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Year: 1873

As Ear as our experience goes we are
led to believe that we have lately been
visited with trapical airs. Not! Yes
that is the term usually expressed. Red
hot would he the proper application.
102 Fahrenheit in the shade is not very
pleasant tu the flesh or agreeable to the
feelings Of a human yet that is just
what we have experienced, Men wilted,
women melted, and even horses and
mules seemed only streak Of lather and
grease as they passed along. Air so hot
as to be blue in color and one could
imagine an aroma from suIphurons
depths below. No mind, no relief, no
nothing but heat Sizzling hot. Sherry
cobblers, lemonades, ice cool, ice cream,
and all other cooling combinations failed
to produce reaction or relief. A man
deliberately sat down on a hundred
pound block Of ice, just melted
through that block in minute and
half, and lovingly gathered the remnants
of his cold bath around him as the frozen
liquid inyisibilitized It was no use the
reactor was gone and he disappeared be
meath the shade OF y "Shack." A small
boy who started for home from store
with pound Of butter in his 'little tin
pal,' had his understanding framed
with number six slipper because the
heat started the lead on the bottom Of
the pail, and the butter had sought rest
in mother earth Boy said it was old
enough to have known better. Cotton
wood lumber warped so fast as to create
sufficient friction to cause fires and
the fire deparement was on the alert
constantly; happily, however, only
twenty or thirty buildings were de.
stroyed. No insurance Water from
hydronts before reaching the noZzles in
the hands Of the pipenen became so
heated as to melt the rubber hose and
this trtf1ing cause was the matter with
Hannah, whose wax flowers in the top
Of her hat softcned and run down the
skirts Of her new Delmonico aalic 0 set
ting it on fire and and we'll, we guess
it was hot; because we heard some one
say it was hot as HI, and our early
" education leads us to infer that there
is some warmth down there. Selah.


LAST week the Steiner Rocket arrived
at Duluth bringing about eighty mem
bers more of the Yeoyil Colonists, who
will at once take possession of lands
along the line of the Northern Pacific;
and erect thereon the necessary build.
ings for permanent settlement. The
wife Of Dr.. Rogers, the protector Of the
coleny accompanied the party. Thus
speedily is the country filling up. A
couple or Sd Of years hence the land ad
jacent to the line Of the Northern Pa
cific will ''bloom and blossom, as the
rose" 1t is we'll,
Year: 1873

"OUR stock is very low, was the re.
mark we heard made at several houses
of business on Monday. This circum-
stance does not look as though business
had been very dull with the dealers thus
far this season for all of them bought
full and complete stocks generally.
Year: 1873

for money with which to make neces-
sary repairs upon her house3 Twenty.
thirty and :orty per cent are very COM
mon rates on mortgages. To the pawn.
brokers and professional money lenders
six per cent g day is now paid by men
hard up for funds with which to push
BY the first of the year. Perhaps in .
good many cases these rates are paid to
raise money for expenses Incurred for
living beyond ones means, in putting on
airs and 10 aping the rich. The old word
economy has well nigh gone out Of
use in these days. How many families
in this city spread tables with Injuries
which they cannot afford, and buy .
multitude Of things just because they
can get trusted? Pay as you 60 is the
correct rule, or at Iesst never let q bill
run beyond q month, and then no Shy
lock will ever come for his pound OF
flesh. The bsggsrd, troubled faces OF
men on the street tell the story oil too
plainly OF debt, Of high rates of inter
est daily guawing the life out OF their
hearts and devouring their little homes.
God pity them, for man does not.
Year: 1873

tolls on the National road, east


= city, have been reduced, by


Of the Board OF Public Works,
5sty per cent. The reduction ought
Lave been fifty per cent instead. II
Is Board can justify the high tariff
tpted, We would like TO see the
|1nres they do it by.
Year: 1873

FEARFUL BOILER BURST. On Monday
evening a boiler in the Sacramento Foundry
burst, shaking the city for blocks around
and the explosion being heard for mile OF
more The bursting on Front street tore the
foundry building almost TO apIinters. The
boiler rose twenty feet and went east at fear
fu velocity, passing through a three story
brick building fifty feet deep, tearing pas
sage ten feet long and landing in Second
street, three hundred feet from it, starting
point. One man was severely bat not dan
gerously scalded, and few others slightly
scratched.
Year: 1873

NYE and Cole are ruslng against each
other for the Berlin mission, and we suppose
one Of these plugs will get it. Either will
disgrace this country and disgust the Ger
man empire, if that is what Grant wants.
Year: 1873

If we would have cool parlors, dining
rooms and kittens, and bedrooms, during
the hot summer weather, we must have
mosquito netting or wire gauze in all
windows, and, il possible, at the doors
also. Window blinds cannot take the
place Of netting or gauze, because they
exclude 50 much of the cool evening and
night air; although they are very essen
tial and needful to shut out the hot sun
shine and the beating storm, yet they
will not answer all our needs. Mosqui-
to netting can be purchased at very
cheap rate, and the ''gude mon" can
easily make or procure some frames to
fit all the windows, which can be either
painted or stained dark red to match
the sashes Of the window. Then dark
blue, pink, green, or white netting can
be easily stretched and tackled over them
by the skillful fingers Of the house-moth-
er; and after she mas used them for one
summer nothing could persuade her TO
go without them another season. They
will exclude mosquitoes, flies, moths and
all other insects, and will not exclude
the fresh cool air. They are very easily
taken out and put in; or they can be 50
arranged that the windows can be closed
on damp, cool days. Amy woman can
tack piece Of the netting across the
lower half of the window ON the outside
of the sash, if that is the only means she
can employ. The wire gauze requires a
workman's handling, and it can be made
into permanent shades which will with
stand all weathers. When we have tried
the good effect OF these shades, we must
also have the doors attended to. A
slight framework of pine can be made,
and fastened to the outer dooI-posts by
means of strong hinges; and with hasp
to fasten it with, ana handle to open
it by, we can bid defiance TO flies and
mosquitoes both by day and night.
Common tools and little ingenuity are
needed to prepare door blind, or shade
for tie outer kitchen piazza, which will
add far beyond its cost to the comfort
of the cook and housewife. Mosquito
netting can do duty for the shade when
the door frame is ready; but coarse wire
netting such as is used for selves and the
like, would be far preferable, BECAUSE
it would last for long time
while the cotton netting is usually de
stroyed in two years. III using the cot


ton netting, however, for the windows
it is well to select the pure white for the
parlor, pink for the chambers, and greer
or blue for the kitchen, pantry, am
milk j oom.- Country GentIemd1a.
Year: 1873

In the New York Dispatch, of a re-
cent date, we find an incident growing
out of the Rebellion, under the above
heading, and the journal referred to re-
lates that how, Oh an evening or two
previous. good looking man, laborer
about thirty years of age, took the cars
at Center street depot, Newark, for
New York. There was but one vacant
seat in the car that he entered, and that
was by the side of a handsome and ele-
gantly dressed lady. The man sat
down, and, after his fair companion had
removed her vail, he was surprised to
recognize his wife, whom he had not
seen Tor more than twelve years. The
lady threw her arms around his neck
I'd kissed him tenderly, and mutual ex-
plantations followed.


1t seems that they had been married
Just before the breaking out of the war,
at the home of the lady in Missouri.
Her father was the owner of large
tract of land, but had only little mon
ey. He joined the rebel cause, and the
d lughter also strongly adhered to the
Unions of her father. Her husband,
however, was a decided Union man.
She abused him violently on account of
his principles, and told him if he sided
with the bloody Yankees he might
leave the place, and she never wished to
see his face again. He took her at her
word, and the same night left and join
ed Fremont's army as private. He
was several times taken prisoner, and as
often escaped into our lines. He press
| ed on with Sherman toward the sea-
and at the conclusion of his term of en-
listment he joined New York regiment
and by this means, at the end of the
war, found his way to Newark, where
he has since worked quietly in factory.
F. Ills wife's father was killed at Vicks-
burg, and she was left sole possessor of
his uncultivated farm. She supported
herself by working in millinery estab-
lishment in St. Louis till after the close
of the war; Her land rose in value,
and she sold it for good price, realizing
about $4,000. With this sum she start
ed millinery store of her own in st.
Louis, and succeeded splendidly. She
is reported worth $4,000 or $4,000.
She was on her way to New York to
buy goods when she met the man whom
she had supposed long ago dead. Re
morseless for driving him away, she re-
fused all offers of marriage. The joy
Gus meeting caused the husband to for
get his wife's error, and the present of a
new suit of clothes, a diamond ring and a
splendid gold watch, when they arrived
in New York, served materially to in
crease his respect and affection for Ii;
long lost wife. They are stopping at a
fashionable hotel, joyous over the acci'
dent that united them.
Year: 1873

Bayard Taylor writes to the Tribune
a more encouraging account of matters
and things at Vienna than we have been
accustomed to hear of late. He says ;


81 made a general tour of inspection
this afternoon, and satisfied myself that
by the end of the month very few of
the promised glories of the Exhibition
will fail Since the first confusion has
been overcome, the work will advance
more rapidly. The entire space occupied
by all the buildings must be more than
square mile, but nearly all of the de-
tached structures are under roof, many
of them quite completed externally, and
the removal of the rubbish will speedily
change the aspect of the grounds.


X In the half mile long build
ing for machinery there are only the
merest beginnings. A few colossal
groups of copper and steel work have
been erected; model locomotives and
passenger cars block up the aisle, boxes
with labels from all Europe and Ameri-
ca are piled around by thousands, but
no single steam engine has yet been SET
up. We shall hardly see any machinery
in operation for month to come. This
part of the Exposition, however, will
eventually far surpass any display of the
kind that has ever been made"


He also says that if America will only
be patient, she will find that in certain
departments her exhibited specimens
will "beat the world" We are glad
that SO favorable statement has been
made by so sensible and reliable an OBJ
server as Mr.. Taylor.
Year: 1873

A man who during the war was cav
airy officer in the onion army, being
promoted for his brave deeds from the
rank of first lieutenant TO that of full
brigadier and breyet-major general, now
wauders ragged, dirty, penniless, in the
streets of Kansas City. He conceals
his real name, from shame to have his
degradation known. His friends believe
him dead, according to report that he
died in South America, whittier he went
at the close of the war. His personality
was discovered while he lay drunk, by
a party of reckless fellows who thought
to impose on his condition by stealing
his shirt. In carrying out this plan,
they found Il small canvass bag hung by
a string around his neck, which con-
tanned the mementocs OF the degraded
mans honored manhoVd-his commission
as brevet-major general, congratulatory
letters from President Lincoln and Gen.
Grant, the photograph of little girl,
and a curl of soft, brown hair. Sobere |
by the sight, and the knowledge thus
obtained of the former life of the man
now SO helpless beneath their hands.
they replaced the bag and its contents,
and the clothes of the sleeper. Gambling
and intemperance have wrought the ru-
in of this man, according to his own tes-
timonY
Year: 1873

There is man in Titusville, Pa, who
is so affectionately fond of his wife that
he is jealous if man looks within forty
five degrees of the direction in which
she may happen to be. The other day a
gentleman spoke to her, and he immedi-
ately threatened suicide His wife was
sent for bottle of poison, which she
had put up at the druggists consisting
of a little water, colored with a little
liquorice, and bottled with glaring
poison label outside. When he threat
cned to take some of it, and actually
poured some of it into wine-glass, she
screamed for help and ran into another
room, where she could watch him through
the key-hole, and saw him coolly open
the window and throw it out.


She then rushed back, apparently fran
tic with grief, and implored him not to
do the rash deed. He merely pointed at
the glass, and lying down on the floor,
began kick out his legs like a jumping
jack. She told him she was determined
to share his fate, and swallowed the rest
of the liquorice water, whereupon he be
came really frightened, calling the neigh
bors confessed he only slammed, and
said that if she survived he would never
trouble her again. Then she explained
the ruse, and he was so mortified he
tried to buy up the silence of the neigh
bors, but the story was too good to keep
He is thoroughly cured.
Year: 1873

The process of printing book in Chi
ma is somewhat as follows: Two pages
are written by person, trained to the
business, on sheet of thin paper divi-
ded into columns by black lines, and in
the place between the two pages are
written the title of the work, and the
number of the chapter and page; when
the sheet has been printed, it is folded
down through this space, so as to bring
the title &c, partly on each page. The
sheet when ready for printing, is pasted
face downward on a smooth block of
wood, usually from the pear or plum tree.
AS soon as it is dry, the paper is rubbed
off with great care, leaving behind an
inverted impression of the characters.
Another workman now cuts away all the
blank spaces by means of a sharp gra-
yer, and the block, with the characters
in high relief, passes to the printer, who
perform his work by hand. The two
points that he has to be most careful
about are--to ink the characters equally
with his brush, and to avoid tearing the
paper when taking the impression.
Proclamations, visiting cards a., are
all printed in the same manner. An
economical, way Of printing small hand
bills and advertisements for walls is to
cut the characters in wax instead of
wood; but they soon get blurred, and
the printing from them is almost illegi-
BILE. From good wooden block some
$4,000 sheets can BIT printed, and when
the characters have been sharpened up
little, it is possible to obtain 5000 Oh
10000 more impressions.


Ehaniber's Journal
Year: 1873

LOVE FOR HIS MoTHER.-Of all the
love affairs in the world, none can sur
pass the true love of big boy for his
mother. 1t is love pure and noble,
honorable in the highest degree to both.
do not mean merely dutiful affect
ion. Imean a love which makes a boy
gallant and courteous to his mother, say
ing to everybody plainly that he is fair
ly in love with her. Next to the love
Of her husband, nothing so crowns q
woman's love with honor as this second
love, this devotion of the son to her.
And / never yet knew q boy to turn
OUT bad who began by falling in love
with his mother,
Year: 1873

A DANBURY man is the unenvied pos
SCISSOR of dog that is a terror to the
neighbors, purely by its swapping and
snaring propenslties. He sn lps at every
body, and knows a little something of
the flavor of everybody up that way.
1t is estimated that he has cloth enough
in him to make a pair of brooches for
everybody on Long Island Sound. The
other day youth loaded up the end of
a stick with mixture compounded with
horse-radish and cayenne pepper, and
commenced shaking it through the fence
at the cur, and the eur flew up and
caught the bait savageIy; and the boy
drew the stick away so sharply, that it
left all the contents in the animals
mouth, and the animal chewed away OH
it in awful exultation for an instant.
Then it commenced to stare, and then
spit, and howl, and weep, and paw, and
roll over, and finally run under the barn,
where it remained in religious seclusion
for two days. Now when anybody
pokes a stick through the fence that dog
don't step up. 1t merely looks over, as
much as to saw: ''no seasoning in mine,
If you please"
Year: 1873

RALEIGH, Jan. 1.-Gov. T. R. Caldwell and
other State officers naugurated to-day. Upon TAX
ing the oath OF office, Gov. Caldwell said in substance


In assuming this high and responsible ONCE believe
me will 10 my duty to take care OF the inter
of the people of North Caroina do not mean to
act the part OF partisan m this occ. OF course where


have patronage bestow, other things being equal
shall give such patronage TO my party friends but
iudcious v ,and O manner consistent with the privi
leges Of my Office. shall endeavor 70 discharge my
duties TO tho best OF my ability. When l cannot
myself, 1 shall then consider It my duty
to select O good from the opposite party
and know every good and true Republican
in the State OF North Carolina will approve of my def
termination in this respect. hope, however that
will be able to find In our own party Intelligent. well.
educated and honest men enough 70 l these Offices L
desire to tender 70 you, aud through
TO the people of North Carolina mmost sincere thanks
for the generous In which you bestowed your
srages upon for the highest office within the GIFT of
the people, TO give you assurance that IN the discharge
OF my duties shall have eye single to the interests
of my beloved State and Of oil her citizens without
gard 10 party and while Icaim no immunity from just
criticism bespeak In advance fair hearing and houest
Judgment from the pablic.
Year: 1873

What is the reason that the average
country editor cannot help misrepre-
senting when he undertakes to quote
the opinion OF an exchange? The
Southern Californian represents US as
favoring the use Of railroads IS COM
mon highways upon which everybody
should be allowed to run their own
private trains at their own will. That
We never advocated anything Of the
kind will appear to any one who reads
our article. What We did suggest,
was that roads built wholly or in part
by the State, should be declared pub
lie highways on which any one should
he allowed to run trains, subject to all
necessary regulations, such regulations
TO be presented and enforced by the
State. The Californian thinks this
idea Utopian. We should like that
astute authority on railway matters to
explain why such plan is impracti-
cable. Canals have been operated in
that matter from time immemorial,
and we never hear of any difficulty.
1t Ia not essential to regularity of
movement that the same company
should own the track and the rolling
stock, and all over the United States
there are corporations owning cars
which they hire hauled over the vari-
GUS roads, paying 10 much per mile for
the service, and making their own
freight rates. M
Year: 1873

Just now our Eastern friends are
wrestling with the problem Of how to
provide for their poor. A terrible
financial revulsion has swept over the
country, crippling the energies Of the
strongest, and bringing untold misery
to the poor and week. To add to the
distress the bowling storm Of North
ern winter are upon them, bringing in
their dismal train, the added horrors
of a rigorous climate. In New York,
the working-men have met inconven-
tion, and resolved that they will sup
ply their families with the necessities
of life, and send the bills to the City
Treasury for liquidation. There are
1900 skilled workmen out of employ
ment in the State of New York, and
1900 persons apply for lodgings at the
City Station house, weekly. Through
out the East, and even in the pros
porous interior States, the same story
Of Thousands out Of employment, Of
increased suffering and destitution, ls
found In every newspaper. W


Here Is Southern California; let us
thank our splendid climate and gener-
Gus soil that there can be little actual


want or suffering. There is work for
everybody. Our soil, with its rich
and varied products, Is capable Of sus-
tanning teeming population, and we
have no cold and biting winter to add
to the expense ofliving. The necessa-
ries of life are plentiful and cheap;
our population can live out Of doors
the coolest day In the year; ice and
snow are unknown, aud labor is we'll
rewarded. .4S0fr. IS.
Year: 1873

The Farmers Jute Manufacturing
Company, 800 Pine st, San Francisco,
are ready to distribute small quanti-
les of seed among those who will help
test the capability Of California to
raise her own jute, and keep at home
the millions of dollars spent for that
article. Send stamps to pay return
postage on the seed, and you will get
q supply by mail.
Year: 1873

If the San Francisco papers really
have the tremendous circulation they
claim, we think they ought to give
their readers better return for their
money. Thirty thousand subscribers
are certainly entitled to more than
fourteen columns of matter.
Year: 1873

things are always the best. That de-
pends, we know. on the quality Of
the article; whether it is made to
sell or made to last Many second
handed thing. although somewhat bat
tered and bruised, is more highly priced
than its twany, fashy neighbor, which
Will !a!l 10 pieces as soon as any strain
IS put upon it. Repairing broken hearts
is seldom either expensive or difficult.
Horrible but true! How often does
man marry the woman with whom he
first fancies himself in love? Adam
did it. There was only one woman in
existence. Since the Adamitic age,
where is the man who has married his
first love? 1t is not in nature. Boys are
slower Of development than girls, and
their first essay is generally with a
charmer older tEan themselves. They
grow out Of it; take slight attack Of
love as they take whooping-cough and
measles. 1t is foolishness to say that
the mature love of man is less worthy
than the spooniness of the boy. There
is Dora and an Agnes in wep-nigh
every life. Is the first novel, or the first
song, or the first poem, as likely to live
as the ripe production of later years?
Not it. There are men who became ia.
nous by single speech, or by a single
verse; SO there are men, perhaps, who
have had but one love. They are not
many, and It's better SO. The world
would soon come to a stand-still without
the help of secondhand swaius."