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Year: 1872

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From the THtusriAe Courier.


Unquestionably this gas well, which was
recently struck ea the Nelson farm, an ac-
count Of which we gave the other day, isthe
most wonderful phenomena of the kind
in this country. Some of our exchanges
seem to think our description exaggera-
ted, hence, as it was given On hearsay,
evidence, We were not certain that it
might not have been. To solve this prob
lem, and demonstrate by personal inquiry
whether our informant had drawn On his
Imagination for his facts" or on his
"facts for his imagination" we Yesterday
drove over and interviewed the noisy
monster ourself The location is about
six miles from the city, on the road to
Spring creek. Long before we reached
it, its location was ascsrtaiBed Sy rush
ing noise, sounding precisely like huge
steam boiler blowing of. When We reach
ed the lane leading from the main road
to the well the escaping gas, as it rushed
from four three and quarter inch pipes,
could be plainly dcernaole. 1t had tho
appearance precisely like discharge from
boiler in which the steam had been run
up to its full capacity previous to blow
ing OH. Every step nearer increased tho
internal din, and when we reached its i'm
mediate proximity the impression upon
the ears became painful, and onpei!ed
US to resort to filing the ori6ce with a
handkerchief in order to prevent injury
to the tympanum. Conversation was im-
possible. Our companion essayed to try
his voice, but it was blank failure. We
saw the lips move, but as far as sound,
they had no more effect than they would
beneath the seething waters of Niagara.
After seeing and hearing their noisy Won
der OF the oil region, we are not surpris-
ed that the cattle in the vicinity gave it
a wide berth, and that it has been found
necessary to dismiss the school in the
nelghborhood, some three quarters of
mile away. The query agitating those
who have visited the well is, what shall
be done with it? If there were any as
suranee that the volume of gas now es
Gaping would keep up, it would be good
speculation to convey it in pipes to the
city to DO used in light and heat for
there is certainly enough gas escaping
aud going to waste not only to light every
house in Titusville, but also heat the
same and furnish fuel for all the steam
engines running in the city. This may
appear an extravagaut estimate, but let
any practical engineer examine it and we
think he will agree that We are not 'pil-
ling 1t on too thick" but on the contrary,
that the half has not been told We un-
derstand the well is in sixty feet of the
most promising third sand yet discovered.
1t this is so, we may look for the opening
of new oil field in that vicinity in very
short time.
Year: 1872

Many a man is rich without money
Thousands of men with nothing 10 their
pockets are rich. A man born with a
good constitution, good stomach, good
heart, and good limbs, and pretty good
head. piece, is rich. Good bones are bet
ter than gold tough muscles better than
silver and nerves that fash fire and carry
energy to every function, are better than
houses or land. 1t is better than land


ed estate to have the right kind Of father
aud mother. Good breeds and bad breeds
exist among men as really as among herds
and horses. Education may do much to
check evil tendencies or to develop good
ones; but it is greater thing to inherit
the right proportion of faculties to start
with The man is rich who has good
disposition-who is naturally kind, hope


full patient, cheerful, and who has flower
of wit and fun in his composition. The
hardest thing to get on with in this life
is mans own self. A cross, selfish fellow,
desponding and complaining fellow, a
timid and care. .burdened man, these are
all born deformed on the inside. Their
feet do not limp, but their thoughts do.
Year: 1872

There is not one single advantage to be
claimed 10 favor Of big hogs. There was
a monster hog which did not make the
man who raised him pay for every pound
he weighed They do not furnish an
ounce of meat gratis, bat charge full price
for every atom of their carcass. When
slaughtered, it takes a long time to get
one cool to the marrow in the bone, and
then when the hams are put IN salt, 1T is
troublesome to finish them to the centre.
Four hundred pounds live weight is as
large as hogs should be 10 order to make
good bacon. Beyond this size there is a
loss somewhere. Either the feeder,
butcher or consumer is cheated, and as
general thing every one who has anything
to do with the big hog will fnd, if he OBJ
serves closely, that they are not so profit
able as the smouth, nice hogs of only $50
pounds weight. A small head, with little,
upright ears, and legs and ears delicate
to perfection, arc marks which indicate
the greatest amount of food consumed ;
and it will always draw more readily the
attention Of every butcher.
Year: 1872

Geo. NJ. Mead states his experience
with toads in the Ohio Farmer. Unless
their skin is broken they are perfectly
harmless. They will eat any bug but
the potato bug.


In Pitts6eld, Mass, had an uncle,
one Of the finest gardeners in the town,
and he, to the NO little amusement Of
friends, used to pick up those veuomous
tosds in his hands, Whenever he could fiud
nice fat ones, carry them home, and put
them in his garden to catch the bugs
aud worms He said to me one day ::
"They will become quite tame if you pet
them little" I thought that a little
singular, but concluded to try it. When
1 went home [ found one in the shed
close to the kitchen and commenced. At
frst caught bug or fly and stood as
far of as could and dropped it down
in front of my pet. l did not have long
so wait, for the bug had hardly dropped
before he disappeared. Each day 1 went
to see and feed him, and went up closer,
until ne got so tame that he would at any
time take bug or fly out of my fingers
then began to handle him, and il
CHANGED to move him from his nice little
corner he would 60 back there aud seem
to wait for me to come and see him.


DR.. Harris said twenty years ago that
he supposed the odor of the squash bug
(corcus Tristis) would protect it from
the toad and to test the matter he, offer.
cd one to grave. looking Bufo under a
cabbage. He seized it eagerly, but spit
it out instantly, reared up on his hind
legs and put his front feet on the top of
his head for an instant, as if in pain, and
then disappeared across the garden in a
series of the greatest leaps toad ever
made. Perhaps the bug bit the bitter.
Not satisfied with his, DIR. H. hunted up
another toad, which lived under the
piazza, and always summed himself in one
place in the grass, and offered him a
squash bug, which he took and swallowed,
winking in very satisfied manner
Twenty other fine bugs followed the first,
in few moments, with no difficulty or
hesitation in the taking or the swallowing,
though from the wriggling and contor.
tions it appeared their corners did not set
we'll within. The stock of bugs being
then exhausted, q colony of smooth, black
larvae was found on a white birch, each
about three-quarters of an inoh long. and
over 100 of these were fed to the waiting
toad Touching one of them with the
end of straw, it would coil around it,
and them when shaken before him he
would seize and swallow it, at first eagerly,
but with diminished zest as the number
increased, until it became necessary to
rub the worm against his lips for some
time before he could decide about it. He
would then take it and sit with his lips
ajar for short time, gathering strength
aud resolution, and then swallow by a
desperate effort. There is no telling
what the number or result would have
been. as the dinner-be rang as the l0lst
disappeared, and by the close of the meal
he had retired to his hole, nor did he ap.
pears for four day nj his summing place
1t is to be hoped that he slept well, but
there might have been Nightmares.
Year: 1872

INVENTIVE: A man in Delaware hav.
ing heard that the earth revolves at the
rate of one thousand miles an hour, has
arranged plan for going up in a balloon
aud remaining stationary while the earth
is permitted to slide away beneath. He
thinks that by this means he can reach
California in a couple of hours merely by
shooting mp from Wilmington in his bal
loon, and then dropping down again as
soon as the Rocky Mountains are observ-
ed to go past He has the whole thing
arranged now in perfect order-the bal
loon aud the place to start from, and his
map, and so forth-so that the scheme
cannot possibly fail and all he wants to
make the thing complete is to fnd some.
thing to tie the balloon to in order to
hold it still while it is up in the air.
Year: 1872

If you have been pickeling or handel
ing acid fruit and have stained your
hands, wash them 10 clear water, wipe
them lightly and while they are yet moist
strike match and shut your hands around
it SO as to catch the smoke, and the stains
will disappear.


If you have stained your muslin or
gingham dress, or your white pants, with
berries, wetting the cloth with anything
else, pour boiling water through the stains
and they will disappear, Before fruit
juice dries in can often be removed by
cold water, using sponge or fowl, if me-
cessary. Rubbing the fingers with the
inside of the pariugs of apples, will re-
move most of the stain caused by pairing.


lux also, if it be washed out, or sop
ped up from the carpet, with cold water
Immediately when it is spilled, can be al
most entirely removed.
Year: 1872

For good home made disinfectant
dissolve bushel of salt in a barrel of
water, aud with the water slack a barrel
OF lime, which should be wet enough to
form kind of paste. For the purpose
of disiniectant, this home made chloride
of lime is nearly as good as that pur-
chased at the shops and drug stores. Use
it freely abont sinks, collars, cutters and
out houses, and in this way prevent sick
ness aud expense.
Year: 1872

Speaking of the wheat crop in Delaware
and Maryland, the Wilmington Con,
n,erciat says From every section Of the
Peninsula the grain is reported to be
unusually large and plump, and better
quality than has been produced for years
The crop Of straw is light, but this is of
little moment. There is a sufficient
abundance Of it for farm purposes, and
more, in all probability, than will be con-
sumed. The crop of wheat, as whole,
will be an average one, aud the unusual
fullness of the grain will have tendency
to make it more remunerative than for
merly.
Year: 1872

1t is easier to be good business man
than poor one. Half the energy dis.
played in keeping ahead that Is re-
quired to catch up when behind, will
save credit, give more time To business
and add to the profit aud reputation OF
your word. Honor your engagements.
II you promise to meet man. or do a
certain thing ut certain moment, he
ready at the appointed time. II you
have work to do, it at once cheerfully,
and therefore more speedily and cor
rectly. II you go out on business At
tend promptly to the matter on hand,
and then as promptly go about your
own business. DO not stop to tell
stories in business hours.


If you have q place of business, be
found there when wanted. No man
can get rich sitting around stores and
saloons. Never "fooi'' on business
matters. Ii you have to work for a
living, remember that one hour in the
morning is better than two hours at
night. II you employ others, be on
hand to see that they attend to their
duties, aud to direct with regularity,
promptness, liberali,y. DO not med-
die with any business you know
nothing Of. Never buy an article SIM
ply because the man that sells it will
take it out in trade. Trade is money.
Time is money. A good business
habit and reputation is always money.
Make your place of business pleasant
aud attractive; then stay there to
wait on customers.


Never use quick words, or allow
yourself to make hasty or ungentl-
manly remarks, to those in your EN-
pioy; for to do so lessons their respect
| for your influence over them. Help
yourself, and others will help you.
be faithful over the interest confided
TO your keeping, aud all in good time
your responsibilities will be increased


DO not be in too great haste to get
rich. do not build until you have
arranged good foundation. Do not
las you hope for success spend time
in idleness. Ifyour time is yourown,
! business will suffer if you do II it j.
given To another for pay, it belongs to
him, and you have no more right TO
steal that than to steal money. BE
| obliging Strive to avoid harsh words
and personalities. Do not kicx every
! stone ia the path more miles can be
made In day by going steadily OH
than by stopping to kick. Pay as you
go. A man Of honor respects his
word as he does his bond. Ask, but
never beg. Help Others when you
can, but never give when you caunot
afford to, simply because it is fashion,
able. Learn to say no. No necessity
Of swapping it out dog fashion, but say
1t firmly and respectfully. Have but
few confidents, aud the fewer the bet
ter. se your own brains ratherthan
those OF others. Learn to think and
act for yourself. Be vigiIant. Keep
ahead, rather than behind the time.
Young men, cut this out, aud II
there is folly in the argument let Us
know.
Year: 1872

40 grow pretty vine from the
sweet potato, put tuber in pure sand
or sandy loan. in hanging basket,
aud water occasionally. 1t will throw
out tendrils and beautiful leaves, and
Will climb freely over the arms of the
basket aud upward toward the top of
the window. Not one visitor In a
hundred but will suppose 1t to be some
foreign plant.
Year: 1872

The eighteenth annual report of the Nursery and Child's Hospital, to which is now attached & lying-in department, shows that the mortality among the chil- dren provided for in that institution did not exceed last year twenty-five per cent. o result that can only be accounted for by the fact that this institution has a branch hospital situated on Staten Island, whither the children are usually sent. The mortality among foundlings, both in this country and in Europe, has usually been from fifty to seventy-fve per cent. in large hospitals situated in cities. There has never, we believe, been an in- stance when it approached so insignificant rate as that exhibited in the report of the institution in question, which not only cares for disowned infants, but fur ther contributes to the discouragement of infanticide by providing for those un- fortunate females who have been over- taken by misfortune, and who might but for the beneficial influence of this or some similar refuge, become the victims of abortionists or the murderers of their own offspring. The report makes the gratifying statement that though the hopes of reforming these erring sisters by extending to them the hand in spirit of charity ard love are not always real ized, there is reason, in the majority of cases, to rejoice in the fruits of the labors that are bestowed. This admirable in stitution is under excellent moral and medical care, and includes in its Board of Managers many of the most respecta- ble and most estimable wives and moth CTS in this charitable community, who are untiring in their exertions to make it 0 source of reformation to the erring and the friendless.-N r. Paper.
Year: 1872

A WOLF SToRY.-The main street of a village of central India, where children were always at play, randown the slope of the hill and while one of two wolves, which was smaller than the other, would esconce itself behind some low bushes between the village and the hill, the ether would go round to the top, and watching an opportunity, race down through the street, picking up Q child by the way, and making of with it to the thick cover of the rayine. At first the people used to pursue, and some- times make the marauder drop his prey; but, as they said, finding that in that case the companion wolf usually suc- ceeded in carrying off another of the children in the confusion, while .he first was usually so injured as to be be- yond recovery, they ended, like plleg. matic Hindoos, as they were, by letting them take just as many of their offspring as they wanted. An infant few years old had thus been carried off the morn ing of my arrival. It is scarcely credi- ible that could not at first obtain suffi- cient beaters to drive the cover where those two atrocious beasts were gorging their unholy meal.
Year: 1872

You hold my heart In your slender hands. In your cold, your cruel, careless hands, In your beautiful hands, famed by a breath Like the breath of the rose 1t Is dying its death In your beautiful hands with their glitter ot

 rings,

 Each ring trophy that scornfully sings Of other hearts that have lain like mine On your cruelty beautiful, pitiless shrine. Of other hearts that have gone to their death. swooned to sleep by that sweet, sweet breath. That breath of the rose that comes and goes AS the smiling, beautiful lips unclose. When night after night down dizzying dances They follow and follow your dazzling glances. While round and round by the music whirled. AS I'd follow and follow you over the world Then hold me fast in your slender hands, In your cruelty beautiful, pitiless hands; Let me forever be dying my death, Soothed to sleep by that sweet, sweet breath Let me forever be whirling there, Lost in Q trance divinely fair,

 Let me forever be stricken and ssain, And dying with this delicious pain.
Year: 1872

THE QuEsT1oN.-The present position of the dispute between the United States and Great Britain affords considerable satisfaction to our government. Earl Granville, in his reply to Secretary Fish's note, took no exception to the position assumed originally in the presentation of tie American case before the general conference. In replying to Earl Gran vile, MT. Fish will call attention to this fact, which is regarded as tacit indorse- meat by Great Britain of the ground talk en by the American government, and he will point out that if the omission was unintentional it is now too late to rectify it. Our country has acted, and will con- tinue to act, on the theory that the Brit ish government accepted the construction put upon the treaty by MT. Fish, and was prepared to stand by the consequences w Y Pape3.
Year: 1872

AN ANTIDoTE.-On good authority it is promulgated abroad that two drops of turpentine oil in little milk is a com plete antidote to phosphorous poison. Children not subsequently, bite off the charged end of phosph matches, and swallow them. It is stated that girl was recently saved in England, who had actually eight of them in her stomach, by this newly discovered remedy.
Year: 1872

A LIVE PLAoE.-Danbury, Conn,
must be live town from the following
locals taken from the Neaos published
there


A Main street boy received dollar
for learning 800 Bible verses, and has
bought with it handsome deck of linen
back cards.-A Danbury woman called
upon to attend the dying bedside of a
friend, was deprived of the melancholy
pleasure by the delay occasioned in
borrowing a breast pin suitable for the
occasion.-A young man engaged in
making himself attractive to young
lady on Elm street, Monday evening,
was taken with violent fit of coughing,
and brought up two marbles he had
swallowed when boy. The young
lady dismissed him. She said she didn't
want to marry stone quarry.
Year: 1872

contain precedents and subjects that
should be considered from the higher
plane of public policy. 1t IS with the
view of calling attention to this case
in the light of public and not a pri-
vate measure, hoping that full consid-
Grafton may at this time be given to the
policy or justice of dividing our smaller
communities into two separate corpora
tiops, thereby giving them increased
power, according to their population
over communities possessing ten times
their population. For all equality in
the State and its legislation should be


based upon its population:
Year: 1872

THE SYNDICATE MURDER. details
of the murder of Mrs Van Buskirk at
Sandgate, in Bennington county, are
more shocking than at first represented.
That she was outraged, and murdered
by smothering, choking aud beating,
there can be no doubt. Circumstances
point towards Covey as the murderer,
and this, coupled with the fact of his
somewhat reckless life and character
will lead many people to the conviction
that he committed the horrible deed,
but the evidence produced at his exami-
nation was entirely circumstantial, and
may not be entirely convincing on trial.
Year: 1872




No more delightful travels are printed
in the English language than appear per-
petually in HAMPERS MAGAZINE They
are read with equal interest and satisfac-
sion by boys of every grade from eighteen
to eighty. Its scientific papers, while suf-
iciently profound to demand the attention
of the learned, are yet admirably adapted
to the popular understanding, and design
ed as much to diffuse correct information
concerning current scientific discovery as
it could be if it was the organ of the so
ciety foI the Diffusion of Useful Knowl-
edge" The great design Of HARPER's is
to give correct information and rational
amusement to the great masses of the peo-
pie. There are few intelligent American
families in which HARpER's MAGAZINE
would not be an appreciated and highly
welcome guest. There is no monthly
Magazine an intelligent reading family can
less afford to be without. Many Maga-
zines are accumulate HARPER's is edit
ed. There is not a agazine that is print
ed which shows more intelligent pains ex-
on its articles and mechanical execution.
There is not a cheaper Magazine publish
ed. There is not, confessedly, more pop
ular Magazine in the world.


-Neao England Homestead.


1t is one of the wonders of journalism
the editorial management of HABPEB's.
The Nation.
Year: 1872

To vote against any change in the Con.
stitution is important, insomuch us the
present Constitution is much better than
the proposed substitute, and as to adopt
the substitute will make necessary a large
amount Of money which the State is in
no condition to afford; to vote against
johnson M. Camden for Governor is moi
so important, because Jacob has particu-
lar claims for support, or that there IS any
particular objection to Camden, as it Is
to assert the principle that no officer
should be prejudlCed before the people by
reason of faithtulness 10 his public duties.
Because ]. ]. Jacob adhered strictly to
what he considered his duty as an official,
rather than 10 what partisans considered
his duty as a partisan, they sought 10
condemn him. He is now on his appeal
to the people. Will they sustain him, OF
will they sustain the Henry S. Walker
Ring p WeLlSbu1y Herald.
Year: 1872

DID you ever eat ripe orange? No
doubt vast majority Of our readers will
say yes, and consider the question rather
a silly one. Yet we doubt if one in five
thousand has ever eaten ripe orange
that Is, one that ripened on the tree and
was not plucked until ready for use. The
oranges Of commerce are plucked before
maturity in order to give time for ripen.
ing off the tree and prevent decay. The
eaters of such fruit have no conception of
the lusciousness OF the orange after ma.
ture has been allowed 10 perfect work
upon it. It is, beyond comparison, the
prince OF fruits.-Sauanndh Repu6lican.
Year: 1872

The wicked New York World says: A
question much canvassed among musi
cal men since the Boston Jubilee is,
whether it would be possible to produce
In this country flrst.rate performer or
that most difficult of instruments, the
trumpet. Fired by this, young gentle
man Of this city now works at a brass
trumpet six hours day, determined tc
become a virtuoso on the instrument OF
perish in the attempt. The boarding
house in which he lives Is now deserted
and those who have left have consulted
an artist.
Year: 1872

The following tabular exhibit, from the
Boston Globe, will possess unusual inter.
est for politicians Just now. We advise
them to clip it out and lay 1t aside for
reference. 1t shows tie electoral vote
under the new apportionment and also
gives a statement of the popular majority
in each State, in the general election
which last occurred in each: