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Az EASY LESSON IN PHYSIOLOGY
Supposing your age TO be fifteen or
thereabout:
You have $50 bones and 500 muscles;
your blood weighs - pounds; your heart
is five inches in length and three inches
in diameter; it beats 30 times per min
ute, 1900 times per hour, lO0,S 800 times
per day, and 80, -, 200 times per year.
At each beat little over two ounces of
blood is thrown out of il; and each day
It receives and discharges about seven
tons of that wonderful fluid.
Your lungs will contain a gallon of
air, and YOU inhale 5000 gallons per
day. The aggregate surface of the air
cells of your lungs, supposing them to
be spread out, exceeds 10000 square in
ches.
The weight of your brain is three
pounds. When you are a man il will
weigh about eight ounces more.
Your nerves exceed 10000, 600 in num-
Der.
Your skin is composed of three layers,
and varies from one fourth to one-eighth
of an inch in thickness. The area oi
your skin is about LOO square inches
Each square inch contains $500 sweat
ing tubes or perspiratOry pores, each o.
which may be likened to a little drain.
| tile one-fourth of an inch long, making
an aggregate length of the entire surface
of your body of POI, ,lG6 feet, or tile
ditch for draining the body almost forty
] miles
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The Brides story.

When / was bui country lass, now fifteen
I lived where how, the Overprocl through
meadows wide and low;
There first, when skies were bending blue and
blossoms blowing free,
/ saw the ragged little boy who went 10 school
with me.
His homcspun GOA, was frayed and worn, with
patches covered o'ef,
His haf-ahi such li-it as ihat was never seen
The boys and girls, when FIRST lac came. they
shouted ID their eice,
And ieered the ragged little boy who went 20
school with nae.
His father was laboring man, and mine was
highly born.
Our people held both him and his in great con-
tempt and Scorl-
They said should not sioop TO own playmate
The bright-eyed, ragged li,Ie boy thar went to
school with nir.
Yet spite Of all the snecTs around from chill
dreu better dressed,
Ny heart went out 10 meet the heart that beat
within hiS breast.
His look was fond, his voice was low, and
strange as DO may be,
loved tlc ragged little boy that went 10 school
with me-
For years they had forgotten him, but when
again we met,
His looks, his voice, his gentle ways remained
They saw alone the man Of mark, but could
The bright-eyed. ragged little boy who went to
school with ME.
He had remembered me, IL seemed. as I re-
mcmbcrcd HIM;
Nor ame, nor honOrs, in his mind the cher
ished past could dim.
Young love had grown to older love, and so to-
] we'd he ragged little boy that went to school
with me-
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Mrs. STOWE on PoLYGASY.-A little
while ago a party of influential ladies
and gentlemen from the East, visiting
General Morrow at Camp Douglas, start
cd an interesting conversation on the sub
iect of Mrs. StenhOuse's new book on
polygamy, ''Tell it AL" In the course
of that conversation it was agreed to
call upon Mrs. Stenhouse, and suggest to
her to write Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
soliciting from that famous woman, who
did so much i'm her Uncle Toms Cabin
to demOlish slavery, preface to the
great book now i'm hand on polygamy,
which, it is to be hoped, will be, though
in a more limited sphere, not less potent
against the barbaric twin relic of slav-
cry. The author of "What / know
about polygamy1 wrote to the auther OF
"Incle Toms Cabin" and the following
is the answer:
BOsTON, July |, 1872.
"AIY DEAR MADAME received your
letter, and, rs am to be travelling this
summer, and / have written at once a
short preface of a general nature which
hope will answer your purpose. l am
happy to be able to do the least thing
which can show how heartily / sym
pathize with the effort you are making.
! May God bless both it and you is the
prayer of, Yours ever truly,
ii. b. STOwE.u
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tions as are prescribed for other elec-

tions as are prescribed for other cleo
tors.
Here is the form of such bill, which
recently passed the Senate in the State
of Maine by vote of fifteen to eight
and which failed to pass the House by
only four Yotes-and this vote / am in
formed by n member Of the Legislature
twas wholly spontaneous and given
without debate"
An act abolishing all law discriminate
ing between female and male suffrage
i'm the election Of President and Vice
President of the United States.
BE Il enacted bg tie Senate aud House
Of Representatives dl Legislature assem-
Jlcd, as follows:
Section ]. Every female citizen of the
United States of the age of twenty-one
years and upward, with the same ex-
ception as is applied to male citizens in
section of article Of the Constitution
of this State, having her residence es-
tablished in this State for the term of
three months next preceding any cleo
tiOn for President and Vice-President
of the United States, shall be an electOr
for President and Vice President of the
United States, in the city, town, or
plantation where her residence is so es-
tablished, in the same manner as now
provided by law for male citizens in
such election.
Section . The provisions of sections
IS and 20 OF chapter of the revised
statutes, shall apply to this act so far as
may be necessary to carry the same into
full effect.
Either of these methods might come
within the provisions of article section
6 Of the State Constitution, which de-
clares that claws shall be made to sup
port the privileges Of free suffrage"
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DRINKING.-No man ever became a
drunkard, lived a drunkard's life, died a
drunkar,lis death, and filled a drunkard 5
grave. as matter free choice. No one
ever became an excessive drinker who
did not begin by the habit OF being
moderate, a very moderate drinker If
II were the habit of all not to take the
first step and thus not become moderate
drinkers. the unutterable horrors ana
woe. the destitution and crime, which
result from this master evil Of intemper-
ance. would cease. Wives and children
and friends and communities would not
mourn over loved ones thus dishohoreu
and lost. But it is the habit OF drinking
becoming the law Of their being and oi
their daily life, the lack Of resisting
power resulting from this terrible thral-
dom, the fever of habitual temptation
and appetite, which causes that yearly
death-mareh of sixty thousand of ouT
people to the saddest of all graves, fol
lowed as mourners by half a million OF
worse than widowed wives and worse
than orphaned children.
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An old Democrat, n delegate from
Orange county, Ind, was seen leaning
against the wall of building a few
minutes after the adjournment of the
Convention, weeping bitterly. When
interrogated by a kind-hearted gentle
man, who was passing, as to the cause
of his trouble, asking at the same time
if he could serve him in any way, the
mortified and deeply Inundated old
man replied: "NO, my good man, you
can't do me no good. God knows
wish l was dead; for forty long years
rve been vOtin' the Democrat ticket,
and I've made an afiidavy that I'd stand
by the party, and here they have gone
and passed orders to vote for Horris
Greeley, and Pve got to do il or break
my affidavy, And that amt all, Mis-
ter; I've raised nine sons, and they're
livin', and I've spent many and many a
night reading Hendricks and other
Democratic speeches to them children
and very lately tOO-to teach iem what
an everlastin' old nigger thief and lynn
hypOcrit old Greeley was, and now
they're all gone back on me, and Tve
got to 20 home to them boys and tell
'em that their old dads been lyini to
them all his life, and that old HOrris
Greeley is one of the Lords anintedri
And the poor, deceived, and almost
heart-broken old man, bursting into
tears again, trembling with emotion,
went his way, saying only, ''rhis is
too much to bear; believe it will surely
break my heart.n
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William Cullen Bryants paper, the
ECciijHg Post, is known rs a fair and in
dependent paper, which avoids the usual
clap-trap fabrications of political cam
paigns. 1t opposed Grant as long rs the
Liberal movement, in its opinion,
promised something better It is pub
lished in New York; and speaks what it
knows of them who surround and control
Horace Greeley. And in its Thursday
evening editorial it says:
"There is no escaping the fact that
Greeley is supported by the disreputable
and most dangerous classes of the pOpu-
latiOn everywhere. Surely this Is not
accidental, and if not accidental, it Is
not totally meaningless. If sometimes
reputable men enroll themselves in his
party, the eases are exceptional, while it
is universally true, almost without any
exceptions that the most Objectionable
characters, the political bummers, the
men bankrupt in reputation, the camp
followers of all political parties, the
roughs and rOwdies Of the slums OF all
the cities, rs Greeley himself has so
often described them, are rallying
everywhere around the Greeley standard.
The decent men are shocked at the COM
panionship which is forced upon them.
The more reputable journals are shame
faced to acknowledge themselves in
such company. The people who flock
around Greeley, do so simply because
the Democratic party comes into power
with him with the ability and means to
reward its followers, or else the cunning
and corrupt men Of all parties are
gathering about him from all quarters
because thev know that the administra-
tion of affairs under him Will Toe in the
hands of the worst OF men, over whom
q man so weak, so vacillating, and SO
unable, can exercise no controli against
whom. even if he were always of honest
nnrnose he would have no defence
except the poor one Of his low, selfish
cunning"
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Some people are as careful of their
troubles as mothers are of their babes;
they cuddle them, and hug them, and
cry over them, and fly into a passion
with You if you try to take them away
from them; they want you to fret WIN Illl
them, to help them to believe that In5y
have been worse treated than 2nyDody
else. If they could, they would 1ilVe NV ',,o =
picture of their grief in g3lu di.o,.I. LrorIre
hung over the mantle-shell !Ss IoL 49, ',,oItss
body to look at. And their gre tLin-
them ordinarily seltish-tItfLy basl-at
more of their little grief III ny of al the
,,,rG world beside; and they say you. are tl1,
hard-hearted if you ''don't ret. oa,iit 1,ii
Won don't understand me-you ein
enfer into NV trlaI!I
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How fond some Of our male cotem-
pOraries are of criticising woman, in
tones of fulsome eulogy or disgusting
abuse, and how eagerly they lay hold OF
anything that can possibly be construed
into double meanings for the purpose of
gloating over her weakness and indulg-
ing in their own sensual tendencies. 1t
is indeed daring, aggressive spirit who
To,, ossur,,s ~, ,,,,.,t tI,as., ,,,oIh ,.i =
gObbling washerwomen OF other peoples
linen i'm the public press, and any stfrrer
up OF social or political soil must expect
from such Darwinian species much har-
rowing, rolling and spading, and some
wildcat speculating before realizing
q profitable harvest.-PiOneer.
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Every column of a newspaper contains
from twelve to fifteen thousand distinct
pieces of metal; the displacement of any
one would cause a Typographical error
And yet some people lay claim 10 re-
markable smartness If they can discover
an error in newspaper. Nhen such
people find a word with wrong letter
in it, they are so sure that they could
spell that single word right that they are
happy the whole day.
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a few weeks ago a very old man died
i'm London, at the age of ninety-one.
He bore an extraordinary resemblance
to the first Napoleon, and boasted to the
hour Of his death of having won the bat
tie of Jena. The following was his story,
which, however true or false, was uni
versaliy accepted: During a critical
moment Of the battle, AlbolinO this
was the old mans name,) seeing the
soldiers begin to waver, mounted q horse
and galloping in front of the troups,
cried out, 4 am your Emperor! For
wardp His cOrpOrars uniform and his
resemblance to the Emperor created
such enthusiasm in the ranks that they
pressed forward and the battle was won.
not, however, before the Prussians haC
noticed the cheat, and Albolino was
seriously wounded. He lived upon 9
pension in Paris until quite an old man
and then went to end his days in Lon
DON"
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PARADOXIEs.- thrown into 4
red-hOt metallic vessel does not boil, as
we should expect, but quietly gathers
itself together, forming a more or less
perfect sphere, and in that condition
floats about gracefully on the surface as
il slowly evapOrates away. If at the
same timea very evapOriZable substance,
as liquid sulphuric acid is thrown in, the
water may actually be frozen in 4 red
hot vessel.
Water boiled in Z glass flask until the
upper part of the vessel is entirely filed
with steam, and then dexterously cOrsed
before air can gain admission and placed
in cold water, Tecommences to boil.
The boiling is produced by cold instead
of heat, and the experiment is known as
the culinary paradox.
If steam from boiling at 212 degrees is
passed into a solution of salt in water,
the temperature of the salt solution
steadily rises, passing two hundred and
twelve degrees, reaches the boiling point
of the solution, and finally the latter
also bOils at n temperament as high and
even higher than 80 degrees, according
to its nature. There we have the ex-
traordinary result of obtaining higher
temperature, say go degrees, from q
lower one viz: 2l2 degrees.
II there is anything in nature that
possesses q positive character it is light.
Yet the physicist may so reflect the
light from q given source so as to cause
it to destroy itself and produce darkness.
In like manner two sounds may be made
to interfere with each other and either
produce silence or increased intensity OF
sound, at the will of the operator
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Geo. Q. Cannon, elected on the 18th
inst, Delegate to Congress from Utah,
ls the editor of the Desert NetCs, and is
also an Elder of the Mormon Church.
ne ne Is 4 polygamist of the most radical
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ADVENTURE WITH RATTLESNAKES.- .-
\ simple minded farmer in Arkansas
had an adventure with rattlesnakes, q
few weeks ago, which might have
proved fatal to a wiser man. lie was
looking for some stray cattle ana on
jumping from a rock upon pile oil loose
stones, lie suddenly found himself IN the
presence Of n family of rattlesnakes.
The reptiles played a lively tune with
their rattIes, Kissed, coiled themselves
i'm attitudes of defence, and seemed
ready to dart their fangs into the
farmers flesh. Their conduct struck
him as so ludicrOus that he stood
still and roared with laughter. Peal
after peal issued from his throat and
the rattlesnakes, utterly astOgnded,
began to uncoil and creep away, and
soon disappeared in the crevices Of the
rocks. The simple-minded farmer then
wiped his eyes, which his laughter had
filed with tears, and went home and
told the story of his adventure, which
he persists was the funniest thing he
ever experienced in all the days of his
life.
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SONORA HEWITT.
b Nns. SUSIE wITHERELL.

Entered, according TO the Act of Congress, in
the year lS72, by Mrs susie Witherel, in the Of
fee ofthe Librarian Of Congress at Washington
City.l
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a husband can readily foot the bills
OF wife who is not afraid of being seen
footing the stockings Of her husband.
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Such a resolution would silence the
unjust proposal that women shall con-
test their cases in the courts before they
are allowed to appear at the polls. The
manifest constitutional and democratic
proceeding is: appearance at the polls
illegality of votes declared by the legis-
lature, appeals to the courts.
(b) A bill may be passed that shall en-
title women citizens to be recognized rs
electors Of President and Vice-President
under the same conditions and situa-
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10
SHERlFF'S SALE.
Main Street, Auburn

RY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
ID issued out Of the District Court of the Four.
teenth Judicial District, in and for Placer coun-
ty, Cab ornia, on the 18th day of January. A. d.
1872, ON Judgment rendered in said court on
the 4th day OF December, A. d. 1871, in favor of
Daniel Coon and against Joseph Hauser. for tbe
sum OF two hundred and forty-eight and g. loo
dollars (S24S.6O gold coin Of the United States
with interest thereon at the rate of seven ner
cent per annum, and costs of suit, taxed at eigb-
teen and 65-lOO dollars (SlS.65), Now there
fore. will, on 'A''o
Or Monday, the 10th day OF Febru.r,
A. ID. 1872, at the hour of II O'Clock, NJ. of that
day' at the courthouse door, in the town of An.
oufn' fAcer county, sell at Public Auction to
tne highest bidder, for gold coin, all that certain
piece or parcel of land situate lying and beino
III ,ne county of Placer, State aforesaid. and
particularly bounded and described as follows
to wit: "' 'oiio"s D.
That certain, piece, parcel or tract of land s;t.
ua'ea on the north side of Main street in the town
pl Du'ch Fiat, State and County aforesaid
bounded on the east by house and lot owned
oy one H. Fellows, and ON the west by bouse
ana lot owned and occupied by one Allen Fowl
together with all and singular the tenementS
nefedltaments and appurtenances thereto belono'
ing or IN anywise appertaining.
All OF the above described pronertv T will -,
as aforesaid, to satisfy said Judgment, costs no.
cruing costs and expenses of sale. ~O''' "''
B. D. DUNNAM,
Sheriff Of Placer County
0nenn ohce, Auburn, Jan. 27, 1872. iaw
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Nodc of Poor Ru,u, Whiskey, Proof Spirits
nnd Refuse Liquors doctored, spced ana s~eo"
cned to please the taste, called " Ionics, APPcu@-
crs." Restorers," &c. that lead the tppler on to
drunkenness aad ruin, but are true Medicine, made
from the Native Roots and Herbs of California, Tree
frou nil Alcoholic ssiimulnnis. They arc the
GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and LIFE
GIVING; PRINCIPLE perfect EenSvator anu
lnygorator ofthe System, carrying OH all poisonous
matter and restoring ae blood to healthy condition.
No person take these Dlters according 10 Gifec'
ton and remain long unwoll.
S1GO will be given for IN incurablc case, PROVIDED
the bones arc not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means and the vital organs wasted beyond the
point ofrepair.
For Yplamm,itory md Chronic Rhcumn-
tisn, aud Gout, Dyspepsia or. Indigestion'
Bilious, Kcmittcnt aud intermittent Fevcrs,
Diseases Of the Blood, Liver, hidncys' ana
Bladder. these Biifcrs have been most success
full. Snch Diseases are caused by Nitiatcd
Blood, which is generally produced by arrangement
Of the Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Head
ache Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tghtness OF tho
Chest Dizziness, Sour Eructatlons of the Stomach
Bad taste In the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Falptation
Of the Heart Inflammation of the Lungs Pain In the
regions Of the Kidneys and hundred other painful
symptoms, are the o1springso Of Dyspepsia.
They invisoratc the Stomach and stimulate the tor
pidlver and bowels which render them Of unequalcd
efficacy in cleansing the blood OF all impurities and
impartng new life and vlgor to the whole system.
FOR SKIN DISEASES. Eruptlons, letter, Salt
Rheum, Blotchcs, Spots Pimpes Pustules, Bos, Car
bunclcs, Ring Worms, Scald1lead Sore Eyes, Erysip.
cas Itch Scurfs Discolorations of the skln Humors
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name ornaturc,
are literally dug up and carried out ofthe system in
short time by the of these Bitters. One bottle in
such cases will convince the most ncredulous of their
curative effect.
Cleanse the Vltated Blood whenever You And Its
impurities bursting through the skin in i'mples Erup-
tions Sores cleanse 1t when you find 1t obstruccd
and sluggish in the veins cleanse 1t when it is foul,
and your feelings will tell you when Keep the blood
pure and the health of the system will follow.
PIN, TAPE and other WORMS, lurking in the
system of many thousands are effectualy destroy
ed and removed. For full directions, read carefully
the circular around each bottle printed in four Ian
guages-English, German, French and Spanish
J.wALKER. Proprietor. r. II. MCDONALD CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agents, San francisco, Cal,,
and 50 and 81 Commerce Street, New York.
II SOLD By ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
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Fresh Garden, Flower, Tree and SHRUB
Evergreen, Fruit and Herb Seeds,
Prepaid by Mail.

A complete and judicous assortment. Twen-
ty-hve sorts Of either class, $1.00. The sh
classes (l5o packets) for $780, Also, an I'M.
mense stock OF one year grated Fruit Trees
omall Fruits, Fruit Stocks, Young Fruit, Orna..
mehtai and Evergreen Seedlings, Bulbs, Roses,
vines, House and Border Plants, &C., &C. Ing
most complete assortment in America. fre'
paid by mail. Priced Catalogues to any ad-
dress, also trade list, gratis Seeds on Commas
sion. Agents wanted.
Is. NJ WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries anu
1912. se23
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Min eral Citation.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Sacramento, California, Jan. ID 1872.
THO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
i Whereas on the day of A D.
1855, the Township map of Township No 12
north, range No. 6 east Mount Diahlo base and
meridian, was filed in the United States Land
Office at Marysyille, and by letter dated Dec. 2
1911, from the Hon. Com'r Gen1 Land Office,
the south "a OF southwest quarter of Section q.
IN township II north, range east, Mount
Dlablo base and meridian, is returned as mineral
IN character, and more valuable for mining than
ior agricultural purposes; and whereas, CHARLES
CoRDEs T. .. address, Lincoln, Call did, on
me 9th day of September, A. ID. 1870, file in the
Registers Office of this District his declaratory
statement claiming the same land, and affidavit
alleging that the same and each of the smallest
legal subdivisions thereof is agricultural in char
acter, and more valuable for agricultural than
Tor mining purposes:
Now, therefore, you will please take notice,
that under and by virtue Of instructions from
the commissioner of the General Land Once,
dated May +, 1871. we have,fi fixed the 18th day oil
February, a. ID, 1872, at 10 o'clock A. M, before
the Register and Receiver of the United States
Land Otlce at Sacramento, for the hearing ui
proofs as to the mineral or agricultural character
OF sad l9ndi at which time and place you may
appear If you see proper, and offer such proofs
as you may have to sustain the return as made
upon said Township map.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office, the day ana
year first above written
[sEA1.l JOHN G. MoCALLUM,
Register.
ja13-5w- Receiver.