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The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-01-25
Mrs. Lincoln.

A London correspondent writes as
follows:
will add bit of private news, not
without interest to numerous Ameri-
cans, and then dispatch this letter, the
shortness of which may atone for the
unconscionable length of my last. Mrs.
Lincoln, who is at present in London,
has just left our apartments, being an
old acquaintance of the other and better
one of us. Her friends at home, / am
assured, would hardly recognize her.
Reduced in flesh, and impaired in
health, she seems completely rejuve-
mated, if indeed rejuvenation may be
affirmed without offence of one who
has never yet been old. She is in Lon
don for the purpose of placing her son
"Tad" as school. This purpose accom-
plished, she promises, / believe, to join
her friend Mrs. Bishop Simpson at
Rome, and make with her the tour of
Italy. Mrs. Lincoln, strange as it may
sound to those who know her only
through the ISLANDERS of the Republican
press, is very intelligent and agreeable
woman. 1t is impossible to know her
without feeling that she has been cru
ely wrOnged by those who should have
been among the first to protect her.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-01-25

at is possible, miss, that you don't
know the names Of some of our best
friends ?" Certainly-I don't even
know what my own may be a year
from now"
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-01-25
The Garibaldians FlOg the Prus'
slams at Dion.
Paris News to the 2lst.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The infOr-
nation received at the Treasury De-
partment, that Mexico had extended
the free zone, proves incorrect. The
caption and first paragraph of two
column telegram to the New York Tri-
bune, is as follows:
"The return of Southern Unionists to
Washington, with the same old story
of murder, intimidation and oppres-
sion." "Crude ideas Of the power of
Congress" "What they ask" GA pro-
posed measure of relief"
"In one respect Washington to-day
wears an aspect similar to that which it
wore during the troubled days of An
drew Johnson's efforts toward recon-
struction, and that is the appearance on
the streets and in public places of South
ern Unionists. They swarm in the cap
itol and corridors now as they did then,
and the burden of their complaint is
the same old story Of murder, intimi-
dation, and proscriptive oppression
The rebels have got the upper hand of
us again, they say; and we are suffer
ing more than you can imagine, and
more than Northern people can be made
to believe"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The COM
mittee on outrages will examine into
North Carolina affairs before entering
upon a general investigation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. A.-Se'aate.-The
territorial bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Conference.
Blair's credentials were presented.
Forty thousand dollars was appropri.
ated to defray the expenses of the Com
mittee ON Southern Outrages.
The death of Norton was announced.
House. - SacOrker, from Ga, seated
after debate; Butler leading the oppo-
sition and alleging outrages. Motion
to refer lost; vote Al to 14S.
A bill was introduced to make Shire
veport, La, port of delivery.
FOREIGN INTELLIdENCE.
LONDON, Jan. 23.-Bismarck having
refused, on political grounds, to pass
Favre, Favre applied to the military
powers who granted pass respectfully
worded, to avoid political significance,
and he has probably already left Paris.
The French army of the North is ar
irving at Arras, Douai and Lille, in to-
tally disbanded and discouraged con-
dition. .4sa.. 10,
The citizens of Lille are indignant
with Gambetta whom they charge with
deceiving them on state affairs. -.
A dispatch of the 23d says that the
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-01-25

sneaking in the highest terms ofofhcers
and soldiers. Al .1D{!FI'
LONDON, Jan. M.-Several members
of the conference are instructed not 70
allow themselves to discuss any question
foreign to the programme s""" i
Longuey replies feebly.
LONDON, Jan. A.--A dispatch from
Lille, of the 23d, says that Gambetta has
received a telegram stating that Carl
baldians gained a victory on Sunday
near Dion, and that the enemy had
abandoned their strong position. "A
large amount of war material and many
prisoners captured. The Garibaldians
are actively pursuing the enemy.
Faidherbe has made long report to
Gambetta, covering the recent opera
tons of the Army of the North. He
says that he lost no artillery and no
prisoners. That, in the battle Of St.
Quentin, the only persons captured
were stragglers.
Gambetta has gone to Laval to see
Chansey.
Twelve hundred Germans have been
expelled from Marseille.
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, Jan. 3.-Pri-
vate letters confirm the fact that the
Hornet, with Ryan on board, had arriv-
ed at Port au Prince and was waiting for
cargo of arms and ammunition from
New York. Three Spanish gunboats
are watching her.
BORDEAUX, Jan. 23,-Evenhag.-The
Prussians completed the occupation of
Tours yesterday.
In the East, Bourbaki engaged since
the 18th, in series of outpost skirmish-
es with the Prussians, in which he has
been generally successful.
At st. Quentin on the 18th, Faid-
herbe's troops maintained their ground
until night, and then retreated to a
position behind the town.
The Prussians attacked Dion yester-
terday, and were repulsed and beaten,
after battle which lasted five hours.
Ricciotti Garibaldi captured flag Of
the Prussian line regiment.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived and made public by the govern
ment here:
"DIJoN, Jan. 22.-The French re.
pulsed the attack of the Prussians to.
day along the whole line, and the
enemy were pursued, and positions
held by them at Daix and Hantewill
were seized. The Garibaldians entered
Dion amid immense enthusiasm. The
Prussians in the fight abandoned theil
wounded"
LONDON, Jan. "a, 5 a. NIT is said
that Count Bernstaff has telegraphed to
Versailles, that the plenipotentiaries
present at the first meeting of the Con.
ference, are unanimously in favor of the
resolutions to prevent discussion o.
questions unconnected with the East. y
The Germans are before Cambria
They have established siege batteries
at Rumilly, near the city.
Garibaldi's operations have been sus
pended in consequence OF Bourbaki's
retreat.
The Paris correspondent to the Lon.
don Times, under date of the 2lst, says
"Trochu is generally considered incom
petent. The Council of Defense only
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
Alligat0rs.

JUST imagine black, Shiny. looking
lizard, from ten to twenty feet long, and
you have him exactly. A dirtier, nastier-
looking creature can be seen nowhere. He
Is odoriferous too-thc wrong way. Where
they are often hunted and much shot at,
alligators become very timid and shy, and
avoid men instinctively. In wilder parts
of the country they are sometimes fierce
and troublesome. AS they crowd the
banks of the rivers, travellers have fine
sport shooting at them, and even boast of
killing great many; indeed, to hear the
accounts of the cockneys when they came
down the ST. Johns river, you would ex-
pect to find the stream covered with float
ing carcasses of dead alligators. But,Ein
truth, the creature is very hard TO kill in
three days journey on the st. Johns saw
some three hundred shots fired, and only
one alligator killed outright He was struck
in the eye; his brain was penetrated, and
he lay like log. Another was made very
sick BY ball in the neck. and has had a
stiff neck ever since
They are not sociable creatures; have
seen hundreds, and never two OF them to-
gether. Each one of the big fellows will
have his own stretch of river-shore, or his
own side of a pond, or the whole of it, if
a small one, and allow no intrusion by
others of his kind. have often heard the
Negro stssrsman call out, !. Gss your guns guns !;
lssisa couaty. tA5Sst')
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
Success In Life.

THE great evil upon which we have
fallen in these days OF rapid fortunes and
extravagant living, will be appreciated if
we ask ourselves what meaning is attached
to the word Success. What are our young
people taught as comprising true success
in life? What class of men are held up as
the true type of manhood and as worthy
| of emulat,ons When Mr. Greeley talks of
selfmade men, who are the bright ex-
amples he holds up to view, and whom
does he ask our young men to pattern
after-the men of ideas, of moral power, of
strong virtues, or of great wealth? What is
meant by success in life when the instances
most cited in this connection are Astor,
Girard, Stewart, and Vanderbilt? Who
ever speaks of men like Elihu Burritt and
that class Of pure philanthropists and
scholars, who are constantly thinking so
nuch of others that they have no time to
levote to the accumulation of wealth.
vsE lille we laud to the skies such men as
ssreabody, who having lived within him
hcelf until he had amassed great wealth,
laihd got through with its use and aggran-
Vehement, bequeathed it to such purposes
END under such restrictions as suited his
hncy or bis ambition, we are quite apt to
lbse sight Of the thousands Of tender hearts
md great souls whose wonderful benevo-
ence and fellow-feeling have made it i'm
possible that they should grow rich save
the blessings Of those whom they have
,elped. Is il not time that new lexicon
Vas prepared, or the old ones amended, so
hat our " coming :" men and women shall
ave different idea Of the true meaning
If success ?--Hone Magazine.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
How We Hear and See.

HELMBoLTz, the best living authority
on the subject of sound, says that con-
nected with the end Of the acoustic nerve
are 5000 strained microscopic fibers, called
"Corte's organ" and that it is probable
that every sound that reaches the ear sets
those chords in vibration that are sympa-
thetically tuned to it, just as voice will
set in vibration those strings OF piano
that are stretched to produce the same
tone These different vibrations are rec
ognized by the mind by its connection
with the nerve and brain.
A similar mechanism probably exists in
the eye. The retina of the eye, which is
the extremity of the optic nerve, is covered
with exceedingly minute bodies, called
''rods and cones" These, it is very proba-
BILE, have the faculty Of vibrating under diff
ferent influences. The red light is pro-
duced by vibrations of about 430 quadril-
lions of waves per second. 1t may set in
vibration any rods and cones" that are
tuned to such vibration, while those that
are sympathetic to the 750 quadrillions of
waves of violet light will be set in motion
thereby.
This suggests that, just as ears differ in
their sensitiveness, some hearing shrill
sound that is utterly inaudible to others
whose nerve-cords are not attuned to
them, so it may be in light The arrange
ment of the rods and cones" may differ
in different persons. And SO it is. 1t is a
familiar fact that some persons are color
blind" They cannot distinguish red.
That is, their "rods and cones" have not
the right length or elasticity to vibrate
sympathetically with a wave-length as
large as those at the red end of the spec
trum. And it is fact that some Others
can see colors in the ultraviolet end of the
spectrum to some distance beyond what is
visible to most.
Now if we were to extend this variation
little, we may suppose that some animals
may be able to distinguish as light by their
differently constructed eyes vibration
that is quite insensible to our eyes. 1t
would require as slight a change in the
eye to make the dark heat rays visible as
is the difference between the eyes of a man
who can see only from the violet of the
pectrum to the orange, and the eyes OF
him who can see also the red. In fact, the
prominent eyes of the mollusks, at the ut
terly dark depths of mid ocean, may be
useful, for ought we know, in seeing by
means of rays of heat of low tempera-
ture. Even the modified heat of the cur
rents of 80 deg. F. may give these animals
abundant use for their eyes.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
Nutrition for the Brain.

Some time ago Professor Agassiz, in a
speech before a Boston assemblage, assert.
ed that fish diet, on account of the guam
tity OF phosphorus contained in it, is especi.
ally adapted to nourish the brain, and that
those persons who subsist upon it largely
are, consequently, more likely than others,
if possessing the same natural powers, to
be distinguished for their brightness and
intellectually Professor Agassiz Is gener-
ally regarded as being, in such matters,
the highest authority in the United States,
if not the very highest living, and this est
mate is undoubtedly correct; but DR.. @
NJ. Beard, excellent scientific authority,
opposes the Professors theory, in an able
magazine article, arguing that brain work
requires richer and more substantial food,
and larger quantity oft, than mechanics
and laboring men, because:
First. Labor of the brain causes greater
loss of tissue than labor of the muscles,
three hours of hard study producing more
important changes Of tissue than a whole
day of muscular labor.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12

Second. Brain workers, as class, are
more active in their work than mechanics
and laborers, the thinking powers, the tools
of trade of brain workers, being always at
hand and seldom idle.
Third. Brain-workers exercise, more or
less, all the other organs of the body as
well as the brain.
DR.. Beard, to corroborate his views,
cites various nationalities. For example,
the Romans, Persians, and Babylonians
were dominant nations among the ancients,
and they were free and luxurious in their
habits Of eating. In modern times the
English, Germans, French and Americans
are ruling nations, and they are good feed
ers, and some of them pretty hard drinkers
So our brain workers have two theories
beween them, and they can take their
choice. Shall it be fish or roast beef, etc.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12

One Of the celebrated restaurnteurd
of Paris has discovered the way to make
a delicious dish with rats. He dresses
them with champagne and spices. He can
not fill all the orders he receives. In
short, the last clio is to eat rat. The
market for these little beasts is held in
front Of the Hotel de Vile The rats are
strut up in great cage, where the buyer
selects his rat, which is then driven by
the seller into small cage, where it is
alone. A bulldog is then brought, the
cage is shaken, the rat PUSHES out and is
seized by the dog which gives it a squeeze,
and deposits the dead rat delicately at the
feet Of the purchaser.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
DR.. g. =. Garrstson,

uta..n.-mws ,1crvusAns e0 an cigntccif-
fboter were heard swapping between his
ldgs. She was so mad that she missed her
aim. My friend is a slow mani never
saw him even walk fast-but on this Occa-
sion he did not wait to apologize; there
was then exhibited some of the tallest
jumping, tumbling and running ever seen
in Florida or anywhere else. The female
will not allow the male to approach her
nest. He has guttonous habit OF eating
all the eggs, thus necessitating her laying
more, which she does not like to do. So,
whenever she catches him in that neigh
borhood she thrashes him on general princi
ples-he either has done mischief or in
tends it F.; at any rate, he is meddling in
domestic matters and deserves snubbing.
l am told that it is really amusing to see
the big bully stick his tail between his
legs and sneak off, the very image of a
hen.pecked husband, after one OF these
coniugal seedlings He is not by any
means a model husband and, although he
takes his trashing kindly, he revenges him
self by watching until the eggs are really
Matched. and then eats up as many OF the
causes of the family dispute as he can
catch.
heard of but few instances where these
creatures have attacked grown men; they
are fond of children aud show their at
tachment to the offspring of other people
as they do TO their own. In one instance,
where a man on horseback was crossing a
ford. he was seized by the leg, but when
his dog plunged in, the alligator left his
leg to take the more delicate morscl. In
another instance, an alligator struck at a
mule, pulling at a cart, and bit out two
spokes from one of the wheels, leaving a
tooth sticking in one as memento OF the
visit He hurried off with great speed, on
the lookout, suppose, for dentist.
Gators like dogs, pigs, and young dar-
kies. The dog is special favorite. The
whine of an alligator is easily mistaken
for that of puppy, and may mislead a
young and inexperienced dog. A wise
Florida dog will not go boldly down TO
the water TO drink he learns by expert
ence after having been eaten once or twice.
If the shore is open, he will draw all the
alligators to one place by barking, and
then scamper off TO some other place
where the coast is clear or he will creep
down to moist spot, tail down, body
crouched, eyes skinned and ears up, push
ing his paws before him slowly to feel the
water, tapping it without noise, and then
sneaking away again.
The alligator has his uses; near every
house YOU find more or less swamp, and in
every swamp more or less alligator. l
heard one lady complain very much be-
cause some traveller had killed her alligar
TOR. He lived near, and killed snakes,
ftogs, young wild cats and other varmints
thus he earned his board, and was conse-
quently protected; besides this, ne was
useful in preventing young children from
straying too far from home.-LHppfncoFs
ka0asins
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
Two Personals Explained.
an
air

A year ago there appeared in the "Per-
sonal' columns OF many newspapers, in
this country and Canada, an advertise
ment which excited no little comment,
and its meaning has, until this time, re-.
manned unexplained. Unlike most adver-
tisements of its class, it was continued
month after month, and read as follows:
nOD-I am well, but we are in Attic
~ ton, and long for you, that we may comfort
one another. There is letter for bod" at the
Post Office, New York. MA.
Soon after another appeared in its place,
which was also continued for long time,
as follows:
METHLICK-July IL. 1861 have
4'i been seriously i'll; getting better, but very e.,
you are more needed than you can think. MA.
1t now appears that these advertisements
were inserted to attract the attention of
the Missing Earl of Aberdeen" The
key was in the address, bod" which
was the familiar pet name by which the
absent earl was addressed in the family
circle. If his eye had ever rested upon it,
it would have struck him at once rs a
voice from home That he gave ii no at
tention whatever is conclusive proof that
he was one of the few who never saw it,
Methlick" was the title OF one of the
baronetcies held by the earl and the one most
familiar to him. The advertisement how
ever, failed TO draw out any response, save
the testing comments of the idle readers
who saw in it only a communication be-
tween criminals who summed more direct
methods of correspondence. A half a
million dollars is said to have been spent
to find the wandering earl, but the only
clue to his fate that can be discovered is
that which traces him to the bowsprit of
the schooner Hebra, from which he was
washed and drowned The mystery of
bod and Methlick is thus unraveied.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12

Buffalo clergymen are disposed to be
somewhat personal in their public petit
tons, judging from the following extract
from a prayer offered by one of the frater-
nifty on recent Sunday: "Oh, Lord, bless
those who are here present; bless those
who are on their way hither; bless those
who are getting ready to come bless those
who do not come at all and in special
manner, we pray Thee, bless those who
arrived in time to hear the first prayer"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
Selected Miscellany.
BUCKWHEAT CAKES.

NJ ". ,. B. wEsTcoTr.
Hove TO see. in summer time,
The farmer plow the land;
And broadcast DER the burrows COW
The bnckwheat with his hand.
Hove to see the little germ
Come springing up to view:
Au0 see at morn the growing plant
Besprent with sparkling dew.
Hove to see the blossoms ope,
Az white as pearly snow.
While DER the fields the gentle winds
With laden perfumes blow.
Hove to see this blooming Geld
Put on its coat Of brown;
And see the heavy-laden stalk
With ripened grain hang down.
Hove to see, in even swath,
The Graded buckwheat lie;
And help to rake and bind the eheaves,
And set them up to dry.
Hove to see the loaded sheaves
Before the old barn-dOor,
And hear the sounding of the 6ail
Upon the threshing- floor.
Hove to see the water-wheel
Revolve with mighty power,
Which sets the milestone whirling round,
To grind the buckwheat -four.
Hove to hear the humping bolt
sWithin the noisy mill,
And see the miller scoop the dour,
The farmers bags to fill.
Hove to see the busy cook
Her pancake-b batter make,
And on the heated griddle pour
The limpid, flowing cake.
Hove to see the half-done cake
with skill turned upside down,
Until the stove with steady heat,
Has baked the pancake brown.
The buttered cake upon my plate
dearly love to see,
And when with syrup sweetencd we'll
II looks more temptingly.
Than all the pleasures have named
A greater one take
IT'S at the table, when sit
And eat the BUcKwHEAT CAKE.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12

The Mohammedan law Of divorce is a
marvel of simplicity. The husband re-
peats to the wife three times, "You are
divorced" and the thing is done. But the
wife is not allowed to use this easy formula
against the husband
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J. r. Duncan, II. D.,

YlLL DBv0TH Ms entire attention to
The prsetiss OF Medicine and Surgery.
10 seusk eide Of Psblis square, nsas the
beast corner. ISSu
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