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Year: 1859

EFFYcT or Frost UPnN PEACH TREES
Peach Trees are now coming in bloom. and
there j. considerable danger attending those
that are in warm exposure The experience
that We have now of the liability 10 injury
TO which early blossoming trees are suiiect-
3D. should call the attention of orchadisls
and gardeners, when planting tbos' varieties
that bios 'otn early. to place them where the
morning sun will not touch them until some
three or four hours after rising; by this time
all the frust that has rested upon the bios.
sons over night will have been extracted by
the atmosphere warmed hy the suns rays,
hrfoFc those rays strike the blossoms, aud
thus all danger will have passed. IL should
he borne in mind that it is not the frost alone
that does the injury. but the action Of the
sun upan the blossom and leaf, while the
irost is upon aud in them. Trees already
exposed can he easily saved from danger or


loss OF fruit, by showering with fresh water
a. the sun rises and continuing the shower
ing process until all the frost is extracted
With little observation during the practice
Of this showering, the operator can see the
frost. when very severe drop off in scales OF


ice. Continue, during the suns rising. 10
shower water over the trees, and you will
save your California Farmer.
Year: 1859

Assemblyman Street who halls from Shas-
ia county made, the other ~, a speech on
the Chinese war question. Mr.. Street used
this remarkable sentence in relation to the
dead OF the Chinese war. after all this mar
tiai array and transportation of arms, Mr..
Speaker. you can bury under your thumb
nail all the dead men of the war"


Does the member from Shasta county
mean that the Speaker wears a dirty thumb
nail? The insnuaiion should call for an ex-
ercise of a a"question of privilege" We
hope the Speaker will not let the innuenso
pass without notice.
Year: 1859

RoBBrNG We have heard. duriag the last
two week.. Of several cases OF Cabin rohbe
and the business of burglary has gone down
to small pay. \ thoroughly competent and
industrious thief cannot more than make
bis complaining OF hard times. lie thinks
of getting up a crusade to drive Chnamen
from the mines.
Year: 1859

Is it possible; now who'd thunk it? II
this is your last friend Shoemaker il is anvil
right. For your particular information.
however, We would say that the flower did
wake up but great hig raw-bOned relative
to the nj ght mare ate it up, and that all We
know about it, T'ehdma Gazette


We have been in the editorial business
some four years of our life and that old Joke
about the '' last aud a(w)l' has been used
against us and by us innumerabe times
We republish it, and give leave for all leath
er heads to use the worn cut a(w)l and the
venerable last
Year: 1859

The Sutter, eleven league grant has been
confirmed by the U. S. Supreme Court
This grant includes Sacramento City, and
land on both sides of Feather river The
twenty two lesgie grant was remanded to
supply some deficiency in testimony. The
opinion is, that it will also be confirmed.
Year: 1859

~Three or four times couple appear
ed before clergyman for marriage, but
the bridegroom was drunk, and the Rsv.
gentleman refused to tie the knot. On the
last occasion he expressed surprise that
so respectable looking girl was not ashamed
to appear at the altar with man in such
a state. The poor girl broke into tears,
and said she could not helpit. HAnd why,
prayT "Because, sir, he won't come
when he is soberr' -ss
Year: 1859

A TENDER REPRooF. little boy had
one day done wrong, and was sent after
maternal correction, to ask in secret the
forgiveness of his Heavenly Father. His
offence had been passion. Anxious to hear
what be would say, his mother followed
to the door of his room. In lisping &C
cents she heard him ask to be made better,
never to be angry again, and then with
child-like simplicity, he added, "Lord,
make mas spirit better too"
Year: 1859

HA farmer told friend of hiswhc
had come from town for days shooting,
that he once had gun that went off imme-
diately upon thief coming into the house
although not charged. "Wonderful gun,
indeed" said the sportsman, 'but how the
deuce did that happeni must have been
an Irish gum" Not at ALL" said the FARM
er; "the thief and the gun went off togeth-
er, and before I had time to charge him
with it."
Year: 1859

Encouraging Conricts.-Would 1t not be wise
policy in the Legislature SO TO amend the law
concerning the Penitentiary as 10 give the
of the superintendent, the power TO curtail
the time of prisoners at leas one fourth, when
they comply with the regulations of that in
stitution, and labor dustriouslyl. If such a
course were adopted, most of The prisoners
would do double the labor they now perform,
and all of them would be stimulated to behave
themselves in becoming manner
Year: 1859

THE New MAIL CARRIERs-B the failure
of that mythical Johnson to appear at the
San Francisco post office and make applica-
tion for the semi-montlfiy ocean maii the
contract with the Pacific Steamship Compa-
my having expired, the transportation Of the
mail was given in charge of Garrison Co.,
of the Nicaragua line, who retain it for nine
months. This change is in accordance with
a wise Pre-arrangement made by the Depart
ment at Washington, in anticipation of the
very contingency that has occurred. We
congratulate the public who want to visit
old scenes for business or pleasure, that the
continuance of the opposition for many
months to come is thus apparently insured.
Year: 1859

Another aerial ship for a transatlantic
trip has been nearly completed by Mr.


Lowe, of New York. 1t is the largest yet
made. The capacity of the gas receiver is
725,000 cubic feet, the diameter l3O feet,
and the aggregate hight from the valve to
the bottom of the metallic life boat which
swings below the basket, is more than 500
feet The builder of this maalmoth air
ship thinks his machinery will enable him
to guide it, and that he can go diHect from
New York to London in from 4S to Ga hours.
The life-boat is provided with a small Eric
son engine. The regulating power is OBJ
tanned by something like a screw propeller
Year: 1859

OuR1ous FAcrs.-The difference in the skull of
domestic hog and wild boar is as great So that
between the European and negro skull. Do
mesticated animals that have subsequently run
wild in the forests, after few generations, lose
all traces of their domestication, and are phys-
cally different from their tame originals


1t is not natural for cow, any more than for
any other female animals, to give milk when
she has no young to nourish. The permanent
production of milk Is modified animal function
produced by an artificial habit for several gen.
erations. In Columbia, the practice of milking
COWS having been laid aside, the natural state
of the functions has been restored. The secre-
ton of milk continues only during the sucking
of the calf, and is only an occasional phenome-
pon.-If the calf dies the milk ceases to fow.


The barking of dogs is an acquired hereditary
instinct. supposed to have originated in an at
tempt to initiate the human voice. Wild dogs,
and domestic breeds becoming wild never bark,
Ebnt howl. Cats which so disturb civilized
communities by their midnight ''caterwaul.n in
the wild state in Sonth America are quite si.
lent.


The hair of the negro is not wool but curled
and twisted hair The distinction between hair
and wool is clearly revealed by the microscope.


The dark races have less nervous sensibiity
than the white. They are not subject to nerv
Gus diseases. They sleep sound in every disease
nor does any mental disturbance keep them
awake. They bear chirurgical operations much
better than the white people. -t ,e..l


A certain species of fungus has been known
to attain the size of a gourd in one night and
it is calculated that the cellules, of which it is
composed, must amount to forty seven thousand
millions. If it grew in twelve hours this would
give four thousand millions each minute


Animalcules have been discovered so small
that one million would not exceed grain of
sand, and FIVE millions would sport in drop
of water. Yet each of these must have blood
vessels, nerves, muscles, circulating fluids, DC,
like large animals.
Year: 1859

JUVENILE FoLIY.-H will hardly be believed,
but it is nevertheless true that an elopement
took place few days ago, at Albany, between
a couple of children, aged respectively fourteen
and fifteen years The young Romeo actually
provided himself with package of arsenic, to
commit suicide in case of discovery, but fortu-
pately the father of the young gentleman over
took him at Utica, got possession OF the poison,
had the girl locked up, and gave the boy good
cowhidino. Journal.
Year: 1859

DAsrARDLY OUTRAGE.-Some mis-
erable scoundrel-the Peoples candidate
for the State Penitentisry, I've hope he
will be elected). pefpetrated an act which
for meanness 10 ahead of scoundrels in gen
eral. This fellow. whoever he was. went
up on Perry street near Ninth, where the
main igas pipe for that street ends, and
from which the earth had been 50 washed
away ~ to leave it exposed. and procured
large stone. Of some thirty pounds weight.
and after throwing it with full force upon
the exposed end Of the pipe. succeeded in
breaking off about three feet Of it, which
allowed the gas to escape in large qunt.ties-


The workmen discovered yesterday morn
ing that the gasometer was altogether too
low. at once set about finding the locality Of
the leakage, and discovered it At the place
above mentioned. The value of gas lost by
this means cannot be far from one hundred
dollars.


The man who would be guilty Of perpe-
prsting such . deed should be made TO
smart fot it, aud no doubt the individual
will provided he can be found. The leak
age did not effect the supply of gas in 9TH
er places In the city. though the atmosphere
in the neighborhood Of Perry and Ninth
streets was said to be Of very unsalubrious
chracter.
Year: 1859

Coon AS EvER.-We have heard
of several instances lately where persons
have brokan the points from their gold pens
rendering them valueless. but on applying
to John Scott have had them re pointed and
made as good as new. This is an object.
gentlemen. He also makes splendid Hair
Jewelry. Those wishing to preserve the
hair of friends in an elegant manner should
apply to Scott and have it braided and
beautifully mounted. His place Of business
is in Witherwax Block. div
Year: 1859

E The weather yesterday was
more like summer than anything else we
know of-especially the forenoon. The
back" of winter has been broken. and
we may now look for long spell Of wea-
thar
Year: 1859

ANOTHER NEW STEAMER.--A gentle
man of Boston, who is a practical ma
chinist, is constructing steamer upon
novel plan by which he proposes to attain
a speed of thirty or thirty-fiye miles the
hour. lie has made experiments with n
model on n small scale, which were very
successful, aud he is now building one
sixty feet in length to further test the
practicability and value of the invention.
He relies upon both air and water TO OBJ
tain his propelling force. With machine
ry in the stern of the vessel, upon the pro-
pelling principle, he proposes to obtain a
speed of twelve miles an hour, which, he
says, is the highest rate that can be real
lied from that agency. In the bow OF
the vessel, and worked by the same en-
gines, he places an apparatus something
like the wings of a Windmill, which is to
make five hundred and sixty revolutions a
minute, and, by its action upon the at
mosphere, will pull the vessel along, he
calculates, at speed much greater than
has heretofore been attained.
Year: 1859

saw Great Heart one day in II rail.


way train. He was well dressed and APP


peored to be reading, through his specta-


cles the morning paper. A poor woman


sat opposite with six children, the eldest


scarcely dozen years old. The hus-


band was a stupid hard hearted wretch


and administered blows unsparingly to


wearied little thing who showed his dis
comfort by fretting as the hot dusty air


swept over his face. The mothers coun-


tenance wore look of patient despair and
continual anxiety as the lite restless COM
pany sat crowded together in the loaded
ear. Not one Of them looked shabby or
untidy, though very plainly dressed L.
When the engine stopped for fuel the poor
woman took out from a basket some
bread and cheese, which she distributed
sparingly among the little group. Great
Heart had watched their movements all
the morning, and, as boy approached
the carriage with basket of berries, he
bought up boxes enough TO go round, and
gave them TO the hungry children, whose
eyes glistened as they saw such a rare
desert spread before them. One little
girl, perhaps five years old, was nearly
sick, and tried TO rest in her mothers lap;
but the tired infant disputed vigorously |
her rights, and she was obliged to yield |
the claim. Great Heart had been grave
ly considering the company, and he did
not hesitate TO take the poor child ten |
derly in his arms, lay her head in his lap
and then fan her with his paper, until she
sank into n peaceful slumber When we
stopped for our dinner, we saw them all
seated by bountiful table, loaded with
luxuries, TO which they seemed total
strangers, yet which they knew very well
how TO appreciate. We knew il was
Great Hearts and we mentally blessed
the kind, gentle nature that had thus shed
on the hard pathway of the
humble strangers.
Year: 1859

PROTECTION AGAINST DRoUTH.-The
frequent stirring of soils between the rows is
undoubtedly protection, and, in ordinary
cases, sufficient protection against drouth -
The air passes freely through soils frequent,
ly stirred; and whenever air comes in con-
tact with body colder than itself, it de-
posits moisture, as in tumbler filled with
ice water at the dinner table, or in particles
of a soil at some inches depth, and conse'
quently colder than the air above the sur
face. When the farmer gees his tumbler
sweat, as it is sometimes exp essed, he may
be assured that so it fares with the soil six
or eight inches below well-stirred surface,
provided the soil were mellowed to that or a
greater depth before the crop was put in.


The great source of protection in our coun-
try is in deep ploughiug. On soil Of any
decent consistency it would be impossible
that a crop should suffer from drouth if the
soil were pulverized to depth Of fifteen
inches, because the lower portion of such a
soil would retain moisture till long after the
surface should have received new supplies
from the clouds. If our readers are alarmed
at fifteen inches as depth which they des-
pair of reaching, we think them too easily
alarmed, but still We will meet them on
Year: 1859

be said that, although things have always
gone wrong, and are always going worse, that
is no reason why we should trouble ourselves
about them. On the contrary, it is good and
cogent reason why we should not trouble
ourselves The sun will certainly set to.mor-
row night; and it MAY be very dark, indeed,
for there have. been good many dark nights
before tomorrow night; and very likely there
will be great many after it, but that is
no reason why we should refuse to light the
gas and go supperless to bed. Nay, if we
are too poor to get up anything so brilliant
as gas, we can at least set fire toa campbene
lamp, and be as jolly as it is possible to be
in view of an explosion which may consign
us to horrible death.


But we have no quarrel with the croak-
ers. Some of them mean very we'll, and all
of them think themselves very wise. There
is. doubtless, use for frogs. In the spring
| Of the year their cacophonetic concerts are
truly musical. We are not so supersensi.
tive as the French nobility, who, while re-
siding temporarily in their chateau, forced
the peasants to whip the ponds all night to
keep the frogs from croakiug. No, the ha-
tracbian croakers may have fair play-so
long as their complaints do not affect the
growth of early peas and their human breth-
rem, so long as they do no positive harm,
NAV on scot free. 80 far as we are concerned


Baltimore american.
Year: 1859

After nv return to Africa, | was attached
to the Government Office, and was, there


fore, obliged to give up my old quarters at
Guelma and reside at Constantine In this
part of the country some tribes still hunt the
lion, as it might be called, by assault-a
royal chase that is far superior to every other
method, and those that engage in it play for
heavy stakes. They 90 in body of thirty
or forty men to find the lion in his lair, and
irritate him until he comes out, not to flee,
but to attack the disturbers of his rest. The
Arabs remain in body, and when the lion
is within ten steps of them, they fire all at
once. but in spite of this hail storm Of lead,
eight times out of ten the animal is not killed
ot the shot, but dashes on his foes, and
thrashing about iu the living mass, dies un'
der many blows, and not unavepged. In
the south of Constantine, when lion has
ravaged particular section of the country
for long time, and has apparently fixed
himself for life in some ueighborlng noun
tain, the people come forth to give him bat


tie. The day is fixed by the men in author
ity, and given place is designated for the
meeting. The horsemen take their position
on the plain at the base of the mountain,
and the footmen, in companies of twentics,
climb the hill towards the lions lair with
loud hurrahs. At the first cry, the lion, II


he is not an adult, or the lioness, if she /;
not without young, comes boldly out Of the
cover and commences the action. II eJ
chance it is an old lion that they have reused


he awakens from his lethargic slumbers a


the first sound, and yawning, stretches nlm


self like lazy dog that has been awakened
too soon Then catching the fill cry tina


comes with the morning wind, and knoWlns
from his own experience, or by family tradl
tion, the meaning Of the tumult, he rubs him


self backward and forward against tree


stopping from time to time to wrinkle hi


broad forehead, or raise his tawny name
ever aid anon throwing up his head aut
catching the tainted breeze that stirs among
the underwood. Then he slowly quits tn
Year: 1859

Spots ON THE SUN.-It is an interesting
fact, that the spots on the sun have led to
some very important discoveries in regard
to its physical constitution. IT has been
pretty satisfactorily ascertaiBed by ingen-
ious observations, that these spots are moth.
ing else than holes through which the body
itself of the luminary is caught sight Of
The sun, therefore, is composed Of two very
different materials, namely the internal mass,
which is a solid body, non-luminous, black
and a superficial envelope, which consists OF
a light stratum of inAamed subtaDce, whence
the star appears to derive its light and heat
giving power. An elastic fluid, elaborated
on the dark surface of the sun, and floating
upward through the luminous coat, would
force it aside temporarily, like the drawing
back of curtain, and 80 produce the effect
ofspots. This motion gives two distinct at
mospheres to envelope the enterior globe OF
the sun. The most extraordinary fact how
ever, in connection with the spots on the
suns surface, is the singular coincidence OF
their periods with those great disturbances
in the magnetic system Of the earth to
which the term magnetic storms,' has been
given. These disturbances, during which the
magnetic needle is greatly and universally
agitated-not in particular limited locali'
ty, but at one and the same instant of time
over the whole earth, are found, so far as ob.
servation has hitherto entended, to maintain
a parallel, both in respect Of their frequency
of occurrence and intensity in successive
years, with the abundance and magnitude
of the spots in the same years, too close 20
be regarded as fortuitous-a fact evidently
of most important significance, but which
science is as yet unable to interpret.
Year: 1859

A STRANGE SroRY.-The Perth Canada
East Courier relates singular story about
a man named John Mcintosh of Litchfeld,
who went into the woods in search Of cattle,
and remained about seventeen days, during
which time he was searched for in vain. On
the seventeenth day he returned, weak and
emaciated, just able to walk, bis feet 80 swol-
len that it was necessary to cut his boots
from them. When able to tell what had
caused bis long absence, he said that he lay
the whole time under the cleft of q rock,
near a spring of cold water; how he got
there he knew not, but his strength left him
and he could not leave the spot. he saw
one of the men who was on the search, and
his gig, quite close to him twice, when he
made all the efforts possible to draw the
mans attention, but could not as be had not
the least power to speak or move.


He thinks that he tried to leave the place
three or four times, but could not. When
he awoke (for he had been asleep on the
seventeenth day, be says he heard voice
which said-'rise, rise, and 90 home, when
he made his way to the house as above stated
Year: 1859

Saw her again!
Oh that with sightless orhs had been born,
And groped in rayiess night my passage 10 the


tomb!


Or wouldst, that barrenuess had seized the WON'T
OF her, that gave thee license to create
The hell which thou hast kiudled in my heart!
wby was born? or why didst thou leap life
Upon the little plannet where drew my breath,
And poison life to me!


Is't not enough
TO know, that thy creation rung the funeral kneli
THROUGHOUT my heart, and hung the drapcry OF
," death


Upon the sweetest hope Of life?


Is't not enough
That thou has proved film of flowers athwart
The Deep and dark abyss of wild despair,
TO lure my feet amid the fragrance Of thy wiles
And thrust me down to wretchedness!


The world is wide
Would that it we're as dark and yet
Tbou contest ever and anon across my path,
And with thy coming endure rs many deaths
As there are sands upon the sea washed shore
Just as my ship-wrecked heart beholds glimpse
or land ahead, and struggles for the shore
OF Hope. thou comest but to thrust me of
Again into the moonless waters Of despair!


Meet me no more!
Life be n Paradise to thee; and Aowery paths
Stretch out into the future for thy feet!-
No chilling shadow come into thy heart
To steal the sunlight from thy budding hopes !
But neyermore look on me-nevermore across
Nv pathway come, until our feet shall ring
Upon the golden streets of the Jerusalem above
Rush from thine orbits even now


And take thine everlasting fight.


Grow black MS inner hell, ye skies,
And thou c"quettish moon shut off
The glory of thy hateful light


And leave me in eternal night.


Gather thy waters oh! ye seas


In one vast pyramid of power


And ouench the light of yonder sun
From out the armament this hour.


So shall the vcrdure perish from the earth
And flowers sickeu. wiher, droop and die
So shall the chill winds whistle Ger the plain
And hellsh night assert her lasting reign.
Year: 1859

LoAF1Na.-There is no sight more repul-
sive than habitual loafer, forever hanging
around drinking saloons, and wearing away
the golden hours of life in meaningless
phsntasy, without thought for anything ex.
cent the qualification of a beastly appetite
It is strange that men will thus sacrifice
home, reputation, friends and all, for that
which stultifes them and makes life only o
dark and hideous dream.
Year: 1859

MARK THIS Every husbandman should
carefully read and digest matters connected
with his business-his success being as de-
pendent upon full knowledge of its prin'
ciples and details as is that of the lawyer or
physician, With a knowledge Of the science
of law and physie.