Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-02-08
Vol. XVIII. Whole No. 800. No. 6.

simply reply that they haven't authoriz-
ed any such fishing.
Anonymous Brookfeld correspon-
dents send us grossly personal items,
and expect us to publish them. We may
at some time or another attempt to sof-
ten the asperity of mad bull with the
tender of a bottle of hair oil, but we are
quite confident we shall never publish
irresponsible sonals.-Danbury Ne,cs.
The Saratoga Sun recently had the
following paragraph: The wickedest
woman lives IL Saratoga. She refuses
to saw wood for the family or even to
split it after it is sawed The Saratoga
an replies: And 1t is simply contempt
iblc in you to try to force her to do it.
fon should saw aud split your own
wood. and do all you can to help sup
port the family
Horace Greeley heard that they made
5000 pounds OF butter from sixteen cows,
at Danbury. He bought lot of cows
at once. and is going to have them
ground up and churned. 'You see,'
can buy Live Beef for eight cents a
pound and Butter is worth forty. Ii it
costs two cents a pound for labor. shall
clear Three hundred per cent. The man
who SAYS this is not so, is liar and
horse-thief! Chicago Post
There is Il rose-bush trained upon the
wall of the Cathedral at Hildesheim. in
Germany. which is said to be thous-
and wears Old. The famous legend that
this rosc-bu-h was planted bv Susan Il.
Anthony on her one-hundredtn birth
day is now generally discrcdited by the
more intelligent people around there -
Louisville J0urnGi
Writes a correspondent from the
Plains; The Indians are dressed most
ly in blankets and bears grease. They
are contiiing people. Yesterday
squad of thirteen came into our tent,
aud the oldest availed himself of the
right of seniority by sitting down on
our box stove, which he mi-took for a
vaIise. He was much surprised
Young girls are evidently bent on en-
couraging the youth Of the period to get
married on fortunes something less than
A~tor's. One Of our wcalthicst bellies
was married short time ago, in dress
OF white tuilc without an inch OF lace
But won her husband hear OF that
dress about once week until death do
them party T. NtiI
There is a great salt lake in Texas
called the Sal Dee Ray, which is All inn
mensc bed Of salt about five miles in cir
The salt is formed natu-
rally, and has only to be .hovelled up
and taken to market. For table use it
must be washed and ground. The in-
IpriX -,
is said to be only $50. 900 A
year; but the Mexican government for
mcrly cOliecte | Il rcYcuue OF SlOO, 900 in
axes on the produce Of the lakes.
Some preachers complain that, al
though they preach doctrinal sermons
often and long, and explain the dogm ls,
tencts and points OF belief of their par
tlcular sect with great lucidity and par
ticuIaritr, they still fail to make some of
their warmcst and stanchest adherents Of
The creed understand il in its scope and
relations. For example: Father Bal
lou, said an elderly Cniversali.t, who
had ior twenty wears delIshtedy attend
ed on his preaching, in YOUR sermon to-
day, | got the idea that YOU thought
everybody was 10 be saved them Or
th0dox fellow, AS well as we Cnivcr sal
lists. Did We mean that?' Certainly
was the reply; that our leading prin-
ciplc, Well, was the disappointed re-
lolnder, 1T never struck me - before;
thought it was the Cniversaiists alone
who were 10 be saved, them who had
some faith in the doctrine. - Boston
III the law saws the Missouri Demo-
rrdt, IS fairly and impartialv admins
teredin his case, Mr. Stokes will, before
long, relinquish the tenancy OF that pala-
iial apartment; and we suppose that in
order To continue the splcndor with
which he begins his prison career, he
will then walk some distance on a path
way strewu with flowers, and ascend
about twenty beautiful carpeted stairs to
u platform richly testoonea with the fin
est drapery, with highly polished ma
hosany beam across the top. From the
latter Il snowwhitc cord of finest silk
illdrop in lazy languor, until gentle
man in waiting shall loop one of its ex-
under Mr.. Stokes right ear,
A neatly embroidered cap will then be
assumed by Mr.. Stokes, that the winds
Of heaven may not visit his face too
soon after which. amid the gaze
of assembled hundreds, few square feet
Of the platform will quickly disappear,
and in Il truitless effort to get his toes
upon the lower floor, he will pass to that
bourne whence no traveller returns
BRAISs.-The brain Of the late James
FISK, jr., is said to weigh IS ounces, this
IS an ounce orso more than Wcbster's or
One OF the heaviest brains
'on record is that of Cuvicr, the great
French naturalist This weighed be-
tween SO and 90 OF. The BRAN of Du-
puytreu, French surgeon, weighed 5 s
ounces. The stature OF a man, is no in
icx TO his brains-a small man NAV have
A large brain and vice versa. The qaul-
lty. Is quite as important As the quantity,
large brain does not Of
necessity constitute great man, The
brain OF a horse is inferior in weight to
the smallest adult human brain-that OF
a whale seventv-five feet long, did not
weigh twice as much as that of a man.
According to Ziepemann, the female
brain, although absolutely smaller than
that of the male, is larger when com
pared with the size of the BODY. The
brain reaches its highest development at
the age OF twenty years, and continues
in power until sixty, after which, in most
persons, it begins to decrease in size.
with a corresponding decline in the
mental powers.-l Exchange.
Eli Perkins sends these "reminiscences
to the n. Y. Commercial: What a mis-
cradle reprobate the preachers all make
Fisk out to be! And they are right.
Why the scoundrel actually stopped his
coupe one cold. dreary nighton Seventh
avenue, and got out, inquired where she
lived. and gave poor old beggar wo-
man a dollar. He seemed to have no
shame about him, tor the next day the
debaunched wretch sent her around a
barrel of -four and load of coal. One
day the black-hearted scoundrel sent ten
dollars and bag of -four around to
widow woman with three starving chill
dren; and, not content with this, the re-
morseless wretch told the police captain
to look after all the poor widows and or
phans in hi1ward and send them to hlm
when they deserved charity What