The weekly Placer herald., 1853-12-24
GLEANINGS.

ont at night, and taken in in the morning.
Yale College has existed one hundred
and ffty-years, and 'educated' SIX thoa-
sand students.
A short man became attached to very
tall woman, and somebody SAID ne had
fallen in love with her. ''Do you call
that falling in love?" said waggIsh old
bachelor, sits more like climbing up
TO it,"
During the recess of Congress, the hall
of the House of Representatives has un-
dergone complete and thorough renova-
tion. The hail, committee rooms, &c,
have been fitted up with great taste and
elegance.
MrNER's ADvocATE.-This excellent
paper, published at Diamond Springs,
has passed out of the hands of Messrs
Fred A. Snyder & Co., into those of
Messrs. w. S. Fleming and G. B. Law
ton.
1t was not untill Queen Anne's time,
1909, that the Londoners had the luxury
of daily journal-The Daily Courant;
Scotland had newspaper in 1853; lrel land
in 1641; Germany in 1912; the American
colonies in l704. 1 he earliest country
that had them is supposed to be Italy,
Hudson, the British "Railway King"
is said to be worth f25O,0OO, after all
the changes of fortune to which he has
been subjected
1t is stated that the fowls, in and around
Stockton, have been dying off by hun
ereds in day. The disease is attributed
to the water being impregnated with salt
petre.
MAINE LIQUOR LAW IN CALIFORNIA
Temperance petitions are circulating IN
Tuolumne county, to be presented to the
next Legislature, memOrlalslng them to
pass Prohibition Liquor Law. which
shall combine the essential principles of
the Maine Liquor Law.
According to Washington gossip, Mr..
Orr, of South Carolina, will secure the
caucus nomination and the support OF the
Administration for the Speakership.
Mr. Steers, the builder of the yacht
America, has constructed model of a
ship of $500 tons, for the California and
New York trade, of which he is to be the
owner HIMSELF in part or exclusively, and
which he undertakes will sail twenty.tw
miles an hOur-beating any steamer that
has ever yet foated He wi sail her,
when finished, against any ship in the
world for $4,000.
ANOTHER LUMp.-Mr, Green also in
forms us, says the same paper, that Mes
srs Davis and Devoe, at Humboldt Bar,
on the Middle Yuba, took out, a few days
since, lump of gold and quartz which
weighed 10 lbs, worth $4,000. Miners
on this bar have been doing remarkably
well during the past season.
The PREMIUM FOR PLOUGH. OF HOME
MANUFACTURE-The Committee of the
Agricultural Fair have awarded the prize
Of a Silver Plate, valued at Sl09, to the
"Clipper Prairie Plough" of Messrs. E.
l.. Morgan s. Co-State Jour.
The Captain General Of Cuba has pro-
hibited the entry of the London Daily
News into the Island.
CRIME AND ITS PUNrsHMENr.-Twel
hundred murders have been committed in
this city within the last four years, and
of all the criminals, but one has been
ii cotemporary, that the survivor always
chances to be in the right?-Eue. Jour-
SUIcIDE.-A miner by the name of John
B. michel, formerly of Franklin county
Missouri, committed suicide in French
Gulch, on the 22d ult., by cutting his
throat with an old table knife.
Shasta Cour.
SAFETY BOLERs.-I'he editor of the
Nashville Banner has examined an inven-
ton, which, he says, renders it Impossible
for an engineer to explode boiler, either
negligently or purposely. The improve'
ment consists of certain arrangement of
apertures, valves, and cylinders, so that
when the steam gets to a gwen he ght, a
portion of the water from the boiler is
poured upon the fires-dampening them,
and soon reducing the steam to its proper
point.
New DIGGINGs-The Nevada Young
America learns, that new diggings have
been discovered on w off Greek, a small
stream emptyng into the Middle Yuba,
which have proved very rich. Three
men took out 80 ounces in three days,
and many others are doing remarkably
well. The gold taken from this place is
of very pure quality, and sells readily
for SIT 40 per ounce.
During the imperial visit of the Elm.
peror and Empress of France to the
Cathedral at AnienS the hishon and cler-