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Year: 1872

MARRIAGE.-Men and women, and es-
pecially young people, do not know that


t nses years to marry completely two
hearts, even of the most loving and we'll
sorted. But nature allows no sudden
changes. We slope very gradually from
the cradle to the summit of life. Marri-
age is gradral fraction of us at time
A happy wedlock is long falling in love.
I know young persons think love only
belongs to brown hair, and plump,
round, crimson cheeks. So it does for
its beginning, just as Mt Washington
begins at Boston Bay. But the golden
marriage is part of love which the br;.
dal day knows nothing of. Youth is the
tassel and silAen flower of love; age is
the full corn. ripe and solid in the ear.
Beautiful is the morning of love with its
prophetic crimson, violet, purple and
gold, with its hopes of days that are to
come. Beautiful also is the evening Of
love, with its glad remembrances, and
its rainbow side turned toward heaven
as well as earth. Young people marry
their opposites in temper and character.
and such marriage is commonly q good
match. They do it instinctively. The
young man does not say, "My black
eyes require to be wed with blue, and
my over-vehemence requires to be d lit
tie modified with somewhat of dullness
and reserve" When these opposites
come together to be wed, they do not
know it, but each thinks the other Just
like himself. Old people never marry
their opposites they marry their simil-
ars, and from calculation. Each of these
two arrangements Is very proper. In
their long journey these young opposites
will fall out by the way great many
times, and both get away from the road;
but each will charm the other back again
and by-and-by they will be agreed as to
the place they will go to, and the road
they will go by, and become reconciled.
The man will be nobler and larger for
being associated with so much humani-'
ty unlike himself, and she will be a no.
bier woman for having manhood beside
her that seeks to correct her DEFICIENCIES
and supply her with what she lacks, ie
the diversity be not too great, and there
be real piety and love in their hearts to
begin with. The old bridegroom, bay.
ing a much shorter journey to make,
must associate himself with one Ike
himself. Aperfect and complete mar
rage is, perhaps, as rare as perfect per-
sonal beauty. Men and women are mar.
ried ftactioraily, now small fraction.
then large fraction. Very few are mar
ried totally, and they only, think, at.
ter some 40 or 20 years of gradual ap.
proach and experiment. Such large
and sweet fruit is complete marriage,
and it needs very long Summer to rip
en- in, and then long Winter to mellow
and season in. But real happy mar
riage of love and judgment, between q
noble man and woman, is one of the
things SO very handsome that if the sun
were. as the Greek poets fabled, a god.
he might stop the world in order to feast
his eyes with such a spectacle. 1Eeo.
dore Parker.
Year: 1872

The galleries viii be reserved for spectators
not en- masque until midnight, up 70 which
hour no maskers will be allowed in that por-
ton of the building.


Until the same hour no person not en- masque
win be allowed on the main floor.


No unmasking viii be required.


No weapons or arms Of any kind win be al
lowed in the building.


Disorderly persons shall be promptly taken
in charge by the police, Of which a sufficient
force viii be detailed for the preservation OF
order.
Year: 1872

Another fashionable peril has been discov-
cred, which will doubtless frighten the ladies
little. Silks which are colored with perate
of lead are liable to explode at any moment if
subjected to too great heat
Year: 1872

They put blast of powder into rock in
Kentucky in the year of grace one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one before the popu-
lar non-explosives were invented, and it went
off the other day, killing two men who hap
pened near.
Year: 1872

A New York physician said the other even
ing that he had penniless patient, to whom
he showed every attention, because ultimate
ly he hopedto become the owner of a remark
able tumor which was slowly wearing the
mans. life away.
Year: 1872

In Mobile there are twin sisters who can
not be punished for any offence, because
neither can be identified. Recently, one of
these young ladies put to flight two dog
catchers, and policeman. In court she
proved to be her sister. A policeman ac-
companied her home to arrest the other, but
on arriving could not tell which he had
brought and which had already been there.
and went away sorrowing without either.
Year: 1872

Umbrellas were scarcely protection, and
the very pavements, callous stone as they
were, seemed to blister in the murderous
glare. Dogs crouched in the cutters and
sought the coolest spots only to be languldiy
kicked out by men made furious by the TEN
perature. Everything seemed to reek OF tne
internal regions, and we could ALMOST mag


inc a sulphurous smell in the dense air: AS
the Journalist speculated on the duration OF
tbe heat and fell to calculating the precise
quantity of ice expended every day in assuag-
~ tha Tort was sudden
Year: 1872

Some three weeks ago the reporter of the
Star was standing on the corner of Nassau
street and Maiden lane. He was contem-
plating with interest the seething current of
hot and impatient humanity staggering
abroad and clinging nervously to the protec-
ton of flamp-posts and seeking the shadow gof
awnings. The day was cruelty hot. The
sun was vertical and his angry beams poured
down on those exposed to his meridianal fury
like
Year: 1872

| from early life, was earnest and const ant
against slavery, full of sympathy with
the colored race, and always foremost
in the great battle for their rights" and
adds, with the true spirit of Jesuit.
81 am so much of a Republican that
wish to see in the Presidential chair
lifetime Abolitionist.'' Mr.. Greeley has
recently shown himself as much of
Republican as he formerly showed HIM
self to be an Abolitionist. In 1859,
when human slavery was on the verge
of destruction, he abandoned the cause
of equal rights to fall into the arms OF
the Southern oligarchy, becoming y
rampant secessionist. In 1871, when
slavery had been abolished, and the
South reconstructed on the basis of ex-
act justice TO all, he abandoned the
party Of universal freedom aud equal
rights, and for the bribe of nomination
to the Presidency, made a secret bar
gain with the leaders of the Democratic
party, by which he agreed to sacrifice
the fruits of five years OF war and five
years OF reconstruction. and TO surren-.
der the control of the Government into
the hands of the men who raised their
reasonable hands against it in the hour
of its recent peril.


The more carefully Mr.. Greeley's
record is scanned, and the more criti.
caiiy the prominent acts of his life are
examined, the more hollow and heart
less appears his character. To strip
from him every attribute of humanita-
rianism, so far as his record as an Aboli.
ZIONIST is concerned, it is only necessary
to review the utterances of his news
paper just previous to the breaking out
of the rebellion. To become convinced
of his insatiate thirst for Office, it is
only necessary to read his letter to
Seward, written in 1854 and published
in 1860. To be assured that, instead of
being magnanimous he is revengeful, it
is only necessary to recall his pursuit of
Seward from 1854 till 1860, when he
first supported Bates, and then Lincoln,
from no higher m olives than to defeat
the nomination of his fancied enemy
to the Presidency. To reach the logical
conclusion that he has been utterly de-
bauched by the school of politics in
which he has been trained for forty
years, until he has become a fit instru.
ment in the hands of bad men for the
accomplishment of the basest political
purposes, it is only necessary to study
the nature of the coalition of which he
has recently become the candidate for
the Presidency.
Year: 1872

A Paris correspondent gives some
hints concerning matrimonial matters
in that city: which our young ladies
who intend 10 spend the winter in that
metropolis will do well to treasure up.
According to the writer it is a pretty
sure rule that Frenchmen who sigh at
the feet of American hciresses are the
refuse of the home market, for French
mothers never omit seeing their daugh-
tiers well settled, and seize upon the
eligible matches themselves. There is
set of marrying Frenchmen in Paris
who have more debts than money, and
more title than honor, who have been
known to go so far in their hunt after
rich wife that they have had spies post
ed at different places to watch for
American families with marriaeeab!e
daughters. And a case has lately been
disclosed, to be settled by law, in which
the clover" had agreed with the spy to
pay certain per cent. on his wife's for
tune should he be successful through
his efforts. After the marriage the nus
band was supposed to forget his prom


Use, but was reminded by law how dis
honorable such an act would be!
Year: 1872

AN Iowa WOMAN VERSUS A NEW
RAILRoAD.-The following funny &C
count Of an irats female railway hater
appeared lately in the New York Tri-
buns: 1t was necessary that the road
should pass through part of hs- prop
erty, o proceeding to which she objected
so violently that the authorities could
only assess the regular damages and us
sumo the right of way, willy nilly. The
thunderous tornado Of her wrath was
reused, but not until the trains began to
run did she commence active war. Then,
when locomotive came up one day, it
found . rail fence built across the road
and the venerable dame seated on top, in
the centre Of the track, with determine.
tion and defiance blazing IN her eyes
Would she get OFF, No, she wouldn't
The engineer and the conductor exhaus-
ted themselves in threats and commands
but all iu vain-like Napoleon at st. Hell
ena, she sat firmly and surveyed the scene
with vociferous disspprobation. Tho
train must 70 oa--thsrs was nothing 10
be done but 60 on Not until the engine
began to make the rails fly did the gentle
lady hasten from her perch, and as the
train disappeared she executed a wild
dance of rage on her desecratsd land
Some time after that her genius, and the
sweetness and light of her nature ih-
spired her to oil the track before the ad
vent Of long wood train. OF course
the car wheels spun about helpIessly and
the train was indefinitely delayed, while
Madam, with folded arms. stood on lofty
hill top near, and, like the eagles Of the
republic laughed out in scorn. Wha.
she will do next mono can guess, and the
railroad people, who have deadly fear
Of her. are recommended to say their
prayers regularly whom they approach
that part of the road.
Year: 1872

thrust forward and exposed to danger, and in
case OF need the body is in a helpless position.


Next is the side-saddle posture, or when the
boy sits curled up upon the rear of the sled,
with one leg under him, and the other pro-
jected backward for rudder.


The upright position, with legs extended
over the sides, or carried forward between, or
even in front of the runners, is the true posi-
ton for a bold boy of the sled. He has the
use of his whole body, and the perfect control
of his sled; and if it comes to HARM it must
be set down to that large account of profit
and loss which every spirited boy runs up.


Let no man revle the joys of ice-cad hills,
or ridicule the'task OF tugging heavy sled
up the hill tor the sake of rushing down
again! All, yes-but that downward rush Is
ecstasy.


Clear the coast! Here goes Right behind
is rival sled. Away we go, every yard quick
ening the rate: we come to the jumpers and
fiy through the air as if shot from catapult,
and strike down again with a jar that makes
the sled creak. Clear the coast here we
comel The boys draw aside. Neck and
neck we go glorious! There is sturdy old
farmer who never could find out what boys
were made for. He won't get out of the way
not he He shakes his cane as warning
Too late-we strike him just above the ankles
and he goes over our head like shadow, but
we hear him come down behind like a
substance! In a second we are away
and out of reach andhearing. OF
course there is a fuss and we are called
up, and the master, with twinkle in
his eye, scolds us and says we must say we
are sorry; and everybody says served him
right, the old curmudgeon, he ought to have
kept out of the road and we find ourselves
the heroes of the school.


Then who will forget when our pretty cous-
in wanted to take cruise on our sled, and
how our sisters too were the guests of proud
ly polite boys, and how the courtesy of the
hillside was shown to the girls as ardently
and disnterestedly as ever it could be in after
life on more important occasions.


Perhaps the teacher was willing to show his
condescension, and take passage on double
sled. Great was the hurrah raised for him,
and ecstatic the yell universal, when, by a
dexterous turn at the bottom of the hill, the
sled went out from under him, and he made
the few remaining yards of distance without
help, and turned up quite like heap of dirty
snow.


All, Mr.. Bonner, let your horses slide; come
take my new sled Dexter, go up to the West
chester hills, and spend day in ''coasting,"
and come back declaring that of all races,
none, for pleasure, can beat sled, with a
good fellow on it, upon mile-long hill, with
a smooth and icy track.-New York Ledger.
Year: 1872

The Fall season at the Union Square Theatre was
opened last night with victorien Sardous new
play "Aenes.n Considerable interest was felt In
this production by the dramatic world, as it was
known to have been written expressly by the
author with q view to furnish Miss Ethel
full scope for the display OF her peculiar
talents. The house was crowded almost to ncon-
venience with prominent members OF the literary
and dramatic world. Every other face was familiar
as having been seen on similar occasions, while
the general public were fain to wait another
opportunity to Judge for themselves the value
OF the work submitted for their approval AL
the skill of the decorator had been brought into
requisiton during the short recess, and the audi
torum looked bright as a new shilling. Indeed,
the management deserve the highest praise for the
perfect manner in which they have fitted up the
house, making it the worthy rival Of the Firth
Avenue in the richness and elegance of It's
appointments. The scenery has been carefully
and artsticay painted the view of "the interior of
the Grand opera In the second scene deserving
special mention. In the story of the play there Is
not much that Is novel, but 1t has the advantage
OF nculcating lessons ol morality without dragging
us through the mre OF crime TO accomplish that
praseworthy object. IL is not, however, altogether
iree from some questionable dialogue that
would be as wol eypunged. The plot OF the play,
Is usual In French comedies Of THIS order. deals
with the matrimonial errors OF IL young couple,
who, agreeing to allow each other perfect freedom
IN order to DC happy find out that the dtser nlier
principle In love, as in politics, generally ends IA
muddle. A ickle husband Stephen, Niscount fhosn-
ery neglects o charming and loving wife to pay
homage to stella, danseusc OF the opera,
injured wife discovers her husbands infdelty
through the blundeIing indlscreuons ola jewcier,
she resolves to see her rival ana secure proof Ry
the al OF the ieweller she penetrates int0 the
sanctum of the ballet queen, and is enabled most
satisfactorily TO assure herself Of tue treason aud
Year: 1872

jurisdiction as long as the minors have
property within its said jurisdiction, and it
is it's solemn duty to extend its protection
toward the unprotected and abandoned
minors. If such power was denied to him
it ought TO take it under its own resposi-
bility. / consider this court to be armed,
besides the specific and defined powers
granted by law, with paternal discretion
ary power for the protection of the persons
and interests of the minors. This case
presents such an instance The tutor cast
away from his dOmicile Children of his own
blood, abandoned them, and pretends now.
after such an unlawful and unnatural act,
TO be protected by this court from the just
and legal proceedings of the under-tutor,
by excepting to its jurisdiction.


The tutor is ordered to be removed from
Office and his letters of tutorship revoked,
and the injunction herein taken made per-
petual, defendants paying costs.
Year: 1872

An act to admit certain machinery i'm


ported from foreign countries free of


duty.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
CaIcasieu Sulphur and Mining Company Of
New Orleans be and is hereby permitted to
import, free of duty, under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall prescribe, certain machinery and
accompanying implements for the purpose
of and to be used only in making a series
of experiments in mining for sulphur in the
parish of Calcasieu, in the State of Louisi-
ana; provided, that the value of such i'm
portation shall not exceed the sum Of seven
ty-fve thousand dollars, and that said ma
chinery and implements be imported within
Year: 1872

An act extending the time for the compile


uon OF the Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay


ana Lake Michigan ship canal, in the


State of Wisconsin.


BE it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
time for the completion of the Green Bay
and Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship
canal be, and the same is hereby extended
to the tenth day of April ammo Domini
eighteen hundred and seventy-fOur.


Approved March /, 1872.
Year: 1872

An act to set apart certain tract Of land


lying near the head-waters Of the Yellow


stone river as a public park.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
tract of land in the Territories of Montana
and Wyoming, lying near the head-waters
of the Yellowstone river, and described as
follows, to witt Commencing at the junction
of Gardeners river with the YeIiows+one
river, and running east to the meridian
passing ten miles to the eastward of the
most eastern point of the Yellowstone Lake
thence south along said meridian To-
the parallel of latitude passing ten miles
south ef the most southern noint
of Yellowstone lake; thence west along
said parallel to the meridian passing ftffee5
Year: 1872

We want some member Of the
Ledgislature to introduce a bill
making a mans tax receipt his
registration paper. If he can't
show a receipt Tor his poll tax
he ought not to be allowed to
vote. II a bill cannot be put
through, then modify it so as to
compel every man to show his
tax receipt before he is allowed
to register.--Brandon Repubh'
can.


Are you in earnest Frantz Z
Would you disfranchise more
Democrats than lost their votes
on account Of participation in
the rebellion? You are merely
talking for effect. You don't
mean it.
Year: 1872

The Fur SEAL OF ALAsKA.--Tho fur
seal of Alaska is not to be confounded
with the ordinary seal, such as is found
along the California coast and is caught
in great numbers on the banks of New
foundland and the coast of Labrador.
1t is of medium size and of grayish col
or, and the male is ornamented with
whiskers like cat. Once these seals
were very abundant in various parts Of
the world, and immense numbers were
killed in the islands of the southern At
lantic IN the latter part of the last CEN
tury and the beginning Of this, whilc
they were also plenty on nearly all tho
Aleutiau Islands but indiscriminate and
careless slaughter has completely exter-
minated them in the Southern Ocean
and the only places in the world which
they now haunt in numbers are the two
Alaskan islands of st. Paul and st.
George and a small island on the Sibe-
rian coast. The fur seal. in fact, seems
to be the most timid animal that lives.
The discharge of a fowling piece or the
attack of dog is sufficient to drive the
seals away forever from rookery which
they have tenanted from immemorial
ages Once frightened off they never
return, OR at least they have never done
so within the memory of man. The
most probable supposltion is that they
are gnided by the same unerring in
stinct which prompts the salmon and
the shad to seek a. their breeding time
the very stream in which they were
born, and that, once driven from their
rookery, they cease to breed. and soon
become extinct.--[ Aiasca Herald.
Year: 1872

NORTH PACIFIC RAILRoAD.--1t seems
to be pretty well understood at present
that the Northern Pacific Railroad will
cross the Columbia about three or four
miles above the mouth of Snake river
A party of surveyors are locating the
road frcm that point to Pen d'Oreille
Lake, preparatory to letting the con.
tract for its construction. The Compa-
ny are indefatigable in their efforts to
complete the road at the earliest possi-
BILE date. The Vice President and sew
eral other officers of the Company are
expected to arrive on This coast in short
time. Bef re returning to the East.
they will visit WaIla Walla, at which
time we hope to obtain information in
regard to this great enterprise that will
be of interest to our readsrs.- - Wald
WdHa Real Estate Record.
Year: 1872

Washington Territory, to the address of
the persons enclosed. Every one who
expects to make this Territory his home
is interested in getting the best citizens
of the East to come here and locate, and
to do this we must lay the most reliable
information before them. am not long
in the country myself, but am very well
pleased with it, especially the lower
Sound. B. L. NJ.
Year: 1872

formed your correspondent that Forney


was not wanted in the Republican


party, and the sooner he took the Press
over on the other side the better they
would like it The fight between
Cameron and Forney is bitter, and vari.
Gus predictions are made as to its re.
snlt " 49,
Year: 1872

To the Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:


S1R: Before paying half a million Of dollars
for an article, it may be profitable to inquire
what ne are getting for our money, and what it
will be worth when paid for.


Many seem to think that these abstract-books
do in fact contain, in a brief and comprehensive
form, all the essential points necessary to be
known relative to each instrument or convey
ence spread upon the original rocord-books in
the Recorders Office. This impression has been
derived from observing the contents Of the 's sab-
stracts," or Examinations Of tit1e," which
we're issued, from time to time, from the ab-
stract-ofHces, before The fire But this is mis-
take. The real contents Of these abstract-books
fall far short OF answering any such purpose.
Tho method OF keeping them is this:


The number Of particular lot or section Of
land, or some egu:arly-described part Of it, be-
ing first given ut the head of page in the book,
single line across the page ordinarily sutEccs
to state all that is to bo preserved or shown in
regard to each instrument or conveyance men
toned It processes to give the names Of the
parties, but frequently states only the first
named out Of several grantors or grantees; also,
tue date OF the instrument, tho consideration,
general character, whether deed, release, trust