The Placer herald., 1856-08-16

| financial transactions.
"Dorsr1cKs" gives description of the ad
vent of the "Chicken Family" into Gotham
A few trhing articles which Potpe "a
juvenile "Chicken') had insisted upon bring
| ing to the city as momentous of his country
| life, he had been persuaded to leave behind
| by the promise of full sized elephant, as
soon as his juvenile legs should grow long
enough to bestride that homeopathic speci-
men of animated nature; he did not, however,
part with his beloved heiter until he had
cut with dull jack-knte, large tutt of
brickhued hair from that graceful weapon
with which she made war upon the flies,
which he stuck into his hat and wore dsre-
garding the protestatons of his elder sister,
that it was full of urrs and smelt like a
stale stable During their journey the Young
gentleman amused himself by several inno-
cent diversions. He shot dried peas at an
mbece baldhealed baby till it screamed
itself black in the ace--dropped an old lady's
pet poodle out of the ear window, and then
stuck his head out and whisteled to him to
come on. As the train was moving at the
rate of SO miles an hour and when last seen
that dogs body lay in ditch beside the
track, while his head was roleing down a
side hill about eleven rods distant. it is fair to
presume that he found it difficult to comply
with the invitation. The young man then
put both feet in a basket Of eggs, and then
sat down on patent bee hive, but after this
latter exploit, was heard of no more for Is
minutes, at the end of which time he was
discovered deeply engaged at the water jar
in one end of the car. An immediate IN
qury into the subject of his investigations
showed that he had taken somebody's band
box, containing a SIS bonnet, and having
punched hole in the top, was trying to see
how much water it would hold without
running over. The dsconsolate owned fshed
out from the wreck the remains of the head
dress, looking like a rainbow spoiled in the
manufacture-as if Miss Nature, in mo-
ment of after dinner inebriation, had tried
to make one Of dirty water by gas-light.
Nothing more was heard from the industrious
young gentleman until a sudden and violent
pull of the bell caused the train to stop.
The conductor rushed toward the engine
to find out what accident had happened, but
on his way hither he discovered Master Pot
pie who had gone out on platform and at
tempted to swing on the bell rope. Being
once more captured by his indignant parent,
he subsided into suIky quescence until
night. He then cautiously distracted him
self from his sleeping fathers arms, and made
the tour of the car, stealing as he went all
the checks from the hats of the sumbering
passengers. He was under the impression
that they were circus tickets, and, when dis
covered, he had the red ones in his pockets,
ana an ''9 s,'~-----,oc in his boots where he
had concealed them for future use supposlng
them to be season tickets for the family.
Arriving at the end of his journey, Peter
gave his family in charge of his wife, while
he himself undertook to see after the bag
gage. He rescued one of his trunks from
the agent of the "Wavoutwest Express Com
pany," who had marked "Memphis, Tenn;
Glass. This side up with care" and who
had, by way of emphatically expressing his
careful solicitude, pulled both handles off
and kicked the bottom in. He then, with
some difficulty, got all the rest of his traps
from crowd of struggling porers, except a
square box containing Aramntas guitar,
which two darkeys were fighting for while a
mulatto-co Irishman was running away
with it. Six weeks afterwards our friend re-
covered the musical instrument, minus the
strings and tail piece, from pawn shop in
Cherry street, where it had been disposed Of
for three drinks and 40 cents i'll cash.
PuNcH on IIEADAcHE-The female head
aches are quite innumerable but they arise
principally from veXation and disappointment.
They may be divided into nervous" and sick"
headache. The nervous is irritable and can
not bear being spoken to; the sick is despon-
dent, or sulky, bursts into tears at the least
contradiction. When a lady cannot have her
own way, a heapache is the painful conse-
quence An unpopular visitor brought home
to dinner, will prodnce an alarming attack OF
headache, and the symptoms that usually fol-
low are instant loss of appetite deafness, pee
yishness, Mysteries and fina ly a preclpitate re-
treat to the bedroom. The poor servants
feel the effects of the headache aa much
as any one, and do not stop in the room
longer than they can help. These unfor
tunate headaches are very frequent about
that time of the year when every
one is or supposed to be out of town, and do
not cease until the patient has been carried
to the seaside for change of air. The milder
forms will vanish upon the application of a
piece of jewelry or if the forehead is wrap
ped in a new shawl, it is astonishing with what
rapidity the pain disappears. Sometimes
shifting of the scene is requisite, and thus
box at the opera has been known to produce
an instantaneous cure, even when the head
ache in question has been of the most stun
ming description, and the opera played has
been one of Verdi's
PEc1r1c QUARTZ MIIL-The yield Of this