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Year: 1871




Executive Mansion.


WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. 1871.


No information has yet been received BY the gov
ernment officially stating when the Grand Duke
sAlexg win arrive here. The arrangements for his
presentation to Tho President viii be made by Secre-
tary Fish and Minister Catacazy, ana the pre-
'Sentaton win probably take place ON the
day succeeding his arrival at noon. There
win be no formal speechmaking and no public dis.
play at the presentation, which will take place In
the Blue Room at the White House. The President
win be attended by the Cabinet and the Duke by
his suite and Minister Catacazy, who win Introduce
him 10 President and Cabinet. Then ne wiz be es-
corted to the Red Room and presented to Mrs. Grant,
and alter short time spent in conversation will
retire. and return to New York the next day. The
usual crowd or curious ones will be gathered around
the door Of the Executive Mansion TO get glimpse
OF the much talked Of Alexis, but none will be ad-
mitted TO the interior OF the building.


1t is customary such occasions for the visitor
to receive call from the Secretary OF State soon
after his arrival in the city and prior his present.
alton to the President In accordance with this
custom Secretary Fish will call upon him on the
evening Of hts arrival or before noon the next day.


It was heretofore arranged tnat Alexis, who had
expressed wish to that erect would be gratifed
with bufralo hunt on the great plains. Had he
arrived IN octooer General sheridan would have
organized hunting party; but the latter ls now
OF the opinion that the hunt will have 10 be aban-
doned, owing to the lateness OF the season and the
prevalence OF SHOWS.
Year: 1871

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


As usual In such cases the HERALD Is the nrst to
announce the arrival OF our distinguished VISITOR
While we extend o nations nospltaltties 10 the
young man let not our American sons and daugh-
ters forget their own Importance Let them turn to
their school maps ana they win see their own coun
try, with 10000 miles OF sea coast. aud their
geography win prove that America Is the richest
country in the world Let not the Grand Duke for
yet while he drives up Broadway that there
Is no one street any other city OF any other coun
wealth. Let not our boys In Dlue' forget that our
nation can put three million troops N the neld,
completely armed and equipped. In remarkaDiy
short time, and maintain them there while neceS-
sary and retire them to peaceful avocatfons instan.
taneousy, without danger to citizen or SOLDIER Let
the hands0mest nag that ever kissed the breeze on
land sea- and that In the iuture as In the past u
will cheer the foreign traveller In every port re.
minding him OF sthe land OF the free and the home
OF the Drave.n POLLOCK.
Year: 1871

A NEW THING.-Coquettes have n
new Irritation sign. 1t is made by
placing the little finger of the right
hand up to the mouth and Struggling
the shoulders. Its sl1ilful use is to
bring men to their knees in short
order.
Year: 1871

A young man at La Crosse, Wis,
looked through the key-hole of a
girls bedroom, and ever since the
doctors have been trying to get a
knitting-needle out OF the place
where his north eye used to be.
Year: 1871

A REMARKABLE EGG-The Yolo Democrat saws:
" Tuere is in the cabinet Of Mr.. Stephens 4 t the
Bank, an egg layed by common hen belonging
to Mr. J. Brogan, Of this place, which is worth
seeing. The egg itself is fully as large as a tur-
key'a, and has a sharper point at the small end
than usual. To this point is attached an almo t
perfectly shaped human arm from above the ell
bow to and including the hand. The length of
this miniature arm is about an inch, and the size
is in nice proportion. The hand seems to be
grasping boqust. The arm is covered with
shell, and was at first filled with Substance
like the white Of an ordinary egg.o
Year: 1871

A SPoSGE MINE.-The Ventura Signal of Octo-
Der 28th says mot until yesterday, when
Professor Guerrero laid fine specimen on our
table, were we aware that the common sponge
of commerce was to be found on the California
coast, nor could we then be fully persuaded un-
til he pointed out tae locality, and we went and
picked up sample from the sand of the sea
l. is of a very fine quality, and bears evidence
of having been recently detached from the rocks
in the immediate vicinity of the place where
found. If it can be found, and the should
prove to be any considerable deposit, it would
be rich mine. Here is a chance for specula-
ton"
Year: 1871

MINERAL LAND LAw.-The Grass Valley Union,
an Independent journal, has the following arti-
Gle q" Some of the Republican papers, anxious
Tor the defeat of A. Sargent United States
Senator, are accusing him of all kinds of nefari-
GUS things in connection with the passage of the
Mineral Land Law. They attempt to prove this
righteousness by saying that Sargent got titles
to his own mines through the law which he had
passed. In the mining districts and among cap


talists in the cities who are interested in mining.
the mineral law was considered a necessity.
Mining men asked for the law, newspapers in
the mining regions favored its passage and no
objection was ever heard concerning it until pol
icians attempted to make capital against Sar-
gent out of the law. Moreover, the passage of
the law was direct necc ssity. All interested
are satisfied now that it il has passed. tmakes
mining titles secure. Under it a mine is proper
ty We see no objection to the law in the fact
that Sargent himself, under its operation, ac-
qured good titles to mines he had purchased
under the old possesSory custom of miners
The law is not a bad one because Sargent gets
what is right under it. The laws concerning
any species of property are had on the same
ground. Sargent having a right to acquire a
homestead, under the Statutes made and pro-
vided, would argue the Homestead Law to be
very wrong. If Cole, however, should get a title
to house and lot, in lawful way, the law al
lowing such proceeding is perfectly right
Sargent is well acquainted with the wants of the
mining regions and conversant with the opin-
IONS OF the mining population. AS mining is a
great interest, an terest which cannot be broken
down without ruin to the Pacific coast there
should be one man at least in the United States
5 nate who can well and inteigently represent
the SINNERS of California"
Year: 1871

To MEND RUBBERs. We clip this from an ex-
change, it may be good or it may not, but min
ers and others who wear rubbers can lose moth
ing by giving it a trial 8" Get piece of rub
ber-an old shoe-vucanized rubber will not
do cut it into bits; put it into bottle, and
cover to twice its depth with spirits of turpen-
tine or refined coatar naphtha-not petroleum
naphtha. Stop the bottle and set to one side,
shaking it frequently. The rubber will soon
dissolve. Then take the shoe and press the rip
or cut close together, and put on the solution
with camel's hair brush. Continue to apply
as fast as it dries, until a thorough coating is
formed"
Year: 1871

Perpetual MoToN.-The Nevada TrdnscripL
of the l4th instant has the following A gen


tleman who now resides not far from Newtown.
some six miles below Nevada after thirty years
of whiting, experimenting and studying, has
at length invented a machine that will run with
out the application of any external power in
other words, a perfect perpetual motion. A
wooden machine has recently been manufactured
oy the inventor and an assistant, which, although
1t did not work entirely to his satisfaction vet
be could readily see wherein was the fault, which
will be remedied a new and more perfect
model is now being manufactured of brass and
steel, at a jewelers. shop in Grass Valley. The
inventor says he would like to study and expert
ment with the machine a few years longer, in
order to ascertain the amount of power it is
capable of producing, and other particulars bat
as he is getting along in years he has wisely, we
think, determined to bring it out at once, so as
TO be reapng the benefit Of his long years of
patient toll and industry. We fear, however,


that like all his predecessors in that line of in
venton he will meet with a chilling disappoint-
ment. The working model, we are told will be
completed in the course of two or three weeks ="
Year: 1871

No information has yet been received by the
Government officially stating when the Grand
Duke Alexis will arrive here. Arrangements
for his presentation to the President will be
made by Secretary Fish and Minister Catacazy
There will be no formal speech, making and no
public display at the presentation which will
take place in the Blue room at the White House.
The President will be attended by the Cabinet
and the Duke by his suite and Minister Catacazy
who will introduce him to the President and
Cabinet, when be will be escorted to the Red
room and presented to Mrs. Grant
Year: 1871

A recent Washington letter says So
ciety here is on the rampage. No adj
equate idea can be given to your steady
going, sane Cincinnati people of the wild
social excitement and insanity now DOM
inant here Balls, receptions, private
theatricals, Germans, dinners, suppers,
Danish, apparently all sleep. How these
fair delicate girls go through it all, and
live, | do not understand. A beautiful
young girl from Philadelphia, who is
spending the winter here, stated to us,
last evening that she had been to two
or three receptions or parties every
night during the week, and had never
retired before four clock in the morn
ing; that she always got up between
nine and ten o. clock, SO as to get her
breakfast and be ready to receive by
eleven clock in the morning. And this,
she said, was fair average Of her life
during the winter. How little sense the
parents and guardians of these grown
children hayel What think you, is the
legitimate and natural result of all this
dissipation, this wild excitement, these
late suppers of indigestible food, this
rushing from warm rooms into the cold
night air, with neck exposed or thinly
covered, with bare arms and paper-slip-
pered feet2 Following in the wake of it
all are the gaunt specters of lingering
disease or sudden death.
Year: 1871

rIl iguQ Great HumOrfst. al'I ts Il


1 had the honor of dining with this
distinguished humorist at Welkers, on
an invation from the Hon. s. s. Cox.


This was my FIRST meeting with Mark
Twain. had seen his portrait in the
Galaxy, and it gave me an insane idea
of the humorist | recollect, when l
was a boy, that the enterprising Mon
sieur Dorfuille in his museum at Cincin-


natl, had the head Of murderer named


Hoover, who had been very properly
hanged, preserved in a jar Of alcohol,
and on exhibition, This woodcut of
Mark Twain looked to me more like


Hoovers head than anything else, and


was entirely unlike the countenance that


beamed on us last night. One would


not pick Mark out from a crowd as a
humorist; indeed one would not venture
to pick him out as literary character
at all He looks more like member OF
the Ohio Legislature (if you know
what that is) than anything else. That
is sort Of a man who had
narrowly escaped being made a
County Commissioners, and so was re-
turned to the Legislature. He is not
only careless about his clothes, but he is
positively ignorant on the subject, and
labors under the impression that the gar
ment that hangs so loosely upon his
shoulders is coat. From under his
bushy hair his face peers out, presenting
a square, -proportioned forehead,
keen gray eyes and hooked nose, we'll
developed mouth, exhibiting a good deal
Of decision, and a chin that rounds out,
supporting the whole, in no part of
which will you find particle of the
humor for which he is distinguished.
His face, on the contrary, is sad one,
and when all are in roars about him he
continues in state of dense solemnity.
His voice is the most extraordinary yyoice
| ever heard. 1t is cross between
Horace Greeley and Tim Lincoln. He
drawls his words out in the most prepos-
ferrous manner, that gives drollery to
what he says utterly beyond description


1t is quite impossible for him to pro-
duce in his conversation serious effect |
The exceedingly droll quaintness of his
solemn countenance, added to the drawl
Of his voice, makes one laugh when the
speaker is really striving to be serious.
For example: | had said to him that a |
contract TO be funny at regular intervals
struck me as rather heavy, and he replied |
by saving that was so; while he might be
Sufficiently interested to raise laugh, |
when left to himself, it became dreary |
stuff when brought out in that manner on
contract. o"Only think, said he, II |
knew that confounded thing had to be
done, and, with dear friend lying dead |
before me, and my wife half distracted |
over the loss, / had to get off my articles
SO as not to disappoint my publishers,
and when / sat down with board and a |
knife. to engrave that map of Paris / did |
SO with a heavy heart, and in a house of |
lamentation." Now this was rather a |
sad picture. and he meant to impress me |
with the sorrow he had felt, but yet it
reouired the greatest struggle on my part
TO refrain from laughing as L heard It.
felt ashamed of myself afterward, for God
knows there is no wit or humor in that
nnbonny storv nor did Mr. C1amenta
Year: 1871

II possesses the very great advantage
of carving the work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequl
an inclination of the body forward (detrl-
mental to health) and are hard and tire
some TO use
Year: 1871

Rev. j. F, w, Ware, pastor of the
Church of Our Savior, Baltimore, de-
livered very sensible and broad-spirited
sermon recently on the subject, May !
20 to the Theater2" Among other
things he said "The more Christians go
to the theater the more Christian will it
be. FIVE all endeavor to raise the social
tone, TO encourage a grand art, and
make its noblest impersonations wei
come aud desirable, we shall be doing
the best thing we can for it, for our
selves. for the public-make it sure that
in the incoming future the theater shall
stand side BY side, hand in hand with
the press and the pulpit in the elevation
of popular taste and the teaching of
Christian morality" silly Sabine should
make a note Of such excellent views of
the stage.
Year: 1871

The LOCK STITCH which It
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear
ance on both sides Of the fabric and will
not ravel 1t is also more economical
recurring oYE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any otser kind of stitch. Being thesame
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Year: 1871

this marble, and its proximity to market
and the facility with which it can be ship
ped to Knoxville, is bound to make it very
valuable.


Our correspondent must not conclude,
from these remarks concerning this par
hcular kind of marble, that we have no
other sort. Were he to visit our section,
we could show him marble of every de-
scription. We have variegated species Of
unsurpassed beauty, and susceptible of the
highest polish. This is found in the larg-
est abundance in Hawkins county, some
sixty miles from this city. Here consider
able quantities are gotten out and sent in
huge blocks to the East, The parties en-
gagged in this business are Eastern men, if
we mistake not, and are realizing hand
somely OH their investment, as we have
been informed.


In conclusion, we would say to our cor
respondent that we would be glad for him
to come here with his muscle, capital and
enterprise and open up this great resource.
There is money in it. 1t is yet in its in
fancy and may be made exceedingly lu-
cratiVe.
Year: 1871

The merchants tax law is now agitating
the business men of Memphis, who are
using every means in their power to have it
modified, At a meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce of that city, last Saturday,
the following memorial TO the Legislature
was read and signed by a large number of
merchants:


To the Honorable Senate and House of Rep
reScntatlvcs, Nashville: Under existing laws
the merchants of Tennessee are made to pav
more than one hundred per cent higher rates Of
taxation than other classes. They respectfully
beg your honorable body to remedy this mons
trous outrage by so amending the revenue laws
as to place them simply upon the same footing
with other respectable classes of our populations
They think you cannot deny them this reason
able request. For early and substantial relief
your petitioners will earnestly but respectfully
pray"


The question was argued in all its bear
ingS, but whether the General Assembly
will grant the relief asked remains to be
seen.
Year: 1871

BOSTON, MASS, April gS


The second annual report Of the Massa-
chusetts Bureau statistics Of labor was
to the Legislature to-day. The
subjects OF a stringent ten hour factory
law and half time schools for children, as
well as several other measures OF interest
TO the working people are now before the
Legislature for consideration.
Year: 1871

ONE OF our southern editors headed a
leader the other day "a Cut and Dried
Affair" and when he came to read II the
next morning, his piety was not in tho
least increased by reading, "a Cut and
Dried Apple"
Year: 1871


The following marriage maxims are
worthy Of more than basty reading. Husbands
need not pass them by, for they are designed
for the wives and wives should not despiss
them, for they are addressed to husbands:
The very nearest approach to domestic hap
pines on earth is in the cultivation on both
sides of absolute un ;elflshness.
Never talk at one another either alone or il
company.


Never both be angry at once.
Never speak loud to one anothcr-unless tho
house is on fire.


Let each one strive to yield the oftenest to
the wishes of the other.


Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain
that fault has been committed and always
speak lovingly.


Never taunt with past mistake.
Neglect the whole world besides rather than
one another.


Never make a remark at the expense Of tho
other it is meanness.


Never part for day without loving words
to think Of during absence.


Never meet without loving welcome.
Never let the sun go down upon any anger
or grievance.


Never let any fault you have committed so
by until you have frankly confessed it and ask
ed forgiveness.


Never forget the happy hours Of early love.
Never sigh at what might have been, but
make the best of what IS


Never forget that marriage is ordained of
God, and that his blessing alone can make it
what it should ever be-


Never let your hopes stop short of The etOr-
nal home.
Year: 1871

A youngster attending school at some dis
tance from home, says an exchange, wrote to
his mother 10 the following characteristic style:


DEAR MOTHER Il got another licking yes
terday, but had on three pair of pants, and
it didn't hurt much. ! was licked because /
put six pins in Mr.. IS chair. knew they
would not stick him, and made bet they
would not Mr. was so mean and hard
that the pins could not go in. won the bet,
which was a dog. He is good dog, and am
training him to bite old J" Hardsdes," as we
call him, some night when he comes home af-
ter dark, and if zack is as good after him as
he is after cats, won't get licked any more.
Zack and killed three cats Sunday, though I
was at the church and Sunday school all day,
and it wasn't good day for eating either
This makes the third licking got this week.
One vas because had a bottle of milk in my
room, and the ether was because wrote
combosition on negroes that old Hardsides did
not like said that negro'was dark SUBJ
iect to write on. 1t was ike dark African
going down dark cellar on dark night with
out a light to look for a black cat that wasn't
there. Old Hardsides stopped me and then
licked me for that. Send me some more Of
them pies. made good trade with some Of
them. If you will send me five dollars l will
stop all my bad habits except cursing and
swearing and chewing and drinking and one
or two others. You had better make the trade
Give my love to Julia, and tell her to send me
the little fiddle | left in the old trunk. l can
trade it for one or two cats for my dog, Zack
to practice on. Your affectionate son,


BILLIE
Year: 1871




No blister draws sharper than interest does.
OF all industries none is comparable to that Of
interest. 1t works all day ant all night II
fair weather and foul. 1t has no sound in its
footsteps, but travels fast. 1t gnawS at a
mans substance with invisible teeth. 1t binds
industry with its film, as hy is bound in a
spiders web. Debts roll n man over and ever,
binding him hand and foot and letting him
hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-leg-
ged interest de7ours him. There Is but one
thing on a farm Ike It, and that IS the Canada
thistle, which s%arms new plants every time
you break its roots, whose blossoms are pro-
life, and every flower the father Of a million
seeds. Every leaf is an awl, and every plant
like platoon Of bayonets, and a field Of them
like an armed host. The whole plant is tor
ment and vegetable curse. And yet farmer
had better make his bed in Canada thistles
than attempt to be at case upon interest.
Year: 1871




The rain must be very copious in New Lon
don, for the Star of that place says: "Allow-
ing US to be the Judge, the rain of the last two
days would not have been considered much Of
shower by Noah. In all probability the an
cient skipper would not have opened the um-
brella, which he constantly carried under his
arm, in anticipation of the food which he was
informed would, in the course Of time, be sent
to bis address. But to The people Of the pres
ent day, who know no food, nor ark, it has
been, and continues to be, disagTeeably moist.
With less than two umbrellas, it is impossible
to keep anywhere near dry. Corner loafns
has suffered to an extent hitherto unknown to
those who faithfully follow that noble calling.
The ducks even have been obliged to dive to
the bottom Of their respective ponds in order to
get out Of wet, and as many yof Goldfish as could
afford it pursue their daily avocatiOns in India
rubber overcoats. But like other storms this
one will be over one Of these days"