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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01
Memoranda Concerning Nails.

A wrought iron nail, seventy-three
to the pound, and two and half in
ches. long, driven into dry elm to the
depth of one inch across the grain, re-
quired pressure of 327 pounds to ex-
tract it and the same nail driven end
wise, or longitudinally, into the same
wood, was extracted with a force of
257 pounds.
The same nail, driven two inches
endwise into hard pine, was drawn out
by force of 257 pounds and to draw
out one inch, under like circumstances,
took 81 pounds only.
The'relative adhesion, therefore, in
the same wood, when driven trans
versely, or longitudinally, is 100 to rs,
or about four to three, in dry elm and
100 to 46, or about 2 to 1, in deal and
in like circumstances, the relative ad
hesion to elm and deal is as or 5 to l.
The progressive depths of the same
nail driven into hard pine by simple
pressure were as follows: / inch by a
pressure of "a lbs. J inch by 76 lbs. +;
1 inch, by 9s5 lbs.; J inches, by 400
lbs; and 2 inches by $40 lbs.
To extract the same nail from a
depth of one inch out of dry oak, re-
quired 5O7 lbs; dry beech, 667 lbs;
and green sycamore, 3l9 lbs.
From these experiments, we may in
fer that an inch nail, driven two inches
into dry oak, would require force of
more than half ton to extract it with
a steady force. A common screw of
one-ffth of an inch was found TO have
an adhesive force of about three times
that of an inch nail,
The force necessary to break or tear
outa half-inoh iron pin, applied in the
manner of a pin to tenon in the NOR
tice, the thickness of the board being
O.87 inch, and the distance of the CEN
ter of the hole from the end of the
board LOS inch, was 976 lbs.
AS the strength of the tenon from
the pin-hole may be considered as in
proportion to the distance from the
end, and also to the thickness, we may
for this species of wood, (dry oak, OBJ
tain the breaking force in pounds nearly
by multiplying together one thousand
times the distance of the hole from the
end by the thickness of the tenon in in
ches.--Manuf. and Builder.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01
Number 83.

"a. a ,n19ssE.ezs no. = iyclpksr Funny
i.;sa ss g lnsppen M the horse-cafs some
u"s a young lady stepped into 3
a. s,,.s anu aropped her handkerchief upon
s.I, , sest as much as TO say,
aaos;.. - .,s VINE .sns .s advanced to the
IpPoSs.e e1u y, .ne car to speak with .
.sS i.h'eau' .Meahe'ne NICE dressed
ouns ""1' WIN sohsge sE about
isli MY apRsqq "a ana isss down on the
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01
GYP.
BY IRENE l.

"Gyp! Gyp! Where is that dog?
You Gyp"
Gyp, who was laying on the floor,
raised his head and gave low, longing
sort of whine, as if he desired above all
things to answer the excited call of his
young master, Harry Owen, but he had
no power to rise.
"Gypl Here! here! herel" There
was another lifting of the sleek head,
another low, suppressed whine, and
then the animal was still again, lying
close to the floor with shut eyes, as if
sleeping.
For several minutes Harry kept on
calling, but Gyp gave no sign that he
heard his voice.
"Why, Gypl" exclaimed Lucy Owen,
Harry's youngest sister, coming into
the room where the dog lay about ten
minutes afterward. The doors were
all open, and Gyp could have gone out
when Harry called fhe cared to do so.
"Your master has been looking for you
everywhere. Why didn't you 60 when
you were called for?"
Gyp sprang up, danced about the
floor and showed many signs of pleas
ure. Lucy had her bonnet on and a
small package in her hand. Gyp knew
that she was going over to the village,
and followed her as she left the house.
"You Gyp" called Harry from
across field. He had his gun over
his shoulder, and was going to the
woods to shoot squirrels.
But the dog did not seem to hear
him though, if you had seen the Pc
culiar way in which he dropped his
head and kept his eyes on the ground,
you would have known that be was
simply pretending not to hear. 1t was
a curious freak, this, of the dog. He
and Harry were almost inseparable ;
and whenever the master brought out
his gun, the animal would grow half
frantic with delight. But now Harry
whistled and called in vain. The dog
did not give the slightest heed.
"Come along then!'' said Lucy
speaking to Gyp. "Let you and l
have rum" And away they started,
fleet as the wind.
Mrs. Owen, Lucy's mother, was sit
ting at her work nearly an hour after
ward, when Gyp came bounding in the
room. He jumped upon her, stood
with his fore feet in her lap, looked in
to her face with strange beseeching,
human look, showing, at the same time,
great anxiety. For amoment he stood
thus, with his black, lustrous eyes on
the face of Lucy's mother, and then
sprang away to the door, where he
stood looking back and whining pit
eously.
Mrs. Owen knew that something was
wrong, and started up and went to the
door. AS she did so, Gyp bounded
away, looking back as he ran. A sud-
den fear fell like deep shadow on her
heart as she thought of Lucy.
"Oh, my child!" she exclaimed, and
ran forward after the dog. Gyp, seeing
this, started down the road leading to
the village, and Mrs. Owen ran, half
frantically, after him. Between her
house and the village was deep ra-
vine, through which ran swift stream
of water. Over this stream was an old
wooden bridge, narrow and without
hand-railing. 1t stood at least twenty
feet above the water that whirled and
seethed among jagged rocks. Toward
this rayine the dog ran, keeping far
ahead of Mrs. Owen, but stopping now
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

RATHER M1srAKE;-The other day
a young lady stepped into well known
establishment in the Bowery, and in
ouired of handsome clerk a.
"Sir, have you any mouse-colored
gloves?"
"Mouse-colored, miss?"qst s5na
eyes; a sort of gray-the color Of
your drawers, meaning the store
drawers, which were, painted gray. -
"My drawers; miss?" calculated the
young man, glancing down at his dress
to see if everything WAS right and
tight. "My.drawersd miss2sf Why ]
don't wear any!" ,t, .e7 8r.sS+
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01
Senator Wade Z atdsthsi white
~ as9u issis House..slii'nias.e at

.st.s.f< aRRZf Jt.t 4SS9 $40
Old Ben Wade, wbe.. had beer up at
Boston at the meeting q. the directors
of the Pacific Railroad, Gang, here yes
terday on his way to bis hqRls in Ohiel
to see, as he SAYS joeosely, how the
Government runs without. HIM Being
out of Office he has no fay6rs to ask.
either for himself or his friends, and
the doors Of the various heads, ofq qden
Partments open with wonderfI free
dom. Old Ben paid hisfespects TO, the
President while here. and they smoked
? cigar together and discussed what
might have been, and what is. When
the impeachment trial was in progress
no man was more confident than Grant
that Wade would be President in place
of Andrew Johnson, to be deposed.
The interview yesterday naturally
touched upon this point; but Wade was
not disposed to talk about it, He,
therefore, turned the conversation by
asking Grant if he had fairly got into
the harness yet Grant replied that
he had, but added that the Presidency1
was not what it was cracked up to be.
Hard work, hard work, Wade said
the President, "and little thanks and
he took strong pull at his cigar, aud
sighed as if he regretted that he had
been elected.
That's been the complaint of every
President" replied Wade, "and yet
every politician in the country is crazy
on the subject of the Presidency, Why,
General, do you know that every man
in the United States Senate wants to be
President? and that's been the case
from the beginning of the Government"
Grant opened his eyes at this, and he |
seemed to comprehend why the Senate
was so captious with the President
81 find that l can't please every
body in this Office" observed Grant.
"Of course you can't" responded
Wade. Il hope you don't expect to
do that"
"Well, no. not exactly" said Grant;
but still l didn't expect it would be so
difficult to please them. 1 try to
please" ,.,,fg
"Well," said Wade, ''if I were Pres
ident, | would take care of my friends
who made me President as we'll as |
could and let the other fellows growl
and go to the devil. They would
make noise anyhow ,..-.--. IS -..
Suppose" interposel Grant, "your
friends were exorbitant in their
demands upon you; what would you do
them" as
''Well, l would do all l could for
them, and then, if they were not salts
fed, would tell them they might
make the best out Of it," said Wade.
"How do you like private life, Wade.
after so long in the Senate?" asked
Grant.
"It's just like a boy getting out of
school," said Wade. 81 have no
bother with fellows running after me
for this, that and the other thing, can
enjoy myself and feel independent"
''Private life is the best, l guess, Mr..
Wade, said Grant, "therei is more peace
to it, and then you are your own mas
ter -. -
''Well, l would be that, anyhow"
said Wade, with a defiant toss of his
massive head. "When | was Senator /
never allowed any OF those fellows to
boss me. l always had my own way"
This was hint for Grant Whether
he improves it remains to be seen.
Ben Wade left for Ohio Tonight
Wash. Cor. ". Y. Herald.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

re- A little fve-year old boy was
being instructed in morals by his moth
er. The old lady told him that all such
terms as "By Golly," ''by thunder"
ETC., were only minced oaths, and but
little better than any other profanity.
In fact, she said. he could tell pro-
fame oath by the prefix of "by"-all
such were oaths. "Well, then, moth
er, said the little hopeful, there's
big oath in the newspapers-'By Tele-
graph" The old lady gave it up,
and the boy is bewildered on morals.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

Ell engaged (says q lawyer J a
chaise at Galway city to conduct me
some few miles into the country, and
had not proceeded far whenit pulled up
at hill, and the Irish driver, coming
to the door, opened it. i"What are you
at, man? This isn't where | ordered
YOU to stop" i"Whist, your honor,
whist!g said Paddy. m an undertone,i
II am only decaying the beast. I'll
just bang the ,door--he'll think yer
out, an then he'll cut up the hill ike
the very devil-see if be don't. - -
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

S A Irishman who was troubled
with the toothache determined to have
an old offender extracted; but there
being no dentist near, he resolved to do
the job himself; whereupon be filed the
excavation with powder, but, being
afraid to touch it of, he put a slow
match to it and then ran to get out OF
the way.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

H 1t is told of Billy Hibbard, the
Methodist that once when roll was
called in conference, his name was
read civilian. He rose at once and
objected, saying that his name was not
William, it was Billy. "But, Brother
Hibbard," pleaded Bishop Ashbury,
"Billy is little boys name" eyes,
Bishop" was the quick reply. "and 1
was little boy when my father gave
It to me-"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

~ Albany girls are dangerous
things. One recently asked an atten-
tive beau when he meant to marry her,
and as he hadn't the slightest idea
ready on the subject, she broke tea
pot full of water over his head, but,
strange as it may seem, he didn't want
to marry her after that.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01
@A Christian l.dv was asked b

S A Christian lady was asked by
sneering, self-conceited infdel, what
proof she could give of the truth of
holy writ. yourself, SIR" said she,
lis one. A most striking proof. for it
is written in that word, There shall
come in the last days scoffers, walking
after their own lusts.''
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

TA A countryman, walking along
the streets of New York, found his
progress stopped by close barricade
of lumber. "What is that for?" said
he to a person in the street. 30 that's
to stop the cholera" .'Ah, have of
ten heard of the board of health but I
never saw one before" ~
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

~ "Man," says the anatomist.
changes entirely every seven years"
therefore," says Jones, "my tailor
should not ask me for. the bill l con-
tracted in, 1860, I am not the same
person--hence, / owe him nothing"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

- w She tripped along with ribbons
ayinp, from bran new hat she d just
been buying. She held her head up
very high, and thought, "Well, amt
1 just old pie?" An orange peel lay
in the track, she tripped, and fiat upon
her back lay Miss Maria Simkins. .
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

H"Martha,n said James, "what
letter in the alphabet do oulike best?'
Martha didn't like to say; but the
Young man insisted. "Well," was her
final answer as she dropped her eyes,
II think I like U best"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

R A joke was perpetrated a few
days ago upon Judge Barker who was
presiding over. the Supreme Court, in
session at Lockport, New York. A
juryman was absent from his seat, all
the others being occupied. A dog
looking for the master, very quietly
took the vacant place. The judge, ad-
dressing Hon. A. P. Lanning, of Buff
falo, said, "You see, Mr.. Lanning, that
the Juryman's seats are all occupied.
Are you ready to proceed?" The dis
tinguished pleader raised his glasses to
his eyes, and after brief survey of the
jury-box made the witty reply. "Your
Honor. that fellow might do for a
Judge; but 1 should hate to trust him
for juryman." Tire goodnatured
Judge joined heartily in the merry
laugh that followed, and proved that
he could take as well as give joke.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

@ 81 am glad" said the Rev. Dr.
Young to the chief of the Little Ottawas,
"that you do not drink whisky; but it
grieves me to find that your people use
so much of it,. "Ahl yes,'' replied
the chief, and he fixed his eye impress.
lively on the doctor, which communica-
ted the reproof before he uttered it,
1--WE Indians use great deal of whis-
ky, but we do not make il" "
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

Ey sThem soldiers must be an aw-
full dishonest set, !" said an old lady,
"for not a night seems to pass that soms
sentry is not relieved Of his watch"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01

! % Ai1Young America the other
day says toia man 'tIister, please
give me an apple: my brother goea
with your sister"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-01
American House!

H,HIS HOUSE, situated on Locust Street,
opposite the Court House, is always
open for the accommodation of day and week
boarders, on terms as reasonable as any
house in the city.
CD. WALL.
Dec. I9, 1s67-tf.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-05-06
HOW Pins are Made.

The pin machine is one % the closest
approaches that mechanics have made to
the Gextc-ity oi The human hand. a
small machine, about he height aud size
of a lady's sewing ..seehj,4e, only much
stronger stands before you. On the back
side light belt ie.eonds fr0m tire long
shaft at the ccilin@r-h--' IL - al TIE ma
u,1,nes, Ia"gcd j., lows OH tue floor. Ou
The leit side OF our machine hangs, on Il
peg, small reel Of wire, that has been
Strengthened by running through a con-
pound system Of small rollers, The wirc
uescehds and The end of it enters the ma.
chine. This Is the food consumed by this
snappish, voracious little dwarf He pulls
it in and bites it off by inches necessarily,
a hundred aud forty bites to the minute
just ho seizes each bite, a saucv little
hammer, with caucave face, hits the end
OF the wire three taps ana "upsets" IL to
head, while he gripes it in a counter
sunk hole between bis teeth With an
outward thrust of his tongue ho then lays
the PIN sideways in little groove across
the rim of Il small wheel tina: slowly re-
yu!veS ast under bis nose. BY the eytcT-
nai pressure VI a stationary hoop these
t,jos r2i 10 their places, IS they are car
red der two series OF small ijies, three
in each. These h'es grow finer toward the
end Of the series They lie at slight in-
ciiIalion on the pius, and by series of
clans, levers and springs, are made to play
IKE lightning. Thus the pas are dropped
in little shower iato a b2x. Twenty
,iah; pounds ale days work for one Of
these little automatous. Forty machines
Oh Ilis floor make five hundred aud sixty
pounds of pins daily. These are then pol
ished. Two very Intelligent machines re-
ject every crooked pin, even the slightest
IRE ularity from beiog detected. Anoth-
CT azicmaton asserts hail dozen lengths
in as many boxes, all at ouce, aud uner
rinsiy, when careless operator has mixed
the contents of boxes from various ma
chinrs. Lastly, perfect genius OF a ma
chine hangs The pins by the heads in an
lseea y. Fl;.s! l II 81 Il s uftuy slots
as there are pins in a ro8 on the papers
Thtse slots converge inso the exact space
spanuing the length of row. Under
then runs the strip Of pin paper. a barb
like part OF The machine catches one pin
from each of the slots as II falls, aud 0y
one movement sticks them all through the
corrugated ridges in the paper, from which
they are to be picked by taper fingers IN
boudDris and all sorts Of human circum-
stances.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-05-06
The Use of SaxOa words.

1t is well known that the English Ian
guage has received many words of latin
origin, as the result of the Norman CON
! quest in 1866, and through the cultivation
Of Latin classics. What our language
would have been without the use of words
thus introduced, is a curious problem.
Dean Trench suggests that, confning our
selves to the use of pure Saxon words, we
might have said sand-waste for desert ;
blood bath. for massacre sin-hood for del
! uge; sea-robber, for pirate; water-fright,
for hyd:ophobia Show-holiness, for hypoc-
racy gold-hoard, for treasurer well-Will
ingness, for beneyolence undeadlincss.
for Immortality; uutellabe, for ineffable ;
great-doingly, for magnifcently sour
dough, for leaven; uncunninguess, for
ignorance eye-bite, for facinate eugripe,
for embrace ear-shrift for auricular CON
fession dipper, for Baptist, ETC.
Those familiar with the German lam
guage will notice that the Saxon elements,
having but little outside influence to pre-
vent their natural expansion in that Ian
guage, have taken nearly the form suggested
above. Thus We have fnger-hat for thin
bic; room man for carpenter; cutter, for
tailor; (our word tailor means a cutter,
from the French taller, to cut); cloth
dealer, for draper; foot-folk, for infantry
riders, for cavalry.
And it is another fact noticeable in this
connection that there are large class of
words in which we do now use Saxon COM
pounds, instead Of borrowed words, that
are to common ears purely conventional
and meaningless. We give few among
the many; Music teacher, binder,
writiug-desk, book case, watch pocket, ink
stand, pin-cUshion, goldsmith, watch-ma-
ker, paper-dealer, ETC. Why could We not
say cloth dealer as well as paper-dealer
The merest tyro in our language would
know readily the meaning Of cloth-dealer
while We presume there are millions who
speak the English language, who could not
tell whether draper dealt in cloth or iron,
orlumber; not ever having seen the French
word drap. So silk-dealer is expressive
and sufficiently elegant; but n1ercer-mer-
/ cy scholar could scarcely remember it,
! unless richer than scholars are apt to be
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-05-06
EBENsBURG, PA. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1869

! Iotneriess godownIn sorrow to the grave
I aud wives aud little children are made tC
suffer more than death by intemperanee
y, Mira, | would far rather have You die
now, while your heart is pure and free
from sorrow, than have you live, and in
the iong years to come, fiud misery AID
woe in a druDkaId'z bone Remem ber
peor Atwell, and promise what [ wish"
Il promise, and may heaven help me to
keep my secret" ! replied She smiled
and whispered, Il am going 10 sleep
good -;s<L., sister. 1T was a very long
good night to me, for ere the Ring of tie
morning star, Elsie, my beautiful sister,
had gone to meet her Cod
"TheTe was not one in all my circle of
friends aud acquaintances who refused
wine IN the festive balls, and many of
them enbibed freely of strong stmu!ants.
| turned coidly from them all. There
was nothing to attract my love, and could
not marry any one OF them aud keep my
promise to Elsie. l kept my promise sa-
credly unbroken, and my coolness to all
who whispered of love, woo for me the
name OF "marble hearted.'"
Till [ came, darling he said, drawing
her nearer to hIa bosom.
"IeS, till you came; and, though loved
you dearly, had you drank that glass Of
wine, should have refused to marry you.
Oh, Warren, you can never know what
unutterable joy [ experienced when you
refused the cup offered you
May heaven and the spirit of your sweet
sister help me to be worthy of your love,
for it was the happiest hour of NY life,
when met with Mira, the marble heart
ed''' said be, smiling.
eyes, it was happy hour, and [ koow
by the sweet cortent Of my heart tonight,
that the spiri: of Elsie is smiling upon me
for having SO faithfully kept my promise" "
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-05-06
A Pile OF GgePubaCkS Ground
up.

/ few days ago, when one Of the en-
ployees Of Clark & Co.'S paper mill near
he aqueduoj, was engaged in running
through the ''ragpicker' lot of old cloth
ing. his attention was attracted to some
bits Of greenish paper which had gone
through the machine. On closer lnspec-
ton they proved to be scraps of green
backs, which had been clipped into pieces
by the knives in the picker" The man
found hat full Of those scraps, and in
stead of gathering them up carefully, and
devoting a portion of his valuable time in
fitting the scraps together, he picked up .
portion of the valuable debris, and gave
them to friends as evidences of curious
discovery he had made Of a fortune which
had been run through a mill The scraps
are of the denominations Of SIS, SO, $50,
$50, and 500, and an estimate made from
the quantity of pieces found indicates that
not less than $4,000 was in the package
v-hich was ground up in the ''ragpicker.'
In a small bunch of the debris taken IN
with regard to the contents, there were
twenty pieces with S100 on them. Now
that it is too late to effect anything OF con-
sequence in the matter, we learn that the
finder Of those greenback scraps intends
to try and make collection of them, and
fit the pieces together The theory of the
money getting into the picker, is that the
coat which contained the money was one
of lot OF soldiers blouses, which were
collected at different points, and that the
money was sewed in the breast of blouse
which belonged to an officer who had died
in hospital, and the secret Of the green
backs died with him Doubties the poor
fellowss family often wondered what be-
came Of his money, and the rag-picker has
solved the mystery, but unfortunately to
no good purpose.-Doyto' Journal