Clearfield Republican. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, January 30, 1861, Image 1

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BY a. B. GOODLANDER ft CO
VOL. XXXI. WHOLE NO.
WH0 WOULDN'T BE A HEATHEN t
TT find tli aubjoined lines in ona of our et
ebangos, and most respectfully beg leav to call
to tharn th attention of those, philatthroi.latst?)
h delight in tending gunpowder, New Eng.
laad rum, flannels and missionaries to the kea
tken Mamma, T with I lived away,
Away across tbo (treat hig sea,
Whero littl heathen children play,
And then how happy I should bol
I with you'd be a heathen, too,
And then we all should hare aome bread,
And rood warm clothee for aiater Sue,
And brother Willie who it dead.
I'd go and find hit little grate,
And toll him to come home again,
And bread and little thoet he'd hare,
And he would thank hit titter Jane.
Aid folkt would come nn:l tea you thus
Mamma, you took to tick and pale t
And bring aome broad and butter, whon
They beard my aitter'a wail.
Mamma, can't Christian bountiet tlied
Excopt'on lieatbont? Can't they give
To aister Sue and mo aomo bread,
And let your little daughters live f
I went to church to day, and heard
The preacher for tbo henthen pray j
TJut nott'ae first Imploring word
7or hungry little Christiana any.
My little drosa wna worn and thin,
And I tat shivering in the cold j
"While other little girlt put in
The box, their shining tumi of gold.
They told me that thia was to buy
For little heathen girlt tome bread;
Oh ! mother, how I with that I
Ceuld ba a heathen and be fed.
They laaghed at my old faded dress,
And put on many haughty airs;
I thought of Uod in my distress,
And hid my face and uttered prayert.
Mamma, ttian't we be heatheni, ton,
Be wo can hare aome olotbat and bread?
I and my little aitter Sue,
And brother Willfe, who ia dead t
MY GRAND MOTHER'S GHOST.
From Blarkwood'a Magazine.
The gas wouldn't burn, tbo kerosene
strangled me with its noxious odor, the
fluid splutleted, burnt blue, and went
out. I am afraid of the dark ; Hint ghost
black which makes one's eyes nche with
the want of light; .that palpable gloom
which seems to beat liko a roomful of pal
pitation of the hrt round you, every',
where ; that visible nothing, which holds
tlis tables, the chairs, the portraits you
are familiar with, yet hides them in its
lltck veil from your view; that empty full
ness through which you thrust out your
groping arms, then Bhrink back, oppress
ed with a presence you can neither hear,
e nor feel.
'Willy,' I said to my little maid, 'run
somewhere and get me a light.'
She ran to the grocer's wife, and came
bck with a penny dip in a brass candle
stick. As she placed it on my table, went out
tnd shut the door, the little boy in bronze
on the mantle raised his hnmmer and
truck the figure of Time twelve ring
ing blows on the heart. It was mid
Bight. The candle burned clenrly. I resumed
the old volume of German legends I was
reading, and as I laid my finger on a par
agraph, and paused to pondei on the pos
sibility of spirits returning to earth to
wreak vengeance on foes, or work rrell to
friends, I heard a deep sigh by my elbow.
I turned and beheld the ghost of my
grandmother.
I knew her from her resemblance to
W potrai,. She wore the same white
Op with its wide border plaited round
hsr lace the same prim dress with
which I had grown familiar in the pic
ture.
She died twenty year ao. t was na-
tnsd for her.
I drew up (ho rocking chair for the
ghost. She sat down in it. A pillow
tonld not hare sank thcro miro noiseless
ly than she did. Sho kept her hands in
the same position on her beast, that some
tody tied them twenty years ago.
She fixed her keen black eyes upon me
beautiful eyes, which I had always ad
wired in the portrait. None of her des
cendants had such eves.
'I could not oome,' she raid, in deep se
pulchral tones, 'in gas light. Ci hosts and
KM lights are at war always. As for ker
nt oil, we groan in spirit at. its use.
How mortal noses can, flight after night
inhsle the odor it emits, is a won
dr. It a worse then brimitone. We
hve put our co!d lips under your chiw-
y and blown our ghastly breaths into
'ks flame. We have seen the chimnevs
blacken with smoke, and apartments fill
with disgusting fragrance. Teople only
"idha lamp is in a draught. They mo
d it and bore with it. We shall have to
yield. Kerosene is a modern discovery.
ftU are old fashioned. To be out of
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date, is to be out of mind. Your tallow
candle pleases me. We ghosts like the
light of other days around us. We al
ways, in the body, burned tallow can
dles.' The fine eyes of my grandmother gazed
at my penny dip steadfastly fora moment.
She seemed to see visions and dream
dreams.
'ily dear,' sho said, 'you are the first of
the family that have turned to candles
since the innovation of gas. You are in
debted to your dip for my preseuce. How
hollow I would have looked under a chan
delier, how bloodless, how white! As it
is. I think lam looking very natural, am
I not?'
She glanced up at her portrait and wai
ted a reply.
'A little pale, grandmother,' said I, 'but
tell me, dear mndam, if your pursuits in
tho othor world aro of such a nature thsl
they admit of your returning to this at
any time?'
'By no means, r am permitted to ap
pear in this sphere but seldom. My in
fluence I can make felt oftener. I have
not been seen refore since my coffin lid
was closed. I came to tell you there
arose a yell in randemonium. I looked
in to see whenco it came. I found the
great chamber assigned ti little children,
and which is always full of little ones of
all sizes and ages, the scene of great com
motion. Infants were crawling into cor
ners ; throo year old toddlers were totter
ing out of the way. Older ones were has
tily finding seats, and all fucss oro a
listening expression. A small voico was
saying?
'It was tio fault of mine that brought
me hero. I who am now hut five years
old, might have lived to be fifty. Na
turo uafortuiiilely, garo me a very line
physical development. My chest was
round and full, my skin clear, my limbs
finely moulded. My birthplace was in
a cold climate. My tender mother, proud
of her offspring, bared my neck and arms
in the chill winters, when her rose bushes
and vines were packed in warm straw
and throughly protected from every blast.
I was brought down to be viewed by com
pany, and exposed to different tempera
tures, as I went from room to room. My
mothor wrapped in'sott velvet and com
fortable silks, did notsufTer. I became a
great troublo in the house. My beauty
faded, I lingered from month to month,
and died at last, at five years old, of con
sumption. My mother cried over my
li'tle coffin. I kr.ew, but I could not
her then, that hor own vanity had placed
mo here.'
I was trotted to death,' cried a more
piping voice, as the first speaker sat down.
A woman was hired expressly to take
care that I should not want for exercise.
Her days and nights were spent in keep
ing mo going 'up, up. uppy,' and 1 down,
down, downy ' That unknovn wonder,
perpetual motion, was to be found iu my
nurse's knees. Every bone in my poor
little body was racked, every ounce of
flesh was sore. My food went down milk
anu came up cneese, ii series i
trotted ; if I screamed, 1 was trotted,
if I was still, I was trotted I be
came littlo better than a human
churn, from "Thich the butter had been
taken, and the sour milk left standing.
My brain turned to bruises, my blood to
whey, my bones grew so sharp they al
most pierced tho knees which trotted
them. As I began to cut teeth, my tongue
was constantly jolted between my jaws,
and in danger of being bit off. I dared
not whine, for I knew the penalty. I
began at last to calculate how long the
torture could possibly continue. Warm
weather was coming on, and I thought
ono or the other of us must soon give up
the ghost; and as my nurse's exertions
were almost superhuman, I imagined per
haps that I might outlast her. One un
lucky day, however, my mother entering
the room unexpectedly, I smiled at hor, I
hid never done so before.'
'The darling !' cried my parent, 'see,
it knows me.'
1 Toor thins:, rather,' said the 'nurse, 'it
has wind on its stomach 1 '
Forthwith the proceeded to trot it out.
Every thump of her foot was, I know, a
nail in my codin. I felt I should never
smile again. My faithful nurse continued
her efforts, and I was trotted out of exis
tence on the poor old woman's knee.' ;
As the speaker ceased, one of the el
der occupants of the room descried me,
amid mv erandmothsr. ' He at once made
room for tr.e to enter, and begged mo to scarcely ever permitted to look around in
remain awhile and hear the remarks, I ' the world in which they had been open
consented and took a seat near the en-ed, and where, instead of proper care and
trance.' 1 fto'l ar,d exercise, tho baleful pill and en
' I ,' said a little fellow, rising from his' ervating sleep were all that wero offered
seat, with his blue eyes all bloodshot, and me. Thore arc many parents who seem
his eurls mstted tcgelher, 'died of dsliri-'to think children must pass their cnild-
PRINCIPLES, not
CLEARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1801.
urn tremens. At the age of six months I
ws a confirmed drunkard. I had not
been a very quiet baby, and every time I
was uneasy, s little liquor was administer
ed to do me good. I did not want wine
but water. I was naturally a very thirsty
ehild, and everything that was put be
tween my speechless lips increased my
thirst. My mother's milk was sweet, the
panacea given mo was sweet, and if now
and then blessed with a drop of goat or
cow's milk, it was warmed and sweetened
first, to make it as much like my moth
er's as possible. I used to cry. No oth
er way do we poor babies have of express,
ing our feelings, and the chances are ten
to one that we will bo misunderstood.
To stop my crying I was put to the breast;
this, at such times, I would indignantly
1 . rti . ,
iciuso. men more wouu no a commo
tion. 'Nurse,' my mother wou'd say,
'what shall we do with hira?' The
nurse was a stout, heartv. old woman.
who always made a practice of tasting
whatever was provided for her charge.
Her sovereign remedy was liquor. It was
taken, and a spoonful administered at a
time. At first I rebelled I strangled,
kicked anil coughed. The firm bond
held the spoon to my little tongue, and
down went its contents in spite ,of rue.
Little by little tho dose was increased.
I soon liked it. It was given me readily,
for after a few moments of wild g!ce, 1
fell into a drunken stupor, which gave my
attendants many Dpportunities of enjoy
ing themselves, as my sleep was long and
sound.
'At length mania-a-potu assailed me.
During my whole life, no one had ever
thought of giving me a spoonful of the
water I had craved -tho eooling, cheering
and refreshing drop of water! Now, I
no longer cared for it. In my wildest
frenzies I was accused of having the chol
ic ; down, as usual, went the fiery dtink
until finally I was literally burnt out. I
was nothing but a cinder within, and a
shell without. My stomach was cooked
to a crisp, my intestines were shrivelled !
my lungs no longer filled with pure air,
belched forth only the fiery fumes thai
had consumed me. I died; I wai good
for nothing. I hope whatever form my
dust is destined to take on earth, it will
not be watered, as, when I inhabited it,
with idchohol.'
' As this speaker beascd there aroso a
wail of sympathy, such as had at first at
t'actod me to the pandemoniac chamber;
as it subsided another little' figure had
taken the stand
'My leg,' hesid, ' brought mo out of
the world. My mother labored under
the strange delusion that her child was
born a Highland laddie of American pa
rent in America. I was dressed, or left
undressed rather, in short plaid stockings,
reaching to the calf of my leg, and ele
gant kilt reaching just to the knee. My
limbs were moulded in cherubic forms,
and when exposed in the nursery, were
pretty. But the 'nursery was too narrow
a fnld in which too display my beauty.
On bitter cold days I was walked out over
the icy streets, tho keen wind chapping
my llesh and chilling my blood till my
knees looked like twin nutmeg graters
painted purple. I used to look at my
mother's long comfortable ekirts and
thick leggins drawn up over warm
hose, and wondered if she could survive
a fashion juch as I wore if adopted by
herself. I became afflicted with inflama
tory Rheumatism, and unable to bear the
pain, gavo up the ghost.
Tho next that spoke was a dreamy fa
ced little girl, who trembled as sho rose
and said : 'I am an opium eater. My
death warrant was written on the first
bottle of Godfrey's cordial brought into
my mother's house, A few drops at first
sufficed to hush my feeble cries. Then
Oodfrey'8 cordial would not do. A few
drops of mere laudanum were administer
ed. Soon I would not go to sleep with,
out it. Then my nurse would give me a
small opium pill in my hands. Of course
I was but little trouble. I was a deep
sleeper, but my digestion becamo impair
ed ; too much sleep weakened me, and I
kucw no natural slumber. My eyes be
came like those of o sleeping walker, full
of dreams wherr wide awake I lost my
appetite i my head grew full of pain my
baby heart was always aching. I closed
my eyes one day forever on the home
where I felt I could be little loved when
my low wails were never permitted to ap
peal to those around me, but were hush
ed at once, where my blue eyes were
MEN.
hood out of the way, and only get in the
way when they have become, in spite of
all sorts of ill-treatment, useful and orria
mental members of society.
'This child was still speaking,', said ray
grandmother, 'when I rushed out. I had
been a mother once, and I could not lis
ten to theso innocents in that fearful
waiting chamber, recapitulating the woes
that had sent them there, any longor.'
I felt impelled to revisit earth. I came.
Tn no light could I make me visible to
jou uutil your tallow candlo was brought
in.
'My dear, remember what I have told
you. Some of these days you may be a
mother. He more careful of the sacred
charge of little children. Think for them
feel for them. Do not, to ease your care,
sink them in unnatural slumbers or give
them over to selfish nurses, Upon you
hangs their lives in a great measure their
happiness, both here and hereafter I beg
you wnl give '
Just at this moment thecock crew loud
ly, The voiceatmv elbow was still. I look
ed around the rocking cha r was empty,
the ghost had vanished.
Spiking Cannon.
The Tittsburg Dtspitch contains the fol
lowing interesting information : There
is no method of spiking a cannon which
will forever prevent its use. If the spike
is made of iron or unhardened steol, it
n-ay be removed by tho drill. If it is
Ico o'y inserted, or without much force,
. ir : 1 3 blown out by firing a charge of
urpowder placed in the bottom of the
bore. But if tho spiko is mado of harden
ed strel, to fit the vent closely, and is dri
ven in irith great force, and if its lower
end is made soft und riveted within the
bore, then neither the drill nor gunpow.
der can removo it ; tho vent remains per
manently closed. The remedy, in such
cases, is to drill a new vent, which may
be done without impairing the serviceable
ness of the gun. A new vent may be drill
ed in any cannon by a skillful machinist
j in two or three hcurs.
In experimental firing, when a.vei.l be
comes to much worn and enlarged, we
drill a new ono, and sometimes as many
as three or four vents are made in tho
same gun, and many hundred fires are
made afterwards.
During tho recent Crimcon war, an ar
ticle relative to spiking cannon w as pub
lished in the London Times, in which it
was asserted that tho use of a new pa
tent spike would destroy tho serviceable
ness or the gun. The spike was described
as a iece of finely tempered steel, turned
to fit the vent, but to move freely in it,
and turning out in a forked spring in the
bore. This spike it was alleged, could
nov be removed, ns it would turn readily
with the drill ; but it scenes that the pos
sibility of cutting or breaking ofl'the tongs
or forks of the spring inside the barre
was not considsred. The communication
given above, from high authority, may be
lodged upon as conclusive that tho worst
effect of spiking wou id I e a few hours'
delay in the use of the guns often an im
portant matter.
"Thirtj-aii Thirty."
The reader who is curious to kno-v ex.
actlj where runs this of-inentioned line,
will get a clear idea of it by taking the
map and tracing it a3 follows: It com
mences ai the point on tho Atlantic coast
where the dividing lino botween Virginia
and North Carolina commences; passes
along the line dividing those States; along
the lino between Tennessee nnd Ken
tucky ; along the lino between the States
of Missouri and Arkansas ; thonce through
the Territory of the Cherokee Nation,
through Nt'v Mexico, striking the east
ern boundary of the State of California a
short distance south of tho middle, stri
king tho Vucilic a short distance south of
Monterey bay. On the south of that line
there are about 300,000 squmo miles of
territory, including Indian reservation
while on the north there about 1,.100,000
square miles south of 30 30 thcro is not
the slightest probability that there cotil I
be carved out more than one tlave State.
All New Mexico, comprising about 210.0(10
square miles, would nover become hluve
territory, from the tact that it is not adap
ted toslavo labor. It produces neither
cotton nor cane. North of that line,
though slavery were to legalized, it
could never exist. Xev York Acic.f.
tSA fellow went into a store at Troy,'
on Saturday evening, and requested to
have his cap filled with molasses, as it was
for a wager ; when the full cap was bund
ed to him, he oomplained that it was mus
ty j when the grocer went to smell it, the
thief dashed it in his faca rendailng
hira blind, and tbeu robbed tho till of
six dolhri.
TEHM8-I1
NEW
The Pat chen Horns.
The exhibition of four colts of this cele-.
brated stock at the Fourth National
Horse Show will give interest to what fols
lows relating to their history : The trot
ting horse, George M. Tatchen, no-r own
ed by Wm. Waltermire, of New York, and
kept near, that city, was sired by Csssius
Clay, a horso of high fame at the First
National Iloree Show. John Bulkley of
Bordentown, New Jersey, purchased the
Patchen horse when thiee years old, of
George M. Patehen, and named him after
his fir.it owner. Soon after tho purchase,
the colt w s taken sick with a distemper,
which left a thickness of the throat, from
which ic did not recover for several years.
On account of this thickness, Mr. Bulkley
rarely drove hiin hard, and it was report
ed that Falchen had uo bottom. During
all this time PHtchen was standing at the
atablo of liulkley, at SIS services, and do
ing but little business. The first proof of
his endurance and speed wus thus acci
dentally discovered : His owner, who al
ways insisted that he was a wonderful
horse, had occasion to seek the services
of a Mr. Humphries, a celebrated animal
painter of Camden, for a likeness of his
favorite. TIhj artist decided that the
horse would look best in motion, and sug
gested that he become excited and press
ed to the top of his speed. Mr. Bulkley
assented, and mounting him barebacked,
rode off to wake Mm up. Greatly to the
surprise of the artist, tho horse on his
leturn shot by like an arrow, rendering
almost impossible to get a sketch, and
obliging his owner to ride him bock and
forth several times before Mr. Humphries
rould transfer him to paper. Ihiring all
this exercise of many niilen, the horse
showed no indications of fatigue or signs
of distress, and from that moment his
reputation began. Well do we remember
the first picture of this slashing stallion
and his owner a die hot to show rooms in
' "
fecietary ol 1H,)H, that "his New Jersey , ., , .
,, , r... . ,, , ually ; when the harsh cry of Stop mv
nag would show Ethan Allen some time ',.. ,; , ,.1 "
r i , Ti !..! i i pnpet I Will no more crate upon Ins oar
an awful ga .. H,e result of tlus proph-l c Mpfgicurs t Jj-j-J,,
ecy is well known. Of the stock off ,,,.,. . ...
p.i.i.. oi f ii ir ir "Mill, sanguine as we areof the coming
iMtcuen.ZJ five-year old and a fiv of.four ' .... . f. , . ., f
year-, are all of the oldest that can bo J lhl me. we advis e ths aspirant
traced. A cha. acteiistic of these animals I fr hUOti l paU"e e' he Ukf"
is slow maturity, heavy (ails, and a strong, 1 10 1 nS a n,"aiS8 of taming
i,i, .lrii j , e i bread and butter. Do not, at least, do so
longiiiy stride, indicating speed for a ,., , , .... ...
long diUunoe. It is ,aid that 110ne 0 , "''b'ou have been jilted several tunes by
these horse, interfere in trotting. Their ! " "T ? P ' yU
size, constitution and dispositi.n are unu- T" k"ckf'1 dow" taus an. soused in
ually good, and their color pretty uni, a r ' l,,ltl1 'I1 tho '""S' reel
form iy blood bay. I'hey are sought for ' '"f'1'11" y thoroughly
.'.high figure, by men who P, recia.e ' 8,uLl,UeJ : ""V; '' '
speed, and two have recently changed
hands in Philadelphia, one at 2,000 and t
the other at l,0. Mr M'Donuld, of
Baltimore, the owner of Flora Temple,
has purchased one named Burlington
that is comidered fast. C. W. Bathgate it
Co., of Fordliam, N. Y., o rn four of five
year olds, among which are the
W1
known horses. New Jorspy and Major
Low, exhibited at our bite fair. Both
seem destined to do credit to the
old horse ; nnd for New Jersey it is
claimed that lie is the best bred and
handsomest of stock horses. L. B. Brown
of New York, the well kno'.vn owner and
protector of the "Century team," is as
sociated with 'Mr. Bathgate in breeding
this family of horsps; nnd though his
winter quarters arc Florida, he is evident
ly expecting to renew his horse show ac
quaintance here with a younger team:
Sprinpjieltt ItrptilHran.
Si'noat Snors.- -Strange Ihst all kinds
of leather are too poor to go to church in
ona wet Sunday. What is the matter
with all our tanners that shoes cannot be
made which are proof against Sunday
mud and Sunday wolt Multiludi'i of
people run around all the week in ordi
nary leather, ami no harm comes to them.
But if the pavement be the least wet on
Sunday morning, they aro certain that
they shall get thoir feet soaking wet, and
hiriflinv mitfVif. am n'.ll nislm. tliiii. .nffina nl
.-I'M. T -... ... UI .UVIk HI..l fl
once, as to go out in such shoes as they
havo. What U the mystery that mokes
leather which is so impenetrable on ull
the othor days of tho wetk, not iuu'h
belter than brown paper on Sunday morn
ing T Who will make his fortune by pro
viding tho vast army of stay-at-homes
svith a patent unproved church-coino
shoe, warrantod water proof on Sun
days?
A practical joker drew nway aslool from
under a couipanion, as he was going (o sit
down, at Northfield, New York, about two
months ago. The poor fellow fell back
wards, broke his spine, and lingered till
Wednesday, the ICth inst., when he died.
The joker has the chance of supporting
the destitute widow and baby of Uo victim
of his fun.
25 per Aannm, if paid in edvanee.
SEMES VOL. I. NO 28.
An Editor on Editors.'
Artemus Ward, late local editor of the
Cleveland riaindeoler, gives the following
advice to young men who aspire to be
come editors of newspapers:
" Befoje you go for an editor, young
man, pause and take a big think. Do
not run at it rashly. Look iround nnd
see if there is not an omnibus to drive
some soil somewhere to be tillod a clerk
ship ef some meat cart to be fil'el any
thing that is reputable and heslthy, rather
than going for an editor, which is hard
business at best.
" We are r.ot a horse, and have conse
quently not been called upon to furnish
the motive power for a threshing machine;
but we fancy that the life of an editor who
is forced to write, write, write, whether he
feels ri;ht or not, is much like the steed
in question. If the yeas and neighs could
be obtained, we believe the intelligent
horse would decide that the threshing
machine is preferable to the sanctum cdi
torial.
" The editor's work is never dor.e. lie
is drained incessantly, and no wonder that
ho dries up prematurely. Other people
can attend banquets, weddings, &c, visit
halls of dazzling light, get inebriated,
break windows, lick a man occasionally
and enjoy themselves in a variety of ways;
bjl the editor cannot. He must stick te
naciously to the quill. The precs, like a
sick baby, mustn't be loft alone for a mo
ment. If tho press if left to run itself for
a day, some absurd person indignantlj
orders the carrier boy to stop bringing
' that infernal paper. There's nothing in
it. I won't have It in the house.'
''The elegant Mantelina, reduced to
I mangie turning, uesenbed nis lite as a
j'dcm'd horriMo grind." The life of an
I editor is all of that.
I " Put there is gre. 1 t ime coming, wa
feel confident, for the editor a time when
be will be appreciated ; when he will have
a front seal; when lie will have a pie.
, ., .1.,,. .l
......w. iv. iiin.niiroa, urn, y, nniii mi lit
for the bubble reputation at tho preM
mouth, throw yourselves among the ink
pots, dust and cobwebs of the printing
olliee, if you will.
How to Preaent Tools mom Ri-stixc
Thousands of dollars are lost each year by
t ie rusting of tools, plows, hoes, shovels.
ii ui o iiiiiib uu piuveniGi? L'V
tho application of lard and resin to all
steel or iron implements. Tske three
limes as muh weight of lard as resin, and
melt together. This can bo applied with
a brush, or cloth, to all surfaces in danger
of rusting, and they can be easily kept
bright. If tools aro to be laid away fer
tile winter, give lliem a coaling of this,
and you will be well repaid. It can I n
kept for a long time, and should bealwayn
at hand ready for use,
4y-Thc folbwing is a literal copy of
the last questions proposed for discussion
in colored debating club where phonotici
were practiced :
Is dansin niorrellio rong
Is the redin o' fietishius works com
mendililo !
Is it nocessary that females should re.
ceive a thurry edicashun f
Oit females take part in pollytix ?
Ihu dress constitute the morrcl part of
wimtnin ?
FoiNDF.n or Chicago, 111. In a small
village in Illinois, way be seen daily
taking his morning walk, a jolly French
man, who prides himself upon having
built tho first house upon the spot wher
Chicago now stands, with her 111,000 in
habitants. fcsPFvery yoar Franca imports between
11,000 and 12,000 horses, at an expense
of somewhere about l$,000,000 francs,
and still the supply falls short of the de
mand. tyOil wells in the western part of
Pennsylvania, wore known to the Seneca
Indians more than a hundred years ago,
ami bysetliers in the region seventy years
ago.
KCyThe quantity of carbonic acid gas
locked up in every cubioyardof lime
stone has been estimated at 10,000 eubia
feet. , )
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