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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-14
The Lusefous RiyaIve.

Pa y WAea AuhOkCOh ~ 1Nff
The Luscious Bivalve.
The oyster season has arrived, and thi
Is nowhere more apparent than at Mrs
Browns Restaurant, where at all hours o
the day and night the bivalve is served il
any style known to the art OF cooking
Oysters are received by express daily il
cans and in the shell from both the Eas
and West. Families supplied.
Ed. wilhelm
Begs to inform his customers and til,
public generally that owing to his con
stantly increasing trade he has enlarged
his a%telier, and will henceforth b.
able to do all work entrusted to him
at the shortest notice. As heretofore
all work warranted to give perfect sat
isfaction or money refunded.
Sweeping Sale.
Mrs. H. E. Curran will close out the re.
mainder Of her stock Of staple and fancy
goods, together with her present stock OF
millinery, regardless of cost, for the next
ten days at Blazers building, Main
street. :
Carpetsi Carpetsi
Messrs.. Franklin & Co. have the finest
assortment of carpets ever brought to this
market, and sell them at astonishingly low
prices. Call and. examine the various
patterns. No trouble to show goods. 4
Fire Insurance.
A. d. Haskell has made arrangements
in San Francisco by which he is enabled
to place risks with any first class home OF
foreign company now doing business in
this State.
Piano For Sale.
A irst-c1ass upright piano, nearly new,
can be purchased cheap by making appli-
cation at M. B. Bartlett's wholesale liquor
establishment on Main Street. n
POLICIES in the New England Life In
surance Company are absolutely MONITOR
under the law of Massachusetts,.
WIN. B. HIcKoK, Agent.
GILT Paper.
Haskell is selling beautiful patterns OF
gilt paper for rs cents and 81 per roll;
80 cents; blanks, 25 cents.
The Lowest Yet.
Cabbage at 8 cents per pound and pota-
at 2 cents per pound, at B. Berg's. \
The New England Life Insurance Com
pany insures miners without extra rates.
WIN. B. HIoKoK, Agent.
D. NJ. Slender q Co. have the finest
imported cigars in the city for Q bit and
Is cents each. n
DE-. SCHNEIDER sells a genuine Havans
cigar for 12k cents. y
Go early and Q bargains ct the San
Francisco Clothing Store u
A genuine imported Princess for 0 bit
1t D. M. Slender 4 Co.'S. 4
CLEAR Havana cigars at DR.. schneider's
lrug store for 12k cents. =
IMPORTED cigars, finest brands kept by
Davidson at the P. o. Cigar Stand.
FoR 1917 cents you can buy o clear Ha-
gana cigar at DR.. Schneider's. y
-
Go to D. N. Slender b Co.'s for Q fne
imported or domestic cigar for q bit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1sS


WHAT Has HAPPs4t1 ~ <1640.-
1t is not too much tcfr1 ~ NJ great
nven ion which had 10, = ,o|11|l.K in
the decade of 1910 to l5tO = & sSred
in the past thirty years Th' {l'6I bid
occurred the most signal devel5I4nett of
the applications of chemistry to t1anufac-
lures and agriculture; an enormous ex-
DansiOn OF commerce. by means of rail
roads and ocean steamships the discovery
Of ether; and the perfection and diffusion
of some of the most precarious contribu-
tiOns ever made for the welfare of man
kind. In 1885 only 284 miles of railroad
had been completed in the United States
in 1910 they had been nearly trebled
(281S); in 1915 they bad been nearly
quadrupled (376S). In 1885 Boston was
connected with Worcester, and Baltimore
with Washington; from Philadelphia the
traveller could go no farther west by rail
than the Susquehanna at Columbia.
1889 ,nEricsson brought over the propeller
TO these hospitable shores. In 1910 the
Cunard line of ocean steamers was estab
lished, but for time only " side. wheel
ers" were tolerated. The first regular
ship. the Britannia, reached Boston after
a trip of IA days and 8 hours. Morse's
telegraph, after vain offers on both sides
of the Atlantic, was at last subsidized by
our own government, and in 1874 COM
municatiOn was opened between Balti-
more aad Washington. What hath
God wrought" signaled Morse at the
capital to Alfred Vail at Baltimore. The
news dispatches to tho press {" by mag
netic telegraph" were meagre, while
public patronage was so timid that the
wits of the day made fun of delighted
father in Baltimore who wired" the
news of the birth of a grandson to q post
office official at the capital--"a if the
mails were too slow at 20 miles an
hour. In April, 1870 Goodyear was in
the debtors prison (a lodging almost as
familiar 10 him as his own home) in Bos-
ton; he had the year before found the
clue to the vulcanizing OF rubber, but the
process was not reduced to certainty till
1914 AT about the same time QS45-
lSlS) the Mccormick reaper was confirm
ing the independence OF the new world of
he old as a granary, CAS- late as 1886
1888 wheat has been imported into the
United States from Portugal and the
Baltic) The sewing machine devised by
Elias Howe in 1843 was patented in 1916,
but the Importance of this was not fully
realized for more than a dozen years
aferward. The dasuerreotype dates
from 1889, and in 1910 the enterprisng
Mr.. Plumb began taking likenesses in
Boston with small success for some
months Five years later, his galleries"
were to be found not only in that city, bat
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, and even Dubuque, Iowa.
Finally, July "a, 1947, the patent was
issued for Hoes lightning press, with its
"inpression cylinder Qhe type revolv-
ing on Il circular bed), and printing ca
pacily of ten to twenty thousand impress
sions per hour.-LippincoHS Magazine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05
MASKED BLESSINGS. Very thick and

MASKED BLESSINGS. Very thick and
opaque the mask sometils appears.
Hardly trace of the real ,e. re is seen
looking through it. The J. :, occa-
sionally, were panic. struck 1r richest
blessings They cry out in alarm at what
seems to be CHASTITY goblin o. yhe deep,
when the gladdening at is |; be not
afraid" rebukes their fears and restores
their courage. They draw back, timidly,
from the offered hand of Saul, and soon
find what loving lips they were that had
breathed threatenings and slaughter And
we are, often, rs blind and timid as they.
For how often are the sorrows we dread
the sweetest of all possible gifts of God !!
A good man begins to lose fortune. and
men commiserate him as running down."
while angels congratulate him AS running
up the shining way to the gates of pearl.
You can never know the nature of what
seems IL calamity, till it has spent its force
and revealed its hidden use. In the canton
of Beln, in the Swiss Oberland, rushes u
mountain stream toward the valley as if it
would carry destruction among the vii
lagos below. But, leapng from sheer
precipice of nearly nine hundred feet in
height, it is caught in the clutch of the
winds and sifted in fine, soft spray, whose
benignant baptism covers the fields with
perpetual green. Many sorrow, Chris
tian friend, may be such IL torrent to you.
1t may refresh your withered graces 1t
may bedew you with meekness, patience
Observation-Disclosures. In the grand and
glorious vocation of building, as Christ
shall help you, perfected Christian char
acter, it will do what no dazzle of pros
perity will ever effect. And when, in the
life to come, your eyes open to see al
things in their true values, you may cry
in grateful ecstasy, THANK God for my
griefs and afilictions. ."-Ad0a"ce
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

An old lady of his flock once called
upon DR.. Gill with a grievance. The
doctors neck-bands were too long for her
ideas Of ministerial humility, and after a
long harangue on the sin of pri !e. she
intimated that she had brought her scis-
sors with her and would be pleased if her
dear pastor would allow her to clip them
down to her notions of propriety. The
doctor not only listened patiently to her
lecture, but handed her over the offending
white bands for her to operate upon.
When she had cut them to her satisfaction
and returned the bibs it was the doctors
turn. Now said he, my good sister,
you must do me II good turn also" Yes,
that | will, doctor; what can it be?',
"Well, yon have something about you
which is Il deal too long and causes me nc
ond of trouble, and | should like to see it
shorter" "Indeed, dear sir, | will not
hesitate; but what is itp Here are the
scissors, use them as you please" Come
then,' said the sturdy divine, good sister
put out your tongue"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

NTRoDUcTIoNs.-Per the form of
introduction might bo made more helpful
than it is. There are certain fixed rules,
Of course, based on sufficient reason,
which everybody is supposed to under
stand and observe. 1t is proper, for ex:
ample, always to introduce gentleman to
a lady, a younger woman to an elder, a
stranger or new conner to theelOnger resi-
dent. But beyond this, the phrase and
tone employed might convey an assurance
of a rewarding acquaintance, or simply
imply a courtesy of the moment. Sup
pose, for instance, the hostess were to say
Mrs. Blank, am so glad of this oppor
tunity to introduce to you Mrs. Dash" or,
1t is such q pleasure to Introduce two
people who ought to know each other" or
any otheI agreeably unconventional SEN
tence, there is ground of liking and a
sense of familiarity established at once.
II, on the other hand, she sees that there
is not likely to be any common interest
between the two strangers, the usual form,
Mrs. Blank, pray allow me to present
Mrs. Dash to you.' merely means, " Now
you two women who happen to stand to-
gether. may leave off your futile attempts
10 look uUCOuSClOuS Vi 6dCu Olutl D bh-
istence. and become rs agreeable to each
other as your limitations will allow" A
woman must be ponderous, indeed, who
cannot find few words of graceful COM
monplace to bestow on her new acquaint-
ance. or, having offered them, who cannot
easily and inoffensively' glide out of the
conversation.
But if it be the duty Of tho hostess to
introduce, it is not less plainly the duty of
her guests to speak to each other without
her intervention. The law Of Kindness,
which precedes and underlies the code of
etiquette, commands them assist her in
her efforts to give them pleasure. "A
jest's prosperity" says the all-perceiving
Shakespeare, "lies in the ear Of him who
hears it, never in the tongue of him who
utters it, And it is equally true that all
social successes depend on the spirit of
the guests far more than upon the skill of
the hostess She is but one. They are
many. Schiller complained that the gods
themselves must fight in vain against
stupidity more hopeless than that which
makes woman in society regard her
own preference, prejudice or timidity as
of more consequence than the pleasure of
all the rest.-Harper'S Ba~ar.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

An occurrence, which may be partially
or wholly attributable to the rude shakings
which Switzerland has recently under
gone, is reported from Quarten, in the
canton of St. Gall. A short time ago the
people in the neghborhood noticed signs
of uneasiness about the Schenebelberg
The summit of the mountain appeared to
be in precarious position, and il was
feared that it might slip down and over
wbelm the Schenebwald, IN extensive
wood in the valley below In anticipation
of a possible catastrophe. great efforts
were made to cut down and carry as many
trees rs possible thoug b the men engaged
in the work wrought at the peril of their
lives. A few days ago, when fortunately
there was nobody in the wood, a deafening
report, like the firing of heavy artillery,
rcsounded through the valley, and the
mountain was hidden rom view by a
thick cloud of dust. When it dispersed
the Shenbelberg was seen 10 be shorter by
few metres, and the beautiful wood il
the Murthgal had disappeared beneath a
huge avalanche of stones and earth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

/ A PASSING THOUGHT. ID res the world
miss any oneP Net long. The best and
most useful Of us will soon be forgotten
Those who do.day are filling large place
in the worlds regard will pass away from
the remembrance of men in month, or
at farthrest in a few years. after the
grave has closed over their remains. We
are shedding tears above new made
grave, and wildly crying out in our grief
that our loss is irreparable. Yet in a
short time the tendrils Of love have en-
twined around other supports, and we no
longer miss the one who is gone. So
passes the world.
But there are those to whom loss is
beyond repair. There are men from
whose memories no woman's smile can
chase recollection of the sweet face that
has given up all its beauty Mt deaths icy
touch. There are women whose plighted
faith extends beyond the grave. and drives
away as profane those who would entice
them from worship of their buried
loves. Such loyalty, however, is hidden
away from the public gaze. The world
sweeps on beside and all around them
and cares not to look upon this unobtru-
ding grief 1t carves line and rears a
stone over the dead and hastens away to
offer homage TO the living.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

ABOUT DOG The Macon (Ga., } Tele-
gram of recent date says: "lf you are
looking for downright intellect, call on the
pointer dog. He is far more human than the
monkey, and we cheerfully acknowledge
far worther of the relationship. Look at
jeff DR.. Mattauer's liver colored pointer
That dog carries notes, goes for the horse
and buggy, goes for beef, and fetches ice
regularly. Would anybody deny 'Jetf's'
intellect? Hardly. Last week JEFF was
sent for ice. He started with towel, in
one corner of which the nickel was tied
up. JEFF saw that nickel put in, and i'm
mediately temptation assaied him. He
could buy ice on credit, but beef was
always cash He labored under that
temptation until he reached Huff's corner,
near the ice house, and then be yielded.
Down in the dirt he crouched, and after IA
tussel got the knot united He buried the
nickel, carried the towel in, received the
ice and came out; but not tor the nickel
Oh moi The doctor must be left under the
impression that the nickel had gone fol
ice. The ice was carried to the Office and
JEFF came back like flash. secured his
cash and galloped to the beef stand and in
few minutes was observed homewarC
bound with his dinner He was not afraic
to carry it home, He reasoned that the
doctor would suppose some one had giyer
it to him."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

ORIGIN OF New YEARS CALLS in
AMERICA.-All civilized people, both an
cient and modern, while differing rs to
the day from which to date the beginning
of the civil year, have agreed in distin
gushing it by special festivities By the
Romans the day and the ensuing month
was dedicated to Janus, and by the
Druids branches of the sacred mistletoe,
cut with peculiar ceremonies. were dis
tributed to their people us sacred gifts,
The custom of making New Years calls
was brought from Holland to New Am
sterdam now New York. and was first
observed on January l, 1915, when the
hardy Dutchmen congratulated each other
at the beginning of their second year in
the new world As the year went around
prosperity increased and the day contin
ued to be celebrated by merriment and
good cheer. Every family was visited by
jolly Dutchmen and the CHEEKY housewives
with their daughters served them with q
New Years beverage of sugar and spices.
After the conquest of the New Neither
lands by the English, August q, 1864, the
next New Years day was doubtless II sad
one to the conquered Hollanders. hut the
visiting was kept up and the congratula
tions were uninterrupted, and the English
soon fell in with the good old custom, and
since then it has continued.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

WHAT They KNEW Four THOUSAND
FEARS AGo.-Frotn one of these books
compiled after the manner of our modern
encyclopedias, and the compilation of
which is shown to have been made more
than two thousand years B. c.. il has
been ascertained, which has long been
supposed, that Chaldea was The parent
land of a-tronomy; for it is found
from this compilati n and from other
bricks, that the Babylonian catalogued
The stars and distinguished and
named the constitutions; that they ar
ranged the twelve considerations that form
our present zodiac to show the course of
the suns path in the heavens; divided
time into weeks, meuths and years; and
they divided the week, rs we now have
it, into seven days. six being days of
labor. and the seventh day of rest, to
which they gave nam" from which we
have derived our word Sabbath" and
which day, as day of rest from all labor
of every kind, they observed as rigorously
as the Jew or the Puritan The motion
of the heavenly bodies and the phenomena
of the weather were noted down and n
connection detected between the weather
and the changes of the mon. They in
vented the sun.dial to mark the move.
ments of the heavenly bodies, the water
clock to measure time, and they speak in
this work of the spots on the sun, a fact
they only could have known by the aid of
telescopes, which it is supposed they pos
sessed from observations that they have
noted wn of Tenns and the fact that
Layard found the crystal lens in the ruins
of Nineveh. The /" bricks contain an
account of the denge, substantially the
same as the narrative in the Bible, except
that the names are different They dis.
close that houses AMI lands were then sold,
leased and mortgagrd; that money was
loaned at interest, and that the market
gardeners, to use an American phrase,
" worked on shares that the farmer,
when plowing with his oxen. beguiled
his labor with short and homely songs,
two of which have been found; and, to
connect this very remote civilization with
the usages of to-day, may, in conclusion
refer to one of the bricks of this library.
in the form of note, which is to the
effect that visitors arc requested to give to
the librarian the number of the book they
wish to consult, and that it will be brought
TO them; at the perusal of which one is
disposed to fall back upon the exclamation
of Solomon, that "there is nothing new
under the sun. Popular Scientific M0ntb-
Lg.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

MAKE THE BEST OF THINGs.-We ex-
cuse II man for an occasional depression
Just as we endure rainy day. But who
could endure three hundred and sixty five
days of cold drizzlep Yet there are men
who are without cessation, soml re and
charged with evil prognostication We
may be born with melancholy tempera-
ment, but that is no reason why we should
yield to it. There is way of shifting
the burden. In the lottery of life there
are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to
one misfortune there fifty advantages.
Dependency is the most improbable
feeling man can have. One good laugh
is bomb-shell exploding in the right
place, while spleen and discomfort is gun
that kicks over the man that shoots it off.
Some must have got into heaven back
ward. Let us stand of from desponden
ces Listen for sweet notes rather than
discords. In a world where God has put
exquisite tinge upon the shell washed in
the surf, and planted a paradise of bloom
in a child's cheek, let us leave it to the
owl to hoot, and the toad TO croak, and
the fault-finder to complain. Take out
door exercises and avoid late suppers, if
you would have cheerful disposition
The habit of complaint finally drops into
peevishness, and people become waspish
and inapproachable. .-BaptiSt Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05
WHAT WE LIVE For" What is lifep

WHAT WE LIVE FoR.-" What is lifep'
some one asked Mon ford. His answer
is one of the most charming things ever
written: " The present life is sleeping and
waking; it is e good night on going tc
bed, and good morning on getting up; il
is to wonder what the day will bring
forth; it is rain on the window as one sits
by the fire; it is to walk in the garden and
see the flowers and hear the birds sing; il
is to hear news from the east, west, north
and south; it is to read old books and new
books it is to see pictures and hear mnsic
it is to have SUNDAYS; it is to have break
fast and dinner and tea; it is to belong to
a town and have neighbors and acqnaint'
ances; it is TO have friends and love; it is
to have sight a dear old faces; and it il
to know themselves thought of many
times day, in many places, by children
and grand children and many friends"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

A correspondent of the Chicago 7rt
bue, AZ years old, who has hair as long
and thick rs it was when she was sixteen,
tells how she manages to keep it so
"FiIl your washbowl half full of soft
water (not hard, for lime ruins the m ost
beautiful hairy, put in Il small pinch Of
pulverized rock snlt-rock, because every
other kind contains more or less lime
stir up, dip your head into it, hold it there
a few seconds, draw it ont wet, press the
water out and rub all parts of your wet
scalp with the balls of your fingers unit
it feels warm; repeat the process three
times then rub rs dry as you can with {
towel, and brush out with a stiff brush
until nearly dry. Do this every morning
1t gives health and vigor to the roots o
the hair, and imparts gloss that nc
amount of grease can ever do; besides i
cures more morning headaches than Il
carload of pills can"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05

"HAvANA" CIGARS FROM PAPER.-The
straw paper manufacturers of the Chat
ham portion of Columbia county, N. Y,
have for many years been aware that their
product has nearly all gone south, and
been used in Cuba as filters for cigars
None of them manufacture specially with
his end in view, although their paper is
well adapted for bogus cigar making
The paper used for the purpose indicated
is of the lghtest weight e to I l-2 lbs) it
is possible to make. There is one mill in
the county located at Queechy Gown OF
Canaan) which manufactures the straw
paper expressly for wrappers not filters.
The Queechy paper company's paper-mlIl
is situated on creek but short distance
below lake, and being at the head of the
stream. the water is of much greater puri
ty, and hence their ability to produce the
desired article of paper. The straw paper
used in filling the Havana cigars is satn
rated with decoction prepared from The
stem and refuse of Havana seed leaf. min
gled with which are extracts of liquorict
root, SIENNA, etc. The paper is so skilfully
stamped TO resemble The tobacco leaves
the very veins ofthe leaf being so perfectly
initiated, that it can seldom, if ever, be
detected from the genuine article.-Pape'
! World