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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

ANEW ELECTRO TOPOGRAPHIC MACHINE, in
vented by N. Henri Fontaiae, is now work
ing in one of the public Offices at Prais,
where it prints quickly and economically
the short papers required in courts of Law,
Offices, and commercial houses. Like the
electric telegraph, it acts by substituting
fixed for movable types, only one type
being used for each letter. Steel types are
arranged around two horizontal discs
placed one over the other. Above these
is a metallic circle furnished with notehes
corresponding with the types below. BY
an extremely simple machine, as the han
die in the centre cf ths presses against the
notch representing the required letter, an
electric shock lowers the type upon sheet
of paper, prints the letter and returns to its
place; and so rapidly may the whole pro-
cess be completed that a hundred letters
may be printed in a minute. When the
paper is printed it is transferred to the
lithographic stone TO be worked OF. The
Typography is said to be remarkably clear
and distinct.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
A PrOYerb,

Do you not like proverbs ?. We do
Perhaps you remember this short one
which kindly crept into our column Of
knowledge and Good Nature" q short
time ago: Constant occupation prevents
temptation" 1t doesn't sound very mu-
sical but it has rung IN our ears so con-
staptly and the thought has done Us so
much good, that we are disposed to talk
about it-a little.
Some people think that word "tempta-
tion" Is a fearful thing. Don't be fright
ened at it. It doesn't necessarily convey
ideas of lying, stealing, numbering, and
such other horrible things but may ap-
ply to little things not nearly so frightful
and yet almost as powerful to do evil If
we could only learn that it is little things
that do us good and help US on, it would
be . grander accomplishment on our part
than committing the whcle dictionary to
memory, and far more profitable
How much happiness there is sometimes
made IN this world by q smile, how much
sadness by frown But you have heard
ibis sermon about 'tlittle things" many
lines already and we viii not repeat it.
What we began to write about, was how to
keep from being troubled by temptations
of any sort, little or large, foolish or iend-
ish.
The whole lesson is given in that little
proverb: Constant occupation prevents
temptation" 1t is an excellent truth ex-
pressed in what lOgician would call an
''abstraet" manner. Stated ''concretely"
it might be expressed as follows:
Ifyos feel inclined to Jro10T, the best
way to keep from doing so is to smile.
If you are tempted to be lazy, the best
way to drive away the inclination is to 90 to
lCOTk-
If you have heard some evil, corrupt
story which rings in your ears and you
know is poisoning your mind, and your
thoughts will dwell upon it, the best way
to drive the ugly thing away IS to ttnS
about something else, or read or talk about
something else.
In short it means this: if goa soGni to re-
frain from doing something torO1g or tnnpToft-
Table Do SOMETHING RIGHT AND PROFITABLE.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
Gen. Won GOeben Oh the Fighting at
SaarbrUck-Female Barring.

A war correspondent of an English Jour-
nal gives some remarks on incidents in the
fight at SaaTbruck. "The thing which
struck me most in the whole of the fight, 4"
said the general, "Was the deliberate he
roism displayed by the Saarbruck women.
They entered the lines, bullets and grape
shot flying fast and thick, in q cart, dis
mounted, and carried the baskets and bot
ties, with which they intended to refresh
the weary troops right forward where they
thought they might be wanted. If ball
or bullet struck The ground or an object
close TO them, they started but immediate
ly after walked on as if nothing had hap
Pened." So much to the eternal credit of
these women.
On one of the superior officers asking
the General what effect the French artil-
lery-lot the mitrailleuses-h had had on the
German troops, the reply was not quite in
telligible in its first half, bat the following
statement ID as authentic as the description
given above: During the last half hour
or so, the French, probably imagining that
certain part of the ground was occupied
by our reserves, kept Up furious grape
fire upon it, the shot constantly whistling
in the air, and of course hitting no one s"
4 third observation is as follows: "The
noise, gentlemen, which the present rapid
way of firing, together with the mitraIlle-
uses, creates is something deafening, and I
certainly never in 1866 heard anything
like it.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
The Beaver in Alaska,

A stroll along the banks of the small
river revealed many fresh beaver tracks.
The beaver, when forced TO leave his home
by the spring freshets, which fill it with
water, seeks his living along the banks OF
the small river until the waters snbside
He Is q gregarioUs and playful animal
fond OF gymnastics for their own sake
When he finds a steep, smooth, mud bank.
be usually amuses himself by crawling ND
and then sliding off into the water, repeat
ing the process many times, apparently
enjoying the fun as mach as boys do
coasting. He is nocturnal in his habits.
and very timid. Taking the small canoe.
huriila padded patiently up and down,
making as little noise as possible, and
scanning the water near the banks for the
beavers nose. This is the only part visi-
ble, the rest being below the surface.
A crack followed by a shout, told that
my old Scotch rifle had done its work, and
Kurilla soon appeared in triumph, bearing
q small beaver. The flesh Of this animal
is to most persons disagrceable. A slight
odOr and flavor which accompany it ire.
quertly producing nausea with those m
accustoped 70 it. l never ate the meat.
but the paws and tail l found very good.
The former are covered with black skin,
with only little hair near the junction
with the arm or leg. When thoroughly
boiled they resemble pigs feet. The tail
is composed OF muscular fibre, containing
a large amount of peculiarly sweet fat in
the insterstices. The skin which covers
the tail has the appearance of scales, but
there are no real scales. The skin readily
peels off if scorched in tho fire, and the
tail, when well boiled, Is delicious NOR
sci
The muscles and inner skin are reduced
by boiling to kind of Jelly, and tine whole
is so rich that one cannot eat much of il.
The castoreGnl, which is used in medicine,
Is contained in two glands, which open
near the tail. Their use is not clearly un-
derstOod, but Is probably similar to that
of musk glands II tie muskrat and musk
deer. 4 tavOrite amusement among the
Kutchin indians consists in taking the
humerus in their hands and endeaveriur
to break it; as it is very short and strong
this requires considerable strength. After
skinning the beaver, and stretching the
skin on hoop of green willow, we push
Alaska.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Wit aud Hnninr.


HE war measure-a line of battle.
JANEsvILLE people pasture" their COWS
in the street.
The Napoleonic cconundrum-Doesbenv
eannonading produce a reign?
A CELEBRATED English professor of her
aldry IS now at Long Branch, studying The
! erests of the waves.
THERE is talk Of Illuminating the theatre
OF war with electric lights.
HEY say dentists never get rich. We
admit there are many poor ones,
THE city of New York is now commonly
spoken Of by visitors from other places as
Fiskville.
WOMAN as black as the nee of spades
says she was ''borr TO blush unseen"
THE Hudson river is verv low and con-
fined to ITS bed. The fall rains may bo re-
fresh it.
TINE is money. When the CITY fathers
go on time they always use hour money.
PIGEON shooting in England is rendered
more fashionable by the title, ''dove tour
nameuts."
JOSEPHINE gave the first Napoleon a good
Deal of trouble. 1t is Nancy that has been
troubling Napoleon III.
The census takers have finished the siege
OF Troy. The population was reduced to
igures,-47, 130.
If a tailor agrees to put braid on a coat,
does he always consider the agreement
binding?
THERE IS poor fellow at Bangor, Maine,
who says ats working between meals
that's killing him."
Fun thinks the dog could have dispensed
with the ark; because he might have set up
q bark himself
TEE Turkish bath is thing to be avoid
ed by right-minded philanthropists; for
their money is expended, not on the poor,
but on the sham-poor.
IT is sreported that the New York Tribune
IS having Horace Greeley's old editorial
manuscripts engraved as maps Of the seat
of war.
THE colored servant of Miss Minnie Bra
bury, of Marshall county, Ind, who is
studying for the ministry, SAYS, ssAIissus
6rays berry well at atpresent, but she viii do
better presently"
The Earl Of sShaftesbury says that 'sif
His Holiness the Pope had a wife she would
not allow him for an hour to remain in the
belief that ho wEs infalible."
FRANCE and Germany both claim Alsace
and Lorraine by virtue Of the language Of
the people. Clearly, however, they belong
to Ireland on that score; for don't they
speak e Pat-ois?
THERE are just fourteen thousand col
onels IL Colorado.
A WRITING machine" has been invented
which, the Boston Post says, should be
operated by the steam man.
ARE Appleton ladies' thieves? Thew
.'bone" their stays and 'fsteeI' their skirts
don't they?
The town ofWheeloek. Vermont, passed
the following vote in 1897. ''Vo5ed, that
the town be at the expansa of ram for ven
dung On the new Westinghouse pews."
FROM the way they are collecting vast
stores of food in Paris, the inference is
plain that they are in favor there of q s'pro-
VisionaI' Government.-N 7. Express.
A WRITER from chihuahua, Mexico, saws
he attended dance where he saw g sign
which read; mo gentleman allowed with
out pants en-.
The local of the Fairfield, Txas, Ledger
awoke from dream that his town was q
clty-of palaces, to find himself in a hog
pen.
1T IS an Indiana paper that says shut
few readers IN the Uniied States of Napo-
Icons dispatches that the soldiers were fulI
of elan know that the word means Deans.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

New APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY.-An
electric marine buoy, the invention OF II.
Z. Duchemin, was exhibited at CherbOugh
some time since by order of the Minister
of Marine. The electricity vas produced
by the constantly renewed action of The
sea-water on zinc, but the inventor has
since carried on a series of experiments in
order to ascertain ifan increase of intensi-
ty could not be obtained as in ordinary
batteries by means of certain chemical
substances, held in suspension around
the zinc or charcoal element. The new
battery resulting from the experiments
consists of porous vase fixed on wooden
buoy or foater. The vase is surrounded
by thick zinc cylinder, pierced with
holes, the wire of which represents the
negative pole. Within the porous vase is
placed a slab of gas retort charcoal, to
which is affixed the conductor of the posi-
tive pole; the charcoal is surrounded by
pieces of coke and perchlorate of iron. The
vase is carefully closed, and the battery
when plunged in the sea Immediately gives
forth large quantities of electricity. A COM
mission, consisting of N. Becquerel, Gen.
eral Morel and Marshal Valiant, has been
appointed to examine this marine electric
apparatus.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

ALIENS LUNG BALsAM Has proved it.
self to be the greatest Medical Remedy for
healing the Lungs, purifying the Blood and
restoring the tone of the Liver. 1t excites
the pAlocm which is raised from the
Lungs. thereby the Cough, Pains, Oppres-
sion, Nigh Sweats and Difficulty Of Braath-
ing, aii Iha above symptoms viii be cured,
aud the whole system again restored TO
health. Fog sale by all Medicine Dealers.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

DEEP SEA ExPLoRATIoNs.-Ausl oi
July % contains o. Schmidts, of GTatz,
report of some deep-sea explorations in the
Adriatic. at depths varying between 81
and $50 fathoms he found no abundance
of animal life except foraminifera, and at
tributes this to the absence of great cur
rents, such rs those in which the variety
of animal life in the depths of the Atlantic
is due. A prodigious amount Of bathyblus
and cocoliths was obtained, the former
brought to the surface in drag -nets-being
always accompanied by the latter, which
are one of the constituents of chalk, and
form no uIimpcrtant element in the newer
and even in the most recent strata on the
Italian coast, which have been thrown
back into the sea by gradual elevation.
These observations indicate q wider dis
lribution of bathybius than has hitherto
been supposed.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

THE largest Billiard Hail in the United
State,, Is that OF j. NJ. Brunswick Dc Bro,
Chicago, which has just been fitted up in style
second to none in the country. containing I9
tables, which were manufactured expressly
for the new hall, at BTunswick's NianufactO-
~, At and 49 State street. For beauty and
finish they are unsurpassed by none. Messrs.
Brunswick & Bro. have large mandatory
at Chicago and also at Cincinnati. Their
tables have attained reputation among all
leading billiard experts as being the best
that areimade. They being manufacturers
they are enabled to offer them a. prices which
DEFY competition. Those in want of tables
for public halls, private dwellings,, &C., will
find the Brunswick patent ahead Of all. Their
revolving combination dining and billiard
table is something new, of their own patent.
Pricelist and circular sent on application.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

BRYAN, SMITH & Co., 11s Lake ST., Chicago,
have on hand the largest variety OF fine
French china, foreign and domestic glass;
ware, crockery and fancy goods to be found
in the northwest. Importing their own wares
direct, they are able to compete with any
house in America. Call and see their store
whether you wish to purchase or not. 1t viii
repay the trouble.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

RAPIDrTY OF NERVOUS SENsATIoN.-Pro-
fessor Helmholtz communicates to the
Mouatsbericht of the Berlin Academy,
1870, the results of some new measure
ments by u. Baxt of the rapidity with
which excitation is propagated along the
motor nerves of man, which measurements
are more exact than those previously made
by Helmholtz, Scheske, Hersch, Kohl
rsusch, De Jaeger, Won Witch, Fizeau,
Donders, and others. The ascertained
rapidIty of the propagation varies between
80 aud 80 metres per second; ana is also
greater in summer than in winter. This
fact led to q more exact observation of the
influence of temperature, which was as
csrtained by srtificially warming or COOL
ing the arm. Tho interval of time be-
tween O volition and the corresponding
movement of a muscle is, therefore, great
er in winter than in summer. Fizeau, it
will be recollected, held that the transmits
sion of an order from the brain to the
muscles took one-tenth Of q second, and
that the muscles took one-hundredlh of a
second in getting into motion. DR.. Gould
found the velocity with which galvanic
signals are transmitted through iron wires
on poles to be from II, 600 to Is, 600 miles
per second, and about G, 700 miles second
through the submarine cable. The speed
of thought" is, therefore. much less than
that of ordinary telegraphy.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
Gle sJurt's Corner.
GOOD NIGHT.
Translated FROM THE GERMAN OF eIEBEL, b
DIR. n. B. ADAMS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF eIEBELs
DR. n. B. ADAMS.
The moon her flock is guiding,
While night is on the silent earth;
,cIouds beneath her gliding,
She gives her gentle night song birth,
and she so sweetly sIngeth,
So soft her music fingeth,
Int NY heart in silence sliding.
Let thy slumber quiet be;
The noisy day has fed in air;
The love Of God doth cover thee
Everywhere.
Tho birds are homeward vending;
They seek on high their sheitering nests;
Each twig and aoweret bending,
In the bland, smiling moonli4 ht, rests.
The wster-mill is quiet;
The brook forgets Its riot.
Its murmurs with the stiffness blending.
Let thy siumber quiet be;
The noisy cay has fed in air;
The love of God doth cover thee
Everywhere,
It is the hour of dreaming;
lis welcome sprites are at the door;
Songs, in The palace beaming,
The harper cbsnted, ali are o'er.
AZ sea the fisher seepeth;
His watch The shepherd keepeth.
The mountain fires around him cleaning,
Let thy slumber quiet be;
The noisy day hasfied in air;
The love of God doth cover thee
Everywhere.
Within the cottage loyly
Tie taper meets no more the eye;
Tho woes that pass so slowly.
So heavy in the daylight, fly.
Softly the cypress waveth-
Oblivion's billow laveth
The soothed sense with influence holy.
Let thy slumber quiet be;
The noisy day has aed in air;
The love Of God doth cover thee
Everywhere.
WhCrc'cr an eye is weeping
Unseen and fast its bitter tears,
Or heart, its deep love keeping,
DrOorefh beneath o'ermas.erinG fears,
Thithe- soft dreams are hieiug,
To sOOthe the sad One lying,
And hope her gentle harpis sweepinS.I
Letthy slumber quiet be;
The noisy day has fed in air;
The love Of Gcd doth cover thee
Everywhere
Good night 10 all the weary
Ana you, beloved, far and nigh;
I 700, no longer dreary,
Rest till tbs day-star kiss my eye.
While thou, the music-loving,
Sweet Fhilomel, art moving
The night with song, and God doth hear thee.
Let thy slumbez quiet be;
The noisy day has fed in air;
The love of God doth cover thee
Everywhere.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

CHEAPER THAN BEFGKE THE WAR -l-Epi-
cures, are you aware that you can enjoy the
luxuyloe OF the dessert a: a much cheaper
rate than. ten years ago? Science has con-
yerted Wild product of the Irish coast into
an element CT immea5ureable daiLties of the
most wholesome, nutritious, and delicious
character; and the price OF this new staple is
less by Gne-half than that of any other article
of the same class containing like amount
of ntitriment Need we say that SEA Moss FA-
RiNE is the article referred to. The wealthy
and snterprising New York Company en-
gagged in its manufacture are entitled to the
thanks Of eYsry phiianthrOpist for introduc-
ing this new source of excellent and agTeea-
BILE food ct price whl,h places il within the
reach of all. One experiment will convince
the most skeptical that with SEA Moss FA-
RINE they can produce unequalled custards,
puddiDgs, jellies, Chsrlottes, creams sauces,
&c, at less cost than before the war. The
depot of the company is at 80 Psrk Place,
New York.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
Chnifsnt,s Coco Crsnra.

DR.. Chal!snt's Coco cream, for tho hair.
suppiies want long felt by the public. It
is really scientific preparation, purely veg
etsblo, and contains no matter delctcrICus to
the hair. Price 80 cents per bottle.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

THE National Life Insurance Co. OF Chica
SO; 500, 900 deposited in the State Treasury
cooperative plan; insurance at actual cost
Send to the home Office for rate book and
circulars, 100 Monroe street, Chicago. BeDj
Lombard, President; II. G. Childs, Secretary.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

THE PUREsT AND SWEETEST COP LIVER On
in the world is Hazard & CaswelPs, made on
the sea shore, from fresh, selected hFers,
by CASWELL, HAZARD & Co., new 1oLh.
II is absolutely pltre and stceet. Parties who
have once taken it prefer it to sll others:
Physicians have decided it superler to sny OF
the other oils in the market. Sold by ali
druggists.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

PASSAGE OF GASEOUS SUBSTANCES THROUGH
THE BoDY.-The Lancet says that at the
lecture which concluded his course on ex-
perimental medicine for the session, 1869
20, DIR. Richardson made curious expert
ment. which appears TO show that there is
a goseous form through all the tissues OF
the body, when once they have been intro
duced, and especially through The coats of
veins. Dr. Richardson introduced q fine
tube through the nostril of rabbit into
the .cranial cavity. AR or carbonic acid
rumped through this tube instantly made
its appearance in the right cavities of the
heart. The carbonic acid darkened the
blood and stopped the systole; atmespher-
ie air rendered the blood of the right side
arterial. and restored the systole.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

TIE Platteville & Calamine railroad is to
be extended from PlattevilIe to Dunleith.
The route is being surveyed. The Monroe
road ought TO be extended from Monroe to
Riverside, which extension would give
Milwaukee direct communication with Du-
buQue
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
gur tie gugs anO 6trIs.
BABY,s RIGHTS.

Her platform Is only the cradle
Her speeches are funny and few
wise little head,
But all thatis said
Is only vague little "gool'
But how bzby's rights are respected
One nod Of Ter dear, dOwny head,
Whenever she thinks she's neglected,
And down at her feet we are led.
She Lifts up her voice in a minute
Her protests are loud and long?
Zach household affair she Is in it
To see there IS nothing goes wrong.
The right to twist limbs that arc dimpled,
In every extravagant way;
To maui and to tease
The cat at her ease
To crow and to creep al the day.
The right to a love that Is purest-
The right to mothers own love
The right 70 a guide that is surest
To lead her wee footsteps above.
Her sweet little mouth she upraises,
AS pure as reso, dew impearledi
The right 10 our kisses and praises
o. these are her rights over the world
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

PRE-HIsToRTc RELICs.-In the ''Cittadino
Leucese" of June 80, there is letter from
Professor Z. Botti, giving an account Of
his successful search for prehistoric relics
in the "Grotto del Diavolo," in the Gulf
of Leuca, near the Ristola Point. There
he found and collected a large quantity of
fragments of pottery, from elegant vases
of the finest clay to the roughest objects
kneaded with sand; also bones, chiefly OF
ruminants, and, what is yet more impor-
tant, layers of ashes and charcoal, some
terra-cotta spindles, bones which had evil
IDENTIFY been worked upon by human hands,
iaths and scrapers, a needle, an implement
resembling a needle case, and wild boar's
tusk, deeply indented. de also came
across five flint weapons, and human
skeleton so brittle that il crumbled TO dCst
on being touched, and near it some objects
of lead and copper, and some vases
Signor Botti believes these things to be
the remains cf different ages, the most re-
cent of which is the age of bronze or
copper.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

Destructive CoMPoUND. war is, of
course, producing the usual number OF
marvellous compounds. A French chemist,
is reported, discovered q composition
which has the property, when it hits the
mark, of bursting that which contains 1t,
of instantly decomposing atmospheric air,
and uniting with the oxygen therein TO
produce q cloud of fire throughout d IA
dius of some yards in extent. Contact
with water, contact with any element con-
tanning oxygen produces similar effects.
In three hours quantity of this substance
may be prepared sufficient to surround an
army OF 10 600 men with sheet of fame
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

SIMPLE METHOD oP AsCkRTAINING DEATH.
DR.. Garriere of the st. Jean du Yard, in
reply 10 the offer of the Marquis d Orches,
Of premium of seventy thousand francs,
for o practical method of determining
death, furnished the following which he
saws he has practiced for forty years.
Place the hand with the fingers closely
pressed one against the other close to a
lighted lamp or candle; if alive, the tissues
will be observed to be of a transparent sr
rosy hue, and the capillary circulation OF
life in full play; if on the contrary, the
body of dead person be placed in the
same relation to light, none of the phenom-
ena are observed-we see but hand of
marble, without circulation, without Light.