Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 October 1877 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

IEPwRE HAUTE, OCT. 6,1877.

A VAGRANT PHILOSOPHER, In the hip pocket of an old vagrant, palled in by the police the other night, was a memorandum book full of his own writing with pencil, and some of his philosophy is good enough to be preserved. His first paragraph reads:

(Drinking

bad whiskey because it is

offered free Is like getting in the way of bullets purchased by an enemy.'

A second reads: Honesty is tbe best policy, but some folks are satisfied with second beut. It is hard to bo honest on an empty stomach.'

A third runs: A dry plank under a

rain-proof

shed

is better than a feather bed in jail, and one isn't annoyed by the jailer bringing in a square breakfast.'

A fourth says: Pay as you go. If you haven't anything to pay with, don't go. If you are forced to go record every indebtedness and let yonr heirs settle the bills.'

The fifth explains:

We should havecharity for all. When the winter winds blow cold and drear we vags should pity the poor fellows in India who are having red-hot weather.'

A sixth is recorded: Politeness costs nothing, bnt it is not expected that you will wake a man up at midnight to ask permission to go through his henhouse. It is more courteous to let bim enioy his needed repose.'

Tbe seventh and last was noted down as follows: When you pick up an apple core do not find fault because it is not the apple itself, but be satisfied with tbe grade of descent. Do not be ashamed of your occupation. We cannot all be lords, ncr can we all be vagrants. As I cannot be a lord I should not lament at being a vagrant. Be truthful and outspoken. That is, tell 'em you area Chicago fire sufferer. Keep seasonable hours or some other vag will get your plank first. Be hopeful, cheerful and good-natured. Growling won't cure a sore heel.'

Tbe Lafayette Leader has been amusing its readers by comparisons of certain tax returns and policies of insurance made by the samo individuals upon the same schedules of property. A case in point is that of'John Smith,' who in his sworn return to tbe assessor, lists his property somewhat after the following style: 'One piano, $100. One eewing machine, f25. Silver plate, cone. Housebold furniture, including books, etc., $150. Total, $275.' Leaving tbe office where this return duly verified by the signature and affidavit of the party was deposited, as the basis of his taxation for the current year, the writer stepped down to tbe insurance agency where he knew the party aforesaid had a policv on his househofd effects and an examination of the duplicate on record revealed the following exhibit: 'One piano, $600. One sewing machino, $85. Silver plate, $2.26. Household furniture, including library, $590, total, $1,400.' This was tbe sum that 'Mr. Smith' in the event of A lire, expected to realize from the. Insurance Company that gave its guarranty in that Dehalf. Another striking phase in the case was the fact that the policy was taken out thirty days subsequent to the tax return, by which it will be seen the property bad in the course of a month enchanced in valne $1,125, or over 400 per cent. This system that is becoming so generally adopted of playing 'fast and loose,' blowing not ana cold with the same breath, should bo investigated. If the party has simply the amount of property that is returned for taxation, $220, then it is a clear proposition that the attempt to force the last named sum, $2,400 out of the insurance company is simply a fraud, a baro laced swindle upon that na corporation proierty at

If on the other a fair valuation

_jand the is worth

$2,100, two-thirds of whloh $1,400. by the rules of the oompany is insurable, then an outrageous wroug is perpetrated against tbe County aud State in the matter of taxes.

A DANGEROUS WIFE TO JOKE WITH. The Fort Worth (Texas) Democrat savs: "Marshal Courtwright, of this town, thought of joking his wife. Arriving at homo at a late hour, he entered the front gate, carefully closing it. Cautiously groping his way thither,what was his surprise to see tho right hand of his wife lying on tbe sill of the window. On her fingers she had two gold rings, one tfwhicn ho proceeded to takeoff. It being rather loose he experienced but little trouble, and succeeded in the operation without waking her up. The remaining ring was a much tighter fit, and, li\ his effort to extricate it, his wife awoke, findiug her hand grasped from without by somo one whom she at once concluded* was a robber. Quickly pulling her hand away, she was about io scream, but, thinking of a convenient six shooter under her pillow, she .again placed hor 'jeweled hand' on the sill, which was grasped by the supposed burglar, and with the other she quietly reached for the pistol, and rising suddenly, brought It to bear on her husband but for his presence of mind is

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calling her she would have

jot bim dead. Mrs. Courtwright dis-

great presence of mind, fortlna

tudo ami courage, and the marshal should be proud of possessing a wife so fearless and brave. His narrow escape has completely cured him of any further desire to play tho role of a midnight robber."

MASONIC DISCIPLINE. pit. Joseph (Mo.) Herald.) A Masonic lodge in Indiana was presided over by a master who had an exaggerated notion of discipline. One nTg&t he met his lodge In called meeting (not a member absent) to instruct them in the work. Teaching them the an of the gavel, he bad juKt called them up with three knocks, when he leaned too for back, fell through a window to the jrround—four stories—and broke his neck. Picked up next morning, he was buried decently, but not a Mason came to the funeral. More strange still, not a Mason appeared In that village. It wa» inexplicable. Forty women left widows, 220 child ran left orphans, eightyfour merchants left la the lurch with Unpaid bills. Twenty years after that somebody went up tnto tbe fourth story, broke ooeu the door and beheld the lodge, a lodg® of skeletons! Strange, bat tro^ they bad strictly obeyed the ordera of the W. P., and had waited for the knocks to *at them, starved to death. Saeh was standing tn an attitude of respectfal attention 'looking to tho cast,* and had no pitying oiUxens taken ussy would have bees

THE MASKED TRAIN ROBBERS.

A Paetengtr'a Story—How he Mleaped being Plundered.

[From ths Omaha Bet aid.]

That train robbery at Kg Springs Station was an interesting occasion snd no mistake. I was there,bat not by special invitation. Not being aocustoraed to that kind of diversion, bad I known what was to happen I think I should have waited for the next train.

We rolled np to Big Springs depot as nsual. Tbe night was beautiful, and tho moon shone nrigbtly. As the train stopped I went out on the platform of tbe car, where I found an Omaha merchant, and we stood and talked there about two minutes, when there suddenly appeared before us on the ground four massed men, Kith a cocked levolver in each band, aimed directly at us. At first I thought it was somo joke, but when the devils ordered us into tbe car quick,' and to bold up our hands and make no 'break,' and called us bard names, I concluded it meant business, and another look at those eight revolvers, which just about that time began to look like howitzers, convinced me in much less than a week's time that the evening air was unhealthy, and I had inside immediately. business

As I closed tbe cai door two shots were fired at my friend, hitting him twice in the hand, and taking off about afoot of tbe car door casing. That satisfied him, and he took an inside berth. The robbers followed ns. One fired off his pistol in the car, probably to give emphasis to bis remsrks, which were more forcible than polite. They stationed one man at the front end of the car. one at the rear each with two pistols,and to each of the remaining ruffians was allotted the task of robbing a row of seats which they proceeded to do each after his own style.

The first man robbed was a drummer from aNew York bouse. He was ordered to 'stand up, bold up his bands, and keep his mouth shut,' and the search commenced. They took from him $480, and a gold watch valued at $300. The next man had only one arm. The gentlemanly villian that was searching him happened to notice the empty sleeve, H—1,' said he, 'have you only got one arm

Only one, sir,' replied the man. 'Well, you, take back your stuff —we don't want your money. Sit down and keep still.'

One of the brigands yelled out as they came in the car 'Hold up your hands, every ——. and keep still we want yonr money but will give each man $10 back, and we won't hurt a man unless he makes a break. We've killed one man, and dont want to kill any more, but your money we will have so, you, keep still and give it up—all of it, quietly'—and much more talk of like character.

It was a queer scene about forty men of us sitting there quietly to let four masked scalawags go quietly through us that way but what could we do? Not a revolver in the car except one, and that at the bot'.om of a valise. There was no use for anyone to make a start. The two men at the end of the cars covered every body nearly with two cocked revolvers liable to go off any moment, for their hands trembled violently, showing that they were themselves excited.

So we

obeyed orders to a certain

extent, but not fully. I didn't. I had my hands up most of the time, but I found time to put my pocketbook with $400 in it down behind a ladies' work basket, who occupied the

Bel

seat,after

doing which I walked back about four seats and managed to get my watch and chain off and down behind my valise on the car floor, after which little performance my Lands were up good and stoady. I then had nothing on my person that I thought the thieves would take, except about $10 in coin in one pocket,and I finally worked up a scheme to beat them out of that. The man who was robbing the row of seats opposite me was much more expert than the other, and got eway ahead of him. After he had passed me about four seats, and while the other one was at least four seats from me the other wsy, I cot up leisurely and crossed the aisle and took a seat with a man who had been robbed, and the villian whose plain duty it was to rob me, overlooked me entirely so I was not touched, and was the only man in that car who was not 'gone through.' I think it took them about fifteen minutes to work Ibat car.

WHY ELDERLY MEN ARE PREFERRED. Jennie June says that money is not so often the reason whj young women marry elderly men as people imagine. She says that the young man of to-day is not the desirable husband that tbe young man of fifty years ago was he is not so thoughtful, sober, painstaking and conscientious bo lives at a club, has no love of home life nor desire to build up character and reputation as a man and citizen his ideas of life are bounded by the theater and the doings of his little set and in too many cases his ambition is to own a racer and be on intimate terms with the ballet. Naturally mothers 'shrink from Intrusting their dsughters to such youths as these, even if they have tho opportunity, and are better pleased to bestow them on older men—men who have sown their wild oats who know bow little of real value there is in the temporary excitement of pleasure who have, perhaps, been married once, and have learned to value home and tho guarantees it affords for permanent happiness.'

HOW BARN VM GOT HIS WIFE. {From the Atchison Patriot] When Barnum's show was here (Atchison, Kansas) several years ago. his treasurer took aiok, and was left at tbe Massasoit House. He died tbere and was buried here, we believe. He was engaged to marry a Miss Flab, a sister of Bernum's present treasurer. After his death it became necessary for Miss Fish to write several letters to Mr. Barnam in reference to her dead lover. Bamum admired her well written letters, sought an acquaintance—an acquaintance which soon ripened into love, and, to make along story short, the then Fish is now Mrs. P. T. Barnum. Barnum is twenty seven years older than his wife.

Though the hard times since 1878 have been of much longer duration than at any previous period, such absolute impecunioaity has never prevailed in the last four years as occurred thirty five years ago. Then Mr. Tick nor writes to Sir Charles Lyell, under date of November, 1843:" Inere has been great suffering in our states, and in some, like Indiana and Illinois, a proper currency baa disappeared, and men bare been reduced to barter in the common bosincas of every day life. What yon saw in Philadelphia waa nothing to tbe crashing Insolvency of the Wert and South, Tbe very poirtofflce fWt the e(S»c*s of it— men with large landed eMatos being unable to take out their letters because they could not pay the portage In anything the Government cffieeis could properly receive."

TERRB BLAUTE SATURDAY EVEN IMG MAIL

FUN IN A COURTROOM. How One Dcbtan was Tempted by Satan to

Kiss a Girl against Her Will. WIMUSIUBRK, PA.,

September

17.

The dull monotony of our court proceedings was enlivened, one day laH week, in the case of the Commonwealth against Dobson. in which the defendaut was accused of assault upon a young lady named Hetler by kissing her igsinst her will. The plaintiff oomplalned that Dobson, by force of arms, malice aforethought, and instigated by tbe devil, did then and there violently assault, waylay," Ac. She told her story in a plain, straightforward kind of way, to the effect that she was enjoying tbe evening breezes while leaning over her father's fence, and that William Dobssn came along,

Dobson claimed the privilege of being his own witness, and he told the part of the story omitted by Miss Hetler and her sjster. He is a jolly specimen of an Englishman. His narrative of the occurrence in which he liad become involved runs as follows:

Dobson—Yer see, yer 'oner3, I was walking along singing: What will the 'arvestbe?"—

General McCartney (counsel lor the plaintiff, disposed to have some fun while confusing the witness)—You were singing "What will the'arvest be?" (closely imitating the intonation of the WitD6SS)

Dobson (very composedly)—Yes, sir, "What will the 'arrest be?" General McCartney—"What will the 'arvestbe?" ....

Dobson (unruffled)—"What whl the 'arvest be?" General McCartney—Well, go on, sir.

Dobson—Yer see, yer 'oners, I was going along,

singing:

"What will the

^arvest be? "when I heard Mary singing, "What will the 'arvest be?" By this time there were decided evidences of merriment all over the court room but Dobson remained as imperturbable as though officiating at a tuneral.

Dobson—Yes sir. She were singing: "What will the 'arvest be?" but not so loud as I was, and I called out, "Halloo, Mary, are that you and she said it be. I went up to the fence, and she said she were ball halone, has her father 'ad gone to 'class.'

General McCartney—Gone to class! What did she mean by that Dobson—Why any fool knows what 'class' means. Her father bad gone to class meeting, and left 'er hall nalone. We chatted a little, and then

General McCartney—Well, you have heard her testimony. You seized ber,

Kulled

her over the fence and kissed

er Dobson—No. That testimony is false. We talked awhile, and she sort of leaned hover tbe fence—like as if she wanted me to—and iust then Satan got the best of me, and 1 kissed 'er right on the mouth. I found out "What will the 'arvest be and I think she was a beasy

P1|&re

the gravity of the Court, coun

selors and spectators gave way, and seldom in a court of justice has there been such a scene of uncontrollable hilarious ness. Judge Harding fairly roared himself hoarse with laughter, and all bu iness was suspended for several minutes to allow those in the court room to recover their equanimity. Dobson was acquitted of the charge of assault, but must pay half the costs of the suit as his share of the "'arvest."

EVENING ETIQUETTE IN IOWA. The Burlington 'Hawkeye' has the following directions for polite behavior, addressed to young gentlemen:

Salute the hostess by saying: 'Cully, how's his nibs?' It has as off hand informal pleasantry about it that makes everybody feel easy.

If tbe evening is warm shout 'Whoof!' as you sit down, inform the company generally that you do not wear flannels. (Unless you do then own up like a man don't lie about it.)

If a young lady takes her place at the piano to sing, it is your duty as a gentleman to accompany ber with a very bass 'oompah, oonipab, bum, bum, bum,' especially if you have a voice like a oow and can not sing a note. When the lady is through you should whistle the refrain for the benefit of your neighbor who may not have heard the song.

It lends an air of easy elegance to a gentleman to chew his toothpick all the time. If you have forgotten your own borrow some one else's.

Take out your tobacco pouch (you should never attend a party without it) and make as though you would take a tremendously large chew. This is irresistibly funny and never fails to make the ladies, who canuot chew, very envious.

THE WIFE'S PIN MONEY. We do not know if it be possible for a man to understand a sensitive, high spirited woman's reluctance to ask tor money, because he can't put himself in jquli

UiUUOJi OTVWUOV UV ... ber plaoe. It would require an impossible stretch of tbe imagination for hit

to conceive whatsis feelings would be

if he were compelled to ask somebody when he wanted anew hat, or coat, or pair of shoes. Perhaps be might be able to approximate to something near ber state of mind, if he could recall bis ab ject terror, as a boy he approached bis father to crave tbe boon of a few extra dollars. A lady said to us: 'I have lain awake hair tbe night, dreading tbe stern necessity of asking my husband for money next day.' Another said 'If I were absolute mistress of even tbe paltry sum of one hundred dollars a year, so that I oould spend it without feeling responsibility to anybody, I should feel tbat a groat weight bad been lifted off me.' A wife does ner share of the work for tbe family, and by caroful management and contriving adds to the common fund, is entitled to her share of tbe profits, ana the division should be justly and cheerfully made by tbe head of the firm, aa with any other partner. If women were so recognized and trusted many whose souls are now tormented about tbe vexed question of their rig his' would be oontontod, happy, and 'keepers of home.'

A deeping infisnt, five months old, waa left in a cabinet bed at Peru, Massachusetts, the other day, and a member of tbe family closed the bed without noticing the child. When found It was

A young poet in tbe Western States sent to the locsd paper a love poem, beginning: "Reveell b*n.ttw madgic *pelLw We received one the other day with the following touching opening: 1 cm w*ary, gtsu*. wesry."

1 WHAT TO DO. Alphabetically Arranged.

Attend carefully to the details of your business. Be prompt in all things.

Consider well and then decide positively. Dare to da tight fear to do wroug.

Endure

zed her by the hands, and

forcibly pulling her over tbe palisade, committed tbe assault for which she claimed redress at the bands of tbe law. A sister of the complainant testified that she did not see the alleged impropriety, because of the darkness, and she being in another part of the yard, but she beard a kiss, or something that sounded like a kiss, and knew that something was going on.

your

trials patiently.

Fight life's battles bravely, manfully. Go nit in tbe ssciety of tbe vicious. Hold your moral integrity sacred. Injure not another's reputation or business.

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Join hsnds only with the virtuous. Keepj'O'ur mind frmn al! evil thoughts. Lie not lor any consideration. Make few acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not. Observe the Sabbath day.

Pay your honest debts promptly. Question not the vei acity of a friend. Respect the counsels of your parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.

Use your leisure time for improvement. Venture not upon the threshold of sin.

Watch carefully over your passions. Extend to every one a kindly salutation.

Yield not to discouragements. Zealously labor for tbe right. Success is certain.

SOMEBODY writes that a sneeze, to be in good taste, should crack like a rifle on a clear morning. A sniveling, dry half frightened to death sneeze is odious but for one of your full, clear, sonorous, detonating, reverberating explosions— one of those reports that set tbe wine glasses on the sideboard a jingling, and awake pussy—we say for one of those earthquake sneezes, we have a love inferior only to that which wo bear to woman and—our favorite dog. A recipe for a sneeze of this genus is as follows: When you feel a tickling at the root of your proboscis, just jump up, if you be seated (otherwise no necessity,) run to the window through which the sun

your

snarl like a half starved hyena at a piece of fresh meat, inhale a deep breath and then—blaze away. The effect will be prodigious. One echo will salnte you from the housetop over the way, the good housewives will order the olothes to be taken in, your game cock will turn up tbe red of his eye at the sun, and you will then have the best assurance that you have not sneezed in vain.

HI HORSE TOOTH ACHE, A veterinary surgeon in New York, being asked tbe other day how he knew when a borse bas tbe tooth ache, said:

I saw one with a toothache, about a week ago, in the street. He was attached to a cart. I saw bim with one eye cast back at bis driver. His head was held down, and tbere was a drooping of bis under lip next to feis cheek. He watched his driver, and I knew that if the rem was gafch red up to start him be won.d spring forward as if he were going to break the traces. If it were pulled bard to back bim he would spring back as if be were going to break the wheels—anything to avoid hurting tbat tooth. I knew this, because the horse told me so. I understood bim, and so would you If you had studied the horse as closely as I had. There's nothing mysterious about it. I said to tbe driver, 'Your borse has got the tooth ache.' He stared at me and then went 9n loading bis cart. He thought that I was crazy. Then I took him to tbe horse's mouth, and showed him two big ulcerations in the lower jaw. Before I left, I had drawn out two teeth. When a horse bas tbe toothache, be will come to

Sim.

ou and tell you of it if you will let If be is loose he will open his mouth and lop his ears to express his pain. Then if you don't know what he means you will strike bimjtbinkingtbat he is going to bite you. Then the poor brute bas to suffer."

SUPERSTITION AMONG GAMBLERS. A gambler in Deadwood la So superstitious tbat he avers that he is always lucky when be wears a certain shirt, and so fearful is he of a change of fortune tbat be will not send tbe garment to be washed. He says be does not know but that tbe luck might wash out and the shirt lose its power for good. He has won $10,000 in one day while wearing it. Others are superstitious in regard to dreams, the state of the atmosphere, or the number of men they meet in going a certain distance. When luck is against them they immediately leave tho gambling table for a turn In the street, go home and change their clothing.

BEAUTIFUL AGE.

Those silly young men and shallow elderly ones who can see no beauty in a woman after she is twenty, may see by tbe following table tbat tbe fascinations of female beauty do not necessarily belong exclusively to tbe period of youtb. A number of instances in proof are cited by Dr. Sozinskey. Thus: "Helen was forty when Paris fell in love with her Aspasia was thirty six when wedded by Pericles Cleopatra was over thirty when she fascinated Marc Antony Diana de Poitiers was thirty six when Henry II., although only half as old, was carried off by her Madame de Maintenon was forty three when she won Louis XIV. Ninon de L'Enclos was seventy two when Abbe de Veraia was charmed by her and at forty years of age Madame Recamier was universally regarded aa the prettiest woman in Europe.' __________

THE SKIRT GRAB.

There was the land 'grab' and tbe salary 'grab,' bnt tbe most universal 'grab' aince the day tbe Children of Israel 'grabbed' quails in the wilderness, Is the one made nowadays by every man's wife or sweetheart, aa she drops her left shoulder, gracefully swings the upper half of her oody around toward tbe rear, 'grabs' a handful of skirts .straightens up and moves off with a face full of holy and calm content and an aureole of serene satisfaction Illustrating her ooun tenance. The idea was probably cribbed flrom tbe devil, by observing him pick up bis tail, tuck it over bis left arm and saunter off on apromenade among the hypocrites and Pharisees, the 'ower gude ana rigidly righteoaa.,

W her the housewife stirreth a frnit cake tbe wicked fly rejoiceth and la exceedingly glad yea,be sracketh his beela together and winketh bis left optic, for be knoweth the bonr of bis exaltation is at hand. Heaecreteth himself amidst the currants, and as be smotbereth in tbe batter his heart la at peace, for be knowetb tbat soon be shall be a netber mill-stone of indigestion in the stomach of him who unwarily devouretq the cake.

Shavings of Gold.

A day of idleness tires more than a week of work. A thing done when thought of is never forgotten.

True courage is like a kite: contrary wind raises it higher. One step towards God is better than a thousand towards glory.

Love pitches a tent in our heart, but friendship builds there forever. A man's opinions all

Masy a man full of good qualities often lacks the only one which would make them of use.

The imprudent man reflects on what he has said the wise man on what he is going to say.

None are so tiresome as those who always agree with us we might as well talk with echoes.

One bad habit overspreads a brilliant education it is as the drop of ink

It is better to spend one's time in acquiring more knowledge than to waste it in parading what one has.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased Dy what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

The past and the future illumine only the great, as the rising and setting of the sun only gild the mountain tops.

There are people only capable of barm tbe only use there is in having their friendship is not to have their enmity.

Tbere are people who are suited for everything except just what they are doing, ana who are only out of place in their place.

Celebrities are almost always surrounded by nobodies those who like to show themselves draw near those who are most observed.

Tbere are chosen remembrances which come first to our memory as our favorite books open of themselves to our best loved pages.

To see without envy the glory of a rival shows a worthy man to rejoice at it, a good heart but to contribute to it, a noblo soul.

The cross of Christianity towers above all human civilization, and will always be the measure by which its degree of elevation can be determined.

Religious principles inculcated In a child's heart are like golden nails which Time drives in faster,"and no philosophical claw can completely draw out.

A great thought wakens in our mind a whole world of new perceptions, as a sunbeam streaming into the darkness shows a thousand atoms floating in its path.

In the pathway of liie only great obstacles are seen, and yet it is a little hindrance which overcomes us. A wall may stop us perhaps, but a little stone trips us up.

As characters traced on white paper with sympathetic ink can only be made legible by fire, so our heart's characters cannot be read unless warmed by friend ship.

Tbere are philanthropists, who, incapable of managing tbeir own little affairs, take upon themselves thoso of tbe whole world but, as their creditors always outnumber tbeir disciples, they owe Humanity more than she will ever owe tbem.

PA TENT EXTRA CTS.

PUT UP BY APOTH E CAHY.

Trouble is this world's train conductor coming through at every station collecting fares and punching tickets.

The ardent, impecunious lover forgets that it costs more to take care of a family than to buy a marriage certificate.

Experience and clothing, fill up the measure of human existence. Life is spent in accumulating one and wearing out the other.

A worldly man analyzes human life thus: Childhood for anticipation youth for impatience manhood for perplexity and old age for regret.

The first counterfeit on record was man made in imitation of his Creator he

has

proven himself only an imitation

and abase one at tbat. What a woman thinks she needs she really wants, and what she wants is be yond the power of infinite man to procure, for it includes part of everything.

The ladder of fame is more difficult to climb than a greased shadow and the attention of tbe world harder to catch and less to hold than a lively flea in a ten-acre lot.

First class in physiology! What's the lesson about? It's about society's bipedal wonders. What is woman? She is a mystery, sir! past finding out. Wbat is man? He is a bundle of blunders.

THB

rj*HE

change,

except

the good ones he bas of himself. Conscience is like the wave to see to its depths there must be calm.

Genius is often veiled bj a little ridioulous trait, like tbe sun by alight oloud. The heart of woman is a book whose leaves are uncut at tbe most interesting pages.

voice of reform is heard through

tbe land and speaks of the 'good time coining.' So too tbe spirit of reform is working in tbe nurseries of the land to banish those dangerous opium and Morphia preparations, and establish useful and harmless remedies, of which Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is acknowledged as tbe very beat for all the disorders of Babyhood aud early Childhood. Sold everywhere at 25 cents a bottle.

lhe Russian Court invited Dr. Ayer and his family to tbe Archduke's wedding in the Royal Palaoe. This distincwas awarded him not only because he was *n American, but also because his name as a physician had become favorably known in Rued* on I'* passage around tbe world.—Pncb.o ^vjui.) People.

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ENJOY LIFE.

What a truly beautiful world we live in! Nature gives ns grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health but bow often do tbe majority of people feel like giving it up disheartenod, dtsconr aged and worried out with disease,when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satiaflKjtory proof tbat Dr. Green's August Flower will make them aa free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct cause of seventyfive per cent, of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Cbetiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dimness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other^distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect. Sample bottles, 10 cents. Try It.

For sale by GuUck & Berry snd by Groves & Lowry.

^Saturday Evening

MAIL *4

kin

glass of clear water. To bring forward the bad actions of others to excuse our own, is like washing ourselves in mud.

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1877. ,V ft-'

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THE SATURDAY EVENlNti MAIL Is an Independent Weekly Newspaper, elegantly printed on eight pages el' book pap^r, and aims to be, in every Sense, a Family Paper. With this aim in view, nothing will appear in its columns that oannot bp rend ulond in the most refined fireside circle.

CLUBBING WITH OTHKU PERI- $ ODICAIS* 4 We are enabled to oflter extraordinary inducements in the way of clubbing with other periodicals. We will furnish THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, PRICE «a.00 PER YEAR, and any of the periodicals enumerated below at greatly reduced rates. These periodicals will be sent direct from the offices of publication. Hero is the list:

SEMI-WEEKLY.

tlemi-Weekly New York Tribune, price 83.00,anaTheMail W 60

WEEKLY PAPERts.

Indianapolis Journal, price 12.00, and The Mail W 0J rndianapoHt SenttneL price «2.00, and 2V. Y. Tribune, price &00, and The Mali 8 W Toledo Blade, price $2.00, and The Mail 8 6u N. Y. Sun, anu The Mail a Prairie Farmer price $3.00 and The Mali 8 65 Western Sural, price $2.50 and Tho Mail Sou Vhicago Advance, price, $8.00, and The

Mall 60 Chicago Interior, price 12.60, and The Mail 4 00 Chicago Inter- Ocean, price $1.50, and

The Mail 8 26 Appleton't Journal, price $4.00, and The Mail 5 25 Rural New Yorker, priee $8.00, and The

Mail 4 85 Methodist, price $2.50, and The Mail 8 50 Harper's Weekly, price $4.00, and The

Mall 50 Harper's Batar, price $4.00, aud Tho Mail 6 60 Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, price $4.00, and The Mail 6 00 Leslies Chimney Corner, price $4.00, and

The Mall 0D Boys' and Girls' Weekly, price$2.50, and The Mall '6

*+...*•.MONTHLIES. ...

Arthur's Home Magazine price $2.50 anu The Mall W 00 Peterson's Magazine, price $2,00, and 1 ne

Mail 8 50 American Agriculturist, prloe $1.50 and The Mail 3 00 Demorcat's Monthly, price $3,00, and

The Mail 4 2) Godeu's Lady's Book, price $8.00, and The Mail 4 25 UUle Corporal, price $1.50 and The Mall 3 15 dcribner's Monthly, price $4.00, and The

Mall 6 it) Atlantic Monthly, price $4.00, aud The Mall Harper's Magazine, prloe $4.00, and The

Mall 6 60 Gardener's Monthly,price$2.00.and lhe Mall.. 8 Young Folk* Mural, and The Mail Si 76 The Nursery, price $1.60, and The Mail 3 10 St. Nicholas, prloe $8.00, and The Mall 4 4J

All the premiums offered by the above pub lications are Included In this clubbing arrangement.

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