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Year: 1876

In discussing our jury system, Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Paper says that, IN
an action in New York city, involving
nearly hundred thousand dollars, after
a long trial, and after lucid charge by
the Judge, one of these intelligent crea-
lures arose and asked the Judge to oblge
him by explaining the meaning OF two
words which had been used a good deal
during the trial-the words "plalntlff y
and defendant. And in another case,
tried in the supreme court, being an &C.
ton to set aside certain conveJ,se
real estate on the ground OF fraud the
trial had lasted more than q week, and
the Jury had been deliberating over
their verdict for several hours, when, at
their request, they came into court for
further instructions, and one, apparent
" the most intelligent OF them, coony
stated that the jury did not understand
what was meant by a conveyance. In
civil actions for libel juries frequently
shine forth with dazzling radiance, and
woe to the unhappy journal that comes
before jury which includes among Its
members man who has ever been men
toned in a disagreeable manner by any
paper, if it were only the chronlcllng OF
his arrest. Reports of judicial proceed.
ings are privileged if published without
comment, and yet not long since one OF
our leading dailies was sued by noted
parsonage for publishing what was ad-
mitted to be an accurate report OF q
criminal proceeding, introduced by =
heading in capitals: "The last of Count
Blank; and for these five words q
New York jury gave verdict for seven
hundred and fifty dollars. 1t is true
that on appeal the general term re-,
versed that decision, and on new trial
a Judge was found fearless enough in
the discharge of his duty to determine
that the plaintiff had suffered no damage
by the addition of the words complained
of, and the action was dismissed.
Year: 1876

We have remarked of late, the Scae1a-
tifc american says, the Introduction
into the market, under high sounding
names, of various strong potash combl-
nations intended for laundry and cleans
inc purposes. One of the preparations,
which appears to contain more caustlc
potash than other ingredient, lately
caused the death of a child who acci-
dentally ate little of it; and we have
found the same stuff strong enough to
remove old, hard paint from wood work
when merely wetted by the same and
allowed to rest thereon for perhaps an
hour or two. We advise our readers to
let such preparations severely 'alone:
they are ruinous to clothes, and, except
to cleanse kitchen floors or other grease
soaked places, should not be used.
Even the ordinary low grade soaps are
heavily charged with soda and lmpurl-
ties, which, the manufacturers say, they
are obligedto use, in order to hold their
own with fraudulent dealers who adul-
terate still more heavily; and these soaps
are also highly destructive to fabrics.
1t is much better economy to purchase a
good quality, even superior quality OF
white soap for household purposes; tor
the extra cost of the soap will, IN the
end. be more than saved in the lessened
wear of clothes, of oilcloths, and OF
paint. It is hardly necessary to add
that strong aikai soaps should never be
used on the skin, as their effe t is corro-
sive and harmful. The object OF using
soap for the toilet is simply to overcome
the natural oil which exudes from the
body, and render it possible for the
water to combine Herewith; and very
little of the mildest soap is ample fol
this purpose.
Year: 1876

DID Nor Do IT.-The death of a
woman in Louisville, really caused by
heart disease, was attributed for while
to poison, as she died Immediately after
drinking ale that her husband had
bought, and he had habitualy il-treated
her. An inquest made the truth clear,
and her husband then said: 81 amt
no darned fool. A doctor told me she
had the heart disease, and couldn't live
more than year, SO I wouldn't run my
neck into moose by p'is'ning her when
the year was most up, would II"
Year: 1876

OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE OF HER DIMENSIONS
AND MEAsuREMENT-THE RULE UNDER WHICH
THEY WE'RE MADE.


On the Sd inst the measuring officers OF the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club gave the owner Of tho yacht
Countess OF Duncrin, on her way to these waters
for the purpose of sailing for tho Queens Cup tho
official certificate OF her measurement and tonnage 1t
is as follows


We hereby certify that tho schooner yacht Countess
OF Duern, at present the property OF Charles Clifford
length 9 lcet inches IN breadth OF beam 23 feet
inches and measures 200 tons Royal Mersey Yacht
Club measurement; and that Charles Clifford Is the
owner Of the said yacht, at present acknowledged as


sTRACHAN JONES' Secretary
i. kors, @s.sr-, Measuring omccrs.


MEASUREMENT


The rule OF measurement adopted by the Royal Cana
dian Yacht Club under which tho abovo result was
reached is OF interest to American yachsmen under
the circums tanccs and therefore gwen folows
That tho measurement OF yacht shall be as follows-
The length be taken straight line deck FROM
the part OF the stern 10 the after part OF the stern
post the breadth to DO taken IN the broadest part OF
The boat from the outside OF the outside plank
side the outside OF the outside plank on the other
sde then said breadth shall be deducted from tho
said length anu the remainder having been multiplied
by The breadth then by halt the breadth and the
product divided by ninety -four. the quoticnt so given
shall be esteemed the lust tonnage, which shall bc



occur in such quoticn; any part of the stein stern
post projecting beyond tho length taken shall bc
added 10 such length.


In mixed races schooners and luggers shall be
titled 10 cnicr ut threeliths and yawls and dandics
thrcc-fourths OF their tonnage, and receive time
allowance accordingly but no vessel TO receive any
allowance n schooner luggcr unless her mainmast
be placed distance ut least equal to her beam forward
of the aft SIDE Of the stern post as asccrtaned or
Measurement nor as yawl dandy If her boom, when
place. and parallel TO the deck comcs more than
onc-cighih OF her beam aft the same point Yachts
s,,,it of In be m
urod at discretion by tho measuring and sailing CON-
mittccs combined.


CANADIAN SAILING REGULATIONS


In this connection the extract OF the sailing regula-
lations OF the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, fixing tho
ownership OF every yacht upon It's list, is gwen as
UNDER


mo yacht shall be entered the club list, or be
considered club yacht, unless owned by mcmbcr or
members OF the club, nor until the owner or owners
shall have produced TO tho secretary certificate of
tonnage. to be givcn by the Measuring Committee In
the form as above
Year: 1876

A Missouri farm contains fountain
Of whitewash. and all the owner has to
do IL 10 take his house over to the
spring aud have the job immediately
done. Thus IL avoided that disastrous
experiment Of standing In an old plug
hat and linen duster ON upsy stool on
the back stairs and trying to lay II ON
smooth without getting drop in your
eys.-N. \. Herald.
Year: 1876

DR.. Beard states that from an


analysis of the lives of a thousand


representative men in all the great


branches Of the human family, he
made the discovery that the golden
decade was between forty and fifty;
the brazen between twenty and


thirty; the iron between forty and
sixty. The superiority of youth
and middle life over old age in or
iginal work appears all the greater
when we consider the fact that all
the positions of honor and prestige
-professorships and public stations
are in the hands of the old.
Reputation, like money and posi-
ton, is mainly confined to the old.
Men are not widely known until
long after they have done the work
that give them their fame. Portraits
Of great men are delusions; statues
are liesl They are taken when
men have become famous, which,
on the average, is at least twenty
five years after they did the work
which give them their fame
Original work requires enthusiasm.
If all the original work done by
men under forty-fvc were annihi


lated, they would be reduced tC
barbariSm. Men are at their best
at that time when enthusiasm anC
experience are almost evenly bal


anced. This period on the average
is from thirty-eight to forty. Aftel
this the law is that experience in
creases, but enthusiasm decreases
Year: 1876

Philadelphia markets are now fairly sup
piled with peaches. and the papers Of that
city, in speaking Of the market, say that
peaches of fair quality are now coming in
quite freely. The shipment over the Della
ware Railroad to that city on Thursday and
Friday last amounted to fifteen car loads,
and to New York flfty-nine cars. There
have been no regular trains running for the
shipment of peaches, and the first was put
on the road yesterday, and hereafter the
shipment of peaches will be more regular,
and they will be more in abundance in the
markets
Year: 1876

There is every reason for belief that the
pleasant cool spell we have had will be sue
ceeded by spell as hot as that which re-
Gently placed humanity In half withered
state. Monday was warm one for VIII
miDgton, and the mercury danced nicely up
among the nineties. Yesterday it got down
as low as eighty-eight, and made several
attempts to rise to a higher point, but
could not accomplish 1t.
Year: 1876

The usual practice in choosing Christ
mas gifts is to start out with full porte
monnaie and come home with it empty,
having secured dozen book and print
and curio shops meantime, to afnd
enough pretty things to 60 round" The
gift sent to one friend might have been
offered with equal propriety to hundred
Others. Now everybody (worth remem-
bering at all on Christmas day. has a
fancy or whim or association, which a
trihe will call and gratify. Now that we
have 30 little money, let Us set our brains
to work to remember these whims and
hobbies, and to find the suggestive trides.
and, one word for it, we will startle our
friends with more real pleasure than
if we had sent them the costliest un-
meaning gift. There must be nice dis
elimination, too, in asserting these trihes.
There are certain folks whom we know to
be 3orelyin need Of articles for the ward
robe, and to whom we must therefore
give utterly useless follies, because they
know that we know 1t; and there are
other and better folk in like condition
who will receive a collar OF q pair of
gloves with as hearty and sincere feeling
as though the offering were q strain Of
Christmas music. There is one cousin
whose gift must smell of the shops and
the dollars paid for it, and another who,
if we sent her our worn copy Of George
Herbert, or the little broken vase which
has stood for years on the study table,
would receive them with wet eyes, and
find them fragrant with old memories.
-SeribRer for December.
Year: 1876

We have somehow learned to make a
difference between these obligations
which we owe to one another as men, and
those which we owe to the Government
and to corporations. These ideas are not a
whit more prevalent among office-holders
and directors than they are among voters
and stockholders. Men are not materi-
ally changed by being clothed with office
and power. The radically honest man Is
Just as honest in Office as be is out of it.
Corrupt men are the offspring of a cor
rupt society. We all need Strengthening
up. The lines of our morality all need
to be drawn tighter. There is not man
who is willing to smuggle, and to see Gus
tom-house officers betray their trust while
he does it; willing to receive the results of
the sharp practice of directors of corpora
tions in which he has an interest; willing
TO receive the patronage Of the Govern
ment in the execution of schemes not
based upon absolute necessity; willing to
take an exorbitant price for a piece of
property sold to the Government or to a
corporation, who is fit to be trusted with
Office. When We have said this, we have
given the explanation of all our public
and corporate corruption, and shown why
it is so difficult to get any great trust
managed honestly. All this official cor
ruption is based on popular corruption
loose ideas of honesty as they are held by
the popular mind and we can hope for
no reform until we are better based as
people in the everlasting principles Of
equity and right-doing. five would have
the stream clear, we must cleanse the
fountain.
Year: 1876

The spurious production of gold BY
imitation may now almost be reckoned
among the fine arts, SO great is the in.
genuity displayed, and SO utterly indis-
tinguishable, in many instances, especi.
ally to those who are not experts, in the
false from the genuine article. To such
an extent and with such consummate skill
has this manufacture been carried on, as
to lead the British Government to ap-
point scientific commission to investi-
gate the facts and processes involved,
especially in those cases exhibiting re-
marksble care and pains taken in the
preparation, as we'll as great perfectness
Of appearance. Three forms of gold
dust, it seems, constitute thechief specific
in this line, each having its peculiar
characteristics. In the first place there
are small nuggets made by casting the
alloy through a plate with holes, into
water, whereby the irregular nugget
shape is obtained; then there are smaller
pieces like lattened shot, made by cast
ing through smaller holes into water,
something similar to the process Of cast
ing shot-these pieces being afterwards
dattened by blow with wooden NAL
let, and finally specie of small dust,
apparently made by casting through a
fine sieve. By mixing the three shapes
and sizes here enumerated, mechanical
imitation Of the usual forms Of gold dust
is obtained, though Of a specific gravity
about one third less than that of the real
substance. The metal employed in the
manufacture Of all these kinds is, it ap-
pears, an alloy consisting chiefly of cop
per, q little silver and trace Of gold.
These are then covered with fine gold by
the electrotype process, the result being
that the spurious dust contains about
eight per cent. Of gold. So perfect is
the coating Of gold over the alloy, that
the dust is not effected by cold or boiled
nitric acid.
Year: 1876

The WEEKLY REGISTER will be sent from
now until the first of January, 1877 for one
dollar And until after the Presidential cleo
ton for seventy-iive cents. In clubs OF five
or more it will be sent until after the presi-
Dental election for 60 cents, postage prepaid.


The wonders Of the Centennial Exhibition
will be accurately and graphically reported
in the Register.


All information of interest concerning the
Presidential Canvass will be iDpartialy and
faithfully chroniclcd.


The State and Congressional elections are at
hand, and every intelligent person wants to be
fully posted as to what is going on.


Our Stock and Produce Markets are pre-
pared with particular care aud are made up
from actual sales.


Bear in mind the WHEELING REGISTER Is
the only paper outside of Baltimore which
publishes by Telegraph the Baltimore Cattle
Market in full.


Let ueighbors join together and send in
their clubs at once All friends who send u'
a club of five and upwards will receive Gu
extra copy. Address The REGISTER Company
Weeeling, w. Va.
Year: 1876

The Norristown Herald tells of a
man who came to the Office and stop
ped his subscription because he was too
poor to take paper, and then went
out and spent two dollars and a-half
for whiskey, and got drunk as lord
before reaching home. But it should
be remembered that newspaper is
a luxury and whiskey a necessity
with some men. .-aF !
Year: 1876

'CUT one-half pound Of Soap into small
~ shavings, and dissolve in five gallons
of hot water, and then put in as many pie
ces Of clothes as the solution will cover, let
them soak 5 or 10 minntes; then sa1 little
hand rubbing will make them as clean as
hours of hard machine rubbing would do
with ordinary soap. sTLa 5r IWo5


When clothes are not much soiled, no
rubbing is required q


Wiring them out of the solution, then
treat them the same as though they had
been washed in the ordinary way. 81 s 4,


When one lot ofclothes is removed from
the solution, replace with another '


EB This Soap is warranted perfectly free
from anything injurious, and careful ana
lysis has proved that its ingredients cannot
mjure the finest fabrics. It is also an ex-
cellent Shaving Soap. For cleaning Paint,
use sponge or cloth saturated with the
solution; 1T will leave the paint bright and
uninjured; the repeated use of it on painted
wood tends to make its glossy. &,
I For removing Paint, Grease Spots, &c,
from Clothing, dip one end of the Soap in
hot water and rub on the soied spots; then
with linen towel and warm water, wash
the Soap off; if the spots are of long stand
ing, repeat the operation. --


This Soap being very dry and pure does
not dissolve easily, but must be Thoroughly
Boiled in water to make it dissolve


Mouselin de LANES, Cashmeres, Woolens,
Flannels, &c, are rendered soft and
smooth, but should not be boiled.


All fast colors are made bright and clear
with this soap. Dresses can be washed
without ripping.


p. S.-To get the full benefit of this
Soap, it should always be dissolved in boil
ing water, and the solution used while
warm. Manufactured only by
Year: 1876

point What sort OF birds are these that hover tho
men at Washington who are doing their duty with az
their might and cry out that such deeds by heads oi
departments are suspicious to the pubicP


We undertake 10 say that they foul breed, ana
their influence has been the curse Of this Admnistra-
ton They had their way till the Republican party waa
ght the verge OF rn and that OF hope
left it the because the President broke away
from their cOunsels and called to his side who be-
ieyed in making the civil service what the Republican
party promised Ii should be-
Year: 1876

for determining which OF the several angles was 20 be
taken, and how they were to be reckoned Another
question not answered by any OF the competitors was
that of the parabooid OF revolution; yet u one who
knew how to write down the distance Of point from
given plane, this question was OF the simplest
character. since il was only necessary TO express
condition that each point OF the surface should
he equally distant from the given focus and from the
directriX plane.


This result is strongly suggestive OF the possibility OF
improving textbooks Of the higher mathematics
generally. While elementary works on algebra ge-
Omety and trgonOmetIy. those in fact i'll which quant
ties considered only constants are very good We
ind that when take those branches in which quant
ties are considered variable or indetermnate the
textbooks most widely in quite imperfect one
deficiency consists in lack OF logical cearncss ana yigOr
Of xplanatiOn and of fuilness of explanations and an
other, in the absence Of what we may call the modern
improvements in the mode OF presenting and treating
these subjects Every opportunity to call the attention
Of educators tho, impl rfcctiOns III the instruncnta
ties of mathematical instruction should We 'hhh De
taken advantage ofa view which must be an excuse or
supplementiug award by these felaIhS' 'eiy ~
SIMON NBwcoAB,


N u
Year: 1876

SLEEPING WITH A BOA CONSTRUCTOR


From the Kansas City MALI


Sam Johnson, OF this city, formerly Deputy Con-
stable, very losing his life lately and II he
had there would have been a general expression OF
opinion that he tempted his fate by an exhibition of
singular ioolhardness and strange contempt Of the
most ordinary prudence. For time ohnson has
had the care of an immense snake OF the boa con-
sricor species. This was left in Johnsons
charge by the proprietor of siIc shows that
with Howe's circus late visit to this place
The snake had been Sick ana fearing tha. It would die
II it cartcd about from place TO place Its owner
made arrangement with Johnson to take care OF IL
until such time as II should be ior 10 again ap-
pear IN the exhibition. sam has paid all needed
attention Attention 70 ms snake.hip' ard the hugo
under his consiuerate ana careful attention. johnson
had tried 10 establish friendly relations with the
snake. ana iiatcred himself thar he had succeeded
very well. Two or three nirhts ago when the weather
turncd suddenly and severely cold johnson found
that the boa was benumDed with cold and apparently
half dead. Win strange disregard OF consciousness
he took the malt frozen snake its box and placed
II in his own warm bed from which he had risen lie
then returned 10 bed intending, when the snake
should revive from It's chilled and beuum bed cou,
ton, To replace IL in its box. Unfortunately johnson
icil uo dozc, and then into deep Sleep From his
SOUND slumbcr he was awakened by a horrible sense
OF sunocat.on about hs chest. He awoAe TO una
himself III the terrible coils the boa con.
strictor which had been warmed TO nte and lurv IN
Johnson's bed. The unfortunate man comprchcnded
In instant his fearful danger Great drops OF sweat
started to his brow as IN an agony oi horror he real
iZed the nature of MS peril. With the energy OF
despair he grasped the snake with both hands and
with almos, supcrhuinau strength ana in n manner he
scarcely recall. succeeded In uncollug its
hateful folds from his body dragged the struggling boa
To its box and safely secured II in old quarters
severe nervous attack succeeded the fright aud horror
the strange combas had occasioncd. and not mother
wink d'd johnson sleep that night He can concratu-
late himself that he escaped easily and that
less temerity did not receive tho fatal punishment IL
Year: 1876

a MONSTER SLIDE. We spoke last
week of the slide in the Union Hill claim,
which had filled up the claim to a great
extent and carried one of the giants
down a shaft. The slide then mentioned
appears to have been only a fore taste of
what was to follow. About four acres,
actual measurement have broke away
and is advancing steadily and bodily
down over the bed rock worked in for
mer years. All the shafts through which
the Company worked have been closed
except one and a constant fight is going
on day and night to keep this one (the
first one raised) open. The situation Of
this shaft is, however, favorable, it hav,
ing been raised through high rock, which
partially checks the advance Of the avail
anche of earth and gives the remaining
giant chance to work its way. The bo-
dy of earth moves slowly now, about at
the rate of a foot per day. The slide has
probably shut off gravel washing for the
-0"'piif NlllNit 10 iNl w W iNS SiS'NtNs 10
The company have been cutting and tun-
heling bedrock for the past two years
and had only opened in the gravel last
iall, with very fattering prospects.


Since the above was in type Mr.. II. w,
Leonard informed us that the slide set
lied forward about forty-foet on We'd
nesdoy, completely closing up the shaft.
lhe bank is broken far back Of the ditch
and the houses, which will probably
side in also. The company will clean
up their fume and bed rock ditch which
are thought to contain. several thousand
o' dol ars. A partial cleanup made
sometime since to put in new blocks
yielded about 1900, showing that the
claim has pay dirt of extraordinary rich
hess.