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Year: 1872

conjurer. The mystery was increased
when Torrini declared that he had full.
hiled his promise, and had only tested
the superiority of the chronometer.


The next day the Pope sent him a
rich diamond snuff.box, with thanks for
the pleasure his performance had af.
forded. His fame was now at its height.
Attracted by the news of his wonderful
exhibition, crowds focked to see the
magician who had accomplished such
marvels. They did not, however, have
the qualification of witnessing the famous
trick of the" broken WATCH" for the
expense OF undertaking an experiment
winch could never again be repeated
under such fave rable auspices, would be
warranted only by the circumstances
which originally brought together the
Pope and the conjurer.-Appleton's
journal.
Year: 1872

| Pianets are continually integrating
diffused materials which they encounter
in their progress through space, and it


has been estimated that the earth adds
to itself nearly one hundred and fifty


billions of such meteoric particles every
year. Secondly, it has been proved that
every planet must be slowly losing a
part of its molar motion of gravitation.


The effect of tidal waves, which are
caused by the gravitation of LIQUID to.
ward other planetary bodies, is to retard
diurnal rotation; and, in fact, the ter.
restrial day is heightened by reason of
the friction of the tides, and is destined
in the remote future sot give abou, 1856
hours between sunrise and sunset,


The earth is also losing molecular mo.
ton by radiation. That some terrestrial
heat is lost without compe asation-and
very slowly, of course-can hardly be
doubted; and for the state of things
thus untimely to be produced we NAV
find parallel in the present condition
Of the moon. That appears to afford
an example of the universal death which
in an inconceivably distant future awaits
the entire solar system. If along with
the dissipation Of the molar and mole
cular motions the planets are also losing
angular velocity, this loss of motion will
ultimately result in their integration
with the sun. Of two facts which bear
upon the subject, one familiar to all
students of science) is the observed re.
tardation of Encke's comet by the re.
sistance of the medium through which
it moves.


The other, which, so far as l know,
has not hitherto been mentioned, is that
all the planets are nearer the sun than
they ought to be, according to Bodies
law, the variation being most conspicu-
GUS, as might be expected, in the case
Of Neptune. 1t is at least worthy of
notice that the discrepancy is such as
might have been caused by slow dimi.
mutton of the angular velocities of the
planets. Another fact, that the inter
planetary spaces are filled with matter,
and that, consequently, all planetary
bodies rushing through them must meet
with resistance and lose momentum,
proves that immense momentum will be
eaten up by the resisting force.


This lo,s of tagential momentum must
bring all the planets into the sun. As
the the planet slowly draws near the
sun its lost tangential momentum is re.
placed, and somewhat more than re.
placed, by the added velocity due to the
increased grayitative force exerted by
the sun at the shorter distance. At the
last the planet must strike the sun with
tremendous force. The heat generated
by the earth and the sun alone in such
q collision would suffice TO produce a
temperature of nearly 5000, 900 degrees
centigrade. or course disintegration
would Immediately follow, and the next
stage is the dissipation of the whole into
pebula.-PreE John Fisks.
Year: 1872

There appears no room fer question.
ing the fact that an animal fattened
quickly makes finer eating than an ami
NAL which has been fattened slowly, OF
which has remained fat for some time.
Tho meat in such cases is sweeter and
juicier, but whether it possesses any
more nutriment is not quite so clear.
There are many people who have had
the privilege of partaking Of the flesh
of prize animals, which had been main
tanned in high condition for a long
time, and they have generally reported
the flesh as hard and tough and proba-
bly, they did not judge it as harshly as
they would have done had they pur-
chased the same 81 cut" from the near.
est butchers stall.


Aside from the matter of quality,
there is q question of economy which is
we'll worth considering. An animal re-
quires certain amount of food daily to
sustain life and supply heat and waste
of tissues. 1t is only the excess of food
over these requirements Of nature which
goes to make fat or increase flesh. A
great deal more food will be required to
make one hundred pounds increase in
the weight of az animal, if thirty days
are taken for it, than il, the feeding
operations are confined to twenty days
and so on. There is W ere many make
. grave mistake. Animals in course Of
preparation for the shambles should
not be stinted in feed. They should be
fed on all they will eat and assimilate
properly. An the more an animal will
eat and properly assimilate in a given
time, the more profitable he will be for
feeding purposes, other things being
equal. The money in feeding is all made
by " fencing" animals to the utmost,
whenever their preparation for the
shambles has been once undertaken
Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1872

1t is easy to understand why Brussels
lace is 80 costly, when we reflect that
the finest specimens of it is SO compli.
Gated as to require the labor of seven
persons on one piece, and each operative
is employed at distinct features OF the
work. The thread used is;of exquisite
fneness, which is spun in dark, under.
ground rooms, where it is sufficiently
moist to prevent the thread from sepa
rating. 1t is so delicate as scarcely to
be seen, and the room is 30 arranged
that the light admitted shall fall upon
the work. 1t is such material that il
renders the genuine Brussels ground SC
costly. On a piece of Valenciennes mol
two inches wide, from two hundred to
three hundred bibbins are sometimes
used and for larger with as many as
eight hundred on the same piece.
Year: 1872

Rev. o. B. rockingham preached to
the Independent Society of New York,
last Sunday morning, on "Visions of
Judgment" The argument of the
speaker was intended 10 show that the
old notions about heaven and hell, such
as obtained with the preachers before
the time OF Luther, were false, and had
been proven to be so, as far as human
faith and belief are concerned, by their
failure to produce any lasting effect on
the minds of the most enlightened peo-
pie. These old theories, the speaker
said, were adopted by the preachers Of
old because they seemed the most
plausible in the eyes of people who be-
lieved absolutely in a place Of eternal
torture. The simplest persons knew
that pain was the most natural kind of
punishment for evil, and pleasure the
most natural reward for goodness. The
Christian leaders therefore had pictures
made claiming to represent the horrible
tortures endured by the wicked after
entering upon eternity, and other pic
lures purporting to represent the bliss.
full joys which awaited the arrival of the
gooi spirits. These pictures, especially
the first kind, were always before the
eyes of the poor pilgrim. They were
hung in the porches of churches, stuck
up on the walls, and they even met the
eyes Of travellers as they crossed over
bridges. These pictures were the pro-
auctions of the most frightful dreams
and horrible imaginations. They repre-
sented the condemned spirits as falling
into dark and bottomless pits, as burn.
ing over the fire, but never burning up
as standing naked in the midst OF a
shower of hot hail, and as being eaten
up by loathsome reptiles. Every nation
had its ideal picture of hell. Some
were worse than others. Most of them
were hot burning places while those oi
the Egyptians and Greeks were, on the
contrary, very frigid. The idea that
heaven. as represented in the pictures
was a place Of constant pleasure, such
as the best amusements ever enjoyed or
earth, only exaggerated by the use o.
bright colors, beautiful forms, Sc. The
preaching of these doctrines undoubt
edly had some effect on the people O
those days, but nothing like the effec
it should nave produced had the peopl,
really believed what was told them
The preachers continue to-day to tall
about place Of eternal punishmen
and torture for all who do not follow tn,
path pointed out by them, but hov
many believe them? If tomorrow j
were known that all the drunkards, al
the prostitutes and all the prostitute
makers would be taken into the publi


square and there whipped there woult
be but small number of such person
to be found tomorrow. But tn


preachers were telling the drunkard
and all other vicious and wicked pei
cons that in short time they wer
going to enter upon an eternal term q
punishment, and still tomorrow bring
as many wicked people as the day b
fore. All the visions Of judgment wer


wrong. The true judgment was tbs
, which comes every day.
Year: 1872

1t is not really well to whip or kick
or scold balky horse. One Of the best
modes is to feed him where he stands
with an accessible food. Forgett ng his
whim, he will generally start without
trouble. Another good way is to do
something not harmful but new as fill
ing his mouth with loose dirt, which q
deaire to get rid of will divert his
thoughts, and before heknows it he will
be jogging unconsciously along. We
have often seen this done with more sat.
isfactory success. Sometimes, if one
can spare the day, it is best TO wait, till
from WEAKNESS and hunger the animal
submits to your will, and the triumph,
in this instance, is generally complete,
journal Of tho Farm.
Year: 1872

States for this district, and tht


money of the General Government


having been entrusted to his keep


ing, it is safe to infer that the State


can repose full confidence in his
honesty to administer the Office oi
Auditor honestly, and to the best
interest Of the whole people Of the
State.


A. p. Field won his election by
hard and assiduous labor. He
made the campaign in person;
marching over the State and BRAY
ing the Democracy in it's stronghold.
As a lawyer, A. P. Field has long
stood at the head Of his profession,
having a practice here as crimi-
nal lawyer which made him famil-
liar with the laws. We know the
Colonel to be man Of large heart,
and he brings to his Office an expert
ence which runs back nearly half a
century.


W. g. Brown, Esq, the superin-
tendent of Public Education, is a
man of color. For a long time edi-
tor of the Lou1s1AN1AS-a paper
published by his race and exercising
a wide infuence-his scholarly ar
ticles have attracted the attention of
the leading journals Of the country,
We have no doubt Mr.. Brown will
laok closely to the interest Of those
who attend the the public schools.
His majority over his competitor,
Mr.. Lusher, is some $4,000, which
in itself is good evidence of his
popularity.


The Presidential Electors are all
men who are respected in this cum
munity. DR.. NJ. F. Bonzano has
devoted q long and useful life to
scientific pursuits, and we unhesi-
tatiugly say that even his political
enemies cannot breathe o word of
reproach against q reputation which
is noted for high and lofty results.


DR.. L. c. Roudanez, who has
been selected to cast the vote of the
State for Grant, is q remarkable
man. Loving freedom, he at his
own expense published in this city
a Republican newspaper for a long
time, when the party was in its in
fancy here. AS a practicing physi-
clan he haa few equals and no !
in our midst, and nothing
but a love Of principal and a feeling
of duty could prompt him to leave
his home for the capital.


The other. gentlement are too
well known to require any more
extended notice.


On the whole we are proud OF
our new State Government and we
know the people will give it a hearty
support upon its Inauguration.
Year: 1872

Most temperaments can bear evils
of magnitude with more patience
than evils that are so small as to be
reckoned among annoyances. A
strong man will endure a fever with
out a murmur, but will fret over a
'corn." A heroic woman finds it
easy to risk her life for the sake of
one whom she loves, but will fly into
a passion at a sour look. Patients
have been known to sit still-before
the era of notwithstanding an
amputation, who could not resist the
bite of a flea or the sting of a mus
quito. Great merthants nave often
calmly endured an entire breakdown
of their fortunes, after exhibiting
the most violent anger over a trifing
loss. In everyday life, important
events seem to bring with them a
power to calm the feelings and hold
them in subiection, while little an
noyances take US unawares and dis
turb us immoderately.


It is not easy to analyze the mind
and heart so as to give reason for all
the shifting phenomena of existence.

There is something great and noble
and enduring in man, and there is
also something small and mean and
cowaTdly. Whatever appeals to our
better nature is sure to be entertain
ed with becoming cOmposure and
dignity Whatever strikes our weak
side arouses our selhshness and caus-
es a pitiful display of idiosyncracy
Man faces the heavens, but stands
upon the earth. The petty annoy
ances of life reveal us to ourselves
and others, not in our high estate, as
looking upward and forward, but in
our low state.


So far as our human happiness is
concerned, our we'll being does not
| depend so much on our depOrtme ent
in the midst Of great events, as on
our patience In managing the num-
berless and nam eless trlfes, the mi
croscopic atoms of existence.
Year: 1872

Professor Bottomly of GLASGOW


University, ia a recent lecture to his


class, placed lump of ice as Iaroe
as an apple on a piece of wire eauze.


and on this a board weighing twelve
pounds. Before the conclusion of
the lecture, a considerable quantity
Of ice was found on the lower side of
the gauze, firmly united to that above
though apparently forced through
the meshes in a room at Is deg. @.
(59 deg. Z. In a second experiment
he placed a block of ice on two par
allel boards near together, passed a
a loop of wire over the ice, and hung
weights on the ends. Various sizes
OF wire were tried, and in the final
experiment a wire One-tenth of an
inch in diameter was used, weight
ed with 56 pounds. 1t passed en-
tirely through the block of ice, and
fell on the floor; but this block of ice
though the plain Of passage was
clearly marked, was not divided, nor
could it be split IN this plane with
knife or chisel.


This remarkable result he explains
to be a consequence of Thompson's
theory of regulation. The stress
upon the ice, due to the pressure of
the wire, gives it a tendency to melt
at the point in contact with the wire,
and the ice, in the form of water in
termixed with fragments and new
CRYSTALS, moves SO as to removes it
self of pressure. As soon as any
portion of the mass is thus relieved,
freezing takes place through it, be-
cause its temperature is reduced be-
low that of the freezing point of wa
ter at ordinary pressures, by melt
ing contiguous parts. The obvious
tendency of the ice under the pres
sure from above is thus, by a series
of MEETINGS and refreezings, to allow
the passage of the wire and yet re-
mains a solid block.
Year: 1872

Some persons fall discouraged On
the highway of lie, because they
cannot be this or that great or emil
neut person. Why not be willing to
be themselves? No person who ever
lived, or ever viii live, is without in
huence. Why not make the most of
that? Since you cannot grasp that
which you wish, why let that which
you have slip through your fingers?
No person in the world is just exact
ly like you You have yOur own
faults, but you have also your own
ezcellences individual to yourself
Give them air. Because you are not
a poet, should you not be n good
merchant? Because you cannot go
to college, should you, therefore, for
swear the alphabet? Because You
cannot build a palace, should you
not rejoice IN your own humble roof,
and that because It Is your own:
VIII not the sun shine into your
window if yOu do not obstinately
persist in shutting 1t out? lfyou can
not have d whole hot-house full o.
flowers, may you not have one sweet
rose?
Year: 1872




Josh Billings begins one his Of his
sententient bits of philosophy son
The half-shell' with the somewhat
abrupt but highly forcible remark,
''I hate hize." Doubtless all Of us
share his aversion, and repeat his
truism every day during their season in
some other language; but sill the
little pests are queer creatures, and
are worthy of a great deal of study.
We can now here find better type
of a perfectly free creature than a
common house fly. Not free only,
but brave and irreverent to a degree
which l think no republican could
by any philosophy exalt himself to.
There is no courtesy in him; he does
not care whether it is king or Gown
whom he teases; and in every step
of his swift mechanical n arch, and
In every pause of his resolute aber-
ration, there is one and the same ex-
preston of perfect egotism, perfec-
independence, sef-conhdence, and
convection In the worlds having been
made for flies. Strike at him with
your hand; and TO him the immedi-
ate fact and external aspect of the
matter is what to you it would be if
any acre of clay ten feet thick, twist
cd itself up from the ground in one
massive field, hovered over you for a
second, and came crashing down
with an aim. This is the external
aspect of it; the inner aspect to his
fly mind is of quite natural and IN
important occurrence-one of the
momentary conditions of his active
life. He steps out of the way of your
hand and ahghts on the back of it.
You cannot terrify him, nor govern
him, nor persuade him, nor convince
him. No insect IN the world is la
zier. He is the aristOcrat that eats
what others produce. He has no
work to do, no tyranical instinct to
obey. The earth worm has his Dig
gings, the bee her gathering and her
building, the spider her cunning net
work, the ant her treasury and ac-
count, all these are comparatively
slower, or people of only business.
But your fly, tree in the air, free in
the chs mber, black incarnation of
caprice, wandering, investigating,
fitting, feasting at his will, with rich
variety of choice in feast, from the
heaped up sweets in the grocer's
window to those of the butchers
backyard, from the CALLED place on
your cab horses back to the brown
spot in the road, from which as the
hCofs disturbs he rises with any re-
publican buzz-what freedom like
this2
Year: 1872

This question has never been sat
isfactolily answered by geologists
They can see as far into the mill
stone as anybody, but where the
great depot or quarry from whence
The gold comes that has been rasped
off in paI tieles and thrown toward
the surface to be rolled in the sand
by the action Of rlnning water or
caught as prisoners in quartz rock,
while that was eitl er held in solu-
ton or in the condition of pulveriza-
ton, is the problem.


Occasionally such enormous mug
gets are found, quite solitary; 1t
seems to indicate there were broken
off from large mass somewhere and
driven away III torrent of gravel
whose onward upward force was IL
resistable till it met with the coun-
ter current.


That cid theory which supposed
the precious metal was existing in
combination with others in a gaseous
form and occasionally precipi ated
by electricity into lum ps which work
ed their way like Inoies from the in
terror through strata Of the earth 5
compact crust, is now quite obsolete.
An impression is gaining advocates
that gold does actually exist in great
bodies, somewhere, not very far
down, from whence fragments and
particles are gradually brought up
by aquatic agency. This gives a
more reasonable explanation Of the
diffusion Of gold in small-parcels all
over the globe.
Year: 1872

A Georgian was recently bit in
the forehead by a moccasin snake,
coilee iu a bucket out Of which he
attempted to drink The mans
head swelled TO an enormous size,
but two quarts Of whislIey were
poured down him, and he will get
well.
Year: 1872

Old dame: Now, Jennie, if you
wash up your dishes, make the room
tidy, get through your work early,
and are a very good girl, perhaps
as a treat I'll let you go and see old
Butcher Brisket buried this after
noon.
Year: 1872

The fumes of carbolic acid
will kill the worm in the throat
of the chicken that produces
the gapes. Place few drops
of the acid in q spoon hold
the spoon over a lighted can
die until the vapor is seen to
rise, when the head of the
young chicken, held in the
other hand, may be placed in
the vapor which it is thus
forced to inhale. Care should
be taken not to continue the
progress too long, until the
fowl as well as the worm is
killed. A few moments will
suffice. Carbolic acid can be
procured at any drug store.


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Year: 1872

TuE ARMs-IHvEsTIGATISG COMMITTEE or
RaniEed yesterday by the appointment oil
senator HAmlin as chairman. Senators Sum
nor and schurE will be Invited to appear be-
fore the committee and tell all that they know,
Year: 1872

Men and women, and especially
young people, do not know that It
takes years to marry completely two
hearts, even of the most loving and
well sorted But nature allows no
sudden change. Wc slope very grad.
ually from the cradle to the summit
of life. Marriage is gradual, frac-
tion of US at time. A happy wed.
lock is long falling in love. / know
young persons think love belongs only
to brown hair, and plump, round,
crimson cheeks. So it does for its be-
ginning, just as Mt. Washington be-
gins at Boston Bay. But the golden
marriage is part Of love which the
bridal day knows nothing of. Youth
is the tassel and silken flower of love,
age is the full corn, ripe and solid in
the ear. Beautiful is the morning of
love with its prophetic crimson, violet,
purple and gold, with its hopes Of
days that are to come. Beautiful also
is the evening OF love, with its glad
rcmcmbrances, and its rainbow side
turned toward heaven as well as earth
Young people marry their oppostes in
temper and general character, and
such marriage is commonly good
match. They do it instinctivcly.-
The young man does not say, "my
black eyes require TO be wed with blue
and my over vohomcnce requires to
be little modified with somewhat of
dullness and reserve" When these
oppositos come together to be wed,
they do not know it, but each thinks
the other just like himself Our pco-
Pile never marry their opposite; they
marry their similars, and from calcu.
lation. Each Of these two arrange.
ments is very proper. In their long
journey,theso young opposites will fall
out by the way great many times,
and both get away from tho road but
each will charm tho other back again;
and by and by they will be agreed as
to the place they will go and the road
they will go by, aud become recon.
ciled. The man will be nobler aud
larger for being associated with so
much humanity unlike himself, and
she will be noblcr woman for hav.
ing manhood beside her, that seeks to
correct her deficiencies and supply
her with what sho lacks, if the diver
sity be not too great, and there be real
pioty and love in their hearts to begin
with. The old bridegroom, having n
much shorter journey TO make, must
associate himself with one like him.
self. A perfect and complete mar
riage is, perhaps, as rare as perfect
personal beauty. Men and women
are married fraclionally now a small
fraction, then largo fraction. Very
few are married totally, and they only


think, after some forty or fifty years
of gradual approach and experiment


Such large and sweet fruit is com.
pletc marriage, that il needs very


long summer 20 ripen, and then q
long winter TO mellow and season in


But real happy marriage Of love and
judgment, between a noble man and


woman, Is one of tho things 40 very


handsome, that IL the sun wero, as The


Greek poets fablod, god, hc nigh


stop tho world 10 order TO feast hii


eyes with such spectacle 7neodor'
! Parker.