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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-02-25

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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-02-25

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1872
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
Best Points from Josh Billings.

Pride is cheap and common; you kan
flnd it all tho way down from the mon
arch on hiz throne tew the rooster on hiz
lunghil.
There are excepshuns TO all rules, no
doubt, but the excepshuns don't win
often enuff tew make then pay.
The same time spent in learning tew
phiddle passsble tune on one string
wud enable man tew bekum an elegant
shunakcr
Man IL the only thing kreated with
reason, and still he iz the most unrea-
zonable thing kreated.
Happiness konsists in having what we
want, and wanting what we hav.
There IL lots ov eddikated people III
the world who, if it want for their learn
ing, wouldn't kno anything.
kno what il liz tn be a grandpa
its fun alive
Respectability in theze times depends
good deal upon mems bank account
Everybody but the kussid phools are
tew work for themselves.
There is a kind of kuriosity which liz
very common amongst pbolks, which
promps them to see how near they can
go tew a mules heels and not get hit.
Silence is safe. The man who hasn't
spoke alwus hes the advantage Of him
who haz.
The parrot iz not II game bird, altho
they blight good, hang on well, and di
hard.
A parrot will live 2GO years and grow
cross tew the last.
They hav no song, but kan be larnt
tew sware korrectly.
A parrot in a private family IL abont
az useless az q seckOnd attack ov the
meazles. aud make more trubblc than
taking a skooimom tew board.
Whatsoever kan happen may happen,
and We have no excuse for being sur
priced at enything in this life.
Menny people are virtewOus for the
reputashun of it.
In O square fite, the heart is alwuss
tew much for ths head, and / am glad
| ov it.
A regular old fashione I, thorobred Ii,
don't DO much hurt, it IL the half breeds
| that do the mischief.
cater for little children Inv then
i believe they have bin crate suck
cess thus far. and amt a going TO run ou
long as pholks last.
lind plenty ov people who are will
ing tew tell you all they kno, if you tel
them all you kno, but the 10 zery ov th'
trade il. they don't kno much.
| 1t IL Just natral for an old phellov
tew give advice az is it tew grunt.
Thare IL only one impulse ov the
human hsrts that IL alike in us all
and that is, self-luv.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
Chambers Buggy.

In European hotels no gas is ever
found in bed rooms, and the candles and
soap are charged among the extras. to
the full value Of each candle, whether
burned or not, and each cake of soap, let
it he washed away or returned to the
landlord. The result is that the female
mind, always liable to spasms of econo-
my, moves its possessor to general seiz-
ure of the candles. An English noble
man either burns the candles s(l night
or quarrels next morning until they are
stricken off the bill.
Not bad story is current among
Americans in Europe in this connection,
concerning our great Michigender. Sen :
tor Chandler. While making his grand
tour of Europe he encountered our
friend, Gen'l ,,e Fevre, a distinguished
linguist, then United States counsel at
Nuremberg. The conversation turning
on bills presented by landlords, the
senator said he could not complain.
His bills, compared to those he had to
pay III Washington, were reasonable
enough.
"But there is one thing that puzzles
me-" ne continued wherever / go, if
but for one night, am charged with a
buggy. Now the charge is low enough
If ever had the buggy, but havn't
seen a buggy since | left the states. "
Our council wss bothered. He asked
at last to look at the bill, and found thu
learned senator had mistaken the French
word " bongie for the honest American
one "buggy."
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
An Irish Eviction as Described by
Mr.. Bradla lgh.


In my checkered life l have been q
private colder, and between lS49 and
1850 was in the county Cork, stationed
at Bsllanchoiy. Those Of you who are
frishmen will wait no description of
that beautiful valley of the Lee which
winds between the hills from Cork, and
IN summer seems like very paradise,
green grass growing TO the waters side.
and FURNISHED with gold in the morn
ning, and ruddy to very crimson in the
evening sunset. / wen, there on a
November day. was one OF troop
to protect the law officers, who had
come with the agent from Dublin to
make an eviction few miles from In
niscarra, where the river Bride Joins the
Lee. 1t was q miserable day-rain freez-
ing into sleet as il fell-and the men beat
down wretched dwelling after wretched
dwelling, some thirty or forty perhaps.
They did not take much beating down !;
there was no flooring to take up the
walls were more mud than aught else,
and there was but little trouble in the
the leveling of them to the ground. We
had got our work abOut three parts done
when out of one of them woman ran
and flung herself on the ground. wet as
It was, before the captain of the troop,
and she asked that her house might be
spared, not for long, but for little
while. She said her husband had been
born in it, he was III of the fever, but
could not live long. and she asked that
he might be permitted to die in it in
peace. Our captain had no power; the
law agent from Dublin wanted to get
back To Dublin, is time was of i'm
pOrtance, and he would not wait, and
that man was carried out while We We're
there, III front Of rs, while tnc sleet was
comming down-carried ont OH n
wretched thing. you cOuld not call il
a bed-and he died there while we We e
there, anG three nights afterward. while
was sentry on the front gate at Ballan-
choly barracks, we heard q cry, and
when the guard was turned out VIC found
this poor woman there raving maniac,
with one dead babe in one arm, and
another in the other, clinging to the cold
nipple of her lifeless breast. And if
you had bee brothers TO such woman,
sons of such q woman, fathers Of such a
! woman, would not rebellion have
seemed the holiest gospel you conld
hear preached? Two hundred and fifty
thousand evictions took place in the
twenty years preceding 1866. Two
hundred ant Atty thousand Can yor
multiply the mi-ery of that $50, 900
Brother separated from sister, husband
from wife, the Union work.house taking
one. and the other going out trying to
| find lie if he can. This system has
grne on until it has made a misery So
vast tha: it will require not one act OF
parliament in favor OF wisdom, not one
statute in faver of iustice, not one declara.
ton in favor of humanity, but genera.
tions and generations Of generous and
kindly treatment, not to bnild mp but
in some degree to efface the bloody stain
of iniquity we have made on the page OF
that history.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
The Elephant.

Elephants live. it is generally be.
lieved, to the age of q hundred or a
hundred and twenty year and average
six to seven feet in beight a very few
years since, one died at Benares which
was believed by local tradition TO have
carried Warren Hastings. At seventy
years old the animal is quite in its
prime. and will perform long marches.
beat the iungles for whole day, and
receive nnmoved the charge of the soli-
tary buffalo, a gres er test of staunch-
ness and confidence than the rush and
roar of tiger. The price of docile
elephant, free from disease or vice, and
with many seasons of usefulness before
it, varies from eco or c70 to fl20
Much higher sums are constantly given
for those which have a reputation in the
sporting world, or which are conspi-
cuous for ther height or symmetry, or
are peculiarly fittei to play part in
festivals or social pageantry. An ele-
phant OF nine, ten, or eleven feet is rare,
but is magnificent to behold. Each
animal has its name. The female Is
1.-The Pearl" the beloved one, or
the golden mouth" Recent history
or ancient traditions is called on to snp-
ply appellations for the males, which
range from the familiar sounds of Hyder
Ali and Tippoo on the one hand, mp to
the mythic heroes of tho Indian epics on
the other Bhima, who welded mace
like Athelstan the unready, and Arjuna,
who, like Ulysses, distanced all COM
petitors in the nse of the bow. Herds
of these animals in wild state are still
to be found in central and Southern
India, in the jungles of Assam. and also
in the forests which skirt the east IN
frontier of the Indian peninsula. X is
scarcely necessary to add that elephants
cannot be used for practical purposes
except in hot climates. But there are
few sights more in harmony with an
eastern landscape than a line of some
fifteen or twenty elephants waiting, by
the side of some well-known cover, for
the signal to comm nee operations, or
than the soil ary animal which may be
seen towards evening in the months of
January or February, slowly vending
its way over An enormous plain to clns-
ter of white tents in which couple of
English officials are recording the re-
suits of survey OF the country, or have
been dealing out useful advice and sum-
mary instice to q whole village popula-
tion.-Saturday RepieU.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

A new cereal has been grown in
Oregon, and the people are puzzled as
to whether it belongs to the wheat fami-
ly, or more nearly resembles rye, bar
ley or oats, opinions being very nearly
equally divided. From seven to ten
stalks grow from one root, to height
of about four feet, and these stalks, or
straws, are thin and hard. The radicles
are tongh, and spread widely. The
leads are six inches in length, and
covered with heavy beard, each fla
ment being five inches long. The grain
is double the length of kernel of
wheat, and, instead of being firm and
compact, is hollow, the cavity contain
ing glutinous matter. While the grain
bears a closer resemblance to wheat
than anything else, the straw looks
more like that of rye or barley. Its
origin is somewhat peculiar, the first
grain having been taken from the stom-
ach of q wild goose, by farmer in Til
lamook county, nearly three years ago.
He was struck with its appearance, and
planted it, and the succeeding season
sowed the pkoduct. He distributed a
portion of the second crop among few
frien in different parts of the state,
who this year raised small quantities.
1t will require another year to deter
mine the valne of the grain.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

STEAM IN VEssrLs.-The increased
price of coal in England is causing the
reagitation of the question Of the use
of steam as an suxiliary power in ships.
A writer in Iron says: A vessel for a
long voyage should be OF the following
dimensions : Length, 900 feet {; breadth.
40 feet depth of hold, "a feet, with
accommodations for passengers, officers
and crew on deck, and pair of direc;
acti engines placed in the after part
of the vessel, below the main deck, ca
pable of working to about 80 horse
power. with boilers to maintain steam
pressure of 80 pounds per square inch.
The consumption of coal would be about
Is cwt. per diem, and the speed, with a
folding screw propeller. about six knots
in a calm. In sailing vessel built
from my design. the best days work
was from $50 10 $50 miles for nine days.
It appears to be great pity to dispense
with sails, when such results can be OBJ
tanned, and ii q small auxiliary power
we're introduced as above described, in
70 a proper proportioned vessel, it
wonld be the most ecC nomical and effec-
tual carrier for ocean navi alton.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

The PoEr AND THE Man or INTEL
LEcr-What a frculty must that be
which can paint the most barren land
scape and humblest life in glorious
colorsl 1t is pure and invigorated
sense. reacting on a sound and strong
imagl Iation. Is not this the n.,a5' scase !?
The intellect OF most nen ID barren. 1t
is The marriage of the soul with nature
that makes the intellect fruitful, that
gives bir.h TO imagination. When We
were dead and dry as the highway,
some sense which has been healthily fed
will put us in relation with nature, in
sympathy with her, some grains of fer
tilizing pollen floating in the air fall on
us, and suddenly the sky is all one rain
bow, is full of music and fragrance and
flavor. The man of intellect only, the
proeaic man, is O barren and staminifer-
ous flower; the poet is a fertile and
perfect flower. The poet must keep
himself unstained and aloof. Let him
perambulate the bounds of imagination's
provinces, the realms of poesy and not
the insignificant boundaries of towns.
How many faculties there are which We
have never found! Some men, me-
thinks, hive found only their hands and
THOre0u
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
The japanese at Table.

If bread is the staff of life with Euro
peans, so il rice with ASiatics. 1t is the
staple food Of the people, and with a
little SOY or pickle, or some other SIM
pc condiment. is often the only TODD
of the lower classes in Japan from
months end to months end. They do
not rejoice in the knives, forks and
spoons Of civilization, nor use their fin
gers like the East Indians, but they use
a couple OF skewer-like sticks, which
they c,ll hnshi, and we call chop sticks,
and uncommonly deity they apply
them TO all the necessary purposes.
For igners can manage them only after
much practice, and some can never get
the knack.
1t is strikingly curious to see them
eat for the first time. The rice is
brought mp in beautifully clean tub,
which holds enough for the days con-
sumption. II is as often served cold as
hot, and the naodus opordndi is as fol-
lows: We will suppose it is simple
meal of the simplest classes. 4 small
table about nine to twelve inches
square and six TO nine inches high is
placed sometimes in the middle of the
feeders. sometimes one to each person.
On this table are two or three small
diohes-perhaps one has some slices of
cold fish, another some pickles, lily
root, green ginger and horseradish,
another little soy, ami so on. a maid
servant fills small basin, about the
size of breakfast cup, with Gozen
(rice) from the tub. and offering one to
each person, it is taken in the left hand,
and being held close to the mouth, the
contents are thrust from the basin into
the mouth most cleverly /; ever and anon
there is panse 10 take slice OF the
fish, which is rendered more palatable
by being dipped in the soy. This, with
an occasional peck at the other little
dishes. forms the repast. OF course,
richer people have richer food bnt
although sometimes their m ais con-
sists of many cDurses, and all beautiful
y served, they take only peck at each,
an have considerable interval be-
tween the courses. 1t is unusual to
drink with the meal, but a little warm
water snffices at its close, the richer
folks taking IN occasional cup OF saki
wine made from rice, between times.
If the food of the common people is
simple in the extreme, the entertain
ments of the rich are sometimes master
pieces of artistic excellence, both in the
pr. para'ion of the food and in it's dis
play. s ,me'imes the guests may sit
rOnrd scenic arrangement as of a
luxuriant island or beautiful domain
in petto, all the dishes being arranged
as parts of the scene. It is quite
Unique, and different from any thing
seen elsew here.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
Bradlaugh on Strikes.

We have been told much Of the folly
Of strikes, which in many cases have
been the result of trades-upions. am
one of those who believe strike to be
the most suicidal policy in which my
man can indulge. But capitalist who
employs the labor has a right to close
his factory and turn hundreds Of men
out Of employment. So the man who
owns the labor has q right to refuse it.
What / say is, if you must strike, strike
as the great companies have shown You
how to strlke-strike by putting to-
gether your funds, build cooperative
factories, and do the work yourselves.
That is what many men in Lancashire
and Yorkshire are doing now; 80 in
many of the large towns in Rosendale.
There you Will see chimney after chin
ney, factory after factory. "To whom
does that belong?" ITO the co-eps." !"
"Who are the co-Ops2" "Men who
earn thirty five or thirty. y.eight shillings
a week, and the best class two pounds
per week, and who club their money to-
getber, and who, as in the case at HOl-
den, have built a mill that cost G57, 900,
and who have put in it over $4,000 Of
machinery, and every farthing of this
expense is paid, and the property be-
longs to them" Do you know what
these men are doing with it? You will
find there the best meeting-room in the
town belongs to the cooperative So
ciety; if you look over their balance
sheet you will find portion of their
profits set aside for educational pur-
poses you will notice that they go
home at night with firm and steady
step, and their temperance cause needs
no other advocate than the fact that
their homes are more kindly, and warm
er to the mans heart to live in, and that
they are growing better every day.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
Theatrical Adventures.

An interv ever represents Miss Neil
son as saving: 81 remember once play
ing in Dublin. 1t was in Juliet. In the
death scene, when I seized the dagger
and stabbed myself, an excited Irishman
in the pit, overcome with sympathy and
terror, shrieke,l, % Jim, she's done it.
I was so convulsed with laughter that !
could only g-t mp giggle for the death
struggle. And again l was playing
Pauline in the 'Ln,iy of Lyons. with a
weak Claude. He had been sick, and
WAS not strong, so told him when ]
rushed to him I would clasp my arms
around him, and he must give way a
little. I few to his embrace. and he
gave way indeed. and down to the floor
we both went together entangled in nv
train. We gathered ourselves up as
best we could, and I caught him again
with fervor, and the audience tried to
stife their laughter, when Claude's next
words brought down the house, This
the heaviest blew of all ! OF course
we had the Taught out then. But the
most awkward accident happened to me
once in q provincial theatre, where the
scenic arrangements we're meagre. We
had kitchen for the ball room, and the
tomb was set in the midst OF the gar
den shrubbery. sail, That will never
do. Bring me some drapery. and ]
will shut off the shrubbery.' So was
mounted on the top Of the tomb, en-
gagged in pinning mp the improvised par:
tition, when MP went the curtain, and
Ju let. who should have been quietly
sleeping with the Capulets, was caught
in this very practical employment"
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

now an anti-game league, and Mr.. P.
A. Taylor is trying TO bring about re-
form. We have in n ,rGolk $500 acres
in one tract, of which 800 acr are cul.
tivated IN corn, and the rest is wild I'M
der preserve for game Que thing We
must and will have. We mean TO turn
tins land preserved for game into pro-
ductive land fApplause.)
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
The Phoebe Record saws

The Phoebe Record says: "We
have manv beautiful meteors these au-
tumn nights. One evening tender
swain said to his sweetness: Some
of theee falling stars seem to leave be-
hind them a bright path, Is il they were
celestial messengers flying earthward,
the dust of heaven falling from their
feet, and making a track of light be-
hind To which the maid repli d /:
'They alters makes me think out the
circus man ,h.t wallpwed fire."
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

"A few days since. five geese, owned
by a man living at Mormon island, CAL. +,
died from an unknown disease and, on
examining the giszard of one, grain gold
sufficient to make q five-dollar piece
was found. The remaining four panned
ont each almost the same amount of the
precious stuff. The gold was probably
picked up by the fowls near some CLANS
where the miners had been sluicing, and
L is presumed that the quicksilver at
iached to it causea their death.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

AUSTRIAN IMFREssIoNs.-A series Of
caricatures now popular in Vienna gives
the Austrian impression Of the beset-
ting sins of the great powers. Prussia,
a naughty dame resting upon a sword,
represents pride. England is scraw-
ny female seated on cotton bale, and
is called avarice. Russia goes skating
aud scowling by under the name of ei =
w. Turkey lolls on sofa, fat odal-
isque, as luxury. France, with a mans
hat in one hand and glass of champagne
in. the ether, dances decolIete cancaD,
and is called immodesty. Spain is a
wild petroerse, and presents anger.
Scotland is bonnie lassIe dropping tO
sleep on q mountain eide, as laziness
But America has an eighth capital sin
invented to characterize her. She sits
on pile of Pub Docs scribbling furi-
ously the iniqnity she represents bears
the uncanny name of Zeitungschreib-
erei. Ii American journalism be in.
Iced sin, there is no mistake in call
ing it capital one.--N. Y Tribune.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

The sartline fisheries in France at
present employ 10000 sailors and some
is. 600 men, women and children on
land to prepare the fish for market: 1t
Heous.that the catch is now diminishing
df - year, and the almost complete
nUito1i2 he anticipated at
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01

The model workmcn for saving are
the Italians on the line of the Berks
county (Pa.) railroad. They are more
economical than the Chinese, live prin-
cipally upon bread and pork, and tn ir
expenses do not exceed S4.25 per month
each. They are paid 81. rs per day, and
all the surplus is thrown into a general
fund, dispatched to New York and
from thence to their wives in Italy.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
The Latest American Abroad"

A cheeky individual announcing him.
self MS Col. William Hurlbert, a men,
Der of President Grants military staff,
and dressing in the full uniform of a
United States army officer, has been
swindling some of the smaller pOten-
tates of Germany in rather a novel man.
ner, lately. Armed with the most un.
exceptionable credentials, he appeared
in several of the smaller capital cities,
where H., had little difficulty OF obtain
ing access to the p. tty courts. With
him. this self-styled colonel had curl
Gus subscription list, which, before TAX
ing leave of his new-made eminent ac-
onaintances, he submitted to them
This subscription list was for contrlbn-
tions foe gigantic monument at Wash
inpton in honor of the soldiers killed
in the late civil war. Col. Hurlbert
stated that only rulers of states, and
military and civil officers Of the highest
rank were to take part in this grand
enterprise, and in opening his list he
proudly pointed to the name of Presi
dent Grant, Qneen Victoria, the EN-
peror William, Marshal MacMahon, Bis
:rarck and other illustrious persOnages
who had each subscribed literally. For
some time the colonel's little game
worked beautifully. and he succeeded
in obtaining considerable sums OF mo-
new. but at last he came to Dessau IN
the duchy of Anhalt, where the reign
ing duke and his people proved to be
little sharper than previous victims.
Their suspicious being aroused, after g
brief and satisfactory correspondence
with Mr.. Bancroft in Berlin, they hae
Harlbert arrested on charge of swind
ling. and he will now have to suffer fol
his smart bnt waywari career. Hi
real name seems to be Edward Beatty
and though an Irishman by birth he ha
long lived in the western states.