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Year: 1876

The Burlington (Iowa) HamLeye
says: The attention of medical men in
this great republic is called to the in
judicious and absolutely hateful habit,
much in vogue in the rural districts and
among early r:sers in the city, of getting
up Ill the night to eat. This nocturnal
meal is family disguised under the name
of breakfast, and there is no doubt that
it has much to do with creating, spreads
and sustaining the national disease, dys-
pepsia. The custom is sometimes vis-
tied by severe judgments, but nothing
seems able to deter its votaries from
continuing its practice. We once took
summer boarding with a man who used
to eat in the night, and reused up all
his household to share the unnatural
meal. One night he stirred us all up at
4 80 O'Clock to eat. We rose and ate.
That very day his best COW immolated
herself on wire fence, one of his hor-
ses bit himself with rattlesnake, a
reaping machine ate up his best farm
hand, distant relative sent his young-
est boy drum, his wife took to writing
poetry, and one of his most popular,
talented and handsomest boarders fit
ted, leaving an unpaid summers board
bill to remember him by. The latter
circumstance is indelibly impressed
upon our memory, and We often think
coincidence that we have never been in
| that country since.
Year: 1876

There was little gathering the
other evening, and a lady, with the
desire to chasten the conversation
asked a young man if he had never
felt a deep and subtle thrill, a full
ness of feeling, SO to speak, that re-
minded him of another life. He
said he had once. It was when he
was in the country. and the doctor
called it cholera morbus, and
charged him 81 q visit.
Year: 1876

FATHER BECF,x he General of the
Jesuits. is to be made a cardinal, and is
the ultramontane candidate to succeed
Plus TX. in the Holy See. The antipa-
thy to the Order, especially in Catholic
countries, is almost as great now as at
any time since its creation, and the ele-
vatiou of the chief of the Order to the
Papacy might produce results for which
quietly disposed people are scarcely
prepared.
Year: 1876

The San Francisco Chronicle gays that
the great social problem for its city is
not so much concerning the male as the
female hoodlums, thousands of whom,
in short dresses, brazenly walk the gas
lit streets and run wild at suburban
picnics, of which every Sunday there
are many.
Year: 1876

Some mercurial people throw away
their friendsin happy times and wish
to regain them in gloomy hours,
very much as a COW that kicks over
the pail in the morning is the first
one to come into the yard at twi-
light and low to be milked.
Year: 1876

TwENTYEiNE Indians who were in
the fight on the Little Big Horn have
surrendered. Most OF the braves are
ready to surrender, no doubt, if they
can obtain an assurance that they will
be fed until the time to begin the next
years campaign.
Year: 1876

FIvE or six moiIths of married life,
remarks veteran observer, will often
Tredace Q naturally irascible man to such
q condition of angelic humility that it
wouldn't be safe tb trust him with q
pair of wings.
Year: 1876

Pine street, Chicago, asked her hus-
band for new summer hat and suit,
so that she could make that hateful
creature in the next block see that
there were other people besides
her ladysbip that could dress decent
ly. Owing to the stringency of the
money market he declined to fall in
with her overtures. She did not
press the subject, but few days
afterwards she came to his side, and
leaning her head softly on his shoul-
der. said: Darling, if you were.to
be hit on the head with hammer,
or something Of the kind, so that it.
wouldn't kill you, but hurt you a
good deal, and put you ont of your
mind, wouldn't they make me your
guardian and administrators ?"


"Very probably they would. pus-
sy," he replied, fondling her golden
curls, ''but what a funny question
for you to ask"


"And then," she continued, ap--
parently not having heard the latter.
part OF his sentence "and then I
could do all that I liked with things
and my name would be the same as
yours at the bank, and so on?'


Certainly, pet" he responded,
and she, giving him an affectionate
embrace, hurried away. The thing
somewhat perplexed him, but he
dismissed it from his memory until
very recently, when he met a hard
ware dealer of his acquaintance, who
said: ''Tell your wife I sent her the
biggest hammer we had, but what in
thunder did she want SO large ham
mer for?"


Then cold sweat broke out all
over that young man, and fastening
home he told his wife he had Just
collected bad debt, and here were
$3.50 for her to get that hat and suit
with. And she kissed him and said
she would not take it all, since times
were SO hard, and they must make
every cent go as far as they could;



but he insisted that she should, and
she yielded like dutiful wife, and
when he had gone out she
took the hammer from behind the
washstand, sent it back to the hard
ware store, and told them she
wouldn't need it, but to send her its
worth in self-sealing preserve jars.
Year: 1876

General Grant shows himself in his
worst colors to-day. He no logger relies
upon the laws of the States as the judici-
AIRY understand and expound them; but
but backs up the defeated and usurping
Governors because they belong to the par
ty he 'rcpresents.' No dictator ever did
more. They backed up those who they
held them to be their superiors. Grant
eases to proclaim himself President OF
the whole people. Since Cromwelfs
time no King of England has dared to
set aside the judgement of her courts.
Queen Victoria did not dare to demand
that the Prince of Wales should be ex-
empt from the requirements of the courts,
although it exposed his shame and at
tached stigma to her own family. Grant
has light opinion Of the great people, a
patriotic man would delight to obey and
elevate instead of try to debase.
Year: 1876

York Herald remarks that a ''contest
which began six months ago by appeals
to public opinion has passed into dis
graceful competition of rival craft and
cunning" Craftsmanship, not cunning,
is what is needed now, and if there is any
such thing ir the two houses of Congress
it will develope and distinguish itself in
a calm consideration of the pending polit-
ical issues and satisfactory solution OF
all trouble.
Year: 1876

AN ARIsToCRACY.-The Washington
Sunday Herald says that since the war it
has become doubtful whether our govern
ment has not really been transformed in
to selt-perpetuating aristocracy or office
holders. There are abundant evidences
of desire among the chiefs of that class
so to have it, but ii is not reasonable to
suppose that the people are so Indifferent
to the welfare of their institutions as to
tolerate il.
Year: 1876

The RESEEvolR.- Why does the
Council not now issue proposals for
the brick Or the completion of the basin.
Doubtless some one would be glad to
sake the contract now and burn them at
low price. 1t will take about a mil
lion and half we are told and perhaps
as much might be saved in this way as
ID would cost to lay them.
Year: 1876

possible for people like ours, depend
ent mainly on agricultural pursuits, to


bear such taxation, and it is sending all
the land and all the houses into the pos
session of the rich. 1t is doing this
without perhaps enriching the rich,
since they cannot get as much rent from
their enlarged possessions as they got
b efore they made such accessions. We
say the Republican party leaders cannot
and dare not refute the arguments pIe-
sented by the Democratic Reformers,
and their whole game is to pass back of
these years of waste and extravaganza
and tell us what the "rebels' did and
what they made them do, to protect
Year: 1876

A correspondent of the Toledo Farm
journal gives the readers of that paper
the benefit Of his experience, as fol-
lows:


Dairymen in this vicinity, where
continued feeding Of milch cows is re+
quisite from five to seven months OF
the year, who have not tested the vir-
tue of oil cake as an economizer in
fodder, can scarce believe how prefit-
able its results are, especially during
long, cold severe winters. Owning
about forty cows several years since,
all of which were stabbed during the
winter season, the writer's attention
was called to the value of cotton seed
oil as an economizer of fodder and
trial was given it, ton or two being
pun chased at st Louis and shipped to
Toledo in January, Several bushels
were thrown into barrel, which was
filed with water; and when the oil
cake had become dissolved about a
quart of the Huid was poured over the
isauaniity "f middlings, cut hay, ,orwhat-
7 ever too, was given each animal at
one feed s great care being taken
not to gi too much, in order not to
clOy the Appetile- "A result which fol-
lows if caution is not observed in this
respect. The consequence was that
the COWS grew sleek, were perfectly
healthy gave more milk, and required
far less food than before; very desir-
able result at that time, as the winter
proved long one and feeding had to
be kept up until the middle of May.Sc
! long as | continued to remain engaged
in the dairy business never again
gave up the use of oil cake, although
it became difficult to obtain the cot
ton seed oil cake, and tried linseed
oil cake, using it in the same manner


with good results, although l prefer
the former, but would always use the
latter when that is not obtainable, =
When fodder is scarce and dear tho
value of this experiment is great, in
deed, especially in winter; and / woulc
advise all who are engaged in the pro
duction of milk for city markets t.
give it fair trial, well convinced
they will not regret it. So far as re


regards an Increase in the quantity o
cream, | cannot say from experience


though it is alleged to produce cream


of better quality and of increased
quantity. Those who sell milk ant


keep cows for this purpose cannot fai


to derive great benefit from the use o


oil cake in the manner above describ
ed, as 1t is a saving of money, while
, also serves as an aid in making it.
Year: 1876

A singular story comes from Wiss county,
Texas. One forenoon the wife of farmer
laydown on the back porch, went 70 sleep,
and dreamed. In her dream she saw
newly dug grave IN the yard; near the
grave was q woman laid out in burial ap-
parel; the woman she recognized Is herself.
When her husband came 10 dinner she re-
lated her singular dream, and gave mi
mute description Of everything that she had
seen, locating her grave In the back yard,
and the manner in which she was dressed.
Her husband thought It singular, but paid
no further attention to it. During the after
noon woods rat ran into the house. The
farmer snatched up an old pistol, and
snapped It at the escaping rat. While ex-
aiming the treacber0us frearm It was &C.
cidentally discharged. The ball lodged In
the wife's brain. She fell and expired in .
few moments.
Year: 1876

A favorable report has been secured
in the Massachusetts Senate upon bill
granting woman suffrage in town and
City elections, and upon all questions
concerning municipal affairs, and giving
to women the right to hold any city or
town office. The Boston Journal comes
out warmly in favor Of it's passage, and
solemnly observes that the Republican
party has been in favor OF it, that the
explicit approval to the principle Of
woman suffrage, that the measure, il it
does not work well, can be repealed at
any time by Legislature still to be
chosen by masculine voters, but that it
will work WELL
Year: 1876

Susan B. Anthony was rudely treated
by the Iowa Legislature. She had an
appointment to address the two houses
in favor Of woman suffrage, but at the


hour fixed she found SO few members
present that she Indignantly left the
legislative chamber
Year: 1876

Thomas Shannon, horse thief, ar
rested and taken to Fort Wayne the
other day, made desperate fight Of it:
He was arrested in the country and
fought, his captors the whole distance
in the vain endeavors to escape. In
front Of the jail he made last despe-
rate attemptt to get away, and did sue
ceed in throwing himself and two cap
tors into the gutter, but the latter brave
ly kept hold Of him, after hard tussel,
succeeding In getting their prisoner in
his cell. Shannon, on account OF his
resistance, was terribly used up, his
clothing torn off, and terribly pounded
about the head and body. His captors
were also, completely worn out in the
struggle.
Year: 1876

Grant and Pierrepont have been
scheming to get Belknap's impeach-
ment out Of the hands OF Congress.
They want to turn him over to the
tender mercy of the district courts. This
is a most disreputable piece OF business.
1t will tend to augment the storm which
will burst with fury upon the occupants
of the White House before thirty days.
Year: 1876

The Gra2gers are trying to put
an end to middlemen, but the right,
quiet, effectual way to do this is by
having things made at home, or as
near there as possible. AS long as
the plows for Kentucky, or Indi-
ana, or Ohio, or Tennessee are made
way up at Boston you are bound to
have middIemen and can't get
along without them. But set to
work and encourage men who are
striving to manufacture the imple-
ments of husbandry at your very
doors,and what is the result? Why,
then it would be ridiculous TO think
of middlemen, and then you take
the first step towards making neigh
bors of the men to whom you have
to furnish support in turn for the


service they render as artisans


Patrons, think of these things.
Year: 1876

A gentleman near the square went
out the other evening just after
dark to turn the COW in the stable
and while walking briskly along
through the back alley, thinking
about what effect the wheat rust
would have OIL the price of buggies,
he suddenly went sprawling over
his COW. She was dreaming sweetly
before him that she was a stable
loft and that sixty-fve negroes
we're piling into her mouth forty
barrels of corn, a stack of fodder
and wagon load of hay, when sud-
denly the joists gave down and she
jumped frantically to her feet to
find her master astraddle of her.
She thought he wanted to play cir
Gus mule, and she skipped around
lively for a while, and when she
tried to kick a brick off of the cor
ner of the stable roof, he lost his
grip and went headforemost in
ditch and sprained both wrists.
He scrambled to the house and got
light and came back to see if he
had lost any of his limbs and to
find his hat. He couldn't find any
thing and gave his hat up for lost

and went back to the house and
found it hanging on the bed-post.
He now sits around and directs the
boys in the shop and nurses his
wrists, done up in keystone Lini-
ment, and will price you buggies
as cheap as ever.
Year: 1876

Those who think that repudiation
will be popular, and Therefore advo
cate it, should remember that on &C
count Of the clause exempting a
thousand dollars worth Of personal
property from taxation, large ma
iority Of the voters of Tennessee
pay no tax except the poll tax, and
and none Of this goes 70 the pay
ment OF the State debt. The Tax
is paid by the property Of the cOun
try, and comes out Of the property
holders. They are the men who
have received the benefits resulting
from the creation OF these debts
and therefore it is Eight they should
pay them. a man whose property
| has been advanced IN value on,
hundred per cent, by these debts
should be willing to pay the smas
part which he has TO pay for the en-
fioyment I Of these beneRts.-ksRPAi


AgFsak
Year: 1876


TCurtis Guild before Boston Newspaper


Men,


What, then, some one may in
quire, are the requisites for the
newspaper business? An answer to
this suggests itself to my mind in
reply in somewhat powerful terms,
I will admit, that 1 made to a pale,
hollow chested young man of TWEEN
ty-two or three who once waited
upon me with an inquiry of a SINH
lar nature. He had a few thousand
dollars and had just graduated from
college and wanted to join with
somebody to 'start paperr' Start
a paper! This is thought by al
most every one outside of the busi-
ness one of the easiest and pleas
ATTEST things in the world to do
and so it is if you have plenty of
money to start with; but it is not
the starting, but the keeping of il
going at a profit, that calls for
brains. 1 recall now the reply
probably prompted by days Sc
we're and exhausting work, when
after listening as patiently as pos
sible to the young mans crude no
tions respecting a business, il
which he had bad no experiences
he begged I would tell him in ai
few words as possible the qualifica
tions necessary to prosecute th'
business successfully. He wa
somewhat startled by the assertion
1 that they were as follows:


brain as flexible and elastic as steele,


A memory as tenacious as iron,


A temper even as that of saint,


A digestion equal to that of an ostrich,


And the endurance of adamant.
Year: 1876

Ladies who purpose visiting Phil
adelphia during the continuance
Of the Centennial exhibition would
do well to bear in mind that, in con
sequence of the immense concourse
of visitors from all parts of the
world there assembled, the prices
asked for everything will be unusu-
ally high. The exorbitant oharg
es for hotel and other aecommoda-
tions cannot, Of course, be helped,
but a little forethought in providing
all the toilet requisites before start
ing on the journey will be the means
of saving many a dollar, and pre-
venting many vexatious incidents
which the crowded state Of the
Quaker City must necessarily iniici
on al who defer making their pur
chases until they visit it.
Year: 1876

The pencil marks you ses around this
paragraph lthusl mean that your sub
soriPtien is Oat or unpaid, and that YOU
are requested to pay Up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are 5arood to adhere 20 a strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such 3
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit Jour favors


- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1876

At this season the question which
interests e boy IS not 50 much
whether his life win be crowned
with glory and honor as whether
his summer vest is going TO be
made outof fathers old trousers.
Year: 1876

DR.. C. A. Abernathy had a call
to see a negro woman out on the j.
R. Johnson place last Friday who
had the loek-jaw. He went out and
found that she had dislocated her
jaw in trying to gap too much at
once, and she had her mouth open
and couldn't close it. When he got
there the darkies we're all assembled
around the dying woman, singing
and shouting, while she was preach
ing as best she could with her un-
der jaw three inches below zero. DR..
Alf. told them to stand aside and
he would fix her so that she would
die more easily, and he wrapped his
thumbs in his handkerchief, insert
ed them in her mouth, gave a push
and wrench, and it fell in place
The negroes thought it was genu-
inc lock-jaw, and when they saw
how easily the Doctor unlocked il
they were sorely amazed and stood
in awe of man who could cure ar
incureable disease in two minutes.
Year: 1876

1t is a good sign when 8 man is
proud of his work or his calling
Yet nothing is more common than
to hear men finding fault constantly
with their particular business, and
deeming themselves unfortunate be
cause fastened to it by the neces
sity Of gaining a livelihood. In this
way men fret and laboriously de-
stroy all their comforts in the work,
or they change their business, and
go on miserably, shifting from one
business to another till the grave or
the poor house gives them a fast
grip. But while occasionally a man
fails in life because he is not in the
place fitted for his peculiar talent,
it happens ten times oftener that
failure results from a neglect and
even contempt of an honest bust
ness. a man should put his heart
into everything that he does. There
is no profession that has not its pc
culiar cares and vexations. No
man will escape annoyance by
changing his business. No mechan-
ical business is altogether agreea-
BILE. Commerce in its endless. vari
cites is affected like ali other pur-
suits with trials, unwelcome duties
and dispiriting necessities. 1t is
the very wantonness of folly for a
man to search out the frets and
burdens of his calling, and to give
his mind every day to a considera-
tion of them. They belong to hu-
man life; they are inevitable
Brooding over them only gives them
strength. On the other hand, a
man has power given him to shed
beauty and pleasure on the homeli-
est toll, if he wishes. Let a man
adopt his business and identify it
with pleasant associations; for heav-
en- has given US imagination, not
alone to make us poets, but to ena-
ble all Aen to beautify homely
things. Heart varnish will cover
up innumerable evils and defects.
Look at the good things. Accept
your lot as a man does a piece OF
rugged ground, and begin to get
out rocks and roots, to deepen and
mellow the soil, to enrich and plant
it. There is something in the most
forbidden avocation around which
man may twine pleasant fancies


out of which he may develop an
! honest pride.
Year: 1876

Look well to your spending. No
matter what comes in, if more goes
out you will be always poor. The
art is not in making money but in
keeping it. Little expenses, like
mice in barn, when they are many,
make great waste. Hair by hair
heads get bald; straw by straw the
thatch goes off the cottage, and
drop by drop the rain comes into
the chamber. A barrel is soon
empty if the tap leaks but a drop a
minute. When you mean to save
begin with your mouth; many
thieves pass down the red lane. The
ale jug is a great waste. In all
other things keep within compass.
Never stretch your legs further than
your blankets will reach or you will
soon be cold. In clothes choose
suitable and lasting stuff, and not
tawdry fineries. To be warm is the
main thing, never mind the looks.
A fool may make money, but it
needs a wise man to spend it. Re
member, it is easier to build two
chimneys than to keep one going.
If you give all to back and board
there is nothing left for the savings
bank. Fare hard and work hard
when you are young. and you will
have chance to rest when you
are old.
Year: 1876


When shall be at restl My trembling heart
Grows weary Of its burden, sickening still
With hope deferred. OH that it were Thy


viii
To loose my bonds aud take me where Tn n


art.
When shall bs at rest4 Ny eyes grow dim
With straining through the gloom-I scarce


can see


The waymarks that my Savior left for me;
Would It were morn and I were safe with


Him.
Oh that were at rest, like some love,
Whose last fond looks drew half my life


away,


Seeming to plead that either they might
With me on earth, or I with them above.
But Why these murmursi Thou didst never


shrink


From any toll or weariness for me,
Not even from that last deep agony;
Shall l beneath my little trials sink
No, Lord, for when I am indeed az rest,
One taste of that deep bliss viii quite effaee
The sternost memories of ny ear THY race
Save but 70 swell the sense of being blest.
Then lay on me whatever cross need
To bring me there. know Thou cansi


not be


Unkind, unfaithful, or untrue to mel
Shall not toll for Thee, when Thou for mS
didst bleed3 -E0aagelioal NagGzias