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The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

A PRINTERS MISFORTUNE.

An exchange says: Some years ago when
the writer was reporter upon an Eastern
paper, it devoled upon linn to write for the
same edition an account of the presentation
of gold headed cane to the Rev l. Nudge,
the clergyman of the place, and the descrip-'
ton of a patent hog-killing and sausage ma
chine that had just been put in operation at
the factory. Now, what made Mr.. Nudge
mad was this. The inconsiderate buccaneer
who made up the "forms" got the two To-
Gals mixed up in a frightful manner, and
when we went to press something like this
was the appalling result
"Several of the Rev. DR.. Mudge's friends
called upon him yesterday, and after brief
conversation the unsuspecting hog was seized
by the hind legs and slid along beam, till
he reached the hot water tank. His friends
explained the object Of their visit, and pre-
sented him a very handsome gold headed
butcher, who grabbed him by the tail,
swung him around cut his throat from ear
to ear, and in less than minute the carcass
was in the water. Ihereupon he came for
ward and said there were times when the
feelings overpowered one, and for that rea-
son he would not attempt to do more than
thank those around him for the manner in
which SO huge an animal was cut into So
many fragments was simply astonishing.
The doctor concluded his remarks, when the
machine seized him, and in less time than it
takes to write it, the hog wss cut into fgag-
ments and worked up into delicious sausage.
The occasion will long be remembered by
the doctors friends as one of the most de-
Iightful Of their lives The best can he OBJ
tanned for fifteen cents a pound, and we are
sure that those who have sat so long under
his ministry will rejoice that he has been so
handsomely treated"
Mad! Well, about nine o'clock that
morning the Office mad been abandoned by
every man but the advertising clerk, and
he ascended to the roof and robed himself
in boiler iron, so that he could watch the
venerable clergyman tearing around down,
there in the street with his congregation all
wearing the panoply of war, and carrying
butcher knives and things. The next day
we explained and apologized, but the doctor
stopped his subscription and began to take
the rival paper
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10


Is THE Moon INHABITED ?-'rhe question
whether the moon is inhabited, seems to
have been partially solved by the following
German tale:
Ages ago there went one sunday morning
an old man into the wood to how sticks. He
cut faggot and slung it on stout staff
cast it over his shoulder, and began to trudge
home with his burden. On his way he met
a handsome man in Sunday suit walking
toward the church. This man stopped and
asked the faggot-bearer: "Do You know
that this is Sunday on earth, when all must
rest from their labors %
"Sunday on earth or Monday in heaven,
it is all one to me" " laughed the wood-cut-
ter.
"Then bear your bundle forever" answer
ed the stranger, "and as you value not Sun
day on earth, yours shall be perpetual moon
day in heaven, and you shall stand for
eternity in the moon, a warning to all Sab
bath breakers.
Ihereupon the stranger vanished, and the
man was caught up, with his stock and bis
faggots, into his moon, where he stands yet.
The superstition seems old in Germany,
for the full moon is spoken Of as ,cadel, or
,cedel, faggot.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

MATERNAL TENDERNESS. "A sparrow which
had built her nest on the thatch-roof Of a
house, was observed to continue her regular
visits long after the time when the young
birds had taken their fight. This unusual
circumstance continued throughout the year;
and in the Winter, a gentleman who had
long observed her, determined on investigat-
ing its cause. lie therefore mounted lad
der, and found one of the young ones de-
tanned prisoner by means of the worsted
which formed part of the nest having become
accidentally twisted around his leg. Being
thus incapacitated from procuring his own
subsistence, it had been fed and sustained
by the continued exertions of its mother. If
this be mere instinct, what is reason?
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10
A PRETTY good story is told of citizen Of

A PRETTY good story is told Of citizen Of
Elizabeth, N. j., who went to the cars on
Thanksgiving Day TO see his daughter off.
Having secured seat for her, he left the
car and went round to her window to say a
parting word. While he was passing out
the daughter left the seat TO speak to a
friend, and at the same time prm looking
lady who occupied the seat with her moved
up 10 the window. Unaware of the impor=
tant changes inside, our venerable friend
hastily put his face up to the window and
hurriedly EXCLAIMED Gone more kiss, sweet
pet. In another instant the point of q blue
cotton umbrella caught his seductive lips,
accompanied by the passionate injunction;
" Scat, you gray headed wretch" He
seated.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10
THE WORLD.

'Tis all a great show,
The world that we're in
None can tell when twas finished
None saw it begin;
Men wonder and gaze through
Its courts and its halls,
Like children whose love is
The picture-hung walls.
There are flowers in the meadow,
There are clouds in the sky
Songs pour from the woodland,
The waters glide by;
Too many, too many,
For eye and for ear,
The sights that we see,
And the sounds that We hear.
A weight as of sltlmber
Comes down ON the mind;
So swift is life's train
To its objects We're blind;
l myself am but one
In the heet-gliding show
Like others l walk,
But know not where go.
One saint to another
heard say "How long?"
1 listened, but nought more
heard of his song;
The shadows are walking
Through city and plain
How long shall the night
And its shadow remain?
How long ere shall shine,
In this glimmer of things,
The Light of which prophet
In prophecy singsl
And the gates of that city
Be open, whose sun
No more to the west
Its circuit shall run
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

The RED SEA.-The Red Sea is said to be
the hottest place in the world. The atmos-
phere for about fifty miles on that sea is
steamy and sticky. Everything in the shape
of iron or steel about ship takes on coat
of rust During the Summer months no one
travels on the Red Sea unless compelled by
business or military orders to do SO. In the
Winter and Spring the passage is delightful.
Yet navigation in that body of water is al
ways attended with many dangers. The
Red sea is long and narrow, with sunken
rocks and projecting reefs; and counter
winds prevail, which produce dangerous cur
rents. There are three lighthouses in the
sea, which must be kept by salamander-ke
men, since the thermometer runs up to one
hundred and twenty degrees in July and ap-
proaches ninety in early Spring.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

WHAT PRlsoNERs READ.-C. Cummings,
Prison Instructor, has furnished the annexed
report of the San Quentin Prison Library
and School, for one month: Number
of prisoners attending school, 231; num-
Der of prisoners acting as teachers, 23; total
attendance, pa; number Of members in
Mutual Improvement Society, 231; whole
number of volumes loaned from the library
during the month, 1,675. Classified as fol-
lows: Roman Catholic, 80; Protestant, re-
ligious, 80; travels, 120; history, 200; bi-
ography, 95; science, 30; romance, S45;
periodicals, 160; Spanish, 20; German, 40;
French, 12. Whole number of books in
the Prison Library, 3,038.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

Power OF THE Press. We think it was
the Ore'iand Monthly which said: Were it
not for the public press, the liberties of Ame.
rica would hardly be worth the paper on
which they are written. The little public
opinion that we have-and it is very little,
and poorly defned-is due to the press, and
it is the main watchdog of the public trea-
sury aud censor of legislation. OF course it
is the vehicle of fraud, political msrcpresen-
tation and personal ambition, but it is none
the less mirror in which may be seen, from
day to day. national events, the record of
political parties, and the operations of public
men. Society exerts through the press upon
the political element and the government
whatever of virtue and integrity it possesses,
and secures concert Of action from its men,
bers when danger threatens, by availing it,
self of the vast omnipresence of the public
press.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10
DESPAIR AND HOPE.

Into a cavern dim and dank,
Crept we on the creeping tide;
Shapeless creatures rose and sank,
Dripped with damp the ceiling wide.
Darker, cniller hung the air;
Scarcely the prov could see;
But l, through the shadow there,
Felt the skull still grin AT me.
Out of the cavern $ thither side
Into mellow, morn-like glow,
Streams the ripple-curving tide;
Sounds of music sweeter grow;
Odorous incense, soltened air,
Melodies SO FAINT and fair
Thrill me through with life and love;
And all suddenly from the Prov.
Where had seemed the skull just now,
Flutters TO my breast the dove.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

The PArAeoN1ANs.-rhe Patagonians are
naturally race of wild hunters, living more
on horseback than on foot, and are as skill
full in the pursuit Of game as the far-famed
Indians of North America. Living on a
barren soil, flesh is their principal food, and
the quantity they eat is said to be enormous.
Polygamy is practiced, and thieving held in
such estimation as to form consideration in
the necessary qualifications of the intended
husband, who is looked upon as nditferently
capable Of supporting wife unless he is an
adept in the art of stealing from stranger.
Their tents are made of poles and the skins
of guanacoes, and generally carried about
with them, as they move from place to place.
They dress in long mantles made of skin,
covering them from head to foot ...
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

How LONG TT TAKEs TO READ THE BIBLE
THRouGH.-Elder Weaver, men who has
preached the gospel for 45 years, who is
now settled over the Baptist Church in Vol
untown, Ct, stated in an address to the
Sunday School in the Congregational Church
in Jewett City, that he had heard man
say that he had read the Bible through in
GO hours. Determined to ascertain whether
the individual told the truth or lie, be
set about it himself, and read the whole of
it aloud to, bis wife in SO hours and some
thing over 80 minutes. He read sometimes
an hour, and sometimes two hours day.
keeping the exact time. with the result indi-
Gated above.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

A New INVENTION. In Pearl street, New
York, there is mill which makes from pa.
per, milk pans, cups, bread pans, wash
bowls, etc, which is said to lie superior ia
wood or metal. The paper after being pulp
ed is pressed TO shape, dyiea, enameled, and
subjected to heat that would destroy some
utensils of the kind. The material is light
and easily handled, and does not rust, shrink
or easily break.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

A KNOWING lNsEcT.-A correspondent re-
lates touching instance of insect instinct:
81 found a cockroach struggling in bowl
of water. ! put him into it and gave him
two wooden toolhpieks for oars, and left
him. The next morning visited him, and
he had put piece of white cotton thread on
one of the toothpcks, and set the toothpicls
upon one end as a signal of distress. lie
had a hair on the other tooihpck, and there
that cockroach sat a fishing. The coclroach,
exhausted, had fallen asleep. The sight
melted me to tears. | never had to chew
leather TO get soul. Twas born with one
| took that cockroach out, grve him a spoon-
full of Cruel and left. That animal never
forgot that act of kindness, and now my
house is chuck full of cockroaches."
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

A Bridgeport lady mistook the character
of surprise party and deposited the refresh
ments that had been brought by the callers
in her pantry. After waiting until three
o'clock in the morning for the customary
spread, the party broke up hungry, not rea-
lizing that it is more blessed to give than to
receive.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

TALK ABOUT SUCCESSES. J. Parker, NJ
d., in paper before the Ithaca, N. Y,
Farmers Club, uttered the following sensi-
ble words: /" am prepared to say that if
you put thousand young men OH farms,
and then put a thousand others in merchan-
disc, the result will be that eig tchupdred of
the farmers will grow to competence and to
greater wealth, than any eight hundred of
those in merchandise, for there will be but
one hundred or one hundred and fifty who
will succeed in town life. Of all fires to eat
up the live flesh and blood of men is war.
And of all next to war, is the carnage Of
health, expectations, and character, long
life, in the large city or town. Satisfaction
with the farm is the first law, and the sec
ond is like to it, namely: A life education,
growing richer and better till life shall end
on the farm. That is what we want.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

The YEARS PRoDuCT. = 1t is officially
stated that the value of all the farm products
Of the United States during the past year
excepting the live stock-amounts to 49,
445 ,OO0,O This represents the year s
gross receipts, and it looks immense enough.
But great deductions arc to be made from
it, before we can approximate to the clear
profits of the year. The living expenses of
our forty millions of people, for instance, are
first to be taken out; then all the taxes, and
the private debts falling due and the interest
at least of the others, must be subtracted.
We should find on examination, therefore,
that the real profits on last years produc-
ton is not so great after all. We see that
David A. Wells, in recent lecture. esti-
mates that if the whole annual accumulation
Of the country was equally divided, each in
dividual would receive put $175. This
shows how closely the worl lives from hand
to mouth. A years cessation of work would
bring the greater part of mankind to starva-
ton, even if they were as well off on the
average as the people Of the United States,
which they are far from being. Mr.. Wells
also estimated that the permanent accumu-
lation of the English nation for the last 800
years amount to about thirty thousand mil
lions; those for the United States for the last
$50 years amount to about twenty-five thou
sand millions. The difference is owing to
the greater intelligence Of our masses and
the superior natural advantages amid which
they are placed; while the more general
adoption of labor-saving machinery here, es-
pecially during the last 15 or 20 years, has
also worked in our favor
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

AN impudent lawyer in New York, meet
ing a soldier with very full whiskers, said;
&c say, my dear fellow, when are you
going to put your beard on peace footing"
sc Not until you place your tongue OH tho
civil list," WIS the retort.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

THE human heart is six inches in length,
four inches in diameter, and beats 20 times
per minute, 4,200 time per hour, 1OO,SOO
times per day, aud 3G,Sl6,2OQ time per
year.
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"Never mind the obituary, Judge, said a
Montana culprit, when the court became pa
thetic in pronouncing sentence "lets fix
the time for the funeral"
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10
coUN ALFoRN1A TO-

ing these moments, hours, days, weeks or
months, that we are warned 10 guard our
selves, for if spent Alright enough has been
said to show what can be done. While II
we allow ourselves to- glide along through
these idle moments without bridling oar ami
NAL passions and restraining our sinful and
craving appetites, we will be most certain to
contract habits which will bring upon us
poverty, shame, degradation and ruin, which
will terminate in disgraceful death, pau
per's grave and eternal damnaiion.
May it be the determination of every boy
and girl who reads this, end who are
ambitious to have their names enrolled among
the wise and the good, to begin at once to
spend their odd moments in the culture Of
their mental and moral faculties, and save
themselves from the evils attending a course
to the contrary.
The INDIANS DREAM.-W hen the Indian
went to see the white man, he stayed with
him all night. In the morning he says to
the white man:
"NIe dream last night"
"Ah, what was it p
"Me dream you gave me your gray mare,
and that you gave me the rifle; that you
gave me much powder-much ball, much
shot"
"Did you, indeed what dream!"
eyes, me dream it all p
"Well, that's bad, for my wife always
rides the gray mare, and she thinks she can't
ride any other horse; but if you dreamed it,
why suppose you must have her. And
my rife too ? my old favorite rihe-dream |
gave you that too ?"
eyes, me dream rifle too."
"Well, if you dreampt it, why suppose
you must take that too, but its very singu-
lar"
So the white man gave them all into the
Indians possession; but persuaded him to
tarry with him one night more.
In the morning the white man says to the
Indian: 81 had dream last night
"No! did you %
eyes, but did though; I dreamed that
you gave me all the land between Ponjunkct
river and Catapunch mountain, about
three thousand acres of the most beautiful
land imaginable.
"Ah Bones of my father! Well, if
you dreampt it, why l suppose you must
have the land-but me never dream with
you any more!'
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10
DANIEL BOONE AND SIMON KENTON.

To give full account of the adventures
Of these two men would fill a volume. An
anecdote must answer:
Early one morning in the Summer of IT'S
kenton, with two companions, was just
leaving the fort of Boonesborough On hunt
ing excursion, when two men, who had gone
into field to drive in some horses, We're
fired upon by five Indians. They fed and
when within about seventy yards of the fort
an Indian overlook, killed one of them by a
blow with his towahawk, and was commenc-
ing to scalp him, when Kenton shot him
down. He and his companions then drove
the remainder into the forest. In the mean
time, Daniel Boone with ten men came out
to their assistance. As they were advanc-
ing, Kenton discovered and shot another In
dian, just as he was in the act of firing. BY
the time Boone came up they heard rush
of footsteps upon their left, and discovered
that number of Indians had got between
them and tie gate. Their peril was ex-
treme. AS their only salvation, Boone gave
the desperate order to charge through the
Indian column-upon which they first dis
charged their rifles, and then, clubbing them
dashed down all who stood in their way.
The attempt was successful, but Boone
would have lost his life had 1t not been for
Kenton. An Indian bullet broke Boone
leg, and he fell. A savage sprang forward
with tomahawk upfted for the fatal blow,
when Kenton shot him through the body
and, raising Boone from the ground, carried
him safely into the fort. OF the fourteen
men engaged in this aAray, seven We're
wounded, but none MORALLY
After the party were safely housed,
Boone sent for Kenton, and said:
"We!l, Simon, you have behaved like a
man to-day-indeed, you are a fine fellow" J"
This simple eulogium touched the heart of
Kenton.
In one of Kenton's solitary excursions,
while disguished as an Indian, he encounter
ed, upon the waters of the Elkhorn, Daniel
Boone, also in Indian guise. A silent con-
test of Indian strategy for mutual destruc-
ton commenced, but not a word was spoken.
Each believing his antagonist an Indian,
sought by all the arts of savage warfare to
protect himself and draw the enemy's fire
After each had maneuvered unsuccessfully
for some time to draw the other from his
shelter, Boone, suspecting that his antagonist
was not what he seemed, exclaimed from
his covert:
"For Gods sake, if you are white man,
speak!"
The spell was broken and they became
companions in the solitary wilderness.
Boone afterwards conducted Kenton to
the new settlements of Boonesborough and
Harrodsburg, and introduced him to the
deuizens thereof
The Placer herald., 1872-02-10

In Chicago woman catching her husband
drinking whisky, whipped him until he beg
ged for mercy and promised not to drink any
more.
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Cash advances Attentions to rich widow
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-14

There will be some curiosity to see
the bust Story, the sculptor, is making
Of Beethoven, of whom there have been
humberless pictures and busts, all differ
ing from each other. 1t is said Story
is not making an ideal, handsome por.
trait of Beethoven. He is copying the
mask, which was taken from beethoven s
face, exactly in all its homely fidelity,
giving it vitality through expression. 1t
is grim, ugly face, with decided mu-
latto type, especially in the nose.
Thayer, the biographer of Beethoven,
says Beethoven looked like q little ugly
mulatto; he was very short, had a yell
low skin, broad, spread-out nose and
projecting teeth, over which his heavy
lips shut. The mask gives this faith
fully, with slight Indian look about
the check bone. Beethoven had also
that concentrated expression in the eye,
brow and mouth OF morbid discomfort,
which a face of mixed blood is apt to
wear when part of the blood is ignoble,
and the brains akin to Divinity"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-14

long" said Lavinia, with emotion, as
the three trudged up the wharf at
Brest into "a sort of barn which served
for custom-house. aef.
Nov let each sit upon her luggage
aud clamor till some one comes and ex-
amines IT, else it will get whisked away
heaven only knows where, ordered
Amanda, who was the leader in right Of
her knowledge Of tongues. '~
Each perched accordingly on her one
big trunk, and tried 10 "clamor." But
nothing came to it save loss Of time and
temper, for no one paid the slightest
heed to them; and it was maddening to
see trunk after trunk passed and sent
off, followed by its rejoicing owner.
Especially hard to bear was the sight Of
the green-yelyet sinner, who, with a
smile or two, won the sternest official to
pass her FIVE trunks without turning
key, and sailed away with scornful
glance a. the virtuous three planted on
their property and feebly beckoning for
help.
II shall bear this no longer. Mat, sit
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-14
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