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DOWN THE ST. LAWRENCE.
The river ST. Lawrence offers rare
attractions to the tourist; it is diff
ferent from all other rivers in Amer
lca, and is worth a long journey.
Think, in the first place, Of river
five miles wide in many places Such
is it's extreme width in the vicinity
Of the Thousand Islands. Think,
again, Of sailing forty miles down
the river amidst All archipelago,
whose islands ave studded here and
there with summer cottages and sum-
mer camps, and whose winding and
rndlsssly varied channels come upon
vistas here aud there of exquisite
beauty. Think Of literally
SAILING DOWN HILL
for nine miles at one stretch. and Of
repeating tho experience for shorter
distances several times. Think Of u
river losing itself in lake thirty
miles long and twelve miles wide,
and finding its way out again only to
repeat the operation !wice over, once
on even a larger scale. All this and
more that King Of Rivers, St. Law.
renee.
Americans cannot accustom them.
selves to looking northwsrd and call
ing it "down the River;" sailing
"down North, or sup South" is Ut
terly opposed to all our ideas of gs-
ographical propriety; but this is an
other novelty to be encountered on
the St. Lawrence, where the further
DOWN you 20 the further NoRrn you
find Yourself.
Twenty-sisht miles below Ogdsns-
OuTg are tne CcISDTAteu
LONG sAULT RAPIDS,
nine miles long, through which the
water runs down hill at the rate Of
twenty miles an hour. During much
of the distance the descent is so
marked that you are psrcepti3ly
SAILING DOWN HILL at o tremendous
speed. The water is quite smooth
except at four or FIVE places; bnt in
these it rushes and eddies and whrls
till the angry waves are dashed in
white swrling pillows up straight
into the air distance OF twelve or
fifteen feet, and--unlike the ocean
waves, which "travel"-these thick
and formidable masses of foany wa
ter stand there, immovable, across
tho steamers path like vast snow
heaps awfully convulsed by some
mighty internal force. AS the boat
nears these places steam is shut off,
and, propelled only by the force of
the current, the steamer plunges in
among these heaving snow.heaps
where she sways and shivers and
rolls till you cling to the rail and
shout with enthusiasm, or hold your
breath for fear, just according to the
kind of nerves which Providence and
your own habits have provided you
with. Few people are afflicted with
fear, however; the sensation caused
by the staunch and trusty steamer
buffeting with the angry waves be-
, 1879-10-02

grandeur Ot the watorS. Indeed, one
OF the ladies Of our party, possessing
so sensitive and delicate a nervous
organization that the thought OF the
Rapids for week before had kept
her swallowing those awful "lumps
in the throat" which sometimes af.
flict nervous people in the presence
of real or fancisd danger, was the
most enthusiastic of the number, and
fairly screamed with delight where
the waves were dashing the highest.
AT two points between Ogdsnburg
and Montreal the river widsns into
lakes Of no mean size, though they
do not generally appear on the maps.
One of those, Lake st. Francis, is
thirty miles long and twelvss wide.
The other, Lake St. Louis, which is
not SO large is just above the little
town OF Lachins, and the famous
Lachine Rapids, the widest and most
difficult of the entire series. Our
boat did got attempt the passage OF
these Rapids but We were disem-
harked at Lachine, and half an hour
later stepped from the railroad train
in Montreal. The Lachine Rapids
are SO great an attraction TO the
tourists that two excursion trains
run daily from Montreal to Lachine
where the excursionist take small.
er steamer and "shoot the Rapids"
making tho round trip in an hour
apd half. The fall of the River
is much greater here than at any of
the preceding Rapids and the chan
mel is so narrow that at one spot the
steamer passes between two huge
walls of black rock but a few feet
from her sides; within these narrow
bounds the water rushes and surges
with appalling speed, estimated by
some authorities at
FORTY MILES AN HoUR,
with the surface of the river beyond
is several feet higher than the chan.
mel through which We are being
whirlsd, making what is really val
Icy in the water. The Indian pilot,
taken on at Lachine, directs the
course Of the vessel, and four stout
men at the helm obey his directions,
keep her in this valley of water,
through all its winding course, along
which she pitches and rolls like a
drunken man.
Around each Rapid is constructed
short canal, through which the
steamers return up the river. Tray
cling up tho river is rendered ex.
tremely tedious by the numerous
locks, which, owing to the abrupt
descent of the river bed, sometimes
follow one another in quick success
sion for almost mile.
Near the foot of the long Soult
rapids lies the Indian village of St.
Regis, whose little church sdifcs,
plainly visible from the steamers
deck, is intimately associated by a
curious circumstance with tho
FAMOUS INDIAN MASSACRE
at Deer6eld, Mass, the story of
which used to curdle our youthful
blood and make US draw the bed.
clothes over our heads, $50 many
years ago." Those Indians, through
the efforts of French priests, had be-
come sufficiently christianized to
build a church. and had sent to
France for a bell. On its way
across the sea it was captured by an
English cruiser and brought to Salem
Mass, where it was sold to the Deer
Field people for their new church.
Word was taken to St, Regis that
their bell was at Deerfsld an expe-
dition was organized, and these dark
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"M0RLEY'S" LETTERS FROM new
YORK,

From our regular correspondent
New YoRK, Sept. 12, 10.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
Accuracy of Electrical Science.

A triumph of electrical science is thus
explained: In the cable news not long
ago it was stated that the French Attain
tic cable was " broken one hundred and
sixty.one miles from st. Pierre, Mique-
Ion, in five hundred fathoms of water"
These few words show one of the many
triumphs of modern electric sc snce.
Here is wire cord buried under three
fifths of q mile of the water of the
ocean, and hundred and sixty miles
from land, and yet the people on shore
can exactly locate the point at which it
is brokenl
Strange as that seems, it is actually
done, and has been time and again. The
repairing vessels will 60 out to the indi-
Gated point, throw over their graphing
hooks, and within a few hundred yards
will find the broken ends and splice
them.
This wonder is accomplished first by
exact knowledge of the laws OF elec-
tricity, which make known what amount
of current wire of given dimension
will carry, and the resistance it must
overcome in going given distance; and
next, by the instruments made by the
mechaniciaps Of our day, which will
make the operation Of both laws visible
to the experienced observer, even if thl
! break in thf liable is q thousses I,;s4
iRWas, Il g a1tlre<5.s
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
Grains OF Gold,


To know how to wait is the great
secret of success.
ALI philosophy lies in two words
+" sustain and abstain"
The higher up the mountain you
climb, the more you can see.
The greatest misfortune of all is not
to be able to bear misfortune.
Indulge in humor just as much as you
please, if it is not ill-humor.
If evil be said of thee, and it is true,
correct it; if it be lie, laugh at it.
Never call new acquaintance by
the first name, unless requested to do so.
1t is more profitable to look up our
defects than to boast of our attainments.
Never answer questions in general
company, that have been put to others.
Never pass between two persons who
are talking together, without an apology.
We can only know ourselves through
the constant study how to govern our
selves.
Never lend an article which you have
borrowed, unless you have permission
to do 80.
There is a German proverb which saws
that Take-It-Easy and Live-Long are
brothers.
To regret the one we love is blessing
compared to the misery of living with
one we hate.
The busybody labors without thanks,
talks without credit, lives without love,
and dies without tears.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
How Opium Makes Ghinaman Feel,

Wah Shung, the Sixth street laandry
man, entered the drug store opposite
his dive, and, throwing down nickel,
said:
g "Flive centee opium =
While the clerk was getting him the
drug Cincinnati Enquirer representa-
tive engaged the Chinaman in CONVERSE
ion: a
"Buy much opium, Wah r S..
"Flive, ten, and fifteen cents worth
q day." .f' 6 e &
"Use it on shirtsip
Helle, mol Smoke it.
Like itf' ii.s3
"BelIy good" and a happy emile
spread over his mummy-like features.
"Tell me something about it, said
the ENQUIRER man "what kind OF an eff
feet does it produce-how does it make
you feel?' -
Makes Chinaman feel likee land
here he was stuck for comparison to
denote perfect happiness and content
ment; "makes Chinaman feel likee--
likee Melican General Grant, alice time
plenty money, no much workee. takee
things easy"
Makes you forget your troubles,
does it 7"
eyes; foglet troubles alice same likee
when you Sleep
"See nice things in your dreams?"
"Belly moe. Everything big and
beautiful" I" and he made an enraptured
gesture with his hands.
Everything grand, suppose =
"Belly grand. Chinaman's cellar
look likee Gibson House.
Is it possible p
Smoethin, iron look like train Of
cars and washee-wash-tub like steam
boat"
!" You don't say so7 And what else r.
"Oh, heep else. Wah Shung feel
like sold out and gone back to China
with twenty five hundred dollars. "
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
Custer'S Death.
Correspondence Chicago Tribune.

Correspondence Chicago Tribune.1
An Indian account of the death of
Custer will not, / think, prove uninter-
esting. The Indians say that, after the
general stampede, Custer tried to rally
his men around him. He waved his
pistol in the air and shot it off twice to
attract his men. Two or three gath
cred around him, but as the Indians
still confined to advance one of the
soldiers tried to run away. Custer
fired at him and killed him, and then
seeing the case quite hopeless, the
Indians gathered around from all parts,
turned his revolver on himself, prefer
ring to die by his own hand. The In
dians say that they think this person
was Custer, as he was chief; but they
are not certain of the fact. Rain-in-
the-Face took soldier prisoner, but he
was not allowed to live long, as he was
killed at dance that followed the fight.
The Indians here all agree on one
thing-that the number of Indians
killed in the fight was thirty-six; they
give their names.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

q prudent thing in venturing out thus
alone, but he had reasoned himself into
a belief that John Goldwell would not
dare to play tricks with him. Abruptly
he halted, for be had run almost into
the arms Of General Fermeroy, who was
pacing about solitary, with cigar in
his mouth.
"Is your name Dunne?" asked the
latter, throwing the weed away.
= eyes, sir" answered the detective
with start, for he fancied that he was
being confronted by some superior
police official.
"And you have come to fetch the
Ell ,000p proceeded the General. C
Yes, sir" replied Dunno, recovering
little courage.
General Fermeroy drew from under
Lis Inverness cape two heavy walking
sticks loaded with lead and canvas
bag which seemed to be heavy. He
hourished this last article under the
nese of Dunno. "Look here, man"
said iies grimly; " this bag contains
91, 900 in notes and gold; but before
you take it you'll have to kill me! Do
you hearp
Kill you, sir?'
Yes, kill me. See, Pm sixty-fve,
and apparently ten years older than
you; so the chances are rather in your
favor. just take one of these sticks and
we'll fight. If fyou kill me in this lonely
place nobody will be any the wiser; If l
kill you, I'll just pitch you into yonder
river"
Tom Dunno hesitated a moment, dur
ing which he measured the aged Cen
eral from brow to foot. eff you wish
it SO, Pm game"
"Come on, then," answered the Cen
eral, stamping his foot. And the two
men commenced their lonely but reso-
lutte fight.
Next morning dead body was found
in the l., and the police took it for
the corpse of person who had been &C.
cidentaly drowned. In. the course of the
day General Fermeroy called on John
Goldwell, and holding out his hand said
simply: "The bygones of your past life
must remain matter for God and you.
My son loves your daughter, and that's
enough for me. That rogue who plagued
you wont do SO any more. Now let's
fix the wedding day."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
aRANDMorHER's BIRTHDAY.
BIZ CLARA porx nArxs,

BIZ CLARA DorY BATES.
Just seventy years ago
A little baby smiled;
And they gave the sweet old Bible name
OF Hannah to the child.
She slept, no doubt, such sleep
As only falls on eyes
That still have shut within their lids
The Light Of paradise.
No doubt the little hands
Lay passive on her breast,
As, with the cradles lullaby,
They hushed her to her rest.
All, mel who could fortell
What work those hands should doi
How many they should help to lead
LIES troubled mazes through
What never-faltering part
Their tender strength should take;
What burdens for the tired ones bear:
What barriers help to break!
Scarcely day or hour
In all these long, long years,
But they have helped some weaker one,
Or wiped some sufferers tears.
And, ali, who could forsee
Upon that baby brow,
Where lay the dark and silky locks
Its crown of silver nowi
Peace, as at first, Is there;
The world has never set
One single line Of its hard seal
Upon that forehead yeti
The constant shade of pain
Has dlmmed, perhaps, the eyes,
Yet still they hold within their lids
The light of paradise.
Just seventy years age
Since the little baby came,
And now her children's children bless
That sweet old Bible name.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
The Emerald.

: The Spaniards obtained large boards
of emeralds after the conquest of Peru,
for the priests of the goddess whom the
Spaniards called Esmeralda, and who
was supposed to reside in an enormous
emerald of the shape and size of an
ostrich egg, gave out that she esteemed
no offering so much as one of her own
daughters. The king of Spain issaid to
have received one hundred weight,
but many were destroyed on
account of the Peruvian priest
who accompanied the Spanish
army persuading the soldiers that
the test of their genuineness was to
smite them with a hammer on an anvil.
The emerald is of the same composition
as the beryl, or aquamarine, which is of
little value. When first withdrawn
from the mine it is so soft as to crumble
by friction, but it hardens by exposure
to air. 1t is so rarely perfect, that can
emerald without a flaw" has passed into
a proveYb. The ancients dedicated the
emerald to Mercury, and supposed it
TO be good for the eyes.
'The deep green emerald, in whose fresh regard
Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend"
The lapidaries who cut the stone were
thought to possess, in consequence, q
good eyesight. Nero observed the feats
of the gladiators through an eyeglass of
emerald, and the gem was therefore
sometimes called Neronjanus, name
continued as late as the close of the
fourth century. The huge emeralds
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toned by the ancients, are supposed to
have been green huor-spar, or composed
of a kind of glass. The Cingalese
anxiously seek after the thick bottoms
of our wine bottles, and cut out of
them apparently fine emeralds, which
they dispose of at high prices. The
Brighton emeralds, of England, are of
like origin. The broken bottles,
thrown purposely into the sea by the
laipdaries of the place, are by the
attrition of the shingle speedily con.
verted into the form Of natural pebbles.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
Origin of Kissing.

A correspondent of an Indiana news
paper gives the following account of the
osculatory process: Some Trojans with
their wives escaped by sea from Troy
when it was taken and sacked. The
wives. being horribly sessick when they
landed with their husbands, in order
that the latter might by hunting pro.
vide provisions for the remainder of
their journey, to avoid again going to
sea and at the instigation of a lady
named Roma, burned the ships. The
husbands on their return being fercely
angry, to stay the torrent of abuse
heaped upon them, their wives pressed
their lips to theirs and clung about
them. These lip-pressings were the
first kisses, and the novelty was SO sue
cessfully employed that the husbands
left off scolding and fell to kissing, un-
til they were kissed by their wives into
good humor and complete forgiveness"
This account may be the true s-e, al
though it appears to have escapet -nv
notice of the learned Burton, who makes
no mention of it in his "Love Melan-
choly." Ben Jonson evidently approved
of kissing, although he may not have
knowa its origin, as stated above. He
saws:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

A YOUNG girl named Susan johnson
of Uniontewn, KY, who is addicted to
reading novels, dressed herself in boys
clothes, and. armed with two pistols
and dagger, took the packet for Evans
Vile, intending TO lead a life that would
be q terror to the foe On the boat some
deck hands were moving some freight,
and big rat ran out and scudded in the
direction OF our hero. Miss johnson
jumped ON bale of tobacco and
screamed. They carried her to the
ladies' cabin, where she remained dur
ling theround trip, and she has now
prom1 serpareflts to de her s 49, /: :
ff6 - nd ;cep icx -en1
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

A PENNSYLVANIA Judge has decided
that woman is not an old maid until
she mas reached her thifty-ffth birth.
day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
Hundred, then unto the other
Add n Thousand. and no more.u

If kissing was invented by the Tro-
JAMS, and not by Adam and Eve, as
commonly reported, it is no wonder that
cur first parents found the garden of
Eden a slow place, or that Eve galli-
wanted with the serpent to while away
the time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

sNs.il'tL 1a.l, q u lCsIeAl.sis''. 3ny lraly--.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

Twenty-four hours later the rain was
falling heavily over A Park, when,
toward seven in the evening, Tom Dunno
made his way, with drenched clothes
and creaking boots, toward secluded
part of that pleasure-ground. He was
partially drunk, and muttered as he
walked. He had loaded revolver in
the pocket of his greatcoat, and growled
to himself that he would edo" for any
body who tried to draw him into trap.
He Wss not at all sure that he was doing
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01

Tar- - r,;tate mulberriee
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-23

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway is the only Northwestern Line
connecting in same depot in Chicago with
any of the Great Eastern Railways, and is
the most conveniently located with refer
ence to reaching any Depot, Hotel or place
of business in that City.
Through Tickets and Through Baggage
Checks to all Principal Cities.
Steel Rail Track, thoroughly ballasted,
free from dust Westinghouse Improved
Automatic Brake; Mllers Safety Platform
and Couplings on al Passenger Cars.
The finest Day Coaches and Palace Sleep
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This Road connects more Business Gen.
tres, Health and Pleasure Resorts, and
passes through finer county, with erander
scenery. than any other Northwestern line.
Az. H CARPENTER,
Gen. Pass and Ticket Agent
S. MERRILL, JNO. C. GAULT.
Gen. Manager. Asst Gen. Manager
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in business of this kind the quarry being
situated convenient to the city and the
depots. The terms will be made reasonable
L. S. BOU CLIFTON,
WATERFOWL, March Is, 1870.
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