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Year: 1868

A short time ago, says Galignam,
the German periodical, Poggendop's
Annalen, contained paper by NJ
Lommel, on "The Evening Glow
and Similar Phenomena" somewhat
mathematical for our purpose; but be-
fore the appearance Of that paper Mr..
Sorby had discussed the same subject
in a more popular form, extending it
to the color Of the clouds, and which
he explains on the principle that the
clear, transparent vapor of water alb
serbs more Of the red rays of light
than Of any others, while the lower
strata of the atmosphere within no
great distance from the surface of the
earth offer more resistance to the pas
sage of the blue rays. This is especi-
ally the case at sunrise and sunset, and
very perceptible in the case of dark
colored fogs, through which the sun
appears red. This is often due to only
a few hundred yards thickness at such
fog, and it is probable that the same
effect will be produced by a thickness
of as many miles Of pure air contain
ing watery particles very thinly dis
seminated. 1t is thus Mr.. Sorby
explains nearly all the phenomena
connected with the question.


The blue color of the sky is due to
the ABSORPTION of considerable amount
of red light by aqueous vapor, far
from the earth's surface; but if minute
particles of liquid water form thin
mist, the blne of the sky will be di-
minished, as is the case in winter in
cold countries. If the air be much
charged with transparent vapor, the
blue color will be deeper, and thus
become an indicator of rain. AT sun
rise and sunset the light of the sun
has to pass through about two hun
dred miles of atmosphere within a
mile of the surface of the earth in
order to illuminate a cloud mile
from the ground. Inpassing through
this great thickness the blue rays are
absorbed to far greater extent than
the red, and much of the yellow is
also removed. Hence, clouds thus il
Illuminated are red; but when the sun
rises higher the yellow light passes
more readily, and the clouds become
orange, then yellow, and finally white.
Clouds in the different parts of the
sky, or at different elevations, might
show these various colors at the same
time, as indeed is often the case.
Year: 1868

An article in the Cincinnati Gazette
on the early life of Benjamin Wade,
gives the following among other Incl
dents:


"Wade walked six times from Ohio
to New York, and on one of these oc-
casions came near losing his life. He
was leading steer as usual in front of
the drove, when he came to a long
covered bridge. The gate-keeper, ac-
cording to the rules, would only allow
a few ofthe herd to pass over at a
time, lest their weight should iniure
the bridge. Wade started with the ad-
vance guard, but the cattle in the rear
becoming frightened, rushed into the
bridge and stampeded. Young Wade
made haste to run, but finding he
could not reach the other end before
the frantic cattle would be upon him
and trample him to death, he ran to
one of the posts, and, springing up,
caught hold Of the brace and drew
himself up as high as possible. He
could barely keep his legs out of the
way of the horns of the cattle, but he
held on while the bridge swayed to
and fro, threatening every moment to
break under the great weight that was
put upon it. At length the last Of
the frightened animals passed by, and
our dangling hero dropped from his
perch, to the astonishment of the
drover, who thought he had been
crushed to death, and was riding
through the bridge, expecting every
moment to find his crushed and mangf-
ed body"
Year: 1868

General Spinner is very popular
man, Judging from the anxiety every
body shows to obtain as many copies
as possible of his likeness, which is
circulated over the country on green
paper. ,
Spinner is devout and


4aureseieptious Methodist in
sensitively conc. aa1hu..padical
religion, and in politics IS 4 isll1l


1t began TO be whispered around that,
under very trying and extraordinary
circumstances, General Spinner was
guilty ofswearing a little sometimes.
The church took the matter in hands
as quietly as possible, and appointed
discreet sister (the grieving mourner
of a husband and three gallant broth
ers slain in the war; to inquire into
the matter. Instead of gathering ev-
idence at second hand, she went to
headquarters !; she posted herself
among the crowd of waiting ones in
the Generals Office. The old man
was absorbed in business, and work
ing away like steam engine. File
after file of men passed before him,
and he shot his decisions ut them in
sharp, curt sentences as they moved
on. Finally, tall, handsome man
approached and handed in his docu-
ments for examination. The general
ran his eye down the pages, and
thunder cloud settled portentously
upon his countenance. He threw
down the papers and shook his fist
fiercely in the gentlcman's face and
said


/" you are come to me with this
You sncaking hound of desertor.
You bring paper here, signed by the
President ofthe United States, setting
forth that when You deserted from the
regular army to goand fight four years
against your country, there were four
months pay coming to you from the
Government you so outraged, and or
dering me to pay you those arrcaragcs
I'd see you and the President hun
dred million miles in the hottest hole
in hell first p
Year: 1868




Of possessing disposition to deprive
men of their ''inbred rights" But if
they ask the Legislature to submit the
question to the towns, to the people
themselves who are the source of all
all power, they cannot be charged with
any despotic design. Another great
advantage in this course is this: If
the Legislature passes prohibitory
law and the law is repealed, there is a
manifest defeat. Bat if the question
is submitted to the towns, and the
friends of temperance are defeated in
one town, they will succeed in another,
and so the cause of temperance will re-
ceive no severe shock. This question
may come up annually in the towns;
but if the friends of temperance sue
ceed in any one town or county by n
large majority, one trial will decide the
question forever. And, sir, the peo-
pie will much more readily submit to
a question in which they have direct
voice. think the plan proposed is a
liberal one. 1t is an appeal to the
fountain of power, to the people them
selves. Those, then, who are in favor
Of absolute prohibition can have no
real objection to this measure, as it
will prepare the public mind for other
steps; for where the people in their
sovereignty have decided that no Ii
censes shall be granted, and that in
toxicating drinks shall not be sold
amongst them, they will sustain their
Legislators in enacting penal laws
against this prescribed traffic. Let
the experiment be tried; it will show
how the people stand on the subject,
and this ofitself is ofgreat importance
to the cause, as it will enable the
Year: 1868

A rapid penman can write thirty
thirty words in minute. To do this
he must draw his quill through the
space of a rod-sixteen feet and a half.
In forty minutes his pen travels fur
long and, in five hours and a third,
a mile. We make on an average,
sixteen curves or turns of the pen in
writing each word. Writing thirty
words in a minute, we must make four
hundred and eighty-eight to each sec
ond ; in an hour, twenty-eight thous-
and eight hundred in day of only
five hours, a hundred and forty-iour
thousand ; and in a year Of three hun
dred days, forty-three million two
hundred thousand. The man who
made million strokes with his pen
in month, was not at all remarkable.
Many men make four million. Here
we have in the aggregate mark, three
hundred miles long, to be traced on
paper by each writer, in a year. In
making each letter of the alphabet, we
we must make from three to seven
strokes of the pcn-on an average,
three and half to four.
Year: 1868

HERE is queer obituary which
recently appeared in German pa
per:


"My husband is no moro. lie did
not wish to live longer, and if he had,
it would have made no difference, for
gout entered the stomach and was soon
followed by death. shall marry the
doctor who kindly attended my late
husband. | learned then to trust
him. Soft rest the ashes of the de-
parted one, whose wholesale liquor
business | shall continue at the old
stand.' ...
Year: 1868

The House Military Committee on
the Goth, decided TO report the new
bounty bill giving to every soldier,
sailor or marine who served in the
late war eight dollars and one-third
per month during the time he was in
service, deducting from such time the
amount received from State, county,
municipal or other sources. A ccrti-
licatc will be given for the balance at
six per cent. interest, the principal
and interest to be paid in Govern
ment lands, TO be located in the name
of the holder or his heirs at any time
that he may choose to do so. 1t en-
bodies all the points in the Schenck
bill of last year, and will be pressed
in the House ut an early day.
Year: 1868

A western journalist, whose wife
had just presented him with twins, and
who, for this reason, was compelled to
neglect his paper for one day, wrote
the day after, The following excuse:
ave were unable to issue our paper
yesterday in consequence of the arrival
of two extra males"
Year: 1868

THE following is the substance of
the resolution, passed by the Democrat
ic State Convention, in reference to
paying the national debt:


Resolred, That whereas the nation
al debt is a national debt, there
fore resolved that the national
debt should be paid in what it is paid
in.


The resolution is very clear to those
that understand it. What say you
Grccnbacks? -
Year: 1868

TIE LIFE OF TIE DOCTOR AND THE


DEATH OF THE PATIENT.


Very much that is very remarkable
belongs to the diagnosis and prognosis Of
a case No two medical cases exactly
resemble one another, any more than any
two human faces are exactly alike, or
any two blades of grass even. A man
can no more be a physician by reading
books than man can he an artist by read
inc all extant publications on form and
color Each case is separate study in
itself Now this diagnosis is exceeding
ly Troublesome work. Patients often
cause a good deal of this trouble. They
send for medical man, and at once ex-
pect him to explain what is the matter
and to write them prescription. If a
medical man will not do this off-hand,
they lose confidence in him, and will ap-
ply TO some other practitioner. 1t is
perfectly wonderful how a London physi-
clan in extensive practice will examine
and prescribe III very few minutes
But as II rule, man ought to have an
opportunity OF studying a chronic case
minutcly before he adopts any decided
treatment. Invalids have also another
way of proceeding, which is sore trou-
bic 10 some medical men. They make n
round Of the London physicians, and take
a morbid dislike in discovering conflict
of medical opinion. They 90 to some
doctor, and when they have extracted an
opinion from him, they suddenly turn
round ard say that his views are totally
at variance with that of the renowned
Sir Kappa Chi, and derive little counte-
nance from the view of DR.. Lambda
Some doctors become reticent in their o.
pinions, and are afraid to deliver judg-
ment until they know what may be the
opinion of the great authorities. But for
the most part, the general practitioner
vii! give his own views and if they are
NJ variance with those of the great au-
thorllles, he will declare that the great
authorities are in the wrong. l do not
think, however, that the patient has been
in the wrong. In the multitude of conn
selors there Is wisdom, and an obscure
case has the fullest chance of being prop
erly understood when it has been submit
ted to different medical lights. The di-
agnosis is the making out of what is e1-
actly the matter with a patient; the
prognosis is the judgment, made with
more or less certainty, of the issue of the
disease. Some doctors attain a wonder
ful skill in both respects. They can al
NEST complete both diagnosis and prog
nosis by looking at patients face.


''It is very difficult case" said a
doctor one day to patient, "but will
tell you one thing for your consolation,
which is that you will get we'll" This
proved to be the case, but singularly E.
nough, the great man himself died sud-
denly before he saw the patient again.
As Il man, for the first time, was enter
ing a physicians consulting-room, the
latter whispered to a friend, "Case of
Year: 1868

New EXPOSURES TO INrEMPERA RASCF.
There was never more need than nov,


for vigorous moral agitation to promote


temperance, or for tho exertion of per-


sonal influence to save the young men


from the fascination of the Intoxicating


cup However temperance men may


differ as to questions of license and pro-


hlbltlon, they cannot fail to see that the


temptations to dram drinking ara taking


new and more dangerous forms, under


the effort to enforce the present laws.
Excluded from their old haunt4, drink


ers have adopted the " cooperative ~
system in procuring their regular pota-


ton and combine to keep liquors of their
own on tap at convenient places as the


law permits. As the drink in this way
costs less than half as much as when


bought at bar, there is a temptation to


take more of them, and the secrecy in
duces many to frequent these places who


would not be seen taking liquor in a
public saloon. Then there are social
drinking clubs organized, the members
OF which spend their evenings together
In drinking bouts and naturally make
rapid progress toward drunkenness. The
old fashion OF keeping liquor in the house
for private use is also coming into vogue
to an extent that many temperate men
do not dream Of 1t is possible that laws
may be so constructed as to reach these
sources of temptation, and the innumer-
able others that human sagacity can in
vent, and yet it is not obvious how it can
be done unless there shall be absolute
prohibition established, and drinking
liquors in any place and IN any quantity
except upon the prescription OF physi-
clan shall be punished as a crime Ger
tain 1t is that no existing law can re-
move the perils to which our young men
are exposed, and there is therefore abso-
Lutte necessity for the use of argument,
and all legitimate moral and
social influence 10 induce men to volun-
tary selt-control. Here, in fact, lies the
only security for any man, for there is
not as yet, and probably never will be,
any such thing as absolute immunity
from temptation in this world.-.Spr7lg-
feH Republican.
Year: 1868

YET THEY SELL RUM.-They sell it
to the beardle>s boy and he goes home
and abuses his widowed mother: and
falling from bad to worse, he is at last
sober only to steal, and steals only to be
drunk. They sell it 10 the gray headed
old man and he moves reeling about the
slippery streets Of winters night; goes
TO sleep in gutter and wakes in another
world. They sell it to the husband and
his home becomes hell, and his children
starve. They sell it to the unprincipled
wretch and he goes forth to murder and
TO burn. They sell it to the miserable
drunkard, despite his bloated cheek,
blood shot eye, and laltering speech; and
he goes away and falls into the grave.
The dramselers know all this, and yet
they sell rum.
Year: 1868

y RAILWAY NOVELTY. - \ Russian
engineer exhibits at the Paris exposition
a railway invention which has attracted
considerable curiosity. The object Is to
save the power gained in descent, now
lost in the friction of the brakes, with
wear and tear, and use it in an ascent.
To do this the engineer has attached to
the locomotive two very heavy fly
wheels. Going down hill they act as a
brake, and the force they gather Will
carry the train up an equal rise, less the
friction. Here model train loaded with
water runs down sharp incline, the
water runs off, and the force of the fly
wheel carries the train back to the place
of starting. In this way short line,
taking coal down an incline-from the
pits mouth, for example-could be
worked without any power but that
gained by each descent of the train.
Year: 1868

DIDN'T LIKE TIE LIQUoR.-The Pert
land Argus tells story of a countryman
who was coming from that place to Bos-
ton on one of the steamers and who met
with a curious accident. The vessels, it
seems, have fire aRnihilators placed round
in convenient spots. The gentleman from
the interior became thirsty; eyed an an
nhiator for time and evidently con-
cluded it was some new-fangled drinking
arrangement and was not going to show
his greenness by asking about it. So he
stepped up smartly, put the nozzle in his
mouth and turned it on. The effect was
instantaneous and stupendous. The
countryman was knocked sprawling some
ten feet away. The shock to his inter
nal organization must have been some
thing tremendous, for he remained sense
less and speechless for some time When
he sufficiently recovered to articuate, he


wanted to know if "the biler had bust ~
Year: 1868

The following rules are not from Hall 5
Journal


AS winter approaches, great care
should be taken to suitably clothe and
protect the body from cold. You owe ii
to yourselves to do so, no matter how
much you owe your tailor


Dress SO as to keep the body of uni
form temperature if possible. If you
haven't any uniform enlist so as to get
one.


Some persons require more clothing
than others. For instance, we can get
along with less than the man who stole
our overcoat-at least we do.


Don't take bath in cold room un-
til the room has been warmed. Cold
water can be used with impunty, taken
hot.


When going into the cold you can
guard against colds, sore throat, and in
tlammation of the lungs, by keeping the
mouth and nostrils closed, and breath
Ing through the ears if they are long
enough.


If you get any of your clothing wet
or damp, change as soon as possible. If
you havn't any change break a dollar
note and get some.


BE exceedingly careful about exposing
yourself to draft of cold. A draught
of hot whisky may lead to equally bad
results.


Secure good ventilation in your sleep
ing apartments. Some of you have to
sleep out Of doors to get it. Don't be
afraid to leave your windows open, un-
less you have been drinking hard, and
feel alarmed least you may jump out.


Thousands of people suffer from cold
feet, especially during the night. As
they are mostly bachelors and old maids,
all we have got to say is, it serves them
right.
Year: 1868

To JUsTIcEs.-Justices of the Peace
will remember that the statues Of this
State require them to report TO the Coun.
ty auditor, on the frst day of February
Of each year, the amount of fines IS.
sessed and collected during the preceding
year. All those Justices who have not
yet reported, would do we'll to do SO at,
once, or they lay themselves liable to
assist in swelling the fund.
Year: 1868

We utterly fail to sympathize with


the sentiments of those who would for


bid the rebel dead to be buried side by
side with.our cwn. When the great
Gcbt is paid, surely it cancels all our
petty claims. When u man gives up


life bravely in the front of battle, no


matter in how bad cause, if not ad-


miration, at least forgiveness and pity
are the natural tribute of all generous


hearts. These remarks are suggested,
or rather compelled, by Observing that
Rush G. Hawkins, Colopel Of one of
those regiments which made the name
OF ZOuave detestable during the war,


took occasion ia his speech at the Union
League rooms at New York. Thursday
evening, to attack u member of the
club who had expressed himself in
favor OF common burial of the


Union and the rebel dead. Such a
man miSrepresents in every sense
the feeling of the grand army-we
do not allude to a secret organization
by that name. 1t shonld DO left to


Southern women and Radical politi-
clans to exhibit such animOsities. No
Northern father lamenting his son need
feel wronged to know that darling of
Il Virginia home lies by his side; and
if the two soldiers, bravely as they con-
tended in life, should become conscious
of that neighborhood, we have no fear
that their long last rest would be dis
tnrbed. Rather would they clasp their
warning hands, put face to face, and
sleep like brothers recOnciled. Shame
upon such unmanly bitterness, No true
American will honor himself more than
by rebuking every manifestation of this
hate, that descends intS the grave, and
makes separation between the bones of
gallant men. Out upon the thought
that the rank and file of the Southern
army were traitors and criminals! They
fought honestly and earnestly in bad
cause, enduring in many cases privation
of which onr own troops knew butlttle.
They marched barefoot when our boys
were we'll shod. They went hungry
when ours were we'll filled. They dis
puted every inch of ground with des.
perate valOr, and yielded only to desti-
ny at last They proved themselves in
life foemen worth of our steel, and their
mOulderiDg bones may we'll rest in
peace by the side of our bravest and
dearest. Their differences with us were
all settled when they fell together with
ours on the field of honor. "All that is
left of them now" is human. Vengeance
need not follow them into the, grave.
Pity may weep over them Patriotism
may cover their failings, remembering
that they were children of one mother,
and that their valor sprang out of the
same heroic stock. Beauty may strew
flowers upon the green mounds that
hide such courage aud high resolve.
Year: 1868

Euitor OF the heRlStcr:


Thinking you would be pleased to
hear from your soldier boy again en-
brace this as favorable opportunity
The Radical party is fast receding.
Union soldiers who have served in the
late war are getting aroused to sense
of their duty. They begin to SEQ their
folly in supporting party who are try
lug 10 tear down one of the noblest and
best governments that ever existed
There are yet some who have niger on
the brain, some who appreciate their
dear brudders aud sympathizs in their
behalf. Soldiers where are you and
where do you stand Listen to what |
am now going to tell you for am your
friend. l have no purpose to introduce
political and social equality between
the white and black races. There is a
material difference between the two
which, in my judgment, will probably
forbid their ever living together upon
the same footing of perfect equality and
as here lnust be a difference / am in ft.
vor Of the race to which belong hav-
ing the superior position and as they
cannst so live while they do remain to-
gether there mast be the position of su-
periOr and iaferior, and 4 rs much as
any ether man am in favor of having
the superior position assigned the white
race. There Is not d man in our county,
fI h.aYN 10 hnf h..t
will not agree with me i'll my opinion,
If he is man of candor and loves his
country. But we must make some al
lowauce for some of our fiery, curly mig
ger heeled-Radicals-l mean, for as tue
election approaches their faith becomes
weaker. They have placed their conf
dence in their beloved brudders aud
now they see it will be impossible to ob-
taiH their votes for the coming election.
Oh, can you, my loving brudders, speak
words of comfort to their troubled
heartsi Soldiers advocate this course
for your special benefit, hoping you will
give it a thorough examination and
when election day arrives, for our next
President, 20 with a firm resolution
that you will cast your vote for the mau
who will lessen our taxes and restore
oar country to peace and harmony once
more. May God in his wisdom and
mercy, who has been heretofore SO
bountiful TO this great land, spare it
from the impending danger! May He
wEo rules all and guides nations Is we'll
as individuals, restore the calm spirit
of mutual forgivness aud the traternal
concord which originally united US !!
Thus shall We secure the national unity
and general prosperity and the sooner
obliterate the effects and recOllectiOns
of the present timo and recent horrible
past.


SOLDIER Boy.
Year: 1868

At Boston, recently, while overhaling
the newly arrived ship Pocahontas, the
horn of sea unicorn was brske off in
her bottom. Some idea of the force
which the fish must have used to send
bis nose through the vessel, may be
imagined when il is known that the
horn penetrated four and halt inch
sound, hard, Southern pine plank, COW
cred with yellow metal and felt.