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Year: 1874

A writer in the Popular Science
| Monthly says "Before the railroad
| days our oyster growers used early IL
| the fall to canvass the villages on the
| Hudson river for orders to be filed JUS
| before the river should be closed with


ice. The meaning of this is that these
| men committed themselves to suppl5
! oysters in the shell, with the guarantee
| that the biyalves thus supplied should
| not lie, before their time came. The oys-
| ters were actually kept alive during the
| great part of the long winter. The fat


bivalves were handled with some care,
| and were spread on the cellar floor, the


round or lower side down, so as not to


allow the liquor to escape. That such


a life required great change of capaci-
ty or habit in the bivalve is evident


and it needed training, yes, an educa-


tiOn, ere the oyster attained to such


ability. And this was the way it was
done: Beginning early in the fall, the
cultlvatOr of the oyster took up the fat


bivalves from their bed where he had
planted them, and laid them little
higher up on the shore, so that for q
short time each day they were exposed
out of the water. After q few days of
this exposure by the retreating tide they
were moved little higher still on the
shore line, which gave them q little
longer exposure to the air at each low
tide. And this process was continued,
each remove resulting in a longer ex-
posure. And with what results Two
very curious ones-inurement to expos
ure and the inculcatIon of a provident
habit OF making preparation for the
same. What providence in an oyster
Yes, when he's educated. When accus-
toned to this treatment, ere the tide re-
tires the oyster takes a good full drink
and retains the same until the tide re-
turns. Once, while waiting for the
stage at a country hostelry, we over
heard the following between two rustic
practitioners at the bar: Come, Swill,
let's take a drink = well, [ don't
know. Amt dry myself. Hows'ever,
guess I will take a drink, for fear I
might get dry = With better philoso-
ply on their side, these educated oys-
took their precautionary drink. The
French method of oyster training is
much more laborious. The adult BIZ
valves are carfully spread out in the
water, and periodical lessons are given
to each one individually. Each oyster
on this occasion receives a tap, not with
a ferule, but with a small iron inStru-
ment. This causes the bivalve to close
tightly. Finally the last day comes
with its last premonitory tap. It's edu-
cation thus finished, it takes passage
with its fellow-graduates for Paris. As
a result of its education, it knows how
to keep it's mouth shut when it enters
society,""
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Washington


Chronicle who has lately made a pill


grimage to Monticello, once the home


of Thomas Jefferson, thus describes the


mansion in which the great Statesman


dwelt:


1t is a two-story main building an


wings, the former projecting front and
rear in immense porticoes of solid


stone, the center of the building being
capped with plain butill lighted dome
| On the ceiling of the front portico is q


large compass dial, and Immediately y
over the main door there is set in the


wall large clock, with dials showing
inside and out, and there is now exhibi
| ted ladder made by Jefferson himself,
and with which he wound up the time
| keeper at stated periods by the weights
suspended from pulleys on the walls OF
| either side. The main entrance really
consists of three dojlble glass doors, ali
| of which can be removed, and you enter
a vestibule, octagonal in shape, and pass
| Immediately into parlor of the same
| shape. The two apartments have in
laid floors of walnut, mahogany and
| cherry, which have vet to be surpassed
by any work of the kind in this country.
| Although they were in constant use in
| JeffersOn's DAYS. as he always had lots
| of company, and have been used since,
and are still, by picnic and dancing par
| ties, they are not warped nor injured in
the least, and need, apparently, only
| soap and water to restore them TO their
| original glossy appearance. There are
two small dining rooms, one in each
wing, the rest of the building being cut
up into small and badly-lighted bed
rooms. Ventilation seems to have been
buried beneath every other considera
ton, as there is no room i'll the house
through which there could be gained a
direct air current. The beds, even, are
set in recesses of alcoves in the walls,
to form which space and rooms are
sacrificed, and the stairways, one in
each wing, are so constructed, and of such
scant bend that their descent would be
perilous in the daytime without a Ian
tern. A covered way, which is in
rather a dilapidated condition, leads
from either wing to his library and of
fee respectively, and an underground
passage, through which he made his
escape from Col. Carleton and the Brit
ish cavalry, is shown to visitors. There
is suspended in the vestibule a four
light lantern, but beyond the old gig
body, in which it is said he usedto tide TO
Charlottesville, there is not an article of
furniture or curiosity in the house. The
janitor or keeper of the premises is a
white man named Thomas Wheeler, who
lives in the east stwiDg. He was the overseer
for Commodore Levy, the last tenant of
the entire mansion, and as the property is
nov in litigation he remains in charge
by sufferance, sustaining himself by
what he can make off the farm and the
collections (twenty five cents each)
which he demands from visitors.
Year: 1874

A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says "There are many
other facial anomalies, which fail to at
tract attention because we have grown
accustomed to them. We should ex-
pect the convex cast of one side of the
face to fit, line for line, into the con-
cave cast of the other but it is doubt
full if there is to be anywhere found one
single head of this ideal perfection.


Neither the contour of the cheeks nor
the lines of the countenance are the
same on both sides, and they are all the
less SO because every one unconsclously
tends to perform many unilaterial facial
movements, which in time cause a di-
vergence between the two sides of the
face. Besides, the head, projecting as
it does freely into air, is more depen-
dent than we imagine on wind and
weather. Suppose person were to sit
constantly al a window, turning one
side to the cooler atmosphere out-of-
doors, and the other towards a hot
stove the result would be a two-fold
growth of the facial muscles. One side
of the face might become rounded, and
the other fiat or concave !; and, though
such faces are not unfrequent, we do
not notice the anomaly simply because
we are accustomed to it. In the Lapp
we have a good illustration of this une i.
quail development. just as the trees
of his native land are stuuted, SO too
his features become monstrous, irregu-
lar, and one-sided; the frontal bones
are forced, as though by. spasm, down
on the maxillaries, producing the most
singular combinations and contortions
of the features. A not uncommon form
of asymmetry, in more favored lands,
is the presence of a dimple on one cheek,
while the other has no such indentation,
or bat very faint one. In such cases
the face has, as it were, a summer and a
winter side, just like the apple, which
is round and ruddy on the summer side,
but on the shade-side aattened and


ran
Year: 1874

The London Globe says: : "For the
last few years the milliner's idea has


been to dress her customers as like men


as possible, to give them stand up col


lars and leather belts, to arm them with


umbre las hanging from the waist as if
they were swords, to supply them with


gentlemen's watch pockets, and gentle
mems watch chains. Even in fashion
the world must advance, and the move
for the coming winter is decidedly move
forward. Fashionable ladies, who have
been dressed like men, must now dress
like wild animals. All the tissues are
to resemble furs, and as a few years ago
young ladies were said to wear Dolly
Vardens, so now they will put on their
'camels.' That is the generic name by
which the Partisan n1odistes have called
the years fabrics, though of course
there is variety allowed, and young
lady may appear as a reindeer, as bear,
as a northern elk-in fact, as any rough
skinned animal she may select. But
it is necessary that the skins should
consist of as few pieces as possible.
The camel and collar which will be
known in the fashionable world as a
dogs collar will complete the costume.
But this new invention of the French
dressmakers has not so much originality
after all. The idea is merely develop
ment of the Ulster great coat, which
was borrowed couple of years ago
from the Irish peasantry. This desire
for the toughest materi Is and the
rudest make has produced already
strange results. In Switzerland Eng
lishmen are dressed so like guides that
it is difficult to distinguish them. Even
at Brighton the taste for walking sticks
has declared that perfectly plain bit of
ash cut out of the wood and innocent ot
scraping and vanishing is the most
fashionable cane. A silver ornament is
allowed near the handle as sort of
trademark to show that it belongs to
gentleman. Even if the winter of 1874
should be as inclement as that of 1870,
there may yet be days when the camel
would be too warm, and so less heavy
garments have to be prepared. Still,
the relations with the animal world will
be kept. up. Ladies, when they cannot
go out like beasts, will go out like
birds. All trimmings are to be made of
feathers-cocks' feathers, pheasants'
feathers. This plumage is to covor the
dresses, but whole bird will be in the
hat. A very fashionable lady may,
therefore, assume parrots head and
peacock's tail"
Year: 1874

Charles Warren Stoddard, writing to
the San Francisco Chronicle of the
crater of Vesuvius, says eve all
stuffed our handkerchiefs into our
mouths, held our noses, and epped up
on the very rim of the cone. On one
side was a yawning chasm, so filled with
vapors that saw nothing; on the other
was the precipitous slope of the noun
tain, down which it was easy to cast
ones self and slide for two or three
hundred feet without much effort. In
few moments we had passed the fiery
or smoky ordeal, and, coming around
the windward side of the cone, we
breathed once more the delicious air Of
the morning. We could now approach
the crater with ease and look far down
into its hideous-nay, its beautiful
depths. 1t is very beautiful. The in
ner walls are thickly coated with sui
phur, and a Pompeiian fresco is not
more brilliant or harmonious than the
rich and splendid greens aad reds and
yellOws that there combine % decorate
this temple of the furies. Sudden puts
of wind sometimes waited the great
clouds that were continually ascending
from the pit high over our heads, and
the sun charging the sulphurous steams
with light, CHASTITY gloom was thrown
for a moment over everything. We
heard the commotion of the elements
beneath us it was as though the pit
we're half filled with fat, frying and
sizzling; the air was heavily charged
with sulphurous gases we felt the heat
of the very ground we stood on through
the soles of our boots in many places
we could not touch our hand to the
rocks without blistering it. Close by
was hole in the side, jutting point
of lava, into which one of the guides
introduced, without the aid of his staff,
a large roll of paper, which no sooner
touched the spot that it burst into
flame; the end of his stick ignited in a
few seconds, yet no flames issued from
the fiery furnace. The boy brought me
a small bit of of lava, at which light
Il -
Year: 1874

Salmon fishing on the Lower Colum-
bia river, Oregon, has been unusually


successful this season. The best part
of the season is from April to August
this year the largest number of salmon
was taken in July. The thirteen can
ming establishments on the river did not
take less than an average of Is, 900 every
night in the month. During the season
about 100000 salmon we're caught,


ach averaging, when dressed, sixteen
pounds. About 10000 of these were
canned, the remainder salted and bar
relied. Every one who has eaten salmon,
properly canned, knows that it is nice,
but probably few know the fact that
from the time the salmon is caught un-
til it is ready for market it passes
through twenty-seven hands; the can
in which the salmon was put employs
| ten men in the process Of making the
Year: 1874

Don Quixote took tilt at the wind
mills, but the ed tor of the Courier
Journal charges church s5eeples. He
asks Why not abolish the church
steeples? Is there any part of build
ing so useless as a steeple? It can
neither be constructed nor kept in re-
pair without great danger to human
life, aud 1t dosen't look we'll after the
best can be done for it has be done
AS if heaven itself were protesting
against the folly of this unsightly heap,
scarcely a thunderstorm passes over
the country which does not hurl its
bolts against some church steeple.
During storm this summer in New
Jersey, steeple was struck three times
in succession. The other day lightning
struck the steeple of church in Ohio,
and nine women in the church were
prostrated, five of whom may never re-
cover. Why should we set up targets
for the lightning? Even if the road to
heaven really lies through the atmOs-
phere, we have surer guides to it than
church spires. We Hould be gamers
by building our churches on modest
plans. The story Of the tower of Babel
is quite enough to show that heaven is
brought no nearer by building high in
the air
Year: 1874

Gen. Jackson, when president, said
TO one of his fercest newspaper oppo-
uents: "Send me your newspaper. L
know that you are opposed TO me, but
then / should like 20 see your paper
every day. want TO see how many
lies you can tell OF me-" General, "
said the editor, "I think do right in
opposing you, and / shall continue TO
do so with all the ability OF which am
MASTER" Here was a man after Jack
sons own heart, and he replied with an
oath: "Sir, send me your paper, for
aside from your abuse Of me your pa
per is a good one. Besides, I never
saw newspaper in which / could not
find something worth reading" Just
so. No man can pick up n newspaper
without finding something OF interest.
You may take the paper and tear IL into
Fragments, and in each fragment You
will see something TO amuse or instruct
you.
Year: 1874

case in which the cans are packed en-
ploys in the manufacture five men, max
ing in all forty-two persons necessary in
a regular establishment to prepare a
can of salmon, from the catching the
fish until it is ready for shipment. 1T
is no unusual matter for one of the
large canneries to prepare for market
25, 900 one pound cans in a day.
Year: 1874

IL is with pleasure we call the
attention OF our readers TO the
card Of the gentleman whose name
heads this article. Unsolicited by
us he sends us his advertisement.
feeling no doubt, satisfied that the
quality Of his goods will bear in
apection; and wishing to sell them,
like true merchant let's the peo.
pie know that he has them for
sale. Our advise to the general
public is to buy from those who
advertise, for there you may con-
iidently expect fair dealing.


Mr.. Weller Is known to most OF
the citizens OF Mississippi county
and We know they will not !ail to
call On him wheu they visit Mem
phis.
Year: 1874

AGREEABLE to the invitation ten
dered by the officers of the steamer
Geo. W. Cheek, quito number OF
the fuir sex of Osceola with their
gallant escorts went aboard on her
arrival. AS we were at the time
at home wrestling with an Arkan-
sas chill, we did not of course take
much interest in the proceedings,
but learn that very pleasant time
was had.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Eleck Goodrich's new house
went up like flash. Alter the
tmbcr was put on the ground,
four men in few days had Il two
story house up and rooted. A few
more such days work and 1t will
be sealed, shelved and ready to
receive stock of goods Good
Who is next.
Year: 1874

Hereafter TO Legal Advertise
ments will be inserted in the TINES
nnlcss payments is made when hand
ed in. 1t requires money to carry
on our business and We are com.
PEELED to adopt the cash principle
This rule will not be deviated from
IN any case.
Year: 1874

these dispatches there is less being done at the
National Observatory than at any other place
equipped with proper instruments.


THE sPKCrRosoOPE,


with which the most important results could be
obtained, win not be ready until late in August
30 the observations which might otherwise be
added TO cometary literature by the professors
will be lost to the scientific world on account
OF the small appropriation doed out
by the grangers ana leaders OF so-called economy
in Congress. Meeting Professor Holden this even-
ing asked II he had anything new to commun-
cate abOnt the comet He politely said shere was
nothing new All that could be done at the OBJ
servatory was to watch the course OF the nebulous
body. He deeply regretted that the institution
was unprovlded with spectroscope, and none
could be got IN time, for the observatory having
the Instrument woud no more lend II now than
peltlng ram.


CONGRESSIONAL PARsINONY.


Whoever visits the Observatory may behold evil
dences Of the parsimony OF Congress. For In
stance the dome OF the great equatorial telescope,
the largest In the world, has until recently been
In an unfinished condition. The ceiling Of the
lack lack Of better material fnere was no money money for
the Observatory, though $4,000 was net too much
for a fountain TO ornament square, overgrown
with weeds, near Senator Stewards residence.
The Secretary Of the Navy, In the benevolence Of
his heart, cared for this much Of his command by
furnishing lot OF old salls that canvas has
placed the paper lining OF the dome.


THE RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS.


The expeditions departing and on their way to OBJ
serve the transit OF Venus have made great inrOad
upon the scientific corps in all parts OF the coun-
try, depriving ''0ld Codger" Of many Jealous
friends. Yet your correspondent was assured that
all the satisfactory work that could be expected
OF astronomers in regard co the comet would not
be known until long after the stranger had passed
from earthly view and had ceased to be news
paper sensation.


''Ai that we win be able TO give" said Professor
Holden ..co9ld be given in seven lines OF HERALD
aim TO contribute to the scientific record OF the
word.n


Professor Asaph Hall, who has been enormously
supposed to have had special charge OF "Old
Codger" since he came within the scope OF the
Professors instrument, is Overburdened with work
preparatory to his departure for Japan to observe
the transit OF Venus, and hts acquaintance with
the nebulous traveller has not yet been familiar.
Year: 1874

From the Utica Herald-republicanl


But II Mayor Havemeyer shall find security be-
hind legal technicality, as he hopes TO do, he
will not be saved from the condemnation Of public
opinion. No journal has been found ready to de-
fend him. No friend has cared to raise his voice
in behalf Of an act for which no good motive can
be discovered The term OF Mayor Havemeyer Is
q man who came TO 1t with larger opportunities
for promoting the welfare OF the city and leaving
1t with a lasting and honorable fame. 1t is only
tunities that we can properly estimate the great
ness OF his failure. He ls but another example Of
q man who has only himself to blame for escaping
greatness. Opportunity has done everything for
him. He has done little or nothing for himself.
Year: 1874

The Board Of Police commissioners met yester-
DAY afternoon and formed an organization by
electing Commissioner Mstsell President OF the
Board and General Duryee treasurer Intelligence
90 grateful TO so large numDer OF persons could
not but ny fast, and this went round rapidly. In
and out OF the department there was rejoc.
fpg tnat the anomalous position OF the past
few days had been broken up The fact
that an Agreements had been arrived At and toat
Year: 1874

The Southern California Post will
soon to be established in our city. Mr..
Jacoby the editor and proprietor has
arrived and is now moving his mate
rial into the HERALD office where the
paper will be published. 1t is expect
ed that the first issue of the Post will
appear two weeks from to-day. We
welcome our new cotemporary to the
field ofjournalism in Los Angeles, n
bespeaks for it the hearty support
which we know it will deserve.
Year: 1874

nc The tide ofimmigration is steadily set.
ting in, and the first thing eastern people dc
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
new one of DESMOND. They say there is nc
comparison between the two. 21Io
Year: 1874

charged In each case but in oflractonal miles the
fraction may be counted as q unit.


The following analysis of the annual report of the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company for the
year ended June SO 1874 may prove of interest to
dealers in the stock. 1t will be remembered that
in December last the Company declared its usual
semi mi-annual 81 per cent dividend on its preferred
stock, and paid the scrip bearing per cent
interest, and to become due lin March. 1875. This
aividend was supposed to represent the earnings
applicable to dividend out of six months business
but it will be noted that it amounted to $llb.loS
more than the earnings for the whole year. A note
at foot of the report says the temporary loan on
Sept. 49, 1874, had been reduced to 100000. This
of course was done either at the expense OF the
Year: 1874

There has been great parliamentary
battle in Bavaria between the Govern
ment and the Ultramontane party, but
the victory was left with the former.
Herr Won Lutz, the Minister of WOr-
ship, was the object of attack, and his
enemies were defe- ted by majority Of
only one. The Munich correspondent
of the Independence Beige Describes
the attack as the result of "a yeritable
conspiracy kept secret till the last mo-
ment," which was designed to tall
like a thunderbOlt on the head Of the
Minister, who expected nothing Of the
Sort In the midst of a quiet discus
sion of the Budget of Worship, Herr
Freitag, an UltramOntane deputy,
rose to read in the name of his political
friends a declaration of war, which
stated that in future the clerical party
would refuse all subsidies 70 a minister
who had not the confidence Of the
country, ending with a motion to refuse
funds for the Polytechnic school.
Great agitation followed, the
Liberals being indignant at the man
puvre, and the evident design OF the
clericals to separate Herr Won Lutz
from his colleagues so as TO wreak per-
sonal vengeance on his head. The
maneuvre failed before the frmness
of the minister and the loyalty Of his
colleagues, who FASTENED to declare
their Joint responsibility for his policy.
..The last words of Herr Won Lutz the
correspondent says which contained a
threat of dissolution were pronounced
In the midst of an agitation such as the
Bavarian Diet-usually very quiet
has never seen, and the Chamber ad-
journed till the evening. At the even
ing sitting. after some further lively
discussion, the minister was successful
on a division. by q to 76 through the
unexpected detection of Particularist
member. The UltramOntanes had
chosen time when they were aware
that some Of the Liberals were absent,
with a view to force on a dissolution or
to secure the retirement of the Minis
ter of Worship, who is the leading
spirit in the Cabinet.