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Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

FOREIGN VS.. NATIVE GRowTHs IN NEW
ZEALAND.-In the former part of this
narrative, 1 alluded to the fact that the
English grasses are quite eradicating
the native growths. Even when not
sown, the seed from the British clover
is blown on to native pastures, and takes
tenacious hold of the soil but this is
not the only English product that acts
lniuriously upon native ones. Some
enterprising colonist [ so report says },
being much troubled by the large New
Zealand blow-fy, that lays its eggs alike
in blankets and meat, took a notion
of efecting settlement of the small
black English house-fy in the Colony ;
so he imported some in pill -bor pierced
with pinholes. The experiment was
highly successful; the enterprising
English fly has utterly ruined the pros
poets of his big, lazy brothers. who are
fast disappearing. 1t is not known ex-
actly whether the smaller kind eat the
larger, or whether they simply starve
them out but the fact that the British
fly is thriving in New Zealand while the
native fly is dying out, is so patent that
| the Maories have taken mournful view
of the circumstances. They say, Eng
lish grass come, Maori grass go Englisl
fly come, Maori fly go English maj
come, Maori man go !" and so, poo
creatures, they resign themselves to theil
fate, and keep their spirits up by pour
ing spirits down, thus helping to fulfil
their own prophecies. = From Fact
about Neao Zealand" in September nun'be
of the Overland Monthly.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.-Pay no at
tention to slanders and gossip mongers.
Keep straight on in your course, and let
their backbiting die the death of neglect.
What is the use of lying awake nights
brooding over the remark of some false
friend, who runs through your brain like
forked lighthing2 What's the use Of get
into worry and fret over gossip that has
been set afoat to your disadvantage, by
some meddlesome busybody, who has
more time than character. These things
can't possibly injure you, unless, indeed
Won take notice of them, and, in combating
them. give them standing and character
If what is said about you is true, sci
Yourself right at once; if it is false, let il
90 for what it will fetch. If bee sting
Won. would you go to the hive and de
stroy itY Would not thousand come
upon yon9 1t is wisdom to say llttl'
respecting the injuries you have received
We are generally losers in the end, II w
stop to refute all the backbitings and gos
sipings we may hear by the way. They ar
annoying, it is true, but not dangerous s.
long as we do not stop to expostulate an
scold. Our characters are formed am
sustained by ourselves, and by our owl
actions and purposes, and not by Others
Let us always bear in mind that "calum
niators may usually be trusted to tim
and the slow but steady justice OF PuDil
! opinion"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

DIR. 5. W. Mitchell, in LipPllooif's
MaguEiss, writes an article about "Phan-
tom Limbs" and thus speaks Of the
sensation Of lost members Of the body,
absent in fact but present in nervous
consciousness:
There is something almost tragieal,
something CHASTITY, in the notion Of these
thousands Of spirit limbs haunting as
many good soldiers, aud every now and
then tormenting them with the disap-
poiDtments which arise when, the men,
ory being Of guard for a moment, the
keen sense Of the limbs presence betrays
the man into some effort, the failure Of
which Of sudden reminds him OF his
loss.
Many persons feel the lost limb as ex-
isting the moment they awaken from the
merciful stupor of the ether given TO de-
stroy the torments OF the knife others
come slowly 10 this consciousness in days
or weeks, and when the wound has
healed; but as n rule the more sound
and servicable the stump, especially If an
artificial limb be worn, the more likely
is the man TO feel family the presence
of his shorn member. Sometime blow
an the stump viii reawaken such con-
sciousness, or, as happened in one case,
a reamputation higher up the limb will
summon it anew into seeming existence.
In many the limb will be recalled by
the man by irritating the nerves in its
stump. Every doctor knows that, when
any part of nerve Is excited by a pinch,
a tap, or by electricity, is an alto
gether harmless means-the pain, If it be
a nerve of feeling, is felt as if it were
really caused in the part to which the
nerve finally passes.
A familiar illustration is met will
when we hurt the "crazy bone" behind
the elbow. This crazy bone is merely
the ulner nerve, which gives sensation
to the third and fourth fingers, and in
which latter parts we feel the numbine
pain of blow on the main nerve. /
we were to divide this nerve below the
elbow the pain would still seem to be in
the fingers. nor would it alter the cast
were the arm cut of.
On one occasion the shoulder was elec
tried three inches above the point wher
/ the arm had been cut off. For two year.
, the man had ceased to be conscious o
the limb. As the current passed, although
ignorant of its possible effects, he starte,
up, crying aloud, "Oh, the hand, th
handw and tried to seize it with the livin
grasp of the sound fingers. As the cur
> rent was broken the lost part faded agai
only to be recalled by the same means
With others it is presence never absen
: save in sleep.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

A SINGULAR CAsE.--A curious case
has arisen at Dalkeith, Scotland, respect
ing an asserted marriage. A man named
Ross and a woman named Lawless whom
he called his wife, having registered
their children as legitimate, had charges
of false registry preferred against them
upon the ground that they were not law
fully married, the accused, on the other
hand, insist that they always considered
themselves as legally man and wife. 1t
appears that in 1867 they left Dalkeith
for Galashiels to get married, but not
having sufficient money to pay minis
ter they each took handful of meal,
placed basin between them, and knelt
down facing each other. Both then
placed their handfuls of meal in the basin
and mixed it, in token that they would
not sever until ''death would them part"
then, swearing to this effect upon bible,
they rose up and declared themselves
man and wife. After the performance
they returned to Dalkeith, where they
have since lived together. 1t is not
known how the law decided in this par
| ticular case.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

GROWTH OF CoRALs.-An interesting
fact has recently been observed respect
ing the growth of corals. Somewhat less
than two years ago Captain McGregor,
of the steamer Kilauea, moored buoy
in Kealakekua Bay. Last week he was
ordered to hoist the anchor and examine
the condition of the chain. The latter,
which is heavy two-inch cable, was
covered with corals and oyster shells,
some of which are as large as mans
hand. The larger corals measure four
and hall inches in length, Which repre-
sents their growth during the period OF
two years that the anchor and cable had
been submerged. The specimen which
we have seen shows the nature of its for
nation by the little coral insects more
distinctly than any we have before ex-
amined. When taken out of the water,
it had small crabs on it. A query arises
whether these crabs live on the coral in
sects, or whether they simply seek the
branches of the coral for protection. The
popular supposition Is that corals are OF
extremely slow growth. Here we have
formation equal to more than seventeen
feet in century.-HonQtxIu Gazette.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

A very touching story, similar 30 the
old tale Of "The Babes in the Woods.
somes 10 us from the Green River. in
three children Of John Foley, residing
on the mountain east Of that place, aged
respectively four, six and eight, became
lost in the mountain wOods. The first
was a little girl, the other two were boyA
They went out to play near the house
and strayed away after huckleberries
into the woods. The mother missed
them aud blew her dinner horn all
around for a mile near the house, but
could get no answer. That night il ram
ed yery hard. The next day word was
sent to the village Of Green River by the
frantic mother, and all the people turned
out and went in search of the children.
Every man was fitted out with bread.
meat and stimulants in case they should
| fbd them. All was vast wilderness
for miles around, so the men went in
different directions.
Fears were entertained that the chill
dren might be attacked by wild beasts,
as a Mr.. Charles Jones while hunting on
this mountain had discovered three wild
cats, which escaped before he could get
near enough TO shoot them. The moth
er stood in the door wringing and twist
ing her hands, encouraging the hunters
TO be valiant, for she said they we're bare
footed and bareheaded, and would sooI
starve they were never away from
home before, and the nearest mouse was
about three or four miles distant and
even to this they had never been.
About three o'clock little son of Mr.
lngersoll, while hunting in the woods
: for lost cattle discovered the three littl,
creatures huddled together under tre'
aud covered with leaves. They put III
their hands and began to cry when thel
} discovered the boy Ingersoll. He lee
them along to the open field and so oi
TO the house, and the JOY of the mothe
may well be imagined. She ran to NEE
7 them, screaming and crying, and catch
} ing the first one in her arms, hugglnl
: that for moment, then letting it dow
7 and taking another one, pressed that t,
5 her heart, and so on for nearly an hour be
e fore she had become Gained. BY thi
$ time all the hunters had returned iron
e the search, and they, too, had to kis
r and hold the children, and unbidde
s tears came to the eyes of great, stalwar
i men who had never known tears sine
I. their childhood.
One of the men took the little girl i
d his lap and asked her if she slept any
!. She replied laughing:
eyes; put on Johnny's cap, and pu
d my feet on Pat, and the rain came righ
s down on me-"
i When found they we're all wet to tn
e skin, and would most likely have die
e in the course of another day if they ha
|. not been found They say they hear
II their mothers dinner horn that nigh
is but dare not leave tie tree that the
o were under for fear of getting furth;
II oway
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

SHEEpIsH. farmer named John 3.
Goe, residing near Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa, lately sheared a flock OF
sheep, some of which yielded the largest
fieeces that ever came off a sleeps back.
The fieeces are of one years growth,
and not left over year, as is often done,
to obtain heavy feeces. One hundred
and forty sheep averaged ID pounds 6
ounces 100 of these averaged 14pounds
13 ounces. Several ewes sheared IL to
20 pounds, number from IL and 1S to
10 pounds each one two-year buck I'll
pounds s ounces another 81 pounds 10
onces one buck 80 pounds 8 ounces
one eve 23 pounds 6 ounces.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25
The sumner Is Passing Away.

SIMMER - passing away;
Z s.r.r. are dropping aud dying,
-. trses bend With their fruit;
-l,s. in the corn are al play;
,sss through the trollis Is singing
sumner is passing away.
sumner is passing away;
4 "A. have forsAken their young
4 .,ip still ehirps near the door;
i. ,.,',5link tarries his stay;
!. hear only this in their song
sumner is passing away.
bs sumner is passing away;
4. ,..r,une euHyens the sense;
4 f-,-nree that havors the breeze
ANN orchard, and vineyard, and hay;
i chilling winds moan through the fence
he SIMMER j. passing away.
N a. Summer is passing away,
4 sunshint falls thin on the grass
ni,bt d.vs are heavy and dAnk;
H. forest trees solemnly say,
n tbs riyulcts murmur, alas !
rbe Summer Is passing away.
h. Summer is passing away,
4 4 ,he ,houcht to the senses is sad;
he orchards are burdened with fruit,
nd the elves in the corn are at play,
N the heart Of the reaper Is glad
4 rbot the Summer is passing away.
if.'s Summer is passing away;
u visions Of youthhood are fled;
. senses are blunted by age;
rbe raven locks turned to gray;
n, 70 friends Of our infancy dead;
|1ifs's Summer is passing away.
!, Iife's summer is passing away"
whispered by Heavenly voices;
ons Labor. and Patience and Faith,
I Waving toiled through the heat Of the day.
h. sou of the Christian rejoices
That life's Summer passes away.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

FooL1sH BoY.--A Troy urchin would
be Mexican vaquero, so he got q rope,
tied one end of it around his body, and
then lassoed a COW with the other end.
A short time afterward kind-hearted
passer-by united from the end of the
rope O mud-bedaubed, latter encased,
bleeding specimen of humanity, who
claimed he was the boy who started with
the COW at the other end OF the course =
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

RIDE FOR Your LIFE pm the six
teenth century, there were no post-offices
in England Government carriers were
the only bearers of letters, except the
common carriers, whose principal bust
ness was the conveyance of parcels.
These couriers were under martial law,
and in the time of Henry Will, were
subject to the penalty of hanging for
delay upon the road with their dispatches.
The letters of those days were conse-
quently sometimes ornamented with a
cheerful sketch of a gallows with a
courier thereon suspended. Underneath
was the admonition " Haste /! Post
Haste ! Haste for thy Life !'' Post
offices and relays of horses were then
established at the principal towns alone
the high roads, and the postmasters
indorsel on the government dispatches
the day and hour of their arrival i'll
transit. A letter despatched from
Plymouth to London in 1923, " For His
Majesty's special service" bears nine
Endorsements. The distance, two hun
dred and fourteen miles by the route
taken, was Accomplished in fifty-seven
| nUUrS, u rdU6 Ol uDOut ulltt IlllSo anN
three-quarters per hour. On part o.
the route the speed was greater, though
six miles was the highest speed made
and on the heavy portions of the roat
the route was two miles and even less
From the penalty attached to slow riding
or halting came the proverbial saying o
L" riding for your life, which saying
is usually supposed to refer to flying
from an enemy. From the taking o
private letters by the bearers of govern
ment dispatches arose the wonderfu
conveniences of the modern posta
arrangements. 1t was from this circum
stance that the transmission of the mail
has come to be portion of the duties
governments. The transmission @
government dispatches by special mes
sengers offered facilities to the public
which, as correspondence increased
were more and more valued and improy
ed, and the advance of civilization an
commercial intercourse is largely due
the facilities of mail transportation.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

A Michigan farm of so acres is sur
rounded by gigantic hedge OF black
walnut trees.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

LIFE PREsERvERs. - Life preseryers
are worse than useless, unless they are
securely fastened close up under the
arms. If they slip down to the lower or
middle part of the body, they will cause
the head to fall under the water, and
produce instant death by drowning.
MANY of the passengers of the Metts who
were drowned had life-preservers, but
they we're often found to have slipped
down to the hips, or even to be tangled
about the lower limbs.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

The latest despatch from this distin-
guished disciple II science 10 Professor
Pierce, of the Coast Survey, was written
on the voyage from Panama 10 Acapulco,
and records the impressions Of the author
gathered on the Pacific Coast. and during
q land journey Of nearly three hundred
miles in the Valley Of Chillan, between
the coast range and the Andian chain
from Conception, at the mouth Of the
river Bio Bio, noTthward 10 the capital Of
Chile This valley which, commencing at
the Cult Of Ancud, extends over fifteen
hundred miles to the north, he finds TO be
/ the bed Of vast glacier, whose ice-slide
to the north has ground and polished the
rocks Of its east and west boundaries, the
Andes and the coast range, 50 that while
they stand they will tell TO students the
history Of one of those wonderful changes
which have marked and shaped the earth's
surface. At one point, a little south OF
Santiago, he finds the track Of more
recent glazier which, moving literally
from the Andes toward the west, across
the drift of the great glacier, has left in
its course volcanic boulders in the direc.
ton of the coast range, which stayed il;
progress. A gradual recession of the ic,
boundary towards the South Pole, which
was accompanied with an ascending TEN
perature, was followed by the formation
, of successive lakes, whose deposits now
form a series of terraces of various level
through the whole length of this interests
ng valley.
An examination of the group of islsnd
l..n.l notaza.ns Laa afFnrlaH
portunity for a study of new land. Thi
archipelago, situated near the Equator
e seven hundred miles west of the coast o
3 Ecuador, are evidently OF recent volcanic
} origin. Their animals and plants are sem
' of them of types found nowhere else ol
/ the known globe, and naturally seem specia
q creations for that locality or strange in
r stances Of the almost creative power O
{ transformation in nature. Evidently tn
: Professor inclines TO think there has bee
2 a direct creation of organized beings 70
j those distant new islands in the wild
o Pacific, and he confesses that as yet sci
: ence is unable to answer questions of tn
S origin of organized beings. Small differ
n ence is noted in the vegetable products G
IS the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in th
n neighborhood of Panama, but in marin
t animals decided variation was discoN
e cred, while all classes of animal life o
both sides bear decided American charaC
n teristics. During the long and busy voy
7. age the party of which Agassiz is th
chief have made careful observations of
It large class of subjects, and accumulate
it such store of specimens as will in h
able hands make most valuable addition
e to our knowledge in the sciences of geo
d ogy and zoology.
n -----
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

JoKEs.-So, again, Subdivisions and
his friend, who, as it Glanced, was bald,
having occasion to keep watch together,
agreed to divide the duty between them,
each in turn sleeping while. the other
kept watch, to be by his partner awaken
ed when the time of his other watch ar
rived. During one of Scholasticus's
sleeping tunes, his friend played him the
trick of shaving his head. Scholasticus,
on waking, put up his hand, and feeling
his head bald, called out in alarm, that
sthey had awakened the wrongperson"
On another occasion, having house to
sell, he brings with him one of the
s ones Of the wall cas- sample OF the
house" On another, seeing his doctor
coming up the street, he hides behind a
wall, "being ashamed" as he says ito
meet the doctor--it is So long since
have been i'll. And then a thievish
slave continued to steal his wine by Dor
ing hole in the bottom of jar, the
mouth of which Scholasticus had care
fully sealed, and when friend in ex
fplanation suggested that, although the
seals at top were safe. perhaps the win'
had been abstracted from the bottom
You fool p says Scholasticus, "don'
YOU see that it is not the bottom OF thu
wine but the top that is gone y
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-25

UNITED STATES CoTToN FACToRIEs.- -
The complete statistics of the manufac-
ture of cotton goods in the United
States, Just sent to the press from the
census office, show the number of dis
tinct establishments in the United States
to be 956, Of which Massachusetts, has
191, Rhode Island, 139 Pennsylvania
1873: Connecticut, Ill New York, 81
New Hampshire. So Georgia, "a North
Carolina, 50; Tennessee, % 4; New Jer
sey, 27 Maine, %; Maryland, % Ala
bama, 13; South Carolina, IL, and Vir
oinia IL, Number of steam engines
44S; aggregate horse power, AZ, ,ll7
Number of water wheels, l, $50 aggre
gate horse power, 102, 400. Number o
looms used, 157, 80 frame splndles
1854, ATT mule spindles, 3,437, 1888
Hands employed, 47,790 males, abou
sixteen years SO, 637 females, about fiji
teen %, 942 children and youths. Th
aggregate amount of wages pal during
the wear was $39,044, ,132. Material
used, 5,222, 1S9 pounds of cotton yarr
1856, 109 pounds of cotton warp, B, 234, 26
hounds of cotton waste. Value Of mi
supplies, $40, ,910, ,672 total value of a
materials, Sill, 737, 686. Articles pro
duced, ATS, ,2O4, 1S1 yards sheetings, shirt
ings and twilled goods; "a, 533, 462 yard re
lawns and fine muslias 489,250, ,O5
yards print cloths; 3O,3O1, ,oS7 pound
, warns IL $50, 241 dozen spools thread
1870 ,045 yards cotton warps LIS, L.
pounds bats, wicking and waddine
493 S92 tablecloths, quilts and counteI
panes 2,767, ,060 seamless bags; 5,O57
. 454 pounds cordage lines and twines
900, ,O66 pounds thread $500, ,O50 yart
! cotton flannel 30,275, 246 yards gins
hams and checks 1921 ,449 pouno
waste: 4S4, 400 pounds tapet waddinf
! 4O5, ,5S5 pounds seamless bags; 1890
895 yards cassimeres, cottonades al
jeans 1851, ,O2s pounds miscellaneo'
' products. Aggregate weight of goo'
|, produced, 349, ,314, ,592 pounds aggr
e gate value.of product, $1l7, 4S9, ,739.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-01-06

SOMETHENG ABorT YOURSELF
SupposiIg your age be fifteen or there
abonts, eau figure you up to a dot.
You have go bones aud $50 muscles
your blood weighs % pounds; your
heart Is 5 inches in length and 3 3iIches
in diameter it beats 70 times permin-
ute, Loo times per hour, 100, 500 per
day, and 81, ~, ,2G0 per year. At each
heat little over two ounces Of blood
are thrown out Of it; and each day il
throws out and discharges about seven
tons ofthat wonderful tltlid.
Your lungs will contain about a gal
Ion ofair, and you ilihale p, COO gallons
per day. The aggregate surface oftile
air cells of your lnngs, snpposing them
70 be spread ont, exceeds 20, 600 square
inches. The weight Of your brain il
three pounds; when you are a man 1t
will weigh eight ounces i4ore. Your
nerves exceed l0,0D0-0oo Iva snun,lscr.
Your skin Is composed Of three lay
ers, and varies from one-i0urth TO one
eighth ofan inch In thickness. The
area of your skin Is about 700 sdtlare
inches and yon are subject to an at
nospheric pressure of fifteen pounds to
the square inch Each square inch Of
your skin c0ntaIns3 ., 500 sweating tubes
or prespiratory pores, each Of which
may Be likened to a little drain the
One-fOurth Of all inch long making an
aggregate length ofthe entire surface
of your body, Of 2Ol, lG5 feet, or little
ditch for the drainage Of the body al
most forty miles long.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-01-06
CURES FOR

HORSE, CATTLE, SHEEP AND
SWINE DISEASES, CORNs,
GROUP, DYSE NTERY,
GRAVEL, NHEUMA-
TISsI, w ARTS,
FRECkLES, PILES,
TETTER, TOOTHACGIE.
CnIi.S. WORMS, BRUISES.
BURNS, RLNGN OKBfS, FLiLONS,
SORE ARD WEAK EYES, ETC.
compounds of the above, or any other
desired, viii be sent for ono dollar for one
article; or two will be sent for II 80. Re
ceiptS for cOnp0nnding, with full ditcc-
tIons, 80 cents each, OF three for 81.
Ii you want 10 know how 10 make llOlIr-
bon, apple, Irish, Scotch, wheat or sorghum
whisky; blackberry, cherry, c0gnac, GIN
ger, peach and raspberry brandy; sixteen
Kinds OF vinegar; black, blue, green, rea
and indelible INK; cider, sweet and spark
ling; fourteen kinds OF beer; blncking, IN
p,sie and liqnid, for harness, carriagcsand
all kinds OF leather; dyeing, every slmte
aud color; shaving soap, TO promote Inc
growth of hair; varnlshes OF twelve yari-
cites, and every other compound IN gen
crat use, send tlfty cents and stamp for re-
Ceipt. F5
All goods warranted a. represented.
Send ann for circular. AL c0lnmuni'
cations must be addressed TO
Eureka dOalpOHntIlng Co.,
Room No. 23K Mays building,
1Vl Washington, DC.