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Gatherings by tn, Waysid


Salt stimulates digestion.
Pineapple irritatcs the bowels
Ripe cu,rants will cure diseases of the
bladder.
1t is said that Irritation is going out
of fashion.
-Sunstrokc is caused by check of
perspiration.
Dry rcnnct aud rhubarb wine will
cure dyspepsia.
-Iemons will cure chill and fever, and
correct Il bad liver
There are GS colleges for females in
the United States.
--Colored brides in Cairo 90 blushing
to the altar in mosquito-bar wells.
A colorcd woman is said to be the
most popular preacher at Akin, s. c.
--Florida boasts of mule that has been
twice shot and three times struck by light
ming.
The British census is said to develop
the fact that there are only 25S Israelites
in all Ireland.
An English writer says that the
French break every commandment except
one. They do not steal.
Violet wood fans are the latest nov.
elites They are fragrant, quantity carved
and bear the owners monogram.
The Cape May beach in every partic-
ular and without an exception is the finest
and most magnificent in the United States
At recent wedding in Warsaw, I'll.
among the refreshments served were bot.
tie of wine and loaf of cake prepared for
the wedding Of the wife's mother over
twenty years ago.
There are one hundred and fifty-three
monas,eries or religious houses in the Uni.
ted States for men leading the manastic
life of the Roman Catholic Church, and
three hundred and thirty.six converts or
cloisters for women.
Cecil Logan Kellogg has given up
her Treasury clcrkship in Washington, to
take place on Don Patts newspaper; and
Grace Greenwood, tired of literature, asks
Secretary Boutwell, to give her the first va,
caney in his Department.
A proposition before the Nebraska
Legislature to confer the right Of suffrage
upon women contains the provision that
the women may vote upon its adoption
This will allow the long .mooted question to
bc settled whether the mass Of the sex
really want suiiragc.
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second term after tho experience they
have had with him. ~-a

TUE OLD SPELLING SCHooLs.-Havd
you forgotten them? When from all the
region about they were gathered in the log
school. house with its huge freplace yavn-
ing like the entrance of Aycrnus? How
the sleighbells, big in the middle. of the
string and growing small by degrees and
beautifully less, toward the broad brass
buckles, chimed in every direction long be-
fore night-the gathering class. There
came one TO school, "thc MASTER" Give
him capital NJ. for he is entitled to it.
Master and all bundled into one huge red;
double sleigh strewn with abundance Of
straw, and tucked up like Christmas pie,
with half score of Buffalo robes. There
are dozen cutters, each with a young
man and a maiden, they two or more.
And there again pair Of ofjumpers, mount
ing great outlandish looking bin heaped
up pressed down and running over, Scrip.
ture messure, with small collection Of
humanity picked up en- route from dozen
homes, and all as merry as kittens in .
blanket of wool. And the bright eyes and
ripe red lips that one caught glimpse Of
beneath those pink lined, quilted hoods
and the silvery laugh that escaped the
mufflers and fur tippets they wore then,
who does not remember? Who can ever
forget them w9a
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-26

Iag- After Susan B. Anthony lectured
at Ripon, Wisconsin, she wanted some
recreation and amusement, so she took
a walk Sunday round the graveyard
there. While she was enjoying the
lecture of tombstone she heard lot of,
little boys saying "that's her." and she
thought "such is fame" Congratulating
herself that even the children Of the land
knew her, she was accosted by an urchin,
who said: "Say, amt you the old woman
that walks up the wire on the circus tent
tomorrow 2"
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THE ETIQUETTE OF HAT L1rr1NG.-I,

THE ETIQUETTE OF HAT LIFTrNG.-In
passing lady on the street the hat should
be raised with either the right or left hand,
according to the side on which you pass
the lady. The rule is that when gentle
man lifts his hat to lady, he should not
place his hand between his eyes and hers ;
consequently if he passes the lady on her
left, he lifts his hat with the right hand /;
aud if he passes her on the right, he lifts
it with the left hand. Tice versa, h:s
hand would come between her eye and his,
and be would not sec whether she recog-
nized him or not.
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NIOl)ESrY.

All, humble gem of mighty worth,
The noblest attribute Of earth,
Like morning dew in purity,
Shrinking from the sun' bright rays,
Ur like the l!owcrs Of early SPRING
Fit cmhlcmS. 'mong terrestrial things,
OF native modcSty
Whcrc Ger We feel lis gentle power,
We fear that in some future hour
Like dew twill leave. and unaware
We breathe an earnest, tcrvrnt prayer,
That God will save the cherished flower,
And guard with his protecting power
True native modcsty !
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olympia WASHINGTON TERRITORY SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST M 1871

reply, "anl that is but small advance on
! the cost"
Very well | will buy it of you," added
Mrs. Newton quietly.
- What did | understand you to say ?"
asked the Squire, scarcely believing his
ears.
g repeat that | will buy this house at
your price, and pay the money within a
week"
Then the house is yours. But your
husband said nothing of his intentions,
and in fact did not know
That he had the money to invest,
suppose you would say. Neither does he
know it. and 1 must ask you not to tell
him for the present"
The next morning Mrs Newton invited
her husband to take u walk, but without
specifying the direction.
They stood in front IF the house in
which he desired to live
Wouldn't you like to 90 in ?"
Yes. It's apity we haven't got the
key"
Il have the key" said his wife and forth
with walked up the steps and proceeded to
open the door
When did you get the key of Squire
Bent?" asked her husband.
" Yesterday, when bought the house,"
said his wife quietly.
Mr.. Newton gazed on his wife in pro.
found astonishment.
What on earth do you mean, Eliza
beth - he inquired.
Just what | say. The house is mine
and what is mine is thine So the house
is yours, Ezra"
Where in the name of goodness did
you raise the money - asked the husband,
his amazcment as great as ever.
L havn't been managing wife for ten
years for nothing said Mrs. Newton smil-
ing. With some difficulty Mrs. Newton
persuaded her husband that the price of the
house was really the result fhor savings
He leltwhen he surveyed the commodious
arrangements of the new house. that he had
reasons to be grateful for the prudence of
his managing wife.
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WHAT Is LIFE =!

\ little crib beside the bed.
\ little face above the sprcrd.
\ little trock behind the door,
a little shoe upon the floor.
y little lad. with dark brown hair,
A little blue eyed face and fair,
\ little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, slate and rule.
\ lililc hlitlcsomc, wiuSom" maid,
\ little hnud within his laid :
\ little cottage, acres four,
\ little oid-timc fashioned store.
4 little family gathering round;
\ little ,nrt-h"alrd, tcar-dewcd mound ;
\ little aldcd to his SOIL
a little rest from hardest toll.
\ little silver in his hair
\ little stool aud easy chair:
A little night Of carth-lit gloom
y little cortegc to the tomb.
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E1- William Miner Roberts, Esq, En-
gineer-in Chief of the North Pacific Road,
made speech at Helana, Montana, on
the 22d ult., in which he said: sfi
/ am in favor of " women's rights" and
lam Democratic enough toyield gracefully
to the will Of the majority. ID fact I
always vote the Democratic ticket, when
l have chance; which, however, Aas
not occurred very often, on account ofthe
moving nature of my profession, shieh
throws me into SO many different parts
Of the country.
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H@s~ About eighty miles above Walla
Walla, on the Columbia river the mighty
steam flowing between perpendicular walls
at last 250 feet high, these being built by
the Masters hand of breccia, amygdeloid,
basalt and lava, the voyager by canoe
looking upward will see half way to the
top of one of these faces of marvellous
masonary lcaaess tree, with ring of as
bestos instead of bark. The gentleman
of the Hudson Bay Company have been
in the habit for half century, as they
passed this forest-legacy of dead and
buried epoch, to show their skill with the
rifle by dropping into their canoes, with
blow of a ball. pieces of the extremities
of the limbs The tree is wholly petrifed
1t is retained in its isolated suspension
by the hold of its roots twisted aud inter-
lock ed in the seams and crevices between
layers oflava and different eruptions. 1t
is one hundred and twenty feet above the
river. No food could have deposited it
there The testimony of the twisted and
interwined roots that the tree grew where
it stands, is conclusive. The testimony
would seem to be conclusive, too, that the
tree, after being silicitied, was denuded
from its volcanic matrix by water action,
likewise that the Columbia has guttered
through the lava to its present level
JVilkeson, in Christian Union.
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~ A little girl came into my house
one day, and some apple pariugs hay % =
plate on the table. After sitting awhils
she said: .. s.I ..t
At smell applesw j.
eyes," replied, II guess ron smsll
those apple parings on the plate sa-- t.sSil
"No! mop said she," Tain't them, I
smell whole apples r 10 s,es s.a4 !, ! ,;i; &
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VThose who look rather coldly upon
Canada will perhaps be astonished to hear
that she is the fourth maritime power 10
the world, aud has ,69l ships, with . tan
age of S99, 900 tons. She stands ahsad ef
every nation except Great Britain, ,tha
United States, and France. s 1850
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There are 552 windows it Stewarts up
town store.
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Each additional insertion. .......... ...... 90
Business Cards, per quarter ................. 90
NY \ liberal deduction will be made in ia
vor ofthose who advertise four squares, or up
wards, by the year.
Icy" Legal notices viii! be charge. to the
attorney or officer authorizing their insertion.
LsS~ Advertisements sent from Il distance,
and transient notices, mast be accompanied by
the cash.
EsE- Announcements :f births, marriages
and deaths inserted free of charge.
GeSsn Obituary notices, or ''poclry" append
cd to marriages or deaths, will be charged one
half our regular Advertising rates. We Will
nu: hereafter dcviate from this rule.
Erly~ Blanks, bijl-.cnlS, cards, circulars,
catalogues, bills of fare. po'icis programmes,
pamphlets, etc, printed ut reasonable rates.
Drrlcg g-Corncr of Second aud Washington
Streets.
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As TO DEMoNsrRATIoNs.-The Boston
Pilot is the leading Irish Catholic organ
of New England. In late article on the
New York riot it says: ~
There are two ways of getting rid Of this
apple of discord The first is by an
agreement between the general Irish pop
ulation and the Orangemen foregoing all
right to parade, and expressing their de-
termination never to hold professions for
Irish political objects alone. This, we
may rest assured, will not be easily agreed
to. The second one is the best. when
America, tired out and indignant with her
squabbling population, puts her foot down
with will and tells them all-Germans,,
French, Irish, Orange-"You have had
enough now. There is only one fiae to DC
raised in future in this country, and that IS
the Stars and Stripes"
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INTEGRITY way in which a man
of integrity will be successful, is that he
will win the confidence of man by his course,
so as to secure their patronage, in preference
to those who do not sustain such character.
Take two men side by side, in the same
business, and you would not hesitate an
instant, as to who should have your custom,
ifone had never willfully deceived you,
while the other always needed watching.
Suppose they are mechanics of any kind;
would YOU not willingly give more for the
same article, if you could be sure that it
was good, then if you had to risk its quality
on account of the dishonesty of the maker
Would you not rather shun him altogether,
and give your patronage to the other when
you could? It is so in all cases, and your
feelings towards dishonest man would
be shared by the whole community ; and
when the two made up the statement OF the
years business, the man ofintegrity would
be found to have made an addition to the
profit side of his account, which was owing
entirely to his known character for honest
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-13

The judiciary committee Of the house of repre-
sentatives have decided to report bin fixing the
number of representatives in the forty-third and
succeeding congresses, at two hundred and
eighty, and apportioning this number among
the several states. The bill seems to be judi
cious compromise between the views of those
who would keep the present ratio Of representa-
ton, so that no state would have fewer represen-
tatves than now, and those who would retain
the present number of representatives The
house now has two hundred and iorty-two mem
bers If the proposed bill should become law,
as seems likely, only two states would lose un-
der the new apportionment New Hampshire
and Vermont, which now have three representa-
tives each, would then have two each. The
other New England states could retain their
present representation except Massachusetts,,
which would gain one member. The middle
states would gain ive-one in New York and
two each in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The southern states would gain thirteen, pretty
evenly distributed, Georgia and Texas only gain
ing two each, and most of the others one each.
The gain here is not due to increase of popula-
ton, except perhaps in Texas, but to the fact
that the colored people for the first time are
counted in the basis of apportionment at their
full number, instead of three-fifths of that num-
Der, as when they were slaves. The western
states would gain twenty, of which the gain of
Illinois is the largest-four members-Missouri,
Iowa and Michigan, gain three each, and Kansas
two.
The following table gives the present and pro-
nnsed nnnOrtiOnments:
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Paris During the sieuc.

The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
writes by balloon under date of Dec. 10th:
MOltke's letter informing us of his recaptureof
Orleans is, in the opinion of many, an outrage
Gus attempt at imposing upon our simple mind
ed and besieged creduity. In the opinion of all
it is a piece of curious military literature He
simply says: "Orleans taken; Army of the
Loire beaten" If there had been a bad beat a
wipe-Out, large capture, or the gobbling up of
the general-n-chief, or any such catastrophe,
wouldn't the great strateglst have taken pains to
tell it all to Trochu? OF course he would But
if il is only commonplace beat, with the
French getting away in good shape, why send it
in 10 us so ostentatiously? And this is the first
time that the great strategist has employed this
sort Of strategy. We have never heard a wills
per of his voice or seen the scratch of his pen
before. Perhaps he thought that we who are
reduced to ass pies and cat outlets are to be de-
moralized by such tidings. Never! 1t is all
very funny, and we are impatient to learn the
details OF the fight which the count has conde-
scended TO order little note of for our benefit
At all events, ] am sure you will admit that
TTochu's reply was pretty smart Moltke saws.
man to see for himself" Trochu says: "Yours
received. No confirmation needed by the means
you propose. Yours truly" No better answer
could have been devised 1t is perfect
Frenchman looked up from his cognac and said
"He writes TO tell us we are beaten. Nothing
such a fuss over it"
Saturday evening, eighty fourth day of the
siege. Catch me in another. 1t is maddening.
How long, o Lord, how longl | shall go mad,
get drunk, cut my throat, join the Catholic
church, enroll myself in a red club, make a
speech in favor of the French, or do some other
equally desperate and outrageous thing. | am
out Of money and out Of patience. Buttons
falling off and nobody TO sew them on. If
sew them on myself, run the needle into my
finger, and in my rage throw needle and
breeches, and self, and all into the fire. I'll be
hanged if sieges are not the most demoralizng
exasperatng, infuriating things ever concocted
by Bismarck, caused by the French, or perpe-
trated by the devil. Got a line from the charge
10 keep have, to-day, one month old, through
the United States embassy. She says: "Wait-
ing on from day to day in dumb endurance" So
am |, all except the "dumb." The very stones
in the pavement cry out here. You should see
us, the Amcricansl Such lot for military adj
| vice and appetite. We eat and sleep and advise
the military authorities We grow all day long
and all the evening though, and when we 90 to
| bed we growl in our dreams. You know those
Of us who are born in our native land are born
military and political genusesl War and pol
! itcs are with us an intuition. So you should
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Foreign Notes.
TENS FROM LONDON.

ITEMS FROM LONDON.
LONDON, Jan. 12.-Dispatches from Versailles
state that the bombardment of Paris continues
to be prosecuted with great activity. Shells are
continually falling within the city, although
their effect cannot be ascertained.
The magnificent dome of tie Hotel DIES Inva-
lides has been shattered to fragments by Prus-
sian bomb, which crashed through, carrying
havoc and destruction to the interior of the
building.
An explosion occurred in Renshawt colliery,
near Sheffield, to-day, by which twenty-sx per-
sons were killed and nine injured.
From information received here, il has been
ascertained that the forts surrounding Paris
have suffered much less from effects of bonn
bardment than at first supposed. The forts on
the cast side which had been thought to have
been completely silenced, opened furious fire
on Sunday.
Adyices from Bordeaux represent the feeling
at present existing among the people of that city
as being greatly depressed, and the probability
of the surrender of Paris at an early day is gen
orally accepted.
Dispatches received here state that fifty thou
sand fresh troops crossed the Rhine recently
and traversed the province of Alsace. They are
intended to reinforce the army of Gen. Werder,
now operating in the valley of the Saone.
OTHER OLD WORLD MATTERS.
BORDEAUX, Jan. 12.-Slight engagements
have taken place in the vicinity of Lille aud OF
Havre, in which the results have been favorable
to the French arms.
VERSAILLES, Jan. 1.-THE German columns
operating against Gen. Chauzy have driven him
within one mile of lie Mans, after series of
engagements, in which one cannon, three mi
trailleuses and 1000 prisoners were captured.
The loss Of General Won Werder of the Ger
man army, at the storming of Villersexel, was
only 200 killed and wounded
A large German army is being formed in the
eastern departments of France, which will be
under the special command of distinguished
officers, and will include the corps of Gems. Won
Werder, Zasturo, and Others.
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Gbe aaip Spy aalorastn fOap Arnng, ganuarp 49, 1871

hear MS discnss Trochu and Eovre and Ducrot
while we discnss tbe hoiled horse or stewe3
cat or roost oSS or f.;cooaod oot U,h;cb thoso
oreat mon ente,,toin ne ,,non This WOOL, tro
have heen nort;"niari,, crapt;n bananse ,,o Nv,
nected to have sean onrsaive. opt or tha prnsH
SLAMS in Inv this limo Rnt a Iong ion% weary
week has nossed in tcors a,yav a1,d a1ter oil ths
blood and thunder of Iost week we are agoin
for the dozenth time This saturday evening If
the ei0htv-fourth day on the owe az the imneud-
ing crisis This ncxt weel, win he tbr weeI,
We ore morshaling our forces in another III.
rection, We are Going IN trv the west and
northwest this time. There is IN Inc our last
ditch for sure. certain. and no mistake. So our
minds are made un-Rv This fine next weel, we
are TO he delivered Either we will ro ont or
the king will come in AS for LIVING on tbis II
is ont of fine question. The French must 60ht
Continuation without fohting does NOT enter the
head of even Tho cro1iast rnodbeod anono- tbon,
or Mt least doesn't 0et evnression So The no.
roic honIevordS and the chivoIric cofes and tho
ascetic halls. and tbe solemn climbs all cry. for
ward march-yictory or death-down with the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MI betal,e themselves
TO their SHINING or Glancino, And rs the Prus.
slams WON'T GSbt on Sunday. and the French
always nut off till Tomorrow what ourht to
have been done Yesterday we nust anticinate
second Grand attemnt nj making orr exit ON
Monday. So, about twenty DAYS or so before
this reaches Won Tor Bismarcl,l Won will know
all about the upshot of this exit
Yes: how highly encouraging il is TO learn that
of the two score letters. big and little that
have sent nm into the air for Won. abOnt one only
has come down TO Won. Almost every balloon
has carried ont more than one of INV fOur
grammc biIlets, microscopically written. scrupu-
lousy weighed and (some of them) carefully
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WORCESTER
FRIDAY. JANUARY Ia. 1871,


The committee ordered by congress TO investi-
gate affairs in San Domingo is not likely to
have much time for investigation. This com.
mttee will, of course, be appointed by the presi-
dent without concurrence with the senate;
and it will be instructed, we told, to complete
its work, return, and prepare its report, Gas
early as the 10th or the 18th of February" 1t
is now the 18th of January. 1t win require
great dispatch, more than is usually possible in
such cases, TO get the committee started for the
island by the 18th or 10th of January; and, de-
Quoting the time necessary TO go to San Do
miDgo come back, and prepare the report there
may be nearly fortnight left for traversing the
island, making the necessary inquiries, and
studying the important questions raised by the
proposition to annex the Dominican territory to
the United States. 1t would 6e scarcely posi-
BILE to begin fairly thorough investigation, tif
such an investigation were intended in fcrt-
night, even ii the Domincans were an English
speaking people, As it is, the expected report
itnot likely to be of much value.
The appointment of this committee is really
little more than a formality, or rather, ma
newer to bring the matter before congress in
such way as will secure success for the annex
alton project by means of a joint resolution.
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