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Year: 1873

bling hells and exchange them for chan
ces to win few dollars from other men
who have left their families, their wives
and children, to gamble away their
small earning. You but help to build
up the fortune of the unprincipled man
who owns the hell and deals the game
of moral and pecuniary destruction. If
you have an hour to spare from labor,
give it to reading and enjoyment at home
Cheer your wife in her duties, select
pleasant stories and read them to your
children. Try the habit of domesticity.
The best lounging place is your own
house, and the best club to join is your
own family. Stick to that idea, and
work up the spare hour by improving it
to the Intellectual advantage of your
self and household. If you properly be-
stow your leisure from toll you will in
the end find that toll itself will not be
SO great burden. By study you will
discover wherein lies the mystery of your
toll, and means will be opened to you by
which the business you are engaged in
will assume almost an intellectual amuse-
ment. An hour a day amounts at the
end of the year to 365 hours In that
time how many valuable books may be
read, how much pleasure enjoyed in your
own home, and how blessed you will be
in the gratitude of your wife and the in
innate and cultivated love of your child
ren.
Year: 1873

Vice President Wilson has shown the
natural honesty of his character and his
susceptibility to the popular will by turn
ing his back pay into the treasury. He
is not overburdened with this worlds
goods, and the extra $500 would be as
convenient for him as for any other mem
ber of Congress But he not only saw
that it was wrong-he also saw that the
salary grab was met with popular con-
demnation-and that decided him on the
course he adopted 1t is not likely that
he will ever be candidate for an elective
office again. The end Of his term as
Vice President will be likely to be the
end of his public career; but he has
become so accustomed to interpreting and
obeying the will of the people that he
does not think of that, but obeys on in
stinct, as Falstaff knew the true prince.
On the whole, we believe that Mr. Will
son is one of the most usesul and eficiet
of our public men. because he does faith
fully represent the public will. He may
not educate the public conscience like
Sumner, but he studies the popular SEN
timent, and is a partisan of the best
type. We notice one thing in the dis
patch of the journal announcing this
action Of Mr.. Wilson which does not
strike US fayorably. It's said that ''the
Yice-P President, is mskipg this disposi'
tioH ef his baek pay. does not intend ts
Year: 1873

From the Danbury News.


A true American is too proud to beg
and too honest to steal. He gets trusted.


There is a man in Danbury ninety
years old who can see car lamp without
glasses


correspondent writes to know ''what
has been done about Fairygut's statue"
We never knew fairies had such things.


People who have luxuriated on buck
wheat cakes all winter are backing up
against door jambs and gate posts with
a good deal of pleasing activity.


Parents cannot be too particular about
the fit of their little girls clothes. A
Danbury lady believes that she would
have been converted years ago had her
clothes fitted anyhow.


Mr.. Bessemer says he can produce
gun capable of throwing ten-ton ball.
Bessemer had better get up gun that
can throw base ball so a chap can hit
it without putting his shoulder out of
joint.


There is no time when a women so
thoroughly commands the respect of
man as when she is about to throw
stone at a hen. Especially is this the
case if he happens to be standing behind
her, and is lame in one leg.


A Danbury family which is sustained
by charity almost perished from hunger
on Friday night. The little girl who
daily makes the rounds in quest of food
was prevented from going out that morn
ing by losing one of her earrings.


We found a majestic poem on our desk
this morning. The paper and ink ap-
peared to be above the average The
author does not give his name. but there
is young man pacing the walk in front
of this office, and occasionally looks up to
the window m


a parent writes to us that he is an
noyed and panied by his son staying out
nights, and asks if we can present a
remedy for this rapidly growing evil
There are several remedies The boys
spine can be broken with an ak, or he
can be nailed to the floor with red hot
railroad spike, driven through his abdo,
men, but the most effectual way is to
compel him to wear patched clothing.


Mrs. Stanton thinks Gen. Grant for
got something in his inaugural, and has
written him note of reminder. 1t was
woman's suffrage.


A Western editor. in acknowledging
the gift of peck of onions from a sub
scriber says :-..It is such kindnesses as
these that bring tears to our eyes,
!. Where are the men of '76 % shout
ed Newton orator. dead" I" respond
ed sad looking man in the middle aisle
The Newton orator was surprised at the
} intelligence.


A promising young man at Barre
thinks it about time for him to ..sweal
off when he saw lot of small snakes
wriggling in the bottom of his sleigh
while returning from dance.


A New Haven man who went home
the other evening. and found his hous,
locked up, but after infinite trouble man
aged to gain entrance through bacl
window, and then discovered on the par
lor table note from his wife, reading
, - have gone out you will find tn
door,key on one side Of the doorstep.
Year: 1873

AS rummaged through the garret,
List'ning to the falling rain,
As it pattered on the shingles,


And against the window pane,
Peeping over chests and boxes.


Which with dust were thickly spread,
/ saw in the farthest corner


What was once my trundle-bed.
And l drew it from the recess


Where it had remained so long,
Hearing all the while the music


Of my mothers voice in song
AS she sung in sweetest accents,


What [ since have often read
".Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed"
AS listened, recollections


That l thought had been forgot
Came with all the gush of memory


Rushing, thronging to the spct,
AS wandered back to childhood,


To those merry days of yore,
When | knelt beside my mother,


By this bed upon the floor.
Then it was with hands so gently


Placed upon my infant head,
That she taught my lips to utter


Carefully the words she said,
Never can it be forgotten,


Deep are they in memory Craven
:. Hallowed be thy name, Father!


Father Thou who art in Heaven y
This she taught me ! then she told me


Of its import great and deep;
After which | learned to utter


Now l lay me down to sleep"
Then it was with hands uplifted,


And in accents soft and mild,
That my mother asked "Our Father y


Father, do Thou bless my child"
Years have passed, and that dear mother


Long has mouldered meath the sod,
And | trust her safnted spirit


Revels in the home of God.
But that scene at summer twilight


Never has from memory fed,
And it comes with all its freshness


When l see my trundle-bed.
Year: 1873

AN HOUR FROM LABoR.-Take an
hour from labor and give it to something
else. But don't carry those sixty min
utes and slam them down upon a drink
ing bar, getting nothing in return for
Gods gift than poison and death and
murder Don't take them to the gam
Year: 1873

The young man with presence of mind
resides in Detroit. Just as he was lift
ing his hat to couple of young ladies
on Woodward Avenue, boy ran a sled
against his legs and the fashionable
young man turned half dozen pigeon
wings and came down on all fours.-
Picking up his hat without as much as
frown, he remarked to the ladies, 81
am always subject to these dizzy spells
in winter.
Year: 1873

And now the poor horses are attacked
with new disease, which does not af-
feet the head but the legs, making the
victim so weak that it is with difficulty
the animal can stand This disease
makes its first appearance in Portland,
Me-, where several cases are reported,
but none have as yet proved fatal. 1t IS
to be hoped it will not make such thor
ough sweep of the country as the epizo-
otic
Year: 1873

TIE CHAMPION BASE BALL CLUB.-The Della
ware Base Ball Club, at Seaford, writes to claim
the championship Of the Peninsula, and offer
ing to accommodate any of the Wilmington
Clubs that may proffer the m challenge Let the
ambitious base ball players OF Wilmington make
a mot nf fhia
Year: 1873

In the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial


District of the State of California, in and for


the county of Placer.


Isabella NJ. Arnold vs.. Andrew J. Arnold.
Action brought in the District Court Of the
Fourteenth judicial District of the State Of Cal
ifornia. III ;.is,i for the County of Placer, and
the complaint filed in said County of Placer, in
the Office of the Clerk Of said District Court.


TIE People of the State of California send
greeting to Andrep j. Arnold. Defendant:
VOU ARE HEREBY REQUIRED TO AP-
L PEAR in action brought against you by the
above named Plaintiff in the District Court OF
the Fourteenth Judicial District of the State Of
California, in and for the County OF Placer, and
to answer the complaint filed therein Ia copy OF
which accompanies this summons) within ten
days exclusive of the day of service) after the
service on YOU of this summons-if served with
in this county or if served out of this county but
within this Judicial District, within 20 days; or,
If served out of said District, then within forty
days-or judgement by default will be taken
against you according to the prayer of said CON-
plant.


The said action is brought to obtain decree
of this Court dlssolving the bonds of matrlmony
existing between you and this Plaintiff and that
she may have the care and custody Of her child,
and for costs OF suit. All of which is more fully
set fourth in Plaintiffs complaint on file herein
a certified copy of which accompanies this sum
mons.


And you are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint rs above re-
quired, the said Plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the complaint.


Given under my hand and the seal of the Dis
trict Court of the 14th Judicial District of the
State of California, in and for the County of
Placer, this 9th day of October, in the year OF
our Lord. One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Seventy-three.


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Year: 1873

An infnllibIe Hair Re
storative, which never fails
to produce a growth of sub


stantial hair to bald heads
when the root of the hair
however feeble is left. 1t


is not only a Restorative,


but it is cleansing and in
vigorating, making the hair
healthy and glossy in all
instances. 1t will restore
the grayest hair to its nat
ural color, remove dand-
Year: 1873

Several correspondents complain OF tEe
soft coal used on the locomotives Of the Penn
sylyana Railroad. They say that the smoke Ia
thick and iaky and sails In at the windows on
every breeze, They complain that their linen
10y the time they reach New Yori, from Railway
and other country resorts is begrmed with
dirt and that everything about them becomes
sliniy and foul one gentleman says that the
smoke flakes get upon the lungs and cause most
unpleasant sensations. All unite in contrasting
the Jersey Central line with the Pennsylvania
unfavorably to the latter.
Year: 1873

Among the problems submitted TO us
for solution from time TO time by core
spondcnts in various parts of the country,
we have rarely met with one more COM
plcatcd or more interesting than this:
Year: 1873

every cinder caused look or ciacula.


ton OF peevlsh complaint, every fresh


arrival she glared at as if the car were


her private parlOr and they came unip-


vited, she did not sit in one pOsition


five minute, and her pale. weary


mother and attentive husband tried in


vain to make her comfortable they


might have tried all her life Just as


fruitlessly; thatwoman would find dust


in heaven, and scold at the angels


wings for being in her way. But nv
neighbor was different metal. She


was hot young or handsome, she was not


fashionable or fine; her round COM


Portable face bloomed with some hardy


rose-tints yet, though she must have


been near fifty, her bright. dark ewes


were as sweet, soft and pleasant as they
were perceptive; her steel-grav hair
curled in brisk little ringlets about her
wide full forehead, and her cheerful


sensible mouth disclosed that rare


American beauty, set of fautless teeth.


when she smiled. She had on an hon,
est straw bonnet little out of date


but so fit and decent that you did not
remark its behind-hand svlc it was
gray and tied down with cherry
green ribbons. I should think that
woman repelled dust someway. for her
bonnet was fresh as lettuce after four
hours of dusty railway. She had on
no crumpled linen cloak or sack, her
dress and cape were the same soft gray
woolen material that could not crease.
and fell about her in easy folds. with.
out any trimming but little bit of silk
bordering round the cap; a good cana
ciOus brown basket and shepherds
plaid shawl were her only adiuncts, and
by some mysterious process she kept her
face clean and her eyes free from cinders
all the way; that woman had
" faculty" l liked to looked at her,
but man interviewed, slim and prim
theological student, with a handbag and
a great bundle of books. However, he
got out ut New Haven and went to his
own place, and my friend, whom l
found ont afterward to be Mrs. Hannah
Tucker of Portland, Name, gave him
parting smile of relief, and expanded
herself as every railway traveller does
who is so fortunate as to occupy at last
a whole seat. She took couple of old
fashioned scolloped cookies from her
basket, red apple and a bottle of milk,
and made her supper composedly as if
by her own fire-side the few crumbs
fell into her spread handkerchief, no
drop of the milk was spilled, and those
crumbs were shaken out of the window
with the air of table-cloth, the bottle
packed away for next time, the little |
china cup wiped on clean napkin and
put in its paper-bag, the apple-core
gingerly taken by it's stem and dropped |
overheard with dreadful precision /; then
shc laid her head on the plaid shawl
and shut mp her eyes resOlutelv. / was
glad of 1t, for l am always afraid of |
such neat women.-ROse Terry Cooke. |
Year: 1873

An ANATOMICAL HINT.-Dr. Hermann
Never of Zurich asserts that a shoe
maker ought not only to produces shoe
that does not pinch, but shoe so con-
structed that it will give to foot dis
torted by the pinching it has borne al
ready fair chance of a return to it's
right shape, and full possession of its
power as a means of carrying the body
onward. He saws, that in measuring a
foot for shoe or boot, the first thing
to be considered is the place of the
great toe. Upon this toe, in walking,
ohe weight of the whole body turns at
every step in natural foot, therefore,
in straight line with the heel. A
central straight line drawn from IT,


point of the great toe to the middle OF
it's root, if continued, would pass very
exactly to the middle of the heel. But,
by the missftting boot usually worn,
the point of the toe is pressed inwards,
the root Outwards. No last, or model
of foot already injured by wearing IL.
fitting boots or shoes should ever bt
made of the exact size of such foot.
Year: 1873

Chemistry itself is at loss to esti.


mate the power of nitro-glycerine. and


yet this new agent of death is 20 per
cent. stronger. That our readers may
be enabled to form a faint conception
of the danger of such a preparation, we
will give a brief description of the
process by which nitro-glycerine, giant
and Hercules powder are supposed to be
manufactured, and of the extreme eau
ton necessary in their manufacture.
In the manufacture of nitrO-glycerine,
two tubes, each about a quarter of an
inch in diameter and six inches in
length, lead into single tube of double
their capacity, but of the same length.
Nitric acid is introduced into one and
sulphuric acid into the other of these
small tubes. The large Tube contains
glycerine. The two acids are then
forced quite gradually into the glyce-
rine, and the chemical combination thus
forms an explosive of incalculable
power So powerful and dangerous is
this article that not an ounce of it is
allowed in the manufactOry while this
little tube, six inches long and half an
inch in diameter, is being filled, and
the tube is kept constantly swathed in
ice during the process. To make giant
pO&der, this nitro-glycerine is allowed
to drip upon a clay, similar to meer-
schaum, imported from Germany. This
clay is the only perfect absorbent of
nitro-glycerine known. As Hercules
powder is darker, it is believed that
that explosive is manufactured by the
same process, charcoal, an imperfect
absorbent, being used instead of said
quality of clay. If, in the manufacture
of nitro-glycerine, strong tube is kept
swathed in ice, and a quantity of the
liquid only six inches in length and half
an inch in diameter is allowed at the
building at the same time, no wonder
that Genl Won Bokkelen, with his pre-
paration twenty per cent. more power
full, remarked that he would have it
handled thermometer in hand.
Year: 1873




The New York papers report the exist
ence in that city of new. disease Of hors-
es, or rather the development Of a disease
supposed to originate from the seeds oi
the late epizootic, which is said to be more
fatal than the original disease. The pa
pers represent that since the disappearance
Of that epidemic, horses, apparently in
good health have suddenly dropped down
often while in harness, aud died as If Of
apoplexy. Veterinary surgeons call tho
disease eerebro-spinal meningitis. The
suddenness and fatality Of the attacks, and
the paralysis accompanying it, were the
features that seemed to warrant the dag
nosis, and as that disease is almost inevi-
tably fatal, very little study has been
wasted on this new phase Of it. Inquiry
has invariably shown that the horses at.
tackled by the new disease had very severe
cases Of the former epidemic, and it Is
probable that the present trouble is due tc
their having been put TO work too soon
So far the trouble has been most noticed
in truck horses The ear companies and
other large owners Of horses will not admit
loss from it. A large number Of horse.
have died in various parts Of New York
and not few have been killed in the ear
lier stages Of the attack 10 eurtail theil
sufferings.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Albert Brisbane, the inventor of the
pneumatic tube, has gone to work at the
construction of one of the tubes from the
Capitol to the Government Printing House,
for which Congress appropriated so, 900
at the last session. The process of opera
ting these tubes is exceedingly simple. In
stead Of a car with four wheels, sphere is
used The sphere is moved by exhausting
the air at one end of the tube, so as to Gre
ate current through it, and this air-cur-
rent pressing against the sphere, which is
two or three inches smaller than the tube,
propels it with great velocity Rapidity
and power are gained by the saving of
friction Mr.. Brisbane claims that books,
documents, and manuscripts will 60 whirl-
ing along through these tubes at the rate
Of 300 miles an hour 1t is also his firm
belief that the day is not far distant when
the pneumatic tubes will be applied to the
transmission of freight from one side of
the continent to the other. 1t is not safe
to gainsay the prediction, after the expert
ence Of the English scientist who wrote a
book demonstrating that no vessel propell-
ed by steam could ever cross the Atlantic,
a book that was brought over to this coun-
try by the first steamer that practically dis
proved the scientific demonstration. Mr..
Brisbane proposes to do the freighting of
the country at one-tenth the present cost,
and at the rate of 100 miles an hour; to
bring the grains, and meats, and iron, and
coal to the seaboard so low as to make them
cheaper this they are in England, and to
accomplish as great revolution over steam
as steam did over the ox-cart II is GER
tain that many capitals are waiting for the
demonstration Of Mr.. Brisbane's new APP
plication of power with great interest 1t
is only the old-fogy railroads that are de-
laying him now in their slow process of
furnishing him the materials he needs
Year: 1873

According to the New York Sun, an
aeronaut BY the name of Donaldson is now
constructing a series Of balloons with which
he purposes to cross the Atlantic next
Summer, starting from Union Square, New
York city. Heclaims that flying machine
is within the range of possibility, and is
not discouraged by the many failures in
this field. Having had large experien ee
in ballooning, Mr.. Donaldson is earnest in
the belief that he can travel from the
setting sun at all times, 'for at a certain
height, say two and half miles, there is a
constant current of air blowing toward the
East" By ascending to the required
altitude, he is confident that this strong
current will safely bear his ship from New
York to the shores of England. He is
also Of the opinion that, when on the other
side, he will find another current which will
watt him home again. We may pronounce
that attempt to cross the ocean in balloon
foolhardy, but let us not forget that such
'foolhardy" efforts heretofore have led to
the most important discoveries Science
requires her sacrifices. If we never ven
tured out Of the old grooves we would
make no progress. If we ever succeed in
constructing machines which will navigate
the air, it will be through that spirit Of
daring which animates the bosom of Mr..
Donaldson Turf Field and Farm,
Year: 1873

In the published narrative of traveller
in Arabia, the author saw people catch
wild ducks very successfully in the harbor
of Jidda, an Oriental city, in the following
manner: An Arab stripped himself and
then cautiously waded into the water up
to his neck He then covered his head
quietly with seaweed. When properly
arranged, he walked off to where the birds
were busily employed in swimming about,
foraging on the surface. They were not
in the least alarmed at the approaching
mass, which was evidently regarded as
floating weeds. Fairly in amongst them,
he reached up and caught them by the
legs till satisfied with the number for the
occasion, which were thus secured, and
then wended his way to the shore with ex-
tremc deliberation. Thus the ingenuity
ofman circumvented the watchful instinct
Of aquatic animals that are so vigilant fol
life and liberty as to dive on hearing the
click Of the lock before an explosion Of
the charge takes place in the gun.
Year: 1873

Ithas been assumed by those competent
to form an opinion that there are twenty
five thousand muscles in silk worm.
There are eight thousand in the trunk of
an elephant, and in most of the serpents
perhaps more than million. Through the
instrumentality ofthose organs the Aexibili-
ty Of the boa constructor depends. By an
act Of will-that is, instantly charging the
muscles with An extra force--the great
python of Africa crushes the living lion into
ashapeless mass for swallowing. Every
bone is ground into fragments, so that no
opposing obstacles in the form Of splinters
or projecting points can injure the throat
on the way to the snakes immensely large
elastic stomach. Neither art or science
has yet discovered a method for generating
such power by apparently such simple
device.
Year: 1873




The New York Herald objects to the
United States and England forming a
joint protectorate overthe Sandwich Islands
at this time That Is the true position.
"A republic and monarchy can have
nothing in common in declaring what shall
be the future system of government in the
Sandwich Islands. All the United States
iscalled upon to do, is to protect the interests
Of her citizens in that locality, andsee that
England, nor any other power, does not
interfere in an improper or selfish manner
with the affairs Of the country in question.
If that is done, Republican form Of
government will be adopted in short time
in this halfway station from the United
States to Japan, China and India. The
most active, influential men on the island
are Americans. They control business and
capital, and bend public opinion in any
direction required. This being the case,
they viii pronounce in favor Of a Republic
at the proper moment whenall the arrange
ments are made for such change.