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Year: 1860

1t has been observed by Professor John
stone in his Chemistry of Common
Life, that every race above the condition
of brutes use stimulants in some form.
Alcoholic beverages in the form of wines,
beer, and malt liquors. coffee and tea,
and opium mixtures are in common use
Some of these stimulants are harmless,
and some are even beneficial, when taken
in moderation but all of them are dam
gerous when taken in excess 1t would
be well for poor human nature if the
most mild and safe stimulants only were
taken but although dreadful consequences
are known to result from an immoderate
participation in ardent spirits and opiates,
yet there are thousands, and many of
these are well educated and highly intel
lectual persons, who recklessly indulge in
their use. The historian, Allison, has
stated that drunkenness is the vice of cold
climates, and in this opinion he may be
correct; but warm climates have their
vices also from the immoderate use of
stimulants all of which are injurious.
The Chinese indulges in his opium, and
his I" waking dreams become luxuiant
with fantastic scenery and incidents. The
Hindoo takes his Indian hemp extract,
and at once the chirp of cricket sounds
like the crack of rifle cannon; the fall
ling of stream of water appears like a
shower of rainbows; minutes seem like
years. and the whole senses become fear
fully and historically active. A new
stimulant has been recently coming into
pernicious prevalence among the artists
and literary men of France. This is
absinthine, the bitter principle of worm
wood, which is soluble in alcoholic liquors
and is said to be very fascinating in its
influence upon those engaged in exhaust
ing mental pursuits. Like opium, it
imparts Temporary stimulus to the brain,
but its after effects are of a very pros
trating nature. Several distinguished
men in France are said to have fallen
victims to it's use, and the highest medical
authorities in that country have denounced
it, and yet its consumption is rapidly on
the increase We hope it may never
come into use as stimulant among our
people 1t has been asserted by some
writers that the sensation and instincts
are guides that should be followed. With
out qualification this is dangerous teach
ing. AS regards stimulants, the sensations
are frequently of the most delusive
character. Science in its very highest
sense teaches us that the cravings of the
appetite for stimulants in human beings
should, in general, be resisted not fol-
lowd. Reason should control the sensa-
tions by guiding the will to resist the
cravings of the appetite for many things.
The practice of opium eating is becoming
more prevalent in America; but asscience
and experience teach us that the use Of it is
dangerous vice, any craving for such a
stimulant should be resisted We hope
that indulgence in the new French drug
absinthine, will not be added to the grow
ing and dangerous evil Of opium eating.
Those who are forewarned against it, are
armed to resist it. Its use for a short
period is very fascinating but he who
persists in it ultimately becomes drivel-
Ter and mental paralytic.
Americnn. il .sf
Year: 1860

BOILED TO DEATH-A horrible accident oc-
CURED, lately, at Freeport, Pa, by which a
man lost his life in the following shocking
manner. He was boiling salt, when by some
miischance, he was precipitaLed headforemost
into the cistern Of boiling salt water. He
succeeded in crawling out, but there being
no one near to assist him, he unfortunately
1eil back again into the scalding brine. Not
,wlthstanding this second and terrible mis-
nap he got out without assistance and walk
cd to his home. He was actually boiled alive,
ana after suffering unknown tortures, at last
found ease in death, twenty four hours after
the accident
Year: 1860

SERIOUSLY ILL.-The Sacramento News of
yesterday says:


The Rev. Father Slattery, of Marysville,
who has been lying dangerously i'll at the
Merchants Hotel, on X Street, ever since his
return from San Francisco. whittier he pro-
ceeded to preach the sermon on the laying of
the corner stone of the Sisters of Charity
new hospital was removed yesterday morn
ing to The care of the Sisters Of Mercy at
their new institution on Ninth street between
and G streets. The invalid is suffering
from high fever of typhoid type, con
tracted probably at San Francisco 1t is
probable that as proper nursing is only need
ed, he will soon be able to resume his pas
toral duties
Year: 1860

A MATRIMONIAL MANnC-A MAN MARRY.
ING FOURTEEN WoMEN.-A good story is told
of chap in North Carolina who went the
entire figure in the way Of oourtipg all the
girls who would have him, without asking for
any Of them to die off, as thelaw directs. After
having married his thirteenth some of his
first loves csme down upon him, and had hiru
lodged in Jail. Buta person so fond of liberty,
and who could get into Hyinen's moose with
such ease, found little difficulty in getting out
Of the "jug;" and the next news Of him he
was running at large, with heavy reward for
his apprehension. He was shortly recognized
by gentlemen, who, anxious to get the
reward, invited him to his house, desired him
to sit down--called his wife to chat with him,
as an inducement to detsin him there-while
he made some excuse for leaving him O few
moments, and started for constable to arrest
the runaway. What was the poor mans as
tonishment, on returning with the constable,
to find the gay Lothario-taking advantage Of
his short absence-had absconded with his
wife. This made the fellows stock Of wives
on hand fourteen.
Year: 1860

A New YORK BABY-sAvER.-At late fire in
a tenement building in New York, Henry
Bartell saved the lives of five children and one
woman, who but for him would have perished
in the burning house. The came person had
already acquired such reputation-he is e
freman-for saving children from burning
buildings, that his companions universally
call him "Baby Saver"
Year: 1860

AN AsBRsTINE CRINoLIEE.-At Q recent
scientific meeting in Edinburg, orinoline
dress was exhibited, one-half Of which had
been immersed in q solution of sulphate Of
ammonia, in order to test its non-combustibil-
ity. On light having been applied to the
crinoline, the part which had not been
stepped in the solution was at once enveloped
in flames, but the only effect which tho light
had on the other part was to char 1t.
Year: 1860

A NEW KIND OF STREET LocoMorIvH.-It 10
stated that for some days past new style Of
locomotive for drawing city railroad cars
through the streets, has been In successful
operation in one Of the ship yards in New
York. It consists Of small Ericsson caloric
engine, and it ID said TO do Its work In salts.
factory and economical manner.
Year: 1860

The local of the Cleveland Plainde.ler ~.
lates the following:


1--WE doubt if We shall ever forget our first
view of Hannibal, which was also our first
view OF any elephant-of the elephant, in
snort 1t was at the close of sultry day in
June, 1s-. The sun had spent its farv. and
was going to rest among the clouds of gold
and crimson. A solitary horseman might
have been been slowly ascending q long hill
in a New England town. That solitary
horseman was US, and We were mounted on
the old white mare. Two bags were strap
ped to the foaming steed. That was before
be became wealthy, and of course We are not
ashamed to say that We had been to mill, and
consequently those bags contained -four and
middlings. Presently large object appear
ed at the top of the hill. We had heard of
the devil, and had been pretty often told that
he would have q clear deed and title to us
before long, but had never heard him painted
like the Object which met our gaze at the top
of that hill, on the close of that sultry day in
June.


Concluding (for We were a mere youth)
that it was an eccentric whale who had come
ashore near North Yarmouth, and who was
making a tour through the interior of the
country on wheels, We hastily turned our
steed and made for the mill at rapid rate.
Once We threw over our bal st after the
manner of balloonists and a. the object gain
ed on US We cried aloud for our parents.
Fortunately We reached the mill in safety,
and the object passed at furious rate, With
portion of woodshed on his back. Itwas
Hannibal, who had run away from q neigh
boring town, taking the shed in which hewas
with him.


Hannibal is vicious and so are all elephants.
1t is only with spears and pitchforks that
they are kept in subjection. The idea pro-
mulgated BY showmen and some writer's that
it is with kindness these creatures are won
over to men, is sheer humbug. Fear, moth
ing else, does the business. 1t was in 1884,
instead Of 1874, as stated by some of the New
York papers, that Mr.. Van Amburgh impor-
ted Hannibal from England. He had then
been shown all over Europe. He Is suppo-
sed to be some two hundred years old"
Year: 1860

WAsHINGToN's APPOINTMENT AS COMMAND
ER.-On Thursday, the fifteenth of June, two
days before the battle Of Bunker Hill, George
Washington was chosen Commander-in-
Chief of "all the continental forces raised or
to be raised for the defence of American lib
erty." The appointment was officially an
nounced to him on the following day, and
modestly accepted, and on the eighteenth he
wrote a touching letter to his wife on the
subject, telling her he must depart immedi-
ately for the camp, begging her to summon
all her fortitude and to pass her time as
agreeably as possible, and expressing a firm
reliance upon that Providence which had ev-
er been bountiful to him, not doubling that
he should return safe to her in the fall. But
he did not SO return. Darker and darker
grew the clouds of war, and during that
Year: 1860

EVERYDAY ExAGGERAnoxs.-"I am tired
to death" So you have said often, and are
alive still, and in good health too.


Il have not had wink of sleep all night"
And yet your bed-fellow heard you snore
several times.


Il would not do it for the world" And vet
you have done many things equally ~ bad
for penny.


I'VE were up to our knees in mud" You
know very well the dirt was not over your
shoes.
Year: 1860

CORRECTION Tho orchestra. At the Relief
Concert on Wednesday night, re are informed,
WAS composed Of both the Light Guard and
Great Western Bands. ne Inadvertently gave
Ill tha crcdit to The former.
Year: 1860

Tue CALIFORNIA GoLD MINEs.-The New
York Herald complains that the gold mines
Of California are growing less productive be-
cause the receipts of gold in New York from
this State are less than heretoforel That may
be hardship upon New York, but it is glo-
rious news for California, for it proves not
that the gold is not raised here but that it is
kept here 1t is time for California TO keep
at home a good portion of aer gold products
and the fact that she is doing so proves her
prosperity
Year: 1860

FRTGnTENED.-Th Breckenridge party of
Tehama county is awfuly down in the mouth.
They find they are gone in completely Well,
we're sorry for them, they had no business in
the first place to bolt the regular nomina-
tions But let them come back, with peni-
tent and contrite heart, and no harsh words
shall hereafter CRATE upon their ears from us
to remind them of their apostasy from the
true Democratic faith They shall be well
come, for we know their own consciences
will be their bitterest accusers.-Beacon.
Year: 1860

A STAR BURNT OUr.-The Russian cores
pondent ofthe London Telegraph writes thus:
AT Moscow, a physical phenomenon has
been recently observed, such as would haye
given rise to the creation of whole cvele of
fantastic myths in the time of the worlds in
fancy. We learn from paragraph in the
leading paper of that city. that at a quarter
to ten on the night of the first and second of
March, star to the southwest of the Great
Bear suddenly commenced to wax larger. as
sumng at the same time the color of iron at
red heat, but without the appearance of
any sparks or rays. In this condition, the
star continued until half-past eleven, VARYING
in the intensity of its light and attaining the
size of II half moon. A little befor midnight
dimness began to increase, and at twelve
o'clock the star had entirely disappeared. In
its stead sort of black speck was to be no
ticed by the light of the stars which were
unusually brilliant that evening 1t remains
f1r the astronomers to describe and poets to
sing the destruction of the lumnary, which.
for aught we know, may have been The abode
OF race superior TO our own"
Year: 1860

You see being between three and four feet high with
head which, II subjected to professional manp1atoa Of Prof
Fowler would be to have very small poreepve and
Intellectual faculties without dea reverence conseien
.ousness with large animal popeuses and with bump Of
and desIuctvenes which would render IL
Necessary explain the command to Peter Rise Hill and es
nor would have the scrnpes OF Potter against eating things
common The short In the upper Is
head of animal while the face Is that Of fa blocdsd
African The What Is IL is inclined
70 stand up straight he has voice. His body bends In
reminding Of outang snd he hand.
kept position peculiar TO that species The long


slender crooked the legs The hands large and
the heels very long He exhibits great strength 10 the hsids and
AIMS lifting himself thereby with much agility His principal
food raw slightly cooked He has great ondness FOR
Judging from the expressions OF his eounenan,e he
rather pleased and sered with the large attentions he
Year: 1860

The N. T. Commercial Advertser sags: =


Crowds OF visitors daily ockng TO the American Mo-
scum TO see wonderful nondescpt half monkey and the
other half what The formation Of the limbs and body that
of monkey while the face and head closely resemble the
gro The limbs cannot be aighened than an oranS
ouang its walk in erect position, is exceedingly awkward
The far high and much back fcg negro the
several inches long proportion and the and
head the situation OF the and the pecaa shaped
and teeth him to resemble bsboon than harna1
being lie exhibited upon the In the Lecture Room,
nd here ia bis element The crowds OF people araok
Year: 1860

IMMENSE SACRiFICE!!l
As the is drawing close and owing TO the de.sngd
state OF financial matters have concluded TO mark down
stock of FALL and WINTER CLOTHING, and sell the
regardless Of cost. FURNISHING GOODS and CHILDRENS
CLOTHING in every variety and will be sold IN the same ratio


T. b. BALDWIN,


Nos 20 and n Bowery.
The largest store in the city
Year: 1860

A correspondent of the Uiaond Min
nesota) Republican writes that Mr.. A. L.
jerks of that place, who is prospecting in
one Of those mounds which are SO COM
mon in that country, recently discovered
at the depth Of FIVE or six feet the remains
of seven or eight people of very large size.
One thigh bone measured three feet in
length. The under jaw was one inch wi
der than that of any ether man in this city.
He also found clam shells, pieces of ivory
or bone rings, pieces of kettles made OF
earth and coarse sand. There were at the
neck of one of these skeletons teeth two
inches in length by one-half to three-fourths
| of an inch in diameter, with holes drilled
INTO the sides, and the end polished, with a
crease around it. Also, an arrow, five
inches long by one and half wide, stuck
through the back, near the backbone
and one about eight inches long stuck into
the breast. Also, the blade of a copper
hatchet, enc and half inches wide at the
edge and two inches long. This hatche:
was found stuck in the skull Of the same
skeleton. The mound is some 200 feet
above the surface of the Mississippi, aud
is composed of clay Immediately above the
remains, two feet thick then come a layer
of black loan then another layer Of clay
six inches thick, all so closely packed that
il was with difficulty that ii could be pene-
traied. There are some four or five diff
erent layers of earth above the remains.
There is no such clay found elsewhere in
the vicinity.
Year: 1860

Mr.. Webster used to tell the following
anecdoie with great dead of good hurnor
One night. before railroads were built. he
was forced to make journey by private
conveyance from Baltimore to Washington
The man who drove the wagon was such
an ill-looking fellow, and told SO many
stories of robberies and murders, that be
Year: 1860

THE EYEs.-An eye can threaten like the
loaded gun, or can insult like Kissing or kick
ing or in its altered mood, by beams of kind
ness can make the heart dance with JOY. The
eye obeys exactly the action of the mind. When
thought strikes u.s. the vision is fixed, and re-
mains looking at distance in enumerating
names or persons or countries, as France, Spain,
Britain, or Germany, the eyes wink at each new
name. There is an honesty in the eye which
the mouth does not participate in q The artist"
as Michael Angelo said, must have his measure
in his eye" Eyes are bold as lyons-bold run
ming leaping. They speak all languages they
need no encyclopedia to aid in the interpreta-
ton of their language; they respect neither
rank nor fortune, virtue nor sex, but they go
through and through you in a moment of time
You can read in the eye Of your companion
while you talk with him, whether your argument
hits though his tongue will not confess it
There is a look by which man tells you he is
going to say good thing, and look which
says when he has said it. Vain and forgotten
are all the fine offers of hospitality if there is no
holiday in the eye. How mapy incinationS are
ayowed by the eye, though the lips dissemble
how often does one come from company in
which it may easily happen he has said nothing !;
that no important remark has been addressed to
him, and yet in his sympathy with company he
seems not to have sense of this fact,.,for a
stream of light has been flowing into n{inrand
out of him through his eyes. As soon az men
are off their centres they show it.--R. w. En-
eTS0H.
Year: 1860

To PRESERVE FRUIT AND FLowERs-Fruit and
flowers may be preserved from decay and fading
by immersing them in solution of Gum Arabic
and water two or three times, waiting a suf1i-
cient time between each immersion to allow the
gum to dry. This process covers the surface of
the fruit with thin coating of the gum, which
is entirely impervious to the air, and thus pre-
vents the decay Of the fruit or the withering of
the flower. To insure success in experiments of
this kind, it should be borne in mind that the
whole surface must be completely covered, for
If the air gains entrance the labor is lost. In
preserving specimens of fruit, particular care
should be taken to cover the stem, end and all,
with the gum. good way is to wind a thread
OF silk about the stem, and then sink it slowly
III the solution, which should not be so strong
as to leave particle of the gum undissolved-
The gum is so perfectly transparent that you
can with difficulty detect its presence except by
the touch.
Year: 1860

THE CRoss-The following striking passage
is from Henry Ward Beecher's sermon preached
in the pulpit Of the Rev. Theodore Parker, at
Boston:


" The cross has twined around it every asso-
citation of dignity and beauty in the world. Not
one other thing has received from the fertile
minds and the all-fashioning hands of men of
genius SO many extrinsic beauties as the cross of
Christ Millions never hear OF it without
throb, nor see it without a gaaufiection. 1t
dawns upon the child in the cradle next to its
own mothers face, and il is the last thing from
which the light disappears when this child, in
old age, is dying. The cross is now as universal
and as beautiful to the associations and the
memories of men, as then it was rare, peculiar
and odious; it is that which now to us is not
only suggestive of a fact in Christs history, but
it is also memorial of two thousand years of
history. Around that simple crossword the
heart of the world has gathered for twenty
turies its stores of admiration, of love, of deyo-
ton.
Year: 1860

B5As We cut the following advertisement
from one of the newspapers % To rent, house
on Melville Avenue, located Immediately along
side of a fine plum garden, from which an album
dant supply may be stolen during the season


Rent low, and the greater part taken in plums"
Year: 1860

A PATIENT TSToRY.-A capital joke is told on
well known steamboat captain, celebrated for
his patient endurance in accommodating the
people along the Sacramento river Boatmen
positively assert that no landing was too difficult
for him to make, to deliver five pounds of coffee,
receive order from an old lady for pound
of tea, to be delivered on his return trip. So
notorious did he become in this respect at length
that the good captain was actually imposed up
on, in some instances, to such degree that even
he has been heard to murmur at the mportun-
ties Of some of the Inhabitants along the river.
The most glaring instance of impudence that
we have heard of as being practieed on him,
anybody else, is said to have transpired be-
tween Knights Landing and Colusa, and as the
story goes was something after the following
order:


Elderly lady on shore halls the Steamboat
steamboat lands, when the folio wing conversa-
ton ensues:


"Well, Mrs. -, what can I do for you to-
day, madam 2"


Well really, captain, want to send dozen
eggs to Colusa, and have but eleven there is a
hen on, however, and think there will be an
othor directly. Can't you wait few minutes p
He waited, but it is said to have worried him a
little.-Red Bluff Beacon.
Year: 1860

gsA- A minister held forth to his female audi
tors in the following manner " Be not proud
that our blessed Lord paid you the distinguished
honor of appearing first to female after the
resurrection, it was only done that the glad IL
dings might spread the soonern
Year: 1860

ESA- Fanny Fern comes out rather savagely
on teachers who require compositions" of
their young Lady pupils before the poor things
have any ideas 10 make them Of Fanny is
right Nothing is more ridiculous and perilous
than that sort of dry cupping as the doctors
would call it, and the girl who can write a
good letters almost any girl with fair edu-
cation can-has much more valuable art than
the ambitious young lady who makes " compo-
sitions' containing the usual proportion of one
feeble idea 10 twenty magniloquent words.
Year: 1860

McNALR's AoApEMY.-The proprietor of this insti-
tuition announces this morning that it will be open
for the reception of pupils on the I'd of January
next at the corner of Calope and Prytana streets.
The course of study and the order of exercises will
be the same he has always observed. Mr.. McNair's
talents as teacher, and learning, are too well
known in this community to need commendation
from us; we will merely state that it is our belief
that his pupils vail learn if the zeal and ability Of
8 teacher will make them do so.
Year: 1860

SELLING WITHOUT RRG4Rp TO Cosr.-This is the
rnle which Mrs Stmaa No. 40 Canal street. says she
adopted for the disposal of her present stock millinery
dress goods Ladies who haze for nice goods especially
when they to s had cheap should remember TO cali in al
thF d &c while cut On shopping expeditions.
Year: 1860

Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his brecchcs pockets and a pipe
in his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come out. Good luck is a man with
pluck to meet diilicuitics, and hi'
sleeve rolled up, working to make it
come right.