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Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
The Head of A Whale.

The head is one-third the entire length of sperm-whale, and in ob. taining the valuable spermacetic which it contains, the whalemen divide it into three parts-the "case," the "junk, :" and the bone. The "junk" is first hauled on board and slowed away, and then the Cease is bailed. The Cease" is massive part of the head, cellular in the interior, the walls of the cells running vertically and transversely. It is filled with oily substance of faint yellow tint, translucent when warm. The oil-bearing flesh forms about one- third of the mass, and in large whale it has yielded three and half tons. The case also contains the respiratory canal, and cavity of extraordinary depth filled with oil. An opening is made at one end for the purposes of baillng, and it is next hauled to yer ticle position beyond the reach of the water. A deep and narrow bucket at- tached to line and pulley is then low cred, and brought up full of transparent spermacetic, mixed with silky integu- ments, having the odor of freshly drawn milk. The sore hands of the crew bathed in this rich substance, are relieved and healed, and the greenhorns dabble in it with the ineffable satis- faction displayed by the city young sters in mud puddle.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
Foolish HahifS.

Dr. Hall enumerates several practices of the careless public, which are some times as dangerous as they are foolish i:
 Walking along the streets with the point of an umbrella sticking out be- yond, under the arm or over the shoul- der. By suddenly stopping to speak to friend, or other cause, a person walk ing in the rear had his brain penetrated through the eye, in one of our streets, and died in few days.
 To carry long pencil in vest or out side coat pocket. Not long since 8 clerk in New York fell, and his long cedar pencil so pierced an important artery that it had to be cut down from the top of the shoulder to prevent his bleeding to death, with three months illness.
 To take exercise, or walk for the health, when every step is drag, and instinct urges repose.
 To guzzle down glass of cold water, on getting up in the morning, without any feeling of thirst, under the impress sion of the health giving nature of it's washing-out qualities.
 To sit down at the table and force" yourself to eat, when there is not only no appetite, but decided aversion to food.
 To take a glass of soda, or toddy, or sangaree, or mint drops on summer day, under the belief that it is safer and better than glass of water.
 To persuade yourself that you are destroying one unpleasant odor by in- troducing stronger one; that is, try ing to sweeten your unwashed garments and person by enveloping yourself in the fumes of musk, eau de cologne, or rose water the best perfume being a clean skin and well-washed clothing.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
The DepopuIatlon of Ireland.

The population of Ireland decreased by l, ,622, ,319 persons between the years 1841-51, by 775, ,814 in the next decade, and by 396, ,208 between the years 1861- Fl. There is reason to believe that this decrease by the end of the present de- cade will have wholly ceased, that is, that the emigration will not exceed the natural increase of the population. The condition of the country is now really prosperous. Wages have greatly advanced in consequence of the limited supply of laborers. The reform of the land law has had most excellent ef- feet, and not unfrequently Irishmen return from America with fortunes gained there to take up their abode in
 their native land. The aggregate in- vestments in Government stocks, joint stock banks. and savings banks in 1864 were 954, 899,OOO but on the 30th of June, 1874, they were 967, 1862, ,OOO, an increase of 23 per cent. in ten years.
 The value of live stock in 1864 was g3O, 728, BIO; in 1874 it was 937, ,225, ,987.
 It is to be remarked that although in thirty years Ireland has lost about 3.OOO,O0 of her people, the relative proportion of Catholics and Protestants remains almost unchanged. In Mun- ster in 1861 938 out of every l, 1000 were Catholics the proportion now is 936 to each 1000. In Kerry the Catholics in 1861 were 967 in each 1000 they now are 968 in 1000. In Protestant Ulster-which is Protestant only in name-there were 751 Catholics in each 1000 in 1861, and now there are 756 to each LOGO. The old faith does not die out, despite the fact that the emi- grants are for the most part Catholics.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
French Military System.

France is putting herself in military order after the Prussian model. The catastrophe of 1870 was great edu- cator. There is fine lad of seventeen in my "pension," who has been help ing me with my correspondence. He talks English, an few days since he said, ':I must now go to my professor. :" 4'Your professor, A rmand, how is that?" "Why, you see, wi en I am nineteen I go into the French army, under the law passed after the war, by which all of our young men must serve five years, unless they show themselves qualified in certain branches of education, as history, geography, arithmetic. If they are up in these, they need only serve one year. I have my teacher an hour every day, and feel sure of good number and an early and honorable dis charge for superiority in history, geo. graphy, algebra, and the natural scien- ces. If I prove proficient in these branches I serve only one year ; so I am working to get the other four years to myself" It is unnecessary to dis cuss the advantages of such system in a military power. The Government secures good soldiers and intelligent citizens at the same time.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
SALISBURY, CONN.,. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, l874
least I saw you go almost up to the pill

1OcS'S J S%>AAASSS lar-box and"
 ''The wrong pillar-box, sir, please, '' interrupted Thomas, with groan.
 Good gracious!'' roared Bygrave, starting up from his seat and clenching his fist, 'syou don't mean to say you put it in the"
 "Yes, sir, yes," said Thomas, with fearful eagerness, and approaching as if to meet rather than avoid the i'm pending blow-s'in the pillar box where the rubbish is put"
 "You' 've spoilt my whole life, Thomas,' said Bygrave, hoarsely. " What do you think you deserve ?"
 Killin, sir, killin'," responded Thomas, with a sob, but with an hon. est, earnest, fearless look into his mas ter's face; that's what I deserve"
 "Then consider yourself killed, my boy" rejoined Bygrave, with a sad smile, unclenching his fist, and laying his hand on the boys shoulder. It was more my fault than yours. It never occurred to me that anybody could mis- take one for the other; but ought to have recollected that you were quite 8 stranger, and might never have seen what the street orderly bins were used for. And, when I come to think of it, they are rather like the letter boxes. It's all right, Thomas, you may go."
 And, signing heavily, Bygrave sat down and wept. Don't think it unman- ly or unphilosophical of him. He had, at any rate, just behaved as philo- toward Thomas as the great Sir Isaac toward Diamond
 But it must be acknowledged that "the wrong pillar box has established curious relations between three people, who are liable to meet pretty frequent ly in society.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
The Isles of Shoals.

The different islands have much more likeness than unlikeLess, but they have their individual tralts. Appledore is wealthiest in shrubs and flowers, and in the variety of it's conformation; Haley s boasts the largest plot of arabic land ; Star is the barrenest of all, except White Island, but not even Appledore can quite compete with it's majestic cliffs and crags, and nowhere else do the rocks bear the marks of such con- vulsions. Duck Island, with it's fierce Shag and Mingo reefs, is unlike any of have named the group the Isles of Shoals-not the Isle of Shoals, as is so often said and written. But there are those who say that the group was so called because of the "shoals of fish which were their first attraction, and it is worthy of mention that "The Shoal of Isles is an appellation not unknown to old geographers. There were so many of them that there seemed to be "shoal," school" of them.
 There is something almost pathetic in the way in which the grass and herb age nestle among the rocks, as if they fain would clothe their jagged forms with many-tinted drapery. The mosses and the ichens emulate their zeal. Ap- pledore is almost as rich in them as any mountain side. And still the glory of these islands is not in anything that clothes the rocks, but in therocks them selves. If they could be stripped bare of every scrap of green they nourish with precarious food, they would be just as grand as they are now, though far less beautiful for their soft grays and browns wed very happily with the scanty grass and foliage, and bring forth exquisite effects of color. But who shall fitly say or sing the wonder of these cliffs and crags, these preci- pices that repel the ever-fresh inva- sions of the sea, these seams and scars, these dikes and battlements, these veins of different sorts so curiously twisted, so fantastically braided, by the fiery hands that moulded all this fear full pageantry2 In what fierce, wild mood the elemental forces must have been when they did so strange piece of work as thls
 "A heap of bare and splintery crags
 Tumbled about by lightning and frost,
 With rifts and chasms and storm-bleached
 jags
 That wait and growl for ship to be lost
 No island, but rather the skeleton
 Of wrecked and vengeance-smitten one."
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
A Garnet Pest.

A correspondent from Brockport, N. r., writes: "The Philistines are upon us in the shape of carpet pest, and have invaded nearly every house in town and if they persist in their rav- ages, every woolen article will suffer as much as every corn stalk did by the voracious grasshopper of the West. They divide our carpets and dresses in strips, doing their work in profound si- lence. It is said they come from the hide of the buffalo, whether he be dead or alive, and they resemble the wool of that animal. Every expedient to get rid of them has failed thus far. They regard tobacco as 8 luxury, and fatten on it. We wish some scientific men would come to the rescue with rem edy."
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
In Close Quarters.

A m materialistic lecturer and city missionary met the other day in Eng land, to discuss before an audience, the question of responsibility. "Science," Y" said the philosopher, "has proved be- yond doubt, that at the end of few years, not particle in my body or brain remains every atom has passed away, and the new matter forms 8 new man, who cannot be held accountable for the conduct of another" The au- dience seemed enchanted. Then arose the city missionary and said "Ladies and gentlemen, it is a matter of regret to me, that I have to engage in a dis cussion with 8 man of questionable character, with one, in fact, who is liv- ing with woman to whom he is not married" Up rose, in wrath, the ma terialist. "Sir, this is shameful, and I repudiate your insolent attack on my character. I defy you to substantiate your charge. was married to my wife twenty years ago, and we have lived happily together ever since. This is 8 mere attempt at evading the force of my argument" "On the contrary" '" replied the city missionary, "I affirm my charge. You were never married to the person with whom you are living. Twenty years ago two other people may have gone to church, bearing your names, but there is not one atom in your bodies remaining of those which were then married. It follows inevit- ably that you are living in concubinage, unless you will admit that you are tho same man who was married twenty years since." The philosopher was compelled, amid great cheering, to allow that, somehow or other, credit and discred1t for past actions must be granted even by materialists.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
The Ocean Depths.

About 8 hundred miles southeast of Sendai Bay, on the east coast of Japan and directly in the strong sweep Of the Kuro Slwo or Japan current, the soundings of the Pacific Surveying party indicated abyssal depths, while little further northward, on the greater circle route from Yokohama to Puget's Sound, the sinker carried the wire to the astounding depth of 4,643 fathoms withoutre reaching bottom. Commissioner Belknap concludes that his experiment. "confirmed the existence of very deep trough under the Japan stream similar to that cut by the Gulf Stream on our own coast" The discovery that these enormous "rivers in the ocean
 carve their channels through the solid basin of the great oceans is very sug- gestive to the physicist. It IS known that they do not extend to the bottom, the deep sea thermometer ever assur" ing us that the warm Strata cease long before the floor of the ocean is reached. It would seem, therefore, to follow, from the facts brought to light, that these two hot gulf streams act upon the underlying cushions of cold water and by mechanical impact cause the abrasion or erasion of the bottom over which they run. It is by no means 1ncon- ceivable that the restless on flowing surface currents, by impart1ng thelr own motion to the subjacent water, make their impression on the oceanic hoor itself, much as the constant running ot the railroad train imbeds the rails Tn the sleepers of the track and the sleep CTS in the road bed. This, at least, seems to be the meaning of the striking phenomenon discovered by the explor' CTS in the Western Pacific.
 The Challenger's thermometric sur- veys of the Atlantic are so numerous and exact that they afford data for con structing'a better map of the Atlantlc sea bed than we had of North American typography at the beginning of this cen tury. The contours of the North At lantic present an irregular belt, shaped like the letter m. reversed, exceeding twenty-five hundred fathoms in depth, from very near the coast of the United States and the Bahamas toward the African coast between the Canarles and Cape Verde Islands. North of this lies a submarine bank, rising to within less than two thousand fathoms of the sur face, and stretching from Greenland to the Azores. It has always been sup posed that over this section poured a cold stream of Arctic water on it's way southward, slowly warming as 1t hears the Equator. But the Challen- gers soundings prove the startling tact- that (beneath the water immediately affected by the suns rays, believed not to extend more than eighty fathoms) all the water in the North Atlantic, as far north as the fortieth degree of lati- tude, is actually warmer than at the same depths under the Equator itself l Such discovery was never suspected, and only the unerring and jnexorable register of the deep-sea thermometer could have suggested such an apparent anomaly.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
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A New Type-Setting Machine.

An exchange says: Fenton G. Foster, of Wakefield, N. O., has invent ed pe-setting machine in which he claims to have remedied the defects of other machines, and he thinks he has in this one an apparatus capable of do ing the work of four ordinary compost tors. and of doing it equally well if not better than they. With the aid of ma chinery to construct each part of the machine, MT. Foster expects to be able to furnish it at cost of about $75-a price which will bring the article with in the reach of all printers. In appear ance the apparatus is not unlike par Tor organ, with keyboard exactly like that instrument, and at each side are two stops, which are used for changing the letter. Underneath, as in the organ, is the pedal, the use of which IS to place the type in position after 1t drops from the font above. Each key IS let tered, and as the operator touches 1t by an ingenious arrangement of springs the corresponding letter is detached from the font above and dropped down to the level of the keyboard, and by a pressure of the foot of the operator upon the pedal is securely placed ln the form. The fonts for the type are placed at the top of the instrument, and when the last letter in font drops, a little bell warns the operator to re- place the empty font with full one. Each style of letter is handled with equal facility, change in the stop at the side changing the letter from Roman to Italic, etc., just as in the organ the tone is changed. Little practice is re- quired to operate the machine, as it is constructed to do most of the work it. self. MT. Foster has spent the last eight years of his life in perfecting the present apparatus, and during that time has constructed many different ma chimes, only to find some radical defect in them when completed but the pres ent one satisfies him, and he appears certain that it will do it's work well. He invites inspection from all practical men, and yesterday very many compos- itors called at his rooms and examined the machine and witnessed its working.
 "In connection with this composing machine MT. Foster says he has invent ed machine for distributing the type, which will do it's work quite as accu- rately and more rapidly than the type setting machine does. He has not yet constructed the latter machine, wishing to introduce the present one first. His invention is patented, however, and as soon as practicable, working model will be built and exhibited.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
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Items of Interest.

A lecturer on modern education said very solemnly to his audience: "Par- ents. YOU have children, or if not, your daughters may have."
 Thirteen of the thirty-eight premi.. ums offered for poultry at the Vermont fair. were taken by Evan T. Sprague, not yet twelve years old.
 At horticultural exhibition at Bel fast, Ireland, a bunch of black Ham. burg grapes was shown, which weighed twenty pounds, twelve ounces. When our American young men re- turn from a trip abroad, the principal knowledge of foreign parts consists of parting their hair in the middle.
 Any girl may raise mustache by shaving her upper lip every day for about a month. A St. Louis girl has demonstrated this fact, and now she wishes she hadn't.
 Bazaine will live in London, and has taken the apartments on King street, St. James. that were once occupied by Napoleon III. in the days when he was called Prince Louis.
 "I tell you what," said Troy widower, as he spit out of the wlndow, cit seems awful when l think Sarys down in the ground instead ot oeing around fixing to dry apples"
 A lady who has attended several pub lie dinners wants to know why the presiding officer can never propose the | toast of the evening without regret ting that it has not been placed in abler hands.
 M. Hautmulle, of Paris, has taken strychnine. The only thing odd ln 1t IS that he bought this strychnine In the | year 1870, intending to poison the wlne he left at his country house, ln hopes the Prussians would drink It. Claude Duval has been outdone in pallantry by Arkansas highwaymen, who. after requesting the passengers of five stage coaches to hand over their valuables, treated the ladies to box of grapes which they found among the packages.
 A Western man set fire to the prairie | for fun, but after he had run seven miles and climbed tree, with his pants about all burned of, he concluded the sport was little too violent exerclse to be indulged in oftener than once ln lifetime.
 Forestville, Ohatauqua county, N. | V has a sensation in the shape of child three weeks old, whose heart IS located in the middle of it's breast, and covered only by thin membrane, so that it is plainly visible, and capable Of being lifted by the hand outside.
 At Ouchy, Switzerland, boatman pulled out man who tried te drown himself in the lake. Later he saw him hanging on a tree, and left him to en- ioy his " fixed idea" He was sum- moned before magistrate for not pre-. venting the suicide, and said he thought the gentleman had hanged himself up to dry.
 In England poor curate, unable to live on his salary, supported himself by repairing watches, This was rep1rted to the bishep as disgrace to the cloth. "This must be put stop to-" said the bishop, indignantly, and he stopped it by giving tho curate a place worth $2, ,O0O year.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
A Revery.

There's bes'lty in the summer sky,
 When grandly from it's ocean bed, Like strong man refreshed by sleep,
 Proudly the sun uplifts it's head; And then behind the western hills, : At eventide so still he goes, How lovely are the crimson clouds,
 That drape his visionless repose. Nov languid forms rise to my sight.
 My brain throbs wild, it's pulses bound; drink of rapturous delight
 My soul entranoed.: with sweetest sound Delightful incense fills the air.
 Weird music on soft winds go forth While we, the creatures of His care,
 Drink blessings from the singing earth. And now 80 soft the moonlight gleams, In beauty through the forest bowers, While everywhere it's fairy beams
 Rest like maiden's kiss on flowers! For one great FATHER reigns above,
 And one blest hope to us is given If here we lose the friends we love,
 We shall find them safe in heaven.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
A Noted Indian.

Kicking Bird, who is now the sensa- tion in the Indian wars in the far West, is thus described
 GA fine form, about five feet ten inches in height, we'll knit, muscular tawny arms, broad, deep chest, covered with sinews, that stand out firmly and rising in layers of clearly defined tissue welts sloping shoulders, graceful but thickly veined neck; remarkably fine face, with round, full and firm set jaws, surmounting handsomely chiseled mouth and pointed, clear cut chin, ex- quisitely regular, and pearly white teeth eyes, the blended color of noun tain gray and brown prairie, sharp and penetrating, governed sometimes by 8 seemingly careless but scrutinizing ex- pression which does not appear to be occupied with the object they are stealthily searching broad forehead, Indian like, heavy, black glossy hair, neatly combed, streak of red paint or namenting, according to their custom, the parting of it, with the scalp lock carefully plaited, and an eagle claw and feathers ornamenting the end of it.. This, with innumerable silver rings hanging like fringe on the outer lap of the ears, will form the true descrip- tive features of Kicking Birds physi- ognomy. And it must not be omitted to state that he has small, sinewy, graceful hands and small feet, which are controlled by studied graceful ness and decorum. His gestures, even when in ordinary conversation, if imi- tated, would vastly improve many of the grotesque and clumsy gesticula- tions as set down in the school books for declamation and gest4culation for the guidance of incipient orators. To one who has made his acquaintance, and to those in authority, his manner is pleasing, affable and polite in high degree when in conversation. At other times he is as reticent, reserved end dignifed as my lord Conkling of the Senate"
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09

HEA1THFU1NEss OF APPnEs.-The frequent use of apples, either before or after meals, has most healthful effect upon digestion-better eat less meat and more fruit. An eminent French physician thinks that the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris is owing to the increased consumption of apples, which fruit he maintains is an admirable propbylatic and tonic, as well as very nourishing and easily digested article of food.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-09
Civ Of New Orleans VS.. Ettenne and Ban.
tiSte Perez.

ivMa usas Sheriff of the Parish OF ORGANS