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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

IN TowN.-James Hume. ~ex-DepUtv
Warden of the Nevada Safe Prison. i
in town. He will remain with us for
several days.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

Dr.. S~rETLE'S MEDICAL NuNpUR.-
This great medicine is doing a wonder
lul amount OF good among NJ citi-
zens in curing rhcumati>n}. neuralgia.
ann collie. tooAaclic, eic. 1t has no
equal. The Wonder Pills have been
used by several for the effects Of the
gaS from the furnaces, and cures.
Sold by druggists. iy2-im%
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

FoE SALr.-The property known a.
the C~ornucopia Restaurant, ON Main
stree, together with the two-story
dwelling house, fronting ON Buel
street. is offered for sale. This is one
of the most desirable properties ON
Main street. and would be available
Tor amy business. The property Will
be sold at bargain. For particulars
apply 10 +. q. SwenSson. jy22
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

On II HoAp>.-Superyi>or Malls
SEM out men yesterday 10 clear tie
roads of the effects of the late disaster.
lie sem oae gang III the direction Of
Pinto. and another down the canyon.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

nEoe AVID Works on Main Street. Council
nll.igs Iowa.
F. TlENDHIE. President.
J.. GohN. Sec'y ard Treas.
mVis-t.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26
Additional Losses

Were obtained yesterday, which with
those published in Yesterdays issue
will embrareabout al so far - known.
4 n%un.berof those already given We're
greatly moderated. it being impossible
Ia gain accurate information until the
owners OF properly had an opportuni-
~ OF further examining into the con-
dition of their property and stock.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

RrsUMEp. II. Lee has resumed
hn>ilcss at Ruby Hill and is HOW re-
celvinr constant supplies of s,ai le
goods. lie has made large additions
to his store. and his stock of miners
supplies and general merchandise can
no; be surpassed. jcli
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

MUsr De ~oLp.-Vhe immense stock
of %.icwclry, diamonds, guns. pistols,
etc. at II. Nanheim'S. nus lie sold.
a. the proprietor is compelled 10 close
his business and leave this place i'll a
short time. .lNl
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

SAM. FRIEDMAN pays the highest
price for secondhand furniture.
Sam buys saloons.
sam buys all kinds of secondhand
household goods.
SAM Will sell ANYTHING you have at
auction. mN2";f
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-26

CRoCKERY.-Thc largest assortment
Of crockury ware in ONT can Ii found
at sam. tricLuian's, on Main street, At
prices lower than the lowest. api-tt
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
The Temperature OF the Sun.

The latest investigation on the tenn
perature of the sun by Father Seechi
has been recently published, and he con-
cludes that the lowest limit of this tenn
perature must be about $4,000 degrees
centigrade. This determination he has
arrived at by a comparison of the solar
radiation and that of the electric light.
He has employed the same apparatus,
namely, the thermo-heliometer, described
in his well-known work on the sun. The
temperature produced by solar radiation
was observed at Rome about noon on
several days in July, and was determined
to be 36I times that of the carbon points
of the electric light. Both Seechi and
Him agree that the temperature of solar
radiation may depend either solely on
the superficial stratum of the sun, or on
considerable thickness of its substance,
according as this latter is Opaque or
transparent. Him concludes that if the
transparency were nearly perfect the
solar temperature might well be only a
few thousand degrees; but various phe-
nomena, among them the observations of
Professor Langley, of Pittsburg, on the
crossing of the currents of the photo
spere, show that the solar surface is es-
sentially Opaque, and certainly at the
best is not completely transparent. The
very high temperature of 100000 de-
grees to 10000 degrees, above given, is,
therefore, not inadmissable, but must be
looked upon as at least giving lower
limit to the true value of the tempera-
turc Of the gun.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
-
Her Plan Didn't Work.

The Pottsville Pennsylvania Miners
Journal is responsible for the following
story: Z" A PhGnixville maid, quite old,
becoming anxious about her matrimonial
chances, recently concocted a plan to
deceive young fellow as to her age.
This was the way she tried it: The old
family Bible contained faithful record
of all births, marriages, and deaths.
This volume the maiden took to her
chamber, and selecting the birth page,
she managed, by dint of scratching and
writing, to change the date of her birth
to period eleven y ears later than what
it had legitimately been recorded. Then
the Bible was placed on the sitting-room
table, in a conspicuous manner. That
evening came along the lover. He soon
began to finger with the Bible pages, and
finally reached the birth record, where
and when he discovered, to his surprise,
that his Angelina was just one year
younger than he. He thought il strange,
as she appeared older. He kept his
mouth shut, and continued to tumble
over the pages. Next he began reading
the death list, and made the very aston
ishing discovery that the radiant maiden,
according TO the Bible, had actually been
born ten years after the decease of her
father. The young man quietly arose
and bid Angelina goodbye, and now
swcars that eternal vigilance is indeed
the price Of liberty"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Birds at PRAYER.

w. G. Prime, in his 81 Go Fishing"
relates the following curious custom of
birds:
GAS birds yonder have, beyond ques-
ton, means of exchanging ideas" "You
would think so if you saw them ut pray
ers." "Wha-tg" Yes; ut prayers. It
isn't anything less. There are birds of
every country under the whole heavens,
add with voices as various as the lam
guages of men, and you hear what wild
concert of delight they keep up all the
day long. But every day this entire
group of birds assemble in silence, and il
it isn't prayer-meeting, / don't know
what it is. There is no forewarning that
we can detect. While they are all chat
tering, singing, playing, here, there, and
everywhere, suddenly one of them, some
times one, sometimes another, utters a
peculiar call, totally distinct from his
ordinary note. Whatever bird it is, the
call is much the same, and instantly every
bird stops his play and his noise. They
gather in rows on the perches, shorten
their heads into their feathers, and make
no motion of wing. head or foot, for a
space of thirty minutes, and often longer.
1t is almost of daily occurrence. Ordi-
narily, you can not approach the aviary
without frightening some of the birds
and producing sharp commotion; but
while this exercise is going on, nothing
disturbs them. They are birds of every
land and climate, as you see; but this is
their custom, and no one fails. to attend
or behaves i'll in meeting. You may
think this is something like mesmerism,
for the leader keeps up his curious call
note throughout the service. The instant
it ceases they break up with cry of de-
light, and rush around singing and hav-
ing n jolly time OF IL, as IL refreshed"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Rural Dining.

The Troy Times says: "At a certain
Troy hotel a young man and woman
from up north, called for room Just
after the dinner-hour and were accom-.
modated. The young man requested
that dinner be sent to his wife, and left
the hotel for few moments. Meanwhile
waiter was sent to the lady's room with
bill of fare. She took it from the
waiter, glanced over it with close
scrutiny, and then passing it back, re-
marked, This amt for me. l don I
want it'll Said the waiter, why, it's a
bill of fare;' to which the young woman,
who evidently hadn't Travelled, again re-
piled, Yes, but you've made mistake,
1t amt for me, / know. Idon't want it.
Going down stairs, the waiter met the
young man, and explained to him. He
marked off dinner, and passed on. The
meal was served, and shortly afterward
the young husband came trudging I'M
steadily down to the Office with the
salver full of halfemptied dishes in his
hands, and depositing them in front Of
the astonished clerk, still further aston
ished him by the remark, Here's the
dishes. We've got through"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
MahOmet'S Cat.

A writer on Cats" in the Chicago
Mter-Occan says: Mahomet released
the cat from the depths into which it had
fallen. The Mussulmans say very seri-
ously that the cat of the Prophet was a
being preferred for Heaven, consequently
the animal family of which it is part is
not devoid of divine attributes. In con-
firmation of this assertion they relate the
following history: The Prophet was one
day seated, listening to the voices of
Heaven. The sleeve of his vestments lay
upon the ground. His cat approached,
curled herself up on the sleeve, and there
reposed. A few moments after the hour
of prayer sounded. The Prophet wished
to rise in order to 60 to prayers, but
could not do it without disturbing the
cat, which at that moment appeared to
be absorbed in profound meditation and
conversing with inner voices. What was
to be doneY He took pair of scissors,
cut off the piece of the sleeve on which
the cat reposcd, and went to his de-
votions. Upon his return the cat arose,
and bowed by bending its spine like a
bow. Mahomet comprehended what this
proceeding signifed, and bestowed uron
the cat his benediction, and said: Thou
askest me for place in my paradise.
Thou shall have it. Then passing his
hand three times over the back of the
animal, he added: BY this sign l give
to thee and to thine the power of falling
only upon my feet One perceives that
Mahomet was generous. This considera-
ton of the Prophet towards felincs rem
dered them, like the horse, an object of
veneration to the Mussulmans. But it
had especially the effect of reviving the
worship of the animal in Egypt, where
the law of the Prophet was in accord with
the tradition. Since then the cat re-
sumes upon the banks of the Nile its
rank as an idol. At the present time
even it is far from being dethroned. 1t
is no rarity for Mussulman to leave, by
will, large life annuity to his cat"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
The Foreign Demand for Wheat.

The Chicago Inter- Ocean has letter
from the Hon. Alexander Delmar, late
Director of the National Bureau of Stats
dition of the present harvest in Europe
and also some very valuable statistics
giving comprehensive view of the whole
situation as regards the European supply
of and demand for breadstufs, and par.
ticularly of the one article in which the
Northwest has such great interest at
stake, viz: wheat.
The first prominent fact is, that the
crops of this grain throughout Europe
are nowhere poor, and in nearly all coun-
tries are rather above the average in
quantity. From Mr.. Delmar's statistics
it appears that though the crop of wheat
in Great Britain is somewhat better than
that of last year, that nation will be COM
PEELED to import as much wheat as last
year, viz. : about 90, 400, 900 bushels. The
important question to the Northwest is,
how much of this will be required from
the surplus Of the United States? The
total exports of wheat and wheat -four
from the United States to Great Britain
in the eleven months up to July 81, last
were 47,941, 760 bushels, (including flour
reduced to wheat) or at the rate of 81.
000,0 bushels for the year.
AS is shown from Mr. Delmar's stats
tics, this was about fifty-six per cent. OF
the total amount imported into the
United Kingdom bu. the favorable re-
ports Of the crops throughout Europe
seem to favor the impression that the
United States can not expect demand
from Great Britain for so large proper
ton of her deficiency this year. The
granaries of Europe are so full and so
near to the great consumer that the pros
pect of an active foreign demand for
American wheat is not very favorable.
The importance of the British demand
for our wheat may be estimated by the
following figures, which we find in the
reports of the Bureau of Statistics:
The total exports of wheat and wheat
flour from the United States to all coun-
tries, in the year ending June 80, 1872,
were Ga, 532, $50 bushels (including flour
reduced to wheat). The total exports of
the same in the year ending June 30,
1873, were 1926 75 bushels, of which
considerably more than half-39, s67 ,S91
bushels-went to Great Britain. Mr..
Delmar's figures show that the exports
of wheat from the United States to Great
Britain in the last year were exception
ally large. 1t is therefore doubtful if
they will be SO large in the next twelve
months.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Household Helps.

WHIPPED CREAM.-Take one pint rich
cream, one teacupo of sifted sugar, essence
of lemon or the grated rind, to taste /;
put this into large pitcher, churn it
with whipped cream churn (Which you
may get at a tinman's for twenty-five
cents) until all of it comes to froth !;
then place it with spoon upon any
mould dessert This is very delicate and
pretty and will double the cream used
SUGAR TAFFY-Put in o sauce pan
over the fire one half pound brown sugar,
two ounces butter, and the juice of a
lemon stir constantly. After it has
cooked for some time, put little of the
mixture into cup of water, and If it
hardens it is done, and must then be
poured on buttered dish (tin is best, as
ware sometimes cracks with the boiling
mixture); after it has cooled little, cut
nto square cakes.
GINGER BEER.-Six ounces of bruise
ginger, five gallons of water. Boil the
ginger in three quarts of water for half
an hour, then add five pounds Of loaf
sugar, gill of lemon juice, and quarter
Of pound of honey, with the remainder
of the water, and strain through cloth.
When cold, add the white Of an egg and
two drachms of essence Of lemon. After
letting il stand three or four days, bottle
il.
CHERRY Hatchery jam is one of
the most delicious sweetmeats this fruit
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
How a Pastor WINS Duped.

The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal writes: Men and women
get Goals, liquor, house-rent, and rides in
the park from systematic begging for
coffin or shroud, or money to bury poor
woman or dead child. At the even
tide, between dawn and dark, the medit-
atoms of a city pastor were disturbed by
the entrance of a clearly looking but
plainly attired young woman. She was
out at service, she said, and could only
catch odd hours to get out. She attend
ed the pastors church, and with a COM
panion sat among the lowly in the gal
lery. Both had been converted the past
winter; both wished to be baptized. The
sickness of her friend prevented it, and
now she had just died. Her companion
wished her to call upon the pastor, thank
him for his faithfulness, thank him for
the great benefit she had derived fiom
his preaching, and to bear her dying re-
quest that he should attend her funeral.
The street, house, and time were named.
The girl wept, and the pastor was deeply
affected. The little money of both had
been expended in the sickness and in the
preparations for the funeral. Everything
was Icduy put Tic grave. WAS tneTe
any society that helped bury the dead :?
There was none. But the pastor opened
his pocket-book, and promptly rendered
five dollars to complete the arrangements
for the funeral. The girl would not
touch it; would not think of such thing
After an earnest plea on the pastors part,
the visitor would take it only as loan, to
be returned in short time, and with many
thanks, departed. The pastor entered
the remarkable case in his notebook, with
which to refresh the saints when they
came together. He found the street and
the house very easily-but, alas! no
corpse. Nobody was sck-nobody had
died; the girl was not to be found, and
the whole was deliberate plan to get
out of the minister five dollars, and the
plan was a success"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
GENERAL INFORMATION.

THE city of Boston has a debt Of forty
two millions Of dollars, and has only
fourteen millions of assets.
A LITTLE more than fifteen per cent
of the total population of the United
States is engaged in agriculture.
A GALVESTON paper says that Texas
will produce this year between five and
six hundred thousand bales of cotton.
This is better than gold-mining.
Iowa is shipping plows to Singapore,
India. English plows, it is said, will not
work in the soil of that country, which
closely resembles that of Central Iowa.
THERE are said to be 500 paper mills
in operation in the United States, with
a capital of $4,000, 900, and total pro-
duction of $40, 100000. These mills give
employment nominally to 10000 people,
whose earnings footed up $4,000, 600.
Last year was not profitable one for the
manufacturers.
THE English exports to this country
show a great falling off in all the leading
manufactured staples for the past six
months. Copper and iron wares and
nearly all descriptions of textiles, except
silk, show marked decrease, and the
total reduction for the six months is
twenty-seven per cent.
Mr.. JOHN RUsKIN is rich, and has al
ways been the publisher Of his own books.
Finding, however, that the sales of said
books never yield him as much as they
have cost, he now proposes to increase
the income by raising the prices a hun.
dred per cent. Such is the mercantile
logic of innocent literary men.
THE inordinate number of people killed
by lightning within few weeks, revives
discussion as to safety during thunder.
storms 1t is conceded that there is nc
place of absolute safety in shower, fol
the fluid is cratic, and goes where il
plcases. 1t is a wise precaution, however
to avoid currents of air, and to sit in the
central portion of a room, away from
parts on which the lightning may
descend.
THE Ammericans must be careless
people, Judging from the monthly reports
of the dead-letter Office. In the month
of July only 367 ,494 persons wasted their
time in writing letters which never
reached their destination, and only a..
643 forgot to pay their postage. Thus
through the carelessness of letter-writers
367 ,494 persons failed to receive letters
last month, the result of which was dis
appointment, and in many cases positive
loss.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
Golden Advice.

Look well to the time of doing any,
thing; there is time for all things. If
your wife looks wearied or worn-out, be
sure it is not the right time to tell her
that the dinner is not good, or that the
bread is sour. Comfort her; cheer her
up. Use the ten thousand little strata
gems you were wont to use SO skillfully
in the old days to bring out the smiles
around her lips. If you are annoyed or
vexed at people, just remember it is not
the right time to speak. Close your
mouth, shut your teeth together firmly,
and it will save you many a useless and
unavailing regret and many a bitter
enemy. If you happen to feel little
cross-and who among us does not at
some time or other do not select that
season for reproving your noisy house.
hold flock. One word spoken in pas.
sion will make scar that q summer OF
smiles can hardly heal over. If you are
a wife, never tease your husband when
he comes home weary from his days
business. 1t is not the time. DO not
ask him for expensive OUTLAWS when he
has been talking about hard times; it is
most assuredly the wrong time. If he
had entered upon any undertaking
against your advice, do not seize in the
moment of its failure to say, 81 told
you sop In fact, it is never the right
time for those four monosyllables.
If people only knew enough to dis
criminate between the right time and
the wrong, there would be less domestic
unhappiness and less silent sorrow and
less esstrangement of hearts! The
greatest calamities that overshad0w our
lives have sometimes their germ in mat
tiers as apparently slight as this. If you
pause, reader, before the singing taunt
or the biting sheer, the unkind SCOT
passes your lips, pause just long enough
to ask yourself, Is it the right time for
me to speak?' you would shut the door
against many heartache.
The world hinges ON small things, and
there are not many more trivial than the
right time and the wrong.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17

AN ACT OF JUsTICE.-Doubting Castle
was sad stumbling block in the path OF
Bunyan's Christian, though it couldn't
bar his way to Truth. We can sympa-
thize with the Pilgrim, for Doubt always
besets us when we are asked to believe
anything extraordinary. Consequently,
when we heard, some eighteen months
ago, that physician in California had
compounded, from the juices and ex-
tractsof certain herbs found there, med
cine that cured almost every variety OF
blood disease, we were incredulous. Since
then we have had opportunities of test
ing the accuracy of the report, and are
free to admit that our doubts have van
ished. Seeing what we have seen, know
ing what we know, it is impossible for lis
to question the remedial properties of DIR.
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs. That this
famous vegetable Tonic, Alternative, and
Antiseptic is specific for Dyspepsia,
Liver Complaint, Chronic Constipation,
Fever and Ague, Bilious Intermittents,
Scrofulous faint in the Blood, Incipient
Consumption, Local and General De
bility, Rheumatism, Sick Headache,
and Diseases Of the Kidneys, seems to be
a matter beyond the pale of controversy
a fred fact IN medical history. The
statements of friends, in whose veracity
and intelligence we have full confidence
corroborated by our own personal OBJ
servation, compel us to admit the sur
passing merits Of the preparation.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17

The HEAT OF THE MooN.-The Earl
of Rose estimates the heat from the
moon as the 80,000th part of that from
the sun. Bonger's experiments give the
brilliancy of the full moon as the 300,-
O00th part of that of the sun; Wollaston
gives it as the S0,172d; Zellner as from
61S, O0Oth to GIG, 000th; and Bond as the
47O,O88th. The maximum of the lunar
heat appears to be little before full
moon.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17

A PENNSYLVANIA boy got so homesick
that he had walked seventy-eight miles,
without eating, in order to sit down once
more at the family hearth-stonc. He was
received with such warmth by his male
parent that il was several days before he
could sit down anywhere.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17

FRoUDE, most literal and judicial OF
English historians, starts presently upon
a tour of all the foreign colonies of Great
Britain, with the design Of writing there.
from a report upon the general British
colonial system of government.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-17
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The LsttIe GirI's yyash-Day.

The Little Gfrfs Wash-Day.
Yves hang'n out our washin',
Don't you see our teenty linesf
The shoe-string one is Brides,
The other one Is mine.
We alters wash on Monday,
Cause gran'ma alters does;
And the coolest ways 10 housekeep
Iguess our gran'ma knows.
We've got teenty dashboard,
And cunnin' little tub,
does most all the rins'n',
Cause Birdie loves to rub.
i tell you she piles soap on.
Most more than Bridget does
To do dreat, big washin';
but Bridget never knows
She'd scold us worse than fifty
III she should find Il out;
But Yves gen'ally pretty quiet,
And she don't know what we're bout.
III mamma'd come and see us,
spect she'd scold some more,
Cause we've wetted up our sashes,
And stopped the pantry floor.
We've crinkled up our fingers,
Till they look rs gran'ma's do;
And Birdie stopped some soapsuds
Right on my new blue shoe.
We set IL in the oven
guess it'll dry right soon,
There, we've done this dreat big washin',
And hung II out fore noon.
= Youth's COMPANION,