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Year: 1874

The whimsical English duke who chose
to be drowned in q butt of Malmsey has
at last found an imitator in certain
French youth. There is in Paris wine
merchant named Faille, who has son
nineteen years of age. This youth,
named Francis, was in love with girl
of the neighborhood, who, however, had
shown a tender inclination toward a gal
liant soldier ia the barracks at Courbe-
vote. at aa


Francis, stung to desperation by
jealousy, decided to make grand stroke
for victory, and seeing the young woman
alone he plainly demanded that she
should at once and definitely choose be-
tween the civil and the military contest
ants for her favor After few mo.
ments' hesitation she frankly declared
that she preferred the soldier, and that
Francis need never hope to call her his
wife. The love-sick youth thereupon
precipitately left her with the remark
that now there was nothing for him to
do but to die. r~ .


A few hours afterward the worthy pub
lican, bis father, was puzzled by hearing
a trickling sound as of escaping water.
The noise was traced to the wine vaults;
and the alarmed merchant descending
to the gloomy crypt, found the faucets
of eight or nine wine barrels loosened,
and as many streams of ruby wine leap
lug forth to the floor. In the midst of
the reservoir thus formed lay his son
wallowing and struggling, and trying to
drown himself therein. This was his
method of attempting suicide,


The father FASTENED to the rescue.
The son declared that he wished to be
left alone to die. but the anxious parent
land equally anxious merchant) in
sisted that he could not crafty that de-
Year: 1874

sire in this way. The would-be suicide
was dragged from the vaults and sub
jected to paternal castigation.


So ended the latest attempt at Paris.
ian selfdestruction. There are features
in this method OF suicide which will
doubtless commend it to any old topper
who may be seeking voluntary escape
from earthly ills, as mode of death
worthy of Bacchus himself.
Year: 1874

The coincidence of a man moving into a
new house and dying soon after, has fire.
quently been a subject of remark, and
there is al ayOidable cause.-The house is
moved into before the walls and plaster
and the wood are sufficiently dried. Some
times the cause of death is the poisonous
character of the water conveyed through
new lead pipes. No water for drinking
or cooking purposes should be used in Il
building supplied with new lead pipes, in
whole or in part, for at least one month
after the water has been used daily; this
gives time for a protecting coating to form
on the inner surface of the pipas, when
their chemical change from contact with
water generally ceases.


But the damp materials of the house
have the most decided effect, especially on
persons over fifty years old or of frail con-
stitutiOn; whereas, if the person were in
the full vigOr of life and health, not even
an Inconvenience would be experienced.
In building new house. or on going to
live in another locality where the water
supply is not far from the house, it should
be ascertained with the utmost certainty
that the spring or well is higher than the
privies or barnyards. InsidiOus and fatal
forms of decline and typhoid very often
result from drinking water which is
drained from the localities named. The
safest plan, and the only safe plan for fur
nishing dwellings with the most healthful
and mobiectionable water, is to have
water-tight cistern and let the water from
the house or barn or other Outhouses be
conveyed into it through box several
yards long, this box to rest on a board.
or cemented bottom and sides, so that no
outside water could get into it.-HaLEs
Journal of Health,
Year: 1874

We believe that at least half the prayers
offered are neei;essly long, and often mere
disquisitiOns on the formulas of religious
truth, or swinging around the circle of
the divine attributes. with a few sentences
within the circle of finally, (which usual
ly begins with such expressions as we
leave us with thee, etc. which can by
any possibility be called prayer. We have
a very distinct remembrance of Scotch
man on whom we were compelled TO call
to pray, because he was piOus and always
present (but each time against the protest
of the cOngregation). His prayer was
made up of string of quotations from
Scripture, on almost every subject, which
he would deliver as steadily as if he was
taking aim at some mansion in the skies.
And on one occasion we came in after
somebody had set him agoing, he went on
and on without sign of abatement, when
brother near by groGned, and we heard,
in half-smothered whisper, Lord make
him quit" This feeling increased until it
became perpleXing to the pastor, who fell
upon this device to meet the case. The
services were nOminally at a quarter before
eight O'Clock, when few came, but most
did not get in until eight. And when the
time came when it was proper to call on
this brother the pastor would hurry to
church, and start him off like an alarm
clock, and by the time he was through the
people would be standing from the door
down the church-yard, through the gate,
on the pavement; almost the entire pray
er force of the church would be waiting
for the Amen of this long-winded broth
er. We call that prodigality of church
privilege.


But another abuse in which Mr.. Stupid
ity is skilled is in a kind of spiritual va
grancy which takes all the directness out
of his prayer. II he Is in need of a half
dollar he will make bee line for it. But
If he needs the gifts of God he viii travel
Year: 1874

Too low an estimate is apt to be set on
the domestic value of newspapers. After
reading them, and putting ourselves,
through their agency, in mental cores
pondence with the world, they are thrown
aside and forgotten. But to suppose their
usefulness bounded by their news columns
and the waste-bag is thriftless mistake.


In the first place, there are the house
hold recipes, to be found in stray corners,
often excellent, and deserving a refuge OH
the fly-leaf of the family cookbook. Then
come the pretty verses, the strange and
drOll stories, the brief biographies and rem
iniscences which, pasted in a scrap-bOOk,
are a source of never-ending pleasure, not
only to those who do not care for richer
intellectual food, but to those who have
only odd minutes for reading.


Notwithstanding the squibs jOcular jour
nalists have penned on the use of newspa-
pers for bed-clOthing, we know from eXpe-
rience that these are not to be despised.
They may not be as comfortable as your
blankets, but CT rtainly they keep out the
cold. Two thicknesses of paper are bet
ter than pair of blankets, and in the case
of persons who dislike the weight of
many bed-clOthes, they are invaluable.
\ spread made of a double layer of
papers between a covering of calico or
chintZ, is desirable in every household.
The papers should be tackled together with
thread, and also basted to the covering to
keep them from slipping. An objection
has been made on account of the rustling,
but if soft papers be chosen the noise will
not be annoying, especially should the
spread be laid between a blanket and the
cOunterpane.


As protection to plants against cold,
both in and out of doors, nothing is better.
If newspapers are pinned up over night at
a window between pots and glass, the
flowers will not only not be frozen, but
will not even get chilled, as they are so
liable to be at this season. In the same
way, if taken to cover garden-beds, on the
frosty nights of early autumn, they will
allow the plants to remain safely out
doors some time later than is common.


One of the oldest services to put our
Journals to is the keeping of ice in summer.
An ingenious housekeeper recently dis
covered that her daily lump of ice would
last nearly twice as long when wrapped in
newspapers, and placed in any kind of
refrigerator. This is very convenient,
since it is possible to have the best and
cheapest refrigerator constantly at hand.


To polish all kinds of glass after washing
except table glass, no cloth or flannel is
half so good as newspaper; and for a
bakers dozen of other uses, quite foreign
to its primal purpose, it is without rival.
-ScTJbneT's for March,
Year: 1874

While so many papers are DISCUSSING
whether or not the country should return
to specie payments, it should not be for
gotten that there is a large class of per-
sons whom we owe who are not at all par
ticular whether payment is made in specie
or in greenbacks. Most of us have debts
owing to us, and we would no doubt as
soon have these debts paid in greenbacks
as specie. ANY kind of payment is salts
factory to those who want money, and
that is the case with most of us just now.


One of the worst of our farming troubles
the past wear or two, is the debt most of
us have had to carry. Our crops have
either failed, or else been so very produc-
tive that they brought little price in mar
ket. We have thus not been able 10 pay
our debts. and much of the embarrass-
ment which so many feel comes from this
fact as much as from anything wrong in
public affairs. Ifthe result of our troubles
should bring US nearer to cash payments,
it will be of more influence on our pros
perity than either greenbacks or specie
payment under highly extended credit
system.


Of course perfect system of agricultur-
al operations on nothing but a cash sys-
ten is impossible. Thousands of men
now own farms who would never have
owned a strip of land only that they
bought it on mortgage; and borrowed
money has often helped man in busi-
ness, besides doing good to the one who
loaned. Hard cash for everything means,
with most persons, hard work for life and
little at the end; but the man who goes
heavily in debt should remember that hard
times will always come in turn
with good ones, and then it is
that debts are so hard to pay. No
one should contract debts without
thinking of the possibilities of bad times,
and what means will be at hand when one
source of income fails.


No doubt these pinches make many a
one resolve never to go in debt again, but
such indiscriminate resolutions are never
kept. If small bills are kept paid, as they
generally can be, and this kind of cash
payment be brought about, the advantage
es OfjudciOus debt Will always remain
the same.-Fo7ney's Press.
Year: 1874

rough word don't hurt him, but kind one
he can't stand" And this was true. His
soul was fortified against hatred and con-
tempt, but kind voice, or gentle caress,
seemed to wound him so that he would
sob like an infant.


As he recovered from his illness he con-
tinued gentle, kind, and shrinking, to a
fault BY the operation of some spiritual
law that l do not fully comprehend, he
was, after his recovery, one of those who
win a strange affection from others. His
influence seemed like mild fascination.
1t was said of him in after years, that he
wasmOre truly loved, and by more people,
than any other man or woman in all the
settlements round. Children loved him
with passionate attachment, and the wO-
man of child-like nature whom he made
his wife is said to have died of grief at his
death. He departed this life at the age of
thirty-eight years, and he sleeps on the
edge of the great valley, with his mother
and his wife beside him.-AtLantic for
March
Year: 1874

A ludicrOus case of mistaken identity
occurred in Montreal, recently, through
the unfortunate resemblance oftwO young
gentlemen. One of them was recently
married, and the other is still a bachelor.
The married person went to dinner party,
while the unmarried one went 10 a con-
vivial entertainment, and, owing to a
miscalculatiOn of his capacity for wine, he
spoiled his nights amusement. While a
glimmer of reason remained he endeavOr-
ed to get home. By the time the young
man reached a cab-stand his mind had be-
come so confused that he was unable to
remember his own name or the street in
which he lived. AS he was engaged in
gesticulating to the cab-driver, a friend of
the married gentleman noticed his plight,
and, confounding his identity, pushed him
into the cab, whispered to the driver, and
continued on his way. The result of this
act was the conveyance of the unmarried
man to the home of the married man,
where his condition created anything but
a pleasant surprise. The wife was, of
course, mortified. Subsequently the faith
er-in-iaw entered the room to demonstrate
with him. After wasting much good adj
vice, the father-in-law discovered the mis-
take, and was in the act of trying to per-
suade his daughter, probably muchagainst
her will, that the young man was not her
husband, when the real husband put an
end to the dispute by letting himself in at
the hal-door with a latch-key.


Boston has champion belt ON exhibit
ton. which took the hidesof one hundred
oxen for its construction. 1t is needless
to say it is not intended for the prize-ring,
but is TO be run by three hundred and
fifty horsepower engine in a factory,
where there will be great danger of its tax
ing more hides.
Year: 1874

IRON. The demand for this product on this
coast seems to be on the increase. The San
Francisco Rolling Mil is now, by its pudding
furnace, converting a great deal of cast iron
into wrought iron. The supply of old wrought
iron is no longer equal to the demand. Stimu-
lated by the increasing demand, the iron fur
mace near Portland Oregon, has resumed OPP
eratons, and is making large quantities of iron,
most of which finds ready market in San
Francisco. We doubt much whether there are
better iron mines in the world than we have
within a few miles of Auburn, Our iron beds
seem to be inexhaustble, the ore OF good quail
ty the mines easy of access, and convenient to
the great trans-contnental railway; still they
not worked. We know not why this should
be. We have the cheapest fuel in the country
near at hand, and everything else, SO ia. as we
know, essential to the establishment Of first
class smelling works. One Of the grand features
of Placer's future will be her iron mines, and
tho sooner they are opened the letter w.
know no better chance for the investment OF
capital, and why some efforts are not made to
direct it to these iron beds is one OF the unac-
couutabies
Year: 1874

great many are talking of planting trees,
and. sure enough, now is the time to put the
matter to practice. Every house should have
shade trees around it, and at least a small or
chard. Those who are not thus supplied, should
neglect this important item of comfsrt and beau
ty no longer. While people in town are setting
out small orchards and shade trees, farmers
should be extending their orchards and vineyards
as much as they are possibly able, pre- paratory
to the introduction of drying machines in the
neighhorhood, and the establishment of an i'm
portant branch Of industry that shall prove a
source Of revenue now and for all time. that
will greatly enhance the value of foot-hil farms,
and insure the future and lasting greatness Of
this section of country.
Year: 1874

FARMERs.-The season, thus far, has been
more than usually favorable to the farmers
Large fields OF Summer fallow are already sown,
and the work of plowing is being pushed ahead
with all the force available. Should the season


ontinue favorable, the acreage of grain this
ccoming year will exceed any year since the set
tlement of the State by white men. The far
mers in this and adjoining counties are sanguine
of good harvest. Last year the crops in this
county were poorer than ever before, and as two
bad years have never yet come together, it is
not reasonable to suppose they will. 1t is this
fact, more than any other, doubtless, that is en-
couraging our farmers to unusual efforts The
farmer is hard man to discourage and 1t is
we'll that this is so. They are, one would think,
more than any other class, always hopeful, and
hope is the acme Of our existence
Year: 1874

THE MORNING STAR.-It is well known thai
Iowa Hill abounds in rich gravel Mines which
have long lain dormant, for want of water to
work them. The great Iowa Hill Canal project
fast approaching completion, will prove RENE
dy for this drawback to the interest of that sec
ton, and the dull times that have prevailed
there for some years past will be known nc
more, perhaps in this generation. The Morn
ing Star is one of the rich claims of that section
1t is largely owned by residents of Grass Valley
and the Tidings, in speaking of it, says to show
''how rich the gravel averages we may mention
that the dirt taken out by two men engaged in
drifting for one month, was recently washed
and gave product of six hundred dollars in
gold The regular work of sluicing. with 1,00(
inches of water, under 500-foot head, will be-
gin December 1st after which time look out fol
cheering news of nice clean-ups from there
ever little while
Year: 1874

We acknowledge receipt of complimentary
ticket for the Grand Thanksgiving Ball, to be
given Thursday evening next, at the Skating
| Rink at Dutch Flat. 1t is yet too long before
7 hand to say whether we can accept the invita-
| ton. The people of Dutch Flat get up good
&dsnces. and the Rink is good place to dance;


and, whether we shall be able to go there or not,


We can cheerfully advise all others to go, who


wish to have good time.
Year: 1874

berents he really knows no more of Grants hand
writing than of julius Cssar's; that he has never
written OF SAID anything to anybody on the subject
beyond what has appeared in the public prfnts, ana
that he has always explicitly declared ms -cproba-
ton of third term as a step tow.fu central I'M
perialism-as an alarming bre.cn of custom and uD-
written law and becarse he still has faith IN free
constitutional government. His misfortune was :"
saving incidentally that the South might iaAe
Grant as a lesser evil and a last resort aeain',
more dangerous because abler Radicals caiieu
upon the Governor, but failing TO see MN,
received this statement from closely associaVeu
with him. who was an nxous that his position shouiu
be fully understood. Nobody ever suspected uo''
Kemper of corrupt bargaining with Grant OF any
body else therefore it was that his reported al
vocacy of the third term idea caused such sehS'
ton throughout the South. And this leads me W
remark that in the South the third term movement
received its death-blow two months before the NO
vember elections. When President Grant TOOK Inc
side of Kellogg in the Louisiana revolution ana
brought the army and navy to bear upon the peopio
of that State he made it impossible for any honest
SOutherner to advocate his election as modera'c
Republican, Several prominent men have told nie
that they had expected to vote for him against eA
tremists in his own party but that his persistent
enforcement of Judge Durells decision (even ai'ei
he knew how baseless that decision was ana no" IL
was received, and when he had an opportunity "
correct his mstake had convinced them thdI
there is no worse man in the Radical ranks II
Gen. Grant is a candidate in 1876, his only support
ers in the South will be the worst class OF ONCE
holders and faction of the negroes.
Year: 1874

sum of two hundred dollars and the entire
amount Of freightage or fare thus paid, and
the same may be recovered by suit in any
court of this State of competent jurisdic-
ton. In suits brought under the provis-
ions Of this Act, any number of causes Of
action may be united in the same complaint.


Sec. IL. In all actions brought under
the provisions of this Act in Justices Court,
the summons and complaint may be served
on the company or corporation by delivery
of a copy thereof to any officer or agent Of
tho company or corporation against which
the damage, penalty Or forfeiture is claimed,
who has charge of depot Or station on the
line of railroad owned or operated by said
company or corporation.


Sec. 12. In addition to the civil actions
in this Act provided. any officer, conductor,
agent, Or employe of any railroad company
or corporation, who shall demand or receive
ary greater amount for freghtage or fare
than herein allowed, shall be guilty of a
msdemeanor, and shall be fined in sum
not less than twenty-five nor more than five
hundred dollars.
Year: 1874

The ability Of the human body to resist the
causes of disease depends upon its vigor and
upon the regularity with which the several
organs perform their functions In the winter
the most prolific sources of sickness are damp
and cold, and it is therefore wise and prudent
to fortify the system against them by wholesome
stimulation. Hence it is that Hostetters Stom-
ach Bitters prove such an admirable safeguard
against the complaints most common at this
season. The ingredients of this powerful vege-
table invigorant comprise three essential medi-
cinal elements which act simultaneously upon
the digestion, the circulation, the secretions
and the nerves, infusing strength and regularity
into ALL In this way the Bitters put the body
in the best possible condition to escape an atteck
of rheumatism, or intermittent fever, or indi-
gestion, or biliousness. or of pulmonary disease,
Cold and damp are very depressing; almost as
much so as excessive heat, and protective med


cine is quite as needful in winter summer.
The commercial stiEulants so unwisey taken in
the form of drains to keep out the cold, have
a precisely opposite effect to that produced by
Hostetters Bitters. Their first result is sue
ceedcd by reaction which devitalizes and pros
trates the system while, on the other hand,
the tonic and vitalizing operation of the great
vegetable lnvigorant, is not only immediate but
permanent. There is no revulsion, no reverse
nervous action. The physique is strengthened,
the appetite increased, the bowels regulated, the
stomach reinforced and these conditions con-
tlnue. If dyspepsia or rheumatism, or bilious
ness or intermittent fever, or general debility
or nervous weakness, is present in the system
expel it with this pure and harmless antdote,
which is not only Invaluable as o preventive of
sickness, but also remedy for a large class Of
disor1prc
Year: 1874

Let us first sketch the story of the lions
life, beginning with his marriage, which
takes place toward the end Of January
He has first too seek his wife; but as the
males are far more abundant than the fe-
males, who are cut off in infancy, it is not
rare to find a young lady pestered with the
addresses of two or three callants, who quar-
rel with the acerbty of jealous lovers. If
one of them does not succeed i'll disabling or
driving away the rest, madam, impatient
and dissatisfied, leads them into the pres
ence of an old lion, whose roar she has lis
tened to from distance. The lovers at
once fly at him with the temerity of youth
ful fire and evaporation. The old fellow
receives them with calm assurance, breaks
the neck of the first with his terrible paws,
smashes the leg of the second, and tears
out the eyes of the third. No sooner is
the day won and the field clear, than the
lion tosses bis name in the air as he roars,
and then crouches by the lady who, as
reward for his courage, licks his wounds
caressngly.


When two adult lions are the rivals the
encounter is more serious. An Arab,
perched in tree one night, saw lioness
followed by a tawny lion with a full grown
mane She lay down at the foot of the
tree; the lion stopped and seemed to listen.
The Arab then heard the distant roaring of
the lion, which was instantly replied to by
the loncss under the tree. This made her
husband roar furiously. The distant lion
was heard approaching, and as he came
nearer the lioness roared louder, which
seemed to agitate her husband, for he
marched toward her as if to force her to be
silent, and then sprang back to his old post,
roaring defiance at his distant rival. This
continued for about an hour, when black
lion made his appearance on the plain.
The lioness arose as ii to go towards him;
but her husband, guessing her intention,
bounded toward his rival. The two
crouched and sprang on each other. rolling
on the grass in the embrace of DEATH
Their bones cracked, their flesh was torn,
their cries of rage and agony rent the air,
and all this time the loness crouched and
wagged her tail slowly, in sign of satsfac-
ton. When the combat ended, and both
warriors were stretched out on the plain,
she arose, smelt them, satisfied herself that
they were dead, and trotted off, quite re-
gardess of the uncomplimentary epithet
which the indignant Arab shouted after
her.