THE WEEKLY ENTERPRISE -SUPPLEMENT.- -FRIDAY DECEMBER 15, 1871.
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BY THE GRKAT FIRE IN CHICAGO,
The most important of the Government
buildings in that city were consumed.
Those burnt had already became inade
quate to the wants of the Government in
that growing city, and looking to the near
future were totally inadequate. I recom
mend, therefore, that an appropriation be
made immediately to purcha.se the remain
der ot the square on which the burned
1 buildings stood, provided it can be purchas
ed at a fair valuution and the Legislature
of Illinois will pass a Jaw authorizing its
condemnation for Government purposes,
and also an appropriation of as much
money as can be properly expended to
ward the erection of Government buildings.
PROTECTION FOR EMIGRANTS.
During this fiscal year the number of
emigrants, ignorant of our laws and habits,
and coming into our country annually,
has become so great and the impositions
practised upon them so numerous and fla
grant, that I suggest Congressional action
for their protection. It seems to me a fair
subject of legislation by Congress. I can
not now state as fully as I desire, the na
ture of the complaints made by emigrants
of the treatment they receive, but will en
deavor to do so during the session of Con
gress, particularly if the subject should re
ceive your attention.
It has been the aim of tho Administra
tion to enforce honesty and efficiency in all
public servants. Those who have violated
the trust placed in them have been pro
ceeded against with all the rigor of the
law. If bad men have secured places, it
has been the fault of the system established
by law and custom for making appoint
ments, or the fault of those who recom
mend for Government positions persons
not sufficiently well known to them per
sonally, or who give letters endorsing the
character of ofiice-seekers without a proper
sense of the grave responsibility which
such a course devolves upon them.
A CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,
Which can in a measure correct this abuse,
is much desired. In mercantile pursuits,
-the business man who gives a letter of rec
ommendation to a friend to enable him to
obtain credit from a stranger, is regarded as
morally responsible for the integrity of
his friend and his ability to meet his obli
gations. This principle carried out would
insure great caution in making recom
mendations. RECREANT runLIC SERVANTS PUNISHED.
A salutary lesson lias been taught the
careless and the dishonest servants, in the
great number of prosecutions and convic
tions of the last two years. It is gratifying
to notice the favorable ehamre which is
taking . place throughout the country, in
bringing to punishment those who have
proved recreant to the trusts confided to
them. In elevating to public office none
but those who possess tho confidence of
the honest and virtuous, it will bo always
found to comprise tho majority of the com
munity in which they live.
A BOARD TO DEVISE RULES FOR CIVIL
SERVICE REFORM.
In my last message to Congress, one year
ago, I urgently recommended a reform in
the Civil Service of the country, and ia
conformity with that recommendation Con
gress, in the ninth (9th) section of an Act
making appropriations for sundry Civil
expenses of the Government, and for other
purposes, (approved March 3, 1871), gave
the necessary authority to the Executive to
inaugurate a Civil Service reform, and
placed upon him the responsibility of do
ing so, under the authority of said Act. I
convened a Board of gentlemen, eminent
ly qualified for the work, to devise rules
and regulations toeuectuie needed reform.
Their labors are not yet completed, but it is
believed they will succeed in devising a
plan which can be adopted, to the great re
lief ot the Executive, ot Heads ol Depart
ments and Members of Congress, and
which will redound to the true interest of
the public service. At all events, the ex-
periment snail nave a lair trial.
CONCLUSION.
I have thus hastily summed up the op
erations of tho Government during tho last
year and made such suggestions as occur
to me to be proper for your consideration.
I suomit them with a confidence that your
combined actions will be wise, statesman
like and in the best interest ot the whole
country. (Signed),
U. S. Grant, President.
Executive Mansion, Dec. 4, 1871.
Men's iliglals.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
thus writes in bohalt ot his sex:
"I am," he says, "a bachelor, thirty-one
years of age, in sound health, and in re
ceipt of 1,500 per year, and ftherefore a
good match for any woman, no matter
whom she may be; yet I remain unmar
ried from principle, and will remain single
until the laws are so altered as to make me
master of my own homo. I am the owner
of real estate acquired by my own labor.
I do not allow any woman to control me in
my disposal of that property, simply be
cause sho happens to be my wife. She
would have done nothing toward earning
that property, therefore, has no moral right
in its sale. 'Any law giving her a dower
third is simply a fraud on me, the more so
as the law does not give me any dower
third in her property. And then the cere
monv, nowadaj's called marriage, does
not give mo a wife it merely gives me a
woman who can leave me whenever she
pleases. 1 cannot keep her against her
wishes. She may go back to her father or
elsewhere, and I cannot compel her to come
back; but should I leave her, for any reas
on, sho can have mo arrested and compel
me to support her. Such a thing is one
sided and unfair. A woman held by such
a loose tie is not, in my opinion, a wife in
tho holv way a decent man has shrined in
his thoughts. The laws have degraded her
into a concubine."
- While visiting Mountain City last week,
says tho Elko independent of October 2,
Ailen Fisher presented us with a skin of a
singular animal called man-eater, from its
singular proclivity for human flesh. They
are quite small, compactly made, with a
bull-dog shaped head and coarse hair, re
sembling somewhat in color the brown
bear of the Pacific coast. They travel in
largo bands in tho winter season, and any
unfortunate traveler who chances to be
caught out by storms is liable to be attack
ed and torn to pieces by them. The skin
presented us is unlike that of any other
animal wo have ever seen.
An exchange well remarks that one may
insert a thousand excellent things in a
newspaper and never hear a word ot them
from its readers. But let a line or two not
suited to their taste creep in, by accident or
otherwise, and one hears of it from every
quarter.
Nine citizens of Jessamine county, Kty.,
wero placed on trial in the United States
District Court at Louisville last week, for
tho alleged "Ku Kiuxing" of Richard Lily,
a negro. The jury disagreed.
There are now over three hundred women
at the Broadway (X. Y.) theatres who can
kick a man's hat off though he be six feet
high. Who says art has not an upward
tendency?
A Question or Veracity.
From the Albany Democrat.
As a general rule "one good turn de
serves another," and when the Oregonian
a few days ago took occasion to allude to
the State Rights Democrat as a paper of the
highest respectability truthful, dignified,
courteous, and all that we hoped to be
able to puff our cosmopolitan neighbor in
the same way in fact, we expected to im
mediately propose to associate the two pa
peisinto a "mutual admiration society;"
but we find that journal so persistently
departing from all of our preconceived
ideas of "fairness and respectability" that
wo have abandoned the hope of a high
toned coalition with it. and have concluded
to let it remain in the common gutter of
aeoaucned journalism.
While it is expected that that paper, in
the interests of its own party will resort to
all means, however questionable in pro
priety or fairness, to secure a partisan ad
vantage, yet we were hardly prepared to
see it fulminate so glaring, palpable and
inexcusable a falsehood as "that in its issue
of last Monday, wherein it states that Gov
ernor G rover, from IS:31-2, never came
squarely to the front and identified him
self with the Democratic party or partici
pated in its councils till ISiO.
IS'ow, we personally know nothing of
Oregon politics previous to 18Go, but we
recollect that during the campaign of that
year Governor G rover was an active cham
pion of of the Democratic cause, and made
speeches in various places during the pro
gress of the struggle. The Oregonian can
certainly not have forgotten Governor
G rover's speeches before the Oro Fino
Democratic Club in Portland, or his con
test with Dave Logan, at a "Yamhill town,
on the eve of tho election of IS6, nor how
he met other Radical speakers during that
campaign. The Oregonian surely has not
forgotten that Grover was Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee con
tinuously during the past six or eight
years, and by virtue of that position has
been at the head of tho Democratic coun
cils during tho whole of that time. But it
is difficult to shame a journal into truth
which would so glaringly misrepresent
facts that are of such public record as those
of which wo speak, hence to further dis
cuss the subject would be to dignify false
hoods which are known as such through
out our whole commonwealth.
Georgia Finances.
At last the people of Georgia are begin
ning to understand in what condition Gov
ernor Bullock and his guilty confederates
have left the finances of that Slate. It is
the old story of carpet-bag rule, plunder,
robbery and flight. The first reminder of
the troubles into hich their culprit Gov
ernor has brougut them is the filing of
claims by the New York banking firm of
Henry Clews Sz Co., agents of the State, to
tho amount ot .'77,22,"for money advanced
to pay notes and drafts of Foster Blodgett,
superintendent of the Western and Atlan
tic Railroad many of those notes having
the approval of Governor Bullock. It is
said that Clews A Co. have additional
claims that will swell the amount to 1,
200,000. As long as a Radical Legislature
existed in Georgia, Bullock could hide the
frauds and corruptions of his administra
tion, and defy the people; but when a Leg
islature, composed of Democrats and Con
servatives, came in, the Governor thought
it time for him to abandon his office and
run. This he did, and is now in New York,
the pet of the Radicals in that city, as Hol
den is of the same class in Washington. To
make tho parallel complete, Bullock should
be put on the stall' of tho Times, or some
other Grant organ.
Our Tccfli.
They decay. Hence bad breaths, un
seemly mouths, imperfect mastication.
Everybody regrets it. What is the cause?
1 reply the want ot cleanliness. A clean
tooth never decays. The mouth is a warm
place :s degrees. Particles of meat be
tween the teeth soon decompose. Gums
and teeth must .sutler. Perfect cleanliness
will preserve the teeth to old age. How
shall it be done? Use a quill pick and
rinse the mouth after eating. Brush and
Castile soap every morning; the brush
with simple waler on going to bod. Bestow
this trilling care upon your precious teeth,
and you will keep them and ruin the
dentists. Neglect it, and you will be sorry
all your lives. Children forget. Watch
them. Tho first teeth determine the char
acter of the second set. Give them equal
care. Sugar, acids, saleratus and hot
things are nothing when compared with
food decomposing between tho teeth. Mer
curialization may loosen the teeth, long use
may wear them out, but keep them clean
and they will never deca.y. This advice is
worth more than thousands of dollars to
every boy and girl. Books have been
written on tho subject. This brief article
contains all that is essential. Dio Leu-is.
An Affecting Scene.
The Jacksonville Sentinel, of last Satur
day, says that Miss Hannah Ralls, upon
the trial of her father for assaulting J. D.
Fay with a dangerous weapon, gave a full
statement, under oath, of her seduction,
her flight from the house, and her extreme
suffering in the cold from early in the
morning until lound late in the afternoon.
She gave her evidence slowly and calmly,
without snowing the least vmdictiveness
or anger. Iter statement brougnt moisture
to the eyes of many in the crowded Court
House, and carried'eonviction of the truth
fulness of what she stated to every unpre
judiced mind. This evidence was admit
ted for the purpose of showing what an
overwhelming weight of mental suffering
the defendant's mind must have been un
der, upon hearing of the ruin of his family
by the prosecuting witness.
Too Drunk. It has been observed that
in a certain class of cases, in England, a
maiontv ot persons sisnniff the marnasre
register of the parish make their marks.
It would be unsafe to set this down as evi
dence of inability to write, for the Rev. B.
W. Wilson, curate of Liverpool, informs a
newspaper that one in five of the persons
signing tho register in his parish made
tlifiir 'marks for the simple reason that
they were too drunk to sign.
"To obtain sweet milk." savs the veteran
farmer Greeley, laying down his pen and
gazing placidly into the face of his inquirer,
"To obtain sweet iiiuk, ieeu your cows
twice a day on sugar cane, and be sure to
keen the call away irom tne moiuer wnne
teething."
a Viro-inin. editor has come to the con
clusion that a man might as well under
take to hold himself at arm's length and
turn a double somersault over a meeting
house steeple as to attempt to publish a
newspaper that will suit every bodr.
Carl Benson well says : Throw women
into the political arena, and some of the
fairest features of their moral superiority
will be exposed to a rude and perilous
test."
It is understood that Mr. Greeley, if in
vited to do so, will soon deliver before the
Royal Society an address on "cryptogamic
pailngeneses."
A TVild H'oman in Pennsylvania j
Gebhartsville, Somerset county, Pa.,
claims the sensation of the week. It has a
genuine Simon Pure wild woman, almost
as nude as was Eve after the fall, for she
wears only an apron of leaves, sandals of
bark and a necklace of teaberrios. Swift
as a doe, people have rarely been aide to
see her features distinctly in her visits to
the neighboring farmhouses and outskirts
of the village; yet those who have seen her,
declare that she is far from uncomely in
person and countenance. Her oval face is
set with keen black eyes and framed in
long masses of flowing black hair, and
with her tall, slender figure she has the air
of the queen of the forests. Like most
women, sho has a great dread of men, and
bounds away over fences and fields when
over one attempts to approach her, 'et she
is consistent, and avoids in like manner
too great lamiliarity with women. For
children, however, she seems to have great
fondness, as was exemplified only a few
days past. While passing near the house
of a farmer she espied a little girl three or
four years old playing in the road. Crouch
ing, sho crawled behind a fence until with
in a short distance of the child, then, with
a bound, cleared the fence, in the next mo
ment seized the screaming child, and was
away at the top of her speed. The mother,
hearing the screams of her child, pursued,
screaming yet more loudly. Her husband,
attracted by the cries of both, hastened to
the chase. The wild woman, finding her
self encumbered by the weight of the child,
dropped it and escaped. The latter was
uninjured, with the exception of some
scratches, which, no doubt, are attributable
to the long nails of the strange denizen of
the fields and the forest.
Weep ISreatning-.
If wo desire to see a generation of men
with enlarged brains, and if we look in our
colleges, churches, courts, editors' chairs,
legislative halls, Wall street and Wbnle
House, all will admit we need them; we
must have women with enlarged lungs and
opportunities for thought and action. Deep
breathing has much to do with deep think
ing. Napoleon once said: "You cau't make
a soldier out of a sick man." Neither can
you make a race of heroes and philosophers,
saints and scholars, out of a nation of sick
women. The New York World, in a recent
article on dress, says: "The average weight
all the year round, of women's clothing,
which is supported from the waist, is be
tween ten and fifteen pounds. Are weak
backs a wonder? Let physicians stop talk
ing of the natural weakness and disabilities
of women; there is no such thing; they are
all artificial the result, in all cases, of vio
lated law. Maternity is not a weakness but
an added strength; making a woman in
her creative power second only to God him
self. A well organized woman, who un
derstands and obeys physical and moral
law, may enjoy a life of as uninterrupted
health and happiness as the man by her
side. You might as well call tobacco
chewing, spittoons, delirium tremens, keno
banks and panel-houses the natural weak
ness and disabilities of men as to attribute
.all the long train of evils that flow from
the dress and sedentary habits of our girls
to the natural weakness and disabilities of
women." Dio Lewis.
It is stated that a "Ring" of men have
been discovered in Washington, "who, as
office brokers, claim to be able by certain
secret and mysterious powers to obtain
employment tor both nialo and lemale ap
plicants, for a consideration. Some of the
heads of Departments and Bureaus, whose
names have been used by theso scamps,
without authority, have determined to
break up tho nefarious practice, and have
set their olheers to work to ferret out the
blackmailers." A few scape-goats are
needed, and they will be found among the
small thieves, the men who "prig the
vipes." Nothing will be said about the big
operators who button-hole Senators on tho
San Domingo job, or Seneca stone con
tracts. No attempt will be made to "break
up these nefarious practices."
During the heat of the battle in the neigh
borhood of Aleershot, the small -pox hos
pital was besieged by a number of troops
who were ignorant of the character of the
building. In vain the nurses remonstra
ted; the order had been given, and the
first duty of a soldier was to obey. The
doors wore closed, and persuasion Avas
about to bo succeeded by force, when one
of the nurses happened to remark incident
al, and for the first time, that the object
ot attack was a "small-pox hospital." iiie
expression produced a magical effect; the
order to secure possession of such an ad
vantageous position it not countermanded
was instantly forgotten, and the invaders
beat a hasty retreat.
The English papers, though very anxious
to know the details f the Chicago fire, can't
make up their minds to pay the cable com
pany for telling them. They deplore the
paucitv of dispatches, and declare the ex
cessive tariff a public misfortune. If half
ot Liverpool were to burn to-morrow, how
long would American newspapers count
the cost before they learned the whole
story? Our journals may fall below the
English in literal excellencies, but they
far outstrip them in the race for news.
Count Otto, Bismarck's son and heir, is
described as a tall young fellow, resemb
ling an Englishman. Ho passed two
years in England studying the English
army organization, and then took lessons
in diplomacy in Paris, where he was a fre
quent guest at General Dix's receptions.
He speaks fluently five modern languages,
and is an accomplished sportsman.
No Faith. The Nathan mansion in New
York, which has been under the ban of the
great tragedy for over a year, has at last
been purchased by courageous John Mor
rissey, who will fit it up in the highest
style of club-house art, having no faith in
tho power of ghosts to injure the gamblers'
profits.
The convicts in the Moabit Penitentiary,
at Berlin, have sent to the Prussian Minis
ter of Justice a petition, in which they solicit
permission to have once a week an hour's
conversation with somebody besides the
clergyman.
A southwestern editor remarks: "If in
our school days the rule of three is pro
verbially trying, how much harder, in af
ter life, do we find the rule of one." He
has been married only fourteen months.
Mr. Fields, iu his lecture on cheerful
ness, describes a man so shut in with dig
nity and exclusiveness that when you
shake hands with him you always feel as
if you were doing it through a knot-hole.
A Peruvian correspondent states, as a
peculiarity of cundurango, that it cures
tumors, etc., but that patients invariably
die in a short lime after of sore throat.
A New Yorker has dined at Delmonico's
and occupied the same seat daily for eight
een years. What a record ot good dinners
he must have made by this time.
One hundred and fifty-one -members of
the German Parliament have pledged
themselves to vote for a bill making civil
marriage obligatory iu Europe.
A Texan Ancliorite.
The New York hermit is matched by an
other of the genus recluse in Western Tex
as. The New- Orleans Picayune says he
excludes even tho ordinary domestic ani
mals from his household. He, at one time,
raised chickens; but as, w henever a wo
man, at very long intervals and by chance,
happened in his vicinity the chickens got
frightened, ran headlong into the brush,
and remained hidden there as long as a
petticoat was in sight, the hermit conclud
ed to do without such uncivilized crea
tures. '
He amuses himself in taming birds; but
his favorites are a pair of snakes, of a pe
culiar kind, that he uses as mousers, and
which, ho asserts, are far superior to cats,
lie lives by the produce of sixty bee hives,
selling from twelve to fifteen thousand
pounds of honey every year.
The hermit's name is Baylock. He was
for many years a trapper in the Rocky
Mountains; is 03 years of age; is cheerful
and talkative; and, by a traveller who re
cently saw and conversed with him, is
spoken of as a man of more than common
natural ability, with a fair portion of gen
eral information.
lassoing a Grizzly
The Ventura Signal of the 18th instant
says: We forgot to note a little incident
that took place here some time ago that
was well worthy of record, illustrating
California youth and life. Two boys, aged
respectively twelve and fourteen years,
sons of E. W. Foster of the Monticello, and
R. B. Hall of tho Ojal ranch, wero out in
the mountains on horseback looking for
their cows, when they discovered a young
grizzly bear toddling along ia the trail.
They had been long enough here to know
the danger of tr3ring to catch the little fel
low, the ferocious dam rarely being beyond
tho cries of her young. But tho temptation
was too strong for j'outhful discretion, and
keeping an eye on the varmint, they began
hallooing, and finally being convinced that
the old one was not near, they rode up to
him, and with the dexterity of old vaque
ros, quickly succeeded in fastening the
lariat around his neck and took him safely
home. It was a feat as dangerous as daring,
and a sport that old hunters would not care
to indulge in, unless exceedingly well
mounted.
C. W. Dilke, a Liberal member of the
British Parliament, has lately discussed
the cost of royalty in an English lecture
room. He finds that the salaries, annui
ties, etc., of the royal family, pay and pen
sions to their servants, and expenses, of
palaces, dwellings and grounds, amount
to 3,530,000 annually. The extra expenso
of the Life Guards and Foot Guards, who
are kept to add splendor by their toggery
to royal display, is $500,000 more than
would bejrequired for an equal number of
soldiers of the line employed for ordinary
garrison service. The total expense of the
nryal family appears to be about ? 1,000,000
annually. In return for this, the Queen
signs her name to certain papers, in ac
cordance with the recommendation of the
Ministry, and lends her august name for
use in public documents.
Amoig Fanny Ellsler's suitors in the
beaux jours of her prime was, it is said,
the then Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
now ex-Emperor of France. He proposed
marriage to lier in London, but 1-anny
having been secretly married to somebody
else a year or two previously, rejected his
proposals, and thus eseaped the penalty of
being ex-Empress ot France instead ot ex
queen of thoTerpsichorean stage. A sister
of Fanny Ellsler's, also a celebrated dan
seuse, is the morganatic wife of Prince
Albert of Prussia.
Mixed. The Paris correspondent of the
Iribune read, tho other morning, a para
graph in one of the most widely-circulated
Paris papers, of which the following is a
faithful translation: "Echo of American
news: On the 15th courant, Mr. Jerome
Bonaparte, grandson to tho Prince Jerome,
was married to the grand-daughter of the
celebrated American humorist, Daniel
Webster.77
The Yreka Union sajrs that the waters of
tne upper lake m surprise v alley have the
property of removing from clothing all
grease, pitch or dirt of whatever kind,
without the application of soap or any
washing material. What is the property
of the water which gives it the decompos
ing power? The opinion is expressed that
it is strongly impregnated with borax.
Tho Onondaga Indians of New York still
live as a distinct tribe, on a reservation of
twelve thousand acres, in a beautiful val
ley, near Syracuse. This tribe never had
more than five hundred members, and it is
now nearly four hundred strong. The
Indians are considerably advanced in mor
als and civilization, and support two flour
ishing churches.
The Grass Valley Republican of the 20th
ult. says: Tho Digger Indians in the vi
cinity of Nevada are complaining that the
white people are robbing them of their
usual crop of manzanita berries. Tho Dig
gers have not taken any scalps yet, but the
squaws are said to have painted up, and
threaten mischief to the intruders who are
plucking their indigenous hereditary fruit.
Sign of Honesty. "Mr. Brown, you
said th defendant was honest and intelli
gent. What makes you think so? Are
you aoquainted with him?" "No, sir, I
have aever seen him." vhy, then, do
you come to such a conclusion?" "Be
cause he takes ten newspapers, and pays
for them in advance." A erdictfor defend
ant.
Mr. Gladstone is a pedestrian of no mean
powers. It is stated that when returning
from his recent official residence, at Bal
moral Castle, ho walked the distance from
the Castle to Clova, twenty-six miles, rest
ing lor the night at the village inn, and
proceeding to Kirriempir next day, still in
pedestrian fashion.
Colorado Territory has now in operation
420 miles of railroad, and the Union Pacific
runs just north of her line, through the
southern part of Wyoming. In 18G9 Colo
rado did not have a mile of railroad, and
certainly if she keeps on at the rate she has
for the past two years she will soon be
completely girdled with iron tracks.
A census of the Canadian Dominion, or
rather that part of it east of the Rocky
Mountains lor Jintisu Columbia now be
longs to it was taken a few months ago
and shows that the population is 3.4S4J24,
an increase of 400,000, or thirteen per cent.,
since 1MI.
The Evening Mail savs: "One of our
belles is confined to her residence just at
E resent 'seriously indisposed.' She has
een trying to bleach her hair, and we are
grieved to sav the experiment has not been
quite so successful as might be desired."
Junction City. Mr. N. Gilmore, form
erly landlord of the City Hotel at Harris-
burg, has erected a new hotel at J unction
City and is already running it successfully.
He is said to be the "right man in tne right
place."
All Sorts.
Not half the usual number of letters are
written in France since the high postage
law has gone into operation.
Several people have been recently drown
ed in the streets of Pekin, so deep are the
sloughs of mud and water iu them.
Russell, of the London limes, lias begun
the publication of his personal diary ot'.tho
late war between France ainl Pnissia.
A Catholic mission has boon established
in this country, with special reference to
missionary labors among tho colored peo
ple. Rumors with reference to the Pope's
leaving Rome arc stil 1 current in Kuropo,
but they have no well ascertained founda
tion. The Northwestern fires have destro'ed
immense numbers of valuable fur-bearers.
It would have been better for these fur an
imals if they had been further.
'At a Philadelphia party there is. more
talking than dancing, more music than
fun, more eating than drinking, and more
flirting than anything else dining the
evening.
Strikes among tho workmen oi Eastern
Prussia are becoming so wide-spread as to
cause alarm among business men. All
steps taken to prevent them havo proved
abortive.
A young man in the street being charged
with laziness, was asked if ho took ii from
his father. "I think not," said the disre
spectful sou; "father's got all the laziness
he ever had."
A Danbur3', Conn., schoolbo3' disturbed
the S3rmmetr3' of a family heirloom by
sawing off the tops of his great grandfath
er's bed-posts for a set of croquet balls.
And the night he did it he slept very
warm.
The French Revue Critique, which was
suspended iu 1870, has reappeared. Tho
new number is four times as large as it
was in the old time, before M. Paul Mayer,
its chief editor, took his place in the Na
tional Guard.
A good story is told of a bootblack whose
energies were taxed by the huge shoes of
a private just returned from tho war. The
little fellow, kneeling down, looked over
his shoulder to a comrade and exclaimed,
"Lend me a spit, Jim; I've got an army
contract."
Alexander II. Stephens, Vice President
of the "so-called," in reply to an invitation
to lecture in Little Rock, writes: "I have,
been confined with rheumatism for nearly
three years, unable to stand or walk with
out aid of some sort. I do not expect to
bo able ever again to leave home."
The hobby of the Crown Prince of Prus
sia is agriculture. His farm near Bradew
burg costs him every year fifty thousand
dollars; but he has, at all events, the pleas
ure of telling his guests at the dinner table
that he himself raised all the vegetables
which are placed on the table.
A commission has just been dispatched
to America by the Iron and Steel Institute
of Great Britain, with the object ot testing
the practical value of the revolving pud
dling furnaces, by the operation of which
the labor of the hand puddler in the iron
works of the United States is to a large ex
tent superseded.
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Trade of Boston, resolutions were adopted
favoring the resumption of specie pay
ments; a revision of the tariff on imports,
and that the construction of ships and
steamers should be promoted, and the for
eign commorce of the country fostered by
tho abatement of taxes.
The New York Tribune vindicates the
action of Governor Palmer, of Illinois, in
rebuking the military usurpations of Gen
eral Sheridan at Chicago. The Tribune
says: "When the vindication of the law
for its own sake is called transcendental
ism, it does not indicate a sound state of
public opinion."
A Louisville wife, wishing to get rid of
her husband at short notice, sent him into
the cellar with a keroscno lamp to get a
pitcher of cider. She gave him just time
to get the cider in one hand and the lamp
in the other, and then shouted "murder!"
Sho had calculated well. Tho doomed man
sprang up the steps, the lamp fell, and
the woman was free.
A countryman on his wedding tour halt
ed recently at a Boston hotel. Tho day
was chilly, and after vain efforts to extract
heat from the steam radiator, according to
the directions of the waiter, he rang' tho
bell and indignantly requested the attend
ant to "take out that darned steam gladia
tor and bring in a stove."
newly-married couple having occasion
to economize by moving to a poor-house in
Kentucky are deeply indignant becauso
the keeper thereof assigned them separate
wards of tho establishment, and havo
brought suit against him for violating the
marriage ceremony by putting asunder
those whom God had joined.
The Milan (Texas) Telegram says: "We
have been asked why we stopped publish
ing the list of marriage licenses issued by
the Clerk. Because a great big stand-up-in-the-mud,
out there in the sand-hills,
said we published his daughter as married
when she wern't, and that he would hit us
on the head hard enough to knock our
ankles out of joint for it. Is the explana
tion satisiactory?"
The Hon. Mrs. Norton accused Mrs.
Henry Wood with stealing the plot and
characters of her novel, "East Lynno,"
from a brief story which she, Mrs. Norton,
had published many years ago. To this
Mrs. Wood replies': .'"Nothing can be
more false; nothing more unjustifiable.
There is not a shadow of foundation for it.
Mrs. Norton may have written the brief
story, but I never saw or heard of it."
A Vermont girl who sued a false lover
for breach of promise laid the damages at
40. In Court, in answer to the inquiry
why that particular sum had been claimed,
sho answered that counting the time she
had spent " sitting up " with him as worth
at the rate of nine shillings per week, she
had figured up the nine hours past in his
company, and adding the value of wood
consumed, she had found that the amount
due. There was no doubt in the mind of
the Judge that her claim was an honest
one, and a verdict was rendered accord
ingly. Something to mend with that is tho
great need of us all, especially of those who
live in the country, and whose traps are
sometimes called "rattle-traps," and have
a way of breaking at inconv enient times.
An old officer ol the Coast Survey, who
had spent thirty years in field service, once
told us that ho never went from camp in
uie morning wunoui naving a spool ot cop
per wire in his wagon, and that, as a con
sequence, he never had a break-down that
he could not repair on the road, or in tho
woods, or wherever he might be. Harness,
wagon, tools, everything, almost, that is
subject to breakage, may be stoutly mend
ed with copper wire, which is flexible and
tough.
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