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Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

ABSENT MINDED people are funny.
Sir Isaac Newton wanted his servant to
carry out stove that was getting too hot.
A fellow stole his dinner before his eyes,
and he afterwards thought he had eaten
it because he saw the dishes empty. A
Scotch professor walked into the middle
Of the horse pond while pondering on
final causes. Ben Franklin punched
down the fire with the finger of II young
lady sitting at his side, and severely
burned the lily-whto poker. A gcntlo-
man in Troy received letter in the dark,
used the letter to light lamp, and looked
about for it TO read. Pere Gratry, one
day in Paris, thinking he had left his
watch at home, took it out of his pocket
to see it he had time to go back after it.
Neandor, the church historian, used to go
to his lectures in his night cap and night
gown, and sometimes walked in the gut
ter. But all those cases do not equal that
of II man who takes paper year after
year and always iorgets to pay for it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

OUR MISUNDERSTANDING discouraged
mother folds her tired hands at night,
and feels as if she had, after all, done
nothing, although she has not spent an
idle moment since she rose. Is it moth
ing that your little helpless children have
had some one to come to with all their
childish griefs and joys? Is it nothing
that your husband feels safe when he
is away to his business, because your
careful hand directs everything at home?
Is it nothing when his business is over,
that he has the blessed refuge of home,
which you have that day done your best
to brighten and refine? Oh, weary and
faithful mother, you little know your
power when you say, | have done moth
ing" There is n book in which fairer
record than this is written over against
your name.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

WHEN Verdi's MACBETH was given for
the first time in Dublin, the long symph-
ony preceding the sleep-walking scene
did not altogether please the galleries.
The theater was darkened--everythin
looked gloomy and mysterious-the mu-
sic being to match. The curtain rose,
and the nurse and the doctor were discov-
cred seated on the floor of Lady Mac
beth's chamber, bottle of physic and n
candle being on the table that was be-
tween them. Viardot (who was playing
Lady Macbeth) was waited for in the
most profound silence--a silence which
was broken by voice from the gallery
crying out
" Hurry now, Mr.. Lacy, tell us, is it
a boy or girl2" The inquiry nearly de-
stroyed the effect of the whole scene by
the emotion it created.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

FANNY FERN says that when she sees
80 pretty man with an apple head, and
raspberry mustache with six hairs in it,
paint on his cheeks, and little dot of a
goatee on his chin, with pretty little
blinking studs in his shirt bosom, and a
little necktie that looks as if it would
faint if it were rumpled, she always feels
desire to nip him with pair of sugar
tongs, drop him gently into pot of cream
and strew pink rose leaves over his little
remains.n
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

EIGHT CHILDREN AT BIRTH On
the Dist Of August, Mrs. Timothy Brad
lee, of Trumbull county, Ohio, gave birth
to eight children-three boys and FIVE
girls. They are all living and are
healthy, but quite small. Mr.. Bradlco
was married six years ago to Eunice
Mowery, who weighed two hundred and
seyenty-three pounds on the day Of her
marriage. She has given birth to two
pair Of twins, and now eight more, max
ing twelve children in six years. Mrs.
Bradee was triplet, her mother and
father both being twins, and her grand
mother the mother Of five pairs of twins.
-CiNciafdH Lancet and Observer.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

An Eastern paper has it that poor
little Sunday school scholar in Wisconsin
was deluded into learning 5,720 verses of
the Bible in four weeks, by the promise
of book. They gave him Hitchcock s
Analysis Of the Bible" He snapped it
for three-b blade knife and peck of hick-
ory nuts.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21
TRINITY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY:
COURT TERMS +:

District COurt-Second Monday in April,
August and December.
County COurt-First Monday in Janu-
airy, March, May, July, September and No
vember.
Probate COurt-(Same as County Court. }
Board of SupervisOrs--First Monday
February, May, August and Eoyember
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21
LINES OF TRAVEL AND EXPRESS

Canon City, Junction City and Wea-
Herviiie Ex press ANA Passenger Line
a. w. DAY, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning
Hay Fork and WeaverviIle Pass
ehger and Express Line. j. KELLOGG
Proprietor. Weekly. Leaves Hay Fork on
Monday morning of each week leaves Wea-
yer Tuesday morning of each week.
u. n. Mail and Express Line, from
Meaveryille to Arcata, JOHN CLlF-
FORD, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver every
Thursday morning. Leaves Arcata, every
Monday morning.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

A CHINAMAN at North Adams, Mass,
has come to the conclusion that he has
not money enough to marry "Melican"
girl, and he also thinks that the Chinese
fashion of pinching feet is no more foolish
than the American fashion of pinching
Woigts
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

THE Anae,7can Journal Of Pharmacy
SAYS that 10000 infants are killed every
year by the opium contained in the vari-
Gus kinds of soothing syrups which they
are allowed, or rather forced to drink.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

AN Alderman at GAINESVILLE, Mass,
was asked to estimate the damage COW
had done in the yard of a neighbor. lie
did so literally, but was much chagrined
when informed that it was his own COW
that had done the damage.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

Mr.. DELANo, managing editor Of the
London Ilmes, said recently: 81 can
find any number Of men to write for me,
but very seldom man of common sense.
To write for paper is one thing; to edit
it is another. Historians, poets, essayists
write well; but papers need men who can
select, alter, combine and fashion matter
to suit an audience composed Of varied
elements
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

ALADY at Bridgeport, Conn.,, remained
too long on a train to kiss friend, and
trying to get off after it had started, was
thrown violently on her face. "If ever /
kiss anybody again ~ said she, vengefully
as she arose; "any woman at least" she
thoughtiully added.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

A SUIT was the other day concluded in
an Illinois court, the original damages Of
which were laid at S25, but on which the
extended litigation entailcd costs exceed
ing s., 900.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

The great tidal wave, says the Travel-
ey, which was to carry Horace Greeley
to the White House, bears a striking re-
semblance to Plantamours comet. 1t
does not come as advertised.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

"BoBBY, why don't your mother sew
up your trowsers ?" "Cause she's at
the vestry, sewing for the heathens."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21

Monuments, Tablets, Tombs, Head-Stones,
etc furnished upon short notice, and at prices
within the reach of all. All work warranted
10 give satisfaction or no sale.
JOHN II. LEE.
Chico, June /, 1872. IT,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-21
TRINITY JOURNAL
OUR AGENTS /:

THOS. BOYCE, Room No. 30, New
Merchants Exchange Building, San Fran
cisco, is our only authorized agent in that city.
NEW YORK :-Hudson & Menot, IL Park
Row; Geo. p. Rowell & Co., 10 Park Row; S.
M. Pettingill & Co., 81 Park Row.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

ARTIFICIAL BUTTER-At the request of the
victualling department of the French navy for
some wholesome substitute for butter that would
keep well, Mege Mouriez, after long course of
experiments, has succeeded in producing an
excellent substitute for genuine butter that
does not become rancid with time, and is other.
wise highly recommended. Experiments made
with cows, submitted TO very severe and scauty
diet, led to the discovery that they continue TO
give milk, though in greatly diminished ,quanti-
ty, aud that this milk always contains butter:
whence il was inferred that this butter was
formed from fat contained in the animal tissues
the fat undergoing conversion into butter
through the influence of the milk secreting
glands Acting on this hint Mouriez's process
begins with splitting up the animal fats. Finely
divided fresh beef suet is placed in a vessel
containing water carbonate of potash, and
fresh Sleeps stomacbs, previously cut up into
small fragments. The temperature Of the mix
lure IS then raised TO about 112 degrees lahr.,
when, under the joint influence of the pep
sin and the heat, the fat becomes sepa-
rated from the cellular tissue The fatty matter
uoating on the top is decanted, and after cooling
submitted to very powerful hydraulic pressure.
Inc semi fluid oeo-margarine is thus separated
from the stearne, and becomes the basis of the
butter TO be alterward produced. Ore hundred
pounds oil this oleo-margarine, along with about
twenty-five quarts Of milk and eighteen quarts
OF water, are poured into a churn, aud TO this
mixture are added q small quantity of annatto
ana ABOUT three ounces of the soluble matter
oDtalned by soaking for some time in milk cows
udders aud milk glands. The mixture is then
churhed, ana tue butter obtained after being
well washed With cold water and seasoned. e
ready for use Ii required to be kept for a long
time, it is melted by gentle heat in order to
eliminate all the water.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

Less than year ago Horace Greeley, writing
in the Tribune, said; 'Ar. Samuel S. Cox, our
| carpet bag representative in congress, has de-
liberately chosen, in full view of the astounding
developments of the last six months. TO cast his
| lot with thieves" Now Mr. Greeley and the
| Tribune have Joined Mr.. Cox and his question.
| able associates; and they are among his most
vehement supporters.
Fornev 10 IRVINE 60 o+o,o for b;, ,.ooo,,. lo,;,,
.s.N- rs " '''0"e ~ '''s ieee',. u''i'
4 te' ~ eNeessi'e No"' io' uen' oi"n'
slee'on' = = wv i"'e, Do"e'ei ine ''sui. VI
- 0''"' ass Al ieunss i'""i" p'o''u 'l".
the rennbl;can rarY IN snn,a of bis 3ec+os
Of public men. he may now tell of a public man
VINO used himself up and played himself out in
the snort space OF three months, more complete
~ than was ever KNOWN or neard OF IN this
country before
The following is an extract from a private and
hnc;nase let+e- 70 a gentlemen Of " yo.l- cr,,
60, sI,, ''0'''
"uSiheSs ili"il Vi oneloS' Alaoalha' MY own
impression is that Alabama will be pleasanter
Mace 70 visit as well as to live in with Grant os
president than it would be if Greeley should
pe elec1gu, lne Iepupncas at INC north VINO
of the real state Of CeeiinG among tSc sontbern
democrats"
0'Conor and Adams tickets have been placed
in the field by the straight democrats in some
thirty states, and will doubtless poll respect
able vote. These inclule four New ENGLAND
-. ". VI ~
ares NV I'VE, new JERSEY, MaryIana, Deia-
W"to, wei NHsl1ia' AicnIsau' WISCONSIN,,
49,, $50" Nansle' Mlssoi, toMa i.nos' lu'
Iisiia, heHluIA99 iiSlll" ueUi Sla' Aldoalla'
aiN% , anu Lois5ha-l an SO lar as te
lists nave oeeh TeceVeu' twenty-tnree states. Ia
lliaIor Vi the states Tue nominees are lnHu-
There ale indications of wide spread defec-
ton from Mr.. Greeley in the little state Of Della
,roro rrbo dor,ooro.io o.o+1,r, .,,a,.o -.
""ie' l"0 ueuioo. "'iC oi"'o'S 'ne'e utterly
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

ENGLISH RULES FOR PRESERVING FRuIT-
The London Garden gives the following as the
rules OF the Royal horticultural society, for the
preservation of choice fruit: /. AS the flavor of
the fruit is so easily affected by heterogeneous
odors, it is highly desirable that apple and pear
rooms should be distinct. 3 The walls and the
floor should be annually washed with solution
OF quicklime. 3. The room should be perfectly
dry, with as uniform a temperature as prac.
ticable, and be well ventilated; but there
should not be a through draft 4. Use
the utmost care in gathering fruit handling MS
little as possible. 8. For present use fruit should
be well ripened; but if for long keeping, it is
better, especially with pears, that 1t should not
nave arrived at complete maturity. This point,
however, requires considerable Judgment. g.
NO imperfect fruit should be stored with that
winch IS sound, and all more or less decayed
specimens should be Immediately removed. Z,
IL placed on shelves, the fruit should not lie
more than two days, and no straw should be
used Where especially clear and beautiful
specimens are wanted, they may be pack ed
carefully in dry bran, or in layers of perfectly
dry cotton wool, either in closed boxes or in
large garden pots. Scentless sawdust will
answer the same purpose, but pine sawdust is
apt to communicate an unpleasant taste. O.
With care, early apples may be kept till Christ
mas, while many kinds may be preserved in
perfection to a second year. The rules given
by American fruit growers agree very well with
the above, but make especial mention that fruit
rooms for slow rpening should be nearly dark,
and the temperature low. Light and heat
hasten maturity, and next, Of course, decom-
position.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

Here we have good example of French witt
A doctor, like everybody else at this season,
went out for days sport, and complained Of
having killed nothing. That's the consequence
OF having neglected your business" observed
his wife.
The city of Zurich, Switzerland, has in its
public library 100 600 volumes. Basic has one
of $4,000 volumes and Lucerne one of so, 900
volumes.
A statue of Sir Humphrey Davy, representing
him holding a miners safety lamp in his right
hand, was recently unveiled at Penzance, Eng
land.
Here are some of Punchs latest jokes: Lord
Houghton is a good friend 10 Ecclesia, in spite
of certain clever saving about "that depart
ment of the civil service called the church of
England" At the congress at Leeds, where
everybody was suggesting everything for the
benefit of the establishment, Lord HoughtOn
gently proposed "the general education of the
clergy"
Overworked pointsman (puzzled)-"Let's seel
there's the 'scursion' were due at 4:45, and it
amt in; then, alore that were the mineral, =
no! that must ha' been the goods or the eat
tie No! that were after,-cattle's shunting
now. Let's seel fast train came through at
con-foundl and here comes the express afore
its time, and blest if | know which line she's
on!'
The Paris Patrie announces that the govern.
mento of Prussia has resolved upon the construc-
ton of monstrous canal TO connect the Baltic
with the North sea, the cost to be betrayed out
OF the French indemnity. A preliminary est-
mate and plans are already in existence, and a
commission of engineers and superior officers
has been appointed to proceed TO the spot. Ac-
cording to the Patrie, Russia regards the pro-
posed canal with no very friendly or favorable
eye, suspecting in it means of substituting
Prussian for Russian influence in the north Of
Europe
Mrs. Gen. Gaines and her famous lawsuits are
again commanding the attention of the people
of New Orleans, this time with prospect of a
speedy termination of her long protracted battle
in the courts. The indelatgabe woman has
proposed TO the city council to compromise her
large claims on the city, based on judgments
against the innocent holders who have pur-
chased from the corporation property which the
United States courts have decided belonged to
Daniel Clark'S heirs. The New Orleans Times
says it looks very much as if Mrs Gaines had
the city in corner on this point, and expresses
hope that reasonable compromise may be
effected.
A writer tells a story of two well known
southern clergymen one of whom undertook to
rebuke the other for using the weed. Brother
g., he exclaimed, without stopping to ask any
other question, dis it possible that you chew to.
baccoW 81 must confess l do, the other quiet
ly replied. "Then would quit it, STRIP the old
gentleman energetically continued. at is a
very unclerical practice, and must say very
uncleanly one. Tobaccol Why, sir, even a
hog would not chew it!'' Father c." respond
ed his amused listener, edo you chew tobacco?"
81? No, sir!" he answered grutfly, with much
indignation. "Ihen, pray, which is most like
the hog, you or L"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

Probably all Of US are now realizing more full
than ever before our dependence upon those will.
ling servants whose prevailing malady is the
most engrossing topic of the day. If the race
of horses should become extinct so that we were
compelled to do without them entirely, we
should doubtless learn in time TO get on very
comfortably; but when forced, as now suddenly
to dispense in great measure with their SER
vices, the loss forces itself upon our attention at
every turn by the want of some comfort, luxury
or convenience. 1t is a strange and somewhat
exasperating sensation to find SO many Of the
ordinary convenient incidents of our daily
life that are so much matters of course
that we hardly think of them at all, now
practically beyond our reach. Steam could be
made to do most Of tine work which the horse
now docs, and do il perhaps nearly as well; the
ingenuity Of our mechanics would in a short
time overcome whatever difficulties may stand
in the way of the application of steam power
to these purposes; but the presumption that the
e1lgency will soon pass away prevents any
effort IN that direction, and, if any were made,
the relief could not be felt at once. The
people Of the eastern cities now ex.
perience something of that bafiied and
helpless feeling which prevailed for
time in Chicago after the great
fire. The cause is very different and
the extent Of the Reorganization is less here
than there; but the lack Of horse cars and pub.
lie carriages and the numberless impediments to
usiness and the ordinary routine of domestic
and social life involved in the withdrawal Of
horses from active service, have in some re-
spects, though in less degree, a similar effect
TO that which the loss of gas and water service,
postal facilities, hotels and newspapers, aud the
general ignorance of where anybody could be
found, produced In Chicago.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

G. +. I. IN ENGLAND.-Some of these DAYS
the United States may look out for a list of ar
bitrable claims from England for allowing
George Francis Train to escape from the port of
New York and cruise around this country.
Train comes and goes, but usually he comes.
He is here now. The newspapers take no notice
of him whatever and consequently he does not
stay so long in London as he did in former times.
The halls are not thrown open and crowded
when he arrives 1t was only by accident that
| heard of his making an appearance at an an
clent worklngmans debating club, which meets
nightly at the Green Dragon in Fleet street. The
room was full of the haze sent up from two score
pipes when the cloud-compelling Train made his
appearance. The chairman said in introducing
Train, that, as he was an unusual visitor, he
would not be limited in his speech to the ten
minutes assigned to each speaker. Whereupon
Tlan, beginning at about nine, spoke until mid
night the hour at which the police order all public
houses to be closed. In obedience to this edict of
old world tyranny Train had TO sit down, but dur
ing his three hours he informed his awe struck
hearers of good many things they didn't know
before. He said he had presided over the cum-
mune OF Paris, and had personally set fire TO
the Tuileries. He admitted it tn be doubtful
whether he would be elected president in the
coming election, as it was probable that Grant
or Greeley (both of whom he abused unmerci-
fully,) would be ahead of him al the polls; "but
in 1876 shall certainly be elected president
and then | shall make the English prime minis
ter pay down the 100000 he owes me for my
tramways, or, SO help me God / will behead
him" He then said that the secret of his
power lay to large extent in the fact that he
Delther smoked nor drank-each auditor here
pulled his pipe and slipped his beer-and in all
respects had led a rigidy moral life. 'You
may call me an egotist," he exclaimed; 81 am
| glory in being an egotist. / stand for man
hood. Vo1 popuH, Uor Irani. The fact is, gen
tlemen, am the biggest thing that has been got
not bit exhausted by this, and if the landlord
had not received a hint from the police he
might have been haranguing at the Green
Dragon at this moment. When he left the room
the whole company was at his tail, gazing as if
he were new species of kangaroo. One who
had been listening asked me if knew whether
he was man of much influence in America.
Letter TO the Cincinnati Commercial.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-01

EPIDEMIC DELUsIoNs.-There are plenty of
stories of this kind that might relate to you.
For instance, in nunnerieS it is not at all I'M
common, from the secluded life, and the atten-
ton being fixed upon one subject, one particu-
lar set of ideas and feelings-the want of a
healthy vent, so to speak, for the mental activity
that some particular odd propensity has de-
veloped itself. For instance, in one nunnery
abroad, many years ago, one of the Youngest
nuns began to NEW like cat; and all the others,
after time did the same. In another nunnery
one began TO bite, and the others were all affect
ed with the propensity to bite, In one of these
instances the mania was spreading like wild.fre
through Germany, extending from one nunnery
to another; and they were obliged to resort to
some such severe measures as have mentioned
to drive it out. 1t was set down in some in
stances TO demoniacal possession, but the devil
was very easily exercised By some pretty strong
threat on the part of the medical man. The
celebrated physician Boerhaaye was called in
to case Of that kind in an orphan asylum
in Holland, and | think his remedy was
red hot iron He heated the poker
in the fire, and said that the
next girl who fell into one of these fits should
be burnt in the arm; this was quite sufficient TO
stop il. In Scotland at one time there was
great tendency to breaking out into fits of this
kind in the churches This was particularly
the case in Shetland; and very wise minister
there told them that the thing could not be per-
mitted, and that the next person who gave way
in this manner-as he was quite sure they
could control themselves if they pleased
should be taken out and ducked in pond
near. There was no necessity at all to put his
threat into execution. Here, you see, the
stronger motive is substituted for the weaker
zone, and the stronger motive is sufficient 10 in.
duce the individual to put a check upon him
self have said that it usually happens with
the female sex, though sometimes it occurs
with young men who have more or less of the
a0VV fNfaNa al T1..N =
sary is to induce stronger motive, which will
call forth the power Of self control which has
been previously abandoned.-Dr. Caipenter, IN
Popular Science Monthly.