Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-11-07

DOUBTFUL lhEOIUG1s-A Iflenu
whom we shall call Pat, 'for short, = tells
the following good story of himself;
When but an idle boy, he was called
up in country school, and the question
suddenly propounded by the pedagogue
Patrick, how many Gods are Their"
Pat, who was not very distinguished
theologian then, and years have made
him mo better fast, in such matters,
but he very promptly responded: "lhrec,
sir" "Take your seat" Numbered the
master, land if in five minutes you don't
answer correctly, I'll welt you"
The probation period passed, and Pat,
taking the -four, hesitatingly stated the
number of Gods at give sir" lie re-
ceived the promised welting, and re-
mand to his seat for ten minutes more
consideration. Ten nil u,s up, Pat was
up too, and satisfied that he had not fix
ed the number sufficiently high before,
shouted: "There's ten. sir" lie saw the
ferrule descending, and boiling out of
the door, he cleared iive.rail fence and
broke like a quarter horse across the
field. Painting with exertion he met
lad with book under his arm, and with
the look of one desiring the pursuit Of
knowledge under difficulties, asked
"Where are you going?' ITO school
yonder," was the prompt reply. You
are, are you:' said Pat quickly. Glow
many Gods are there ?" Gone" ans
wered the boy. "Well, you'd better not
60 down there. You'll have a good time
with your one God. I've just left there
with ten, and that was not enough to save
me from the darndest 'likin' you ever
heard of ~
MoMENTuM.-When two locomotives,
having equal speed on a railroad track,
meet from opposite directions, the shock
actually destroys the momentum of both,
and, therefore makes dead halt The
force of the shock produced by the TWO
bodies, say the philosophers, will be
equal to the shock which either being at
rest would sustain if struck by the other
moving at double the velocity Action
and reaction being equal, both bodies
will be as much moved by reaction as By
action.
Should two railroad trains, running to.
ward each other at the rate of twenty
miles an hour, collide, the shock would
be precisely the same as though one had
been at rest and been struck by train
train moving forty miles an hour Were
two steamboats, to run directly together,
head on-one going twelve and the other
FIFTEEN miles an hour-.the conclusion or
shock each would suffer would be as
though struck by the other at a speed of
twenty seven miles an hour. Without
stopping to pilosophise upon the cause,
boxers and pugilists know, by dear bought
experience, that the worst blows they
ever receive in their combats are when
fist stikes fist, because the force
suffered by both parties, is equal to
the sum Of the forces exerted by either
arm. The adroit fighters, therefore, al
ways avoid encounters of that kink,
ifpossble. III.
Judge Buckner, who recently com
mitted suicide in Meade cornty, Ken
lucky, left the following letter explaining
the causes which led him to sclfdestruc.
tom
LOOK AT THIS.
AND PAUSE BEFORE YOU CONDEMN ME.
have no country, no family, no home,
no money no hope, no health. | am old
and feeble, almost stranger to my kin.
dred. III had the physical strength req
uisite to maintain myself, might desire
to live; but my spirits have been so brok-
en- down that | could do nothing useful.
should, if | lived longer, be a burden
upon my friends and relatives. My vital