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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-01

NJ Bray, the new F,lice Commiesionee
in place Of Mr.. William Baker. whose term
has expired, took his seat yesterday and
was recognized as member
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IN ~. Second Jastice's Court. No. 25iG-J8mes J.
OiiaIa q certain lot OF ground.
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CONSTABLES' SALES,

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, 1873-05-10

words i" papa" and "mama," but after
devoting his life to perfecting them, he as
serted that a machine which could utter all
the words in use in European languages
was an impossibility. After his death his
puppets became dumb, no one understand
ing the mechanism by which they were
made to speak. Kempelin's impossibility
has been at last overcome. In 1641 Pro-
tessor Faber exhibited a machine which
could utter a great number of sounds and
words, but it was by no means perfect.
His nephew took up The machine that his
uncle had failed in perfecting, and compile
ted it. After exhibiting it before all the
crowned heads and scientific societies in
Europe, he has brought it to this country.
The machine, which stands on u small
table, consists of a complicated arrange
ment ofrubber tubes, reeds, keys, peda Is,
strings, and wires The lungs are repre-
scented by a small pair of bellows, the
CLOTHS by reeds and pipes Of different
sizes, the lips and tongue by pieces of in
diarub5er, Beneath the table isa pedal,
by which the bellows are worked, and on
the right-hand side a series Of keys,
on which are marked the letters
O, U, l, E, L, R, W, F, S, B, D, and G..
With these and some supplementary ar
engagements, all sounds used in the Europe
an languages can be enunciated. There
is also an arrangement resembling the
keyboard of a piano, by which the ma
chine can be made to sing. Every por-
ton of it is open to view, so that no de-
ception is possible. The other day the
machine, under the deft hands of Madame
Faber, enunciated distinctly all the letters
of the English and German aIphabets,
numerous long and most difficult words.
such as " Constantinople, " " PoIitzka, "
" Mississippi, " "Radetzky, " : hurrah, "
and then darted off into long sentences in
English, German, and French winding up
with a laugh of the most natural kind,
followed by Kisses, groan8, and N
, 1873-05-10

The WONDERS OF THE DEEP.-ProfeSsor
Wyville Thomson, who accompanies the
CHALLENGER on her scientific cruise, recent
ly gave a popular lecture on board on the
objects of the expedition. After giving an
account of the very satisfactory results
which they had already obtained be des-
cribed some of the most interesting objects
brought up by the dredge, and illustrated
his remarks by clever drawings, executed
by MR.. Wyld, the artist and secretary to
the expedition. One of the most interest
ing of these objects was a beautiful speci-
men of the Philippine Islands sponge
(EnDIscteU0 aSpergjUum), obtained off the
coast of Portugal at a depth Of 1900 ia
tboms. This is the first specimen of this
species of sponge ever found in any waters
bat those of the Philippine Islands, and it
was believed to be Indigenous to them.
The various other sub ects of the drawings
being commented on, the Professor pointed
out how gradual had been the declivity of
the ocean bottom after leaving the Canary
Islands until they had reached the enormous
depth of 3, $50 fathoms, in about IS deg. Of
west longitude, from which place the water
was gradually getting shallower, but was
nevertheless still deep enough to put the
Peak of Tenerif0 out of sight, could it be
sunk there. It was most interesting to
fnd, he observed, that life existed at oil
depths that they have yet probed !; and as
he did not anticipate finding a depth much
beyond 1000 fathoms, he felt justified in
believing that it existed everywhere, and
that the great deep was not the lifeless
solitude it had been assumed to be. "One
of the lines of the cruise" says the Times,
SIS a new species of lobster perfectly trans
parent. The Challenger, not content with
obtaining animals with eyes so fully deve-
Hoped that the body may be said to be an
appendage to the eyes rather than the eyes
, 1873-05-10

he had gone to report himself, when we
arrived, and the poor fellows on board,
thinking, no doubt, that the fact of our
helping them at all would be detrimental
to their interests, demurred at our inter-
ference at first, but we got up her anchor
and lowed her 10 here for security.
The Special Correspondent, a few of whose words
we have taken the liberty of itaIicizing, appears to
have formed a more truthful and more correct opini-
on of ST. Thomas than is usual with some travellers.
We tender him our best thanks ED. It'd.
, 1873-05-10

A TALKING MACHINE.-A persevering
Frencbman once constructed a machine,
in the form of a duck, which could walk,
flap its wings, peck up grains of corn, and,
more wonderful still, digest them, but a
machine capable of talking was supposed
to be beyond the power ofhuman ingenuity
to construct. Kempelin, a German, made
q number of puppets that uttered the
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

How LONG SHALL WE SLEEP
The fact is, that as life becomes con-
centrated, and its pursuits more eager,
short sleep and early rising becomes
impossible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, and we take more be-
cause we want more. Six hours sleep
will do very well for a ploughman or
brick layer, or any other man who
has no exhaustion but that produced
by manual labor, and the sooner he
takes it after his labor is over, the bet
ter. But for a man whose labor is
mental, the stress of work is on his
brain and nervous system, and for him
who is tired in the evening with day
of mental application, neither early to
bed nor early to rise is wholesome.
He needs letting down to the level of
repose. The longer the interval be-
tween the active use of the brain and
his retirement to bed, the better his
chance for sleep and refreshment. To
him an hour after midnight is probably
as good as two hours before it, and
even then his sleep will not so COM
pletely and quickly restore him as it
will his neighbor who is physically
tired. He must not only go to bed
later, but lie longer. His best sleep
probably lies in the early morning hours,
when all the nervous excitement has
passed away, andhe is in absolute rest.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
THE OLDEST HORSE IN THE World.

THE OLDEST HORSE IN THE WORLD.
Twenty mine years ago last spring a
horse was brought from Vermont to
Boston for sale, being eleven or twelve
years old. Strange as it may appear,
that horse is still living; and is now
forty or forty-one years of age. He
was purchased at that time by the late
Cyrus Reed of Lexington, and is now
owned by his son John Reed, one mile
from the Lexington depot. Notwith-
standing his great age, he has been
most wonderfully preserved, and is able
to perform light work, and is often seen
on the road, working as faithfully as he
did quarter of century ago. He
was fortunate to have been born in an
age when speed was not the only requi-
site for a good horse, otherwise his
bones might long since have been ming
ling with dust; but he bids fair to live
several years longer. To stand before
this venerable old horse and ponder up
on the events he has passed through,
and to realize that he is the only sur
vivor of all the horses born in 1888,
makes us feel like paying respect to
his age, and like calling upon the So
ciety with long name to secure him
against all labor for the future-Our
Dumb animals.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

WANTED TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHT
NING.-Robert Dale Owen, in his au-
photographed narrative in the atlantic
Monthly, relates the following anecdote
of Mr.. Greenwood, one of the Harmony
colonists:
"We had, during the Summer of
1926, several terrific thunder-storms,
such as | have never before witnessed
The steeple of our church was shatter-
ed, and one of our boarding houses
struck. 1t was during one of these
storms, when the whole heavens seemed
illuminated, and the rain was falling in
torrents, that | saw old Greenwood,
thoroughly drenched, and carrying up
right, as d soldier does a musket, a
slender iron rod, ten or twelve feet long.
He was walking in the middle of the
street, passed with slow step the
house in which l was, and, as l after
ward learned, paraded every street in
the village in the same deliberate man.
ner. Next day l met him and asked
an explanation. "Ah, well, my young
FRIEND" said he, 81 am very old; I'm
not very we'll; | suffer much; and l
thought it might be good chance to
slip off, and be laid quietly in the peach
orchard d"-(the temporary cemetery of
the settlement)."
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
ARAcE WITH LocoMoTIvE.-The


Springfield Republican has this:
In dealing with railroad train moth
ing is more desirable than promptness,
especially if your business consists IN
getting on after the cars have started.
The above reflection came to us at the
depot Yesterday, and it seemed so fresh
and important that we essayed to run
up to a middle-aged man standing near
and tell him about it. Doubtless we
might have done so only just then an
engine ran up to us, and In avoiding
that we got in front of an express freight
train. and then under a baggage truck,
so becoming fully occupied with our
affairs until the middle-aged stranger
had disappeared. He was merchant
in one of the villages between here and
Worcester; yesterday he whipped one OF
his boys and sat down to his breakfast
with facial expression that must have
terrified the potatoes. ''What is the
natter" asked his wife, holding cup
of hot water handy. Nothing, he can
didly replied; you're always bothering
me with your foolish questions when
I've got to take the first train for Spring
field" In due time he arrived in this
city, got trusted for sundry groceries, and
started to take the 1l.30 train home.
He had five packages, and the way was
long, the time short, and beads of per-
spiration presently glistened on the end
of his nose like pearls on consumptive
beet. Just as he reached the Massasoit
House the train started; on he rushed
and set paper of butter on the sunny
step of the smoking car, and two more
packages on the rear platform. but drop
ped bundle and missed the next car
altogether. His lips movedrapidly, and
it is conjectured that he swore while
setting on the fourth bundle, and hop
ping along the track on one foot, with
his other knee resting precariously on
the lower step of the car. Then he let
60 and knelt down beside the track
while the last car passed him. Rising
with a look never to be forgotten by
that rear brakeman, the unhappy mer-
chant raised pound of hominy, his re-
naming package, high in air, and threw
it as if he meant it should go through
that train and off into space on the east
side of the earth. But this, too, was
a failure. The fall broke the paper and
the hominy strolled about the little hol-
lows in the railroad, while with a dread
full and untamable aspect, the dissatis-
fed man retired to swear privately in the
dim recess of the depot, pausing only
to bestow a morganatic blessing on the
clergyman who expressed pity for him.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

A CoNFERENcE.-The other morn
ing tolerably well-dressed but wild
eyed gentleman called Mayor Macauley
to one side, in the city court room, and
said he wanted something done with
his wife. s'Whats the matter" in
quired his Honor. "She keeps giving
me pills" was his reply. 81 would not
take 'em," said his Honor. 81 can't
help it," said the injured husband, "she
gives 'em to me when I'm asleep. :"
s.Td wear a muzzle.' The injured hus-
band started. He hadn't thought of
that.-Indianapolis Herald.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

An evidence of the absorbing interest
of the Tichborne case may be found in
the following advertisement, which ap-
pears in the London Times "The
claimants house, his butchers shop,
now standing in Wagga- Wagga, New
South Wales, for sale. A splendid in
vestment for spectators. The house is
made of logs, has brick chimney and a
bark roof. On the door still remain pen
ciled accounts of sales of meat, written
by the claimant himself The whole
structure can be easily taken down; the
door, chimneys, and sheets of bark roof
packed in cases. and, by the aid of plans
and photographs, erected anywhere.
The logs will be numbered and also the
sheets of bark, and everything done to
render its re-erection an easy matter.
This remarkable specimen of an Aus
tralian bush-house, rendered particular
ly interesting through the most remark
able trial of modern times, will be sent
some four hundred miles by bullock
wagons, and put on board ship bound
direct to London, for the sum of 92. 400
Affidavits will also accompany it to prove
its authenticity. The time occupied by
transit will occupy nearly five months.
When the above-named sum is paid to
the London branch of the Union Bank
of Australia, in my name, immediate
steps will be taken to forward the honse,
and instructions will be sent by the bank
to the Melbourne branch.-G B. Allen,
Melbourne, Victoria
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

A few days ago resident of Detroit
was taken sick and sent for doctor.
The doctor left prescription, and with
it request that one of the children
should call at his office the next day and
say how the patient was doing. A lit
tie girl came, and when questioned an
swered: "Please sir, father is getting
better. He's broke the stove all to
pieces this morning. and been fighting
mother Just like he used to-"
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

Hon. Benjamin F. Butler says that
the purchasing power of dollar is less
now than in the days of George Wash
ington. We think not. Nowadays
you can buy an average Congressman
for $4,000 witness the back-pay grab,
and they have ruled as low as 1925.
You couldn't have bought one in G.
W.'s time at any price.-Boston Herald.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

By means of a combination of ropes
and pulleys, and bolts and nuts, and
hooks and staples, and levers, etc., a
cradle, rocking and churn are
kept going at the same time. Madam,
gently rocking in her chair, sets the
ropes in motion which are attached to
the cradle and the churn, while her
hands are at liberty to darn stockings
or hold a novel.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

A Pittsburg man, who promised his
wife not to touch another drop of I" local
option as long as he had hair on his
head, shaved his head smooth, and then
got drunk without breaking his word.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

A CUNNING BEAsT.-One of the larg-
est and most ferocious animals in South
America is the jaguar-a native tiger,
.felis onca. Besides being large and i'm
mensely strong, it practices extraordina-
ry strategic schemes in procuring food,
which indicate something above mere
instinct, because circumstances are con-
stantly requiring some variation in their
foraging expeditions for prey. Hum
boldt says when they find turtle they
adroitly turn it on its back 1t is then
helpless and totally unable to offer re-
sistance in that condition With the
most cruel manifestation of feline char
acter, the jaguar then leisurely gnaws
out the quivering flesh between the
shell and carapace. Another of the ja-
guar's reasoning man9uvres is to follow
the margins of streams. At sight of
fish near enough to be approached,
with quick dash of its paw the game'is
thrown high and dry above the bank.
Fortunately for the country the jaguar
has match in the great serpents that
infest tropical America. In the twink
ling of an eye one of these monsters
winds himself round his body and
crushes out life and cracks the bones
into fragments at the same moment.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

LIFE IN DANBURY; by the "Danbury News
Man" Over twenty thousand sold. Buy it:
Read it. Laugh and grow fat. Sent post paid
on receipt of 81 so in currency postage stamps,
bv Pacific Newspaper Publishing Company, 4o9
Washington Street, San Francisco.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
SpefiaI Nntifes.

HoUSEwoRTH's CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPH
&c PARLoRS, No. IL Montgomery Street, opposite
Lick House. Houseworth's Yosemite Art Gallery and
Sale sroom Montgomery ST., under Lick House, s. n.
Sinae these two immense establishments have been
combined under management an entire change has
been made, and and talented artists from abroad
have taken the place of those previously employed and
they producing the finest Portraits made They
make Photographs of Celebrities specially Their
Photographs have obtained world wide reputation,
and were awarded the Medals the Paris Exposition
of 1867 and at the Vienna Ex position of 1873.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

Coughs and Colds.-Those who are suf-
fering from Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore
Throat, etc., ETC., should try Browns Bronchial
Troches.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
A WONDERFUL BEDSTEAD,

1t is a regular Bedstead. A sick person, however
large handled a babe. Raises the patients
Turns them over from side to the other-MakeS
up the bed and changes the cothes-Paces patient
the feet vessel Separates patient from bed and
coos the bed-Rocks to sleep-Aud all without using
the hands disturbing the sIumbers.
BENJAMIN POLLA RID,
lilo Market Street, San Francisco
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
Caution.

We hereby notify the trade and consumers that we
are the EXCLUSIVE manufacturers of the original
y. ii. c. Portmann Soap, having purchased the fac
tory and the right to manufacture Soap under the
above name and trade mark. The brand now in the
market, known q. f. Portmann Soap. Is not the
ORIGINAL although the stamps and stencils
y exact limitations of the same, with the exception
the initials g. =. instead of j. II. c. Consumers will
please see that boxes and Soap branded j. II. .,
Portmann and thus be assured that they purchas
ing the genuine article We also manufacture Kane s
Condensed Soap Thomas Cool Water Bleaching
Soap" STANDARD" Eureka, and challenge Wash
bolic Sheep Wash" Best SOAP Laundry, Prize
Medal "Detersive " Chemical Olive. "Olein." and
"Erasive" Soaps. "Silicated SapoDia'' and CRYSTAL
Polish. Washing Fluid" and Liquid Blueing"
FLORIDA Water, "Bav Rum Hair Oils, and a COM
plete assortment of Toilet Soaps
STANDARD SOAP CO..
2O4, 2O6, and 2Os Sacramento Street,
San Francisco
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08

THE NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. No.
IS Third Street. again OPEN with larger lights, more
room and all the LATEST IMPROVEMENTS in IN
All work is warranted to give satisfaction
Cabinet Rembrants only - Dozen Card Remorandts
from S. to SO per dozen. No Cinnamon employed.
San Francisco July, 1873 B. +. ROWLAND.
DENTISTRY EXTRAORDINARY. - 1t is often
asked if it is absolutely necessary that dentists
should charge so high for inserting gold filings
to insure good work. We can answer unhesitat-
ingly, "No!" DR.. Porter, who has opened an
elegant Office at % Montgomery Street, opposite
the Lick House entrance. San Francisco, does all
manner of Dentistry AT New YORK PRICES, and
his gold filings, for beauty and finish and for
durability, cannot be excelled. He is recently
from New York, and is well up" in his profess
sion, and will thoroughly please all who will call
upon him-both in price and style of work. DIR.
Porter makes the care and preservation of teeth,
and of children's teeth, careful study and is
prepared to execute in the best manner possible
all work brought to his office.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
4 GARlAND'S VEGETABLE COUGH DROPS,

5lDr@fTyR rr, - :, - =. =,
sTSs " IS IL
es--2<ss <ss where. Depot, s2S Market St, San Fran
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
NoNPARElL GRINDING MILLS.

FARM FEED, BONE, DRUG, AND HAND; ten size
Also, COTTON-SEED HULLERS.
Illustrated pamphlets free Address
i. SEDGEREER. PaineS SYle Ohio.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08
REAL HAIR PoMpAD0UR BRA,DS,

THICK, WITHOUT RATS, from SO to - 25 long
switches S6 three long heavy side curls. 80 25 long
single curls 81 First quality hair Tangled har made
into curls switches. side curls steamed for twenty
five cents. All work done cheaper than elsewhere.
JOHN ID. WILSON, All Sutter Street. opposite the
Synagogue, san Francisco.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-08


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HARLEM EXTENSION RAILROAD.
CII ANGE OF TINE

1878. FALL ARRANGEMENTS. 1879.
on and after Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1879, trains
will run rs follows:
MINED.-Leaves Rutland at 500 a. M. CON
Meeting at State Line with train for Troy.
MAlL.-LcaVes Rutland 900. n. M, and maxi
Ing close connections at chatham Corners
with trains Tor New York. Albany, Hudson ana
both east and west on H. a A. II. Il.
MlNEp.-lcaNe Rutland at 2.25 u. M, TO Ben
nngtOn.
SUNDAY MILK TRAIN with passenger ear
attacheN.-Leayes Rutland at 500 a. M
ARRIVE AT RUTLAND.
Mall, 1905 p M; accommodation, l9OS p. M;
mixed sop. m.
Rutland. october IS, 1872, mayidSwtf
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business Agents and Canyasscrs
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W. NJ Punshon, Ii. u. Best ana cheapest fam
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lnE SHAwLs OF THE SEAsoS.-Tho
camcls-hair slawls are unusually hand
some, this fall. The colors are richer and
clearer, the beautiful Tyrian red being con
spicuous, and the designs finer and more
delicate. the prices range from $50 for an
ugly, square shawl-such as nobody wants
to $1,000, which few would be likely to
pay Those at $500 or 5000 are very hand
some, fine and soft, and more frequently
bought than any other grade. Camel's-hair
scarfs, for which there is little sale, can be
had at from 50 to 500. They are, ordin-
arlly, worn manifestation, and are some
times employed for sashes. The superb
French cashmere shawls, handsome as
their India rivals, come in similar designs
and equally beautiful colors but they are
woven, instead Of being made by hand, and
they will not bear such hard usage Their
value is from $50 to 5000 and S70O-cer-
tainly dear enough to satisfy the greatest
spendthrift. Among the most attractive
shawls of cheaper grades are the Ottoman
reps, which Notwithstanding their eastern
name, are of Scotch origin. They vary
all the way from $500 to $50, presenting
the most attractive variety of brlliant-h ued
stripes. There are quieter shawls, how
ever, and the handsomest have plain grounds
of scarlet, black or white, with broad stripes
wrought in bright silks and Persian patterns.
These are extremely pretty and elegant,
and nice enough for any occasion. Warm,
comfortable and pretty travelling shawls can
be had at price between Sc and SIS, and
are sufficient to satisfy fastdious tastes.