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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-04-11
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especial Advertisements. =
VXrO0DSTOCK GRADED AND HIGH
w SCHOOL.

The sixth session for
B o 7 S 4 N D G + L s
of this school will open Sept 49, 1876, and continue
for nine successive school months The building has
been enlarged and many additional advantages are
offered Arrangements have been made to teach
music, instrumental and vocal in connection with
the school. The course is from the elements
THROUGH THE CLASSICS.
An especial course is adapted for those preparing
themselves for College. None but competent
eachers are employed. The Principal,
MR.. r. d. HAISLIP,
is graduate of Washington & Lee University and
has proved an able, efficient and successful teacher.
The teachers for the ensuing term are
R. d. HAISLIP, M A. Principal. -
W w LOGAN LIST, Asst. -.
{" I2nd, "i
MISS EMMA LANTZ, 3rd, '
TUITION
High School department, per month in advance ~.
Ggsic entire term. $50.
q. Catalogue sent on application to the Board.
& eE (; F V. MiEhr, Board of Trustees.
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a Competent Chemist, takes pleasure in announc-
ing to the public that he will continue the manu-
facture of Phosphate at the old stand under the
name and style Of the Virginia Fertelizng Com
J. J. STONEBURNER.
Abr. 5th.-tf. Edinburg, Va.
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BALTIMOREMAR KETS.
APRIL 9Th, 1877.


The Copartnership heretofore existing between
D. W. Prescott and J. J. Stoneburner, under the
firm name of Prescott l. Stoneburner is this day
dissolved by mutual consent.
]. ]. Stoneburner having purchased the entire
interest of D. W. Prescott, all ella inns due the late
firm must be settled with J. J. Ston e5urner Edln-
burg Va. ..,,x,
+ STONERITRNER
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Floriculturist, Josiah, noted Botanist S. B. Peck
NJ. D. writer on Hygiene, Henry Haies, the rracti
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Miscellaneous Advertisements
THE SUN.
1877 NEW Y0hK. lo771

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tc+o S0O per day at home. Samples worth
Do W SAo s. free. Stinson s Co., Por tland,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
The Dead Letter Office.

From the annual report of Mr.. Edgar
J. Dallas, Superintendent at the Dead
Letter Office. some interesting statistics
are gained to show the amount of care
lessness that exists among letter-writers
in this country. The whole number of
dead letters received at the Dead Letter
Office during the year ending June, 1877,
was 3 ,234 800 which is 349, 944 less than
the number received the previous year.
OF these 1904 1888 were merely ordin-
airy letters of no special importance,
about half of which were returned to
the writer's, or forwarded to the per-
sons for whom they were intended. This
is reduction Of about 200 900 from the
number received the previous year.
There were 421 ,165 letters received.
which were properly addressed, but on
which the sender had neglected to place
a stamp The number of letters re-
turned to the United States from
foreign countries was 169,599, the per-
sons to whom they were addressed not
having called for them within ninety
days, the time allowed The number of
letters sent to the Dead Letter Office
containing money was 32.746; and the
aggregate amount contained IN them
was $51, 97541. This is reduction from
the previous year, when there were re-
ceived 1852 letters, containing cur
rency to the amount of $54,72 Last
year owners were found for 2O,SS4 let
ters, inclosing $37 ,952. The year previ-
Gus the proportion was about the same.
The money is held in the Dead Letter
Office for one year, to the credit of the
writer, but at the expiration of that
time it goes into the United States
Treasury. Nearly 81 100000 was found
in 1891 letters, in the shape of drafts
certificates of deposits, bonds, and other
paper representing money. Of these
II ,6O1 letters, with Enclosures valued at
81 ,2O4, 4O5, were returned to their own
ers. There were 261, 1856 letters that
came in containing jewelry and other
articles of intrinsic value Of these
141126 were delivered to their writers
with the Enclosures. Over 81 900 letters
were found to contain photographs, and
over $4,000 contained postage stamps
A great proportion of these were re-
turned either to the writer Or the person
addressed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
Early Breakfasts.

A bad custom is prevalent in many
families, especially among farmers, Of
working an hour Of two before break
fast, attending to Chores" hoeing in
the garden, cutting wood, moving, etc
This is convenient on many accounts
but it is not conducive to health The
prevalent opinion is, that the morning
air is the purest and most healthful and
bracing; but the contrary is the fact
At no hour of the day is the air more
filled with dampness, fogs and
miasmas, than about sunrise. The
heat of the sun gradually dissipates
these miasmatic influences as the day
advances. An early meal braces up the
system against these external inf1u-
ences. Every one knows the languor
and faintness often experienced for the
first hour in the morning, and that this
is increased by exercise and want OF
food. We do not agree with the boar
ding-school regime which prescribes a
long walk before breakfast as means
of promoting health.
Probably the best custom would be,
to furnish every member of the family,
especially those who labor out of doors,
with single cup of warm coffee, well
MIXED, Immediately after rising from
bed. Then let them attend to chores
or moving, hoeing, etc., for an hour or
two, while the teams are feeding, and
the breakfast preparing. They will fee
better and do more work-Amaerica,1
AHicuk,uia
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

All the old love, the old hope. the
long-ago-conquered despair came back
to haunt her as she waited with renewed
hope for tidings.
q am growing old and worn," she
said one day, looking at her pale face in
the mirror; q am not the blooming
girl Herbert loved, but careworn, pal
lid woman"
And her own sad eyes could not see
the rare beauty Of her sweet face.
But, still thinking of her love, she
twisted her han in a heavy coronet over
her shapely head, and upon one side
put a knot of blue ribbons.
Herbert liked it So" she thought
Then she pinned blue ribbons over
her grey dress under soft lace collar,
and put on a brooch her adopted father
had given her, which was favorite
with Herbert
And thinking sadly of the change
years had made, she was summoned to
her sitting room to meet a grave, mid
dle-aged man, changed also, until upon
his lips and in his. eyes she read his con-
stancy and answered it by her own
Years rolled back as these two, faith
full through all, met at last to know their
hearts still young, their love still true, as
it was in those days when cruel fate sep
arated them by SO small an agent as a
crack in the wall behind mantle-piece.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
The CamphOr Tree.

One Of the most useful and magnif.
cent productions of the vegetable king.
dom that encircles China, and more es-
pecially the provinces of Kiang-si and
Canton, is the camphOr tree. This stu
pendOus laurel, which often adorns the
banks of rivers, was in several places
found by Lord Amherst's embassy
about fifty feet high, with it's stem TWEEN
ty feet in circumference. The Chinese
themselves affirm that it sometimes at
tains the height Of 800 feet, and a cir
conference greater than the extended
arms of twenty men could embrace.
CamphOr is obtained from the branch
es by sleeping them, while fresh cut, in
water for two or three days, and then
boiling them until the gum, in the form
of a white jelly, adheres to a stick
which is constantly used in stirring the
branches. The fluid is then poured in
to glazed vessel, where it concretes in
a few hours. 70 purify it the Chinese
take quantity Of finely powdered
earth, which they lay at the bottom OF
a copper basin; over this they place a
layer of camphor; and then another
layer of earth, and SO on until the YES
sci is nearly filled, the last or topmost
layer being of earth. They cover this
layer with the leaves of plant called
"po no. which seems to be a species
Of mentha (mint). They now invert a
second basin over the first, and make
it alright by luting The whole is
then submitted to the action of regu-
lated fire a certain length of time, and
the left to cool gradually. On opening
the vessels, the camphor is found to
have sublimed, and to have adhered to
the upper basin. Repetitions Of the
same process complete its refinement.
Besides yielding this valuable ingred-
lent the camphQr tree is one of the prin-
cipal timber trees Of China and is used
not only in building, but in articles OF
furniture. The wood is dry and of a
light color, and although light and easy
to work, is also durable and not likely
to be injured by insects.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
A Mules Wonderful Trickery.

"Speaking about mules" remarked a
six footer in Arkansas, as he cracked
his whip at market, g I've got a mule
at home which knows as much as | do.
and want to hear somebody say I'm
half fool" No one said so, and he
went on. GIVE stood around her and
heard men blow about kicking mules
till I've got disgusted When you come
down to kicking, | want to bet on my
mule. A friend came along and took
dinner. with me the other day, and as he
seemed little down-hearted [ took
him out to see Thomas Jefferson my
champion mule. was telling the good
man how that mule would flop his feet
around, and he said he would like to
see a little fun. He'd passed his whole
life in the South, but had never seen a
mule lay his whole soul into big time
at kicking. "Well," he said, after Dor
rowing some tobacco, Il took Thomas
out of the stable, backed him up agin a
hill, gin him a cuff on the ear, and we
stood back to hear the amusement. 1t
was good place to kick his durndest,
and what dye s'pose he did? In ten
minutes by the watch he was out of
sight. In five minutes more we couldn't
feel him with a twelve foot pole, and
and" The crowd began to yell and
sheer, and the narrator looked around
and asked: ".Does anybody think Pm
lying? Would [ lie for one mule? Right
here under my arm is a pound of tallow
candles which are to light the hole for
to go in after Thomas; and I got word
not an hour ago that the hind feet of a
mule were sticking out of a hill thirty
nine miles as the bird flies from where
my mule went in. Pm shaky on re-
ligion, gentlemen but our family never
had liar in it."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

tree, willow, conifers, etc. These trees
grow probably on the shores of small
islands in the cretaceous ocean in which
the marine monsters rOamed, and not
far off oysters (ostrea congesta) CLAIMS
(inoceramus) Faculties and ammonites,
and other marine shells were found in
abundance
Along the shores of this ancient sea
squatted and leapt the dinosaurs or ter
rible lizards, one of whom, loelaps, was
twenty-four feet long. From the length
of his hinder legs it is supposed that he
was able to walk upright, like biped,
carrying his head twelve feet in the
air. There was another still larger,
thirty-five feet long, and of the same
habits. In the air overhead, huge bat
like creatures, comprising a lizard,
crocodile, and u bat tapped their leath-
cry wings twenty-five feet from tip to
tip over the sea, plunging every now
There were birds, too; diver, five and
one-half feet high, and some, strange to
say, with spinal vertebre like a fish, and
armed with pointed teeth in both jaws
Enormous tortoises and turtles were the
bOatmen of the age. One discovered
by Cope, in Kansas, was fifteen feet
across the end of one fapper to the end
of the other Huge CLAIMS, also, lay
scattered over those ancient shores,
twenty-six inches in diameter Our
saurian did not fall short of the biggest
of these monsters; he could not have
been less than sixty to seventy feet
long, and was probably either a mos
asaurus or lizard allied to the elias
mOsaurus.
The ocean in which these creatures
lived was gradually enclosed by the up
heaval of the sea bottom on the west,
and soon became almost an inland
sea. AS the elevation continued, and
its area was contracted ridges would
rise. isolating portions of the sea into
salt lakes, and imprisoning the life in
them. The stronger soon destroyed the
weaker till the water by evaporation
becoming shallower, all life finally died,
became skeletons, and, in course of ages,
fossils in sandstone
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
TENDERNESS.

Not unto every heart is Gods good gift
OF simple tenderness allowed: we meet
With love in many fashions when we lift
First to our lips lfe's waters bittersweet.
Love comes upon us with resistleSs power
OF curbiess passion and with headstrong will
iplays around like April's breeze and shower,
Or calm flows, rapid stream, and still.
llcomes with blcssedness unto the heart
That welcomes it Alright or-bitter fate!-
1wrings the bosom with so fierce smart,
That love. we cry is crueer than hate.
And then. all me when love has ceased to bless,
Our broken hearts cry out for tenderness!
We long for tenderness like that which hung
About US, lying on our mott ers breast;
selfish feeling, that no pen nor tongue
Can praise Alright. since silence sings it best
love as far removed from passion heat
AZ from the chiiness of its dying fire;
A love to lean on when the failing feet
Begin to totter and the eyes to tire.
In youths brief heyday hottest love we seek.
The reddest rose we grasp-but when 1t dies,
God grant that later blossoms, vioets meek,
Nav spring for us beneath life's Autumn skies
God grant some loving one be near to bless
Our weary way with simple tenderness!
AL the YeGr Round
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

Happears from the above table that
the Cherokee Nation, the District of
Columbia and Nevada pay the highest
salaries. The first and last named are
for various reasons, obliged to pay large
ly for the services of competent teach
ers. The District of Columbia supports
but few schools, and employs none but
the most accomplished instructors The
free schools of New Mexico, which pays
teachers the smallest salary of any
State, are in very poor condition,
there being none outside of Santa Fe,
Alburquerque,' and one or two other
large towns. 1t is noticeable fact that
New York pays it's female teachers
more than Massachusetts, the home of
of Mrs. Livermore and Lucy Stone, and
the headquarters Of those interested in
WOmen's rights.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

AWFUL warning to tramps: A tramp,
who said he had father and brother
occupying good positions in the New
York CustomHouse, asked. for work at
Debuque SO as to get an old pair of
boots, his feet being nearly naked The
sarcastic housekeeper pointed him grim
to test-pile of knotty wood from which
thousands of tramps had recoiled in ter
ror; but this exceptional tramp split
the wood, piled it neatly. cleaned up
the yard and mended the fence and side
walk. The lady approvingly gave him
a good meal, pair Of boots, a good suit
of clothes and dollar, and her neigh
Dor, Mr.. George Lagen, a ivery-stable
keeper, noting his industry, employed
the tramp at fair wages Such are the
fatal consequences of tramp's forget
ting the dignity of his profession and
dallying with an axe