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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-03-05
y. M. ca.
To q. Easst Of q. Y,slon Record.

"Oi0 a6uoiuhU VI iiOln
the remarks made in your ed
itori al some weeks ago. ]
thought the remarks were harsh
aRd unealled Tor, bat thought
best to hold my peace. l mean
your reference to the Young
mems Christian Association,
having spent 80 much time
in praying that they were out
of wind before they got into
action" As Chaplain of said
association l deem 1t my duty
to give you a few facts, not
that our society wish any
praise for any thing that may
have been accomplished by
the ladies of Macarthur thro.
the blessing of God. 1t will
be remembered that we as q
society held the week OF pray.
er, commencing on the first
Sabbath of the new year, the
first four evenings in the Pres
byterian church and the last
'hree in the M. E. church. On
Thursday evening part of the
programme for prayer was for
the suppression of the liquor
traffic and intemperanCe. In
my opening remarks | empha-
sized this part of the topic as
fully as | knew how, and was
followed by others III briefr re
marks, and it was by a vote.
agreed to resume this topic the
next evening. 6. W. Pitcher
being in the Chsir, the next
evening / tried my hand on &
short temperance speech, after
which | moved the Chair ap.
point a committee OF three TO
take any action they might
deem best on this subject and
report to a future meeting
This committee was Brothers
Johnson, Bowers, and Craig.
This committee secured the
sermon by Mr.. Crothers and
arranged for The mass meeting
and union prayer meetings,
first at our room and then at
the NJ L. church. After our
fifth union prayer meeting we
handed the subject over to the
ladies of Macarthur, agreeing
to stand by them in any law
full measures they should take,
p'edging our sympathy and in
fuence. If there has been
any good done, give the ladies
the praise through the bless.
ing oil God. | am sure you
wish nothing but the facts.
j. CORN WELL.
The above communication
expresses the facts in The case
just as we understood them,
and accredits the Y. M. Q. A
with only what is their due in
the Inauguration of the tenn
perance movement IN Near
thur. Our remarks were per-
haps a little "harsh;" we IN
tended they should he. At
the time they were written it
had been three weeks since
the prayer meetings were first
held, there was talk of it fall
ing through; and we inserted
The item referred TO for the
purpose of netting The mem
bers OF the association; to spur
them up 20 their duty, and lei
them know the public was
watching and commenting up
on their action. We believe
the article had the desired eff.
feet, and now that great good
has already come from the
movement We cheerlully re-
cord the fact that the Y. M. @.
A. originated it and stood by
it in its infancy, until it was
able to 60 alone.
DAVID boutwell,, a mailer,
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-03-05
SCRIBNER FOR 1874

THE unexampled favor accorded TO this
Maya Nne by the public, enables us to enter
upon The coming yer with the means OF ma
king IL more Attrac tive aud valuable than ev.
err before to its large and increasing .umb,r
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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-03-05

BowEN'S gin mill still runs
undisturbed. A new supply
lately received.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-03-05

STOCK Is being subscribed for
gas works in Jackson. The
amount required is $25, 000.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-03-05
Notice.
Administrators Sale of Real Estate

Administrators Sale Of Real Estate.
TN pursuance OF an order Of the Probate
lGourI OF Vlnton county, OHIO | viii otter
for sale at public auction on
Friday the 20th Day Of March, d. d.
1874.
at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ. at the Eagle Mills, in Ea.
gle township VInton county, Ohio, the follow.
InS described real ertate situate IN the county
of Flnt0n and State Of OHIO, TO wit: twenty
acres of the west half OF the northwest quar.
ter Of the south. west quarter of section mum.
Der twelve, 70 township n timber ten, 10 range
nineteen, 10.
Also the north east quarter of the south
east quarter Of section number eleven, II
town ship and range afore4ald.
Appraised at three hundred dollars, $500
and must bring two. thirds OF that rum.
TERMS OF SALE.-Une. half in hand, and
one>hall IN one year from day of sale, with IN.
terert. Deferred payments TO be secured by
mortgage upon the premises sold.
MILES RADCLIPF,
Administrator Of the Estate Of lChabod Grum.
mons, deceased. 22feb
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PLACE IN 7HECOUNTY

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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Level of the Great Salt Lake.

Silliman's Journal for September
gives, on the authority of the Utah
Mining journal, some very remarkable
statements in regard TO the level of the
Great Salt Lake. The valley was set
tied in IS47. The level of the lake Is
now twelve or fourteen feet higher than
il was then. From 1S47 to 1852 there
was no noticeable change. From 1852
TO 1856 there was a rise to the extent
of about six feet above the lowest level
of the aforementioned year. From 1856
TO 1861 a gradual subsistence took place,
until. in the fall of 1861, the level was
two feet below the lowest mark of 1852,
and the lake was contracted to about
hree-fOurths of its area in that year.
But from the spring of 1861 there went
on a steady rise, the lake extended to
once and a half its area in 1861 and It's
surface stood twelve feet above the ear
lier level. Since that time the rise and
fell have been about equal, the tenden-
cv being on the whole to gain, the Hue
tuations not exceeding two feet. AS to
the prospects for the future, it is stated
that the humidity of the atmosphere
annually increases as the area Of Guilt
walton becomes greater, and, as a conse-
ouence, the evaporation becomes less.
ON the other hand. the mountain streams
are steadily enlarging. Thousands Of
acres of farming, meadow and pasture
lands have been submerged along the
eastern and northern shores of the lake,
and many square miles of valuable
lands still occupi by the farmers viii
be completely inundated should the
waters rise but a few inches above the
level Of the past five years, unless pro-
tected by levees. A monument has been
receDtlv placed near the shore Of the
lake to indicate the fluctuations OF its
level. This viii be watched with great
interest for the next few years,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Exnuisita Toilets.

Lucy II. Hooper, in her Paris letter
to the Philadelphia Press, thus de-
scribes the dresses worn by Blanche
Pierson In La Dame aux Camellias :"
ct the Gymnase 90 In the first act she
wears blue silk dress, bordered with a
wide founce of point lace headed with
white oamellias, and with a train over
skirt of point lace held back by gar
lands of white camellias the cuirass-
corsage of the dress is perfectly plain,
with half short sleeves composed en-
tirely of point lace. Her hair was dec
GRATED with camellias, and she wore
superb set of diamonds. Her second
dress was a sleeveless jacket and tunic
of cafe ar Eait colored cloth, covered
all over with fine embroidery on silk Of
a darker shade. It was worn above a
skirt of brown velvet, and the sleeves Of
the jacket were also OF brown velvet.
In the fourth act she wore one of the
handsomest ball-dresses that ] have
seen since my arrival in Paris 1t was
of white satin, the cuirsss-corsage and
the puffed fiont of the skirt being Gov
cred all over with close, fine embroid-
cry in white Jet the skirt was plain be-
hind, and over it was O full skirt of
Brussels applique lace, which just met
the puffed front. Her hair, her neck,
and her arms were ablaze with dia-
mondR."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Anatomv of the Pornoise.

Mr.. Frank Buckland, having dissected
q pOTpoise, gives some interesting infor
nation on the structure of that animal.
In the matter of bowels it is well pro-
vided for, the specimen examined hav-
ing 90 feet inches of intestine. The
stomach was so complicated that it
could not be made ont by ordinary dis
section. To get round the difficulty,
Mr.. Buckland hung it up by the oeso-
phagus, and filed it with plaster OF par
is, of which nearly a pailful was re-
quired before the organ was fully dis
tended. 1t was then found that the pOr-
poise has two stomachs-one in which
the prey is kept, and the other in which
it is digested- A careful section of the
head showed the blow-hole TO be a most
complicated mechanism. The pOrpoise,
being pure mammal, has a four-cavi-
tied heart, and Pair of lungs. Now,
nature has ordained that he shall live in
the sea the problem is, how to
keep water out of the lungs. In the
first place, his nose is guarded by q
valve placed on the top of his head, and
when the porpOise breathes he comes to
the surface, and takes a deep inspira-
tiOn. Not drop of water ever gets in.
But how does he work his valve, and
keep the water out of his lungs, when
he is asleep? The answer TO this ques-
tion cannot be given yet. Mr.. Buck
land intends to study the subject when
next he has a live porpoise at the Brigh-
ton aquarium.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Naming the Baby.

A paying hoax was played few days
since, says a Olarksville correspondent
of the Louisville Courier-J ourual, supon
the family relatives of one of our young
married men who had the good fortune
(or bad fortune, whichever way the
reader construes it) of having an addi-
tion to his family In the shape of a boy
weighing nine pounds avoirdupois. A
friend of the parents directed postal
card to each one of the uncles and aunts
of the little chap, bearing upon the
back these few lines
Go has a new baby at his house
named after you"
In few days letters OF congratula-
ton began to pour IN. A gentleman
from our city, one of the uneles, sent
by express a beautiful silver oT-p, ac-
companied by these words s'I thank
you for an honor that my finances will
not permit me to accept very often from
my numerous relatives" another, writ
ing from Paducah, feels g highly graf
ified that you should name your boy
after me, and if it bears In reality my
name, and is not named Just forty-five
years after me, you can draw upon me
for his first boots and 1 viii honor his
draft. He "smells a mice" An
aunt to the infant, writing from Hop
kinsville, KY, says You know not
how gratifed am that you have named
your little girl after me. am not well
now, but as soon as 1 am able to ven
ture out upon the streets I shall ac-
knowledge the hsnor in a more becom-
ing manner" An uncle at Erin, Tenn,
writes ''Kiss the baby for me. I do
not know how to thank you. AS soon as
can find time to dig several pounds of
ginseng 1 will send my little namesake
present" And thus they continued
to come from all sections, as the family
Is quite numerous. The baby Is yet
unnamed, and if it receives the name of
each one who has sent a present there is
a slim show for its future existence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Remarkable Well.

Some we'll -borers near Odell, Illinois,
are profane enough TO report that they
have tapped hell, and are getting the full
benefit of the leak. Gas was discov-
cred forty feet below the surface, and
at eighty feet a vein of water was
struck which spouted two hundred feet
in the air, carrying up gravel as big as
hens eggs, and sending everybody fly
ing hundreds of feet away. This per-
formance continued until the sand and
gravel were six inches deep within a
radius of one hundred feet of the bole.
When the Jet of water ceased, the aper-
ture was found much widened, with
quicksand at the bottom, and a stream
of gas had taken the place of water.
A match was applied to it, and flames
leRped into the air, producing a sound
like thunder. The workmen think they
have struck the gate of the evil doom,
or brought forth a young volcano, they
don't know which. The gas they are
getting now causes a blue color in the
vegetation for miles around, and the
people are focking from all quarters to
see the strange phenomenon.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Use of Thermometers.

The differences in the ordiuary mete-
geological observations are not so much
owing to the thermometer, as a general
thing, as to the want of a proper care
in observation. To ascertain the true
temperature of the atmosphere the In
strument should never be hung against
the walls of a building, as the heat alb
sorbed and radiated will cause q change
of several degrees, depending on the
nature of the material of the walls, and
the sides exposed to sun or wind, as al
so the radiation from the internal heat
of the building. The best place is un-
der the shade of an open cover or tree,
away from any buildings, suspended q
few feet above the ground. The fact
that the air may be at rest or in motion,
will not affect the temperature. To as
certain the heat of the direct rays of
the sun, the instrument should be COW
cred with a coat of lamp-black and ex-
posed to the direct rays of the sun in q
sheltered place.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Chinese Typography.

Printing a book in China is. done as
follows Two pages are written by
one trained to the business, on a sheet
of thin paper, divided into columns by
black lines, and in the space between
the two pages are written the title of
the work and the number of the chap
ter and page when the sheet has
been printed it is folded down through
this space, so as to bring the title, etc.,
partly on each page. The sheet, when
ready for printing, is pasted face down
ward on a smooth block of wood, made
usually from the pear or plum tree.
AS soon as it is dry the paper is rubbed
off with great care, leaving behind an
inverted impression of the charac ers.
Another workman now cuts away the
blank space, by means of a sharp graver,
and the block, with the characters in
high relief, passes to the printer, who
performs his work by hand. The two
points that he has to be most careful
about are, to ink the characters equally
with his brush and to avoid tearing the
paper when taking the impression.
From a good wooden block some fifteen
thousand copies may be printed, and
when the characters have been shar-
pened up little it is possible TO obtain
eight or ten thousand more impressions.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
The Taste Of Blood.

That strange and almost brutal SEN
timent which delights, for instance, in
watching an actor feign death by poi
son with horrible comfort ons, reached
its extremity in England the other even
ing. Atthe Theater Royal, Cambridge,
the stage was coupled by a raving sort
of tragedy, IN which murderer IS
brought to Justice. The actor tax
ing this character refused 60 do more IN
the death scene than appear on the scat
fold, and make his last confession IN
der the dangling rope. There the cur
tain dropped, but the peculiar British
audience would not be sRtis fed. 1t
roared, It hissed, it declined to leave
the thester, and the manager solemnly
came out and spolog zed for being una
BILE to crafty his patrons by actually
hanging the actor unless with his own
consent, which he was hardly likely to
give. Bring him ont with the rope
round his neck, shouted these pleasant
people, and their demand not being
granted they growlingly.and reluctantly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
La Footnrints of TIme.

Wrinkles are the first tell-tales Of a
lost youth, and the wrinkles make their
way IN a very stealthy manner. At first
there comes the faint marking of one
little line about the corner of the eve,
and one at each side of the mouth. As
suredIy it is the sign of approaching
age, we say complacently, looking at
ourselves in the glass, conscious of our
attractions in the perfection of their
maturity. That little line, indicative
of the furrowcd future, is no more age
than the one scarlet leaf of the maple
In the midst of the green wood is au-
tumn. 1t is the shadow of the herald,
If You will but it is not the real thing.
And so on with all the rest. But it is
not so with our friends. The gap made
between the past and present by years
of absence is abrupt, unexpected. You
left a blooming, sleek-haired, Slim
waisted girl you find faded, hollow
eyed, gray-headed woman, the mother
of children, afflicted with bad health
and tired of her life. Or you encoun-
ter a stout and forid matron whose
bulk is a burden to herself and a mat
ter not for admiration to her friends
whose early shyness has worn off and
given place to o free and-easy good
nature that may be genial but is vul-
gar whose girlish sentlmentallty has
gone with her bushes, and who now
openly prOclaims her devotion to cham
pagne and lobster salad as among the
few things in life worth taking trouble
for, and talks of the pleasures OF the
palate as superior TO every other enjoy
an1ent. To be sure, pairing away in your
minds eye those superhuous layers of
flesh, you can lhake out the nose of the
past, aud the lips have the same curve
as hers had in the days when you would
have given a months salary for kiss
the eyes are the same color, but what
has become of their sparkle Where
is that roguish twinkle that made your
heart leap when it flashed upon you,
giving point to a girlish sauclness that
was so innocent and she thought was so
naughty? Where is that dewy,
downcast look that was so con-
scious whe there was nothing
to blush for ? Is it that ugly leer
which tells of less tenderness of senti-
ment than you would like to see even IN
a man ? You must accept this as the
&" survival ;" it is all you will have of
the sweetness, the beshfulness that
once seemed to you the most exquisite
grace on earth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Ladies and Vinegar.


Taken in moderation there is no
doubt that vinegar is beneficial, but in
excess it impairs the digestive organs.
Experiments on artificial digestion show
that if the quantity of acid be dimin-
ished, digestion is retarded if incl eased
bevond a certain point, digestion is ar
rested. There is reason, therefore, in
the vulgar notion-unhappiIy too often
relied On-tbat vinegar helps to keep
down any alarming adiposity, and that
ladies who dread the disappearance of
their graceful outlines in curves of
plumpness expanding into " fat may
arrest so dreadful a result by liberal
potations of vinegar, but they can only
so arrest it at the far more dreadful ex-
pense of their health. The amount of
acid which will keep them thin will de-
stroy their digestive powers. Portal
gives case which should be warning:
90 A few years ago young lady IN easy
circumstances enjoyed good health she
was very plump, had a good appetite
and a complexion blooming with roses
and lilies. She began to look upon her
plumpness with suspicion, for her
mother was very fat, and she was afraid
Of becoming ike her. Accordingly she
consulted a woman who advised he to
drink a glass Of vinegar daily. The
Young lady followed the advice, and her
plumpness diminished. She was de-
lighted with the success of the expert
ment, and continued it for more than a
month. She began to have q cough !;
but it was dry st its commencement,
and was considered as a slight Geld
which would go of. Meantime, from
dry it became moist, slow fever came
on, and a difficulty of breathing; her
body became lean and wasted away,
Dight-sweats, swelling Of the feet and
of the legs succeeded, and q diarrhea
terminated her life. Therefors, young
ladies, be boldly fat ! Never pine for
graceful slimness and romantic pallor /;
but if nature means you to be ruddy
and rotund, accept il with a laughing
grace, which will captivate more hearts
than all the paleness Of circulating
library.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Ancient WeapOns,

An exhibition of ancient and modern
weapons has been opened at Birming-
ham. They date from the fourteenth
century. Among them is a breech load
ing air-gun, made by Nook, an English
man, somewhere about 1860, which has
seven barrels, all of which explode with
one blow of the hammer. There Is
also a beautiful breech-loader, bearing
the name of Aquafresca Borgia, 1894
There are many exquisite breech-load-
ing pistols of ancient dates, with in
genious mechanism, and the first at
tempt at the revolving principle, in the
shape of a double barreled gun, the
barrels turning on a pivot. Many of
the guns have reservoirs in the stock for
ammunition. One curiosity is a single
barreled gun to hold two charges. One
charge was rammed home and several
wads inserted, after which the second
charge was placed in the barrel. The
top charge was exploded by a hammer
about q third of the way up the barrel,
and hammer at the breech then dis
charges the second.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Right nd sperm whales.


The sperm whale is an habitue of the
deep water, seldom found on sound
iDgs, and feeding on creatures of great
size in the profoundest depths of the
ocean. The right while frequents the
bays and shoal waters of the coasts. It
feeds on minute shrimps and mollusks
which float upon the surface of the sea
or st moderate depths. In the sperm
whale the male is much larger than the
female in the right whale the female
attains the greatest bulk. In the sperm
whale the upper jaw, case and junk
form the great portion of the head, the
under jaw being furnished with ivory
teeth. In the right whale the lower
jaw. with its great lips and tongue, is
greatly disproportioned to the slender
upper Jaw, which is furnished with the
elastic slabs of whalebone. In the
sperm whale the great respiratory canal
is elongated, and terminates in a single
spout-hole little 20 one side ON the
extreme end of the head. In the right
whale this canal branches into two
channels, which terminate in two spout
holes about eighteen feet back from the
nose.
TIE sperm whale is dangerous at
either end, but the motions of its fiukes
are limited as compared with the right
whale. Its blows are delivered verti-
cally, and when it strikes right or left
the blow is performed by q rolling of
the body. TO compensate for this
rigidity of the dukes, it is possessed of
admirable skill in fencing With the Jaw.
The most fatal accidents IN boats aFlse
from this weapon. The motion of the
jaw is quick, and its sweep tremendous.
In large whale rolling, with the Jaw
distended, the sweep may include a
circle of forty feet, aud woe be TO the
boat whose bottom receives the upward
cut, while certain death follows the re-
ception of the downward blow Thus
it is possible for two boats placed forty
feet apart to be broken by the same
blow from the jaw of a rolling sperm
whale. The right whale, on the con
tray, Is comparative ly harmless with
the head but is possessed of great lat
eral reach with the fiukes, sweeping, as
whalemen express it, from eye to eye.
To judge from external evidence, the
sperm whale is much the more COM
bative of thetwo. No large bull whale of
this species is taken whose great square
head is not SCARED and furrowed with
marks of the teeth of rival bulls, and
often the shattered teeth and broken
or distorted jaws attest the herceness of
their combats. The right whale, how
ever, is incapable of more than severely
its enemy with it's tail. The
sperm whale, of the two, is more
regular and much longer in its periods
of spouting and of remaining under
water. 1t will spout sixty or seventy
times and remain under water an hour
or more, even when not pursued. The
right whale spouts twelve or fifteen
times, perhaps, and then descends for
a short period. Both turn fukes, or
lift the tail perpendicularly in the air,
when they go down. The oil Of the
one is rich in spermGceti; the other
furnishes the lnNer Inri..ad train oil