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Year: 1873

An operation was performed upon a
patient at the Louisville City Hospital
recently by Drs. Brandels and Wilson,
which is not often attempted. namely,
that of the TRANSMISSION of the blood of
a sheep into the veins of a human be-
ing. The subject of the operation was
a man named Wentley, who was admit
ted to the hospital some time since.
His disease baffied the skill of the best
medical talent in the city, as they were
totally unable to determine the nature
of it. General inanition was what the
resident graduates of the hospital
termed it. A gradual loss of strength
and flesh accompanied by feeble pulse
and difficult breathing were the symp-
toms of his disease. The doctors men
toned deemed the operation that they
had prepared to perform the only
chance to save his life. A young lamb
was procured and bled. The blood was
then deflerinated by DR.. Wilson. Eight
ounces of the blood were then injected
into the left arm. An immediate and
perceptible change for the better was
noticed, and the beating of the pulse
was easily observed. Eight ounces more
were then injected, and the pulse was
observed to beat quite steadily. The
patient was then replaced in his bed
and fed upon beef tea. At 10 o'clock in
the evening, although still very weak, he
was in much better condition than on
the morning previous to the performing
of the operation. It is not expected
that the patient will recover, though
there is strong probability of such an
event.-LouiSUiJIe Paper.
Year: 1873

No alliance with others can ever di-
miaish the necessity for personal en-
deavor. Friends may counsel, but the
ultimate decision in every case is indi-
yidual. AS each tree, though growing
in the same soil, watered by the same
rains, and warmed by the same sun as
many others, obeys its own law of
growth, preserves its own physical struc-
ture, and produces its own peculiar
fruit, so each person, though in the
closest communion and intercourse with
others, and surrounded by similar in
fuences, must be himself, and must do
his own duties, contest his own strug-
giles, resist his own temptations, and
suffer his own penalties. There is too
much dependence placed upon co-opera-
tion for security from evil, and too little
reliance upon personal watchfulness and
exertion. There are some who seem to
feel in a great measure released from
obligations if they do not receive such
aid, and some will plead the shortcom-
ings of others as an excuse for their
own. ...


We would by no means disparage the
effect of influence, or discourage in the
slightest the generous assistance which
we all owe to one another, or undervalue
the important effect of worthy exam
pie. These are vital elements of growth,
and their results can never be fully esti-
mated. But they should not usurp the
place of proper self-reliance, nor di-
minish the exercise of individual powers.
Moral force must be personal posses
sion. It can never be transferred, and
while we gladly welcome whatever is
good from all sources, it can only be as
food, which must be digested before it
can truly nourish us.


Material benefits may be conferred
by simple gift, but mental and moral
activities can only be sustained by their
own exercise. Thoughts may be changed,
but not thought powers ; moral help
and encouragement may be given, but
virtue cannot be transferred RESPONSE
bility cannot be shifted. The most
permanent good we can do to others is
to nourish this individual strength. To
aid the physically destitute most effec-
lively, food, fuel and clothing are not
nearly SO valuable as steady, remunera-
tive employment. To educate child,
it is not half SO important to instil large
amounts of information, as to set his
mind to work, to bring out his mental
powers, to stimulate his thoughts and
quicken his faculties. And in moral
life, especially in cities, where masses
are crowded together, and men inclined
to lean upon each other, the best lesson
to enforce is, that virtue, to exist at all,
must be strictly individual. That which
cannot stand alone, but depends on
props and supports, which needs the
constant spur of fear and the bribe Of
reward, to insure its activity, is but the
semblance of virtue, and will crumble
before temptation. A well developed
body never excites admiration but q
well developed and self-reliant spirit is
a nobler thing. 1t is calm, modest and
unassuming, yet firm in conscious in
tegrity of purpose and steadiness of
aim. Inflated by no vanity, it is at
once humble yet courageous; helpful
to the tempted, and yet resolute in as
sailing evil.
Year: 1873

Birds of lofty flight, as the candor,
eagles, vultures and carrion-seeking
prowlers of the feathered race, have
telescope vision, and thus they are
enabled to look down and discover their
unsuspecting victims. As they approach
noiselessly from above, the axis of vision
changes-shortening, so that they see
just as distinctly within one foot of the
ground as when at an elevation of one
mile in the air. This fact explains the
balancing of a fish-hawk on its pinions
half mile above a still pond, watching
for fish. When one is selected, down
the savage hunter plunges, the focal
axis, varying as the square Of the dis
tance, giving the hawk distinct view
of its prey always. AS they ascend,
then the axis is elongated by a curious
muscular arrangement so as to see far
again. Snails have their keen eyes at
the extremities of flexible horns, which
they can protrude or draw in at pleasure.
By winding the instrument round the
edge of leaf or small stalk, they
can see how matters stand on the op-
posite side. The hammer-headed shark
has its wicked-looking eyes nearly two
feet apart. 1t can bend the thin edg-
ings of the head on which the organs
are located so as to examine the two
sides Of an object the size of fully
grown Goldfish. Flies have immovable
eyes. They stand out from the head
like half an apple, exceedingly promi-
nent. Instead of being smooth hem
ispheres, they have an immense number
of facets, resembling old-fashioned
glass watch-seals, each one directing
the light directly to the optic retina.
That explains why they cannot be ap-
preached in any direction without see
ing what is coming. o 81
Year: 1873

Lichenstein says that African hunters
avail themselves of the circumstance
that the lion does not spring upon his
prey till he has measured the ground,
and has reached the distance of ten or
twelve PAGES, where he lies crouching
upon the ground, gathering himself for
the effort. The hunters, he says, make
it rule never to fire upon the lion till
he lies down at this short distance, so
that they can aim directly at the head
with the most perfect certainty. He
adds that if person has the misfortune
to meet lion, his only hope of safety
is to stand perfectly still, even though
the animal crouches to make SPRING
that spring will not be hazarded if the
man has only nerve enough to remain
motionless as statute, and look steadily
at the lion. The animal hesitates, rises
slowly, retreats some steps, looking
earnestly about him, lies down, again
retreats, till having thus by degrees got
quite out of what he seems to feel as
the magic circle of mans influence, he
takes flight in the utmost haste.
Year: 1873

Peter J. Mcdonald has just completed
the model of steam plough of his own
invention, and an application for a
patent has been forwarded to Washing
ton. The machine is novel one 1t
consists Of a pair of guides or ways, fiji
teen feet in length, projecting nearly
at right angles with and in front Of an
ordinary traction engine, supported by
a triangular frame, and to which are
suspended the ploughshares. By a
simple arrangement the ploughshares
are drawn toward each other and meet,
and being placed at an acute angle with
the machine gradually force it back the
width of a furrow The same machin-
cry is so arranged that the guys are
slightly raised, the ploughshares are
drawn back to the outer ends and the
operation of>ploughing is repeated. The
inventor asserts that none of the power
is wasted in hauling, but that it is all
applied directly to the ploughshares.
He believes that all the necessary ma
chinery can be constructed for $4,000
The ploughs and the machinery belong
ing to them can be readily disengaged
and the driving machinery used as an
ordinary traction engine. With ten
horse power engine he says that from
fifteen to twenty ploughs can be oper-
ated on each guy.
Year: 1873

ture, they left the house. A few to
whom the remark of the host did not
apply remained and enjoyed the joke
hugely.


Our tale may as well end here. Our
hero felt amply revenged, and our hero
inc was too happy to cherish i'll feelings
for the past.
Year: 1873

1t is little singular how we'll pair
of boots can be made to fit at the store


You may not be able to get your foot
only half way down the leg at the first
trial, but that's because your stocking
is sweaty, or you haven't started right


and the shoemaker suggests that you
start again, and stand up to it, and he
throws in little powder from a pepper,
box to aid you. And as you stand up
and pound down your foot, and partly
tip yourself up, and your eyes stick out
in an unpleasant manner, and every
vein in your body appears to be on the
point of bursting, and all the while that
dealer stands around and eyes the oper.
alton as intently as if the whole affair
were perfectly new and novel to him.
When your foot has finally struck bot
tom there is faint impression on your
mind that you have stepped .into an
open stove, but he removes it by SOL
emnly observing that he never saw a
boot fit quite as good as that. You may
suggest that your toe presses too hard
against the front, or that some of the
bones on the side of the foot are too
much smashed, but he says that is al
ways the way with a new boot, and that
the trouble will entirely disappear in a
few days. Then you take the old pair
under your arm, and start for home. as
animated as relic of 1912, all the while
feeling that the world will not. look
bright and happy to you again until you
have Drained that shoemaker. You limp
down town the next day, and smile all
the while with your mouth, while your
eyes look as if you were walking over an
oyster-bed barefoot When no one is
looking, you kick against post or some
| other obstruction, to show fondness fol
stopping and resting against something
| that will sustain your weight. When
you get home at night you go for those
old boots, with an eagerness that cannot
be described, and the remarks you make
on learning that your wife has disposed
of them to widow woman in the sub.
urbs, are calculated to Immediately de.
populate the earth of women and shoe


makers generally -Donbavy Neaos.
Year: 1873

In the expiring hours of the last Con-
gress. a blow was struck at the newspa-
per press which may yet rebound and
crush its authors. Some of the leaders
in Congress, especially the Senate branch
thereof, become angered at the persist
ent appeals of the newspaper press of all
political shades. for a repeal of the
franking privilege, and partl, in retail
alton, partly in the hope of checking the
agitation, the Senate Committee surrep-
titiously engrafted the following clause
in the bill to repeal:


Provided, That all laws and parts of
laws permitting the transmission by
mail of any free matter whatever it be,
and the same are hereby repealed from
after June 80, 1873.


With this appended the bill passed
both Houses. and not till after its pas
sage was its object generally known,
even to those whose breath gave it the
force of the law. This is shown by the
subsequent action of the populer branch
Of Congress, which attempted to pass an.
explanatory bill continuing the postal
freedom of the press


A strict construction of the act as it
now stands compels subscribers, to
county papers, to pay postage thereon,
even If they receive them in the counties
where published-and compels payment
of postage at the Office of delivery on all
newspaper exchanges.


Recurring to the changes affected by
the act repeating the Franking Privi-
lege, we assume this position, and hope
newspapers generally will impress it up
on the proper authority-that, under all
circumstances, the Postmaster General,
whose duty it is to construe acts affect
ing his Department, should at once con-
slider the validity of the clause quoted,
and if reasonable doubt is raised,
should give newspaper publishers the
benefit of it. The object of the act, as
stated the title and throughout the dis
cussion. was simply to repeal the Frank
ing Privilege. No other question was
raised. 1t was not the intention of 9th.
er than few of the aw-makers to i'm
pose new burdens upon the newspapers
OF Une land, and since at least one branch
of Congress attempted to rectify the
mistake, there is abundant ground fol
setting aside that clause of the act until
the incoming of another Congress. The
Postmaster General has this power; the
question of intention is plain in at least
one of the component branches Of gov
ernment, and intention is after all the
main ingredient in the correct construc
ton of law. Here is Creswells oppor
tunity. He should Immediately i'm
prove it, and when this is done ther,
need De no fear of the action of the Con
gress which meets in December next
. american Journalist.
Year: 1873

1t is not long since that a Chicago
judge decided that newspaper report
er may visit gambling houses and even
places of worse repute, in his official Ca
pacity, without being subject to arrest
for being found in such questionable
places. Now Judge Gill of Louisville
decides that reporter may carry con-
cealed weapons without rendering him.
self liable under statute prohibiting pri.
vate citizens from Juggling about arma-
ments. Decidedly the reporter is be-
coming. as he deserves to be, privi-
legged person. If some other judge will
now add to the decisions for his benefit
a third to the effect that he may not be
proceeded against in action for debt,
then he will have reason to be truly hap
py. Emancipate him, in short, from all
the prescriptions which hedge about
meaner mortals and what may we not
expect from his untrammelled genius.
Year: 1873

"A famous king would build church,
temple vast and grand;
And, that the praise might be his own,
He gave strict command
That none should add the smallest gift
To aid the work he planned.
And when the mighty dome was done,
Within the noble Frame
Upon tablet broad aud fair,
In letters all afame
With FURNISHED gold, the people read
The royal builders name.
Now when the King, elate with pride,
That night had sought his bed
He dreamed he saw an angel come,
"a halo round his head)
Erase the royal name, and write
Another i'll its stead.
What could it meanl Three times that night
That wondrous vision came;
Three times he saw that angel hand
Erase the royal name,
And write a woman's in its stead,
In letters all afame.
Whose could it be He gave command
To all about his throne
To seek the owner Of the name
That on the tablet shOne;
And so it was the courtiers found
widow poor and lone.
The King, enraged at what he heard,
Cried Bring the culprt here p
And to the woman trembling
He said " tits very clear
That you have broken my command;
Now let the truth appearP
''Your Majesty" the widow said
can't deny the truth
love the Lord my Lord and yours
And so in simple sooth
broke your Majestys command,
Il crave your royal ruth y
"And since had no money, Sire,
Why, l could only pray
That God would bless your majesty;
And when along the way
The horses drew the stones, gave
To one wisp of hay
"Ah now see," the King exclaimed,
''Selfglory was my aim;
The woman gave for love of God,
And not for worldly fame;
'Tis my command the tablet bear
The pious widows namew
Year: 1873

We learn from Mr.. Robert Glenn, Of |
the death, on the Goth ult., of Lewis
Flint, at his home in Wyalusing. The
deceased was forty-fve years of age
From the same source we learn some
particulars of the life of the late unfor-
tunate. Mr.. Flint was an old resident
nf Gr~nt oOunUy. ABOUT nineteen years
ago it became evident, from the sudden
change that came over him, that insani-
ty was fast developing itself. A log
cabin was built near the one in which
the family lived, where the demented
man was placed for better security. Con-
fnement seemed to aggravate his disease
and increase his violence, which was
hard for his poor mother to bear, but all
efforts on the part of friends to have him
removed to some safe place were una
vailing. The physicians called to ex-
anime his case, pronounced him hope
lessly insane therefore no room could
be found for him in the hospital for the
insane, and to any other place they fear
ed to have him 60. Another plan. how
ever, was adopted, which seemed to have
a better effect. A large block of wood
was obtained, too heavy to carry. to
which was attached chain, and the
chain fastened around his ankle in such
a manner as to produce no injury. This
arrangement allowed him some freedom
and he would divert himself by rolling
the block around in and out of doors at
pleasure, but it was always necessary to
watch his movements. 1t was many
times necessary for his brother, who had
charge of him, to be temporarily absent
from home. to which the invalid mother
never objected.


Strange as it may seem, she felt safe
to be left alone with her insane son, who
never during his long insanity. when la
boring under the strongest paroxysms,
seemed to forget the sacred name of
mother. His sickness was of short du-
ration. A few days before death he was
attacked by violent pain in the head,
which so Frustrated him that he made
no resistance to being laid on the bed.
His reason now for the first time in ma
ny years, seemed to be partially restored.
He told his brother that he was going
to die, asked for what he wanted, and,
discovering his block some distance from
his couch, asked to have it rolled to his
bedside; with his own hands he wrap
ped the chain around his ankle, and
there kept it until life's ftful dream was
over. The deceased was for several
years charge of Grant county Grant
County, (Wis.) Herald
Year: 1873

There was something inexpressibly
pitiful about suicide in New York last
week A man who was once we'll off in
Boston, failed in the panic of '67. He
was honorable, and to the great disgust
of his wife. gave up to his creditors all
he possessed. Then he was poor and
she scorned him. She had large prop
erty, but neither a dollar of it or word
of wifely sympathy would she offer to
aid him in continuing his battle of life.
He went to New York to try new start.
Broken down, sick, unlucky, and at
length despairing, he became reduced to
the direst straits. His wife enjoyed a
princely fortune-his daughter inherited
great wealth by the death of a relative
he. alone, ragged, homeless and actually
starving. haunted the streets of city
but few hours distant from them. One
day he cut his throat, and one who had
known him in better days buried him as
an act of charity. And yet there are
men possessed of the fatuous notion that
women are creatures of love and tender
ness, good to marry and cherish and put
faith in.
Year: 1873

CASHMERE SHAWLs.-The borders of
the real Cashmere shawls are made in
several pieces, and sometimes as many
as from ten to twenty, and are afterwards
sown together to form the pattern and
by the border an Indian shawl may al
ways be recognized from a French or
English one, however close an imitation
the latter may appear.


Every stitch of the border of the cash
mere shawl being worked by the hand.
is distinct in itself, and may be pulled
out-though it is not easily detached
without further injury to the fabric;
whereas the shawl made on the French
or English loom, has the border formed
of one piece, whence long thread may
at any time readily be drawn. In
deed, there is no surer test by which a
lady may know a veritable Cashmere,
than by examining the border, but if she
has fine eye for color, this faculty will
also assist her. The preparation of the
dyes which the Hindoos use is still Sc
cret, of which they are very chary, re-
moving their operations to distance
whenever they have reason to dread in
quisitive lockers on. But the result in
their fabrics is perceived. in the pecul-
lar richness and clealness of their hues,
and, at the same time, absence of glare
the reds, blues, and greens. reminding
one more of the harmonious tints OF old
stained glass than anything else.
Year: 1873

To PROTECT FURs FROM MoTHs.-The
common practice is to put away furs in
something perfectly tight, and to put
into the fur all sorts of strong scented
articles, such as camphor gum, tobacco,
cedar. and even some using turpentine.
All these have the effect to dry up and
injure the fur and is not the least pro-
lection from moths, as the furs are put
into perfectly tight packages that no
moth or miller could enter. Ladies are
surprised upon taking out their furs in
the fall to find that they are injured by
the moths after all this care. The SIM
pie answer is that the embryo moth was
in the furs when they were put away.
The deposit of the miller is so small that
it is not noticed. and the worm grows
very rapidly, and does the mischief, the
camphor and cedar having no effect on
it. The moth miller has access to the
furs before they are put away, and while
it dislikes the smell of camphor. and ce-
dar, this is not applied to the fur until
the miller has had access to it.


Furs should be thoroughly whipped
with small smooth round stick to get
out all dust and the small deposit of the
miller before putting away. and then
put into something that is so tight that
very small miller cannot crawl into.
A linen pillow case is "a good thing to
slip the box into. AS it is possible that
the furs may not have been whipped per-
fectly clean when put away, it IS desi
rable to take them out, say in June, and
whip them again, when if there are any
moths in them they will be in the form
of worms and may easily be whipped
out. Never hang furs out to air, but
put them back in the boxes as soon as
they are whipped. If in whipping furs
the fur is found to be loose, it is evi-
dent that there are moths in them, and
they should be whipped until the fur
will not fly.
Year: 1873

In Washington, the other day, a fe-
male member of a colored operatic troupe
went into dry goods store and called
for some flesh .colored hose. The clerk
placed before her box of black stock
ings, and she went away highly irdig-
nant
Year: 1873

By reference to another column, it will be
seen that the enterprislpg firm Of Elwell u
Miller are still engaged in the business OF
harness making at their old stand on Lau-
raj ST. These Young men are well known
for their excellent work, and those who pur-
chase once, are sure to call again. There is
no need of going outside of Bridgeton to
purchase harness, when we have such excel
lent workmen in this city. Give them
trial, and be convinced for yourselves.
Year: 1873

Subscribers Of the Pioneer living in Bridge
ton, who are about to change their place OF
residence, will confer favor by informing
The carrier. And those outside the city will
please inform us, so that the paper may be
sent to the proper address