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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

Just taken his Bitters. I'VE heard o
seedy-looking individual with An alarm
ingly red nose remark to a brother soak
er that he had "iust had his bitters,
but he did mot mind taking another nip. "
His remark suggested train of refec-
ton. How was it, we asked ourselves,
that the word "bitters " had grown to
be synonym for gin, whiskey, rum,
md other alcoholic stimulants, to which
it was applied indiscriminately. Bit
ers, we reasoned, suggested the idea OF
heaEhfrll tonic, not of poisonous
stimulant; something invigorating to
The system, not an alcoholic irritant,
full of fusel oil, producing present in
toxication and ultimate insanity, idiocy,
or premature death. Moreover, our
idea of bitters WAS totally irreconcila-
BILE with "gin cocktails" "rum pun
ches," and "brandy smashes," which,
we are informed, are sweetened with
sugar and rendered doubly injurious
with essences colored by means Of min
eral poison. This was bitter-sweet
with vengeance. We mentioned this
problem to friend. He solved it by
exclaiming; "Why, don't You know
that most of these bitters advertised
rs remedies are only drains in disguise.
Topers know it, if you do not. I must
make one exception, however" he add
cd, "and that's DR.. Walkers Californis
Vinegar Bitters; there isn't particle Of
alcohol or fermented liquor in it, and it
Is the best vegetable tonic and altera-
tive in America. Com.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Buffalo Hunters Frozen to Death.

From parties just arrived fpOmSeuth'
western Kansas, we learn that the
weather has been severe beyond endur.
ance, and the suffering among the hunt.
ers beggars description. A farmer who
arrived in Wichita, ,eporte having over.
taken team loaded with buffalo skins,
and on the wagon, stiff with the cold,
sat the driver, permitting the team tc
wander at will over the prairies, and
entirely unable to help himself. he
told the farmer he was frozen and COM
PEELED to remain in the position he was,
and at the same beckoned with his head
to the wagon-box, thus calling attention
to the contents of the bed. Upon look
ing over the side of the box terrible
sight was before him. There lying side
by side were two hunters frozen stiff il
death, and as the wagon jolted over the
rough plain, they knocked together like
two great icicles.
The gentleman who brought the news
to Wichita had his hands,so badly frozen
as to make amputation necessary shortly
after his arrival. Hewas unable togive
the names of any of the unfortunate
party. We also learn from The Wichita
Beacon, that a party of four went into
camp on Moot's Creek, % miles from
timber, who have undoubtedly perisied.
At house IL miles west of Wichita, Is
men arrived during the night of the 23d.
all frozen. Some Of them will lose their
feet, others their hands and fingers.
The road between Wichita and the buf-
falo range is strewn with buffalo hides
and meat, abandoned by their owners to
save themselves and teams.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
One and Two Story Men.

All fact collectors, who have no aim
beyond their facts, are one story men.
Two story men compare, reason, gener-
alize, using the labors of the fact col
lectors rs well rs their own. Three
story men idealise, imagine, predict,
their best illumination comes from
above, through the skylight. There are
minds with large ground floors that can
store IN infinite amount of knowledge ;
some librarians, for instance, who know
enough of books to help other people
without being able to make much use
of their own knowledge, have intellects
of this class. Your great working law
yer has two spacious stories his mind
is clear because his mental floors are
large, and he has room to arrange his
thoughts so that he can get at Them
facts below, principles above, and all in
ordered series. Poets are often narrow
below, incapable of clear statement, and
with small power of consecutive reason
ing, but full of light, if sometimes rath-
bare of furniture, in the attics. Poet
at the Breakfast Table.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Power Of Memory.

Br. johnson, It Is said, never forgot
anything he had seen, heard, or read.
Burke, Clarendon, Gibbon, Locke,
Tilotson, were all distinguished for
strength of memory. When alluding to
this subject, Sir William Hamilton OBJ
serves: For Intellectual power Of the
highest order, none were distinguished
above Grotius and Pascal; and Grotius
and Pascal forget nothing they had ever
read or Hpught. Leibnitz and Euler
were not less celehgated for their intelli-
gence than for their memory; and both
could repeat the whole of the Z" Rneid.
Donellus knew the "Corpus Juris" by
heart; and yet he was one of the pro-
foundest and most original speoulators
in Jurisprudence. Ben Jonson teIs Us
that he could repeat all that he had ever
written, and whole books that he had
ever read. Themistooles could call by
their names the twenty Thousand citi-
zens of Athens. Cyrus is reported to
have known the name Of every soldier
in his army. Hortensius (after Cicero,
the greatest crater of Rome), after sit
ting a whole day at public sale, cor.
rectly enunciated fsom memory all the
things sold, their prices, and the names
of their purchasers. Niebuhr, the his.
torian, was no less distinguished for his
memory than for his acuteness. In his
youth he was employed in Denmark.
Part of book of accounts having been
destroyed, he restored it by an effort Of
memory.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Another Year Gone.

The year 1872 is gone. The old cal
endar is torn down and clean one set
mp, which shall hang it's few hundred
days and give way in turn to another
when we are all year older. The old
almanac finds it way, with other rubbish.
into the barrel in the attic, and its old
jokes come in between new covers. The
old diary has become history, the old
day-book a curiosity, and the old man
an older man. It is new year, with q
pleasant power of change over our Gves
and in our homes, too, with many of
us but in the homes of the very poor,
which are no homes, the new year is not
new, the same old story sadlening in
repetition and beginning in 1873 with
the suffering and want of an evil winter.
Most meet and timely then is it that ont
of his abundance the good citizen make
plentious Offering in charity, and open
thus as far as may be credit side on
his yearly account with heaven. "' He
that giveth to tie poor,'" quoted the
reverend Dow, 4" lendeth to the Lord. >"
Do not forget the adage. and practice it
the present year. 1t will do good.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
The Snow.StOrms of the Past.

Among the great snow-storms of the
past few were more extended in their
range or more disastrous to life and
property than that of January II, 1867.
1t lasted nearly twenty-five hours, and
was accompanied by n furious gale and
very cold weather. It extended as far
west as the Plains and was bounded on
the south by the Ohio and Potomac,
although some of its effects reached to
Hampton Roads. Another severe storm
occurred on the Goth. Wrecks were
piled up along the coast and scores of
lives were lost. Many persons were
bewildered in the snow and quite
number were frozen to death, especially
in New England. Among these was
Commodore G. S. Blake, who got be-
wildered in going to his home in the
suburbs of Boston and took refuge in q
hut. de never recovered from the
shock of the exposure.
From two to four feet of snow fell
throughout the Middle States. Four
feet was the reported depth in Pitts
burg, and as it was much drifted, the
consequence was the interruption of
communication between the cities and
country for several days. Many people
were barricaded in their homes. Steam
boats were kept in port, rail-cars were
snow-bound, and mails were delayed in
remarkable manner. There was no
regular communication by rail between
New York and Boston for four days.
The records of the past contain ac-
counts of many similar storms but the
most striking facts concerning them
were naturally observed in New Eng
land.
The storm of January 10, 1857, stop
ped all the railroads of New England.
The Stonington road was not opened
until January 27. Trains did not COM
mence running between Hartford and
Providence until the same day. In
some parts of Connecticut the thermom-
eter was 80 degrees below zero.
In the storm of December %, 1858,
the snow began falling at eleven o'clock
Wednesday morning and continued till
four o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
snow was drifted as high as the tops Of
the cars. A train of three locomotives
started fHom a ueighboring town toward
Boston and was embedded in drift at
the end of the seventh mile. The next
day train of three locomotives occu-
pied from morning till night in accom-
plishing five miles.
The great snow-storm of January Is,
1881 was stupendous one. The snow
was drifted in some places in the cities
to theaepth of fifteen feet. The churches
were generally closed on the following
Sunday partly because the snow was
piled so high against the doors that they
could not be opened.
In February, 1929, SO heavy snow fell
that many persons engaged in festivities
commemorative of Washington's birth
day throughout the country were snow
ed up in halls and had to remain in them
for days. IN. Y Paper.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Collision of Comet with the Earth.

The Illinois StaDts Zeitung thinks
that Prof. Plantamour was, after all,
right in his calculations about the
comet; he only erred in the time as
signed to the catastrophe, which hap
pened about hundred days later than
predicted. According to the testimony
of a number of German astronomers the
anticipated collision took place on the
9th ult., when they observed no less
than $4,000 neteors, all believed to be
the ruins of Bicla's comet. A comet
has actually come into contact with our
planet, or rather into its outer atmos-
phere, and the former got, as it deserved,
decidedly the worst of it.
Among all the high flyers in our solar
system, says the Inter- Ocean, there is,
perhaps, none better known to our
celestial police then the so-called Biela' s
comet. Revolving at nearly the same
distance from the sun as the earth it
was long expected that the two might
some time collide, and close watch
was consequently kept on the motions
of the comet. Finally in 1916, some
astronomical detectives were started to
discover that the comet had parted into
two pieces, which continued to circle
on in the same orbit, but 200, 900 miles
distant from one another.
In the year 1852 the piece was sighted
once more, but the distance between
them had extended to over a million
and half miles. When again due, in
1859, the unfavorable position of our
earth prevented an observation, end in
1865 all telescopes swept the skies for
them in vain. The result is, two as
sumpSons: First, that the comet has
entirely broken up, and its particles now
roam through space in demoralized
and reckless condition second, that the
great rhetorical shower observed on the
9th ult., in Europe, was caused by the
friction of these particles when passing
through our outer atmosphere.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
A Word About PrOOf.Reading.

Every column of a newspaper contains
from ten to twenty Thousand distinct
pieces of metal, according to the paper
and the tppe. The displacement Of O
single one makes an error. Is it any
wonder that errors occur? In the large
Offices professional proof-readers are
kept whose practiced eyes, passing
twice over every line of proof, detect
most of the errors; boy is also kept
for that purpose at the same time read
ing the copy aloud.
Still mistakes are frequently occur
ring after coming from such hands, and
probably no book or newspaper was ever
published without errors that might be
detected by the merest novice. In book
printing it is estimated that proof-read-
ing costs half as much as composition.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Picked Up Considerably.

Capt. Richard King has on his ranch
at Santa Gertrudes, about thirty-fve
miles west of Corpus Christi, Texas,
so, 1000 head of horned cattle, 10000
head of horses and mules, $1,000 sheep,
and 5000 goats. He branded last year
and sent overland to Kansas
5000 head of beeves, all of his OWL
mark and brand. Mr.. King went to
Texas a poor cabin boy on vessel.
Estimate his wealth.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

Pints and quarts Of filthy catarrhal discharges.
Where does it all come from2 The mucous
membrane lining the chambers Of the nose and
its little glands are diseased. 80 that they draw
from the blood its liquid and exposure to the air
changes it into corruption. This life-hquid was
% build up the system. butit is extracted ard
he system is weakened by the loss. To cure.
gain flesh and strength by using DR.. Pierce'f
directly upon these glands. correcting them.
tlso apply DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy with DR..
pierce's Nasal Douche. the only method OF
-eachiug tho upper cavities where the discharge
1ccumulates. and comes from. The instrument
md two medicines sold for f2 by all Drug
sisE. 621.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

A California Judge recently went to
San Francisco to seek relief from a sin
gular malady which had bafled the
skill of the physicians in his own town.
The symptoms of the disease were very
peculiar. The little finger of the right
hand was first affected, turning green at
the tip, and causing such intense pain
that the sufferer was unable to sleep
without the aid of narcotics. The same
tnaocountable phenomenon appeared
and disappeared successfully from one
after another of each of the other fingers
on the left hand, passing afterward into
the second toe Of the left foot, and f.
nally seating itself in the extremity of
the middle finger of the left hand, al
ways accompanied in its eccentric re-
movals by distressing sensations which
rendered everything like rest or repose
not ssperinduoed by drugs impossible.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Hatching Salmon.

The inquiries of Mr.. Livingston Stone,
made under the direction of Professor
Baird, United States Commissioner of
Fish and Fisheries, in relation to the
salmon of California, have revealed a
very remarkable difference in the eggs
of that species as compared with those
of the true Sdtr1o saLar of the Eastern
States. The most noticeable fact is
their relatively small number, the for
mer having 700 to the pound instead of
1000. The eggs are, of course, appre-
ciably larger than those of the Atlantic
coast, being almost equal in size to n
common whortleberry. Owing probably
to the higher temperature of the water,
or to other causes, the development is
much more rapid, since the eye spots
are visible in the eggs within nineteen
days after impregnation, ahd they begin
to hatch in twenty-four days afterward,
making total of only forty-three days
as the period Of incubation.
The Matching water varied in tempera-
ture from 550 to $50 and even 100 every
day, 80 that it is difficult to say what
is the average temperature for the hatch
ing period; but Mr.. Stone estimates
this at 58o to 600. Fourteen hours out
of the twenty-four--namely, from six
o'clock p. m. to eight o'clock a. m.---the
water averaged nearly 55o.
The eggs after spawning were treated
according to the dry method of i'm
pregnation, and the experiments were
successful in nearly every instance.
Another curious fact noticed by Mr..
Stone was the entire absence of female
grilse, all, of the great number observed
on the M'Cloud River, being males
and indeed he remarks that he has never
seen female grilse elsewhere, although
persons assured him that they had had
different experience.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
The Ruby and Sapphire.

The recent diamond swindle having
attracted much attention throughout
the whole world, the following abstract
of q paper read by j. Lawrence Smith,
at the last meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, will be read with interest:
"The writer exhibited some speci-
mems which he received from Montana.
In referring to the density of rubies, he
remarked that pint of these stones
would make two pints with their con-
stituents. The finest rubies and sap
phires came from Asia and South Amer
lea. Many of these gems were to be
found in our own country, the God OF
natnre having blessed us with every
thing peedful and useful. The speaker
had bestowed much attention upon the
subject of which he was speaking, hav.
ing explored Asia Minor, the Grecinn
archipelago, and the East Indies fol
specimens of the gems. -Four months
ago he received package from Trout
River, Montana, and discovered that
the contents of the package were true
sapphires and Oriental emeralds. They
were small, did not possess the right
color, but nevertheless were gems.
Montana was rich with them. The gems
from there were perfectly transparent
The Arizona diamonds were the color.
less sapphire or ruby. If these were
cut and polished, it would puzzle q jew
eler to tell the difference between then
and the real diamond. The Arizona
gems were hard, and would cut any
stone but diamond. The fact that they
were so hard often led to the error Of
confounding them with diamonds. The
professor had hoped to receive q pack
age of gems from San Francisco, from
the newly-discovered fields, in time TO,
this meeting, but had failed to do So
The new discoveries were similar to the
gems which he submitted for the inspec.
tion of the association. The Montana
gems lacked value in the particular that
they lacked color. They would have
half The value of diamonds if the green
color was more intense. Rubies and
sapphires beyond a certain size exceed.
ed the dimond in value, for the reason
that diamonds never get beyond that
size. Valuable corundum had been
found in North Carolina, but most of ii
had been only half gems. Some were
very pure, and are now being cut in
Boston and set in jewelry. The gems
from New Jersey lack transparency.
The ruby most priced was that in which
the faintest tint of blue intermingled
withe the red. In sapphires the intense
blue color is most appreciated. In con-
Guiding his remarks, Mr.. Smith remark
ed that America had all the metals OF
the globe.
"Prof. Kerr, in aluding to the loca-
tion in which rubies had been discov-
cred in North Carolina, said they
were found principally in Cherokee
and Macon Counties. Several mines
were being worked in these counties,
and had already yielded several tuns.
A man in Philadelphia owned a ruby
which came from North Carolina, and
which weighed a pound. Another Phil
adelphia gentleman had in his possession
a crystal of eorundum which weighed
315 pounds. The North Carolina gems
were only found in connection with the
unique beds of trysolite. These beds
extend from the old North State into
Virginia, distance of 100 miles"
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

Mrs. Breton, in her cookbook, says:
To make nice breakfast cakes take one
pound of -four, one-half teaspoon tartar.
10 acid, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half
teaspoon soda, and one and one-half
large cups of milk, one ounce of sifted
loaf sugar, two eggs. Make them as you
would soda bread, with. the addition Of
sugar and eggs. Mix -four, tartaric acid
and salt we'll together, taking care that
the two latter are reduced to finest pow
der, and stir in the sifted sugar. Dis
solve the sugar in the milk, add the
eggs, which should be we'll vhisked,
and with this, liquid work the flour, &c. /,
into light dough. Divide into small
cakes, place in the oven Immediately,
and bake for twenty minutes.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
Desiring to prevent explosions

Desiring to prevent explosions in
mines caused by the carelessness of to-
bacco smokers, An ingenious person in
England proposes to have tobacco
smoke furnished in mines in the same
way as gas or water is supplied to
houses. He would have earthenware
jars of tobacco placed on the surface of
the ground near the pits mouth, the
smoke from which is to be inhaled
through india-rubber tubes running in
side the mine. The approval of the
miners has not, however, been assured
for this singular plan.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16
P0pulation of the GIobe--In an

Population of the Globe---In an
elaborate paper by Behm & Wagner,
published in Petermann's Mitheiu,lgen,
we have the result of a careful inquiry
into the present population of the globe,
the summation of their result being as
follows':SS Europe, 301, 600, 900; Asia,
794, 900, 900; Australia, and Polynesia,
1866, 900; Africa, 1s0, 500, 900; America,
81, ,524, 900; or total of 1877, 900, 900.
These figures are derived from the esti-
mates or statistics of population for the
years 1869, 1870, and 1871. In the
enumeration of the population of towns,
London stands at the head, with $751;
600 next Su-tchoo, in China, 1000, ,000l;
Paris, 1,s35,OOO; Pekin, 1854, 900;
Jeddo, 1,554, 900; Canton, 1,236,OOO /;
Constantinople, 1,075, 900; Siang-tau,
China, 10000 Tchang- tchoufoo,
China, 1000, 600; New York, 942, ,292 |;
Vienna, S33, 1856; Berlin, 1885, ,3S9.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

Mr.. James Low, Rio Frio, McMullen
county, Texas, commenced stock-raising
in 1856, with ten cows and calves he
owned slave whom he hired out for
one COW and calf per month. Mr.. Low
attended to Stocks dffcattle for one-third
of the increase, bought stocks on credit,
and paid for them by sales of beeves.
He now has $4,000 head Of stock-cattle,
5000 head of beeves, and branded last
year Is, 900 head of calves.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

The 51-hour per week system isabout
10 be adopted largely in the Scotch iron
trade, but the workmen are dissatisfied
with the manner in which some of the
employers proposed to wsrk the system,
which would, it is represented, divest
the reduction of the hours of labor of
all the adrantages'it possessed of So
cial and intellectual kind.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

LocKE's NATIONAL MONTHLY is Magazine Of
~ pages published by Locke & Jones. Toledo
Ohio. Mr.. Locke Nassy) writes for ever,
Number. avoiding politics. Read his "Ambi
tious Young Man." in the January Number. Tt
ret il. ask your newsdealer. or send 10 cents tc
Publishers. BY the year s1.00 Send for spe
"ial circular to Agents. Sent free. An Agen
wanted at every Rost-ofice.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

POISONOUS BrTEs.-Prof "ANpERsdN's DER
NADoR" Instantly cures Bee Stipgs. Wasp Sting
md Musquito Bites. 1t neutralizn- the poisor
md removes the Pain and Swelling in q few
nomeHs. II will be equally eTectual In neu'
'ralizing and extracting the Poison from the
Bites Of all Venomous Insects or Reptiles. Nc
one travelling in the woods should be withoutit
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

Yankee civilization, as reviewed by an
Indian. A Piuts brave loafng around
Carson CitN Nevada, is the owner of a
dog which he has named yankee" I"
and thus explains his reasons therefore:
"White man all time big talk; get heap
msd all time run around want to fight (;
heap d---m fool him (Yankee) all same
pointing to the dog.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

Az quick IA flash Of lightning does ORIsTA-
DoRo's EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE act upon the hair
whiskers and moustaches; no chameleon. tints
INT the rurest Raven or the most exquisite
Browns will be evolved.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-01-16

A Neglected Cough. Cold, or Sore Throat,
which might he checked by simple remedy.
like, BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs, II allowed
TO progress may terminate seriously.