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Year: 1870

CuLTvATING OYSTERS - According to a
statement made in the Academy of Sciences


says the Bu}letiH, there is reason to believe
that the experiment Of growing oysters in the
bay Of san Francisco would be attended with
success if Systematically attempted. Some
seedlings brought from New York less than
year ago, are said already to have attained
size equal to that which they would have
made in their native waters in two or three
wears None but small and inferior oysters
are indigenous near San Francisco, and if
good breeds could be successfully introduced
from abroad, a delicious edible would be
added to our markets aud a new resource to
our local industries. The importation of
Eastern oysters by rail has been abandoned
as improbable. Their quality wac generally
impaired, and the freight made them cost
too high. A considerable trade is done in
the small native oyster obtained on this coast
but an improved breed would greatly enlarge
IT.
Year: 1870

No. never. Always rally your forces
for another and more desperate assault
upon adycrsity. If calumny assail you
and the world-as it issapt to dc. in such
cases--takcs part with your traducer, do
not grow moody and misanthropic. or
worse still. seek to drown your happiness
in dissipation. Bide your timc. Dir
prove the slander if you can if notr
live it down. If poverty come upon you
like thief at night, what then! Let is
rouse, as real thief would do,t emerge
tic action. No matter how deeply YOU
may have got into hot watcr--always pro--
vided that you did not help the father Of
lies to heat it-your ease. if yon are made
of. the right sort Of stuff, is not desperate,
for it is in accord with the Divine order
and sweep of things, that life should have
no difficulties which an honest, determined
man, with heavens help, cannot surmount.
Year: 1870

nothing but giggle, cover up her face with
her fan and exclaim, once in four minutes !:
Don't now, you are real mean"


How can a man propose life partner
ship osuch silly goose? My dear girls,
you must, if you would get husbands, and
decent ones, dress in plain. neat. becoming
garments, and talk like sensible, earnest
sisters. leA So = ~ e l-ss .aak


You say that the most sensible men are
crazy after these butterflies of fashion.
beg your pardon, it is not so. Occasional
ly, a man of brilliant success may marry
"a silly, weak woman, but as have heard
women say hundred times. that the most
sensible men choose women without sense
is simply absurd. Nineteen times intwen-
t. sensible men choose sensible women. /
grant that in company they are very likely
to chat and toy with those overdressed and
forward creatures, but they don't ask Them
to go to the altar with them. ua) r


Fourthly-Among the young men in the
matrimonial market. only small number
are independently rich, and in america
such very rarely make good husbands
But the number of those who are just be-
ginning in life, who are filed with a noble
ambition, who have a future, is very large.
These are worth having. But such will
not, they dare not, ask you to join them,
while they see you SO idle, silly and 50
gorgeously attired. Let them see that you
are industrious, economical, with habits
that secure your health and strength, that
your life is earnest and real, that you
would be willing to begin at the beginning
in life with the man you would consent to
marry, then marriage will become the rule,
and not as ROW, the exception. sfo /
Year: 1870

The dissipation of Henry III. of
France, brought OR diseases by which
he lost his hair. He covered his dis
hOnored head with a wig, and the
eourtiers and fops or Europe soon felt
ashamed to be seen with their own
natural growth Of hair. This hot,
unhealthy, and unbeeoming append
age to the human head continued Ia
vogue till the French Revolution,
when it was swept away with other
external signs of arlstoeraey. But for
q long time afterwsrd it was deemed
a mark of democratic vulgarity to ap-
pear on public occasions without a
wig. A Prussian clergyman, who at
tempted to preach with his head un-
covered, incurred such serious risks
that the Government was obliged TO
interfere for his protection and a
Spanich judge came very near losing
his Office by committing the same in
discretion. To this day judges and
lawyers do not venture to show them
selves IN court, till they have covered
their shapely heads with enormous
wigs, frightful to look UpOn.-LydiG
Mario Child.
Year: 1870

It Is related Of a Roman ruler, thas
after eating a hearty meal he WOuld
take an emetie that he might indulge
in eating another. This, perhaps IS
seeking for a pleasure at dearer rate
than nOst people are inclined % la-
dulge in; yet the principle OF the
thing exists in more people than we
are disposed at first to admit lis
very common as warm weather ap-
prOaches, to continue our usual allow
anee, though there is less need than
during the cold weather; and we only
feel the bad effects after the stomach
has been Over-taXed sufficiently long
to cause headache, dizziness Iassitude
and general debility. Great varieties
at meals lead to ii, because eating q
little 0fa great many things, viii make
q great deal in the end, and thus we
often eat more than we really need.
Eating when the system is weary
willlead US into the same error, for the
very weakness existing in the body,
influences the tOhols body, 50 that the
stomach cannot digest what it other
wise would an3 Is weakened con-
ditiOn it frequency presents inOrdi-
nate demands, and we eat too much.
Eating bits at all hours Of the day leads
Us into the habit Of eating too much;
for by this habit, the normal condi-
ton Of the stomach is subverted, and
while thus used 1t cannot be a faith
ful monitor Of the wants Of the system.
Thus, the constant tendency OF both
adults and children is to eat too much
for health, and it is no doubt a fact
that more people die from gluttony
than from starvation. The multi
tudes Of dyspepties are not generally
made 80 by short allowances Of proper
food, but by inordinate stufhng OF
rich viands, or by improper diet and
imperfect nOurishment. Thus, the
principle Of the Roman continues to
work, though we may not go as far as
he did yet we love to eat, and often
love TO eat too much.
Year: 1870

To ne Editor Of ne Cincinnati GGzstte:


Inotieed in the Gazette, Of January
%, an extract from the Boston AdUer-


tiSer, on old time marriages. The
writer seems to doubt the truth Of
such a custom as q woman standing
up to take the VOWS OF matrimOny
with no other dress on her person
than her under garment. I was told


by an old lady, who was young girl
at the time Of the Revolutionary war,
that there was an old English law
that when a man died in debt, IL his
widow married a second time in a
public place, dressed in that manner,
her husband could not be made to
pay her former husbands debts, and
that 1t was pFacticed to some. extent
in America before the Revolution, or
while she was under the English
government. The old lady said she
knew Of one such marriage (she did
not see it,. The bride had q corps of
lady attendants, and after going into
q public place, court, I think, j they
stripped her Of everything but her
under garment, standing around her
so that she was not exposed to the
gaze Of the crowd, no gentlemen be-
ing able to see her except the minis
ter and groom. After the ceremony
they (her attendants) dressed her,
and they all went out Of the Court.
There were some strange laws In
England in olden times The above
is not half so strange nor vulgar IS
another law have in print In a very
old book. The law was that If a
widow forfeited her right to her hus-
bands estate, by unlawful conduct,
she could redeem it again by riding
into Court backward, on a sheep, say
ing, Here 1 am, riding on q black
ram, &C., whereupOn the Court was
obliged 70 give her back her land.
Year: 1870

There is but breath of air and
a beat Of the heart between this
world and the next. Andin the brief
interval OF s painful and awful sus-
pense, while we feel that death is
with US, that we are pOWerless, and
he ali powerful, and the last faint
pulsati0n here is but the prelude of
endless life hereafter, we feel in the
midst Of stunning calamity about to
befalI us, that earth has no compen-
sating good to the severity OfOur loss.
But there is no grief without some
benehcent provisions to sOften Its In
tensities. When the good and the
lovely die, the memory Of their good
deeds, Like the moonbeams on the
stormy sea, lights up-Our darkened
hearts, and lends to the surrounding
a beauty so sad, so sweet, that We
would not, if we could, dispel the
darkness that envirOns us.
Year: 1870

Baltimore had a philanthropist
named James g. Delahay who was a
worthy man but beeame afflicted with
= mania OF giving 10 the poor. He
had the police TO send him evOry OBJ
ieet Of charity that came unde their
notice, which they did, and be gave
as long as he had. He became dis
consulate because he could not give
more, and the fact that be had noth-
ing to give bis family also pEeyed
upon his mind. He had given him
self out Of house and home. The
other day he bade his wife goOdsby
BY letter, and went on board steam
boat, ostensibly 10 make short trip.
Soon after the boat started he shot
himself with a pistol which he car
Eied, and then jumped intD.theWater.
He left a silk hat, with letter in it
Tor his wife, on deck.
Year: 1870




There is one lady at the Congress
Hall Hotel who registered a fearful
VOW before she came neYer 70 appear
twice during the SEASON in the same
dress, or with her hair In the ssme
style. Fancy the dreadful RESPONSE
bflity she has incurred. She allows
herself but two hours nap IN tie
forenoon, during which time her
maids sleep standing, and then she is
up and at it again. The amount Of
mental concentration, decision and
ingenuity which this woman employs
In walking the Piazzas in q trail, and
playing the role Of the Duckess OF
Hamilton and otherwise advertising
herself as a belle, would suffice, II
well directed, to settle the woman
question, Upon nay word, I believe
a few more such magnificent deyotees
would settle it.speedily without in
tending it.-iSardfogG Cor. Irs
Year: 1870

As you would have clear heads and
clean hearts as you would avoid the
life of the libertine and debauehee 5
as you would avoid misery and crime (;
as you would drive from yourselves
the eOrTuptiOns Of lust and passion,
touch not the unelean book, look not
upon the impure page. 1t Is the
broad road that leads to death, and
many there be that 60 in thereat."
Year: 1870

floor l remember jumping frenziedly
backward upon some one, who pitched
me headlong again with my face fat on
the creatures horrible fur but it didn't
move, and l have no doubt was already
dead


Meanwhile. somebody had struck out
at random and laid the doctor flat for a
moment; and somebody else had hit a
dog, who was lamenting piteously. But
order was at last restored, and another
splinter lighted, when the creature was
fourd to be stone dead in the hay.


1t was a specimen Of what Sanders
called ''bob-cat," which is the Canada
Lynx Of the naturali,ts. 1t had proba-
ably been in the barn when we went in,
having gone in ike ourselves to get shell
ter from the storm. Our noisy entrance
had doubtless given it quite surprise,
and being Of a inquisi,ive mind, it had
come down after all was quite, to investi-
gate, with the results aforementioned.


The fur was of beautiful stone gerry
color, fading into white upon the under
parts of the body. The skin was unaui-
mously voted to the doctor as he had
suffered most. to keep as memento of
our night in he old barn on Bear River.
-EaNou's Hagaeine
Year: 1870

Many years ago there was a distress.
ingly hard winter in Germany, and many
very poor people who had no fire at
home were glad to sleep in the stables
and barns of the wealty where it was
warmer. Ons man and bis family sought
re fugs in q barn were = bear was kept
in peu During the night little son
of the poor man supposinS the bears
pen warmer than any other part of the
building, crept in without knowing his
danger. The bear, however, was not
angry with him, but taking it as COM
pliment and . mark of confidence, took
the boy in his arms and hugged and soon
the child fell asleep. Ia the morning
the boy, leaving his warm bed-fellow,
went begging through the streets, and
returned to sleep with him again at night.
Soon the bear conceived such An affec-
ton for tho childs thai it made it . point
to retain part Of its food for him. So
even if tho little begsar was not success
full in getting food from others, bis friend
the bear, did not allow him to 90 sup
perless to bed. Things went on this way
until one evening the keeper, on bring
ing the bears supper later Than usual.
found him very cross- He srowlsd saw
agely at him, and did not parsaks of the
food which be generally devoursd vors-
ciously. On looking closely at the bear
he found that he had child in his arms.
and appeared to be afraid that the keep.
er would take it from him. Thinking it
might endanger the child's life if he at
tempted to take it away, and seeing that


it was comfortably asleep. he went away.


In the morning however, he returned


with his master, the nobleman, to whom


he had related the strange incident, to OBJ


serve them. When the child had par
taken Of part Of the bear 8 food, and was
leaving the barn, the noblemau accosted


him aud learned the particulars of bis in
timacy with the bear. Afterwards the
boys father, with his family, were COM


ortably fed and lodged by the nobleman.
Year: 1870

The following we find in New York
paper, but cannot say where it origiuat-
ed: -.-


Mr.. Hufnasle purchased an elephant in
India, and brought him home nnder the
care Of native keeper. The design was
to teach him to do farm-work. When
the animal arrived, it was sscertained that
he could not or would not do such labor,
and so he was put in the stable of eoun-
try hotel, near New Hope, where he con
sumed enough sustenancs to bankrupt a
mau of ordinary wealth.


One day his keeper died suddenly,
and, as nobody else knew how to manage
the elephant, it was found impossible to
get him out of the stable. The landlord
rayed, and swore, and tore his hair about
it, but there that elephant stuck, with the
manifest intention of staying till the day
of Judgment, and of batterins down the
stable, unless he was fed.


At last, the landlord said that the ele-
phant must be got rid of somehow or
other, if be had to be blown through the
roof with gunpowder. SO an effort was
made to sell him. and mensgerie man
Was induced to buy him for 81 600
This man determined to bring that ele-
phant right along with strategy. He got
a car on the railroad track near by and,
after fixing bridge to it, he lined the
floor with bushel or two Of apples, gin
gerbread, oranges, etc. Then he made
regular pathway Of apple and cake al
the way from the stable to the car. IL
cost him 5000 for bait. The elephant
followed the trail slowly, eating it up
clean as he went, He marched upon the
platform, over the bridge, and he gorging
himself all the time. The menagerie
man stood there, expecting every minute
he would go clear into the car and finish
the thing up; but instead Of this, the
miserable beast deliberately stood still
and, with his trunk, reached all over the
car, and ate every solitary thing in it
Then he turned and swoopsd down the
road at the rate of IL miles an hour.


The landlord, mean while, was 80 glad
to get rid of the beast that he asked all
hands in to take something in honor Of
the event The party were just putting
their glasses to their lips when q smash
was heard at the branyard gate. and q
laundering crash indicated that the stable
door was Knocked into diminutive flinders.
The crowd rushed out, and there was that
very same elephant in the very same old
place


The landlord was so mad that he
couldn't swear with sufficient vigor to
satisfy his feelings. 80 he got the crowd
to listen to him while he read 16 chapters
Of Horace Grseley's Table Talk" out
loud. This relieved him for the moment
but the next morning Hufnasle's elephan,
was found dead. and there was though,
to be some connection between this cir.
cumstance, and the fact that the landlord





was seen rolling barrel Of rat-poison up
an adjacent hill upon the previous even
inc
Year: 1870

A formal application was filed, yesterday,
with the Attorney General Of this State requesting
him TO commence proceedings for the suspension and re-
inova Of the President of the NewYork Central Railroad
Company The grounds which the application for re-
Inoval is based are that the President Of the NewYork
Central road Illegally injuring the stockholders by
ordering low rates of fares and freghts to compel the
Ere managers, who of course have TO make similar
rates 10 withdraw their personal claim against him In
the settlement of the Ave million suit" The question
involved is how far the manager OF corporation can
s his official position TO accomplish his personal ends
AT the meeting OF the trunk lines the Ere man
Hgers offered 10 withdraw the suit upon the elecon OF
satisfactory arrangements, bu Commodore NandefDlt
insisted upon the Withdrawal Of the suit hrs IDS the
Ere men declined 10 do, and the meeting broke up VIII"
out accomplishing any result, the competition con
Year: 1870

A good story is told of clergyman residing
ness Of his heart the ~ reverend gentleman iuvi.
ted ioo.man to get into bis wagon and ride.


The clerical gentleman asked his companion IF
he was prepared to die," whereupon the latter
leaped from the wagon and fled to place of
safety, doubtless considering the question
Synonymous with Your money or your lite. -
Year: 1870

To MAKE SALT BUTTER FREsH.-Put four
pounds of salt butter into a churn with four
quarts of new milk aud a small portion of ar.
ly as fresh butter, by washing it in water and
adding the customary quantity of salt. This is
singular experiment. The butter gains about
three ounces in each pound, and is in every
particular equal to fresh butter. 1t would be
greatly improved by the addition of two or
three ounces Of iue sugar in powder. A COM
mon earthen churn answers the same purpose
as wooden one, and may be purchased at any
china shop.
Year: 1870

SLANa-We regret very much the prevail
ence of slang. The habit of using it generally
begins in early life. The reason why young
people are guilty Of it is the same cause that
makes them curse, swear, use tobacco and
drink whisky, viz: the silly desire to appear
mansh, inasmuch as the swes of COM
nunity are guilty of these bsd habits.


A parent cannot be too careful in prohibit
ing his children from the use OF slang. If per.
mitted to talk it, they will be apt to associate
with those who employ the same language !;
but if checked when they are first heard to talk
the vulgar dialect. they will learn to despise it
and those who betoul their mouths with it.


The use of slang is one Of the best proofs
that young man has not been properly
brought up, and is serious objection to him
with all who do not know with whom he has
associated. In strange place it is apt--and
very properly, toto exclude person from
the best society.


The iudul gence 10 this very vicious language
is likely to last man through life, and will
ever !njure bis standing with all sensible men;
and the want of success of many persons may
be traced to the coarse expressions they have
been in the habit of using.


Bad as is the employment of slang phrases
by men, it is infinitely worse when We hear
them issue from the mouths OF women, out OF
which nothing should proceed but purity and
refinement. To hear man talk the language
Of the low and debased is very disagreeable; s.;
but to hear woman utter it is disgusting. We
disspprove of severe punishment for little girls,
but if one is heard to talk slang, judicious
parent should so correct her, that in the future,
when she hears the loose expressions OF the
rabbe, she may be on her guard never to re.
peat them.-Nortolk Journal.
Year: 1870

SUMAc.-It is our ,beliet thst if sumao were
handsome return-equal to that of any other
crop that could be raised. Our people should
turn their attention to it. We ADVISE our far
mers to try this experiment: Let them COLLECT
the seeds OF some Of the most luxuriant wild
sumac and plant them next season in good
land ; let them attend to the crop as they
would any other, and We have no doubt that
the yield would surprise them it would also
be so far superior to the wild plant, that it
would bring much higher price. As the
cultivation would Le new enterprise, we ad.
wise farmers to try it on a small scale at first -
say an acre. If the cultivation does not pay,
why. there cannot be much harm done.-Nor.
folk Journal
Year: 1870

Reflect that q sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubi-
al happiness, Indeed, without these the our
ney through life beco mes weary pilgrimage
the prospect hourly darkens to the view, the
mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filled
with the melancholy reflection that the happi-
ness of another is blighted with our cwn.
Year: 1870

A HEART-RENDINa CALAMITY. "A gentle
man just from Roane county gives the psrticu.
lars of most heart rending calamity that
happened last week on Spring creek in that
county, and by which one family was bersft
of four children in less than an hour.


A lady, whose name our informant had for
gotten, residing upon the above named creek,
had gone down to it in the morning for the
purpose OF doing 1.-THE weeks washing" tax.
ing with her the youngest child, an infant
about year old, leaving her other three at the
house. While engaged at her work she heard
suppressed screams at the house taking up
her little child from the soiled clothes upon
which it was sitting, she placed it in an empty
wash tub to keep it from crawling into the
creek during her absence, and hastened to the
house. where she met her eldest child with it's
head frighttully disfgured and swollen. She
hastily cleaned from this one that the three
children had crawled under the house in search
OF eggs; that while under something hurt
them, and that the other two were still under the
house. The mother upon looking under the
snakes "a very poisonous and deadly species)
crawling around their bodies The neighbors
were alarmed, and: by their assistance the
snakes were killed, and the unfortunate chill
dren taken out, their bodies presenting q
f1ightful and sickening appearance, By this
time the elder one was corpse. The mother
in her despair and agony bad forgotten until
now her little one at the creek, and upon 60
ing down to the creek for it, it was only to
find it also corpse in the creek. 1t is sup
posed the little child climbed up in the tub
and was holding on to the lower edge of it
when the tub upset. rolling the child into the
water below and drowning it, 1t is said the
mothers grief was 30 great that at last accounts
she was a ra7ing maniac. Point Pleasant
Journal