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THE TROY HERALD, WEDNEBDAV, SEPTEMBER 4, 188. 1ATMAAY. tffaasJsA tafasal kMMlltekMkuM X MTV 6NMN4 tr4 WlMWOo4 MIMMII twin VWPi Sly 3f My MoMMd In iooAmm AWMNNMMbfy Mf dewy wi 'Xlrt MtflfcW MMt stsWO (Ms? Bona of lu airy sneat TMJMMWIMII biota Tha miImM nt wUuwM H ThtkwftraYMaf fear hair, Or Mm I DMMVtf MIVI 19 V0 0 Tb tarty Mi hafttaasM kit Thalf ora mat la Mac And it of laalr asB laaaawn MM Imm wtth ttwi as toa. Ami Ibr kr mw, If Mi k, t'dBMtwWiwMMfeawl nm Ooatalaaa nint mm TIM HaglM Mft ft Wtltl Pliiplt. English pooplo have frequently be trayed a good deal of seosiuveness at Napoleon' celebrated criticism that we are a -nation or snoMteepom." it all depends ou the definition in what we consider the shopkeeper to consist The oid Greeks had a prejudice ajainrt re tailing, because they assodatedlt with a petty retailing spirit. Bat It la sot at all true mat littleness or mind moat neces . serlry accompany littleness of transac tions. There is a fcmoua sentence of Hebrew writ: "The dues whoso mer- chants were princes, and their traffic ra the honorable of the earth." The merchants of Venice were statesmen and princes; they are forever recogniz ble by their pictures and palaces. All through oar medieval cities we have the combination of business and nobility. Nor an our London merchants, in their honest broadcloth, inferior to those who once wore the Tyrlan dye or the Vene tian velvet The soirft of commerce now runs like a fibre through all orders m mo community, uinamtfiogetner class with class and interest wltn Interest The present ege witnesses the somewhat .-unous pnenonienon "or noblemen in business' Then was a time when it was thought a great tiling for a trader to be raised to the peerage; at present the peers seem busily rushing into the ranks oi craae. x.very one now can give a list of tltledpeople with connections in bus! nes. There is a current rumor to the effect that a great peer is a sleeping part ner in a large retail business bouse in tin west-end. it is well known that tne brothers-in-law or a princess are en gaged in commerce. The sons of the Dllke of Arevle are nrettv well content to lay aside their titles when engaged la business transactions. It has also trans- tired that royalty itself George IV., at east when Prince of Wales had a bust. ness share in one of the London morn ing papers. Business lias sent its fibre Uiroughout all the country, and no class of the community liavo greater commer- ciai interests won our aristocracy, xne English are emphatically a commercial people ; but it is not less true that we are essentially an aristoemtic neonle. and that amongst all classes of the commu nity there is an unmistakable reeling oi reran! for those who occudv exalted sta tions. The subscription Hot, which has a noble lord at its head, is likely to be filled far quicker, and with inuvh more respect able sums, than one which lacks this adornment : while we ail know the at traction which a title has on the pros pectus of a speculative company. The tact is, a respect for aristocratic associa tions is so deeply woven Into our thoughts and habits, that it has become a second nature to no. This characteris tic national reeling has of course its com mercial phase. Many scions of noble houses have earned lots of guineas by fees as directors, or still greater remuner ation us promoters. honaon society. A Great Max's BEQiKKiKn. A Mr. Patrick, who was one of Uepreseiitative Jumes A. Garfield's earliest friends, in Hiving u sketch of his career to some wnooi ciiiidreu several years ago, sold: "Iwuntto tell you about u young man who came to my farm-house from the tamol. He had been a canal-boat driver, and as the canal hud just froson up. he wanted to do chores for his board (lur ing the winter. James, for that was his mime, was a stalwart, honest-looking fellow, and, so I took hlni in. My own children soon began attending school, (ind I usked James if .he did not want to uo to school witli them, but he declined. 1 soon noticed that lie seemed to be mite despondent, and tisked him if ho was troubled ubout anything, and he then confessed to mo that, although he was 1U years of ugo, lie could neither read nor write, and he was in such men tal distress lieeaiise. tin he. thought, it was too laio for him to begin. I assured him that it was not too lute, and urged him to begin ut once, which he did, with ho much energy that within a year from i hut time lit was teaching school him- Sllf." ' It scorns to have just been discovered why an elderly maldou'ludv is not the right kind of u ludy to put In charge of a postofnoe. Tho postoflico dopartmeut .-aim recently boon compelled to seek the Assignation of.lho postmistress of a smull town in Pennsylvania, because tho post- VlitRW. who IS nil elilorlVihiuiilttn lailv hit felt it her .duty tor open letters uuurcsscu tome young ladles und gentle men of tho neighborhood, to find news which sho couldn't get in tho local ljupoM. Hereafter Mie will hnvo to look through keyhole or 'something of that sort, in order to get any happiness out f this dreary and csA.tlng world. Psrler . Red from a Jttktlt oxide of cobalt be dissolved In aqua ammonia, a red eolation wiU be produced dl&Vrant in color from that of all other metallic oxiues. moot jrom nnut.u a uttle pan while cakmiel be nibbed into a glass mortar with a UUJe colorless solution of cansUe, potash, or Ume-wster, the whole win imvuii intensely imsck. jyp Amalgam by lfixhurt become Fluid. -Take aaamalgamof lead and mercury, and another, amalgam of bismuth; let tnese two soiiu amalgams be mixed by MtariUon. i and they wUl instaatly be- LiavAdi made AViA THaanlra mnrlafa of lime in water until it will dissolve no more; mnks also a similar eolation of carbonate of potash ; both wilt be trans parens noraa, dm w equal quantities or each be stirred together thay will bscoue a souu mass. Ted for Add mi EbBtVa. Make an Infusion of red roses, violets, or mallow rowers ; ires nvnai solution or potesa, and It will become green the addition of muriatic acid (dilated) will convert it instantly Into red. The experiment may ua frequently vancu. j. iMmqing legrtabie CMort Prepare little tincture of litmus. Its color will be a bright bine, with a tinge of purple ; puta Utile of it In a phial, and add iW droDS of muriatic acid! ita color wlllha shanged to a eiakf red; add a little solu tion ox potasn : tne red will now disap pear and the blue will be restored. Bv those means the liquor may be changed alternately at pleasure. CXtrious Change of Qdico. Dissolve four uracil ms oi copperas in one pint or cold water, then add about six drachma of finely nowdered Indian, atlrrins th ml. tars occasionally for twelve or fourteen hours. If a pfece of white calico be dipped into the solution for a few minutes, it will be dyed green; and by exposure to the atmosphere only for a few seconds, this will be converted to a permaneni diuc. Maw3rmtmvtatim$.l.lrop n little nilphate of copper (bluo vitriol) into water, Jim .sufficient to make a colorless solution i then add a little ammonia, and the mixture will be intensely blue. 2. Pour a Uttle tincture of litmus Into a wineglass, and Into another some diluted mlnhate of indigo : pour these two blue fluids together, and the mixture will lav come perfectly red. 3. Take some soda water, or water impregnated with car bonic add gas, and add to it a little blue tincture of litmus. The above will be cnangca to red. , r i f t . . M. m 4fcrata uimoitrnit. (tfiiri vnnr small quantity of nitro-muriatie add anon a niece of thin mM ni anil mmt and in a short time it will be completely dissolved. Silver. Upon asmaUjpiece m stiver pour some nitrtcacld (aquafortis) and it will be dissolved in a few minutes. Copper. Pour a little diluted nitric add upon a thin piece of copper, and In a short time it will be dissolved, and the solution will be of a beautiful blue color. iron. rour some sulphuric acid, dilated with water, upon some iron filings; a Violent effervescence will inimn anil In a short time the ilBngs will be dissolved. The above exnerlmenta urn iiMtnuii n show the great solubility of the metals, wwu Nvuuuw vj u proier menstruum. Dolor V Men's linen. Many a husband easy to nlease In nil other respects, has hud Ills weekly grum ble over'the way this collar sets," or "how this bosom bulges out 1" And man v a housewife lias tried again and agaln t'o remedy these faults. A ludy writing to the New York Ernting Post, explains the difficulty In the following language: "Sometime acomv husband used to complain that his linen collars did not set nicely in front. There was always a fullness which, in the case of standing collars, was particularly trying to u man who felt a good deal of pride In the dressino' of his neck, as it anoiloil tlm effector his cnivat,and often loft a gap for the display of either tho collar band of the shirt or a hulf-liich of bare skin. While talking with n practical shirt maker, one day, ho mentioned his. an noyance, and, inquired if there was any means of relieving 1L Yea.' the man. 'the fault lies with your laun dress, whilu doing up your collars she stretches them the wrong way. Damp linen is very pliable, mid a good pull inch collar lathe twinkling of an eye. She ought to stretch them crosswise, and not lengthwise. Then, in (straightening out your shirt bosom she makes aiiother win uuer u lourictm-iiicn into u nnn. misiaxeor the samo sort. They, ulso, ought to be pulled crosswise instead of lengtuwise, particularly In the neighbor hood Of tilt) neck. A lenothwlao mill draws the front of the neckband up somewhere directly under your chin. where it whs never meant to uo. and of course that spoils the set of your collar. With the front of your neckband an inch too high, and your collar an inch too long, you nuvu a most uuuesuubie com bination.' The sneaker Was rifrht. A n arvtn n mi husbajiu ordeml Ihu nucciMiirv fluimma to bo made in the methixls of our laun dry, a wonderful diflereuee manifested itself in the appearance of that most important part of his clud anatomy, the neck. Let mo' commend the nhirt maker's hint to other distressed wouicu." It was onre suid of the vmina ladles of Purls, that they loved with their heads, and thought with their, hearts. There are many young gentlemen of our day, who do neither with eltier. A celebrated wit was asked why he did not murry a young lady to whom lit was much attached. "I know npt," he replied, "excopt the great regard we have for each other." ' M Mii;'Wattsftef7. ."Did yon over ' hear of my gjovs-fijrht with Yankee Bulll van r Asked oklMr. Watts of Newborg. . Old. Mr. WatU UatalL wiry, gray haired mrner of this sborfiooS. I had never heard theatoryaad told him WeU." he began, "that mast hare been moie'ii forty, years sap. A big yellow -hap from lew York used to come up hers oaos a Week end aiva laaaona In hoc. lag. In the ball room or the Orange Hotel, and a lot of us young fellows went Into it with a will. I got to handle the gloves prvuj wen ior eoaniry ooy. "One day, I. was down in New York, hunting for a clothing store, when I met Mr. Theodora FiskeTof Wewburg. He had heard of my handlness with my flsta, and he told me if I would go along with him, he would show me some box ing thst waa boxing. So, alter I had bought an overcoat I went with him, I don't remember where thqplace was, but when we got there, there was about a dosen men sitting around. One of them Invited me to put on the gloves with him. Ididn'twanttofbuthonrgatLand at last I said I would. Mr. Fiske seemed nervous about something and said tho man wouldn't handle me roughly. "The first round whs a short one, and I fonnd mvself on mv back in laarfn nn time, t got up, and shied around for a few minutes, and then, making a sudden pass witli my right, lifted tho New Yorker from the floor with a left-hauler nnder the ear. I wanted to quit, but he didn't and in the third round I went down heavily. We toed the mark again, and I got In another left-hander which rot in anotner ioit-na:iaer witicn e New Yorker sprawling on all Then I proposed again to quit, sold that was no way to do; we ten tne fours, but he should try the fifth round, and see who was the better man. Then I hit him twice In succession, once square on the nose, msKing tno dioou ny in nil direc tions. That satisfied hiin. and ha with- drew to wash himself. "By this time there waa a large crowd in the room, and everybody, waa aliaklng hands with me. By and by the man X had been snarrins with camo bock, nml he shook hands with me. and asked me to drink, but I wouldn't do that ; no rum for me. Then Mr. Fiske introduced him to me as Yankee Sullivan. It took away I If some men'sbodlea were not straight my breath. Sullivan tried to make aler than their minds, they would be bargain with me to stay with him, oner- ihs me S7S a month cood wanes for those days and board, but I said no. For weeks afterwards I got letters from mm onenng me every inducement to gc to New York. But I stuck to the farm" Worts of Wlsiosa. If lanahter is the davliaht of thai antn. a smile is Its twilight By bestowins blessinos unon othara: wo onutii mem on ouneives. Z. .-II At ' ' Damrer should be feared when distant and braved when present . To give pain Is the tyranny of beauty; to make happy is her true empire. Patience iaavlrtueu-hlch Kim rwmln imnx everyone needs but themselves. - 1 . m r The froth of the head notunfrequently becomes venom when it reaches the heart The miser lives to die rich, and in tha Soier oi ins nouse, anu tne turnxey ox s wealth. I a? 1. 1 . a m The mind that busies itnelf mneh with the future has need to be an uncommonly cheerful one. The lisht in the world romes nrind- pally from two sources thu sun and tha student's lamp. Riches do not half so much exhilarate us with their possession, us they torment us with their loss. Tho worst-hearted of enemies U nftan less to be dreuded than thu most kind hearted of friends. You mav sneak out mora ntalnl tn your associates, but not less courteously uwu yuu uu iq Birangure. When vou hear susdIcIaus neraona boost of beina the friends of their kind. ask them what sort of kind that is. Tho death-smlla is the eromlput thlno in the world. It make the dark Past an arch of triumph into a radiant Future. You can't rat anvthlntr in this vmIiI without money, somo say ; but this is not true, for without money von set into USUI. It is but s, sten from pnnnlnar e knavery: lying makes the whole differ euco add that to cunning, and it ii knavery. Hot Watxr for Ikjcubs axd Bxohis. Tho New York Mvditxd Journal reports this cose: The patient was engaged in a machine shop, mid while his bund was upon the anvil of a trip hamuier, the hummer weighing 70 jwunds fell. It so happened that u file was on the anvil, and In this way the force of the hum- mer was arrested ubout half an inch beforoit reached its bed. When the hand was examined, it was found that tne whole palm was mora of pulp. The metacarpel bones were comminuted extensively, una mere was apparently but small chances for saving tho hand. It was, however, placed in hot water, and kunt tliero for two or three weeks and then taken out ami drexscd. In three months tho jwtlent was Hifflcicntly well to leave tjio hwpitul, mid now nine months after tho accident he is uble to move tho ilncers. and has ouite u useful hand. Bruises and injuries do much better when treated with hot than cold water. The tcuiueniture should lie about 103, degrees P.- Another cause is reported or compound rracture and dis location of the ankle joint, in which tho proximal end of the first metatarsal bone protruded from the foot. The dis location was reduced and the foot placed in hot water. At the eudWu week it was taken out and dressed in tho ordi nary manner. The foot is now doing well and proiulsca u good result WHaaVIMamer. . The lady who was lost In naa mm round. TraMported. for life the marries liapplly, who Tho more 111 a man's luck 1 tho less unci niiwQid , Tlis cheapest of lawyers keeping uiiv it vnu wuiwni The best means of "catching .an heir ess" Is with a ooro-fwi An eloauent soaaker la Ilka a Hmw greatest at tho mouth. The lady who knit her brows has com menced pair of socks. Love is like a cigar; the longer It noma uia leas it oecoaies. Wanted to know whether the volume of sound lus yet been found. All diseases speak to us solemnly and eloquently, except tho dumb ague. Shocking knowledge personal ac quaintance with galvanic battery. The last time Col. Bob Ingersoll lec tured in a theatre he ignored tks pit. A man winds up his clock to make it go, and his business to make it stop. A disappointed lover down east lately hung himself with a string of onions. Tennyson says that every sea k full of life. He should have excepted tho Dead Sea. It does not followthat Rome waa built in the night, because It wasn't built in a day. At a west-end debating sodety, a wheel right is said to be the best spokes- No man can avoid his own company mho had best make itas good us pos sible. A nubile speaker, like a hunting-dog, should give careful attentiou to his points. An arch vonna ladv should ha nn archer, for she can bend her beau as she pleases. Larne men are less muinelaomA than little ones. The largest of all oceans is Pacific. As soldiers in the march of life, we muy never learn to mark time, but time never lans to marx us. crooked enough to ride upon then own backs. "I wish," said a wild young gentleman, "that my birthday were a month lonii.'1 "Keep sober," said his friend, "and it will Bcem bo to yna. A correspondent wants to know whether, considering the great utility of he ocean, poets are not wrong to call it There Is said to be a man in Ne w Y ork who is habitually so sleepy that his curi osity cannot be awakened. Such la not the case with his wife. A St. Louis widow has had throe hus bands. She has on hand a law-suit to break the will of the first; another to recover the insurance money on the life of the second ; and a third to obtain ali mony from the lost " You look thin." " Should think anv. body would lfLthey had passed through what I have." What's tKatT said tramp No. 1. No. 2 replied that ho. had been arrested, tried and convicted. " Of what crime?' inquired No. 1. "Starvation; and was sentenced to sit in a dining saloon for four days with a inutile on." A cigar contains acetic add, formic, butyric, valeric, and proprionlc acldla, prussio acid, creosote, carbolic add, am monia, sulphureted hydrogen, pyridine, nothing ubout cabbagine and burdockfc add. That's why you can't get a good one for less than five cents. Stay awake in hnnh. It la a afiam for the church to be marie a MMaiaw the dcad.do beneath mo living steep suovo grouna as When we find ourselves mora inelinad to persecute than nersuade. maw ha certain that our seal has more of pride in it than charity. UseAil knowledge can have no ene mies except the ignorant; it cherishes yvuiii, iieuguts tue agea, is an ornament in prosperity, and yields comfort in ad versity. Seem not ashamed of your business if it is an honest one. Better smell of the shop than cover yourself with odors and essence, which, half-disguiaiug, ren der it disgusting. Those who would render their charities useful should judiciously diffuse them. He who would have a good crop must sow with ills hand, and not pour out of the sack into one heap. Many who would not for the world ntter it falsehood, are yet eternally scheming to produce false Impressions on the minds of others, respecting nicts, characters, and opinions. We arexa nart' of the nlnce we nrn In. and our spirits are sustained or elevated to tue tone or our surroundings. One Is wiser in his library than in the street, and in tho woods orfields than in either. A wise man need not be invested with power In order to be convinced that power is a garment bedizened with gold, Which dazzles the lielinlrier liv lta union. dor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight. High and licautiful is the lot of a intuit noet. His Ivre is the world, and tha strings on which he plays are the souls of men. When he wills it, these tones are culled forth, and melt toiwtherln undivided humiony. The prenent ruco for noov.mnvntf seems to point to, n period when every man will huve .quite enough to do to read his own inductions. Then, how ever, every writer will be sure to hava nn appreciative reader, ' ATamsWhesaOtsnrbt. ,Y JOB RANSOMS.- The ' gnat , aaaiority of people" era flrmWoonvlncedthatthe ktooonfesslon of "ssbeth,M wtth regard to "Henry Ward" la Wlk-abM document ' ''Pa,w'mietlOTed little Johnny Marsh, "Do vou Ahlnk Bob Ingersoll Is rightr Til tell you what 1 think," growled tho old sun, "if both of you don't do different from what von ara doincnow. you'll have a warm conviction of what awalla von ! the nmt nU " Trout-fishing being In order, the rod Is taken down, and tho reel and line and flics examined, and, as' the husband remarks t "to-morrow will be a fluo shake the eameta and do the white. waahlncand all alone this vear. tlnpn are so hard." Thus is our liberty cur tailed, our brightest dreams bob swot-cd and we made slaves or fern mine esam. Havo men no longer any tights or feel ing, or is all of freedom to be crushed out? "Coll the next caee. said Ma honor. and a man struggled up to tho bar with his face looking aa if he had been fool ing with briar-natch and a compound, double-jointed, high pressure threshing machine. He was closely followed by n woman struggling to get loose from the grain of two policemen. "How Is this, madarne T" queried bin honor, with' bis brows lowering like storm clouds, and bis voice ss the mut tering of thunder. "Yon are accused o; assault and battery, and the scratched face, the broken nose and black eyes ait a sight to make angels weep." Tell you bow if was." answesedthe prisoner, so ouicklv that the vliMm couldn't get in a word edgeways. "Tato man cams Into my house ana said he was agent for some new fancied sewing machine, and" "That la enough," replied his honor. "You are discharged, my dear niadime. You have acted ..nobly, and your fellow cit liens will, uo doubt, reward you with n sold medal as hum and thick aa lh driving wheel of a locomotive, and erect a monument over you when dead, an massive as that of Bunker Hill. You are an honor to your sex, mndame, and" "Your honor." feebly interposed the victim, "in tho hereafter" "There is uo hereafter for senine machine agents, if tho theory of Ingersoll is correct," was tno decisive response. "Call the next ase." Muggins of Michigan street moved tho first of the month, and had the cuss tomary time with his stove pipe. Of course It wouldn't go together, and of course he lost, his temper and used' strong language. But at last after ham mering away for half an hour and spoil ing things generally, he conceived u brilliant idea. "Mary," he said to bis wife, "I've got it now," and he dashed out of doors and run down tho rtreet, while she gazed at him with pity in her eyes and an apron over her head, und wondered if he hud not been drinking andwus threatened with the' iim-jiims. "Hook ho exclaimed, rushing into the tin-shop and upsetting stacks of pans and kettles, "can you make me a length of stove pipe with another and another inside, something after the manner of n. telescope 7" Ben thought ho could one with any number inside like a Chinese puzzle, and which, if filled with lenses would enable him to see the north tiole : ami soon the brilliant idea of Muggins was worked out in iron, and with smiles upon his face and the invention under his arm he strutted home and confidcntlv said to the wife of his bosom: "There'll lie no more trouble. Marv Ann. Nnvor was such a crlnrfniia ttlon. HImm Anv T 'shall be hailed an the m-entMt tmariinr I UI "10 """ race, iiusi noiu up me other length, and I'll show you how tho thing works. All von havo to do is to turn this crank and" "Heavens I Mercy I Fire I Murder," screamed Mrs; Muggins. ''What in thunder is the matter now"" ho questioned. "You've got my fingers jammed be tween thu edges und are cutting them off, you old fool!" 'Shoo!" She waltzed around blowing and suck ing and holding the Injured members, and showering down anything but bless ings upon him. ' ' "Accidents will happen you know, Mary Ann," he explained in apology. "I'll accident you, you miserable, old, bald-headed clothes-pin I I never saw such a stupid fool in all my life. , Don't yon see there 11 be a big space between the littlo and the Iarra ono and tho smoke will pour out like XXml Oh I my poor lingers, I know I am crippled for nfe." Muggins considered. The threo inch extension of the pipe wouldn't fill a tlx inch hole by a lpng shot Yes, be saw that but couldn't exactly understand it : said there must be some error' in thu construction, and pattered down, street to blow up the maker, though irately muttering that, "some women couldn't understand tho philosophy of mechan ism no how." Ben Hook went, up to the house and smoothed matters, and then told Muc giUH he believed ho had a fortune In tho invention. True, it wouldn't work well as it stove pipe, hut he hud better get it puteuted mid white washed, and go around selling it us an adjustable steepio for country churches! . A cood cement to mend broken china is made by mixing a thick solution of gum arable with plnsterof Puris, until it becomes a sticky paste. Stick the brokon edges together with this, and let tucut icmuin threo duys; aav," the wife of Ms bosom answers. "Yes. for cleaning house, andyouTi have to take down the ssnvae and take nn and