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its members

Totai.-...70 feet 22S8 pounds.
Computed strength of father and sons,
5000 pounds Entire ages, 557 years.
Many of the grandchildren of this fam
lily are 6 II feet high, and weigh over
200 pounds.
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KEEP UP FAMILY ATTACH
MENTS.

One of the saddest things about a
large family, who have lived happily to-
gether for years under the old roof-tree,
is the scattering to distant homes, which
take place as they grow up, one by one.
to years of maturity. 1t is often the
case that, in the cares and hustle of
business, letters grow more and more in
frequent, finally brothers and sisters
will sometimes entirely lose sight of
each other.
These kindred ties are much too sa-
cred to be thus lightly severed. 1t takes
such little while to write a letter, and
the expense is so trifing that there can
A loving family circle, thus widely
severed, adopted a curious but beautiful
plan for keeping informed of each others
welfare. The two most remote on the
first of each month, wrote a part of a
page on large sheet containing the
principal news of the month, and this
was sealed and forwarded to the family
next In order. Some member Of the fam
lily adds little contribution, and sends
it ON to the next, and 50 on, till the cir
Gle is complete. Thus the family letter
goes its round twelve times year, and
each one is kept well informed Of the
joys, sorrows, plans and pursuits of the
others. Family gatherings are frequent
in such households, and the old home
attachments never grow cold.
Sons, in particular, away from home,
are apt to grow neglectful of letter writ
ing. Oh, if they knew how many heart
aches such neglect often causes to the
loving breast that pillowed their tired
heads in childhood, they would not be
SO thoughtless. If they knew the joy
that letter brought, and could see how
the lightest words were dwelt over, and
talked over by the Preside, they would
not be SO sparing of those messages.
Are not some of us sadly in arrears
in this particular ?
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DECEIvER, GO!

I'll admit that once loved thee,
That deemed thee just and true:
That my heart has loved no other
Fondly as it once loved you.
Yet the ties of love are broken,
And the vows you made to me-
From this hour and forever,
You are nothing more to me.
have found you false vet lovely,
have found you could deceive:
And the many VOWS you made me
can nevermore believe.
You have tried YOUR power to lead me
From the path of duty true;
But yourpo thank God is ended
shall care no more-tor you.
Tell me not that it will grieve me
Now TO Tart with one so fair:
Mention not your syren beauty
Come not with yOur charms rare.
1t is vain-I cannot worship
Aught Your glittering wealth might buy
And although my house be lonely,
| shall spnrn thee till die.
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WEST DANvILLE, VT, Jan. 30, 1872.

WEST DANvILLE, VT, Jan. 80, 1877.
LUKE BUzzELL, ST. JoHSsBURY W..
DEAR Srs-I now have in my mill one of your 20inch
Giant Water Wheels. under working head of about
II feet with which run shingle machine lathe mill
boiling and slab saw. can all the above ma
chinery at once and do good business, with wheel
drawing only 40 inches of water In regard to
strength, speed and economy of water, consider it
ahead of anything have ever met and would recon-
mend it to all who have low head and small quantity
of water as being superior to any other wheel
Yours &C., WIN. BRICKETT.
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DIVISIONS OF LIFE.


A French statistician has estimated
that mar so years of age has slept
5000 day.; worked $500 days; walked
800 days; amused himself 1000 days
was eating l,500 days; was sick 500
days; ate IL, 900 pounds of bread, &c.,
900 pounds of meat, 1900 pounds of
vegetables, eggs, etc., and drank 1000
gallons of liquid of all kinds. This
amount of liquid would make lake 800
feet square and 3 feet in depth.
THE NECESSARY DAILY PROPORTION OF
DR.. Mott gives the following daily
proportion of food as requisite to sustain
life BEAUTIFULLY and soundly:
LIST Class.-Persons of moderate health
and little exercise, II to Is or. Of food,
equal to 10 or. of nutritious matter.
I'd Class.-Persons of good health and
ordinary labor (mechanics, etc., Is to
"a OF. Of food, equal to 16 o. nutriment.
Sd Class.-Persons of sound health,
hard labor, and consequent violent exer-
lions, "a to 80 or. of food. equal to %
or. nutriment.
THE HUMAN MACHINERY.
A fully developed man has 60 bones
in his head, 60 in his thighs and legs,
60 in his arms and hands, and 67 in his
trunk; making total of 249 bones.
Such frame will contain Is quarts Of
blood, Weighing two pounds each. Every
pulsation of the heart discharges two
ounces of blood, which is an average of
hogshesd an hour. The united length
of the respiratory tubes is % miles,
and they drain from the body an average
of 3 IL pounds of matter per day, which
sc Hve-e1ghts OF all that the body
discharges.
q'he human body contains over SOC
muscles The intestines are "a feet in
length. The fnger-nails grow their full
length in 4 IL months. A man Of &c
years of age has renewed his fnger-nails
$50 times Allowing each nail to be
half an inch long, he has grown fee
inches of nail on each finger, and OIL
fingers and thumbs together, total o.
" feet and inches.
The heart makes an average of 60
pulsations in a minute, which is 3,94(
in an hour, and 92,160 in a day. Two
ffths of the oxygen inspired disappears
with each inspiration, the place of which
is supplied by the carbonic gas thrown
off by expiration. Thus each adult per
son ought to consume 45, 200 cubic inch
es of oxygen every "a hours, and in thu
same time he generates $4,000 cubic
inches of carbonic acid gas.
Every moment during life portion
of our substance becomes dead, combine
with some of the inhaled oxygen, and i
thus removed. By this process it i
believed that the whole body renew
itself every seven years.
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ST. JOHNSBURY. vt.

E3AllE application of water i'll this Wheel is some
thing new in Hydraulics The whole stream is
b presented to the Wheel i'll sluce or gate and
operates as perfectly each and every bucket
at once as though each bucket fed through a
gate or sluiee of its own thus avoiding large amount
OF 1fletIon and leakage attendant small
and lily Trap" gates. The power by avoiding fri,-
uon results in giving more force to the water and
consequently more power to the Wheel The last five
years hard trials successfully has pract
cly set at rest the credit and ability the Wheel to
perform all that has been claimed it, The ease and
slight expense with which it is in place reli-
Bile and permanent character of the power it delivers
the slight loss experienced by back water together
or anchor ice can be removed and the readiness with
which the amount of water used can be aseertaned
makes the Wheel agreeable to all who have in care
the running of the power while the actually aseer-
tanned fact that portion of the gives full
effective force just i'll proportion to the amount used
nom the first to the last inch makes it desirable for
economy of water, variable amounts while the
price of the Wheel is low for the power
furnished that any who wants power can lust as
well have first second class one. Parties who
have been and are now using this Wheel to drive all
Kinds OF machinery under all amounts of head and
with ever varying quantities of water, ready and
Wiling TO give practical for the preference
they manifest in the of this Wheel over any and
all others they have ever used Five years ago was
launched entirely its merits by the maker who
able which are used TO puff new machines and new
Improvements. 1t felt that if the Wheel was
better than those that had preceded it, the community
would be able to tnd out the fact and candid enough
to appreciate it, Experience demonstrated the above
principle to be correct.
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Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached: .sOur ingress into life is
naked and bare our progress through
life Is trouble and care; our egress out
Of it we know not where; but doing
well here we shall do we'll there; ]
could not tell more By preaching a
year."
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From the chronological Journal.
CURIOSITIES OF HUMAN LIFE.

Care has been taken to make the fol-
lowing statements accurate, the best au-
thorities having been consulted in their
preparation.
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GLOVER
G. L. FRENCH, NJ. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Il L RnSnRP

DR0PRIETOR UNION HOUSE. STAGE LEAVES
1 for Montpelier Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri
Gays, and for Barton twice day.
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The maximum weight of the human
brain (Cuvier's) is 64.5O ounces; the
minimum weight (idiots) 20 ounces.
Average weight male adult 1880 ounces
The heavies individual brains on rec
ord. next to Cuvier's, are, first:
DIR. AbercrOmble $500
Dupuytren lFrench surgeonl $1,000. $3.50
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n. NJ. SCOTT,

d.
DEALER IN DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS.
- Caps and General Merchandise. The celebrated
81. Leon Water ON hand and foP sale.
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LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE.

The average duration of life is greater
now than ever before. According to
Dupin the average length of life in
France from 1776 to l943 increased 50
days per annum. Macauley states that
in 1856 the deaths in England were as
l to 20; in 1850, to 40. The rate of
mortality in 1871 was to %; in 1868,
| to 40.
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DROPRIETOR GLOVER FIGURING MILLS.
Best Brands Family Flour always on hand. Also
Corn and other feed. n B. Particular attention paid
10 Custom Grinding. o3-6
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LUKE BuzzELL

OFFICE OF A. H. MCLoUD & Co..
DEALERS IN FLOUR, SHORTS FEED, ETC.
ST. JoHNsBURY, w. Jan. 25, 1873.
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difference in that of individuals, as the
following facts will show:

IAN races -...-....--.. .4O.5O
alays and Oceanic races Sc. sc to....43.7O
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the mouth of Lsughery's creek. 1t was clad
ia what appeared 70 be night dress, over
which wss green mohalr cloak with bright
steel buttons. 1t has not vet been identified.
The second mate recollected having seen the
child, conspicuous because of its clothing
and vivaciUus disposition, in charge of an ell
DERBY lady. To day the river will De dragged
with seines, and it is hoped hat the bodies
of many who are lost will be recovered. The
Pat Rogers was loaded to little more than
four feet. Included in her cargo were 50
head of sheep and about twenty head of cat
tie, all of which were lost. Indeed, no part
of her cargo was saved. The shipments for
Cincinnati. except in two or three instances,
are unobtainable, there being no record kept
or them on shore, and all the books of the
bnat were lost.
THE sTEAMER-BER VALUE AND INSURANCE..
Toe Pat. Rogers las built under the SUI
pervision of Capt. Dan. Morton, alter the
model of the Moses McClelland, which
earned great reputation for speed about
twenty years ago. She was built expressly
for the trade in which she was engaged
when burned. but had put in two seasons in
the Memphis trade. Her registered length
of huh was 252 feet; breadth, 1854 feet;
depth, SO feet. Her tonnage, custom house
measurement, was 666 20 tons. She had
four double fiued boilers, 40 inches in diam
eter and rs feet long, with fues Ii Is inches
in diameter. Her engines, Il inches In di
ameter with feet stroke, were from the old
Madison packet Q. IT. Dumont. Her cabin
was Isl feet long, and contained rs rooms.
She was conn leted in December, 1872, at q
cost of $4,000 She belonged to the United
States Mail Line Company, and when
burned was valued by the underwriters at
Si5 900, and insured for $4,000.
All that remains of the once noble steamer.
a shspeless mass of black, smoking timbers,
now lies in a slightly oblique position, with
the bow up stream, on Laughery's bar,
about hundred yards above Laughery's
creek, and two miles below the town of
Aurora. The fire was so fierce as to burn
away the timbers to distance of three feet
below the waters edgewithin the iron sheath
ing. The hull is filled with debris and float
ing cinders aud the charred remains of tim
bers cover the wafer tor rods. PlunderiDg
wreckers, called by riVermen "pirates," are
at work about the wreck, filchlng every
caddY of tobacco and other bit of cargo, aud
with rilessness almost incredible. doing
nothing to discover the missing persons.
The citizens of Aurora, however, especially
the pastor and the ladies of the United Pres
byterian Church, acted nobly in sl!eviating
the sufierings OF the injured and supplying
clothing for the rescued.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL cANDI DATES

county delegation.
THE CONGRESSIONAL cANDI DATES
FOR CONGRESSMAN OF THE SEVENTH.
The nominee OF the seventh, Mr.. Frank
Lenders Il perhaps as well known IN the
district as any man who has, or has not
been eminent in political life. Mr.. Landers
through his various business interests IN
this CITY, has an excessive acq uaintance not
only here, but in the regions round
about. He is native to the manner
born in the Seventh district, having first
seen the light in Morgan county (ano bat a
little way distant from the confines OF
Marion) in 1873. His iather mover rom
Kentucky in 1920 and established himself
as one of the original settlers on White
river in this section of the country. Mr..
Landers has always been a staunch Demo-
crat in faith and principle. His early
life was spent on the homestead
farm which he still holds, and nom the age
OF u. he "hoed his own row." From stock
raising he went into mercantile pursuit,
and early established for himself compet-
encv la Iact, it seems to have been his
motto i'm private lite and pursuit, as in the
public line, he has just adopted !:
mot TO engage in any work where
ne exnected to fail, In consequence
his efforts. Mr.. Landers' political life has
be- N exceedingly brief. In 1860 he was
elected state senator and served three ses
SONS, two in the regular term and one spec
ial session, called in the spring of '6l, at the
outbreak of the rebellion. In 1864 he re-
moved TO Indianapolis, where he has lived
up to the present time, being largely
interested IN the pork packing
business, and alsos with the firm
of Hibben, kennedy & Co., in wholesale dry
GOODS. though still retaining and attending
To his splendld farms in Morgan aud Johnson
counties. The nomination of Mr.. Landers
is considered the best one that could have
been made by his friends and democrats
generally. who say that he is the coming
congressman of the Seventh.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
the convention Yesterday chose as their
candidate Mr.. James Maxwell. of Monroe
vile, Morgan county. He is granger" in
The true sense of the term and one Of the
leading and best known farmers in Morgan
county, of which he is native; being born
there in 1889 He has no political record and
was formerly republican until ISL. His
first vote with the democratic party
was cast in ~ for Horace Greeley, and be
now s'votes solid for the Democratic ticket.
He received the recommendation of the
Farmers convention of his county, recently,
which was deemed equivalent to ''instruc-
tious'' for the convention of yesterday. He
stands by and adopts the platform of the
18th of July, and the Democratic ticket
entire,
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Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana. has signed
the death warrant ordering the execution
on the 24st of August, in the parish of As
of five men. who, in April last,
murdered and robbed Elisha Eastwood, an
old fistb0atman In that parish, TOR his
money. The names of the condemned ara
a. Perry, John Ross, Antoine Maurii, James
Williams and James Robertson. One is
white, two are 50 light as 10 pass for white,
one is mulatto and one negro.
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law. Mr.. Mitchell was called upon
for speech and responded briefly
TO Mr.. Maxwell, and the entire democratic
party as well. The convention then adj
iourned.
After adjournment, the Hendricks county
delegates met, and after brief consultation,
nominated John Denton, Of indianapolis,
as circuit prosecutor. The nomination was
submitted to and accepted by the Marion
county de LEGATION.
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JOINT SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

JAMES j.. MAXWELL, OF MORGAN COUNTY,
THE NOMINEE.
After the adjournment of the congress
sional convention, the delegates OF Marion
and Morgan counties formed joint delega-
ton TO nominate a state senator. The con
yention being called to order, William G.
Harrington was called 20 the chair, w. T. A,
Bernhamer being ap pointed Secretary.
The right to nominate was given Morgan
county. 1t was known that if this county
voted solidly Marion would accept the nom
ina;iou. There were however two factions.
One represented James v. Mitchell, of Mar
tinsyille, a lawyer and former member of
the house OF representatives the other fac
TONS choice was James j. Maxwell of
Monroeville, granger, with no political
creed whatever. Phe Marion county delega-
ton then put in nomination Thos. Cottrell
of Indianapolis. The Morgan county dele
CATION being unable to agree on any one
candidate, it was decided that the vote be
divided between the Mitchell and Maxwell
delegations. A ballot was then ordered,
which resulted as follows: Maxwell. "a:
Mitchell, Il; Cottrell, 10. Maxwell, having
received the highest number of votes, was
UNANIMOUSLY Accepted
by the convention as joint senator. The
successful nominee was called upon for a
speech, and responded somewhat briefly He
alluded to the fact that he had never mixed
much in politics; having always followed his
occupation as farmer, though taking great
interest in the leading questions of the day
and those which effected especially
our legislation, State and national.
He endorsed heartily the platform of the
18th of July, and would fight faithfully for
the democratic ticket. He expressed him.
self as favoring the repeal Of the Baxter law
but also the enactment Of strict license
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and as the carriage started she reached
out her hand to John. He did not ,-r.ier-
stand the motion, until he saw cent drop
in the road at his feet. Instantly all his
illusion and his pleasure vanished. Some
thing like tears were i'll his eyes as he
shouted:
II don't want your cent. l don't sell
flag"
John was intensely mortified II sup
pose he said, "she thought | was "A sort
of bcggar- boy. To think OF selling
flag"
At any rate, he walked away and left
the cent in the road, a Inundated boy.
The next day he told jim Gates about it.
Jim said he was green not to take the
money; he'd go and look for it now, if
he would tell him about where it drop
phd. And Jim did spend IN hour rol. ing
about in the dirt, but he did not find the
cent. Jim, however, had an idea: be said
he was going to dig sweettlag, and see if
another carriage wouldn't come aloEg.
Johns next rebuff and knowledge of
the world was of another sort. He was
again walking the road at twilight, when
he was overtaken by a wagon with one
seat, upon which were two pretty girls,
and Young gentleman sat between them
driving 1t was Il merry party, and Johr
could hear them laughing and singing as
tht,N dppIodCDtu nlUl- L ne wagon STOP
ped when it overlook him, and one OF the
sweetfaced girls leaned from the seat and
said quite seriously and pleasantly.
Little boy, how's your mar?'
John was surprised and puzzled for a
moment. He had never seen the young
lady, but he thought that she perhaps
knew his mother; at any rate his instinct
of politeness made him say:
''She's pretty well, | thank you"
"Does she know you're out?"
And thereupon all three in the wagon
burst into a roar of laughter, and dashed
on.
1t flashed upon John in moment that
he had been imposed on, and it hurt him
dreadfully. His selfrespect was injured
somehow, and be felt rs If his lovely, gen
tie mother had been insulted. He would
like to have thrown a stone at the wagon,
and in a rage, he cried:
YOU'RE Il nice"-but he couldn't think
of any hard, bitter words quick enough.
Probably the young lady, who might
have been almost any young lady, never
knew what a cruel thing she had DONE
Charles Dudley Warner, an So. Nicholas for
,JanudFy.
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Railroad Romance.

A YOUNG couple entered the cars at
Omaha, and were assigned to the section
designated on their tickets. So far, it
was only the ordinary case of a bridal
party Oh the usual tour. The bride tor
so the Young lady was ut once classified
by the other lady passengersj was prepos-
sessing, complaisant, and evidently de-
voted to her liege lord. The groom was
young, tolerably handsome, and very
proud Of the trusting young woman nest
ling by his side, and so they passed the
very delightful hotrs that interviewed he
fore reaching Grand Island but here
their dream of happiness was suddenly
disturbed! a middle-aged man hustled
into the car, and as he confronted the
young couple, there was a look of aston
ishmeDt on the part OF the young man,
and a scream Of terror on the part of the
young lady. The intruder was the step
father of the young lady, who was not yet
"A bride, but hoped to be on reaching the
first station where an officer could be
found to perform the ceremony that
would unite her to the man of her choice.
A few threatening words from the irate
father caused the brave young knight to
succumb and leave the train, his weeping
affianced giving herself reluctantly To the
charge of her father But though defeat
ed the voting knight was not subdued, for
he silently stole away to the baggage-car
told his sad tale to the sympathetic bag
gage-master, was permitted to ride con
cealed among the trunks, and when the
train reached Sacramento he managed to
apprise his sweetheart of his presence in
time to whisk her away and get the knot
tied before the parent discovered that the
young man had been a fellow passenger
all the time that he supposed him to be in
the neighborhood of the Missouri River.
San FyunctscO 4Hr