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Year: 1871

Now that the tunnel through the
Alps at Mount Cenis is finished, the en-
gineers fail 10 see their way 10 it, sue
cessful use, by reason Of the smoke
which is said to have nearly suffocated
the men on the first engine making
the passage.
Year: 1871

SHRINKAGE OF GRAIN.-We have
recently had an instance of great loss
of grain by shrinkage when it is kept
little time. The writer had auan
City carefully measured and put in sacks
1t remained in a cool barn in this way
for three months When the sacks
were filed the mouths could scarcely
be tied, they were SO full. AT the
end of three months there was apparent.
ly plenty of room for more. For curl
osity some of it was re measured. and il
was found that Two quarts per busheI
had fallen away. This is loss oil
about seven per cent. The place where
the seed was kept was very unfavora-
BILE place to waste. There was no heas OF
wind to dry it up, and it may be taken
as the very lowest per centage of loss
We have no doubt that. under other
circumstances, the loss by saving six
months may often reach as high as &c
per cent These things should be con,
sidered by those who are liable to hold
on for chance of rise.


Another consideration strikes here
People often say that they get shor'
weight or measure. No doubt this is too
often the case but it is likely in some
instances the difference is as mnch in
shrinkage as it is in morals. - Weekly
Press.
Year: 1871

The Racine journal caps the cli-
max in editorial heads when it prints a
column of Republieanism under the
following caption Is the constitution
constitutional, or unconstitutional or
has the unconstitutiouality of the con
stitution become constitutional in the
constitution of a Democrat That
the question:
Year: 1871

Gone 10 Ne,c Fields Of Labor-We un-
derstapd that Superintendent Strother sent
this morning, twenty five of the penitentiary
convicts up the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
They expect to spend the summer near the
White Sulphur, and by way of recreation will
assist in laying the road from that point to the
0hio
Year: 1871

A COUPLE of billiard-sharps have had
another tournament" in San Francisco,
and the papers are filed with disgusting
truck about it. The unproductive loafers
ought to be taken up and sent to the work
house. If we should catch boy OF ours
spending bis time in punching ivory balls
with a. long pole, we should speedily en-
gage with him in another sort of "tourna-
ment.'
Year: 1871

Supposed EnJaaticide.--The body Of a
dead white male infant was found on a vacant
lot in Manchester this morning, marks of vio-
lence were plainly visible. The police of the
town are on the track of the guilty party, and
we trnst may succeed in bringing them TO jus
tice.
Year: 1871

GOVERNOR ALcoRN, who naturally pre-
fers his own government to any other, has
sent dispatch to Senator Ames asserting
that under his rule tho recurrence OF crime
was less frequent than during the military
government. This would be strong ar
gument in favor of letting well alone, in
case it were true. But, unfortunately, the
figures on the auditors books tell no such
story. They stubbornly say that more
people were murdered in Mississippi last
year than the year before; that February
was more fatal than January, that March
was more deadly than February, and that
on the whole things are not mending so
rapidly as the Governor is deteriorating.
Year: 1871

GENERAL BUTLER is constant source
of irritation to Southern nerves. His pre-
sence the other day on the floor Of the
Senate stung the garrulous old grasshopper
of Kentucky into fit of fury dangerous
at his time of life, and Thursday the
Maryland members suffered from the same
mysterious visitation of impotent rage.
Mr.. Swami and Mr.. Richie unpacked
their hearts with words of most unwhole-
some SAVIOR. and In accusing General But
Ter of being no gentleman, certainly proved
that they had no right to an opinion on
that subject The immediate cause of Mr.
Swapn's agitation was the charge of bav-
ing been Know-Nothing, which he in
dienantly repelled and then calmly admit
ted, after which he went off into a vile
cascade of bad language. 1t is hard to
see what these worthless want.
Year: 1871

The greatest of physical para
doxes is the sunbeam. 1t is the
most potent and versatile force we
have, and yetit behaves itself like
the gentlest and most accommoda-
ting. Nothing can fall more softly
or more silently upon the earth than
the rays Of our great luminary-
not even the feathery flakes Of
snow which thread their way
through the atmosphere as if they
were too filmy to yield to the de-
mands fgravity like grosser things.
The most delicate piece of gold leaf
exposed as target to the sun
is not stirred to the extent of a hair
though the infants faintest breath
would set it into tremuIous mo-
tion. The tenderest human organ
the apple of the eye-though
peirccd and bufeted each day by
thousands of sunbeams, suffers no
pain during the process, but rejoi-
ces in their sweetness, blesses their
useful light.


Yet a few Of those rays, insinua-
ting themselves into a mass of iron,
like Britannia Tubular Bridge, viii
compel the closely knit particles to
separate, and will move The whole
enormous fabric with as much ease
as a giant would stir a straw.


The play Of those beams upon
our sheets of water lifts up layer af-
ter layer into the atmosphere, and
hoists whole rivers from their beds,
only to drop them again in SHOWS
upon the plains;


Let the air drink In d little more
sunshine at one place than an other,
and out of it springs the tempest or
the hurricane, which desoiates "a
whole region in it's lunatic wrath.


The marvel is that a power which
is capable of assuming such a di-
versity of form, and producing
such stupendous results, should
come to as in so gentle, so peace
ful a Manner British Quarterly Re.
Vieso.
Year: 1871

One great cause Of the poverty OF
the present day is the failure of the
people to appreciate small things.
They feel that if they cannot save
large sums they cannot save any
thing. They do not realize how a
daily addition, be it ever so small
win soon make a large pile. Ifthe
young men and young women Otto
day will only begin now, to save a
little from their earnings, and to
plant il in the soil ofsome good saw
ying's bank, and weekly or month
ly add their mite, they viii wear q
happy smile ofomnipotence and in.
dependence when they reach middle
life. Not only the pile itself will
increase, but the desire and ability
to increase it viii also grow. Let
clerk and tradesmaD, laborer and
artisan, make at once a new begius
ming Store up some yodr youth
ful force and vigor for future con-
tingencies. Let parents teach their
children early to begin to save.
Begin at the fountain head to con-
troll the stream OF extravaganza,
and then work will be easy. To
choose between spending and sa-
wing is to choose between poverty
and riches. Let our youth 60 on
in habits Of extravagence for fifty
years to come as they have for fifty
years past and we shall have a ma
ton Of bsggars with a moheyed are
istocracy. Let 8 generation ofsuch
as save in small sbns be reared, and
we shall be free from want.
Year: 1871

A woman has no natural gift
more bewitching than a sweet laugh.
1t is like the sound of flutes on the
water. It,eaps from her in a clear
sparkling rill, and the heart that
hears it feels as if bathed in the
cool, exhilerating spring. Have
you ever pursued an unseen fugi-
tive through the trees, led on by a
fairy laugh, now here, now there,
now lost now found? How much
we owe to that sweet laugh. It
turns prose to poetry; it touches
with light even our sleep which is
no more than the image of earth,
but is consumed with dreams that
are shadows of immortality.
Year: 1871

A0H eaAAel = Go Va "a y AmHs


A French physician is out in a
long dissertation on the advantages
of groaning and crying in general
and especially during surgical ope-
ratiohs. He contends that groan-
ing and crying are two grand ope-
rations by which nature allays an
guish; that those patients who give
way to their natural feelings more
speedily recover from accidents and
operations than those who suppose
it unworthy a man to betray such
symptoms of cowardice as either TO
groan or cry. He tells Of man who
reduced his pulse from one hundred
and twenty-six to sixty, in the
course Of a few hours by giving
full vent to his emotions. If pee.
pie are at all unhappy about any
thing let them go into their rooms
and comfort themselves with q loud
boo-hoO and they will feel a hun
dred per cent better afterwards.
In accordance with the above the
crying of children should not be too
greatly discouraged. If it is system
atically repressed the result may be
St. Vitus, dance, epileptic fits, or
some other disease of the nervous
system. What is natural is nearly
always useful; and nothing can be
more natural than the crying of
children when anything occurs to
give them either physical or men
fal ndin.
Year: 1871

An Elmira farmer wrote TO Mr.
Greedy, for his advice us to whether
plaster was good to put on potatoes.
Horace said he always used gravy or
butter on potatoes, but supposed peo
Pile could get accustomed to plaster. If
they made an effort.
Year: 1871

Aside from the injury wrought the mate
rial interests Of the individual by the burden
the injury 10 the moral sense Of the peopl
is still greater, so crushing is the load that


people readily resort to perjury 70 bafiie III,


taxpayers, and from this the practice OF ly


ing to, and cheating other people become.


natural, and 20 in addition TO being the most


heavily taxed people on the earth, we bio


fair to become the most dishonest.


The whole system of assessing taxes in thi,
country is laundering and generally fraudu.
lent, the system OF valuation by local asses
sors being especially fraud, "a contrivance


for setting each locality to cheating every
other locality. Cincinndti Gasd,s.


1t seems that other localities than ours are
cursed with a class Of men who commit per
jury in making their tax valuation returns.
That cheating, +" lying f" and perjury +"
are resorted to, to evade the payment of just
taxes is known not only to the assessors, the
county commissioners, but to the people.
We ask the County Board to look through
the long list Of those knorn by them to have
made false returns, and at least increase the
tax valuation to some figure apprcx;mating
to truth. The listing Of personal property
in this county is farce. None but the
poorer class are compelled to pay ON fair
valuation. The members of the County
Board who will rectify this great evil, will
receive the thanks Of the people.
Year: 1871

The road from Fort Leavenworth ls being
Strengthened, graded and macadamizeJ 10
Correl Creek When the work is finished
this will make the finest drive in the West.


The next question is, the direction Of the
route into the city from Correl Creek. This
will depend very much upon the action ol
the people on the streets running north be.
tween Main and Broadway. The street that
will consent TO do the grading, curbing and
macadamizing first, will be the street. Now
let there I've resolution introduced in the
Council 10 do this work.


We understand Broadway is ready and
willing to improve that street. Ii so they
will secure the advantages of the main road
to The Fort. Wherever the road does strike
the city, il is certain to increase the value of
property.
Year: 1871

When We made up our minds to purchase
TIE TINES we did 80 with the full belief
that an era of renewed life and prosperity
was dawnins upon our city.


The first house was built here seventeen
years ago We have had no excitement or
wild speculation in real estate Our growth
has been constant and steady without reac-
ton. To-day. according to the census re-
turns, We have over $1,000 people. Our
railroad policy has not heretofore been the
best; bat now ali are agreed and united
upon Il policy that will secure 10 Us three
new lines within The next twelve months
The very fact that harmony exists among our
people carises some OF our near neighbors up
and down the river 10 say many hard things
of LIS. To this.,we have nothing TO say, only
to wisl, them Gcd speed in their efforts for
success, and trust they will keep cool, for
there is no mistake, the people of Lcaven-
worth are inspired, and fully believe this will
be the "rroulest city in the Missouri Valley"
Year: 1871

An eastern paper gives an. account Of 4
team Of trained surgeons which draw boat
on the Lehigh canal. The driver has his
seat ia the bow and directs their course with
a goad, which is a long pole as thick as ones
wrist, with a sharp spike sticking out at right
angles from the end, and it is surprising
with what aiarcity they obey. When they
are to he turned TO the right or left, sudden
prick Oh the opposite side of each sturgeon
Causes the pair to take the desired course.
When a greater speed is desired they are
pierced near The tail; when they are desired
to halt, the goad is reached forward, and they
are prickei IN the front OF the head.
Year: 1871

Yesterday the County Board had under
discussion the form Of the submission of the
question of aid to the railroads.
We hope the Board will not give dollar
of the stock or bonds until the roads are
completed.


The c. S. W. 4 +. +. L. should agree to
go through the city up Five Mile Creek,
through High Prairie and Alexandria.


Let there be no division. While the peo-
pie are willing to vote the required aid, they
depend upon you, gentlemen OF the Board,
to fully protect their Interests.


We have offered generous, liberal aid,
and have right to ask and know the route
the roads vii take.


We have paid $4,000 on the bridge and
Cameron road. This is quite liberal,
We think, yet We are willing
to give $50, 900 bonds and our stock in the
road for its extension to Topeka. We are
not willing TO have the road built directly
west from the bridge with our money.


The company propose TO puild a road to
Atchison for $4,000, and surely the
one million We have given is worthy
Of some consideration, aud the Cameron
road should remember that We have
been generous to them. All We ask il not
TO load the proposition down with such con-
ditiops that our people will refuse to support
them. We want to aid you and will do 20
If you will L.; us.


The County Board mnst do its duty with
out fear or favor
Year: 1871

The information from along the line Of
the X. &. X. X. is to the effect that the peO.
pie are wide awake, and will aid the build
ing Of the road.


The fact is known and appreciated that by
building narrow gauge the construction Of
f~o miles in length Of road il secured, where
only one would be built On the broad gauge,
thus draining tSioe the extent OF the country
that would otherwise be drained.


We can assure our friends that the city is
united, and the proposition to give aid will
be carried by large majority.


The great railroad king, Thos. A. Scott,
will take one third interest in the road, which
il Of itself sufficient guarantee that the
road will be built right along.


Senator Caldwell favors the road, and
pledges the influence Of his immense wealth
and position to push the good work ahead.
Year: 1871

The Mayor OF Louisville having refused a
one legged man permission 10 walk rope
stretched acrors the street from the house
tops, was accused Of being Influenced in his
action 10y the fact that the man had lost his
leg..in the Union army. The Mayor replied
iha, he declined 10 give the man the desired
permission because a one-legsed man, walk
ing ,ight-rope at lofty elevation, ran too
much risk, and he bad no desire 10 allow a
man To break his neck in any such occupa-
ton, through his permission. He did not
know or care where OF how he lost his ley,
but he didn't propose to help him lose his
J;fa
Year: 1871

A Philadelphia judge has decided that
procession has no right TO interrupt the ordi
nary travel on the streets. The case aros,
on an order given by the Mayor of that city
that no street cars should be allowed 10 eros
certain street while procession WAS pass
ing, which order was disobeyed by one o.
the lines, and the question finally reached )
Judicial determination. The decision is right
There is no sort of reason why the business
OF the public should be interrupted by Civ
ing the right Of way to professions OF one
sort and another.
Year: 1871

INDICTMENTS FOUND IN THE wEsTFIELD CASE.


In tho Court of General Sessions, yesterday,
the Grand Jury returned number of indictments and
was discharged by Recorder Hacket After the indict-
ments were handed in, Distrct-Attorney Garvin and
the Recorder together for some time In low
tones and the DstricAttorney then took the indct-
ments In the Wested and left the court room. In
reply TO INQUIRIES concerning their nature, he stated
that they would not be shown to the reporters until after
the arrest OF certain persons who not under bail
The Indictments are to be for manslaughter
in the third degree against President Vanderbilt super
intendent Brasted and Engineer Robinson
Year: 1871

A suit was begun yesterday in the United
States District Court for the forfeiture 10 the Govern
ment OF the steamer Thomas p Way for Transporting
empty whisky barrels upon which tho revenue stamps
had not been cancelled. =


In the United States District Court. yester-
Year: 1871

ToRpEDoEs ADRIFT-Thcrc is somo-
thing extremely disagreeable says
London paper in the story that during
tho late experiments carried on with
torpedoes in the Blbe some of these un-
pleasant machines broke loose and
hoatcd away into the ocean. The
possibility Of yacht, steamer, or
peaceful trading ship coming in con-
tact with one OF them is a very un-
comfortable idea, as we fear they
would not respOst ucutral bottoms.-
Ii is earnestly to be hoped that if any
oflhose torpedocs have wandered from
their proper paths, they will sink by
their own weight without loss of time,
or become the prey of somc sea mon
ster who will not DO little surprised
at the effect produced by such n pccu.
liar pill
Year: 1871

IIYDEoruoBIA.-Dr. N. II. Smith.
of Baltimore, says that be has in The
course of fifty years practice treated
many cases OF bites by rabid dogs, and
always with success if called upon
within three days after the bite. His
method of treatment is 10 instantly
wash the wound again and again with
soap and water, and then apply to it
a cylindrical piece of caustic potasl.
cut in the shape of pencil point
This should be held in The wound
firmly for fifteen minutes. After the
application of the caustic the wound
should be poulticed with broad and
milk for two days, and then dressed
with q simple salve. A nero scratch
is more dangerous than deep wound.
as in the latter case the flow of blood
is apt to carry out the poison with It.
DR.. Smith thinks the poison exists in
the saliva of the rabid animal, and, like
tho virus of the smallpox, has a GER
tain period of incubation before the
system becomes affected.
Year: 1871

FIFTEEN MIsTAKEs.-lt is great
mistake to set up our own standard
Of right and wrong, and judge people
accordingly. II isa great mistake to
measure the enjoyment of others by
our owa; to expect uniformity OF
opinion in this world to look for
Judgment and experience in youth ;
to cndeavor 10 mould all dispositions
alike; not to yield in immatorial tri


flcs; to look for protection in n fallen
world; not to aim at perfection in onr
own actions to worry ourselves and
others with what cannot be remcdiodi
not 10 alleviate all their needs, as fat
rs lies in our power = not TO mako al-
lowanco for the infrmilics OF others; "a
consider everything impossible which
VIC cannot perform to believe only
what our fniio minds can grasp tc
expect to be able TO understand every


thing. The greatest Of all mistakes
is TO live only for timo, when any mo


mcnt may launch Us into eternity.
Year: 1871

A Michigan farmer has had over
three hundred dollars worth Of fun
this season by plugging water.mclons
and putting tartar emetic in them and
watching The boys steal them, and
then lie across the fence and heave up
Jonah Tic boys in that vicinity say
that melons are unhealthy this year.
Year: 1871

GENEVA, Nov. 20.-The origin of the
confagration in this city is to be made the
subject of strict investigation. Suspicion
is directed against against agents Of the In
ternational Society.
Year: 1871

Tho Cslicse Of the City Of New York.


The results OF the late semi-annual examination
In the college have just been announced There has
never been more thorough and 1t the same time
moro satisfactory examination. The Faculty feel
greatly pleased over IT, and rightly. too; but not
more than the trustees and not more than all should
who feel an interest in the success and growth Of
the college. The following table gives the results Of
the examinasiop:-
Year: 1871

Something Stranger than Fiction.


The following story appears in Theo-
dore Tiltoh's Golden Age, of New York,
which journal vouehes for it:


A young lady of Philadelphia, Of
marked talents, Of many accomplish
ments, and of high moral worth, and
lacking only three months of her major
ity, had formed an engagement of mar
riage with young man to whom her
mother did not wish her allied. The
mother had long been upon her bed, con-
fined with illness, through which the
daughter had attended her with the most
filal devotion.


On learning the fact of the unshaken
resolution of this daughter, the mother
sprang from her bed, and clutching her
child by the throat, told her she should
not leave the room alive; that she would
send her to heaven and her lover to hell.
The poor, halfstrangled girl, knowing
that her mother always kept within
reach six-barrelled revolver, passively
resigned herself a victim. She was
taken to an upper room and made close
prisoner.


Midnight came, when, after hours of
suffering, she had fallen into troubled
sleep. She was walked by her mother
entering the room, and ordered to get up
and dress herself. A carriage was at
the door, and, with her father and an
other man, she was taken out, and soon
found herself moving away to the sound
of carriage wheels.


Soon this was exchanged for the rapid
motion of street car, and in the morn
ing she found herself prisoner in a
hotel in New York 1t would seem that
a plan to put her on board of a steamer
sailing to Europe did not succeed, and
her next experience was to find herself
in the cars on her way back to Philadel-
phia. Here, again, she was locked up
for day or two Again, at the mid
night hour, was she taken from her bed,
conducted to New York and now put on
board steamer-with no explanation
whatever as to what was to be her fate
or destination.


She had imagined she was to be taken
TO Boston, and it was not until she found
herself out upon the ocean that she
could have learned the fact that she was
on her way to Europe. 1t is left to con-
lecture as to what may be the fate of
this young lady. Whether she is to be
immured in a convent or a lunatic asy-
lum is not known to others, and is prob
ably as little known to herself.
Year: 1871

of Chinese children in wooden shoes,
and yet that practice is no more injuri-
GUS to the feet than forcing them into a
small boot, with an Alpine heel. This
is matter of grave and serious import,
and hence we press it upon the mothers
and fathers of the land. If they would
not feed the surgical hospitals, and have
groups of manned daughters in their
homes, they must commence a crusade
on high heels. No father should have
high-heeled boots in his house any
more than he would keep a vicious dog
in the parlor. When skillful surgeons
like DIR. Pancoast, from the operating
room, raise their voices against high
heeled boots, it is time for old and young
ladies to pause and listen. At this pc
riod they can choose between high heels
and the operating knife. In short
time it may be the latter, or permanent
lameness
Year: 1871

The latest fashion in wedding presents
is such, fortunately, as will enable all
men to do the generous thing upon every
occasion. 1t is simply to give check,
which is displayed among the other pre-
sents. Now, no man is too poor to give
a check. 1t is one Of the inalienable lib
critics of this country. Even board-of-
trade men do it sometimes. Giving a
check will be found the easiest and
cheapest way most men can choose in
the matter of making wedding presents.
= ChicQnO' Times.