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Year: 1874

GLUTToSY.-While the war against
intemperance in drinking is being
waged, why does not some one rise up
to combat intemperauce in eating !?
How does it happen that amid the ever
lasting cry against drunkenness We
never hear a word against it's sister evil
-gluttony? l think, says a well-known
physician, L can assert with truth that,
IN long practice, three have died
among my patients from over eating,
where one has died from drink. Whence
come apoplexy, paralysis. dyspepsia,
and host of other diseases, but from
too much rich food, taken under most
imprudent circumstances And yet
We hear of no society formed to prevent
this growing evil. A man eats until he
drops down with apoplexy by the road
side, when up comes the coroner with
a Jury of twelve good men and true,
who pronounce verdict, "Died from
intemperance." So he did, but what
kind of intemperance was it? | have
heard more than one minister in the
pulpit expatiate with great vehemence
against the sin of drunkenness, whose
very appearance was proof positive that
he was pre-eminently guilty of glut-
tony.
Year: 1874

A professor of Cornell Uriversi-
ty recently published number of
hints as to "What to do in case Of
accident" One Of these was as
follows: "If you choke, get down
on all fours and cough" One of
our neighbors-Woodw
this, and determined to remember
it. Day before yesterday he was
eating his dinner alone, and he
choked upon piece Of beef. In
stantly he got down on all fours
and began to cough. Just then,
Mrs. Woodward came in, and the
impression made upon her by
Woodward's extraordinary atti-
tude and his barking was that he
had suddenly been attacked With
hydrophobia. So she first seized
the pitcher Of water, and took it
from the room. Then she sent
one of the girls up stairs for the
mattress, which was thrown over
Woodward, while Mrs. Woodward
and the family sat on it and held
him down. The madder he got
the more alarmed was Mrs. Wood
ward; and the more ne swore and
fcamed at his mouth, the more
she Insisted on the hired girl Civ
ing an extra turn Of the clothes
line around his leg and tying him
to the stove. When the doctor
came, he pulled Woodward's arm,
from under the mattress and bled
him, and put fyblisters on his
feet, and promised to come round
in the evening and shave his scalp
so as to relieve his brain. When
the doctor called that night, Wood
ward had prize-6ght with him
in the parlor, and after sending
the medical man up to the bath.
room to wash tne blood from his
nose and cool his eye, Woodward
went out to hunt for the Cornell
professor. There will be pain and
anguish in that institution Of learn.
ing when Woodward arrives. He
means war to the knife.


'Mdr Adeler.
Year: 1874

Be brief. Come to the point
Begin very near where you intend
to leave off. Brevity is the soul
of wisdom as we'll as wit. With
out ityou can seldom obtain hear
ers, much less be remembered
Ponderous things do net easily OBJ
tain currency. Only the gems
of literature are treasured up and
quoted, and gems are not reckoned
by gross weight.


How compact all that comes
down to US from the olden times!
In how few words we have the
commandment and the history of
creation-h a dly embracing so
many words as are now employed
to welcome an alderman, or to
make complimentary present Of
q spoon


The efficiency and value of COM
parison can scarcely be overrated.
The common air we beat aside
with our breath. compressed has
the force Of gunpowder, and will
rend the solid rock; so it is with
our language. EloQuence will new
er flourish in country where the
public taste is infantile enough
to measure the value of a speech
BY the hours it occupies.


\ gentle stream ofpersussiVcncss
may flow through the mind, and
leave no sediment; let it come at
a blow, as a cataract, and it sweeps
all before it. 1tis by this magni-
fcent compression that Cicero
confounds Cataline, and Demos
| themes, overwhelms -Eschincs; by
that Mark Anthony, as Shak-
speare makes him speak, carries
the heart away with o bad cause.


4 clergyman once being asked
why he made his sermon so long,
replied that lie hadn't time to
make it shorter. Do you say it
costs labor to be brief? Of course
it does. Mere words are cheap
and plenty: but ideas that rouse
and set maltitudes thinking, come
as gold from quarry. The lau-
guage Of strong passion is always
terse and compressed. Genuine
conviction uses few words. There
is something of ar;iice in a long
speech.-Advocate.
Year: 1874

9he6 not been protected by few men among
the crowd, there is little doubt that violence
would have been offered them. Indeed,
one brute did trip one of the
ladies, but SUNK away before the
list of a gentleman, standing
near. The mob followed the ladies the en-
tire distance back to the church, yelling
every moment like Camanches, aud pre-
senting one Of the most disgraceful scenes
ever witnessed in this city. After the
women had entered the church and briefly
reported the failure of their mission, those
present spent some time in prayer and then
Year: 1874

The much abused Rev. Florence Nc
Carthy, of Chicago, in recent lecture
on Who Wouldn't be a Minister 2"
said Zone OF the first troubles which
befell a miDister-Rnd 1t was a matter
which they would nevet suppose he
would have any trouble abOut-Has the
management of the hair. Happy is the
minister whose head is shapely and
whose hair naturally falls into elegant
and handsome convolutions. He can
get as many calls and as much salary as
he needs. If the hair is right it matters
little whether his principles be good or
doctrine sound. speak feelinely on
this subject, said the lecturer. Ny own
hair has been the cause, fear, Of much
of ny misfortune. I never thought Of
it until recently but now remember
that the people who ousted me from
Union park church are exactly those
who used to labor with mo about my
hair. Absolutely that church has split
on my hair. After watching public SEN
timent in my church on this subject for
about one year, I can assure you there
were three parties in it on the subject
of my hair. The first insisted on its
being brushed down close. The second
on its being stuck up on end. The
third-the conservative party-on haV-
ing it loosed up. Noticing that these
three parties corresponded to the three
divisions of sermon, L soon fell into
the habit of delivering the first head of
my discourse with my hair as now.
(F'lattened to the head The second
division as now. (Putting his front
locks en- end The third division of
the sermon generally delivered with
my hair brought d5wn to the conserve
tive position quitting his hands through
his hair and smoothing down the more
elevated locks), and even now don't
know that my hair has given entire sat
iafaokion -
Year: 1874

Even those copper -colored cut-throats,
the Apache Indians, have a touch Of
delicacy and reverence in them. From
a lecture delivered in San Francisco by
Colonel John q. Carmany, the follow
ing account of their counting customs
IS taken:


Every young girl is at liberty to re-
fuse a suitor for her hand. The father,
mother and brother are prohibited from
interfering in her choice. Her person
is at her own disposal. After 3 brief
courtship the lover makes formal pro-
posal by Offering so many horses.
Horses are a standard of value among
the Indians. As the squaw does all the
work, horses are accepted as an equiya-
lent for her labor.


When young warrior becomes en-
amored, he fastens his horse near the
Wigwam of the squaw whose hand he
seeks, where he is left four days II
she fsils 10 feed and water the horse
during that time, the master IS rejected,
but il she accepts his offer she grooms
and kindly cares for the horse, and then
ties him to the wigwam OF her lover,
as much as to say, g I am willing TO be
your slave and do your work. At the
marriage the sages and sachems meet
together. and the bride is not unfre-
quently loaded with forty to fifty
pounds Of silver and copper trinkets.
Year: 1874

LOOK TO IT If man is hungry with
In an hour, more or less, after regular
meal, he is dispeptic beyond question.
and 1t shows that the stomach Is not abe
To work up what be has eaton. SO a. to
ge, nourishment out of it, but, to eat
again, and thus impose more work, when
it could do nothing for what i bad al.
ready beer eaten, is an absurdity; and
yet all dyspeptics who eat whenever they
are hungry do this very thing, and thus
aggravate and protract their sufferings.
Year: 1874

An old French shoemaker, who boast
ed that nothing could frighten him,
was put to the test by two young men.
One of them pretended to be dead, and
the other, going to the shoemaker, in
duoed him to " sit up" with the sup
posed corpse. The shoemaker was in
hurry with some work he had promised
to have completed the next morning.
So he took his tools and leather and be
gan working beside the corpse. About
twelve o'clock at night 3 cup of black
coffee was brought him to keep him
awake. He drank it and resumed work.
About 1 o'clock, the coffee having eI-
hilarated him, forgetting that he was IN
the presence of death, he commenced
to sing lively ture, keeping time with
his hammer. Suddenly the corpse
arose, and exclaimed in hollow voice !:
''When a man is in the presence OF
death he should not sing T. The shoe
maker started, then suddenly dealt tne
corpse blow on the head, exelGmlng
at the same time: "When 8 man Is
dead he should not speak" 1t was the
last time they tried to scare the shoe
maker,
Year: 1874




The Asiatic Indian woman carries her
baby in blanket hanging in front some
thing below the waist the Bengalese
woman, with the child astTide low
down upon her left hip, and her left
arm supporting its back. The figure
seems quite Indifferent as to the difficult
ties in this style of carrying, which must
be highly artistic performance if done
so cleverly in reality.


The Egyptian woman carries hers in
stately manner, the child sitting astride
her shoulder, with its hands upon her
head, and without any clothing to speak
of.


The Brazilian woman carries hers
in a somewhat similar manner, also
in full undress, it sitting astride her
neck.


The Chinese baby is carried upright
upon the back, in a blanket; and the
South African in bag in front formed
by blanket, round the hips of the
mother.


The Lower Australian woman carries
hers by swinging it in a blanket over
one shoulder upon her back, while
the North Australian woman carries
hers bound upon board, after the style
of candy models in confectionery stores.


The Lapland baby is carried in
sledge-shaped cot, made of leather. It
seems to have been chucked in feet fore
most, and then frame tied over the
opening for its face, whether to prevent
it from crawling out, or to keep the dogs
from kissing it, is more that can be i'm
agined.


The most unique style of all is that of
the Esduimau1 woman, who wears wide,
high-top bonts, and puts the baby, right
end foremost, down in the outside of one
of them, and doubtless, according to DR.
Kane's description of her style, carrying
her cooking and eating utensils in the
other.


The North American woman carries
her papoose strapped to board, and that
strapped upon her back by band over
The forehead.
Year: 1874

An operator sits at table in a room
darkened by curtains. On his desk
stands a little instrument named the re-
hecting galvanometer, the invention of
Sir William Thompson, without which
Atlantic telegi Apply would be as lowpro-
cess, not exceeding two or three words
per minute. instead of eighteen or TWEEN
ty, the present rate. This delicate in
strument consists of tiny magnet and
a small mirror swinging on asilk thread,
the two together weighing but a few
Grains. The electric current passing
along the wire from Valencia reflects a
spot of light on to a scale, in a box
placed at the operators right hand,
where. by its oscillation, the spot of
light indicates the slight movement of
the magnet, follows every change IN the
receiving current and every change,
great or small, produces q corresponding
oscillation of the spot of light on the
scale. A code of signals is so arranged
by which the movement of the spot Of
light Is made to indicate the letters of
the alphabet. When receiving message
from Valencia, the operator watches
the movements of the light speck,
which keeps dancing about over the
scale on his right. To his practiced
eve, each movement Of the spot Of light
Year: 1874

This great apostle wrote upon many
subjects. Health was prominent among
them. He published q work under the
| title of 's Primitive Physic or, an Easy
and Natural Method of Curing Most
Diseases" From his simple rules the
following are selected
Pure air Is very important
| Tender people should have those who
/ lie with them, or are much about them,
sound, sweet and healthy.


All persons ambitious of good sealth
should be as clean as possible in their
house, furniture and clothes.


The great rule IN food is to suit the
| quality and quantity to our digestion.
All picked, smoked, salted and high
seasoned food is unwholesome.


Nothing conduoes more to health
than abstinence and plain food, with
due labor For studious persons, about
eight ounces of animal and twelve of
vegetable food IN Neutrality-suspicious. is
sufficient.


Water is the most wholesome of all
drinks, most quickens the appetite and
strengthens the digestion. Strong, and
more especially spirituous liquors, are
a certain though slow poison. Expert
ence shows there is no manner of danger
in discoatinuing them at once.





Coffee and tea are extremely inluri
Gus to persons with weak nerves.


Tender persons should eat only very
light supper, and that full two or three
hours before going to bed. Such per-
sons ought to retire to bed invariably
by nine o'clock, and rise from four to
five in the morning.


Walking is the best exercise for
those who are able TO bear it, and rid
ing is the best for those who are not
able TO bear walking. We may
strengthen any weak part OF the body
by constant exercise. Thus the lungs
may be strengthened by loud speaking
or by walking up an ascent, the diges-
ton and nerves by riding, the arms
and hands by strongly rubbing them
daily.


The studious ought to have stated
times for exercise, st least two or three
times a day, one-half before dinner, the
other before going to bed. Those who
read or write much should learn to do
it standing, otherwise it will impair
their health.


The fewer clothes anyone uses by day
or night provided he is kept wsrm), the
harder he viii be.


Exercise should never be taken on a
full stomach, il should never be eontin.
ued to exhaustion, and when we are
done, we shOuld be careful not to cool
off too suddenly.


The fiesh-brush is highly beneficial,
especially in stimulating a part which
is cool and inactive. Cold bathing is a
great advantage to health. It prevents
many diseases, promotes respiration,
accelerates the circulation of the blood,
and secures against colds.


All violent and sudden passions dis
pose people to acute diseases. Slow
and lasting passions, such as grief and
hopeless love, bring on chronic dis
cases.
Year: 1874

There are conditions in which home
sickness assumes the form of the disease
known as nostalgia. Many opportu-
mites for observation nave enabled
pathologists and other scientific men to
trace the causes and effects of this dis
ease but its seat has been sought for
in vain. Some fatal examinations have
been credited to the disorder, but we
incline to the opinion that it never
killed any one directly, only through
diseases superinduced by the depres-
sion of spirits which is occasioned.
The French medical academy thought
the subject worthy of prize essay,
which, when produced, threw much
useful ight upon it. The French
Swiss and Italians are among the ma
tions most subject to the affection, and
that will account for the comparatively
small emigration of those people. The
Germans are less liable to home-sick-
ness while the English are free from
it in the superIative degree-hence the
cosmopolitan character of these people,
and their presence and conquests in ev-
Qery uarter of the habitalbe globe. The
disease was very marked among the
French troops during the late war, not
only impairing their efficiency as sol
diers, but actually killing them out
right by the pining for home and famil-
lar scenes. The italian army is hardly
less distinguished by the malady than
the French. The phrenologist would
cut this Gordian knot with the greatest
ease by referring the whole trouble to
the organ of inhabitiveRsss. Ma
tions may as reasonably be expected to
differ in this respect as species. IL you
change your domicile, your dog goes
along with you, his adhesiveness"
ranking his inhabitiveness ;" but your
cat will stay behind-earing greatly
more for the habitat than for you. APP
plying a varying propensity of this kind
snations-in the same manner as
we are forced to accredit them with facul-
ties which make them yariously martial,
aesthetic, intellectual, humane or super
stitious-and the problem is solved at
once the Frenchman has simply lar
ger inhabitiveness and the BritOn less
and there's an end ont.
Year: 1874

The gentry of New York have moth
ing to boast of in their lineage, for
their origin was invariably humble. The
original of the Homes was q German
sugar refner, who wrote his name
HUM, and probably lived on sausages
and beer. Philip, his SOD, when the
old man got rich, changed the name to
a prettier shape, and took a position
among the gentry. He was a fine look
ing man and was a successful dry goods
auctioneer, in which business his firm
reached wealth and distinction. He as
sociated with the Grinnells, the Irvings,
and others of the more cultivated soci-
ETY. but on his death the family sank
again, and now we hardly hear of it.
The Brevoorts are descended from old
Henry Brevoort, Dutch market man
who had an estate of about twenty-five
acres in the upper part of the city,
which he cultivated with his own hands.
The land was very sterile and required
patience and untiringlabor, and the slen-
dsa crop of corn, peas, ,radishes, potatoes,
ETC., was hardly sufficient to give the
family a support. The son Henry grew
up an associate with Washington Irving,
and of course had no turn for garden
ing. This he did not heed, for about
the time he came of age She land was
worth SO, 900 per acre for Ouil ding lots.


and it soon bore crop of houses.


Some of the farm was retained until it
became worth $500, 900 per acre, and it
is now worth double that rate, for it is
included in the Fifth avenue, which is
the most valuable of the abodes of
fashion. The old gentleman lived to
be nearly ninety, and retained his old
habits until the last, but the son be-
came fashionable man. he did not long
survive his father, and the third in gen
Grafton is the present Carson Brevoort,
who occupies a high social position,
and is one IF the trustees of the Astor
library. might track up the lineage
of all our leading families, and find
each one starting from some humble
origin. It is foolish and unwise to in
dulge in family pride, and in this city
it is peculiarly snobbish to do so, for
we are all sprung from the common
cIasses.-CoT ST. Louis Republican,
Year: 1874

WILD CoFFEE.-From a very sensible article
on this subject, in the Rural Press, we clip the
following


Zone Of our correspondents considerably
sent us some of the dried pits Of the berries.
We took hint from this, reasoning that if the
proof of the padding is in the eating, the proof
of the coffee should be in the drinking. We
accordingly roasted and ground these pits and
made from the material a cup of coffee or
buckthorr, If botany 80 Misunderstanding it in
every respect precisely as we would the genuine
article OF commerce. The assertion of one of
our correspondents, that tho buckthorn1 is an
active, gripping cathartic, did not intirnidate u.s.
we rather gloried in the prospect of mild case
of journalistic martyrdom. How did it taste?
1t had a pleasant, wholesome taste, with flavor
decidedly coheeish. The aroma was not as
strong as that of tho genuine coffee, but it was
quite agreeable. It was tasted by different par
ties, some of whom have been intimately &C
quainted with the coffee of civilized life for half
century; and the opinion expressed by all was
favorable to the wild berry. No effects were
perceptible, the subsequent proceedings of
the barbarian not occurring according to pre-
dictions.'


Still, it further remarks, all this does no
prove it to be coffee. We have no prejudice fort
the name, and since botanists persist in calling
it " buckthorn." why, buckthorn, it is. That it
possesses qualities which make it valuable - .
beverage. all who have tried it admit, and would
it not be quite an improvement to ask your visit
ors. whether they will take tea, coffee. chocolate,
or buckthorn
Year: 1874

CERTA1NrY.-The prospect of soon having
a railroad from Colfax, IN this county, to Grass
Valley and Nevada City, in Nevada county, is
now assured. The Directors held meeting. at
Grass Valley, last Tuesday, and decided to go
ahead and build the road. The Grass Valley
Union says: 1.-The President was authorized to
receive proposals for building and equipping the
road the contractor or contractors to receive
one-half of the pay for the work in coin, and
the other half in bonds of the Company, which
bonds shall bear interest at the rate of per
cent per annum. Whether the road work will
be let in sections or as whole has not yet been
determined upon, but has been left to the dis
cretion OF President Coleman In short time,
and after consultation with the Chief Engineer,
he will advertise for bids to do the work and to
equip the road" The subscription books are
still to be kept open, thus graciously giving
those chance to Still subscribe who have here
tofore held of, for fear the project would come
to naught.
Year: 1874

ADVERTISING AND SUBscRIB1Na.-A few weeks
ago, party who had lost some horses, advertised
the fact in the HERALD, at the same time offering
a liberal reward for their recovery. Two weeks
ago a certain party came in and said II want to
subscribe for the HERALD The HERALD was
accordingly sent to him. He read of the horses,
and, at once, called to mind certain animals
struggling about his place, as answering to the
description. On inquiry they were found to be
the same. Hence, the mar who advertised got
his horses, and the man who subscribed received
information from the first copy which helped
him make enough to pay for his paper year or
two, and leave him nice little stake for his
trouble. This incident goes to prove what has
so often been repeated That the man who
reads, and advertises, has two chances to make
a dollar where others have one. Just think of
it. All the information and advantages to be de-
rived from your home-paper can be had for the
triAing sum of $4OO per year. Who wouldn't
be subscriber !?
Year: 1874

The bachelors, in Auburn seem, just now, to
be having more than their just share of trouble.
One of them, on retiring, a few nights ago,
found sick infant in his bed, and, of course,
for time, was much perplexed to know what
to do with it. On second and closer look at
the babe, he saw it would not suffer by being
pitched out Of the window, 80 out it went.


LATER, as he passed down the stairs of his
boardinghouse to breakfast, he discovered his
weakness at the table. His shirt being some
what soiled, he feared to face the music. He
had no clean one, but being a practical man,
with plan for every emergency, he returned to
his room, turned the garment inside out and in
a few moments, appeared at the table, with
what some Of the boys envied as new styled
shirt on,