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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-05

I 1T. When first applied to the nose
tho sleeper will suddenly start up.
find by experience that the only
safe mode is to press the saturated
cotton hard over the mouth and nos
erils till the d--n s--n of a BIB is
compelled to inhale it. Then l can
do what | please with him. Ispread
stiff tar on u wooden cloth and apply
it TO pane Of glass. When the
glass breaks the fragments stick to
the wax and make no noise. This
is the best mode of managing a win-
dow" Just as he was telling Nal
comson where he had hidden some
wooden goods near the mouth of Tur-
key River, and charging on the con-
stancy and fidelity Of a lady friend
with whom he had deposited stolen
gold watch, the Sheriff who had been
secretly notified, made his appearance
and seized the villain and the evil
dence OF his recent crime.
1t appeared on the trial that the
burglar got the watch out of Mr.
Trainers house, entering his bed
room through the window and TAX
ing the watch and some money out
of Mr.. Us pocket while he was asleep.
On the same night that Stevens en-
tered Trainers house Mr.. Adams,
who was attending a sick daughter
and occasionally fell into deep sleep,
found that his pocket knife was gone
and some money he had on his per-
500. The same night the burglar
entered the bedroom of Mrs. Ingals
where her sick husband was enjoying
a sound sleep Stevens presented
his pistol and threatened blowing
her brains out if she resisted or wax
ed up her husband Though petriti-
ed with terror and forbidden TO look
at the robber, his diabolical counten-
ance photographed itscI upon her
nerves so wildly she could never
forget it. She recognized Stevens
the next day in Jail and pointed him
out among five other prisoners.
Stevens on his trial, though sworn,
declared it was no use to gainsay
the testimony against him, for the
jury would not believe him. He
elOquently condemned the Legisla
ture for passing law that led to un-
availing perjury and hoped it would
be repealed He said that Foster,
brother-in-law of the Indian doctor
who had exposed him, was the muir
derer of Nathan in New York city,
| 4 l.. 81 4
to find out his whereabouts that he
might get the 500, 900 reward offer
ed for the murderer.
The people of Prairie du Chen are
under great obligations to young
Malcomson who played his part so
well. Stevens will not disturb their
slumbers any more, at least till his
term of ten years at Waupun shall
expire.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-05

- ihAf slBhhs. Taken up by the snbscrib.r
" on lands occupied by him on section 20 ~ M
otown q Paris, on or about the u Law Of Noven,h
1871, three yeariing steersoue red with a yhi,a 49,,
and the other red and white speeklsd '''
The owner Is requested to prove pronertv ra, h
aud take said strays away, a p SctIEIIEps
Di0AeyFlite' november DISK, 1871 27W4s
GTRAY HEtFER.-Taken up by the snbscrjbar ON
- lands owned by him three miles west OF bloom
ington, Wis.,, one white and red nuiy heifer also
RED ana white hefer underbit in both ears supposed
to be years old.
The requested to prove property pay charges
and take said strays away. GEO. ~. LIE.
Bloomington, November p, 1871 27wi#
ALL KINDS OF BLANKS
For Gale at the uerah Once
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-05

ser The total receipts of money
for the relief of Wisconsin sufferers
oy hire Is now over $3.50 900 Of
TINS amount Gov. Fairchild has re-
ceived sl22, l8S; over s1OO, 900 have
been received at Milwaukee and over
1000 at Green Bay In addition
to this were large amounts of food
and clothing. All who were burned
out have been provided with shelter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-05
ViSorS !:

Bill Sundries
Medicines for prisoners
Medical services for pris.
Com on Co road
Labor about the G House
Change of venue
Blk books for Co Judge
o do do Circuit Court
Surveying Co road
Chairman do
a. Al
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
A Startling Theory.

We hate to be ciphered out of exis-
tence, even to confirm the infallibility
of science, and sometimes blindly pre-
fer to believe that figures will lie. Now
Is good time to use our negative Gre
dulity. Alphonse Ademar, celebrated
mathematician, starts theory that the
earth is covered by deluge once in
l0,500 years, on the following calcula-
tions: During the cycle one pole of the
earth enjoys seven days more sunshine
than the other, and at present we have
seven more days in the Northern hemi-
sphere than the Southern, which means
two hundred years OF freezing Mt one
pole against two hundred years of melt
ing at the other. The effect of this is
to form such an immense mass of ice at
the less favored end of the globe as to
change the form of the planet and dis
place its gravity for a league or so. This
displacement draws to the ice-bound
regions almost all the seas and oceans,
and eventually causes a change in the
oscillation of the earth, so as to reverse
the order of things and bring the great-
er power of the sun upon the frozen
region. Then suddenly, as the pent-up
waters in an Alpine valley burst their
barriers and destroy village, so this
gigantic polar glacier by its disruption
overwhelms a hemisphere. AS proof of
this theory, he points to the effects of
the last or Noah's flood, and reckoning
from the accepted date of that, the next
will be upon us in the year 1854 A. D.
We are not personally interested, of
course, unless it should occu. about re-
surrection time, but we are supposed to
have little consideration for our de-
scendants.-Sprmgtfeld Republican.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Yankee Speculation.

A company of Yankees, in June last,
sent the brig Nellie Gray of Providence,
fitted out with machinery for submarine
explorations, to search for treasure sup
posed to have been lost on the San
Pedro de Alcantara, a ship of war,
which sank off the coast of Venezuela,
half a century ago. Arrangements have
been made with the Venezuelan gov
ernment for a satisfactory division of
spoils in case the object OF the expedi-
ton is successful, and late advices state
that the wreck has been found lying in
ten fathoms of water. All three decks
are broken down, and with their guns
in a confused mass in the lower hold,
leaving the ships sides still standing.
Large quantities of copper fastenings,
brass trimmings and lead have been
raised from the wreck, but the explor-
ers, on the second of September, had
not found the kegs of dollars and
doubloons which form the objective
point of their search, although they
were sanguine of soon reaching them.
When through with the wreck, our en-
terprising fellow -countIymen propose to
test the riches of some large beds of
pearl oysters near by, which lie in from
five to twenty fathoms of water, and are
beyond the reach of native divers.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Tricks of Jugglers.

A traveller at kinai was entertained
by the Viceroy, the Amir Kustai, and
this was one of the amusements: THAT
same night juggIer appeared, who was
one of the Great Khan's slaves, and the
Amir said to him, Come and show us
some of your wonders. Upon this he
took o wooden ball with seven holes in
it, thro sgh which long thongs were
passed, and laying hold of one of these,
slung ii into the air. 1t went so high
that we lost sight of it altogether Ut
was the hottest season of the year, and
we were outside in the palace court. J
There now remained only short end
of q thong in the coDiurer's hand, and
he desired one OF the boys who assisted
him to lay hold of it and mount. He
did so, climbing by the thong, and we
lost sight of him. The conjurer then
called to him three times, but, getting
no answer, he snatched up knife, as if
in q great rage, laid hold of the lhong,
and disappeared in his turn By-and-b by
he threw down one of the boys hands,
then foot, then the trunk, and, last of
all, the head! Lastly, he came down
himself putting and blowing, and with
his clothes all bloody, kissed the ground
before the Amir, and said something to
him in Chinese. The Amir gave some
order in reply, and our friend then took
the lads limbs, laid them together in
their places, and gave kick, wht n
presto! there was the boy, who got up
and stood before usI All this aston
ished me beyond measure"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Brazilian Turtles.

The size of these creatures nay be
imagined from the fact that the hippers
and feet of one, in crawling over the
sand, leave a track of two irregular
grooves, three or four feet apart, as
though great wagon with cog wheels
had been driven over the ground. 1t is
an easy matter to find turtles nest by
this track. She comes out of the sea
and travels far up on the beach to lay
her eggs in the sand, digging a hole
foot and half or two feet deep for the
nest. Professor Hartt, who was in Bra
zil with Professor Agassiz, says that he
saw turtle deposit one hundred and
forty-three eggs in one of these nests.
The eggs are all laid at one sitting, then
covered up closely with the sand and
left to hatch. The eggs are rather
larger than hens eggs, round and COW
cred with a tough white skin. The
Brazilians eat the eggs, and also the
flesh of the turtle. The creature Is
captured in a curious way. Two per-
sons go behind it, and taxing hold of
the shell, turn the animal on its back,
in which position it is at the mercy of
its captors, as it is impossible for it to
turn over on its feet again. The hun
ters are obliged to creep up behind it
cautiously, for as soon as ii Is alarmed,
it thrusts its fore paddles into the sand
and throws it behind, so that if the pur-
suers do not quickly close their ewes
they are likely TO be blinded.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
The Mississippi Filling Up.

The bed of the Mississippi river
seems to be filling up at a rate which
threatens, in the course of time, to Sc
riously affect navigation during the dry
season. This year at st. Louis, while
the surface of the water has been four
feet and one inch above the lowest stage
of water attained by the river in 1868,
there was at the same time only about
five inches difference in the depth of
the channel between these years, show
ing that the bottom of the river must
be three or four inches higher than in
1868. So in 1856 the bed of the river
was found to be two feet and three
inches higher than it was ten years pre-
vious. 1t is thought that tough clay
particles are brought down by tributary
streams from the cultivated fields of
the northwest and deposited in the
channel, and that there, forming with
the sand concrete mass, adhere to the
bottom instead of being secured out by
the annual freshet, al is the case with
unmixed sand. 1t is reasonable to sup.
pose, too, that the volume of water
flowing into the river will gradually de-
crease as the country is opened up to
cultivation, as such has been the case
with other rivers flowing through cult.
vated districts. The Danube, though a
large river, is untitled for purposes OF
commercial intercourse. If we look
nearer home, we find that the destruc-
ton of the forests and the cultivation
of the adjacent country, are having the
effect of drying up the Connecticut
very gradually, to be sure, but still
none the less effectually. Many of its
tributaries, which formerly contributed
large volumes of water, the twelve
months through, are now dry for three
fourths of the year.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
An Important Proiect.5

1t is twenty-one years since the pro-
ject of shortening the travel between
New York and Liverpool, by connect
ing the former with Halifax by rail, was
first considered. The late John A.
Poor, of Portland, Me, Edward Everett,
Charles Summer, and Sir Alexander G.
Gait, of Canada, were leading men in
pushing the interests of the European
and American railway from Portland to
Halifax. From Bangor TO Mattawam-
keag, in Maine, fifty miles. and from
the Maine State line to st. John, \. B.,
ninety miles, have been in operation
two years, and the connection between
Mattawamksag and the State line, fifty
five miles, has just been completed; it
is thought that this month will see ira
vel open from Bangor to St. John.
From the latter it is ninety-s;x miles to
the junction with the International of
Canada, by which Truro, n. s., is
reached, one hundred and sixteen
miles. This route is all complete, ex-
cept seventy-fve miles of the Inter
colonial. and by July next the whole
line will be in operation. 1t is said this
will reduce the ocean voyage from land
to land FIVE days.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Ont Door Cellars.

A writer in the Practical Farmer, IN
answer to the inquiry of a correspond
ent, gives the following as his plan for
making outdoor cellars, two of which
he had used for upwards of twelve
years, and ever found them sure depo-
sitories for fruits and vegetables in win
ter, and for milk, butter, etc, in sum-
mer:
In the first place, selected the most
elevated spot of ground conveniently
near to my dwelling house, measured
off the ground, the size | desired my
cellar, threw out the dirt to the depth
of two feet. Commenced a double brick
wall at the base of the excavation, leav-
ing a vacant space of six inches between
the walls. which were tied at the corners
and several places in the sides, being
careful. however, 20 leave vacant places
or vent holes, to admit a free circulation
of air throughout the length and breadth
of the walls. The height of the walls
when completed, nine feet from base TO
top. The surplus dirt, banked up, on
outside four feet in height. Floor over
head, two thicknesses of well seasoned,
matched flooring, and the whole cover
ed with good pine shingles; double
doors and windows, with a flue extend
ing upwards and at the top of the build
ing, to allow impure air to escape, COM
pleted my buildings-all but plastering.
For this ! used or rather put on, two
coats of cement, coating the entire floor,
extending up six feet on the walls-for
balance of walls and overhead | used
lime and sand. The last one construct
ed leaked or rather let in some water,
owing to the wet nature OF the grounc.
where it stands, and / run a pipe
through it and extended the drain to q
rayine not far distant.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Preservation of Running Gear.

The amount of loss occasioned each
year, by neglect to kee, the axles of
wagons creased and bearings of machin-
cry well oiled, is enormous, and in
this day of various and expensive farm
machinery, a very serious loss even TO
those who keep the bearings tolerably
well oiled. Very few do so IN the most
perfect manner.
According to experiments made in
France the friction of wooden surfaces
rubbing on wood amounted to from
one-quarter to one-half of the force en-
ployed. The friction of metal on wood
was something less, while with metal
on metal surfaces the friction was one
fifth to one-seventh. With lard applied
to wood on wood, the friction was only
one tenth to oEe-tweni y-eighth of the
power required to move the surfaces.
Metal on metal had the friction reduced
to one-half of what it was before. OF
the several substances used for cast iron
on cast iron, lard and black lead gave
the least friction.
The best lubricator for wrought iron
axles we have found to be pure oil; and
for the patent or cast arm, oil or lard
and black lead. One of the greatest
causes of the wearing out of machinery
is from dust and grit worked into the
journals and bearings, and this is es-
pecially true of fast turning gears, as
reapers, mowers, threshers, etc. All
bearings should often be wiped clean
before oiling, and every possible means
used to protect them from dirt and
grit. Good wagoners always wipe the
axle before oiliDg, but very few wipe
the bores. This is easily done by having
a spindling piece shaved to fit. Cover
it with cloth and run it through the
hub and turn it about therein before
greasing. 1t will keep your wheels
true for a long time, and save much
vexation and labor for the team.
The principle reason why farm ma.
chinery last so much longer with some
farmers than with others, is from care
in oiling, for a careful oiler is pretty
sure to be careful in other matters be-
side. Bearings, from the long continued
use of gummy lubricators, often come
to consume in more friction than dry
surfaces. When they become so, they
should be cleaned with kerosene OF
turpentine and thereafter oiled only
with fatty matter free from gum.
There may be a great deal of money
and horse flesh saved by proper atten-
ton TO cleanliness in oiling farm ma
| chinery.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Capital Lost and Gained.

In all the estimates of the damage
done by the Chicago confiagration, it
seems to be assumed that, however much
insurance may distribute the burden,
yet there has been an actual dead loss
OF the houses and property swept away
by the tre, which is so many millions of
property dropped out of existence,
making the United States. on the whole,
so many millions poorer. But it is an
interesting question whether this view,
self-evident as it would at first appear,
is not, after all, a mistaken one. Capt.
tai represents accumulated labor, and
though the capital may at the moment
be swept away, it is under circumstances
that impart an extraordinary and other
wise impossible stimulus to labor. In
other words, thousands of days work
will now be done that otherwise would
not have been done at all. Men other
wise idle, and dollars otherwise idle, will
now be not only finding remunerative
employment for themselves, but daily
adding to the aggregate wealth of the
country. That the new Chicago will be
a better built city than the old one,
hardly admits of a doubt; and if better
built, it will be more valuable than the
| old one would have been if it had re-
mained unburnt. The losses of indivi
duals and corporal ons are undeniably
and deplorably great. But so far as this
particular disaster affects the national
wealth, it is quite as likely, in the long
run, to enhance as to diminish it. The
New York capitalist who tears down 6
substantial two-story brick house in
Broadway, in order to erect massive
six-story edifice OF stone and iron, be
gins by destroying valuable property
yet does not deem that he is incurrinl
either temporary or permanent loss by
il. So the United States, deprived fol
a time of one of its choicest cities, car
hardly be considered to have absolutely
lost all the millions which have sudden
ly changed hands, or been converted
from fixed into floating capital anC
labor, by the Chicago fire.-N Y. Com
| Adv
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
IngOts Piled upon the Sidewalk.

William D. Kelley, writing to the
Philadelphia Press of the mineral wealth
of the Rocky Mountain region, which
he is now engaged in exploring, tells
this story: Passing along one of the
business streets of Salt Lake City dur
ing the evening early in August last, l
found the broad sidewalk obstructed by
long piles-about four feet high-of
what, being fresh from Pennsylvania, l
took in the dim light to be pigs of iron
of unusual length and width. To have
bought them as such would have made
my fortune at single stroke. They
were ingots of matte, produced from
the argentiferous galena ore of mines in
the Cottonwood and eighboring canons.
Their chief ingredients, measured by
quantity, are lead, silver, and gold; if
measured by value, the order is re-
versed. They were awaiting purchase
and shipment because there are no
adequate smelling works in the valley.
The skill of the valley is exhausted in
reducing the ore to matte. The owners
OF one mine, the Emma, find it to their
advantage to send most of their ore
direct to England, and have a contract
with the Union Pacific Company TO
carry one hundred tons per day, making
seven trains of ten cars weekly. Be
fore shipment the ore is carefully
packed in stout cotton sacks, on each
of which the weight is marked.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
Waits for the Ladies.

MDLLE. NILSSON loses $4,000 by the
Chicago fire.
A PHILADELPHIA paper says that one
half of the servant girls in that city are
drunkards.
A GIRL, forced by her parents into
disagreeable match with an old man
whom she detested, when the clergyman
came to that part of the sermon where
the bride is asked if the bride consents
to take the bridegroom for her husband,
said, "Oh, dear, no, sir; but you are the
hrst person who has asked my opinion
about the matter
A SPEAKER at the recent meeting of
Pittsburg Woman Suffrage Association,
remarked that "man is only an imper-
fectly developed woman" At this an
old lady, who sat in a corner, sprang to
her feet, and in an excited manner said
she "hoped to gracious he wouldn't be
developed any more then, for there
were too many women in the world
now."
A WELL managed elopement came off
recently in the vicinity of Gilman, Ill.
The lover went after his girl in a light
vehicle with muffied wheels, while an
accomplice drove a heavier machine
adapted to making as much noise as
possible. The lady being duly received
at the window and deposited in the
muffied vehicle, the heavy one dashed
off toward Gilman at a furious rate,
with papa in hot pursuit, while the
lovers were noiselessly driven in the
opposite direction. Before morning Mr.
Ward and Miss Green were "made one
flesh"
OLD Mr.. A, at about eighty years of
age, was so bold as to marry young
wife, and in due course of time was pre-.
sented with a son. On the day of the
christening, the nurse handed young
master about with the usual exclama-
ton that he was the very image of his
papa. "Very like indeed, said lady
.fno hair, no teeth"
UNPROTECTED female awaking old
gent, who is not very well l)-"O Mister,
would YOU find the captain? I'm sure
we're in danger. I've been watching
the man at the wheel he keeps turn.
ing it round first one way and then the
other, and evidently doesn't know his
own d"-Puch
WHEN is a young lady Every like &
whale?" When she's pouting.
PERSONS should always dress to sui
their figure A humped-backed lady
for instance, ought to wear a camers
hair shawl.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-09
A Valuable Invention.

The Iron Age has an account of new
instrument for indicating the velocity
of flowing liquids and for measuring
the speed of ships, called the rhysime-
ter, which has been invented in Eng
land. The capacity to measure the
speed OF ships is highly important ap-
plication of the instrument. The
apparatus heretofore used lin connec-
ton with the halfminute glass; for that
purpose, the well Unknown "log" attached
to the log-line and dropped over the
stern of the vessel, is a very inaccurate
method of measurement, as heavy sea
sometimes throws it after the ship,
while head sea may carry it in the op-
posite direction. The glass also meas
ures the halfminute with difficulty in
dry and damp weather; and the line is
liable to change its length. Even the
best substitutes for the log are said to
be not always reliable. By the new in
vention the indicator may be in the
captains cabin. 1t is said to resemble
In size and appearance barometer. In
1T column of mercury indicates con-
tlnually the speed of the ship. The
full effect of the velocity is impaired to
the mercury without any applicable
loss by friction or otherwise, so that the
indicators must always be absolutely
correct. The instrument may be made
self-registeripg, showing on dial the
total number of knots the ship has run.
anc marking on a sheet of paper the
precise speed attained at all periods of
the voyage. The practical value of
such an invention is obvious.