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Year: 1873

THERE never was anything
like The snake, the story of
which comes from Peoria. A
gentleman discovered an enor-
nous serpent stretched at
length upon the grass in the
garden of a friend. He instant
ly procures an ak and bravely
attacks the elongated reptile,
speedily dividing him into about
twelve pieces. This done, he
expected to come in for the
laurels appropriate to such a
herculean performance, but he
didn't much, for snake turned out
to be q garden hose which had
not been properly hung up af-
ter use. The courage of the
gentleman is just the same, but
how is he to make a censorious
world believe it to be so?
Year: 1873

For the first time in the his


tory of the country a sleeping


Car was run on a British railway


in the month of February, 1873.


No one will be surprised to


learn that the affair was vastly


inferior to those in such general


use in America. The London


News gives description of the
single car in general use; it is
thirty feet long, about half the
length of a Pullman sleeper"
One end is devoted to luggage
compartment, the other to an
ordinary second-class compart-
ment. The part devoted to
sleeping arrangements is eigh-
teen feet in length, in two sa-
looms, each giving accommodation
to three passengers. There is
apparently no partition or cur
tains between the beds, so that
unless there is a party of three
to take a compartment, one or
more of the beds must be unoc-
cupied, provided the travellers
are at all particular about their
sleeping companions. The most
singular thing about this single
sleepin.g-car, owned by a COM
pany that Operates more than
eight hundred miles of railway,
is, that it is notproposed to run
it regularly, but only when it
has been specially bespoken.
1t is interesting to learn that
the doors of the cars open in
such a way that the occupant
of either bed may go out with
out stepping over anybody
but to- do so, he is obliged to
dismount at the foot of his own
he'd, as the three mattressas
touch each other at the side
and I'LL up the whole space be-
tween the sides of the car.
Year: 1873

Little Jane Grant was not a
good girl, for she told stories,
and because she told stories she
was always being scolded. So
that not only she was a bad
girl, but, like other bad people,
she was not happy. And more
than this, she would cry out
and scream when there was
really no cause for her doing
so. If a poor harmless fly
alighted on her arm she would
scream. If her little brother
contradicted her she would
scream. If her little baby sis
ter would not give her a toy she
wanted, Jane would scream,
and so she would for other tri-
vial causes.


AT first her mamma or the
servants used to run out to see
what was the matter when they
heard Jane scream, but at last
they used to take no notice of
her, but let her scream.


After that little Jane used to
scream very much less. The
dog, fortunately, had not hurt
her much, and the lesson, al
though a terrible one, certainly
did her a great deal Of good.
If she had not been screaming
for nothing the dog would not
have sprang at her so fiercely;
and if she had only screamed
when she had something to
scream for, she would have met
with speedy assistance.


| dare say you have all read
Of the shepherd boy who used
to cry wolf when there was no
wolf; the wolf came. Then the
men refused to listen to him,
and the wolf killed The sheep,
he had to guard. This boy
and little Jane were very much
alike; but we hope you know no
other naughty little boy or
girl who give false alarms.
Year: 1873

There is no more forlorn
sight than that of a man highly
gifted, elaborately cultivated,
with all the other capacities of
his nature strong and active,
but those of faith and reverence
dormant. And this, be it said,
is the pattern OF man in which
culture, made the chief good
would most likely issue. On
the other hand, when it as
sumes it's proper place, illumed
by faith, and animated by de-
vout aspiration, 1t acquires a
dignity and depth, which of it.
self 1t cannot attain. In a
word, it ceases to be self-isola-
ted, and seeks to communicate
itself as widely as it may. So
culture is transmitted from an
intellectual attainment into a
spiritual grace. This seems the
light in which all who are ad-
mitted to a higher cultivation
should learn to regard their en-
dowments, whatever they be-
Principal Sharp.
Year: 1873

A MAN who was discovered
asleep among a lot of tomb
stones in a stonecutter's yard,
said, on being awakened, that
he had come in to buy monu-
ment for himself and having
picked out one, made up his
mind he would try it one night
before purchasing.
Year: 1873

Sometimes we ask people to
"lend a hand" and sometimes
we hear them say ''lend me
your eyes," Here is a story
about a boy who lent a pair of
legs just to accommodate.


Some boys were playing at
base ball in a pretty shady
street. Among their number
was alame little fellow seem
ingly about twelve years old
a pale, sickly looking child ;
supported on two crucAes, and
who evidently found much diff
ficultly ip walking, even with
such assistance.


The lame boy wished to join
the game; for he did not seem
to see how much his infrmity
would be in his own way, and
how much it would hinder the
of such an active game
as base ball.


His companions, good-natur-
edly enough, tried to persuade
him to stand one side and let
another take his place; none of
them limited that he would be
in the way, but they all object
ed for fear he would hurt him
self.


"Why, Jimmy" said one at
last, "you can't run, you know"


ooh, hush p said another
the tallest boy in the party
"Never mind, I'll run for him,
and you can count it for him."
and he took his place by jim
my's side prepared to act. eff
you were like him." he said to
the other boys, ''you wouldn't
want to be told of it all the
time"


How many times loving
hearts will find a way to lend
their powers and numbers to
the aged, the poor, the sick and
the weak. They can thus say
with Job, 81 was eyes to the
blind, and feet was I to the
-ame." And if they lend hop
.ng for nothing, the Lord will
reward their faithfulness with
MS blessing.-We Little Chris
Ian.
Year: 1873

Willie had hardly gone to


sleep, until he saw in his dream


bright robed lady approach


him. He thought he had been


to school, and was on his return
through an adjoining grove,and


had set down on the grass, near
large oak tree, to rest, for he
fit weary. Willie setting there
musing; the beautiful lady ap-
peared and took a seat beside
him, and seemed to say, " little
boy, | know you but you do not
know me; | am your sainted
mother who left her little Willie
years ago; | am now an angel
Of heaven, but | have not for
gotten my dear child. l know
that you have q hard time of it,
but it is for your good and you
must be obedient and good; win
the esteem of all, and in after
life, | will behold my son in the
prime Of manhood, honored and
useful. The blessed Saviour
will help you" Willie reached
out his hands to embrace the
beautiful form beside him, and
he awoke, to find his kind
hearted aunt kneeling beside
his bed and praying that the
Lord might protect and help
the only child of her departed
sister. Willie's heart was full,
and he reached out his arms,
put them around his dear aunt's
neck, kissed her and asked her
forgiveness for being naughty,
and promised to be such good
little boy.


"You are generally good,
Willie, and I believe God has a
work for you to do. You are
not so studious and kind-spirit-
ed for nothing, and | have just
for the Lord to send his
angels to keep you
and lead you in the good way"


Then Willie wept, ooh, dear,


ear auntiel your prayer is an
swered." The child then told
his dream, and when done, his
cheeks were wet with q flood of
tears from other eyes than his
own. That was a solemn bed
room that evening. 1t seemed
that sisters from two worlds had
met beside one little form, and
that heaven had touched the
earth near that memorable spot.


Once more the room is still,
and q heavy breathing might be
heard upon the pillow.


n N n n n n n N


" Husband, | believe God
has chosen that boy for some
noble purpose" ooh, you are
always fixing up some great end
Ior every one; | suppose God
las chosen him to be what we
make him, and / am resolved
hat | am not going to make a
,iggar Of myself We have no
of our own, and / in
end to do by Will just as if he
Year: 1873

VARIOUS methods are proposed by which to untilixe the blast furnace slag. It is an in- teresting fact that what was mot long since regarded as troublesome and useless by product, has come to be regarded as one of positive value. Among the latest of these new methods by which slsg is made to serve us as a valuable constituent of an artificial pumice stone. Tbe slsg is first granulated by allowing it to fall from height into a stream or tank of water; the granulhs thus formed is mixed with hydraulic cement or ordinary slaked lime. This mass, while soft, is pressed into brick shaped moulds; the bricks, after two weeks exposure, become hard and durable.
Year: 1873

A story is in circulation which tells how a fair young lady went to a drug store and told the man to fix her up one dose of castor oil, and to mix it with something to take the taste away. In few moments be asked her if she felt like taking 2 glass of soda water. She accepted the invatation, and drank the beverage. Presently she asked the seller oi pills why he didn't give her the castor oil

 The man smiled triumphant smile and said

 "Madam, you have taken it. l mixed q powerful dose with that soda" She turned psie; she sank into a chair; she gasped

 Immortal love l wanted it for my mother.'
Year: 1873

The Weather in This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty four hours In
comparison with the corresponding day or last
year, az indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1873

strangers to each other, one of the
seconds suggested that there might be
explanations. The Englishman, in re-
ply, without showing any feeling, re-
marked that he was not desirous of
continuing the duel. An instant more
and the meeting would have amicably
ended, when one of the advising friends
of young Burt, and his friend par er-
celleace, and the friend of his mother
and sisters (D demanded another
shoti' M .alef d


The Englishman's face suffused with
blood and then turned deadly pale !;
then his eye flashed with unwonted
indignation. Taking his weapon with
rude grasp, at the word fire. he shot
Burt instantly dead-satisfying those
who witnessed the terrible perform
ance that he had at the first FIRE chiv-
alrously spared the young man from
the fatal consequences of diseased
and wretched public opinion that had
driven him into q duel.


From the stricken home of the hum
Bile widow and faithful sisters there
came no wall that ever reached the
busy world. Death soon relieved the
heart-broken parent of a life that in
sanity had mercifully rescued from
agony too much to be borne. The rest
is involved in the unwritten history of
those homes desolated BY the duel.
Year: 1873

THE NEGRO AND THE MULE.-The
following anecdote, finely illustrative
of the characteristics of two denizens
of the South, we find in the Editor s
drawer of Harper's Magazine:


The negro and the mule (writes a
friend in Clinton, La, are inseparable
companions In the Southern cotton
fields. and like the Hawaiian string
and bow, useless each without the 9TH
er. The lazy indifference and careless
cruelty of one, and wonderful powers
of endurance of severe labor, bad
treatment and neglect of the other,
complete the compatibility of the two
races necessary for the production of
100000 of bales. A characteristic
anecdote may be relished by those who
have had experience Of the two. The
spectator had taken refuge from the
suns perpendicular rays under the
shades of a spreading beach, and lay
recumbent, enjoying the fitful breezes
and the sombre frothiness of acountry
newspaper. Along the dusty road,
which passed by this retreat, came
jogging negro, mounted on mule,
both apparently fast asleep. As the
somnolent pair approached the spot,
some wicked sprite of the place give
the paper flirt, which was no sooner
seen and heard than the mule, as mules
only know how, instantly "swapped
ends" and, leaving the negro sprawl
ing in the dirt, took his departure un-
der full sail. The negro, half arising
himself, and wiping the dust from his
eyes and mouth, watched the retreat
ing mule for some time in silence, but
at length, unconscious of an auditor,
gave expression to this philosophic
soliloquy: Oats what makes me 'spise
a mule"
Year: 1873

From the Danbsry News-of course.l


When you are carrying several ar


ticles aud one of them slips, it is best


not to try to recover it. An Essex


Street man named Roberts was help


ing his wife prepare the dinner table


on Sunday, as one Of the deacons was


to take dinner with them. Roberts
took plate of steak in one hand and
the cffee-po in the other, and had a
dish of peas on thearm with the steak.
The wind blew the dinning room door
partly to as he approached it, and put
ting out his foot to push it back, the
arm with the peas moved out of plumb,
and the dish commenced to slide. A
cold streak flew up Roberts spine, and
his hair began to raise, and he felt
sudden sickness at the stomach, but
he lodged ahead to save the peas,
partly caught them, made q wrong
move, lost them again, jabbed at them
with the coffee-pot, upset the steak
dish, and in springing back to avoid
the gravy stepped on the cat that be-
lOnged to the family down stairs, and
came to the floor in q heap, with the
steak and peas and terrible mad cat
under him, and an overfowing pot of
scalding coffee on top Of him. Then
he bounded up, and stamped on the
steak dish, and picked up the other
dish and threw it out of the window,
and finished that performance in time
to hurl the coffee-pot and the remain
ing contents after the cat, which was
the very best time down the
front stairway. The deacon didn't
stay to dinner. Roberts retired to the
bedroom with bottle of sweet oil |
and roll of cotton batting, and Mrs. |
went over to her mothers to |
arv
Year: 1873

The one person on Southern plan
tation whose life was no sinecure, was
the genial, stately and supplemented
mistress. Hard working New Eng
land housewives and energetic Middle
States women used to fancy their
Southern sisters languid, elegant and
inefficient: Lying off in a rocking
chair, with servant to fan her."
came about as near the usual descrip-
ton of Southern lady as anything
that occurs to me. No mistake could
be greater. With numerous house,
hold to supervise and control, it was
necessary that the mistress should pos
sess some executive ability to keep
everything going smoothly. There
was the store room and the giving
Out" of provisions. Living on plan
tations remote from towns, as many
did, and purchasing supplies in large
quantities, the key-basket was ne
cessity. Who ever saw a Southern
house keeper without that badge of
authority? 1t stood by her OF the
breakfast table, or was at hand on the
sidebOard. 1t went with her on her
daily rounds, and its bunch of keys
locked up many a thing besides food.
That had to be apportioned to the
mouths that were to eat it-so much
meal and bacon weekly to the people
who lived in the quarters and worked
in the field; so much to the house SER
wants, and so mush daily measuring
for the table of the family. The hot
bread which smokes on the Southern
breakfast board was measured into the
cooks kneading-bow the night before.
The coffee was given out, not the un-
certain variety, half chickory or two
thirds rye and molasses, which we
drink who buy it already ground, but
the best Java, bought green, Drowned
over the fire in spider, and ground
as it was wanted. The eggs were coun-
ted for the batter cakes or the pone,
and to the minutie of salt and spice,
every condiment was distributed un-
der the mistress's eye. This was the
only way under that system of affairs,
for with the easy-going shiftlessness of
Chloe and Dinah, had they been as
honest as pane Of glass, things would
have melted away like snow in a March
sun. All the clothing, for winter, and
summer, for men, women and children,
had to be cut out and made under the
direction Of the ladies of the family.
And at any hour of day or night, if
anybody was sick, the mistress was the
person to be called upon. The med
icine chest was always well supplied
with potent remedies, especially with
calomel and quinine, which frighten
Northerners, but which seem to have
blessed affinity for those who live
south of Mason and Dixon's line
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

The creation Of the sculptor may
moulder in the dust-the wreath OF
the bard may wither-the throne Of
the conquerer may be shivered by
an opposing power into atoms-the
fame Of the warrior may be no longer
hymned by the recording minstrel:
but virtue, that which hallows the
cottage and sheds q glory around the
palace, shall never decay. 1t is cele-
ebrated by the angels Of God-it is
written on the pillars Of heaven and
repeated down to earth. The rock
breaker who possesses it is more noble
than the intriguing statesman.
Year: 1873

Three Liverpool grocers have re
Gently been heavily fined for selling
tea adulterated with iron filings, and
one of the journals Of that city takes
up the cudgels Of their defense, as
serting that they were as badly vic
timized as their customers, for the
adulteration was tie work of the
"Heathen Chinee" The evidence
of the public analyst is cited in be
half of the unfortunate grocers, his
investigation proving that the iron.
filings must have been introduced
before the tea-leaves were rolled.


II the wholesale buyers in Liver
pool are thus cheated by the Celes
tial exporter, our own merchants are
naturally just as liable to be the vic
tins of similar imposition, and we
may very soon hear them charged
with adding an injurious make-weight
to their goods. In this event, it may
be some consolation to know that
the proportion of adulterating matter
is not very serious, and that, as 1t
inevitably settles to the bottom OF
the urn in the process Of sleeping,
there is little danger OF our stomachs
receiving an iron coating.
Year: 1873




The San Francisco Bulletin once
more speaks good word for Alaska,
saying:


1t il now well settled that gold,
coal, and iron abound in Alaska.
Some Of the best coal ever found on
this coast was brought down as spec
linens from points in that Territory
accessible from tide water, some of
the ontcroppings reaching qnite down
to the shore. Those who have made
o personal examination of the coal
fields of Alaska declare that the sup
ply of superior coal is inexhaustihle.
IN Alaska, Uuese 'COaI-UeTIs wudnr -ot
worth more than the price paid for
the Territory. The gold we leave
out of the estimate That can be
found almost anywhere on the Pacific
coast. We want coal and iron; and
both of them are found in Alaska.
The irOn-ore beds are said to be of
great richness and without known
limit Coal and iron can be fioated
down to San Francisco. Some of
the ore of the Lake Superior country
is now hoated 1900 miles before it is
worked into iron There will be a
great revolution in the coal business
on this coast during the next fifteen
years. Steam colliers of large size
will take the place of sailing yes
sells


They will steam against the wind
up to Alaska, and come down before
the wind with sails for six months or
more, always getting fair wind for
the voyage in one direction. II good
iron ore Is found in the northwest,
they will bring that down also The
steam transport will solve the prob
lem of cheap water carriage along all
the northern coast. The ship timber
of Alaska may not be as famous in
the future ship yards of San Francis
CO as the live oak of Florida has been
in the ship yards Of New York.
The cedar Of Alaska is probably as
indestructihle as the best live oak.
Now, if there is never an ounce of
gold taken from Alaska. and the fur
trade enures to the benefit of pri-
vate company, save the tax paid to
the Government, the coal, iron, and
timber will redeem Alaska from the
worthless reputation which was well
nigh created for it by the Atlantic
press. There would be no difficulty
in finding private purchasers to take
the whole country at an advance of
hundred per cent. on the price paid
by the Government. 1t is a matter
of little consequence whether Alaska
has any agricultural resources. The
fact is, California alone has resources
of this kind sufficient to support a
population OF 10, 100000 Then there
Is Oregon and part of Washington
Territory still waiting for thousands
of farmers.
Year: 1873

e9Hisco! woman, woman. Miss


Zane reached the house in safety.


and quickly taking as much powder


as she could carry, readily dlsap.


peared, but met with dangerous OBJ


stacles this time. The Indians.


having come to their senses, deter


mined to prevent her return to the


fort. Several shots were fred at


her as soon as she left the door of
the house, but her rapid motion pre-


vented good aim and she escaped in
jury One of the Indians who had
discharged his gun, fearing she
would succeed in reaching the fort,
sprang after the fleet footed maiden
with his uplifted tomahowk, and
was just ready to bury the same in
her brain, when we'll directed shot
from the fort sent him to the earth
in the struggle of death Two other
savages sprang into her path and
met like fate SpringiDg over the
writhing bodies of the two fallen
Miss Zane reached the
gate and was admitted, unharmed. |
and without loss of the ample sup |
ply of powder which she had OBJ. |
tanned. Cheer after cheer went up |
from strong lungs and thankful
hearts as the heroic woman came


inside the palisades, for all felt that
safety was assured to them, and that
hey were indebted to Miss Zane
or it.


This courageous and accomplished |
ady spent many years in Ohio after
he red men had departed. Her
lOme was in Belmont county, near
She was twice mar
ned; first to a Mr.. Mclaughlin. and
'econdly to a Mr. Clark There are
hose living who have heard the sto-
y of the LADY, intrepidlty told from
he lips of men who were in the fort
It the time of the seige.
Year: 1873

A Nevada hunter, who fell into the river
and hung his clothes on the bushes to dry,
walking in q large circle around the bush,
meanwhile, to keep warm, was at length
pounccd upon and tied by some ranchers
who, after watching his curious performance
for two hours, concluded he must be mad.
Year: 1873

1t is not growing like q tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak three hundred year,
To fall, q log, dry, bald and sere:


A lily of a day


is fairer far in May,
Although 1t fall and die that night
1t was the plant and flower Of Light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be,


R Jon SON
Year: 1873

A young man in Detroit cut his foot, the
morning of his marriage day, so badly that
he could not leave the house, so the bride
went there, and they were married as he sat
comfortably in his chair.
Year: 1873

Accelerated singer, Madame La Rochois, was
giving younger companion in art some in
structions in the tragic character of Medea,
which she was about to sustain. ''Inspire
yourself with the situation," said she; SIAN
cy yourself in the poor woman's place. If
you were deserted by lover whom you
adored, what would you do?r The reply
was as unexpected as it was ingenious. 81
should look out for another"
Year: 1873

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE
STATE PRESS more acceptable to its patrons Indeed
the Publishers will not relax their efforts to make
the paper necessity to those who have been accus
toned to read it. We pledge that during the year
1873, the Weekly PRESS shall be moro NEWSPA-
PER than ever, so that tho famil. that thoroughly
reads the paper will have all the current events Of the
day.
Year: 1873

And each of the several classes of coal produced at
the aboyenamed coieries will be kept strict
ly separate from the others. All sales


will be made uncr the follow


ing designations