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Year: 1874

A New England journal relates the
following: A body of water, said to
cover an area of two acres or more, has
Just been discovered on the top of one
of the mountains in Glatenbury. Some
of the oldest inhabitants say that many
years ago it was known to be there and
was called the Lost Pond" and that
one day Stephen Pratt, then of Benning
ton, VT, and two other gentlemen were
roaming about in the then seemingly
interminable forests. Happening to
have hooks and lines in their pockets,
they determined to see If there wasn't
some trout in the small brook which
they came across. After getting every
thing in readiness they threw their
hooks into the little brook, and to their
amazement, as they afterward expressed
1T themselves, sit was filled with trouti"
They fished along mp the stream a few
rods, and to their utter astonishment
came to the pond above mentioned.
There they said the trout ''took hold
too fast for sport I" They caught more
than they could bring home through the
woods, and were consequently obliged
to leave some, but with a determination
that they would visit the pond the next
day. After long march, they finally
reached the road to town, where they
had left their team, but greatly fatigued.
They travelled all the next day, but
could not find the pond, and it has not
been discovered until now.
Year: 1874

That alteration which young man
gives to a woman whom he feels to be
greater and better than himself, is
hardly distinguishable from a religious
feeling. What deep and worthy love is
not so? whether of woman or child, or
art or music? Oar caresses, our tender
words, our still rapture under the infiu-
enee of Autumn sunsets, or pillared
vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or
Beethoven symphonies, all bring with
them the consciousness that they are
mere waves and ripples in an unfathom-
able ocean of love and beauty our
emotions in its keenest moment passes
from expression into silence; our love
at its highest food rushes beyond its
object. and loses itself in the sense of
divine mystery. Is it any weakness,
pray, to be wrought on by exquisite
music? to feel its wondrous harmonles
searching the sublest windings of your
soul. the delicate fibres of life where no
memory can penetrate, and binding to-
gether your whole being, past and
present, in one unspeakable vibration,
melting you in one moment with all the
tenderness, all the love that has been
scattered through the toilsome years.
concentrating in one emotion of heroic
courage or resignation all the hard
learned lessons of self-renouncing SYM
pathy, blending your present JOY with
past sorrow, and your present sorrow
with all your past Joy? III not, then
neither is 1t weakness to be so wrought
upon by the exquisite curves on a
woman's cheek and neck and arms, by
the liquid depths of her beseeching eyes
or the sweet childish pout OF her lips.
For the beauty of lovely woman is
like music, what can one say more !?
Beauty has an expression beyond and
far above woman's soul, that 1t clothes,
as the words of genius have wider
meaning than thethought that prompted
them: it is more than woman's love
that moves as in a woman's eyes-lt
seems to be far-off mighty love that
has come near to us, and made speech
for itself thsre; the rounded neck, the
dimpled arm, move us by something
more than their prettiness-by their
close kinskip with all we have known
of tenderness and peace. The express
sion in beauty tit is needless to say that
there are gentlemen with wlriskers dyed
and undyed who see none of it whatever)
and for this reason the noblest nature
is often the most blinded to the char
acter of the woman's soul, that the
beauty clothes. Whence, l fear, the
tragedy of human life is likely to con-
tinue for long time to come, in spite
of mental philosophers, who are ready
with the best receipts for avoiding all
mistakes of the kind.-GeOrge Eliot.
Year: 1874

In speaking of the wonderful fertility
of the soil in Peru, have never spoken
of little plant, or leaf, they have here.
which never met with in any other
place or country. do not know the
botanical name, and 1 hope that some
botanist or savant can give me the name
and species. The natives take simple
pale-green leaf, something like a fern,
and pin it 10 the wall with a common
pin stuck through it-just pin it on to
the plain adobe wall. Sometimes they
fasten it up with tack. The leaf itself
is not so large as geranium leaf. In
credible as it may seem, from this leaf
will spread out tiny tendrils and shoots,
and delicate leaves will form, and will
spread, and run, and cover the whole
wall. had one in my own sideyard,
or corral, that covered the entire side of
the wall, and it grew from one small
leaf. pinned on to the adobe to hold it
in place. 1: becomes a thrifty running
vine. would not believe it possible,
but that l have seen it repeatedly and
successfully tried.-Corr. Of Chicago


Tribune.
Year: 1874

You make out humanity worse than
it is. 1 have seen many countries,
studied many men, mingled in many
public transactions, and the result of
my observation is not what you sup
pose. Men in general are neither very
good nor very bad; they are simply
mediocre. l have never closely exam
ined even the best without discovering
faults and frailtries invisible at first. /
have always in the end found among
the worst certain elements and holding
points of honesty. There are two men
in every man it is childish to see only
one: it is sad and unjust to look only
at the other.-De T0cgueUitte.
Year: 1874

The Brooklyn Eagle states that there
were once female rivals to the Siamese
twins in Biddington, Essex, England.


"They were joined at the shoulder and
hips. They were somewhat noted for
their comely looks, and were the happy
possessors OF large circle OF acquaint-
ances. They were connected with
family of culture and considerable
property, and lived to about the prime
of life. So far as is now known, they
were born about the year 1881 or 1882.
They were of that refinement of nature
which precluded their putting them
selves on public exhibition, and there
fore remained quietly at home superin-
tending their domestic affairs. The
arch little God of Love never planted
an arrow in either of their hearts, and
they lived their comparatively few years
wholly devoted to each other and their
mutual friends. Their property, at the
time of their death, which occurred
some fifteen years since, was consider
able. They owned large tract of land
in Biddington, and by their wills,
opened after THEN death, the inter6 st
on it was left for the benefit of the
poor. The provision of the wills was
to the effect that on certain day of the
year a sermon was to be preached in
one of the churches of Biddington, the
expense of which was betrayed out of
the interest fund. The following day
the full amount Of the interest on their
property after the settlement of charges
for preaching and church opening was
divided in equal shares among the poor
of Biddington. A provision of the will
which was religiously observed was that
the maidens of the village of Bidding
ton should once every year decorate the
graves of the sisters with choice flowers,
and upon this occasion small pamphlets
containing an historical account of their
lives and death were gratuitously dis
tributed. These twin sisters, who had
lived joined together during thirty years
died within two hours of each other"
Year: 1874

PEPPER-If you like to season your
food with pepper, you may venture to
ask for it in almost any land and feel
pretty sure of being understood. In
Latin it is piper in Italian pepe ; in
French pOiUre in old Saxon pepper ),
in Dutch pepper in German pfeter in
Danish pe6er; in Swedish peppar ),
and the tongue of Iceland piPar. All
wonderfully alike, and all quite peppery
in sound but it does not seem quite
clear how they manufactured the name
out of capsic,m, for that is what the
botanists call all the pepper family,
wherever they grow. They all like a
hot climate, as you might guess from
their fiery nature, but are not very par
ticular about anything else. Black
pepper, as we see it, is the dried berry
of climbing-plant that grows IN the
East Indies. White pepper is the same
berry, stepped in water until the skin
comes off, and then dried in the sun.
Red pepper grows in Cayenne. Guinea
pepper in Africa
Year: 1874

MUSICAL MIcE.-It is a well-known
fact, that pleasant sounds attract mice
from their hiding-places, and cause
them to forget all fear. They come in
broad daylight into room where one
is playing on a musical instrument.
Some people declare that mice walk
over the keys of pianos which are left
open, to hear the tones, and many
stories are related of mice learning to
sing-that is, to utter sounds which
resemble the low notes of the canary
and other Gagged birds. Disputes have
arisen among learned people about this
singing, some declaring it to be only a
plaintive utterance of danger or distress,
whilst others say that mice in their
healthiest and gayest moods utter these
pleasant sounds. A man whose name i
do not remember says, Some mice had
chosen their habitation behind the
woodwork N my kitchen. 1 allowed
them to go on undisturbed. What a
charming family they werei A fine
singing canary hung in the kitchen /;
and, strange to say, the twittering of
the mice became a complete imitation
of the notes of the canary, at first weak
and imperfect, but improving from day
to day. Although it did not reach the
strength, fullness and richness of the
notes of the bird, yet it excelled them
in softness and tenderness. / often
listened to them with the greatest plea
sure in the evening, when the canary,
with its head under its wing, was fast
asleep. More than one kitchen guest
looked toward the canary and about the
room with astonishment, saying, SIS
that bird singing, sir ?''


A lady writes "When was a girl,
l used to practice my music in an old
fashioned parlor, separated from the
rest of the house by large hall think
L might have felt lonely, shut up in that
room three consecutive hours every day
but for a dear little mouse that evi-
IDENTIFY appreciated my music more than
did, and often made me a visit.


'For more than a month that little
creature, or some other, seated itself
fearlessly near the instrument every
time began to practice, and often re-
NAMED half an hour or more. Some
times it would go and come two or three
times in the course of the forenoon. 1t
must have come for the music, for no
food was ever allowed in that stately
old room"
Year: 1874

FACTS ABOUT THE FLAMIyGo.-
flamingo is wader, and, of course, has
exceedingly long, thin legs. Probably
the joints are too long and awkward to
be tidily folded up in any pretty nest,
and SO this is the plan resorted to : The
bird builds the "under-pinning" of her
nest of sticks and dead weeds, much in
the shape of the fashioned dasher-
churn. 1t is compact, and symmetrical
and high, and on the summit the nest
is carefully modelled and softly lined.
On this the bird actually sits astride,
like man on a milestone, a long leg
touching the ground ON either side.
Coming upon the famingo taking his
MONDAY nap, no one would be apt to
recognize bird in the snowy ball of
features poised above the water upon a
tall, slender crimson reed yet the
crimson reed is leg, and the perfectly
round ball conceals the head and neck
somehow packed under the wing.


In the Garden of Plants, at Paris,
there is a hamingo pond, well shaded
on one side, and planted with water
weeds, where these birds may be seen
in most fourishing condition. One
species has brilliant streak Of crimson
along the whole length of the wing. 1t
was one of this variety that had the
misfortune, some years ago, to lose one
of its legs. OF course, walking was
after that, for it must be
quite a feat to preserve equilibrium
even on two such legs as the fiamingo's.
In this strait of the poor bird, kind
surgeon of the society tried the expert
ment of fitting him wooden leg. 1t
worked admirably, and, no doubt, he
may be seen still hobbling about like
an old soldier for in the massacre of
the animals in the Garden of Plants
during the siege of Paris, we may be
sure that French sentiment was careful
to spare bird having so singular his
tory
Year: 1874

F. J. MCINTYRE, one Of our enter
prising young grocers, got up lively
run away on Saturday. The horse got
loose from the cutter and run two
miles and half into the country, and
becoming entangled in his harness was
captured in the meadow of Granger on
Hay Creek.
Year: 1874

The Arkansas trouble is about set
tied 1t appears, the two Governor s
having agreed to leave the matter to
the Legislature to decide aud to abide
peaceabiy it's decision. The agree
ment was brought about by attorneys
representing each claimant, in Wash
ington City, with the assistance OF
the Attorney General. After the ba-
sis of settlement had been agreed up
on, the President communicated
with both Baxter and Brooks, inform


ing them that there must be a full
meeting of the Legislature. and that
action i'm the matter had better be de-
feTred until all the members friendly
to either party should have an oppor-
tunity to be present, so that the de-
termination of the quarrel might be
marked with fairness. And the Pres
ident promises that all necessary pro-
lection shall be given the Legislature
during its deliberations, by the Fed
eral soldiers, aud recommends that
the militia gathered for either party
be disbanded, or moved away so that
the Legislature would not be in dan
ger Of being Influenced or intimida-
ted by the forces of either of the con-
tending claimants. IL is evident that
since this agreement at settlement
has been made that President Grant
will hold The parties To it, will see
that the Legislature gives the case a
thorough investigation, and will rec
ognize and sustain the man 70 whom
the Govervcrship is awarded.
Year: 1874

Editor Nebraska Advertiser.


After looking over the Lime Kiln
here I will give you a brief idea of
their construction and of what they
accomplish. The Livingston. the Page
and the Randall patents are used In
one or the other of the Kilns. / will
describe the one which uses the RAN
dali patent. The kiln is located on
the bottom near high ledge of lime
stone. The kiln proper is built over
an arched culvert and Is so construct
ed that the lime, as fast as it is thor
oughIy burned, falls down through
the bottom of the kiln into an iron
car made for the purpose. The car
which receives the lime as it comes
from the kiln is in the arched culvert
When the car is full it is then run off
and dumped. After the lime has
cooled sufficiently il Is shoveled into
a railroad car. There are three kilns
side by side. Two horses and carts
and ten men are at work all the time,
as fast as the carts are loaded they are
drawn Up to the top of the kilns on a
bridge and the stone is dumped into
the top of the kilns.


These kiins turn out three hundred
and fifty bushels of lime per day
There are ten other such kilns within
a short distance of this one the entire
daily products OF which are two thou
sand bushels of burned lime. The
fuel used is Oskaloosa soft stone coal.
The kilrs are lined with fire brick
The kilns hold one hundred bushels
of stone each, Twenty bushels of
burned lime is drawn off every two
hours from each separate furnace
The balance of the stone in the kiln
settles down to the place of white heat
This process subjects the stone to four
separate degrees of heat, to-wit: warm,
hot, red and white heat, so that in
eight hours from the time the stone is
dumped into the kiln it is drawn off
as lime.


The expense of putting the stone
from the quarry through the kiln into
the railroad cars is fifteen cents per
bushel. The selling price is twenty
five cents per bushel. A railroad car
holds three hundred bushel of lime.
The freight per car to Council Bluffs
is S65. The gas works of St. Paul,
Dubuque, Davenport and other cities
use this lime in preference to the Alton
lime as it is better aud stronger. For
white-washing or plastering it has no
superior in any market. l have been
thus explicit SO that builders in Ne
braska may know whether it may be
laid down there cheaper than the lime
they are now using.


JARVIS S. CHURCH.


Mason city. IolcO, May 6, 1874.
Year: 1874

There ara great many kinds of
them, but the kind l want to tell you
about are often seen around retail
stores. He cannot look at anything
except with his fingers; if he orders
any goods put up, while the shop
keeper is busy weighing them, niJble7
is busy too. He will open every box
and barrel within his reach-his hand
in all-must ni66Ie your cheese and
crackers and all kinds of green and
dried fruits. He will get behind your
counter TO peek and look into every
thing. If he happens to want butter
he is sure TO taste of every piece or
parcel you have. putting The knife
into his tobacco stained mouth each
time without thinking. Now, is there
no remedy for these nibblers. 1t
would be pity to affrOnt them. You
may look your disapproval as much as
you please. they do not seem to un
derstand it; don't understand that
each and every article costs the shop
keeper something if it is ever SO small
You will see these nibblers around
apple wagons-nibbHng. They never
take the smallest, but the largest and
ripest ones. Just to taste. you knoO -
Now, if the nibbler trades with you
he is sure to get array" with all your
profits on the goods be buys.


In general way shopkeepers are
supposed to be clever, and do not want
to be called stingy, and 'go for" these
nibblers, but we submit if they are
not sometimes driven to where "pa-
tience ceases TO be a virtue" Hand
these nibblers around.


n SUFFERER.
Year: 1874

To the purchaser paying the full amount
chased at such sale, the Treasurer of said
receipt containing description of the land
SOLD, and on acknowledgment of the pay
ment OF the purchase money, and on preSen =
tatlon OF either to the Land Commissioner
at any time after fteen days from the date of
each receipt, shall entitle the purchaser TO a
tltle TO said land, I'm fee simple, from the said
state, and the deIfvery of deed on the sur
render to such Commissioner of the other
receipts; and to the purchasers purchasing
on credit, the said Treasurer will execute in
duplicate, one of which shall be delivered to
the purchaser, and the other retained for the
use OF the State, after being signed by the
purchaser. a contract of sale for the land
purchased, conditions that upon the pay
inent OF the unpaid purchase money and the
interest thereon, according to the conditions
OF such note, the purchaser shall be entitled
10 duplicate receipts of payment and Dlr-
chase of such lands therein described: that
no timber shall be cut thereon, except neces-
sary for firewOOd for the occupant CT such
land, and for the improvements thereon ::
and that in case default shall be made in the
payment of the interest or principal, or any
part thereof, or IL any such conditions shall
be broken, that then the land therein des-
cribed shall be surrendered by the purchaser
his heirs and assigns. with improvements
thereon, to the Stale, and the said contract
shall be void and Of no effect


Dated BrownvilIe, May II, 1874


WILSON Z. MAJORS


46W6 Clerk of Nemaha County,
Year: 1874

Cash in hand, or at the option of the pur-
chaser, ten per cent. cash down on prairie
lands, and fifty per cent on other lands, at
the time of sale. to be paid to the Cnnntv
Treasurer of said county, with a prOmissory
note for the unpaid purchase money, to na-
ture ten years after date, bearing interest
in advance, a ten per cent.
per annum; the first payment of interest 10
be computed to the first day of January next
after the date Of the note, and when said
note is given for the purchase of timber land
IL snail be further secured by the endorse
ment Of two freehOlderS of the county. to be
approved by the County Treasurer, and in
case or non payment of interest or princi-
pal, the land shall be surrendered, with i'm :
-.rOYementS there u to the Stale.
Year: 1874

The seth inst is the day appointed
by the Grand Army of the Republic
rs Memorial Day ia remembrance of
the patriotic dead It Is the day upon
which the graves OF the SONS and
fathers who died for their country
will be deeked with garlands of fresh
spring flowers.
Year: 1874

The Blade and Journal of Lincoln
have commenced quarreling. The
former throws the first shot at its
giant competitor. and challenges a
comparison of strength ere it is scarce
" q mouth old. We presume it is
impossible for two excellent Republi-
can papers in the same city to get
along tremendously. There would be
no fun without a fight, thinks the
pugnscious Blade. Gere, spank the
infant, and tell it something about
little boats.
Year: 1874

WIFE's Communicable following
commandments were written by mans wife
who signs herself j. X.


Thou shalt have no other wife but me, nor
shalt thou in thy sleep dream of other women.


Thou shalt not take unto thy house any beau
tiful, sly, brazen image of a servant girl to
make love to when my back is tnrned, for am
a jealous wife.


Honor thy wife's father and mothcr--wear a.
smile when they meet thee.


Thou shalt not be behind thy neig b Dor, but
outshine him in dressing thy wife and babies.


Thou shalt let thy wife have the last word
in every row.


Thou shalt not get drank, or go to bed with
thy boots on.


Thou shalt not say nice words to other ladies
in my presence, nor praise them in our priva-
cy-remember, am jealous wife.


Thou shalt not stay out after nine o'clock at
night, nor snore at my side, nor kick in thy
sleep.


Remember, oh, thou Benedict, these COM
mandments and keep them holy, for they are
the law and gospel.
Year: 1874

ARE WE GOING TO RUIN ?-No! There is
large class of people who think so, and who
have taken alarm at the moral anarchy which
prevails. This fact alone is sufficient proof
Il. at all honor, honesty and moral responsible
ity is not extinct The alarm felt is evidence
of the existence of salt enough to save the peo-
pie, and this development of alarm is the first
step toward the development of reform. If a
house is on fire the first step towards securing
the safety of its occupants and putting out the
fire is to alarm them. Once alarmed, action
begins, the people and perhaps the superstruc
ture are saved. So in civil and moral dangers.
Our safety consists in the fact that we are be-
coming thoroughly alarmed at the peculations,
venality and moral turpitude of those whom
we have trusted. The American people have
begun to light their lanterns and to hunt for
honest men upon whom to bestow places of
trust and honor. The demand will create
supply. Be assured of it, And as soon as it
is thoroughly understood that honesty and in
tclligence are more valued and respected than
the money man may have accumulated, no
matter how, honesty and intelligence will rise
to the surface and assume sovereign control
It all depends upon the undercurrent of public
epinion-upon the tone of the public press, and
upon the rigid enforcement of the laws of re-
straint and responsibility by which every pub
lie servant should be governed.
Year: 1874

MB-A Peoria naturalist, in attempting to
warm the ears of a frozen wasp over gas jet,
discovered that the tail of the insect thawed
out first, and worked with rapidity that was
as Astonishing as the hideous profanity of the
naturalist, who held the insect by the tail while
thus experimenting.
Year: 1874

The action of the House of Representatives yester


day by it's decisive vote IN legalizing the four
hundred million legal tenders gave to stock specu-
lation something of the buoyancy which had been
quite generally expected though the bill has yet
to pass the ordeal of the Senate, which body has
been to-day ioundering amid the ragged points of
Senator Shernans bll the movement in the leading
stocks has been somewhat less important than had
been generally anticipated Though after the re-
markabe vote OF the House, and what is reason
ably well known as to the position of q
majority of the Senators upon the Currency
question why any one should doubt that the
Senate will mite with the lower branch Of Con-
grcss in its measures for initiation 1t is difficult to
surmsc. Prices Of stocks at the start were buoyant
and bounding at figures to per cent, and in the
case Of Rock leland. IA pcr cent higher than thoes