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Year: 1873

Biddy just then put on the table Tor them
made them forget their grief Patrick
Sullivan had taken this farm about year
before. A kind providence had directed
the childrsns steps to him; but II the
dog had not taught him lesson OF KIND
ness. who knows what might after all
become Of the poor orphans, But He
who is the Father Of the fatberlcss would
surely not have forsaken them.
Year: 1873

The Shah himself is an ugly cuss. He
resembles closely the pictures Of the
more cruel Of hi, forefathers contained
in the early editions OF the Arabian
Nights. dare say he has caused many
a poor fellows head 10 be chopped off
on a notice of five minutes, and II would
not surprise me to learn that he has n
trick of making himself widowcr three
or four times n month. A fierce eyed,
tallow-y yisagcd, ugly beast as ever wore
diamond or carried scimiter; and his
grand vizier. who IL along with him, IS
only a trhe the less brutal and vicious
If you met either in dark alley you
would trembla for your life III Captain
Jack has worse coun'cnancc he is no
true Modoc But thus is all one TO the
English, who have a budget OF interests
in the East, and expect TO maks good
thing out of the present festivities. They
have displayed their feet Of iron clads in
the channel; they have displayed their
military establishment at Windsor, they
have displayed their opulence at Guild
hall, and before Nasr.ed- deem goes home
they will have lail the foundations for u
certain commercial treaty which lays noar
their hearts and contributes the milk TO
this enormously large, illuminated co
ooannt,


The English do nothing without mo
tive. There is no foolishness or sponei.
ty about them when n shilling is to be
made or lost They would entertain the
devil Just as handsomely, if it could be
proved in advance that the thing would
pay .-Ymry WaAerson's London Letter
in the Courier Journal
Year: 1873

Rc- Edmund Munger. in speaking Of
the time whom he was boy, says it was
the custom OF school children as you
passed u school house to make bon.
bu, in these latter days, as you pass u
school house. you must keep your eye
peeled or you win get brickbat at the
side Of your head.
Year: 1873

We had an escort TO the steamer, many
Of the citizens turning out on the days of
Don HOracio's departure, just as in Bos-
ton some of the John Hancock men keep
Election aud Evacuation days and the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery turn out
and the Common looks like holiday, but
it is Mt, and the governor ought TO take
his seat, but be does Mt, and there ia no
egg pop ginger beer, lemonade, ice cream
and no fuu Of no sort
Year: 1873

Of the settlement say their fathers remem-
bered the day WHEN the top. Of five gin
pagodas were seen above the water In
front Of the temple. Time works won
ders; It may have been 70. Many Of the
structures are half buried 10 the sand
but there is
Year: 1873

DR.. Dio Lewis. in the Philadelphia To-
Day. says:


Some years ago \ famous professor
came to town where we were Io,idlhg
and announced that he could cure int
wsrst cases Of suffering in ten minutes
without surgical operation. A friend
of ours was AN invcterate ease. and we
advised him to call on the wonderful ma
giciau He called. was convinced by the
testimonials exhibited, struck up a bar
gain, paid the fifty dollars, and soen call
ed at our eilice talking as strait as rail
road track.


We were greatly astonished. and ask.
our friend by what miracle he had been
so strangely and suddenly relieved OF
bis life long trouble He most provok'
ingly informed US that he had made
solemn pledge MT to reveal the process
Of cure.


We we're soon made acquainted with
several other cures quite as remarka'ie.
and resolved to put on cur sharpest wits
and wait upon the magician ourselves.


He seemed An honest man. and IN TWO
davs We had msde up our mind 10 pay
him a large feo and learn the strange art,
with the privilege OF using it to cure
whomsoever we would


Those who had been cured by the pr
fcssor were solemnly bound not to reveal
the secret 10 any one, but our contract
gave US the privilege Of using the knowl-
edge as We pleased.


And now ws propose to give the read
srs Of this journal n simple art which has
enabled us to make very happy many un-
happy stammerers In our own han Ia
it has often failed to affect the desired re-
suit, but in three fourths Of tho cases
which VIC have treated the cure has been
complete.


The secret i. simply this The STAN
merer is made to mark the time in his
speech, just a. it is ordinarily done in
singing He is Xt first 10 beat on every
syllable 1t is best ut the first lesson to
read some simple composition Ike one
Of David's Psalms striking the finger on
tho knee at every word then read in a
newspaper, heating each syllable


Ysu can beat time b. striking the fin.
ger on the knee, by simply hitting the
thumb against tho forefinger or moving
the large toe in the boot.


We doubt il the worst case OF stnttsr'
ing could continue, long. provided the
sufferer would read an hour or tive every
day, with thorough practice of this sim
pie art, observing the same in his con-
versation.


As Thousands have paid fifty and a
hundred dollars for this secret. We take
great pleasure in imparting it to the pat
rons Of this journal
Year: 1873

How A Coon WIFE CAN HELP Her
HUSBAND There 10 nothing which goes
so far toward placing young people he
yond the reach Of poverty as economy
in the management Of their affairs. 1t
matters not whether man furnish little
OF much for his family, If there is cen
tinual leakage in his kitchen or in his
parlor; it runs away he knows not how,
and the demon waste sries, more
like the horse. .lcechs daughter, until he
that provided has no more to give, II is
tho husbands duty to bring into tie
house, and it is the duty Of the wivs to
see that none goes wiongfully out OF it,
not the least article, however unimper.
,ant in itself, for it establishes a precs-
dent. nor under any prstsnce for it opens
the door for ruin to stalk IN, and he sell
dom leaves MI opportunity unimproved
A man gets 4 wife to look after his af
fairs, and to assist him through life--ts
educate and prepare his children for a
proper station in life, and not to dissi-
pate his property. The husbands inter-
est should be the wifes care, and her
greatest ambition carry her no further
than his happiness, together with that Of
her children. This should he her sole
aim. and the thsater Of her exploits ia the
bosom Of her family.
Year: 1873

BEAR IT IN MrND.-No good citizen will let
run loose dog whose vicious propenailities will
lead him TO bite people, bat there are those who
have so little love for humanity and such nm.
feigned regard for caninSs that they would not
restrain the liberty or dispenss with the services
Of snafling savage cur u Il bit person every
day. The law holds that pegson has no more
right to keep SerOciOus deg lhan he has to keep
q tiger, aud that the owner Of such an animal
must bear the responsibility for any injury.
Year: 1873

A friend who has recently visited and
witnessed the beach-mining operations on
The klamath county coast, has penned
following impressions to the Sigtol.-
They are worthy of perusal:


The Gold Bluffs commence at a point
near the mouth Of Redwood river, 20
miles north of Trinidad, and extend up
the coast TO the klamath river. They
mining from the first settlement of the
State by the whites. 1t was told by the
original discoverer of gold at the Bluffs,
that his attention was first attracted to
them from distance Of eight miles, by
the reflection Of the gold in the face of
Bluffs. In accounting for this formation,
one is Immediately struck with the fact
that roots and branches of trees protrude
from the face of the Bluffs at various
nights. This taken in connection with
the gravel and sandstone strata which
form it, would lead to the belief that this
must originally have been the bed OF
river, and that river must have been the
Klamath. Now then to sustain this as
seition The klamath drains an i'm
mense extent of mountainous country,
through which passes the great auriferous
belt Of California as evidenced by the
itch quartz leads and placer mines on
Trinity and Salmon-its tributaries. Be-
ing swift and deep stream, great guam
ties of water-worn gravel were swept
down by the resistless floods of Winter.
These formed gravel beds more or less
auriferous. As the river cut its way
down it also changed its course and left
these immense gravel deposits behind
them in the form of bluffs on the oceans
verge. The sea having for ages perform
ed the part of hydraulic mining apparatus,
has washed down the gravel bluffs and
separated the black sand in which the
gold is found from the others. The bluffs
vary in hight from 100 to 600 feet, and
show alternate strata of gravel and sand.
The bed rock is soft slate worn into holes
and grooves by the action of the surf.
Above this is stratum Of gravel which
is from five to fifteen feet in thickness.
This of course contains the gold in largest
quantities. Above is a reddish or yellow
river gravel mixed with an occasional
streak of oxide Of iron, forming soft
cement. The sand on the beach as we'll
as the gravel in the banks, on being pros
pccted, shows gold or what is called a
"color." Take the sand indiscrmnately
from the beach and it will pay. All it
requires is capital and the improved
methods in use to make the yield greater
than that of any other mine in the world.
-West coast Signal.
Year: 1873

THE SPRING OF A THOUSAND PALMS.
The San Diego Union says: The
Spring Of Thousand Palms is the name
given by the Indians to a spring of fresh
water rising on the Colorado Desert at
the mouth of the Cahulla Valley, at a
distance of thirty or forty miles east Of
Warmers Ranch. The name is taken
from a grove palm trees growing lux
uriantly around it, upon the young shoots
of which the Indians inhabiting that
neighborhood to a certain extent subsst.
In the vicinity of this grove there are to
be found numerous springs of various
kinds of mineral water also hot mineral
springs. The adjacent hills are of clay
formation, covered as is also the lowland
OF the Desert with mcsquit trees. The
line of survey taken by the engineers of
the Texas and Pacific Railway via San
Gorgonio Pass, has been run within about
three miles of this interesting spring.
Farther to the south are two other springs
that take their names from palm groves,
one being the Spring of the Three Palms,
the other Dos Palmos.' The water of
the latter spring is brackish, being in that
portion of the Desert which is below the
sca level.
Year: 1873

If young ladies have fault, it is some-
times in being little too forward but
then this is a fault which they always
correct in after age, for as soon as a young
lady has reached thirty, she begins to
make amends for former forwardness
by going backward regularly every year.
Year: 1873

GONG TO KING GEoRGE.-The Eureka
quartette, composed of well-known amateurs
of this city, will leave this morning for King
George Courthouse to attend the fair and
feast given by the ladies OF one OF the
churches in that place,
Year: 1873

ARMoRY.-It is said that the Board Of Offi-
GERS of the First Virginia regiment talk Of
renting the third story of the large new
warehouse on Cary street in rear OF Levy
Rrethers for an arnory, ahs
Year: 1873

CLEARING UP.-The river is much clearer
than it has been for month or two past.
II there should be no more heavy rains west
of us for short time the river water would
be quite clear again.
Year: 1873

PRESIDENT GRANT, it is stated, has de-
clared that he will appoint no man to the
Chief Justlceship who will not declare
his opinions in advance upon all questions
connected with the late war. 1t is not a
question of law and justice, but will he
maintain all the political dogmas which
have been declared gospel by the radical
leaders?
Year: 1873

PARApoxEs.---The word oblige is sub
ject to paradoxical construction. When
you oblige man to do thing which he
does not want to do, you may disoblige
him at the same time. 1t has been re-
marked that there is great difference
between church where the gospel is dis
pensed, and one where it is dispensed
with. We have often heard of tho story
Of how the Captain Of canal boat cried
Look out!" to his passengers, and
when they were going under bridge,
and how a Frenchman looked out ac-
cordingly and received o bump on his
head but it has never been decided that
the Frenchman took any incorrect or un-
usual signifcation from the words. 1t
has never been decided whether house
burns up or down. The question wheth.
er man falls from o boat t'and is rescued
from drowning is pulled out or pulled in,
depends whether you are speaking pri-
marily of the water or the boat. Some
one has noticed that people say that they
shell peas when they unshell them; that
they husk corn when they unhusk it


that they skin buffalo when they un'
skin it; that they scale fish when they
uscale them, and they want wedding
when they are weedy enough already,
Year: 1873

A private inquiry having been made
of the Attorney General of the United
States on the following subject, the
question was referred by him to the
General Land Office, and Acting Com
missioner Curtis makes this statement
as the rule of the Department -" If
lands have been entered and patented
as agricultural, upon which valuable
mines were known to exist at the date of
such entry, the parties owning such
mines are in no way debarred from ac-
quiring the title thereto upon a full
compliance with the laws and the in
structions regulating the disposal of
mineral lands as by express provisions
of law no title can be acquired to min
eral land under the acts regulating the
disposal of agricultural land. In all
cases where lands have been returned as
mineral upon the township plot, or
where affidavits were filed with the local
land officers alleging that the lands are
more valuable for mining than for agri-
cultural purposes, it is the duty of the
register and receiver to cause hearing
to determine their true character before
allowing their entry urderthe Pre-emp-
tion or Homestead laws"
Year: 1873

Some kindly soul writes to Cincin.


natl paper: l was much interested


some weeks since at the remark OF Q
/ friend living in the suburbs of the city,


that when he left home early in the


morning, he thought as many as two


hundred birds were chirping aud sing
ing in the trees around his home.
asked him, How do you account for
this, seeing that it is so very early in


TIE season, and the snow scarcely gone


from the ground ?" He replied, ~
love birds, and delight to feed the little
songsters, and for this purpose pur-
chase refuse grain and seeds at cheap
rates, and arrange shelves and COLI
veniences for feeding on the trees and
fences. By these means I am always
surrounded with birds, early and late.
Now, the purpose of the writer of this
is to propose like acts and like pleasure
to others ; and to suggest to those hav-
ing little spots of waste land to plant
hemp, suuhOwer, rape, and other small
seeds (the expense of which need not
exceed fifty cents), and they, too, can
teed and enjoy the presence of the early
birds, which will delight to visit and
spend their summer days around the
mansion of their friends. Particularly
at this time, when our Acclimatization
Society is spending money and efforts
so liberally in introducing European
birds of song, is it too much to ask all
who would encourage the enterprise to
half feed the birds Plant your little
seeds, watch the gradual growth, keep
ing in mind the aim to make home and
its surroundings happier and to teach
the little two-legs indoors to care for
and treat kindly the little two-legs out
of doors. Feed, feed the birds. All
will be the happier.
Year: 1873

A painter once wanted a picture of


innocence, and drew the likeness of a


child at prayer. The little supplicant


was kneeling beside his mother; the


palms of his uplifted hands were rev.
erently pressed together his rosy cheek
spoke of health, and his milk-blue eye
was upturned with the expression of
devotion and peace. The portrait of
young Rupert was much priced by the
painter, who hung it up on the study
wall and called it " Innocence. Years
passed away, and .he artist became an
old man. Still the picture hung there.
He had often thought of painting
counterpart, the picture of "Guilt,"
but had not found an opportunity. At
last he effected his purpose by paying a
visit to neighboring Jail. On the
damp floor of his cell lay wretched
culprit named Randall, heavily ironed.
Wasted was his body and hollow his
eye (; vice was visible in his face. The
painter succeeded admirably, and the
portraits of young Rupert and Randall
were hung side by side for Innocence"
and Guilt" But who was young
Rupert and who was Randall ? Alas
the two were one. Old Randall was
young Rupert led astray by bad COM
panions, and ending his life in the
damp and shameful dungeon.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Scientific
american says Piowshares, as now
used, are enough to make any farmer
complain, especially if they are steel
ones, which are generally ruined after
being sharpened once. The cast steel
ones will not scour in black lands. Why
could not the share be made smaller, so
that it would not be necessary to weld a
plate of iron on it? The share and
point might be made of two pieces, and
the point used in some way TO fasten
the share. Plugs or wedges could be
used instead Of bolts, which are 20
placed that they are hard to unscrew.
Would not such q contrivance be as
successful Is the movable saw teeth 2
! think 30. If such thing could be
made, il would be one Of the most pay
ing inventions"
Year: 1873

So1''


As estimates are usually made for the
benefit of interested parties, it is al
ways best to move slowly. In the
above case, aman making the trip might
easily double the figures given, be
economical, and when he returned homo
he would have little money in his purse.
Ask any one who has tried the trip and
note the answer.
Year: 1873

THE Superintendent of public schools for Yuma county reports that free schools are open at Yuma and Ehrenb berg, and that the pupils are making excellent progress. At Cerbat in Mohave county 8 school is open and doing we'll. A school house is in process of construction at Prescott and a teacher is soon expected from Cali fornia to open the school. In Mari copa county two schools are open. School marshals have been appointed in every district of the Territory and they are now engaged in taking the census. A thorough and complete organization of the school system is being perfected and it is expected that on the first Monday of next October that a free school will be opened in every school district of the Territory and continued for nine months of the year. We want more good school mans, and must have them. Good wages will be paid, and when they get tired of teaching we will find them all good husbands, and if they do not marry it will not be our fault:
Year: 1873

WE erred last week ill saying that the man in charge of Buckalew's train after being stripped by the Indians went to the San Carlos reservation. The Indians took him between Good win and Cottonwood creek, and ne overlook the train at the latter place.
Year: 1873

Halls journal of Health SaN that cold
bed-chambers always impcrl health and
invites fatal diseases. Robust persons may
safely sleep in 4 temperature OF forty on
under. but the old, the infant and The trail,
should never sleep IN a room where the
atmosphere is much under fifty degrees
Fahrenheit.


All know the danger OF %oin% direct into
the cold from very warm room. Very
few rooms, churches, theatres and the like,
are ever warmer than seventy degrees. ii
it is freezing out OF doors it is thirty de
grecS-the difference being forty degree,
more. Persons will he chilled hy such 4
change in ten minutes, although they may
be actively walking


But to lie still in bed with nothing to
promote the circulation, and breathe iul
hours an atmosphere of forty and even
fifty degrees, when the LUNGS are alWay-
at ninety-eight is too great a change
Many persons wake up in the morning
with inflammation of the lungs who went
to bed we'll, and are surprised that th>
should be the case. The cause may often
be found in sleeping in room the window
of which had been iool>hly hoiSted for
ventilation The watcr-curc journals ol
the country have dome an inraleuIablc
injury by the blind and indiscrimnatc ad-
vice of hosting the window al night


The rule should be, everywhere during
the part of the year whcn fires are kept
burning, to avoid hosting outside Win
dows. 1t is safer and better 10 leave tho
chamber door open, as ais" the fireplace
then there is Il draft up the chimney,
while the room is not so likely to become
cold If there is some fire in the
room all night the window may he opened
an inch. 1t is safer TO sleep in 4 bad air
all night with a temperature over fifty,
than in a pure air with a temperature
under forty. The bad air may -iclsrn you
but cannot Kill yon; the cold air c;'n and
does Kill very often
Year: 1873

There seems TO be no doubt that the
consumption OF flour made from wheat IN
creases every year This increase of CON
sumption is not 50 much from the steadily
growing population that have heretofore
used -four as IN article Of food, as from
the fact that many classes are now using
flour that never used it before, or at least
only in small quantities. In the Southern
States wheat flour was not in general use
before the war The negroes We're not
provided with it, and the whites generally
griddle. At present the freedmen are
using flour in large quantities, while the
whites are using more wheat bread than
formerly, for the reason that cooks to
serve hot cakes are less plenty than for
nerly The Chinese who come to this
country, take very readily to eating wheat
bread, instead Of boiled rice, and il is said
that the demand Of flour for export to
China is constantly on the increase. We
learn from the North British A@riculturist
that the consumption Of oatmeal is de-
creasing very fast in Scotland, and that
wheat flour is taking its place This
change commenced about the time labor
ing men began to receive better wages
for their work One reason for the change
from oatmeal to wheat flour is said To be
this: Improvements are constantly being
made in the manufacture of flour and in
styles of cooking it, but no Improvement
has been made in preparing oats for human
food for several hundred years.
Year: 1873

The Practical Farmer SAYS. IN is Well
settled in the opinion of all our best dairy
men that bran greatly promotes the milk
secletlOn- in COWS, and ii is fed almost uni


yersally. About equally mixed with corn
meal is the usual proportion, This mix
ture seems to promote both quantity and
quality Of milk From several sources we
hear that buckwheat bran Is a greet pro
ducer Of milk, and it is now being used
considerably among our Chester dairNmcn.
III about the same proportion As the other.
Thomas GaWthrop, near West Grove.
Chester county, also by repeated trials
with his own cows, has fully satisfied HIM
self that they do rs well with corn and cob
meal and bran as with pure corn meal and
bran The amount OF nutrineut in corn
cobs is so very small that the result will
have to be explained on the Suppositon of
the ground cob acting 10 promote digcS-
ton by distending the stomach. The pres
ence of bulky material being necessary 10
promote distension and fill mp the stomach
ct rtinlinating animals before digestion
can be accomplished, is frequently lost
sight OF. hungarian grass i also found
for milch cows to be rather superior 10 The
ordinary run OF hay The last year OF Two
Hungarian grass has loomed up wonder
fully in the estimation of our dairy farmers ;
and a very large scope of land viii be SOW
ed with it the coming season, II natures
for cutting in about sixty days, and produ-
ces two to four tons per acre-lhe latter
of course on good soils. Three peck~ TO the
acre is the usual allowance of seed Where
a good haymarket is convenient thi- sub
stitution Of Hungarian grass for common
hay in home feeding viii hr a clear al
ditional source of profit