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Reasons for Temperance.

Reason /. Because the use oft does
no good, and great harm. 1t never
made man stronger. 1t contains no
nourishment. Our fOrefathers, for
some thousands of years, did without
it, and were probably stronger than
we are. 1t never made a man richer,
but has brought many a one to rags
and beggary. One vice costs more for
its maintenance than two children.
1t never made a man happier. Its
moments of bliss are rapid by hours
of misery. 1t never made a man
healthier. It's Opreservative against
infection, no safeguard against the
weather, and very rarely a necessary
medicine in the treatment of disease.
1t never made a man better. His
drinking companions are not likely
to improve him, His temper, his
principles, his habits, are no way bet
ter by its use; but many a man has
scared his conscience, quenched the
Holy Spirit, and drunk damnatiOn to
himself by falling under the curse
No drunkard shall inherit the king
dom of God.
Reason 2. Because total abstinence
is required for my own safety. Tenn
perate drinking is the way to make
q drunkard. That sot once drank pru-
IDENTIFY and temperately too. Eoman
is proof against temptation, and no
habit is more deceitful in its approach
or more uneonquerable when formed
There is no safety but in letting ar
dent spirits alone entirely. If / am
temperate, this will be easy-if it is
not, the reason for abstinanee is the
more urgent.
Reasons. Because my example shall
not be snare to others. Every man
who drinks, contributes to peTpetuate
the present system of drinking, with
all the drunkenness it entails. Let
every temperate person entirely alb
stain, and the temperate would no
more fall victims to the vice, those
Just forming the habit would be res
cued, the irreeOverable would soon
drink themselves offthe stage, and the
land be purified from this desolating
sim. Who will not join in a measure
calculated TO effect so glorious an OBJ
;ect? Will a man of humanity hesi-
tate? A Christian surely cannot.
These are reasons sufficient for en-
tire abstinence from an article which
is rarely useful, and Herer accessory
10hieh is dttCdys dangerous, and COM
monty rJIiHOtts.
1.-The prudent man fOreseeth the
evil, and hideth himself; the simple
pass on, and are punished. IA. t.
s., Tract No. %.
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The Garden of Eden.

Except the North Pole, this has
hitherto been the greatest and most
perplexing of all our geographical
mysteries but the ancient Babylonish
documents which have been uneaTth-
ed in the ruins of Nineveh have furn-
ished Sir Henry RawlinsOn with
the key to the mystery at last, and
this profound Asiatic scholar is now
at work upon a paper to prove by
their authority that the Garden OF
Eden is the natural name of Babylon.
This theory, should it stand the test
of the criticism it is sure to meet, will
alter some of our old metaphors and
readings of the historical books of the
Bible, more than even DIR. COlenso's
algebraic calculations; but Sir Henry
Rawlinson is not the man to jump at
conclusions, and he has collected n
great mass of evidence to bear upon
the point.
The Babylonish' papers which Mr..
George Smith has collected and put
together from the Nineveh Library,
for instance, give an exact geograph-
ical account of the Garden of Eden;
and what is more, the description of
the Paradisaical rivers, in the book of
Genesis corresponds, even down to
the names, with the descriptions that
have been found in the rolls of papy-
rus of the original Babylon. Sir
Henry Rawlinson does not stop even
here. The books of Moses are, he
believes, little else than popular and
poetical account of traditions that
were preserved by the priests of Baal (;
and he is now hard at work attempt
ing to trace the whole of the history
of the books of Genesis from the orig
inal document. The description Of
the Flood and of the building of the
Tower of Babel, in these papers, is
almost identical with that of the book
of Moses. The story of Joseph and
Potiphar's wife is among the most an
cient and beautiful of the ballads of
Persia and if Sir Henry Rawlinson
and Mr.. Smith now between them
succeed in tracing the original of the
Mosaic account of the Creation, its
description of Paradise, its account
of the Patriarch Abraham, of Noah,
the Flood and the tower of Babel, to
the writings of the priests of Baal,
we may anticipate decided sensation
in the way of discovery and of relig-
iOuS criticism.
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Mathematical Prodigy.
From the Missouri Republican.
A. -. ,,,.,, l-,,,c

from the MlsSOuEl
At or near Warrensburg, Johnson
county, this State, resides a poor wom-
an, who has a son, Reuben Field,
mere boy, untutored, and seemingly
almost incapable of literary culture,
who yet possesses most remarkable
powers of mental calculation. As ev-
idence of this, among many other ev-
licences that might be cited, gentle
man of st. Louis, who had heard of his
possessing this faculty, sent him the
following figures, viz: l45, ,145, l45, 145,
asking him to square this number
mentally-that is, multiply the num-
Der by itself. and send him the result,
with the time taken to perform it,
scarcely believing, however, nOthwith-
standing the extraordinary accounts
related of him, that he would be cap
able of the task. In this, however,
he was mistaken, as were others to
who the proposition had been named.
A letter has been received by the gen.
tleman named from highly respect
able and reliable citizen of Warrens-
burg, who states that in three minutes
time the boy Field, mentally and accu-
rately pronounced the result, 2l ,06I,- :
113, ,159, 163, III, OIL OPS, or, written in
words, twenty-one seXtilliOns sixty
seven quintillions one hundred and
thirteen quadrillions one hundred and
fifty-nine trillions one hundred and
sixty-three billions one hundred and
seventeen millions seventy-One thous-
and and twenty-five.
Though such exhibitions of mental
powers of mental calculation as the
one exhibited in the above are not al
together unheard of, they are never
the-less exceedingly rare. In tins in
stance, it will appear all the more
marvellous when it is stated that this
boy Reuben Field is almost entirely
uneducated. Indeed, the letter refer.
red to above says Field maintains it is
''of no use for him to go to school, as
he can't learn anything and never
could" In fact, in this matter of cal
culation, in which he is g marvel, he
is said to be every ignorant in all 9th
er matters" lazy, uncouth, disposed to
wander idly from place to place, and
worst of all, perhaps, sis very fond oi
drink" Yet, the letter states, ''he can
repeat the eighty-seventh line in null
tiplieation backward and forward, and
does many marvellous things in calcu-
lating mentally"
Let those who think the solution re-
quired in the proposition given above
can not be a difficult one, because rem
dered by an illiterate and uncultivated
boy, call to mind that this solution by
the usual forms of multiplication re-
quires the use of one hundred and
forty-four multiplications, twenty
three additions, and fifteen eombina-
tions of figures, and that this, by the
ordinary processes of multiplication,
is to be performed and retained in the
mind, until the process is completed.
When they realize this. or attempt the
solution itself, they will very likely
come to the conclusion that Reuben
Field is a prodigy in mental calcula-
tiOns.
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Laughable Adventure Of an ''End Man"
in Search Of a Marriage License.

Our facetious friends, the minstrels,
were having a good laugh, the other
day, at the expense of one of their
brother artists, whose mirth-provok-
ing drolleries do nightly keep the au-
dienee in roar. The audacities of
which he is often guilty when the
cork is on, are only equalled, it ap-
pears, by the timidity which he
sometimes displays when he has to
go upon his natural cheek. The
merry minstrel is, in fact, a hopeless
ly bashful man. He is about to enter
into the state of matrimony with a
very worthy young lady. and his ad-
ventures in search of a license were
the subject of the joke. They should
be added to his account of the as
founding adventures which befell him
in the air after the great steamboat
explosion.
How he got through the wooing,
and how he summoned up courage to
propose, is known to the minstrel
alone. He had somehow passed
through these important stages, and
all that remained to do was to obtain
legal sanction for carrying his inten-
tions to an honorable close. At this
critical juncture the happy man be-
gan to waver. He trembled at the
certainty of the thing he was about
to do. He threw himself upon the
sympathies of friend, and they both
started out in search of the county
clerks office. Before they had pro-
ceeded far the brevet bridegroom grew
faint, and disappeared into q drug
store, from which he was quickly
rescued by his friend. Immediately
after that another weakness seized
him and he drove into a basement,
and there he came up smiling. After
Some persuasion he was induced to
enter the court house, but not know
ing which was the clerks office he
wandered into the superior court
room. A case was on trial. A man
was sueing for divorce from his wife
on the ground of infidelity. The
evidence was appalling. '"The min
strel turned away; o, do not deem
him weak" He thought he had
come to the wrong place, so he went
into another room. 1t was the re-
eorderis court. A man was on trial
for beating his wife. The testimony
disclosed a fearful state of domestic
horrors, and the minstrel grew sick.
By the time he reached the county
clerks office he was speechless- The
clerk who issued the marriage lisenees
asked him if he would run for phys
ieian. The sick man looked wildly
around the room and then family
calculated, mo; want to know if
you can tell me how much the fare is
to Yokohama" Here his friend adj
ministered a gentle punch in the
ribs which revived him sufficiently to
enable him to pop the question. The
license was granted, and the comic
artist was seen no more that day.
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Influence of q NeMsnaper.

A school teacher who has been en-
gagged long time in his profession,
and witnessed the influence of a news
paper on the minds of a family OF
children, writes as follows:
"I have found it to be the universal
fact, without exception, that those
childred of both sexes, and of all ages,
who have access to newspapers al
home, when compared with those who
have not, are better readers, eXcelling
in pronunciation, and consequently
read more understandingly. They are
better spoilers, and define words with
ease and accuracy.
"They obtain practical knowledge
of geography in almost half the time
it requires others, as the newspaper
has made them familiar with the most
important places, nations, their gov
ernments and dOings on the globe.
"They are better grammarians; for,
having become so familiar with every
variety in the newspaper, from the
commonplace advertisement to the
finished and classical Grafton of the
statesman, they more readily compre-
hend the meaning of the text, and
consequently analyze its construction
with accuracy"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-19
Girdlinr the Earth with Cables.

Before another year rolls around
the world will be encircled with tele-
graph lines. -Four links of extended
telegraph cable connect England with
India and the Isles of the sea beyond,
Futher India, land now a fifth is to be
laid from the Straits of Malaeea to
Hong Kong. The lines now laid are
the Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta ;
the eAnglo-Mediterranean the British
Indian Extension Telegraph eOmpan-
les. From a station of the latter ca
BILE 1,640 miles long will reach China,
and so the wolrd.will be nearly belted,
and will be virtually so when Japan
is reached. On this cable now pro-
posed there will be station in Cochin
China. Another section proposed, of
1000 miles in length, will be from
Hong Kong to Shanghai, touching at
the treaty ports. The Hong Kong
section is to cost e508, 900. The cap
ital stock Of the company is to be paid
up by November, 1870, and the cable
is to be fully laid by June, 1S7l.
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IreIand-What Her Destiny.
rFrom the New Yorl, TimesJ


1t may be hard to deal with a peo-
pie as impatient and suspicious as the
Irish. They are race of rare, and
in some respects troublesome quail
ties. Quick, lively, mercurial, irasei-
BILE, full of Imagination and poetry
proud of their country, their race,
their ancestry, their valOr, their re-
igiOn- proud of their old kings, who
warred upon the Dane and Norman
of their priests, who carried the cross
in triumph from coast to coast, long
before the Saxon had ceased to wor-
ship strange gods in Druid groves
proud of chiefs like OiNeil, of sol
diers like Sarsfield and Wellington,
of orators like Grattan and Burke, OF
poets like Goldsmith and Moore. In
every country but their own, Irish
men have risen to be kings among
men. 1t seems as if some enchant-
ment hung over this strange island,
that the home it offers Is misery and
poverty, and that the Irish character
only finds true life under alien skies.
The men who cross the seas to sit in
the councils of Napoleon, to COM
mand armies against Frederick, to be
marshals and statesmen in Spain, TO
rule in America with the rigOr OF
Jackson, and show in war the genius
of Sheridan, are mere rebels and out
casts in their own country only TO be
ruined with the hard sceptre of Crom-
well, or the stern and wicked dOmin-
ion of martial law.
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ernment. The law should touch the
rights, the business and the feelings
of the citizens at as few points as is
consistent with the preservation of
order, and the maintenance of Justice.
If every department of the govern
ment is kept within its own sphere,
and every officer performs faithfully
his own duty without magnifying his
office, harmony, efficiency and econo-
my will prevail.
Under the providence of God, the
people of this state have greatly pros
pered. But they cannot forget that
in their midst are many thousands of
sufferers who are entitled to sympa-
thy and relief They are to be found
in our hospitals, our infirmaries, our
asylums, our prisons, and in the abodes
of the unfortunate and the erTing.-
The founder of our Religion, whose
spirit should pervade our laws, and
animate those who enact, and those
who enforce them, by His teachings
and His example has admonished us
to deal with all those victims of ad-
versity, as the children of our COM
mon father. With this duty perform
ed, we may confidently hope that for
long ages to come our country will
continue to be the home of freedom
and the refuge of the oppressed.
Grateful to the people of Ohio for
the honOrs they have conferred, l ap-
proach a second term in the executive
office deeply solicitous to discharge,
as far as in me lies, the obligations and
duties which their partial judgment
has imposed.
At the conclusion of the address the
oath of office was administered by
Chief Justice Day. The joint commit
tee then escorted the Governor to his
Office, and then the members of the
General Assembly returned to the
Senate chamber where the oath OF
office was administered to John G..
Lee, Lieutenant Governor elect, by
Judge Brinkerhoff.
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The Laws Of Ohio and Women.

! Judge Tilden, of Cleveland, in a
I communication to the Herald thus
sums up the condition of woman be-
fore the laws of Ohio, both as a prop
erty owner and a wife:
BY the laws of Ohio, do not find
| that she now suffers.
First-The wife is allowed to make
her will and dispose of her real and
personal property as she pleases, irres-
pective of her husband he, however,
having a life estate in her property
after her decease.
SecOnd-She has exclusive control
during coverture of all such property
rs she had at the time of marriage,
and all such property as she may have
acquired during coverture. If it be
lands she may lease them, and receive
the rents to her own use, and her hus-
band can have no control over her
property, real or personal, nor can he
require her to employ any portion of
it for the support of the family, but he
must support her and family from his
own resources.
Third-If the husband dies, leaving
no children or their Representatives,
she inherits all of his personal proper
ty, and so of all his real estate, unless
it came by devise, or deed of gift,
from an ancestor. In that case, she
takes life interest in his whole real
estate, and if the real estate came not
by devise, descent, or deed of gift, she
takes all.
Fourth-If the husband, from in
temperance Orother cause, fail to make
suitable provision for her, she, by ap-
plication to court, may be clothed
with all the rights of a single woman,
make contracts, sue and be sued, etc.
Fifth-At the death of her husband
leaving children, she takes a dover
interest in one-third of his real estate,
and takes one-third absolutely of all
his personal property. In addition to
this, she has years support out of
his estate and certain articles of per-
sonal property.
SiXth-She may bring suit against
her husband during coverture for any
invasion of her property.
Seventh-In case of any questions
arising between them as to the custO-
dy of their children, no superior claim
! is recognized il the husband. The
question of custody is settled with
reference to the best interests of the
child.
Eighth-If the husband offer per-
sonal violence, she may prosecute him
as though he were q stranger.
The husband has but one advan-
tage over the wife. He has life estate
in the whole of herrealproperty in case
of her death, while in case of his death
she has life interest in but One-third
of his real estate. At marriage, if he
has property and she has none, and is
in debt, the law compels him to pay
those debts, while, if he be in debt at
marriage and has no property, and
she has property, she is not obliged to
pay his debts. On the whole, as the
law now stands, the husband suffers
most by the marriage relation in
| Ohio.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-19

OThe State Of Ohio. Trumbun County, IS.
CfUiI -4ctiOn. Seth NJ. Laird, Plaintiff. VS..
Calvin A. Harmon, Annie E. Harmon, Jesse
S. Haymalzer, George Parsons, Jacob Ritter,
James Hoyt, Admir- of L. Z. Hoyt & Co.,
Thomas ]. McLain, Thomas ]. McLain, Jr.
George Stowe and Edward Th0rp, Deft's.
By virtue of an order Of sale issued out Of
the Court of Common Pleas, of Trumbull
County, Ohio, in the above named case, to
me directed and delivered, have levied
on and shall expose to public sale at the door
of the Court House in the city of Warren,
Trumbun County, Ohio, on Saturday, the 9TH
day of February, A. d. 1870. between the hours
of one and three O'Clock, p. m. of said day,
the following described lands and tene-
ments, situate in Warren Township, Trum-
bull County, Ohio and known as part Of ori-
gfnal Lot No. q CD and is also in the city
of Warren, bounded on the north by Wash
ington Avenue; east by lands contracted to
B. f. & d. Gibbons, by George Parsons; south
by lands of Lucy Brown, and Church Lot; (;
west by lands of Frederick Kinsman, and is
the same land decided to said Calvin A. Har-
mon, by Warren D. Hall and wife, and by
George Parsons, and is known as the late
homestead Of c. A. Harmon.
Appraised at SSO00,00. Terms Cash.
G. W. DICKINSON, Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office, Warren, o., Jan. 3, lSTO-5t.
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NTASTER COMMISSIONERS

MASTER COMMISSIONERS
M SALE. The State of Ohio, Trumbun
County, IS. In the Court Of Common Pleas
Matthias Mandle, ct. al. VS.. John NJ. Bu-
chanan, ct. al.
BY virtue of an order of sale issued out Of
the Court of Common Pleas, of Trumbull
County, Ohio, in the above entitled cause, to
me directed and delivered, shall expose 10
public sale upon the premises, hereinafter
described, on Saturday, the 5th day Of Feb
ruary, A. D. 1870, between the hours of one
and three o'clock, p. m, Of said day, the fol-
lowing lands and tenements in the said peti-
ton described, to-wit: Situate in the village
of Hubbard, Trumbull County, and State of
Ohio, known as part of Lot No. 45, in the
original survey of Lots in Hubbard town.
ship, described as follows: Commencing in
the center of the north and south center
road of said Hubbard, tfty-seven feet north
from the north line Of part of said original
Lot forty-fiye, now sold to Thomas; thence
west 200 feet; thence north "A feet; thence
east in a parallel line with said south line 200
feet to the center of said road; thence south
along the center of said road seventy-four
feet to the place OF beginning, subject to right
Of way in eight feet across the west end OF
said Lot, as described in deed of William
Hullz and wife to Mandle & Gharing.
Appraised at 3. Terms Cash.
JULIUS n. COWDERY,
Special Master, Commissioner.
Warren, o., Jan. 5. lS7O-5t.
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To Prevent Kerosene Oil Explosions

First. Never fill kerosene lamps
after dark, but fill them in the day
time.
Second. Never allow a lamp to be
placed on mantle-pieee, whether the
same has CRATE or a stove fire, as the
heat of the same will cause the oil to
be more infiamable, and liable to ex-
plode when lighted.
Third. 1t is common practice in
cigar and other factories to have their
lamps hung on wire from the ceilings;
they should be removed when not in
use, as the heat of the stoves ascends
toward the ceiling the effect being the
same as the second suggestion.
Fourth. Do not allow the wick to
get baked or crusty; trim it frequent
1u
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A Woman Rebellion in Maine.

A singular and unfortunate scene
occurred at the State House in Angus
tn, Maine, on Wednesday. Mrs.
ThurstOn, of Portland, had caused a
notice of a sale of the State of Maine,
its rights, appurtenances, &C., to be
posted up on the doors of the State
House, and little before 10 O'Clock
she assembled the Speakers rOstrum
and proceeded to sell the State to satis-
fy her unliquidated claim. Several
bids were made by the Senators and
Representatives at fabulous sums, but
finally the lady struck it off to herself
and took her seat in the Speakers
chair. As far as this went, all was
well; but the time for the opening of
the session had now arrived, and Mrs.
II. was politely requested to come
down from her position, but she de-
clined to do so, saying that she had
bought in the State and must stay and
keep her position. Upon the Clerk
ordering the messengers to remove
her VI ct drHis, a scene of great con-
fusion ensued. She utterly refused to
be circulated by force. The members
began to beg Mrs. T. to go out quietly,
but she was deaf to their entreaties;
she resisted fiercely, but was finally
persuaded to retire, and was last seen
in the State Library, looking up legal
authorities to sustain her claim. The
Argus says the affair was universally
regretted by all as a very unfortunate
circumstance, because the subject of it
was a woman, and one who is deemed
to be demented upon one subject, al
though perfectly sane upon all other
questions.