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Year: 1870

A FEW MAXIMs FOR YOUNG GIRLS.
Never make your appearance in the
morning without having first brushed
and arranged yourself neatly and
completely. Keep your clothing in
perfect order. Never let pins do du-
ty as buttons, nor strings take the
place of proper lands. Examine
every garment when it comes from
the wash, and, if necessary, mend it
with neatness and precision. Do not
sew up the holes III your stockings as
we have seen some careless, untidy
girls do, but take in broad margin
around the hole. be it snail or large
with fne darning.needle and darn
ing-cotton, and cover the fracture with
an interlaced stitch, so close as to be
strong as the body of the stocking,
and fine enough to be ornamental.
Train yourself to useful occupation.
Remember it is wicked to waste
time, and nothing gives such an i'm
preston of vanity aud absolute sill
illness as a habit of idiing and never
having anything to do. If you are
in your fathers house take some de-
partment of household labor upon
yourself. and a part Of the sewing,
and make it your business to atteLd
to it. Do not let a cali from this
idle girl, or a visit from that, or an
invitation from the other. interfere
with the performance Of your duty.
If you cultivate to perfection some
art by which you gain al independ-
ent livelihood, do it, whether there
is a necessity tor it or not.
Year: 1870

The SEA OF GALuEE.-Pilgrims,
sinners, and Arabs are all abed now,
and the camp.is still. Labor in lone
illness is irksome. Since | made my
last few notes | have been sitting out
side the teht for half an hour. Night
is the time to see Galilee. Genessar-
ct, with the glittering reflections of
the consultations hecking its surface,
almost makes me regret that | ever
saw the rude glare Of the day upon
it. Its history and its associations
are its chiefest charm, in any eyes,
and the spells they weave are feeble
in the searching light of the sun
Then we scarcely feel the fetters.
Our thoughts wander constantly to
the practical concerns of life, and re-
fuse to dwell upon things that seem
vague and unreal. But when the day
is done, even the most impressible
must yield to the dreamy influences of
this tranquil starlight. The old ira
ditions Of the place steal upon his
memory and haunt his reyeries, and
then his fancy clothes all sights and
sounds with the supernatural. In the
tapping of the waves upon the beach
he hears the dip of ghostly oars; in
the soft sweep of the breeze, the rush
of invisible wings. Phantom ships
are on the sea, the dead of twenty cen
turieS come forth from their tombs,
and, in the dirges of the night wind,
the songs Of old forgotten ages find
utterance again. In the starlight,
Galilee has no boundaries but the
broad compass Of the heavens, and is
a theatre meet for the birth of relig-
ion able to save the world, and meet
for the stately figure appointed to
stand upon its stage and proclaim its
high DEGREES. But, In the sunlight,
one says: Is it for the deeds which
were done and for the words which
were spoken in this little acre of rocks
and sand eighteen centuries gone, that
the bells are ringing today in the re-
mote islands of the sea, and far and
wide over continents that clasp the
circumference of the huge globe p
One can comprehend it only when
night has hidden all incongruities and
created theatre proper for so great
a drama.-Mark Twaia.
Year: 1870

1t is one thing to moralize, another
thing to act. There are men who
can utter the most refined and eleva-
ted sentiments, and at the same time
be guilty of crimes of the deepest
dye. These are the most dangerous
of mankind.
Year: 1870

A woman is naturally as different
from a mau as a flower from a tree /;
she has more beauty and more fra
GRANGE, but less strength. She will
be fitted for the rough and thorny
walk of masculine professions when
she has got rough beard, a brazen
front, and a hard skin, but no sooner.
Year: 1870

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed.
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi-
ment, it will keepit clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray Or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Nigor can
only benefit but not harm it. Ii wanted
merely for
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair is soon restored
to its original color
toih the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870




JACKSONVILLE, ILL, April H.
An insane woman in some way or
other escaped from the apartments in
the Insane Asylum in which she had
been confined, rushed up the stair
way, leaped upon the roof, dashed
away to the end of the building,
swung herself over the edge of the
roof and dropped to a cornice some
six or eight feet below. On this
cornice, a foot wide, and some seven
ty-five feet above the ground, the
wild maniac walked back and forth
for quarter of an hour. Men rushed
to the roof, passed rope to her and
tried to persuade her to fasten it
around her body, but in vain. Beds
were brought and placed below so as
to break the fall should she leap from
her perilOus position. After remain
ing there fifteen minutes, unconscious
of all danger she swung of, and hold
ing by the cornice until her feet
touched cap of the fifth story win
dow, when she let go the eornice and,
wonderful to relate, alighted erect and
steady upon the cap, which was but
foot wide and four feet long. There,
at that fearful and dizzy hight, she
stood gazing about for fifteen minutes,
She then seized firmly the rope low
cred to her and leaped into the air.
The strong arms above gradually low
cred her, and when she was about
thirty feet from the ground she re-
leased her hold and fell upon the beds
below, and although stunned was
taken up uniniured.
Year: 1870

SHELBYvILLE, IND, April H.
While Mrs. DIR. Walker was deliver
ing a lecture here last night, some
men induced deaf and dumb boy to
steal behind her and stick pins in her
limbs. After the lecture was finished
the parties got into a row concerning
it, in which the eX-Sheriff Of this
county was shot and another man
fatally wounded by blow on the
head with an ice pick.
Year: 1870

NASHVILLE, April l4.-Several cit
izens of Michigan are in the city
looking for cheap lands to go into
fruit raising in this climate. They
are fruit growers in Michigan, but
they think they will be more success
full in this latitude.


Mike MalOney, who was implicated
in the killing of Stewart yesterday,
was bound over to the Criminal Court
in a bond of 5000.
Year: 1870

A few days ago, house of ill-fame in
Detroit, was entered by man of middle
age and serious countenance, who inform
ed the women that he intended to offer up
prayer for their spiritual welfare, and
proceeded to do so dropping on his knees.
The inmates of the house not desiring his
devotional service took advantage of his
position and rolled him out of DOORS But
there their triumph ended. Rising to his
feet he rushed back into the house striking
out vigorously with the carnal weapons of
nature in style that would have done
credit to the prize ring. Having by such
knock-down arguments cleared a space, he
again knelt down and finished his prayer.
The astonished sufferers by this develop
ment Of muscular chris tianity subdued into
silence, heard themselves described and
their cases stated in prayer, with a plain
ness beftting the occasion.
Year: 1870

A BOSTON paper gives the following
IN account of new trick played on
travellers


A gentleman recently travelling from
Philadelphia to New York fell into
chance conversation with stranger hav-
ing all the outward appearances of respect
ability. After some quarter of an hours
talk, the stranger politely asked the gen.
tleman if he would take a cigar, at the SAND
time holding out two cigars, one looking
like Regalia the other smaller, such as is
usually called London size. The gentle
man happening to take the larger one be-
ing nearest in him as presented, the stran-
ger recommended him to take the smaller
one, remarking that he thought it was OF
better flavor. After smoking about quar-
ter to a third of the cigar, the gentleman
discovered that he was suddenly becoming
very dizzy. A suspicion flashed through
his mind that the cigar was not all right.
He Immediately threw it away but his
giddiness increased so much that it was
with the greatest difficulty that he preserv-
ed his self possession. In few minutes a
most copious perspiration started from ev-
cry pore of his body, and the water fair
ly ran off his person.


The stranger, meanwhile, was apparent
ly sound asleep on the other end of the
seat On his arrival at New York, the
gentleman with great difficulty, got off the
car and took carriage for his hotel, where
he was soon after violently attacked with
vomiting, and passed a very sick night
He had been for sevei al years resident of
Cuba, great smoker, and is fully con-
vinced that the cigar was drugged, and
that this is new dodge to trap the unwary
for the purpose of robbery. He attributes
his escape to the fact of his smoking, but
little of the cigar, and to his very robust
constitution.
Year: 1870

GB- The other day cvrrier-pigeon car
ried into beleagured Paris newspaper AZ
inches square, with 226 dispatches micro
scopically photographed upon it, comprising
the detailed news of the day from all parts
of the world and there now comes from
London description of the machinery
which did the printing. 1t makes dupli-
cate Of ordinary handwriting million
times smaller than the original, so that it
can only be read by the aid Of a powerful
microscope. The inventor announces that
he can thus reprint the whole Bible %
times in the space of an inch, and other
books in proportion. Think of it, The
Speaker OF the House can carry Cushing's
Parliamentary Manual entire, photographed
ON his thumb nail! Webster's Unabridged
may be printed on the lining of your hat
Ey the magic aid of this little machine, the
total contents of the Astor Library may be
transferred to five-cent blank book. Add
to such compendium, a small portable mi
croscope, which might nestle unnoticed in
the pantaloons pockets and the proprietor
may have at command all the wisdom of
the sages, from Socrates down to Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
Year: 1870

He who denies the influence of the
Press, is either knave or fool and he
who defes its power knows not what he
does, and is fit subject for the interior of
an Insane Asylum. The Press talks to all
at once, and its statements stand uncontra-
dicted, its teachings unrefuted The news
paper moulds the outside opinions of its
locality, and pictures in the minds of those
who never trod its streets an enterprising,
wide-awake city, OR dull, plodding town !;
sends tar~and wide panorama of its sur
roundings, and rings up the curtain on
scene drawn from nature, and peopled with
characters painted from life. Here is the
worthy citizen, there the enterprising mer-
chant. This man builds houses for the
people, and that one loans them money!
There industry and thrift build up fine
business, and here mismanagement and
improvidence is checked by angry creditor
The whole town is sketched in the columns
of the local journal, and its pictures
whether true or false-whether tamely
drawn or highly colored-are the only ones
seen by its readers, and therefore stand as
true to the life. This fact is not generally
well considered by the people Take, for
instance, any one of the papers of this city
To-day it publishes the statement that some
citizen has committed heinous crime or
chronicles the failure Of an enterprise oil
vital Importance. Both these announce
ments may be contradicted by local cotem-
poraries next morning, but the fiat has
gone forth, and many will see and read the
assertion whose eyes will never meet the
denial To all such the man stands con-
victed villain or the enterprise failure
This is terrible power to be welded by
the Press, which, while it cannot be denied,
should impress those in whose hands the
power rests, with the necessity of guarding
it well and carefully. A single dash of the
pen may affix stigma which even death
can not remove. A two line paragraph
may blight life or stain reputation with
a blot so indellible that oce ans of ink can
not remove the blemish. Thus the power
of the Press for good or evil is beyond cal
culation. Brute force may for time hold
it in abeyance-may silence its tongue,
and crush it beneath the iron heel of des-
ponism, but truth cannot be put down.
Like the Phoenix, the prosecuted Press
will rise from its ashes and send forth in
thunder tones its denunciation of wrong
and oppression.-[J. NJ Bassett, in Stock
ton Republican.
Year: 1870

A San Francisco man, member of the
Sportsmen's Club, writes to the Alta as
follows, in relation to the disgraceful prac-
tice of trapping and poisoning quail, which
we hope few persons indulge in;


" And isn't it beautiful state of affairs
when some miserable skin-fint, puritanical
old cuss, with an acre or two of grapes.
must be allowed to poison, trap and destroy
the game of California, and sportsmen, men
who certainly are as much entitled to con.
sideration-who do as much to support the
City and State Government-pay more
taxes and are better men-must be thrust
aside that few old hedge-hogs may have
their way, Confound their grapes Must
tie whole community knuckle to their
stingy souls ? Such men would take a
grain Of barley out of dead chicken S
mouth and then sell the chicken, no matter
what it died of Why not join with this
principle and poison all the singing birds !?
they go into the grain fields aud eat few
kernels of wheat mayhap A man that
would poison quail, would poison canary
for disturbing his rest; will steal, rob, muir
der. There is one thing | do want, and
that is to know who, and what manner of
man it is that ,oiU poison and trap quail ];
and | hereby publicly announce. that will
give $40 per head for the name and res
idence Of all who do it this coming summer
If | don't make Rome howl, and their
names household words, then may my gun
rust and miss fire forever.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the News Letter
touches up the metropolis upon its lack of
vim. He says: Mastery inactivity will
not make or maintain a city, and San Fran
cisco has entirely to mnch of it. Many of
the capitalists of San Francisco seem to
think that it is entirely unne ,essary for
them to do anything further than to get
the best interest possible for the loose cash
they may happen to have on hand. The
trade of the coast is here, and they imagine
that it could not be driven away They
hear that Stanford is trying to get Goat
Island, and preparing to throw all the bus
iness that he can to Oakland, and coquet-
ting with Benicia and Vallejo, and refus-
ing to make the improvements promised on
Mission Bay within the designated time !;
and they do not bulge from their masterly
inactivity. The proper policy for these
gentlemen is to bring Stanford and his iron
track into San Francisco whether he likes
it or not; and if that policy is not adopted
instead of the present mastery inactivity
changes will be seen. There are two great
railroads leading into California one fin
ished from New York, the other unfinished
from Puget Sound. Vallejo taps both
one at Sacramento and the other at Marys-
ville Stanford owns both, and he cannot
afford to have them tapped; and the only way
In which he can prevent the tapping is to
buy out the Vallejo railroad and its lands
or build road to Benicia And when he
does either he will make his main terminus
at the straits OF Carquinez, and the proph-
ecies of the Sacramento Union will be ful.
filled. The peril may be averted, but the
mastery inactivity must be abandoned, and
the capitalists must think of something for
few months besides two per cent. Can
any warning suffice to save San francisco?
Year: 1870

WATERING PLACE IN EMBRYo.-We
are informed upon reliable authority (says
the Lower Lake Bmletn) that Eastern
capitalists, who have been visiting this
place and viewing the lake, have conclud-
ed to build side-wheel steamboat, with
an elegantly furnished cabin, and put it
on the lake, arranged to carry excursion
parties and freight from one end Of the
lake to the other, distance Of about forty
miles. Also, that they intend to build a
first-class veranda hotel on the margin of
the lake, with baths of all kinds attached
thereto. This would, in our opinion, be a
good investment, for there is not a finer
BODY of water in the State of California,
and perhaps no other State 1t is only a
short distance from San Francisco and Sac
ramento, and the climate is unsurpassed
on this soast We have some of the best
mineral springs in the immediate vicinity
the world ever knew. This lake CLEAR
Lake, is bound to become the most-tash-
ionable resort for pleasure-seekers on the
Pacific Coast. A splendid line OF coaches
will be run between Lower Lake and Cal
istoga, where they will connect with the
cars. and passengers will be able to make
the trim from Sacramento or San francisco
in about four or five hours. Hunting and
fishing parties can here find all the game
and fish they desire. We have more nat
ural curiosities in this county than any
other portion of the State.
Year: 1870

an unusual thing to receive letter from me but az
the vicar earth OF God and peace cannot do less
than ofer my mediation. 1t Is my desire 70 witness
the cessation of warlike preparations and to stop
the evils their inevitable consequences. Ny media
ton is that OF sovereign whose small dominion
exctes no jealousy, and who inspires confidence by
the moral and religious influence ne personihes
Nav GOD lend an ear to my wishes, and listen also
to those form for your Majesty to whom would
be united In the bonds Of charity


Given at the Vatican, July 22, 1870.


Plus.
postscript adds:-


81 have written identically to the Emperor
Year: 1870

Some people seem to have bocn cro-
ated for the particular enjoyment Of scan.
dal Like swine, they arc supremely hap
- only when they have succeeded in find
ing . good sized mudpuddle to wallow in.
Year: 1870

HEELlNG, JUII 10, iN'''
Editors of the Register:


There is an old adage that ''one story
j. good until another is told. This is
exemplified in an item published in the
REGISTER of this morning, entitled "A
Sad Case, in which a gentleman Of this
city is censured for alleged ill-treatment
Of his sons wife. To one VINO is not
conversant with the circumstances OF
the case and all its particulars, the &C,
ton of the father-in-law may seem bru,
tal and inhuman, but when all the facts
are known it will be seen that there was
nothing done but what any honest man
would have done under the same cir
cumstances.


The facts OF the marriage as related
10 you by your informant were true,
hut in everything else he lied. When
the young man brought his wife here
she received every attention from the
family For seven months she was
cared for by her father-in-law. He
bought her clothing, which she de,
>troyed; he paid her board bills when
on account Of it being discovered that
she had been woman Of the town in
Richmond, Va, she left. He paid her
doctor bill. When they wanted to &c
to housekeeping he bought the furni
ture and groceries, and even paid the
rent of the house she lived in. He haC
taken an oath that she should never
let her foot in his door again, and tha
oath he will keep. =,
The statement that the money Will
which her ticket was purchased wa
raised by subscription, is another un
truth, as the person knew who told you
The iather.in-law took the money iron
his own pocket and paid for the ucke
for her to Richmond. Had she beer
an honest woman she would have beel
kindly cared for. Even her forme
sins might have been overlooked, bu
by her temper and ill-doing she mad
enemies of her friends and was treated
Just as she should have been, andjust a
she would have been by any father il
this city ~ho cares for the honor Of hl
family Yours,


VERITxs
Year: 1870

In the Georgia House Yesterday a
communication in writing was received
from the Governor stating that unffiocial
information had been received to the
effect ti.a. Congress had passed the bill
admitting Georgia to representation IN
Congress, and that until the meeting OF
Congress in December the State would
remain under the supervision Of the
military.
Year: 1870




Last nights dispatches say that q consider
able reaction took place on Wall street, New
York, yesterday in the rates Of gold. The prices
fen = Iow - HOY, but soon recovered and
closed at 1i2Y bid.


The New York Commereiat OF yesterday AMER
noon says: "0old has been rather len excifed.
but ID sin weak. The fact OF the rejection OF
that clause OF the Funding Bill authorisinR
foreign agencies fOr the payment of the Interest
on the new bouds, in 50 far as it indicates the
probability Of defeat of the foreign interest
time bearing the gold market, had a tendency
to produce q reaction in the premium; b-t this
tendency was checked by the large advance OF
Five-tventis Sin Europe. The price has ranged
between lioh and III:
den change offrout in the Gold Room to-day
was the great feature of Wal, street. The great
pressure TO sell gold vas not renewed, and there
was an entire absence Of any jubilant and noisy
demonstrations. The crowd Of people, 1t is true
vanced i per cent, gloom and dependency were
pictured In the faces which yesterday were
wreathed in smiles The crowd of lunatics who
have been selling gold short as an air line to
fortune, actually began to consider whether
they had not got on the wrong train. There
very orderly and respectable appearance, the
hrst time for about two weeks This change In
the situation was due to the action Of the
Senate on the Funding Bill and the increasing
decline in gold, after extending its depressing
influence throunh0ut the produce markets and
trade generally, has finally reached real estate.
Property Of all kinds Is lower, and rents are
coming down. Real estate was the last thing TO
feel the rise in gold now it is the last to feel the
decline. The money markets continues easy at
4to per cent on call. Prime business notes
pass at to per cent"