The Nevada Democrat., 1856-12-17
WHOLE No. l67.
VARIETIES.

PAPER MILL IN CALlFoRNIA.-A mill for the
manufacture OF paper will go into operation
about the first ofJanuary, in Marin county, near
the head of Tomale Bay, under the ownership
and management of Messrs. Taylor and Post.
The mill is fitted up with all the necessary hx-
lures aud appurtenances, and the machinery is
driven by water power, oil winch there Is new
or falling supply We have no doubt that this
enterprise will prove highly profitable to- the
projectors, as it will certainly be very conEen-
lent to printers and newspaper publishers
USwAsiiEp FRENCH LADiEs.--An American
lady, writing from Paris, says she has lately
discovered the secret of the many bcautIiul and
brilliant compilations seen in that city. II seems
that water Is considered by the French ladies'
as THE great spoiler of the skin so that unless
some untoward circumstance really soils their
faces. they are not touched with water from one
weeks end to another. The owners content
/ themselves with gentle rubbing with dry
coarse towel, and exclude water almost entirely
| from their toilette tables. hHs, gldf
A WHOLESALE MURDERER. The Santa Cruz
Sentinel has information that the late Grand
Jury, in session at Monterey, found five bills of
Indictment for murder against Anastacio GARCIA,
who is now in Jail in that county; one for the
murder of Isaac b. Wall, one for the murder of
Thomas Williamson, one for the murder of Chas.
de la Torre one for the murder of Chas Layton,
and the fifth for the murder of an Indian; there
! is also an Indictment against him for the mur-
der Of Constable Hardmount, in 1854. a A
ANTIQUITY OF GUNPowDER.-The first English
man who mentions gunpowder is Roger Bacon,
who about the year 1874, described it as being
/ then in common use all over the world for max
ing squbs to amuse children. 1t is mentioned
by Philostratus, 1886 years before Christ; and in
the code of Hindoo laws, 1t is referred to pc
riod coincident to the time of Moses. The mili-
tary use of rockets in the armies of India reaches
to period beyond record. 9
A SIMPLE RuIE.-To ascertain the length of
the day and night any time of the year, double
the time of the suns rising, which gives the
length OF the night. and double the time of its
settling, which gvos the length of the day. This
is little method of !" doing the thing' which
few of our readers have been aware of. a
AN ECCENTRIC GENTLEMAN of fortune, named
Saunders, has taken fancy to build a house in
the neighborhood of London, with stone from
the Notifications of Sebastopol. He has gone
out in little vessel of his own, for the purpose
of obtaining them There is no accounting for
! taste. l.tus
| REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. A man named
/ Church visited Staunton, Virginia, lately, with
load of corn from Pendlet0n. lie is eighty
two years old and his mother, aged one hundred
and seven, and his father. aged one hundred
and twelve, are both living. W
LOWER CALIFoRNIA.-"E Clamor," of Los
Angeles, says that it is understood that an agent
of the Mexican government had arrived there
for the purpose of treating with such persons as
desired to emigratc to Lower California where
land would be given freely.
STUDENTS IN CoLIEGEs-Th number Of stu
dents in the three first colleges is: In Harvard,
697; Yale, GOA; in the University of Virginia,
i $40. In the latter there is an increase of so
over the number last year. At Yale there are
81 students from the Southern States.
IT is rumored, says the San Francisco Herald,
that the steamer Golden Age is to be taken from
the Pacific coast. and placed on the line between
New York and Havrc.
THE GILBERT MONUMENT San Francisco
Press Club have abandoned the idea of erecting
monument to the memory of Edward Gilbert,
formerly editor of the Alta California.
THE N. Y. Journal of Commerce publishes
list of forty-eight steamships now running be-
tween the United States aud Liverpool.