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Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
-----l----T--7a1s7 The Horseshoe Calculation.

The results of some arithmetical problems are simply incredible till the process by which they are reached is followed step by step. It is, therefore, not surprising that, in spite of the notoriety of the famous horseshoe" calculation, two persons accepted the offer of well-know farmer in the Brechin district. who lately proposed to pay the expense of 8 picnic to thirty farm CTS provided one of them would bring to him in the market on Tuesday one grain of oats, doubling the number of grains every Tuesday for twelve months. Upon the offer being taken, one of the parties accepting it having, according to local journal, offered to carry all the oats oa his back at the end of the year, calculation was made, which resulted as follows | The grains of oats would amount at the end of the twelve months to. 1,O34, S34, 468 quarters, two bushels and the value, at thirty shillingsh per quarter, was found to be s1 552, 251. 7o2, Is, Sd. Tho picnic was not paid for, but the gentleman who thought ho could carry the accumulation of oats "stood z yennd of champagne"
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
MO-. 16.
Story of 8 Postal Card.

A prominent merchant in St. Joseph, Mo-, J. B. Johnson, Esq, has got him. self into trouble, all growing out of pasteboard with some writing on it.
 Some weeks ago MT. Johnson having occasion to order some goods from Chicago, pasted a label about. the size of postage stamp, bearing his busi- ness address, on the postal card.
 The Chicago correspondent received the card in due time, but had to pay six cents extra postage, and so notified MT. Johnson.
 As the latter had been in the habit of posting these labels for some time and had never been called upon for extra postage, he consulted the postmaster of St. Joseph, MT. Humboldt, about it.
 The latter authority informed him that he had right to label the cards and he would continue to do so with safety, unless the cards were going to Chicago, whose postmaster didn't understand the law.
 Thereupon, in 8 happy frame of mind, MT. Johnson addressed card to the Chicago house in his best hand writing, and with 8 feeling of exulta- tion, triumphantly and in bold hand wrote these words
 "Our postmaster says your post master is an ass." ....
 The Chicago postmaster forwarded the obnoxious postal card to Washing ion.
 MT. Cresswell put on his spectacles and read the St. Joseph postmaster's pithy opinion of the Chicago post master.
 The result of the reading was 8 postal card from MT. Oresswen to the St. Joseph postmaster that nearly lifted the latter functionafy out of his boots, and made him realize, as he had never done before, how frail the tenure of post-ofice may be.
 Thereupon the postmaster called upon MT. Johnson, and informed him that he had never said that the post master of Chicago was an ass.
 Mir. Johnson brushed up his memory, and after awhile concluded that he had made 8 mistake in the language he used, and gave his postmaster state- ment to that effect.
 This relieved the postmaster.
 He forwarded the statement to MT. Oresswell, and once more felt secure in his office. .....f..
 But it did not end here, for a few days after the statement had been transmitted an order came for the arrest of MT. Johnson, for using scurrilous language on a postal card, and on the same night he was arrested.
 Thus for the sake of little business label about the size of a postage stamp, the St. Joseph merchant got into 8 difficulty with the St. Joseph post master and the Chicago postmaster, got the St. Joseph postmaster and the Chicago postmaster by the ears, got the St. Joseph postmaster into trouble with the Government, and has got himself into a tight place, in which he may have to pay from $100 to $1, ,000, or go to jail and stay from one to ten years be- fore he can extricate himself.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
SALISBURY, CONN.,. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1874

unknown gentleman whom she met in the cemetery was invited in the public prints to present himself. May ask why you did net respond to this call ?"
 "A few days after I met the lady, I was taken very sick, and for weeks my recovery was doubtful. For at least two months never saw a newspaper" |"
 The prosecuting attorney arose and said ...
 "I leave it to the judgment of the jury, whether, after what they have just heard, they will indorse the views of the defense-namely, that the accus- ed was not punished for a criminal of- fence when she was imprisoned for thirty days, but that she was tho victim of an injustice. If you do indorse this view of the case, gentlemen, then you must bring in verdict of acquittal."
 Without leaving their seats, the jury returned verdict of "Not guilty"
 The satisfaction expressed by every one present can easier be imagined than described.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
The Lincoln Monument.

The monument erected to the mem- ory of Abraham Lincoln, at Spring field, Ill.,, is of Quincy granite. The east and west walls of the lower struc- ture or terrace are 72} feet long and 15 feet 10 inches in height, The width is the same as it's length, but the north and south walls are swelled to 8 semi circle, with door midway in each. These semi-circular projections make the extreme length of the monument 1191 feet from north to south. On each side of the circling ends are flights of wide granite steps leading to the top of the terrace, which is doored with huge slabs of limestone, and the whole sur rounded by ponderous granite balus. trade. In the south semi-circle is @ room beautifully finished with marble panels and heavy ornamented cornice, which is the Memorial Hall, where it is proposed to hoard such keepsakes and mementoes as have any relation to the history of Lincoln, or to the times in which he lived. The north semi circu- lar room is the catacomb, and is fur nished with fine crypts, five of which ale sealed with marble slabs, but the centre one, which contains the mortal remains of Abraham Lincoln, IS pro vided with plate glass panel, so that the marble sarcophagus can be plainly seen. @'
 The sarcophagus is made of Italian marble, elegantly polished. On the end of the sarcophagus, which will be visible after it is placed in the crypt, is carved 8 wreath of oak leaves with the name of Lincoln in the middle. Around and above the wreath are en- graven his memorable words :" With malice toward none, with charity fol all." .-' ,..e- s" -.a' @"a tf'.'
 In the center of the terrace rises the obelisk, the base of which is 24 feet square and 15 feet high. On each GOT. ner of this base is g round pedestal rising 12} feet above the terrace and nine feet in diameter. Around tho entire structure runs cordon of raised granite shields, on which are the names of the States. The four round pedes tals are to receive when finished tht bronze groups representing the infan try, cavalry, artillery and the navy.
 Opening from the terrace, on the south side of the base, is the entrance to the obelisk. Above the door, neal the top of the base, is the name O "Lincoln." Above that, on the top O the base, is square granite pedestal on which stands the statue. The pedes tai is seven feet above those designed for the groups, and above it the obelisl rises 65 feet. In this pedestal, psnelet in the granite, is bas-relief in bronze It is an eagle standing on the Nationa shield, which is overlaying an oliv branch. On 8 granite pedestal, ,36 fee above the grade line of the monument stands the bronze statue of Lincoln.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Foolish Gambling.

Professional gamblers, unless playing for amusement, rarely try to win any thing at keno. as they recognize the fact that there are large chances against them. The keno players are usually clerks, mechanics and small tradesmen,
 who become infatuated with it, and
 lose almost everything they have before they can make up their minds to let it alone. As the house takes ten per cent.
 of each pot, the players have only to continue the game long enough for the house to get it all. Still in the United States at the present time no gambling game is carried on to so great an extent as keno. Hundreds of young men in good positions are being ruined by it every week. A-" -,.. "r". "'
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Ruined by Taxes,

The New Orleans PScay,1ne tells a strange story of wealthy gentleman residing there who appears to have broken down under the weight of taxa tion. A few years ago, Franeois Le- croix was at the head of the leading mercantile establishment in New Or leans. The proceeds of his great busi. ness were judiciously invested, and he became enormously wealthy. Leading a frugal, industrious life, save during his annual trips to Paris, when he spent fabulous sums, his fortune grew steadily, each year presenting a more eloquent contrast to the simplicity of his habits. Within the past four years his tax troubles commenced. The high rates annoyed him, and he has gradually drifted into tax resistance of the most pronounced type. A year ago, finding Lacroix incorrigible, the city govern. ment seized the larger part of his prop erty, and placed the rentals under the control of the sheriff, to be applied to Hquidating the city's claim. This step did not change the old mans deter imitation, and the tax bill increased with frightful rapidity. So the enor- nous sale was begun. Spurning all proffers of assistance. laughing atevery warning, deriding every prayer of his fee of one of the most magnificent estates in the South. He attends the sales each day, and sits there apparent ly unconcerned, while one of the finest fortunes on the continent flies away on the echo of the crier's voice. The Pic0- :yaIae is at loss how to account for the old mans freak. Only once, when they sold some stately edifce, he sobbed, but at all other times he sits as though he were the least concerned of all the careless crowd. To the or dinsry gazer, he seems a broken, de- mented old man, whom riches, or age, or unseen grief has rendered mad.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Rum in England.

A terrible picture of the ravages of intemperance was recently presented by an English temperance advocate who lectured in New York city. Oom- menting upon the disastrous influence of beer, the lecturer asserted that ''the babes of London are never sober from their birth until they are weaned." The English press, while freely c0nfessine the prevalence of drunkenness among the 1aboring classes of London, has shrunk from revealing the horrors of infantile intemperance. If Dr. Ed munds, the lecturer just referred to, speaks truly, the English metropolis is infested with drunken babes. Dis solute male infants roam from Estreet to street bawling out maudlin nursery songs, and ripe for riot and hair pull ing. Girl babies cucumber the door steps in shamefully dishevelled con- dition, and wink wickedly at the aston ished public. In scores of nurseries proAigate infants spend the greater part of the day in sleeping off the de- bauch of the previous night, and on awakening clamor for the fatal fount whence they draw the maddening poi son, and insist, like MT. Camp, that it should be placed where they "c can put their lips to it when so disposed" There are, at moderate calculation, fully 300, ,000 babies in London, and Dr. Ed munds assures us that they pass their first eighteen months in one prolonged fit of drunkenness. Here is 8 field which the total abstinence people should cultivate without delay. The pledge must be circulated among these abandoned babies, and they must be induced to promise to abstain totally and forever from beer in any form even when it is mingled with their earliest food. The only bright spot in this dark feature of infantile depravity is the implied admission of Dr. Ed munds that the young inebriates reform after having reached the period of weaning. Let us hope that this is true; otherwise the future of London and of England IS dark indeed.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
HarYest-Time.

The summer days had como and gone, And OCT the fields of golden grain The reapers' song rang cheerily:
 The harvest-time had como again. The lassies-bless their bonny hearts !- With many smile our task did cheer. But brown-eyed Nora-ah, my heart
 Grew mad with joy when she was near !! Of this and that we talked while,
 Till Nora, in sober fit On Reaping that which we have sown," Began to moralize bit. Then whispered I, "Ah, Nora dear,
 Can you not think how long ago Within that little heart of yours
 Tho seeds of love tried to sow9 "How rich harvest that dear heart Will yield to me I can not say; But if there's aught awaits me there, am happy man to-day!" And there amid the golden sheaves, Ere yet the twilight did begin, opened wide my longing arms,
 And gathered my sweet harvest in.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Butter and Cheese.

The "call" on eggs at the Butter and Cheese Exchange, New York, has be- gun. The following classifcations have been adopted: e.;+E ..
 THE CLASSIFICATION FOR FRESH EGGS.
 Extras shall comprise the very fanci- est marks of fresh-laid clean eggs in season, put up in the finest manner, where every condition necessary to place fancy eggs in this market has been complied with.
 Firsts shall comprise fine marks of eggs such as come in carload lots or smaller lots, and are packed in fine or der, fresh in season, and reasonably faction to most consumers.
 Seconds shall comprise all stock that is merchantable and inferior to frsts.
 Thirds shall comprise all poor stock in bad order, rotten, etc. Stock con- sidered not really merchantable. .a THE CLASSIFICATION FOR LINED EGGS.
 Extras shall comprise the very fan ciest marks of lined eggs. Bright, clean eggs, put up in the finest manner, where every condition necessary to produce fancy lined eggs has been complied with. ....5..a .t Firsts shall comprise fine marks of lined eggs, such as come in carload or smaller lots, and are packed in fine or der and reasonably clean. Such stock as gives good satisfaction to most con- sumers. f. ..... ...a : .,!.;. -'la .I
 Seconds shall comprise all stock that is merchantable and inferior to firsts.
 Thirds shall comprise all poor stock in bad order, rotten, etc. Stock con. sidered not really merchantable! .,a
 In conformity with lay resolution passed by the National Butter and Egg Association at, it's last regular meeting in Indianapolis, Ind, the Committe or Essays have offered a number of prizes for the best practical and scientific es says on the treatment of eggs and but ter. There are three prizes on eacl sIbjeet~a2oo, &1oo, and @bcs
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30

Out West very destructive species of vermin, of unknown ancestry, has entered the granaries, and is playing havoc with the wheat. It is described As Q white woxm.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14
NOBLE LIVES.

There are hearts that never falter
In the. battle of the right
There are ranks that never alter
Watching through the darkest night.
And the agony of sharing
In the fercest of the strife
Only gives the noble daring,
Only makes a grander life.
There are those who never weary,
Bearing. suffering and wrong,
Though the way is long and dreary
1t 10 vocal with their song;
While their spirits iu Gods furnace,
Bending to His gracious will,
Are fashioned ia purer mould,
BY his loving, matchless skill
There are those whose living mission
'Tis to bind the bleeding heart;
And to teach the calm submission,
Where the pain and sorrOw smart
They are angels bearing to US
Loves rich ministry of peace
While the night is nearing to Us
And life's bitter trials cease
There are those who battle slsndee.
EBSy, JeslOusy aud hate;
Who would rather die tnRu pandeT
To the passions of earth's great
Aud no earthly power can crush them,
They dresd NOT tue tyrant's irown:
Neither fear nor favor hush them,
Never bind their spirits Down.
These. these alone are truly great
These are the conquerors of fate;
These truly live, they never die,
But clothed with Immortality.
When they shall lay their armOr down,
Shall enter and obtain the crown.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

A hasty man, with his arms full
of his wife's baggage, thought he
was left by the train last night.
and running rapidly across plat.
form, fell oyer truck. He .strad-
died one of the handles and rode
it for a second, lunged forward
ana E0t his legs tangled up in the
cross pieces when 5he malicious
thing reared gp and slid for
ward Just enough % throw the
man off his balance and get him
down; ne BACKED MS eye and
broke his spectacles against the
handle, and ran over MS foot with
t.o wheels, s.ua. o,oi after he goS
away from it and was seated in
the car, he says the truck ran af-
ter him and kicked him twice in
the ribs before the brakeman
could take it away from him.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

Why Aunt Sallie Never Married

\
"Now, Aunt Sallie, do please
tell us why you never got mar.
ried? You remember you said
once that when you were a girl
you was engaged to a minister,
and promised you would tell us
! some time. Nov, aunt, please
tell us?''
Well, you see when I was
about seventeen years old l was
| living in Utica, in the State Of
New York; though I say it n.y.
self, I was quite a good looking
| girl then, and had several beaux.
The one that took my fancy WIS
a young minister, a very promis-
ing young man. He thought a
good deal of me. and I kind of
took a fancy to him, and things
went on until we were engaged.
One evening he came to me and
put his arms around me, and
kind hugged me. when I got
excited and some illustrated. 1t
was long time ago, and l don't
know but what / might have
hugged back a little. l was like
any other girl, and pretty soon [
pretended to be mad about it, and
pushed him away, though l
wasn't mad a bit. You must
know that the house where II
lived was one of the back streets
of the town. There were glass
doors in the parlor, which open
ed on the streets. These doors
were drawn to, l stepped back a |
little from him, and when he |
came close l pushed him back
again. / pushed him harder
than 1 intended to; and don't
you think, girls, the poor fellow
lost his balance and fell through
one of the doors into the street."
''Oh, Aunty! Was he killed?
'NO. He fell head first, and as
he was going l caught him by
the legs Of his trousers. ] held
him for moment and tried to
pull him back, but his suspenders
gave way, and the poor young
man fell clear out of his Danta-
looms into parcel IF ladies and
gentlemen along the street
Oh! AUnty! AUnty! LOrdyw
There, that's right; sqpall and /.
glggle as much as you want to.
Girls that can't hear Il little thing
ike that without tearing around
the room, and being in such
1 way, uou'G KNOW enough to
come in when it rains. A nice
time the man who marries one of
you will have won't he? Catch
ne telling you anything again."
"But, Aunt Sallie, what became
Of him? Did you ever see him
again?"
"No; the moment he touched
the ground he got up and left the
place in terrible hurry.
tell you it was a sight to be re.
membered. How that man runi
He went out West, and I believe
he is preaching out in Illinois.
But he never married. He was
very modest, and [ suppose he
was so badly frightened that time
that he never dared trast himself
near a woman again. That, girls,
IS the reason | never married. |
telt very bad about it for a lone
1me-for he was real good man,
md l have often thought to my
self that we should have been
very happy if his suspenders
hadn't given way"
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

They tell story of an editor in
Indiana who calls hisitems "Nits. y
because they come out of his own
head: but this is nothing to a
chan on one of our morning con-
temporaries, who is perpetually
telling stories about a person nam.
ed Noah Count-no account-and
then fjatters himself that no one
recognizes them as his autoblo-
graphy-
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

"Why, Ichabod, 1 thought you
got married more'n year ago."
"WelI, Aunt Jerush, it was talk.
ed of, but I found out that the
girl and all her folks were op-
posed to it, and so l just give 'em
all the mitten' and let the thing
drop"
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14
A Talking Match,

The following we copy, verba
tim, from the South Florida Jour-
nal:
The Cap'en ken talk sum, he
kan and he jinerally talks tn the
pint too! But upon one okashun
very disastrous an melancholy
sarkumstance WOS the result ov
one ov his feats in that line. The
way it happened was this. 1t
was over in Orleans, thar was a
fIenchman thar that could talk,
the frenchman challenged the
capen fur a talkin match, the
capen aksepted an they met one
mite arter supper with ther frens
az seconds an went at it! tits Sed
that they had tn open all the win
ders to let the words out, an that
the way they flew would hev give
q duzzen of the best short hand
reporters the "deliriums tremen-
tus" tn hev heerd ON We'll hi
twelve OklOk evry boldly was
talked tn sleep but the capen an
the Frenchman an one OF the
seconds. He reported that the
last he rem emooted " tnGm thai
thar wasn't much change in the
k0moatants, only that the circum-
ference Of the Freucbman1s eyes
was kinsiderably increased.
Bnt when they all woke mp mex
morning an gazed upon the now
quiet scene ov the desperate en-
counter, sad Site met ther eyes,
for thar was that mistaken
Frenchman lyin ded upon the
floor an the onterritied canen q
iyin down bi the side ov him q
whisperin in his ear.
Your'n respectful, IKE
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

sIs there any person Won viob
me to marry?" said a wife to q
dying spouse who had been some. m
what of a tyrant in his day. @Mar
nv the devil, if you likeW was the
gruff reply. ''No, I thank Won
nv my dear, one husband of the same
family is enough fo1 me-"
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

The name of the Sheriff of
White county, Ill. is Hail Storms.
His father was an eccentric gen.
tleman, and he had three sons,
whom he named respectively,
Hail Storms, Rain Storms. and
Snow Storms. Chicago Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

Fashionable women in Paris
now wear attached to a belt
around their waists, an aims bag,
fan, a card case. a pocket-boOk,
an umbrella, a turnip watch, a pin
cushion, some ivory tablets and a
little mirror.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14
70 ZHE
rVOus s. DeblIitated
OF BOTH SEXES.
No Charge for AdUice and Consul
tdtiO2a.

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son Medical College, Philadelphia, author
of several valuable works, can be consult
ed on all diseases of the Sexual or Urinary
Organs, (Which he has made an especial
study either in male or female, no matter
from what cause originating or of how
long standing. A practice of 80 years
enables him to treat diseases with success.
Cures guaranteed. Charges reasonable.
Those at distance can forward letter
describing symptoms and enclosing stamp
to prepay postage.
BSend for the GUIDE TO HEALTH.
Price 10 cents.
j. B. DYOTT, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon, I04 Duane Street,
New York City, New York.
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Agents, San Francisco, Cal.
an3l-ly
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-14

"Now, Aunt Sallie, do please
tell us why you never got mar
ried? You remember you said
once that when you were girl
you was engaged to a minister,
and promised you would tell us