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Year: 1869

PURE WATER.-We wonder that travellers do
not carry with them a little bottle of perman-
ganate of potash-a few drops Of which would
speedily purify any water. A friend OF ours,
who had just returned from India, tells us that
be has derived the greatest benefit from its en-
ployment. In cases where the water was tur-
bid, and tasting and smelling of decaying or
ganc matter the addition of few drops Of the
solution of the permanganate made it in a few
minutes, as clear and fresh as spring water
Ned Times and Gazette.
Year: 1869

FoR RSMoKERs.-Smokers of the royal weed are
recommended to place in the bow els of their
pipes little powered tanuin, or a sponge satu-
rated with tannin. The smoke will thus be de-
prived of its characteristic aroma and all the va
porized nicotine, which is the Intoxicating
principle At first the smoke will be entirely
Tree from all taste and smell of tobacco, but as
the sponge becomes charged with the nicotine
the odor will reaper. By charging the sponge
frequently the smoker may indulge in his habit
as immoderately as he pleases without injurious
effect
Year: 1869

FRuIr SrAlss.-Fruit stains may, it is said, be
removed by moistening the article affected with
a solution of hyposulphite of Soda and adding
to it little pulverized tartaric acid, which is to
be rubbed on the stain, which will soon begin
to disappear, when the article can be cleansed
with warm water
Year: 1869

TIE leaves of geranium are an excellent ap-
plication for cuts, when the skin is rubbed on
and other wounds of that kind. One or TWO
leaves should be bruised and applied to the part,
and the wound will be cicatrzed in SNORT
time.
Year: 1869

TIE bromide of ammonium is recommended
BY DR.. Glib, of London, to those who suffer from
an excess Of fat. He says when taken in small
doses for length Of time, it will diminish the
weight OF the body with greater certainty than
any other known article
Year: 1869

"BUsrED. THE Grass Valley Union tells the
following story.


We heard little anecdote yesterday which IL
lustrates the uncertainty of the service in even
well regulated postal system. A married lady
and Lothario in this county made little ar
rangement for corresponding. The letters were
carried by the parties themselves, and the post
Office was under fiat stone in bunch of chap
paral. This was nice. The smitten she would
leave a tender billet there, and the ardent he
would get it, and read it with rapture. He
would in convenient time answer the tender eff
fusion and put the answer in the same place
This would have been WE'LL but the old man, the
legal protector of the she who loved the other
fellow, found out the game. He, the husband,
read the letters of both sides. He was posted
but said never word until matters were ABOUT
coming to a crisis, when he promptly acted
The result is the absence of the young man. He
is fleeing from the wrath and the double-barrel
shotgun of an outraged and angry husband.
Year: 1869

AVERAGING ExpENsEs.-lt is very seldom that
any business can be counted upon as sure to
yield large and constant income. There are
many chances and casualties in trade and busi-
ness which cannot be fOreseen. He is fortu.
nate man indeed whatever his calling, who
does not find himself, sooner or later, going
q" out of fashion" The newcomer, or more
dashing, ingenious willy competitor will
sometimes distance an old public favorite Or
successful man may be spoiled by success, and
spoil bis own business by neglect or over conf
dence in his reputation. For these and many
other reasons it should be the effort of every
man to become independent of his business.
We mean that he should place part, however
small of his earnings in some description of in
vestment, which shall be secure from the
chances which affect his regular calling. To do
this he should tax, not his business means, but
his personal vanity, and be content to creep, as
the phrase goes, before he attempts to walk
and to walk before he essays to run. There is
many a man who looks back on the careless ex-
penditures of past years with regret, and who
might be assisted by the interest of his
prosperous acquisitions, if he had funded, in
stead of spending his money for temporary graf
ifcation. Working men, while in the prime of
their strength and manhood, and in the receipt
of liberal wages, might secure themselves not
only against the distant day of old age but also
against much of the Inconvenience of dull times
of sickness of forced inactivity from any other
cause. Whoever will make firm rule, and
abide by it, always to live within his income, is
on the safe road to competence, if not to wealth.
Gold Hill Ne,cs.
Year: 1869

CAT CONVENTIONS. Those whose lives are
made burdensomc by midnight cat conventions
should read the following:


elf cat doth meet cat, oh need they both
to squall? Every Tommy has his Tabby wait
ing on the wall, and yet she welcomes his ap-
proach with an unearthy yawl. If q kit doth
wish to court cat upon the WALL why don't
she sweeuy sit and smile, and not stand up and
bawl; and lift his precious back up high, and
show his teeth and moan-as if 'twere collie
more than love that made the fellow groan.
Among the twain there is a swain, his voice is
known full well but what's his name or whence
he came the dexee alone can tell. He's sweet
upon the other sex, his amorous passions rise,
he cannot resist the tender glance of their Sc
ductive eyes-and so, with groans and horrid
these midnight caterwauls' impossible to bear"
Year: 1869

a@- We are offering our goods at the lowest
CASH PRICES, and we are determined te
give satisfaction to all who may need anything
in our line Of business.


We solicit the citi2ens and Farmers gener-
ally who have not tried US to do so. We thank
all our friends for their past liberal patronage,
and respectfully request continuance OF the
same Do not forget the place. Be sure to
call on


RICHARDSON & WHEAT.
oct5-tf
Year: 1869

Special Despatch TO The EUent,0 Telegraph.


ST. LOUIS, Jan. GA resolution was proposed
in the Legislature looking to the holding of
State Convention on the revision of the consti-
tuition, and was lost yesterday.


meeting of the merchants at the Southern
Hotel last evening passed the owing preamble
and resoluton:-


Whereas, 1t has long been a selfeVident and
mortlfying fact to the merchants of st. Louis
that in the matter of their westwarib bound
freight from Eastern cities they are made to
pay, greatly TO their detriment, much higher
proportonate rates than those to Chicago and
Cincinnati; therefore


Resolued, That we are at loss to conjecture
the motives which dictate this feeling of unjust
discrimination against us and in favor OF rival
cities, and are determined to compel by every
honorable means in our power such radical
change as shall place us on an equal footing
with other Western cities.


A committee was then appointed TO carry out
the purpose of the meeting, in connection with
sending an agent TO New York.
Year: 1869

Special Despatch 10 The EUeni,l6 Telegraph.


NASHVILLE, Jan. % The wordy war setween
Governor Brownlow and Secretary Fletcher
wakes fercer. Tue Knoxville Wing of Wednes
day contains a fiery article from Brownow
against Fletcher, reading the latter out of the
Republican party, and warning the loyal
people of the State against what he calls an
migrate backslider. Fletcher, who has pretty
strong belligerent propensities, is bound to hit
back, so that an uncompromising and exciting
conflict may be anticipated.


The question of the franchise extension will
undoubtedly be the issue In the canvass.


Recruiting is going on at different points for
the militia; eighty seven mounted troops from
De Kalb county have been reported to General
Cooper. A recruiting office has been opened
in this ciiy, but recruits are coming in very
slowly.


In the Senate yesterday a resolution was
adopted declaring that no proposition looking
TO the extension of the franchise should be
entertained this session This disposes OF the
suffrage question for come time to come
Year: 1869

BIGOTRY AND NORTHUMBERLAND Pomc-
roy, of Meriden, Conn, deceased, provided in
his will that his daughter should receive a
large share of his property on condition that
she shall not have become n Catholic Mt the
age of 25 Should she have adopted that faith,
however, she is to have only $500, and the
balance is to be given to the First Universal
ist church in Meriden. It's sort of mono
mania which makes such wills.
Year: 1869

A GERMAN OPINION The Boston Ponce,
German Radical organ) says of the new Sen.
ator from Missouri:


IF we should see it stated that Carl Schurz
had saved the life of a drowning man, or had
discovered planet, we would not believe it at
first because there is nothing about it in the
Republican platform If however, the news
should be confirmed, we would ask ourselves :
i" What office had he in view in doing these
things
Year: 1869


! The Working Women's Association met last
,vening in No. "A Cooper Union. The attendance
was not large. The President, Miss Susan b. Anthony.
not bNng present Mrs Dr. Lozier, Vice President took
the chair and called the meeting TO order The hrst
business IL orer being the report ofthe Executive Com
mitteo the Chah'ma Of that Committee presented q
system Of bylaws fixing the initiation fee at 10 cents
week Dr. Holleck was called upon for speech and ad
dressed the ladies the importance of improving and
preserving their health. -


On motion OF Mrs. Halleck It voted that. while
men We're admitted to membership and In the AS
sociaton they shond not be allowed to hold office. her
but that women ought to learn how to manage such
matters.


After the transaction OF other business Mrs Nc
kiny made speech on the taken by The World
with regard to the Of Woman Suffrage and eosed
by moving that the thanks of the Association returned
70 The World for what good IL had DONE and entreatin
10 TO go In the good work with increased energy.


Mrs Hallock opposed TO returning thanks to The
World She had no faith In the sincerity OF the motives
of that paper The had only been taken by The
World to combat negro suffrage Even The World was
In earnest n nothing than it's duty and no one
should be thanked for doing his duty.


Mrs. Rose said very in these days for any
one TO do his duty, sire thought when did right he
ought TO be thanked for It, She was therefore,
OF the motion. THE TRIBUNE had been to the
Of REFORM but had rerograded therefore, she took
The World. After further discussion. the motion
put, with unsatisfactory result, and division
called for. The motion finally passed by two or three
x,gptea
Year: 1869

SrRrgr & SMru.-If we were asked for
striking example OF business in this metropolis
would cite the Of Messrs street smith propri-
etos Of the popular Ner York Weekly known by their
name Some fifteen years ago knew Frank street as
the faithful business manager OF the late Amor j. Will


anson proprietor OF The Dispatch and Francis Smith as


winter Tor the columns OF that well known Journal Mr.
williamson had started The Weekly and run 1t for some
time nj heavy expense, but weary of the many business
cares pressing upon him. eventually renqulshed II To MS
old employs. Street and Smith For long time these
Young struggled along spending their entire income
MI the columns Of their paper with stories by the most
acceptable authors and advertising their business 10 an
tent far beyond their immediate resources
But their foresight and enterprise paid To-day the pro
prietors OF Ae Weekly wealthy men Street. who Is
nrst-rate business manager, owns big slice OF the
thriving VII age OF Greenpoin while Smith, who few
years ago jour printer, but who has since as
touching story writer proved host IN himself has just
bought splendid Fthave, mansion for his family resi-


dence besides dipping deeply into Boulevard lots and
similar uxures The OF these partners ought to
be a lesson To young generally. They began at the
bottom of ladder worked hard spent sparingy for
personal matters but with prodigal hand TO promote
business by securing the best talent and the most
tended publicity. and their reward is already assured
Thay are now on the high road To rank among the nil
nuuaires will hardly be credited but these very men,
to whom decade since u hundred dollars was almost
fortune are now said 10 sometimes spend ~ much as
$40 900 In advertising tho first number OF new story III


The Neio. York Weekly. IN l. sun
Year: 1869

There accidental omission B Yesterdays report the remarks
OF Mr. Drugs Of Michigan during tie discussion Of the Copper bill
This who the copper producing district Of that
State maze speech In opposition the veto denying


ea i gg sng 9sl al w HPersl sections we're affected by


10 abiding hs bSt tbsed by the Presdens that the tsmpo
suffering Of the people Lake Superior this Interest Depressed
would be thar compensated BY their return to agriculture In that
region which promises rewards MI briggs said the President did
not 10 nog hA, that country covered With SNOW o nearly et
month The aa that Of volcanic formation and but little
be raised H. When therefore speaks OF the return oi the
pie there TO tie pursuit Of agriculture be eTbbu wofa ignorance Of
ibs Lake Superior region
Year: 1869

While music is being executed,
in a good or bad sense Of the word,
talking is not polite; humming the
air is q nuisance to others; beating
time is absurd, because you will
mostly beat it wrong; and exagger-
ated applause and admiration are
ridiculous. The last demonstration
has been carried in Paris to . degree
which it would be difficult to sur
pass. A certain pianist had ladies
in his pay, at the rate Of seventy
five frances per concert, whose duty
lit was to faint with delight at his
inimitable performance. One eve-
ming, however, a lady paid to faint
deserted her post by falling asleep.
Reckoning on the fainting of this
female to interrupt the FINALE Of q
concerto, the pianist started his
ALLEGRO at speed impossible for
human fingers to continue. But no
fainting came to his relief. What
could be do in that calamity ? He
did what the lady ought to have
done. and tainted himself. People
crowded around him; they carried
him out Of the room. The faint
ress, waking, really tainted through
vexation at having forgot to faiut.
Tho London Musical Times.
Year: 1869

What ring do the ladies most de-
sire? The wedding ring.


What ring is the most plosant to
everybody? The ring for dinner.


What ring is most profitable? Tho
whisky ring.


What is best in time of trouble?
The ring of true metal.


What ring is the most powerful ?
The gold ring.


What ring do children most enjoy?
Z" Ring around the rossy..'


What ring should be sacred to rs
all? The ring Of the church bells.


When ring startles every one?
The ring Of FIRE bells.


What ring il most detestable?
Trying to ring in.
Year: 1869

wedding tour short, but then you
know we have . lifetime to finish
our honeymoon in.
So the brief Niagara sojourn
came to IN end, and Mrs. Reming-
ton for the season was q widowed.


He will be back soon," she
said to herself. "and, in the mean
while, oh, I must do so much"
Year: 1869

It Was rumored on Change yesterday that
there ia proposition pending before the
elevator proprietors to reduce the rates on
grain to one cent for handling, with privi-
lege Of ten days storage, mud q hnf cent
additional for each five days nfter Tho first
ten dnys. This would lessen The cost to the
shipper by one to one and quarter cents
per bushel, as 1t is often found impossible
to get the grain ont within the Eve days
now allowed on first storage, while the
charge to speculative holders would remain
abont the same. The movement would be
a great encouragement to speedy shipments,
and tend to abolish the evil SO much com.
planned Of now-per1nitting grain to spoil
in elevator by long keeping.
Year: 1869

The Chicago Tribune tells of
three young men residents of that
city, one salesman on South Water
street, another machinist employed
in one of the largest manufacturing
establishments on the South Side,
and the other an engineer in one of
the late transportation steamers,
plying between there and the lower
lakes, who came to the conclusion
that by committing matrimony they
would be happier and have some
dear little creature to love and cher
ish and provide for. In order to
settle question as to who should be
the first, a game Of euchre, ten points
up was proposed, the conditions be-
ing that the one losing should be
united in wedlock before next De-
cember- a length of time be-
ing allowed in order to give him an
opportunity to make selection
and if he failed to secure wife, he
was to support the other two thro'
the winter of 80 and'70-giving
them the comforts Of home-or
leave this country and renounce his
rights as an American citizen. The
game came off on the fifth instant,
in the presence of few friends OF
the parties concerned, and termin
ated in the defeat Of the, machinist.
The salesman magnanimously offer
ed to relieve him of the responsible
ity for the consideration of-S5OO.
Whether this proposition has been
excepted or=not, is yet unrevealed.
The successful gentleman was well
known through out the city, and a
speedy consumation is anxiously
looked for by his friends.


Girls, don't all speak at once.
Year: 1869

FROM the Sauk Rap1dS Sentinei, Istn


Day before yesterday, while the
quarry men employed by the Sank
Rapids Water Power Company were
engaged in quarrying rock for the
dam which is being erected across
the Mississippi at this place, they
found imbedded in the solid granite
rock the remains of human being
of gigantic stature. About seven
feet below the surface of the ground
and about three feet and a half be-
meath the upper stratum of rock, the
remains were found imbedded in the
sand, which had evidently been plac
ed in the quadrangular grave which
had been dug out Of the solid rock
to receive the last remains of this an


tediluvian giant. The grave was IL
feet in length, four feet wide, and
about three feet in depth, and is to-
day at least two feet below the pres
ent level of the river. The remains
are completely petrifed, and Of gi-
gantic dimensions. The head is
massive, and measures thirty one
and half inches in circumference,
but low in the os .frontis. and very
fat on top. The femur measures
twenty SIX and a quarter inches, and
the fbula twenty five and a half
while the body is equally long ir
proportion. From the crown Of
of the head to the sole of the foot
the length is ten feet nine inches and
half The measure around the
chest is fifty nine and half inches
This giant must have weighed al
least 900 pounds when covered with
reasonable amount of flesh. The
petrified remains, and there is moth
ing left but the naked bones, now
weigh '3044 pounds. The thumb
and fingers of the left hand, and the
left foot, from the ankle to the toes
are gone; but all the other parts are
perfect. Over the sepulchre of the
unknown dead was placed a large
fat limestone rock that RENAME.
perfectly separated from the sur
rounding granite rock. u ya
These wonderful remains of al
antedfluvian, gigantic race are in pos
session Of a gentleman who hae
started with it to his residence East


This gentleman, it is said, will sent
the remains to Boston, and possibly


we may hear all that can be said o,


the subject by the learned in thes'


things. 1t is supposed by some o


our ablest men, among whom i


General Thomas, that many NOR
skeletons viii be found during tn
process of excavating the grant


rocks in this place. Some thin
that these remains were deposite
in this sarcophagus prior to the fol


nation of the present strata of rock
that now abound here; but this


moro coniecture
Year: 1869

The Hill of Science is situated on
the beautiful plane Of civilization,
an on it's golden heights trees OF
knowledge are growing in the pure
air of virtue, bearing the luxuriant
fruit of human happiness. On its
sacred sumit stands the eternal city.
with gates of pearl and walls of Jas
per. The inhabitants linger beside
the life river, whose crystal waters
CLEAN in purest light, and flow from
the fountains of unending joy. I'M
mortality is the crown of its glory,
and the Infinite holds over it the
sceptre of love. Happy is he who
is camping at its base, that he may
ascend on the morrow and behold,
from its lofty range, the summer
land of eternal rest beyond.
Year: 1869

who swung on the point of dagger, they
seemed to me as being mere trifes.


A few weeks after this man an


nounced himself who could weep ten
cent pieces from his eyes. | had seen q
better thing previously, and therefore
did not 20. Another fellow promised TO
swallow melted lead, and hold red-hot
iron rod in his hand until it became cold.
Still another would make u table walk on
its wooden legs until, in the end, an
other promised to make me see the ghost
of either my deceased grandmother, or
julius Caesar. or General Washington,
and make them talk with me as long as
l desired--all for half a dollar, to be paid
in advance. / consulted my purse
whether it permitted me to 20 or not, and,
while counting its contents, very sim
gular thought struck my mind. Suppos-
ing, l thought, these mea really do what
they promise, and they do it so we'll that
| cannot discover how they do it, is
there any good reason why should
not go the next day ,slso, if a man prom
ises to make his big toe sing the great
aria of Norma, or to make ful grown
man come out of gallon jug. Canning
men might, just ae well as they, do ell
those useless things, promise, and really
do nunberless other equally useless
things which are nett her more miracu-
lous nor more out of the way than my
Indian juggler's performances, and they
might persstently tighten my purse
without any advantage to me other than
the conviction that every one OF them
how 10 do things which | did
not know, and which, besides, if ever
should know, would by this very fact
become absolutely useless to me.
Year: 1869

Our periodical afiliction, "house-
cleaning" has Just broken out.


1t has been postponed on account
of the weather, but its preparations
are on foot and overhead.


Several of the pictures have been
taken down, aud the parlor rug hung
on the clothes line.


Mrs. O'Danus came to me yesterday
in tribulation about the whitewashing.
1t seems that rumor has got
abroad among the colored population
that the new Internal Revenue Col
lectors we're, in accordance with
an order from headquarters, plymouth
Church. going to appoint none but
colored citizens TO office


The consequence is, all the white
washers laid down the brush and pail,
and expecting TO be called upon 70
collect the revenue they won't make
any contracts for whitewashing until
the appointments are made.


This has made quite strong Demo
crat out of Mrs. O'Lanus, who had
previously held no positive political
views.


Now she says if this is the pass K
which Radicalism has brought society
it is high time the Democrats we're re
stored to power, and the whitewasb
ing business regain its former serenity


In case women's suffrage is carried
Mrs. OLanus vote may be relied
upon for the Democratic ticket.


She hasn't quite made up her mind
to rpeak at the Equal Rights meeting
at the Academy on Friday, but Broth
err Studwell may put her down IN th'
list of Vice Presidents, as understand
il is the desire TO have the names of al
many eminent ladies as possible.


When politics interfere with house
cleaning. she thinks it is time womeI
had voice in the affairs of the nation


Let her have a voice.


Every woman is bound TO do Ger
tain amount Of scolding, and if shl
does a good deal in public, she won
do as much at home.


A man whose wife had taken t
public speaking, told friend OF min
who was acquainted with him, tha
since she had taken TO oratory sh
hadn't blown him up half as much a
she used 10.


This is encouraging, in view of th
prospect, and will make married me
take more kindly TO the Women
Rights movement.


This idea may account for the nc
ticeable fact that the men who TAX
an interest in the coming gathering a
the Academy, Brothers Beecher, Stead
/ well and others, are married men.
They know what they are about
So does


Yours, serenely,


CORY 0'LANUs.