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The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
Bow Love-.

One Of the queerest and funniest things to
think OF in after life, is "boy love-" No
sooner does boy acquire tolerable stature,
than he begins to imagine himself man
and to ape manish ways. He casts sidelong
glances at the girls he may meet, becomes a
regular attendant at church or meetings,
sports cane, carries his head erect, and
struts little in his walk. Presently and
how very soon he falls in ove-yes, falls is
the proper word, because it best indicates
his happy, delirious, establishment. He
lives in fairy region, somewhere collateral
to the world, and yet, somehow, blended in
extricably with it. He perfumes his hair
with fragrant oil, scatters essences over his
handkerchief, and desperately shaves and
anoints for beard. He quotes poetry in
which Glove" and "dove," and "heart," and
''dart," peculiarly predominate; and as he
plunges deeper into the delicious labyrinth,
fancies himself filled with the divine afllatus,
and suddenly breaks into a scarlet rash of
rhyme. He feeds upon the looks of his be-
loved; is raised to the seventh heaven if she
speaks pleasant word; betrayed into the
most astonishing ecstacies by smile; and is
plunged in gloomiest regions of misanthropy
by frown.
lie believes himself the most devoted lover
in the world. There never was such another.
There never will be. He is the one great
idolator. He is the very type Of magnan-
unity, and self-abnegation. Wealth. he de-
spises the grovelng thought. Poverty, with
the adorable beloved, he rapturously apostro-
phises as the first of all earthly blessings; and
Love in cottage with water and crust"
is the beau ideal paradise of dainty delight.
He declares to himself, with the most solemn
emphasis, that he would 90 through fire and
water; undertake pilgrimage to China or
Kamschatka: swim storm-tossed oceans; scale
impossible mountains; and face legions of
bayonets but for one sweet smile from her
dear lips, He dotes upon flower she has
cast away. He chershes her glove-a little
worn in the tingers-next his heart He
siohs like a locomotive letting off steam.
He scrawls her name over quires of foolscap
fitting medium for his insanity He scorn-
fully deprecates the attention Of other boys
of his own age; cuts Peter Tbbetts dead be-
cause he said the adorable Angelina had
carrotty hair and passes Harry Bell con-
temptuously for darinr to compare "that
gawky Mary Jane" with his Incompatible
Angelina. Happy happy! foolish boy love.
with its hopes and its fears, its joys and its
sorrows, its jeaousies, its delights; its rap
lures, and its tortures; its ecstatic fervors,
and terrible heart burning; its solemn lud-
crousness, and its intensely prosa;c termna-
ton.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
Fatality Extraordinary.

A writer in the New York Water Cure
Journal unblushingIy rattles off the follow
ing:
80 per cent. of all the children born in
the United States are hereditarily diseased,
caused, in a large degree, by the druggng
and poisoning of their parents.
so per cent. of all the children born are
drugged, poisoned, before they are five years
DID, by the doctors.
95 per cent. of the whole population is
drugged, poisoned, by the doctors.
40 per cent. is, additionally to the drug
poisoning by doctors, poisoned by tobacco.
so per cent, in addition to these, poisoned
by tea.
As per cent, in addition to the drugs, to-
bacco and tea, poisoned by coffee.
90 per cent, in addition to the drugs, to-
bacco, tea and coffee, poisoned by flesh meats;
for the meat eaten by our people is almost
all of its poisoned.
60 per cent, at least, poisoned by bad air.
10 per cent, at least poisoned by patent
medicines.
25 per cent. poisoned by alcoholic drinks.
According to this statement, tfve hundred
and t'centy tfve per cent. of the people are
poisoned! Where Do the odd 425 per cent.
come FROM
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

HOMESTEAD. = Last week the Supreme
Court Of this State made an important deci-
sion in case relative to the foreclosing of a
mortgage on homestead. The Sacramento
Union says the main question presented by
the record was, as to the sufliciency of the
certificate of acknowledgment to prove the
due execution of the mortgage by the wife
The certificate is in the form prescribed by
the statute, except that it does not state that
the contents of the mortgage were explained
to the wife. The Homestead Act provides
that 'no mortgage, sale or alienation' of the
homestead shall be valid without the sigma
ture of the wife to the same, acknowledged
by her separate and apart from her husband" !"
The Supreme Court think the certificate was
insufficient to prove the due execution of the
deed by the wife, and that the Court below
erred in entering decree of foreclosure.
Judgment reversed and cause remanded.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
News Of the State.

The new Chief of Police of San Francis
co is using every exertion to break up the
gambling dens Of that city.
Judge Hoffman, in the U. S. District
Court of San Francisco, has decided adverse
ly to the celebrated Linnantour claim. 1t is
pronounced stupendous fraud.
Arrangements have been made to pay
promptly in New York the interest on the
January coupons of the San Francisco city
bonds.
The Receiver of Adams & Co., at Sar
Francisco, has been authorized by the Fourth
District Court to sell at auction the stocks,
bonds, promissory notes and bad debts, in
other words, the desperate and bad debts"
of Adams q Co., which the receiver has
not been able to collect. Among these bad
debts are 1885, ,449 of overdraft, and $780,
600 of other bad debts.
The whaling busines is still carried on sue
cessfully by company of Portuguese in the
Bay of Monterey.
AT Bodega there is single potato patch
that embraces 400 acres of ground.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel calls upon the
Surveyor General to have the public lands
of that county surveyed. That paper com
plains of the neglect that Santa Cruz county
has experienced in this respect
The late rains have started the PASTURES
Of the southern counties, very much to the
JOY of the cattle rasers.
Richard Horton, one of the San Francis
co police, has been suspended from service
for becoming intoxicated while on duty.
The saw-mills of San Juan Nevada coun
ty, are kept running night and day to sup
ply the demand for lumber.
Several brick buildings are to be erected
in San Juan in the spring.
The Middle Yuba Canal Co. have con-
structed hume 24OOO feet in length at
Mancenta Hill, Nevada county, Its great
est hight from the ground is SO feet.
The Mariposa Democrat says that Horn-
tos has but one Bible, and that is in a mac
istrate's office, and no church and no minis
ter.
HEAVY BusINEss.--The quarterly report
of the Treasurer of Santa Cruz county. in
NlNhtco iut'u ohlN GllOt uolldlS DdN6 passed
through his hands for three months.
FRuIr TREEs.-The San Francisco Herald
says that there are over seven million fruit
trees planted in California, which is over
seven fruit trees to every man, woman and
child in the State-ncluding digger Indians,
Cinnamon, and all other outside barbarians.
Who has counted the trees? In few years
fruit will be as cheap and abundant in Cali
f"rnia as in any other State, and equally as
luscious.
The Supreme Court has rendered an opin-
ion in chambers, that the Governor has pow
er to commute the death penalty, with priv
ileges to annex conditions, the violation of
which restores the original sentence.
John Dallon, convicted of the murder of
John Sharkee, at Natchez, Ell Dorado county,
has been sentenced to be hanged on the 7th
January at Placervile.
The proprietors of the Allison Quartz
Mill, near Grass Valley, took $75, 900 worth
of gold dust to San Francisco last week. 1t
was the product Of their mine for six weeks
working.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
Skeletons of men ten feet high have been

Skeletons of men ten feet high have been
discovered in burying ground about a
mile northwest of Winchester, Randolph
county, Indiana. Near by is an old Fort,
including about thirty-six acres of ground
within the fortiicaton. The mound in the
centre is about twenty-five feet high, while
the fort or breastwork is only about fifteen
feet. Directly east and west the mounds
are open spaces or gateways, around which
are other forts.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
Hon. Robert G. Winthrop once spoke Of
the Atlantic Telegraph as the grand ocean
bard. Wideswarth thus writes:

Oh grandest miracle of Time!
What mighty joy will spring
When men of diverse tongue and CLINE
Shall listen to the heavenly chime
That sounds the strain of peace sublime
Upon single string.
Old Roger, on reading the above, asked
the Professor if he knew the key note on
which that string was tuned. lie allowed
that he did not. why, it is very plain,
said the jolly old fellow, that it must be on
the lower c. AS this joke is about sixteen
hundred feet deep, all are not expected to
fathom it.
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Es5" The following is from the RocLton

Ess" The following is from the Rockton
Qllinois) Gazette:
g. Hossefatt is in our office at this mo-
ment, greatly excited, and says "he had
quite a peradventure up in Shrland to day.
"a man 'thouten any coat, though he had a
corderway hat, and kershoot trowziz on he
bleevz, come at him with an intense wooden
stick, made outen timber, and struck him
over the geranium and made him see more
luna marys 'thouten the aid of at ell hers spoke
than Stronomy ever developed in the laps
of thousand sanctuaries of time" He's
come down to get warrient printed, and
he's gon up to modest him, and have him
pre-eminently excluded in the tenipentiary
for admitting basalt on a beler fitizen."
He says she's yet to be reformed that one
haint got more right than anuther in this
land of quality, and they's any vurture in
lor, he's goin to do it that's all"
We've just put up a 1900 horse power
'pull" on our press, and printed him a
strong "warrent'' that will "molest the fel.
ler," we guess.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

A SINGULAR BEEEDIoTIoN.-ln the New
Bedford House of Correction, is a prisoner
aged SO years. His manners are easy and
his mien condescending, but he has pecu-
liar forte in bestowing benedictions. In re-
turn for favor of one Of the overseers, a
day or two since, he gave utterance to the
following: MAY the pearIy gates of Heaven
ever be open to We. and if they aint, it's a
d shame" The oyerseer was deeply
affected
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

Johnny" said mother to a son, nine
years old, "go and wash your face; | am
ashamed to see you coming to dinner with
SO dirty mouth" I'D id wash it, mamma"
and feeling his upper lip, he added, gravely,
81 think it must be a moustache coming!"
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

SAUCE FOR BAKED PuDDINes.-A very
cheap sauce can be made by simply sweeten-
ing bowl Of rich cream and spicng it with
nutmeg, cinnamon or vanilla. A still rich
er sauce is made by mixing two parts sugar
with one of butter; whip them to froth,
spice as above, and add little wine or
brandy if liked, but spoonful of sharp vine
oar will do as well. Another kind is made
by throughy mixing little flour with the
butter and sugar, and then pouring on boil
ing water till it is of the consistency Of thin
cream, adding the wine or vinegar and spi-
emo to taste.
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"Ma, pa is getting very rich isn't he?
ttT 1opit 1ypov. xrbv obtl12

00'' 1Hrr0'''
"Cause he gives me so much money. AL
most every morning, after breakfast, when
Sally is sweeping the parlor, he gives me a
sixpense to go out and play" Sally receiv-
ed short notice to quit.
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SLEEp.-Wo require more sleep than

SLEEP.-Women require more sleep than
men, and farmers less than those engaged IN
any other occupation. Editors, reporter,s
and telegraph operators need no sleep at all.
Lawyers can sleep as much as they choose,
and thus keep out Of mischief. Clergy
men can sleep twenty hours, and put their
parish to sleep once week.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
A sIMILE.
BY LONGFELLOW.

Slowly, slowly up the wall
Steals the sunshine, steals the shade;
Evening damps begin to fall,
Evening shadows are displayed.
Round me, DER me, everywhere,
All the sky is grand with clouds,
And athwart the evening air
Wheel the swallows home in crowds.
Shafts of sunshine from the West,
Paint the dusky windows red
Dark shadows deeper rest
Underneath and overhead.
Darker, darker. and more wan
In my breast the shadows fall
Upward steals the life of man,
AS the sunshine from the wall.
From the wall into the sky,
From the roof along the spire,
All the souls of saints that lie
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

The books of TIE Sonoma County Asses
sor show that 20, 900 acres of land are under.
cultivation in that county.
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

"The only real liberty-cap," says clever
witty author. "is night-cap. In it men Wis
it one third of their lives, the land Of sleep
the only land where they are always free and
equal:
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

Gz= Sheridan said, beautifully, "Women
govern us, let us render them perfect; the
more they are enlightened so much more
shall we be. On the cultivation Of their
minds depends the wisdom of men,"
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

How is it that girls can always tell
a married man from a single one3 The
fact is indisputabe. Blackwood says that
'the fact of marimony or bachelorship
is written so legibly in a mans appearance
that no ingenuity can conceal it. Every
where there is some inexplicable instinct
that tells us whethor an individual (whose
name, fortune and circumstances are totally
unkuown) be or be not a married man.
Whether it is a certain subdued look, such
as that which characterizes the lions in a
menagerie, and distinguish them from the
lords of the desert we cannot tell; but the
truth is so we positively affirm"
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The three hardest words for man to pro-
81 was mistaken"
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So
Increased net earnings since 1857,

In speaking of marriages for money; Miss
Muloch, the eminent writer, observes:-
Marriage ought always to be question not
ofnecessity, but choice Every girl ought
to be taught that hasty, loveless union
stamps upon her as foul dshonor as one
of those connections which omit the legal
ceremony altogether; and that, however pale
dreary and tolsome single life may be, un-
happy married life is tenfold worse, an ever
haunting temptation, an ineurable regret, {.
torment from which there is no escape but
DEATH"
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susceptible bachelor says that pretty
woman is like great truth or a great hap
piness, and has no more right to bundle her.
self under green veil or any similar abom-
ination, than tie sun has to put on green
spectacles
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In one of our Western cities, poet met
friend of his recently from New York
81 am perfectly delighted to see you,"
said the artist, throwing his arm aifecticnate-
y around his friends neck; chow long are
you going to stay?"
81 think" said the poet, "that shall stay
as long as my money lasts"
'Oh how badly disappointed I am" said
the artist, in tone of deep sadness; 81 had
hoped YOU were going to spend day or
two"
The Placer herald., 1858-11-27

SACRAMENTO VALLEY RAILRoAD.-From
the report Of the President of the Sacramen-
to Valley Railroad, we extract the following
For the year ending Sept. 80:
Gross earnings were, S1S51OS 20
Expenses of running the
road and maintaining SS2,3S2 80
Construction account 1854 81
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To DRIVE AWAY RArs.-Some years since : core
spondent of the Boston CxAivasor recommended potash
for the purpose. The rats troubled him very much,
having entered through the chamber floor. They .ap.
pc xed ia great numbers, and were very troublesome, %
that be felt justified in resortisg to extreme measures
to effect their expulsion from his premises. He pound.
cd up potash and strewed it around their holes, and
rubbed some under the boards and on the sides where
they came through. The next night he heard . squeal.
ing among them, which be supposed Was from the caus.
tic nature Of the potash" that got among their hair or on
their bare feet. They disappeared, and for 4 long time
be was sxe1sPtffoan any further annoyance ~
To MAKE BEEF ~TENDER.-Those who have worn
. - their teeth in mastioating poor old tough cow beef,
will DO glad to learn that eommon carbonate Of soda
will Be found q remedy for the evil, cut yonr steak the
day before using into slices about two inches thick, rub
over . small quantity Of soda, wash off next morning.
cut into suitable thickness, and cook to potion. The
same process will answer for fouls, legs of mutton, &c.
Try it, eli who love delicious tender dishes Of meat.
CRuLLERs.-Take three eggs, one cup Of sugar, q
little salt, = piece Of butter or lard the size Of an egg
beat we'll together and mig stiff. Roll out about hall
an inch thick, but in strips an inch vide and six inches
long, then slit one edge half through once in q halt
inch ; then join the ends and fry in hot lard into a nice
brown. Put away in jars; they will keep for month,
~ good IS new. si@a r .Fr
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The annual slaughter Of whales in the North Pacific
amounts to between three and four thousand, yet there
is no diminution in the yield. 70 account for the
steady drain, the theory is gaining ground that the
whales end : nursery and breeding ground ID the mac.
cessible open sea at the pole. Dr. Kane's theory, sus.
tsined by Or. Hayes and others is, that ip the open
Polar sea the whale finds plenty Of food and a more IA.
vorable thermal condition Of the water than exists in
in the latitudes immediately south of that mysterious
: basin The superior size Of these Arctic whales would
Indicate that they have some secure resort whore they
N IT, from eaPtHnn.
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n. Ba.AKELY, N. d.,
YSICIAN AND SURGEON,
NlN1NGER CITY, NJ. r.

MlALLA &C O1AhK,
NORTH WESTERN
Type, Stereotype + Elecaroaype FounArv.
AND PRINTERS WAREHOUSE
Corner Of East Water and Npv;sq streets. MIUaxAee.
Having completed our arrangements for the above
business IN this city, We would invite the cooperation of
the printers in this and surrounding States in its behalf.
Our facilities are equal to any Foundry in the country
for manufacturing Type and Printers Material; and for
beauty of finish and hardness Of metal cannot be sur.
passed in this or any other country. The faces # our
Type, are all modern and most approved ,tv2es. and
we shall endeavor to compete With our Eastern brethren
IN getting up new styles Of Type, Borders, Cuts, Oru.-
ments, &c. We are in daily receipt Of all new faces
as they are made in the East, AID in advance Of .nv
other Establishment at the West.
Being Agents for some of the best Tvpe Fouudrie.
and Press and Ink Manufactures 1t the East, We shall
keep constantly on hand a full assortment Of e,ery varie-
ty Of material.
Presses, Wood Type, ETC., furnished at Manufaotu+er's
prices. :
Orders for stereotyping, Engraving, &c., promptly
to.
We shall issue in the course Of the next three ma pths
q new Specimen Book which will be furnished on
application.
9S- Printers Of newspapers who choose to publish
this Advertisement, including this note, one month, will
be allowed their bills, at the time Of purcbas;na three
times the amount of our manufacture. N8
EDWARD MILLER, Late Of ALBANY, N. Y.
Il. A. STARR, Late Of Stars Printing O6ee.
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GUSTAvES BERGLUND.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER.

Would respectfully inform the citizens Of Niuinesr and
tne pu0l'c u. general, that he is now prepared to exscate
all work in bis line, to the entire sasisfaction of his ous-
toners. All orders promptly attended to with neatness
and dispatch. -
Paper Hangings constantly on haad for sale, and
rooms papered and decorated to order.
Nininger, June 20, 1857 DIV
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Contributions are solicited to this department from ali
parts Of the County. Let US elicit discussion and ar.
sumens on the great subject Of soil cultivation. ]
would say to the people that I am but an infant farmer,
and though give my opinions boldly and fearlessly,
get a', rs We al should be, open to conviction, and
We hope every one who desires may avail him or herself
Of this agricultural column. Send your articles to my
address, 81. N. Countrymau, Hastings, or Niningsr,
Min"
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This town is located on the junction Of the Dodd and
Faribault roads, in Rice County, M. T., on the N. 4.
quarter Of Section Is, Town III, range 81 west. It
is a well timbered district, and has a steam saw mill,
hotel, store, blacksmith shop, &c., and already contains
only laid out in June last. Information rclatine to the
town may be had by addressing s. W. MILLER, Union
Lake, M. +. TT 6tf
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xe DAVID G. RARN'Tz'
ESTATE AGENT,

~. ,Cenveyancer and Notary Public.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
References-Ex. Gov. Alex. Ramsey,
t.. John Nininger, St. Paul.
Il ... .Trimhle & Thompson,
'.4 1gnatius Donnelly,
Geo. H. Burns, N:... c.-
N. A. Miller, "'"'"s'i wy
"< j. r. Case,
$50 acres Halt Breed scrip, o.- .o#
$50 acres in Scott county,. .
600 acres, ] miles below Hastings,
Lots in Hudson. Nininger, ~Shakopee. Ramsey, Fortuna,
Minneapolis and St. Paul.
I60 acres one mile above st. Anthony.
Val, able lot in Winona, near the court house.
l60 acres opposite to Monticello.
100 acres Z lmiles above White Bear Lake in Ramsey
WILD and IMPROVED LANDS, and TOWN LOTS
in all parts Of the Territory, for sale on terms easy to
purchasers, by DAVID G. BARNlTZ,
SLY St. Anthony st., ST. Paul.
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Payments to be made in all cases in advance. Money cur.
rent IN the State where issued will be received at par.
CLuBsINo.-A discounto Of Is per cent. from the shove
prices will Be allowed to Clubs ordering. direct from L.
Scott i Go. four or more copies of any or more Of the
above works. Thus: Foar c"pies of Blackwood, OF Of one
Review, will DO sent to one address for nine dollars ; four
copies Of the four Reviews and Blackwood for thirty dollars:
and 50 on.
PosrAcE.-In all the principal cities and towns, these
works will Do delivered FREE o. PosrAcx~ When sent BY
mail, the Postage to any part Of the United States will b
but TwENrY-rOuR CENTS q yearfor Blsrkwoed and but FOUR.
TEEN cENTsa year for each If the Reviews.
Remittances for any Of the ab"ve publications should be
addressed to the publishers, LEONARD o 1 co.
No 81 Guild street, New York.
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Jehn Bateman,
B L A C K s N / T H
Levee, near Eagle Steam Mill

7Aevee, near Eagle Steam Mill,
Would respectfully call the attention of the citizens Of
N'n'nger and surrounding country, to the fact that be
has opened q Blacksmith Shop in this town, where he is
prepared to do all kinds Of work in his line, and hopes
to merit q share Of the public patronage.
Country work solicited and guaranteed.
Nininger, July Is, 1857. III
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4 RARE CHANCE.

The undersigned, DESTROYS Of having a Brick Yard
established in Nininger, will sell to any party who will take
the matter in hand, an excellent Brick Machine Of New
York manufscture, the necessary amount Of clay and
timber am, and will receive his pay for the same in
bricks at the current prices Address
-lGNATIUS DONNELLY,
~ ~-~- Nininger, Minnesota.