The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-12-25
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EccENTRICIrIEs OF GEN1us-Last week We
stated that the elder Booth, who has been for a
short time back playing in California, was on
his return home. A letter received from Sec
ramento, few days ago. informs Us that he has
not been very successful in the auriferous dis
trcts, having sacrificed quite freely to the jolly
barrel, with goblet in his hand and wreath
Of vine leaves on his rublcund brow. On the
last night but one of his engagement in San
Francisco, the tragedian played Richard ILL.,,
and when be knelt for Lady Anne to kin him,
fell over on his face. Rising with some diff
Guilty, he pointed to the stage, which was COW
cred with green baize, and addressed the audi.
ence IN this wise: "DO you see that green baize!
beH, the revdigris has got out Of that and
poisoned me " On the same night, when lie
should have spoken one of the usual soliloquies;
he coolly said Excuse the soliloouy." and
walked off the stage with all the nonchalance
that could be exhibited under the circumstan-
| ces.
''Oh, that man should put enemy In his mouth
| TV Steal away his brans.''
IN Y. Sunday Times.
GEoLoGr.-In the vicinity of the Snainawa
Mounds Grant county, Wisconsin, at some four
dlnerent localities. miners, in digging for lead,
have exhumed the bones of animals Of the mas.
todon species These bones, in two instances.
were found down in crevices, associated with
the ore In the clayey dcposite which filed the
creviee and formed the matrix for the vein.-
Here Is subject for geologists to investigate:
Did the mastodon live and become extinct be-
fore the ore was deposited? The evidences in
this case go to prove that they did.
Geology tells US that the mastodon DYNASTY
both comes in and goes out in the tertiary era,
The matrix, which the veins of lead ore trav-
erse, belongs to this era and this evidence tells
us that the lead deposites of the northwest be.
long to comparatively recent geological epoch.
| And there Is more evidence to sustain this SUD-
position than we might at first imagine The
coal strata OF the Mississippi valley are of mod
efateiy recent formation. The dense succulent
vegetation of the early part of the coal era,
would have formed the natural grazing fields of
the Pacbyderms ; and further. all developments
OF our planet are found to correspond to the
wants OF animal organisms, and as ores were
evidently intended to supply the wants of the
highest class of organizations, we may suppose
their origin to have been somewhat contempo.
raneous with that Of man.-Gal. Jefeysonian.
WOMANs RIGHTS IN CALHoRNIA.-A letter
from San Francisco says "The reader may not
be aware of the extent to which we have carried
.Womans Rights and all that sort of thing, in
California. Be it known to them therefore that
we have law which enables women to carry
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OF their husbands Or Of their husbands credi-
tors. The enclosed advertisement, which take
from the San Francisco Herald, gives all the in
formation necessary to an understanding of the
subject:
"NoTIcE.-Where Mrs. Eunice Smith. wife
OF Jasper f. Smith, of the city of San Francisco,
has this day, made and recorded according to
statute, her declaration that she intends to car
ry on business in her own name, and on her own
account, to wit: the Real Estate and Auction
business. Now, therefore, she gives notice that
from this date she will be individually respon-
sible in her own name for all debts contracted
by her on account of her said business and she
intends to avail herself of all the provisions of
an act entitled, AN act to authorize married
women to transact business in their own name
as sole traders EUSICE SNrrH
San Francisco, Aug. IL, 1852"
LAnn Eurrnron w,NIEn.-The Northerner /.
in at Cleveland, from Sault St. Marie, her last
Trip to that region this season. Good sleighing
al the Sault snow foot Deep and more com
ing. The Northerner brought down to Detroit
the crews of some Of the Lake Superior shin
ping, who report. the Free Press SAYS, from five
to seven feet of snow about the Ontonagon =
nus beats Quebec trife, as will be seen by
the following paragraph:
The WEATHER-Winter has now fairly set in
steady fall of snow took place yesterday morn.
ing, and the ground being everywhere well pre-
pared to receveit it, there is now excellent SLEIGH
ing. The harbor is almost entirely divested of
shipplng, and everything about the wharves
has assumed its cold and wintry aspect Last
night the cold was severe, with a keen north
wind and if this weather continues, as it is
likely to, it is supposed our river steamers will
not attempt over one trip more this season.
quebec Gazette, Non. 24th.
To advertise means "to ,nform"-"to e;re
mt, for
and as all do SO. the belief in advertising is
unioersat. No one, therefore, need pretend
that he does not believe in the principle
actions speak louder than ,coTds." But says
one Ineuer advertise in Country ne,cspnpers.
Wen, suppose you dOn't-Others do, and rs is
plainly seen, are rapidly going ahead. Sup
pose farmer we're to say that he never sowed
wheat-does it follow that it is not sensible to
do SO! A lille advertising won't do much
good True; little seed sown won't produce
q large crop-it would be folly to expect either.
can't afford to pay much money for advertis.
ing. If it be improbable, it is unwise to pay
the first dollar-if profitable, the more you ex-
pend judiciously the better, at least until you
accumulate as many customers as you can pro-
vide for.
SIGHT TO THE BIIND.-Miss Sarah Hanley, Of
Malahide, Canada, aged twenty one years. who
had been born blind, was recently restored TO
of surgeon, DR.. Caldwell. The account says:
"TO describe the sensations of the young lady,
when the first welcome ray of light entered her
hitherto sightless orbs, would be beyond our
power" In an instant, new and bright world
full of light and life-terrible, because hitherto
unknown in its realized beauty rose before her.
She looked and trembled she shook from head
to foot like an aspen leaf; and unable to utter
word, she gazed in wild astonishment on the
scene before her. 1t was found that when her
emotions had somewhat subsidized, when articles
were shown with which she was perfectly famil-
lar by touch, she could not recognize them as
being the same till she had felt Of them.
A NOBLE WoMAN--A letter to the Columbus
Journal, makes mention of an act of discretion
and bravery on the part of young lady pas
senger on the Buckeye Belle, when the boiler
exploded, as highly creditable Senator Gov
ey of Ohio, was sitting in the ladies' cabin, and
IN Tho crash the stove near which bo uvoo cit.