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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Learn Ahont the PnIse.

Every intelligent person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse
in health; then, by comparing it with
what it is wher he is ailing, he may
have some idea of the urgency of his
case.
Parents should know the health pulse
of each child-as now and then a per-
son is born with a peculiarly slow or
fast pulse, and the very case in hand
may be Of that PECULIARLY. An infants
pulse is 40; child of 7, about so and
from 20 to so years, is 20 beats minute,
declining to be at four-scOre A health
full grown persons pulse beats 20 times
a minute; there may be good health
down to 60; but if the pulse always ex-
ceeds seventy, there is q disease : the
machine is working itself out, there is
fever of Inflammation somewhere, and
the body is feeding on itself; as in con-
sumption, when the pulse is quick, that
is over 20, gradually increasing, with
decreased chances of cure, until it
reaches ITO to 100, when death comes
before many days. When the pulse is
over 20 for months, and there is slight
cough, the lungs are affected. There
are, however, peculiar constitutions in
which the pulse may be over 20 in
health
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Chinese Printing.

The Chinese assert that the art Of
printing was discovered in China about
fifty years before the Christian era.
| Until the discovery of the art of paper
making, A. D. 50, they printed on silk
or cloth cut in the form of leaves. The
method used by the Chinese i'll printing
their books is as follows:
In printing, the Chinese do not use a
press as we do; the delicate nature of
their paper would not admit of it
when once the blocks are engraved, the
paper is cut and the ink is ready, one
man with his brush will print a large
number Of sheets in day.
The block to be printed must be
placed perfectly level, and secured
firmly. The printer has two brushes;
one of them sitter kind, which he can
hold in his hand, and use at either end.
He dips it into the ink, and ruhs the
block with it, taking care not to wet it
too much, or leave it too dry; if it were
wetted too much, the characters would
be slurred; if too little, they would not
print.
When the block Is once got into
proper state, he can print three or four
impressions without dipping his brush
into ink.
The second brush is used to rub over
the paper, with a small Aa4ree of pres
sure, that it may take AAe impression;
this it does easily, for, not being sized
with alum, it receives the ink the in.
slant it comes in contact with it.
1t is only necessary that the brush
should be passed over every part Of the
sheet with a greater or smaller degree
of pressure, and repeated In proportion
as the printer finds there is more or less
ink upon the block. This brush is soft
and of an oblonS form.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
A Malrelous story.

: Following Is SIN extract from letter
/ written from N[atamoras, Mexico, by
/ Charles S. Wilkins, formerly of Peoria,
Ill, to William [. Hubbard, of Quincy,
| Ill
You have doubtless heard accounts Of
the discoveries of gold in fabulous
quantities in the Sierra Moiadas. The
accounts cani1oi; be exaggerated, since
the imagination cannot conceive of such
a vast quantity of gold and silver
boarded by Mature in one rugged noun
tain-range. The tallest stories would
not be fabulous in this case. / have
been there, and know whereof affirm.
You know have been something of a
traveller: that I have seen the mines of
California, Australia and among the
Ural mountains-for, during my wan
behring's I corresponded with you; but
nowhere on this planet have seen the
same richness in the mines-the same
tincounted tons of gold. The very
mountains, lofty and rugged as they
are, seem to be built of gold. Untold
millions of the yellow ores and dust are
in SIGHT how mich there may be hidden
in the heart of mountains only He who
created all wealth can tell.
If / had not been there, and one had
attsmtted to Tell only ohe-half of the
truth in regard to those golden noun
tains, though he had been my nearest
kinsman, or most trusted friend,
would not have accepted his story as
truth. I shall not ask you to believe
me wnen / say tnaG there are, in those
wild, almost inaccessible mountains,
great hills of gold, miles in length, hun
dreds Of feet in height, and hundreds Of
yards In aidth. And yet 1t is a literal
truth. And not far away from the
golden hills there is a mountain of
silver ore, richer than any ores of Lead
Vile, Virginia City, or any other
bonanza mines yet discovered. This
silver mountain throws in the shade
the .far-famed hill of Santa Eulalia, in
Chihuahua, from which 5000, 600, 600 in
silver had been taken. / know you will
think / tell incredible stories. have
not told half the truth.
But why are not these mines worked
developed ct once? The answer is
not, difficult. They are in Mexieo-and
nothing is done in a hurry, except
changing the government. In the next
place, territorial jurisdiction is claimed
by the three states Of COahuila, San
Luis Potosi, and chihuahua. Ine
mines are undoubtedly clearly in the
state of San Luis Potosi; but the con-
ficting claims must be settled. as each
has Z military force in Tie neighboT-
hood, and suppresses all attempts to
carry on mining operations Then the
title is in doubt, Up till within q week
before my departure from San Felipe,
the nearest pueblo, to themining region,
it was supposed that the Mojadas were
part of the public domain. But in
terested parties made the discovery
that the identical tract upon which the
richest discoveries have been made was
long ago granted away, in the usual
Mexican style of iberality, to the ex-
tent of six Spanish leagues square.
There was much excitement in San.
Luis P0tosi and SaItillO over the an
nodncement that the great mines were
private property, and, the strangest
part of ali, the property of an American
by birth, if living, and his heirs, If dead,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Hidden Money.

In 1870 a wealthy Quaker in Phi liza
delphia, who intended to go to England
for several years, was perplexed in at
tempting to decide what TO do with a
large sum of money which he had. He
did not want to take it with him, and
was afraid to invest it in any business
in the colonies.
Being of very suspicious temper, he
would not entrust it to the keeping of
any of his friends. Finally, he resolved
to bury it. If hidden, it would be safe
and undiminished when he came back.
He enclosed the coins in two earthen
jars, and digging hole in the cellar of
his stately house on Fourth street,
buried them and replaced the paving.
In the same year a poor young printer
carried on his trade about square from
this mans house. He and his wife
lived SO frugally that they tasted meat
hut once a week. At the end Of a few
months he found that he had few skill
ings to spare.
What shall you do with itY' said
his wife, Deborah.
Buy books" said the young man
promptly.
But he was a shrewd fellow. His
shillings would buy but book or two
meagre diet for his greedy brain. He
persuaded some other young mechanics
to add each the. same amount to his and
to put the books on shelf Tor the use
of the contributors and their Friends.
The few shilllngs spent by Benjamin
Franklin that day gave being to the
great Philadelphia Library, which for a
hundred and fifty years has helped
countess men and women to knoWl-
edge.
The Quakerjdied in England, and his
family never found tie money. Two
years ago, while Irish workrnen were
digging in the cellar of a warehouse
on Fourth street, they found the
earthen jars.
Only few old coins remained, and
they soon were spent for whisky. The
bulk of the treasure being in bank-notes
OF due-bills had crumbled to dust long
ago. 1t was strange reproduction of
the story of the talent put out to usury,
and buried in napkin.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
A Lake without Water.

About fifteen miles northwest from
Reno, to the right of the Susanville
road, lies the bed Of an old lake which
is different from anything to be found
elsewhere. The lake could never have
been more than eight or ten feet deep,
as the bottom ils very fat. Instead of
being the ordinary sandy soil which
washes in from the banks, this bed is
more like India rubber than earth. It
is of a grayish color, quite tenacious,
and has hard smooth surface, over
which carriage runs as smoothly along
as it would oveEfa carpeted floor. The
material is somewhat elastic, and would
make a race course where St. Julian
or Rarus would trot mile IN about two
minutes. The flrmers in the neighbor-
hood have given the place the name of
Alkali Lake, although there has been
no water there, except IN the spring, for
twelve years. The California line runs
Just west of the lake, and the Susan
vile road cuts across a corner where il,
is quite dry and free from mud. The
wheels cut in afier a time and Greats 3
very fine and pelletrating dust.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04

Prof. A. s. Hill, in Good Company,
gives a few specimens of the spelling of
candidates lately, cOntesting for adj
mission to Harvard College. He says:
Many, larger number than usual,
spelled as if starting spelling reform,
each for himself. Of these vagaries
specimens are subjoined, including vain
attempts to reproduce proper names that
were printed on the examination paper
itself: DuelPs jeloise, chef, opposit,
surprising, COLOSSUS, compared, repet-
eddy, fourth, (for forth), to (for too),
thrown (for throne), ficle, white winged
angle, beverage, broak, carrige, cham
paign (f0r champagne), insted, hailed
(for haiIed), endevors, success, preasant,
and preasance, wi lily, waiting, difference,
superseded, praired, Command, eonspiri-
tors, to finnish, avaratious, undOu-
bility, granfather, peice, fashionable
bell, written and writing, maniger
(for manager), until, joyility (for jo-
viality), ficticious, cOuard, and couaTd-
Use (for cOward), enlisted, origen and
(for origin and orignaD,
kneeded (fOr needed), genlous, married,
mad (for made), wer (for were), cleav
erIy, differently, existance, absent,
oiler, repare, enoubling, agrieved, of
for OFF, susceptible, proclaimed. loose
for lose), principle (for principaD, lead
for led), Rip Van Rincle, ADDISON and
Queene Ann, Macauley,
Steel (Sir Riehard), Henery,
Harries (for Harry's). OF these mis-
axes some are evidently much graver
han others; but some of the worst were
ound in several books, and not q few
re apparently due to an unconscious
fort to represent to the eye a vicious
Many books were de-
ormed by grossly ungrammatical or
obscure sentences, and
ONE by absolute illiteracy.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Hades Photographed on the Soot.

London telegraph
Few of the great European collections
Of paintings are fOrlorn of works illus
tTating the topography and architecture
of Hades, as sketched out in Dante's
Immortal verse. Society, however, has
hitherto yearned in vain for an authen-
tic description Of his Satanic Maiesty's
dominions, illustrated by drawings ex-
ecuted on the spot; and it has been pre-
served for Professor Leuchin, of Mos
COW, to fill up this hiatus by work
he has Just published, under the title of
"The Mysteries of He'll and its Inhab-
itants"-a folio volume, enriched by
seventy photographs. Some of these
are portraits Of the leading native celeb
rites, while others reproduce the pro-
cess of torment most in vogue among
the present administrators of the Tar
tarean penal code. In his preface to
this remarkable book the learned Pro-
fessor gravely remarks: ave have here
tofore only been able, by the aid of con-
lecture, to arrive at dim apprehension
of the fortunes that await us in-the sub
terraneap realm; but / have at last,
after protTacted and all but superhuman
exertions, succeeded in throwing light
upon this more or less vague informa-
ZION, ana IN producing an absolutely |
authentic description of hell and its in
habitants. Seventy striking, original |
photographs of eminent internal person
ages, and faithful depictment of the
Last Judgment, will be found to repre-
sent completely and extensively all /
those phenomena which have hitherto
proved insolubly enigmatical to human
ity at large" It is to be regretted that
the Professor should have preserved a
Sphynxian silence respecting the details
of his journey In the lower regions, and
Of the visits he must have paid to the
dignitaries who so amiably
permitted him to photograph their ex-
pressive hneaments In enabling us,
however to contemplate undoubted
ikenesses of Lucifer, Ashtaroth, Bel
.ebub and sundry other distinguished
characters of the same .class, Professor
Leuchin has established claim to our
lasting gratitude.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Value Of Steam Power.

The aggregate steam power in use in
the world is at present 8, 800, 900 horse
power employed in stationary engines,
and 100000 horse power in locomo-
tive engines.
This force is maintained without the
consumption of animal food, except by.
the miners who dig the Goals, and the
force maintained in their muscles is to
the force generated by the production
of their labor about one to 1850.
This steam power is equal to the work
ing force of $4,000, 900 horses, and one
horse consumes three times as much
food as one man. The steam power,
therefore. is equivalent to the saving Of
food for 100000 Of human beings,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
A Day with John Brown.
TAtlantio brontbly.1

During the day he staid with me in
Lawrence / had my first good opportun-
ity to Judge the old mans character.
had see hfA in his camp, had seen him
In the field, and he was always an
enigma. a strange compound of ehthtisi+
asm and cold methodic stolidity-a vol
cano beneath a mountain snow, He
told me of his experiences as wool mer-
chant and manufacturer in Ohio, and of
his travels in Europe. I soon discovered
that his tastes ran in a military rather
than a commercial channel. He had Wis
tied many of the Notifications in Europe,
andBriticised them sharply, holding that
the modern system Cf warfare did away
with them, and that a well-armed, brave
soldier was the best ratification.
He criticised all the arms then in use,
and showed me fine specimen of repeat
ing rife which had long-range sights,
and, he said would carry eight hundred
yards; but, he added, the way to fight
was to press tN close quarters. He had
two swall pamphlets or circulars; one he
had had printed on the armies and mills
tary systems of Europe; inc other was
addressed to the soldiers of tss1 armies
of the United States, and was an odd
mixture OF advice &c 70 discipline and
soldieriy habits, and wound up by adj
vising them to desert whenever there
was an attempt made to use them against
a free government and human liberty.
He looked upon passing political movs-
ments as mere preliminaries or adjuncts
to more important events in the future.
With him men were nothing, princi-
pies everything. In his ordinary moods
the man seemed so rigid. stern end tn
impossible VII - Irst knew him that
never thought a poetic and impulsive
nature lay behind that cold exterior.
The whispering Of this wind ON the
prairie was full of voices to him, and the
stars as they shone ia the ornament of
God seemed to Inspire hinls How adj
mirable IL the symmetry OF the heavens;
how grand and beautiful. Everything
moves in Sublime harmony in the Gov
eminent of God. Not so with 1s rocc
creatures. IL oDe star IS more brilliant
than others, it is continually shooting in
some cratic way into space" One of tbs
most interestinp things ia mis- converse
tica shat night, and ono that marked
him as tneorist (and perhaps to some
extent he might be styled q visionary
was his trea tmeht ii our forms of social
anC POLITICAL life.
He thought society ought to be organ
lied on a less selfish basis; for while mas
terial interests gained something by the
dedication Of pure, seihshhess, Aen and
women lost mitch by it. He said that
eli great reforms like Christian religion
were based on broad, generous, eslf-
sacrificing principles. lie condemned
the sale of land as chattel, and thought
that there were an infinite number OF
wrongs to right before society would be
what it should be but thatin our coun-
try slavery was the g sum of all villain
les" and It's abolition the first essential
work. If the American people did not
take courage and end it speedily, human
freedom and republican liberty would
soon be empty names in the United
States.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Proner LereI for a Woman,s Eres.

1t may be, however, that the Italian
women are forever artlessly unconscious
of the lively admiration that follows
their sex everywhere in Italy, and, re-
ceiving in early girlhood their first les
sons of social conduct from French
governesses, as nearly all Roman girls
do, carry French precepts with them all
through life. Never look a man in
the face" said one of those governesses
to her pupils, ait is immodest. Always
fix your attention on the third button
of his shirt bosom-you may then be
sure your eyes are at the level most
proper for q Woman's eyes to be-"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
Uncle Johnny at Church.

mar eI'5 4Aa9tZllei
When Gov. s., who is most de-
vout Episcopalian, was the Chief Mag
istrate of Kentucky, he was wont to
frequently entertain the members of the
General Assembly at the Governors
Mansion. To one Of these levees came,
with the member from his county, an
old mOuntaiueer who had Just reached
Frankfort with the raft CT logs which
he had brought down the Kentucky
River. The old man VINO was called
Familiarity "Uncle Johnny" soon be-
came the center of an admiring group
to whom his jean clothes were not at
all an improper attire for the Gov
ernor's levee; and his tongue being
lOosed by a glass of cherry wine, which
he then tasted for the first time in his
life, he was entertaining his auditors
with stories from CHS county," when
the Governor approached.
B /" Uncle Johnny, here is the Gov
ernOr," said one of the company, and
straightway the old man was silent, for
he was overwhelmed by this first vision
of the majesty of the Commonwealth.
eco on with your story, Uncle
Johnny" said some one; "the Gov.
ernor VIII like to hear it."
" Yes, go on Uncle Johnny" said the
Governor, with a kindly smile of en-.
couragement; and the old man, thus
convinced that even the Governor was
also a man, concluded his narrative.
Then, becoming bolder, ne ventured
to address the Governor, saying: Guv.
ner, [ went to your meeting yistidy, and
I seen whar you SETS"
He had been to the Episcopal
Church and had been shown the Gov
ernOr's pew.
"Did you, Uncle Johnny ?' responded
Governor s.. And how did you
like it?''
"Well, Guvnor, I never knowed much
what they was a-dOin', but l riz and fell
with 'em every time"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04

VERY old lady on her death bed, in
a penitential mood, said Z" / was a great
sinner more than eighty years, and
didn't know it, An old darky. woman,
who had lived with her long time, ex-
claimed, "Lorsl I knoWed it all the
time, - Kentucky STATE Journal,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
--LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS..
FEOUR. GRA1g AND mEAL.

ATLANTA-Flour SupcrGne, s.; family
! $40; extra family. SEQ; fancy, $50
/ Wheat-the following prices are miiIers
/ buying prices: Tennessee choice white, $40
| also; Tennessee medium, S1.30a1.40. Corn;
/ Choice white, 6Sa70c; yellow, 65aG7c. Oats:
/ 50a5= for feed oats, and 60a75c for seed.
! Meal is in demand at o. &c. Grits S4.00.
! ST. LOUIS-FIoUr frmer; double extra
! 55.650$5.S0; choice to fancy S6.25aS6.70.
! Wheat higher; No. red fall, S1.27 1%a1 .2S 3
! No. do. 81 20. Corn higher at 80. Oats
higher at 37I
LOUISVILLE-Flour: Family, $5.25@5 20
A No. /, S5.7516.25; fancy. s6.50QS 90
| Wheat: Red, amber and white 1927. Corn
| White, 46; mixed, IS. Oats: White, 41c;
mixed zoe.
CINCINNATI-FIour Family, $6.1Ga6 %
fancy $630a6.75 Wheat: $1.27a1.30. Corn:
41a43e. Oats: Scale
NEW YORK-Flour Common to fair ex-
ira, So 00a6 60; good to choice extra, So 75a
S 90. Wheat Ungraded winter red, 81 Ala
45; Nc 3, do, 81 4715a1 As. Corn: Ungraded,
5513a56%, Oats: No 3 80.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
ATLANTA-Eggs, 18a2Oc. Butter, choice
Tennessee, 2212a25c. Poultry: Large, lSa22c,
hens, 221&a25; small sizes, Bale. Sweet po-
tatoes 50aG0cents per bushel. Irish potatoes,
- 75a3 90 per barrel
Dali 1AACI lL--Duuttt AlALAC " NiiOlCE
wes,ern packed, 2Oa22c. Eggs, 20a22c.
LIVE = s0GK
ATLANTA Choice Tennessee cattle Sc;
common 1%a21Ic Georgia raised, 11@a2e.
Sheep, Sc for choice
CTNCINNATI-Hogs Common 81 7Ta3 40
light, % 4Oa3 IS; packing, So 8Oa4 9O butch
ers, 3 S0a3 80.
PROVFSEO&5.
ATLANTA-BuIk meat: Clear rib sides,
&c; pork strips, 61Zc Bacon: Sugar cured
hams, 10%a1034c; sides, SIC; shoulders, 534c;
breakfast Sa83Ic.
BALTIMCRE-Me pork, S13 so. Bulk
meats: Loose shoulders, 45la5; clear sides,
6z5a7. Bacon: Shoulders &c; clear rib sides
SIC; hams, 101Sa11c. Lard, refined in t;erces
$50.
CINCINNATI-Porl1, $500. Lard, 81 asa
7.47. Bulk meats Shoulders, 41{c; clear ribs,
6.60c; short clear nc. Bacon: Shoulders, 81;
clear ribs, nc; hams, 9a1015c. Lard: Sc.
NEW YORK-Mess pork, S12 75a12 90;
long clears 7.30; short do755c, Lard, Sc.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04

IT is within the memory of "tbe
Oldest inhabitant," if he chooses to en-
erclse IT, that a warehouse in New
York was so loaded down with pennies
that the floors gave way. Now they
have become so scarce that the Phila-
delphia mint coined three millions OF
them IN November, al Of which were
spoken for.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-01

water, then dip it in the powder and
rub on the iron-mold Keep the spot
moist by dipping the finger in water
and then into the powder, and rub it on
the spot several times. The stain viii
soon disappear. As soon as the trace
of the mold is left wash the linen first
in pure cold water, then put it in the
suds with the rest of the wash and pro-
coed as usual. Be careful not to leave
the acid on the linen a moment longer
than is necessary to remove the stain as
twill soon injure the texture of the cloth.
Oxalic acid is deadly poison, and the
powder should be closely bottled and
marked % Poison and put safely away
where no one will NEEDLE with
it but those who have charge of the
work. After the stain disappears wash
the hands carefully before using them
for any thing else. An old toothbrush
is better to wet and dip in the powder
and wet the satin with than the finger,
if, with the vial of powder, it can be
safely put away. Or, with less trouble,
one can put Il teaspoonsul of oXaic acid
in pint of boiling water and dip the
satin in the solution till the stain is re-
moved, and then rinse in clear water as
usual.