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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19. 1874.
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Vhat are the Rights of Woman I
The riirht to labor ami to pray ;
The riirht to watch when others sleep;
The right o'er others woes to wetp;
The riilit to sue -or in distress;
The rhrht while others eurse to Mess;
The right to love when others scorn ;
The right to comfort all that mourn ;
The riirht to shed new joy on earth ;
The rijzlit to feel the soul's high lirth ;
The riirht to lead the soul to (iod,
Along the path our Savior trod ;
The path of meekness and of love;
The path of faith which leads above;
The path of pat ence under wrong:
The patli in which the weak 'grow
strong;
Such woman's rights: and God will
bless,
And crown their Champions with -success.
Wallowa Valley open to Settlers.
The following letter appears in
La Grande Times of last week:
United States Senate Chamher,
Sl-K,
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ASIIlN(iTON, Mav IS, 18
Hon. Jasies II. Stater Dear Sir
I Lave recently received letters from
citizens of Union County, inquiring;
what the Indian department was
going to do in regard to the reserva
tion of the Wallowa Valley for Jo
seph's bai.tl of Nez l'eiee Indians;
and whether the sums of money
awarded to the settlers in that valley
for their improvements there would
be paid. 1 have answered these let
ters; but as the subject is one of
jceneral iriterst to the whole people
of Eastern Oregon, I deem it proper
to write to you, so that you way
Pfive publicity to the views of the
Indian Department on the subject.
Some time ago I had a conversa
tion with lion. K. 1. Smith, the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
upon this matter, and urged upon
him the propriety of rescinding his
order setting apart Wallowa Valley
as an Indian reservation for Joseph's
band of Xez Perces. He then said
that probably this would be done,
and the. matter might remain then
until further notice. On Saturday
last I again had an interview, and
explained how important it was for
those in the valley, and others who
intended to go there, that it be de
termined id once either to rescind the
order establishing the reservation,
or make it known that it vonhl be
ad holed to, so that the settlers
might govern their movements ac
cordingly. Tie; Coimiiisio. er then
assured me that nothing more would
be done toward establishing a reser
vation there, and that the settlers in
tin; Wallowa Valley would not be
m- l".--(ed in any way by the Indian
Department. Of course the whole
val ey is now open for settknent
by Ihi whole people. Id the con
versation referred to, the Commis
sioner said that having corno to the
conclusion to amend the order estab
lishing the reservation, lie would uot
ask Congress to make an appropria
tion to pay tlio sums of money
awarded to the settlers some two
vcars ago 1 r their improvement
made on lands within the boundaries
oi tne intended reservation.
I asked the Commissioner if he
had any objections to my publishing
in the newspapers the fact of the
ab.mdonm nt, and the relinquish
ment of the Wallowa Reserva
tion, so that the people might
all know what has been done. His
reply was (for indeed it could not
well lie otherwise) that he ha-1 no
objections whatever to my doing so.
I congratulate the people of Union
county especially on the settlement
of this perplexing controversy, and
hope no disturbance will hereafter
take place with the roving bands of
Indians who caused all the trouble
and annoyance which lias taken place
in regard to that valley.
Very truly yours,
James K. Kelly.
Influence of Newspapers.
Small is the sum that is required to
patronized a newspaper, and amply
rewarded is its patron, I care not
how humble and unpretending the
gazette which he takes. It is next
to impossible to fill a sheet with
printed matter without putting into
it -something that is worth the sub
scription price. Every parent whose
sou is away from home at school,
should snjM'lv him with a newsnaner.
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1 well remember what a marked dif
ference there was between those of
my schoolmates who had, ami those
who had not, "acce.s-s to newspapers.
Other things being equal, the first
were always decidedly superior to
the last in debate, composition, and
general intelligence. Daniel Webster.
Bright Little Oirl. A real inci
dent occurred recently on the train
between Mount Pleasant and Bur
lington, La. A little girl traveling
with her parents attracted the atten
tion of the passengers by her bright
ness. A gentleman went to her seat
aud asked her "if she wouldn't like
to go home with him," adding that
he had a nice little boy tljat she could
play with. The little girl's eyes
danced and her cherry lips rounded
up when she said: "I'm going to
have a little brother of my own, the
first of November." The old man
Milted, the mother blushed, and the
passengers giggled.
They tell a queer story about the
doctors of a certain town, who were
all away last summer to attend a
medical convention. They were ab
sent about two months, and on their
return found all their patients had
recovered, the drug stores had clos
ed, the nurses had opened dancing
schools, the cemetery was cut up
into building lots, the undertakers
had gone to making fiddles, and the
hearse had bceu painted and sold for
a circus wagon.
Josh Billings says: When a young
man ain't good for any thing else I
like tew see hirn carry a gold-headed
cane. If he kan't buy a cane let him
part his hair in the joiiddle..
SPI'I'CII OF SUXATOU IIAVAHI).
Delivered at theTTemocratic Reun
ion at the Manhattan Club K.,oius,
eu ork City, May 7ih, 1H7 l.
My Fellow-Democrats from almost
every State in the Union and from
the State of New Jersey (laughter)
I esteem it a piece of great good
forture.of rare luck for a hard work
ed man, that private duty gave me
a large portion of the pretext, that
my heart earnestly desired, to meet
my brethren in political faith to
night, when we have so sincere
cause for mutual congratulation that
we can look each other in the face
and look forward not only to a tri
umph, but what is better,
AX HONEST TRIUMPH,
for the whole country, and not for a
single party. It is a very pleasant
tuil,o gentlemen, to find so sharp a
contrast as sitting in a chamber as I
have done for manj' months past
faced by a bitter partisan majority,
and here to find myself, not simply
one of the majority, but one in a place
where the voices are simply unani
mous for the -principles I love and
the party I adhere to. (Applause.)
I do not propose to be carried away
by this excess of the prosperity of
the moment; prosperity, if it is to
come, is to bring to us a heavy re
sponsibility; if we shall have
power we have heavy work
to do to exercise that power justly.
We have had triumphs of no ordinary
signiticance in the elections of New
Hampshire and Connecticut, that
were States connted conlidently
against us, and they have been car
ried by majorities so emphatic as
left no ground to suppose that per
sonal reasons affected them, but that
it was something more profound that
so moved the pulse of that people to
declare themselves as they did.
AVhat was it moved those people?
Sirs, it was nothing less than the in
stinctive sense of national self-preservation.
The people,
THE MASSES OF THIS ("OUXTRY,
shrank from the terrible abyss of
iladieal misgoveinment that has
opened before the feet of the Ameri
can people. That is it. Gentlemen,
do not let us misunderstand the
gravity of this question. It is not
simply party names or party succes
ses or failures, but I believe it has
been the God-implanted instinct of
self-preservation that impels them no
longer to follow such leadership, that
has led us to the unhappy condition
where we now find ourselves. Am I
stating the case, my fellow-countrymen,
too strongly when I say that
for the last thirteen years the people
of the United States have lived under
a real despotism veiled by the forms
of republican government? (Cries
of "No, no.")
FOR THE LAST THIRTEEN YEARS
there has been no limitation none
of those limitations upon the Govern
ment of this country which we need
to-day as well as our ancestors need
ed them in 177G. All the essential
safeguards of the freedom of this
people every limitation of the Gov
ernment, you can perceive has been
cast down and prostrated. -The peo
ple to-day feel the effects of this, and
the issue which will come about in
the campaign of 1S7(J is simply
whether we can restore lim
ited government because its powers
are distributed first in the State,
next in the General Government, ami
again redistributed by the depart
ments'of the General Government;
whether we can restore that so that
liberty and freedom shall bo rights
in America . nd not permissive en
joyments, as they have been for the
last thirteen years. Every evil thaj
alHicts us to-day has its origin first
in that fact of the lawlessness of
those who are placed in power under
the stfict pledge that they should
exercise that power. What brought
up this vast issue that
TOUCHES EVERY MAN S HEARTH
in the country the question of spir
itless, valueless currency in our
midst? It was the departure of this
ltadical party from the plain limita
tions of the Constitution of the coun
try that forbade them to make aught
but gold and silver a tender for thtf
payment for honest debts; it was
their fault in the beginning. Admit
that it was a fault commencing in the
heat of war, the ashes of which con
test I do not wish to disturb, but de
sire that they should rest in peace,
but it was the act of war repeated in
peace that we iiud so infamous and
wrong. Why was it when the Su
preme Court of the United States,
led by the honored and magnanimous
Salmon P. Chase, who was willing to
say in 1870 that he was wiser than he
was in 1863, why was it that the de
liberate decision of that Court was
not allowed to stand? The heart of
the American people approved it.
Every lawyer in the land knew it was
just and true. And I put it to you
here you men of New York, mer
chants of this metropolis of the
country I put it to you whether the
business men of the country were
not willing to accept that decision,
and thank God it had arrived. Yet
what was the result?
GROWLS WERE IZEAED
from both Houses of Congress, and
the President of the United States,
who has been so much lauded of late
for his acton against inflation, the
President of the United States joined
with his party in dissatisfaction with
that honest decision. He tilled that
Court, and his Attorney-General, who
stands to-day as the champion of
honest currency God save the mark
in the Lower House from Massa
chusetts, was a man who went before
the Supreme Court in order to nrge
a rehearing of that question and pro
cure a reversal of that decision.
Therefore I say that they have pro
ceeded in the wrong and persisted in
it; end this is trot one jn.atf.er. Gen
COURTESY OF
TXTUITDCTrnv
tlemen, I won't fatigue you by at
tempting to run through "the dreary
catalogue (invasions of power ; ft
would be too long, and they are all
fresh in your memories, and besides
this is rather an occasion for congrat
ulation. Gentlemen, it is not simply
that we are to advance once more the
standard of the Federal Constitution
to its proper place, but there is much
more that lies under that. It is that
which I am sure the American people
will demand from the party who is
to receive their confidence ami their
suffrages at the next Presidential
election. It is not siaiply the restor
ation of
YOUR WRITTEX CHARTER OF GOVERN
MENT, nor the enforcement of the laws; but
it is in the restoration of those un
written laws which make communi
ties responsible and make free gov
ernment possible. Those unwritten
laws become their foundation in its S
personal character of men. It is
that parties shall insist that their
candidates and rulers shall be at least
self-respecting, upright men men
of integrity. That is the r-ure, de
pend upon it. Look at the melau
choly spectacle presented to-tbvy in
the State of Arkansas; what see you
there? A tangled contest for office,
the right of which no man can right
fully determine a tangled web of
dishonesty and untruth that no man
can fathom and say where the right
lies. Baxter counted Brooks out of
ollice, locks the door, and takes the
key. There is a tangled web running
through the whole transaction, and
no man can say where the right lies.
I put this to you, gentlemen. If
those two Governors had been self-
respecting, plain, honest, upright
men would they have been capable
of entering into such
A CONTEST WITH EACH OTHER ?
Is not, therefore, the best safeguard
for these things in the charac
ter of the men whom, you shall elect
to your high oflices? No, gentle
men, it is not simply the restoration
of the limitationsof our Federal Con
stitution; it is not simply' respect for
written laws; it is more than that.
It is respect for those unwitten laws
of the country the laws do not gov
ern gentlemen in their intercourse
with each other these are the laws
that have been disregarded; these
are the la.vs that General Grant has
taught his countrymen to disuse,
and which we Democrats must teach
them sixain tg respect. Oh, sirs,
there will rest fearful responsibility
upon that party which shall succeed
the party now in power that they
will go to pieces seems almost written
on the wall before our faces. Who
shall succeed them? Not ji party
governed by narrow ideas; not a mere
oflice-holder seeking his own
PERSONAL AMIilTION.
Such men are not the men for the
time of 187(; 1S7G must echo 177(.
(Applause.) It must lie something
untouched, untainted, that will raise
your rulers in 1S7G to the true posi
tion that they ought to hold, not
only before the American people,
but before the entire world and be
fore their Maker. No mere party
line or party policy can dictate it.
It must come from something wor
thy of the occasion, and the occasion
is nothing else than the restoration
of the principles of free republican
government in these United States
of America. Why, gentlemen, you
have the past before you. Look at
ie condition of the South. I saw a
face but just now in this assemblage
that brought to my mind one of our
sister States a mere captive. I saw
the rightful Governor of Louisiana
in this room, and I ask you how he
can be here a welcome spectator? I
ask why he is not there the rightful
Governor of that State? It is be
cause the- laws and Constitution of
the United States have been trodden
under foot that John McEnery is not
to day in office in Louisiana. (Ap
plause.) Gentlemen, that ' is one of
the small items that we must right
and that we will right, God willing.
(Applause.)
LOOK AT SOUTH CAROLINA,
and say what a task is there for
statesmanship. Y'ou know her his
tory. I could not recite, and my
emotion would forbid me to recite it
to you now a broken country, an
impoverished people, disorganized
finances. Look at -our own city. A
band of legalized, organized, and
sustained plunderers have enriched,
themselves at the expense of the mer
c ants, driving commerce from your
port. And these things can be done
under a government of law. Part of
our task in 187 6 is Jirst to secure up
right, honest, high-minded men who
shall lead our party in the great con
test; who shall see that nothing shall
be emblazoned upon our banner but
those Jiigh principles that every hon
est American can and ought to follow
and subscribe to. It will not be a
question of narrow party triumph;
it will be the question of
THE TRIUMPH OF HONESTY
over dishonesty, of law over lawless
ness, of constitutional and civil gov
ernment over the principles of de
struction and dissolution which this
party has wrought upon us. Let no
man suppose that his personal
iuter.'t in these can have any effect;
they must have a wider and purer
range ti an that, and we must be
governed by no narrow rule to drive
from us the men who would join
with us in re-establishing constitu
tional government in this country.
Having high-minded men as leaders
we may expect honest administration
of government. There must be a
convention of all our States to see
what the war has brought upon us;
and if any portion of our country
suffers, if an amendment to the Con
stitution will give them relief every
man will demand that they shall
have these. guarantees. (Applause.)
BANCROFT LIBRARY,
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A Husband's Confession.
"Really Mrs Hoje," exclaimed a
maiden friend to the wife of a jour
neyman, "I can't make you out at
all. Ever since I've come into the
house you've smiled and laughed
and bustled about as though some
stingy old relative had died and left
you a lot of money. Is it so?"
"No, Alice, it isn't but I'm in
good for that," and the happy wife
smiled again.
""Then what's put you into such
an enviable humor?"
"Well, I don't think I ought to
tell you so for it is a secret."
This rebuff only increased Alice
Pain's desire to be enlightened, so
she persevered till her friend Mrs.
Hope promised to satisfy her curios
ity. "The other day," began the wife,
"I had to take John's dinner to the
oflice and you know, it's one of those
queer old buildings with a good
many ins aud outs about it."
"Yes, yes, I know that Mrs Hope"
said Alice impatiently; "but do, be
quick and tell me the rest."
'"And quite by accident I over
heard my husband make a confession
to one of the other workmen."
'The wisest thing you can do,
Harry, I heard John say, "is to get
acquainted with a healthy, sensible,
industrious young woman and mar
ry her. I was as poor and miserable
and as lost-like as a young fellow
well could be before I got my little
gem of a wife, often without a six
pence when pay-day came and
couldn't tell how the money slipped
through my ringers. Like you, I
went in for pleasure and enjoyment,
but I never remember to have felt
the better for it afterward. In fact
you may take my v. ord for it Harry,
that most of that sort of thing is
humbug and selfishness. At least, I
found it so. and it's a wonder you
hav'nt before now. Talk about turn
ing over a fresh leaf, keeping steady
and saving np-the only way to do
that Harry, is to get a good active
wife and love her with all your might
as i do. Though poor and plain I'm
never ashamed to bring anybody in
to my little cot, because I know it's
always clean and orderly7. Then
there's the children, God bless 'em!
how they warm a man's heart after
a long day's work! And how cheer
fully and quietly their mother man
ages to keep- things straight and
right and cuts about like just what
she is one of the best of wives aud
a real workman's friend. Get a help
mate llarrv. and depend upon it
if she's of the right kind you'll soon
lie a better richer and, happier man.
You may think I'm speaking too
warmly on the subject but I assure
you I feel more than I can put into
words. Good wives are our noblest
and best reformers, Harry; and
though I never told her so to her
own sweet face, mine is worth a lit
tle fortune to Jack Hope."
"I dare say what you've told me's
all true enough." I heard the man
remark but where can I find a gem
of the same pattern? They're rather
scarce now a days."
"1 didn't hear what answer ray
husband made, for just then the door
near which I had been standing, and
which stood a little ajar was pulled
wide open and I walked into the
place as though I hadn't heard a
word. On seeing me they both
laughed, but I didn't appear to know
anything of their conversation."
"And is that all?" asked Alice
! Taine. '
"Yes aud if you'd felt as I have
many a time, you would know that
it was quite enough to fill my heart
with gladness.
At home my husband dosen't talk
much," she continued, "and I used
to fancy that with all my slaving and
trying to make him and the children
comfortable, he wasn't satisfied.
But I know now that he is, and it
makes me feel as if I could do any
thing for my dear John and our own
little home."
"Well, if ever I get a husband Mrs.
Hope," said Alice in a whisper, "I'll
strive to deserve "being called behind
my back as Mr. Hope called you."
In short time the two friends sep
arated; his fellow-workman took
John's advice; and, without relating
particulars, or asserting that the
Hopes had nothing to do with what
followed, "Harry" chose Alice Paine
for a helpmate.
Pedro. This is a new game of
cards recently introduced in the
State of Nevada. The game counts
high, low, jack game, one point
each ; pedro. five points; puzzle five
points; Columbus, three points; and
Van Winkle three points. The five
trumps is pedro, aud when caught
or saved counts five points to the
player takit-g it in; puzzle is the five
of the suit of the same color as the
trump, and counts five; Columbus
is the nine of trumps, and counts
three; and Van Winkle is the jack of
clubs, and counts four points, re
gardless of what may be trumps.
In all 2i points may be made in one
hand.
A cubic inch of gold is worth one
hundred and forty-six dollars; a
cubic foot of gold is worth fifty-two
thousand two hundred and eightv
eight dollars; and a cubic yard, six
millions eight hundred and eleven
thousand seven hundred and seventy
six dollars. The quantity of gold
now in existence, estimated to be
three thousand millions of dollars,
could be contained in a cube of
twentv-three feet.
Chief State Engineer Thompson
writes to Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana
that 3,(KX),000 cubic yards of levee
will le required to be built to save
the State from the river overflow next
year, and that Louisiana cannot pay
for the construction of more than
one- third. He suggests an appeal
for national aid.
White Slaves of Lhi gland.
Under the above head the New
Y'ork World gives from its London
correspondent, some account of the
w orking classes of England. He has
been looking over the report of tho
Inspectors of Factories for the last
year. The Inspector visited the
brick-makers, and they rejort that
those laborers are "a most barber
ous, semi-civilized, ignorant set.
Men and boys look like red Indians;
the sand used in brick-making being
burn, red, their bodies are covered
with it. They work bareheaded,
barefooted, with exposed breasts,
and w ith wild looks. Drinking all
day Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
dog-fight ng aud man-fighting, they
resume work on Wednesdays, when j
tue poor little unfortunates (that is,
the childrm of both sexes, who are
made to di the hardest part of the
labor) are made to toil away, stamp
ing aud carrying, and pressing a
good fortnight's work into three or
four days. One man, who last week
earned in four days twenty-eight
shillings (S1? d0 in gold), took his
wife home a loaf of bread and six
pence." The law that children under 12
years of age must not be made to
work is systematically disregarded.
Cases are given where children ten
or twelve yems old are made to do
night work, and hare but seven
hours of the twenty-four for sle.q
and meals. These reports from the
brick works are bad enough, but
what can we i-ay of the stories that
cjme from the salt works at Droil
wich? In these the women work
with the men all night, both sexes
stripped to the waist, and very little
to cover them below. The men
wear short breeches simply, and the
women have oa only a single gar
ment, a skirt, tied about the waist
and reaching to the knees.
The scenes nightly enacted in
these works are said to be horrible
beyond description, and chastity,
morality and decency are, among the
workers, words destitute of meaning.
This is a brief glimpse into the con
dition of the toiling masses of the
" proudest ami most enlightened na
tion upon the globe," the country
upon which the sun never sets.
Every true Brittain's heart will prob
ably swell with pride at the view.
England sends, year after year, ler
wealth and her missionaries to other
hinds, to assist and educate and
clot'ie and civilize the heathen, while
her own flesh and blood at home is
living in destitution, misery and
:h.i:ie. This is tho "finest peasantry
in the world'' of which England
boasts. Let the American working
I eople turn from the jictnre, view
their own condition and be happy.
" Dogology."
A little dog belonging to a gentle
man, residing near Stony Brook,
Long Island, was in the habit of fol
lowing his master's wood-wagon to
the landing, some three miles dis
tant. One day he was set upon and
roughly handled by a large dog be
longing to a resident in the next
village. The next day, though lame
sore and bruised, the little dog per
sisted in accompanying the wood
wagon again. When the wagon
started, the large farm dog was also
found to be moving along quietly
under it. He was never known to
follow the wagon-team before. The
teamster attempted to drive him
back, 'but he refused to return. The
little dog led the way, limping and
brooding over his wrongs. He y as
also contemplating the -sweetness
of revenge, and gloating over its
near accomplishment. When he
reached the place where he had re
ceived his ill treatment the day be
fore, he limped up to where his
enemy lay basking in the sun in the
front yard, and snapped and snarled
through the pickets in a most tantal
izing manner. Thinking to repeat
the chastisement of the day before,
the village dog leaped over the fence,
but only to encounter the large farm
dog who had been watching the pro
ceedings from under the slow-moving
wagon, and who now came rush
ing to the rescue. The village dog
was nearly killed before they could
be separated. The large farm dog
left the party after the fight and re
turned home. He had come only
f r the purpose of aiding his little
friend to obtain revenge. The little
wretch was almost inhuman in his
airs of triumph, and in his expres
sions of gratified malice. By what
process, think you, did tho little dog
communicate his wrongs, or plan
with his big canine friend this well
concocted scheme of retaliation?
The following is the conclusion of
a loving romance between a Tennes
see dry goods clerk and a gum chew
ing belle:
They met alas? -what
came to pass was soft and sweet and
precious; they wooed, they cooed,
he talked, she chewed O, how they
loved, good gracious! They had to
part, lie rose to start; her grief can
not be painted; these are the facts;
she swallowed her wax, then scream
ed, then choked, then fainted. Her
pa appeared, her beau quite scared
pushed out to get eome water; the
water; the watch-dog spied his ten
der hide, and bit him where he
"oughter." The tale is sad, the
sequel stern so thinks the yonth
thus bitten. He sings no more, as
oft of your he gave that girl the
mitten.
She pined apace, her pretty face
looked slender and dejected; her
father kind, but somewhat blind,
beheld her and reflected. His in
come tax he spent for wax she
smiled and called him clever. She
went to work, forgot that clerk, and
chawed in bliss forever. J. Bafeman.
PItti aud Point,
Are babies kidnapped when they
are 4 cribbed?"
Letting off sleep" is a little
definition of snoring.
boy'a
Tailor measuring at customer.-
"Would you hold the end while I
go round?"
Why are clergymen like railway
porters? because they da a good
deal of coupling, . " ' e
Smirkins looked at a painting of
pig and pleasantly asked: " Who i
that pigment for?"
A schoolboy's aspirations " I
wish I wore a fountain that I might
be always playing.
It is stated that in New York there
are fifteen preachers whose salaries
average 15,000 per annum.
Wealth gotten by vanitycand deceit
shall diminish; but he that gather
ttii by his labor shall increase.
A Hoboken editor, being challeng
ed sent word in reply: "When I O
want to die I can shoot myself."
"He handled his gun carelessly.
and put on his angel, plumage," is
the latest Western obituary notica.
A wonderfully scientific young
man has nau ocular uemonsirauon
of a sound; he has seen his bed tick.
It is one of the curiosities of nat
ural history that a horse enjoys his
food most when he hasn t a bit in
his mouth.
The man who aang Gh, breathe o
no more that simple air," went into
the smoking-car where it was mora
mixed.
Wanted to know The length of
the Kule of Three; how many days
in the March of Intellect; the width
of a broad hint.
An Iowa man has sued a woman
for calling him" a "skunk," and the
virdict of the jury was "Not guilty,
but if she was we'd clear her."
A lady suggests that when men's
hearts break, it is the same as when
a lobster breaks one. of his claws
another immediately sprouts in its
place.
Artemus Ward once observed that
he approved of temperance hotels,
although he thought as a rule they
sold worse liquor than any other
kind.
Getting born oot-ts the people of
the United States '220,oy5,000 annu
ally; getting married, 250,000,000;
getting buried, 873,689,450; total,
543,7S4,450.
An uncle left eleven silver spools
to his nephew in his will, adding:
He knows the reason I Uave not left
him the whole. dozen. The nepher
had stolen one.
The word "hymeneal" is now so
commonly used by provincial papers
in reference to weddings, that births q
are shortly to be headed "Crymen-
eal and deaths "Dimeneal.
Ex-Senator Doolittlo, once so
prominent in national politics, and
an able man, has accepted the per
manent presidency of the Chicago
University. Salary 5,000 a year,
A cynical writer says: "Take a
company of boys chasing butterflies;
put long-tailed coats on tho boys,
and turn the butterflies into dollars,
and von have the panorama of the
worhJ,"
Lynch law Is probably based on
the spirit of an old saying. When
desperadoes abound, honest people
surrender to t'aeir leaders an "vnch,"
and then they take an ' L" and make
a code called " Lynch Law."
An Irish post-boy having driven a
gentleman a long stage during tor
rents of rain, the gentleman civilly
said to him, " Paddy are you not
very wet?" " Arrah, I Vlon't care
about bein very wet, but piaze your
honor, I'm very dry"
An eclitor in a small town in Illin-
ois, who attended an apple pearing,
became imbued with the whirl of
society, and this is how it affected
him; "We are in the midst of the
season for parties, mirth, . nd festiv
ity. The rosined hair of the horse
travels merrily over the intestines of
the agile cat, evoking music to which
the impatient feet trip.gayly upor
the floor.
An Irishman having accidentally
broken a pane of glass in a window
of a house was making the best of
his way to get out of sight, but, nn
fnrtnnatelv for Pat. the Drourietor
stole a march on him, and having
seized him by the collar, exclaimed:
"Didn't you break that window?"
"To be sure I did," replied Pat,
"and didn't you see me running home
for the money topay for it?"
Of happiness all day and all night
long on East Side the last Plain Talk
has the following sample: "We know
of a young married man who thinks
so much of "his lovely wife that he o
lights a candle two or three times
everv night to look at her. Then he
quietly goes to sleep and chuckles
in his dreams like a turkey gobbler.
He feels so good. Young man, if
you are not married get married at
once!
"Not Likelt." The Cincinnati
Commercial thinks it is not likely
that either Senator Clayton or Dor
sev will pav any attention to the res
olutions of the 'Arkansas Legislature
calling upon them to resign. It says:
"It is possible high minded and sen
sible men, having lost in a desperate
game to control the State, would
heed the request of the Legislature,
and send in their resignations. But
it is to be inferred from the p ist hisr
tory of these Senators that they are
nni nt thft sort to whom sncb auali.
fying wwds fitly aply',"
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