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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-04
GALLrpoLIs, O., Feb. %, go.

EE~ Sun-Baths cost nothing, and
are the most refreshing, Hfe-giving
baths that one can take, whether sick
or well. Every housekeeper knows the
necessity of giving her woolens the
benefit of the sun, from time to time,
and especially after long rainy season
or long absence of the sun. Many
will think of the injury their clothes are
liable to from dampness, who will never
reflect that an occasional exposure Of
their own bodies to the sunlight is
equally necessary to their own health.
The sun-baths cost nothing, and that is
a misfortune, for people are still de-
luded with the idea that those things
only can be good or usefnl which cost
money. Let it not be forgotten that
three of Gods most beneicient gifts to
man--three things the most necessary
to good health-sunlight, fresh air and
water, are free to all; you can have
them in abundance, without money
and without price, if you will. If you
would enjoy good health, then see to it
that you are supplied with pure air to
breathe all the time; that you bathe for
ar hour or so in the sunlight; and that
you quench your thirst with no other
liquid than water.--JournaL of Health.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-04
Gg- The following conversation took

ES Inc lolloWlDS CONVERSATION looh
place in barber-shop attached to a
Washington hotel the other day:
"First man and brother, (reading a
newspaper, ID see dis Mr.. Ross
childs, what jes' died, was wo'th fo'
hundred million dollars"
Second man and brother, (strapping
a razor, )-"Who?"
First-"Mr. Rosschilds.
Second-"How much was he wort,
did you say?"
First-"Foh' hundred million of
dollars"
Second-"Goshamity? He mus a
had good districk."
First-"Good districk! What you
mean?"
Second--'1 mean good districk;
dat's what 1 mean. l spose he was a
whisky 'spector; else how could he
make so much money!"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-04

RE- A couple of drummers besieged
an old lady in Canton, Illinois, to buy
a patent churn from them. She sad
it was humbug, and they offered TO
make the butter come in ten minutes.
So she filed the machine with butter
milk, and they tugged at the crank 10 Tor
two hours before they dieovered the
unctious practical joke.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-04
PURE WHITE LEAD!
TO THE WORKING CLASS.

AM now prepared to furnish constant en-
ploy ment to all classes at their HON es for
cir spare moments. Business new, light
profitable Fifty cents to S. per ev ening
easily earned, and the boys and girls ear n
early as much as men. Great indueement
fe offered. All who see this notice please
ond me their address and test the business
sr themselves. If not well satisfied, will
end 81 to pay for the trouble of writing me.
Full particulars sent free. Sample sent by
mail for ten cents
Addres 9, E. G. ALLEN, Augusta, Maine.
Feb IL, 1669.-4w.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
Analysing a WOma n.

A. celebrated Partisan belle, who had
acquired the habit of whitewashing her
self-so to speak-from the soles of her
feet to the roots of her hair, with chemi-
cally prepared cosmetics, one day took a
medical bath, and on emerging from it
was Mortified at finding herself as an Eth
opian. The transformation was complete
Not vestage of the supreme Caucasion
race was left. Her physician was sent for
in alarm and haste. On his arrival he
laughed immoderately. and said: Mad
anne, YOU are not i'll; you are NO longer a
woman. but sulpharet. 1t is not now a
question Of medical treatment, but of SIM
pie chemical action. I shall analyze you
Come, shall submit you to bath Of
sulphuric acid diluted with water. The
acid will have the honor Of eembinin &
with you it will take up the sulphur the
metal will produce sulphate, and we
shall find as precipitate a very pretty
woman" The good-natured physician
went through with his analysis, and the
belle was restored to her membership with
the white race. Young ladies who are
ambitious of snowy compilations should
remember this, and be careful what pow
der and cosmetics they use-if they use
any at all.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
About Burning Mountains.

Geological theorists assert that the ine-
Qualities on the earth's surface arise from
uplifting Of volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.,
and to these they ascribe the inclination
of strata, etc. But the minute seams in
sandstone formation indicate that the whole
is the effect of dispositions and prccipita-
tons, while in the submcrsions by the
sea, and the advance and retreat during
perihelion periods, we have the aqueous
agency required for the precipitation.
About two hundred active volcanoes are
recorded, of which ninety mine are in is
lands. The Azares, the Lipari, the Cana
ries, etc., are examples. The ashes from
volcanoes often produce total darkness
from thirty to fifty miles around, and three
hundred miles aissApt Eieces of rocks
are elected with the force of canon ball.
-Cotopaxi once threw a piece of one hun
dred cubic yards eight miles. Fish eject
ed from volcanoes are those of neighbor-
ing waters. Lava is stony substance,
like basalt, and may sometimes be feen
at the bottom of crater red hot like melt
ed metal, bubbling as fountain. When
it over flows the crater, il is very fluid.
At Vesuvius, red hot current Of it was
from eight to ten yards deep, two or three
hundred yards broad, and nearly mile
long. In Mexico, plain was filled up
by it int a mountain one thousand six
hundred feet high, by an eruption in 1859.
Its heat was so great that it continued to
smoke for twenty years afterward, and a
piece of wood took fire in lava three years
and half after it had been elected at five
miles from the crater. Stones of immense
size to the height of seven thousand feet,
and other darkening the air, fell one hum
drcd miles distant
Thirty one great eruptions of Etna
have occurred within the records of history
In an eruption in the year 1868, the city
of Catania was overturned in moment,
and eighteen thousand people persisted in
the ruins. The crater of Etna is quar-
ter of mile high on a plain three miles
across The mouth is a mile in diameter
and shelves as an inverted cone lined with
salt and sulphur. The central fiery gulf
varies in size, and noises arise from it
with volumes of smoke. D'Orville des-
cended by ropes near the gulf, but was
annoyed by fame and sulphurous eAiuvis.
Pompeii was destroyed by showers of
ashes. but Herculaneum by hot mud, over
which six streams of lava have since accu-
mulated, They had recently been de-
stroyed by an earthquake and were re-
building In the barracks os' Pompeii
were found the skeletons of two soldiers
fastened by chains and in the vaults a
woman with child in her arms.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

With most persons there is an epoch in
life when the eyes become slightly fatten-
ed. 1t arises, probably from diminish
ed activity of the secreting vessels. The
consequence is that the globe is not kept
quite as completely distended with fluids
as in youth and in middle age. There
is thus an elongated axis of vision. A
book is held further off to be read. FL
nally, becoming more fattened by the
same inactivity within, the difficulty is
met by putting on convex glasses. This
is the waning vision of age. If, howev-
er, when that advancing imperfection is
first realized, the individual persists in
the attempt to keep the book in the old
focus of vision-even if he reads under
perplexiug disadvantages, never relaxing
but perseveringly proceeding just as he
did when his eyes were in the meridians
of their perfection. the slack vessels will
at last come up to his assistance, and
original local distance will be reestab-
lished.
This statement will unquestionably be
combated energetically by those who use
glasses; but it will be waste of franchise
power, because the fact is established be-
yond cavil. We do not pretend it will be
successful in every instance; but gener-
ally, if glasses are once resorted to. then
the opportunity of doing without them is
forever lost.
Very aged men may be noticed reading
fine print; and ladies, too, by scores, who
resisted glasses at tho age of life referred
to who enjoy all the comfort of distinct
vision; and they will, until, like the dea-
cons chaise every stick in the vehicle falls
to pieces at the So me time.
| Therefore, begin with firm resolution
never to use glasses Of any kind for read
| ing or writing. The ancients knew moth
ing about such contrivances; if they had
there would have been poor eyes in abun
dance, and oculists to meet the emergency
Cicero never complained of imperfect Wis
ion at the age of sixty three. He ever
wrote bis last letter by torchlight, on thu
eve of being put to death by the waiting
soldiers. Humboldb died at ninety two
having never been embarrassed will
modern contrivances. John Quine,
Adams, illustrious for scholarship, at
ripe old age saw without them. In
deed, it would be laborious enterpris
to collect a catalogue Of names in tn
chronicle of literary fame, Of men ant
women, who were independent of glasses
DR.. j. Y. G. Smith.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
The End Of Four Great Men.

Alexander, after having climbed the
dizzy heights Of his ambition, with his
temples bound with chaplets dipped in the
blood of millions, Locked down upon
conquered world aud wept that there was
not another world for him to conquer,
seta city on fire, and died in scene of
debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the astonish-
ment and CONSERVATION Of Rome, passed
the Alps, and having put to fight the
armies of the mistress of the world, and
stripped three bushels of gold rings from
the fingers other slaughtered knights, and
made her foundations quake, fled from
his country, being hated by shose. who
once exultingly united his name to that
Of their god and called him Hani- Baal,
and died at last bE poison administered
with his own hand, unlamented and un-
wept, in foreign land.
Caesar, after having conquered eight
hundred cities, and dyed his garments in
the blood of one million of his foes, and
after having pursued to death the only
rival he had on earth, was miserably as
sassiuated by those he considered his
nearest friends, and in that very place the
attainment of which had been his greatest
ambition.
Bonasarse, whose mandates kings and
popes obeyed, after having filed the earth
with the terror of his name, after having
deluged Europe with tears and blood, and
clothed the world in sackcIoth, closed his
days in lonely Punishment, almost literal
ly exiled from the world, yet where he
could sometimes see his country's ban
ner waving over the deep, but which did
not and could not bring him aid.
Thus these four great men who seemed
to stand the representatives of all those
whom the world calls great-these four
men, who each in turn made the earth
tremble to its very centre BY their simple
tread-severally died, one by intoxication,
or, as was supposed, by poison mingled
with his wine one suicide, one murder
ed by his friends, and one lonely exile !:
How wretched is the end of AL such EARTH
ly greatness
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

Women possess the right to vote more
extensively than is generally supposed.
In Austria, women can vote as mobiles, in
their corporate capacity as nuns, and as
taxpayers. In some cases, however, they
vote by proxy. In Hungary, up to 1S48,
widows, and single women, who were
landed proprietors, possessed the right to
vote. They were deprived of it by the
revolutionary government, and are now
petitioning for the restoration of this right.
In Canada, as in several of our own States,
women are allowed to vote for and serve
as school, trustees. In the British Aus
tralian colony of Victoria women univer-
sally assumed the right to vote about four
years ago, having found that the law had
been so framed as to permit them. In
Sweden, chiefly through the ezertions of
the late Frederika Bremen, an indirect
right of voting was, in 1862, granted to
all women possessing specified property
qualifications. In Italy, a widow. or wife
separated from her husband, may vote if
she pays taxes. Also, in Holland, single
women possessing property are entitled to
vote on all questions likely to affect its val
ne. In many towns in France women
possess and exercise the right to vote in
municipal affairs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
Agriea1tnta1 aud 1nntestie,..
Root Grating of Grape. vines.

Root Grating of Grape Vines.
A correspondents inqEires about the:
mode of roos grating of grape vines. We
annex the details as follows, by an expcr-
fenced CRATER
In the first place, see that you get good
ripe wood, not less than one-quarter inch
in diameter-less may do, but is not GER
tain. Keep this damp in sand or moss in
cellar until the ground opens in the
spring, q have performed on the 22d of
January with successO remove the EARTH
about three inches deep, select q smooth,
place, saw off the vine about six inches
below the surface, unless that comes on
the roots, in which case it may be per-
formed near the surface pear smooth with
clasp knife, split down. the stock in. the
middle ); prepare tide graft BY cutting one
inch above the bud and three below
wedge it the same as in other grating;
insertas usual, but be careful to have the
line between wood and bark Of stock and
scion to be in an exact line with each 9th
or the outside must not be guide, as
the bark of the stock will be mucis,thicker
than that of the graft. Fit the graft in,
firmly, and if the stock is still weak, he
around it with Irvine or loose mating, so,
as TO hold the graft firmly until it has
caught hold by growing, by which the
bandage will. decay and not hinder the,
igrowth of'the vine. Never use wire, as 7
have seen some recommend.
Now take the earth and press it closely
and firmly around the joint of grating,
but be careful not to move the graft al
up the bud leave the point sticking OF;
over this put loose manure Or weeds. Or
anything that will prevent frost from lift,
ing the graft out, ''or your laboris lost"
This will keep out frost, and will prevent
your bud from drying out. About the
time that vines begin TO crew. Is win be
we'll to examine occasionally toAsse #. the.
bud starts. The covering mustkepslesss;,
land as the graft progresses, take away
Eenbisely. Suckers arising out of the root
must be carefully removed, and oftentimes
degree Of patience is necessary. as LhaTe
known the gratis not to start until July,
when they began and grew well, ripening;
most of their wood. When they start,
thus late, it is well to pinch the ends Of
the shoots about the first Of September--
My usual success in this kind OF grating,
is about 80 per cent.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
Selstt Reading.
INETEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO

"When Lucretius sought to Danish
the supernatural from the universe, he
was compelled to employ much ingenuity
in endeavoring to explain, by a natural
law, why miraculous fountain near the
temple of Jupiter Ammou was hot by
night and cold by day, and why the tenn
pcrature of wells was higher in winter
than in summer. Eclipses were supposed
by the populace to foreshadow calamity !;
but the Roman soldiers believed that by
beating drums and cymbals they could
cause the moons disk TO regain its bright
ness. In obedience to dreams, the great
Emperor Augustus went begging money
throughout the streets of Rome, and the his
torian who records the act himself wrote
to Pliny, entreating the postponement of
trial. The strike of lightning was an au-
curry, and its menance was directed espe-
cialy against the great, who covered in
abject terror during thunderstorm
Augustus used to guard himself against
thunder by wearing the skin of sea-calf.
Tiberius, who protested to be complete
freethinker, had greater faith in laurel
leaves. Caligula was accustomed, during
thunder storm, to creep beneath his
bed. During the games in honor Of Ju-
Illus Caesar, comet appearing for seven
days in the sky, the people believed it to
be the soul of the dead, and a temple was
erected in its honor. Sometimes we find
this credulity broken by curious inconsist-
encies of belief, or -rationalistic ex-
plantations. Livy, who relates with per-
feet faith innumerable prodigies, has OBJ
served, nevertheless, that the more pro-
digies are believed, the more they are
announced. Those who admitted most
fully the reality of the oracles, OCCASION
ally represented them as natural, con-
tending that prophetic faculty was in
nate in all men though dormant in most !;
that it might be quickened into action by
sleep, by pure and ascetic life, or in the
prostration that proceeds death, or in the
delirium produced by certain vapors and
they added, that the gradual enfeebling of
the last was the cause of the cessation of
oracles. Earthquakes are believed to re-
suit from supernatural interpretations, and
to call for expiatory sacrifices, but at the
same time they had direct natural antece-
dents. The Greeks believed that they
were caused by subterranean waters, and
they accordingly sacrificed to Poseidon.-
The Romans were uncertain as to their
physical antecedents, and therefore insert
bed no name on the altar of explanation.
Pythagoras is said to have attributed them
to the strugglings of the dead. Pliny,
after long discussion decided that they
were produced by air forcing itself through
assures of the earth, but he Immediately
proceeds to assert that they are invaribly
the precursors of calamity. The same
writer, having recounted the triumphs OF
astronomers in predicting and explaining
eclipsss, bursts into an eloquent apostro-
phe to those great men who had thus re-
claimed man from the dominion of super
stition, and in high and enthusiastic terms
urges them to pursue still further their la
Dor in. breaking -t.Ao thraldpm. Of ignorance.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
Wheat Binder

We have had exhibited to us recently q
model Of a machine for binding wheat,
which is really ingenious, and We should
think in the hands of some of our manu-
facturers of reaping machines could BE-
brought into practical use. It's proposed TO-
be attached to any of our reapers, So as TO-
accomplish the long desired Object Of
reaping and moving at the same time
It is the invention of our young fellow
townsman, Mr.. VIM. Decourcy May. who
may be addressed at Baltimore.-Mary:
laasd Farmer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

Cultivators will find the following one
of the very best selection, for a list Of
twelve frst-class pears:
Doyenne d'Ete,. Rostiezer, Bartlett,
Belle Lucrative, Louise Bonnie de Jersy
Sheldon, Seckeb Duchesss drAugouleme,
Bcuwe d'Anjou, Lawrence, Dana's Hogey
and Glout Moroccan. The above are ar
ranged in the order of ripening, andl are
all frst-class pears for either market or
family use .-Hortacultimsst.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

The principal work in the garden for
June is. to. keep up. Thorough, cultivation
of the plants in the ground. OF course
there are fresh supplies of different vege-
tables to be planted. or seededs;- bat after
all the main business is, thorough and
sturdy tillage. Nothing suffers more than
a garden from neglect whilst nothing
better repays, liberal manuring and care
full and incessant attention.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

Henry Ward Beecher, in one of his dis
courses, said that "Some men will not
shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all
the week in shaving their fellow-men,
and many fools think it very wicked to
black their boots on Sunday morning, yet
they do net hesitate to black their neigh
boris reputation on week days"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
WOODSTOCK VA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1869.

A few chapters later he processes his in
hesitating belief in the ominous character
Of comets. The notions, too. of magic
ard astrology were detached from all the
illogical belief, and might be found among
many who were absolass Atheists"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

Who slumbers there? No answer from the stone,
No mourners near give tender, sad reply;
The echoes knew the name once ; but the
Bears no response upon its passing sigh.
This grave once darkened earth for many
hearts
Life lost its lustre and the sun its gold;
And wocful weepers walled, Console US
death %
And joy awakcs, although the loved lie
sleeping.
Forgotten By the death bed stands Despair;
Then comes space of agony and weeping !;
And then the world goes on, the mourners
SMILE
And joy awakes, although the loved lie
sleeping.
All, loving God. that bringst Times healing
balm
To bruised hearts that else would break with
That grants soft slumbers to the night of grief,
And sends the splendors to q new tc-mor-
row.
Thou didst not will it so that we should weep
Over dear graves forever and forever
IT'S thou that whisperest tenderly, some day,
When we in anguish cry, "Ah, never! new
err"
Nor do we all forget, when kindly time
Has hidden US to cease despair and weeping;
Sorrow may perish, but within our hearts
Love dwells forever-Love, not dead but
sleeping.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
NnteI Cards.

HAVING leased and refurniseed the National
Hotel, in Woodstock, / respectfully solicit
a share of the patronage of both the local and
travelling public.
This is one of the largest and most com
pletely furnished houses in the Valley of Vir-
ginia, and is situated in one of the most health
full, picturesque and convenient locations in
the valley, and will be pleasant retreat du
ring the summer months.
My Table will be furnished with the very
best Of the market, and accommodating SER
wants will be employed. The Bar will be
supplied with The choicest wines and liquors.
An experienced ostler will be in attendance at
all times. [Aprll Is, est
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

Wood ashes contains all the inorganic
ingredients which growing trees
extract from the soil, and in consequence
are Justly regarded as the best fertilizer
for apples, pears. peaches, plums, etc.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10
gpetry.
QUA CURSUM VENTUS.

As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay
With canvass dropping, side by side,.
Two towers Of sail at dawn of day
Are scarce, long leagues apart, deserted.
When feel the night, inspiring the breeze,
And all the darkling hours they piled,
Nor dreampt but each the self same seas
By each was cleaying side by side.
Fen so-but why the tale reveal
Of those whom, year BY year unchanged.
Brief absence joined anew to feel,
Astoundsdy soul from soul estranged 2
At dead ofnight their sails were slled,-
And onward each rejoicing steered;
All neither blame, for neither willed.
Orwist, what fret with dawn appeared.
- -~ss-,7 bow vain On. onward strain.
Brave barks In light, IN darkness, too,
Through winds and tides one compass guides
To that, and your own selves, be true.
But, o blithe breeze, and O great seas,
Though ne'er that earliesssparting past,
On your wide plain they join again,
Together lead them home at last!
One port methought, alike they sought,
One purpose hold wher'er they fare
0 bounding breeze, rushing seas, H
AT last, at last, unite them therel
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-10

A Mother reproved her three-year-old
daughter for eating icicles. The infant re-
piled, I didn't eat 'em, mamma, L only
sucked the juice out of 'em''...