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Year: 1859

WosDERFuL ESCAPE FROM DEATH.-On Monday


last as the mail train going east on the Michigan Cen
trail Railroad rounded the curve few miles west Of
the track few rods ahead Of the train. The engine
was instantly reversed and the whistle sounded, but
too late to stop before reaching the spot where the
was lying and it seemed II ouly by some miracle
his lie could be saved. As it was the pilot attached
to the engine picked him up and hurled him of tho
track about as tenderly as locomotive could do
i. On exam inDg him, It was found that no
bones were broken, and, though considerably
bruised and entirely senseless yet he did no. To
be seriously injured. The conductor eft him ct Parma.
Our informant, who the train, did not esn his
name but says there were signs of his being the
least under the influence Of liquor at all ntemper-
ate. Various conjec'ures were entertained as TO the
caose Of his being the track and the general opin-
ion wes that either he chose this method to co ut
suicide, or else 10 travelling he became tired and s-
ting downfo rect, fell asleep. He was respectable
leoking man, apparently about fifty years old.
lJsckson Cisisrn, June q.
Year: 1859

Here | turned around and saw Dr. Lam
Get, who had entered during my impassioned
harangue, and who stood all aghast at such
a discourse. | will only add that was put
to bed Immediately and that | have been
reported very i'll with the brain fever since
the election. Do you think I AIN crazy p
and II I am, did get crazy on the excite
ment of the tate eIection2


SOMNIATOR.
Year: 1859

New SEPuLcHRE FOR NAPOLEON L.
Workmen are now busy in the vaults
Of St. Denis preparing sepulchre for
the remains Of Napoleon L., which
will certainly be removed from the In
valides, although the day for the dis
interment is not yet fixed. Marshal
Prince Jerome, who at one time de-
clared that the tomb in the Invalides,
Of which he is governor, should never
be disturbed SO long as he lived, is
now less positive in his opposition.
The last resting place of the great Ma
paleon among the bones of the Kings
Of France will not, however, after all,
be the precise spot which he had Sc,
lected for himself, and which he is
represented pointing to in the well.
known glass painting in one of the
Cathedral windows. Louis XVIII. is
buried in that vault, and the Emperor,
whose great object in interring his
uncle in the royal basilica is to teach
the public to regard him as the legiti
mate founder Of new line of mon
archs, cannot in consistency desecrate
the tomb of a legitimate Bourbon.
Year: 1859

LOVE OF CoUNrRY.-There is love
of country which comes uncalled for,
one knows not how. 1t comes in with
the very air, the eye, the ear the in
stincts, the first taste of mothers milk
the first beatings of the heart. The
faces of brothers and sisters, and the
loved father and mother the laugh
of playmates, the old willow tree, and
well, and school-house, the bees a.
work in the spring, the note of the
robin at evening, the lullaby, the cows
coming home, the singing-book, the
catechism, the visits of neighbors, the
general training,-all things which
make childhood happy, begin it; and
then as the age of the passions and
the age of the reason draw on, and
love and the sense of home and secu


rity and of property under law, comes
to life and as the story goes round


and as the book or the newspaper re


lates the less favored lots of other
lands, and the public and the private
sense of man is forming and formed
there is type of patriotism already
Thus they had imbibed it who stoot
that charge at Concord, and they wh'
hung deadly on the retreat, and the,
who threw up the hasty and imperfec


redoubt on Bunker Hill by night, Sc


on it the blood red provincial flag, an,
passed so calmly with Prescott ant
Putnam and Warren through the expe
rience of the first iire.-Rutus CAoate
Year: 1859

If you won't look into the decalogue
which forbids you to covetyour neigh
boris property, but will acquire more
territory, then the North will tell you
you shan't do it and carry your slaves
there. l tell you that you may roast
us at stakes until all our fingers blaze
in the fires of martyrdom, like light
ed candles and we shall still believe it
is better to have a free State where
white men can labor and live. If we
are fools, we are fools forever, and
there are two and half millions of
just such fools in the State of Ohio.
Al you in Kentucky and the slave
States have got to do is to put an end
to this vexed question, and see to the
cultivation of the farm that you have
got, it is very large. Keep what You
have got ; let further acquisitions, at
least, for this generation, go. You
don't want Cuba more than you want
hornets nest about your heads. |
see in the Democratic platform that it
would be very desirable to have Cuba
as matter of national defence. Would
it not be much better to go to Canada
and Nova Scotia, that are right before
us The English are much more like
ly to come in by land boundary like
that, than to do us any harm in the
Caribbean Sea. You have got afraid
suddenly that some nation will come
and take you, and that she will stop
at Cuba and take drink when she is
coming. Do you want Jamaica for
the same reason? Do you want San
Domingo for the same reason? Why
do you not want them? Because
there is no negro slavery there. The
negroes.in the one have been made
free, and in the other have freed them.
selves. That is the reason why you
are afraid of them. just drop that
snivelling pretence, my brother, you
who want Cuba, and say that you
want to possess it with its slaves, be-
cause it would not be worth cent
without them. Leave it alone. 1t is
not yours--it don't belong to you. II
you send your fillibusters there, if il
was matter of private account, il
you sent parcel Of fellows to me, tc
Year: 1859

THE Boy OF THE TIMEs.-We like an
active boy-one who has the impulse
of the age, of the steamboat in him.


A lazy, plodding, snail.paced chap,
might have got along in ihe world
fifty years ago, he don't these times.
We live in an age Of quick ideas
men think quick, eat, sleep, court, mar
ry, and die quick, and slow coaches
are not tolerated. go ahead, it you
burst your boiler !" is the motto Of
every one, and he succeeds the best
in every line of business who has the
most do or die " in him.


Strive, boys, to catch the spirit Of
the times be up and dressed always,
not gaping and rubbing your eyes as
if you were asleep be wide awake
for whatever may turn up, and you
will be somebody before you die.


Think, plan, and reflect, as much as
you like before you act, but think
quick and closely, and when you have
fixed your eye upon an object, spring
for the mark at once. But above all
things be honest If you intend to
be an artist, carve it in the wood,
cherish it in the marble if mer-
chant, write it in your ledger. Let
honesty be your guiding star.
Year: 1859

The Distance OF the Sun Increasing.


A German publication has given the
calculations to prove that the distance
between the earth and the sun is an
nually increasing, and attributes to
this fact the increasing humidity of
our summers, and the loss of fertility
in the soil Of the formerly most fa-
vored regions of the earth. The veg
etable and animal remains found even
in the recent strata of the Arctic cir
Gle, show degree of heat formerly
prevailed there which equalled that of
the equatorial regions at the present
time, and although many ingenious
theories have been started to account
for this desolation of once sunny re-
gion, none seems so rational as the
very obvious one Of a gradual with
drawal of light and heat. The Egypt
ians, Chinese and other nations have
traditions that at a very early period
Of their history the apparent diameter
of the sun was double what it now is,
and according TO the table of the Ger
man savant, in the course of six thou
sand years more the disc Of that lu-
minary will have diminished so that
we shall receive but one eighth part
of the solar influence which we at
present enjoy, the whole earth being
covered with eternal ice 1t is now
admitted by the most orthodox school
of science that the earth and other
planets were thrown off from the sun,
so that our globe has confessedIy trav-
eiled already one hundred millions of
miles from its birthplace, and no alb
surdity exists in the supposition that
it has not yet ceased receding, though
at constantly diminishing rate, which
may or may not reach the 0 point be-
fore it arrives at such distance as
to be uninhabitable, when following
the analogy of all other known per-
turbations and eccentricities among
the different bodies of the universe, it
will undoubtedly retrace it steps, to
point much nearer than any it has oc-
cupied during the historic period, and
so move back and forth, like mighty
pendulum forever measuring off per-
haps thousands of ages at each beat.
Or perchancc, having run its course,
it will fall back into the sun-as man,
who springs from the dust, returns to
dust again-to be again revolvcd in
the form of nebulous matter, and again
condensed into habitable globe.
Year: 1859

At the late celebration in Ellington
the following was the 18th regular
toast


Woman-the lover Of union and
the friend of annexation. Like our
country, her manifest destiny is to
spread her skirts


The above toast was responded to
with "nine cheers and a whoop !"
Year: 1859

A BAD HANDWRITING. - When the
worthy father of DR.. Chalmers receiv-
ed his weekly or fortnightly letter
from his distinguished son, he careful
ly locked it up. By the time little
store had accumulated, his son came
to pay him visit, and then he broke
all the seals and got the writer of the
letters to read them.
Year: 1859

The New York Courier and Enquir-
er goes into an estimate calculation
by which it arrives at the conclusion
that the Great Eastern is some thou
sands Of tons larger than Noah's ark,
Year: 1859

containg a few human bones. 1t was
the hapless Ermina, who had wander
ed away, and of whom no tidings had
for long time been heard. She is
at rest now


Wonderful endurance of love, that
could live so long, after its object had
become dust. Isabel came out of the
swoon, only to go into commissions
from which she never recovered.
Virtue is its own reward vice its
own punishment"
Year: 1859

A SINGULAR CIRcuMsTANcE,-Ac cir
cumstance which sometimes occurs, con-
Meeting the waters Of Gull with the waters
of Hudson's Bay, we are informed exists
this season. The marsh between the head
waters of the ST. Peters and the Red Riv-
er of the North, is one continues lake, deep
enough for steamboat TO pass from one
stream TO the ether On such sccasions,
the lake formed between the source of the
two streams runs sometime, one way and
sometimes the other. But there is some
where in this continuous body of water a
line where it separates, one part for the
frozen ocean and the other for the sunny
south.
Year: 1859

glA country editor says, farmer in
their county made a scarecrow SO very
frightful, that an old crow actually went
and brought back all the corn hs had stolen
during several days, and left it in the field.
Year: 1859

WoMAN.-Look you, woman You who be-
hold your sister trembling on the verge of de-
struction; you shun her; you pass by on the
other side-you spurn her from your door-you
forbid her to drink at the cooling stream of mer-
cy, where misery might slake her consuming
thirst-you drive her forth in the Implying rain
and snow and hail of the worlds heart-congeal-
ing derison, and thrust her beyond the bound
airy where human steps begin to take hold on
hell. Cothe yourself in the soft raiment that
Christ threw over the erring Mary; 60 to her
desolating house, and gently replace the fallen
fragments of her home-altar; sweeten the fad
ing smile that is slowly changing to the sardonic
grimace of death and despair; let her hear the
sweet music of sympathetic speech-show her,
rising from the tumultuous waves of ruin, an
Ark of safety lifting its blessed roof from the
hood,-Woman the mariner, Christ the pilot,
Heaven the harbor, Mercy the fayoring wind.
Year: 1859

CHARCoAL AS FooD FOR BEAST AND FowL.-One
OF the best articles that can be given to swine,
while in preparation for the tub, is common
charcoal. The nutritiye properties are so great
that they have subsisted on it, without other
food, for weeks together. The hog eats vora-
ciously after little time, and is never sick
while he has good supply. Geese, confined so
as to deprive them of motion, and fed on three
grains of corn per day, and as much charcoal as
they can deyour, have become fattened in eight
days.


Couldn't they get along without the corn
Year: 1859

A correspondent Of the Boston Trdreler in
a racy letter from Paris, relates the following
very Frenchy anecdote:


Amcng the strangers at the Italian Opera
VINO attract most gaZers Nine. Won G. numbers
most opera glasses directed toward her She is
not much more than twenty, and was quite poor,
but she was beautiful, although at Vienna,
where money plays as important part as ia
ParIs, parents could not hope that this would
prove OF much advantage to her, when very unex-
pectedly man of fortune asked her hand in mar
rage The parents were of course delighted at
the offer; they, as most parents, saw only the
mans money bags. The girl, being less ex-
perienccd in the world, looked on him with diff
ferent eyes, and saw that he was old and ugly,
and refused to marry him. Her parents forced
her to receive his attentions, which she did with
great GOODNESS. One day they left them alone
together, that he might formally address her.


She opened the conversation the instant they
were left by themselves, saying


Monsieur, feel that my duty is to anticipate
the demand you about to make me, and to
tell you that will never marry you unless am
forced to do So"


q know that


I" must add, that shall never be able to
! love you"


| Love is not necessary in marriage"
% assure you this marriage detest, hate
loathe, and shall contract it with the bitterest
despair"


81 am much obliged to you for your frank
ness"


DO you persist in marrying me-"
Yes, do"


81 had heard that your delicacy and nobility
OF character was very great, and supposed you
were the last man in the world to take adyan-
tage of girls unprotected position"


The world is full of surped regulations"


Your cold ralery shows l have nothing
to hope from your heart perhaps your head
may be better than your heart, and mark ne, |
do warn you, I'll make the marriage chain as
heavy to you as | shall find it myself; I'll make
all your life unhappy p


I" defy you to execute your threat !"


The poor girl sobbed and wept all night long.
The next day they were married. After the
wedding dinner, NJ. Won G. rose from the table,
went into the yard, and blew out his brains. 1t
was said after his death that he had long been
tired Of life and desired by marriage with a
poor girl to make some atonement for his sui
eide, and to disinherit his relations with whom
he had quarreled. Nine. Won G., his young
widow, has an income of ten thousand dollars a
year.
Year: 1859

TN S CELEBRATED GIN-pretending to


u rothing but what it is, viz a pure and IN
adulterated article, and assuming no artificial
merits of what it is not, as some of its rival imi-
tators do--after five years of public approval
and very extensive sales in California has been
pronounced by the public to be SUPERIOR not on
ly as beverage of general use, to any other ar
ticle competing against it, bnt is


UnrivaIIed i'm its Medical Efficiency
in most cases of complaint. Topersons travel
ing in these days of rapid transit from East to
West North to South, who are constantly chang
ing their water as well as their climate; who are
drinking, indeed, dozen kinds of water in ev-
cry twenty-four hours and each draft contain
ing some property acting in chemical antagonsm
to the preceding one, thereby causing an unnat-
ural degree of excitement to the stomach-it is
positively and absolutely necessary to use a
counteracting agent. From the fact that the


"London Club House Gin.
is prepared expressly to meet such exigencies,
and to act as we know it will act as an anti
dote, we confidently prescribe it as the very best
article in the country The name of +" Aromatic
Schedam Schnapps" has never been attached
in any way to this article. In first presenting
the


"LOndOn Club House Gin"
to the public, my aim was to give them pure
and unadulterated article of Gin, and to call it
by its right name. The success attending its
introduction and extensive sale in California is
a sufficient guarantee of the high appreciation
of the article by consumers.


Various parties have from time to time put up
and shipped to California an article which they
call "Club House Gin" Ny Gin, which has
gained such a reputation in California is brand
ed on the cases,


"Old London Club House Gin--Wm.H.D."
The bottles also have a white label with fac
smile of my signature. I caution all parties to
beware of limitations. WM H. DAILY,
f5:tfis Sole Importer, New York.
Year: 1859

"TAEE CHAIR."-An Englshman arrived at
a change-house in Osterdale late one evening"
and was lucky in obtaining the only spare bed
Presently, when he was the point of retiring
TO rest a Norwegian lady also arrived, intending
to spend the night there. What was to be done
Like gallant Englishman that he was be i'm
mediately offered to give up his bed to the
" unprotected female who was mistress of a
little English.


6" Many thanks, but what will you do, sir ?"


" Oh, will take chair for the night"


At this answer the lady blushed, and dartcd
out of the room, and in few moments her car
riole was driven off in the darkness. What
could be the meaning of it? The peasants wife
soon looked into the room, with knowing sort
of look at the Englishman. lie subsequently
discovered the key to the enigma. The lady
thought he said he would " take a share and
was, of course, nightly offended. So much for
a smattering of foreign language Doubtless,
from that day forward, she would quote this
incident to her female friends as an instance of
the natural depravity of Englshmen.
Year: 1859

DR.. EM1LIUs A. CzAPKAY is regular graduate o
the Jefferson College OF Medicine, Philadelphia, and
is in possession OF his Diploma and also of certi6-
cate assistant clerk OF the CIiRic-both of which
which are open for inspection at my institute


h'dorSed By tie Army and Navy Board o.
Year: 1859

1nanother column, and to which We invite tho
attention Of tho reader. Meanwhile, let tho
people Of Illinois bear in mind that this canard
Of the Herald, aud all others like Il, in relation
to matter from which, tho State can lose no
thing, arc designed only to draw o1f their atten-
ton from the great Canal Check Fraud, by
which nearly quarter Of million Of dollars
have been taken from the State Treasury; and
let them remember that they are the insen.
tons Of those journals Which never have Ind
and nevcrwili have any indignation to express
on account Of the Matteson ftnud. -s
Year: 1859

Thou art false, but cannot forget thee;
- Thy heart is no longer the same;
lis weakness, but still regret thee.
- And weep when but hear thy name.
Take back from my hands every token.


And be as we never had met
This night my last farewell Is spoken,


forgive and will strive to forget.
Tho thou wear's the semblance of sorrow,
The cloud from thy brow will depart
No tear will be thine on the morrow.


No sigh will escape fran thy heart.
As the storm, passing over the ocean,


Of its ravages leaves not sign,
80 thy breast will betray no emotion


For the grief it has planted in mine.
Year: 1859

Somebody gives a series of valuable
hints for private consideration, which we
copy for what they are worth. If any Of
our readers feel disposed to try them we
should be pleased to hear the result:


If you wish to make yourself favor
ite with your neighbors, buy a dog and
tie him up in cellar all night. They
won't sleep for thinking Of you.


If your wife is cross, stay home and
provoke her-but see that the poker is on
your side of the stove.


Whenever you make UP your mind
that it is not going to rain during the day
leave your umbrella at home, and you'll
be sure Of fine drenching.


If you live in clearinghouse ant
love quiet, the only sure way IS to have ;
pan of burning charcoal put in ever!
room but your own, containing wo
man.
Year: 1859

s. 7. SIN0LETARY.-- .--I)ur Office was favored
last week by visit from this venerable printer
probably the oldest in the Union. He is known
throughout the United States, and is looked up to
with the most afectionate reverence by every
printer in the land. His frosty head, his isolated
position in the world, his wandering life, his
devotion to the calling of his youth, his industry
and his virtues combine to excite that veneration
in which he is held, and to place him among the
canOnized of the craft. 1t is needless to commend
the weatherbeaten veteran to the friendly offices
Of the ''press gang" lie will be welcomed
wherever he may sejourn in his pedestrian wan
derngs
Year: 1859

Cur THIS OUT AND STICK IT IN YOUR HAT
Woods Hair Restorative will change gray hair to
its original color, stop it from falling off, and
cause it to grow on bald heads, and as cosmetic
it has no equal. Pimplcs and Woods Hail
Restorative cannot exist together


CAUTION.-Beware Of worthless limitations, al
several are already in the market, called by
different names. Use none unless the words
professor Woods Hair Restorative, Depot St
Louis, Mo. and New York, are blown in th'
bottle. Sold by all Druggists and Patent Medicine
dealers also by all Fancy and Toilet Goods
dealers in the United States and Canada.
Year: 1859

The river is fearfully swollen, and our swamp
,,onters are I'll decidedly apprehensye of another
overflow. recurrence of the calamity of last
fall would be the utter ruin of a great many who
we're then SO much embarrassed by the effects Of
Linh HAter.
Year: 1859

We congratulate Col. W. D. Roy of the Vicks-
Ourg Sun upon his election to membership Of
'Oe City Council. The Press being the first
estate in the realm, ought of course to be in efice.
We arc happy to see the people beginning to
appreciate the propriety Of this course.
Year: 1859

One of the best articles of the present day, for
purifying the blood and imparting healthy and
invigorating tone to the human system is McLean's
Strengthening Cordial and Bosd Purifier. See
advertisement in another column.
Year: 1859

Do you wish to be healthy and strong I hen
go at once and get some McLean's Cordial II
will strengthen and invgorate YOUR whole system,
causing healthy and pure circulation Of the
blood 10 flow through every VEN, and the rich rosy
bloom of health to mount to your cheek again.


Every bottle is warrane ed to give satisfaction.
Year: 1859

The Jamaica papers speak loudly Of
the excellence of Allspice or Pimeuto,
as q smoking material far superior to
tobacco in every respect. Any person.
says a correspondent Of the Colonial
Standard who knows anything Of the
fragrance of a Pimento walk when in
full bloom, may form some idea of it by
a pipe charged and lighted with the
dried berry, simply crushed in coarse
bits. Another says IL cannot we'll be
smoked with short pipes, but with the
long cherry stick Of a meerschaum, he
experienced "a treat beyond anything
he had known in the use Of tobacco. "
The same writer adds chat already the
Coolies and native laborers are bringing
Pimeuto into use in the place of fTobac-
co; and he can see no reason not to pre-
fer it, Gardeners Chronicle.


So say we. Use anything that is less
offensive than tobacco. Try tho all
spice, smokers.
Year: 1859

No HOPE FOR PRINTERs.-Whon Dr.
Franklins mother-in-law frst discover
ed that the young man had a hankering
for her daughter, that good old lady
said she did not know so we'll about
giving her daughter to printer; there
were already two printing Offices IN
the United States. and she wasn't sure
the country would support them. It
was plain that young Franklin would
depend for bis support upon the profits
Of third, and this was rather a doubt.
full chance. If such an objection was
urged to a would-be son-in-law when
there were but two printing Offices in
the United States, how can q printer
hope to get a wife now, when the
census shows the number now to be
15,O67?