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Weste7'N JOts.

Minnesota planted 100000 trees las
year.
A rich vein of quicksilver has been dis
covered not tar from San Buenaventu1a
Cal.
| /. is asserted in San Francisco that q
ne CENSUS of that city will chow that il
has a population of 800, 600.
There IS two hundred feet cave neal
the river at Decorah, Iowa, which retains
II floor and c,lling of solid ice all summer
A coIo,cd statesman North Carolina
offered a resolution asking the Legislature
ito suggest some plan upon which Con
gress could be mcmorlalized to set apar'
Ia territory west Of the Missouri river for
the col nj atien of the colored people of
the South.
There has been a great slaughter of
cattle in Nevada by railroad trains this
winter. The snow has been So deep thai
the ANIMALS have sought the tracks for
comfortable standing places, and upon
the approach Of train, after making
traGtlc efforts to scale the banks of snow
lining the track, have been crushed in
large numbers.
At Albany, Oregon, a few days ago, a
bag of arsenic: was found fastened to the
mouth of the court house pump in such a
way that all water drawn from the pump
would have to precolate the bag and be
infected with the poison. One of the
principal public schools in the city draws
its supply of water entirely from the
pump.
William Simpson sold his farm in War
rensburg, Mo-, to Albert r ane. and The
odd part of the Il ansaction was that
Simpsons wife was ore of the articles in-
Guided in til" sale. She made no objection
to the change # husbands, and the bar.
gain was satisfactory to the persons con-
but public opinion was against
it, and they have been driven out of the
neighhOr ood by threats Of tnObbing.
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History Of Table. Cloths.

At very early pcriOu u was cuS'Ou1"AJ
to spread cloth, or cover. upon tables
appropriated for holding refreshments;
and. in the enobled ranks of society, we
find this practice prevalent almost among
all nations. where civilization has polished
the manners of the people; any omission
of this requisite mark of politeness would
have been considered an insult. The use
of the table-cloth among the Romans
began in the time of the early emperors;
.,heir fabrics were fine linen, generally
much ornamented, with stripes of gold
and purple. and sometimes painted or
wrought with gold, decorated at the cor
ners with golden tags. " The use of table
linen was very rare in England about the
18th century; but We find the Anglo.
Saxons before the Norman Conquest
diDed with . clean cloth, denom:nated
rod sceat, which was by their successors
termed drapet; this latter term we find In
several instances in Spencers "F@ry
Queeen,' evidently alludirg to linen
cloths nov modernlzed into drapery,
hence 1t 10 pretty certain that table cloths
were by no means unusual in this country
at very early period. In the life OF st.
lives, we find it mentioned, "that even q
|closh wss laid before . poor maa.
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BOHEMIAN, M. r., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1877.
Church Matters.


} There are fifteen Pptxstant churches i
Brazil.
The German Bapti9 churches of tn
United States havea teai membership O
1856.
The meteor last weak Is regarded b.
the Second Adventist s-,ss sure sign ths
the beginning of the sAi has begun, bu
hey hold their corner lots at the same oil
prices.
The Boston Methodist ministers hay
voted forty to eight, THAT we hereby dis
approve of the policy of holding camp
meeting on the Sabbath
An English paper states that of 17.0O
b NJ W ich are known to exist in tn
English language, only ZIG have SO ia
received the appreciation OF the Church a
to appear in ten different church hymn
books.
The College Il Cardinals, when full
consists of seventy Members. There ar,
at prcsen: fourteen vacancies. There arr
three orders Of Cardinals - Bishops
Princes and DeacOns The six Card:na
Bishops are those whose dioceses are th'
six suburban sces,'' There are fifty Car
dinal Princes, WI ose titles are take from
churches in Rome, of which they ar.
appointed Superiors and fourteen Cardi
nal Deacons, who are appointed tt
oh II
The Boston Travell'r quotes Mr.. Moo
dy as saying that eff Noah had waited
for committee to build the ark, the keel
would not have been laid to tt is day >
TO which the Christian Register replies
''As the ark had no mast, sails or rudder.
being only an oblong box, it is not prob.
BILE that any keel was ever laid, even in
the absence of hmdrrins commit tee. "
Long ago Sydney Smith said: IF the
building of the ark had been entrusted t.
q committee there would haYe been no
survivors Of the dcluge.''
The German Reformed Church has Ia
this country six hundred and fifty minis
ters, one thousand, three hundred and
congregations, one hundred
and forty-four thousand, four hundred
and tifty-eght members, one thousa ID,
one hundred and seventy six schools, four
theological seminaries, four colleges. and
ten preparatory schools.
Two coloreG people, husband and wife.
who r. recently Inexperienced religion" at
agreed, the other evening, t"
co. fess their sins to each other. They
got along very well till the husband hah
Exhausted his list, but the wife kept on
till the man could stand it no longer, and
he knocked her over into the corner.
Her screams brought several other color
ed bre,hre n. into the room, some of whom
we're mixed up in her 'conlcssions, and
/. .irec-fyht was the result. Confessions
and prayer meetings are suspended around
there now until the ''brethren" recover
from their bruises.
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Cards..

Cards (says Ince), which were invented
at the close of tine fourteenth century, 40
they were drawn and painted by the hand.
were proportionably dear, and were not
in general use until the reign of Edward
Nv. The price of single pack was 1Ss,
3d., very considerable sum in those days,
They were originally very different from
those in use at present. In shape they
were square; and instead of suites of spades,
clubs, hearts and diamonds, their marks
were rabbits, pink roses and flowers of
The figured cards were very
prettily devised: a queen riding on horse.
back with rabbit beside her, marked the
queen of rabbits, or of clubs. A rustic-
looking man, grotesquely dressed, and
standing in a strange attitude, with pink
beside him slgni6ed the knave of pinka,
or dlamonda.
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.A't and Science.

Some wDrknen of the Colorado Steam
Navigation Company have dug out Of
the sands of an Aztec village a copper
image, weighing Fifty pounds. represent.
ing an Aztec priest holding "una
heart ana exposing it to the sun, after
the old C, re- ony of human sacrifices.
The image is about oEc thousand years
old, and is now OF exhibition at SIN
Francisco.
A numismatic discovery almost unpar-
,Ileled IN extent has been made near
Verona. Two large amphora have been
found, containing no less than two quin-
tails, or about GOO English pounds weight.
of coins of the Emperor Gallienus and his
successors within the hundred years fol.
lowing his reign. The number of coins
s estimated at between $4,000 and IS. 900.
Of those OF the Emperor Probus there at
more than 1000. The majority are of
bronze, but there are some OF silver and
others of bronze silvered. They are all in
he finest state # preservation, and with
the exceptions of those of Gallienus,
which are little worn, they are so fresh
from the Mint as TO make il evident they
were never put into circulation.
Among the structures lately exhumeJ
at POmpeii Is cabalet; on removing
the Instructions at the entrance, the table
used by drinkers was found in kind of
back shop, accompanied by pots of earth
on the walls are pictures OF
tavern scenes, where the people are rep
resentcd, drinking and laughing, seated
on wooden benches, ard placed in various
at itudes; inscriptions traced
on the walls supplying explanations of
the subjects. We do not brlieve that ex
humers at Pompcii will discover lodge
of Good Templars with their symbols and
insignia adorning the walls.
Prof. Luce, in a lecture at St. Louis, in
reference 10 the influence of the moon
upon wet or dry weather said: "The
mutual influence exerted between the
earth and moon, as shown in the ocean and
tides, depe nds, upon the
play Of another and entirely distinct
principle, namely. gravitation or attrac-
ton. The most, If not all, the effects
upon animal and vegetable substances.
ascribed to the action of the
moon, are to be traced to natural agen-
cies entirely Independent of this satellite.
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Other

President Hayes private fortune foot
"a quarter of million.
Mr.. Gstling. inventor of the gun o.
that name. has brought out new mitrail
Ieuse, from which 800 rounds q m:nut.
can bc fred.
The poem of John Gi;pin's Ride" b,
lCowpcr, has So per cent. of its words IL
one sy llab bic. while Shakespeare has 81 and
Dickens Is.
Hart's statue of Henry Clay, which
stands in the Capitol grounds at Rich
mond, is to be repaired. The statue has
been mu.ilaled by having the fingers of
both hands broken off.
Colonel Peter Donohue is travelling
around the United States 10 q palace car
made for his own use. He is now at
Patterson, N. J. twenty-five years ago
ne had a blacksmith shop in teut on the
beach at San Francisco.
There died in Middlebury, Vermont, a
few days ago, a cabinet maker named
Nahum Parker, in whose she p SlcpI en-
A. Douglas served an apprenticeship.
Two men, known as the "Austin Bros 2"
haye been giving exhibitions of skill in
rifle shooting IN Baltimore. One of their
feats is as follows: One performer takes
up his position on the stage. with a potato
on his head; the other goes to the opposite
end of the stage, turns his back to his
brother, holding a looking glass in one
h I'd. and with the other aims his rifle
over his shoulder and fires, the ball split.
ting the pota,o in two.
Judge Jeffries, OF notorious memory.
pointing to man with his cane, who was
about to be tried, said, There is u great
rogue at the end of my cane.'' The man
to whom he pointel, looking at him, said,
(Which end, my losd?'
Its now pretty we'll understood that
Grant did lot leave the White House by
any means rich man; and whatever may
have becn his mistakes in civil life, the
whole country owes too much to him not
10 be interest, d in Ills future comfort and
dignity.
AS an illustration of the integrity of
The small farmers Of South Carolina, it is
stated by merchant at Winsboro, that
out OF advances made to them the past
y. ar, amounting to t13 900, he lost only
$50,
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About Clothes Pins.

insignificant az the common wooden
clothes pin is in itself, its manufacture
forms no mean part in American indus
tries, and the numerous factories in the
New England and other States furnish
employment to thousands Of persons.
There are several large clothes-pin man.
ufactories in Pennsylvania and Ohio. and
one in the vicinity of Saratoga, N. Y.
each of which is capable of turning out a
thousand boxes, or seven hundred anil
twenty thousand pins, per week. There
are several small factories scattered
Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, and Vermont. and all are run by
As rule, those engaged
in The manufacture of clothes pins are
Quakers. Beech. white birch. and poplar
are the woods used in making the article,
the birch and poplar being considered the
hest. The machinery employed Is very
simple. The wood is first sawed into
logs four feet in length, and then cut in
to square sticks by means of cutting
machine. Each stick after being rounded
in lathe is passed into another machine,
which throws out a number of perfectly
formed pins at one cut and with great
rapidity. The pins are then thrown into
a large revolving cylinder and smoothed
by friction with each other. New York
and Boston are the principal markets fol-
this ware. and hence they are shipped IN
large quantities to the West, and to Eng
land and Australia. Over one hundred
thousand boxes of pins arc annually SEM
to England, and corresponding number
to Melville, Sydney, New Zealand and the
Sandwich Islands.
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The Yankee.

The "Yankee" still retains bis proml-
ncnce as an inventor. One patent WA
granted for every 73o persons 10 Connec-
ticut. 914 in Rhode Island and 91S in
Massachusetts, last year, while out West
the proportion sinks to one in 1857 for
Illinois, and one in 449S for Kansas.
Cd ly enough, however, there is wide
gap between Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Rhode Island and the three northern
New England States, the figures for Ver-
m''nt, New Hampshire and Maine being
one 10 2,97S, 100 and S,522 respectively.
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Cat Fur.

No longer are cats to be doomed to drag
out a miserable existence and waste their
midnight melodies upon unspprec'ativc
ears. for q haven of rest is about beng
prepared for them on Msusfield Island,
Lake Erie. A purchase OF that Islano
has been made by man who intends 70
stock it with black cats, take excei'ea'
care of them, and kill their progeny 1or
their fur. He will feed them at first on
fish caught off tho shore by men who i've
on the Island; but after the enterprise u
we'll etsrted. by . rare system OF economy,
he will utilize the meat of the slaughtered
cats "A food for the living cats.
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One unaGQ,!alnteu with thur nalOna
character, would imagine we were re-
siding among nation Of fire eaters; bu
in few countries is the personal dignity o
m al sunk to q lower ctb tLan in Brazil
During q nine years. residence l never
heard of a single duel; no natural assassi
,.ati"n being the fashionable mode OF
vind,cating outraged honor. The rigi,
jsta,e Of seclusion ip which the (, males ar.
kept, d. prives society of that facinatins
polish of exterior cast over its surface ii
other countries by the influence Of tlit
female sex. TIE mind of the Brazilian
|female is left in all the wild luxuriarce OF
|uucultivatrd nature, her existence il
monolony itself, gliding ON its dull
course in the society Of hrr slaves, to
whom IN point of intellect she is little
superior; but her manners are soft and
gentle, and her sensibilities. when aroused,
have all the fiery energy of her native
cline. Interesting. rather tnan beautiful,
her sedentary life tinges her cheek with y
sickly hue; while Early marriage gives to
her figure an exuberant emboDpJint,
which, however, in the Oriental taste OF
the country, is considered the beau ideal
of personal beauty in both sexes. In
this precocious climate ladies' are
grand dmothers at seven and twenty.
Female education is an absolute nullty;
that of the other sex is not of a more
elevated character. With the exception
of those who have pursued their studies
abroad, it is extremely rare to meet with
any one who possesses even elementary
knowledgc on any branch of science or
polite literature. Few among them ever
take the trouble of reading their own
beautiful Dusiad. IndOlent, addicted to
gambling, and slave to tho grossest SEN
suslity, which but too often degenerates
into the c1Ost criminal txcesses. all the
finer feelings of our nature are early
blunted in the mind of the Brazilian, who
bars the loss of his nearest and dearest
friends with an indifference amounting
10 apathy.
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Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA 10 the religious city OF
America. She hae 22,OOO fresoyter'ans'
1 200 Episcopal,ans, and 1900 Metho'
,,,sts while New York has 49, 500 Presby-
rerians. II, 1000 Episcopalisns and 12.0z
Methodists; Brooklyn, $500 Presoyter
rams. 9,9OO Episcopalisns and ls'ooe
Meth odists; Chicago, 4,50o Presbytesia.s'
a 200 Episcopalians, snd 6.7Sl Metbodlsts;
Boston. l 400 i'resbyterians, 4,0oo Epls
copslians, aud u, 40 Aetbodists
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Industrial Notes.
The Singer kgatees want mole none y
to run their machines

The Singer kgatees want mole money
to run their machines
They are making sugar in Illinois ou
of corn. The next thing modern science
will accomplish in the Sucker State viii
be the distillation of prepared cock
tails.
The United States coins 100 cents ou
of q pound Of copper, the intrinsic value
of which is % cents. and S. worth OF
nickels out of pound of nickel, intrinsic
value 70 cents.
An American alr-brake company recent
lily received an order from England fo,
$3.50, 900 worth of brakes. to be placed o..
three hundred locomotives and one thou
sand cars.
Rutland, VT, expects to become an i'm
portrait mining centre. One man there
thinks he has found coal; another knows
" here there is iron. and third has gold
mine on Bald Mountain, which he stealth.
lily visits at night, carefully concealing
his tracks. Specimens of gold ore sent
TO Boston for assay arc said to te very
lrich.
It Is said that the Mesquite gum OF
Western Texas is almost identica. with
gum arabic, and during the past year has
become an article of export, some l2,OOe
pounds having been gathered in Bexal
county, and as mnch more between that
and the coast. This gum exudrs from the
stems and branches of the mesquite, a
mimosa, several species of which grow
lin Texas, New Mexico end Arizona.
A remarkable waterproof has been in
vented in Paris. 1t is of silk, and may be
folded almost es small as q pocket hand
Ikerchief. When unfolded, it offers an
ingenious series of pockets of different
shapes, made to hold the fan and other es
sentlsls of feminine toilets. The hood
can be raised over the head by means of a
spring, so constructed as to prevent the
hood from mussing the flowers or other
ornaments.
Naptha is produced in large quantities
|in the Caucasus wells, near Bakou, hav
ing existed for centuries, and we'll 81
feet deep. dug by the Persians 1000 years
ago, is shown to the visitor. In summer,
naptha is thrown up in jets to the height
of 100 feet, and large quantities run to
waste. In 1874 the production of Pc
troleum from this district was 40, 32O, ,0O(
pounds, though this amount has fallen of
considerably since the competition ol
American petroleum began.
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Truth Shall Stand.

"When the morning came with her eye
of flame,
And looked on the youthful earth,
When man, at the call IF the Lord Uf all
Rose up in his glorious birth;
When the stars rang out with a tunefu
To the mountains and the sea.
And the worlds great heart with quick
encd start,
Beat time to their melody.
Like a grain in the sod grow the though,
of God,
AS na:ure's slow work appears,
From tie zoophy te small to the Lord of all
Through cycles and sums Of years.
But the dark grew bright, and the nigh,
grew light,
W.el the era Of truth began,
And the soul was taught through the pri
ma. thought,
OF the life of God in man.
Through the ages dim has that holy hymn
Come down to our listening ears;
And still she it float with sweeter note
Through the vista Of coming Years.
Aud a voice made known from the view
less throne
AS it has been it shall be,
On, on from the past. still on to the last,
Like river that seeks the sea.
Hour by hour, like the opening flower,
Shall truth after truth expand;
The sun may grow pale, and the stars
may fail,
But the purpose of God shall stand"
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Never Too Late To Learn.

NCVCI 4OO 1INCC lO 1tUrus
Socrates, at an extreme old age learned
to play on musical instruments.
Cato. when eighty years OF age, learn
ed to study the Greek language.
Plutarch, when between seventy and
eighty, commenced the study of Latin.
Boccaccio was thirty. five years of age
when he commenced his studies in light
lite rature, and he became one of the
greatest masters of the Tuscan dialect
Dante and Plu.arch being the other two.
Sir Henry Spellmsn neglected the
sciences in his youth, but commenced the
study of them when he was between fifty
and sixty years of age.-After this time
he became most learned antiquarian aud
lawyer. -
DR.. johnson applied himself to the
Dutch language but few years befOr,
his death.
Ludovico Monsldesco, at the great age
|of l15. wrote the memoirs of his own
times.
Osilby, the translator of Homer and
Virgil, was unacquainted with Iatln and
Greek til he was past fifty.
Franklin did not fully commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had reached
his fif,ieth year.
Dryden, In his sixty eighth year, com-
menced the TRANSLATION of the Ilisd, bi.
|most pleasing production.
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Poetry.
For the COURIER.
A Bead Lock.

A Dead Lock.
T'othcr night when you gave me a }ock n
your air
deemed 1t proof of your love.
But alas! at the time was all unaware
What sham it would finally prove.
Wrapped in ignorance thcn-how gee
was the thought!
How fondly ! cherished the prize!
Now. know that you cut it from some
that you bought,
And my weakness sadly desp,se.
No need TO confess how found out the
sell
Of the many, the fond caresses
lavlshed unstintingly, never shall tell,
On this lock of your purchased tresses.
Tho sad is my heart ut the trick you have
played,
will not, cannot n prove;
But quickly IN seek out some other fair
maid,
And smother my g,ief in fresh love.
o. DE-.
ST LOUIS, No., February, 1877.
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DR.. James Shaw,
IT. s. .4r,,au. Fort Ellis. NJ. r..

For near twenty years a regular Physician
ard Surgeon Of the city of Philadelphia
and for some time resident Physician of
the Pennsylvania Hospital. and Consult
ing Physician in other public medical in
stitutions of that city, with a number of
years experience as Surgeon in the vol
uhtecr service and regular army of the
United States. Can be consulted on long
standing anJ chronic diseases at that Fort
The diseases of women and children q
speciality.
December 10th, 1875.
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" Washington, D. c.
MINING ENTRIES AND CONTESTS.
Patents
For Agricultural and Mineral Lands.
REFERENCES.
Stephen ]. Field. Justice U. s. Supreme
Court, J. II. Mitchell, U. S. Senator. Or
egon; Hon. Sol Heydenfeldt, San Fran
cisc,r The Manhattan Silver Mining Co.
Austin, Nevada; The Mining Review,
Denver: Walker Bros, Bankers. Salt Lake
City; Henry Watkeye, Master Mechanic of
ihe New York Central r. r. Co., Syra-
cuse. 10 2f
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Courier Queries.

lin this department Of the COURIER we
propose to answer questions of corrvspou.
!ents. We'uvi qccries, and shall reply
to best of our abiliiy.1
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The Kansas railroads paid state tax
last year of $S9, ,l20,S0.
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Never before, in the history Of Texas,
was the immigration into 1t SO great Is it
is now. f..,. ...
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CEND 25c. to q. p. ROWELL q COS
- New York. for Pamphlet . aO0 Psgs,
containing lists of 5000 newsp:Pers!, anr
Astlmases showing the cost OK aovelu~Ss'
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Local notices Is cri'ts per line first in
sertion and 10 centsic line for ca h sub
scquent insertion.
Marriage and d, a h notices inserted
free of charge; Obituary notices 5 cents
per line.