The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-05-30

4 'ytWw .oHu thCh " hcCp HlulSell warm, unO
singin'a all the songs and psalm tunes he knows,
TO keep himself awake. Sometimes he
thought heJherd something, and then his hair
would sort % crawl up, and he would grab
hold of his pistol, what lie held cooked in his
lap, but II was so dark that he could see moth.
IN ten steps off. Two three times he fell
like backin' out, but he .kno'd that wouldn',
never do, so he'd take another drink, and
strike up another tune. Bimeby he got so
sleepy that he cod not tell whether lie was
singn' Lucy Neal,' or the Promised Land
and bimeby he only sung word here and
thar, though ben' very pertickler who, song
4 i. belonged 10. -. I.'
Bill was SO abominably sleepy and corned
together that he couldn't keep awake, and in
spite of his fears he began TO nod little.
Just then something sneezed!.
"Ughw says Bill, "whai's tLat9"
| But he soon came TO the conclusion that
he must have been sneezing in his sleep, and
after sem that his pistol was safe, and akin'
another drink, he was soon in the land Of Nod
again. ,,st 80
Bout This time old Mr.. Jnkins' gang of
goats cum out of the ,hcket, wbar they had
cum throughihe' gap in the fence, and with
old white Belshazzer in the lead, cum smell
in bout whar Bill was watchin' for the ghost.
Old Belshazzer is one Of the oudaciousest
old rascals in all Georgy, and seein' Bill
settia' thar all alone by himself, he goes up
and smells Al, him. Bill nodded again. The
old ieller took il for banter sure enuff, and
back he went few steps, and raisin' upon his
hind legs little, he took Blli right between
the eyes, nockin' him and the pistol both off
at the same time.
Bang! goes the pistol, roarin' out on the
night air like a young five FOUNDER, SO every
body heard il, and The next minute you
might have have heard Bill hollcr murder!
murder! for more'n a mile. '-'+h''"'
The whole town was out Of bed in min
u;e, and every body tha, could go out was to
the graveyard as quick as they could git liar.
Thar was Bill Wilson layin' sprawled out
on the ground, with his nose knocked as fla,
as pancake and both his eyes bunged up SO
he couldn't tell ay-light from dark. 73 '.f
TIE goats were skeered as bad as he was
at the pistol, and was gone before he ,ouch-
ed the ground; and Bob Moreland and Tom
Stallins, what had gone out thar to scare Bill,
and had seen his encounter with old Belshaz.
ger, was standing by him wrapped up in their
white sheets, 'laffin' as if they would bust
their sides. 1910" Hche I'a I'D. Isa a-9 s4aJ
Bill swore- that lie was wide awake; and
that when the ghost came up him, he look
fair snap at it, when all at once he was
struck with a clap Of thunder and lightnin'.
Bob More land tried 10 explain il to him,
but il was all no use. He swore the ghost
was six foot high, and that he seed the light
min jest as plain as ever he seed ligbtnin' in
his life. apassi assd sg4 E3cs
Bill claimed the stakes, and every body
said he ought TO have the money. But you
may depend he wouldn't have SIGH another
ghost fight for all the money in Georgy.--
The fence was mended whar il was broke in
the thirket, and there was never any more
ghosts seed in The graveyard since. elea39
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1s GREEN WooD.-No person should ever
burn green wood. 1t is full Of water and
much carbon is wanted to dispeI the water
contained in the wood. There is abont one
fourth of water in every cord of wood.9
4 To ascertain the caloric lost, wemust fin |
the weight OF water in cord of wood. In
his careful experiments ON the combustion
OF wood, Count Rumlord proved that cord
Of dry beech weighs about 2, 500 lbs, which
must be bethree.fourths of the weight Of the
green beech; that is, a cord Of green beech
must weigh 3,700 pounds, or taking the
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be more than 4,900 pounds. In burning a
cord Of greer beech, at least ono thousand
pounds Of water must be evaporatod, and one
thousand pounds of water would fill three
barrels of thirty-two ale gallons, or nearly
tNo hogsheads of sixty7ihree gallons wine
measure. The quantity of caloric lost in |
this way may be estimated in rough way by
the quantity Of wood consumed in ov,pora-
tihgsihree barrels orrtwo hogsheads of'water.
In the combustion Of twenty cords Of green
wood, sixty. barrels Of water must be evapo-
rated, Now, it takes six times as much heal
to evaporate pound Of water, as to heat a
pound from fifty degrees Of temperature to
The boiling point, ,.i,;. 'g2..,.. ~,
The economy in using dry wood is wellun-
deTSloou ny many. nesc views eise due-
quate, reasons for it Yet il is 10 be feared,
that many farmer does not use proper care
in drying and housing his wood.-Sci. Am.
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Il or The following are the two conundrums
which won John Donkey's prize cups:
4 Why was Adam the swifiest runner who
ever lived? III, s-,ss
Because he was first in the human race.
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