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Year: 1866

The drinkers Of lager beer have been
little puzzled, and perhaps bewildered, Of
late, by contest concerning the relative
merits of different brewings Of lager beer.
Sometime since, number Of leading brew
ers, having desired a process by which the
defects of the old system Of brewing would
be overcome, and the amount Of starch
wasted would be saved, tested the system
proposed by an eminent practical chemist.
They found they were thus enabled TO con-
vert the entire starch into sugar, to improve
the beer in it, strength, and its keeping
qualities, and to brew regardless Of the sea-
son. The new beer found favor in all re-
spects, and was rapidly superseding the old,
when those who adhered to the ancient pro-
cess cast about them for mode TO keep their
breweries open. They raised the cry "pa-
tent beer" and intimatej that the pleasant
beverage was compounded Of something else
besides malt and hops-that it ought to be
spelled " bier" in English as well as in Ger
man, being an ingenious device for carrying
people to their graves. So persistent was
the cry that many honest people fancied
they could taste terrible things in the new
drink, and complained accordingly. II Is
alleged, indeed, with what warrant we know
not that a man was offen called 10 pass
judgment az patent beer" upon some Of the
old beer specially doctored for the occasion.
The brewers under the new process, after
submitting to these attacks in silence, have
at last chosen to reply to them in a legiti-
mate way. They have submitted their
beer te the analysis Of eminent chemists, in
comparison with the beer made by the old
process, and the result, as win be seen by
communication elsewhere, is 4 triumphant
demonstration in their favor. Nevertheless,
If any prefer the old beer, he has only to add
a little water in which starch has been dis
solved to the new beer, to reproduce the old


and suit his palate exactly.--NeC York
| Courier.
Year: 1866

ORPHANS OF MAsoSs IN MrssIssrPPI.--
The Grand Lodge ct its recent session IN
that State, adopted the following resolution


Resolrcd, That the grand master be re-
quested to appoint q special committee OF
five, whose duty it shall be TO take into con-
sideration the practicability of inaugnrating,
at once, the proper measures for establishing
in this State House Of Refuge for the
destitute orphans Of the deceased brethren OF
this grand jurisdiction, and that this com,
mittee report at their present grand annusi
communication, TO the end that thorough
discussion and understanding may be had
by this grand lodge upon all matters in ihis
behalf. EtfH
Year: 1866

Her raven hair that once did curl


Around her snow-whlie neck
Tha, hair Is changed, for beauiy's home
Is almost bcauiys wreck;
And &c, she hath charm,


A charm more dear than any other
Now what think ye that charm can be,
OF George, the school-boyS mo'her'
Fled Is the rose .lat deeked her cheek,
That cheek Is pale and thin,
Yet that remains doth tell a tale


OF beauty rarely seen.
And yet she has charm,


A charm more dear than any other
Now what think ye that charm can be
OF little willie's motherl
Gone Is the fre Of maiden's eye,


But yet some fire Is there
Enough Is left to tell you why


She once was thought 80 fair
And yet she hath charm,


A charm more dear than any other
Now what think ye that charm can be
or her that Ed. calls motherl
The hand Of time may gray her head


And make her eye grow dim
The weight Of years may press her down,
And weaken every limb.
And still, and still she'll have charm,


A charm more dear than any other
II heart ye have, the querys solved


She |, my children, mother.
Year: 1866

fault in the payment of assessments, in
crease or diminution of the capital stock,
and the dissolution of the corporation
must be personally served upon the own
ers of shares, or published in some news
paper. The rights of all are protected
by these wise provisions, and the defects
in the clauses that have been criticised,
are partially remedied. As it will be i'm
possible to deliver notifications to stock
holders that live in sections which are
located three or four thousand miles
from Montana, the publication in the
newspapers becomes a necessity. The
people, who are frequently as deeply in
terested in the proceedings as the MEM
bers of the corporate body, can be in
formed regarding them in this public
manner. Copies of the law can be pro
cured of members of the Legislature by
all who are desirous of availing them


selves of its provisions.
Year: 1866

The GREAT CHINESE WALL.-A trav-
eler in the East thus describes this vast
work of human industry, which is said
to have cost the country two hundred
thousand lives from sheer physical ex-
haustion. The wall, which is built of
stone and brick, is twenty feet high and
fifteen feet broad, surmounted by dou-
BILE parapet, loopholed on the north side.
AS far as the eye can follow the mount
ain range. it winds over the precipitous
black rock like a gigantic serpent crawl
ing along, and with its breath poisoning
all around; for, turn where you will,
nothing meets the view but the deselate,
dreary track of rock, unrelieved by
blade of grass or tuft of moss, and huge
boulders strewing the base of the mount
ain sides. 1t was the whim of tyrant
to build wall where nature had built
bar far more effectual than any human
art could construct. However, there it
remains, after lapse of nearly two thou
sand years, a monument of the folly of
one man, and the patient industry and
suffering of many thousands.
Year: 1866

be governed for generations by persons
who have descended from emperors and
kings. A republic is the fruit of liberty
and mental independence. In the Uni
ted States, the people, acting in pursu-
anee of these fundamental rules of soci-
ETY., framed the Constitution. Millions
have blessed the memories of the dele
gates who determined the exciting con-
troversies of the age, and bestowed upon
their posterity one of the most exalted
systems of government that was ever de-
vised by human agencies. The aspira
tions of the soul were unchecked, and
harmony became an impossibility. This
feature, which is conspicuous in political
debates, is not basis of regret, but a
cause of praise. A few axioms should
be accepted by all, and every citizen
should be patriotic and allow no personal
consideration to interfere with the love
of country. There must be dissension
when questions of expediency arise.
Political parties have existed in every
nation, and the contests for supremacy
have been severe or slight, according to
the advancements of society in the paths
of learning. No one can expect that the
thirty millions of inhabitants that enjoy
the blessings of the Constitution of our
| land, will think alike 1t is absurd to
complain of the existence of differences
in politics, and a philosopher would ex-
hibit as much wisdom in protesting
against the law of gravitation. They
are essential to the public welfare, and
| their presence is the surest test of true
repub.icanism. The people can never
be a unit upon the great issues of the
hour until the mind of man has been
destroyed. The combat, which is being
fought between the friends of Presi


dent Johnson and those of Congress, is
a result of the strength of the govern


ment. Instead of yearning for state
of facts that cannot arise, and wishing


that there was no conflict of opinions, il


is the duty of every man to enlist in the


ranks and win victory.
Year: 1866

THE Union Pacific Railroad is compile
ted to Brady's Island, two hundred and
sixty-eight miles west of Omaha. Here
the work stops for the winter to be
pushed forward with increased vigor
next spring. The overland mail is to
change its route, and will next week be
transferred to the route through Iowa,
starting from Chicago instead of St.Louis
This will secure a regular daily mail, and
by it we will get later eastern dates than
ever before.-R0cky Mountain Neus.
Year: 1866

A RAILROAD CHUTE.-The engine
while climbing the two hundred and


seventy-five foot grade of the Pittsburg
railroad with train of coal cars, one of
the moist days in the early part of this
week, when above the tunnel. lost it's
grip on the rails, and began slipping
down hill. Finding it impossible to ar
rest the descent with the brakes all hard
on, the engineer and his assistants, leav-
ing the brakes turned hard down, jumped
off, and the train moved down the steep
grade with accelerating speed, carrying
along a stream of fire, generated by the
friction of the wheels upon the rails. A
spectator says that the shoot through
the tunnel of some three hundred feet
was made in wink. The whole descent
of the hill for about two miles was made
and the train came to halt some dis
tance out on the plain, having kept the
track and made.the trip alone, without
injury or mishap.-Contra Costa Gazette.
Year: 1866

The st. Louis Democrat gives the
following as one of the results of the
Radical victory in Missouri: Every
business man and property owner can
judge whether the Radical victory has
or has not been benefit to him, from
the single fact that Missouri State bonds
jumped eight per cent. in the New York
market as soon as the result was known"
Year: 1866

+ A SEEMING DIFFERENCE ONLY.-A
German statistical writer remarks that
the invention of the sewing machine has
enabled one woman to sew as much as 8
hundred could sew by hand century
ago, but, he continues, one woman now
demands as much clothing as hundred
did a century ago-so that matters are
not so much changed after all.
Year: 1866

BY an imperial edict native Japanese
artisans wishing to visit any of the va
rious countries beyond the sea, for the
purpose of learning any science or art
will receive permission from the Govern
ment on application.
Year: 1866

was missed soon after che left her


employer, and a servant was sent


to her rooms TO claim it. The SER


want found her about to quit her


rooms, with the three gold coins


in her hand. She said to the SER


want !; VI was going to carry them


back to you" Nevertheless, she


was carried to the Commissioner.
IofPolice, and he ordered her to be
sent before the Police Court for
trial. She was too poor to en-
gage q lawyer, and when asked by
the Judge what she had to say


Tor herself, she answered "The
day l went to my employers |
carried my child with me-


1t was in my arms as it is now


! was not paying attention to it.


There were several gold coins ON
the mantlepiecc, and unknown TO
me 1t stretched ont its little hand
and seized three pieces, which |
did not observe until | got home.
| at once put on my bonnet, and
was going back to my employer to
return them, when / was arrested.
This is the solemn truth as | hopo
for heavens mercy"


The Court could not believe this
story. They upbraided the moth.
er for her impudence in endeayor.
ing to palm Off such manifest lie
for truth. They besought her for
her own sake to retract SO absurd
a tale, Tor it could have no effect.
but obligc the Court to sentence
her to much severer punishment
than they were disposed to inflict
on one so young and evidently
stepped so deep in poverty. These
appeals had no effect except to
strengthen the poor mothers Der.
tenacious adherence to her original
story. As this firmnoss was ,sus-
tanned by that look of innocence
which the most adroit criminal can
never counterfeit, the Court were
at some loss to discover what de-
cision justice deman1e. To re.
lieve their embarrassment, one of
tho judges proposed to renew the
sc scene described by the MOTHER
Three gold coins were placed on
the Clerks table. The mother
was requested to assume the posi-
tion i'll which she said she stood at
her employers house. There was
then a breathless pause in Court.
The baby soon discovered the
bright coin, eyed it for a moment,
smiled, and then stretched forth it's
.iny hand and clutchod them in its.
inigers with a miserIs eagerness.
The mother was acquitted.
Year: 1866

Blessed night of rest. Soon vii
the labors Of the week be ended an
then for respite from toil--a release frol
the SIX linked chain which has held Il;
prisoners long enough, Worker. wait
er and watcher, sit down with Us for ;
moment. We have one night less to talk
with you, to hold converse with earthly
friends. One week another Saturday
aight nearer the golden streets or Tho
dark ravine One week nearer opcuing
the envelope which will have therein ;
prize or blank, as we choose the while


All these prizes are Of our own choosing.
There Is DO law compelling man to be
miserable or friendless, unless it be q law
of his own making. The weeks shorten
as we hasten on to open the wondrou,
door which closes upon US but once We
make the road pleasant or gloomy as we
choose. We can preserve the purity Of
our hearts or darken the acts Of our lives
as we see it, and ours will be the reward


How much week has brought about


How bright have been the days since last
Saturday night for some, how dark and
bitter to others. We saw to-day a weep.
ing mother in The city Of the dead. The
tears fell thick ana fast upon little grave
no longer than our arm. But that little
hiIlock is the door through which she can
enter heaven and regain her lost idol
Que week since the now weeping heart
broke mother was singing, happy mother.


We knew her years ago, before the
duties Of new responsibility were hers
to bear-we knew her weeks ago as she
pressed the little one to her heart-wc
see her now, as yesterday, in tears and
sorrow, and we see her tonight, looking
in little drawers, boxes and secret places
for trides of last weel-now the most
priced Of all relies OF the past.


Go home this Saturday night, brother
worker. Gather strength for the renewed
Of that endless conflict, Go home to
those you love, or if you have no home,
sit down with a friend, or draw the cur
tains over the window SO you cannot look
out, and away from your heart SO you
can look in and see treasures you have
stored there, or of the rubbish you had
better remove. Go home and bless the
one who walls your coming with earnest
Year: 1866

Take, Cor an example, a young girl who
has been bred delicatoly in town, shut hel
up in her cbildhood-in boarding school
through her youth-nevcr accustomed to
either ar or exercise, Two things that the
law Of God makes essential to health
She marrics-her strength is inadequate
to the demands upon it. Her beauty
fades early, and her friends lamentipgly
exclaim:


"What strange Providence, that a
mother should be taken in the midst Of
lie, from her children p


Was it Providence Providence had
assigned her three score years and ten
term long enough to rear her children,
and to sec her childrcn's children but
Year: 1866

IF the late rebels have become loyal to
the Government Of the United States,
ard devoted to the Union, why did they
not celebrate the Fourth Of July as Of
old? That Gay is the birthday of the
nation-onc peculiarly appropriate to be
celebrated by all who really have any na-
tional love and pride. But, thro ughout
the whole South, with the exception Of
the ever-faithful, ever coutemned colored
citizens, the late national anniversary was
almost entirely uno5served. This fact
speaks volumes. Its true explanation is
to be found in the character Of the great
doctrines Of the Declaration CT Indepen-
dencc, which are tie foundation Of the
Union, and which it was the express work
of the rebellion to discard. bIr Ste
phcns openly affirmed in his great ;'eor-
ncr stone speech. What do the people
think Of putting superior political power
into the hands of the rebels who are not
yet sufficiently reconstructed TO celebrate
the Fourth Of July!
Year: 1866

\ lady sends Us the following reciPt
for the cure of that troublesome disease
Of the mouth called SANDER. Like a good
many patent medicines, if it does no good
it may DO no harm:


Take an ounce OF good nature, one
ounce of an herb called mind your bust
ness, mix this with a little charity for
others, add two Or three sprigs Of keep
your-tonguc-between your teeth simmer
them in vessel called circunspection for
a short time, and it will be ft for use
Application the symptoms are violent
itching in the tongue and roof OF the
mouth, which invariably takes place when
you are in company with species of an
imals called gossips. When you feel n fit
of it coming on, take a teaspOonful Of the
mixture, hold it in your mouth, which
you viii keep closely shut until you get
home, and you will be completely cured.
Should You apprehend a relapse, keep a
small bottle full about you, and on the
slightest symptoms repeat the dose"
Year: 1866

The meeting at the Court House last
night was immense! Following so closely
upon the grand popular demonstration of
the 22d, it exhibited rather an increase than
a diminutiOn of the enthusiasm the people
feel in their support of the President and
the Constitution ofthe United States. But
in addition to the emphatic Endorsement
given by the people last night to the truly
national policy that Mr.. johnson has in
augurated, there was another sentiment,
local in its character pronounced with
equal emphasis and creating equal popular
enthusiasm. 1t was that of unqualified
condemnation of the proscriptive, illiberal
and bigoted partisan policy recommended
by the Governor and pursued by the Leg
islature of this State. The unanimous eX-
preston of the immense meeting,last night
was one of determined opposition to the
Radical party that has atte npted to keep
itself in power by DISTINGUISHING and os-
tracising all who differ with it in political
opinion, and which, while violating the
Constitution and every principle of right,
has attempted to abolish not only the free
dom of elections but also freedom of speech
and of the press. "'' HH"


Last night the knell of Radicalism in this
State was sounded. Henceforth prOserip-
tion aud persecution hasten to their death,
Let them be buried out of sight and have
no resurrectiol during all the years that
we hope for the existence of the Republic
and OF the State. In spite oftest oatlIs and
registration acts and disabling laws of
every kind, the popular will shall yet tri-
umph and popular rights shall yet be se-l
cured. There is no such word as UaiL-=s
Wheeling (VG.l Register, March o. Il i,r irsbl
Year: 1866

The actual question now before Con-
gress and the country is, whether the gov
ernment of the eleven States lately in re-
bellion is TO be given to the enemies If
the nation, whose hands are just Inclutch-
ed from her throat, or to her friends. II
the people think that rebels. who do not
pretend to be peni;ent even if they con-
fess themselves conquered, should he in
vested with absolute power over all the
inhabitants Of their States or sojourners
within them, incluling the negroes whom
the people themselves have just set free,
and that, besides this, they should be al
lowed their tull weight in TIE govern
ment of the nation which, little year
ago, they were doing their utmost to de-
,troy, the people Can so decide, ind from
their decision there is no appeal, except
iDg to themselves in soberer hour. But
let them have this issue always kept un-
mistakably befcIe them, Let them not
think that they are deciding against Ex-
ecutive usurpation, or against taxation
without representation, or against Federal
interference with the reserved rights OF
the States, or in favor Of the efectual
restoration of all the States to the Union.
The question is, shall one half the country
be absolutely governed, and the whole be
in danger Of being controlled by its enc
mics rather than It's friends If this
point can be kept clearly before the public
mind, separate from all entangling allan
ees, we have no fear as to the result
And it Is important that this should be
done quite as much for the interest of the
rebel as of the loyal States. There can
be no substantial peace until this question
is put at rest, and peace is more essential
to them than to us.
Year: 1866

A woman being enioined TO try the effect
of kindness on her husband. and being told
that i would heap Goals of fire on his head
replied that she had tried 'boiling water
and it didn't do bit of good
Year: 1866

re- We celebrated Christmas by bard
work. Among those who protested with
us against it. was one person who insist.
ed that we ought to have more veneration
for the birthday of Christ. He was SO
drunk that he made three distinct failures
in the attempt to pronounce the name oI
Christ-but we knew what he meant
There are plcaty OF men who have such
high regard for the anniversary Of the
Saviour, that nothing would indnce them
to labor on that day; they therefore show
their veneration by getting beastly drunk.
and making night hideous.
Year: 1866

@ We have for several weeks past
noted a decided improvement in the ty-
biographical eppoarance Of the St. Joseph
Daily Union. 1t is now well printed,
and the entire contents can be read
Guess that good workman has got along
Year: 1866

The following appears in some
Of our exchanges. 1t does not
appear where it originated; and
we presume the latitude doesn't
matter much, as it will doubtless
suit all climates, kindreds, peo-
Piles and tongues. Ovid wrote
the Art of Love; this may be
called the Art of Kissing-in one
lesson. Of course it will take
some practice for a novice to be-
come a proficient, even with the
very best of instruction; men
learn so much better by example
than by precept.


Read, ponder, and be wise:


People will kiss, yet not one
in one hundred knows how to
extract bliss from lovely lips, no
more than they know how to
make diamonds out of charcoal.
And yet it is easy, for u.s.. This
little item is not alone for new
beginners, but for the many who
go it like hunting coons or shell
ling corn. First know whom
you are to kiss. Don't make a
mistake, although a mistake may
e.good. Don't jump up like a
trout for a fly, and smack "a wo-
man on the neck, on the ear, or
on the corner of the forehead. on
the end of the nose, or knock oil
her waterfall, Or jerk her bonnet
ribbon, in haste to get through.
The gentleman should be a little
the tallest. He should have a
clean face, a kind eye, q mouth
full Of expression instead Of TO-
bacco.


No noise, no fuss, no tluttering |
and squirming like hook-ilnpaled
worms. Kissing don't hurt: il
Year: 1866

The Louisville Courier says !:
"a prominent dry goods house
of this city has just received a
large invoice Of false calves. An
experienced cutter and filter is
expected from New York this
week, who will take the measure
of the ladies legs and warrant q
satisfactory exhibition. The
ladies will have to be very par
ticular as to the fit, as we arc in
formed by certain regular attend
ants upon the street corner
Fourth and Jeferson), that the
latest style Of filters shows not
only the entire leg, but half the
knee"
Year: 1866

The Copperheads seem unable to COM
prehend the integrity of a majority Of
ths Union Office holders, who refuse to
surrender their principles in order to re-
tain their Offices. On every side they
are being removed because they will not
consent to betray their friends and work
with those whom they believe to be their
country's enemies. This, to genuine
Copperhead, is wholly incrompreh ensi
BILE, and we do not wonder, for their
principles being utterly worthless are
not of as much value to them as an Of
fee.


The Republican party has reason to be
proud of the men who thus spurn the
bribe offered them by the man who has
so infamously betrayed the party which
was deceived into voting for him, thus
rendering it possible for an assassin to
elevate him to the presidency. All over
the land echo the proud responses Of men
whose commissions bear the honored
name of our murdered Lincoln, and who
scorn to purchase place at the disgrace
full price required by the recreant Presi-
dent. Only here and there is a man who
will meanly sell his convictions ofright
and ali his manliness for office. Thank
God, they are so few--St DO. Valley
Rooster. i