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Year: 1869




The lazy man is almost always good ma
tured. He never flies into passion. He
might craacl into one, if that were possible
but the idea OF his flying into anything is
preposterous.


Whoever heard of a lazy man breaking
into a bank, where a crowbar had to be
used, or drilling into safe Nobody. Not
that he might not covet his neighbor's goods
therein contained, but his horror of hand
ling crowbars and drills would always de-
ter him from actually committing burglary.
He never runs away with his neighbor's s
wife, simply on account of the horror he
has Of running. If he is ever known to
run it is-run to seed.


He rarely lies about his neighbors, for it
would be too much exertion, but he can lie
about a bar room all day.


He is of inestimable service to billiard
saloon, keeping the chairs warm and watch
ing the game, for few would care to play
were there no spectators. The fact that he
does this without pay, day in and day out,
shows the unsetishness of his nature. What
an industrious man, who considers his time
worth something, would want pay for, the
lazy man generally does for nothing, show
ing freedom from mercenary motives that
should 60 far to his credit.


The lazy man never gets up revolution
instructions or other popular excitements,
aud don't make a nuisance of himself by
tramping around the country making incen-
diary speeches to promote public discomfort.


In his own neighborhood he is never a
busy body i'll other peoples affairs, for the
very idea Of being a busy-bo at anything
would drive him out of his head. Bv the
way, If he ever got out Of his head, you
would have to drive him out, for he wouldn' t
have the energy to go out of his own accord.


NO lazy man ever rau mad. If he went
crazy, it was because he couldn't 90 any
where else without walking


Lazy men don't disturb the quiet Of peace
iul nelghbors by putting up factories, fur
naces, and such denominations.


Finally, lazy men don't get up baseball
clubs, which, if nothing else could be said
in tl.eir favor, ought, in these days of ex-
cessive base-balling, to entitle them to pub
lie gratitude. Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1869

AS IN express train on the Michigan Cen


trail Railroad was nearing Albion, Tuesday


afternoon, the passengers waiting for the


train were startled by the frequent whist


ling OF the engine. 1t was found chat a


man was driving at a furious gare to get


his horses and wagon across Hre track be-
fore the engine reached the crossing The
engineer did his best to stop the train, but
1t was too late, aud tue cowcatcher struck
just between the wagon and the horses, sep
arating them instauter, and consignug each
to place on opposite sides of the track,
little or none the worse for the collision.
The man and his wife (each about 65) were
caught on the platform above the cowcatcIi-
er, and just Ia front Of the engine. Instead
OF losing presence Of mind and jumping off,
they settled themselves as composedlv as
though nothing had happened the old lady
put her hands in her muif, while the old
man, with one hand extended, as if graspino
the reins, and the whip raised in the other,
assumed a jockey attitude, and thus the old
couple rode up to the station triumphant,
amid the cheers Of the bystanders. As
soon as the train stopped, a number rushed
to their assistance; but they declined all
aid, manitesting no concern for themselves,
but considerable for the fate of the horses
aud wagon. The horses were uniniured
aud the damages to the wagon were trihnc.
Year: 1869

A pefson recently asserted that the rea,
son why a certain minister was so popular
was because he carefully excluded politics
and religion from his pulpit preaching.
Rather doubtful compliment.
Year: 1869

To avoid the oppressive heat of the latter part
of the day; to avoid the risk OF ascending in
a storm; TO enable people living In the coun-
try TO come in, see the ascension, and return
on the cars the same day; but chiefly to have
the day before him in which to test his ma
chine. Thompson takes on his journey
barometer and thermometer, HIS LANTERN
THAT DOES NOT BURN, and guide line to
avoid the accident OF descending to the earth
during the night. The Balloon will be in
dated entirely in the rink, and during this
operation Capt. Thompson VIII address the
audience, explaining the purposes OF his voy-
age, the object of his invention ana the use
of his instruments


Refreshments win be furnished in the Rink,
and at half-past nine
Year: 1869

The drunkard dreamed of his old retreat,
OF his easy place in the tap-room seat;


And the liquor CLEANED in his gloating eye,


Till his lips to the sparkling glass drew nigh,
As he lifted it up with an eager glance,


And laughed as he saw the bubbles dance


"Ahal am myself againi


Here's a truce to care, an adieu to pain.


Welcome the cup with its creamy foaIn


Farewell to work and mopy home!


With a jolly crew and flowing bowl,


IL bar-room pleasures / love 70 ROLL"


Like fash there came to the drunkard's side
His angel child, who that night had died!


With a look so gentle and sweet and fond,
She touched the glass with hor little wand;
And oft as he raised it up to drink


She silently tapped on its silent brink,
Till the drunkard shook from foot to crown
And set the untasted goblet down.


"Hey, man." cried the host, what meaneth this
Is the oovey sick? or the dram amiss2


Cheer up, my lad! quick the bumper quaff,"
And he glared around with fendish laugh.
The drunkard raised his glass once moro
And looked at its depths as oft before:
But started to see on its pictured foam
The face of his dead child at homo!
Then again tho landlord at him sneered,
And the staggering crowd of drunkards jeered
But still, as he tried the glass to drink,
Jyt. ~ j. IL Ill L.
The landlord gasped, 81 swear, my man,
Thou shalt take every drop of this flowing can. y
The drunkard bowed to the quivering brim,
Though his heart beat fast and his eye grew


dim;
But the wand struck harder than ever before,
The glass was flung on the bar-room floor;
All around the ring the fragments lay,
But the poisonous currents rolled away.
The drunkard awoke. His dream was gone.
His bed was bathed in the light of morn;
But he saw, as ho shook with pale cold fear,
A beautiful angel lowering near.
He rose; and that seraph was nigh him still;
1t checked his passion, it swayed his will,
1t dashed from his lips the mad'ning bowl;
And victory gave to his ransomed soul
Since ever that midnight hour he dreamed,
Our hero has been a man redeemed;
And this is the prayer he prays alway,
And this is the prayer let us help him pray:
That angels may come in every land,
To dash the cup from the drunkard's hand.
Year: 1869

Workmen repairing an old house in
Hartford, Conn, lately, found beneath
the kitchen floor, a young butternut troe
that without sunlight had grown to the
size of a mans wrist, running horizon
tally twenty feet. In its course. it had
picked up an old dinner fork, and clasp
ing it in branch, hugged it to the main
stem, SO at to bend it 10 the curve of the
tree, and then adopted it as part of the
butterput family by growingits bark and
wool all around il.
Year: 1869

No other States reached three mill
ions of bushels.


1t remains to be seen where the Gen.
sus of next year will place the centre of
the wheat region, but it is remarkable
that this should have moved westward
so rapidly. We wonder that the pro.
tectionists, seeing this, have not long
ago demanded protection for the farm
ers of the Genesee Valley against the
wheat of Illinois and Ohio. If the
Union had not existed, no doubt such a
demand would have been made, and the
working people of this State would have
been forced to buy dear bread to day,
to protect" the farmers of Gencsee in
prosecuting an industry which changed
circumstances make no longer profitable
to them. But does any one believe that
free trade, absolute free trade, in wheat,
even though it has caused the produc'
ton of that cereal to diminish in New
York, has injured the State?
Year: 1869

Not only the laurel tie and tao ;,sia
spike that finished the Pacific Railroad
were Immediately taken up, but the rail
tie and spikes that were intended - be
permanent were at once seisc3 and ar
propri3tci hv relic hlJicra
Year: 1869

Each property holder in the Town of Tucson IS requested and solicited to cause the public streets in the town of Tue son to be repaired in front of their respective properties.

 By Order of the Board,

 E. N. FISH,

 Chairman.
Year: 1869

there are men. even in wal street, who are nearer
TO heaven than any elsewhere. Their boundess
liberaty and philanthropy attest it. In conclusion
the speaker said 1t would be sad day indeed when
the little wanderer appearing at the doors OF the
House OF Industry, would De told that there Is not
room inside for him.


At the close OF MIR. Beechers remarks collection
was taken up, during which the children who IN ap-
pearance and intelligence would compare favoraoly
with any IN the city performed an alphabetical
r0undeay, after which the audience dispersed.
Year: 1869

To-day, for "a wonder, has been comparatively 1ne,
only having slight spurt OF after DARK. This
morning visited the wSrks OF the Hale 4 Norcross
mine, that has for long time been doing nothing
for It's stockholders. Its underground works very
extensive, and in their shaft they have discov-
cred vein OF ore lately that looks very rich and
bids last for some time. So IL is with the
jority OF the mines: their ore Is improving and a
greater portion OF gold is found with IT, / say this
with desire TO pun; 1t Is only what see ana hear
right here on the spot. and II Is legitimate news.
The machinery OF tue Hale n NOrcr0ss Is very line.
and visitor cannot fail TO be highly interested In
the entire operation OF the hosting and lowering
apparatus. the pumping and blowing engine. and ali
the mechanical appliances for making mining CON-
paratively easy.


In the afternoon drove to some OF the smaller
mills near the city that are run by steam and
The whole operation from crushing the ore to the
final process OF retorting whereby the quicksilver
is separated from the bullion and the latter Is made
| ready for the assayer Until all this is one
cannot understand how much O half dollar has ia
go through before being In q condition to be placed
IN the pocket or paid out over the counter Proba-
more disposed to appreciate It's value. l also saw
the great Gould a Curry folly, immense mill
erected BY the former superintendent az euor-
nous cost, which IS now abandoned for the reason
No item whereon money could be expended was
omitted, and but little Of the hundreds OF thousands
OF dollars cost VIII ever 10 returned 10 the pockets
OF its stockholders.


ROUTE.


On the 21st am on for White Pine, the new silver
then 10 If everything in that region Is silver.
That will make an interesting trip, ana IL sEould be
great food Tor journalist. ! 20 with good party
and hope to have a pleasant time.
Year: 1869

As The STAR will not be published on Satur-
day. and as we shall print an unusually large
edition tomorrow, those Of our business people
who desire to attract the attention Of the public
during the balance of the week should send in
their advertisements as carly as possible to-
MORROW morning.
Year: 1869

For our Congressional rulers to refuse to pro-
vide more railway facilities for the National
Capital, and then oppose the holding of an
International Industrial Exhibition at that point
because il has only one line of railroad, as some
OF them did yesterday, is very much like knock
ing poor fellow down and kicking him soundly
for falling. And that has always been set down
as one Of the meanest possible exhibitions of
buliyism.
Year: 1869

We are able at last to say good word for the
baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. 1t
seems that they mean not only TO resist the fur
ther payment to the State OF Maryland of the
tax upon passengers over the Washington
branch, but they also announce that they will
reduce the fair One-fifth when the State formally
abandons this claim. But we do not see why they
need wait for this action by the State. They ad-
NIT they have no legal power to Apply any portion
az the receipts Of the road 10 the payment of
this tax, now that the Supreme Court of the
United States has decided that State has no
constitutional right to levy such tax upon pas
sengers through il. BY continuing to collect
this tax the company are confessedly acting
without authority of law. Let them at once
decline to collect it ss wen as to pay it over to
the State, and thereby do away with a great
cause OF complaint against their road.
Year: 1869

seeing this going on around us, set
us to thinking the thing over. 1t
newspaper can notbe sustained. it
is villainnusto'i induce its establish
mcnt to bring locality. into notice
at the expense of the stime and
means of class Of men who are gen.
orally disposed to rely upon the
PROMISES or the pubic.


If the business of the printer Is
ono that you cannot dispense with,
do not reap all the advantages re.
sulting from its rosecution---;the in
creased value Of your lands. your
lots, the instruction Of your faml-
lies The enhancement, Of yqnr profits
in business Of all kinds, and leave
him to retire pauper or to be over
whelmed with debts contra cted for
material to secure to s,yon those
blessings. .'Right is right and the
printer is as much entitled to, pay
as the Grocer, the Blacksmith or
the Farmc Our printers get their
pay Whenever they ask for it,-the
reason is our customers do not re-
quire US to run paper on 'Cfrlde.


when that gets to be the fashion
with the readers and patrons Of the
North Iowa Times, our pride will
not permit us to run it. If the prin-
ting busines is not as necessary to
the public as it is to ourselves we
will dry it up and try something else.
We believe there are too many


papers ia the west; and in the Uni
ted States generally there are moro
than the public necessity requires,


but they are easily got rid of on
honorable grounds. Go to the pub
Usher, pay him every cent you owe


tell him like a man that you can no
longer buy his scrvices-do not starve
him out, patch his little all with ex-
ecutions and attachments and then
taunt him with business incompc-
tency, because he was man enough


to suffer that your interests might


be advanced! @. 80


Money is scarce now, and through
the winterit will probably bescarcer
but that is no reason why the small


bills due a printing office should not
be partly paid at last. Sharp coiiec-
tions are not expected-a flair
shake" is all any Newspaper estah-
lishment requires to enable it to
swim N. I. Times. .-g re8
Year: 1869

may advance, if. for any cause, it
may see fit in the end to. abandon
them and go to Lime Springs. Ev-
cry man, as far as I know, connect
ed with this Company, either at
Davenport or in the country, pro-
pose to deal fairly and honorably by
all parties. I see no reason why
you should await action until a de-
cisicn can be had on the Constitu-
tionality of the Tax Law. [ am
satisfied that this road will be built
independent of that law, if it should
be decided adverse. If you take
the necessary steps to vote the tax
and procure stock you have lost no
time. The first 80 miles will be
let, without doubt, early in the
spring, and the quicker it is let the
whole length the better. e.at
Year: 1869




Tho Journd Of Chemistry exposes y
new dodge resorted to by the scoundrels
who prey upon farmers. They advertise
that they will show people how To make
good pound of butter out of pint
of milk, offer rights for sale, and also
white powder which is the agent
used to perform the magic work; and
that at the office of the company the mag
ic work is demonstrated to the inquirer.


The fraud is thus explained: q pint of
milk, with half a pound of good butter, is
put into little tin churn, with spoon
full of the powder the whole is warmed,
and then FIVE minutes churning brings
out one and half pounds OF good butter


BY the process the whole of the pint OF
milk (mostly composed of water) is driv.
en- into, or blended with the half pound OF
melted butter put into the churD. There
| is no important increase of real butter in
the churn, although the watery mass
which looks like inferior butter, weighs
more. Put the mass into dish, and beat
| it, and the true butter will separate from
the milk or water with which 1t is blended
| This is the method by which butter ant
| lard are greatly adulterated.


Nearly all the lard sold by grocers con
tains from % to 40 per cent. of water
! The adulterstors have not been able, unit
within a year or two, to combine will
genuine lard more than 25 per cent. o
water; but recently, by the use of aka
line carbonates, partly saponitying th
lard, they force into association NOR
| than 40 per cent.
Year: 1869




THERE are many cases on record of
men OF professional experience losing their
nerve when most needed. One case was
that of AN architcc', thoroughly used to
walk about ON all parts of houses in
course OF construction, who once, when
walking along plank which j)incd two
walls at great height from the GROUND,
felt sudden sense of danger, upon which
his senses LEFT him, and only returned
after some seconds when he awoke, so to
speak, in the arms of one of the masous,
who had most fortunately seen his state
In time to- carry him across the plank at
the risk of his own life.


A more curious case requires little
previous explanation. Some years ago
the paintings on the inside of tho dome
of St. Paurs, London, wanted repair. IL
was contrived, in order to save trouble
and expense, that suspended scatlold
should be made, supported by ledge half
y yard wide, and hanging by ropes through
holes in the dome. An experienced ships
carpenter undertook the Job, and began
the Job by stepping out of small door
at the foot of the dome on the
ledge in question, from which there
was clear fall of 200 feet to the pave
ment. He walked few steps, aud ther
found that the inward curve of the dom,
made him unable to stand upright, ant
caused him to lean over dangerously, witt
an altered ard unsteady centre of gravity
Seized all at once with An overpowerinp
sense of fear, he managed, nevertheless
to turn his face to the dome and to rest
being once more able to stand upright, til
he had recovered his senses. Then, to hi
horror, he found that he had forgotten oi
which side of him the door was, or how
far off it was, and in trying to get to ii by
short sidelong steps, took the wrong di
rection, and literally walked in search o
it round the whole base of the dome, fall
ing into the door at last utterly prostrated
and feeling, rs he said, "ten years older


However, he made the scatlold afterward
and used to tell tho story of his fright
while walking about on the ledge, in tn
most unconcerned way
Year: 1869

The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill for protection to the lives of railway
passengers, by which it becomes unlawful
for any Company in that State TO heat its
cars by any apparatus otherwise construct
ed than that the fire will be Immediately
extinguished when the cars are overturnedi
and by which no cars run on the roads
shall be illuminated except by candles
properly protected Every Company yio-
lating the provisions of this act shall be
liable to a forfeiture Of not more than
$500 nor less than 500, half the penalty
going TO the complainant, and the other
half to go to the State common schools.
The act takes effect Nov. I.
Year: 1869

OVER and over sgain,


No matter which way turn.
always hnd in the Book Of Life


Som3 lesson have to learn,
must take my turn az the mill.


must grind out the golden grain;
Imust work at my task with q reeOlute viii,
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the need


OF even the tiniest flower,
Nor check the how Of the golden sands
That run through single hour.
But the merning dews must fall,


And the sun and the summer rain
Must do their part. and perform itan
Over and over again.
Over and over again


The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again


The ponderous mill-wheel goes.
Once doing will not suffice,


Though doing be not iu vain:
And blessing, failing MS once or twice,
May come, five try again.
The path that has once been trod


ls never so rough to the feet;
And the lesson VIC once have learned
Is never so hard to repeat.
Though sorrowful tears may fall,
And the heart to its depths be driven
With storm and tempest we need them all
To render us meet for Heaven.
Year: 1869

Ohail we ever, with all our science, succeed

 Tn transporting ourselves at pleasure through

 the air, making that our pathway inst ns wa

 do the groEser fluid, water, which we traverse

 so easily in every direction This is A oues-

 ton which We suppose every one of our read

 CTS has asked himself more than once. for the

 idea of aerial navigation is so natural that we

 ind every age of the world has more or less

 discussed 1t Just now in San Francisco this subject IS attracting great attention, from the fact that the model of an aerial ship exhibited there, and some experimets made upon it. gave complete satisfaction to the engineers present An Aerial Navigation Company has been formed for the laudable purpose of rais- ing funds to enable the projector to construct full sized air ship This will be completed. It Is expected, in about couple of months. when the aeronauts, if successful, intend pav- ing us flying visit all the way from the Shorer of the Pacific

 The Avitor, as the new invention is named is to be propelled by steam, carrying for th PUA PooC 0 A'S HOLSc pAOH6r sbeaLn engine, an is 10 be elevated and supported in the ai partly by gas and partly by planes extendin on each side to the distance of about tweut feet at the centre. These planes will be soc stucted in sections that they may be depress or elevated blythe rudder at pleasure, T. well known and fatal objection to balloon that they are the mere sport of the winds, hay ing no propelIipg power within themselves, I thus got rid of Balloons have been chief found useful for scientific purposes observing the oscillation of the magnetic needle and it dip, and experimenting on tue density, tempera ure, humidity and electricity of the air at it different elevations; but if this aerial shir he AvitOr, prove as great success as man, n California anticipate. ve are on the eve off But before speculating any luther aE to tn, .csults we must wait patiently and see how fAl ,ur friends in California are going to carry out heir programme-N. r Herald