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Year: 1870

Don'tspeak of persons, with whom you
are slightly acquainted by their first
name.


Irritability is breach Of good morals
as we'll as good manners. Gentle cour-
tesy we owe to all.


Be punctual 1t is always annoying
to be kept waiting and often a serious
detriment to ones business.


Answer civil question pleasantly and
kindly, even if you are in a hurry.


Jokes are dangerous things, to be used.
like gunpowder, with extreme caution


If possible, always be at the station
few minutes before the cars start. Get
ting aboard after the train is in motion
is not favorable to bodily safety, nor to.
that calmness Of mind which leads US to
act wisely.


Don't be disturbed if you find the
best seats taken. AS no one knew you
were coming, of course, they did not re-
serve one.


Have your ticket in your hand. Con-
ductors hayn't always the time to wait
till the portmonnaic, pocket, and trav-
sling bag, are searched, before receiving
it. We once saw lady, when the con-
ductor demanded her ticket, dive to the
lowermost depth of her travelling bag,
where she clutched something frantically,
and, in blind haste, handed the waiting
officer fine tooth comb, suppcsing it to
be her ticket, which she afterward found
in the folds Of her garments


When car is crowded, don't fill seat
with your bundles. True politeness is
not amiss, even amid confusion and bus
tie of public conveyance. If an open
window proves uncomfortable to another,
you will close it. Don't fdget with the
hands orfeet. Let alone the watch chain
and necktie. Quiet ease, without stiff
ness, indicates gentle breeding.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and eflectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to ats original color
aOiM the gloss and
freshness Of yOuth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

A more gallant ship than the Are
thusa never sailed over the waters OF
the ocean. Swift. steady and quick to
obey her helm, she was the pride Of
her sailors and the envy of other sea-
men.


AS she sailed out OF her port on her
last voyage to Hongkong, there was .
little knot Of people on her quarter
deck, who stood looking back in ST.
lence to the slowly-tading shores.
One was An elderly man Of mild and
benevolent face, who seemed much
more fitted to be city missionary
than anything else. He was the cap
tain. Near him was another oe about
the same age, short, thick-set, With an
irascible face and abrup. manner; .
young girl of extreme beauty leaned
upon his arm. Her name was Helen
Travers, and this was her father. a
rich China merchant, who was taking
her from bOarding-sch to his own
far-distant home. As lovely as the
dawn, amiable and accomplished, her
charms would have made her a prize
for any man, but they were heightened
by her being the sole and declared
heiress to the vast wealth of Mr.. Trav-
ers. Such seemed to be the impress
sion Of q man of important air who
stood at her elbow. This parsonage
gave himself out as the Hon. Eugene
Beresford. traveller to China for the
benefit Of his health. He was the only
one who spoke, and his conversation
was addressed solely to the lovely
Helen Travers.


The last who composed the group
was Talbot, the mate of the ship. He
was q man of small size, but muscular
frame. His face was dark, and his
eyes intensely black and piercing.
His age did not seem to be over twen-
ty-one, and his energy and skill
marked him out as the real ruler Of
the vessel.


The shore faded out from view, and
the first day of the voyage was sue
ceeded by others. They passed be-
yond the Bay of Biscay and the
Azores. They sailed within sight OF
St. Helena, whose stern cliffs tower OF
high like the walls Of huge fortress
and At length rounding the Cape o.
Good Hope they passed into the Indi
an Ocean.


Long before this the character of al
on board had been plainly exhibited


The Hon, Eugene Beresford devoted
himself unremittingly to the fail
young heiress. In fine weather h'
] was her constant attendant, and
Year: 1870

For all persons, especially invalids,
and those who take cold easily, thin
material of woolen cause, next the
skin, is safest and best, because


First, 1t Is nOn-cOnductor, carries
heat from the body more slowly than
cotton, linen, or silk; all colds are
caused by the body becoming colder
than natural, especially If 1t Is made
colder rapidly, and woolen material
next the skin Is the best thing known
to prevent this rapid cooling, especi-
ally after exercise which has caused
perspiration, and does not cause that
disagreeable sepulchrll dampness
which wet linen does when it comes
in contact with the skin.


The warmer the weather the more
the need for wooden next the skin;
hence British sailors are required to
wear wooden next the skin, in tropi-
cal latitudes, in summer, as the best
observed protection against disease.


All garments worn next the skin
during the day should be removed at
night and spread out for thorough air.
ing and drying.


Cotton is the best material to be
worn next the skin at night. All
changes from heavier to a lighter
clothing in summer, should be made
by putting on the lighter clothing ut
the first dressing in the morning.


1t Is greatly safer for children, for
invalids, and for old persons, to have
too much clothing than too little.
Year: 1870

To what extent can men prophecy,
and is the gift confined to the just
made perfect? Talleyrand is made
to speak as follows In his memoirs


1--WE must not delude ourselves; the
European equilibrium, of which we
laid the foundation at the Congress of
Vienna, will not be eternal. Some
day it will tumble, but it promises us
some years of peace. What threat
ems to break it up at a period more or
less distant are the aspirations which
are becoming universal In the center
of Germany. The necessities of dc
fense and of common danger have
prepared their minds for German
unity. This idea will continue to de-
velop, and some day one of the great
powers who form part of the confed-
GRAFTON will form the desire to realise
this unity for its profit. Austria Is
not to be feared; being composed OF
scraps and mOrsels, and having no
unity at home, she cannot dream of
expecting it abroad. 1t is Prussia,
then, that should be watched. She
will try the venture and If she sue
ceeds, then all the conditions of the
balance of power will be changed,
and it will be necessary to seek fol
Europe new basis and new organ
.zation."


Having examined the more or less
difficult circumstances amid which
this reconstruction will be effected, M
Talleyrand indicates France as being
the nation most interested in combat
ing the unification movement or in
seeking to be compensated for it,
All this reads as If written after the
facts instead of many years before
them.
Year: 1870

THERE is a man living in Calhoun
county, Miss, who is supposed to be
the strongest man In the State, If not
the entire South. He is thirty fl We
years of age, and weighs two hundred
and twenty-five pounds. He has been
known to carry three bars of railroad
iron, when 1t takes from three to five
ordinary men to carry one. He can
take cask containing forty gallons
of whisky or water (the former is pre-
ferred we presume), and raise 1t from
the ground and drink out of the
bunghole with as much ease as Others
could out of common pitcher; and
he has frequently taken barrel OF
-four under each arm, and, balancing
sack of salt on his head, carried
them for several yards with apparent
ly but little effort. He offers to bet
that he can lift thirteen hundred
pounds.
Year: 1870

How TO BE NOBoDY.-It Is easy to
be nobody, and we will tell you how to
do 1t. Go to the drinking saloon and
spend your time. You need not
drink much now; just little beer, or
some other drink. In the meantime
play dominoes, checkers, or some
thing else to kill time, SO that you
will be sure not to read any useful
book. If you read, let 1t be the dime
novels of the day. Thus go on keep
ing your stomach full, and your head
empty, and yourself playing time
killing games, and In a few years
you'll be nobody, unless, (as is quite
likely you should turn out drunk
ard or professional gambler, either
of which Is worse than q nobody
There are any number of young men
hanging about saloons, billiard rooms
and other rum shops just ready to
graduate and be nobodies.
Year: 1870

The Colesburg, Cape of Good Hope,
correspondent of the World writes I:
l have but just time to write you a
few lines about the diamond fields,
before the closing of the mail for
England. lam on my way there,
and at this place have formed a
company. We take an eight-mule
team and wagon, tent, large pump,
and set of sluices and sieves. The
diamonds are found 1000 yards from
the river bank (the VaaD, and the
banks are fifty feet high. The sur
rounding country is fiat, grassy, and
treeless. There Is no chance of get
ting water for sluicing by going up
the river and cutting a canal, as they
do in California, SO the next best plan
Is to rig pump on the banks OF the
river and lead the water to the sluice
boxes. have had my sluices made
wider than the gold sluice boxes of
California, and at the lower end have
u chest of drawers, the bottom of which
are different sized sleeves, thus assOrt-
ing the stones as they are washed,
according to their size, and making
it easier to pick out the diamonds
The only plan used now Is to
Is to cart the diamOndiferous earth to
the banks of the river, and there wash
1t by hand or through a long tom.


There is the greatest excitement in
the colonies of the Cape and Natal,
aud great rush is being made from
all parts to the diamond fields. Dia-
monds are coming in by the hund-
red. There are three hundred men in
the fields now.


Two governments and a native
chief claim the grounds-"The Trans
val Republic," the Free States" and
the Chief Yanki-but the miners
have made their own laws, and in
tend to keep the country themselves;
so the above governments are afraid
to try and enforce their demands of a
royalty on the diamonds found, and
the miners invite corners from all
parts Of the world. Provisions are
plenty and cheap, but mining-tools
of the right kind are scarce.
Year: 1870

MECHANICS. They are palace
builders Of the world not stick Is
hewn, not stone Is shaped In all the
lordly dwellings Of the rich, that
does not owe its beauty and fitness 10
the mechanic. The towering spires
that raise their giddy heads among
the clouds depend upon the mechan-
ic's art for their strength and sym
metry. Not an edifice for devotion,
or business or comfort but bears the
impression OF their hands.
Year: 1870

0uur0nGnC hepOfIs


Dr. SwINBuKNE, Health O1icer OF the Port, sub
mlttcd the following communication, which looks
exceedingly ike defence, and which was ordered
on fle:-


TO THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTH:-
BY creating this Board It is made the duty Of the
Health ODccr keep advised of all of diseases
Quarantine such information he
may have, enable the Board more etectuay to protect
public health of the district within Its control This duty
have from time time performed either verbally or in
writing have enGeavorcd 70 the Board advised of
everything within my department upon which seemed
that they should be informed lregre however,
To compelled to that some OF the records
OF the Board bear evidence that the information
have thus communicated has been misunderstood
been grossly perverted: That there may be
for risapprehenson hereafter far concerned
in terminating official connection with the Board
to submit following nal complete report for the
years covering the statistics OF disease under quarantine
AMI ask may be placed upon your minutes aud
come part Of your records:-


FEvERs


number of ports injected with yellow fever for
the past SIX years egtyonc, which we have received
2 vessels M which had sickness either In port, the
passage arrival and from which aOO cases Of yellow
fever received treated In the Quarantine hospitals
One hundred and fy Of these recovered and foynne
died


TIE number Of vessels bringing cholera 70 this port
Year: 1870

A New TRIcK-I know of an instance where
a fashionable dressmaker in New York urged an
economical young girl about to be married, to
buy of her costly trousseG1 or wedding outfit.
en-. No matter" said the complaissnt temp
ter, wilt wait four years and send in the
bill to your husband by degrees. Many ladies
do it, Fancy the position of q pure young
girl, wishing innocenty to make herself beau.
tiful in the eyes of her husband, and persuad
cd to 60 into the house with trick like this
upon her conscience. Yet it grows directly out
OF the whole theory of life which is preached
to many women-that all they seek must be
won by indirect maneuvres, and not by
straightforward living g-C0Tespondence Wonl
ans Journal
Year: 1870

An INCIDENT OF THE FLooD.-The recent
food In Virginia was terrible at Harper's
Ferry. Houses were swept away and about
twenty persons were drowned. A correspond
ent of the Baltimore American relates the fol-
lowing incident


james Shlpe, young man, was living with
his wife, to whom he had been welded about
five months, on OvertOn's Island When the
Hood swept away his house, on Friday night,
he stripped himself for a mighty swim and
taxing his wife on his back he plunged out
into the raging water hoping to strike tree,
or some of the strong houses that had not yet
yielded to the waves. He bravely struggled
along, holding to his precious burden, and
Selzlng one object after another, only to find it
give away under his grasp. His wife entreat-
ed HIM to let her GO and save himself; you
are not prepared to die, nly dear husband, and
| trust | am, were her words. At last he
caught by the water tank on Halls Island, but
he soon lost his hold and once more was adrift
in the food He next caught the branches of
floating tree, on which he supported him
self 1ur few minutes, and lifting up his wife
head, which he had been unable to keep above
the water, he found that she was dead. The
beloved form which he had borne for FIVE hun
dred yards, now cold aud lifeless, dropped from
his grasp and disappeared beneath the yellow
waters. The strong swimmer struggled OF
and soon struck the end wall of the burnt mil
on Heck Island, where he rested for few
minutes and then reached a tree growing il


front of the row of brick houses already men


toned from the tree he reached the roof o


one of the houses and planting himself behinC


one of the chimneys remained until brough


off ON Saturday
Year: 1870

Two workers in one field


Toiled on from day to day;
Both had the same hard labor.
Both had the same small pay;
With the same blue sky above,
The same green grass below,
One soul was full OF love,


The other full of woe.
One leaped up with the light.
With the soaring OF the lark:
One felt it ever night,


For his soul was ever dark;
One heart was hard AS stone,
One heart was ever gay;
One worked with many groan.
One whIStled all the day.
One had flUwer-clad cot


Beside merry mill,
Vile and children near the spot
Made 1t sweeter, fairer still;
Que wretched hovel had,


Full OF dIscOrd, dirt and din,
No wonder he seemed mad,


Wife aud children starved within,
Still they worked in the same field,
Toiied on from day to day,
Both had the saLle hard labor,
Both had the same small pay;
But they worked not with one will,
The reason let US tell
LO the one drank at the still,


And the ,ther at the we'll.
Year: 1870

1t was thought that the woman's voting last
fall in Wyoming was only joke, and that they
wouldn't keep on doing so, but the other day
they voted for a delegate to Congress. As
was surmised, he was the best looking man in
the Territory.
Year: 1870

THE EXPRESS ROBBERY NO ROBBERY AT
ALL-The Nissing Bonds are Found-During the
past week there has been considerable talk in
relation to the missing Of package of $29 800 in
U. 5. bonds sent from the Boston office of
Adams Express Company to the Treasury De-
partment, which was received in the office of
the company here on Sunday, I'd instant, and
not delivered. Although the officers Of the COM
pany made every effort to ascertain what had
become Of it, without success, they were almost
certain that there was no larceny, but other
officers Of the company considered it proper to
notify the banks, and therefore q circular was
issued for the purpose Of protecting themselves
The office was ransacked from top to bottom,
and nothing revealed until yesterday, when
Mr.. Voss, who has charge Of the money depart
ment, in putting away in the safe the matter re-
ceived from the New York messenger found that
there was an obstruction in one of the lower
compartments, and on examination found the
missing package, which being about of an
inch in thickness and inches by 13, fitted the
top of the compartment 30 nicely that it was
with difficulty taken out. This discovery was
the matter Of much c0ngratulation among the
employees of the company, and this morning the
package was sent to the Treasury.
Year: 1870




The following stories are told of the
Observation-Disclosures of clergyman OF the
church of Scotland:


He married rather late in life, and the
marriage tour was on the continent. AT
one of the hating places, Mrs. -- re-
tired to the hymeneal bower in advance OF
her lord, who sat for time cogitating
down stairs. Presently he came to him
self, and summoning the waiter. requested
to be shown to his bedroom He was, of
course, shown to the room to which his
wife had already retired. But he had for
gotten all about matrimony and what it in
volved, and recoiling from the doorway in
horror, turned upon the waitor with angry
upbraidings for showing him to a bedroom
already occupied by woman.


One Sunday morning he was dressing in
his bedroom, on a chair OF which lay q
tray containing halfa dozen shirts, starched
with fitting clerical stiffness. He pro-
gressed leisurely in his dressing till he
came to attempt fastening his waistcoat,
when he found that operation impossible.
After many Intellectual struggles, he called
his wife to his aid, who likewise found the
waistcoat insurmountable. She was at q
loss to explain the phenomenon, till she
happened to cast her eyes on the shirt tray.
1t was empty. The minister, in his absence
of mind, had put on the whole half-dozen
shirts, one on top of another, and it is no
wonder that his waistcoat would not but
ton.


On another occasion he and his wife
were under invitation to dine ut the man
sion of the laird of the parish. The min
lister had been out for hard days work.
visiting his parishiOners and when he
came home, little late, he found the mis-
tress alreacy dressed and waiting. He at
once went up stairs to make his toilet,
with strict injunctions from the good lady
to be quick. He was so slow, however,
that she got impatient, and went to see
what was the cause of the delay. Enter
ing the bedroom, she found the worthy
man placidly enjoying his first sleep.
Having undressed, it seems that, in his ab..
sence of mind, he had taken it for granted
that the natural sequel was to go to bed.
and he lay, totally oblivious of the dinner
party at the laird's.
Year: 1870

The Social Science Association has lately
closed its ninth general meeting in Phadel-
phia. The very existence of such an AssOca-
ton is healthful symptom of progress.
Judge Strong in his admirable opening adj
DRESS said with truth:


"The intelligent mind OF the country has hardly
awakened yet to full apprehension of what is meant by
social science. Scholars understand when speak the
science OF mathematics OF astronomy. physics gen
orally when speak OF the science OF law. the
ology medicine but when We talk Of science that
selects human society s subject. and includes in its
departments all that affects society for good ill.,
to many like those in dream. IL s remarkable
that the classification which the celebrated French
philosopher. Auguste C0mte. made. only few years
since, Of what In his opinion are all possible depart
ments OF human knowledge, he included what he de
nominated sociology not existing scienrc, hut as
something that might in distant hereafter. hc dcycl-
opod into department or knOwedgr."


Society, the Judge described aptly as an
organism which might be said to have life.
Now it is with this living organism, with
" these habits. diseases, opinions, capabilities,
81 and everything that acts upon social happi-
"ncss and Development; with all that has
been discovered or that yet may be known,
which tends to elevate and advance human
"socicty. that social science has to do


The field as will be seen, is wide enough
even in European countries, where the social
structures contain few component parts, and
during centuries have hardened into definite
shapes, of which the defects have grown patent
and obtrusive with time. The science is more
difficult than any other because of its vague
ness and more thiclly beset with problems.
What must it be in this country, then, which
is, after all, q scctliing cauldron, into which
have been thrown every race political creed,
religion, and theory under heaven, To war or
fuse together as they may chance, under a
system Of government alien TO the majority Of
themY How to bring fusion instead of war /;
how to detect and cure their diseases how to
rightly estimate and place the relation OF each
to each are but parts of the work that offers
itself to our social science philosopher. Where
such breadth of standing ground Is per-
mitted, it would be impossible for body
of learned and practical men. such as
assembled last week in Philadelphia, to
attempt to exchange opinions without offer
ing many ideas both rational and valuable.
They should have remembered, however, that
the danger lay in the wide limits OF the sub
ject, which would be likely to cause any search
after truth to degenerate into vague, indefinite
discussion. OF all sciences, sociology should
have its principles most firmly based on i'm
mutable TRUTH and should be most precise and
accurate in their application. An error in
mathematics or physics will perforce, right it.
self: but social science deals with human &C
Year: 1870

At late installation service in Chicago,
the Rev. Mr. Mitchell in delivering the charge to tho
candidate, said that the main hinderanco to tho
spread of religion in that city the devotion Of
the men to business and of the women to pleasure.
He told his brother that no would find it difficult
to induce in Chicago to stand still long enough
to listen TO the gospel" Then, by way of making
matters pleasant, the Rev. Mr.. Mitchell added that
&" ho was by means seeking to place the gospel in
opposition to rational business industry" He then
offered tho novel observation that Christ selected
for followers such men as Matthew, who had been
officer of the internal revenue and Peter, James.
and John, who had followed thriving business
while they fishers of men :" but unfortunately.
it is not OF record that any Apostle was in the grain
trade and sold damaged wheat. Ii is usually taken
for granted in discussions of this nature that mer
chants neglect their spiritual interests rather moro
grossly than any other class of With the facts
before us cannot think this to be true. 1t hap
pens every day that great fortunes the result OF
life Of toll, arc given TO churches, to Missions to
colleges TO theological schools and whenever money
Is required for any great benevolent moral enter
prise. 1t is to the strongbo of the business men
that appeals, almost invariably successful made
while the man who would enjoy the luxury of Civ
ing must submit to the labor of acquisition.
Year: 1870

The Ne,o- York World impudently denies its
fraud. which we lately exposed of padding a
two-line Cable dispatch from London about
the South African diamond discoveries with
over q column stolen bodily from an emil
grants guide-boOk which it had received by
mail. Probably nobody thinks its denial of
the least account, but as it turns viciously
upon The Springfield Republican for having
noticed the fraud, Mr.. Bowles is hereby id
formed that, if it is of any consequence to him
to prove The World shameless liar he has
only to send to this Office for the emigrants
guide-book in question, received by US by
mail two days before TIE World published its
pretended dispatch