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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-09-16
"A rANY. Location % principal place Of

businoss. San rrsnci,eo, cslifornia.
Location OF works, Gold nm Mining Dis.
tfiet. storey County, State OF Nevada.
the Bosri OF DIryeius, held ON The ssd DAY
% August, 1915. an assessment mo. ~ OF finy
Cents per share wa levied upon the capital
stock Of the corporation, pay able Immediately
In United Slater gold coin. 20 the Secretary. at
the once ofths Company. Rooms 8 and Q. No.
fornia.
Any stock upon uheh this assossnent shall
rvualn unpaid on MONDAY. The 9Th day Of
September, ISIS, willbe delinquent. and adver.
mont 10 made before, will be soil on TUES
DAY, the 18Th day OF Oetsbof, 1873. 70 pay
the d~ellnquent assessment. together With
coats OF advertislng and expenses OF sale.
BY order of the Board Of Directors.
wv. n. WATSON, Secretary.
0fiee-Rooms 8 andG, No. 3o7 Montgomery
street, San Rraucisco, California. q au7G
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-09-16
DissoLUT!on q! ooPART-

NOTICE N HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN arm of bowdca q Chegwiddeu. conduct
lag The saloon busine~s ~ the Carson brewery,
naln s,rsss ge,d hi.' = aI.sclvsa * mutual
ARA Ths busiuess will hereafter DO con.
dneted by Cheguidden q Goiisworthy. who
ars~ sntkorised In collect al debts and pay all
bills ofths lats ara. fcrpons Indicated 70 the
ssttle immodiately. and save coats and troublc.
auis In bOWDkN . cHE0wlDDkN.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-09-16
MIsCILLANEous.
AioVAhbANAvtos
DOCTOR THOMAS.
CONSULTING PHYSICIAN
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GRoM gnoLAnp.

Has arrived In Virginia City and located al
Corner Of Union and south Q streets,
(Fint Yioorl. nearly opposite
international Hotel.
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-09-16

Ome~-Room No. 10, nayvard's Dailding.
No. tis California street. sAn fraaei'eo, Cali
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
A Partisan IS Industry"

There is an artful dodger in Paris
whose operations have been so clever as
to deserve respectful notice. He is a
middle-aged person of an innocent as
pect, and his pretty plan was to meander
slowly along, and, Selling the first mild
eyed old gentleman he met, to lisp in u
childlike manner: "Totty has lost his
nanny; take Totty back to nanny"
The mild-eyed would naturally feel some
what confused and alarmed, when to
him would further appear confederate
of TOtty's, who would remark in accents
bland that lofty was harmless idiot,
and if the stranger would see Totty
home it would be real charity. Fired
by benevolence; the old gentleman would
undertake to bear the soft, sweet lofty
to his abode, and would trot along the
boulevards among the toy-shops, which
appeared to enchant Totty. That gem
tie being would observe: "Totty wants a
harlequin; buy Totty harlequin;" and
his antique warder would hasten to graf
ify that mild longing. Before the ingen-
ious Totty reached his home he was usu-
ally laden with the marketable results
of the kind hearted old creatures benev-
olence, and did thriving business until
several benefactors happened to COM
pare notes, and Totty's innocent industry
was uupncbed
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
Disagreeable Habits.

NEARLY all the disagreeable habits
which people take up come at first from
mere accident or want of thought. They
might be easily dropped, but they are
persisted in until they become seconC
nature. Stop and think before you allow
yourself. to form them. There are disa-
greeable habits of body, like scowling,
winking, twisting the mouth, biting the
nails, continually picking at something,
twirling key or fumbling at a chain,
drumming with the fingers, screwing and
twisting a chair or whatever you can lay
your hand on. Don't do any of these
things. Learn to sit quietly like a-gen-
tleman, 1 was going to say, but / am
afraid even girls fall into such tricks
sometimes There are much worse hab-
it's than these, to be sure, but we are only
speaking of very little things that are
only annoying when they are persisted
in. There are bad habits of speech, also
such as beginning every sentence with
"you see" or "you know" "now-a,'
" why-a," -" don't care" tell ye WHAT
"tell We now.'' Indistinct utterance,
sharp nasal tones, slow drawl, avoid
them all. Stop and think what you wish
to say and then let every word drop from
your lips just as smooth and perfect as Il
new silver coin. Have a care about your
ways of sitting and standing and walk
ing. Before you know it you will find
your habits have hardened into a coat of
mail that you cannot get rid of without II
terrible cffort.-Ltttle Corporal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06

milton. Three were now saved, but
Twenty-Five others were still below and
the fire was not yet under control. The
terrified crowd stood aghast for a few
minutes, and then suddenly a panic of
despair seemed to seize them, the stified
means of the women and children break
ing out afresh and the men drawing
back from the mines with bianched and
averted faces.
The supreme moment of the emergency
had come and the one man to meet it was
there thank God as he always is. His
name this time was Marks-Wiiliam
Marks-and stepped to the front with the
promptness and the modesty of a true
hero " Fasten rope around me and
let me down into the shaft" he said.
The proposition was appalling, but the
quiet courage of the man tied every
tongue and stilled the agony of the trem-
ulous crowd like special providence.
Down he went into the horrible cavern,
without another word, and, reaching the
bottom, freed himself for his search in
the entries diverging from the main
shaft AT almost the first step into the
sitting darkness he stumbled upon the
inanimate form of one of the miners in
coal car, which he pushed to the en-
trance, secured the rope around the
body, called to those above to hoist away,
Further search soon revealed the where
abouts of the remaining twenty-eight,
and slowly but surely Marks piloted them
to the mouth of the mine and delivered
them, one by one many lnsensible, but
all alive-out of the jaws of death into
the hands of their wives and children.
Then, when the last one had been res
cued, he came himself to the surface,
scorched and blinded, and nearly suffo-
Gated, and stood there silently among the
cheering townspeople, the master of the
situation.
Thus the peril was surmounted with
out any sacrifice of life; but the heroism
was there all the same. The rescue of
the helpless miners, and the escape of
the man who gave death scorn to save
them, spoiled the perfection of a tragedy;
but the destruction of all concerned
could not have added to the radiance
which belongs to the superb and unset
fish bravery of William Marks. He was
only common workingman facing
duty to his fellows; but he met that duty
like a Roman monarch, and made grass
hopper Kansas splendid for one day with
his conquering courage. He probably
never heard of Cato pausing, sword in
hand, to welcome death; or Cleopatra
putting on a crown to make a royal end
ing; or even of Hays Jim Bludso, or
Harte's Flynn, of Virginia. He merely
saw and felt the imminent need of risk
ing one life to redeem Twenty-Five other
lives, and cooiIy accepted the challenge.
He was the right man in the right place
at the right time May he live long and
prosper-.St. Louis Globe.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
A Kansas Hero.

TIE stickful of information in the As
ISOLATED Press dispatches concerning the
recent coal-mine fire at Usage, Kan,
conveys but stingy idea of the horrors
attending that event, as related by the
local papers. The fire broke out about
mid day, and when first discovered the
main shaft of the mine was in Il blaze,
with thirty-two men and boys at work
beyond and beneath the flames, nearly
forty feet below the level of the earth
In few minutes the whole population
of the place rushed to the scene and a
thousand or more men, women and chill
drcn-the relatives, friends and neigh
bors of the entombed miners-wcrc gath
cred at the mouth of the burning shaft,
stupetied with fear and anguish. All the
wells in the town had run nearly dry
weeks before and scarcely enough water
could be obtained to subduc the heat
above ground, much less 10 arrest the
contlagratiOn inside the mine. Thus
matters stood for two awful hours, when
n railroad engine arrived with ii full
tank, which was hurriedly emptied into
the shaft and Il great shout of hope went
up from the people. At this juncturc
a man emerged, like specter, from the
blaze and smoke and fell in swoon AT
the very edge of the shaft. An hour
later two more men cried up through the
flames for help, and a ladder was lowered
to them, on which they made their way
to the top and were dragged forth, alive,
but burned and blackened beyond recog-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
Some Simple Experiments.

| l. PLACE tobacco pipe in such po-
sition, on the edge of the table, that if it
were left unsupported it would fall to
the ground. A poker may now be sus-
pended from the pipe, in such manner
that the weight of the poker will be sus-
tanned by the pipe. The Topped string
on which the poker hangs should be as
close as possible to the bowl of the pipe,
and the end of the poker must fall under
| the edge of the table. The center of
gravity, in this case, is below the center
of suspension, and the pipe consequent
| ly supports the poker.
2. If a little thread be well soaked in a
strong solution of salt and water, and
| then dried and tied to = ring not much
| larger than a wedding ;ng you may APP
ply the flame of a candle to the thread,
which will burn it to ashes and yet it
will sustain the ring. The cohesion of
the fibrous particles of thread having
been destroyed by the action OF the
flame, the ring is now suspended by the
cohesion of the particles of salt.
3. Wrap piece of clean writing-paper
tightly about the cylindrical handle of
the poker, and the paper may be held
over the flame of lamp or candle for
some time without being in the slightest
degree injured or burnt; now wrap a
similar piece of paper around cylinder
of wood and hold it over the flame,
which will burn it almost Immediately.
This experiment shows the difference be-
tween the conducting powers of metal
and wood, the heat being conducted away
from the paper by the iron almost as
rapidly as communicated, whilst wood
being bad conductor of heat, takes fire
almost Immediately.
4. Suspend a poker by two strings and
insert the eXtremities of them into the
ears. A blow given to the poker will
now produce, through the medium of the
strings, sound equal to that of great
bell. This shows that the vibrations
given to the metallic mass of the poker
by the blow are much more readily COM
municated to the ear by the strings than
through the air. Thus, on the same
principle, the boiling of kettle, inaudi-
bic in the air, may he distinctly heard,
even from the beginning, by resting one
end of the poker on the vessel and ap-
plying the other to the ear. So also the
beating of watch placed at one extrem-
ity of long beam of timber may be
heard through the timber at the other
end of the beam by a person who holds
his ear to the wood, although it is totally
inaudible in the air.
8. Place in small glass bottle hot
water near the boiling point, colored a
deep carmine with cochineal; place the
same at the bottom of a glass jar of cold
water. Immediately the light hot-col-
Ored water in the phial will be displaced
by the heavier cold water in the jar, and
will ascend in beautiful crimson clouds
to the top of the jar.-Erchdnge.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
DiHey's Dog.

ALMOST everybody in town has heard
of Jimmy Diffey's dog Duplex. He had
a thousand tricks, but none that were
"vain." Catching ball and all that sort
of business afforded him much pleasure.
Make but single motion as though
throwing something in the air and Du-
pick was all attention His nose was
aloft in a moment, and his ears were
vibrating " six ways tor Sunday" while
his tail was extraordinarily flexible.
When he had fallen into this attitude the
majority of external things were not
needed by him until he became con
WINGED that he was not going to hear
anything drop. Not only in this but
also in many other respects the dog was
a study. Well, poor Duplex is dead now.
Last Sunday afternoon the Chinese resi-
dents of this place rendered their god
Gumboots an ovation, in which fire
crackers and bombs largely predomi-
mated.
Jimmy Diffey went down to China
town to see this blowout. Duplex fol
lowed at his heels. Hardly had the Joss
house been reached when a Chinese
worshper of the cross-eyed god above
mentioned threw high into the air one of
those wicked, spherical, wicker-covered
bombs, IA thing which no other nation eN-
cept the Chinese would ever have
thought of inventing. Poor Duplex saw
the ball ascend and rushed forth from
his masters side, confident that rs IA
trained dog he was expected to do his
duty The ball had not yet done as
cending when Duplex was under
meath it, squatted upon his launches,
nose in the air, ears vibrating
and tail LAYING out along the
ground us stiff as a small crow bar. In
vain did Mr.. Diffey shout and call:
* Here, Duplex, You, Duplex. Get out!
Come here. All, YOU" Duplex knew
too well what, under similar circum-
stances, had always been expected of
him-knew his duty. AS the kissing
sphere reached its greatest altitude,
paused the fractional part of second
and then began its descent, the slightest
bit of trcmor imaginable was to be OBJ
served in the extreme point of the tail of
the alert animal; then as the ball de-
seconded nearer and nearer he was as
firm as Il rock-he was accurately meas
uring his distance. At the exact and
critical moment Duplex darted from the
ground straight as an arrow from the
bow, his rigid, well-formed tail pointing
directly to the ground and his mouth
open to the widest capacity. Down be-
tween the distended jaws of the dog fell
the bomb. Drop it, you rascal!' shout
ed Mr. Diiley; " drop it, drop. it, sir!"
But Duplex did not drop it \ heavy,
dun explosion was heard-a sort of thud
and Duplex, where was he? The
greater part of him lay where the eX-
plosion occurred, but one of his eyes
was sent across the street through the
window oc Hop Lock, the Chinese doc
tor, the end of his nose fell in the boudoir
of Miss 500 Chow, and a shower of teeth
rained in ,he meat market ard pig
killing establishment ofp the fat and
All Luck.-Tirqinia (Nec)
E-1tfEDriSe
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06

81 expect you've got me to rights
governor. No use showing fight, | sup
pose?"
Not bit"
Honor
Honorw
"Then I'd better go. Good-by, old
gal. Good-by, Sammy. I'll leave you
all my money when die. Compliments
to the missus."
And he walked slowly out of the room.
Rather a cool hand that" said the
lawyer.
"What dreadful thing!' said Aunt
Jane, and to think of all his money going
out of the family"
well, that's no great loss," said Mr..
Sawyer. I" l don't believe the fellows
worth sixpence."
"Whatr said Aunt Jane, mo money?
Oh, the villainr
l took Aunt Jane home, and, having re-
lated the story to my wife, together we
endeavored to console her.
This was at first rather difficult, as she
persisted in laying all the blame of the
affair upon me. But by degrees we got
her into a better humor. She is staying
with us at present. She says all men are
deceivers, and she is determined to die
an old maid. l think this highly proba-
BILE. Her railway shares have risen in
the market lately, and we love her dear
ly.-Onced Week.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
A Living AutOmatOn.

THE attention of the medical pro-
fession in France has recently been
called to very remarkable case. y
young man during the German war re-
ceived Il gunshot wound by which Il por-
ton of the right parietal bone was car
ried away to the extent of nearly three
inches. A paralysis of the right side was
the consequence of this wound. By de
grees, however. the paralysis disappeared
and the use of the limb was restored
but the mind remained singularly affect
ed The man was by profession public
singer. He has, since his restoration
from bodily paralysis, been subject to fits,
or crises, lasting from twentyfo to
forty-eight hours, during which his con-
dition presents some extraordinary
phenomena. He seems, in fine, to be a
veritable automaton. He walks contin-
ually, mumbling without cessation, and
appearing to be wholly unconscious of
persons or objects by which he is sur
rounded. He walks straightforward,
never speaking a word. When he en-
counters any obstacle he stops, feels
with his hand, and seeks way of avoid
ing or going around it, without giving the
least sign of intelligence, as if he were
in a state of somnambulism. He is alb
solutely without feeling. Pins may be
stuck into his flesh without producing
trical shocks fail to move him in the
least degree. This state is not, however
that of entire unconsciousness, as is shown
by the remarkable fact that il Il pen is put
into his hand he Immediately seeks for
ink and paper, and upon obtaining them
writes a letter, in which he speaks cor
rectly and intclligently of various
matters which concern him. So, also, if
piece of cigarette paper is placed in
his hand, he Immediately takes tobacco
from his pocket, rolls Il cigarette, lights
it with a match from his box and smokes
it. If one eXtinguishes the match before
it reaches the cigarette he takes another
from his pocket and lights it as before,
refusing absolutely to take one which
may be offered him already lighted He
will allow his mustache to be burned
without appearing to notice it; but will
not take lighted match which may be
offered him. If chopped lint be sub
stituted for the tobacco contained in his
pouch he makes his cigarette of it and
smokes it without appearing to notice
the difference of taste. Among the eX
periments of DR.. Mesnet upon this singu-
lar subject is one which is particularly
curious. He places in the hands of the
man who, as has been said, had been a
public singer, pair of kid gloves. The
man Immediately puts them on and
seeks for his sheet of music. A roll is
given him, like a piece OF music, upon
which he assumes the attitude of
public performer and begins to sing.
When the crisis is passed he becomes
slightest recollection of what has &C.
Cured. The case presents an interest
ing subject of investigation for physicians
and nsychOlOriStS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
A Family of Astronomers.

| WHAT an example and what instrue
ton may be found in the long career OF
William Herschel, who passed half a
century in sounding the mysterious
| depths of the universe! The son of !,
poor Observation-Disclosures with a numer-
Gus family-he embraced the paternal
profession, and went, when twenty years
| old, to try his fortune in England. He
barely earned a living by giving music
lessons and directing concerts or ora
| tories, when he was appointed organIst
| at Halifax, then soon after filled the same
office in Bath. He passed his leisure
| time in studying works on astronomy.
AS he was not rich enough to purchase
a telescope he went to work, and, after a
thousand attempts, succeeded in making,
in 1114, a five-foot reflector, with which
he observed Saturn's ring. Encouraged
by this first success the organist of Bath
| entered upon the construction of mirrors
of seven feet, then ten and twenty feet
of focus. He made more than 200 before
attaining the desired perfection, and the
total number of mirrors that he worked
upon in succession exceeded 400 In
1881 he had the good fortune to discover
the planet Uranus, which extended the
boundary of the solar system. He was
then forty-three years old. This discov-
cry drew upon him the attention of
Europe; George Ill. granted him pen
sion and dwelling at Slough, near
Windsor Castle. He then commenced
that methodical review of the heavens
by means of which he discovered more
than 9, 600 nebule, and suggested so many
new views of the universe. The greatest
part of his labor was executed with instru
ments of moderate dimensions; he rare
ly used the great telescope of forty feet,
the mirror of which was easily furnished
Inv the action of the moisture of tine
night; he used it, however, in the dis
covery of the sixth satellite of Saturn
William Herschel died in 1922; the year
before his death, at the age of eighty
three, he communicated his last paper
to the Astronomical Society of London,
which since its foundation had chosen
him for President In all his researches
he was assisted by his sister Caroline,
who had lived with him ever since she
was twenty-five years old, and who aided
him in his observations as well as in his
calculations. In this way he was able to
astonish the scientific world by the
rapidity with which his publications
succeeded each other. Caroline IIerschel
died at Hanover, her native city, in 1919,
at the age of ninety-eight. Sir John
Herschel, the only son of the great
astronomer, worthily continued these
illustrious traditions. He resumed and
completed the exploration of the heavens
commenced by his father, at first at
Slough, then at the Cape of Good Hope,
where he transported a telescope of
twenty feet He died in 1871, after hav
ing contributed by labors of the highest
order to the progress of science. One
of his sons, Alexander Herschel, is
equally devoted to astronomical pursuits.
Emma II. ConUerse, IN PopuLar Science
Monthly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
Selected sMisrelza,,n
MARCH.

MARCH! March, March, They are coming
In troops, to the tune of the wind;
Red headed woodpeckers drumming,
Gold-crested thrushes behind;
Sparrows in brown jackets hopping
Past every gateway and door;
Finches with crimson caps stopping
Just where they stopped years before.
March! March! March! They are slipping
Into their places at last
Little white lily buds, dripping
Under the showers that fail fast;
Buttercups, violets, roses;
Snowdrop and bluc-bell and pink;
Thrcng upon tbrong of sweet posies,
Bending the dewdrops to drink.
March, March, March, They will hurry
Forth at the wild bugle sound
Blossoms and birds in furry,
Fluttering all over the ground.
Hang out your flags, birch and willow,
Shake out your red tassels, larch.
Grass blades, up from your earth pillowi
Hear who is calling you-March,
Lucy Ldreom, in ST. Nicholas for March.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-06
SleepIeSSuesS.
Enterprise

To TAKE hearty meal just before re-
firing is, of course, njurious, because it
is very likely to disturb ones rest anG
produc nightmare. However, a little
food at this time, if one is hungry, is de-
cidedly bene fetal; it prevents the gnaw-
ing of an empty stomach, with its atten-
dant restlessness and unpleasant dreams,
to say nothing of probable headache, or
of nervous and other arrangements the
next morning. One should no more lie
down al night hungry than he should lie
down after a very full dinner; the conse-
uuence of either being d disturbing and
harmful \ cracker or two, IA bit Of bread
and butter. or cake, "A little fruit-some-
thing to relieve the sense of vacuity and
so restore the tone of the system-is all
that is necessary.
We have known persons, habitual sui
ferers from restlessncss at night, to cX-
periencc material benefit, even though
they were not hungry, by "A very light
luncheon before bedtime. In place of
tossing about for two or three hours as
formerly, they would soon grow drowsy,
fall asleep, and not wake more than once
or twice until sunrise. This mode of
treating insomnia has recently been
recommended by several distinguished
physicians, and the prescription has gen
orally been attended with happy results.
-.ScTibner for 4Halch.