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Year: 1872

The human body is machine, and therefore cannot endure forever but, like . watch a sewing machine it will last much longer if properly regulated and duly repaired than if pains taken to keep in order The great object of everyone who desires long healthy life should betoput his body in condition to resist the threatening influences by which we are all less surrounded and invigorant and reotye present knownso effectively answers this pur- pose the vitazng elixir which, under the unpreend- ing of Hostetters Stomach Bitters has been for

 than twenty years the standard tonic of America In crowded cities, where the atmosphere contaminated with the eluva inseparabe from large populations in marshy regions where She soggy soil rocks with masma the praries and in the forests where every fall the air is tainted with exhalatios from rottngwe edg and grasses decomposng eaves-in short in every loca

 y where malaria exists this powerful vegetable antidoe is urgently needed Fever and ague. bilious fevers dys entery congestion of the liver, jaundice, rheumatism and all diseases which are generated by infected air. impure water, sudden changes of temperature may be Syerted by strengthenn and regulating the system in advance with Hostetters Bitters Autumn is always

 Of peril especially to weak susceptible organ zations Even them vigorous apt to be in some measure depressed by the humid phere. loaded with deleterous gses produced by vegetable decay. The fall is period of the when the ovation and regulation Of the Evng machine is peculiarly important and the Bters should therefore be taken daily at this critical season.
Year: 1872

There Is no place in the UnicA where working man is worth 30 much, and no place where boy is worth so little as in California The report read at the meet ing of the Protection and Relief Society Thursday evening. touches the subject at vital point. In seeking for employ ment for boys, the Secretary says: "Wherever we turn labor leagues and trade unions are against us. !" Either the boys now growing up here will run largely to hoodlums, or they must have amplovment or be banished from the country. We know of a number of promising boys who have been sent east to remain, because there were no ave- uues opened here to honorable employ= ment We are clamoring for immigrants all the time when every California boy we'll trained would be worth as man, as much as four average immigrants.

 Not long ago the pulpit to some extent in this city, took up the subject Of point. Boys need sometimes attractive places of resort. But forced id4sness is today the source of the greater part of juvenile yagrancy and crime: What hope is there for b boy brimming over with activity who can find no honorable work to do? There never was more blind and brutal crusade waged, against boys than that inspired by some of the | labor leagues and unions of the country

 If yotf want hoodlums and vagrants, limit the admission of boys to one or two here and there, among master mechanics and manufacturing establishment, and set the rest adrift. ...,. ..... ..., !. ..s.,''

 | If these boys are to be saved, this cru 1 sade against them must be stopped. The incorrigible hoodlums may bring up in the penitentiary. But the hostility which makes boys drift in that direction is a thing not, only to be be deplored. but to be abolished if possible. There is not single mechanical or other in dustrial employment in California where any other limit should be prescribed for the employment of boys than the ability of the employer to find work for them. Any other is cruel, cowardly and crimi- nal. We cannot kill off the present gen

 eration of boys, make hoodlums of them nor banish them from the country. There is no place in the world where they ought to be worth as much as here. The employer who turna boy away with the excuse that he is limited to the employment of two or three, and cannot employ any more by the rule Of some league or organization, has enlisted in a war against the boys of this State There IS not an employer who, cannot say: "I am master of the situation ] will give as many boys places in my es tablshment as can make room for, in dependent of all dictation." It. may cost something to take this stand, but ii is on solid ground. There are thousand boys in this city with nothing to do who ough not to be drowned to get then out of the way, ought not to be banishet from the State, and ought not to b, turned into hoodlums.-Sap Francisc

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Year: 1872

ABOUT FRoGs.-The editor of st liar pers's Scientific Record" gives some credence to a singular statement from New Zealand. It is said that surface water is entirely gone from large tracts. sometimes covering five thousand square miles, for months. The region becomes soIutterly dry as to forbid the possibility, apparently, of any survival of frog life. And yet these reptiles seem to beat the cat for tenacity of life, for whenever rains falls sufficiently to fill the water holes, they are found to swarm with frogs, and this when immediately pre- vipus one might dig for ten or twenty feet without finding any trace of water. Al recent writer offers solution. His statement is that on a recent tour ne became alarmed for want of water that native called for help, went immedi- ately to a dry water hole, found acrook

 ed and indistinct track on what { had once been land, and followed it up to the shade of small bush. Here be commenced digging, and soon found a ball of clay about eight inches in diame- ter, and quite dry on the outside, but, | when broken, it was found to contain about half a pint of clear, cold water, in which frog was biding his time, await ing the rainy season. A number oi similar balls were exhumed, and the travellers made free with both the water and the frogs. This is a marvellous story, and one may well wait for verif. cation and yet such display of pro tective instinct is not more marvellous than many which are certainly known.
Year: 1872

A young Ansonia merchant did a bright thing. He was walking home with his sweetheart, and having an errand to do at the hotel had stopped there moment. while the. lady walked on slowly. On coming out he espied her

 as he thought ahead, and, approach ing stealthily, threw his arm around her, wishing to make surprise party. He succeeded as we'll in surprising him. self as the lady, for she turned a strange face on him and said {" Sir P and he went righr away without answering Ma'am.n
Year: 1872

4. : Al s. -N .- Whom the end comes. and wc must say geod-by. And am going to the quiet land; And sitting in some loved place hand in hand For tho last time together, you andI We watch the winds blow and the sunlight lie About the spaces of our garden home,

 Soft by the washing of the western foam, Where we have lived and loved in days put by We must not weep, my darling, or upbraid The-quiet DeathY,o comes to part us twain But know that parting would not be such pair Had not our 1ove'a perfect flower been made And we shall find it in Gods garden laid

 On that sweet day wher in we meet again.
Year: 1872

ted for contempt. He seems to be triAing
with the court.


Contributes, you are before the court of
justice, and unless you behave yourself in a
more becoming manner you will be sent to Jail;
so begin and tell me what you know about the
fight at Rice s. @


Witness-Well, gentlemen, Captain Rice he
gin treat, and Cousin Sally Diflard-


Court-(after deliberatiDg) Mr.. Attorney,
the court is of the opinion that we may save
time by letting the witness go on in his own
way. Proceed Mr.. Harris, with your story,
but stick to the point.


Witness-Yes, gentlemen. Well, Captain
Rice, he gin treat, and cousin Sally billiard
come over to our house and axed me ifmy wife
she moutn't go? | told cousin Sally billiard
that my wife she was poorly, being as how she
had the rheumaties in her hip, and the big
swamp was up; howsoeyer, as it was she, cousin
Sally Dillard my wife she mout go. Well,
cousin Sally billiard then axed me if Nose he
mount go. I told cousin Sally billiard as how
Nose was the foreman of the crap, and the
crap was smartly in the grass, but howsoever,
as it was she, cousin Sally billiard, Nose mout
go. So they goes on together, Nose, my wife
and cousin Sally billiard, and they comes to the
big swamp, and it was up as was telling you;
but being as how there was a log across the big
swamp, cousin Sally billiard and Nose, like
genteel folks, they walked the log, but my wife,
like darned fool, hoisted her coats and waded
through


Chops-Heaven and earth, this is too bad;
but go on.


Witness Well, that's all knoo about the
fight
Year: 1872

An Illinois editor thus sarcastically speak OF
the marriage of professional brother. He
stepped upon the hymenial platform, adjusted
the fatal moose, and was swung off into that
unsilent bourne where he can never return save
by the Indianapolis connecting line.
Year: 1872

The New York Herald thus concludes long
article reviewing the political situation =
Nothing but an opposition coalition-Demo-
s'crats included-will suffice to make an i'm
s.pression against Grant and Wilson, and the
''only available basis for such a coalition now
sis the independent joint-stock, liberal ticket
s'of Greeley and Brown


The friends of Grant see this and trembe. =
Why cannot all his opponents see it as clearly
Those Democrats who still talk about third
ticket must either be stone blind or else must
desire Grants election. Grants only hope ol
success is through the nomination of Demo
cratic ticket Let the Baltimore Convention
adjourn without nominating third ticket and
all Radicaism will be in despair. They will
feel that their doom is sealed Richmond
WHO.
Year: 1872

Mr.. EDITOR: | have noticed a great deal
said about the great advantages to strangers en-
lgratlng to East Tennessee, and particularly to
Knoxville. There are great inducements to
them to settle in this section Now, don't
want it understood that | am opposed to
anything would be to our advantage; at the
same time it is nothing but fair to parties COM
ing here to give them the facts in the case And
right here | wish to make an inquiry: Quite re-
Gently an enterpriSing gentleman has started u
carriage factory in this city. No doubt he has
plenty of means to carry on his business, but,
for arguments sake, we will suppose his eX.
penses when ready to start up, is ptShaps from
one to five thousand dollars more than he had
anticipated, what may he expect from the mon
led men of Knoxville? venture to say he
may go from one end Of Gay street to the other
without being accommodated to one cent
for less than twenty four per cent. and perhaps
can't get it for even that for more than thirty to
sixty days, and not more than $500 dollars at Il
time, when perhaps his property, unencumber-
ed. is worth $1,000


In the next place we have several kinds of
manufactures that, for the want of few thou
sand dollars, are dragging along in such a way
that it Is an impOsSibility for them to accom-
plish anything Would it not be best to first
make then sclf-sustaining o,.d tll~-. proceed to
the establishment OF others? and if they get
to trouble give them new start again ?? That
is the reason our Northern factories get along
so WELL Let firm there fail and they go into
bankruptcy, close the firm business, which is
the end of the firm. The next day the creditors
of the old firm will help them to start up again.
How is it in Knoxville? They have here rule
of settling the first of every month. The mer-
chants and bankers present their bills which
must be met promptly whether you have the
money or not. How is it with the manufactu-
rer? He has credited out his goods, and when
he presents his bills, they seem to be surprised
that their bills should be presented so soon.


Now this will not build up Knoxville, and if
the citizens don't take more interest in the mat
ter than they have heretofore you will see some
of these factories seeking protection elsewhere.
Our sister city, Chattanooga, in ten years will
leave us out in the cold. Shall we run on in
this same old channel, entirely Indifferent as to
our own interest! INQUIRER
Year: 1872

SIl Hunters.


A correspondent of the Louisvill,
Courier Journal, writing from
Morton County, Ind, tells the fol
lowing story about the discovery O.
big bone:


while engaged this fall angling
in the east fork of White River, al
the falls, at very low stage of wa.
ter, | made my boat fast to what
supposed a root, but upon examina.
tiOn 1 found it to be q bone, of some
large animal, much larger than any
Of the animal species we have any
knowledge Of at the present day.
The bone must have been deposited
many thousand years ago, from the
fact that some thirty five teet in
depth of earth had been formed over
it sinceit was buried the bank Of
the river has been washing a gay for
the last twenty-five years, and l sup
pose that fifty yards or more have
been carried away or, in other
words. the distance from where the
river bank now is to where it was
twenty-five years ago is mora than
fifty yards. The portion of the
bone found weighs fifty pounds, and
is completely incrusted with what
seems to be iron, mixed with coarse
gravel which is the character of the
earth in which it was deposited
The form of the bone is about two
feet long, with slight curve four
teen inches in diameter in the cen,
tire, at which point there is socket,
evidently for the support Of some
other bone, ten inches in diameter.
Two inches from the socket the main
bone forks, throwing off two prongs,
one five inches in diameter and
about one inch long, and the other
about four inches in diameter and
five inches long, each having the ap.
pearance of a knuckle to connect
with some other portion of the body,
the opposite end of the bone seems to
be the main limb, hind or fore leg
1t is broken off about twelve inches
from the socket before mentioned, al
which point it assures the shape o.
a round shaft, six inches in diane
ter.


Some years since a number O
large bones were found in this vi
cinity, and it is thought that at som'
period in the history of the worlt
this part of the country was the re
sort Of some unusually large ami
mails. This would be a great felt
for naturalists and scientific hunters
of fossils and other curiosities, anC
should command their attention.
Year: 1872

1t is purely vegetable concentration for keeping
the Bowels in natural motion and cleansing the sys
TEN Of all restore the diseased Liver Stomach
and Kidneys, to heathfHl action, while at the
same time they brace and inVigorate the same sys-
TEN.
Year: 1872

Girls are the most unaccOuntSbtest
things in the world-exeept women.
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they amt there. I can cipher
clean over to improper fractions, and
the teacher says I do it first rate; but
I can't cipher out a girl, proper or inn
proper, and you can't either. The on
ly.rule in arithmetic that hits their
case is the double rule of two. They
are as full of old Nick as their skin can
hold, and they would die if they
couldn't torment somebody. When
they try to mean they are as mean as
pusley, though they amt as mean as
they let on, except sometimes and then
they are good deal meaner. The on
ly way to get along with girl when
she comes at you with her nonsense, is
to give it to her tit for tat, and that
will fummux her, and when you get
a girl fummuxed she is as nice ais a
new pin. A grill can sow more wild
oats in day than boy can SOW in a
year, but girls get their wild oats SOW
ed after while, which boys never do,
and then they settle down as calm and
placid as mud puddle.


But I like girls frst-rate, and I
guess the boys all do. / don't care
how many tricks they play on me-and
they don't care either. The hoitytoity-
ist girls in the world can't always boil
over like glass of soda. By-andzby
they will get into the traces with some
body they like, and pull as steady as
any old stage-horse. That is the beauty
of them. So let them wave, 1 say;
they will pay for it some day, sewing
on buttons and trying to make decent
man of the feller they have spliced on
to, and ten chances to one if they don't
get the worst of it.
Year: 1872

deprived of rail facilities, and of the cities
of Baltimore and Washington, have we
been gratiied at the prospect of other
roads being built from that part of the
State to these cities, and being willing
cordially to cooperate with any where the
interests might be made Identical, or were
not too conflicting with ours.


Accordingly we have entered into ar
|ticles of agreement with the Southern Ma
|ryland Road, chartered some years past by
the Maryland Legislature, and running
from Point Lookout through the counties
in the lower part of which last county it
intersects our road, which it is believed
will aid materially the building of this
road, and on its completion be advantage
Gus to both.


The tunnel, work of greater magnitude
and expense than any other of the kind in
this country, except the Hoosac, is salts
factorily approaching completion, and we
have the assurance of the contractor, Mr.
Rutter, gentleman of high character and
great experience, that it will be completed
E by April next.


Thirty-seven hundred feet have been
walled up, covered in and entirely finish
ed. Rapid progress is made with other
excavations, which are enclosed as fast as
each section is excavated.


The completion of the tunnel will com
plete our work. Our facilities for local
and through travel will then be unequal
led. With the Union Tunnel connection
passengers from all sections of the country
passing through Baltimore can do so with
out any change of cars or delay. And fol
Baltimore travel the most enlarged facili-
ties will be provided. Arrangements hav-
ing been made with the Northern Central
Railway for the use of its depot, as start
ing point, in the heart of the city, excel
lent additional local stations, such as that
at Lafayette, which will be continued, and
to the neighborhood of all of which the
city horse cars will run, will be provided
at Pennsylvania avenue, and at the State
Cattle Scales on Baltimore street extended


The convenience of all sections of this
city being thus consulted and provided
for, our depot in Washington, the plans Of
which have been perfected on the most ex
tensive scale and with a full regard in ar
chitectural design to meet the requirements
which its location, in the very centre of tht
city, and the neighborhood of the hote
department and public buildings require
its construction will be commenced forth
with; and with the character of the roa6
we have built, the superior outfit we have
provided, the obliging and accommodat
ing officials whom alone will be retained
in connection with the road, and the ibe
raj policy which we are satisfied will pre-.
val, we feel assured of the public patron.
age and of every reasonable success.


The approaching completion of the road
which will dispense with their services
renders this fitting opportunity for a just
and merited testimonial upon our part tc
the efficient labors rendered the company
by our engineers, and for the faithful and
unexceptionally good work done by oul
contractor, Mr.. Thomas Seabrook.


ODEN BOWIE. President.
Year: 1872

It was dreary work cutting carpet
rags night after night, with her boy
away in the army, and long lists OF
killed and wounded filling the news
papers. She had cut up Alvin's little
coat. 1t was the first coat he ever had,
and she remembered how proud he had
been of the buttons and pockets, and
it went to her heart to shred it into
Sits.


The room where Patience Tanning
sat was very small and humble. It
was the first room she had furnished
with things eked out and scraped to-
gether by the hardest toll. For more
than twenty years she had lived in the
old, dilapidated gray farmhouse, in a
narrow round of duties, centering at
the cradle of her child, and later about
the bed of her sick husband and yet
she had tasted keenly most of the joys
and sorrows that belong to woman's
lot. Her sphere had never seemed
mean or inadequate to herself, for hold
ing her child in her arms she felt that
she possessed all the honor and dignity





earth has to bestow.


But the tears would drop sometimes
now, as Patience sat alone at her work
in the slender ray of the candle. There
were vine shadows where the row OF
potted plants had been, for it was
spring, and the geraniums and hello
tropes were out in the little door-yard
beds, and she rested in the longer twi-
light, and lived over the life she had
led first as wife, then as mother, after
ward as a lonely widow with her boy
away at the war. Patience had always
lived in others. It seemed as though
her heart had no separate action of its
own, and received its pulsations from
the beating hearts of those she loved.


When Washington was threatened,
and danger menaced the Pennsylvania
frontier, Alvin had grown moody at
home because she opposed his wish to
join the volunteers. It was the dark
hour of her country's peril, and Pa
tience had wrestled and struggled and
prayed until she gained strength to let
her boy go out of her arms. She had
given her eve lamb; she sat alone.


Her farm consisted of few acres oil
rather stony land that lay close to the
house where she lived. Her husband
Year: 1872

How DID SHE DO IT?-A Dublin
chambermaid is said to have got twelve
commercial travellers into eleven bed
rooms, and yet to have given each a
separate room. Here we have the eleven
bedrooms:
Year: 1872

THE nomination of VIM. S. Groes beck


for president, and Frederick Law ON.


stead for vice president, by the boiling


boilers in New York city last week, has


not created ripple Of enthusiasm nor


the smallest wave Of excitement in the


political waters of the times. The csndi-
date tor vice.president lost no time in de.
clining the unexpected and doubtful hon.
or thrust upon him, and it is scarcely pos.
sible that the Hon. WIN. S Groesbeck will
be long in following the example. How
long will it be until the people accept as
true the assertion or Carl Schurz: "Gree.
ley is now before the people, and his
name cannot be Withdrawn. Overwhelm.
ing waves of opinion are arising in his
favor, and it would be idiotic to attempt
at this juncture to stay its progress"
Year: 1872

fort TO grant their requests for water:
Their condition, under the influence OF
their terrible injuries, was fearful to wit
ness, whilst prayers and cries premoni-
tory Of approaching dissolution were here
and there heard After the injured arrived
here death relieved some Of them from
their


TERRIBLE AooSiEs,


while those who were least injured walked
about swathed in bsndages and conversed
freely about tho occurrence OF the night.
The express and baggage car was i"reed
past the broken engine without inJursng
the express messenger or baggage man,
but the smoking car telescoped the second
class car, and the latter going. forward
knocked the safety valve of the boiler
and remained on the top Of the engine, al
lowing the steam to all the second class
car, which was crowded with passengers,
many of them lumbermen On route for
Quebec. The Two Hrst class cars and Pull.
man car we're comparatively uniniured,
and the passengers were transhppsd and
went east this afternoon. :