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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-12-20

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The best location for CONVERSATIONS entitled TO
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
AeLerten Mlsrellany.
Girls and Matrimony.

Why should you blame girls for set
ting their hearts on matrimony? tits
what girls were made for. No sensible
girl desires to be an old maid. Heaven
did not mean it. A poodle or an "ism''
will never satisfy her, neither will a
vote. What she wants is home and
a fre-side-a great, good, loving fellow
to cherish and protect her there, and
his children to call her ''mother. p
''The world of the affections is her
world-not that of mans aspiring;;'
and if she looks her prettiest and does
her best to become possessed of a place
in it, what wonder? Of course, she
should marry for love, and not for mo-
ney; and in spite of all the talk to the
contrary, most women think they do.
But ones perfect deal is seldom met
with; and if after declaring that only
an Apollo with superhuman intellect
could possibly satisfy her girl mar
ries a rather frivolous young man,
with no pretence whatever to good
looks, she has not necessarily done so
without love. The greenest kind of
men and women have mysterious fas-
cination for some one individual Of the
opposite sex. No one ever hears it al
legged as a fault that young Brown is
determined to marry, but in Miss
Brown it is a terrible crime. Why,
heaven knows! He pays der board,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
The Dead.

oh, it is pleasant to tzink of the
fss1iea ana co5mmHnns s5 na 1iTn ins 81 sdeTIng
dust which years have nearly mingled
with earth. Did they not once walk
the earth with us? Did they not sit
beside us, their eyes glowing with af-
fection, their warm hearts beating in
unison with our own?
The dead-they are gone. Nay, do
not say they are gone. Let us still
enjoy the hope that they hover round
us in spirit, as once they did in body.
Snatch not from us the solacing belief
that their eyes are upon us, though
unseen.
When gloom oppresses our spirits,
when the heart aches with the infic-
tions of life's dull realities, then indeed
the memory Of the dead is pleasant to
us. Say, ye beloved dead who once
shed with us tear for tear, and breath
ed sigh for sigh, are ye now needless of
the anguish of our souls? Have ye
forgotten that we once loved one anoth-
er? And thou, best of all, thou on
whose knee we first learned to lisp the
accents of affection-mother! 1t is
long since our eye beheld thee, and we
are a child again when we think of
thee. Thy grave is far from us. We
have been a wanderer among strangers.
We are dweller in strange land
Many years have passed away since We
wept over the little hillock underneath
which was buried the bosom to which
our infancy clung.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
Care of the Teeth.

Rosseau said that no woman with
fine teeth could be ugly. Any female
mouth with a good set of teeth is kiss
able. The too early loss of the first
teeth has an unfavorable influence upon
the beauty and duration of the second.
The youngest should accordingly be
made to take care of them. All that
is necessary is to brush them several
times day with little ordinary soap
Or magnesia and water. After eating,
the particles of food should be care
fully removed from the teeth by means
of a toothpick of quill or wood, but
never of metal. Camphorated and a.
cid tooth powders are injurious, both
to the enamel and the gums, and if
employed, every particle should be re-
moved from the gums by careful rim
sing. The habit which some ladies
have of using a bit of lemon, though
it may whiten the teeth and give a
temporary frmness, and give a color
to the gums, is fatal to the enamel, as
are all other acids. No one, young OF
old, should turn their jaws into nut
crackers, and it is very dangerous for
women to bite off as they often do the
ends of the thread in sewing. It is
not safe to bring very hot food or drink.
especially if Immediately followed by
anything cold, in contact with the teeth
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
[ cohM have Med Sust asIaall. ,osa,

I could have ired Just asi msll, 90 lar
as health and strength are concerned,
on half the money. Besides on three
days / ate too much altogether, and
suffered from thirst and dul1ness. But
then I may plead that, i worked very
hard, and really needed 9 good deal
more food than idlers, ss*1 =
"By the way, weighed myself at the
beginning of. the week, and found that
it was just two hundred and twelve
pounds. Since dinner to-day Iweigh-
ed again, and found that 4 balanced
two hundred and twelve and . half
pounds, although it has been o week
of warm weather, and T have had un-
usual demands for exertion Of various
kinds.
aBut let me feed d family of ten, in.
stead of one person, and will give
them the highest health and strength
upon adiet (which win cost not much
more than two dollars for the ten per.
sons for a week. Let me transfer my
experiment to the Far West, where
wheat, corn, oats and beef are SO, cheap;
and the cost of feeding a family Of ten
would be SO. ridiculous that dare not
mention it, less you laugh at me. -a1x
"And 50. far from my family group
being ghosts Or skeletons, / will engage
that they shall be plumper and strongs
er, healthier and happier, with clearer
skins, brighter eyes, sweeter hreaths,
whittier teeth, and in addition, that they
shall live longer than your Delmonico
diners, each Of whom spends enough
at a single dinner to feed my family of
ten for a week. And last, bnt not least,
they shall enjoy their meals more thaIf
your Delmonico Diners" ~.s
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18

but she takes care of his buttons, and
relinquishes more than he does. Fol
my part, I like to see a girl make up
her mind to marry, and do it, It il
possible for her to be Wretched, ei
course; but never dismally so as spin
ster in clearinghouse up stairs back
room, with the cat for company and a
wonian's rights lectureher only chance
of recreation. A buttonless husband,
with nothing in his pocket but . butch
er's bill, twins in the cradle, and an
intoxicated maid-of-all-work in the
kitchen, are bliss in comparison. And
what [ say is, let the single women
marry, and let them not be blamed for
trying to do it. a, III
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18

the portrait. ''They belong to each
other. Give thy consent to their
union"
"Never!" yelled Magog, writhing in
agony upon his chair.
"You mustv' said the portrait, once
more in the terrible voice. eff you
do not, Pll appear to youP'
"Good heavensw gasped Magog,
springing out of his chair, turning his
back to the portrait, and covering his
face with his hands. "Doist! don't!
don't!" And then glancing over his
shoulder at the lovers, ''Take her, Nc
Gonagle, take her, she's yours II con-
sent. Marry her when you will"
FAREWELL" said the portrait, in
faint far-off voice; but Mr.. Magog an
swered not. He cast one despairing
glance around and left the room.
The moment that gentleman retir-
ed, our hero stopped down and kissed
Miss Magog's lips.
care you frightened, dear % he ask
ed =; for she still trembled.
go Hugh, wasn't it terrible ?"
''Not very, my love. Perhaps you
didn't know that I am versriloquist. y
"A ve,etri1oquist, Hugh?a
eyes, love-"
"And did you make the portrait
speak!"
eyes, my DEAR"
30 what splendid joke upon fa-
therw she exclaimed, laughing for
very joy.
dyes, it will be splendid, indeed, if
he does not change his mind before
we are married"
But that he didn't change his mind
we have every reason to believe, from
the fact that there was aswedding at
Mr.. Magog's house abouta month af-
forwards, and Hugh Mc6onagle and
Della Magog were made one flesh. But
what is much more singular, Mr.. Ma
cog never found out the secret of the
portrait; and to this day he believes
that it was ''no mortal business" and
as Hugh makes an excellent husband,
and dutiful son-in-law, he is quite
satisfied with everything as it is.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18

Our principal joker, who is simply
incorrigible, says that in one respect he
thinks that Grant has the start of Gree
ley in this campaign, for Grant quietly
smokes his cigar and Greeley takes the
stump.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
: A retrifed Bastby.. !.

ST ~
The latest Chicago sensation isa
petrifed baby, ]. Tie story goes, that
ten years ago gentleman lost his
child and buried It in, the family lot
in the graveyard. Recently, wishing
to remove the remains Of his relations
to some other locality, he was astonisk-
ed on disintefring the body of his
little child.to find that ita had turned
to marble; the features were intact,
and as perfect assi ifchiseled, fromston6
lby the hand of aseulptor. . Hhe body
eeu4f4sesG4 esssl .ss>-sea1k q
bodies on monuments that can be seen
over the tombs of infants in any of our,
cemeteries. 1t was a genuine case Of
natures nummyizing a human being.
All, save the mother of the little ins
fant, stood mutely looking upon it, but
she became nearly frantic with excites
ment from the first moment that the
body was exposed to view. She had
.endeayored to take it'from the coffin,
crying bitterly, and wildly insisting
upon taking It with her to her homer
Her husband held her back, and would,
not allow her to remove it. The mo-
ther seemed distracted with grief at
the thought of its being inferred. It
looked SO natural and beautiful, 30.
like the. baby that she had placed in,
the grave ten years ago, that it brought
up all her sorrow afresh, as if she was
but now laying the loved darling in
the earth. .vs. za.;a5 -ss =Is :" ssS@
Persons &honeter complain oftshort
crops"-Barbers.
Model surgical operations-to take
the cheek out of a man and the jaw out
Of a woman. 80 = "a.
A merchant asks why he should be
obliged to go SO often after money that
is coming to him. K
Sausage dealersare directed to Wood
bury, Cannon county, Tenn, where q
negro woman is the owner of fifteen
large and small ours. ....
A man died suddenly from intem-
perance and a,Western jury found that
the deceased came to his death by
drinking between drinks %.
An editor who received letter in
which weather was written "wethur," "
says it was the worst spell of weather
he had ever seen. 4 g. ae "a
1t need not be inferred that the coun.-
try is "going to the dogs" because We
are reduced toa choice for President be.
tween a type-setter and West-poister.
"Have you much fish in your bag?'g
asked a Jacksonvilleite of a fisherman
in the market. eyes, there's good
eel in it" was the rather slippery reply.
An editor once wrote: eve have re-
ceived basket of Strawberries from
Mr.. Smith, for which. he will receive
our compliments, some of which are
four inches in circumference. .za -
Twelve Ohio jnrymen being called
upon to decide whether throwing a fish.
at q mans head was assault and BATE
ry, found for the defendant, because
the testimony didn't show that it was
salt fish. @- ..t q. .'--..'- So. "a
AS the early morning train down
this morning drew up at the first sta
ton, q pleasant looking gentleman
stepped out on the platform, and, in. =
haling the fresh air, enthusiastically
observed to the ,brakemen, ''Isn't this
invigorating?" "No, sir; it is Bethel
said the conscientious employee. The
pleasant looking gentleman retired.
, 1872-01-08
Tribute Of Respect.

At regular meeting of the Washing
ton Territory Pioneers Association Of
Seattle, held on the evening of January
1st, 1872, the following resolution was
adopted, and copies ordered to be fur
nished to the city papers with request
to publish.
Resolved, That our warmest heartfelt
sympathies are extended to our dear
brother and fellow-townsman, Dexter
Horton, in this his hour of bereavement
and afiiction. 1t having pleased our
Heavenly Fsther to call our brothers
beloved wife and companion, Hannah
E. Horton, we recognize in it an ire
parable loss to himself and family, the
loss of al exemplary Christian, a kind
mother and noble woman. She has
but gone before to await the coming of
her earthly friend. "There is rest for
the weary; there is rest for" her.
, 1872-01-08

q The military murders which took
place at Paris Monday are almost uni
versally condemned, and justly. The
day for such impoiitic brutality to be
passed over in silence has gone by. To
Frenchmen, who boast that they are the
most civilized people in the world, it IS
reserved to do the most barbarous deeds.
The new republic has followed in the
footsteps of the Commune, the Empire
and all the dreary phantoms OF so-calied
governments which have preceded them.
Of the absolute injustice of this action
there is no question. NJ. Russell was
charged with nothing but political fault.
If he had been convicted of any lnta-
nous crime the case would be dlfferent.
He took sides with the Commune when
there was no recognised government IN
France, and when one mans opinions
xere az GOOD as another's. He maln-
tanned his opinions in humane manner
He was not responsible for the atrocl-
ties of his associates. Circumstances
made the opposition the ruling govern
ment. He was made prisoner, was
convicted of having opposed the forma-
ton of the existing government, and
perished as a martyr to free thought and
free action. NJ. Theirs cannot build up
stable government in this way. Blood,
when unjustly spilled, is poor cement.
He should have taken lesson from the
United States. Our government not
only existed in fact, but by right, dur
ing our late civil war; and yet at the
close of the struggle we generously told
the offenders to go about their business.
Those men who fought against the fed
eral government from 1861 to 1865 were
traitors, but our government strength
ened itself by forgiving them. M. Ros-
sci joined a faction in opposition to an
other faction, and yesterday that faction,
at last successful slew him. Civilliza
ton is evidently going backward In
} France.
, 1872-01-08

a composite people. intsgrated for Ger
tain general purposes in central unit :
nv government, but differentiated, fol
certain other purposes, into severai
local governments. Their unity IS not
the conglomeration of mass, but the
measured and cooperative harmony OF
an organism. The local independence
of the parts is just as necessary to the
right action of the whole, as Is the hm-
tied and guarded supremacy of the head
Its system, therefore, not of predom-
nance but of equilibrations and balan-
ces; give to the parts an unchecked SOW
ereignty and you surrender them todis-
ruption and chaos; whereas if you give
it to the centre you insure the speedy
congestion of despotism. The states,
acting severalIy as distinct political
bodies, are not sovereign; neither is the
whole people, as collective undistin-
guished aggregate, sovereign; but the
sovereignty lies in the integral or Or
ganic whole, and in the composite peo-
pie acting concurrently as one people,
| and yet through their several local OF
state organizations.
The point is one of importance. as
MIR. Morton sees very we'll, because it Il
only on the extreme consultations
ground that the policy of interference
| in the southern states, of which he IS {
strenuous supporter, can at all be Justl
fed. To further that policy, or to pre-
pare the way for measures still more OBJ
iectionable, he raises the ghost OF stat
sovereignty, which he pummels will
noisy zeal, in the hope that his clamo
and resounding blows may direct atten
ton from the twin monstrosity of cen
tralization which he adroitly shoves in
to its place. But in this respect he mis-
reckons; for the people of the countr.
are too discerning, too well taught il
the nature of their institutions and to
thoroughly penetrated by the spirit
Justice to allow the mere expedients c
the politician to blind their eyes to tn
blunders of the statesman.-E
Post.
, 1872-01-08

A BOLD ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY On
the Washington train ofthe New Jersey
Railroad, due in Jersey City at 6:10
Saturday morning, Mr.. S. G. French
of Newburg was passenger. During
the trip he fell asleep, and was walked
by man holding something under his
nose. Mr.. French got up from his
seat and knocked the fellow down. He
then called the conductor, and the facts
of the case were stated to him, but the
conductor refused to take any notice of
the complaint. On the train arriving
at New Brunswick the chloroform thief
got off the car, leaving behind him a
black leather satchel, which was found
to contain complete set of burglar $
tools and a round package, which he
had represented to be gold coin. Upon
opening the pac.age which was the
exact circumference of a 500 gold piece,
it was found to be tin can filled with
small shot. The rascal fearing that Mr..
French would hand him over to the
police on arriving in Jersey City, left the
cars i'll such haste that he forgot to take
his plunder with him. Mr.. r. G. Ham.
ilton, passenger on the same train,
was robbed of $3.50, without doubt, by
this same party, on the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad, south of Washing
ton City, Trenton IN. J.) Stat
Gazette.
, 1872-01-08
Our Scientific Summary.

NJ. Devergie, French chemist, finds
that water containing only one-four-
of its weight of carbonic |
acid sutflced for the disinfection of the |
+" deal-house in Paris during the hot
test weather, when it contained six OF
seven bodies.
The inhabitants of Penzan:e, Corn
wall, the birthplace of Sir Humphrey
Davy, have decided to erect statue to
his memory. It will be executed after
the portrait of Davy by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, and will cost $50, 600. Also
the city of Glasgow will place in George
square bronze statue of Thomas Gra-
ham, the last master of the British Mint.
Lord Rosse still continues his expert
ments on the heat of the stars, but the
results up to this date appear to US I'M
certain. Indeed, experiments made
thirty years ago by Professor T. Henry,
show how difficult must be such determ
nations, for he found that the heat re-
ceived on a thermometic apparatus di-
minished with the increased elevation
of the portion of sky to which the in
strument was exposed. This last effect
is so great and variable that it will be
difficult to allow for it SO as to obtain
comparable results from different stars.
| The origin of the twelve astronomical
! symbols which indicate the twelve signs
Of the zodiac is very ipgeniously ex-
planned by the Rev. T. Fl. Broome, of
Norfolk, Eng, who, in an article in the
Astronomical Register, shows that each of
these symbols is formed of the line or
lines which include the principal stars
of the constellation or sign which it
stands for. The paper is illustrated by
an excellent plate. and is worthy of being
rsad by all interested in astronomer
curiosities. The same author, in a pr e.
vious paper says that he thinks he has
discovered the origin of the characters
of the Hebrew alphabet in the configur
ations of the consultations.
In the November number of tht
american Journal Of Science DIR. B. I
Craig, of Washington, gives an accoun
of experiments made on the tempera
ture of his body during the intense ant
continued heat of the summer of 1870
The ordinary temperature of the hu
man body is 9S.4 degrees Fahrenheit
u and during fever it often rises degree
+ above this point without sense of in
10 creased heat proportioned to the dis
turbance of temperature. The highes
IS temperature to which the doctor coul
n heat himself during the memorable sun
r mer fortunate man) was 99.7 degree
le Fahrenheit. eat this temperature b
n. says, So felt quite unpleasantly owe
re heated. When the temper,
IL ture of my body was below SO degre,
in I never felt tuncomfortably hot. In fac
tn ! satisfied myself by repeated trials th
ry a temperature of 99.2 degrees must |
re reached before the sensation of suffe
, 1872-01-08

A SAD ACADEMIA Mr.. Moffat, of
Rose township, Ohio, being unable to
shoot charge out of his rifle lately,
took it apart, removed the powder from
the breech and laid the barrel in a
blacksmith's forge to melt out the bull
let, Nothing unusual was observed,
but very soon Mr.. Mofat's little girl.
nine years old, who was standing by
said, "Papa it hurts What hurts?"
said he; she then put her hand on her
left hip to indicate the place, and upon
examination it was found that the ball
had been fourced from the gun by the
heated air, and had struck the girl on
the left hip, passed around the body
lodged in the right leg, producing prob
ably fatal ound.-Ecchange.
, 1872-01-08

NJ. Devergie, French chemist, finds
that water containing only one-four
thousandth of its weight of carbonic
acid sufilced for the disinfection of the
deal-house y in Paris during the hot
test weather, when it contained six OF
seven bodies,
, 1872-01-08

p,rr, SPECIMEN OF PRINTING
A very pretty specimen of printing has
cone to hand from London via Victoria.
If is an almanac in many colors, cover
inc 70 pages, published for the great
London House of Turner, Beeton Il
Tunstall. The first Pages are occupied
with list of their goods: then follow
alternately a calendar, remarkable events
and advertisements: next comes beau
tiful view of Esquimalt harbor, with
part af the flying squadron at anchor;
table of Dominion duties on imports,
experts, &c, covers thirteen pages; the
remainder is occupied with reada-
BILE article on the past, present and
future of the New Dominion. A map
showing the route of the proposed
Canadian Pacific Railway accompanies
the almanac. The whole is executed in
the best style of the topographic art,
and reflects the highest credit upon
Messrs Turner, Beeton Il Tunstalt, who
have our thanks for the copy before us.
Tribune.
We add our thanks for copy. 1t is
very creditable to the Merchants Of
Victoria.