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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-09-26

lIumauilariaulsm la. cropped ont 10 .
new form in Boston Anon. tne latest IL
stru,ious OF that city is a u udug and r.
pairing society composed Of w,mcn who
uuiertakcto sew on buttons. darn stock
iugs aud perform other kindly service,
for uuprovded bachelors
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-09-26

A gentleman who hal been arsal':
with an sunramu, until his patience va
exhausted. said be iiap't wish him dead
but he would be glad to see hi" k""a
more
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-09-26

An cd wonal. on Dring rxnnted D..
fore a magistrate as to her place If legal
settlement, vas asked what l'idso'i s'lr mi
for surprising hrr husband had a legal SET.
Element 10 thar town rhr old iaiy sad;
"IIesss bora and mari 4 there and hcy
buried lin there and if ,hn isn't s'ltIn.
INN there. | dom, know wha, is
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-09-26

There is nothing like good def"it'""
as the teacher thought when he explained
the meaning Of 'old maid as u w'nn
VII, hal been ,,de very |uug time
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
Facts and Fancies.

A small lake has bean discovered
among the Cascade Mountains, in Ore
gon, which is surrounded by perpen-
dicnlar wall two thousand feet high.
The boiler of n steamer on the Ohio
river exploded on Saturday evening of
last week, tearing the boat in pieces and
seriously wounding and scalding nearly
everybody on board.
A Boston steamboat captain became
so depressed by business troubles, n few
days ago, that he went to the old home
stead, where he was born, and drowned
himself in his fathers well
The first daily paper published in
England is said to have been published
by woman in l702 IT was called tho
Daiiy Comant and the name of the pro-
prietor was Elizabeth Mallett.
A constable in Ohio lately testified in
court as follows - know nothing of
her but what hear the neighbors say
and, in my opinion, what n woman says
of another is not worihy of belief
Dolly Warden has had short and very
ignominious career in London. " No
lady," says the Queen, the ladies' news
paper. will hereafter dishgure her
se'f W wearing one OF these now vulgar
costumes.
A correspondent writes from Buenos
Ayres that everything is done on horse
back. Even the beggars ride through
the streets, knock at the doors without
dismounting, and wait, still mounted, to
receive charity.
An English correspondent writes from
Liverpool, II have repeatedly noticed
women steering canal boats in turn with
their husbands. l have seen from the
railway girls at work in collieries and
have seen them employed in agricultural
labor"
g. Let that pudding alone, there
That's the dessert ~ exclaimed waiter,
to a countryman who was discounting
the tapioca at an early stage of the din.
ncr. 81 don't care if it is desert"
testify said the countryman I'd eat it
if 1t was wilderness y
A farmer near Westport, Mass, re-
Gently shot a horse valued at n thousand
dollars, belonging to gentleman III Fall
River The ofense of the hore was that
he left his pasture and passed overa low
fence into the grounds of the farmer
who shot him. The act excited the in
dignation of the entire community.
1t is not exactly pleasant thing to go
to New Zealand as missionary. They
still retain the old-fashioned idea that
roast missionary is good. Last Decem-
Der one fanatic killed a missionary there
in full view of his congregation, cut off
his head, gathered the congregation in
their church, and then, standing in the
pulpit, made nice little meal of mission
ary blood. He has since been hung.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
PHYSIOLOGICAL, Acr1oN OF OuTNINE.-

PHYSIOLOGICAL AcrIoN OF QUTNINE. -
The physiological action of quinine has
lately been the subject of detailed expert
ment by Binz, who found it to have ex-
traordiuary power in arresting the pro-
cess of fermentation and putrefaction,
and to be a powerful poison for low or
ganisms, or, in other words, for all NOV
ing bodies consisting Of protoplasms.
1t appears to kill fungi and bacteria,
which accompany fermentation and
putrefaction, and puts a stop to these
processes. 1t arrests the motion of the
white blood corpuscles, and thus pre-
vents them from making their exit from
the blood-vessels. 1t, therefore, dimin-
ishes or arrests the formation of pus in
inflammation, pus consisting in great
measures of an accumulation of white
corpuscles which have issued from the
vessels. 1t also destroys the power OF
certain substances 10 produce ozone.
The red blood corpuscles have this
power, and, by depriving them of it,
quipine, when present in the blood,
must diminish the change of tissue in
the body, and thereby lessen the pro-
duction of heat 1t is also found that
quinine lessons oxidation in the blood /;
other substances. such as snake poison,
increasing it. When putrid fluids are
injected into the circulation of an animal,
its temperature rises but il these are
mixed with qninine, this rise
is arrested, or very much diminished.
According TO Zuntz, the use of quinine
has marked influence upon the excre-
ton of urea, the amount diminishing
very greatly.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
Dying COnstitutiOnally.

Nearly quarter of n century ago the
Legislature of New York enacted law
imposing capitation tax upon immi-
grants arriving from Europe and land
ing ut quarantine. question was raised
in respect to the constitutionality Of this
law, aud the case was ultimately taken
to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Mr.. Seward made the argument
on one side, and John Van Buren on the
other. The trial attracted considerable
interest, not so much from the import
ance Of the question involved, rs from
the reputation and political position of
the opposing counsel Mr.. Seward was
Il Senator IN Congress, and the great
whig leader of the State while Van
Barren was the most brilliant orator and
most popular man ON the Democratic
| side They were rivals al the bar.
Judge fancy presided. He was the
impersonation Of ones idea of the genius
Of jurisprudence. He was shy, reserved
in manner, ascetc in his habits, q
gloomy, forbiddinglooking man, resem-
bling monk of the middle ages; but un-
der this cold and repulsive exterior there
beat a warm sympathetic heart. He was
a literal man, with no idea of joke, was
never satirical or ironical, and detested
pun or quip as much as DR.. johnson.
The day the argument was closed, Van
Buren, contrived to fall in company with
the Chief Justice in coming down the
avenue from the Capital. John had a
degree of coolness and self-possession
under all circumstances, that nothing
ever disturbed. With an airy, iaunty
manner that would have been offensive
in anybody else, but which he made
winning and attractive, he addressed the
aged jurist;
II was much hattered, Mr. Chief
Justice, at the gracious attention with
which you have listened to my poor ef-
fort in behalf of the suffering Immigrants
mt Quarantine. Mr.. Taney made fit
ting response, and Van Buren, coolly pro-
ceeded Far be it from me to say
anything respecting the decision of the
court The Judge started with gesture
of depreciation, as if he apprehended an
indiscretion on the part Of the lawyer.
" am quite aware of the apparent in
delicacy Of saying anything tina. should
look like an attempt to influence the ac-
tice gave q dissatisfied shrug of the
shoulders, intended as rebuke of what
he regarded as IN impertinence. But
John was wholly unmoved, and went on
with his remark rs though he was saying
the most natural and appropriate thing
imaginable. Nor would | presume to
intimate that an early decision of the
case is desirable" The Judge opened
his eyes in amlzement, but remained
silent. "Bat the truth Is, your honor
continued John, 1.-The poor devils at
Quarantine are perishing daily, aud it is
of the utmost Importance that they
should learn whether they are dying con
stitutionally."
Approaching Johns waggery at last,
the chief justice, much relieved, gave
way to a hearty laugh, and the CONVEX
satIon came to an end.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
Tales OF Toa,lS.

Geo. NJ. Mead states his experierc,
with toads III the ohio Farmer. Unless
their skin is broken they are perfectly
harmless. They will eat any bug but
the potato bug, In Pittsiield, Mass,
had an uncle, one OF he finest gardeners
in the town, and he, to the no little
amusement of friends, used to pick NJ
those venomous tOads in is hands,
whenever he could find nice fat ones,
carry them home and put them in his
garden to catch the bug and worms.
Tie said to me one day: They will
become quite tame if you pet them a
little" thought that little singular,
but concluded to try it. When went
home | found one in the shed close to
the kitchen and commenced At first |
caught bug or fly and stood us far of
as | could and dropped it down in front
of my pet. ] did not have long to wait,
for the bug had hardly dropped before
1t disappeared. Each day ] went to see
and feed him, and went up closer, until
he got so tame that be would at any
time take bug or fly ont Of my fingers,
| then began to handle him, and if |
w lllpNt Nun lItlIl lllN lIAtN III
tie corner he would 20 back there aud
seem to wait for me to come and see
him.
Dr.. Harris said twenty years ago that
he supposed the odor of the squash bug
(corcUS TriStiS) would protect it from
the toad and to test the matter he of.
fered one toa graye-looking Bufo under
cabbage. He seized it eagerly, but
spit 1t out instantly, reared up on his
hind legs aud put his front feet on the
top of his head for an instant, rs if in
pain, and then disappeared across the
garden in n series of the greatest leaps
a toad ever made, Perhaps the bug bit
the bitter Not satisfied with This, DIR.
II. hunted up another toad, which lived
under the piazza, and always summed
himself in one place in the grass, and
offered hlm squash bug, which he took
and swallowed, winkin2 in a very satish-
ed manner. Twenty other fine bugs fol
lowed the first, in few moments, with
no difficulty or hesitation in the taking
or the swallowing, though from the wrig.
Cling and contortions it appeared their
corners did not set well within. The
Ht''h VI bupS btInp IllFU tAiIuuSleu Il
colony of smooth black Larvae was found
on white birch, each about three quar-
ters Of ~, inch long, ana over one hun
dred of these were fed to the waiting
toad. Touching one of them with the
end of straw, it would coil around it,
and then when shaken before him lie
would seize and swallow it, at first
eagerly, but with diminished zest as the
number increased, until it became neces-
saly TO rub the worm against his lips for
some time before he could decide about
it. He would then take it and sit with
his lips ajar for a r. ort time, gathering
and resolution, and then swal-
low by desperate effort. There is no
telling what the number or result would
have been, as the dinner bell rang as the
l0lst disappeared, and by the close of
the meal he had retired to his hole nor
did he appear for four days in his sun
ming place. 1t is 20 be hoped that he
slept well, but there might have been
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

In many parts OF South America, but
more particularly whore the unt bear
ranges, there are industrious honey bees
without stings. They usually take pos,
session of hollow trees, III which they
construct rows of wax cups. nearly the
size of half an cggshell. When full of
honey, they are capped over to exclude
air, which preserves the contents in a
fluid state. When one pot is finished
they proceed with another, and thus
store up an immense amount of delicious
food, of which they are invariably robbed
without the power of Offering resistance.
At the exact season when ants eggs
are deposited nature has so arranged it
that the ant bear, which subsists almost
entirely on ants, avoids those hard clay
pyramids, the massive homes of those in
geniOus insects, climbs tie bee trees, and
thrusting in its long whip!ash tongue,
feeds suptuously on honey till the new
crop of ants are grown large enough for
food. Just as the honey is exhausted
their wants are amply provided for,
Thus alternately animal and vegetable
aliment is secured by an uuaterable law,
so that ants are kept within control in
one direction, never becoming sufficient
ly numerous to destroy the scource from
whence their own necessary food is de-
rived
Tins the race of ant bears are Sis.
tained during particular period neces-
sajy for the preservation of the race OF
ants-and the poor bees are instrument
talities for sustaining the law without
any apparent compensation for their un-
ceasing labor, beyond the privilege of
slipping nectar from the flowers and en-
joying unrestrained liberty on the wing.
Who does not discover in the forego-
ing relation, an exact reference OF means
to ends IL is au illustration of the ad-
mirable adjustment of cause and effect,
which secures the perpetulty Of Species
and demonstrates beyond question, the
existence of an omniscient Law Maker
because such laws do not make them
selves.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

KITE FLYING. G.-The Chinese opened
their kite-fying season by sending up
some of their Holim or musical kites
These kites being strung with catgut,
give ont musical sound which can be
heard to the distance of half mile.
They have kites resembling hawks and
eagles, cylindrical kites, kites with and
without tails, and in fact every imagin-
able kind Of kite; and the amount of
comfort they take in flying them is as,
tonishing to "outside barbarians" A
withered old man, who would seem to
have no thought but of the amount of
" filthy lucre" requisite to keep him
alive, will sit for hours holding his kite
string and maneuvering his kite, as hap
py as scheol-boy. The Chinese have
a passion for flying kites -Nerada Paper.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

THE DUKE's ARTILLERY.-Every ono
has heard that the Duke of Wellington
did not share the common opinion that
every corps of the British army at Wa
| terloo behaved faultlessly. but few knew
exactly the parts of the service against
which his censura was directed and its
grounds. The following extract from n
letter to Lord Mulgrave. Master General
of the Ordinance, Just published in the
fourteenth volume of "The Supplement
tary Dispatches, &c, ;" Of the Duke Of
Wellington, places the matter III It's
proper light: "To tell you the truth, l
was not very well pleased with the artil-
lery at Waterloo. The army was formed
in squares Immediately on the slope of
the rising ground, on the summit Of which
the artillery was placed, with orders not
to engage artillery, but to fire only when
bodies of troops came under their fire.
II was very difficult to get them to obey
this order. The French cavalry charged,
and were formed on the same ground
with our artillery, in general within few
yards of our guns. IN some instances
they were actually in possession of them.
We could not expect the artillerymen to
remain at their guns III such case. But
1 had right to expect that the officers
and men of the artillery would do as |
did, and as oil the staff did, that is, to
take shelter in the squares Of the infantry
till the French cavalry should be driven
off the ground either by our cavalry or
infantry. But they d1d no such thing
they ran off the field entirely, taking with
them limbers, ammunition and every
thing and when in few minutes we
had driven off the French cavalry and
had regained our ground and our guns,
and could have made good use of our ar
tillery, we had no troops to fire them
and, in point of fact, should have had
no artillery during the whole of the latter
part of the action if / had not kept re-
serve in the commencement"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

The ROMAN MALARIA. A French
writer about Italy says that he once met
a poor family of peasants driven by the
malaria to seek at Rome gratuitous death
in the hospital The husband walked
first, his head buried in his cloak he
had struggled to the last moment against
his invisible assailant, but implacable
nature had conquered. The youpg wife
followed him, faded by suffering, dying
and carrying upon her bosom dying
child she went on mechanically, heed
less of the way, tc deposit her burden in
a grave aAd rest by its side. Man still
persists to wiring out harvests from tracts
in this fatal soil. Duling the first au-
tumnal rains, peasant army desceuds
the Sabine mountains under the Guld-
ance of the pifforara The farmers en-
roll these moving columns and send
them in battalions to their districts
these battalions sometimes attach hun
dred ploughs, in order to turn up the
earth more rapidly. The day ended,
they sleep on the ground, and the next
morning regain the frontier. Nine
months after they come back to the har-
vest, but this time it is to veritible
field of battle, the corn is reaped more
hastily than it was sown, and when they
have tied the sheaves the laborers receive
their salary and return home. But all
do not return there are some who, in
the first hours of their labor, totter and
drop, turn toward the mountains a last
look, and wrap their faces in their man
ties, and few days afterward the piou'
brotherhoods pass over the plains to
bury the dead fallen in the harvest field
of battle. London Examiner.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
READING IN THE CARs.-A distinguish.

READING IN THE CARs.-A distinguish
ed oculist says In reference to the hab-
it of reading in the cars, the constant
motion and oscillations OF the cars render
it impossible to hold the book in one po-
sition-lts distance from the eye is con-
stantly varying, and no matter how slight
this variation may be, it is Instantly COM
pensate1 for by the eye, thus keeping the
organ constantly employed accommoda-
ting itself to distance This becomes "a
tiguing-the eyes have sort of weary
heavy feeling, and il the reading is per
sisted in, soon become bloodshot and
painful. We have often observed young
misses intently engaged in the perusal of
some romance, while upon a rapidly
moving railway train, who have only been
able to finish their story with perceptible
We have noticed them rub
bing their eyes. shifting their position,
and holding their book at various dis
tances from the eve, making the greatest
effort to see with eyes that have already
been fatigued beyond endurance. Such
practices lead to serious injury TO the
eyes, and it is not unfrequently the case
that the oculist is called upon to pre-
scribe for patient who has paralysis of
Of the eyes, produced by
reading in q railway car.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
RATES OF ADvERTIsINo.
The Old House Far AMnY.

The wild birds warblc, the silyery rills,
Sing chooriy round the spot,
Aud the peaceful shade of the purple hills
Fails DIM on my mothers cot
It's windows are small and its thatch is low,
Ard its ancient walls are grayl
Oll gee it | love II whereer go
Theold house far away,
nmr mother how plainly see her now
Rec lining in that old chair,
With the sunset resting upon her brow,
That was 80 smooth and fairl
with her crimpol border as white as snow,
And .or once dark hair now gray;
oh my hcnrt is with her, whero'er go
In that old house far away.
Nota' the treasure the world affords,
The riches Of land and sea
Not all the wealth Of oarth's proud lords
Can blot from my memory
The reef that sheltered each dear, dear head
And the humble floor of clay,
Where the feet love were wont TO tread,
In that oil house far away
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

toward magniticencc in her dress, but is
quoted as model Of good taste. She is
the pride of her husband who has been
growing younger all these ten years, and
the fond mother Of three splendid boys,
Her sistcrs-in-law refer TO her as kind of
Oracle in all questions OF taste and good
breeding. Snc is gracious and hospitahle
hostess in luXuriant home, and living
illustration of the tact that there is no
place Yankee girl Will not fiji as if she
were born to it in spite of the most unfa-
vorable circumstances.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

AMERICAN FEAsrING.-When Mr.. Gal
LOT went through the United States with
M'amselle D'Jeck, the celebrated ele-
phant, he one evening was warm in his
praise of the hospitalities and socialities
of the mother country amid other in
stances, he quoted one of the Rutland
punchbowls, which on the christening of
the young Marquis, was built so large
that small boat actually set sailing up
on it in which boy sat, who ladled out
the liquor. 81 guess" said one of the
company, "Ive seen a bowl that 'ud
beat that to eternal smash; tor, at my
brothers christeng, the bowl was so
deep that when We young uns said it
warn't sweet enough, father sent a man
down in diving bell to stir up the sugar
at the bottom
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

The NEWSPAPER. few Of our
journalists write for the magazines and
the magazines lose by it. Fifty years
hence there will be fewer books publish
ed than there we're fifty years ago.
Bayard Taylor put his best books into
the Newspapers. The press is swallow
ing everything. The tyranny of the
fourth estate is beginning. The best
newspaper of the future is that which
does not represent any one maps dogma
tism and power, but the ideas Of the
people.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

A CoMET.-A few nights since at San
Francisco, it being twilight and the at
mosphere clear, comet appeared little
to the southwest of the zenith. it was
moving rapidly and somewhat irregular
ly, and at length disappeared, and then
assembled out of the atmos-
phere of the earth. The nucleus ap-
peared to be- n star of the first magnitude,
and the tail was wavy. 1t was in sight
for six minutes. The planet Mars was
luminous and rose-colored at the time.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05

. Said n gentleman the other day to an
old farmer who is known as champion
" growler," "Well, you probably can't
find fault this year about not being wet
enough for hay. There must be good
crop" Yes, but what does it amount
to to have such crop as this looks like?
You can't sell it for FIVE dollars n ton IL
it keeps on this way
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-05
The Mem0r,,

It was said of Thoreau, we believe,
that he could take up any given number
of lead-pencils without counting. A
celebrated trapper once assured us that
he could tell how many balls he had in
his bnllet-pouch by placing his hand on
it and without stopping to count them,
and added, Il can tell the number of
bullets ine,antly without counting, as
you pronounce a word without spelling
it. Southey was accustomed to take
in the substance of book in turning
the leaves over continuous Y, glancing
down the pages. Houdan the magician
trained hinself to quickness of percep-
lion when a boy, by running past a
showwindow at full speed, and then
trying to tell what was in it. We once
met a man on canal boat, who was
amusing himself by going from pas
se0gcr to passenger, and telling almost
every one where he had seen them be-
fore, on such train, in such hotel, in
i'll such street, giving date and place
to people with whom he had never eX
changed word. This training of the
faculties in particular directions is car
ried to marvellous extreme by woods
men, trappers, and men who guess the
weights of animals. Perhaps the most
remarkable instances are the markers
who leap from log to log at the mouth
ola boom, standing on the floating log
and translating instantly an old mark
into Il new one, remembering what eql-
valent to give for each of a hundred
marks, and chopping 1t upon the log in
the time that it floats its length. 1t is
said that Thoreau knew the relative
order of the Towering of all the plants
in the Concord woods, and knew the
note of every bird, and a thousand other
out-of-theway things besides.