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Year: 1875

are not perhaps of such primitive mod


esty and attractive manners as were those


OF otaheite in 1888. but they are repre-


sented as OF kindly nature. Il is not.


therefore. unreasonable to suppose that


the crew and passengers Of the ship


florinda, driven by stress Of weather


upon some OF these innumerable islands,


may have landed from wreck. Sepa-
rated for months and years from all pros
pecs OF accomplishing their voyage to
California, and affected by sim liar inHu-
ences with those attributed to the nlu-
tineers Of the Bounty. these men
would have gradually come to ac-
cept their enforced position az a
destiny from which they could not es-
cape. This result assumed. it may even
be reasonable to suppose that tho most
Of these men would have no disposition
to hear from the land they hadleft. There
might become a repugnance to revive
connections apparently broken off by
fate. Regarding these possible motives
the adventurous character of the men as
indicated by the nature Of their voyage
the :nnumerable islands with which the
Pacific in that quarter is studded. as the
sky with stars. it would seem very prob
able that no vessel would have touched on
the particular island upon which the pas
senge-s had landed. and that the men who
left home to seek their fortunes in
new country should have accepted the
situation and established an American
colony on some island 0: the Pacific
ocean
Year: 1875

One of the most interesting things in
the Holy Land is the fact that one meets
everywhere in daily life the things that
illustrate the words of the Lord. The
STREETS Of Jerusalem are very narrow,
and no one is allowed to go out at night
without light. Throw open your lat
tice in the evening and look out, and
you will see what seems to be little stars
twinkling on the pavement You will
hear the clatter Of sandals as the late
traveller rattles Glcng AS the party ap-
proaches, you will see that he has little
lamp fastened to his foot 10 make his
step q aafe one. In an instsnt the voice
comes 70 your memory, written in that
same ciiy three thousand years ago,
"Thy word is q lswp te my feet, and a
light to my path.
Year: 1875

Professor f. E. Nipher sends to Ma
ture the following pretty optical expert
ment: Observe white cloud through a
plate OF red glass with one eye, and
through green glass with the other eye.
After some moments transfer both eyes
to the red glass, opening and closing
each eye alternately The strengthen.
ing Of the red color in the eye, fatigued
by its complementary green, is very
istrihng. The explanation OF the phe
uomenon is Of course we'll known, and
many notifications OF the experiment
will readily suggest themselves.
Year: 1875

People think poet is born to make
verses-as if he had a rhyming diction.
ary in his heart. How many poets lose
the poetry of the heatt for that which is
printed in books. They are like travel
ers who see no beauty in the silent land
scapes until they draw near the bustlng
city. But life is mostly memory. The
greatest good we get from the wayside
flowers is the honey of memory.
Year: 1875

There is a song whose distant echo
sounds in our hearts when we twine the
garland Of twenty years; it is the song Of
death which haunts us more and more
loudly until the tomb, At thirty we have
already been buried two or three times.
Death with his woodsmans ak has cut
away the gFaep branches where the COO
ing doves were nesting
Year: 1875

1t was hardly kind in Professor Proc
tor to announce so abruptly, as he did
the other evening, that our ancient and
popular satellite, the moon, is dead.
Among bis hearers there were doubtless
many young Eerpons to whom the moon
was endeared by precious associations
of O nature not wholly uneonnected with
balconies and other places for the easy
transaction of innocent Irritation. To
be told that the kindly and silent moon,
which has witnessed so many tender
scenes and never once mentioned them,
is a cold and CHASTITY corpse is ex-
tremely unpleasant, and Professor Proc.
tor might have broken the pewO in a
more gentle and sympathetic way


We are told that the breath-or at.
mosphere-of the moon has long since
departed, and that not the slightest sign
of life can be detected in her SCARED
and Sriukled face. This is sad enough,
but what 10 still more unpleasant is the
confident prediction that our own pri.
vate Earth is likewise doomed 10 death
In course of time the sea and the air
will vanish, and the air will no longer
sustain animal or vegetable life. The
catastrophe will doubtless be postponed
until after the Centennial, but it is GER
tain ultimately to arrive; and persons
who propose to revive American COM
merce by giving large subsidies 10
line OF American Atlantic steam
ers should take netioe of the fact
that the Atlantic is merely temporary
affair, which is to dry up, or perhaps
vanish into Symmes' Hole. Meanwhile,
the arrogant Jupiter, flushed with com.
parstive youth and hydrogen gas, will
gradually gain in solidity and in self
restraint in tho management of its ex-
ternal and internal fires. a. area of
barometrical elevation on its lake region,
together with cool and clearing weather
along its coasts, are among the future
certainties of that planet; and about the
time the earth is at its last gasp, Jupiter
is to secure colony Of improved human
beings who will take liberties with our
planet with telescopes and spectroscopes,
and will. patronizingly announce that it
is dead and worthless.


This prospect is certainly not an slluT
ing one, but perhaps we should take the
astronomer statements with some grains
Of allowance. If the moon is dead, she
is certainly q very bright and lively
corpse, and she apparently goes on her
revolving way quite IS well as she did
when she was alive. Even If we grant
that the moon is dead, aud that the earth
ia doomed to similar death, it does not
necessarily follow that we may not survive
to assist so to speak, at her wake for a
countless number Of ceuturiesv Who
can say that as our air and water gradu.
ally vanish we may not learn TO do with
out them9 OF course, itwould be rather
hard at hrst TO dispense entirely with all
vegetables; but with the progress OF
science we may be able tc re-
vive the old scheme OF drawing
suhbeams from cucumbers, and may
have to materialize cucumbers and other
delicacies out of sunheams, At any
rate there is no immediate cause ol
alarm, A dead moon is jpst as useful
for ell amatory purposes as live one,
aud we need not decide that q dead Earth
will be useless until the fatal moment
arrives. AS for Jupiter, we can let him
pursue his arrogant course without
Year: 1875

If. life had its fixed beginning and end
we could finish our works or our affairs
before going into the other world; but as
everything is begun when We come to the
earth nsthing is endediwhen we leave it,





The gods envy us the ladder Of FIRE by
which we seek them.
Year: 1875

Senator Jones, of Nevada, intends to visit
New Orleans shortly with the view of manu-
featuring ice, and proposes to make it sc
cheap that he will be able to sell it at 81
per hundred pounds. The present ice
manufacturing company OF this city would
feel very fat if it could realize that figure,
or even one half that sum, for sll produced
by artificial means. However, it is possible
that a wealthy Senator may have an in
teneely cheap freezer, something to beat all
nature, and perhaps give US good quality
Of ice for next to nothing.


We are informe that Senator Jones
through his agent, has already purchased
piece of ground upon which he will com.
mence the erection of factory in few
days, intending to be ready to enter the
New Orleans market before the season
closes
Year: 1875

very large amount of property will be
offered for sale by Sheriff Floarnov at the
courthouse to-day-hOurs of sale between
II A. NJ. and 1 p. NJ.


Among that offered will be the property
donated by the city OF Shreveport to the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company, upon
which Is now located the freight depot of
the road. Most of our city readers are toll
erably familiar with the character of this
donation, but for the benefit Of those who
are not we will briefly state the property
selected by Colonel Tom Scott for depot
purposes belonged to several parties most
Of them residents here. The price agreed
upon by the several vendors and the city
aggregated $l20,00O. To raise the neces-
sary sum to make the first payment. the city
issued large number of twenty year bonds
1--WE can not Just now recall the exact
amount which were sent to the Eastern
cities for negotiation. Colonel George Will
hanson was selected as the agent of the
city to go on and effect the sale. He failed
to negotiate any of the bonds upon their
merit, but through the Endorsement of
Colonel Scott sufficient quantity were
pledged at about fifty cents on the dollar to
realize $50 0C0, which was paid to the ven
dors of the property donated. Since that
hence no further payment has been made
on the property, and the vendors, naturally
Geslrous TO get their money, have foreclosed
their mortgage and the sale will be made
tc- day without the benefit of appraisement.


This is truly a lamentable state of affairs
bath tor the railroad company and the city,
II. indeed. it does prove inj urious to Colonel
Scott personally in the end From present
appearances and unless some arrangement
can be effected of which we have no in-
tIiIation, there is fair prospective might
say. from the lights now before US, Ger
tainty, OF the property being bid in by the
vendors for the amount due them. This is
certainly on the cards, and we know of no
reason why these gentlemen should not use
the power they have in their hands.


SO, unless they should conclude to exer-
cise degree of magnanimity in the prem
ises which no one has a right to expect, the
c.tv will have virtually thrown away
Sl20,0O0 of its bonds, and. the Texas and
Pacific Railway Company deprived of the
property which the city in good faith. pre-
posed and desired to donate to it. 1t will
beyond question be a severe blow to the
city and the road, as we have before said,
and We await further developments with
considerable sOlicitude. 1t were worse
than Idle tor US to presume to make any
suggestions calculated to mend the matter,
even it we could conceive of any.-Shrere.
2Jyi Times.
Year: 1875

There are so many circumstances un-
der which accidents, more or less severe
and often fatal, occur from lamp explo-
sions, that people cannot be too studious
in informing themselves with regard to
such accidents or too careful in seeking
to avoid them. But few days since the
following case occurred at the house OF
a friend on Perry street, in this city: A
gentleman entered a room late at night
in which a kerosene lamp had been burn
ing low through the evening, stepped to-
ward il and was in the act of extending
his hand to turn II down and out; but
lust before his fingers reached the thumb
screw the lamp exploded with a loud re-
port which sent it in fragments to every
part of the room. Fortunately there was
no fire set and no person injured. The
next morning O careful examination OF
the fragments to learn the cause OF the
explosion led to the theory that the tube,
which was rather large one, had been
| fitted with very small wick, thus leav'
ing large air space. by means of which
| in all probability, the movement OF the
air in the room caused by the opening OF
the door forced the small, fickcring
| flame down into the tube far enough tC
communicate with and explode the gaf
which would naturally, under the cir
cumstances, have accumulated therein.


In this connection II may be interest
| ing, as we'll as useful, to call to mind tn,
fact that Prof, Chandler, of New 1orl
city, says "The total result for tn,
year 1859, for the city of New fork
which l myself have cut from news
papers, is fifty-two fatal accidents iron


dangerous kerosene, fifty severe and 81.


slight-in all 10S persons, to my know


edge, from my own reading, have bee


injured by kerosenein in one yearP-Pacy


RliraL Press.
Year: 1875

Some of the newspaper men, for want
of something better to write about, are
denouncing the present stray law. The
Objectionable part of it seems to be the
publication of the Stray notices in the
kansas Farmer. While we have not yet
struck that plane upon which we can sit
and look with contempt upon the saying
'.every little helps" yet We are not in
clined to begrudge the Farmer in having
a monopoly of the Stray notices. That
paper circulates extensively among the
farmers. Farmers know that in its
columns can be found the notices for
which they look. If they have not a
copy, they can find a neighbor who has.
The Farmer is purely an agricultural
paper-and good one too-and we are
willing that the State spould give it
some encouragement. We are willing
that the Farmer should publish the stray
notices for all time to come.-Salina
journal.


We agree with the Journal in the
above. If the notice is to be published
in but one paper, it should be one that
circulates in every county in the State.
Perhaps it would be we'll to have a no.
tice published also in the local paper
that does the county advertisng.-Man-
haitian Nationalist.
Year: 1875

December 18th, 1914. }
The lola Register:


Ipresume some of your readers would
like to hear from the weather in this
country at this season Of the year. If
there is any cold weather it is usually on
hand about this time in most parts of
the u. 8. This morning the thermonae-
tor stood at 32' above zero and is the
coolest it has been this season, with the
exception of one morning about month
ago. The ground is frozen this morning
and a little snow, not enough to cover
the ground. Yesterday l was setting
out fruit trees and you can judge that it
could not have been very cold. There
has besa . few clear pleasant days lately.
But most of the time for the past few
months it has been cloudy, warm and
more or less rain, and roads mudiy.


In speaking of nights, we have some
here during the winter season, more
night than anybody except a Laplander.
When the sky is clear the sun rises q
little east of south about the middle of
the forenoon, and sets little west of
south shout the midGle of the afternoon,
Year: 1875

The bill that has been introduced
into Congress to do away with all the
existing officers in Louisiana, and order
ing an election for the purpose of elect
ing officers who shall be representation
of the sentiments If the people, receives
the support of quite number Of papers.
If it be possible to get a fair expression
of the will Of the people In that State,
and allow them to elect officers who will
give satisfaction, it would be blessing
to the entire country; but we believe
the shortest road to a solution of the
difficulties in Louisiana is for Congress
to remand the State to territorial con-
dition. The conflict between the State
and the general Government would then
be at an end, and Cnngress could
enforce obedience to law, and give secn-
rity to life and property.
Year: 1875

Real estate is lower than it has been
for years-perhaps lower than it hasever
been in Kansas. 1t is much below its
actual value, both iu town and in the
country, and lower perhaps than it will
ever be again, consequently there was
never better time than the present for
investing in real estate. When specula-
ton was rife real property was held at
prices much beyond Its real worth; but
in these times of general depression it is
as much below as it was formerly above
its actual value.


Property can be bought in lola. or in
the country near town, that in few
years pay from one t" two hundred
per cent. on the present price. With
one season of good crops, and a revival
of business throughout the country,
property will gradually increase in value
until it reaches its actual worth, Hence
there was never a better time than the
present for investing in real estate in
Allen county. Despite the drouth,
chinch bugs and grasshOppers, our coun.
ty Offers better inducements to migrants
to-day than ever before-provided they
have means Of support until the crop of
next season. And we are glad that this
fact is becoming known, for during the
past few weeks we have had some very
valuable additions in the way of new
C c,mers, and We hear of Others who will
be here in the spring.


Our climate and soil are adapted to
grain and fruits of all kinds, and with
the market ut the Gulf we are destined
soon to have, Southern Kansas will be.
come profitable for grain growing as well
as stock raising. When the tide of en-
igra;ion again sets in, the present prices
on real estate will be things of the past.
We believe that persons who sell their
farms at the present low prices will in
most instances, in q few years be sorry
for it, and that those who now secure
homes will always feel that they made a
good investment.
Year: 1875

GEN. SHERIDAN's report of the action
of the military at New Orleans on the
assembling of the Louisiana Legislature
will be found on the first page of to-day's
paper. The General was not in COM
msni during the first day, but is will
ing to assume the responsibility OF the
rart taken by the military.
Year: 1875

A few days ago, as one of our friends
was taking stroll through the Cath
olic Cemetery in company with his
wife, he discovered wheelbarrow
smeared with fresh honey. On push
ing his investigations still further he
found man in disused burial vault,
busy shoveling out honey, which he
piled into the wheelbarrow and
wheeled away. The man said that
was his third load, and the supply
was not half exhausted. Our
friend took O look into the
cavity and saw festoons of honey, fall
ing in beautiful folds from the roof and
sides of the depository for the dead.
The deserted vault had become safe
resort for the bees, and for years they
had stored their sweet deposit, to at
last become the prey of man. After
such an occurrence, surely no one will
be disposed to question that California
is a land overlooking with milk and
honey
Year: 1875

The annual meeting of the Grange
Cooperative Company, which was
held yesterday at the Grange store,
was we'll attended, and the business
transacted was of the most important
character. At 2 O'clock in the after
noon about eighty ladies and gentle
men assembled IN the st. Charles
dining room, to discuss an elegant
dinner, and for nearly two hours the
party reveled in the feast of good
things provided in Salari & Gehring's
best style. The occasion was most
enjoyable, and the annual business
meeting an epoch in the history of the
Grange Cooperative Company.
Year: 1875

by an assassin who stood behind a
walnut tree. Mr.. White attempted to
use his pistol, but it snapped, and the
would be assassin escaped under cover
of darkness. No clue to the perpe-
traitor of the outrage
Year: 1875

The rev railroad Ia completed at Anaheim
and runs directly along the southern portion
of our tract We will offer lands within from
one to three miles of Downey City as well
adapted for corn as any now under cnltiva-
tion. and there are none better In the world
Year: 1875

A correspondent Of the Hartford
Times writing from Swiss inn says {:
"a few days ago, just at dusk, after u
ram had set in, two English girls and
their handsome, gray haired father ar
rived. They were cold and dump,
and the hotel was cold and damp,
and, as we sat by our blazing fire and
heard them 90 into their cold rooms,
we pitied them so much that we open
ed our door and invited them to share
our warmth and c6mfort-so they
came in, and we chatted together all
the evening. Those two bright, fresh
looking girls sat calmly in their chairs
and told us they had crossed from
Meiringen to the Rhone Glacier over
the Grlmsel on foot, the day before,
through'a foot of snow--had walked
nine miles down the valley that morn
ing, and had then climbed up all the
way from Niesch to the hotel on foot
i'll the rain that afternoon. We look
ed at them aghast, and. murmured,
Tired 2 oh, no, they briskly Choir
oused and indeed they did look
most revoltingly fresh and pretty.
When we appeared in the morning,
father (who always comes in to break
fast from out of doors, with 4 blast of
cold air, very much as if he slept on
tho nearest glacier announced that
those English girls started to walk
up to the summit of the Eggischborn
two hours ago, and are coming back
in time to cross the Atetach glacier to
go to the Belle Alp for the night !
Before long they came in, brisk and
rosy as usual oh, no not tired at
all land without waiting for any
thing more than a lunch, they were
off again. We groaned in spirit as
we saw them disappear around a pro-
montory."


In England and in some other por-
tons of the Old Country it is not con-
'idered vulgar in young lady to
be healthy and vigorous. There is
less of that feeble, ''loliy polly non
sense than we meet with in certain
circles here. Who ever heard an
English girl say, "Oh, cant !" when
invited to take walk of ten or dozen
miles L? Young men who may wish to
start small hospital, with at least one
permanent patient, should marry a
small, tight-laced, fashionable Amer
lean girl Or dry-goods showcase
who has been in the care of q family
physician since she was six years old.
He will wish he had not Science of
Health.
Year: 1875

An English physician recently re-
moved a section Of apatient's liver,
placed it on plate, scraped
it carefully, and returned it to its
place, fully restored to its normal
action. This promises to work a rev.
olution in the treatment Of the disease,
and in a few years we shall have an
addition to domestic literature some
thing like this ''Husband, | wish you
would take Johns right lung down to
the doctor, this morning, and have
the middle valve fixed or "Nili YOU
step into the doctors when you come
home this noon, and see if he has
Mary's liver mended, as she wants to
60 out to tea this evening" The
practice will become so common in
time, we are sure, that none of the
neighbors will be in any way startled
to see wife with veil tied around
her head leaning out of q bedroom
window and shouting to receeding
husband Jeremiah f. Tell DR..
Scrapem to send up Willle's right kid
ney at once, whether it is done or no..
He's had it morn a week, and the
child might as we'll be without any
kidney, and be done with it. = Dan
bury News.
Year: 1875

-Phenla Epps of Hamilton, Ohio,
asked her mother to take a note for
her to friend of the family living in
a near street. The note when opened
was found to read. "This is a little
ruse of mine to get mother out of the
house. Before she can get back /
will be on the cars with dear Loren
70, and before night will be mar
ried "
Year: 1875

Prom the Burlington Hawk Eye


1t is a terrible thing to tell, but
how can we nelp it, Thursday night
charming young lady who lives out
on North street, being on a ark with
several other charming young ladies',
put on their brothers clothes and
walked around the block on a wager.
That IL, she started To walk around
the block, but al the first corner she
met wild lrishman very drunk and
beiligerent. frightened nearly out
Of her wits, she forgot that she was
man pro tenn. 80 she gave The tipsy
man one u her sweet Smiles 70 sofren
his rugged heart, and tried to go past
him. But the lasuitej roisierer ia =.
dignantIy demanded Of the supposed
man who in thunder he was grinning
at, hit her dip under the ear that
knocked her halfway across the
street, and when she got up, shrek
ing and whooping as only woman
could shrek and whoop under such
circumstances, he pasted her . mos,
ugly one right under the eye, ant
she hasn't got through seeing star,
yet. Neither will she 20 to church
and neither again will she take tha
green patch off her eye for . week
and neither also will she play maj
any more until she learns better thar
to be sociable or conciliatory with q
stranger on q great big nine-story
drunk. You can't always tell how
cross it does make some men wher
they fill up.
Year: 1875

Davenport and vicinity furnished
three terrible accidents TO children
within few days. A school janifr
threw hot ashes and ciinkers out Of a
window which struck little girl on
the back, setting her clothes Oh FIRE.
severely if not fatally burning her.
An infant pulled an urn Of hot coffee
off the table, scalding Itself to death.
A boy was caught in 'umbling rod
Of threshing machine, and 50 injured
that he died in few houts. All the
results Of heedlessness cr carclessaess
Of older persons.