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Year: 1875

esas- The very first principle in writ
ing for the press is to pen something
useful. An ambitious person can get
his name quicker into print by telling
the world how to prepare a durable
whitewash than by writing poetry. Yet,
astonishing rs it may seem, many who
could hardly write respectable para
graph describing the digging or setting
of agatepost will haggle away at poetry,
and imagine themselves poets born to
blush unseen, and all that. If they
cannot climb into public notice up the
steepest and most uncliinbable ladder
they won't climb at all. And thus dc
many ambitious people stay on the
ground, when they might, if they would
climb to purpose.
Year: 1875

1t has been demonstrated that, at
certain intervals, when food is received
into the stomach, gastric juice is Sc
creted to digest it, and that no more
gastric juice is secreted than is required
for the digestion of the proper quantity
of food. .n'}. .. -rL- ri


If person eat twice or thrice day,
at regular periods, the gastric juice is
secreted by the stomach to digest the
food it has received. If, while the food
is being digested, more food is intro
duced into the stomach, digestion Tin
regard to the food already in the stom.
ach) is arrested. For instance: A per.
son takes in the morning piece OF
bread and several potatoes; now, it will
take about three hours for the stomach
to digest that food. Suppose the per


son, about an hour after eating this
food, takes piece of bread and an ap.
pie or two, what would happen The
digestion that was going on in the
stomach would Immediately stop, and
not be resumed until the food that was
received last was brought into the con.
dition Of the first. Suppose he took
food every hour, what would be the
consequence The stomach would be-
come prcmaturely worn out, and could
do nothing perfectly, working all the
time without rest. But if the person
possessed good constitution, and a
large amount of vital power, he would
not feel, at first, this drain upon his
system, but sooner or later he would
have to pay the penalty of outraged
nature. For instance: A person may
have a large capital in bank; he can
live upon the interest very we'll, but he
draws upon his capital. He does not
feel this drain at first, because he has
so large bank account; but if he
keeps on. he will become, sooner or
later, bankrupt. Some persons have
an enormous amount of vitality good
constitutions, 1t is said OF these per-
sons nothing hurts them-they can eat
and drink with impunity. This is a
fatal mistake. See how many years of,
life they are cutting off by such foolish.
ness. If such persons live to the age
of seventy or eighty, they might have
reached the age of one hundred or more
years, by better dietetic habits. Science
of Heath. - rr5ei .uC.r, s3f .
Year: 1875

Under the name of the American
District Telegraph Company, the
Western Union Telegraph Company
are scheming to obtain possession of
the fire alarm and police telegraph
wires of San Francisco. They have
proposition now before the Board of
Supervisors to take charge of and
manage the wires at the same ex-
pense they now cost the city. 1t is
not probable that the city's wire
would be any better, and perhaps no
worse, managed, under the proposed
new arrangement, than they are now;
but the Western Union would secure
the use of q network of wires through
out the city, for which they would
pay nothing, and for the expense of
keeping in order of which the city
would pay. To give these wires over
W uiic UcsJtrn UNION WouId be q
manifest injustice to other telegraph
companies and would be giving aid
and comfort to monopoly which has
always regarded fair competition as
trespasslng on its own self-arrogated
rights and treated it as an enemy, to
destroy which any means, no matter
how reprehensible, was admissible.
Ii San Francisco desires to let the use
of her fire-alarm wires to private
corporation, it is but justice to the
Taxpayers who have paid for those
wires and are taxed to keep them in
repair, that they should be leased to
the company which will maintain
their present usefulness at the least
expense to the city. 1t is probable
that the Atlantic and Pacific Tele-
graph Company would take charge of
the city's wires on terms more advan-
tageous to the Taxpayers than are
offered by the American District
Western Union Telegraph Company.
Year: 1875

The resolutions adopted by Los An
geles Grange and published in the
HERALD of last Sunday morning,
denunciatory OF those members of the
State Board of Education who voted
to change the text books of our public
schools, deserve more than a passing
notice. They are written in straight
forward, unmistakable English, and
express unqualified condemnation of
an act which cannot be sustained by
any species of argument. Los Angeles


Grange does not hesitate to say that
the vote of the majority of the Board
was procured through money infiu-
ence. OF the correctness of this as
sumption we do not express an opin-
ion, but we have no doubt it is shared
by State Superintendent BoLANDER
and the other members of the Board
who with him comprised the minority.
The published statement of Mr.. BAN
CROFT that he will exchange his books
for those now in use without extra
cost, is intended to deceive the people
lis, In fact, a falsehood by implica-
ton. He would make the exchange
II the old books were presented at his
house, but the thousand and one small
dealers who will supply the greater
portion of the new books will not
make the exchange, and no one more
thoroughly understands that they will
not than Mr.. BANCROFT. He will sell
his books to the retail dealers and
they will sell them to the people. If
this Is all the argument he is able to
offer in support of his scheme for fore


ing tribute from the masses for his
support, he would have made a stronger
case by remaining silent. The change
OF books is an outrage-no milder or
less emphatic term will express it
and 1t is the duty of every Grange in
the State and OF the people generally
to elect men to the Legislature who
will make it their first act to epeal
the law under which this infamous
bargain and sale was consummated.
The Legislature will be in session one
month before Mr.. BANCROFT will
begin to realize from his speculation.
The people have it In their power to
defeat this attempt to rob them, and
they should do it so effectually that q
similar attempt will never be made.
Year: 1875

ZAcK CHANDLER who believed that
the Republican party could never be
defeated in Michigan, and that he
would retain his seat in the United
States Senate as long as he lived, has
changed his mind, now that another
man has been elected to fill his place.
Year: 1875

WE are credibly informed that a
gold note bank will soon be started in
this city. The parties are not at present
residents of Los Angeles city but are
men of large means. 1t is their purpose
to place the bank OH a commercial
basis and do an extensive and varied
hafsinass
Year: 1875

A lady, returning from an Improbable
visit to church, declared that sswhen she
saw the shawls on those Smiths, and then
thought of the things her own poor girls
had to wear, it it wasn't for the consola-
ton Of religion she did not know what
the should do.
Year: 1875

4 gentleman advertiscs his willing
II IS to exchange cork leg for re-
volver. Z This is the nearest approach
10 the old law Of retaliation we have
seen for long time. 1t isn't all eye
for an eye-bnt it a leg for an arm.
Year: 1875

The difference between having tooth
properly drawn by q dentist, and hav-
ing it Knocked out .ty a fall on the
pavement is only slight distinction
one is dental and the other accidental.
Year: 1875




at present there lies within q few
weeks OF us, and right between MS and
Inhabited continents, circle 400
mics across, of which we know not
what respects it is effected by SOME con-
ditions wholly different from our own.
Is it anything more than great refrig
orator for the production OF coid-that
is, for the absorption of heat? If water
preponderates there, then the cold
need not be SO extreme a we imagine;
and just as the equator is rot every
where hotter than the tropics, just as
the Eastern hemisphere is warmer BY
ten degrees OF north latitude than the
Western and the Northern hemisphere,
very much warmer than the Southern,
so even the Arctic circle may have the
benefit OF some genial influence. 1t has
at least half a year'of continuous day.
| What if it be found sufficiently habit
abe for the establishment Of stations in
which the production and economy of
heat will be the only serious difficulty?
Science is sanguine, but it confesses it
self to be hoping against hope as to the
matter of its expectations. An animal ur
| two, seeds that can stand a.ty cold. {.
some of the lowest forms of vegetable
/ life, and prehaps organisms in tie sea,
/ the possible revelations of All asmos-
phere completely clear of aqueous dis
turbance, figure prominently in the
catalogue of hope, as is suspected, there
be ingredients in the earth's atmosphere
too subtle for chemical analysis, the
spectloscope may detect them in a
region where humidity nc longer EN-.
barasscs the question. Then what i,
the aurora? Is it of earth or OF heaveni
Is it meteoric? Is it cosmic? Does il


reveal universal medium? Is it {
magnetic phenomenon? At about The
seYentieth degree of latitude the exPedi
tion will reach the other side OF TIN
ma gnetic poe, and will have to stee


by rules the contrary of our swn, ant
becoming more and more complex til
the needle points finally to the centr'
of the earth. At the pole not onl,
the compass, but even the sun, moor
and stars will cease to be available fo
the usual purpose of observation; tha
is if anything should happen to TIL


chronometers, for all will then depen,
on the preservation of Greenwich time
The forlorn hope told off for the pol
will have to mark its track very care
: fully il it would be sure of retracing it
course back again. London Times.
Year: 1875

THE Two ORpHANs.-This interest
ing drama will positively be presented
at the Grand Opera House on Friday
and Saturday evenings next. It's now
having a very successful run at Phila-
delphia, and there Is no doubt but that
it will be well received here.
Year: 1875

his calling. BE boasts that in all his
battles he never received black eye,
but admits broken thumb, broken
finger the loss Of a tooth, and part Of
one ear, broken knee. cap, and blow
that Aattened the bridge OF his nose.
He is a broad.shouldered man, light Of
foot, and exceedingly active with his
arms. As he tells his story, he was the
youngest Of family of twenty-one chill
dren, all Of whom are now dead save
himself he was early in life forced TO
exert himself to secure the necessities Of
life. He does not think he took to
fighting" because be liked it, but he had
mother to support and could get liv.
ing easier in this way than 10 any other.
His mother encouraged him. and he
easily fell into the business Before en-.
gaging in fight it was his custom to
get on his knees and say, Let me win
this fight, so that may have the money
to keep my old mother snt of the work
house. This he meant as a prayer to
his dead father, who he believed could
help him win.
Year: 1875

Poultry breeding has now come to
beFegarded as important branch
Of farm industry as the raising of
swine and sheep. In one sense it is
Of more Importance, in that it is not
every farmer who can keep sheep or
swine with advantage. bnt everyone
who owns or rents a plot OF land, if
only the size OF q city lot. can keep
a tew head of poultry with both
pleasure and. profit. When taken
into consideration the vast number
of eggs consumed in the United
States-the city of New York alone
using during the year 1872 upwards
Of34O, 600. 900. costing. at wholesale,
about So. 292, 000zand when we note
the immense number of tons Of poul-
trg'sold in all OF the large cities of
the Union, we can not call the poul-
try interest one of minor impor-
tanee. Yet it is but a few years
since the name OF poultry seemed to
convey the idea Of insigniicance.
Nov. howeyef, the proprietors of
large stock farms have their flocks
Of pure bred fowls, which get their
share ofsattention and study as we'll
IS the horned cattle and horses {;
and the net income from a well man
aged poultry yard is no small addi-
tion TO the farm receipts.-PoWltry
Record.
Year: 1875

A passenger ON the Inflated Schiller in
his statement 20 London paper said All
went well until Friday, and we had pleas
ant passage. On that day we had cloudy
weather, which, clearing up before night,
was almost Immediately followed by a thick
for. We were then near the Shore but we
did not know we were. went 10 my berth
about nine o'clock, and fell asleep. was
awakened soon by humping sound, which
/ thought was caused by the anchor going.
| was at once apprised that this could not be
the cause of the noise by the shouts and
screams heard, and, putiingon my clothes,
| rushed on deck and soon found that the
ship was ashore. had heard the orders for
the engines to be reversed, but the ship went
on humping several times before she finally
stopped. The result of this humping was
30 break in her bottom. Up TO this time
we did not know where we were, and II was
not until after midnight that We discovered
our position by one OF the passengers seeing
the Bishops lights. | got into a boat which
was hanging at the davits, and two others
got in with me. Immediately after we got In
large wave struck the boat, knocking her
from the dayits on to the deck, and ill
ing her with water. So scared were my
companions at this occurring, that they
jumped out, but | stuck to her Soon
after, the boat was washed against the side
Of the ship and was thrown out, but got
in again Directly after, | was washed
against the mast and once more knocked
out, but | regained the boat once more and
was clad to zee that she was now rid of n
quantity of the water which she had been
alled with by the waves. just afterwards,
10 my horror found that the boat, with me
in her, had been washed right over into the
sea. now saw that my only chance was to
stick TO the boat, and chung to her for some
hours, and was at last rewarded forso doing
by being picked up by fishing boat and
carried into Scilly.
Year: 1875

BRps 1t is matter Of regret that so
many boys and young men engage in the
wanton destruction of birds. 1t is barba-
rous "sport in which no parent ought to
allow child TO indulge. No possible good
is to be derived from the destruction of the
birds. They are the friends, not the enemies
of the farmer. They do some damage, it is
true, but they prevent great deal more
While they are picking up few kernels OF
grain, they destroy great many bugs and
worms which would otherwise prey upon the
crop Even the crow, which is almost uni
ycrsally despised, does far more good than
evil BY coating the seed with tar, or sur
rounding the piece with twine, he can be
kept from molesting com-iields, and during
the warm season viii busy himself in de
stroying the insect enemies Of the farmer
The robins pick some cherries, but they
might as well have them as to allow them L
fall pSey 10 their insect foes. Certainly
birds are prettier, and they are to be choseT
for company in preference 10 bugs and
worms One or the other we must have
If we drive away the birds, the insects viii
oycuun our premises. This being the case
it would seem to be prudent policy to allow
the birds 10 remain.-Homestedi
Year: 1875

Ih ere is far more involved in the
fate OF the Wilmington City bill than
the mere decision that hn Act of As
sembIy in reference to city charter
is unconstitutional. If this were all
the question would be one of such
purely local Importance as to be worth
little consideration beyond the city
limits. But this is not all. There is
not a man, woman or child in the State
from Cherokee to Currltuck, no mat
ter how poor or obscure, who has not
as deep an interest in this question a
abe largest property owner resident i'll
the city of Wilmington can possibly
have. It is not as Wilmingtonians
then, but as North Carolinians that
we speak.


Why do we say this? We say it be-
cause the Court in declaring the Will
niDgton charter void, has usurped
powers utterly subversive of both the
form and the substance of our govern
| ment. Nor have these usurpations
been accomplished without the pur-
| pose to render the Court absolute
master in all things in North Carolina.
Will the people rouse themselves to
the danger that threatens their dearest
rights?


What are the facts? While the
Radical party was in possession of all
the departments of the government.
the Legislature and the Governor
went their own ways lawless though
they were, undisturbed by the judicia-
~. And even when the G vernon
with violent hand and insolent speech,
defed the highest judicial tribunal in
/ tue State, the Chef Justice himself
could do no more than meekly respond,
as if a too willing virgin yielding her
self to her ravisher, that he was entire
ly ''exhausted". But in 1870 the people
escued the Legislature from Radical
| clutches and would have rescued the
Executive and the Judicial Depart
ments also, but they had been too
thorough ~ lmDeuueo III Lne COnSG1tu
ton 10y the cunning hands of its un


ecrupulous trainers. And what fol
| lowed? Was the Democratic Legis-
lature permitted to proceed in peace
in its efforts to afford relief to the pc o
pie, lawful though they were? Did
the Judiciary remain PROSTATE in pas
sive exhaustion ? Not at all, but still
like the too willing maiden, when ev
erything had been accomplished,
rose up with great shout over it
outraged virtue. Recovering at on.
Year: 1875

The Radicals of Columbus County
met at Whiteville on Saturday last for
the purpose of nominating candidate
for Convention, but adjourned without
doing SO. They concluded to lesve
the field open for Col George 20 walk
over the course.


The impudent and ridiculous effort
of these Radicals to get prominent
Democrat to run as an independent
Candidate was miserable failure
They most assuredly misto
man. No gentleman i'll North Caroline
has less material in his composition tc
make disorganizer, nor is there one
who is actuated by higher sense O
honor or is more devoted to principle


A club of young gentlemen from
salisbury will make a tour of the
mountains of this State in shor
me.
Year: 1875




While there are a few Republican
Journals in the State which cannot
rise above petty local or personal
predindices, or which cannot resist
opportunities to favorable mention"
or lavishly "puf'' weak and I'M
worthy politicians, it is indeed graft
flying to observe that, with the few
exceptions mentioned, the Republi-
can press of the State is earnestly
endeavoring TO arouse the people to
a just understanding Of the impor-
tance of the pending campaign and
the necessity existing for the selec-
ton of eminently worthy and able
candidates. This strong independ-
ence Of sentiment in favor of a ticket
which must win victory encoura-
ges us to believe that the State Con
vention will be governed by a high
sense of duty, and composed of men
who regard the interests of the party
as paramount to all local or person
al considerations. Men who have
friends to reward, or enemies to
punish" are earnestly requested to
take back seats in the coming cam
paign. Earnest, consistent, and de
termined Republicans-men who are
Republicans because they believe in
the principles of the party--must as
sumo control, and all will be well.
Year: 1875




Paris Cor. New York Times


A very singular exhibition was
given yesterday at the Jardln Ma
billie. There has been performing
here at the Folies Bergeres man
named Holtum, an American, who
has cannon fired at him and catches
the ball in his hands. This prodigious
feat was witnessed nightly, and al
though the actors present ayowed that
there was no trick, Pierre Veron, of
the Monde. Illustre, would not be-
lieve it. He said that the cannon
ball must be thrown to Holtum from
the stage. The latter made a bet of
5000 francs that he would perform
the feat under conditions which left,
no room to doubt and, when the bet
was taken, Veron designated Mabille
as the place for the trial. All the
journalists of Paris were invited, and
they found Holtum there before his
cannon. 1t was examined with min
nte care, and the heavy ball was
passed from hand to hand. al am no
longer in my own house" said Hol-
tum; ''you are master here, and you
must watch over all the arrange
ments." Having carefully aimed and
lashed his cannon, it was charged,
and Holtum took his place against a
a plank target some ten yards away.
This was to show that the ball was
solid, and the force of the powder
great enough to send it through the
plank. Holtum got the aim of his
gun. and then placed his head in a
certain position against the plank,
giving the command to fire. The ball
just grazed the hair and broke
through the plank, rolling some TWEEN
ty yards further on. The same ball
was picked up by the journalists, who
again charged the cannon and sent
home the ball, and this time Holtum
caught the ball in his hands as neatly
as he does nightly upon the stage.
He won his bet, and no one seemed
disposed to accept his offer of 5000
francs to any one who would perform
the same astounding feat. The phys
ical force required must be enormous,
but HOltum showed his strength by
tossing up cannon balls as if they
were so many oranges. The only
precautions taken are very simple;
he wears very thick leather gloves,
and covers his breast with many
thicknesses of thin paper to form a
sort of cuiraSs. This looks to me like
very dangerous feat, and particular
ly the first part of it, where Holtum
places his head against the target
half an inch below where the ball
will probably strike. If the powder
should chance to be defective, some
day there might be an accident. 1t
is like the foolhardy trick of pntting
ones head into lions mouth. One
day | fancy that ball will snap his
head very neatly of.
Year: 1875

The World Without Sunday.


Think how the abstraction of Sun
dav would enslaye the working
classes, with which we are identified.
Think of labor thus going on in one
monotonous and eternal rack, fingers
forever straining, the brow forever
dropping, the loins forever aching,
and the weary brain forever schem-
ing. Think of the beauty it would
efface, the merry heartedness it
would extinguish, the giant strength
it would tame, the resources OF ma
ture it would crush, the sickness it
would bring, of the projects it would
wreck, the groans it would extOrt,
the lives it would immediate. and the
cheerless graves it would premature
ly dig. See them toiling and fret
ting, grinding and hewing, weaving
and spinning, sowing and reaping,
raising and building, digging and
planting, striving and struggling, in
the garden and in the field, in the
granary and in the barn, in the fac
tory and in the mill. in the ware
house and in the shop, in the noun
tain and in the ditch, on the roadside
and in the country, out at seq and on
the shore, in the day of brightness
and of gloom! What a picture this
world would present, if we had no
Sabbath.
Year: 1875

INDIA-RUBBER sidewalks are com
ing into fashion out West. For small
towns they ere Notwithstanding
economy and durability. The first
experiment was made in Danville,
Iowa, where three hundred yards
were put down on one of the princi-
pal streets. All the boys in the place
ran over it, but there was no noise.
A leading merchant stopped in front
of his house, then jumped on his
heels. The elastic forces hidden i'll
the rubber threw him over the gate
to the roof of the piazza. But after
a few trials he was able to alight on
the steps with the graceful accuracy
of a flying squirrel. The chief draw
back to the walk is its odOrOus ia
miliarity in hot weather, but it can
be neutralized by a weekly wash of
borax and coal tar. Its principal ad-
vantage is that it can be stretched.
As the town grows, it is pulled out
toward the suburbs. Two yoke of
cattle can lengthen it three miles a
day.