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The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-11

GROWING Orb "A philosophical old
nonagenarian finds these comforts id
growing old. Grumblers should take
notice
l have become very deaf. What
blessing! There is such II lot Of silly
talk cannot hear, such as scandals, etc.
My eyes arc failing How fortunate
! cannot see tthe Of the folly and wick.
edness going on around me. am blind
to faults that would provoke me to
censure.
l have lost my teeth, and my voice is
not very audible. Well, find it no use
babbling to folks who won't listen so l
save my breath for better purposes. I
don't show my teeth where can. bite.
| venture on NJ tough meat.
My taste is not so discriminating as in
days of yore, and the good is. that am
more easily satisfied. and don't keep find.
ing fault, and am contented and thankful.
a nice palate is a plague one is we'll rid
Of.
My joints are rather stiff Well. il
they were over so supple, do not want
to 20 and see the sights, hear concerts,
make speeches, nor carouse at feasts.
am not SO strong as was; hut for
what end do need to be stout? | aln
not going to wrestle or fight with any.
body. My morals are generally I'M.
proved.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-11
F. Q. CAKE. JIM. MCCLELLAN.
CAKE & MCCLELLAN,
Real Estate Agents,

Troy. Lincoln County. No.,
Buy and Sell Land. Pay Taxes for Nom
residents, Give Abstracts of Titles,
Write Deeds, Mortgages. Plats
of Lands, &c.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-11
who wish 10 Buy or Sci
Real Estate.

In this enlightened age not many purchasers,
strangers especially, hire conveyances and ride
over the country in search of farm for sale.
when there is Real Estate Agency to be found.
We advertise extensively and systema tically, and
owners desiring to sell. and purchasers wishing
to buy, each earnestly hunting for the other and
his own interest, secure the greatest possible
safety and despatch on the one hand and the
least expense of time and moaey for search on
the other. by placing in our Agency the sale or
purcha OF any property.
We require parties desiring to sell property to
sign contract describing the same, naming the
length of time the property is to remain for sale,
price and terms, and binding the owner to pay
our commission if a sale is effected.
Our COmmissions.-If the price does not
exceed $500, our commission for sale will be $50.
Regular commissions on all sales "a per cent.
CAKE & MCCLELLAN,
Real Estate Agents, Troy, Mo.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-11

Such perfect love as this is seldom wit.
messed IN this selfish world 1t was DC.
velored last summer by conversation in
dark corner of the West Point hotel
piazza. The interlocutors were o young
married couple. "Who's tweet ?" "Why.
oos tweet." "No Oo's tweet |" Whose
little biriie is you p zoos little
birdie" The remainder can osly he .s.
pressed onomatopoe,icslly.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-11

A private in the army once wrote to
bis sweetheart, closing with, "May Heav-
en- cherish and teep you from yours truly
John Smith.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-11
They Offer for Sale the Following
Lands:

vrxtIn
dortbwest of Auburn 2 m;,es ~ ra;,,,.a .na
miles Of rock road, IS acres ia cultivation. ina
acres splendid timber. hewed-lou bouse / X ,,o.
rjcs. stable and corn crib. Price S9bOO one third
cash, balance on time.
No. x-Coal land miles sou,bves, of Trov,
40 acres in tho middle Of the coal fields and
within 100 wards of the shaft at the Link mine
Price $4,000, half cash, balance on time.
Ne. 1-202 acres unimproved timber land
5Ia miles south Of Milwood and adjoining IVES,
prairie. Price $500, third cash. balance on Ion q
time.
NO. f-improved iarm OF 400 acres in Saline
county, a mies east OF brownsville AMI Hous-
aonia, aon ON the 81. Louis and Lexington railroad
zoo acres M ,enced' nv IN cultivation, 90 acres in
grass, % ilo acres good timber hewed-log house
win rooms, c'sterh ana good wei; springs
pr,c. sao NO., ,os asSaooo SeAng ,ru't 'rees
purchaseri Good nciobborhood nnd .n,.rI;,
land N 'P''""''
Nm. k-uorso ord IL, - Tuo
30 bv 40 ond ons storv b;nb ,,n,'. m' .'s.n.
smoke house cistern sb brnSShsrv So -, Use. ynn T.,
lOO feat, oc0 yords fro,n ,nrn ~. p', wv ny
terms $1,000 cash. f'"e' '' ""'
W.. .
~: V-rarm Oh liS acres, "a miles oil Mos
timbsr hearno noooh ,,oos d.. Do a'res sa sooa
acre. two. thirds cash. balance an tina Wv pei
No I'D acres ,;mLor io,S naIa.,;s III.
coaI oIL ,niies ~ Mo,on,u D.; 30, ~ w WV"
two, thirds cash baIonno "n ,;r,a S-' P'i aere'
No. s-Imnrovod Saru, NJ oa,< ..,
mile from the court house in Troy o. arrss oie IL
cni,;vat;on oa .oro. T., as,,,. 10y, ~ "cres m u,
6ve veor o,d onn,a ,ra. OK ro,aL " Ioo
snlendid t;mbsr sto,v frdma 10 h, ., 10 s asres
'''y ii""e 10 ny "a anu an
house, chicken house, stables and crib, No.
tobacco barn of tiers, good well. Price nd
terms S35 cash per acre Just the mace for n
person who desires to carry on small farm. and
also get the benefit of good schools in Troy fo,
his children.
~. n
oast ~ IT, os . '. ~; ,,; y. o" a.ies % mle'
God ,;uho, hao,si ~ ~ ,a ,h, % ucIes
house corn crsh "nJ s,ab,ao' iys suSAe s..s,
trees n bear;na pri"o sos ,'a, 2 'ouns liu,
casb ho,onco 'S ,;ma F'' Pe' "'''' WV '"''u'
'" ''
NO sO1-improVed farm OF 80 acres 2 mliss
south Oh roy, % acres ia cultivation, 10 acres
10 grass ana oV acres timber, house 10 by Is. \
stories, k'ienen "a oy 10, smoke house, cellar
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
4 Substitute for Horses.

A new engine for propelling street
cars is described as being on the prin-
clple of the English compound engine
III use on ocean steamers 1t has two
cylinders, and drives the car by direct
crank connection, without any interme-
date mechanism. It is so compactly
made as to occupy no more space than
an ordinary base burning patlUr stove
of the larger size, and does not intrudc
upon one foot of passenger room. BY
an arrangement of the several parts.
economy of fuel is accomplished the
smoke is consumed, and noise and SCOT
are avoided. The power employed
IS that of five horses, and the cars,
which are of the usual dimensions,
can be controlled, as to stoppage
and propulsion, quite as hanlify as
though drawn by horses. The power
can be increased at pleasure up to the
capacity of a twenty-five horsepower
engine, thus enabling it to ascend
grades of four or five hundred feet to
the mile. The engineer can slow up"
in the space of thirty-two feet, when
the cars are going at the rate of twelve
miles an hour. The engine is so
placed upon the rear platform, so that
the windows can be left open in pleas
ant weather, without the annoyance of
smoke or cinders, as there is none of
either, while any dust that might be
raised is left behind, thus comforting a
vast amount of pleasure and comfort
upon the passenger. The tests made
thus Tar have been most satisfactory.
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The following is a statement OF the
actual losses of Philadelphia compa-
MES by the Boston fire
Report of the Secretary IF War.

The report Of the Secretary of War
this year is quite brief. He compli-
ments Congress for such completeness
in last years legislation that quite
room is left for legislation; fecUm-
mends the establishment of military
prisons IN place of the present system
of sending army cOnvicts to state
penitentiaries; also the enactment of
code of specific punishment
for arti1y offences Desertions are re.
ported as greatly falling oil in the past
year. He renews the recommendation
that the extra to each regiment be
dispensed with as vacancies occur, and
thus save one hundred and sixty thou
and dollars annually. He advises rails
ing the intellectual standard of admis-
sion Mt West Point, also the sale of
large numbers of now useless arsenals
Ill the south and elsewhere; the
establishment of & general arsenal of
construction OH the Atlantic slope, and
another on the Pacific. These arsenals,
with that already at Rock Island, in
the Mississippi valley, would efficiently
meet the wants IF the service. The
progressive experiments with iiiiptoved
navy ordnance and with breech-loading
small arms is slow He consid-
ers channel distractions and torpedoes
protected by heavy batteries, as val
liable for harbor defenses. Expert
ments with torpedoes have been sue
cessful in determining the kind to be
used, and the Secretary recommends
the storage Of torpedoes for the de-
fence of New York and other har-
bors. The new system Of in
speeding and discussing officers ac-
counts Is IN full operation. He con-
cludes by reeretting that one sixth of
the army is still detained in the South
ern states east of the Mississippi River,
and hopes that an improvement of the
social condition will soon relieve that
force for frontier duty. He says mill
tary expenditure are on a descending
scale
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
TYNUALL.

A Few Words from Late Lecture,
From The Saturday evening lecture
by Mr.. Tyndall in Boston, we make an
extract. Light, he says, may be po-
larized in a variety Of ways. Refec-
ton is one of the ways. Here is a
beautiful crystal Ct Iceland spar. IL
you look at dot through it, you will
see two. Tt splits ray of light into two
parts. On passing n beam of light
through it, two circles of light appear
ed on the screen. On rejecting these
images to the ceiling and side of the
room, each one alternately disappear
ed, showing that polarization had been
produced by the Iceland spar. The
tourmaline produced green image III
one circle, and black on the other.
While crossing the Atlantic, which [
was happily enabled to do without
well, without disturbance to my health
I watched the ocean waves. [ no.
ticed that where they crossed each 9TH
er the water was tossed up into a pyfa-
midal heap, usually surmounted by
crest of foam, and the wave reached an
almost double height. When a crest
crossed q hollow, they neutralized each
other This is called the principle of
interference, and its existence lii ssaves
of light was first established by that
great philosopher, Young. This was
illustrated by two tuning forks sound
ing in unison. On loading one slightly,
so as to change the tone little. sue
ccssion of beats was heard The waves
ut first combined, then interfered and
neutralized, then combined again, and
SO produced the beats. The same holds
good with light. We may, on this
principle, produce color without color
ing matter. Several beautiful expert
ments illustrated this, showing that
colors were caused by passing light
through thin films. A tray of water
was placed in front of the electric
lamp. and the light reflected from its
surface to the screen. Waves were
seen passing across, and were reflected
from side to side. On dropping
through a pipette drop of oil of tur-
pentine tr0r the water, thin film was
produced, and a most beautiful array
of colors appeared upon the screen.
Two pieces of glass clamped together
produced similar effect.
Newton investigated the cause of
these colors, and found that they de
pended upon the thickness of the film
of air, or other Medium. He measur-
ell the thickness of a soap bubble by
its relations to color
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
Changing the Subject.

Little Mary had heard her father in
struct her older brothers and sisters
that when, in the course of converse
ton, subject came up that seemed to
be disagreeable to any one present, Ell.
quette demanded that it should be
changed as quickly as possible. Some
days after her father said to her as he
left the house:
Mary, papa wants you to be very
careful, If you play in the garden to-
day, not to touch the hyacinths. VIII
you remembers"
OF course she would, but on papa S
return in the evening, he found his
hyacinths picked, and the marks of the
little feet in the garden bed.
Calling Mary up to him, he looked
very grave, and said:
MY dear, you remember that l told
you particularly not to touch the
hyacinths, and now find them picked,
and nc. one has been in the garden but
you. How is this 2"
Mary laughed, and said:
Oh, papa, it was splendid in the
garden to-day! I saw a beautiful little
birds nest, and there was q great big
butterfly"
"Wait, wait, child l am talking to
you about something else now. Don't
you understand me? ] am very Sc
riously displeased with you. I told you
not to touch the hyacinths, and now I
find them picked, and your footprints
all about.
Oh, yes, papa, ! did have the love
lest time in the garden to-day. Don't
you think it was beautiful day."
Mary, how dare you answer me so
impertinently! ] was talking to you
about your disobedience. Why do you
not attend to me? ] shall have to make
you"
Rather sobered at this suggestion,
the little girls countenance fell, and
she faltered out
Why, papa, you said that when a
subject became unpleasant to any one,
the only way was to change it q"
Papa saw the point, and the unpleas-
ant subject was dropped for that time.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
Acguittal OF Il Supposed Horyja,

Mrs. Lloyd, who was tried at Lees
burg, Va, on Friday, for poisoning her
children was acquitted She was charg-
ed with giving them arsenic, but the evi-
dence showed shat a physician had pre-
scribed hismuth for one child, while an
analysis of the latter dose produced ar
senic, showing that the bismuth con.
tanned an amount of arsenic equal to
that which the mother of the child was
charged with giving as pure arsenic.
The evidence turned on this chemical
fact, and acquitted the mother, much TO
the surprise of her prosecutors. Com
siderable connection is manifested hv
druggists and physicians aud the peo
pie generally at the discovery of arsenic
IN bismuth, which will probably do
away with its use III medical practice.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
An Immense Stow PIOw-The Largest
i'm the World.
From the Omaha Bee, October "A.


The Union Pacific Railroad is having
which, when finished, will be the largest
and most powerful in the world 1t is
rapidly approaching completion, and in a
few days will be ready for business. The
trucks on which it is built are very heavy
and strong, and were cast especially for
this pillow. The platform on the trucks is
twenty-five feet long, and ten feet six
inches wide, and is composed of solid oak
umbers eight by sixteen inches. These
timbers arc held together by ten iron bolts
ono and one.fourth inch in diameter,wh which
rur crosswise This solid bed is fastened to
transom lean by forty bolts, twenty
over each truck The inclined slide, plac-
cd on q platform, is twenty-five feet long,
ans slopes at an angle Of thirty degrees,
and is held firmly to the led by forty bolts
of an inch in diameter, aud is supported
from behind by inclined posts, SIX feet
long, eight inches wide, and sixteen inches
thick. The entire length, from the rear of
the platform to tho end of the slide, is 80
feet. The slide is to be ironed, and an
immense pillow of the ordinary shape, is
feet long, Ii feet wide and five feet high,
and covered with iron 3-16 of an inch
ahick, is to nc securely placed upon it. On
the point OF this pillow there is to be an
IRON plate, steel pointed, II feet long and
four feet wide. This plate, of course, runs
across the track and only one inch above
1t.
The rear of the platform Will be boxed
III, making a room twelve tcCt high, ii
feet wide and 10 feet long, for the purpose
of keeMng the snow out 1t will be fur
nishec with a door, SO that if necessary it
can b loaded with iron.
The monster will weigh fifty tons, and
will be operated by three Of the heaviest
engines A0n the road. The cost will ue
over $4,000: The design nas gotten up
by Mr. G. E. Stevens, Superintendent of
the car and building department, and Mr..
}. X. Congdon, general master mechanic
OF the road, who must have made it study
since last winter. There will be but very
few snow drifts that this plow won't clean
oft; but if it ever jumps the track it will
be pretty hard Job to get it on again.
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Tie NnrthCrn E.i~iiiS.

Aurora borealiS have been very CON
splcuous lately. On the 25th of August
one was seen at Thurso and at Herno-
sand, in the gulf of Bothnia, ana fscbIy
also at Lisbon; on the 26th at Scvres,
and also at Stockholm; on September
2, at Sevres, Paris, Hernosand and
Rome; on the 4th, at Sevres, Paris.
London, and Archangel; on the 9Th, at
Sevres and Paris on the 9th, at Her.
nosand. So that there has been in Eu-
rope, during the petiod from the Cd to
the 9Th of September, an almost con
tlnuous succession Of aurora visible III
England, France, Scandinavia, Russia,
and once III Italy.
white aurora bOrealis was observed
at Beaumette, near Anglers, on the Sth
OF August, by NJ. A. Cheux, who thus
describes it About 10 o'clock the sky
was lit up in the north iiottltweet by a
white light and at successive inter
walls white rays were shot out, mostly
toward the North or Northwest. At
about 1870 a magnificent white ray
shaped like Il fan, and % in height.
occupied the northern part of the sky.
This gradually faded, and by 11:3O the
sky had resumed it's natural color.
This is the fourth aurora borealis OBJ
served Ill the last four months; the
others having been seen on the 9th of
May, the 9th of June, the 10th of July,
and this on the Sth of August The
coincidence III these monthly dates is
something remarkable. Mature.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23

noon, presided over by Mayor CASTOR,
at which encouraging speeches were
made and energetic action urged in
order to alleviate the sufferings of the
needy, as well as the rebuilding of the
burnt district. A numerous relief
committee was appointed, of which
VIM Gray was chairman The committee
will hold daily sessions. A Bureau OF
Relief was also organized, of which ex.
Mayor Norcross is treasurer.
THE NEW POST OFFICE
and Sub-Treasury building was for a
long time exposed to fierce flames and
smoke, but was scarcely scorched.
This massive fire-proof structure saved
the Boston Morning Post building di-
rectly opposite, and helped greatly in
preventing the fire from reaching State
street. The old South Church also es-
capped, though several times given up
for lost. The costly and beautiful
Transcript building, and Currier and
Trott's jewelry establishment on the
opposite corner of Milk street, were
burned. The Eastern Express Office
was saved, though reported at one time
as burned
THE BANKS
destroyed are the National Bank of
North America, IS Franklin and the
National Revere Bank, II Franklin
street
The following is statement OF the
actual losses of Philadelphia compa-
MES by the Boston fire
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
The SeasSWalioW and the Fishermen.

An interesting association exists be
tween the sea-sWailows and the fisher
men of Lake Pallageri, in Lapland. In
the center of this lake is an island, on
which the fishermen build their huts in
summer. At early dawn the swallows
gather around these huts, and their
cries admOnish the occupants that it is
time to commence the days work. Tne
boats are hardly ioosened from their
mOorings when the birds start out to
find spot where the fish are ahlnd-
ant. The hoatmen are governed en-.
tlrely by the movements Of the swal-
lows. When the birds stop and re-
double thier cries, the fishermen know
they have found spot where they will
be repaid for their labor. They hasten
forward, cast their nets, and soon have
the satisfaction of finding them well
filled. In accordance with the old
maxim, that the laborer is worthy OF
his hire, the swallows receive their
share OF the booty. Every fish that
the fishermen throw up IN the air is
gracefully caught by the birds and, in
deed they are SO tame that sometimes
they come into the boats and help them.
selves ont of the nets. If one spot be-
comes non-productive, the birds lead
the way to another. Toward even
ing men and the birds return to
the island, and the birds hasten to
clear the boats of the share left-behjnd
Tor them by the fishermen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
4 Funny Mistake.

A Des MONIES druggist sent his clerk
out to drum fer sales of oil. He carried
the card of the proprietor and the picture
OF his girl in his side pocket lie called
upon tradesman at Newton, and tossed a
card upon the counter, saying that he re-
presented that establishment. The trades
man picked it up, gave it steady look.
and SAID 1t was fine establishment, and
wa informed by the clerk that he had
represented 1t about three years, where
upon he remarked to the youth that he
supposed he would soon be Il partner.
The youth said he would be pleased to
sell him some coal oil, and that his cstab.
hshment handled more oil than any ether
IN Des MONIES. The tradesman took
another look at the card, and asked the
boy It he wasn't mistaken He blushincly
guessed he was, as he returned his girls
picture to his pocket.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
A Curious Story.

The Middleville Barry County, Mich. J
Republican tells a curious story as to the
cause which led J. r. Van Velsor, the
aLsconding Prosecuting Attorney of that
county, to the preparation Of the mort
gage torgeries. On the fUrgeries being
detected Van Velsor, it is sand, offered to
make restoration as far Us possible by
deciding his victims all the property he
owned, and IN accounting for the missing
money, stated that he had used it to helm
his brother, Dr. Van felsor, of Hastings,
out of Il serious difficulty into which he
had got himself in Minnesota, where he
formerly lived. His story is, in effect,
that a sick man under the doctors charge
died very suddenly, between whose young
wife and the doctor there had been unusu.
al intimacy; that an examination had devel
cped strong suspicious ofpoison; that they
bad, as they supposed, procured tho re-
moval of the patients body to a place
where it could not be traced, but the de
tectives were too sharp for them, having
followed and taken the body from the
coffin while in transit, substituting for it
something else of about the same weight ;
that thereafter, stranger calling himself
Il detective waited upon J. Il. Van Velsor
and wanted $4,000, or the body of the
doct or; and that he paid the money de-
manded, and something more to settle the
matter.
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4 Puzzle IN Arithmetic

When three Irishmen dug a ditch for
which they were to receive four dol
lars, the trouble was how to divide
four among three, and have it aqa.a
One OF them remained quiet and the
Other two at last deferred to his iudg
ment, as he had been to school, ana
knew .rithmetic, to make the division.
lie did it at once, saying, Its aisy
enough. Shure, there's two for Won
two, and two for me too BE cor.
"a, said one of his co laborers. sswhas
a great thing ii is to have learning,7
. And, said the other, as he pocL eted
his single dollar. and to know 'rith-
metic too It's the likes of us two'd
never divided them four dollars
0qH0iy."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-23
Immigration from GERMANY

Information Is received by the De-
partment of State that the statement
published IN various newspapers in this
country, in July last, that the German
Government was seeking to prevent
emigration to the United States, and
had adopted stringent measures for
that purpose, is denied by that Govern.
ment, which disclaims to having issued
orders interfering with or discourao-
ing the emigration Of its citizens 10
this country