Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-14
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u new style of thief recently devel-
'ped in that fashionable metropolis.
The well dressed, fashionable looking
scoundrel enters a jewelry store and asks
TO see some small unset diamonds or
other precious stones, which, being
out upon a paper before him, on
pretence of being.near sighted, he brings
his eyes down so a to the gems that
he can pick some Of them up with the
tip of his tongue, keeping them in his
mouth until he leaves the shop; or in
case of fear of detection he readily swal-
lows them. This way of stealing is not
by any means new. Ever since the
earliest period Of the worlds history,
stealing with the tongue has been q COM
mon practice. The stealing of precious
stones in that way, may not have been
in vogue, yet that which is far moro
precious, good reputation, has been
ruthlessly stolen. A villainous, lying
tongue can thus steal the hard earnings
Of many years in a very few minutes,
and that style OF stealing is all the more
cowardly and mean, in that it cannot
well be guarded against. One can APP
preciate and in n MEASURE honor the
bold thief who steps boldly up and robs
his victim on the highway, but the
sneaking, false-faced slauderer with
tnieving tongue, is a thousand times the
dirtiest, meanest thief Of all.
Principles learned at u mothers
knee are never forgotten, therefore, how
important that those early ideas i'm
pressed upon the plastic young mind
should be naught but correct and good.
In this the mother is responsible more
than all others for the conduct Of her
child in afterlife. "Traiu up a child in
the way he should go, and when he is
old he will not depart from it." While
the youthful mind is the most suscep-
tible to good or evil influence, implant
within il q correct conception of both,
showing the results of a life whose
guiding principles are good, inducing
strict honesty and integrity in all things,
combined with a due regard for the
feelings Of others, and the social ameni-
les we all bear towards one another,
as compared to a life filled with evil
deeds and corrupt associations. GAS
the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined"
and he whose earliest teachings aud
surrounding influences were corrupt, is
not altogether responsible if he turns
out q bad man, and commits crimes
which call for expiration in the prison or
on the scaffold.
Discretion is always the best and most
cxpediently valorous principle to adopt,
especially in fighting skunks. Never
rush blindly into a contention with a
man whose filthy paws are ever ready
to throw either literary or terrestrial
mud; one cannot always even expert
mentally dabble in filth without getting
defled. A man should always turn out
for q swill cart, a hog, or fresh paint ;
reckless contact with either is not i'm
proving, either to our dress or personal
appearance. We once knew n chap in
California who rushed madly through a
cactus hedge, in order to whip an abu-
siye fellow on the other side. He not
only got badly whipped himself, but it
took him over a week to pick the thorns
out of his flesh. The whipping was the
smallest par. of his punishment for no,
being discreet enough to have gone
round through the gate.
The action Of s~trychniue in producing
death is evinced in violent spasms and
commissions. 1t is now recommended
by an eminent French saran as q power
full and feasible agent to be employed In
whale fishing. A soluble salt Of strych'
nine is introduced into the fish by mean!
of an explosive projectile, producing {
sort of tetanic %convulsion or rightly, t.
be followed by death, in from FIVE Il
ten minutes, or even less. The dos'
found requisite for the destruction o
this huge fish is insignifcantly small
and results thus far obtained, indicate
that the whale species arc far more
sensitive than the human race to the
action of strychnine. In fact, there are
probably plenty of men in Virginia city
and Gold Hill who drink enough strych'
nine every day to kill a good sized
whale, or cven make IN elephant jump
s~tiE.legged. What little there is usec
in the shape of exhilerating beverages
in Nevada and California, in the course
of a year, would perhaps obliterate thu
entire whale species from the bosom o
the ocean.
We have seen it stated that it take'
nineteen men, besides the clergyman, Il
marry a French army officer, and tina
the amount of red tape in which he ii
~entangled is enough to make any mar
feel blue. The entanglements of crino
line often mako q man feel wild. w
know of one unfortunate, who, in
reckless unguarded moment married
widow with seven children, all girls
besides taking into his family a garrul
Gus old harridan of a mothsr-in-law
who was always talking him into diff
Guilty, and then taking sides against him
He found himself in q snarl from which
he never was extricated till he died.
From Sacramento.
Co. l-nok