n
simple arrangement the ploughshares
are drawn toward each other and meet,
and being placed at an acute angle with
the machine gradually force it back the
width of furrow. The same machin-
cry is SO arranged that the guys are
slightly raised, the ploughshares are
drawn back to the outer ends and the
operation of ploughing is repeated. The
inventor asserts that none OF the power
is wasted in hauling, but that it is all
applied directly to the ploughshares.
He believes that all the necessary ma
chinery can be constructed for $1,000.
The ploughs and the machinery belong.
ing to them can be readily disengaged
and the driving machinery used as an
ordinary traction engine. With n ten
horse power engine he says that from
fifteen to twenty ploughs can be oper-
ated on each guy.
Year: 1873

Birds of lofty fight, as the candor,
eagles, vultures and carrion-seeking
prowlers of the feathered race, have
telescope vision, and thus they are
enabled to look down and discover their
unsuspecting victims. AS they approach
noiselessly from above, the axis of vision
changes-shortening, so that they see
just as distinctly within one foot of the
ground as when at an elevation of one
mile in the air. This fact explains the
balancing of fish-hawk on its pinions
half q mile above O still pond, watching
for fish. When one is selected, down
the savage hunter plunges, the focal
axis, varying as the square of the dis
tance, giving the hawk distinct view
of its prey always. AS they ascend,
then the axis is elongated by curious
muscular arrangement so as to see far
again. Snails have their keen eyes at
the extremities of flexible horns, which
they can protrude or draw in at pleasure.
By winding the instrument round the
edge of leaf or a small stalk, they
can see how matters stand on the op.
posite side. The hammer-headed shark
has its wicked looking eyes nearly two
feet apart. 1t can bend the thin edg-
ings of the head on which the organs
are located 80 as to examine the two
sides of an object the size of q fully
grown Goldfish. Flies have immovable
eyes. They stand out from the head
like half an apple, exceedingly promi-
nent. Instead of being smooth hem
ispheres, they have an immense number
of facets, resembling old-fashioned
glass watch-seals, each one directing
the light directly to the optic retina.
That explains why they cannot be ap-
preached in any direction without see-
ing what is coming.
Year: 1873

Lichenstein says that African hunters
avail themselves of the circumstance
that the lion does not spring upon his
prev till he has measured the ground,
and has reached the distance of ten or
twelve PAGES, where he lies crouching
upon the ground, gathering himself for
the effort. The hunters, he says, make
it rule never to fire upon the lion till
he lies down Mt this short distance, so
that they can aim directly at the head
with the most perfect certainty. He
adds that if n person has the misfortune
to meet lion, his only hope of safety
is to stand perfectly still, even though
the animal crouches to make spring
that spring will not be hazarded if the
man has only nerve enough to remain
motionless as statute, and look steadily
at the lion. The animal hesitates, rises
slowly, retreats some steps, looking
earnestly about him, lies down, again
retreats, till having thus by degrees got
quite out of what he seems to feel as
the magic circle of mans influence, he
takes flight in the utmost haste.