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The Placer herald., 1872-11-09

LESS READING.--Our exchange list has
grown to such magnitude that we have
been compelled to reduce it somewhat. Pa
pers receiving this issue Of the HERALD will
know that they arc retained on our list as
regular exchanges.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09

AT HOME .--Cogg'ns run thousand a.
head of his ticket at home, in Sacramento,
and Page run about 400 behind his ticket at
bis home, FL Dorado county. Here is food
for the sober reflection of Stanford men.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09

"A," OF the Argus, deserves Our pity. If
he had the brains lie thinks he has he would
be crowder; but unfortunately he is like the
vessel made by the potter to dishonor.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09

CALIFORNIA SALvE.--ln our new advertise
ments will be found the card of Taylor & Co 5
California salve, manufactured at Roseville, in
this county. The salve is highly recommended,
ana can be bought at Stevens IL Wells Auburn
Drug store
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09

Strawberries. I'VE see several lots {
fine Strawberries in the Restaurant window,
on Montgomery street this morning Nov 1st
On inquiry find them selling at fifteen cents ,
pound New York and Boston market report
ers please copy. RWal Press
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09
pnErE;gjNs CHRCMSS
FOR 1879.

Every subscriber to He dldiae. who rays
in advance for the year 1913. will receive, with
out charge, pair Of beautiful oil chromos, after
j. j. Hill, the eminent English painter. The
pictures, entitled 'rhe Village Belle and
''Crossns the Moor, are Il 20 inches--are
printed from % different plates requiring 20 I'M
pressions and tints to perfect each picture. The
same chromos are sold for $50 per pair, in the
art stores As it is the determination of its con-
duetors to keep TIE d'di"e ont Of the reach of
competition in every department, the chromos
will be found correspondinsly ahead Of any that
can he offered by other periodicals. Every sub
scriber will receive a certificate over the signature
of the publishers, pmraateein9 that the chromos
delivered shall be equal to the samples furnished
the ngen or the money viii be refunded. The
distribution of pictures of this grade free to the
Subscribers to five dollar periodical, viii mark
an epoch in the history of Art; and, considering
the Unprecedented eheapness of the price for
The Atiine itself, the marvel falls little short Of
Il miracle, even to those best acquainted with the
achievements of inventive genius and improved
mechanical appliances. (For illustrations of
these chromos, see November issue of The
lk{iup
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09
MECHANICAL lMPOsSiI;iLiTi.

Estimated from last year.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09
THE FlaEST BRANDS OF CIGARS.
LARGE STOCK OF GUUDSl

FENHE UNDERSIGNED HAVE THIS DAl
l. formed Copartnership for the purpose ol
engaging il the General Merchandise business
IN the town of Lincoln, under the firm name Oh
John Zeisen5ein & Co.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09

Clerk.
D"'oo Auouln' Oetooer ~, 1879. oc263w
The Placer herald., 1872-11-09
NOeice OF AS5e5snn ert,

DI u. ". NPFAE,
Attorney for Applicant.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

For whitening the hands-Honesty.
CoNTRABAND of war-The pipe of peace.
A SERIOUS turn-The twist of ones
IL
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
At the Menagerie.

like the armadillo, respect the kangaroo,
Am nuts upon the monkeys, and adore the cock
atoo;
believe theirs latent talent in the wombat and
the stoat,
And think the hippopotamus entitled to
vote.
know not why or wherefore. but. however it
The beaver (castro JSber) has a nameless charm
for me;
I've met with true politeness from the lynx; and
pom my soul.
cannot speak too highly of the common ankee
mole.
Hove to watch the creatures. and to learn their
little games;
call them from my fancy all the prettiest pet
names;
There's the camel. Humpty-D umpty; Neck-or-
Nothing, the giraffe;
Jolly Gnash, the old hyena, with his idiotic
laugh.
mark the restless motions of the more ferocious
lots
How the tigers shift their places. and tie Loop
ards change their spots:
7 visit, too. the burly bear, and give my wonted
dole.
IN. the pelar bear is not the bear that Climbs
the pole
Then let us be to every beast a patron and a
friend;
Each tells his tale. each has his aim, as sure as
his end.
a lessons to be learned from them, and man
himself may steal
Some new light from the tapir. some impression
from the seal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
Shops of COnstantinOple.

l have spoken of the shops. They
are funny little boxes, with one half of
the cover turned up, the other half laid
down as a counter. The purchaser
stands outside, and the merchant
within. No goods are made show of;
there seems to be no anxiety to sell; no
anger at having everything turned
topsy- turvy; no offense at an Of
fer of just half the asking price.
The bazaars are collections of shop
keepers in some particular branch
gloomy sheds, often odorous, generally
dingy, crowded and stupid. The num-
Der of tobacco-pipe merchants and
manufacturers amazes one at CONSTANT
nople as at Damascus. An amber
mouthpiece often costs hundreds of
dollars the long cherry tube is beauti-
fully wrought in gay silks, and jewels
often glitter along the sides, because
the pasha expects to pass his pipe
round among his visitors, and has no
better means of displaying his wealth.
His wife cannot receive strangers and
make her larlor museum, because the
harem is forbidden ground; her slip
pers outside the door prevent even her
husbands entrance; and most of his
leisure he is glad to spend anywhere
else than in such monotcnous stupor.
A genuine Turk sees hardly any Turk.
ish ladies; he never beholds his wife
till after marriage, and does not com
monty marry more than one, unless he
is some grand official who is expected
to live in style. He never alludes to
his family in public, or expects it to be
to ask after madame's health would be
the worst insult. The French ambas
sador's wife succeeded when she pre-
sented some silks to Mrs. Redchilc
Pasha through the prime minister, by
saying" Please accept these, sir; yor
will know how to use them.-Lippis
colts Magazine.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
Josh Billings Outd0ne.

Childhood is often humorous, with
out being conscious of the fact. Arte-
mus Ward or Josh Billings never wrote
anything OF the funny order equal to
the following composition of little
boy in the Bishop Scott Grammar
School, Portland, Oregon, which we find
printed verbatim ct hteratim in the New
York Ledger
Oxen is a very slow animal. They are
very good to brake up ground.
J would rather have horses if they
didn't have colic-which they say is
wind collected in a bunch. Which
makes it dangereser to keep horses than
oxen.
If their were no horses people wood
have to wheal their wood in a wheal-
barrow. 1t would take them two or
three days to wheal cord mile.
Cows are useful to. / heard some
people say that if they had to be a OK
or G cow they wood sooner be COW, but
7 think when it come to be MIXED on a
cold Winter morning I think they
wood sooner be oxen, for oxen don't
have to raise calves-If / had to be a
OK or COW wood be heffer, but IT L
could not be heffer and had to be both
l wood be OK.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

parrot in 1856, whose residence IN Wales
was authenticated for seventy-seven
years. The bird, more wonderful for
variety of speech than for her age, learn
ing everything and forgetting nothing,
accomplished alike in the Welsh tongue
and the English, born in Africa, living
more than three-quarters of a century
in Europe, and dying in America, might
have been alive now but for needless
ness. In 1867, she had certainly ap-
preached, if she had not reached and
passed, her one hundredth ye r. Upon
a severely cold night in De ember of
that wear. she was sent from New York
to Washington, and persisted by the
way. She was in perfect health, had
never known day of sickness, showed
no decrepitude, enjoyed life to the ut
termost, demanded no allowances or
concessions on the score of advanced
years, and might, but for an exposure
to the rigor to an unaccustomed climate,
have been alive to-day.
Among fishes, the carp is notorious
for the remarkable tenacity with which
it clings to life. In the canals of Chan
lilly carps have been kept formore than
hundred years. They become hoary
through old age, and so tame that they
come at the call of the keeper to be fed.
From remote antiquity the pike has
been considered a long liver. Pliny in
ancient times, Pennant and Gesner in
modern, dwell emphatically upon the
longevity of this fish. In 1897 pike
was taken from the waters of Thail-
burn, in Swabia, with golden ring at
tached to it, on which was engraved in
Greek characters g. am the fish that
was put into this lake by Frederick H.,
Oct. 5, 1850" The fish was, therefore,
247 years old.
The great longevity of the tortoise is,
perhaps, best established of all. One in
the gardens of Lambeth Palace lived
120 years. Another at Peterborough
attained the age of 223 years. Bishop
Marsh's predecessor in the See had re-
membered it above sixty years, and he
was the seventh prelate who had worn
the inter during itssojourn il the close
When this tortoise died, its body weigh
ed fourteen pounds, and its shell two
hundred and fifty-two pounds.-N s.
Dodge, in Appleton's Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

BRIGHAM YOU'VE says he isn't going to
marry any more.
QUEEN VICTORIA has caused an i'm
mense amount of scandal in England
by her laxity of Sabbath observance of
late.
SIR EDWARD LANDsEN, the eminent
painter, has become insane.
IT has been discovered that Patrick
Henry was as dramatic as Kean or a
Siddons.
BOUTWELL, and Butler play billiards
together when they are in Washington
of evenings.
IT is said that Gen. Sickles received
100000 from the English stockholders
in Erie for his services.
POETRY and poverty are ne longer in
separable companions Bryant, Long
fellow, Holmes, SAKE and Lowell are all
rich men.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's sermons are now re-
ported verbatim, and published for the
benefit of those members of his fam
lily who can't get into church VIII en- any
other people go.
THE Herald did not print any account
of its own of Mr.. Benefits funeral, but
published, from advance proof sheets,
the reports of the Tribune, Times, World,
Sun, and Journal Of Commerce.
Moses and Aaron Wilcox were born
the SAME cay, married sisters, were
partners in business at Twinsburg, O.,
which is called after them, died on the
same day, and are buried in one grave.
PROF. WISE is going across the Allan.
tic in a balloon.
"CAPER SAUCE is the title of Fanny
FERNS new novel. No doubt Fanny is
"saucy enough, but she is getting toe
old to "caper."
JULIA WALLET, of Providence, aged
twenty three, in breach of promise
case, recovered a verdict of $4,000
against Thomas Grace, aged sixty-nine
THE pretended correspondence be
tween Miss Nellie Grant and Queer
Victoria, going the rounds of the press
was the invention of San Francisco
| Bohemian.
"GRIs," the Fat Contributor" is 60
ing to start paper in Cincinnati.
IsHAM HENDERSON, of the Louisvill,
merchandising is described as STAT
fifty, and immensely wealthy '-ha
just captured $4,000 bride. Tn
happy couple left at once for Europe.
JAMES GORDON BENEFITS coffin cos
$1,000.
A BosToN woman of 80 got mercen
airy youth of a quarter that age t
marry her the other day, on promise 0
an income of $1,000 year while sh
lived, and life interest in her estat
after her death.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

New STYLE oY BREAsT-PIN. = Our
ladies must bestir themselves, or they
will find themselves outdone in the
foibles and follies of fashion by their
sisters of Mexico. The latter have re-
Gently adopted a device for personal
ornamentation which is rather more
grotesque than anything that has been
achieved in this country. They use for
breastpins and ear pendants nothing
less novel than live lightning bugs, and
so general has the fashion become that
the Indians find it profitable business
to capture these insects. For this pur-
pose they use long stick lighted at one
end. The bug mistakes this for rival
and flies at it with great fury, when he
is captured by the hunter. They are
purchased by the wearers for about %
cents dozen, after which they are put
in cages, fed on sugar-cane and bathed
regularly twice a day else their phos
phorescence is obscured and they emit
no light. For dress occasions they are
fastened to delicate bell-shaped lea
and worn as jewels, when they sparkle
| with brilliancy that excels the finest
diamonds.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
Varieties.

For whitening the hands-Honesty.
CoNTRABAND of war-The pipe of peace.
A SERIOUS turn-The twist of ones
neck.
SOMEBODY wishes to know if pig-pen
is used to write hog-latin.
INCREDIBLE as it may seem, many of
the richest planters of Jamaica live on
coffee grounds.
AN exchange describes a sable-clad
missionary as looking as if he had been
vaccinated for .,lack clothes and had
broken out all over.
"FUNcH'' says it is very natural for a
man to feel girlish when he makes his
maiden speech.
A CINCINNATI paper describes the pat
tern of a Dolly Warden as fred floss
rhinoceroses roofing up black satin
morass."
"THEY fired two shots at him." wrote
an Iris reporter /" the first shot killed
him, but the second was not fatal"
THE Plymouth Sentinel gently alludes
to one of its townsmen as " the fiy-blown
office. seeker; the worn-eaten land-shark,
and avaricious mortgage-scalper.'
"SIx feet in his bootsr exclaimed
Mrs. Beeswax "what will the impu-
dence of this world come to, wonder?
Why, they might as well tell me that
the man had six heads In his hat"
The following knotty question claims
the attention of one or all of our debat-
ing societies " If man has tiger by
the tail, which would be the best for his
personal safety-to hold on or let go?''
AT an infant Sunday school the
teacher gave the Bible story of the
Prodigal Son." When he came to the
place where the poor, ragged son reached
his former home, and his father saw
him great way off, he inquired what
his father probably did. One of the
smallest boys, with fist clenched, said:
" | dunno, but dessay he set the dog
en- him"
JOSH BILLINGS says That the difference
between a blunder and a mistake is
this: When man puts down bad
umbrella and takes up good one, he
makes a mistake; but when he put
down a good one and takes up bad
one, he max es blunder.
A NOTED wag in Western college one
morning read theme of unusual merit
The President being suspicious, asked
pointedly if it was original. .Why,
yes, sir, was the reply, " it had original
over it in the paper took it from"
THIS is from the Daabury Ncios, of
course: ga Connecticut boy swallowed
three marbles ard four bullets recently,
and, being somewhat of bony struc
ture, is now utilized by the neighbors,
who borrow him as rattle-box to amuse
their babes and sucklings."
In the Wyoming Legislature, the
other day, when man insisted he was
not out of order, his opponent jerked off
his coat, shouting, Mr.. Speaker if some
reliable man will hold these duds, I'll
teach him he is out of order;" and the
point was carried.
A New ENGLAND advertiser wants I" a
woman who fears the Lord and weighs
200 pounds, and the editor of the sheet
in which the advertisement appears re-
marks that the experience of most
men is that a woman who weighs 200
pou nds rarely fears the Lord or any
body else.'
The Danbury Nea0s says: "We pre-
sumo many of the owners of lots in the
cemetery have no objection to the PEG.
pie helping themselves to the flowers on
the graves, or digging up hedges, but
they unanimously unite in requesting
visitors to remove their boots and shoes
before climbing tombstones."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
Something Tifferent''-A Lager Beer
Story.
From the Cincinnati Tim

From the Cincinnati Times.
pese clad to see you, like ash
never vas, Mister Girls; when did Tin
zinnaty goome away from your"
Such was the warm salutation of a
Teutonic friend whom we met the other
day in a distant city, where he had re-
Gently gone to reside. The reader
might not guess in long time what
business our friend from Cincinnati was
engaged in, so we will tell you; he kept
lager-beef saloon.
"How do you like your new loca-
ton 2" we inquired after his raptures
at meeting a Cincinnatian had some
what abated.
"Nice poys in this towns nice poys.
The first night vot / opens my saloon,
they goomes in and gals for lager peer,
doc, eight, seek, half tozzen of 'em
unit ven l says, Who makes pay for
this too zoon already?' by tam, dey
say, 'put it on tie schlate.' l dole tenn,
Il don't geep no schlate.' Den dey
says, you peter as send out unit puy a
schlate' Vel, | wants to aggommo-
date-there's no principal in dose tings
so l pought schlate. The peer gopt
SeSAAiiS III mOiO POJo1 Ohe SOPo POp-
ting the schlate onto dem. Poorly
quick already dells tenn the schlate it
pese full on poth sides, unit den dey
dells me if the schlate pese full l pet
ter ash fill my tam Tuch head nit 'em !
Veil, dat ish all right-there's no brin-
cipal in dose tings-dey are nish poys.
"Pooty bine by after leedle, they
makes smash NIT mine par, preaks mine
pottles, unit knocks hail formation out
of mine looking glass NIT mine head.
Mine Colt l wash mad. RAIDER you
kive me ten dollar so much ash wash
mad. But dat pese all right-theres
no principal in doze-that makes nix
Inference. Nice poys!
"Then they gals me tam Tuch son
f kun, unit dells 'em they peter as &C
to the tieful, their own tam American
sconagun. Wash l right? Veil, that
makes nottings tifferent.
"They knocks the staircase town mine
frow, unit throws the window out of the
papy. That's all right-makes noting
Intermediates no principal in thai
nice poys-but growing very much
excited, and emphasizing each word or
the bar with his fist they puts water il
mine class of peer-unt Colt in himmel
that ish not right-there's some brinci
pal in dose tings-that makes something
| tifferenti
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
Inc WOrn-Out Font of Tyne.

In sitting by my desk, George.
nj before me on the floor
IFSr ,ti t H worn font of type.
81 S;n nia ~ months have passed. George,
olnce they were bright and new.
AND many are the tales they've tnId-
Inc 1alse, the strange, the true
WI" VIVA tales OF horror they have told.
OF murder in the midnight hour
y VI war iuli many "speck |"
Of ships that lost away at sea
Went down before the blast
OF stif1ed cries of agony
AS LIES last moments passed.
Of earthquakes and of suicides,
OF bank defaulters, broken banks.
And banking systems rotten,
OF boilers bursting, steamboats, snagriny
Of riots. duels fought:
Of robbers with their prey escaped,
vi thieves, their booty caught.
" food, and fire, and accident,
Those worn-out types have told.
And how the pestilence has swept
The youthful and the old
VI marriages. of births, and deaths,
y VI things to please or vex us;
vi one mans jumping overheard,
Another gone to Texas.
they've told US how sweet summer DAYS
Have faded from our view,
how autumn's chilling winds have swept
IT The leaf-crowned forest through;
HOW winters snow hath come and gone
DARK reign of storm and strife
And how the smiling spring hath warmed
Inc pale flowers back to life
can't pretend to mention half
The inky friends have told,
Since shining. bright and beautiful
They issued from the mold
How unto some they joy have brought,
To others grief and tears,
Y ct faithfully the record kept
Of fast receding years.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

IT is peculiarly of English journal
ism that the nominal newspapers de-
cline to print even bare statements of
facts which may be distasteful to the
prejudices of their readers. Thus, in
London, Unitarian proceedings are al
ways ignored. Robert Collyer, last
year, and Athanese Coquerel, this year,
failed to get line of notice in any
daily. On Trinity Sunday, Twelve Uni
tartan clergymen attacked the Athapa-
sian creed with might and main. In
any American city, the combined as
sault would have attracted editorial
comment, and the sermons would, prob
ably, have been reported at some length.
In London, not word of comment or
of report appeared.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

From the German.


When I was young and tender. too.
/ had to mind and had to dc
Whatever mother babe me.
She used to have a walnut stick
Which kept me on the double quick
And that is where she had me.
When older grown, and quite a beau
Among the girls, used to know
A Miss Priscilla Cadmy,
And with the help of smiles and mods
l fell in love at forty rods
And that is where she had me.
When I.was older. say sixteen,
| thought it time to have q Queen,
An asked her if she'd wed me,
She said she di / not much object,
Or words something to that effect
And that is where she had me.
And when. to make the mstter straight.
l went down to negotiate
Affairs with Colonel Cadmy,
He said he did not care to sell.
He told me might go to--well--
That was where he had me.
| drowned my sorrow in the cup,
Until l got my dander up
| could not have been madden.
When she proposed that we be one.
In spite of Pa, the thing was DONE
And that is where had her.
Two lovely children on my knee,
I'm proud to say, belong to me-
That is. to me and madam;
For when we left our native sod
we spent year or two abroad
And that's where we had 'em.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
EVERY person arrested. convicted. an

EVERY person arrested, convicted, and
sent to penitentiary, in the United
States, costs, on an average, 81 200. Add
to the sum of such expenses the
amount of capital taken from dir ectly
productive employment and consumed
in building prisons and feeding and
guarding the prisoners, and we begin to
have IN idea of the real cost of crime.
Every boy educated at the expense of
the State costs it about $500. The pre-
ventive is not only a thousand times
better than the cure, but it is, in the
end, thousand times cheaper.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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pO tU DZU classes Of working people of eli
ther sex, young or old, make more money at work
lor Us u their spare moments. all the time, than
az anything else. Particulars free. Address G.
STINSON & CO.. Portland, Maine
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Agents Wanted.

We guarantee employment to ALL either sex, at
g. DAY or $4,000 or more year. New works by
MRS. Ii. b. STOWE, and others. Superb Premiums
gwen away. Money made rapidly and easily at work
Tor Us. Write and see Particulars free NJ
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McELHERNE g. ABBOTT.
PETER FRIES,
BOUND OVER

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W. Cleaner and Repairer, executes all work en-
trusted 10 hlm with care and promptitude and at
low rates Shop, West Eagle street, Rock Island
House block 10 ad+f
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