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CURIOUS NATURAL FACTS.

Fishes swallow their food whole.
They have no dental machinery fur
nisbed them.
Frogs, toads and serpents never
eat dead food
When bee, wasp or hornet
stings, tbs nearly always at the ex-
pense of its life.
Serpents are so tenacious Of life
that they will live for six months and
longer without food.
Turtles dig holes in the shore and
bury their eggs, covering them up
to be Matched by the sun.
HOLSTERS are very pugnacious, and
fight severe battles 1t they loose
claw another grows out. -
Naturalists say that single swal
low will devour six thousand flies a
day.
A single Goldfish produces more
than a million eggs a season.
loads and aIligators become tor
pid in winter, and hide themselves,
taking no food for five or six months.
Serpents of all species shed their
skins annually, like sea crabs and
Holsters.
In South America there is pros
life honey-bee which has not been
furnished with sting.
In the darkest night fishes pursue
their usual movements the same as
by daylight.
Seals are as intelligent as dogs,
and can be trained to perform many
tricks like them.
Fishes have no eyeiJs, and neces-
sariIy sleep with their eyes wide
open.
There are agricultural ants in
Texas that actually plant grain, and
reap and store the harvest
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13
Marietta, Georgia. Friday Morning,
WHY MONEY is SCARCE.

We have in Nashville four Ma
tional banks which have issued eight
hundred and tifty-five thousand dol
lars in their bills. In order to get
these bills they deposited in the Uni
ted States Treasury nine hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in the Uni>
ted States bonds, which cost them
at least eleven hundred thousand
dollars in greenbacks So, in place
of this amount of greenbacks we
have the eight hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars of National
bank notes,
There are in the United States
two thousand and two National
banks. Now il our four Nashville
banks have contracted the circula~
zion of the country las shown above)
t,co hundred and Gtyfre thousand
dollars, the cipheriug is very easy to
find out the whole amount of money
taken out Of circulation by the es
Establishment of National banks. If
these have Withdrawn, on average,
sixty-one thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars greenbacks each-that
sum, multiplied by two thousand and
two, (the whsle number National
banks,) makes one hundred and
twenty two million, six hundred and
twenty-five thousand, five hundred
dollars if that amount taken out of
the country is not sufficient to make
"money scarce and 'times hard, +"
what is
Why should the people of the
United States of America pay inter
est to the National banks on nearly
four hundred millions 400, 000, 000)
of Government bonds, while the
banks have the use of that amount
of National banknotes on which they
pay no interest
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13
A NOBLE DEED.

Hon. Alex. Fl. Stephens is reti-
cent and charitable and has fellow
feeling to help young men in their
struggles for success. The case is
that Of young -, in the Universe.
ty of Georgia. Sprang from an ex-
cellent and wealthy family. who had
been ruined by the war, this youth,
ambitious, talented and virtuous,
sought in vain for the means to
! defray the cost Of an education,
and, when despairing of success,
was taken up by Mr.. Stephens and
literally provided. 4 he matter was
kept a profound secret, however nor
should have been mentioned here,
had it not somehow reached the ears
of his fellow students. His name,
however, we suppress. This youth,
fired by the determination to prove
himself worthy of the kindness of
his benefactor, at once lent every
energy of mind and body to the
prosecution of his studies, and rap>
idly rose to distinction in his class.
Exemplary also in department, he
became a favorite with his instruc
tors, and is now one of the most
thorough scholars and popular young
men within the walls of the Univer-
sity. Indeed, so rapid has been his
progress that the faculty promoted
him to the position of tutor to fill
vacancy, the duties Of which he per
forms with entire satisfaction, be-
sides continuing his own college
course now nearly completed. 10
affords us unspeakabie satisfaction to
record this interesting incident,
which rebounds equally to the hon
or and praise of Mr.. Stephens and
his protege. The latter, to his cred
it be it said, has already begun to
discharge the pecuniary obligation
under which he has been placed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13


The TH0UGHTLESSNESS OF YOUTH
In general, have no patience with
people who talk about the 'thOught-
lessness of youth" indulgenlly had
rather hear of thougtless old age,
and the indulgence due to that
When a man has done his work, and
nothing can any way be materially
altered in his fate, let him forget his
toll, and Jest with fate, if he will
but what excuse can you find for
willfulness ot thought at The very
time when every crisis of future for
tune hangs on your decision A
youth thoughtless when all the hap
piness of his home depends on the
chances or the passions of an hour
A youth thoughtIess when his every
act is foundation store of future
conduct, and every imagination a
fountain of life or DEATH Be thought
less in any after years rather than
now though, indeed, there is only
one place where man may be nobly
thoughtless-his death bed. Nothing
should be left to be done there
| Ruskin.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13
BOW GRGENBACK PAPER Is
MADE.

All the paper for the money issued
by the United States Government is
manufactured on a sixty.two>inch
Foundrinier machine, at Glen Mills,
near West Chester, Pa. Short pieces
of red silk are mixed with the pulp
in the engine, and the finished stuff
is conducted to the wire without pass
ing through any screens, which might
retain the six threads. by an ar.
rangement above the wire cloth, q
shower Of short pieces of fine blue
silk thread is dropped in streaks up
On the paper while it is being formed.
The upper side. on which the blue
silk is dropped, is the one used for
the face of the notes, and. from the
manner in which the threads are APP.
piled, must show more distinctly than
the reverse side, although they are
imbedded deeply enough to remain
fixed. The mill is guarded night and
day, by officials, to prevent the abb
straction of any paper.-Pooer
Trodc J0mnat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

SOME weeks ago citizen Of New
York was robbed of 81, 200 in a
thieves den in that city. He was
soon afterwards approached by two
detectives who promised to get him
the money if he would pay them
5000. The victim went to a captain
Of Police, who would do nothing.
The Captain is an intimate friend
of one of the detectives. After try
ing for two months to get redress,
the citizen made affidavit before one
of the Police Commissioners and the
Superintendent to these facts.
Every thing was promised him I;
nothing was done. A third detec-
tive afterwards admitted that he
knew who had the money, but he de-
clined to do anything about it because
it would be interfering with other
peoples business A last vain app
peal was made to Captain, and then
the victim gave up i'll dispair and
pocketed the loss. Tie truth ia the
New York police are as corrupt as
! the Grant ring at Washington.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

RcNAN LoXD0N.-Mr. John w.
Forney writes an interesting letter
to the Philadelphia Press from Ions
don on discoveries made there recent.
ly while workmen were making deep
excavations for the foundations, of
the National Safe Deposit building.
The relics are supposed to be nine.
teen hundred years old, the date be-
ing fixed by the seventy specimens
of coic found in the ruins of Roman
London The articles found besides
the coins consists of red glazed pot
terry Decorated with figures Of AiEds,
animals ana foliage Roman-Bridsh
specimens of urns, like those now in
use (; large number of the instru-
ment called the stylus, with which
the Romans did their writing va>
riety of knives, daggers, keys, bolts,
bronze ornaments for the person,
bronze egg spoons, chain work: etc,
and fragments of glass, wooden spin
dies, horse gear, chisels, and other
iron tools, sandals, shoes, etc.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13
AVOID GOSSIP

We condemn gossip--scandal's
twin sister-yet it is a taul; easily
committed. Persons begin by q
gentle, deprecatory reference TO
somebody's inirmity of temper, and
they find themselves specifying a
particular time and scene, which
straightway the one who hears tells
again to some one else with addi-
tons, slight, perhaps, bat material.
Before they know it they have stir
red up hornets nest. Far worse
is that other sort Of talk which ends
in SANDER and begins in malice, and
which separates friends and sunders
the ties of years of intercourse with
its sharp and jarring discords. The
only way to avoid the evil is to re-
frain from making the affairs of our
friends staple Of conversation. =
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

TON Hoop, the poet, wrote to his
wife: IL never was anything until |
knew you-and | have been better,
happier, and more prosperous man
ever since. Lay that truth by in
lavender, and remind me Of it when
[ fail | am writing fondly and
warmly but not without good cause.
First, your own aftectionate letter,
lately received next, the remem>
brance of our dear children, pledges
of old familiar love; then delicious
impulse to pour out the overtlowings
of my heart into yours and last, not
least, the knowledge that your dear
eyes will read what my hands are
now writing. Perhaps there is an
after thought that, whatever may
befaIl me, the wife of my bosom will
have this acknowledgment of her
tenderness, worth aud excellence, of
all that is wifsly or wOmanly from
my PEN,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, is
missing. The only reference to his
whereabouts which mas appeared
lately is this in the Columbus { Miss. J
Index: "I'he Chief Executive of
the State Tolls at his ease in his
Northern home, leaving our lives in
the hands Of a negro who has repeat
eddy violated his oath of office, and
to make a few dollars to spend in
drunken orgies, opens the prison
doors of robbers, outlaws and muir
derers, thus making justice a miser-
able farce"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

ATTORNEY General Pierrepont, in
reply to the question whether he had
received any accounts of Ku.Klux
outrages, states that he has received
none snice he occupied his pres
ent position. This ought to be con-
elusive that peace and order reign
throughout the South, and will be
satisfactory to all who do not -four
ish, as the late Attorney General
seems to have done, by the manufac>
ture of ousrages.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

THE Beecher> Tilton nastiness is
to go to the courts again, notifca-
lion having been served by Tilton's
lawyers. The reopeuiDg of this
nasliness is like digging up a petri>
fed dead body. Every decent man
and woman should prepare to disin-
feet the atmosphere while the nui
sauce is above ground. Tilton must
have the voracity of a carton crow,
and the digestion Of buzzard.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

The Townsville Times says that
a nestful of hen eggs Matched the
other day after having been desert
ed by the parent bird for ten days.
Now, TripIett, you just call on us
for the matches, after that story,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

VIRTUE seems to be nothing more
than a motion consonant to the sys
tenn of things. Were planet to fly
from its orbit, it would represent a
vicious man.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

A CoNTRAsT.-The Democratic
Executive Committee Of Alabama
have issued stirring address to the
voters of that State. They present
the following strong contrasts be-
tween the results of Radical rule and
Democratic government
Look at Mississippi and Georgia,
the two States Immediately west and
east of ours. In Mississippi you see
an empty treasury, individual banks
ruptcy, plundering State officials,
membrs of Congress despised by their
party associates and hated by good
men everywhere. In Georgia you
see fourishing manufactures, a large
network of railroads, owned and
managed by her own people, thou
sands engaged in profitable mining
coal and iron lands doubled in val
ue since the war responsible State
officials vino do not plumber the peo-
pie :; light taxes collected and dis
burSed by those who pay them; such
men as Gordon and Norwood and
Hill and Stephens in Congress; and
her whole people on the high road
to peace and prosperity. Why is
Georgia prosperous, while MiSsissip>
pi is desolate and in despair The
answer is that Mississippi is controls
ed by politicians of the style of Geo.
Z. Spencer, Alexander White, G. c.
Sheets, Datus f. Coon, and men of
that character, and Georgia is not.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

A Milwaukee paper says of the
air, in its relations to man: sit kiss
es aud blesses him, but will not obey
him." Blobbs says that description
suits his wife exactly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

AN Irishman was once standing
before looking glass with eyes shut,
and on being asked why he stood
there, replied SIN afther seeing
how | look when Pm aslape."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

To destroy warts, dissolve as
much common soda as the water will
take up, wash the wFrts in this, let
them dry without wiping keep the
water in bottle and repeat the
wash often, and it will take away the
largest Wart.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

The young girl in Iowa who went
into bank and shot the cashier,
her seducer, with pistol coming
within an zach Of putting bullet
hole into his mead, has been hued
dollar "for careless use of fire arms"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

EVERY event that a man would
master must be mounted on the run /;
and no man ever caught the reins of
thought except as it galloped by
him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

To destroy bedbugs, whip the
whites of four eggs and beat in an
ounce of quicksilver, and apply with
feather. This quantity serves for
six beds, and is deadly poison.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

81 do not think, madam, that any
man of the least sense would approve
your conduct, said an indignant hus-
band. "Sir, retorted his better half,
"how can you Judge what man Of
the least sense would do 2
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

For burns or scolds, mix linseed
oil with whites of eggs well beaten,
and apply by spreading on a soft
cloth. 1t affords instant relief.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

For the first time, we thing, since
the close of Washington's presiden
tial term, there is no living expires
ident,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

liz some of the Northern States
horse thieves die the hair of the
horses they steal SO that :he owners
will not know thSs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

A drunken man at Niagara Falls
fell over the river bank, a distance
of eighty feet, and escaped unhurt,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13

TEMpERANGE is reasons girdle
and PASSIONS bridIe-the strength of
the soul and the fountain of virtue,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-08-13
The selarletta 9onrnal.

Marietta, Ga, Friday, August 13, 1875.
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Western & Atlantic R. R.
TIME TABLE.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN,

Ia m 1S:s:ss:sa;;5s
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-08

rangement of the atoms composing the atmos-
phere, also the pressure exerted by its sur
rounding the globe and all bodies thereon.
Remove atmospheric pressure, and all action
and life ceases-death and silence reigns in
empty space. Mature abhors an empty
space" Aristotle remarked two thousand
years ago. An empty space is not natural
it cannot exist, unless artiicially produced
Space must be filled to its utmost pressure, so
as to fill out alike a necessary condition for
order. As the iron filings are arranged from
pole to pole, the oxygen atoms inclose the par
ticles of filings and hold them firmly. This
explodes the Newtonian philosophy of gravity
by an attractive force of motion by a first i'm
pulse, continues in an empty space. Also the
principles introduced to account for electricity
and magnetism of the atmosphere and all boz
dies therein.
These theories were introduced one hundred
or two hundred years ago, when science was
in its infancy. The progress of practical
knowledge has stepped far in advance of these
theories-so they have become worthless in
the Interpretation and explanation of living ma
ture. HENRI KORNER
Author of Disclosures in Science
PONHATAN. o.
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Mr.. spinner's Successor.
A Washington correspondent W

A washington correspondent writes
to the New York Herald:
Mr.. New is wealthy and successful
banker of Indianapolis, and about for
ty-three years of age. He was clerk of
Marion County Court, Indiana, and
was Quartermaster General of that
State under Governor Morton during
the latter part of the war. While in
that capacity he became a member of
the Finance Board of Indiana which
assisted Governor Morton in counter
acting the opposition of the then Demo-
cratic Legislature. Mr.. New was in
vited to become a member of that
Board on account of his financial abili-
ty, and in this capacity first became
acquainted with Senator Morton. He
subsequently became Cashier and
manager Of the First National Bank of
Indiana, which position he has since
held. He is man of unimpeaehable
integrity, of large financial experience,
has been State Senator, and enjoys the
unlimited confidence of the bankers Of
Indiana. He is man of family. His
eldest child, lad of sixteen, is now
travelling in Europe. He has younger
children, daughters, and will remove
his family to Washington next sum-
mer. His income is estimated at 3d.
600 annually, so The salary attached to-
the office has no attractions to him. Mr..
New is about five feet eight inches in
height, broad shouldered his head rest
ing firmly on short neck, concealed
by the luxurious growth of beard in
front and satin gloss collar behind.
His eyes are gray, borrowing briiliancy
from ruddy countenance, always
smile compressed between
thin IinS
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BELMONT CHRONICLE.
ST, GAINESVILLE, OHIO.
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1875.
NtqutSl.I
4 Visit 10 FairylaHd.

The following was written by a little
girl thirteen years old-and is her first
effort:
As | was wandering i'm the woods,
listening 10 the songs Cf birds and
gathering flowers, l saw Il fairy. She
had blue eyes and long golden hair;
she came to me and asked me to come
TO their Queens palace, and with q
slight touch OF her wand l became as
small as herself. When we came tu
the palace how beautiful it was; it stood
on a lawn surrounded by trees, and
there were fountains and flowers and
birds. The palace was made of pearl;
the fairy led the way to h beautiful
room where was a throne of gold, and
on it sat the Queen. She was likewise
beautiful with blue eyes and long gold
en hair. The Queen babe me welcome
to FairyIand; the room was full of
fairies coming and going, each had its
own work to do. Some touched the
brook and it lnurmured asweeter song,
some touched tie flowers and they
bloomed more beautiful, some touched
the leaves OF the trees and they became
more green. When the duties Of the
day were over the Queen and her court
went out to dance on the lawn in a
fairy ring. / was weary and sat down
beside fountain listening to the music
of The waters and looking how beauti-
full the palace was in the moonlight,
fell asleeI. When 1 awoke, my visit
to Fairyland was only dream.
EFFIE IvEsoN,
DA'ynoN STATION, PENN, March 10.
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ADay's Doings in the L Legislature.

CleVel2nQ Lc3uclI
The Democratic party devil was
loose and rampant in the Ohio Legisla-
ture on Thursday. In the whole re-
cord of Ohio legislation We may look in
vain for such record as the House of
Representatives made on that day.
Three strictly party measures were
passed as follows:
/. The Geghan bill, the result of
which will be to demoralize and break
up the Sunday religious services which
now form so important part Of the
discipline in our State reformatory
system and set gangs of carpenters at
work erecting Catholic alters in the
asylums, jails aud prisons. work houses
and reform institutions. 1t is, so far as
the House is concerned, an important
and significant victory for the Catholics,
a step toward the general supremacy of
pOperty in America toward which they
are so persistently aiming.
II. The Pearson bill to repeal the
local option clause of the Municipal
Code, or in other words, taking away
from town and villages the power to
enact local prohibitory liquor laws.
III. The Potter bill, one of the most
infamous acts of legislation ever pre-
petrated in Ohio. Its purpose is to
abolish the City Council of Toledo and
turn the entire city government, with
the fire, police, educational and other
over tc small Board of
Aldermen, which will, under the law,
have power to retain itself in Office in
definitely and designate the successors
of such members as may die or wish to
retire. 1t gives to the city of Toledo
municipal government totally different
from that of any other city in the State.
1t is framed for the express purposes
of placing the city permanently in the
hands Of corrupt and reckless Demo-
cratic ring, and has been passed in def
ance of the solemn and earnest protes-
tations of large majority o. the Tole-
do people. The enactment OF such a
law forms an epoch, the beginning of a
new era, in Ohielegislation. 1t is the
legislation that enthrones rings and
sustains them in their reckless tyranny
ever popular opinion and the public
good.
Such arethe results of one days work
by our Democratic Legislature. Will
Ohio ever elect another? We shall
see.
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johnson and Grant.

[''Parson" Brownlow, in the Knoxville Chron-
Andy johnson, in the Senate, speaks
OF his affection for the Southern people,
referring to that class of them who par
ticipated in the rebellion, and in the
same speech charges President Grant
with being actuated by feelings of vim
dictiveness and hatred toward them.
When we consider the records of the
two men, we are forced to the conclu-
sion that no man not having the bra
zen-faced impudeuce of this brawling
demagogue could thus speak. Tie
tween johnson and Grant grew out of
Johnson's desire to have General Rob
bert e. Lee arrested aud hung for trea-
son. Grant was opposed to Johnson's
programme of arreSting and trying Lee
for two reasons: First, he did not want
to hang Lee; and, secondly, he told
try him would be violation of the
parole which he had given the General
on his surrender. But johnson, re-
gardless of this, insisted that Lee, as
representative of the Southern people,
must be punished-that treason might
be made odious.' He WAS so persis-
tent that Grant finally told him if Gen
eral Lee was molested in any way. he
(GranD would resign his commission
as General-in-Chief of the Army. After
that General Lee expressed his appre-
citation of the generosity of Grant, as
compared with the enmity shown to-
ward him by this dear friend of the
Southern people.