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Year: 1874

any line whatever pencil placed a. the angle W will
trace line which differs from the original principally


that ITS rad of curvature the recprocas OF the
rad OF the first curve. The compound compass thus
Invented was OF great service Peauceer in his busi
ness draughsman. but appears to have been re-
served for Lpkin Of st. Petersburg to suggest the
valuable application OF this idea to machinery He has
observed that IL the point TO describe por-
tion a circle whose circumference passes through F.
the point will then describe @ straight line perpen-
dicular to the line P W. The construction shown in
the second figure is intended to suggest method Of
applying this idea to q beam engine.
Year: 1874

Decorated drawings and miniatures 4io. CLOTH elegantly gilt
SlO50


The favorable reception which MY L'dy Cabinet met with
last veal Ia. suggested similar
Loped that the reproduction
though offered form, will rot fail to be acceptable to
those who can appreciate the beauty Of their design
Year: 1874

No on al Los Angeles, and but few
IA thIs valley, need be told that Los
Nietos is situated at the present term
mus of the railroad running out from
this city in the direction of Anaheim.
The country around this thriving lit
tie town is already well known to be
rich as crows ever fly over; it is thick
ly settled, and the greater portion of
it under cultivation. The San Ga
briel river irrigates the entire area
and the products of the soil are so va
ried and gigantic that only seeing is
believing. Those at distance read
ing of these things are apt to sneer at
them as fancy sketches, when every
body here is well aware that we are
compelled to suppress and tone down
our facts about the wonderful produc-
tions of our soil in order to get them
within the pale of possibilities, as adj
mitted by the mind of the Eastern res
ident. 1t is just in the center of one
of the many rich settlements to be
found all over Los Angeles Valley
where they grow three or four crops per
year that Los Nietos is located. 1t is
an excellent site, and will become a
beautiful little town. A largeshall is
nearly completed, and will soon be
ready for the use of the various socie-
ties that purpose converting its second
floor into q lodge. A hotel, which
will cost about $4,000, is about being
commenced, and will be ready for
guests inside Of three months. Sew
eral business houses are already doing
prosperous trade and some twenty
five dwelling houses are occupied.
Many new houses are in course of
construction. Lots are sold very
cheap, considering their size, location
and the character of the soil. Sixteen
blocks are already laid off. Each
block contains about four acres. The
streets are sixty feet wide, and the
lots, which are seventy feet by one
hundred and forty-fve feet deep,
extend back to a twenty foot
alley which traverses each block.
Judge NJ. d. CRAWFORD, who is gen.
eral superintendent for the sale of
town property, informs us that corner
lots are sold for $50 and the others for
500 each. 1t will be seen that these
lots are large enough for a small farm,
and when it is known that the soil is
so moist and rich that trees and every
thing grow without irrigation, all will
understand that Los Nietos is a very
desirable place in which to purchase
piece of land.
Year: 1874

THE dispatches this morning an
nounce that an attempt was made to
assassinate BISMARCK while out rid
ing yesterday. The ball fired by q
young man at the roadside passed
through one Of his arms. In a speech
made by BISMARCK in Berlin yester-
day he SAID it was the cause he repre-
sented, and not himself, that the as
sassin aimed at. 4 young Catholic
had been arrested as the man who
fired the shot, and q priest had also
been arrested on a suspicion of being
an accessory before the fact. So far,
the evidence is not conc usive that
either the youth who fired the shot or
those who counseled the assassination
are under arrest. Great excitement
prevails in Berlin, and under almost
any Government except that of EN-
peror WILLIAM, terrible scenes might
be enacted. AS IL is, no riots need be
apprehended.
Year: 1874

FREE TRADE" HERALD cores
pondent, writing from Gallatin, has
severe, and we fear continent, attack
of Local Option. Our blue pencil left
its mark over many passages referring
to the old Connecticut blue laws, as
we'll rs some uncomplimentary allu-
sions to the people who reached the
continent by the first trip of that slow
sailing tub, The Mayfiower, and we
found it necessary to ward Off an
occasional dig at those good people
who hanged an Indian for hoeing his
corn on Sunday, and afterwards went
extensively into the business of witch
burning. The fact is "Free Trade"
exhibits too much feeling against the
prohibitionists of New England. AS
a general thing the more earnest
man is the more radical he becomes.
The correspondent is, himself, proof of
this. He is so earnest in his convic-
tions that Legislative prohibition will
not prevent whisky-drinking, that he
denounces those who differ with him
on the subject as fanatics. An honest
mans opinion is entitled to respect
though it is the opposite of our owr.
" Free Trades" plan for destroying
the liquor trade is entitled to the merit
of originality. if nothing more. We
may, however, remind him that the
same line of policy would reduce the
value of gold, and more or less affect
the market value of nearly every arti-
Gle of commerce.
Year: 1874

ARKANSAS has just elected delegates
to o Constitutional Convention. AS
usual there are number of the citi-
zens of that peaceful law-abiding
State, dissatisfied with the result of
this last election, as they have been
with every election which they did
not control, and of course there is
trouble about Little Rock. Factions
are gathering their forces for trial at
arms. The State militia is once more
in the field, and pretty soon National
troops will be necessary to save the
State Government. There is some
thing wrong down about Little Rock.
There appears to be II great many con-
flicting elements down there. 1t is
doubtful in our mind if quiet is ever
restored about Little Rock until after
there have been several very respecta-
BILE funerals in that vicinity. Little
Rock is unfortunate in this respect.
She has too many influential men, and
each of those men have too many
adherents. Funerals are what Little
Rock needs.
Year: 1874

THE San Francisco Nel0s-L Letter has
gone into the business of guessing
what leading physician of that city
has diploma and what one has not.
In forty or fifty guesses that no di-
ploma could be produced it only
missed one or two.
Year: 1874

Mr TcCARw' al not pay much at
teniou u local Option at first. He had
uY idea that any portion of the COM
munity would avail itself of the privi-
lege the law gave for cutting off the
retail liquor business; so he did not
trouble himself about the details of
the law, and it was not until the No
license vote began to be heard of in
every direction from our friends home
that he thought of studying the main
points of Local Option. He soon dis
covered the five-gallon clause, and
almost instantaneously with the dis
covery came the knowledge that while
the arrangement was of nature that
did not interfere with the inclination
of the rich man or the gentleman of
moderate means to get as drunk as q
lord or an alderman, il certainly did
initiate somewhat against the COM
fort of the poor man, who could not
purchase five gall of whisky ex-
cept where his credit was good, which
it seldom is anywhere. When this
popularity of the law had been made
apparent to Mr.. MCCARTY, there was
some profane language scattered about
and Local Option lost half dozen
votes in nthatimmediate neighborhood.
The rich man can buy his five gallons
of fine old rye and take it home. If
he gets as drunk as policeman that
is all right, but the poor fellow who
works all week for ten dollars cannot
purchase five gallons of whisky, and
the law denies his right to purchase it
by the glass. Mr.. MCCARTY says it's
hardly fair on the poor man.
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the St Louis Republican
describes the following scene, which, he says


he witnessed on recent voyage to China.
One day was putting on new hook about
the size Of boat hook, when the man at tie
wheel saw huge shark under our stern. lie
had been following us for some time. As soon as
the man told me about it 60, large piece Of
ia, pork. three or four pounds, for bait, and
dropped it over board His sharkship saw 1t
and came slowly toward it. The water was
nice and clear. He leli the bait with his nose,
and turned over on bis side, opened his pom
derous mouth, aud took in hook, bait, md all,
then started. Il fairly made woodwork
smoke, as the heavy line played out oves IT.


We soon stopped him by taking round on
Delaying pin, and we broush' him mp with a
sudden jerk that almost straishiened out the
huge iron hook Il took three men 10
haul him on deck, and he made things lively
for time sure. He hounced and bounced
around the pop-deck in.o the lee-scuppers.
The cook went for him with a carvins-knife,
and the first lick be made at him be missed
him. The shark gave bounce, striking the
cook with his tail behind both legs The deck
being slippery, the cooks legs few from under
him, and he dropped on the broad Of bis back
as fat as founder The cook nothing daun-
ted, went for the shark again, and this time cut
him clean open. That didn't take the fight
out Of him. |, took two men, with board
across bis tail, to hold it down 10 the deck,
while two men held the line the hook in his
mouth, so he coull not do any more damage.


The shark is / sailors greatest enemy at
sea. Jack hates him worse than poison.
They took the insides out Of the fellow. His
heart boa. for two hours and twenty minntes
afterward by the watch. We pitched him
overheard. and he kept Topping about as if he
wanted something's 50 we threw him his in
sides. minus the heart, which he no sooner saw
than he eobbed them up aud started oiT; but
they fell ont again through the slit the cook
made in him. lie kept picking them mp
and dropping them so often be must have got
tired Of that job, for be finally took them in
his teeth and made dive below ont Of sight.
Year: 1874

THx OTHER KIND or Rich PEoFLE.-Ihe
man with good, firm health is rich. 50 is the
man with a clear conscience So j. the parent
with good happy children. So is the clergy
man whose coat little children Of the parish
pluck as he passes them at their play. 80 !.
the wife who has the whole heart of good
husband. So is the maiden whose horIzon Is
not bounded by the Coming man, bnt who
has a purpose in life whether she ever met
him or not. So is the man, who can lay his
hand on his heart, and say, Il" have treated
every woman ever saw as | should wish my
sister to he treated by other men 50 Is the
little child who gres to sleep with kiss on
his lips and f0F whose waking kind blessing
aWalts
Year: 1874

y really modest and meritorious person
will never make pretentions Of any kind.
His manner and expressions will always
have tendency to underrate his ability,
not because he will pretend to be less ca
pable than he really is. but because so
many men have become pretentious in
their manners and expressions, he fears
he may be considered as SUCH We are,
III consequence, too apt to consider the
extent OF the capacity OF those whom we
meet a little below the standard indicated
by their acts and expressions Therefore,
true merit is seldom properly appreciated,
and its cultivation is never greatly encour-
aged. On the contrary. pretence is al
most always successful. He who is pre-
tentious affects the interest of society in
the same manner as the swindler. He in
duces men to doubt the capacity of others,
and often to refuse aid and employment,
because they measure the merits of all by
those of the pretentious fop and conceited
ignoramus. Many an honest and skilful
man, and many valuable Improvement,
have been refused support and adoption
because the pretentious swindler has pre-
viously misled the people, and imposed
upon them outrageously. Pretentions OF
every kind are the true indications of a
weak mind or would be swindler.
Year: 1874

A MISSOURI farmer thus tells the St.
Louis Republican how he manages the
chinch bug: Take an empty barrel Ga coal
oil barrel preferred, one that has been
lately emptied); fill the barrel with dog
fennel (every farmer knows what dog-fen-
mel is), pound it well down with wooden
maui until your barrel is about one-third
full; make strong soft-soap suds, using
about half gallon of soap to each barrel;
have your water hot, and pour your suds
into the barrel While hot. Let it stand ten
or twelve hours When cold take COM
mon sprinkler such as are used in stores or
gardens, sprinkle well every hill of corn
that is infested with the bug; where the
bug has got between the stalk and the
blade it will be necessary to be particular
so as to get the liquor in contact with
the bug; two dressings will generally
vanish the enemy. If you have no coal
oil barrel use about half gallon of coal
oil for each barrel You can fill your
barrel twice without putting in any fresh
fennel, stirring up the fennel when you
put in fresh suds. If you want to save
your corn lose no time in trying the
above remedy. The same will effectually
destroy the potato-bug.
Year: 1874

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 27, 1874.


THE devastation is complete and fear
full, and extends several miles either way,
nolth and south At eight o'clock last
evening the storm suddenly broke with a
fury barring description. The drops of
rain were the size of goblets, and, as the
vivid lightning lit the scene, they would
present the appearance of diamonds
glistening. The thunder was deafen-
ing and incessant 1t seemed as though
the artillery of heaven had been
let loose The sky during the
storm bore a lurid color as charged thor
oughly with electricity. No one believed
or thought what sad havoc this storm
was doing, what devastation and ruin it
was causing, or the life it was taking
The rain extended over large section of
country and did vast damage everywhere
within its route. Pittsburgh suffered both
in loss of property and life, but Ale
gheny City was deeply, worse, and far
more heavily afflicted. Every one knew
the calamity was great but no one was
prepared for the scenes of hor-
ror to which they were witnesses
to-day. All day the undertakers'
wagons have been carting the
dead bodies, and the funerals were taking
place all day. Coroner McCallin gave
up holding inquests at four o'clock this
morning as the work was getting too
Year: 1874

A YOUNG lady engaged to be married
but getting sick of her bargain, applied to
friend to help her unite the knot before
it was too late. "Oh, certainly" he re
piled, {" it's very easy to unite it now,
while it is only a bow-knot."
Year: 1874

A number of years ago the idea Of
tunnellipg toe hill in North Wheeling
aud conducting the waters of the creek
through it TO the river was discussed
in the newspapers and by the people OF
Wheeling. 1t has been OCCASION
ally mentioned Of late years,
but has attracted very little
attention. The matter has been re-
Gently called to cur notice, however, by
a gentleman who has some reason TO be
lieve that, for the ownership OF, say, one
half of the building lots that would be
made available by thus diverting the
course Of the creek, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company would UNDER
take the work. The prospective COM
pletion OF the Hempfield extens
sion to connection with the
Pittsburgh and Cumberland road, and
the consequent making Of this new and
shorter and easier route the main line
between Wheeling aud Cumberland
renders the Baltimore and Ohio COM
pauy naturally anxious to secure more
ground in this city for the location OF
shops and depot buildings, as well as
for better route through the eastern
part OF the city than they now have.
1t is hardly to- be supposed that the
company will be content to continue
the inconvenience Of their present
route upon 10th and l7th streets, when
the traffic upon it is increased as it will
be by the opening of the Hempfeld ex.
tension.


II the creek were conducted through
the hill in North Wheeling, the sraee
it would occupy within the limits Of the
city, in its course to the river, would
probably be less than oae-tenth Of that
it now occupies, and, at the same time,
lots which would constitute the bed OF
the creek in North Wheeling are OF
much less value per foot for busi . esd
purposes than those occupied BY the
present bed of the stream. By filling
up the present bed of the creek, an ex-
cellent route for the railroad and sbun'
dant room for conveniently located
shops will be made available, without
the necessity of laying the track
upon any of the present
streets OF the city, and al
immense increase in the taxable val
ue Of property in the present vicinity
of the creek will be made at once. In
fact the advantages which seem likely
to accrue from the work proposed are
SO numerous and go important that il
is not q little strange that it has mol
been accomplished long ere this.


We are not able to form at this time
Year: 1874

The rivers on the eastern slope OF
the Alleghenies were swollen by the
rains OF last week to a greater height
than for many years heretofore. The
South Branch was higher at Moore
field than at any time since 1861, and
there was also destructive freshet in
the Shenandoah and the James. The
rains on this side OF the mountains
produced but little impression on the
streams. -.-
Year: 1874

even. sn intelligent guess Is 70 the cost
Of the recsasary tunnel and Of the lots
in North Wheeling which it would be
necessary 10 purchase in order to pro-
vide the new course OF the creek to the
river, but we are certainly safe in as,
Stunning that it will not
nearly equal the value
OF the property that would be thus
rendered available for business or other
purposes, which is now comparatively
worthless.


In case the Baltimore and Ohio
Company should be unwilling to un'
dertake the work, II is quite probable
tha. private parties may be found who
will gladly accomplish it in return for
the ownership OF the present bed OF the
creek, from the point where it strikes
the east side of the hill to its confluence
with the river. We have not exam
ined the recorded deeds OF property bor-
dering on the creek, but, in the absence
OF positive information in relation to
the matter, we believe thai
the tract usually covered BY
low water. and id cases q
much wider territory, belongs to the
city and may be disposed OF as the
municipal authorities may direct The
matter is certainly worth examining,
and if there is no more serious obstacle
to the consummatjon OF the work than
seems now apparent, we have no doubt
that the whole work may be
done without its costing the city q sins
gle dollar. One of the three bridges
now spanning the creek might be used
across the proposed waterway on Main
street in North Wheeling. No others
would be needed. Let us hear the
Public Opinion" on this topic. -
Year: 1874

SrcCKs--Opsnsd weak with q decline
at the second call OF 4@ls per cent.
The greatest decline was in Pacific
Mail and on the last call Lake Shore
showed decline for the day OF per
cent, and the balance OF the list 29lt
per cent, but just before the close there
was general recovery OF tC per cent
The princi pal activity was Ia Western
Union, Pacific Mail Lake Shore,
Northwestern aud Union Pacific. The
market CLOSED firm.
Year: 1874

The continuation of fears expressed in these
columns, and by many others, of the safety OF
dams and reservoirs, has come even sooner than
expected. What word Of blame can be applied
to authorities having charge of such works, and
who after the horrid story Of Mill River failed TO
see to it that their property was secure, which
shall be called extrayagant Is it possible that
the Middlefeld reservoir was properly inspected
after the impressive warning given by the pre-
yious disaster? 1t could not have been, or its
weakness would have been discoyered-or else
its weakness was known and yet it was
crminally used--either way the persons concern
ed stand convicted of serious wrong against
the community. The Mill River affair rendered
it an imperative duty upon all manufacturers and
others having charge of water power TO see'that
their properties were absolutely safe. Their
money interests point that way no less than the
most evident instincts Of charity and regard for
the happiness of their fellow-men. Only last
week the final proceedings in the Mill River In
quest were taken and the formal verdict found F.;
the ink is hardly dry with which it was written
before we are shocked with the occurrence of a
disaster OF an alarmingly similar character.


Happily, there appears TO have been no loss
OF life at Midilefell, or at Blush Hollow, where
the immense volume of water first surged from
the broken reservoir, but that gratifying fact in
no ways lessons the responsibility of the negli-
gent and guilty managers. That hundreds OF
lives we're not sacrificed was owing entirely tc
the reason that the lay Of the ground was sucl
that people could more readily get out Of the
way of the food. Further, the section does no
appear to have been as thickly planted with vii
lages as was the Mill River neighborhood
Had it been, the same agency wa
then let loose, ready to repea
the fearful details of fev
weeks ago The broken reservoir covered on
hundred acres-a water space Of the size Of
large farm-and it does not require a very yiyi'
imagination to create mind picture Of the ef
fects of such suddenly unloosed power.


How many dams are there at this minute il
the same defective condition The questio
was asked after Mill River it can now be pre-
pounded with additional significance. And no
alone in New England, but in Delaware an
everywhere throughout the land where til
mighty force of water is economical al
made to minister to industrial an
social wants There are, more such, doubles
than any one-eyen the best informed dream
of works liable to burst at any moment
burst during working hours, mprisoning lucl
less men and women in tall factories; to bur
at midnight, encompassing people asleep wit
imaginable horrors. VIII this last warning su
fice, or what ,riuit take to emphasize the le
son? and shall there not be an example ma,
in some way of these unworthy citizens, vi
have hesrtlessly imperled the lives and fc
tunes of their fellows? The Mill River ju
spoke strongly and Indignantly viii Massach
sets now content itself with merely reafirmii
those sentiments, toned down in view Of Il
fact that there was no loss Of life at Blush II,


low?
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean gives the following de-
scription of one of class of men
only to be found on the frontier.


"Under that old slouch hat,' said
an officer friend to me one evening,
pointing to an old mule driver, |I
think you will find a romance"


''Not very inviting field to search
in" replied.


'tBut you have not seen the face
yet; when you see the face you will
be more reasonable-see therei"


The man we were looking at took
an old gray slouch hat from his
bushy hair to wipe the perspiration
from his forehead, and it was like
lifting a curtain from a picture.


"That's Buckskin Joe," continued
my friend, "the oldest man on these
plains, l believe, and one of the most
singular fellows l ever saw. He has
had very interesting life, and you
had better interview him, His wife
ran away and married Congress-
man some years ago; but touch light
ly on that, as the old fellow is very
sensitive"


A few evenings after 1 made an
attempt to interview Buckskin Joe,
the mule whacker, with a romance
under his old SLOUGH hat. We had
been marching until sunset, and
while L was lying around waiting fol
supper, L saw my man by fire he
had Just kindled near his wagon. He
sat on the ground, with his knees
against his chest and his arms around
them, watching the flame that was
teebly trying to creep into the sub
stance OF the larger wood, and his
face, intent on nothing, was a study
painter would have worshipped.
With his long, bushy white hair and