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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13
Fredericksburg Beer.

have sssnred the agency for Fred
ericksburg Beer in this town, and this
beverage, which exhilarates but does
not int0xicate, is always on tap at the
Brewery Saloon, opposite the Court
house.
ap1-tf: Henry Busch.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13
Hak,pa, ,.owyscv..

Everxbody's Baking Powder - as
good as cars, and LEVY & Co.'S IDEAL IS
better than them all No alum in ours
unless ysu want its and. twill raise a
maa in las girls affections every tfn'e
mill
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13
DANA ON THE PRESIDENCY.

The New York Graphic publishes an
interview with C. A. Dana, of the New
York Sun, on Presidential candidates.
In this interview all the prominent can
didates of both parties are discussed.
Mr.. Dana, who was Assistant Secretary
of War under Lincoln, and an enthusi-
astic supporter of General Grant for a
first term of the Presidency, says he
is now against Grant, because he is,
above everything else, the representa-
tive of the centralizing policy of the
Republican party, and because he re-
CARDS it essentially dangerous for any
man to be more than twice President"
He admits that he used to be a great
friend Of Conkling, but parted WITH
him in q political sense when he became
devoted to Grants wrong headed and
corrupt Administration. Besides, he il
the author of tine Electoral Commission
= and the most Jealous of third termers.-
MIR. Dana says he should oppose
Blaine, Sherman, Washburn and Ed
munds for the same reasons. 81
The Sun is supposed by many 10 be
the special organ of Tildea, and it is
thought that Mr.. Danasis Tilden's par
ticular friend, yet he says: "Should
ha faI
be the only means,of crushing therthird-
term dogma, he should undoubtedly
support him, but should there be a
third candi,late-a man who would
stand greater chance of defeating
third term-he might support him. in
preference to Tilden. y
Bayard and Thurman; he says, were
identified with. the Electoral Com
mission, and it. would be qualification,
ON the part of the Democratic party to
. take up either Of them.
Hendricks he considers of too,small
pattern. He looks upon him as re-
spectacle, conservativesman; but with
cut breadth, force or courage enough to
fill Andrew Jackson's place.
He considers that against any other
man than Grant, Hancock would be
strong candidate He has a clear re-
cord, especially ON the relations Of the
military to the civil power He does
not think it, desirable to- run one mill
tary man against another as candi-
date; but if the Republicans nonlinate
Blaine or Washburn, Hancock would
be available.
Judge Davis he considers fair can
didate, who would attract Republican
votes; but he has few immediate per-
sonal friends, and hardly personal or
political party behind him.
Field in some respects he thinks.
would be an available man, but the dif
ficulty would be that he rs thought to
be too friendly to the Pacific Railway
Randall, in his opinion, would make
an excellent President, but the delega-
ton from Pennsylvania is not likely to
he for him, a tact that is,rather credit
able to him personally: If he were, a
friend to the plunderenss about Harris
burg, be might have the delegation, but
then nobody would want. to have him.
The most available man against
Grant. Mr. Dana thinks, would prob
ably be John Nj. Palmer, Of Illinois.
lie has been twice elected Governor of
Illinois, and his war experience as a
semi-civil administrative officer and
General showed satisfactory executive
qualities. The SIM would support him,
or Hancock, or Davis, or Randall.
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13

And tables set for weddings, picnics,
balls and parties, at sdOrt notice, at the
Depot Bakery and Restaurant, opposite
the Depok. fal0t1
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13
SPECIAL LOCALS.
sheen uersiers wanted.

Two, steady men, who under
stand the business of sheep herding-
ard none others need apply-will gel
steady employment and good wages oy
applying to JOHN. GUTHRIE, at. th'
Sonoma. Ranoh.. apl2-lm
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13

A house containing, four ROOMS, par
TALLY furnished, on Fourth street. For
terms, apply to
a1-ly S. W. RUsE.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-13

Who knew Of its existence onght to ex-
rose it. and if there'is not it is a, gross
njustics to. the officers 10, make such a
charge.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
Our SchOOl-Days.

What one of my readers who has ever at
tended boarding-school has not at the, to
them, mature age of eighteen, expressed a
desire to ''leaye SCHOOL, and "see life ?"
And who has not, after few years of bust
ness life, wish to return and mingle with
old associates, and ramble over the same
| well-trodden paths of youth again? | fear
there is not one.
There are indescribable feelings linked
with our school-days which, ever and anon,
come like stray beam of sunshine in upon
the troubled sea of life. And in after
years, when we have perhaps seen life in its
toughest form, we revisit the old school
house, and walk along its deserted forms,
lingering here and there as some old mark
is spied, reminding US of some pleasant
scene; and when we thus view them there
come those feelings of loneliness and, when
we ramble through some shady dell where
years ago we shared our joys and confded
our "secrets" to some rosy checked little
playmate, we live them all over again in
memory.
Alas where are the many faces we knew
so well? They have drifted asunder; some
lie beneath the SOD, and nothing remains of
their wearers but a few fond mementoes
treasured carefully; some are across the
sea; others, like ourselves, bufeting the
waves of life. The little playmate, now
grown to womanhood, knows us not; we
are moving in a new world. We can never
participate again in the old games of our
youth. Then, my readers, let US, while we
can, make good use of these feeting mo-
ments. Let not an erroneous idea Of life
entice US prematurely from our youthful
| joys and freedom. Youth knows no cares
till thrown upon the cold world to seek a
living; then they come not singly nor in
pairs, but by numbers. Never regret the
time spent in study.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
WOMEN IN COLLEGES.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writes to that journal in regard to the effect
of co-education of the sexes, and the result
Of study upon the health of women, as seen
in the experience of the college at Ann
Harbor, Mich, where the experiment has
had a trial of six years. There appears to
be no reason why the system should be op-
nosed. So far as the health Of the womeG
is concerned, it is evident that study is not
undermining it, while there is said to be
not few among the sixty seven now in tbs
institution whose physical condition has
been improved by the discipline of their
college life. In regard to the social aspect
of the experiment, this correspondent states
that after the novelty of such companion
ship wore off, the young men and women
took little notice of each other, and accord
ing to the etiquette of Ann Harbor, there
is no presumption Of acquaintance between
members of the same class. Then, "an are
kept SO busy that there is really little time
for social intercourse"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
is THERE SUCH A THING AS SPON.
TANEOUS COMBUSTION

Most of our readers will remember that
Captain Marryat, in the opening chapters
of his novel, "Jacob Faithful" makes the
mother of the hero to perish by this strange
and alleged catastrophe = the presumed
fate of certain drunkards, and in which the
body, supposed to be impregnated with
alcohol, of itself becomes ignited, and
slowly burns away. The occurrence of
spontaneous combustion has been denied
by Casper, the eminent German medico
iurist; and M. Chassaignol, of Paris, SINH
larly denies its existence. Spontaneous COM
bustion was first noticed in 1892; and, since
then the few cases which have been recorded
decribed the phenomena as consisting in
the presence of q blue lambent fame, of a
peculiar odor, and of infammable gases.
Various experiments convinced the above
named French savamt that the tissues,
though stepped in alcohol, have no power
Of spontaneous ignition and combustion,
and that, in all probability, the phenome-
ma ascribed to this cause have no existence.
Certain it is that the phenomena and symp-
toms have never been described, even in
cases where combustion was alleged to take
place, with that accuracy and prir'G tacie
appearance of correctness which we ex-
pect to find in scientific and medical itera-
ture,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
OUR BURGLAR INTERVIEWED.

Constantpracticeisi mproving our burglar,
and he really bids fair to make his mark
sometime in the profession of his choice.
An odd job of his, recently, was bit of fine
art. He called casually at the residence Of
Mrs. Nancy Poole, just north Of the Hooker
school-house, in Springfield, Mass, and af-
ter chatting pleasantly with the inmates Of
the house and rummaging around, took his
departure without doing any damage. He
did this because there wasn't anything val.
liable enough to lug off in the house. He
entered by a cellar window, and first went
into the second story, which was occupied
by three boarders. He entered the room Of
one of the men, who, thinking it was a
mate Of his, said, els that you, Bill?' to
which the burglar pleasantly said, eyes"
Then our burglar went down stairs, and
taking box Of letters, &C., from the bu-
reau in Mrs. Poole's room, carried it into
the kitchen and looked it over leisurely by
his dark-lantern. The lady heard him.
and supposing it was one of the boarders
who intended to start off early, asked what
time it was, and the man replied, '"Three
o'clock" He continued to stumble around
the room adjoining her chamber until Mrs.
Poole's suspicious were aroused, but he told
her in answer to her inquiries that he was
"Bill.'' He then coolly wentup to the room
which he had first entered, got q bunch Of
keys from the pocket of some clothes on
chair, opened chest, and examined its
contents, looked in a vaise and scrutinized
closet. The man in bed suggested to
him, when he was about half through, still
thinking it was one of the other boarders,
that the burglar had better light the lamp,
which the visitant did, and continued his
search. Finally he went down stairs in dis
gust at finding no booty.-and out by the
cellar where he entered. And the boarders
know that it was our burglar, for there are
tracks in the snow.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
a GREAT SWIMMER.

Captain Boynton, the American who
jumped from an ocean steamship off the
coast of Ireland, and swan thirty miles
during one of the most terrific gales of the
season, has been giving some very success
full exhibitions Of his swimming dress upon
the Thames. Vast crowds Of people line
the banks of the river every time that he
appears, and watch with the greatest in
terest his movements in the water. The
other day he vent down to Mapping Old
Stairs and put on his swimming clothes,
consisting of an india-rubber suit in two
parts-one covering the chest, arms and
back of the head the other the legs and
feet. This is put on over an ordinary suit.
After being adjusted the parts are inflated
by four tubes, and when full of air the
wearer steps into the water without the
slightest fear. Captain Boynton raised
his flag, ate his lunch, read book, blew a
horn, and went through a variety of per-
formances, to the great delight of the
crowds assembled upon London Bridge and
along the banks of the river. He was loud
" cheered. At Temple Stairs he came out
for a moments rest, without showing any
symptoms of fatigue, and soon after
plunged in again and started for Putney.
The success of this swimming dress has
been clearly established.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
HAPPY HUSBANDS.

It is mans own fault if he is unhappy
with his wife, in nine cases out Of ten 1t
is very exceptional woman who Will not
be all she can to an attentive husband, and
a more exceptional one who will not be very
hsagreeable if she finds herself willfully
neglected. It would be very easy to hate
man who, having bound woman to him,
made no effort to make her happy; hard not
to love one who was constant and tender;
and when woman loves she always strives
to please The great men of this world
have often been wretched in their domestic
relations, while mean and common men
have been exceedingly happy. The reason
is very plain. Absorbed in themselves,
those who desired the world sapplause were
careless of the little world at home; while
those who had none of this egotism strove
to keep the hearts that were their own, and
were happy in their tenderness. Nowoman
will love man the better for being renown-
ed or prominent. Though he be first among
men, she will only be prouder, not fonder;
and if she loses him through this rerown,
as is often the case, she will not even be
proud. But give her love, appreciation,
kindness, and there is no sacrifice she would
not make for his content and comfort.
The man who loves her well is her hero and
her king.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
TOO LATE

The Brussels correspondent Of the Pail
Natl Gazette writes:
"a marvellous exhibition is taking place ut
the Cercle Artistic ct Litteraire at Brussels.
Some months ago Frederick van de Herk-
hove, the son of q corn merchant at Bruges,
died at the age of ten and a half years. He
had always been sickly, and was therefore
not sent to school, but allowed to roam
about. His chief amusement was to paint
with such rough materials as he could pro-
curep The paintings left by him, of which
about one hundred are now exhibited at the
Cercle, were discovered since his death to
be productions which the best landscape
painters of the age would not disown. In
Brussels, good judges of art are astonished
that an untutored child should have equall-
ed and, even surpassed some of the most
celebraS ted masters. In all of the
pictures where there is river, a little boy
is introduced in the act Of angling, repre-
senting, of course, the deceased. Large
sums have already been offered for the col
lection, but refused.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
THE COUNTESS OF sTRATuMoRE.

Toward the latter part of the eighteenth
century, the Countess of Strathmore resided
occasionally on one of her vast estates near
Barnard Castle. She was youthful, accom-
plished, and very pleasant, and her wealth
was almost boundless The Earl of Strath-
more had died while she was still young,
and she was thus once more mistress of her
own hand. Her estates were her own IN
heritance as Miss Bowes; she had not sue
ceeded to them as the widow of the Earl of
Strathmore She had many admirers, and
one of them, who was himself also wealthy,
gained favor in her eyes but an Irish Lieu
tenant in line regiment contrived by much
ingenuity to supersede him. He had en-
joyed nuptial bliss before, and by long
course of cruelty, and ultimately by throw
ing her down fight of stairs, had sue
ceeded in disposing of his first wife and pos
sessing himself of her fortune of $50, 900.
This he soon lost in gambling, and hearing
of the wealthy Countess he contrived but too
well to bring her within his tolls He way
laid her In London, he bribed her servants,
cajoled her friends, and ultimately succeeded
in procuring the long-wished-for introduc-
ton. Being what is called sporting
man." he was inventive, and adopted the
following ingenious stratagem: He wrote
scandalous articles in the Morning Post,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.

A capillary correspondence was recently
attempted between notorious Partisan
thief in durance vile and his comrades out
side. The prisoner was sent letter from
his fance, containing merely lock of hair
wrapped in the leaf Of book. The jailor
did not consider the souvenir important
enough to be delivered, but few days af-
ter came q similar enclosure, and yet an
other. This aroused suspicion, and the
Governor took the matter in hand. He ex-
amined the leaf of the book, it was only
that of a common novel, twenty-six lines on
a page. Then he studied the hair, and no.
tieed the small quantity of the gift. Count
ing the hairs he found them of unequal
length, and twenty-six in number, the same
as the lines Of the page. Struck with the
coincidence, he laid the hairs along the line
of the page which they respectively reach
ed, beginning at the top with the smallest
hair. After some trouble he found that
the end of each hair pointed to different
letter, and that these letters combined
formed slang sentence, which informed
the prisoner that his friends were on tire
watch, and that the next time he left tie
prison to be examined, an attempt would he
made to rescue him. The Governor laid his
plans accordingly, the attempt at rescue
was made, but the rescuers fell into their
own trap.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
CORKS.

Many persons see corks used daily with
out knowing from whence come those use
full materials. Corks are cut from large
slabs of the cork tree, species of oak,
which grows wild in the southern countries
in Europe. The tree is stripped of its bark
at aboutsixteen years old; but before strip
ping it off, the tree is not cut down, as in
the case of the oak. 1t is taken while the
tree is growing, and the operation may be
repeated every eight or nine years; the
quality Of the bark continuing each time to
improve as the age Of the tree increases.
When the bark is taken off, it is singed in
the flames of a strong fire, and after being
soaked for a considerable time in water, it
is placed under heavy weight in order to
render it straight. It's extreme ightness,
the ease with which it can be compressed,
and it's elasticity, are properties so peculiar
to the substance, that no effectual substi-
tute for it has been discovered. The valu-
able properties Of cork were known to the
Greeks and Romans, who employed it for
all purposes for which il is used at present.
with the exception of Btopples. The an
clients mostly used cement for stopping the
mouths of bottles OF vessels. The Egypt
ians are said to have made collins OF cork,
which being spread on the inside with res
inous substance, preserved dead bodies from
decay. In modern times, cork was not gen.
orally used for stopples to bottles till about
the seventeenth century, cement being used
for that purpose.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
A MOMENT OF AGONY.

1t is seldom that we are called upon to
chronicle more daring feat or one deserv-
ing of greater commentator, than the fol-
lowing:
A short time ago, in the bottom of the
new shaft of the Woodville mine, three men
had just prepared a three-fuse blast, had
lighted the fuse, jumped into the bucket
and started for the surface, when, through
the carelessness of the engineer, the engine
caught on the center and refused to move.
Here the three men hung, within six feet of
the blast, for someittle time; but it SEEM
ed ike hours to them. At last one of the
party, Benjamin Kendall by name, realiz-
ing that something must be wrong on top,
jumped from the bucket and proceeded to
extinguish the slowly burning fuse. Two
pieces were put out without difficulty, but
the third he found it impossible to reach,
as it had already burned in the drill hole.
Then he turned to climb back to- the buck
ct, but it was too late; his companions
were then being hoisted to the surface.
Who can imagine the mental agony endur-
ed by that man when he saw that he had
been left to his fate, and was liable at any mo-
ment to be blown into eternity? With q
desperate resolve, he started to climb up
the timbers, but he had not gone more than
five or six feet on his way when the blast
exploded, throwing shower of rocks and
dirt far above his head. Fortunately Ken
dali was but little injured, receiving merely
few slight scratches on his hands. 1t
was very close call, and enc that viii long
be remembered by him. The engineer was
discharged.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
A NOVEL REQUEST.

An old gentleman named March died
recently in Charlestown, who was most
eccentric genius. Though possessed of
some wealth he had but one pleasure
that of theatre-going. He would econo-
mize in everything else, but always treat
himself to sight of every new play or ac-
tor, good or bad He left no heirs and
few relatives, and his property was dis
posed of in several singular ways. The
principle item of his will provided for the
investment of sum sufficient to realize
$500 per year clear, which was to be ex-
pended in theatre tickets, to be given away
to poor, respectable people, not over 81 each
to be paid for the tickets
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
NORWAY.

In it's general aspect Norway presents the
most unpromising conformation of surface
for farming operations that can well be
conceived. Mountain ranges, with plateaus
whose altitude precludes cultivation, and
from which rise mountains that reach an
elevation of $500 feet above the sea, pre-
vail generally throughout the country.
Except in the south, the mountain tops are
covered with snow, for the greater part, if
not all the year; their slopes, when not
absolutely inaccessible, are far too rocky
and abrupt for farming settlements. The
deeper valleys that intersect these noun
tain ranges, and which ramify with the con-
tortions of the hills, are channels up which
the sea sends its tides; above the level of
these fiords are other water-worn valleys,
which convey the overflow of the mountain
lakes. supplied by countless streams that
in varying volume leap from the hills
as waterfalls, or rush foaming down the
mountain side-the impervious primitive
or metamorphoric rocks that are character
istic of the country not permitting the alb
sorption of the melting SHOWS or the Sum-
mer's rains. There exists, therefore, very
extensive superficial area that presents
physical as well as climatical difficulties of
a character not to be surmounted by the
most enterprising cultivators. With few
exceptions, the homestead Of the Norsk far
mer is built on the lower slopes of the hills,
where, in fact, the wash of the rocky sur
faces, in broken stone and silly soil, has &C
cumulated to sufficient depth for the OPP
Grafton of the plough; or on the embarked
levels Of loamy soh, the deposit left by an
Gent rivers, or when rich lacustrine alluvi-
UNI is met with, or where moraines are
spread out at the embouchuse Of glacier
grooved and expansive valleys, forming
suitable sites for scattered hamlets and lit
tie farms.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
1s1pERT1NENCE AND CURIOSITY.

Sitting after dinner, with open windows,
man in junk alongside said something
did not understand, when, to my astonish-
ment Baber took header out of the win
dow and &c went for that heather Chinee. 7"
The man, however, escaped, and when
Baber returned through the door, he ex-
planned that the object of his wrath had
called us devils. Another man presently
came, and, resting his arms on the win
dow, stood calmly gazing at us. At last
Baber politely asked him what he was
looking at Not in the least abashed, he
quietly replied: 81 am looking at you
sitting down." an eminently matter-of
fact reply, very characteristic of the Chi
nese character. Ri0er Of Golden Sand,
Gu.