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R ICHMOND C OUNTY A DVANCE. N J. CRiWMD, Jr., PdilBkiir a m PrimristDr. A Xdve, ladependant, iMcal Newspaper. SDBSCBIPBDI VOL. I. WEST NEW BRIGHTON, S. I., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1886. NO. 20- A Chicago citizen Ulks of tnaa> pUntiDR oDe of the big California trees t o hw sninmer residence, near that city. Th* one he has scIectcd is 300 feet high and ninety-eight feet i n circamfercncc. It is estimated that the transportation will cost him $18,000. The weight of tht leriathnn is about 40,000 pounds. . PnoBABi.Y the smallest newspaper rablished in the world is that pablishcd « t Gnad=Alaiara. Hex:co. It is called JSl Telegrama, and is a foar-page week- ly, fire by three inches in size, and is n marvel in the way of condensation. The ^tlo of the paper is: \Little •tral^ and much wheat.\ The price is onA Mn t a copy. The aged ex-Treaitnrcr of the United States, General F. E . Spinner, now in his eighiysixth year, is living at Pablo 3leacfa, Fin. For the last nine montlis lie has occupied a tent facing the ocean. \When his strength permits-- be devotes tnueh of his timo to fisliiog, hia favorite sport. Ho continues to take a lively interest in pnblio affairs, and delighto to have a political chat with those who call npon liim. Thk pastor of a colore'd chnrch at Fort Gaines, On., succeeded in having tlie cbnrch debt liquidated in a very •norel manner. The members had bound them selves tmder a promise :to pay it, and two Sundays ago the -pastor informed them that if they did not pay it at once he would turn them out of church for lying. Last Sunday each member of the congregation bronglit $1.50 and the debt was paid. WW AUCm M. SMMXfrOBD, Vow bMte thee. ob. hasten, iny darllac. Bouse, love, from th? dreama 'neatb the m Tm waiting, my beantifta bloeaotn, I mUt thee. I mU» thee, Marie. AhtWhyartthot] *U«nt. nyloctoae? Pale waves iweeplag OTcr the aaticls Bepl; with a moaa. How they mock m^ And beat with their BbaOowr hands. Ob. call to me. dear, o'er the biUowa: Thine eyes' snimy lieht Iwonld see; Shine oQt. oh, tbon star of my heavent I need thee, I need thee. Sluxie. I list for thv Toice. and its snnsle. Low ehimins with Innocent glee. Oh. Rnrges wi& snowy.tipped flnsen. Be turn sow my treasure—Marie. Come, sweet one, jvess lightly my forebasd Ah. tis bnt the spray of the sea. Awake from thy ccoan-roeked slmnber. And smile throDgb the shsdows—Marie. Ah- never again from the ocean Hy birdliog shaU flutter to me: Bat over the tide I shall greet thee. And clasp tbee. my angel Marie. Api'leton. ^Vis. silken ears, and ejw that HpoKe wttn sitent ) had been chasing up street. Thi? time he ]>i-Rixn one of their recent raids Apacbo Iniljans murdered the wife and child of A. L. Peck, a ranchman living near Nogule.s, A. T. He was away at the time. When he returned the loss Tnade him i.carly crazy. H e said: \I Slave a ranch and four or five hundred head of cattle, but I never want to see them a^ain. The Government won't iirotoct me, so I will protect myself. I will kill every Indian in the country.* Mounting his horse, he rode olT, and hiis di^appenreil. JFns. SciiLuciiTNEn, of N\ew York City, has brought suit against her hus- band, to whom she has been married tliirty years, to compel him to allow lier money to live on decently. She shows that lie is worth perhaps $50,- 000. and that during the past threo years he lias bought -her but tliree dresses. This she maintains, with M y W ife's P et. BT SIEI^OK HERSH. He was not her dog. But she thought he was, which amounted to the same thing. Slio fondled him as affectionately as thongh she had owned the sole proptietary ritrht and title in hiio. She looked upon li'with nndisgitised pride. She put him throngh a!l his little tricks with an en- thusiasm that time could not abate nor ^petition tire. The truth is, my wife was foud of dogs. She liked animals in general and dogs iu particular. And the dogs liked her. The tacit but mutually complete un»lerstanding between her and them was somethiDg abso- lutely wonderful. In the nine years of ou: married life I had never seen a dog that would uot make frientls with my wife on first night, without waiting for a formal iu- trodnc-ion. Uopkin-s, our neighbor across the street, once boQght a German mastiff for a watch- dog. The German mastiff is bv nature the most ferocious and blood-thirsty of dom. Hopkins* was uncommonly savage. The brute had a month like a coal-scuttle, and his voice kept tramps at a distance of many blocks from the house, summer and winter. He was a valaable doj? in this respect. The Hopkinses calledhim\Cyclone causu desolation marked his path. He would eat nothing biit chunks of raw meat, and it was s^o dangerous to get within range of his mvenous maw that thev had to stand off imd feed him with a pitchfork. Of course they kept hiio chained all day, ami when he was loosed at night no one ever ventured out of the house., \Well one day my wife went over to the Hopkinses', and \Cyclone\ saw her. He was fastened with a giant-size log-chain, but he broke away and rushed toward my wife. The Hopkinu women fled into the second story of the hous« and screamed. They expected to have a balcony view of a human sacrifice right there. But the bji: baric spectacle did uot come off as adve: tised. AVhen \Cyclone\ had given a pra< tical illustration of the second axiom in Euclid-by covering the shortest jKtssible distance between his kennel imd the spot where my wife stood, he stopped. lie looked into my wife's face and my wife smiled. I'rom that moment the huge bmJe was t •hanged dog. He rubbed up against in; ,ome show _cf rc,.on i, not q^to | .\o' ^ encngh. I t is Incky for Mr. SclUuoht- ncr that Indies do not sit on the ease, for were that the rnlc he could safely connt on n sontenco to the penitentiary. With some ahow of being hanged. •WiiEM the Rev. Phillips Brooks was travoling i n Uorway, a few years ago, he happened, while passing through •one of the towns, to leave behind a fine opera glass which ho had used for sev- eral years, and which bore upon it his name and his former Philadelphia street address, which was something like 2001 Chestnut street, but the name of the cily was not given. The glass happened to fall into the hands of an honcal Norwegian, who decided to send it back to its on-ner in America. He •ecordingly packed it carefully, and •ddnwwd it to \Mr. Brooks, 2004 Chestnut street, T. S. A.\ At the Now York postoflice, Philadelphia— having • larger number of houses on its Ohestnnt street than any other city— was decided upon as the destination of the package. Mr. Brooks, however, had not lived there for several years; bat the occnpants of bis farmer homo received the glass and forwarded i t to Boston. Tac official directory of the Catholic chnrch of the United States for the year 18«6 is full of interesting facts, showing the wonderful growth of the ehnrch throughout all the archdio- ecees and dioceses of the country. The •tehdiooMe of Chieago, thongh the yoangeat in the line of establishment. Is proven t o be the most progressive of ' the twelve U p until the Issfyear the arehdioeeas of New York wss in the Uad in tbaaiiaberof ehurche*. priesfah fwoekial schools, and religions insti- taHeas, but st present the Ohieago miinni leads in the number of •MtiilMi. and all them have regn- lar mtoifc In ptoportiao t o the size a l tha aiad atehdtoesse of Mew -ToAaadthos e ot Okieaco thalsttec istMdto be aiMM ia aU othar n- TlMaRhdloeM(r f NawToA :ii Utlt il »t Iha Mr i* YoA. riaii«.:i>«<nhm, TO. Ofai«Sk B^la^ ICoMtss;. Tba.anb - cWMV ii I»ii|NM.«( ' vi*. mifti'o^i^ttti thrt paitormi- M^ D a KalK Onndj sadKa»: purred like a Idtten. That settled it. Shu mid \Cyclone\ became firm friemls, but the big German mastiff was never worth his keep as a watch-dotr afterward. His ferocity of disposition entirely disappeared, and old man Hopkins gave him to a batcher in Mil waukee. Since the Milwaukee butcher took him \Cyclone\ never has been seeu aliv 1 mention this merely as au instance. It is only one of many. Tha history of our family is full of just such cases. Time and aeain have I seen my wife followed in the street by a procession of dogs that would have reached more than a block, single file: orphaned dogs, vagrant dogs, dogs of high and low degree. &om the once-pampered greyhound thrown by some sad and sudden reverse in fortune from a home of V out into a cold and boneless world, to the ginger-colored mongrel that never had home. But I digress. Notwithstanding my wife's remarkable fondnen for dogs, she never' bad a dog wUch she could call her own until she got the one I started to speak of. As I said before, the dog in qnesiion was really not her dog, but she thought he was, and when my wife makes up her mind on fi point of (hat kind the matter is setUed to all prnc. tical intents and purposes. Just here, it mav be proper for me to explain how my wifb came by the dog. It happened like thio: Mr wife has for many years been a lead- ing member of a well-known humane society. She has also been President of an association for the prevention of cnielty to angle-worms. This association has ac- complished a great work, not only in pro- tecting the worms but in restricting the ruthless slaughter of fish owing to scarci^ of bait. In view of its successful work in this direction, the association recently passed a set of resolutions declaring the belief of its members that the gratifying decrease noted in fishermen's lies this •eason ia due pjincipaliy, in an indirect way, to the association's far-reaching effbrta. 8h« hat also fakeji an active part in the •vozk of an organization devoted exclusively (o the amelioration of the condition of the eanine racc. It has made ^enomenal strides the last two seasons. Tear before last it devised a scheme, now in sttccessfnl o|M»ation, for washing white poodles with- out getting soap in tiieir ejes; and last year a devoted the greater part of its time to the less iiFDcess of re- without killing the is still busy with J*.; -Tte <WHniii I moving fleas from fleas. The organi this ve^ Fion her connectiotk with these societies my wife's fondness for the bnite creation la MMial and dos* in vaitteaUr beciuxM Gh^Io aU oar fkieods. Aaaoog others wet* ths bins iafks e«es. Tfasy at once iMsaa to BHdfMt ffM iBiSIMt V eloquence. His tail was handsome eoough to have made the rest of the dog jealous. There was no teace of guile in his face, yet that dog was capable of the basest ingrrttx- tude. But I anticipate. I got home with the dog about eleven o'clock that night. 3fy wife had retired before we reached the hon«;e. She is not in the habit of rising to gseet me, under ordi- nary circumstances,^nt as soon as she be- came aware of the dog's presence she got up. In fact she devoted the greater part of the night to welcoming him into the family circle. The head-clerk had shown me how the dog could sit up, carry things back and forth, shut a door. wiUfc on his hind legs, lie down and roll over, say his prayers, shake hands, and perform other common dog tricks; but before he had been in the house half an hour my wife discovered that the dog had far greater accomplish- ments. Among other thint^s she tound that he could, at the word of command, look cross-eyed; that he could perform the pe- culiar trick of taking his long silken eats in his teeth and, without other assistance, tying them behind his head, and that (this E articularly pleaded my wife) he would eat time with his tail to such popular tunes as \Peek-a-Boo \Sweet Violets,\ \See-Saw.\ and the ^^Mikado Waltz,** at the same harking (he accompaniment to them. I had nearly neglected to mention th^ time of the dog's arrival. It was one of the coldest Saturday nights last wintt^r. This may seem a trivial, even an irrelevant, point. Such was by uo means the case. The state of the weather played a most im- portant part in future developments. After continuing to welcome the dog un- til a late hour, my wife made a bed for him of my ulster and'such soft material as was near at hand. She then came to bed, first putting an extra scuttle of coal in the base- burner to prevcut him from taking cold. Early the nest morning she was astir. So was the dog. He had become somewhat at home by this time, and I never saw my wife more pleased over any visitor in the house, not excepting her own mother. Breakfast was unusually late that morning, but as it was Sunday, and as I have mudu it a rule never to find fault aroimd the house any way since my wife once went into hysterics because I was in a hurry for a meal. I did not complain. Besides, I saw my wife was enjoying the dog's company, and I did not ' il like casting a shadow over her un- jally good spirits. The dog. as I said, took her attentions kindly. He Eeeme<1 perfectly contented, and my wife remarked that for a strange dog he was extremely sociable. This pleased her. for she said she had noticed that most dogs in a new familv were inclined to be bashful and iliffident; but she thought this dog would bo willing to stay with us right along. I began to think so. too, he made himself so entirely at home. The way in which he brushed a bisque vase off the escritoire with his tail, overturned my wife's waste-basket, and he]pe<l himself to a lx>ne from the table while we were at brenkfa'^t, would have convinced a total stranger that he hn<l been a member of the family for years. .\fter breakfast I scggested that the dog might not be accustomed to continual con- finement in the house, and that perhape it would be well to let him have a little ex- ercise outdoors. Sly wife objected at first. She feared he might get his feet wet and and contract pneumonia. 1 pointed out th improbability of such a calamity, iu view of the fact'that many dogs are obliged to hustle around all winter for a living. 3 also told her that the cocker-spaniel was fond of water in any form, and especially of snow. This seemed to couviuce her. Sh*e opened the door and called to the dog, but he evinced no desire to leave a comfortabl bed which he had made for himself of m; best cont on an ottoman. ily wife at onco insinuated that I eri dently was not so familiar as I might be witli the habits of that breed of dog. Atiei she had clesed the door, however, the dog chimged his mind. I mode no reply to my wife's caustic insinuation, and sbe permit- led him to go. As he passed out she bestowed a kindly word upon him, aud cautioned him not to stay long enough to catch cold. The dog seemed to understand perfectly. He hesi- tated on the threshold and glanced back. I seldom have seen such an expression, even upon the face of a human being, and nevez npon a dog's face. I shall never forget Umt look. H is great, eloquent eyes beamed wiUi affection and gratitude. They said, plainly as words could have said: *'Oh, never fear, I can never thank you enough; a whole life of love and devotion could not rapay your kindness. I will be back in fifteen minutes.\ Yet, as I have before hinted, that dog was capable of the basest ingratitude. His smile was the smiie of deceit. His affec- tion was, like Prince Lorenzo's gsye^, all upon the exterior. That dog never returned. At the end of fifteen minutes my wife began to wonv. ^>'hen half an hour had elapsed she became nervous. ^Vhen an hour had passed she was greatly agitated, and she remarked that it was all because of my suggestion to let the dog out, in the first place. She said she believed t made that suggestion on purpose, and that fdie knew when she let hmi out he would never come back. Sbe said she had felt certein of it. I Assured her I bad no sinister motive in the matter, and inquired, in my always mild way, why she had let tlie dog out at all if she knew he would not retnm. She seemed hurt by this query. She said it was adding bmtali^ to meanness. I did not discuss the matter farther. There are two windows in the front sit- ting-room that face npon the street. After my wife had maUe sure the dog was not in the back ymid she stationed herself at one of these windows to watch for him. Anx- ious to remove her suspicions as to the sin- ce^^ of my feeling toward the dog, X took up a position at the other window. I at- tempted at first to cheer her by encouraging remarks and hopefnl reflections npon the doifs absence, but she would not be com- fo^ and I desisted. We silenUy sat •nd watched. One of the bitterest storms of winter wsa raging out of doots. Bv% tor the bowling of tbe windastt madly tossed tbe s&ow, or tbe baridng of a dog im the distoaee» tbe soleam sileiiea of our was three blocks down the street. Out shot my wife once more iu her partially clad condition. \Mien she reached the street the dog had again disappeared. But why prolong these painful details? The raising of two windows and popping out of two heads continued all that somber Sabbath, but three blocks was the nearest my wife ever came to recovering that dog. The next day my wife was taken down with a heavy cold, contracted from her constant exposure at the open win- dow. Her cold developed into a critical case of pneumonia, accompanied by tonsilitis. Two days later I went to bed with congestion of the lungs, contracted at the other open window. We both were dangerously sick, and a doctor was called in. He attendetl us three days, and we rapidly grew worse. At the end of the third day I refused to have the doctor call again, and also ordered the servants to ad- mit none of the neighbors. From that time we t>egim to improve. At the end of the second week my wife was well enough to sit up, and I got about again a week later. In the course of the next ten davs we were both fully restored to health. When the doctor hea ^ of our recoverv he sent in a bill for §115. which I refused to pay, and which is still in the courts. I had, however, to pay $50 for drags. BESISISCOCE H OF PUBLIC BY SZS : PZELEY POOBE. There never will be another dog in our family. I had settled that point in my own mind beyond the i>eradventnre of a doubt- Nothing can efiect a revulsion of feeling in me; not even the hated alternative of a divorce suit. But I believe this lutter to be a remote contingency. I believe there will never be another allusion to a canine subject in the house. Since otir sickness neither one has made any reference to the cause, although 1 feel confident each has thought with equal frequency, if not, per- haps, with exactly the same emotions of my wife's dog. The Other Side. Injustice is a-* possfole in a republic as in a kingdon, and its ^nctims are often denied the privilegeof a fairliear- ip, but in this age of jiublici'y facts are le.ss repressiblo than other argu- ments, and often plead eloquently on the side of the minority. In the iios- ton JnOej' a friend of fair-j»lav jnib- lishcs without commont the foUowhig itatistics: •'Total population of Suit Lake City, 2»s0 ;0—Mormons, 20.S00; in-3kIormon residents, propor- tion, 4 Mormons to 1 gentile. Ar:ests for crime in 1SS.5, l,i>T<;. Of these ar- rests the \20 Slormons furnished 0 •; the 200 gentiles, 1,1^0; proportion to actual number, IS gentiles to 1 Mormon criminal. I n the city are forty tap- rooms, six brothels, and an unreported number of ganibling-rooras, pool-tablee, ond the like. Of those. 4t; aro run by non-Mormons; run by Mormons, none. The proportion of non-Mormoti crim- inals in the Territory, as compared with the ^lormons, is atili larcer. even after special pains have been taken to arrest and prosecute all IViormon polygamists. Yet the whole ])ower of the Federal CJox-ernraent is used at this time, or will l)o n-^ed if the new Kd- munds bill is euforoed, to cnish out and deprive of its money a communit: which these tiguros show is forty-eigh't times more law-ab'ding than the rounding popnlation.\ General Bragg, of Wisconsin, who gallantly commanded the \Iron Bri- gade** during the war, and who was snbsequentlj elected to the House of Bepresentatives as a Democrat, made a bitter speech against the payment of claims to so-called Southern loyalis-ts. Ninety-five per cent, he said, of tho Southern people were true to the Con- federacy. When he heard Mr. Hooker, of the Vicksbnrg district of Mississipjii, chant picans in honor of Southern lo^'al- ists, and thought of their antecedents, he felt like saying to them what the mouse said when it saw the old cat hanging up against the wall: **0h, you are there, my old friend, are you 'i Vou may stay tliere, for I would not trust you though your skin was stufled with straw.\ Gen. Bragg proceeded to speak of the $34,000,000 in the Trexs- nry as proceeds of abandoned property which some had cla'med should be dis- tributed in the South. would ask those gentlemen,\ said Gen, Bragg, \to take their eyes off from the 000,000 for a moment if they want to appreciate how we fecL Let them turn the glass over and look at another view, a sea of blood, thousands and tens of thousands of. tho best men in th> land,North and Soiith,weltering in their gore. Let them hear the crica of the wounded man from the battle-field a? the cold chill of death strikes him, and by the cessation of the groans you knew that one more sotiI has gone to his final account. Let them go and hear the piteous moans from the hos- pitals; let tliem go to the hilUides aud mountain-tops, and to the valleys whei e thousands and hundreds of thousands are in mourning. Let them look at what is of the least account in the reckoning, the thousands of millions, the billions of money that were dieatrical extiibition. The cipher O^ patches confirmed the oi»inion at ash- ington that Mr. Tilden spent a great deal of money to secure his nomina- tion, aud much more during and after the campaign. The Democrats admit- ted that it was fsceediogly strange, indeed, marvelous, that the cipher tel.'grams were sent right to hia house and he knew nothing of them, and that perhaps he was in the same condition as Solon Shingle i n the \Apple Sass Case.\ when he gave his testimony, that is, he thought he was testifying m onother case, and perliaps when he found out his mistake he would come forward and ijive the proper evidence. However, when a^kfd if-they would support him if nominated in they dill not care to express themselves, l»ut said, -Well, we'll see about that \ Tbe Hairy Coveriiig efthe GeriUa. The hait j coat of the garills conaiBta of long, thii^ straight or stiffly curved bristles, and also of shorter, thinner, and curled woolly hair. On the ciumi of the head the hair is somewhat stiff, from twdve to twenty nullimfsters in length, and it l>ecome5 erect imder tL« influence of anger- While the aides and fore part of the clun are only <dolh«d with short, stiff hairs, they gx^ thick- ly on the back part of the chin likf a beard or forelcK^ The hairs wh<*h turn outward from the sides of i^ie face and on the neck are thirty or more millimeters in length. On the shoulders the hair is from 130 to millimeters 1 on the nipper arms and the back. In the middle of the ngper arm the hair is from fifty to ser- - • - - , . , ^ , entv millimeters lonj:, growing down- wien probably the truth was every one I ^ far as the bend of the elbqw. of them woula not only have -voted foj hiju if nominated, Imt would hr - worked hard for his s-ucces*. The Ill-U!^ Farm Bey. If farmers would make their sons detest farming and lay their plans for leaving the old homestead at the first opportunitv, let them keep their boys out in the ram, as we saw a father do- . ^ , . , ins a few davs ago. leading a horse to curred. tur^s outw^d. < n the 1 At this point it generally begins ^to grow in an upward direv-tion. i-hj the back of the forearm it again' grcws downward. I n the middle of the fore- arm, on its inner side, a parting of the hair takes place, as one i»o!tion in the front of the raditis, while the other portion turns behind the ulna. On the back of the wrist a tnft of curved liair turns upward, a middle toft goes di- •evtly back, and the lowtT tuft, also plow. I t was a cold, dreary day, and late in the afternoon. The team was a single hor.<»e, the plow a heavy, old, nzsty affair that was probably loft out all winter—tho land was weedy and wet, suid. by no means easy to work. The boy was barefooted and scarcely dozen vears old, and prob- of the hand the hairs turn toward ihe fingers. On the l)reast and Inflly |he hairs are shorter and pow ic >re sparsely. On the breast their direction is. as a rule, upward and outward. * 'n the l>elly they converge from the rll's toward the ^nte r of the naveL On the thighs the hairs are about lift. Tbsy aMendsd amrt.MMtfass, tA mUA.mw.^ deHmed. sWws, and •fterA^Wbsiadmto te oAea and talbad to tjwia two » ^^^ i«»dtteSoeisly place - . the account, 1 would like to have them strike the balance, show, if they can, that tbe $34,000,000 of credit which belongs to somebody, they do not know whom, overcomes the entries on tho debit side. I am not willing to sit here as the representative of my constituents and allow these measures to be brought: up in one form or another, from one member and another, from one commit- tee and another, for the pun>ose of get- ting money out of the Treasury on the plea of loyalty.\ This speech, coming from a Xorthem Democrat, made the Southern Demo- crats very angry, and they never for- gave him'. Gen. Cushing died at Washington early in the year lS7l>, in the room where he had for some years lived the life of a recluse. He had. bince he more thi^u a uv/i^im , --- ^ a * • aljiv ousbt to liavc bepn in sc-liooL : miUunet^rs lonj:. Jmd here, as on ihe The father could have guided Iiis horse lower part of tlie les, thev tend out- «itu a pair of lines jnst as -o eU as tbe ward, -orhile on the l.ack of the Swt bov could lead, and prol.ablT mncb tbej prow toward tbe On the beiler than with his single short bridle- , back shonldera and on tbe th«h and strap Bc-arcelv long enough to allow the leg the bnsUos are shghtlv .1, 1-ii,™ . „f bov to keep from under tho horse's feet This qnalit.j inrreaMs the general Bn- the billions of money that were spent . ji^g corners. A pression of sbaggines. ond flee,ines» to put down this war: and when tbev = Uich is produced l.r the I,^ roai of place all these on the debtor side of ^^cfnrpJvSng work. a» when riding a the..^ . reatnres. The w^ll y hi^ horse to ciltivate out the crops, but in not grow yepr thu-j. and not m ich the plain work of plowing i t must seem matU-d.— Jlartman, tii 1 oj- like labor thrown away to do at a dis- : u!ar Scieju-e Montidii. r.dvantnge what a Tnt*T> could better do with the lines under his own controL The farmer who requires man or l>oy to drive one or two horses while he holds the plow, will, as a rule, find it cheai>cr to buy his com than to raise it. I t is an old proverb, \He who by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive.\ and may once have been a wise saying, but now the farmer who would make his farming pay as an oc- cu|'atio« should pay must both hold aud drive when he t^es liis team afield to turn the mellow soil. Xarmers* bov.«, and all other boys, should leam , to'work, Itut they should feel when i at work that their labor is worth something, that they are really earning . _:»ety tune bariked, vp-went bv wife's window, sad eat i^m^lSead. Of epofse I .im^d^^ I nflTcr that ^^ «C IhaCoodlttaaor iM rnidw wlUl • tM na • gnfrt-^lrT^-^-^-g? tDtkatdiV . !»•••• ».*«».*» MOTd a attkne to an ncaadktb* wrieaof MMtanr doc kn dut. w a ewktmiVM amwloat truit tm he^-Omw t'nliappj Marriages, The universal expectation of married people is, that their .married lives will always bo happy ones. Deluded dream- ers ! They imagine that they are dif- ferent from other people, and that when they enter tho portals of matrimony, love, peace, and prosi>erity will ever be their attendants. Such had l>etter con- sider themselvc.s the same as others, but form iron resolutions to do differ- ent from other married people—reso- lutions that will keep them from the dangerous coasts on which so many have l>een Avrecked and ruined. Un- happy marria^ies depend upon many causes. Previotis to marriage, many try to appear more intellectual, more- atniablo or more accomplished than they really are. Dej^nd upon it, that love brought into existence by moon- light stroll, strengthened by deceit and fashionable displays, and finally con- summated tlirough the influence of in- triguing friends, will fade in after life almost as fast as the flowers which compose the bridal wreath. fieoeral Grant's Application for a Pro- fieftsorship in lSa7. It seems that when the General w*a8 in. St. Lonis at the end of hLi resources and waiting for something to do to pro- Tide bread for his family, a vacancy oc- ctirred in the chair of mathematics, in the TTnirersity of Missouri. General Grant, who had been disappointed in an application for the position of Coun- ty Snrreyor at St. Louis, determined to apply for the vacant professorship. He wrote a modest letter to the Board of Trustees in which h^ stated his qual- ifications and his needs. Another man mt the place- A year or two before he died, tn mentioning the fact to Mr. Elkins, General Grant with his usual limplicity of manner said: **I think I eotUd have filled the place quite well. I was pretty well np in mathematics at West Point, but if I had gotten the place I presume I should not now be here.\ Thia application was made in 1857,—xVeu? York Tribune. Prwatiag by lastracllsa. While there is a circns in town very few children get excite<l over religious •natters. Laat Snnday Beacon Baerag. a good man*.bat rather a crude talkei, addreaaed tbe Sunday sshooL \Dear ehildren,** be began, plongias at once into the subject, ''Jesoa said, 'Suffer lime cbOdien to oone nato ne , for of •oeh m tb« of beeTeo.' Nov, desr ^dreb, tbe little onee oameto Ili a n^hm aad ia-in tbeir SMUMnTarau^ and be took Uiem aad~ •B^Mweu SBT oC ytm toU me whsk Jens did viU • U of thorn dmr little chOdM?* *He took them t o the eir> ew^-miiMted a smU boyaeerth« failed to become Chief Just; very little in general society, but when ever he chose to appear was a most weK-orae guest, as his manners were singularly engaging wheu unbent from study or profe.ssional pursuits, and his conv'ersational powers were really won- derful. His reading was universal and hia memory prodigious, nothing appar- ently escaping his attention, and noth- ing that he ever saw being ever for- gotten. I t was the opinion of Mr. Lincoln and other prominent Vnion men at Washington that Gov. Andrew made a mistake in declining the serv- ices tendered by Gen. Cushing, horse o: A S truma! Krid*-=T4Mnn. The story alKDut the Vvrmonter who proposed to add half a dv»Uar to tht* amount which the *'law allowed\ the par-son for marrying him, has l>rc-^ht to the hi.»it-'rian a J»rand-EfW storr i-f mother we-'-ding-fee transaction in Ver- n.ont. I t IS from a glon village avar^' back from the Connecticut, in the lulls', where mor^y scaroc and the w..vs aro prim tire, and tjie peri>]p fre.juently prvfer to jiay for their p:.ri-ha-sos iu kind. One day a young couple c^e to thf parson at the villa!?e to l>e r ed- They hadn't a i-ent of moi*^., • and it had l-een arran;?<.'d that the l»rid-\gr«.'Om slji'uld bring a sr-erlfied driringTlSir ofI qti.intity of btH;swax, with which to T ' , ; Ihe parson was tUrtfty mingled i part of their living. Leading an old plow, with the belief that themm who ^ ti.e maste r Ihe parson was tbrdty very improving to a boy. sS» well go a-fishing. even thouRh he catches nothing. His life would then seem worth living.—Aeic Englaw.- Farmer. Gj|Ky Palml^rr. Their observations arc always npon the left hand, and with a tolerably well-developed system. The elements observed are the'thumb, fingers, nails. any capacity,\ at the l>eginning of the joints, lines, and mountains. There war. Ho certainly rielded such moral ' * - support as he could'command to the XTnion cause, aud some of the ablest papers which emanated from the I*e- partmentof State were the productions of his graceful and industrious pen. The political telegrams sent over the Western Union wires during the Til- den-Hayes campaign were subsequent- four principal lines, the line of life, which is the most imiwrtant, curving between the forefinger and the thumb, around the base of the thumb to the middle of the wrist; if regular and dark-colored, it indicates lonp life; if crooked, pale, and broken, ill health* and short life. The line of health starts at the base of the forefinger, and iiasses ly surrendered bv President Orton, of , directly across the hand: if c-ear and that company, to the Senate Committee 1 regular, it indicates soundness of the on Privileges and Elections. I t was as- • mind and body; if tortuous, it reveals serted that those likely to prove preju-! a propensity to ^teal; if interrupted dicial to Kepublicans were destroyed, | in the middle, it points to great perils, aud thoTO damaging to Democrats were I TJie line of fortune runs to the base of clandestinely conveyed to a Xem- York , the little nnger, and according to itr paper for publication. These published ' ' \\ \ - ' • and l^ef^re hei>erf<l: e l i^ e . cremo5?><r --^h out tbe V-ees-. _ wax an«l see wiii-tlit^ tn^xc —— to par II s {ee. There wusn^ ~\Vhv haven't you brought all the ?>ee8wax you «grWd to sjied , the mini ter. * ^•All I had. Parson.\ •^And yon luivea't got any more?\ \Not another ounce-'* \Have you got any mon^'v at aH?\ ^'Xot a mite, r4irsoti.*' 1 here was a j»eriod of uncomfortable ^Iltaace. during which the yoan^jfarmtar began to jrrow veiy much iiLirmed.it He was afraid the parsion wi'uldn't nemiy : him unless he jiroduccd h h ; tterinost ounce of l>et^wax, and the prospect struck ten or to his souL The parson ' was inclined to let him \stew.\ I •'Look a' here, I'arsoal\ said the ' countrymau, finally; \l tc-ll ye whgt ye ; 3o; you take the beeswax and nsany OS as fur as \t cotsT—Ifo^-iOM i.Ward. telegrams showed that the iutimate friends of Mr. Tilden were guilty of an atten.pt to call up the Presidential electors in several States, and that their i plans were laid to secure the Presi- I dential office by the use of money. 1 he translation of these cryptogramic mes- sages bv a working 'journsUst wss a great success, as it made clear what had previously been unintelligible. When a committee of the House of Kepre- sontatives undertook to investigate these cipher telegrams the principal witness was Col. Pelton, the nephew and private secretary of Mr. Tilden. His testimony was given by him in an apparentlv frank and straightforward manner, though he occasionally seemed perplexed, pondere<l,and hesitated. He bad » loud, hard, and rather grating voice, and deliveied his answers with a quick, jerky, nervous utterance^ which otten jumbled his words ao as to render them partially inaudible. Col. Pelton's tone, in replying to the ques- tions propounded to him daring the exanui^ion-in-chief, was lond and em- emphatic, as though he wanted all the world to Tinderstaad that he was t>erfectl7 ready to answer every ques- tion pot by the committee. He sat easily, either throwing one leg over the other, facing the chairman, or picking his teetb, or blinking hia eyea hard, wbieh is one of hia |>emliar h^ita , as be kept esaminiag tbe phoio-litho> gnukbed eraiea of tbe cipher tdegrams ana the Tribune compflaftion before him. Sometimea Colooel Peltoo'a blmt eonfassioBs were of aoch The Camers Kevettgr- A few vears ago it chanced that a txxc o „ valuable camel, working an cil mill in varion.s phases indicates happiness or i Africa, was asvcrely beaten by its driver, miserv, povertv or riches, tte moun- 1 who, i>errerring tl^ the camel h^ tains' are the' variotis protuberances I treasured n p the injury »nd wm only within the palm, and are called re-! waiting for a favor^l« opportumtyto si>ectively tho Mount of Venus, the ' revenge, kept a strict watch tipoja the Mount of Mars, mountain of sun or , animaL Time passed away; ^eciunel, moon, and so on. SmaU lines paraUel ! perceiring that it was wati^^ TO with the line of fortune at the base of i quiet and obedient, and the driver the little finger promise happy mar- ^ gan to think that the beatmg was for- riase. Small lines taking the form of ' j^otten, when one ni^it after the l^ise the branches of tho tree indicate gen- ; of several months the man, who ri^ e al prosperitv; spoto on the niuls. the on a raised pUtfonn in the m^ yM^ fulfillment of hopes. ' as is castomary. tho camel is stalled m SJSSSSSAS^ISIS^SSS Fnncnnaad two kiBda of pte^ raa in niMe—thaolaattcraadtbat eflM ^Ib^ diKkngid fh«n a «he fonin. while .th* of SI rainOM^ twitini — tn Blirit an ndiblewlu.- pm Md eomaolm. whit tbe TnmA Celoiid nattm-m lod mice Mok nrj linr.aa<i Ui irndd^eMitaae TCt7 pMnptOriy, «h«i MCMDI. Beea md HMeotfc the SernUieMi aamfcen. todc Ida m hand ead enb- iectea him t o otie ol tiM «> inatii]aa«mb * ists in all inm^ to peoetrate tho fu- ture in a measure aanctionfl and fosters its professiona. 11 the fortune, of it . dupes are not menifested, the fortunes of the diviners sre sustained. OrigiaarOeM. The question of the orisin of natiTe Boia always has been and is quite likel; to remain a disputed quMtion vnonc ffeolosiats and minendoeista. Profes* Sor ,1. S. Sewberrv now contests the tfa'eon that the grains and nng^ (onnd in placers are fanned by ineci^ tation from diemical soloticti. B e Jiolds that Keolo«y tesi^ee. In reg^ to the cenesia and distiibtltian of this - ', that i t exisb i n tbe old- quiet cautiously arotmd, rose softly, md stealing toward a spot where a bundle of clothes and a bumoOBe, thrown care- lesslr on the ground, resemVed sleeping fienre, cast iStiSS wixh-nolence upobthem, rolling with sB itswei^ and tearing them -ncnoii^x ^ toeth. Satisfied that its leren^ewaa complete the camel was retnmM »» iu comer, when tbe drxrer sat nb and •poke; and at tbe souiid of hi* and perceiTins themistake it bad Vnade, the animal was so mortiSBd at t ' - nre and discovery of i U scbenu. dasbed.its bead agaxnat the died on tbe snot. w f tad^saaae, ttMiaa- preciona metal toat 11 ensMinsyu.-- Te Ike Cndit ef Wawa. : K • J V™.-'- . ; qaaita -raina hj i daedy bniad racks of wiooaU^ iSSmm boa tha n giiMtriib^te SS^rnimeni,. «cU >« idia* nitlM TOOM. TbcM. tm kacB atma- 1 cMlBitlr ataotad tuA with ~ ttotawColond Italtt-. tB iihMiJuMB d —irtlg- tjgae, mnd an bourns cantoron i hoiae is recommended as » r— fall h»aa*arnrrf» lit : _ uenwenfeMa waHldMa lot. ifagbt^ 4
