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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
Important Discoveries.

Among the Chaldean cylinders re-
Gently discovered by MIR. Rassam in the
course of his excavations in Babylonja,
and upon which Mr.. Theophilus G..
Pinches read a most interesting paper
at recent meeting of the London So
ciety Of Biblical Archaeology, is one Of
the most remarkable yet found, by rea-
son of the light it throws upon the an
cient Chronology of the Chaldean EN-.
pire. 1t dates from the time of Nabo-
hides, and records, among other things,
that this sovereign, digging under the
foundations of the Temple Sun God at
SIparo, forty-fve years after the death
of KING Nebuchadnezzar, came upon a
cylinder of Naramsil, the son of Sargon,
which no one had seen for ''3200 years. 1"
This gives as the date of the ancient
sovereign named $3.50 B, G. This,
and the fact pointed out by Professor
Oppert, who was present, that there
was in those early days already ''lively
intercourse between Chaldea and Egypt,
will have to be taken into account by
future Bible critics. It Is certain (says
the Jet0jSh W0rId) somewhat to modify
the vulgar conception-due in the first
place to Dean Stanley--of Abraham,
the founder of the Jews, as a wandering
Arab Sheikh, O kind of nomad BedouIn
as he exists In our day. The existence
more than $500 years ago of two highly
ciyilized and highly cultivated Empires
in Egypt and Chaldea; the fact that
constant intercourse wes going on be-
tween the two; again, that the high
road between them led direct through
Southern Palestine, and that Abraham
was O native of the one great Empire
and an honored visitor in the other,
cannot but serve to modify in no slight
degree our notions of the wandering
sheikh to whom we own our origin.
That he would have been unaffected by
the culture in which he was born, and
the rival civilizations between which
he lived, is hardly likely. Altogether
the discovery to which Mr.. Pmches has
called attention may open up a new
field for investigation IN the matter OF
Akkad and Akkadian civilization.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
Grandpa.

The grandpa is an individual, aged
somewhere between 90 and 100 years,
OF promiscuous temperament, and is
common occurrence in all well-Hegu-
lated families. Next to a healthy
mother-in-lsw, they have more active
business on hand than any other party
Ia the household, They are the stand
ard authority on all leading topics, and
what they don't know about things that
took place sixty-flve years ago, or will
take place for the next si1ty-five years
to come, is damage for any man to
know. Grandpas are not entirely USE
less they are handy to hold babies and
feed the pigs, aud are very smart at
mending a broken broom handle, and
sitting coal ashes, and are good at put
ting up olothes-hnes on washing days.
l have seen grandpas that could churn
good, but 1 consider it a mighty mean
trick to set an old fellow of 80 years to
churning butter. am grandpa my
self, but won't churn butter for no
concern, not if l understand myself. /
am solid on this conclusion as q craven
image. am willing to rock baby al
the time while the women folks are boil
ing soap, am willing to cut rags to
work up into a rag carpet, they can
keep me hunting hens eggs wet days,
or picking green currants, or will even
dip candles. or core apples for sauce,
or turn grind-stone, but, by thunder,
L won't churn. L have examined my
self on this subject, and 1 will bet a
iack-knlfe, so long as he remains in his
right mind, Josh Billings won't churn.
AS general thing grandpas are set
of conceited old fools who don't seem
to realize that what they know them
selves is the result of experience, and
that younger people have got to get
their knowledge in the same way.
Grandpas are poor help at bringing up
children they have got precept and
catechisian enough, but the young ones
all seem to understand that grandpa
minds them q heap more than they
MUD grandpa.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
1ObOgganing.

The toboggan, or Indian sleigh, is
made from long, fat strips of hickory
of a thickness OF from one eighth to one
quarter of an inch and from eighteen
inches to thirty inches wide, according
to desre, while the length may vary
from three to seven feet. The long
strips that are fastened together to make
the desired width are turned up at one
and, after the manner of the old Dutch
or "turn-up" skate of twenty years ago.
Upon the toboggan may be placed a
cushion or not as to choice. Generally
there is very good cushion on each.
The steering is done by the gentleman
IN charge of the toboggan, who sits in
the stern of the ci&.t, with his cargo of
ladies fair in front of him, Some to-
boggans will hold five or six adults very
comfortably. All who make the trip
get upon the toboggan, just on the brow
of the hill or slide. The steersman is
the last to embark He is supplied
with sharp pointed hickory stick, about
four inches long, one held III each hand
He is gently pushed over the top of
the slide with his freight of ladies. If
he finds his craft veer to the right he
strikes hard with the right hand stick
into the snow to bring her straight again.
All the time he and his toboggan are
careering toward the foot of the hill like
the wind, and he must be clever if he
would miss an upset. His bevy of fair
damsels do not like to be upset and roll
led unceremoniously over the generally
frozen surface of The hillside. Thus
he exerts all his energies. and If he is
strong and clever brings his craft safely
to the hull bottom. Then there is a
walk back in the moonlight or the
torchlIght to the summit of the hill and
the ride Is repeated. But while the
steersman must know his business in
regard 10 the safety ofhis craft he must
also be accomplished in the knowledge
of how to upset the toboggan into a soft
snow bank, Some of the iollieSt of
the parties rather like to be suddenly
hurled into each others arms in that
manner, and have their stout beaux pull
them out again. The advantage of the
toboggan over the bobsled Is that on
the former a spill means only shake
or two. AS the tobogganer Skins along
with only an inch between his body and
the snow he has not far to fall when the
upset comes, Woe betide him, though,
should he run into tree A few lives
have been lost in this way 10y reckless
and venturesome gentlemen.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
An Old Lamp

A Japanese lamp, supposed to be
twelve hundred years old, III the collec-
uon of the Mikado of Japan, is described
by DR.. Christopher Dresser In his book
on Japan, "Iu this lamp the oil Is
stored in the body of rat. which sits
upon the top of pole. Half way down
the pole and resting on a projecting
bracket Is saucer, In the centre OF
which Is pin that connects 1t with the
bracket on which it rests. In this sau-
Ger, and leaning over Its side, is wick,
When the saucer is filled with oil and
the wick is lit We have lamp which ex-
hibits no peculiar qualities till most of
the oil has been consumed. Then sud
denly stream which sufices to replen-
ish the now nearly exhausted saucer,
issues from the mouth of the rat. The
saucer being full, no more oil is dis
charged from the rats mouth till 1t is
again nearly empty, when the kind crea-
ture sitting up aloft' yields a further
supply. and so on till its store OF oil ic
exhausted, The manner In which this
is achieved is simple, although the effect
produced is curious, for it is only an
applica ion of the principle of the vent
peg or pipet, whereby fluid cannot run
from vessel unless air is Admitted to
take its place. The peg which rises In
the centre Of the saucer and attaches it
to the support on which its rests termi-
mates in knob or cap; but the peg is
hollow, and is connected with the body
OF the rat by tube which runs along
the bracket, and then ascends through
the stand to the upper portion OF the
rats hody. The pin which stands III
the centre of the saucer, it should be
noticed, Is perfol ated Immediately below
its cap, or about half al inch above the
bottom of the saucer. 1t is obvious,
then, that when the oil sinks to a point
at which this hole is exposed air will
enter, and thus allow the oil to run out
OF the rats mouth; but when this hole
is again covered by oil, no further all
is admitted, and, therefore, no more Oh
can run from the rats mouth.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
Fond of SlIrImps.

The bulletin of the United States
fish commission for the last year con-
tains an account of the shrimp fisher
les of the Pacific coast, which are con-
trolled almost entirely by the Chinese.
The part of each days catch which is
not sold is carried to the Chinese quar-
ter and there put at once into boiling
brine. The shr1mps are then spread
out to dry upon level plats of smooth,
bare ground. After four or five days
they are crushed under large wooden
pestles or trod upon by the Chinese in
wooden shoes, for the purpose of loos-
ening the meats from the outer chiti-
nous covering; after which the entire
mixture is put through tanning mill,
for the actual separation of the meats
from the shells. About 200, 900 pounds
of shrimps are sold annually in San
Francisco, and the annual exports OF
shrimp meats to China and the Sand
wich Islands are valued at about $780,.
900. The meats are eaten by all clas-
ses in China, but they are cheaper and
less esteemed than the native shrimps,
which are said to be comparatively
scarce.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
More Meat.

No producer need fear becoming the
owner of too mauY cattle or other meat
producing animals, provided he is 80
situated as to give them proper care
and maintain a profitable growth at all
seasons, The very poorest-those who
formerly seldom bought meats-now
swarm about the retail shops and buy
shank bones, rib tips, flank pieces and
all anything that will make bell, a
stew, or work into soup. The rapidly
increasing population of our cities is
made up very largely of the laborers
and operators from foreign countries a
class of people who ate but very little
meat in their own country many of
them none at all. Increased wages,
with an advantage in the price of meats
here, compared to that in their own
country, prompts them to eat meat;
and this class of consumers alone ab-
sorb an enormous amount of the lower
grades of meat every day.
Under the various demands, gradu-
ated by taste and purse. the retail
butchers are enabled to assort their cuts
as the grocer asserts his coffee, there be-
ing ready buyers for each grade-some
cuts going as readily at twenty to
twenty-five cents as others do at seven
or eight cents. The canning of meats
opens market for such low grades of
meat as hardly any butcher, no matter
who his customers are, would tolerate
upon his hooks. This trade being, as
it is carried on, very profitable, enables
cattle growers to close out unthriftY,
thin, animals, getting, in the absence
of any fat, the full market value for
SKIN, shrunken muscles, tendon, bone
and offal The accumulation of this
class OF stock upon the farm affords a
lesson that no observing farmer can fail
to profit by, us he has had ample op
portunity of seeing that he can no more
grow good, proht-yielding n eat upon
the class of stock referred to, an
thrifty crop OF corn upon a dry, sandy
knoll.
If beef, to meet the demands of the
lower grade of consumers and Gamers,
could be produced at cost in keeping
with its selling value, then there would
be some apology Tor growing it. The
manufacturer makes a light article of
cloth to meet the demand from a GER
tain class of consumers. He weaves
into this fabric cheap material, makes
it light, and sells by the yard, in place
of selling 10y the pound. As rule, he
is supposed to make q higher relative
profit upon the low-priced goods. But,
unfortunately for the farmer, he has no
low-priced material to weave in. The
grass that will grow and fatten steer
at three cents, will, with greater rapid
lty, grow one at SIX GEMS; and what is
true of grass Is equally true of grain
feed.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
Siberia

Iu st. Petersburg was celebrated on
December IS, the three hundredth
anniversary of Russian rule in Siberia.
December Is was chosen as the day for
this celebration, not because it was the
exact date of the acquisition, but be-
cause it was the name-day Of the young
heir apparent, Nicholas AIex&ndrowitch,
the exact Siberian date being unknown
to Russian history.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
North Africa

The territory of the Kroumirs In North
Africa, fertile country, rich in miner
ais and wood, became, after the French
occupation, almost desert, as the no.
mad tribes took flight. Steps were soon
taken 10y the French to encourage Euro
pean immigration, each immigrant being
offered, free of charge, ground suitable
to build house upon, and five or six
acres for cultivation. The result has
already been that $50 families of various
nationalities are established in the
county on these conditions, while the
number il increasing every day.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01

For young cattle teed one OF tlesh to 8
of at-producinG substances, and to older
animals give one to six. Most of the food
of young cattle go to make up bone and
muscle, leaving about third class manure;
the food of half-grown animals goes to
make flesh mostly, leaving second-class
manure; the food Of mature animals goes
to make fat and support life, the excess
becoming first-class manure, exclusive of
water. Chemically animals coming to
maturity will eat about one-tiith OF their
own weight per day.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01
MEMORIES.

We tread the same hills that our foretathers trod,
We shed the same tears that our fathers have shed
We have the same horror of hoardi lg-house hash,
And we mash the same girls that our fathers would
mash,
If they could.
We see the same sun that fer ages has rolled,
We listen 10 tales that our forrfathers told,
The same inspiration comes down from above
That nIled their long lives with beauty and love,
This is granted.
We breathe the same air that our fathers inhaled,
We sail the same waters our fathers have sailed,
We've the same high ambitions, the yearning for
fame,
And our highest officials get drunk just the same,
Won't they alwaysS
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01

Never let man imagine he can pur-
sue a good end by evil means, without
SHINING against his own soull Any
other issue is doubtful; the evil effect
upon himself is certain,
It is not In the storm nor in the strife,
We feel benumbed and wish to be no
more.
But in the after-silence on the shore,
When al Is lost except little life.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01

John Walford, age lob years, voted
at the recent election In Pike county,
Ky.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01

In order to enjoy the present, it Is
necessary TO be intent on the present.
To be doing one thing, and thinking ef
another. is a very unsatisfactory mood
of spending life.
At the bottom of a good deal of the
bravery that appears in the world there
turks a miserable cowardlce. Men Will
face powder and steel because they
cannot face public opinion.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-01

The population of Rome under tue
emperors greatly exceeded million.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03

z Globe will be reconcilea to the mar. row gauge when that town becomes rich and prosperous through its in- strumentality.--Sta
 . Globe has no objection to the road, it had to the burdens it imposed. The BELT has always been consistent in it's advocacy of any enterprise that would help the Territory. If the Tucson pa- pers will assure us that permission has been accorded the company to cross the San Carlos reservation, or that it can be had before the next ses- sion of Congress-; that the company is composed of men of character and financial standing, and give us the names; that they intend to begin at the coal and timber end of the line, where material is cheap, instead of at the barren end of it where it is dear; that it will be benefit to us instead of an injury, by preventing the build- ing of a road to Globe; then we will toss our hat as high as they and make as much fuss, and we won't ask for a block of the stock either. We do not believe the road will be built, and if 1t is, are firmly convinced that it will never add one cent to the "riches and prosperity of Globe.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03

The society editor of the Miner got down to hard pan when he referred to the Speaker of the House and his lady, at the masquerade ball, as taking in the busihess,-with gnsto." We can understah& what he means in that paragraph; but when it comes to de- scribing his own costume, we have to pass-"Three fair damsels and pair of boots" Our knowledge of the fair ones of Prescott convinces us that the costume, barring the boots, must have been beautiful; but how the deuce the fellow ever wore them all at once passes comprehension. We under stand about the boots--he wore them like Peck's boy, in the tail of his coat mo, that cannot be either, because he had so much damsel on, that coat would be a supererogation in broad doth, we give it up. How did he wear the girls, and where were the booAse
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03
The Isabella swindie.

The Isabella swindle" as it is called by the Eastern papers, affords text for many screed to journalistic ser monizers. The man who engineered it never intended honest action, and the people who were victimized, min isters and all as they were, showed more avari0e than common sense. They put their money into the scheme without making any inquiries as to -u-.-vs,~rrescrv-of pcn wnu cun. ceived it, and gave the stock the en- dorsement of their reverend signatures without determining whether it was worth the money in single one of their contribution boxes. Having lost their coin like fools, they should take the medicine like men. This swindle is five years old, but it comes up fresh and bright once year. It hurts this district; and still there is not a resi-. dent here, and has not been for years, who is in any way associated with it. It was based upon series of locations lying four miles east of Globe, all of which were valueless, except the Hap. py Jack. The Isabella itself was the poorest of them all. No honest expert would have advised their purchase, and no honest body of men would buy without. When eastern men do their western business according to the rules they adopt at home, "Isabella swim dles" will be less numerous, and there will be fewer lamentations from the bitten.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03

The lady who keeps the Waldo House, in Prescott, threatens to pub fish, in the Courier, the names of the people who owe her if they do not ante up soon. We hate to draw even a logical inference, when it is refec- ton upon the paying (not staying) qualities of our legislators; but as they must soon be leaving for their homes, the conclusion is irresistible that the proprietress of the Waldo House means them.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03
In the J ustice's Court.

0fGlobe Precinct in the County of Gila, U Territory of Arizona, B. G. Fox, J. P. w. A. HOLMES, Plaintiff, vs. R. H. WATSON, efendant.-SumMons The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to K. Fl. Watson, Defendant. You are hereby summoned to appear be- fore me, at my office in Globe Precinct, in the County of Gila, on the THIRD day of APRIL, 1883, at ten o'clock a. m., in an ac- tion brought against you by said plaintiff to answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff.
 Said action is brought to recover of you the sum of Two Hundred Dollars (s2OO) and interest thereon at the rate of two per cent per month from Dec. 3l, 1881, for labor performed for you at your request, together with all costs and percentages allowed by law, and you are hereby notified to appear and answer the said complaint or Judgment will be taken against you for the said amount, together with costs of this suit if you fail to appear and answer.
 To the Sheriff or any Constable of said County, Greeting:
 Make legal service and due return thereof
 Given under my hand this SOth day of January 1888. B. q. FOX,
 A Justice of the Peace of said Precinct. feb. 3-60d
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03
Saturday. March, 5. 1888.
ls There no Danger.

The Citizen publishes letter writ ten by, Capt. Gatewood, U. $. A., to Agent Wilcox, at San Carlos--Wilcox knows how to work the oracle with some papers-in which he says, speak. ing of the Apaches, scarcely any trouble among them; nothing to amount to much"
 There is some then; and it amounts to something. =
 The Republican publishes letter, sent by General Crook, to a Mir. A. e. Richards in reply to the latter's re- quest for protection. Evidently Mir. R. thinks there is danger. Gen. Crook says, in his letter. [
 "I sympathise fully with your de. sire, to be protected against incursions from hostile Apaehes or Indians of any kind, and only regret, that, the spall renders ittimpossib ble to stationide nents atevery settlement, You should remember thatyour case is not an ex- ceptional one; there are hundreds. of settlers in precisely the same position and were I to attempt to distribute soldiers at every point where their presence 1eould be in demand, the eRsctive strength of the whole organ ization would be destroyed. All that Lean do is, to maintain garrisons in those places which experience has shown to be the best for the purpose and to have the troops kept in readi- ness to move out at moments notice north, south, east or west, as may be necessary"
 Good reader, throw in the italics at tho commencement of the second sen. tehce, "Hundreds of settlers in pre- cisely the same position" That is g stronger presentation of the case than the BELT has made, and Gen. Crook ought to know what he is writing about. Add to the trouble which these prominent officers admit already exists, the additional discontent which will inevitably succeed the granting of a sole-tradership to Wilcox or any one else, and an Indian war is as log cal an outcome as four is of twice two
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03

The Arizona Democrat shows that # grasps the situation perfectly. when it says: "Arizona is not in a position to attack ;,railroads. We have not enough people, enough business or enough railroads to begin an insane attack on these great ciyilizers." That is true. Everything ought to be done to foster their building, that does not impose onerous conditions upon the people.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-03
Millions in It.

TUcsoN, A. T., Feb. 22.-There is great excitement about a remarkable silver discovery, twenty miles south of here, in the Santa Rita mountains. The ore crossing is one hundred feet wide and over a mile long, with an average value of $275 per ton of ore. Half million is estimated to be in sight. One claim on the property has just been purchased by a Methodist minister of Albio Jona.
 After reading the above dispatch to the Chicago Inter-Ocean, we are forced to the conclusion that, Tucson has a greater need than a narrow gauge railroad, and thatsis, some truthfhl man to look after her telegraphers.