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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1872
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be compelled io require payment IN ADVINt 'E. as
a widely-scattered circulation run on a credit I,astl
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Editorifil Nolei.
—Washington Terriiorr is ,hipping
cattle. sheep and hay to British Col
umbia in considerable quantities.
—A purveyor of 11.4 at fur
RallSagt making, has avtnally 1 , 12, - ,a ar
rested in New York with a earea-s in
his po4session.
—D inlet Boane's ass', aged
sister and numerous terrapins are
traveiing separately through the new , ,
papers. Stories about hitn are H. boon
no longer.
—A breach of promise case between
an Anglo. Saxon citizen of Oregon,
and a flarky maiden of the forest, has
been amicably settled by the marriage
of both parties.
—Hunters who have spent the last
month killing venison, declare the re
port that the deer are affected with the
eppizootic, or any other disease, to be
perfectly untrue.
—The Missouri Republican calls the
Greeley and Brown electors of that
State "mutton-heads." They were
simply the representatives of its o:t•n
principles. The Republican, there
fore, makes itself out a sheep who has
gone astray.
--Professor Blyden, who is making
an exploring expedition into the in
terior of Africa, writes from a town
eighty miles froth Freetown, Berra
Leone, that he has found a Moham
medan university with about a thou
sand popi!s, including a large, number
of girls, who are studying Arabic.
--A remarkable example of rapid
work is afforded in the completion of
the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad one
hundred and sixty miles in length,
which furnishes a more direct eastern
outlet for the various lines which con
centrate about Cairo in Illinois. It
wits begun about the Ist of April last,
and is now finished, so that trains will
begin to run to-day.
—The Chicago thieves are getting to
be as sharp and cool as the lawyers of
that enterprising town. While a
New York jeweler was enjoying his
supper at a hotel in that city the other
night a thief broke open his trunk,
transferred sixteen thousand dollars'
worth of watches and trinkets to a
valise, went to the office, paid his bill
and disappeared.
--The Franklin Cif II says: tulle,"
the peg two weeks developments hi
Sugar Creek townspip and along the
valley lif Sugar creek have proved that
nearly the entire section of country
lying between French creek on tia•
west, Sugar creek on the north, Oil
creek an the east and the Allegheny
river on the south, is good oil terri
tory.
Proposed Liquor Law.
The bill introduced in the Senate by
Mr. Pomeroy, in response to a move
ment for the suppression of the' liquor
traffic in the District of Columbia and
the Territories, inaugurate d by the
National Temperance SoAety, of
which the Hon. Wm. E. Ridge, of
New York, is president, and indorsed
by other temperance organizations in
various parts of the country, provides,
First, that no person shall be allowed
to manufacture, import, sell, exchange,
barter, give or dispose of any intoxi
cating liquors to be used as a beverage
in the Territories of the United Htates
or in the District of Columbia ; sec
ond, that regularly licensed druggists
may sell liquor for medicinal and sci
entific purposes and the mechanic arts
only, provided they label and mark
the article containing the liquor dis
tinctly as other poisons and medicines
are marked, and keep a hook of regis
try, showing the name of the person
to whom delivered, the quantity, date
of sale, and on whose order or pre
scription the sale was made, and such
registry to be submitted, as required,
to the inspection of the Board of Police
in the district, or before any Court in
a trial at law ; and, third, that any
licensed druggist or other person vio
lating the provisions of the act shall
be subject to a fine of not less than $5OO
and to impris , innient for three
months; and, in default of payment
of the fine, to three months' additional
imprisonment; and be also liable int.
all damages accruing from the sale or
other illegal disposition of intoxicat
ing liquors as a bererage. This bill is
less stringent but partly the counter
part of the law of 1834, now in force
relative to intoxicating liquors in the
Territories, but applicable to the !
.traffic with Indians only.
~trove;rl;ial r,;;clvvc'rif.!-.
'rho tt't( t•f
1.10111!4"t1 I, );.•;
!well directed 1
tl;i rll 1. , .• Pref. NVIi-zel;, i,l Nvltich lie
-;tati. O. that a carottil t xalitination
all the olpzery ohms' to uit , upon tht ,
11 , ,at)le star, C:t-'mr, 1 .1,1ve him to
the rz);/tarltai , cont.':o4;ou that Ca-tor
and dont,h‘ art' iii nviwg in ,r
-I)n,i that
coh , elio-htly their mutual
reLitiole; are but tempffary, and that
e.. 11 \till, at szatle time in the future,
tooveindepen(iently of the other. l'Ool.
-; that their reiatinn,
each (alter are to t!).;,0 of
et:rtaill 0a:41.14 iw t s v,.1 1 1 t .,111;it
it.mporary
of uur nu ii:it after
trt~_.iur the it perilie:ion in our s3 - stetil,
niove otr into e with curve which
will nevur union or another retorn to
our owu
contirtn , •(l, wili, it is th.ing,ht, Ivor! to
DEM
MEM
a more clo- , ..i . x:totination , )f flab move
ments of other lAn:iry ttf (loohle
tem , Of ,tars,on th:tt l';e.tott
con•itirci th:• only ex
ception to tit,' tP,ral
~;tial~i;~~R t4c
the poiailar idea that t l it note,:
of a hroken n ion bank are worth
'ta ss, etit , rprising than in New
York ILlvf , taken uutvautane of that
hell 1,2; inivcrtining to rcde(qn, at a
very heavy discount, of course, the
bilis of such batiks. By reference to
the a bitoking, law, it will he
Set 0 that eaoh national bank is coin-
pelted to deposit tiovertiturlit bonds
with tit' 'Trees-urer of the United
St tes suflijeat to redeem their cur
rency in the event of it failure. Any
note, therefore, On the. , e broken banks
and worth (Veil it Prcmium ,
for, theoretically at least, a n tler the
laW, only a cert in amount is allowed
to a certain section, and, upon the
failure of a bank in any particular e•
tion, other parties ile-driinx to go into
01:- banking busino , a in that section
must gather together its notes, havia ,
them redeemed by the United States
Treasury, and apply for a charter to
establish another liank in the same
locality. The premium is offered from
the fact that others want the harking
privileges.
It seems to ho decided, at last, that
the Fourteenth Amendment does not
provide for every possible conflict of
opinion between White ►ind colored
people. In considering the education
of the children of the two races in the
same schools, two Northern courts
have recently field that the question
belongs to the R•hool Boards for do
cision, and not to the a amendment or to
the citizens. Their arguments are
that any classification which preserves
substantially equal school advantages
isnot prohibited by either the State or
Federal constitutions; that the citi
zen cannot dictato where or by what
teacher his children shall he taught;
and that "equality of rights'' does not
imply that white and colored children
shall be educated in the same school
any more %ban it implies the educa
tion of both sexes in the same school.
It is pr,p o ,e l l to take a cunsusof the
children who attend or do not attend
school in Philadolphia. Ilion!: forms
have been i.repared, under a resola.
lion of 111 , - Board of Public Education,
and ; with the aid of the mayor and
police force, the nome,4 of all the per
sous between the ages of six and
eighteen years in the city are to be re
corded.
Dio Lewis gives the following advice :
Go to bed nlami, half-past eight or nine
o'clock, and don't. ho in a hurry about
getting up hi Ihe in, , roi lig. On going to
bed and gill ing up in the morning, drink
as much curlZitCr as you can swallow.
:Soon you will learn to drink two tum
blers ; and some h , r,..tais will learn to
drink still mom Drink all that your
stomach will lA.ar. :-ipenti x 2ord deal of
your time in the open air without hard
exercise, but exposed to the sun. If
practicable, ride in a carriage some hours
every day. 'Remain out long enough to
give you a good u.ppetite, but do not
work hard enongli to produce excessive
perspiration. Eat a good deal of Oat
meal porrid4e, cracked wheat, Graham
mush, baked sweet apples, roasted and
broiled beef, though the vegetable part is
more flittening than the animal part.
Lie down an him:. in the middle. of the
day, just before you take your dinner, to
rest, and it' possible take a nap. Culti
vate jolly people. "Laugh and grow
hit' , rests upon a sound
. physiological
basin. A pleasant chow of the social
spirit is a great promoter of digestion.
Keep your skin clean, sleep in a room
where the sun shims, keep everything
sweet and clean and fresh about your
bed, sleep nine, it' possible ten hours in
the twenty-fiur ; rat as I have told yen,
cultivate jolly spirit, and iu six months
you will be as plump as you could wish.
In the general discussion now going on
as to rendering buildings proof against fire,
we are surprised to see that no reference
is made to any process for rendering
wood less combustible. When the wood
pavement in Main and Market streets
was put down our readers will remember
that we were told the wood was "bnrnet
tized," and that it would not rot nor
burn. I3:ing sceptical on this subject,
we picked up some pieces and put them
in the furnace under our boiler, where,
to our astonish:vent and satifaction, we
found they would only struander and
gradually waste under the intense heat,
not at any time breaking out into a
blaze. A building with timbers burnet
tized would be more lire-proof than if lt
had iron beams, fur they would not
throw down the walls by their expanding
and contracting. The process of bur
nettizing is a well-known one, and com
paratively inexpensive, it should be
more generally been in preparing timbers
for building as well as for other purposes.
—rough kapsie Eagle.
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Tin ;‘, ilized country iii talc
• much meat is oaten,
or in w;.l , h; ::•,:tch is wasted by bad
awl by a'iso'ute
unihtift, iu this eitint
Whoth,T this meat-eating is beneficial
s, ems to 111911`1111111 doubt rid. Are our
own or or women stronger, healthier,
larger limbed, ruddier and f t irer, th an
Ettroptquis 4,1 corresponding oe,:upation
told habits tit ? The Irish "irk who
come nut, here and go lido domestic ser
vice, com ,, generally with rosy eh( eks
Itukl full !loin s. Th e y probaldy hav o
11,1 eaten try:h meal once a wetk in Hair
]ices, in niliny crises not oftener than
0111'. ()ace here, they rush
ravenously at the joints, the Sto:iliS, and
tUc Ch. , 114, whic!l are. to them tumult s,
nod the bead signs of luxurious I,vitb:L.
The result is 111:it almost inyarhtbly
they I rt, t I hi iigures, and the rosy
C1i,(40 4 , ;Ilia rho health That they brought
with tau lit and that e:one with, it' not of
:I t s :Ma
more ol,s-ryaill of them have air; ady
'”.‘gun to notice this theinse!ves. And in
the see.ml ;:eneration the change is more
ruanifi.st. There is rarely a paler ;MI
thinner creature than your Irish girls of
the second genciation. In brief we all
of us have eaten too much meat—too
much for our health, prolvably, and r
utility- too much for the %yell-being of our
pockets. Great brawny :suotchwen live
month after month ou oat meal and hut
tor-milk, and tt healthier, harder-wm kin° .
class of n a it would be hard to find.
Why must we he every day eating ti sh
and fat V In particular : Why I.hould
our women and children be, like Sir An
drew Agueehtek, such great eaters of
beef ? Among our more conithrtablv
situated classes, it is nitro to say that
they eat meat twice a day. There is to)
need of this ; 1111)1 more, it is Lot Whole
some. Women, who are not. Inlrd-work•
ern, and children, are much more healthy
upon a lighter and less concentrated oiet.
Children, until they reach their teens,
do not really need meat at all, and are
the better in health and iu looks for not
having it.
In countries where the science of living
is [..lUtt , r understood than it is with us,
they live, even among the wealthier
classes, upon bread, porridge, milk and
fruit. The boy who may be seen at
American hotels and hoarding-houses,
making his breakfast on ham-and- e g gs
am( broiled fish, all of them at mice he•
lore Jinn, and eaten hi alternate bits, is
unknown in Europe, where he would
have his oat-meal porridge, or his bread
and-milk. There is nothing more cer
tain, in regard to this snbject, than that
our consumption of meat, particularly
by women and children, is needless and
UtiVilioksome.
But if this be true, what shall be said
of our extravagance in our use of this
same most costly article of food ? w e
are profuse in our provision ; but in our
preparation and consumption we are
viciously wasteful. We all want to have
the eo,tly cuts, and we all cook our
meat in the most wasteful manner, and
we all waste—throw away and allow to
spoil—that \Odell would support a poor
family in France. To get a joint or a
steak, and then to roast or broil--say
rather, to bake or fry--It at a range or
cooking-stove, is the sum total of our
general Knowledge of cooking. The meat
is wasted and spoiled in the cooking, by
which its bulk and its nourishing proper
ties are diminished ; it is wasted iu the
eating, and what remains is also too
often wasted, when it is not filched by
servants for the tables of their "mothers"
and their "cousins." And for this de
struction of good and costly food the
neglect of personal supervision on the
part of housekeepers mainly account
al le. Much of it io due also to the
absolute ignorance of the younger house
keepers, who have learned nothing and
have wished and now wish to learn
nothing of the proper direction of a
kitchen.
These, then, are prominent among the
causes of the difficulty which house
keepers of moderate means find in pro
viding for their tables ; an unnecessary
consumption of the costliest and not the
healthiest article of food ; a wasteful and
idjurious cooking of it ; and a lack of
watchfulness over the kitchen and meat
satin, on the part of house-keepers. If
the mot and women who feel this diffi
culty will but have the courage to face
the risk of being called mean, and will
diminish their consumption of meat, and
regulate it well, they will do much to re
lieve themselves they will gain iu hea>th
as well as in comfort, and in so doing
they will, by diminishing an unreasona
ble and extravagant demand, do some
thing to reduce the price of meat, and
diminish, in two ways, their own butch
•r's bill.
Franco.
There is no longer even the appearance
among leading Frenchmen of submission
to the relative political position of their
country and Germany. Gradually, as
the "indemnity" is being pail into' the
public treasury at Berlin, the German
roops in various departments of France
are withdrawn, and liberty of speech,
which was considerably checked during
this occupancy by a foreign and easily
irritated lOrce, is freely exercised in de
nounriug the conquerors. Thus, in the
provinces, it is more vehement and still
more hostile, this expression of opinion,
than in Paris. Three weeks aFro the
great medical school of Paris was re
()retied. M. Charles Robin, the eminent
lecturer on anatomy, addressed the stu
dents—not upon medicine or surgery, as
might he expected, but upon the political
crisis. Ile forcibly denied the truth of
the assertion made by some German
philosophers, that Fiance is stricken
with intellectual paralysis, and argued,
in a manner more fanciful than logical,
that this assertion must he untrue, be
cause, when France had shaken oil' the
ignoble Imperial, government, and re
turned to republicanism, plaiu and sim
ple, Germany had saddled herself with
an empire. A good deal of talk in this
vein was greeted with enthusiastic ap
plause, which was loud and long-repeated
after he said, with thundering voice and
energetic action : "Let us not fiirget Al
sace and Lorraine, and let us remember
what Italy did for Rome !" After this
appeal there was no teaching that day.
The pupils dispersed, shouting •• rice ta,
Republique !" and the professors re
turned home when the coast was clear.
What President Thiers most dreads is
that some premature action on the part
of Young France, some mad-brained
start to retake the surrendered provinces,
may give Germany opportunity and jus
tification for replacing au armed force on
French territory. Prussia bided her
time from 1804 to 1870, but France isnot
likely to wait as many months as Prussia
waited years.—Pre.sB.
Louisville iv deciding upon so
amending its chiu ter as to make street
improvements payable by the city at
large. The general tendency of all
mu n icipalltie3 is in the same direction.
Horace Cr , -(•:(:,
Every hotly knew
Whoc \Tr knew him wa, tn,
knowledge. A nieri , ...l v—i
hig having lived in it
llorate ( ;reply
It . YOU Would
that the great titan's If.. ro,
upon Greeley's tombst: : :
:)111 S tcifc di, i 1
It was great, that a i .).e• farm boy
edueated himself by readft ' l.'" !"‘'. , ''l
look
books under the Vght of Piny
? kv‘.is : it.
wasgreat, th ' m 040 of i‘oyeit ; , s )
sel f-e d uea Ott, ined tile it aliendeneo
of wealth, unassisted by an . ), body's dol
lars ; it was great, that this fat in boy,
educated by himself from borrow's! is ~,ks
read by the light of pine kaots, and ma(l.!
opulent by his own unassisted exertt.a,s,
should begin, found and establish Ihe
New York Tribune, and never print: (1 a
line of bought editorial, 'Add int brib-d
praise, said no untruth for maliee or to.
money ; it was great, that the New York
Tribune bee me the m ode! for the t edi
torial press by which the American ruse
is educated ; it was great, that the Now
York Tribune made the great Illeibli.
can party, the aceomp;isher ()I' Emanci
pation and if perfect, Wiles's:icy ; i;.
was great. that 1 lArace Greeley, arisen,
by himself, from the nothingness of ig
minimse and want of opportunities into
the perfect edneati(in, lifted by lanaielf,
front the boscutity of tut obscure limn
into the most conspicuous place in the
metropolis of the most conspicuous na
tion in the world, became the accepted
honest editor, when the whole press was
believed to be pure /aseable—became the
accepted puree n, when all politics
was believed to be Totten, and politicians
treacherous, hirelings became Iles t , (,is:,t
"Honest , ' man, when the sense of integ
rity between man and man was believed
to he lost in the burry and the successes
the fortunes of life, but it was ten times
greater than all these, that a onto who
had calculated and exact ambition, the eK
traordinary attainments, thesolid philoso
phy, the iron purpose, the unfaltering
will, the wonderful sense, that, led Horave
Greeley, without one single help front
luck, up from where he had been, through
all he had come, to where he stood so
substantiallyabove all his eoutentnal mars
—hall still a heart as big as his head ;
had still at his time and in his kind of
life an unsullied love for his wife ; hail
still at his time of litii a married aft.etion
so old, so pure, so strong, that 11e forgot
the steady and deserved ambition of his
steady and wonderful life. tong .1 that he
was a Presidential candidate, in the
stronger conesiousness that he was a
husband, and that_his wife was dying;
had still at his time of life a heart so
married that he forgot all his past and
its deserved consuminat - ,on in his dying
wife's clanger—forgot the l'ecim,!y, to
him a. thousand times a greater thing
than it had ever been to any other Amen l
ean, in his dying wife's agoity ; at perllet
husbaud's heart., so yet like the perfect
groom's, that when the woman, to Menu
at the marriage altar he gave his ()Grin ,
tut pure and untouched as he ( herished
the return, and who had since diets been
the full and better halt' of his go , al and
intense lit, died- that great heart went
out.
We are glad that Horace Greelec died
when he did, When during hi. Nue
any public virtue was denied of it m er i.
cans, his countrymen answered the de
nial by pointing to flotsam Greeley.
When during his litl'time any public
virtue was asstirted to be in decadence in
Americans, hi, countrymen denied the
assertion by ptignti#oo4,o brace (4reeley.
And now, wpen recent and present
morals shall 14 lifted into public sight to
castdoebt upon American domestic virtue
his countrymen will again still point to
llorace Greeley, and, after ail the
manly qualities of the in nn, proudly
claim the vindication of that i r the (loath
of him whose heart went out when his
wife died,--Lut? Adeisor.
Fearful Journey
Last Sunday night a man named Jo
siah T. Haight, a native of and a recent
arrival in this city from Wooster, 0.,
after "fighting the tiver" in ono 4 , 1* our
sporting rooms on Saturday night, foand
himself "broken,'' without even so much
as sufficient to pay his hotel bill. After
wandering round the city all day Sunday,
he conceived the idea of endeavoring to
reach Topeka, Kansas, by stealing a ride
upon the Kansas Pacific night express.
With this intention he partook of a hearty
supper at his jkatl, near the 'Union,
depot, wrapped himself up as warmly as
possible, and started out to Armstrong
Station, two miles west of Kansas City.
There, while the train was stopped, he
crawled upon the pilot of the icy locomo
tive, and crouched down upon the trucks
beneath the smoke box.
The train moved on et a rapid rate.
The cold, bitter winter's wind swept
keenly, and passing through Haight's
clothing, chilled bim to the marrow.
le soon discovered that he must inevita
i,ty freeze to death in his present uneoni
inrtahle condition, hut there was no es.
cape. The train rushed on through the
Kaw bottoms, never halting, never mop
ping. Haight found himself gradually
sinking, benumbed and without feeling,
down into the cross bars of the truck
frame. Gradually he dropped down
Until he found himself jammed between
the warm smoke-box and the axles.
The noise and clatter of the machinery
became deafening, the keen prairie winds
whistled and shrieked around the rushing
locomotive. Haigkbanew be must die
if left in this perilous position a little
longer. But their was no escape until
the train halted. He thought of dropping
down upon the ties which glided beneath
him with lightning rapidity. This he
knew would he instant and certain deal h.
He would have done so, but he found
himself unable to get through the net
work of iron bars ; so he gave himself up
to his fate. One by one the stations
glided past him in the bright, frosty
moonlight,. Edwardsville, Lonaps were
passed, when the train "slacked up"
and glided slowly to the woter tank at
;tra tiger Creek.
Here Haight aroused himself with
desperate energy and made a determined
etfort to extricate himself from his peri
lous condition: Cramped, beitunityd and
half dead, he crawled out from the trucks
and out to the side of the track. The
train moved on, and young Haight at
tempted to rise, but suffered such acute
agony from cramp that he was obliged
to (1111 for assistance. Ile was sent Track
to this city on ast,ight train no .Monday.
his feet and hands are badly frozen. hI
has communicated with hie friends who
reside at Emporia•, and will leave to-day
for that place. He will hereafter have a
mortal aversion for faro and free rides
in winter.—Aitmas City Vim's.
Mr. John M. Goodwin, C. K, of the
Erie Railway, proposes the Imitation
of a "Society for the Protection of the
Persons and Property of Travelers,”
and to that end has drafted a bill au
thorizing the organization of the so
ciety for presentation to Congress.
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I ‘',l:l (4 . .:Oki! I.CCII
it CI :IL i t io of Goo(' 'lope.
I • .'.i111
A N w I ttiun lady's bustle. burst iu
church, and out rolled a .Police Gw:elte.
A Innuirt dead Chinese were shipped
in wn. frci=Ll invi.ice from San Francisco
IMIII
A Intl' in Itoliantp has It railroad
;tit on hind which began in lSftl, and is
, 1(4, linishci art.
A. Terre Dante lady recently squan
dered in a telegram to her husband
in Europe, informing him of an addi
tional responsibility.
An amateur editor iu Indianapolis has
made :1 fortune by his pen. Ills father
died of grief after reading one of his
and left hint 130,000.
Plantamour having spared us a
universal conda , ration last August, now
prophesies lii iI we shall be frozen to
death Iwe hundred and thirty-nine years
hence.
One hundred barrel- - ; of oranges per
week am hoill.t Qhippoil front the st.
John's river, in Florida., Ina those who
Van afford to wait will tint sell before
January.
Thu Ititet. item in the perpetual war
hrt.wri•n Chicat.ro and St. Louis is the
discovery by the latter that "St. Louis
has a policeman named Heavens, and
(!kicago has one named Ed.''
Stanley will make a sensation when he
lectures in this country, dressed in a suit
of clothes made by'a Ujiji tailor, consist
ing of a twine string wound around his
hip , toe and a straw hat cut low.
But one man has died at Cheyenne
with his ho off since the town sprouted,
and he had them in his teeth, and was
crawling out of a bed-room window,
when an avenging pistol ball let daylight
shine through him.
They s , v that the Wabash river is so
low that the fish are compelled to stand
on their heads to uet water sufficient to
moisten their gills. The inhabitants
walk up and down the river bed and pull
lish as they do onions.
The longest matrimonial engagement
nn rocord is that of a couple who were
married at East Lyme, Mass., on
Thanksmivine , day. They were betrothed
in 171, and had hein drawing out the
sweetness of the engagement season ever
since.
The California Chinese a're so fearful of
witchcraft that they refuse to lodge in a
strange hod without first burning over it
eabalistieally inscribed paper. Proba
bly a little quicksilver put around in
stray corners would prove even more ef
; fetive.
Maud Merril was shot dead in a house
of ill reptile, in Now York, last night,
by a man, who said she was hi-1 niece,
and who escaped from the house after
committing the murder. The girl's real
name is said to he Martha Smith, and
her age :22.
Good again. The Supreme Court of
Wisconsin have just decided a case
against the Western Union Telegraph
Company, holding them responsible for
the prompt transmission of' dispatches,
and liable for pecuniary lossfi growing
out of their neglect or delay.
'rie steamship Sacramento, of the Pa
ciiie Mail Company's line, has been
wrecked on a reef oil San Antonio,
Lower California. She had 150 passen-
Efers on board who were all saved. The
steamship Montana left San Diego yes
terday fir the scene of the disaster.
The ,‘/r/tr , (itrulte, a Austin, Texas,
joieos with exceeding great and dia
belie joy that. Chicago and Boston have
been devastated by lire, because those
cities were conspicuously energetic in
raising troops against the rebellion, and
it hopes and believes that Philadelphia
will cone. next.
The commandant at Havana has just
summoned a number of the ladies of
that city "to present themselves at the
artillery barracks to defend themselves
against charges of treason," etc. When
Spain begins fighting women in the hope
of comptering Cuba, the chances of vie- 1
tory niust be waxing small and few and
Err istween.
New York people are just now in
trouble about their coffee. A chemical
analysis has revealed to their astonished
senses, the fact that the beverage served
at the principal hotels and restaurants of
that city is a strong infusion of roasted
beans, chicory, sweet potato peelings,
with a trace of burnt tobacco stems to
put a bead on it.
The Richmond Granite Company, do
ing business on the river about four
miles from Richmond, have just made
one of the largest blasts on record, hav
ing secured a solid piece of stone of ex
cellent quality 00 feet long, 50 feet deep,
and 40 feet vide, measuring 188,000 cubic
feet, and weighing 11,500 tons, or 23,-
010,000 pounds.
The bright side of the great diamond
swindle is the wonderful revelation it has
caused of the glories of a country of
whic!i little before has been known.
Every chronicler of the various parties
has a new story to tell, and none of
their tales lack interest. While the ex
peditions were of no value whatever to
the interests in which they were pro
jected, they have certainly been of some
service to the country.
A new advertisin g dodge has just been
invented in Paris. Of late a number of
bank bills have been seen in circulation
with slips of paper pasted upon the hack.
At first it was supposed thatthe bills had
been torn and mended, but as the same
thing was seen on new hills, a more
careful examination was made. It was
found that an enterprising tradesman
had pistil his advertisements upon the
back of the currency of the realm.
As there has been a good deal said of
the danger to health of using the sewing
machine, it is worth while to mention
that Dr. Parker recently read a paper I
on the subject, before the State Medical
Society, of Virginia, iu which he main
tained
that fatigue is not disease ; that !
there is no reason to conclude that the
use of the muscles employed in machine
work fin. a reasonable time is injurious;
and that a machine may be used by a
woman for four or five hours daily, if
she be in ordinary health, without injury.
S,:cretary Delano has asked Congress
for an appropriation of $20,000 for the
purpose of printing a series of very valu
able maps in the census reports. Much
has been said in regard to these maps,
and it is certain that they have not been
LOCI highly praised. But is should be
remembered that the originator and exe
calor of the idea was Arthur De IVitzle
ben, a draughtsman, who was clerk in
the office at a salary of $lOO per month.
Ito could not, for a long time, prevail
upon tne authorities to adopt the idea,
but they finally did, and soon raised Mr.
De Wit zleben's salary to per month:
His devices were found valuable, but his
maps, in which lie took so much pride,
scut out as the productions of others.
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N, York I,ot f,
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It:::1 , ; lix at.' •-it-00; 1 r tit.. ply
twin. 1) 1 : I al. SCil , ) ,, ! I.IX, \
have ht...ttit wade in it number of cast.,.
'Flat lock tint in the English pottorieF , ,
which threw thirty live thotit,and persons
out of ‘vork, let CMIle 1 4 ) an end. It ivtit-,
agreed to rt frr rowstions as t.) wa rs
to a I')oartl of Arbitration.
Mean men will somelimPs put a very
lair valuation upon themselves. A bray e
young sail a. at Newp"rt lately saved two
men fr on drowning, and they rewarded
him with a glass of beer.
The Laporte Arfirt. says : "In south
B ell a, Ind., they use small packages of
(Finn ti , _! Mr change. As everybody takes
it, they look upon it the same as legal
tender, and it passes Oil without dif
ficulty."
The St. Louis Deis prat now has an
eight-cylinder buzz saw in full blast in
the room where it keeps its exchanges.
Nineteen dead bodies were lowered from
that part of the building last week, and
the good work still goes on.
San Francisco papers say that the open
c,mntry tires which occurred this season
near the boundary line in Llwer CalifOr
o la, surpass, in severity and extent of
conntry burned over, those of any year
within the recollection of the oldest
settler.
The Stockholders of the great insur
ance companies in Hartford are rather
diseouraued since the Boston tire, and
the Hartford papers are discussing the
desirableness and discretion of turning
some or the capital now invested in in
surance into channels which do not in
volve so much risk.
The lion. Edward Tompkins is dead,
at ()Aland, California. Ile was a promi
nent lawyer in that State. He gave
$:10,000 worth of real estate, some time
ago, to found the Agassiz Professorship
oftriental Literature and Language in
the California State l! - niyersity, of which
he was one of the regents.
The amount :7eceived by the Treasurer
of Harvard College to make good the
lons of a quarter of a million destroyed
by the Boston tire, now amounts to $11.1,-
Onn. The officers and -professors of the
Colleen have contributed with a liberality
which i remarkalge, considering the
small s.i; irks they receive.
Pres. lent Eliot of 'Harvard having for
warded 11p! diplow% of doctor of laws to
Peemident tiro nt , the latter has responded
by a letter thanking the faculty for the
honor, and aasuting them that he shall
ever hold iu high esteem the parchment
and letter accompanying it, as marked
testimonials of their approval.
Au invention to molt snow on railroads
has been contrived by a of Bed
ford county, V The ofit•ct is to
melt the snow and lee on a railroad track
as the train runs. This is to be effected
by means of a dame of sufficient inten
sity to produce the result instantanemp
ly. A very :,coal invention it' it will at
eomplish I tic purpose.
One of the most StilIV:111;ir incidents Of
the Boston lire was the fact that three
4 , , , .ntit.men (who are brothers•in-law) in
business in clitlerent streets, each escaped
hi in, burnt out by the intervention of a
silezle store, the lire eoming within one
buildinu. of the throe establishments.
They did not. get. burned "tit, lint ull
"came within one or it."
It is reports; that a number a New
York merchants aro about, to !bake in
vestments in Santo I ).aning,o, with a view
towards•iucreasing the trade between the
two countries. Cavil feuds and the na
tural indolence of its inhabitants have
left great openings fin• the prcfitable in
vestment Or American merchants' money
and energy in San Domingo.
Professor 'Tyndall has Just perft.cted
new respirator for firemen, in which the
solid particles of t h e densest smoke are
arrested by films o f cotton wool wetted
with glycerine, and the most pungent gas
by layers of charcoal. By this simple
means firemen can remain without burn
ing buildings fin• upward of an hour at a
time with safety and comCirt, so fr o • as
their respiration is concerned.
New Orleans continues to push ahead.
It is to have another line of steamers to
Liverpool and London, consisting of five
large steamships, and the city is now
making a strong bid for the Western
grain trade, of which it will doubtless
secure a large share. It is intended to
ask the government, this winter, fin• an
appropriation sufficient to clear away the
bars at the mouth of the river, which
has long been a serious annoyance to the
commerce of the port.
Au Albany paper says that when, in
the Electoral College last Wednesday
morning, the officers came to seal up the
envelopes containing the vote, prepar
atory to mailing it for Washington, there
was need of a seal to set the wax. Presi
dent White, of Cornell University, one
of the electors, had on his finger a seal
ring, a gift from Goldwin Smith, the
English scholar, bearing the device of
the winged figure of victory, and the wax
was stamped with that appropriate seal.
This was felicitous.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, tells a curious
story of an unclaimed trunk. Fourteen
years ago a regularly checked trunk ar
rived by one of the trains, and no one
calling for it, it was placed in the bag
gage room, where it lay for eleven years.
At the expiration of that time a gentle
man appeared with the duplicate check
and arranged to pay $2 for storage,
promising to call for his trunk the fol
lowing day. Three years have since
passed, but the trunk still awaits his re
turn.
In central Kentucky there has recently
been discovered an immense hole in the
earth, circular in form, sixty or seventy
feet in diameter, of a funnel shape for
twenty-five or thirty feet, when the
diameter is diminished to ten or twelve
feet. Below this point it has never been
explored and sinks to an unknown depth.
On throwing a stone into this hole or
sink, its ring as it strikes the sides grad
ually dies away without being heard to
strike any bottom. It is supposed that
visitors have already thrown more than
one hundred cart loads of rock into it.
Among the students at the Chicago
T niversity are three Japanese youths.
One of them, who renders his name into
English as Matzudaira, is a prince,
being brother of the Tycoon. Two
others, Sibuwaka and Chimura, are sons
of Damios. They are all intelligent and
very gentlemanly in their deportment ;
in fact, their whole bearing shows that
they are of no ordinary "b100d. ,, But
they are wholly ignorant of anything
embraced in an English education, hav
ing no idea of geography, arithmetic,
etc., but appear to have been well in
structed in Japanese learning. A fourth
one, Inowooye, came to the University,
but, having no liking for literary pur•
suits, concluded to make himself familiar
with our agriculture, and is now on a
farm near Elgin, about forty miles from
Chicago.
ief! i! t..uivanisch ptilsch
BREEF FUM SCHWEFFELBRENNER.
SCIII,IFFELToW!%', I)cce;abor lief 9t, 1572
IS TER PVINTER
My fortune is g'maelit ! My nawmit
geht uf de posterity nuf we'n balloon
An seientillieker reffolooshen is om
kumina no ich bin de kterl for's in
gong tsu setza.
Ehner Fulton, sawga se, het de
shteam pelf inwent—sell wo se so
grelslich loud peifa maeha warm o!s
de injine kummt uf em railroad,
tie kee, un de sei un oily onner leit ous
em weag sideppa wann de cars kutn
ma. Un selly very shteam peif hut
aw der Fulton an grosser g'moraleister
moon g'matieht.
I)cr alt tillossairer Franklin hut in
went we pier tier blitz, in 'ma g'wit ter
shtorm runner hringt of der nerds
budda. For (then; huts ols yusht so
ivver-tswarrieli rivver un nivver ei
g'shlattga, druvva in de woika, awer
sellamoh hen de g'w t ter-root teacher
ols nix tsu du g'hot. A wer we de
Franklin si i inwenshun g'ltatcht hut
('no is de g'wit ter root bksness urriek
warrit.
Der I'et fesser :\lorso hut invent per
mer so tell 'grit ft dil)ftlehn olishicht fun
ohm poio eni itor °ruler his eswk
oni Klotz, nn sidder selhitn
hen so shun rt 1: tie ~'.stiliontit der gons 1411161 " --
weag his noch fy.
Now, MI dPA , 1 1,111 S IIINVII4II.Ins,
avver_now minkl Wass jell der sang—
kb hob can inwenshun ons geplann'd
de ()II (le Ftiltons un Franklins un
.1111)rsa in klebny wunsliche insieknif
ti.:sance punner sink'd, un morga hob
ich Ito sinn ob shicka for my patent
recta, nn d'no bin Jell ready for
Shtata, county un town9hip rites tsu
feri:o w
A wer, wit k rlelelit wlsa wass
tioio grosy inwerisliun is? 1d
will der 's explttititt :
1) i weasht se sin alleweil draw tbr'n
narrow-gage railroad haua, un er !. - usht
drei loos Imed sei bkwisha do riggel.
I; a doll fergonga hob ich aw in der
Tseitung gleasa dos se hen ommanot
ehner (her yusht sivvatsen tsul. mesa,
un dos so grossy trains druf runna.
Now my plan is for an single track
railroad—ehner mit yusht a single
riggel un de train druf runna tit de
willossopeed principle. Awer so an
commoner rail Buts net, un my plan Is
for Omer mit a groove in der snit,
about drei tsoll duct', un de redder dort
drin tsu runna.
Suppose aver du wunnersht we
niter's macht dos de ears net umfolla
wann se yusht a set single file redder
hen for druf runna. Der plan is orrick
simple. Mer dut evva yush au monn
uf der top fun yeadam car shtella mit
so longy balance poles, un wann tier
car a wennich tsu welt uf ea side
loan'd done muss er evva sei g'wicht
a wennich uf de onner side shmeisa,
un sell mus d'no de Bons train uf em
centre balance gra wd ahead runny
macha.
Un noch an advantage is des: We
shtterker dos de train runnt we safer
dos es is, well's kea tseit hut um tsu
foils wann 's fun finf-un-dreisich hiss
finf-un-sivvatsleh trine de shtund
runnt.
Un noch ehns. Uf so an single rail
track railroad konn'B kea unglick
gevva by kollishen, well se's gor net
proweera dehta mit tswea trains of
em single rail on aunonner ferbel tsu
geh.
So an railroad kennt mer °nick
wohlfehl baua, welt er net mehner
dos about an coos un a holwer breed
set braucht. Of course wane mer
lumber odder keshta riggel druf fahrt
muss mer se der longa weg uf de cars
lawda. For shtea kohla debt 'a nix
ous macha—yusht mer muss evva nl4t
tsu feel uf amohl uf lawda.
Now der advantage fun mein single
rail patent is dos es yusht ea riggel
nem int onsbtoll tswea, un de cross ties
konn mer der longs weag leaga, un
sell sated nochamolii orrick feel geld.
MI es safod aw feel geld wann 's ons
bricka baua gebt, for mit so 'ma single
rail track branch mer gor kea brick
baua—an ordlich long shtick timber,
we se de loos bricklin baua, is out
&bent.
Cu lastly my inwenshun is feel
weft well es de narrow-gage beat all
hollow—dut in fact der entire gage ob
sholfa un olleanich geh.
\Vann du now fun ennich ebber
woasht der an narrow-gage balm will,
done sei so goot un du en of poslalun
weaga mein patent single rigged , rail
road track. Waun se geld sear* wells
on rails, redder, cross-ties, un so sash,
donn missa se ten sneer kumma.
leh deht garn a pahr township rites
ferkawfa, wohlfehl for cash, provided
se kimono lad.
Un now will ieli 9 75 tsu deer lusest
lel► net aw an grosser Inwenter bin, un
eb sell net my nawnaa iin►uortaleisa
set.
De Bevvy melint aw my plan weer
an grosser linproolment of der nar
row-gage plan, wells der gage entirely
ivverkummt.
Yours trooly,
PIT SCIIWEFFELBRICNNER.