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Year: 1867

Ideas, connects them with sort Of SIM
pile fervor in his own mind, and presses
them ON his own hearers with an air
of plaintive good faith that is quite
Irresistible. Nothing is better
than his eager, ardent way Of propounA
ding truism. You cannot avoid the
conviction for n moment, that IL has
just struck him as a real truth. When
he points to one OF the range of noun
tains in Utah, and says, with an evil
dent wish TO be useful to his audience,
The highest part of this mountain Is
the top, or, pointing to one of the hor-
ses on the prairie, That beautiful and
interesting animal is a horse, Id was
long time before I discovered it,--in
spite of the exceeding simplicity and
obviousness of the joke, which any
clown in Q pantomine might have
made as well, he reaches the sense of
humor simply by the engaging earnest
ness and ndi0ete of his speech. ss0i


Perhaps the most humorous part of
Artemus Wards lecture, however, is
the natural, unfesisting way In which
he drifts about in search of words and
phrases, often conveying q sense of
difficulty and of conscious erorr, and
then correcting himself by the use of
q phrase still more ludicrous, and on
which he seems to have been landed
by imperious necessity. Thus when
he says that he used to sing, but not 20
well, he stumbles In the most natural
way and is a prey to melancholy that
he can't hit on. proper phrase. As
a songer," he says, II was not success
full ~ and then In o depressed and self
correcting way, conscious he has gone
wrong, .tAs singster was failure.
I ann always saddest when / sing-and
so are those who hear me.n The art
with which he gives the impression


that he is foundering along in his
choice of words, the victim of the first
verbal association that strikes his mem.
ory and yet just familiar enough with
language to feel uncertain as to his
ground, and to wish to get hold of some
clearer term, Is beyond praise.
Artemus Ward in all his best jokes--of
course like other professional jokers, he
has some poorer ones at which IL is
wrong to smile---is an intellectualized
form of the, German simpleton, Hans.
! He Yields literal obedience 20 every
absurd suggestion Of thought and lam
guage, Just as Hans does to the verbal
direction of his wife or mother, and
gets into an intellectual absurdity, just
as Hans gets into q practical absurdity.


This, with the melancholy, earnest
manner of q man completely uncon-
scious that there Is anything grotesque
in what he says, conveys an effect of
| inimitable humor.p Hf fs49
Year: 1867

NEw 0RLEAss, March %.
There was duel this morning between the
manager of the National Thester and the
editor of the German Gazette. The latter
was seriously, and perhaps fatally, shot at
the third FIRE. The weapons used were re-
voivers. An actress was the cause Of the
difficulty
Year: 1867

We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from private letter, from
Mr.. j. VAN BuRIN, of Georgia, to cit-
zen of this place on the culture and the
adaptation of this Grape for wine.


DEAR SIR Your favor of the 18th of
August, making inquiries in relation to
the Suppernong Grape, has been handed
to me by the editor Of the Southern Cul-
tirator to answer My experience with
the Suppernong Grape is, that 1t begins
to bear a little the'third year after trans
planting, and increases very rapidly from
year to year. have two vines which
have been transplated six years, which
this year will give from three to five
bushels each of grapes, that is, of clean
grapes without any stems, for this grape
differs from all others, as you shake or
pick the berries from the clusters, which
contain from two to twenty berries each.
have never had or seen the Flowers or
Thomas grapes, so ! am not able to give
you any information about them | cal
culate my vines will double their crop
every year henceforth for many years l
have one vine about eight or ten years
old which will give this year about thirty
bushels of grapes; and should nothing
happen to it will probably in few years
more bear one hundred bushels. 1t now
covers space of some forty feet square
and extends about five feet each way
every year shall plant out good
many vines this year both layers and
seedlings, for know there is more money
to be made from it in making wine than
in any enterprise that can be started at
this time. After having tried about forty
to fifty varieties of the best Northern va
rieties for ten years past and failed with
all, have come to the determination to
cultivate none but the Scuppernong and
seedlings from it, as it requires but little
cultivation or care and is the largest,
best and most beautiful grape known.


Respectfully yours, DC, ..E


a j. VAN BUREN.
Year: 1867

New YORK, Aug. 3O.-The Worlds
special says there is reason to believe
that in few days the President will
issue an important proclamation of
amnesty, supplemental to that issued
on the 18th of May, 1865. 1t will not
proclain universal amnesty, but will
enlarge the fourteen classes named in
that proclamation. Among the classes
excepted by the latter, but which I
am assured will be included in the
Year: 1867

1T seems there was another accident at
the Hoosac tunnel some weeks ago. The
first timber laid in the platform erected
every twenty feet is sent down with four
men on 1t, by single rope. and then shot
into the holes prepared for it in the sides of
the shaft, work of much difficulty in the
semi-darkness. On this day, the timber had
been landed safely, when one of the men
caught the heel of his boot and went over
the side. AS he fell he caught the man next
him, who in his turn laid hold of the third,
who clutched the fourth, a sailor, and ali
were suspended over the abyss, 100 feet from
the rocky bottom, by the last man. who
clasped his legs about the timber. Soon one
cropped, and dull thud told of his fate.
Then the next followed. and groans showed
that he was not killed outright. The third
would have suffered a like fate but for the
sailor, who instructed him to swing himself
so as to grasp the timber with his feet and
draw himself up. The sailor followed, sig
nailed for help, and was finally brought up
safe with his companion. One of the others
was found a broken mass, and the other
lived but few hours after being drawn up.
Year: 1867

Private Medical Institute
Oak Avenue, Sixth st.. bet. J and X,


SACRAMENTO CITY, CAL.
THE GREAT ERADICATOR OF SPECIAL COM


PLANTS, FORMERLY OF LOCK HOSPITAL,


LONDON, EIGHT YEARS IN sAcRA-


MENTO AND THE LAST FOUR


YEARS In SAN FRANCISCO.


DIR. TOZER'S
u during that time has met with unparalleled success in
the treatment of all those diseases generally known


Venerial or Chronic.
ismpossbe here to mention all the diseases with which
he Is familiar; perhaps will not be out Of place.
The most formidable the most destructive to mankind is
The brain being the seat Of the disease the
whole syssm suffers in consequence. will here enumerate
some OF the symptoms that those aced be able to
vice in time thereby saving themselves world suffering
Nervous Debility Loss Of Memory Pain in the Limbs and
Hesdache and Aversion Genial Society especially
ncient should You suffering any Of them cali on
DIX ToZER and he will you in short time without
ter and there will be occasion for calling at the oce


Structure of the Urethra
Is another formidable enemy health Send for one Of nv
circulars that disease yourself Of its terrible
results. The worst cases cured in few days.


Venerial Diseases,
In all their various FORMS either Primary Secondary or He
retary completely radcated from the system Your
stitution being restored to perfect health there will be no
danger of handing down to your children that terrible dis
case known as Scrofula.


Syphaltic Disease,
As 1t presents itself on this coast Is Of more formidable
character than that in the Atlantic States Europe
and Sandwich Island disease Those you have
visited the two latter countries nodoub have the dread
full effects OF it both the native and foreign population
1t requires altogether different modes Of treatment.


The Old Formulas
OF Rco Acton and Bostwick of little account except
to dry up the disease the surface leaving the poison in
dairy disease aggravated FORM These facts have learn
ed by experience and think say without boastng that
physician in California, dating it does from 1S49 1t
comes you. therefore, to think WE'LL before you employ
physician.


Who is the proper consut-an experienced one
or one who has recently settled amongst you,


My Plan is Purely Vegetable,
Destroying the and purifying the blood 80 that there
is no danger Of secondary symptoms.


rheumatism, Neuralgia,
And diseases arising from the Mercury such rs pans
In the shn-bones swengs of the different joints
dy running sores etc. etc. and impurities of the blood
ed in short time by the use of nv VEGETABIE MIX
TCRES, known only to myself


Diseases Peculiar to Females,
Such as Retention Suppression and Painful Menstruaton
etc. etc, have been study for great number of years.
and can safely promise perfect cure in short time
Be not deferred from calling Dr. T0ZER decacy
or fear OF exposure as the Doctor is in whom you
trust and all treated with utmost


My Female Pills
Are the best used in this climate for Suppression tho
Monthly Sickness Every lady should in OF
necessity Price. S. Consultation at the office by
ter, FREE All letters returned destroyed Office hours
from Q 4. N. till s Pm.
Year: 1867

he said:


"He is a man Of decided genius-er.
ratio. bold, and of quick perceptions, and
with strong reliance upon his own pow
ers. He believes thoroughly in the un-
constitutionality of the war, and the con-
sequent iIlegaIity of every act of legisla-
tion growing out of ii. Not doubling on
these points, be would have no hesitancy
in following their plans to their logical
sequence, which would be, Of course,
that Congress was an illegal body, its
acts without binding force or effect, and
that il was the duty of the President to
save the Government by an exercise of
Executive power, and that such action
would be conservative and not revolution
arv: and if he was III the Government
/ believe he would shape its course 20
that end, under the full conviction that
ne was acting according to the COnstilu-
tion, and for the best interests of the
country. This, with him, would be true
conservatism. He looks upon any other
and of course the Congressional recon.
struetion, as revolutionary end tending
to despotism. Upon his accession to the
Cabinet ] should look for great peril tC
the country, because there is no man 81
dangerous as he will be- acting cOHr.
ageously in support of the wrong. under
the conviction that be is in the right"
Year: 1867

Grant" he said. "has taken upon
himself a very difficult and dangerous
role. If he can carry himself safely
through it. / shall give him credit for
more ability than ] have ever been in
clined to do. He has not the excuse
that be acted under orders. As mill.
tary officer be could not be ordered to
take a purely civil office, as the Office of
Secretary of War is. Such an appoint
ment would be simply q request. And
nobody saw more clearly the difference
between a request and an order than
Grant. when he instructed Sheridan that
Stanbsrry's opinion, then published BY
the COMMANDMENTS Chief for the gui.
dance Of the District Commanders, was
Year: 1867

The next celebrity upon which the cor
respondent of the Advertiser called was
Gen. Butler, and the conversation very
natural turned upon President johnson
and his removal Of Stanton, Sheridan and
Slckles. If the President could be ca
culated upon as other men, he thought
these acts might be regarded as part of
a plan to take the control of he Govern
meht, and that is putting Gen. Grant In
to the War Department his object was to
familiarize the army with his control.
But the imbecilily and wavering Of the
President heretofore relieved the country
from any pressing belief of danger
Johnson" he thought, "lacks courage
and capacity" but if he should reorgan-
ize his Cabinet with Jerry Black at its
head, he could hardly predict The result.
Of
Year: 1867

The House took up as the regular order
of business the bill TO repeal the tax on
cotton.


In the course of debate. Covode gave no.
tice of an amendment to reduce the tax on
cotton to one cent per pound.


Mum gave notice of an amendment 10
substitute by making the repeal of the tax
apply to all cotton on the farms where 1t
grows. and whicn is the property of the
producer, at the time of the passage of the


Miller gave notice Of a motion. to re-
commit the bill, in order that the question
may be incorporated in the regular tax
bill.


Lawrence's amendment rejected.


The Speaker presented communication
from he President, with a list of pal dons
for rebellion. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.


The Speaker presented a communication
from the special correspondents of the
cation of the Presidents Message, asking
an investigation as to the responsibility
for breach Of good faith and honor. Re-
ferred to judiciary Committee.
Pile gave notice of an amendment to
the original bill, removing the tax from
all cotton that shall at the time of its pass
age continue to be property and in pos
session of the producer thereof.
Lawrence moved to commit the bill,
with instruction to report back an addt-
tiOnaI section that the Court of Claims
shall not have or entertain jurisdiction to
The motion tO recommit was Withdrawn,
and Schenck moved the previous question,
under which Covode's amendments were
rejected, without division.
Brooks substitute was rejected.
Lawrence offered his amendment as a
new section to the bill.


Hooper, of Utah. asked Schenck to let
him offer an amendment to the bill of Ex-
emption from Tax on Cotton raised in Ne
vada, Utah and Arizona, being for home
cOnSum ptlOn.
Schenck declined


Miller renewed the motion to recommit
the bill. Negatived.
Adjourned.
Year: 1867

The American. Wa}tham Watch is made by such un-
certain procesS-lud 10y such incompetent workmen
All the conpaEyS operations, from the reception of the
materials the completion of the wpch are carried
under roof and under killfu and competent
direction But the great distinguishing feature OF their
Watches the fact that their several parts are all made
by the finest, the most perfect and delicate machinery
brought the aid human industry Every one Of
the than hundred parts OF every watch made


machine-that infslhly reproduces every succeeding
part with the unvarying accuracy 1t only ne
oery make perfect watch Of any particular stye
then to adjust the hundred machines necessary to
produce every part Of that watch and follows that
every succeeding watch must be like it


The Company respectfully submit their watches on tdei
merits only They claim 10 make
Year: 1867

A case soon to be brought before
the Supreme Court, which will in
volve the question whether Alabama
is a State in the Federal Union, or
what is her present status if she Is
not q State.
Year: 1867

times its weight OF mixture of molecule Of bisu
phate aud Of nitrate OF potassium Tie mi xture Is
Then To be slowly heated TO low redness Which Is best
comphshed IN mufie The metallic sulphids are com
mixture Enough strong suphuric acid 20 convert all
the snphate Of potassium into bsuphate Is then added
ana the crucble IL to be- again carefully heated until the
contents aclear fused mass On cooling the
usually separates readily from the cruclole, which is
not attacked land on solution the iron and copper are
found completely converted into sulDhates This pro
cess has been successfully tried with great variety
of Prof Gibbs has ascertaineG copper may be
completely precipitaed from sulphate nitrate,
chlord when the solutions boiled together asuicient
described: The solution Of copper is to be diluted with
water until the liquid contains not more than one gram
OF the metal In re. solution Of carbonate OF pot
ash or soda then to be added In small excess ana the
whole boiled about half an hour The boiling proceeds
quietly and without suocussons the blue green carbon
ate soon becomes dark brown and has fine granular
character which renders it extremely easy to wash
OF hydrogen, and the copper weighed metal
II =, Will then be found to be free from al,
kali The flrate is perfectly free from copper, II
the process has been well conducted The ignited oxyd


Is In state of great subdivision, and the ignition must
tnerSioIe DC conducted with much care to avoid loss
small portion OF the oXyd basic carbonate usually ad
heres to the sides of the vessel In which the boiling takes
place Ihs Is to be redssolved and again precpltated
but care must be taken not TO add large excess OF the
alkaline carbonate, which gives solution from which
the copper not preeptated by boiling Nickel may DO
completely precipated from Its solutions by precisely
kaue carbonate can only with much difficulty and by
long boiling be made complete and as means OF de-
oxyds OF copper, cadmium, zinc, manganese and
magnesium completely preciptated by oxalIc acid
The same Is true OF both and mercuc ntraes
OF the employment OF sand and glass filters IN quantta
tive analysis Prof Gibbs said Sufficient attention has
not paid 10 the advantages of filters Of sand and
glass those of paper when precpltates are TO be
dried upon the filter at a definite temperature. BY
of glass aud placing upon these successive layers
OF powdered glass or sand, the upper layer being
Of the finest powder, 1t is easy to make q filter
upon which almost any precipitate may be I'll
tered and washed out perfectly without the slightest
loss The funnel with It's contents may then be dred az
any temperature below that at which the glass softe or
at which the precpate undergoes chemical or physical
the day and at its conclusion Prof Henry announced an
adjournment to t0-morrew "Wednesday morning by
which time probaby other members of the Academy will
arrived
Year: 1867

The Nashville Press of the 10th gives the vote
for Governor far received In some counties the
approximate majority ID reported In round numbers In
Others the returns embrace the vote cast in only Few
Year: 1867

Duh and sombre as the mole appears to
be, it Is by far the fercest and most activs
animal within the British Isles Indeed, 50
remarkable is it for both these qualities,


That doubt whether the great fear Of trop-


zeal climates can equal it either in ferocity,


activity, or voracjty. From seeing the ami


maj eat ! can readily conceive the fury


with which il must be animated when il


lights, and can perfectly appreciate The truth


ol the assertion, that il has been observed


70 ding itself upon a small bird, tear its
body open, and 10 deyour 1t while still pal
pitatiDg with life Nothing short of this
hery energy could sustain an animal in the


lifelong task Of forcing itself through the
solld earth; and it may well be imagined
that when two male moles of equal strength
happen 70 meet, the combat must be of the
most furious kind. Size is only Of relative


Importance and, IN point Of fact, battle
between two moIcs is o. tremendous as be-
tween TWO lions, II not more so, because the
mole Is more courageous than the lion. and
relatively speaking, is far more powerful.
and armed with weapons far more destruc-
tive.


Magnify the mole to the size of the lion,
and you will have a beast more terrible
than. the world has yet seen. Though
nearly blind, and therefore incapable of fol-
lowing prey By sight, it would be active be-
yond conception, springing this way and
that way as 1t goes along, so as to cover
large amount Of space, leaping with light
ming quickness upon any animal which il
met, rending it to pieces in a moment,
thrusting Its blood thirsty snout into the
body Of its victim, eating the still warm and
bleeding flesh, and instantly searching for
fresh prey. Such a creature would, without
the least hesitation, devour a serpent 20
feet in length, aud so terrible would be its
voracity that it would eat twenty or thirty
such snakes in a day. With one grasp Of
its teeth and one stroke Of It's claws it could
tear an OK assuuder; aud il it should happen
to enter fold Of sheep OF an enclosure
Of cattle il would kill them all
for mere lust Of slaughter. There are many
burrowing animals, but the mole is emphat-
ically the turnover, and absolutely riots in
the exuberance of animal spirits and muscu-
lar activity, passing through the earth al
most ike fish through the water, and giving
to its strange, and apparently sombre life.
poetry and interest which VIC fail TO find in
the lives Of many creatures more richly en-
doYed with enteTnal beauty Homes With
ont HgHdS.
Year: 1867

There are comparatively few business
men who understand the art of advertising.
Some men advertise for a short time after
they commence business, ana tnink that Is
sufficient; Others omit advertising after they
have established iourishing business by
It's aid. From the moment house ceases
TO advertise, however large its reputation
and standing, it begins to decline. The
changes arc ~ rapid in this country, the
public mind - constantly occupied by new
applicants for attention, that to be out OF
the paper, where everybody seeks lnforma-
tion on every subject, is to be forgotten.
The press is daily becoming necessity, and
its usefulness a. an advertising medium Is
constantly increasing, No man Is wise or
lust to himself who undertakes to do busi-
ness without ayailing himself of Its advan-
tageS.


a blacksmith would be looked upon as
foolish if he re TO pile coal upon hls forge
and neglect TO blow. Tie merchant VINO
fills his store, or the tradesman who opens
his shop and fails 10 keep the fact before
the people, is equally hort-sighted. The
trade mas come but il will be slow indeed.
Be up and doing: show people that You are
at work-striying to succeed, and we war
rant you that hard times will never knock
very long or very hard AT your door. Proyl.
dence helps those who help themselves, aud
the largest crop comes from the best titled
field, every tine This being the fact, bus
iness men generally viii do well and reap a
rich harvest by advertising their goods and
wares, that the seed may be scattered broad,
cast throughout the land, and thereby add
much iiuJ to their grauaries.


Do not pursue the miserly way Of mark
ing your business down-that ct posting
slips uprn icuce>, or painting. Doaius and
nailin4 them upon public or private houses,
with Icttcfs of some particular article for
sale at some particular place keep yourself
prominent before the public by advertising
Year: 1867

The Irish PAPERS contain romantic story,
substantially as follows:


About twelve months ago gentleman who re-
sides ia the county Of Galway dreamed that he
had been instrumental in saving the lie of a
lovely and accomplished young lady, who would
have been dashed to pieces were ii not for his
timely aid. The face ofthe fair one was so deeply
engraven on his mind that when he awoke, be-
ing O tolersbly good artist, his first impulse was
to make sketch of it which he improved on
from day to day until it was rendered as per-
feet as possible.


On bitter cold night, some months subse-
quently, while the dreamer was Comfortably en-
scoused in an arm chair before blazing fire. he
was startled by the scream of female. In a
moment his overcoat was hurried on, and he
shortly arrived on the spot whence the cries pro-
cceded. In deep ditch by the side of the road
horse was Kicking and plunging in a fearful
manner, attached to q jaunting car which was
turned urside down. Three persons were quick
ly rescued from beneath it, and conveyed 10 the
house, where they soon recovered from the effects
of the accident. The gentleman who had saved
their lives appeared all at once struck with one
of the party, young lady, whom he felt certain
he had seen before. The dream was brought
forcibly to his recollectin, and on entering an.
other apartment, his visitors were more than
astonshed to perceive the portrait of one of them
selves suspended from the wall. The mystery
was soon explained, and in two months from tha
date the dreamer and the fair young lady wsr,
married in Dublin.