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The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17

About year since the wife and three chill
dren of Elijah Munsell, Of the western part -
Monson, died OF smallpox and were buried =
a pasture near his house. Mr.. Munsell hir,.
self had the disease but recovered, and hts
since lived alone in the home where his fami.
iy died. Finding II impossible to obtain any one
mon burial-place, he undertook the task alons
One moonlight night he opened the crayea'
and by means of ropes and levers raised ~.
four collins and loaded them into = var-S
He carried them TO the burying-grouud .yke,,
he had previously dug graves Tor their rscc~.
tion, and buried them. Nso
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17
TOILET.
BRENT.

TIVE ROOMS in Neal street. Rent $3.50.
= -Four Rooms on Chestnut. Rent $50.
good House ON Waterville street, 10 rooms, rent
$500 10 be vacant May 2l. Apply to
apl5dti* WIN. III, JERRIS, Real Estate Agent.
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17
TO LET.

A MorrilPs Corner, Deering, a frst-class brio
"A dwelling. nine rooms, hard and soft water,
good cellar and furnace, garden and stable. App.
to Charles y. Morrill, near the premises, or to
p WIN. II. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent
apl3tf Next east of City Hall.
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17

Notice to Teachers. aia
The SuIerintending School Committee of Dear;no
VIII be In session at the residence Of the subscriber
on the iotn ana 18th of April, at M, for the pur-
Stevens Plains. April IT, eodat =
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17

KAYTON'S OIL OF LIFE, the best Rheumatic
IN and Neuralgia Liniment knu wn. It cures ali
pains and aches in the system. For sale by ali
Druggists. noyi8eodSw1v
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17
REAL ESTATE.
FOR NeALE!

A PAIR OF FIRST.CLASS HOUSES
ON CARLTON STREET..
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17
Glove Department !!

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full line OF the celebrated GaribaldI Kid Gloves,
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LINEN H022dEerckiefs

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2Oc, and from rs to SOC. wv i'0'
B- Cents Imitation Silk Handercbiets FIR ,Kc
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17

SMALL Building Lot for Sale. A lot 47x50
~ on Arsenal street, opposite the site of the Maine
General Hospital, can be purchased if applied for be-
fore the LIST OF May. Apply to
GEO. X. DAVIS & CO.,
ap5eod2w Real Estate and Mortgage Brokes.
The Portland daily press., 1871-04-17

RElWEEN head Of Union Wharf and %. com.
~ meTc'al street. leather Wallet conto;ri I'm nv, =
small amount OF money and papers Of yaiua ~ ,a
owner whoever will return the same to fh;. ~ .le
or 2S5 Commercial st, will be suitably rewarded
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
The Next Thing to a Swan.

Charles Lamb thus describes his call
upon George Dave, soon after his cleo
ton to seat in the Royal Academy,
and during the visit of the Allied Soy
ereigns to England: al called upon
D. to congratulate him upon crisis so
doubly eventful. His pleasant house
keeper seemed embarrassed, owned that
her master was alone. But could he be
spoken with With some importantly
1 prevailed upon her to usher me up
into his paintingroom. 1t was in New
man street. At his easel stood D., with
an immense spread of canvas before
him, and by his side live goose. l in
quired into this extraordinary combina
ton. Under the rose he informed me
that he had undertaken to paint a
transparency for Vauxhall, against an
expected visit of the allied sovereigns
to that place. 1 smiled at an engage
ment SO derogatory to his newborn
honors but contempt of small gains
was never one of DIS foibles. My eyes
beheld crude forms of warriors, kings
rising under his brush upon this inter
minable stretch of cloth, The Wolga,
the Don and the Nepier were there, or
their representative River Gods; and
Father Thomas dubbed arms with the
Vistula. Glory with her dazzling Eagle
was not absent, nor Fame, nor Victory.
The shade of Rubens might have
evoked the mighty allegories. But
what was the goose? He was evidently
sitting for a something.
cd. at last informed that, having
fixed upon a group of rivers, he could
not introduce the Royal Thames with
out his sa0ans ; that he had inquired the
price of a live swan, and, it being more
than he was prepared to give for it, he
had bargained with the poulterer for
the neat thing to it; adding significantly,
that it would do to roast, after it had
served its turn to paint swans by.
Reader, this IS a true story."-AtLantic
M0nthLy
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
Influence of Trees on Climate.

The subject of the influence of " for
esting," or the planting of trees, upon
the climate of a country, and of de-
foresting," or destroying the forest
growth, continues to excite much inter
est throughout the world, as it is now
well established that the climate of
many localities has been materially al
tered by one or the other of these pro-
cesses. Systematic efforts have been
made, in different parts of the world,
for Introducing growth of trees where
these had either disappeared or had new
er been known, from which important
results have followed in many instances.
We have before referred to the effect
upon the climate of India of planting
extensive forests of different species !;
and we are informed that, as the conse-
quences of similar experiment, Egypt,
which formerly had only about six
rainy days every year, since being re-
planted on large scale, has already at
tanned twenty-four. Among the en-
lightened measures of the French gov
ernment, one which is especially note
worthy is that of planting immense
tracts of land in Algiers, especially with
Australian trees-namely, the acacia
naolHSsima and acacia Lophantha. Planta-
tions of these trees, started q few years
ago, have attained height of from nine
to twelve feet, and in their rapi d
growth and great extent have already
changed the climate very much-twice
as much rain falling in the neighbor-
hood as before. Under the same aus
pices, sixteen square miles of the swami
by, unhealthy country along the coast
of the Bay of Biscay, in the Department
of the Landes, was planted with mil
lions of trees-especially the cork oak
and swamp pine-with surprisingly
beneficial results the trees having
drained the land so as to destroy the
swamp fevers, and to change it into 6
healthy country with pine forests. Bis
! cay law requires that for every tree cut
down two shall be planted, and it is
said to be executed with rigorous Sc
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
French PoIiteness a Myth.

Rev. DR.. Burt, writing to the EUange-
list from Nice, is uncomplimentary to
the French. He says:
l had hoped to give only favorable
straws in this letter. But L wish to say
something in concluding about French
politeness, and am afraid it will not
be wholly favorable. So far as the OBJ
servance of little conventionalisms goes,
the French certainly surpass us. They
ask pardon, and make a show of civili
ty, in many cases where we are silent
and immovable: Yet, in more impor-
tant matters, there is often a glaring
want of politeness. They are not sensi-
tive to the rights of others. They care
little for fair play. When you are
awaiting your turn to be served at the
post Office delivery, or the railway ticket
Office, newly arrived Frenchman will
think nothing of edging his way in
ahead of you, and getting first served.
So he will deliberately. occupy himself
over freshly posted public telegram,
going over it again and again, with his
nose to the paper, eclipsing the view of
it to a crowd of anxious people behind
him.
French gentlemen are supposed to be
models of gallantry. This is awretched
mistake. They are not gallant; they
sbTe hOG coltfISOItS bJlSy are SCdICoIy TO
spectful, or even decent to ladies; they
jostle ladies off the sidewalk; they ap-
propriate the best seats in public places,
leaving the ladies to their fate; they
stare and ogle modest ladies out of all
countenance. So exceedingly chival-
rous has the present generation OF
Frenchmen become, that no young lady
can go unattended upon the thorough
fares of French city, even at broadest
noon, without constant liability to
shameless insult.
Chivalry has taken fight from Eu-
rope, and found home in America.
There is scarcely a village in all our
country but will discover higher ideal
of courtesy to woman than can be
found in Paris, or Berlin, or London.
Indeed, until the woman's rights move
ment was begun, we were plainly in
danger of being carried to ridiculous
extremes-to forms of idolatry, which
threatened to react unfavorably upon
our idols. 1t is to be hoped that we
may not now be driven to the opposite
| extremes.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
Our Western Grazing Field.
he Omaha Republican says

The Omaha Republican says:
"A few days ago we received a call
from Mr.. James A. Moore, of Sidney,
Nebraska. For eleven years Mr. Moore
has been herding and grazing on the
Plains; sometimes in Wyoming, some
times in Colorado, but of late years his
hocks and droves ranged entirely in
Nebraska. Previous to coming West
Mr.. Moore had been engaged in the
same business near Ravenna, Ohio, and
from that and his later experience out
here, he confidently affirms that there
is double the profit and one half the
risk in favor of the plains. At the
present time Mr.. Moore has $3.50 head
of sheep, LOO head of cattle, and 40
horses and mules. For the improve
ment of his sheep, he has lately import
ed 40 Canada bucks, and purchased 30
Spanish merino bucks. Last winter was
a most severe one, and yet Mr.. Moore
assures us that his stock grazed the
whole winter, gaining flesh each week.
The only enemies of the sheep are the
cayotes (yet the loss from that cause is
Insignificant), and of cattle, the Jndi-
ans. He has lost over 800 head by In
dians since he has been herding, the
noble Lo having gobbled 96 head at one
time. His impression from experience
is, that there is little difference between
Wyoming and Colorado for profitable
grazing-the grasses, canons for shelter,
and climate being equally advantageous.
But he is firm in the opinion that the
valleys of the Platte and tributaries
are the finest in the world for sheep
and cattle.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
Brain Growth.

Persons who talk most do not always
think most. 1 question whether per-
sons who think most-that is, have most
conscious thought pass through their
minds do most mental
work. Be aye sticking in a tree,
Jack; it will be growing when you are
sleeping" So with every new idea
that is planted in a thinkers mind. 1t
will be growing when he is sleeping.
An idea in the brain is not legend
carved on a marble slab; it is an i'm
preston made on a living tissue which
is the seat of active nutritive processes.
Shall the initials l carved in bark grow
from year to year with the tree? And
shall not my recorded thought grow
into new forms and relations with my
growing brain? Daniel Webster told
one of the greatest scholars that he had
to change the size of his hat every four
years. His head grew larger as his in
tellect expanded. Illustrations of this
same fact were shown me by a famous
phrenologist in London. But organic
mental changes may take place in
shorter spaces of time. A single night
of sleep has often brought sober sec
ond thought which was surprise to q
hasty conclusion the day before.-O. w
Holmes.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
General Items.
LyET WHISKY" is fashionable.

"VELvET WHISKY" is fashionable.
AN ENGLISH DOCTOR is using onion
baths in the treatment of fevers.
SAN Francisco has two-headed dog,
which barks and howls alternately.
The telegraphic plateau in the Allan
tic has just been discovered to be hum
bug.
WILD BEES are unusually plenty in the
mountain canyons of Los Angeles coun
ty, Cal.
The newest variety of lager is called
" Aecht Importirtes Braunschweiger
Doppel Bier"
A YACHT RACE for a twenty hundred
dollar gold cup is to come off at Cape
May in July.
HAMBURG numbers thirteen lodges of
Freemasons, with about twenty one
hundred members.
AUBURNDALE, Mass, is called "Saints'
Rest, from the fact that so many retired
clergymen live there.
GARIBALDI has become President of a
society whose object is the colonization
and improvement of Sardinia.
DRINKING large draughts of rain wa
ter, with plenty of '' wrigglers ~ in it, is
the latest cure for consumption.
THE Queen of Belgium is the most
accomplished equestrienne among the
crowned ladies of the Old World.
A Two-YEAR old heifer has been dis
covered, in an advanced state of petri-
faction, in a large spring in Utah.
THERE are 14,0OO buffalo robes above
oil fran TO
ton, and fully $4,000 will be collected
during the season.
DR.. SPENCER CoBBoLD, of England, has
microscopically demonstrated the pres
ence of thousands of entozoa in pork
which has been fed upon the produce
of lands irrigated with sewage. The
introduction into the human system o.
countless esstezoa,- through the medium
of cattle fed upon sewage irrigation
grass, and swine fed upon other fooo
similarly produced, is regarded as new
danger with which the public health i:
| threatened. 1t is the deliberate opinion
of DIR. Cobbold that thousands of cattle
are thus rendered unfit to be used as
| food.
SOME new fossil serpents were discov.
| cred by the Yale College exploring par
| ty last summer in the Green river basin
Wyoming Territory, west of the Rocky
Mountains. Nearly all the specimen!
obtained, says ,SiLlim,an's Journal, evident
ly belonged to constructing serpents
closely related to the modern boas o
South America, although considerably
smaller. These remains, with the ex
ception of three species heretofore
found in the mari of New Jersey, con
stitute the only fossil representative o
the Ophidian order of animals-whicl
comprises serpents-yet detected in thi
| country
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
How to PAY a Debt.

Among the practical jokes of Scogan,
court fool to Edward ". of England,
was the following:
He had borrowed a large sum of
money of the King. Some say the
Queen, and Flogel even names Queen
Elizabeth as the patroness of this jestor
The sum is set down at G500, which is
extremely doubtful. Be this as it may,
a day for payment had been named !;
and when that day had arrived, Scogan
was not prepared to pay the debt.
After much thought upon the matter,
he fell sick and died, and requested his
friends to bury him in such a way that
the sovereign should encounter the
funeral. They entered into the joke
with great alacrity, put on the trappings
of mitigated affiction, and in due time
carried Scogan forth on comfortably
arranged bier, when they contrived, as
directed, to encounter Edward. When
Louis XIV. saw the funeral of his old
favorite, Madame de Pompadour, he
had the bad taste to cut sorry joke.
When Edward met the funeral process
sion of Scogan, he regretted the loss OF
his merry follower; and among other
kind things to which he gave utterance,
remarked, that he freely forgave Scogan
and his representatives the sum for
which Scogan was indebted to him.
The buffoon, who had expected this act
of release, Immediately jumped up,
thanked his illustrious creditor, and
prudently called all present to bear wit
ness to the royal act of grace.
at is so revivifying," said Scogan
that it has called me to life again"
If this incident be true, we may also
believe, as we are requested to do, that
great mirth followed thereupon."
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
Golden Words.

THE frenzy of nations is the states
manship of fate.-Anon.
No HEROES at all for us if their hero
ism is to consist in being not men,
Kingsty.
The animosities are mortal, but the
humanities live Christopher
North.
THERE is no definite life except unto
death, no death except unto higher
life.-BumSon.
THE supreme selfindulgence is to
submit the will to a spiritual director
Holmes.
WE know God easily provided, we do
not constrain ourselves to define him.
Joubert.
If man makes himself a worm he
must not complain when he is trodden
on InamaaueL Kant.
LEARNING hath gained most of those
books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller.
WORD unspoken is a sword in the
scabbard word uttered Is sword in
another's hand.-QuGrLes.
HAVE learned what a sin is against
an infinite imperishable being such as is
the soul of man.-CoLeridge.
THIS is the method of genius, to ripen
fruit for the crowd by those rays of
whose heat they complain.-Margarct
| Fuller.
HE that does base thing in zeal for
his friend, burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together. Jeremy
Taylor.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
EATON, OHIO THURSDAY JUNE 5, 1871.


shoveled with ardor, taking turns, until
we had piled up several cart-loads of
dirt still nothing could be found, and
we began to despair of finding any
thing and, after digging little deeper,
and forcing a crow-bar down as far as
we could, without touching any obstruc,
ton save the yellow clay, we abandoned
the job, with mingled feelings of disap-
pointment and rage. But after taking
another pull at the brandy TASKS, and
taking a fresh cigar, the ridiculous posi-
ton in which we found ourselves, was
realized, and we laughed heartily at our
discontinue, and wended our way back
home-a distance of three miles-on
foot las the omnibusses had ceased run
ning), sadder, if not wiser men.
We made no further attempts to hunt
for buried treasure.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
Pith and Point.

WHY is the first chicken of brood
like the mainmast of a vessel? Be-
cause it is little forward of the main
hatch.
"MoDEsTY'' asks us What is the best
method of popping the question:" 1t
is a good deal like champagne-if it
don't pop itself, there is something
wrong about 1T.
PROMPT AND PRACTICAL Reverend
stranger My good man, can you tell
me the nearest way to the cathedral ?'
Scotch cabby-" Jist inside the cab here,
ir"-Pursch.
A COUNTRY paper, speaking of the
street-organ playing of a soldier without
arms, who worked the crank with his
far above the usual average; he threw
his sole into it."
A SAILOR, whose sweetheart had
very handsome set of teeth, attempted
to kiss her, but she eluded him and
gave him box on the ear. "Just my
luck" said the good-natured sailor
Pm always getting wrecked on the coral
reefs"
AN English paper says the following
is fair specimen of a dialogue which
frequently takes place in police courts
Magistrate to vagrant-" You say you
have nowhere to sleep? Did you find
any money on him, officer7 ?" Officer
Not a penny" Magistrate to vagrant
=" Then l fine you 40s.
A CHINESE photographer in San Fran
cisco, being upbraided by a lady GUS
toner because the pictures didn't suit
her, briefly replied: No half hand
some, how can ?"
"I KNEW he'd fall" said Uncle
Scrouch, when he heard of the misfor-
tune in business of neighbor. "Why?"
FCause he would buy the earliest sarce
that came into market"
A CITIZEN of Nebraska was boasting
that in his town there wasn't either
doctor, a lawyer, or a clergyman, and
only one rumseller. How many in
habitants are there altogether ?' asked
bystander. WELL" was the reply"
there's only my family and my brother
Jake's, and Jake is the rumseller."
"NEvER be critical upon the ladies'"
was the maxim of an old Irish peer, re-
markable for his homage to the sex.
" The only way in the world that a true
gentleman will ever attempt to look at
the faults of a pretty woman is Nth his
eyes shut"
SOME one said to DR.. Wayland: You
Baptists do not gain the highest class,
nor yet the lowest" Exactly so,'
was the answer "we surrender to you
the head and tail of the OK, and are
content with the body"
CUSTOMER" Waiter, do you call this
butter toast? Why, there's no butter
to be seem" Waiter" Butter all gone
into the toast, sir.' Customer" But
there's no toast to speak Of" Waiter
" Toast all gone into the butter, sir -
Customer--"Ah, ha there's new idea
in that, by Jove I'll go straight home
and write pamphlet upon the theory
of mutual absorption
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
How the Iniun Caught the NeW-Fash-
toned Buffalo.

There ain't much fun in an Injun;
III there is it is deepish down,
And don't crop out at uncommon times.
Or a Dutchman, or Yankee,
Or any O. them ERE chaps
That always are gay at the gravest of times,
And never give heed to mishaps.
No. sir them red-skinned pirates
And Mea1 %bn blood & and great deal mofS; re- sama
They're jist outside o. yer door,
With a torch and a knife and an arrow,
And % away y they they ride RI BY the siaring light
Of your fercely blazing hearthl
haint much luv for an Injun:
And when there's joke worth while
can't keep back a smile
No more than I can a bullet,
with Rsn treacherous % look, Ike a hungry wolf
That's watchin' along the route
Twas down in the Chestnut Gulch''-
I'd been huntin, for hsy q week;
That was about the poorest streak.
was feelin' blue and tired
As lay thar on the ground,
But mighty quick. you bet was reused
By a most uncommon sound.
It's cause I soon diskivered;
For the great Pacific line
Run close along, and thar was the cars
tell you, the sight was fnel
On lookln down at the track,
An Injun, with stout lasso
Fastened around his waist, l saw.
Was watchin' the ingine too.
I jist laid low for music
For knew there'd be tune.
With the mines shrek, and the 1njun's whoop,
Like thunderstorm in June
On. on like the wind it camel
Firm stood that cussed Red"
And when it got within easy range,
His lasso caught its headl
Sold sold ~ cried I, while the Injun
And the cars went out of sight:
But never shall I till my dying day
Forget his look of fright.
hain't much love for an Injun.
But almost pitied him
For bein' ierked to the Sperit Land
By a buffalo so grim.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
A SPECIMEN of hitherto undescribe,

A SPECIMEN of hitherto undescribed
constructor has been found in Western
Virginia by DR.. S. w. Crawford. 1t is
of milky whiteneness from head to tail,
with the exception of some brown spots
along its back. 1t is about five feet in
length and two and half inches ia cir
cumference at its thickest part. and al
most transparent. 1t has teeth but no
poison fangs, and its tail ends in horny
appendage about an inch long: A
naturalist, who has examined it, thinks
it to have been but three months old
when it was taken, and that when it
shall have obtained its full growth it
will be from twelve to fourteen feet
long. Since its capture, three months
ago, it has eaten no solid food except
one rat, which, after the manner Of
| constructors, it first crushed in its folds
and then swallowed whole, Its ordi
| nary diet is milk.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
BreathIeSS Flowers.

1 tell you God is good, as well as just,
And some few flowers in every heart are sowD,
Their black and crumpled leaves show but as
dust,
Sometimes in the hard soil-sometimes o'er-
grown .
With wild unfriendIy weeds they hidden lie
From the warm sunshine, but they do not die.
Pressed from natural quickening by the might
Of sin, or circumstance through the evil days,
They find their way at last into the light,
Weakly and pale, giving their little praise
Of modest beauty, and with grace most sweet
Making the garden of the Lord complete.
Alice Gury.