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Year: 1873

The rom intic incident of the Alta tic dis
aster has been the discovery that one of the
men, a common sailor, and one whose life
was sacrificed in efforts to save others, was
a young woman of about twenty Or twenty
five years of age. Her sex was not known
until the body was washed ashore and thr
rude clothing removed preparatory for bur-
ial. She had served as common sailor foe
three voyages, and was favorite shipmate
with all. She is described as having fewer of
the vices incident to sailor life than is
usual, but she was, nevertheless, as jolly an
old tar as any Of them. One of the survivor.
of the crew, in speaking of her, remarked,
II didn't know Bill was a woman. He
used to take his liquor as regular as any OF
us, aud was always begging and stealing
toba co. He was good fellow, though, and
| am sorry he is a woman The most sin.
gular part of the whole story is that the wo-
man was an American. and was about the
only one of that nationality belonging to the
crew. Who she was and where she came
from, and her motive for leading such q
strange life Of hardship, never was and nevsl
will be fully known.
Year: 1873

As to the Poleris, it seems to be but an
act OF prudence to despatch vessel to her
IeIei, at least as far as .Upernayick, there to
await tor a time her possible arrival, and
should she not appear within reasonable
Time to 90 in search of her as far as Whale
Sound, at the mouth Of which is NOrthum-
oerland Island, where she was last seen. 1t
seems to me that the chief reason for appre-
hensloh regarding her is the fact that she is
lett without boats, and should any accident
tappen TO the ship the crew are without re
sources, unless by breaking up they can
build boat. Unfortunately, too, all the
dogs, eleven in number, were on the ice, and
had to be shot afterwards for want of food.
lhe want of them will be severely felt by
IN Load a,ro of ico ionrnaus
Year: 1873

1t is wrong to eat without an appe-
tite, for it shows there is no gastric
juice in the stomach, and that nature
does not need food, and not needing it,
there being no fluid to receive and act
upon it, it remains there only to putri-
fy, the very thought of which should
be sufficient to deter any man from
eating without an appetite for the re-
mainder Of his life. If a tonic is taken
to whet the appetite it is mistaken
course, for its only result is to cause
one to eat more, when already an a
mount has been eaten beyond what the
gastric juice is able to prepare.


The object to be obtained is larger
supply of gestric juice, pot a.larger sup
ply of food and whatever fails to have
any efficiency toward the cure of dys-
peptic diseases. The formation of gas
trio juice is directly proportioned to
the wear and tear of the system, which
is to be the means of supplying, and
this wear and tear can only be the re-
suit of exercise. The efficient remedy
for dyspepsiais work-out-door work
beneficial and successful in direct pro-
portion as it is agreeable, interesting
and proftable.-H0lps Journal of
Health,
Year: 1873

Better to wear calico dress without
trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe
the shop-keeper for the most elegant
silk, cut and trimmed in the most be-
witching manner.


Better to live in log cabin all your
own, than a brown stone mansion be-
longing to some one else.


Better walk for ever than run in
debt for horse and carriage.


Better to sit by pine table for which
yUrs r'.ssi,tlaaaa r, dollars ten years ago,
than send home a new exttens;;ot, hlaeR
walnut top, and promise to pay for it
next week.


Better to-. use the old cane-seated
chairs and faded two-ply carpet, than
tremble at the bills sent home from
your upholsterers for the most ele-
CANT parlor set ever made.


Better meet your business acq1aint-
ance with free don't owe you cent,
smile, than to dodge around the cor
ner to escape dun.


Better to pay the street organ grin
der two cents for music, if you must
have it, than to owe for a grand piano.


Better gaze upon bare walls than
pictures unpaid for.


Better eat shin soup from earthen-
ware, you owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and roast beef,
and know that it is not paid for.
Year: 1873

In every seed (says Prof. Tyndall to
the children) there is a tiny plant con-
sisting of root, stem and two leaves,
surrounded by dry, starchy matter.
You may see this for yourselves if you
soak a morning glory seed in hot wa
ter. The dry, black hull grows soft,
swells, and presently two little leaves
appear. If you open the seed careful
ly, you will find the tiny root and the
starchy matter soften by the heat into
jelly. Now, I will tell you what that
starch is for. Little plants have to eat
in order to grow big, just as children
do; the difference being that plants
have mouths all over them, and eat all
the time. When you SOW seed, the heat
and moisture of the earth soften the
dry starch into a jelly, then into a
milky liquid; this the plant in the seed,
root, leaves and all, drinks up. So much
food causes the leaves to grow too big
and their stem too long for the seed to
hold them; so they burst the hull, and
keep on drinking and growing until
they push their way into the air. In
the same manner, the root works it's
way into the ground. By the time all
the liquid has been drunk, another leaf
has unfolded, and shoot has branch
ed off from the root. So now you see
why the starch was in the seed. It
was to feed the plant until it was
strong enough to obtain food for itself
the roots from the earth, and the
leaves from the sun and air. The rea-
son, too, for its being hard, and unfit
to eat until softened in the ground, is
that the plant may be kept from try
ing to, grow at the wrong time-as
when you store it away in the winter.


$50, this is the way, children" con-
cludes the Professor, "that the seed
you now put in the ground grows into
a big plant that bears flowers in the
summer, in which there are other seeds
with plants in the them for you to
sow next year"


g What wonderful thing love is
to woman! How it helps her to know
that some one is always fond of her ;
that rejoices when she rejoices and sor-
rows when she grieves; to be sure that
her faults are loved, and that her face
is fairer, to one, at least, than faces
that are far more beautiful-that one
great heart holds her sacred in it's in
nermost recesses above all women
She can do anything, be anything, suf-
fer anything, thus upheld. She grows
prettier under the sweet influence,
brighter, kinder, stronger; and life
seems but a foretaste of heaven, and all
of her dreams are gold.


s~"O, ma," said a little girl who
had been to the show, GIVE seen the
elephant, and he walks backward, and
! eats with his tall
Year: 1873

RBA lady dealer in hair goods Down
East heads her advertisement in the
local newspaper with this travesty by
DR.. Watts:


GLOW vain are all things here below


How false and yet how fair!


But if for false things you will CO.


Invest at once in hairr'
Year: 1873

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. q, 1873.
Divers report that there are only few small
holes in the bottom of the Costa Rca. She lies on
sold rock has not changed her position and Is not
broken. Efforts will be made to close up the holes
from the inside, to pump the water out OF the
hold and float the vessel OF. Most of the cargo
was taken out In O damaged condition.
Year: 1873




"And if the Representatives of Kent and Sus.
sex refuse to make such surrender what are our
New Castle county or Wilmington friends going
10 10 10 about it-how can they help themselves -
we nave no desire 10 dictate in this matter, and
could not, If we would, on the contrary shall be
satlsned with the decision ofthe people, whatever
IL may be, whenever 1t can have full and fair
expression"


We thank our contemporary for the pleasant
and agreeble manner in which it comes down 10
the point Of being satisfied with the decision of
the people"


But its question "what are our New Castle
county or Wilmington friends going TO do about
h-how can they help themselves? ?" is little on
the sarcastic.


We really do not know ''what we are going 10
do about it," But we would remind our friends
that we are still growing; and some day we ex-
Pect TO be 60 tall that all Kent and Sussex will
not be able to reach to our pockets, or be strong
enough TO tax penny out therefrom without
our consent. And the very fact that both parties
in Kent and susse8combine to keep US out of
fair and just representation may produce similar
results in New Castle county A good MANY
things might be done after a while that it would
not be worth while now to mention. With
strength, justice and right all on one side it will
not do for weakness, error and oppesslon, to pro-
pound such question and not expect an answer
in sOrne shape that win be eGectual.
Year: 1873

FROM CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BOSTON
JOURNAL.


Bellows Falls, Sept, 1873.


Now that the railroad goes everywhere,
New England towns may be divided in
to two classes-those that are visited
and those that are passed through Bel.
lows Falls belongs to the latter class.
With railroads spreading fan-like above
and below, vast tide of travel is daily
gathered from Southern New England
and New York, and poured through this
defle to be scattered throughout all the
North and West meeting like returning
tide from these quarters. No traveller
passes through Bellows Falls without
some awakening of interest, for prosaic
as our American people are, they are
not insensible to marked beauty of seen
cry, and few can behold cataract and
hear the dash of waters without a leap
ing of the heart. The glory of motion,
the splendor of light, the melody of
sound are combined in it, and none can
resist this triple appeal of nature to their
senses. The tourist drops his newspaper,
catches one glimpse of the frowning cliff
above, and of the boiling torrent below
and passes on. But little does he know
of the beautiful village spread on the
plateau above, or of the enchanting
roads that lead from it up and down the
valley and through the defiles of the
hills, or of the wild play of the waters as
they rush down their rocky and tortu-
Gus path. We are of those who did not
pass through, but stopped We came in
search of GOODNESS, and if we do not find
it our love of company makes US glad
that the misery prevails wherever the
weather probabilities are gathered up.
But with the cliff rising a thousand feet
against the sunrise and holding the
shadows till almost midday, and the
Connecticut dashing its waters down fif-
ty feet of rocky descent, and fresh
breeze drawing through this grand gorge
redolent with the pines of Ascutney. it
matters little what the thermometer
says. 1t is cool to the Imagination if
not to the senses, and in the exercise of
this faculty does the pleasure seeker
most realize his search.


As we sit upon the piazza of the Is
land House and look up and down the
valley in which it seems stationed as
sentry, we fancy it as it would be we're
we in Europe instead of America. and
were the Connecticut the Rhine.


Yonder cliff would be an Ehrenbreit-
stein, followed with chambers and man.
tied with cannon. Below would be the
ruins of medieval castles. Above and
below, the valley would stretch away in
to terraced vinyards, while each over
hanging rock and waterfall would tell
tale of tragic adventure the mist that
rises from the torrent would be wreathed
into the ghost of some medieval maid
Year: 1873

Don't crowd, your world is broad enough
For you as we'll as me;
The doors of art are open wide
The realm of thought is free.
In all earths places you are right
TO chase the best you can
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other man.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart,
By fostering all that's bad.
But give to every virtue room
The best that may be had;
Be each days record such one
Thaty you may we'll be proud,
Give each his right-give each his room.
And never try to crowd.


Charles Dickens.
Year: 1873

The President and the Chief Justice


ship.


The determination Of President Grant to
leave the name of Attorney General Williams
for the Chief Justiceship before the Senate
until the nominee shall be rejected or con-
frmed is repeated from Washington. It is
natural enough that the President should take
this position. He probably regards Mr. VIII
liams as . lawyer Of respectable ability; he
certainly knows him to be o serviceabie pohh-
cal friend. Looking upon the Supreme Court
Of the United States only as one of the most
valuable sources of reward at his command,
the President does not understand why he
should be prescribed from bestowing its rich
est position upon one of his most faithful
servitors. But Senators Of the United States
at present owe allegiance to the people, not to
the President. 1t is their duty to reject all
improper nominees for public offices. Espe-
cially is it their duty to prevent the degrada-
ton Of the Supreme Court. While they may
excuse the obs6nacy with which the soldier
President adheres to his unfortunate selection,
they could not justify their own confirmation
of Chief Justice whose elevation to the i'm
portant Office would be disgrace and peril
to the nation.
Year: 1873

A most startling inquiry has recently been
raised in England regarding new theory of
the cause of deviation in the mariners CON-
pass. Not long since writer in the
Nautical Magazine, very high authority on
marine matters, advanced some remarkable
facts, going to show that in iron steamships
one hitherto unsupported source of magnetic
deviation arises from the effects of unequal
and varying distribution of heat over the
metallic hull. He illustrated his meaning by
citing the case of an iron steamship going up
the Red Sea, which had the rays Of blazing
sun impinging on one side of her hull in the
morning and on the other side in the evening,
the effect being a very marked difference in
the morning and evening deviation. Again
is cited the case of an iron steamship making
q passage from Liverpool to New York. and,
when in the alternate bands Of tepid Gulf
Stream and frigid Polar water, between
Georges and Nantucket, with about thirty
fathoms of shoal water, the master found
compass alteration of ten degrees. A
similar deviation has been observed on board





shining powerfully on one side of the ship
and the other has been shaded. An expert
ment in thermal electricity shows that if
different parts of a metallic bar be un-
equally heated, or if one part be cooled
by application of ice and the other
heated by spirit lamp, the electric current is
set up; and the quantity of electricity excited
is proportionate, not to the absolute heat COM
municated, but to the difference of tempera-
ture in different parts of the body. But, as
yet, no experiments have been conducted to
test the correctness of this novel view, and to
determine how far, if at ALL under the condi-
tions named, the magnetic guide of the sea-
man may lead him ruinously astray


Not strange to say, the writer of the article,
who modestly suggested merely putting his
views and deductions to crucial test, has
been sharply overhauled for his presumption
in proposing such magnetic inquiry The
venerable head Of the Admiralty Compass De-
partment severely crihcises him on the ground
that his own observations have brought no
such result to light and disInisses the theory
as not holding water. But, despite the weight
of such high authority, the facts stated and
their consonance with known law Of thermo-
electricity, as well as the difficulty Of explain
ing many compass deviations in iron ships
upon any principle heretofore propounded by
scientists, warrant and demand some satisfac-
tory, if not exhaustive, experiments TO decide
the question at issue.
Year: 1873

THE SoUTH, TILE WEST AND THE REpUBLI-
CAN PARTY We are informed from Washing
ton that the republicans of the South are
indignant at the milk and water course
of the administration in the Virginius affair;
that they are moving for q new organiza-
ton looking ont for the dominant party Of
the future, and that they will probably
unite with the grangers on new depar-
ture that wide-awake and progressive re-
publicans are freely discussing the short
cornings and the blunderseof the admnistra-
ton party and its bungling in the State elec-
tons Of last October and November and that
the plain men of the party from the rural dis
tricts are disgusted with the silly working Of
civil service reform. In q word, the cohesive
power of the republican party as the party Of
the administration, is broken, the work of
disintegration in the party has commenced,
and from all the signs Of the times the party
of the future that will next come to the front
will begin to crop out boldly in the West and
South in the elections Of 1874 for the next
Congress.
Year: 1873

PhEssunE. All the surface indications are
that there is no pressure. There never were
so many splendid shops in this city, and
they never did in any season SO swarm with
busy buyers; never were the shops better sup
piled with temptingly displayed commodities,
and never apparently was money more readily
forthcoming. Recovery from the consequences
of financial trouble seems to be general, and
while the vail of the wounded by the great
catastrophe fingers in the air the public at
large has crept out of the extensive ruin and
is so busy with new endeayors that IL has for
| gotten all about the late collapse.
Year: 1873

The recent tidings of South African gold
discoveries furnished by our Natal CORE
spondent bear strong internal evidence of
boldt first pointed out the striking geo
logical fact that the gold bearing fields are
found in mountains having northerly and
southerly trend. So far in the history of gold
discovery this geological rule has held good,
as seen in the auriferous regions of the Ural,
Australia, the Alleghanies and that long band
Of gold which threads the continuous Andean,
Isthmian and Rocky Mountain chains, from
Patagonia to California, q distance Of six thou
sand statute miles. ALI Of these richly stored
chains, it will be observed, have no east and
west trend but from southeast to northwest or
from southwest to northeast, as in the Austria
liam Blue Mountains and Australian Alps.
The largest gold nugget ever seen was OBJ
tanned from the latter, and weighed one hun
dred and eighty-four pounds and sold for
over ten thousand pounds sterling; and it ap-
pears from our correspondents information
the gold bearing reefs Of the Transvaal Re-
public have the same geological and geographic
position as those Of the Australian mines. This
circumstance, if alone, would give credibility
to the accounts Of profitable 'gold reefs" in
this long shut up land Of the African. The
specimens of the quartz from the vicinity Of
Marabastadt ought to settle the question be-
yond all doubt, for the geologist is now able to
predict quite correctly from the nature Of the
quartz, and even the associated rocks whether
the precious metal is near by. This was
actually done in 1S40 when Count Strzelech
ascended the sienitic dome Of Mount Kos
cuisko, in Southeastern Australia. He sub
mitted specimens of the rocks he had
collected in his wanderings to Sir Rod
erick Murchison, and that sagacious scien-
tist, perceiving their correspondence with
those Of the auriferous Ural mountains,
announced the existence Of the Australian
gold mines some time before their ac-
tual discovery. The outcome from this scien-
tifc forecast was illustrated at the Interna-
tional Exposition at London in 1862 by a
pyramidal trophy representing the quantity Of
which was eight hundred tons in weight and
one hundred and four million six hundred
and forty-nine thousand pounds sterling in
value


Such an enormous yield may lie in the
stores of the South African mountains, wait
ing only the axe and pick of the pioneer and
digger. If, as seems probably true alluvial
gold has been extensively discovered in the
Leydenburg district, the mysterious Ell Do
RADIO may yet be realized in that far-of, but
not inhospitable, cline.


One thing, however, should surely damp
the ardor Of any adventurer who would go
forth, as so many went to California, alone
and moneyless. The machinery necessary
for extracting the shining metal must be
transported over great distances and at
great cost, and the solitary miner, unless he
can afford to wait a long time for his harvest
must undergo great perils and hardships. For
large moneyed corporations and companies
the prospect is very bright for an abundant
gold crop if they can put their faith and funds
into it.
Year: 1873

SENIOR ZULUETA ON SLAVERY IN CUBA -
Elsewhere we give an interesting report of
conversation on the subject Of slavery in
Cuba, with Sehor Zulueta, the great man Of the
Havana Casino and the owner OF twenty-five
hundred slaves. II appears from the views Of
this gentleman that tho rich shareholders Of
the island ore willing to face the possibility Of
heavy loss to get rid Of the moral odium Of
the institution; that they expect no indemnity


from Spain. and count upon the necessity Of
facing eyeptpallY not only the loss Of the
Year: 1873

Affairs IN spain-Thc Cariists Still I'm


the Field.


Spanish affairs do not indicate many en-
couraging signs OF Improvement Cartagena
still holds out; and, although we are now told
that General Dominguez is making active pre-
parations for an assault it is not impossible
that the rebel city may defy the national gov
ernment for months to come. In almost any
other country the town would have been taken
by storm long ago. But there seems to be no
soul in the Spanish armies. The soldiers
will not fight This is just as apparent in
the Army Of the North as in the Army of the
Southeast According to one of our latest
dispatches the republican forces under the
command Of General Moriones are surrounded
By thirty thousand Carlists, and oil way Of
escape except by sea is cut off, Steamers, it
is said, have been sent to San Sebastian to
take on board the retreating troops. 1t is
quite possible that this news is a little too
highly colored; but that there is some good
foundation for the report we have no justi-
fable reason to doubt. For some time past
we have heard but little Of the Carlists. The
silence has been almost ominous. If there be
any truth in the above report, it is quite clear
that the Carlists during these weeks of quiet
have not been idle. The presumption is that
while we were led to believe that they were
broken up and dispersed they were concen-
trating their strength. With thirty thousand
soldiers at his back Don Carlos ought not to
have much difficulty in forcing his way to the
Spanish capital
Year: 1873

JAY COOKIES ACCOUNTS We published a
few days since the complete list Of the cred
itors Of Jay Cooke g. Co., and to-day we give
in part the natural pendant to that document
in q statement Of the assets of that house
In the light of these documents the world of
financial readers will find much assistance for
full comprehension of the consequences of
that great collapse
Year: 1873

whole slave property. but also the loss of the
decrease in production, and that they will
accept q system of gradual emancipation by
an apprenticeship of ten years, and will en-
deavor during that period to substitute for
Sambo the Heathen Chinee.