Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 February 1879 — Page 1

Vol. 9.—No 32

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Town-Talk.

"MANT LITTLES MAKE A MICKLK." T. T. was In a meditative mood when he jumped upon the street cars and was waked from hi9 philosophizing by the conductor demanding his fare. It was only five oents, and seeing how engrossed T. T. was, why couldn't the conductor let him alone? Why? indeed Only fire cents! W»ke a philosopher for only a nickel I It is mighty small business. But suppose all passengers were philosophers, and all philosophers deadheads, where would the conductor and driver get their bed and board and the trackmen their wages? and the sweating ironworkers who turned out the rails their living? and the miners who dug out the coal used in the furnace, and the iron used for the rails, get anything to put in their tin buckets when tbey went to their work and the musical doukeya their fodder? and the poor stockholders their dividends? Only five cents, and yet all these people get a share of that nickel! How many street railways are there in the United States? T. T. doesn't know the exact figures, bat say a hundred, or five hundred—or more probably, a thousand. These lines generally pay well, too. Their first cost is away up in the big millions. Their daily expenses are probably among the largest thousands, possibly the millions. Yet nobody pays more than live cents for a ride. Who minds five cents? That's nothing. And yet here is an enormous business, paying smacking dividends On a capital of millions, supporting an army of horses and men, braying mules and bloated bondholders, and only a five cent businsss at that. "Many littles make a mickle." That's so. "Little and often fills the purse." No doubt about that. And running street railways is not the only big five cent business. A good glass of lager only costs five oents in these days. And the nickels are raked in fast enough to build up one of the most thriving businesses in the land. The farmers who raise the hops, the coopers who make the casks, the carpenters and masons who build the breweries and the fine houses of the brewers, Uncle Sam and Col. White, who go for the revenue, and last but not least, asT. T. did not forget the mules that draw the street cars, he will not forget to mention the equally intelligent, though not as useful, animal who stands behind the counter and draws the beer,—all these get a share out of the five cents paid for the glass of lager, and each of them get shares enough to make a handsome sum. The beer business is only a Hveoent business! Only, indeed! "There are millions in it," And so it goes. Rake in the littles and the mickle will take care of itself. Do you hear that, young man Keep the nickels and the fortuno will come. Do a live cent business in saving, and keep doing it, and you will find that it will be a paying Investment. Now do not elevate that nose at T. T. Lower it a few degrees. No such small busiuess as that for you Not so mean as to stand for five cents? Very well. Go ahead, and you will find that the rule "Little and often fills the puree" is a rule that works both ways. Little and often will empty a well filled purse just as quickly as it will fill an empty one. A dog's keeping Isn't much, but "MANY DOOS SOON HAT CI" A HORSE."

You don't keep a dog? But you do keep some things that do not cost more than dogs, and they eat up the hone. Do you smoke? Only a little, did you say? Then you only keep small dogs, but they eat op the horse. One cigar a day, ten cents each, 130.50 a year. T, T. has seen fair horses sold in Terre Haute for that price. What is U? O, you were saying that you smoked more than one a day, generally after each meal, and before going to bed. That makes 9146 a year. A very good horse for that price. But yoiv bny your dgara by the box and they do not cost ten cents, But having thetft convenient in that way. yon easily indulge iu extra ones, and treat enough to more than make up the difference, But if tbey cost only five

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oents, it only takes two years to get np to the one hundred and fifty dollar horse, and if you amoks eight or ten a day, as some of you do, it only takes six months to smoke up a horse, and a year smokes np a apan. Many dogs, no mstter how small they be, soon eat up a horse. But you not only smoke, you drink also? One glass of beer a day, 918.25 a year. Two glasses, |SU,50, and three glasses, |54.75. These beer dogs soon eat up the horse. Whisky dogs and brandy dogs eat faster. A quarter a day for drinks, and the bill at the end of the year is |91.25. Taking the smoking dogs and the drinking dogs together, it is'not very strange that clerks cannot live on their salaries, or that merchants must oompromhe with their creditors. Kill off the dogs and there will be money to pay for the horses. Stop these little wastes and the salary and the capital, together with the clerks and the merchants, will not "go to the dogs" so fast. But smoking and drinking are not the only greedy dogs. Each family keeps a few, and consequently the family purse gets wonderfully light, and there is no horse in the stable. Madame, allow T. T. to advise you to kill some of those dogs that are eating up your husband's horses, and not only his horses, but hi* stable, and bis farm or store, and bis houses. They are innocent looking canines, but tbey are awful eaters, and they breed faster than rabbits. It don't pay to keep them. You cannot afford it. At least your husband's creditors cannot afford it.

A Woman's Opinions,

HOW TO SELECT A HUSBAND.

Understanding that a number of young gentlemen are seeking diligently for a lady like the one described in last week's article, it does not seem amiss to suggest that there are certain quantisations to be considered in selecting a busband. It is generally supposed that women are so anxious to marry they are not very particular in their choice.

This is probably true of most women at a certain period in their lives, and it is at this time that so many foolish and unhappy marriages are made. If some merciful circumstance interposes, and averts the calamity, the chances are that a lifetime of misery is avoided. Many a girl has murmured and rebelled against her wise parents, who separated her from the man who had won her youthful affections, but years afterward her heart has overflowed with thankfulness snd gratitude, as she has .realized the sorrow from which she was saved. Many a girl, whose fair future seemed blighted by the faithlessness of her idol, has felt in her heart-breaking desolation that all the light has faded from the world, and henceforth there was nothing left for her, yet has come out from the shadow of her grief to find that all the riohness snd beauty of her life was yet before her. ..

It is not to girls on the snnnyside of twenty, that these few suggestions are offered,—that wayward, caprioious, fascinating but dangerous age, so fraught with temptation, so unprotected by experience. With girls at this time of life, there is but one topic—overwhelming, absorbing, supplac'

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—it is the Comin Man. These girls have.no reason, no judgment advice is thrown away upon them.

I have frequently beard them say, "I would not have a beau who didn't smoke," and, "There is something so attractive in a dissipated man." Fortunately the fellows whom these silly creatureslind so charming, for the most part have neither brains nor money, and cannot marry. But to a sober, thoughtful woman, who has reached years of discretion, and has seen the folly of improper marriages, the subject is one of grave importance ami, as time passes, it seems more and more impossible to find a companion deserving of her love and confidence not that she is too exacting in ber requirements but because of man's unwortbiness. I do not wish to be considered as making any attack upon the sex. I only accept their lives, as they are laid before us day by day, and ask what young gentleman, were he married and possessed of a daughter, would be willing to give her, for time and eternity, into the keeping of a man with a character exactly like bis own

First In the qualifications advisable in a husband, I would suggest virtue, but if this were made essential, I am inclined to think the whole generstion of women wsu'.d die old maids. Of course there are virtuous men in the world,— indeed, I have been assured of this fact by gentlemen themselves, so I cannot doubt it,—but I am skeptical enough to fear that the supply of virtuous candidates might run short therefore let us ignore this subject for the present, and pass on., There is one quality which should be placed before all others in a husband, and that is Tomperaneo. A woman who marries a moderate drinker, hoping that Ue may reform, or, at least, grow no worse, does not deserve sympathy, for where one man reforms, a thousand degenerate, and a woman who does not wish to ran the risk of a drunken, worthless husband,should in­

sist upon total abstinenoe as a condition of marriage. Next in order, study his character whether honorable in bia dealings, just, generous and upright, because thesa qualities will be refleoted upon bis family. After thia oomes Business Ability. No young lady should marry from mercenary motives, but she who trusts her future to a than who has not good bualness capacity, may expect an up-hill life,—a struggle with poverty and want. She may be able to teach him to save money, but ahe oannot endow him with the power to make it. Then consider Disposition. A man who is quick-tempered, but forgiving, is much preferable to one of a sulky, sullen temperament. A jealous husbsnd is a continual source of irritation, dragging you away from all pleasant associations, and oasting a oloud upon you in your happiest moments. Seek for a truthful man, for, in many instances, bia unsupported word will be all you have to depend upon and, having lost confidence in that you will be at sea with nothing to support you. Choose a husband of domestic tastes, who will appreciate your efforts to make home pleasant and consider his happiest hours those spent within its hallowed walls. Select, if possible, a man who is thoughtful and affectionate, for a tender word and a loving smile will lighten the hardest household tasks.

Briefly, then, in making a choice of a husband, consider first, Temperance second, Character third, Business Ability and fourth, Disposition. You may question the propriety of placing Temperance at the head of the list, but on this quality depends the other three. An intemperate man cannot certainly be said to possess an unblemished character. He is a reproach to his family and friends, and very soon loses his selfrespect. Continued intemperance is sure, in time, to'unfit a man for business and when a man's disposition is no longer under his own control, it is apt to be far from agreeable.

A woman had a thousand times better die unmarried, than join ber life to that of an intemperate husband, for she will surely regret it with unavailing tears of hopeless anguish. If girls are young and thoughtless, and willing to accept a man with all his vices and immoralities, then it is the parents' duty to interfere, —gently, but firmly,—and prevent the marriage at all hazards. Rather a few months of sorrow and regret, than years of misery and remorse, extending even to children unborn. But here is where parents make a fatal mistake they sit -blindly and indifferently by, permitting th^r daughters to-accept attentions from young men until their affections are completely won, and then they awake with a start, rush frantically forth, tear away the twining tendrils of love, leaving their children crushed, bruised and wounded, with the freshness of their hearts, the cheerfulness of their youth gone, perhaps, forever.

It is not necessary that parents should recognize in every acquaintance a possible suitor for their daughter, but if a young man's character is such that yon could by no means think of him as her husband, then he is not fit to enjoy her society and occupy ber time. Dismiss him at once, before any serious consequences ensue. There is another reason why this course should be followed there are many young gentlemen who, comparatively speaking, are mora), temperate and cultivated. It is a duty we owe to them, as a reward for their good reputation, that we discriminate between them and those of profligate habits, encouraging the former and reprimanding the latter.

A few more words, and I will leave the subject for abler pens. It is a mistaken idea which girls have that tbey must be desperately in love with the men they marry. I have seen cases of this kind that exceeded anything ever written in a novel, and I have never yet known of a happy and peaceful marriage to result. It is a short-lived passion, that quickly bnrns itself out, and lies, a heap of ashes, cold and dead upon the hearth of home. The anticipations which so fervent a love awaken can never be realized, and the keen disappointment causes reaction that cannot be overcome. Respect is the foundation of true love, and we cannot thoroughly respect a man till we have known him long and intimately, have seen him meet with trials and temptations, and overcome them.

Let the man you marry possess your highest esteem, your confidence, your undivided affection let him find in you corresponding qualities of heart and mind, and you will solemnize the holiest contract on earth,—a perfect marriage. __ j,

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From the Ouawa Iowa Gazette. One of Iowa's prominent business men, in a letter to thia office, takes the following view of the financial situation: "What is the use of grumbling any move We have reacl^d the bottom of the slough, and if we can only wade a little we shall reach nice dry land: we can see it just over there.' Individuals of us may be in the vise, but the country is over the rubioou. You can bet your bottom nickel on that,"

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TERRE HAUTE, INI)., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8.1879. Ninth Year

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A novelty and luxury is the perfumed glove the odor is made delicate and lasting.

A young woman of Westfleld, Mass., wanted to sue for divorce because ber husband has such thick lips.

Ten millions of hair pxns are manufactured in this xtuntry annually. That's how we put hairs.

Married men are apt to forgec thai if it had not been for their mothers-in-law they would not have their wives.

A number of g'.rls in Birmingham have been made ill by motto lozenges. The answers disagreed with them, perhaps.—Danbury News.', v,,.

Unmarried men can't appreciate the feelings of a fellow whose wife sends blm to get something out of the pocket of a dress that's banging in up the closet.

A western paper wants to know why a woman always sits on the floor to pull on her stocking. We suppose it is simply because she cant sit on the ceiling.

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It used to be a patchwork qu'lt, but now it is a feather cloak. This particular feather cloak is in St. Louis, and is composed of 38,931 feathers, furnished by quail, wild duck, and prairie chicken, The cost is |300. Cloaks of a leather flock together.

Actual occurrence in a Chicago street car: Stylish lady holding a lap dog is about ready to leave the car. Dog manifests impatience. Lady says, iu her sweetest tones: "Wait, darling, till mamma puts on her glove!" Passengers roar with laughter.—Peck's Milwaukee Sun. 1

It was base ball, now' it Is pedestrianism—and women have got it bad. A man with a wife who can make it in eight minutes and twenty seconds has a iejr-acy, sure. Among the qualities to be mentioned of "the coming woman" is that she can make her mile in six minutes.

Mary Clenamer thus describes Mrs. Burnett, the author of "That -Lasso' Lowrie's": "She is slight to girlishness. She is petite, and at first glance does not impress you as a woman of power. Wait till something quickens, inspires her, till the inward fire glpws outward, then you see that she has the nose of a pointer, the eyes of a falcon, the face Qf a woman of genius."

A rather singular present received by a bride las week, was a life insurance policy for ten thousand dollars on her husband's life. The poor little thing— 1^1 tulle and orange blossoms—wept when she saw it, and continued to do so until her mamma whispered something in her ear. Then she raised her eyebrows, smiled1 sweetly aud tripped up stairs to put the policy carefully away.

We are told that a beautiful girl named Jemima reuently committed suicide, because she could find no diminutive for her name ending in "ie." A few hours afterwards came a letter from a classmate beginning, "Dear, Darling Mimle," but it was too late, and she was borne to the grave by eight companions, named respectively, Abbie, Bessie, Carrie, Dollie, Ettie. Florrie, Georgie and Hattie.

Here follows atf*fedinirable receipt for making good servants: "Let the mistress of the house take two pounds of the very best self-control, a pound and a half of patience, a pound of justice, a pound of consideration, and a pound of discipline. Let this be sweetened with charity, let it simmer well, and let it be taken in daily or (in extreme cases) in hourly doses—and be kept always on hand. Then the domestic wheels will run quite smoothly."

Girls, if you want to encourage young men, get an album. It's the first thing a bashful young man grabs when he enters a strange bouse where there are girls. We've seen them look through one until they knew every picture by heart, from page one to General Grant in the back part. It's wonderful what interest a bashful man will take in a girl's grandmother and pug-nosed uncle at the first visit, but it's always so. Get 'em, girls. It's the best thing in the world to occupy a fellow's hands, and it's a sure oure for bashfulness.

Columbus, Ohio, Argo: Some of the ways of fashion are lovely, and some are past finding out. It is strange that woman, the being that righfully studies tt be graceful and artistic, should willingly, and even anxiously, adopt fashions that exactly defeat the graces. Every woman wishes to walk gracefully* It Is an adornment she ought not to despise, but It is a feat utterly impossible for her to perform while she is panoplied as the latest fashion dictates. There can be no free walk, no graceful step, while the body is cribbed by corsets, pinched by laees, weighted by 'long skirts, and tilted forward by high shoe heels. Every movement, under these restraints, is stiff and awkward. A more perfect contrivance to prevent the free and easy walk of an athlete, than the present fashionable style of drew, could not be invented.

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There is entirely too mnch slandering of women. Men will bint at all kinds of disreputable things against a woman's character, and the rnmor circles aroupd until her fair name is tainted. Yet if anyone attempts to nail the thing down to any particular charge, and find out what is wrong about the aspersed woman, sach men shrink ont of the responsibility, and say tbey know nothing of the matter. The wrong that is thus done to woman Is incalculable. Tbey are gradually avoided by the scrupulous of their own sex, until they are finally driven into the very position which was by gossip erroneously assigned them.— Philadelphia Sunday Times*

Among the styles for 1879, the following are reliable. Lovers are still in fashion. They are worn on the left side for afternoon toilets, snd directly in front for evening ball room oostume. A nice thing in lovers can be made of hair (parted in the middle), a sickly mustache, bosom pin, cane, and buttons depressed In oheck cloth. Giant intellects are not fashionable this season. The broad, massive, thick skull Is generally preferred. The old lover trimmed with brains, character and intelligence is no longer worn. Children are made very forward this year, but they are often dispensed with entirely for quiet toilets. They are too loud. Bonnets are worn high—none less than 925. They are made high in the instep and cut "decollete" in front, trimmed with the devilknowswbat. Low-neck bonnets with psniers are no longer worn. The front of the bonnet is now invariably worn behind. "Rich and rare were the gems she wore" is a fashionable tune in San Francisco. There is a lady at one of the leading hotels who never appears in the dining room with less than from 925,000 to 950,000 worth of diamonds on her person. There is another lady at another hotel who wears a pair of solitaire earrings worth 950,000. They belonged to the collection of jewels of Queen Isabella, of Spain, and were purchased at auction in Paris. These two stones were bought for 924,000. Another lady with.a brooch shaped like a fern leaf and glittering with fifty or a hundred diamonds is estimated as having a superficial value of from 915,000 to $20,000. Some thieves recently crept into a lady's room at a hotel while the was dining with her husband. They ransacked trunks and drawers and obtained a watch and chain and some coin. But they got no diamonds. The lady had gone down to dinner with every jewel glittering in ber toilet.

NEWSPAPER WIT.

There is a vast deal of wit floating through the newspapers—good, bad, indifferent and very bad. Out of the vast quantity that goes into the mill, some very fine nuggets are occasionally found:

When the Camden Post says "A man's character is like a fence—you cannot strengthen it by whitewash," it gives a genuine epigram.

Quite as felicitous, too, is this from the Cincinnati Breakfast Table: "A tack points heavenward when it means the most mischief It has many human imitators."

A bright turn to a familiar quotation is given by the Biddeford Miniature, thus: 'I am thy father's spirit,' as the pint flask said to the inqniaitivfe urchin who had been investigating the cupboard."

Mr. Talmage having claimed that hell has four gates, the Buffalo Express hopes "they open outward, so as to give easy egress in case of fire." 7

The Hackensack Republican gave a witty conceit when it said last fall: "The leaves of trees, like summer boarders with bills unpaid, take their departure leaving their trunks behind them." if

The following4*Is"evidently stolen from the English: At dinner the host introduces to the favorable notice of the company a splendid truffled pheasant amid murmurs of admiration, '^sn't It a beauty he says, "Dr. So-and-so gave it to me—killed it himself." "Aw, what was he treating it for?" says one of the guests.

This, which is going the ronnds without credit, bearaevidence of origin in the New York World newspaper: "A thorn in the bush is worth a dosen in the

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GENERALLY NEEDED,

Uirard CoanaopoHc.

The school directors of Albion recently resolved to have less exhibitions, less socials, less wasting time in useless examinations, and ajittle more study and old-fashioned school. *MTBE FEMALE BARBER,

St. Louis Spirit.

In the New York San there is a standing advertisement for "lady barbers to shave gentlemen." Permanent places and la^e wages are promised. As one of the qualifications of a barber Is to talk the customer into a quick decline, it is barely possible that ladies may succeed in this vocation. At all events, if a man must be talked to death, 'twere better for blm to die with a delicate white thumb and forefinger tweaking he Durly, warty hand of a clumsy man kneading his

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face. Ob, for a barber who does not rub one's countenance all over bis body!

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Notes on Science.

Little drops of water, Little grains of sand. Make a mighty sugar,

."•k- 'Neath the grocer's band. The electric light has been tried on a locomotive of a Virginia railway, with satisfactory results.

As the results of numerous observations upon human crania, Dr. Lebon, of Paris, infers that intelligence is in proportion to the vol a me of the cranlnm.

Prof. Tyndall compares the mind of man to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions exists infinite silence.

The discovery of rich deposits of copper in Franklin County, Pa., is reported. The ore is in the form of malachite, containing about fifty-seven per cent of pure copper.

A green coloring matter has been obtained from the grains of raw coffe, which will probably prove of much value as a non-poisonous oolor for confectionery.

The investigations of two Chicago microsoopists have revealed the fact that about eight per cent of the hogs packed in that city are infected with trichinae, or pork worms.

The capaoity of ocean cables has been doubled by the successful application of the duplex system, by which messages can be sent in both directions upon one^ wire at the same time. '1

Prof. Ordway, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has testified that of fifty samples of kerosene oil tested at the Institute, there was but one that stood the.test of one hundred degrees.

A writer in the American Medical Journal considers the proper position to assume during sleep to be that of lying upon the face, as in that position only can all the organs of the body perform their proper functions^ ^jt^uf ^irruption. '.»* ii.U'Utf:*

The eminent chemist, Norman Lockyer, has announced a dlsoevery of vast importance to modern chemistry. It is the identity of hydrogen with all those bodies now 'known as elements. The results of further investigation are awaited with great interest.

A prominent western lumber merchant, who has long studied the subject, thinks the present rapid destruction of American forests is just cause for alarm, and earnestly recommends that means be considered to provide for future timber supplies.

The Western Union Telegraph Company's offices in New York City are connected by pneumatic tubes, through which^messages are sent in manuscript by means of exhaust pumps. The system has proven very economical, one man and four boys now performing the work which formerly required twentyfive skilled operators. i-

The electrician of the British Post Office says he has sought in vain, at Paris and elsewhere, for an electric light which should meet these three conditions: First, that the light should be absolutely steady: seoond, that it be brilliant, giving alight of one thousand candles or more third, that it be durable, or capable of lasting through the longest night.

Experiments are being made In England with a new illuminating gas, which is said to 'be much cheaper and more effective than ordinary ooal-gas. It has been concentrated to such an extent that the quantity contained in a small buoy has supplied a light for twenty-eight days burning with sufflcient4brilliancy to show the position of the buoy to passing vessels^

The adulteration of honey with glucose has for along time rendered strained honey an .j^rjticle of suspicion but the art has now attained such a degree, of perfection that a dimple of very fine looking comb hbney h&s been analyzed, and pfononn^ $nply "flavored glaeose." Not an adulteration merely, but? an entire imitation—and of oomb honey too. Veteran dealers were deceived bjp, the appearance of the spurious product until they had seen it tested.

An interesting spplication of the microphone to volcanic phenomena has just been made by Prof. Miohele de Rose, who, during a series of experiments made at his observatory in the Albanese mountains, has found that the present eruptive activity of Mount Vesuvius could be perceived through the microphone even at that enormous distance. Profs, de Rossi and Palmiero have together visited the crater of the Solfatara, near Pozzuoli, where the subterraneous work of the volcanic forces became so very evident to the sense of bearing that considerable fear was caused amongst those present at the experiments.

A MAGNIFICENT WRECK:

Ind. Herald.

Laura Ream thinks Theodore Tilton is "a macnicent wreck of a life." Yes. But a fellow who can make 925,000 a year lecturing, and have plenty of time to bell around, is not such a bad kind of a "wreck" after all.

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