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Year: 1871

The ex-Confederate soldiers residing in
Louisville have published small brochure
of some forty-fve pages, in memory of
the late General Robert E. Lee, which is
well printed and embellished with fine
portrait of their old commander and a
representation of the house where he was
born. 1t consists of tributes paid by the
citizens of Louisville in public meeting, in
the press, and in funeral services. The
spirit which prompted such an Offering
none can censure However much we
may deplore the fatal mistake which dim
med the lustre of an otherwise noble life.
there is no one who does not admire the
personal qualities for which General Lee
was distinguished and it is this respect
for him as man, rather than as a leader
and representative Of misguided and lost
cause, which in the main finds expression
in this chaplet to his memory Tribune.
Year: 1871

Mss Adelaiae Phillips and her musical
coyreres~ will meet with warm reception at
st. Adams Hall to morrow night. The people
of this city have ever shown a correct and
generous appreciation Of frstclass music, such
as they will be served with on that occasion.
Year: 1871

The State courthouse, late Sycamore
church, is now the resort of the legal frater-
nifty in search of authorities not found in their
individual libraries. The State Law Library
is now kept in neat room in rear of the
apartment used by the judges of the Supreme
Court of Appeals as conference room, and is
much moi accessible to those who have occa-
sion to use the books
Year: 1871

The doctrine that hungry stomach
and spare diet make an active aud produe-
tive brain finds many questioncrs IN these
opponents to the bran aud water Cruel sys-
TEN. Charles Dudley Warner humor-
ouslv treats the matter in the following
article copied from the IHfcpeRdeRt;


Perhaps it is necessary for me to explain
that [ am in favor of dieting, aud tenn
peraucc, and cheerluIness, and clear
complexion, and early rising, and the
eleven commandments, and walking. and
self-esteem, and lifting 500 pounds with
out shoulder straps, and that general hill
arity and happiness Of life that comes of
eating bran and leaving the flour to the
pampered children OF luxury. / like 70
have somebody who has found out all about
his own stomach, holding it and its capaci-
ties and wants up before me every day,
and convincing me that mine ought to be
exactly like his There is, Of course, n
model life to lead, aud there a model stom-
ach And yet, so irksome is goodness and
so impatient is human nature Of virtue
and perfection, that l fear | sometimes
get little tired of trying to regulate all
my habits according to law laid down by
some superior man, who has got all his
habits exactly right Who does not hate
that great and good man, George Wash
ington, when he reads that every day, at
the very moment the tall clock in his hall
at Mt, Vernon began to strike twelve, he
might be seen crossing that hall to the
dining-room The contemplation Of such
punctuality is insuppOrtable. And yet
Washington had a great many good things
about him. So far as | know, he was not
much disposed to interfere with other peo-
pies stomachs.


The popular notion Of a reform is that
it must require something eccentric, Un-
usual. 1t seems so much easier and more
meritorous to do some extraordinary thing
than to preform the simplest duties in an
transformations way. This is the reason
why the gospel of salvation by bran is so
popular. To live temperately, to eat mod
erately Of the varied fruits of the earth,
this is quite beyond US. Nothing will an
swer our heroic spasms but absolute bran,
To consult our own stomachs and to live
according to the experience gained from
observation of ourselves, Is not half so
easy as it is to accept the laws OF heal tn
according to the experience of some othe
Year: 1871

The New Haven Journal says that
gentleman of that place has invented
registering ballot-box. Its mechanism is
very simple, but at the same time it Sc
cures the desired result. On the inner
side of the box is a slide, which can oe
slipped back and forth so as to cover and
uncover the hole through which the bal
lots are put When a voter hands up his
ballot, and his right to vote has been as
certained by the check list, the slide is
pulled back, leaving the hole open for the
entry of the ticket. As the slide is pulled
back it rings 2 small bell, and at the same
time turns small wheel over which rolls
a slip of paper The outside of this pa
per has printed upon it figures from 0 to
20, and each time the slide is pulled the
wheel registers the number of the vote,
which number can be seen through asmall
hole in the box. When twenty votes have
been registered, another wheel, below the
first, registers 20 also, and then each 20
until the number 400 has been reached.
By placing in a third wheel the number
OF SUI can Ue IUSisto,~A- In this way
the total number of persons who hrve voted
will be correctly registered by the wheels.
If double voting has been effected it will
be disclosed on the counting of the ballots.
Year: 1871

Blue GLASS As 4 PANACEA-A Phila-
delpha general has undertaken to bring the
world to perfection through the medium of
blue glass. He first drew inspiration from
gazing at the sky, and as blue glass is the
most available earthly substitute. he under
took the highest possible development of
organic matter by subsection to its infu-
ence. He first used it TO cover a grapery,
and in FIVE months had drawn out two inch
vines 40 fest, endowed with a proportion
ate fruitfulness. His next experiment was
with an Alderney bull calf which he not
only recovered from an apparently fatal
illness, but developed to full bovine stature
in about four months Thus far it has
been found reliable in every trial, and if it
can be as successful in moulding human
powers, it will only be necessary to place
feeble infancy in these blue glass heavens
and let them kick themselves into manhood
before they would otherwise have cut their
incisors.
Year: 1871

for frewood. Their are no hillocks of
green grass. And when you recall the
sort of head covering to be worn by all
who desire to avoid dizziness and danger,
that is to say, either turban or the folds
of thick band of muslin around the tenn
pies, you will perceive that even in the
historic instance of Bethel Jacob did not
have so terribly hard time of it as would
at first sight appear. His pillow was on
his head, and cool fragment of rock
made him no mean bolster
Year: 1871

Vinelaud, n. J is city of ten thousand
inhabitants, without a single grog shop.
The police expenses last year were S IS
for SIX months not single application for
relief to the poor officers was made by set
tier or citizen during the year there was
but one indictment, and that for triAing
assault among the colored population only
one building was burnt, and there is no fire
department. The city has sixteen district
and several private and other schools This
happy state of affairs is all attributed to the
absence of King Alcohol and of the " dan
gerous classes" who find no attractions in a
city without dram shops.
Year: 1871

The first meeting house in Wheelock, VT,
was built in 1897. A curious vote was taken
by the town for the purpose of selling off the
pews- The record of It reads as follows
= Voted that the town be at the expense of
rum tor the Vend1elng OF the meeting house
pews''
Year: 1871

Ii there is one duty that we owe to our


scIve-. TO each other and to the world, that
we neglect more than any otter' It is S tnS
duty Of independent, discriminating and
fearless criticism. We owe it to ourselves
because we cannot afford to hazard our rep
utation by passing sliPshod opinion 70 20
each other because the country press cannot
Year: 1871

are the barnacles of i newspaper. They ac-
cumulate with surprising rapidity and stick
like brothers. Here they will propose to


help you by securing subscribers or holding
those you have; there they promise to send
in news some Will give you an advertise
ment and expect the paper to be " thrown
in"-the same as ladies sometimes expect a
gift Of two dollars worth of buttons and
thread when they buy ten dollars worth Of
dress others will expect the press, as a
Year: 1871

PREscoTT, August II, loIl. Editors Arizona Miner:

 In your last issue see an article headed A Dastardly Assassination casting odium on Captain Burns. This cannot be mistaken as referring to Captain Thomas Byrnc, com nlanding Camp Beal's Springs

 Of the circumstance referred to 1 know nothing, but of the officer in question know more than do of any other officer in Ari- zona, first met him in command of his company on the march from Fort Whipple to Camp Beal's spings. I travelled under his protection from Camp Hualpai to Camp Beal; saw him locate bis camp; travelled socially with him thence to Mohaye entertained him in my own family have lived in his Camp at Beals Springs, for months am we'll in- formed of his acts, private and official; know his character, social and private, and more kind-hearted, generous, liberal and honest man never found in the U. S. Army

 As for his variagated plumage "-I never saw trace of his military toggery" on his person except at drill or inspection; and in ten minutes after such duty it was laid aside for simple citizen dress.

 In the last ten years contact with the Army have not met a company commander so particular to investigate, in person, and see that his men got their rations and that no man went hungry. know that he advanced hundreds of dollars out of his private funds to procure fresh beef for his men before he had authority to purchase. Although my home has been in his camp for months nev- CT heard q complaint of hunger; not day passed during my stay there that did not see soldiers give their bread to the Indians. When a soldier is disOrderly, if not in dsect violation of his order be is lenient tO fault, and the most severe punishment have kl o VII him to inflict on a disorderly soldier was to make him pack his haversack and walk post

 As to his accommodating rations to sell tO the miners for cash, it is simply absurd. The miners do not have sufficient money to buy the necessary provisions 10 sustain life. know that the miners have taken advantage ofhis generosity and imposed upon his hos pitality. He has,, subsisted and quartered them at his own expense he has loaned them arms and given them ammunition for theii protection; be has done all in his power tc protect all citizens and make it agreeable fol them; the road has been quiet and safe since the establishment of his camp; and every wear traveller who passes has his tired ami mals fed--and l also venture that not one pound of forage has ever been sold from CanI Beal. And with all his animals in a higheI condition than at any camp in Northern Af .zona neither has he been furnished with hay half the time. =f-

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Year: 1871

A great quantity of linen is made
i'm this country, and it is very cheap.
Some individuals have large rolls oi
'itlaid away, that they have had on


hands for years, saving itfora "rainy
day" Every man has about two
dozen shirts, and | suppose the wo-
men have the same number, but am
not certain. Judge from the fact
that washing day comes but twice a
year. From early last Spring till
about harvest-time the village was
made lively by the clatter of flax.
breaks; and on every fair day the
streets would be lined with flax set
out to dry. Yet, surprising as ii
may seem, these people regard it AS
an extravaganza to use a table-cloth


You must not imagine that Bar
singhausen is a nice little country
village, such as you see at home,
with paved streets and shaded SIDE
walks. There are no sidewalks,
paved or unpaved; and everybody
walks in the middle of the street.
Where the sidewalks and shade
trees should be, are muck pits, or
manure pits, where they heap up all
the filth from the stables, to let it
rot, preparatory to taking it to the
fields. You can find one of these
ornamental mounds in front Of near
ly every house. In some instances,
the privy also stands in close prox-
unity to the street, and has no pit.


Everything in the way Of q fertili-
ger is thus carefully saved and put
on the land; and the soil, so far as !
have observed, is SO poor that it must
be well fed and well cultivated to
induce it to yield fair crop.


In harvesting, the people cut their
hay and grain with a scythe, and
always cut towards the standing
grain. Seeing this, undertook to
show them an easier way; bul they
couldn't see it." The way they had
learned to work when they were
young, was, in their opinions, the
best. / also tried to show them an
easier and faster mode OF binding,
but met with the same success. 30
I concluded that inasmuch as ! was
not paid to teach them ] would let
them alone.


They do all their threshing with a
fail, four on side, keeping a regu-
lar stroke that sounds musical to one
who first hears it. If one OF the
eight happens to miss stroke, it
throws them all out Of tune. l
thought it very amusing at first; but
when they get to playing the same
tune day and night, one gets heart
iIy sick Of it. 1t was too much OF a
good thing.


have heard that there Is real
threshing machine somewhere In
the country, but have not seen 1t.
When / tell the people about the
Reaping and Threshing Machines 10
Year: 1871

There is a lesson for all of us in
these plain and candid words from
Harper's Weekly, in regard to the re-
suit of the New York election. The
truths apply as we'll to Iowa and
Marion County as to New York. Let
us remember and heed them:


"But the victory has been won only
by the most unprecedented activity
and zeal and union of all honest men
in the city. They have learned their
power, and let us hope that they have
also learned the conditions of its eff
cheney. If we would have free
government, we must pay the price,
and the price is care and thought and
trouble and labor and sacrifice.
Tweed and the Tammany Ring
ruled the city because thousands of
intelligent and refined persons hated
politics, and thought that no gentle
man could touch them without con-





tamination, and recoiled from the
name of politician, and thought that
the Tammany Ring was no worse
than those who would break it. But
the Tammany Ring and all similar
political rings make politics disgust
ing and repulsive for this very pur-
pose. They wish to disgust and to
repel honest and decent men, for then
they are sure of having their own
unclean way. And every honest
man who suffers himself to to be re-
PEELED, who refrains from an active
share in politics, who never goes TO
the primaries nor to the conventions,
betrays honesty and his country, and
bends himself and others to such "a
miserable yoke as that which has just
been spurned."
Year: 1871

The grand project of tunn cling
under the sea from Dover to Calais,
which was necessarily suspended
during the progress of the Franco
Prussian war, has been revived, with
improved prospects of success.
communications on the subject have
passed between the French and
English Governments, and it is
thought that the necessary privileges
will soon be accorded, and the pre-
liminaries arranged for entering in
earnest upon the work.


Some of the difficulties (which it
was feared would defeat the enter
sgineers who made survey in 1867
and 1868 feared that the tunnel, if
completed, might prove useless for
want of sufficient ventilation. This
apprehension has been disposed OF
by the opening of the Mont Gents
Tunnel. 1t is found that the differ
ence of temperature at the opposite
ends of tie tunnel is sufficient to
cause a strong draft and keep the
air perfectly wholesome. The same
cause would doubtless operate az
strongly in the case of the Dover
tunnel. Another difficulty appre-
hended was rush of sea water
through seams in the chalk fOrma'
ton underlying the the channel. Ii
answer to this, the fact is cited that
in mining operations galleries have
been successfully carried far under
the sea. The obstacle of time ha;
been largely overcome by the inven
ton of q machine capable of eXcavat
ing a passage seven feet in diameter
and fifty-four feet long, in twenty
four hours. BY the use of this ma
chine, it is estimated that the worl
can be completed within fiv'
years, instead of ten, as was at frs
.estimated. Those who have occa
sion to make the passage on the sur
face of the water will hope that


further exercise of ingenuity will
reader the completion of the Worl
possible within a much shorter tim
than this.
Year: 1871

There was once a prince, who,
having been much displeased with
one of his mobiles, determined TO
punish him. The prince command
ed that he should be shut up in a
high tower. In this tower there
was only one entrance, which was
walled up Immediately after the no.
bleman had been placed there. Thus
all hope of escape seemed TO be cut
of, and the unhappy man was left TO
perish. Inside the tower there was
a long winding staircase, by which
the prisoner reached the top. While
looking down from there he observ-
ed his wife, who had come, indul-
ging a faint hope that she might be
able, by some means or other, to aid
her husband in escaping from his
place of confinement. On inquirinS
if she could be of any service to him,
be replied: ooh, yes; go and pro-
cure a black beetle, little grease, a
skein of silk, a skein of twine, and a
long rope" The poor wife FASTENED
to obtain what her husband asked
for, wondering, no doubt, at the
strangeness of his request. She
soon returned. furnished with the
things. Her husband then directed
her to put the grease on the beetles
head, to fasten the silk to it's hind
leg, the twine to the silk, and the
rOpetO the twine, and then TO place
the beetle on the wall of The tower.
On being set at liberty on the wall,
the beetie-smelIing the grease on its
head, and not being able to discover
where it was, crept up the tower in
search of it, till it arrived at the top.
The nObleman caught it, and taking
the silk from its hind leg, carefully
drew it up. When he came to the end
of the silk, he found the twine, and
next he came to the rope. Fastening
this to a crook, he thus made his es-
cane.
Year: 1871

II becomes an interesting question
to find out how this subterranean sys-
tenn was made; for in so many cases a
valley passes into a ravine, and that
into cave, that the cause which has
formed one must have formed all. 1t
requires but a cursOry glance to see at
once that running water was the main
agent. The limestone Is so traYersed
by joints and lines of shrinkaZe that
the wat er rapidly sinks down into its
mass, and collects in small streams,
which owe their direction to the dip
of the strata and the position of the
Hssure. These channels are being
continually deepened and widened by
the mere mechanical action of the
passage of stones and silt. But this
Is not the only way in which the rock
is gradually erOded. The limestone
is eOmpOsed in great part of pure car
Donate of lime, which is insOIuble in
water. 1t is, however, readily dis
solved In any liquid containing car
bOnic acid, which is an essential part
of our atmosphere, and is invariably
present in the rain-water, and is given
on by organic bodies. BY this invisi-
bic agent the hard chrystaline rock is
always being attacked in some form
or another. The very snails that take
refuge in It's crannies leave an endur-
AAOAC nAtlh n VI bllClL DiESCllCO III u buIIdCC
fretted with their acid exhalations,
which very often pass current among
geOlogists for the bOTings OF pholades,
and are the innocent cause of much
speculation as to the depression of the
mountain tops beneath the sea in
comparatively modern times. The
earbOnic acid taken up by the rain is
derived in the main from the decom-
posing vegetable matter which gener-
ally forms the surface of the soil on
the limestone. Its effects are to be
seen in a most marked degree in the
bare gray masses Ofrock termed "pave-
ments," that stand out like TOches
nOUtOTl51ess from the purple heather,
and are worn and fissured into the
strangest possible shapes. Sometimes
the surface is made up of a sheaf of
sword-blades; at others there are ra-
vines and caves in miniature; and
generally the strata is divided into
series of large angular blocks, which
rock with the greatest freedom. The
minute fossil shells and fragments of
crinoids standing out in bold relief
testify that the agent which has re-
moved so much rock is chemical, not
mechanical. This invisible agent is
equally at work in the caves as well
as above ground, everywhere attack
ing the surface even out of the reach
of the streams. The endless varieties
of stalactites and stalagmites are
merely so much solid matter taken by
it out of the rock, and Tedeposited
where the excess of carbOnic acid in
the water happens to be taken up by a
free current of air. To it then, as well
as to the mechanical power of the
stream, the formation and enlarge
ment of caves must be assigned
.BE1cDlilLjoR's Magazine.
Year: 1871

L DOOMED ENTERPRIBE.-IEe Suez
Canal is filling up with sand. This
news sounds like the death-knel OF
the grandest monument Of human
enterprise and skill and patience. The
shifting sand of the desert will ke the
destruction Of the canal. IL the an
nouncement prove true, the hundred
million dollars which the cutting OF
the isthmus cost-Who msy compute
it's cost in human sweat and blOod?-
has been sunk In shifting sand indeed.
If the accumulation of sand already
threatens to impede navigation, there
will be no such thing as a SueZ Canal
in few years hence. The company
which carried cut the enterprise seems
anxious to get rid of the canal al
ANYTHING like a reasonable or partial
return of its outlay. For this purpose
the company has asked the KhedivC
TO purchase it. The Khedive who
encouraged the work when in coursC
of construction, seems 10 have giveI
ii up as a losing speculation and al
though the proposition is supported bJ
All the authority which a recOmmen
dation of y sultan to his vassal may
convey, the Khedive has refused Il
have anything mOre to do with tn,
enterprise.
Year: 1871

ENGLISH OPINION OF AMERICAN En-
ERGY.-The London Times of the 10th
inst. concludes a review of the probable
effects of the Chicago fire upon British
interests with the following paragraph


''In the midst of all the confusion and
loss, it is necessary to bear in mind the
vigor and elasticity with which the
American people meet and repair every
adversity. The consequences of the
two fires which within the past thirty
five years have devastated the business
portions Of New York were encountered
with promptitude which soon efiaced
their traces, and at later period like
visitation at San Francisco caused a
still greater development of indomit able
energy. Hence it is some Satisfaction,
in the midst of the present disaster, to
predict that, whatever may be its mag
Ditude, there will be nothing more as
tOnishing in connection with it than the
way IN which the sufferers viii effect
the work Of restOTatiOn.o


Aud this prediction, it may be ad dec
| is in ull course of verification.


An attacked cOuDIe-0ysteF shelll
Year: 1871

Fading beneath our pressing feet
StreWn upon lawn and lane and street,


Beautiful leaves!
Dyed with the hues of the sunset sky
Falling in glory so silently,


Beautiful leaves
Never to freshen another spring,
Never to know what the summer may bring


Beautiful leaves
Withered by wintry frost and cold,
Soon to decay in the common mould,


Beautiful leaVesi
So viii the years that change your tint,
Mark upon US their autumnal print


Beautiful leaves
So shall we fall from the tree of time,
Fade like ye, in frosty cline,


Beautiful leaYesl
But when the winter of death is past,
And we wake in eternal spring at last


Beautiful leavesi
May He. whS paints you every hue,
Form our lives a chaplet new,


Oh beautiful leRvesi