The Placer herald., 1857-10-17
NUMBER g.
CLIPPINGS,

Inc ONO FARMER estimates the profit
on sheep in that State, the last year, at
six million Of dollars; and the whole cap
ital invested at $GO,OOO,OOO. The num-
Der Of sheep is estimated at 100000,
and the wool clip last year reached TO-
l96, 900 pound; one fifth Of the entire
clip of the Union.
At Nashau, the other day a, Canadian
horse having slipped during the day at
his work, when unharessed at evening.
to blacksmiths shop.
There is an oak tree, near Raleigh, North
Carolina, which, at the suns meridian,
covers with shade space of nine
thousand feet. 1t would afford shelter
to four thousand five hundred men,
The Shipments of coal, from Ptsburg,
for the last six months have amounted
to la,477,5l9 bushels.
Ridicule has shafts and impertinence has
arrows, which, though against innocence
they may be levelled in vain have always
the power of wounding tranquility.
Sea water has been verified by actual
experiment to contain silver. Who would
have dreamed that the German Ocean
or English Channel contains tons of silver!
There is now lying at one of the docks
in New York one Of the oldest vessels
in active service in the world. She has
been built one hundred years,-was
originally an English frigate, and is voted
for having carried Gen. Wolfe to Quebec
in the time of the war. The original
| t,,,Eorc ctI1 in hor onj
tecty sound. There are also some of
her old cannon, guns and pistols, bearing
striking contrast to those now in use,
The QUICKEST TIME-The steamer Van
derbilt has made the run from New
York to Liverpool in nine days and one
hour, being the quickest time on record.
A HEAVY DEpr.-The debt of Missou-
ri is $I2,0oo,0o0, mostly created by sub
scription to four railroads--the Pacific,
North Missouri Iron Mountain and the
Hannibal and st. Joseph roads.
mo VAlA NApA"-The Supreme Court
of Ohio has decided that wife is Of no,
pecunary value to her husband that if
she is killed by a railroad accident, he
cannot recover damages therefor.
New DEFlNluoN.--A Lady: a sensitive.
plant that thrives only in the centre Of
a large croinline fence. and rarely seen
excepting by the most pratced eye.
Why WE ARE WnlrE.-A Mohamme-
dan Afghan priest thus explained to
large audience who wondered how it hap
pened that Europeans differ in color
from themselves. Their faith forbids the
European women to suckle their children,
and they supply their mothers place by
a eve. This, therefore, he said, "preser-
YES the natural whiteness Of tho skin; but
they are not the less half beast half man,
and that is the reason they cannot UNDER
stand the sublime religion of our vencrs-
ted Prophet"
Faith can do more than remove noun
make bad conscience good, and soften q
hard heart, bend a stubborn will, bring God
and man together.
GEoRoIA--The value Of taxable property
increased thirty millions of dollars last year!
The State tax has in consequence been re-
duced to eight cents on the hundred dol
lars, Or about one-tweltth Of one per cent.
IMPORTANCE OF TlME.-The difference
between rieing every morning at six and
eight, in the course of forty years amounts
to forty nine thousand hours, or three
hundred years and twenty-one days.
and siXteen hours which will afford eight
hours day for exactly ten years, which
is the same as if ten years were added
to a mans life.
All the brick, stone and masonry in
the whole of Great Britain would not fur
nish materials for a structure equal to the
great wall Of China
Our National vessels will hereafter cruise
two instead Of three years.
Baltimore has the following (sad to
be "Americaa') organizations within its
limits: Blood Tubs, Rip Raps, Thunder
Bolts, Rough Skins, Plug-Ugies Wam-
panoags, Tigers, Cut Throats, Swann's ba-
bes, Little Fellows, Stay Lates, Hard Times
Ashlanders, Lone Stars, Bushers, Bull Necks
Corn Cobs Mug smashers. Whew!
Life is the flower, growing alike for
rich or poor The rich man waters il
With champagne, the poor man with tears.
There is no better looking glass than an
old friend
lie that has 40 bread, must not keep
dog
The Value Of Gerritt Smiths Land.
The New York News tells the following
good story in connection with the grant Of
land ia New York State which the abolition
list Gerritt Smith, made to the negroes. The
NeWs says: