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Year: 1871

A new signal light, possessing most
remarkable properties, has now been
brought out in England. Its peculiar
tiles are, that it is self-igniling when
placed in water or thrown on the sea.
Contact with water being the only
meansof igniting the lamp, it is inextin-
guishable when once ignited ; neither
wind nor storm has any effect upon the
flame. The light is of intense brilliancy,
and Of great duration, and can be seen
for great distance in the open air.
Photographs may be taken by it. Ex-
periments were tried on the evening of
the 25th of April; at ten o'clock, in the
presence of some scientific gentlemen,
to determine its brilliancy as a signal.
A lamp was placed in bucket Of water
Oh the top of Primrose Hill, London,
and the light was SO intense that after
the signal had been burning for twenty
minutes, small newspaper print could
be distinctly read at distance of seven
ty feet, notwithstanding that the night
was thick and foggy.


The light will burn for forty minutes.
In construction the lamp is exceedingly
simple, and so contrived that when once
burnt the whole may be thrown away.
The chemical preparation contained in
the lamp is solid, hard substance, free
from danger not affected by heat, and
is non-ex plosive; and the signal is
comparatively inexpensive. Its appli-
cations for marine signals are numerous.
In case of shipwreck, few lamps
thrown on the sea would illuminate the
entire scene, and enable assistance to be
promptly and efficiently rendered. For
rocket-line apparatus it is equally valu-
able, as, bursting into flame OH falling
into the sea, it would indicate the posi-
ton Of the rocket line In connection
with life buoys it would be mark to
the drowning sailor.
Year: 1871

Generally, the citizen who is robbed accepts the requirement. that he shall furnish sufficient inducement to the detective, in order to get his property back again, and the probability that he can get it back again if he furnishes a sufficient inducement, as the settled facts of the situation, and he either decides to be bled in this way, or to abandon his property. Everybody accepts this as the situation, and resigns himself to it as thing it is useless to contend against. But it is 8 situation which makes the municipality protector and propagator of thieves, and sharper in stolen goods. One of the strange fea- lures of our social system is the tolera- tion of these persons who call themselves detectives. We do not believe that any performed or possible good can be sufi- cient to excuse the existence of this class of persons, who quickly become mere go-Detweens for the thieves, and whose interest is against any thorough dealing with the criminal classes.

 We do not say that there is not such thing as an honest detective. Such a thing may have an existence; but we do say that the business of detective is too severe trial for the average virtue of those who are exposed to it, and that the abolition of the detective force would be wholesome reform. As to the so-call- ed independent detectives, the police should always hold them in the category of suspicious class. There may be cases in which money is required to pursue a detective Investigation, but its expenditure should always be ac- counted for and subjected to severe scrutiny. The mysterous demand that the robbed person shall furnish so much money, in order to set the detectives at work, or the inquiry how, much he is willing to give, is practice that creates in the public mind a conviction that the detectives are in collision with the thieves. It leaves the detective free from all accountability, and it creates a temptation to which the average man ought not to be exposed.-Cfncimnati Gazette,
Year: 1871

A Norwegian company offers for sale 8 fish guano from the Loffoden Islands, prepared from the heads and backbones of tho eod-tsh, collected during the great winter fisheries off the Norwegian coast, principally by children and old and infirm persons who have no other means of subsistence. Formerly this matter was thrown into the sea as refuse, and materially affected the permanence and efficiency of the fisheries but 1t is now carefully collected and hung in bundles on the rocks to dry. In June and July it is brought to the mills, where it is cut into pieces, dried artiiicially, and then ground between millstones. This article, prepared quite differently from the fish guano of the United States, is put up in bags, and finds 8 constant demand at about $45 ton. It contains great variety of ingredients fitting it for an excellent manure. The same company furnish what they call fish hour, which is made from the best dried cod-fish, by grinding them up, bones, skin, and all to the fneness of sawdust or four, in which form it is largely used in Scan- dinavia for various kinds of cookery. It is sometimes mixed with spotatoes or other substances, and sometimes formed into cakes or biscuit. The fish is more readily packed and transported in this form than any other, and it is said to keep long time without deterioration. We would commend this aforementioned preparation to the attention of our peo- ple. as furnishing hint toward new article of trade in this country, and one that cou1d be conveniently employed in cookery in a great variety of ways.
Year: 1871

A band of Indians, about sixty in number, made an attack upon two men at the ranches on Cienega de Sauz, about fifteen miles above an old San Si- mon station, and twenty five miles from camp Bowie. There are two adobe houses there, situate some 200 yards apart. The men occupied one, the other vacant and that morning one Of the men, Richard Barnes, started to go from the house over near the vacant one, when he was fired upon by Indians from the inside of the house and shot through the body. His partner, R. M. Gilbert, was at the time in the house occupied by them, and upon his bed, being unwell with fever but hearing the firing, he seized his Henry rife, ran out and com menced firing upon the Indians, as they had run out and surrounded the fatally wounded and dying man. This intimi- dated them, and they backed & little, and Gilbert succeeded in getting the wounded man into the house, and all the time keeping up the firing upon the Indians. After this, quite a skirmish ensued, shooting through doors, win dows and port-holes, in which Gilbert was quite painfully, but not dangerous ly wounded near the gro1n by spent ball.

 The Indians hit upon the expedient of setting fire to the roof to burn them out, and when the heat and smoke could be endured no longer, Gilbert tried to arouse the wounded man and get together out of door, but found him dying. He then took his rifle in one hand and his cooked pistol in the other, and knowing that an Indian was standing at the cor ner of the house watching for him Che being able to see the shadow in the morn ing sun), with yell and bound, sprane directly at the Indian, firing his pistol into the savage when within two feet and rushed into the tall grass in the Ci enega bottom amid 8 shower of balls. This strategy, no doubt, saved the mans life, as the Indian fired but missed his mark-the pistol-ball in his owr stomach probably rendering his nerve: unsteady. The man lay in the tai grass and jules all day, the Indians not caring to risk three or four lives to ge one i; and during that night and the nex day, he managed, in spite of his wound to crawl into Bowie camp some nine mile off
Year: 1871

There occurred on the Oregon and California Railroad one of the most thrill ling railroad incidents we have ever heard of, which, while it demonstrates the foolhardiness of some people, also shows how near there came to being @ terrible railroad accident. The follow ing particulars, furnished to our reporter by an eyewitness, may be relied upon as true:

 When the down train came near one of the stations on the road it was run ming at full speed, in order to make up time, as it was few minutes behind. The road at this point runs through a cut something more than 0 mile in length, and in entering it the road makes d curve, so that the engineer cannot see entirely through it. He had hardly got ten into the cut before he saw woman riding leisurely through it, using the centre of the track. She was not more than half way through the cut, and bare ly quarter of mile ahead of him. He immediately whistled ."down brakes," and sounded the warning.

 The woman, hearing the peculiar death whistle of the locomotive, looked over her shoulder and saw the train rush. ing at her. She did not shrielz, nor faint, nor give up all hope, but, like Q true Webfoot, her courage rose equal to the emergency, and, without moments s hesitation, she commenced swinging her riding whip from one shoulder of her steed to the other, thereby urging h1m to exert his utmost speed.

 The shrieking of the locomotives whistle caused the passengers to look out of the windows, and upon their discover ing what was the matter the widest ex- citement ensued. Several jumped for ward and seized the bell-rope, and com menced pulling on it as if they would stop the train by that means. The brakemen were exerting all their strength on the brakes, and the engineer had cut off the connection and was doing all that he knew to stop the train, while the wo- man was doing her level best to urge that bit of horsefesh to speed but, all in vain, the locomotive kept gaining on the horse and its rider, and there was hardly person on the train who did not expect that both the woman and the horse would be killed. There was, per- haps, thirty feet intervening between the COW catcher and the horses heels when, fortunately for the woman, she observed a place which was little wider than usual, and with steady rein she guided the fleeing horse from the track and en- deavored to press him against the wall ot the cut, in order that the train might pass by without injury. In doing this the woman was encouraged by Sam Win ans, the conductor, who had run forward and got on the locmotive A few sec. onds only passed by when the fiery mon ster poked it's nose past the trump of the horse. At this moment Winans threw his whole force against the animal an6 held him until the train stopped, and then rousing cheer of qualification and 1 joy at the escape of the woman from { terrible death was given. Oregon Paper
Year: 1871

Now that winter is come, it behooves parents more than ever to see that their children are clothed in such manner as to protect them from the inclemency and sudden changes of the weather The chief cause of infantine mortality, in ad- dition to foul air, or too rich or too poor food, IS the false pride of many mothers. Children are killed by the manner in which they are dressed as certainly Gs by any other cause. In our changeable climate children of the most tender age are left witk their arms and legs, and with low-necked dresses. The mothers, in the same dress, would hiver and suf- fer with cold, and expect 9 fit of sickness as the result of their culpable carelessness. And yet the mothers could endure such N treatment with far less danger to health and life than their tender infants can. A moments reflection will indicate the effects of this mode of dressing, or rath- CT want of dressing, on the child. The moment tho cold air strikes its bare arms and legs, the blood is driven from these extremities to the internal and more vital organs. The result is conges- tion, to greater or less extent, of those OrOanS
Year: 1871

NEW YORK PosT OFFICE. An idea of the immense amount of work that has been done upon the New York Post Office building, may be formed from the following statement of materials used, and labor expended to the present time, viz 2,47e, ,960 bricks, 15,7ol barrels of cement, IA, ,jS7 feet of cube granite, 2,689 yards of hubble masonry, 5,2O6, 443 pounds of wrought and cast iron, and the magnitude of the undertaking may be judged from the fact that there are now engaged at Dix Island LOOP per sons in the preparation of granite alone, of whom 704 are employed in cutting the granite for the government, and 298 in quarrying the stock and otherwise for the contractors. Three hundred and twenty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty nine and one half days labor have already been expended in cutting and boxing the granite after it has been uuarried, and it is estimated that 300, coo days labor will be required to complete that branch of the work. The first story of the building is yet long way from completion.
Year: 1871

CAUTION. -Cautiousness is an excel lent enough quality, but man may have too much of it. We think there was 8 superfuity in the case of the bashful person who went to Niagara by himself, and mashed his hat and mussed his clothes so that they would look old, and so that the guests would not mistake him for bridal couple.
Year: 1871

Farm work during the hot summer
months requires only the igh,est harness.
Wooden collars are now used with grea,


comfort to the horse. In the cities the


harness worn by street railroad horses is
90 scaDt o. iA consistent with the work they


have 10 perform. No breeching is used,
and hip straps are dispensed with. Teams


may often be seen plowing in the bot days
OF July and August in the same harness
they wore durirg the winter. This is un-


necessary, nay, sometimes it amounts to


positive cruelty. Remove every super
duous strap. take away the back strap and
crupper band. snd let the air circulate
freely around the bodr. At night. when


work is over. wash the sweat and dust
from the legs and thighs of the horse q
dash of water on his TANKS would be crate.
full to him. Let his stable be airy aud
clean. with a bed of clean straw. Kind
ness to these serviceable animals is the
truest economy. Besides, we feel better
when our horses are made comfortable !;
the sensation is akin to that derived from
the doing of a benevolent action. A SEN
sitive man cannot see O horse sweating
under and CALLED by a heavy harness
during the intense heat of q summers day
without sympathy end pity, nor can he
retire to rest wit an easy conscience. know
ing that bis faithful servants In tie stable
are improperly cared for and suffering.-
''Ihe righteous man regardeth the life Of
his beast"
Year: 1871

IcE.-In gathering ice, be sure there
is a deep he'd of straw to place the first
layer upon. Wheat chatf is said to be
excellent. The object being TO bed the
ice upon non-conductur of heat, whieh
will let the water pass off freely. Cut
the cakes as even as possible, SO that lit
tie space will be was'el by chinks :;
brush the cracks full Of ice chips and
dust, free from dirt, especially around
the sides The more soliily ice is pack
ed upon the sides, which are exposed TO
thawing, the better.
Year: 1871

y, A. Willard gives it as his opinion
,lat hundred of thousands Of pounds OF
che, SC have been lost during the past
summer by the lack OF attention to the
temperature of ,he curing rooms. lie
believe progress had been made during
the past few years in this department,
but much remains to be accomplished,
and the principal Improvement mast lie
in securing 4 proper and uniform temper
aturc of tie cheese while curing.
Year: 1871

II. G.. OK PLUMs.-Thc Troy Wig
says: "A vast number of people are con-
stantly vending their way westward for
the purpose of cul,ivating farms, conf
dent that in this way alone can man
become immensely prosperous and wealth
y. Men who don't know ploughshare
from pruning hook, have been seized
with the agricultural fever, and have
gone to the western wilds to raise ruta-
bagas, onions and buckwheat. We are
not positive that the popular essays in
the Tribune are the cause of this exodus
Of wise men from the East, although
many circumstances would seem to point
that way. Our most prominent men are
leaving the cities for the purpose of
farming it A distinguished clergyman
is crazy on the subject The following
correspondence explains itself:


Dear Harry: As the easiest way of
accommodating IA few plums, I'm thinking
IF raising some d-sons in my garden,
but don't know exactly how TO set about
it. DO you plough deep, and sow the
seed as you do oats or potatoes, or is it
better to pick the plants where they
grow wild, and stick them in holes
Please tell me what you know about it.
[ don't want to have TO wait too long
for the fruit
Year: 1871

he was. He brought the Counts breakfast
and q bill with very moderate charges.
The Count presented his companion with
the first cup of coffee, and after she had
drank it, he took the rest at his ease.--
When he was informed that everything was
ready for his departure, he thanked the
hostess for her good company, and begged
her to favor him with it TO his CARRIAGE
He then conducted her down stairs, as
though she were the first lady of the Court.
At the house door, he stopped and inquired
for the servant-maid whom he had seen the
day before, and whom he accurately de-
scribed. She advanced, trembling, from q
corner All the suspicious Of the landlord
had already fallen upon her already had
he (as she afterwards related) promised,
with the most tremepdous imprecations, to
give her suitable reward as soon as the
stranger was gone.


When Tottleben saw her by daylight,
and looked at her more narrowly, he OBJ
served that she was delicate, elegant girl.
He threw her full purse.


"Take that" said he, "and if you are
determined to stay here, buy husband
with it. But if you are afraid to remain
with your master, come along with me. 1
will answer for your success, and swear 1
will provide for you as long as I live.'


The girl wanted no second bidding. She
sprang into the carriage, leaving behind all
she possessed, which probably, indeed, was
of no great value. The Count took leave
of his fair hostess, begging her not to for
get that he was to be godfather.


He was afterwards informed by his SER
want, who had slept in the public room, that
about midnight three robust fellows softly
entered the house, went into another room,
and after long conversation with the land
lord, speeded away. The girl, who had
been about year in the house, related that
during this time two strangers who had put
up there had disappeared, she knew not
how. She said, also, that she was quite
positive about the plot entered into by the
landlord and his associates, who had agreed
to admit the three men whose purpose was
to assassinate Tottleben in his sleep.


At the next town the Count acquainted
the burgomaster and other civil authorities
with the whole affair. Soldiers were imme-
diately dispatched, but they could not or
would not find either the host or hostess
AT the same time, Tottleben provided his
female delverer with more costly apparel.
She continued his companion for some time,
until at length, when the Seven Years
War was over, as reward for her kindness
and devotion to him, displayed in variety
of ways, he made her his wife, and never
had reason to regret having raised her to
so high position.
Year: 1871

Young Harry was sent on an errand
one evening in early winter. After
giving him his message, his mother
said


BE sure you take the lantern with
you, Harry"


"Bother the lantern" answered the
boy gruffly and disre-pectfully and h,
started inutteriny to himself.-


"What do I want with a lantern? !
know the way fast enough!'


Very soon Master Henry in crossing
the street stumbled into q hole which
had been made by recent rain. By
This fall he knocked the flesh from his
shin bone aud covered his clothing with
mud.


On his way back he forgot the fenc.
had caved in near the edge Of the ravine
A. he groped his way along the bank he
fell over and went sprawIing to the bot
tom Of the ravine.


With much ado, and after many
bruisings, he got int" the road once
more but when he reached his mother.
door, he looked more like q scarecrow
than u living boy.


The lantern would have saved him
from all this. Wasn't lie q foolish fel
low not to take il:
Certainly he was. But what shall b,
said ct those boys and girls who know
the Bible to be the only lamp whicl
can guide their feet safely through
the paths Of life to their home in Heavel
and yet refuse to carry it? Are the,
not still more foolish? Are they no
likely to suffer even more than the boy
You know they are. Take the Bible
therefore. fot your life lantern, and ie
it be u lamp unto your feet, aud q ligh
uI to your path J.
Year: 1871

members Of the convention By German
singing society to visit their hall for the
purpose Of listening to their performance.
The invitation was adopted.


The convention then adjourned to meet
next August in the city of New York.
Year: 1871

LOUISVILLE, June 3.-Mrs. Filings
worth was accidentally shot this after
noon on Market street. A Smith
IL Wesson pistol falling from the pocket
of her uncle, was discharged, the bail
entering the lower part of the abdomen,
and ranging upward, proving almost
Immediately fatal The unfortunate
lady was eaccinte in her seventh month.
A short time ago her husband at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself, but was rescued and placed in
a lunatic asylum, where he remains at
present.
Year: 1871

A very superior quality Of black coal
has been discovered within ten miles Of
the iron furnaces at South st. Louis,
which can be transported to the fur
naces at halt the expense it cost now,
and which, it is stated will give these
iron works an advantage over any now
in operation, if not the actual control
of the iron market.
Year: 1871

The Times financial article this morn
ing says the slight advance in gold is
now attributed to recently formed com.
bination of brokers to put the price up
and hold purchases in the Gold Room,
not only for cash, but on contracts with
short sellers who are not believers in
higher gold or in a scarce supply of ex-
change. OF course the movement must
turn on the last named point. At pres
ent the export demand for gold reflects
Year: 1871

The decision of Harry Hill, stake.
holder in the Mace-Coburn match, to
the effect that the question is lot yet
settled, created quite stir in sporting
circles aud the indications are that Mace
and Coburu will meet again to decide
the fight as to which is the best man.
Cohurn, meanwhile, keeps on training
lie has announced to Mace his readi-
ness to meet and fight him in a twenty
four foot ring for $lOOD to 5000 side
and awaits his answer.
Year: 1871

We have received reply TO the letter
in Yesterdays issue on the subject OF a
High School, but for lack Of room must
defer its publication until tomorrow In
tins connection we may say that We are
informed Of circumstance which indi-
Gates a rather unwhOlesOme pressure on
the school principals in the matter Of this


High School. The principal of one Of
the ward schools states that he received
an intimatiOn from superior authority
that II he or other oil the principals
made any opposition to the High
school project, the Board of Education
would be informed OF 1t, and they
would be removed. This Is an applica.
ton of NapoleOnism in the Republic Of
letters that does not accord with ourideas
Of that liberty of conscience and speech
which our constitutions and laws guaran-
tee to the humblest citizen, or that dignity
Of manhood which belongs TO the educated
gentlemen who al the posts Of principals
in our Ward sChOola II we are 10 have
Ibis kind Of imperialism in the city school
system, we ought at least to know who is
tie DictatOrth that thus padlocks the mouths
of bis subjects, and we hope the gentle.
man who received the warning" las they
used to say in France will make II public
disclosure of the facts. ..r.., ..,
Year: 1871

Welcome, son of the nor bern king,
Wec me to these enlightened shores
Our welcomes in our cannons ring,
And In the speeches of our boresi
Welcome prince from the northern main,
Who're father rn'es that awful cold land,
And stretches his paternal reign
Away down south to happy Poland!
We welcome yod TO this big, free
Land of ours, whereof the poets sing:
Where happy people, meath their vine and fig
tree,


Give thanks, and curse thieving ring
We are glad to see you, handsome Bear;
Sit thee down and take our feast
For you remind our Yankee fair,
OF Beauty and her Beast
Welcome, son of the Polar Sea
The SONS of freed N love h. czar;
W. just adore him-do not stare
Because he lives away 80 far


Hearth and Home.