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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-02-06
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VARIETIES.

The Newburyport Herald says: Quite
a number of men are employed in thia city
in catching frogs for the Boston frog caters,
One man has taken 1000 and another coo
this season. They nre kept in tubs and
fattencd with meal, and shipped to order
Snow birds are esteemed great deli
cacy in Nevada, where the Indians shoot
them with bows and arrows. These birds
though small are exceedingly plump, and
seven or eight of them skewered on cam
brio needle and broilcd on a thmbeful
of Goals make delicious morsel.
"A young man, the other night sought
to secure his sweetheart by strategy; so he
took her out for boat ride on the romantic
Wissahickon, and threatened to jump over
board if she wouldn't marry him. 1t did
not work. She offered to bet him dollar
that he darent dive in.
"A gentleman, whose house was under
repair, went out one day to see how the
work progressed, and observing quantity
of nails lying about, he said to the carpen-
ter: "Why don't you take care Of those
nails7 They'll certainly be lost" "No,"
replied the carpenter, you'll find them in
your bill"
The articles left by passengers in the
English railroad cars are very numerous in
the course of year, and with those which
remain unclaimed, are annually sold for the
benefit of the employees of the company.
At recent sale Of this kind there wer,'
II, 035 umbrellas, 1856 sunshades, and 312
walking sticks, not to mention various ar
ticles of clothing.
Mr.. Cough tells good story illustra-
tive of a quaint Scottish humor: 1.-TWO
sparks from London once came upon
decent looking shepherd in Argyleshire,
and accosted him with, "You have very
fine view here-you can see great way"
"Yu aye, yu aye, ferry great way" "Ah!
you can see America here, I suppose 2"
"Farrar than that" "How is that n "You
jist wait tule the mists clear away, and
you'll see till the mune.n
In answer to a complaint OF the price
of eggs, II grocer took occasion to explain
that it was ON account of their scarcity,
because ofthe panic, and upon the custom
er protesting that she could not see the
connection between the two, he further
explained that owing to the general de-
preston, the hens were running on half
time. She took the eggs.
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Prepared for The -EgiS & Mtclligencsr.
Scientific Items.
COMBUSTION.

Combustion is the absorption of oxygen
from the atmosphere, and its combination
with carbon. whether it takes place at a
high temperature, as in the combustion Of
wood by fire, or at common temperatures
as in the natural decay of Il fallen tree in
the forest, or with a moderate rise of tenn
perature, as in fermentation, and in the
respiration of warm blooded animals.
Doubtless wherever oxygen and carbon
combine, there is a rise of temperature, Gin
the opinion of the writer resulting from
condensation,) proportionate to the rapid
ty of the combination. III cold blooded
animals the breathing is very slow, or
wholly suspended, for long intervals, and
the quantity of carbon consumed in the
form of blood is also very small, as a snake
or turtle will remain in a dry box for
months without any visible means of sup
port, while in warm looded animals, no
small portion of their food must be con-
sumed in their blood to keep up the tenn
perature of the animal, especially in the
winter, when the temperature of the sur
rounding medium is often 100 degrees
lower than that of the blood
If domestic animals be sheltered and
kept properly warm, greater portion of
their food will be appropriated to their
growth, to fat and milk, than when they
are left exposed. Without care in this re-
spect, all the food that they can eat will be
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rEORGE Y.MAYNADIER,

attorney at LatO aHd Solicitor IN Chance'y,
bel Air, Hartford Co.. Md.
Mr. Practices in the Circuit Court for Hartford and
adjoining counties. and in the Court OF Appeals.
49, Conveyancing and Collection of Claims promptly
attended to- Office -EgtS Building, Main Street
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THE CHIN.-Fortune-tel are generally
skillful physiognomists, and all the features
of the human face do their share to enlight-
en- the understanding of the seers. The chin
at the present day is rather difficult to
read on account Of the increasing custom
of wearing beard. a good chin should
neither project nor retreat much. A very
retreating chin denotes weakness, and a
very projecting one harsh strength, uniting
with tirmness amounting to obstinacy. A
pointed chin generally denotes acuteness,
A soft, fat, double chin generally denotes
love of good living, and an angular chin
augment and tirmness. Flatncss of chin
implies GOODNESS; round, dimpled chin,
goodness; smell! chin, fess,, sharp in,
dentings in the middle of the chin point to a
cool understanding. The color and text
uIc Of the skin and the hair and beard
have also direct harmony with the fea-
lures. These should be studied more than
they have been. A facility in drawing
faces is of great use to the student of ply.
siognomy, as it enables him to note pecu-
liarltles of feature which no written de-
scription would be capable of preserving.
-ErchdHge.
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A STRANGE AN1MAL.-A Abba Williams, of
Highland township, shot "What is it p"
few days ago. He intends to have its
skin stuffed, when he will present it to the
West Chester Normal School. The reason
it is called by the above name is because
no one knows what the strange animal is.
Mr.. Williams describes it rs follows: In
size it is about as large as full grown cat,
the color is black and tawny yellow, being
striped alternately like zebra; it has ears
fully five inches long, with a silken tuft Of
hair at the ends; its fore legs are rather
longer than the back ones, and the feet are
webbed; it also has very sharp, heavy
claws; the tail is about foot long it has
a pouch like an oppossum; it has eighteen
teeth in the upper and fourteen in the lower
jaw; the eye are of Il deep red color, and
the head long and pointed. 1t was seen
running along the fence and when shot it
gave loud, piercing scream.- OXFORD Press
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Poe tic al.
OLD ACE.
BI JOS. WALKER

AS years roll round and friends depart,
And leave us one by one;
How sad, and sickening to the heart,
When those we've loved are gone.
'Twere better then, methinks, to go,
When all we've lost are gone,
Than linger longer here below,
"A solitary one.
n For who would wish to llnger here
Amongst the race of men;
To live in sorrow, pain and fear,
And be child again?
We'd find no mothers tender love,
No fathers kindly care;
Around a waste; beneath, above,
A desert every where.
pve then no wish to lnger here
Till second childhoods DER,
Till children's children, perhaps, are gone
Or care for us no more.
Then welcome to the silent grave,
Where all our sorrows cease
Where man-no more to vice slave
Forever rests in peace.
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Many farmers complain that their &C.
cupation does not pay. What is the use of
saying SOL Nine merchants in ten fail.
but they never brag about it.
California has about 100000 head OF
sheep. The wool crop in two shearings, at
an average of ten pounds per head, would
amount to s0,0OO,00O pounds, or Is, O0o, 900
more than the total product of the United
States in 1871.
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burned in their lungs and blood vessels, to
sustain their temperature, as this is the first
and most important condition Of vitality,
and they will remain poor
In the writer's opinion, it is a doubtful
question whether in the wintcring Of ami.
mails, stables may not be profitably warmed
by the use of fuel, where the cheap carbon
of the wood or coal would be made to save
for nutrition the dearer carbon of the food.
If enclosures are made so close as to be
moderately warm without artificial heat,
the ventilation must necessarily be defcc-
tive, resulting in lung and blood diseases.
AS is well known, combustion whether
by fire or respiration vitiates the air. The
product of combustion, carbonic acid gas,
will not readily give back the oxygen, the
element it has first taken from the atmos-
phere, hence, though the proper food of the
vegetable world, it will no longer sustain
animal life. A light placed under re-
ceiver soon exhausts the oxygen and goes
out; bird confined there would live pro-
portionably longer, only as it consumed
less oxygen. This shows the necessity OF
ventilation.
1t is curious fact that country audi
ence, after riding three miles to church, on
a cold winters day, will enter close hot
church, and in precisely the same clothing
(even to their hats in the case of Friends
in which they sat in their open vehicles
fancy they are taking cold if a door be left
ajar, or window be let down little from
the top. Times have changed since the
old Puritans sat in open, unwarmed
churches, and the old lady tainted the first
Sunday after the stove was put up, though
there was still no fire in it. G. G. G.
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QUEER PATENTs.-Amid the general run
of Yankee ideas of a practical kind which
overwhelm the Patent Office there are many
which are simply ludicrous. Some per-
sons seem to imagine that they can patent
anything Others have more complex plans
for performing the simplest operation. The
great ignorance existing as to the plainest
rules of science leads to an incalculable
waste of time on projects which man of
technical education would have seen at a
glance to be impracticable. There is the
man who wanted patent right for an ar
titcial moon. A huge elevated reflector
above the town was to cast down its rays
long into the night. Another proposal
was to heat canals by steam, so that the
traffic on them could go on winter and
summer. An inventive genius, probably
from the far West, once asked patent for
a combination Of cannon and pillow. A ru-
raj gentleman had an ingenious scheme
which he wished perfected for preventing
COWS from switching their tails. Number
less plans of these kinds show how insane
come people are on the subject of patents,
and what they can accomplish.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-08
New York Live stock Market.

New York, May 7.-Beeves-Re-
ceipts ! 400, making 4,230 for 3 days,
against 3.070 the same time last week;
quality fair. ranging common to extra;
market dull and weak at . shade furth-
er decline from yesterday. and the
extreme range OF prices WAS lOt@lltc.
Sheep and Lambs-Fresh receipts
1870. making S,3ll tor 3 days, against
1870 same time last week; demand not
strong sod prices q little easier with
slow sales at S99ic, ordinary to extra
unshorn 7!9S!c; tair TO choice sheared
ll39l3ic. Swine-Arrivsls 1925 +,
making 1880 for 3 days against
1920 same time las, week; none Of
tered alive; dressed shade frmer at
94c, regular weights.
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NEW YORK.
News Items.

New YORK. May 7.-Considerable
anxiety exists owing to the pon-arrival
Of the steamer Ethiopia, now'ten days
out from Glasgow for this port. Two
steamers of the same line which sailed
after the Ethiopia have arrived here.
In the suit of VIM. Fallan against
the Baltimore and St. Louis Railroad
Company, in which the plaintiff, a
little boy, asks $4,000 damages for the
loss Of both his legs, the jury awarded
him $500. = /;
Rev. Alvsh Wiswell. master OF St.
Johns Guild, in a card to-day denies
the statements published in the Com
nereial. rejecting upon the management
OF the Guild, and invites the public TO
call at his office where the fullest OPP
portunity will be afforded to examine
all the books and accounts.
The DaLish convicts who arrived
here by the steamer Washington, will
be sent back to Denmark by the came
vessel. $685..
John Hacker, ofthe firm OF Hacker
Bros, OF Croton mills celebrity, died
suddenl Y 10 day.
Two hundred laborers were discharg.
ed from the Brooklyn navy yard yes
terday, and four hundred more will be
suspended Saturday until June lst.
The base ball professional Atlsntics
were defeated by the ameteur Flyaways
to-day, by score OF IL to ii.
A curious case OF a thrice married
woman who draws slimony from two
divorced husbands, was discussed yes
terday in the Supreme Court An in>
ferior court refused the application OF
one of the divorced husbands TO be re-
leased from the legal obligation 20 sup-
port another mans vile, snd.the case
became.public on his appeal.
The new Park Theatre of which
VIM. Stuart has bsen Lessee and Chas.
Frehtsr stage manager, has passed into
the sheriff's hands and performances
have ceased for the present.
The steamer Thuringia took ont to-
day 100000 in gold and $4,000 in
silver.
Captain General Concha, OF Cuba,
has issued decree, in which it is
stated that railroad companies will now
have 10 suffer the inevitable, as do all
9th er interests in the country, in con-
sequence of the present financial con-
dtion OF the Island. By decree issued
last December the companies were
allowed to fix their rates for each
month according to the premium on
gold, but It is alleged they have been
iu the habit OF charging much higher
rates than allowed General Concha
has interposed and has fixed the in
crease for May at SO per cent over all
their rates.
The government awarded 81 100000
gold at from ll2.24 to ll2 33.
The bids for Government gold ag-
gEegase 81. 40.5OO, at from 1ll.76 tn
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PITTsBURGH.
Shooting ARRAY.

PIrrsBuRGu, May IA special to
the Evening Chronicle from Petrolia
City, Butler county, Pa, says that Ben
Hogan, the pugil;st, was shot at that
place about | o'clock this morning.
Two unknown men had dispute in
Hogan's house, when q woman named
Miss Vic Van Mspes, interfered snd
drew a revolver on one OF the men, and
Hogan attempted 10 take the revolver
from her hand when it went off, the
ball entering the groius OF Hogan. He
is now lying ia critical condition. The
ball has not been extracted and bis
physicians are unable to say whether
the wound will prove fatal or not.
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MEMPHIS.
Overflow Sufferers.

MEMPHIS, May rs. johnson, a
planter from Chicot county, Ark, ar
rived here this morning, and brings
distressing accounts of the suffering
among laborers and their families in
thst vicinity, many OF whom, he says,
have subsis,ed for several days upon
the carcasses OF cattle that have d ed
from starvation or been drowned in the
overflow. The citizens complain OF
toe action OF the New Orleans Relief
Com mlttee in not sending supplies out
side OF the State OF Louisiana; but this
doubtless arises from the scarcity OF the
supplies and the great amount OF desti-
tuition near New Orleans. The Relief
Committee here are actively engaged 10
collecting supplies to relieve the imme-
date wants OF these people. Further
trouble ia spprenended from the rise in
the St. Francis river.
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NEW ORLEANS.
Rayages by the Flood.

New ORLEANS, May THE Governor
and Relief Committee receive letters
daily from the overhowed parishes, Civ
ing details OF the condition OF inhsbi-
tsuts. Recent letter irou Colabanta
Caldwell, Concordis. Franklin. O'a-
cLits, Carspides aud Teusas parishes
show no i'm Improvement, but indicate ad-
dtionsl sffliction by sickness. From
the great mass OF corres-
pondence the following is Sc
iec,ed as showing substantially
the purport OF the whole. Mr.. Red
dict, writing from Cuba Oucheta parish
SAYS: The country for about two miles
around is submerged. Twelve farms
are almost entirely under water within
three miles Of this place, with popu-
lation OF 700 persons, from the break
ing OF the Cuba levee. The levee broke
April Sth, aud the current OF water
wss 60 strong that it washed away
everything in my lot except my DWELL
ing house and store house. My corn,
horses and oxen are all gone. The
water in my dwelling is four feet deep,
snd rushes through in such current
q, 10 make it trem ole like Leaf, but
look not to me alone, as there are 600
or 100 others similarly situated within
three miles. W. J. Ellis has lost
everything. The water on the floor OF
his dwelling is five feet deep, and he
has not one pound OF provisions on
hand for himself and fifteen freedmen.
and no chance of getting any in the
reichborhood.
DR.. r. C. Burch writing from Basco.
Belle plantation, Oucheta parish, says: ::
There are 5000 people within the
limits OF his practice, many OF whom
ale suffering from sickness caused by
exposure, on account OF the overflow.
He is unable to supply tie demand for
medicines, and askssthst medicine be
forwarded, offering to distribute it to
the sick and suffering.
Wood and Bachmsr, principals in a
recent duel near st. Louis, have been
indicted BY the graud jury OF Hancock
county, Mississ pp;:
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Waltz'g Brain.

A number OF physicians made post.
mortem examination OF the body oil
Joseph Waltz, the murderer who was
executed on Friday, shortly after he
was cut down. They found, the Al
bany Journal says, that the neck was
broken by the fall, and that death re-
suited from that cause. They then
trepanned The skull, and removed q
qulvering mass OF brain, and, giving il
8 critical examination, were surprised
at it's unusual size. 1t weighed fifty
tour ounces, while the ordinary aver.
age OF The human brain 10 forty-nine
ounces. The mem mbrsnes and gray mat
ter were found in a healthy state
and the convolutions were perfect.
An incisiou made to detect any soften-
ing Of the organ failed 10 detect any
indications OF thai disease. The eere.
brum was relatively greater in size thar
tbs cerebelIum, and indicated that the
intellectual faculties were largely de.
veloped. A critical examination failed
to discover any organic maHornatior
or disease, and the united opinion o.
the examiners was that there was moth.
ins 10 the structure OF that organ tc
indicate insanity. After the exsmins-
ton Wa completed, the brain va.
placed 10 liquor aud taken in charge
by the village physicians. Ii is pro.
posed to submitit 10 experts 10 Albany
with the hope OF settling, il possible
the rexsd question oi the sanity o
Waltz
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Chicago Market,

CHICAGO. May 7.-Flour-Quiet and
unchanged. Whest-Quiet aud weak;
No. Chicago spring 81 rs; No. . do
| 24t cash or May; ! 25i June; No. s
DO 1901 l9i; rejected l2. Corn
In 'air demand and higher; No. 2 mix.
ed 63i963!c spot; 6ls464ic June;
65ic bid July; rejected 81! !@6ltc. Oats
Active and his cher; No. . 4sic cash;
4Sic June. Rve-ln fair demand and
higher; No 2 oslo. Bsrley-Dull and
dropping; No. 2 spring 81 409l AZ No.
3 do | O59l 10. Whisky-Steady At
94c. Pork STEADY for spot at SIG SO;
May sold at l6 IS; June easier at i6 SIS.
Lsrd-Steady tor spot at tl0 10; eas.
rer for future; 10 20 June; 10 80 July,
Bulk Mests-Stesiy; shoulders &c;
short rib middles SS 10 bid.
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New York Market.

NEW YoRK, May 7.-Cotton-
Quiet at an advance; middling uplands
l7ic. Flour-Dull and lower; super.
fine western and State IS 70(a5 90
common to good 6 05@6 IS; good TO
choice s 50(S6 IS; white wheat extra
6 75@I 20; extra Ohio 6 20@S 90.
Wheat-0peDed steady; No. 2 Chicago
spring 509l SO; red western l 62l9
| IS. Rye-Quiet At l 0T@l II.
Bsrley-Dull. Corn-Quiet and steady;
new westesn mixed S29S6c. Oats
A shade frmer. Cofiee-Heavy and
nominal. Suear-Steady. Petroleum
Dull and lower; crude 6f@6tc re-
fined l4ic. Turpentine-Steady. Pork
Firm; new mess II 00@l7 10 spot;
Il 25 June; IL IS July. Beet-Dull;
plain mess 9i@l2c; extra ll@lie
middles dull; hong clear SsSl0c; short
clear l0c. Lsrd-Lower prime steam
10 9l69l0sc spot aud May; l0tc June;
l0sc July; lie August. Butter
Heavy; western 24(92Sc; new western
3O@35a. CEeese-Unchanged. Whisky
at 97c.
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FOREIGN.
ENGL

LONDON, May "A fire on the
steamship Ohio, seriously damaged her
cargo.
In the House Of Commons to-day, in
reply to Geo. Anderson, member Tor
Glasgow, K. Bourke, Under Secretary
for the Foreign Department, said Her
Majesty's Government desires the re-
sumption OF diplomatic relations with
Mexico, and is ready TO receive over
lures to that end, but none such have
as yet been received. Mr.. Bourke slso
in reply to Sir henry Wolff, said the
present government had not considered
it their duty 10 take steps 10 carry into
execution the sixth clause OF the treaty
OF Washington.
In reply to an inquiry from Juiisn
Goldsmith, Sir c. 3. Adierly, Presi-
dent OF the Board OF Trade, stated that
Tyler, q government inspector attached
to the Board oil Trade, was going 10
America on two years leave OF alb
sence to examine into the affairs OF the
Erie Railroad, but the arrangement
was a private one Of which the govern
ment was not officially cognizant. Mr..
Goldsmith gave notice that he would
call the attention OF the House to tine
matter.
The coal miners OF Durham. have
yielded 10 the terms OF the employers
and the strike has ended.
A Denial.
Sir Lambtou Lorraine, in q commune
cation 10 the Pail Mall Gazette, says :
The reported interview OF myself pub
li.hed in a New York paper, is fictI,
tious. l never said that blood was
thicker than water, that the people OF
England have strong affection !or
their American cousins, and that 1t
would give me great pleasure to receive
a silver brick. Whatever may be ny
opinions l am no admirer OF those Eng
lishmen who are given 10 awning upon
their American cousins at the expense
of their own self respect.