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Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
A Dead Recruit.

An article in one of the magazines, in speaking of soldering in the olden time, tells how they were sometimes obtained:
 For example, in the town of Julich there lived and worked tall young car- penter. One day, a well-dressed posi- tive-looking gentleman enters the shop; wants Ca stout chest with lock on it, for household purposes; must be ofsuch and such dimensions, six feet six in length especially, and that is an indispensable point-in fact, it will be longer than yourself, I think, Herr Zimmerman what is the cost when can it be ready 2" Cost, time, and the rest are settled. "A right stout chest, then; and you don't forget the size; if too short it will be of no use to me, mind2'' and the positive looking gentleman goes his ways At the appointed day he reappears; the chest is ready; we hope, an unexception- able article. ''Too short, as had dread ed, "sayst the positive gentleman. ' Nay, your honor," says the the carpenter, "I am certain it is six feet six" and takes out his foot-rule. 'sPshaw it was to be longer than yourself. ''Well, it is. D No it isn't" The carpenter, to end the matter, gets into his chest and will convince any and all mortals. No sooner is he in, rightly fiat, than the positive gentleman, a recruiting officer; in dis guise, slams, down the lid upon him, locks it, whistles in three stout fellows, who pick up the chest, gravely walk through the streets with it, open it in a safe place, and find-horrible to relate the poor carpenter deadt ..H ..
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
A Lost Baby.

A ball was given at CamptonYille, Yuba county, California, recently, which was attended by certain lady who resides some distance from that place. She had baby that could not be left at home. Arriving at Camptonville early in the evening with her baby, she put up at the Globe Hotel, kept by one Jones. She told Jones she was desirous of attending the ball if she could find some one who would take care of her baby. Jones, being. all accommodating fellow, pro- posed that he would " father" the "young 'rln " dd interim. The lady accepted the offer with joy, and putting the baby to sleep, laid it down gently in Jones' bed, and then went to the ball. Up to midnight Jones made frequent visits to the room, to attend to the wants of his precious charge. From that hour the babe, so far as Jones or its mother was concerned, was left alone, for Jones fell a victim to, sleep. It happened, however, that stage driver was asleep in room nearly opposite to the one oc- cupied by the babe. About one o'clock A. M, says the North San Juan Times, the babe began to cry fearfully, and to appease it the stage driver took it to his own bed, and kept it quiet the remainder of the night. He was up and off by daybreak, before the mother returned from the ball, and before any one was stirring in the house, leaving the babe fast asleep in his own bed. An hour later the ball broke up, and the mother returned to the hotel. She went straight to Jones room to see her babe. Lo 1! and behold it wasn't there-neither was Jones. Soon the whole house was in an uproar, and search was made for the missing babe, but all in vain. In the meantime the whole town was startled by the information that child had been stolen and carried away. Finally, it was remembered that the stage driver had slept in the house that night, and that possibly he might know something about the missing child. He was telegraphed to on the subject, to Downieville, and in the course of few minutes reply was received from him, which read as fol- lows: 'sFrank Rampin: You will find the child in my bed at the hotel" On the reception of the telegram the mother rushed frantically to the stage drivers room and found her precious babe lying in his bed fast asleep.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
An Iron Wedding.

Busby, of Trenton, celebrated his iron wedding" one day last week, and invited about one hundred and twenty guests to the wedding. Of course, each person felt compelled to bring Q present of some kind, and each did. When Mir. and Mrs. Smith came, they handed Busby 8 pair of fat-irons. When MT. and Mrs. Jones arrived, they also had a pair of fat-irons. All hands laughed at the coincidence, and there was great merriment when the Browns arrived with two pairs of fat-irons; but when MT. and Mrs. Robinson came in, with another pair of fat-irons, the laughter became perfectly convulsive. There was, however, something less amusing about it when the Thompsons arrived with four hat-irons wrapped in brown paper. And Busby face actually looked grave when the three Johnson girls were ushered into the parlor carrying a flat iron apiece. Each one of the succeed ing guests brought fat-irons, and their was no break in the continuance until old Mir. Curby came from Philadelphia with 8 cast-iron bell; and at any other time he would have treated such a present with scorn, but now he was actually grateful to MT. Curby, and he was about to embrace him, when the Walshinghams came with the newkind of double-pointed fat-irons with wooden handles. And all the rest of the guests brought the same articles except MT. Rugby, and he had with him 8 patent stand for holding fat-irons. Busby got madder and madder every minute, and by the time the company had all arrived he was nearly insane with rage, and he went to bed leaving his wife to entertain the guests In the morning they counted up the spells and found they had two hundred and thirteen fat-irons, one stand and cow-beu. And now the Busbys have cut the Smiths, and Browns, and Jacksons, and Thompsons and the rest entirely, for they are convinced that there was preconcerted design to play trick upon them. The fact, however, is that the hardware stores in the place had an over-stock of fiat-irons, and sold them at an absurdly low figure, and Busby's friends went for the cheapest thing they could find, as people always do on such occasions. Busby thinks he will not celebrate his "silver wedding. !"
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
Varieties in Fashions.

Excellent warm and waterproof leg gings for ladies and children are now made of the new gossamer water proof, which is India rubber, and warmly lined with wadding and Canton flannel They cost from $2. 50 to $3 pair according to quality.
 A useful novelty is frame of gutta- percha with pin attached for holding cravat and sash bows. The ribbon is passed between the bars of the frame and is formed into well-shaped bows without being crushed or defaced by pins. The pin at the back then fastens it to the dress as in any ordinary brooch. This is welcome to, many people who cannot tie bows tastefully, and is also a good plan for keeping children's sashes securely and properly tied. Price 50 cents.
 A cuirass or sleeveless jacket made en- tirely of jet beads strung together in lat tlced pattern IS worn over black silk dresses. It glistens like coat of mail, and costs $50. There are also aprons of the same netted jet, collars, cuffs, and epaulets.
 An inexpensive trife for $1.25 is a fringe necklace of dull jet beads. The strands of beads are twisted, and are much deeper in front than behind. A clasp fastens the back.
 New veils are of plain black tulle edged with beaded fringe, or else with fringe tipped with jet.
 Something new and pretty in neck-ties is desideratr1m realized in those of China crape, with lengthwise rows of in sertion in the rounded ends separated by embroidered bands of the crape. Price $2.5O.
 The newest colored lingerie has ap- piled figures of striped percale edged with button hole stitch on plain white linen. Some of these are very quaint and stylish.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
THE GRAIN ELEVATOR.
What it Is and How it Does it's Work.

An elevator at Milwaukee is 28O feet long and 80 feet wide The building weighs twenty thousand tons, and once was raised by over 10000 hydraulic screws Q distance of six feet. The total length of the great drivingbelt, urged by 8 200 horsepower engine, is 290 feet, that is, the half, extending from cellar te comb, is 14O feet, and the down half IS of course equal to it. This belt is thirty six inches wide and three-quar- ters of an inch thick, and is made of six plies or thicknesses of canvas, with sheets of india-rubber laid between them. It drives nine receiving eleva- tors, or belts set with buckets, each of which lifts the grain 40 feet. The buck cts are made of thick tin bound with hoop-iron, and are well riveted to the belt at intervals of fourteen inches. They are six inches across the mouth, eighteen inches long, and when full each contains peck. They do not usually go up quite full, but, allowing for this, there are 100 pecks Twenty-Five bushels) loaded on one side of the belt whenever it is at work. If all nine are running at once, as is often the case, the quantity of wheat lifted on these swift-running belts is 225 bushels. The established weight of bushel of No. Milwaukee spring is ffty-ive pounds. This would make the total lift of the receiving ele- vators during the time they are at work over 12,OOO.
 The bins into which this wheat is poured are of great size, being sixty feet deep, twenty wide, and ten across; con- taining 12,O00 cubic feet. The total re- ceiving and storing capacity of this building is 1,5OO,OOO bushels. Of the crop of 1868 it received 7,000,000 bushels.
 . In discharging into the lake grain yes -sels, as soon as ship is moored beside an elevator the matches are removed, and great spouts extended over them from the bottom of one of the bins described. The gate is raised, and torrent of wheat pours down. The loading power of these spouts is 12,000 bushels an hour. A vessel with capacity of 18,0O0 bush els may be loaded in an hour and half. The Oswego and Ogdensburg schooners, and vessels destined for the Welland canal, usually take from 12,000 to 20, GOO bushels. The Buffalo vessels are larger, often receiving 30,O0O, and in few cases 45,000 bushels.
 No other mode of handling grain has ever been devised which affords such fa- cilities for unloading, weighing, storing, loading, moving from one bin to another for examination or for ventilation.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
The Sand Blast.

The practical value of that wonderful invention, the sand blast, has now been demonstrated in such a variety of methods and applications as to admit of no doubt in regard to it's permanent place in operative mechanisms. It re- produces on glass the finest steel en- cravings, it carves the most delicate de- signs on cut glass, it engraves cameos, and it does in five minutes work which would take the most industrious stone cutter hours to accomplish-solid granite and marble dissolving before it quicker than snow melts in hot sun. And all this is the result of the simple principle that sand will act on the surface of glass and other minerals, but not upon any vegetable or animal substance; so when a surface of glass or stone is partly GOV cred with paper, cloth, leather, grease, or ink, the sand will fall harmlessly away from the paper, etc., but will eat into the mineral as certain acids eat into steel.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
The Old Story Story.

One summers day-7the tale is told ,y.s An honest peasant poor and old-i- Worked in the meadow with his wife, ,-- .. When thus she spoke: 'Well, on my life
 Tfs precious hard that you and I ....... .... Must sweat beneath the burning sky,
 Like galley slaves. for paltry pay, @@''.. ..-.'' And all because-alas, the dayi- a-'S& -'' -. Of Adams fall But for his sin -s:. ai' And Eyes, how happy we had been :" ,a;-.'s. ".Truew said the peasants J. believe, ar e,sa Had been Adam-you been Eve, sle.s:.r,- No foolish fancies would have come ,..s ....s To drive us from our Eden-home
 But all the race this very day v Had in the garden been at play ?"
 The cousb their master, standing near
 CThough quite unnoticed), chahced to hear Their wise discourse 1; and, laughing, saids @sWeJ my good friends, suppose instead =.~ Of Paradise my mansion there ssts i-s -.-.-.. Were yours to-day with princely fare D. .. For food to eat and wine to drink, -.. , Would that content ye, do you think?''
 "Ah ! that were Paradise indeed!
 What more, they cried, ''could mortals need ?" "Well-we shall see, the count replied
 '' But that your virtue may be tried, Remember, on the table, served With many dish, there's one reserved. Partake of every one you see z.- -.. Save that, which Qiko the fatal tree) Y Just in the center will place,
 Beware of that! lest Adams case
 Should be your own, and straight you go Back to your sickle rake and hoe!" Soon to the castle they were led, +-S .+- And by table richly spread - -.I ! As for g, ,bacchanal carouse,sga .fi l., Behold the peasant and his spouse as~'. "See," cried the woman, "what 8 treat! Ing. Far more, I'm sure, than we can eat; r.~--.- With such excess we we may spare
 The dish that's in the center there !"
 6 Who cares for that9' the peasant said CyEhile eagerly the couple fed 2 sfiS F'~S. .'- From all the plates that round them lay).. az ., "My dear, I wouldn't look that way r '-e , a e. No harm in looking D. said the wife; I wouldn't touch it for my lifo.." a~55 '-,s.4 But ill their minds, at length, there grew A strong desire for something new; sa '-a Whereat the woman said: s'I wish r-. I knew what's hidden in that dish E g e |. "And, to be sure,' the man replied, -.. .. Merely to look was not denied !" ,-. - "And even touching it, ," said she, ... Were no great harm, it seems to me; :. Of course will not lift the lid;
 And who would know it if I did ?"
 She suits the action to the word,
 When from. the dish little bird > (The count had slyly hidden there)
 Came rushing forth into the air, a s.s.ss. '' And through the open window flew; .5q And so it WIS the master knew , What had been done. "Away P he said; : Back to the field and earn your bread As you were wont-and ne CT complain Of Adam and of Eve again!"
 a5t.. .5"..- ..t.- --.John c. Sd1e.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
NULLA VESTIGIA RET


merryrchat of her guests, the sound of music, and dancing. She remembered that; in the kitchen her servants were making ready a supper fit for q king. She turned to the mirror; handsome woman, still young, and elegantly dressed, looked proudly back. An hour before, all this, the woman included, she would have given to, Charles Rokewood had he been n beggar. Just twinge of pain went through her heart. One tear stole down her glowing cheek. And she laughed little louder than usual, and not quite naturally. F ,
 Hetty Armstrong refused Charles Rokewood the next day, and the people who guessed it blamed her bitterly. As for Charles himself he was amazed, and injured, and deeply grieved, for he never guessed that his lecture on married life had 8 second auditor; nor; that Hetty, would have said "Yes instead of "No, "' but for that crack in the china closet
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
Why He Goes to School.

A Wisconsin schoolboy handed in the following composition recently: "I go to school to learn to read and rite and siphor to slide on the ice and traid off an old knife if I have one, in summer to pick wild flowers and strawberries and to get out of work hot days, some boys has to go to school to get out of their mothers road, but would rather stay in winter than to go to miles and set by cold stove and freeze my tose. I like to go to school to see the teacher scold the big girls when they cut up. some goes to school to fool but go to study when we are old we can't go to school and then wewill feel sorry that we fooled when we was young and went to school. I don't get no time to fool anyway for I have enough to do when it comes to my geography"
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
A Man of Large Figures.

Lyndale Farm is @ royal tract of be- tween 2,OOO and 5000 acres of fertile, rolling ground, adjacent to the corporate limits of Minneapolis, Minn., and is worth from $3O0 to $1, 1000 per acre. Col. King, writes @ correspondent, has always conducted it as a stock farm, and his celebrated Lyndale herd of Short horns, which was sold at Dexter Park, Chicago, last summer, were of his breed ing here. Eighty head of cattle at that sale netted him the enormous sum of $13O,OO0 Recently King sold young bull to M. H. Cochrane, of Canada, for $14,OOO.
 He is emphatically man of large figures. His answer to the bank presi- dent in New York that he did not regard the check for $115, ,OO0 as very large sum is characteristic of the man.
 Besides the million dollar Lyndale Farm, with its opalatial improvements, King has another 2, 900 acre stock farm at Litchfeld. On both farms he has probably $20O,O worth of live stock. He raises nothing but blooded stock; there are no common cows in his herds. Then he owns at least $S1O0, 900 or $20O, GOO worth of real estate in Minneapolis.
 King is also heavy holder of North ern Pacific railroad bonds, but these can hardly be reckoned as very desirable assets in the present state of the market. Nevertheless, Bill King may be regarded as financially well fixed. Yet he is one of those men who are clironically "hard up.'' He is large borrower at bank and of private individuals, but was never known to pay note on the day it was due. He, however, always fixes it up afterward, and pays the protest fees and additional interest with perfect cheerful ness. His connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy, and the large amounts dis bursed, has again turned public atten- tion toward Col. King.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12

"No, madam" said an afable Chi cago landlord, who was showing a possi ble tenant over his house on Robey street, "I cannot say that as yet the street is drained. But, then, do but reflect for a moment upon the advantages the situa- tion offers. Your children can skate all day long on the gutters; it's as convenient as skating rink, doesn't cost you pen ny, and there they are under your eye all the time"
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12

ADaluth paper denies the reports of a family starving to death in that town; they froze to death, and there's consider able difference between starving and freezing.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12

els that cheese rich?' asked Bloggs of his grocer. "Yes," was the candid reply, "there's millions in it.
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12

A USE FOR ALCOHOL. "A French medi- cal journal says that Nelaton was t,r many years accustomed to prescribe the use of alcohol for the prevention of small abscesses or boils. It appears that, this treatment is now becoming more general in France. As soon as the characteristic redness appears, with point rising in the middle, the part should be rubbed thoroughly, and several times,l with camphorated alcohol. A little camphora- ted olive-oil should then be applied, and 'he affected place covered,
Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
Their National Hymn.

The words and music of the Hawaiian national anthem are both the composition of Mrs. Lila K. Dominis, the sister Of King Kalakaua. The first part of the hymn we transcribe for the ediication ot our readers
 HE MEI.E LAHIU HAWAII
 Ka Makua Mana Loa, Malin wal ia wakou,
 E haliu aku ref. -E
 We wa hian haahan, ,.
 E wan ka waluhia
 O ref Pae Alma,
 Wal Hawaiia Nuhan,
 Mololo Kou Malu. Hooho-E wau Ike Da ka Aina,
 Wo Kou ono wau
 wa kou wana nul
 E ola, ola ka moi. The translation, as made by Ii. IL. Sheldon, of Honolulu, is given as fol- lows Father Almighty, Lord of all Incline thine ear and hear our call The nation lifts it's voice to Thee, Suppliant in humility. -'-.. ....-.. That peace and order still may reign Ger these fair islands of the main From mountain steep to coral shore Our guardian Thou, forevermore. Chorus-Long live sea-girt, island home; Free as the waves that round us foam |; Sustained by justice truth and right, Save Thou our King, O Goi of might
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-23
VALUABLE INFORMATION.

Boston, Dec. 10, 1869.
Genilemen-My only object in giving you this tes-
tim0nial is to spread valuable information. Having
been badly afflicted with Salt Rheum, and the whole
surface ii my skin being covered with pimples and
cruptions, many of which caused ME great pain and
annoyance, and knowing 1t to be blood disease,
took many of the advertised blood preparations
among which was any guam ity OF Sarsaparilla
without obtaining any benefit until / commenced
the first bottle saw that had go, the right medi-
cine. Consequently, followed on with 1t until
had taken seven bottles, when was pronounced
well man, and my skin Is smooth and entirely free
from pimples and eruplons. have never enjoyed
good health bOfore and attribute 1t all to the
use of VEGETINE. To benefit those afflicted with
Rheumatism, will make mention also of the VEGE-
TINES wonderful power OF curing me OF this acute
complaint, OF which have suffered SO intensely.
G. II. TUCKER,
Pas. Agt Mich. G. X. r.,
jan1s-lywd& 60 Washington street, Boston.
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-23
The railroad War.

PREaENT sTAIUs OF THE FIdHr-INcIDESTs AND
POINTS IN THE CAMPAIGN.
The war between the Baltimore and Ohio and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies has closed
its first week without showing signs of relenting
or Of weakening on either side The reductions
in passenger rates first made by the Baltimore
and Ohio Road have been met by it's rival, but
each seems DESTROYS, for the present at least,
not to 60 below the Attachments already made. 80
far the
OTHER GREAT TRUNK ROADS
between the East and West are holding neu.
trail position, but it is quite safe to predict that
if the war lasts week longer there will be a
general break and stampede along the whole
line. To keep the Erie aud New York Central
out of the fight the Pennsylvania Central en-
beavers to maintain the regular rates OF fare
between New Yark and Chicago, whilst from
Philadelphia to Chicago it has come down to the
low rates established by the Baltimore road. At
Chicago also there are evidences of growing dis
satisfaction with the unequal rates made to GER
tam points that indicate that the quarrel must
sprepd.
Baltimore and Potomac officials say that
NO BALTIMORE AND OHIO THROUGH TRAINS
from or to Washington have been carried by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company over the line of
road between Philadelphia and New York since
Thursday last. Up to Saturday, however, Balti-
more and Ohio passengers arrived at the Presi-
ident street Station, and proceeded on to Wash
ington via. the Baltimore and Ohio road.
1t is said that the putting Oh OF the Old Do
minion Line of steamers for the transportation
of the Baltimore and Ohio freight between Bal
timore and New York. via Norfolk, is only a
temporary arrangement, and that as soon as
possible
NEW LINE OF STEAMERS
will be placed in the service. The Baltimore
aud Ohio Company are not carrying local freight
III these steamers, and are not competing for it,