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Year: 1873

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 --, do swear that I have the ability pecuniarily to fulfill my obligation as such bidder; that the bid is made in good faith, and with the intention to enter into contract and perform the service in case said bid shall be accepted; and that the signatures of the guarantors thereto are genuine, and that I believe the said guarantors to be pecuniarily responsible for and able to pay all damages the United States shall suffer by reason of my failing to perform my obligations, as such bidder
Year: 1873

A queer tale about queer freaks ofcot
tenwood have come to light. We sup
posed we had exhausted the subject, but
here comes the cap sheaf Of all.


IT seems man died not long since not
far from here, and there being no lum-
Der except that of cottonwood near,
wide, thin boards Of that material were
used for coffin, in which the body was
placed, and then conveyed to q mound,
which was conspicnously near, and de-
posted in the earth by the three or four
persons who had been residing with him.
Il few days after one Of the parties Who
Year: 1873

A blacksmith at Sioux City wished to
get rid Of his dog, and adopted highly
original plan. While old Towser WAS
taking his MONDAY siesta in the sun,
the owner gently attached flask Of
powder to his tail--and touched it off
with match! His family physician
thinks that if he has good luck he may
recover the use of his eyes by the time
the hair grows again ON the dogs back.
Year: 1873

A gentleman at Brainerd Eve refuse
to tell his name,) received postal card
the other day upon which was written
in beautiful female hand the following
expressive and suggestive sentence: "1f
you don't send that ten dollars imme-
diately, l will be compelled to inform
your wife of the whole transaction.
Morian
Year: 1873

There are no Developments showing
disposition to resume work on the st.
P.& P. extensions this fall, as was
hoped. A few days more at best will
settle the fate Of the land grant in
,ro1roI
Year: 1873

Sunset Cox has been again nominated
to Congress in New York city. He
ought to be elected, as he is about the
only man ever in Congress that could
oeat Ben. Butler at his own game
bluff. CAB and cheek. ...
Year: 1873

We are now in the midst of the heated
term, and the dangers of sunstrokc are
again imminent, and cannot be to care
fully guarded against. Below is given
what is SAID to be specific against sun
stroke, which may prove useful in the
communities in which this paper cir
culatcs "About yeal since l saw in
Il newspaper an account of case of
sunstroke, written by the party him
self. After suffering long time from
the attack, and having to considerable
degree recovered, he experienced suffer
ing even from the rays of the moon.
This led Iim to the reflection that it was
not altogether the heat of the sun that
produced prostration. After much re-
search he discovered that the injury
came from tho chemical and not from
the heated ray. He was guided to this
by observing the fact that photograph
could not be taken through hollow
glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with





arrest the chemical ray, and one of green
to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared
he went where the rays of the sun were
most intense with imprnity. 1t is well
known that the negro is seldom or never
sunstruck. The color of his skin over
the skull being of the orange yellow may
assist in accounting for the fact.
practiced upon this suggestion all last
summer, lined my hat with green and
orange yellow paper, and had confidence
enough in the truth of the theory to
neglect my umbrella, which | had never
done before. [ mentioned it to many,
who tried it also, and in many cases that
came under my observation they uni
formly asserted that the oppressive heat
of the sun upon the head was much
relieved"
Year: 1873

One is almost sure to be disappointed
when he first enters the interior of Jerll-
salem. However carefully he may be
prcparcdagainst surprise, he will scarce
ly escape it in more directions than one.
The filth of the city will surprise and
annoy him. One who comes to Jcru.
salem from Egypt can endure n great
deal i'll this direction, but even he will
have attained to IL high degree of cqua-
nimity if he does not occasionally lose his
temper amidst the supcrabolInding filth
of the city. And what is worse, it seems
to gather most about the most sacred
places. You cannot, with any comfort,
approach through the old bazaar of the
cotton merchant-what was doubtless
the Beautiful Gate" of the temple
without holding your breath. The Mo-
hammedans, while guarding with the
kccncst vigilance the sacred inclosurc
from the pollution of intiucl feet, seem
quito regardless of the intrusion of filth,
and it often gives one relief, when trav-
cling these dirty streets, to think that
the Jerusalem of the Bible lies half q
hundred feet or more beneath the pres
cnt Sllrfacc
Year: 1873

A GENIUS has invented plan to pre-
vent exposure of writing on postal
cards. He proposes to write on paper
and transfer the impression to the card,
keeping the original. The copy is then
reserved and may be easily read by
holding it before a mirror, which re-
stores the manuscript. The idea is
that postal carriers and domestics will
not take this trouble, and the writing
will escape ordinary scrutiny. Any one
can read it in the same way, however,
if their curiosity is superior to their in
difference.
Year: 1873

PKOF. WISE has been interviewed by
the ubiquitous reporter, to whom he has
unfoldcd the details of the manner in
which he proposes to make his projected
balloon voyage across the ocean. Prof.
Wise says that the balloon will be
globular in shape, about 100 feet in
diameter, and capable of taking 10000
pounds of disposablc ballast lie will
also have II large wicker-work car, with
n roof for protection from the weather,
He says "This car will he two stories
in height. We shall live on the upper
floor, and in the lower one shall
store our provisions. Underneath the
car will be an open gallery for taking
observations of the sun. Below this
gallery the lifc-boat will be suspended,
which will be of metal and deckcd over. "
In another place, Prof. Wise says
"From former experience on the lakes
L Judge that ! can tell the direction
which the balloon is travelling by the
foam on the water. 1 can always sec
the water, except at such times as clouds
intervene. can find out the direction
of the currents below me without com
ing down to seek them, by suspending q
light line of two miles in length from
the balloon, having on it, at regular
distances, indices which will register
the direction of the wind. Should til,
balloon encounter the 'bravc wes
winds on the ocean, with the aid of ;
drag line We could go right along with
out the loss of gas or ballast"
Year: 1873

EXTRACT from Il late London letter:
cit should crafty many of his old
friends in America to know that the
Hon. j. p. benjamin, erst of the Lost
Cause is rapidly building up fame
and fortune here. His practice at the
bar now amounts to more than 5000
year, and his reputation as a barrister
is second to but very few of the great
lights of the profession. In society he
is much sought after, and there is good
reason to believe that should he still
have any ambition to re-enter political
life the path is quite open to him. '
Year: 1873

BY recent act of the Cortes, Spain
is to be divided up into a confederation
of States Which viii be entitled to
elective representatives, something after
the manner of this country. The
foreign policy of the country is to be
the same as heretofore. The discipline
of the army is to be rigid. Slavery is
TO be abolished in all her possessions.
Martial law will be immediately pro-
claimed against tile Carlist insurgents.
Year: 1873

The increased speed is due partly perhaps, to the
strong Spring tide ON which the was rOwed, but
mainly 10 the use of sliding seats. Neither crew
was up to the mark Of some in recent years. The
following are the latest wei ghts of the two crews:
Year: 1873

Thousands and thousands Of alb
sentses have not given one cent to as
sist the suffering people of Memphis
unable to get away. An excellent plan
Of systematic charity has been proposed
by prominent citizen, which affords
an opportunity for each and all to give
a share, IL not their full part We pub
lished the scheme Saturday, as did the
Appeal and Avalanche Of the same day,
with their hearty endorsement. 1t pro-
poses to secure stated subscriptions Of
five dollars per week, for a period rum
ming two weeks beyond the termination


of yellow fever, that fund may be guar
anteed to the destitutegas we'll as the
sick. Several responses, we belive, have
been made already, and the Howard
Association will receive all others. 1t
is not right to depend altogether
upon contributions from abroad when


so many of our people athome,are able
to give of their abundance, and yet have
given only sparingly. The plan pro-
posed, if carried out in city and country,
would bring into the Golfers Of the How
ard Association abundantme means to meet
all pressing necessities for the critical
three or four weeks to come. We hope
that all who are willing to pledge a
stated amount for few weeks viii send
in their names to the Howard Associa-
ton st once, thar the members Of that
worthy organization nay feel authorized
to continue operations few days efter
the abatement Of yellow fever. a ID 4
Year: 1873

Two heavy frOsts give great encour-
agement to all classes, and hopeful ami
nation begins to beam in almost every
face we meet. Severe cases Of fever
are always endangered by cool snap
of weather like this hence the mortality
list will not go down.at once, even when
the air is purified, The end may be de-
ferred good many days yet, but we
hope to soon record more rapid abste'
ment. ~
Year: 1873

NNIEuoQUIsN E.>ILT Learned.
in. to a writer in the Chicago Aeraaos, the
yeu;riloquist's art Is as easy learned as fall
ing of a log He maintains that there is
no difficulty in acquiring the power. In the
first place. he says, speak any word OF sem
teuce In vOur natural tone then open the
mouth and fix your Jaws fast, as though try
ing to hinder any one from opening them
any further or shutting them draw the
tongue back in a ball speak thc-amc words,
and the sound, instead Of being formed in
the mouth. will be formed in the pharvnz
Great attention must he paid 10 holding the
laws rigid. The sound viii then be found
10 initiate a voice from the other -rlc Of the
door when it is closed, or under q floor. OF
through wall To initiate sound behind
q door partly open. the voice must not be
altered from the original note or pitch, but
be made in another part of the mouth. This
Is done hy closing the lips tight and drawing
one corner Of the mOuth downward and To-
ward the ear. Then let the lips open at that
corner only, the other part 10 remain closed.
Next. breathe. as it were, the words ont Of
the orifce formed. Do not speak the words
distinctly, but expel the breath in short puiis
at each word, and as loud as possible BY
SD doing. You produce the illusion in the
minds of YOUR listeners that they hear the
same voice which they heard when the door
was closed. but more distinctly and nearer
on account Of the door being open The
lips must always he used when the yeutrilo-
quist wishes it to appear that the sound
comes through an obstacle but from some
one close at hand.
Year: 1873

How TO MANAGE An USNANAGEABLE HoRsE


A beautiful and high-spirited horse would
never allow a shoe to be put on his feet or
any person to handle his feet. In an at
tempt to shoe such horse, recently. he re-
sisted all efforts, kicked aside everything but
an anvil, and came near killing himself
against that, and finally was brought back
to his stable unshod This defect was lust
on the eye of consigning him to the plough.
where he might work barefoot, when an Of
ficer in our service, lately returned from Mex
leo, took cord about the size of common
BEDFORD, put it in the mouth of the horse
like bit, and tied it tightly on the animals
head, passing his left ear under the string,
not painfully tight, but tight enough to keep
the ear down and the cord in its place. This
done, he patted the horse gently on the side
of the head, and commanded him to follow:
and instantly the horse obeyed, perfectly
subdued and as gentle and obedient as a
well-trained dog suffering his feet to be
lifted with entire impunity, acting in all res
poets like an old stager. The gentleman
who thus furnished this exceedingly simple
Year: 1873

I>NoCENr Rural BoYS.-lt Is a mistaken
idea to suppose that the small boy of the city
IS more wicked than the rural lad : that he
Is, in fact, such bae Hoir that when placed
beside his country cousin. the latter appears
a shining saint. such an opinion has OBJ
tanned for all time. and possibly will for all
time TO come But it is a libel upon the
children Of the street. and has no foundation
in fact. We intend to explode this bubble
and have Justice done to our qaminS. 1t is
true that they are very wicked, and they
play in the cutters, pick pockets, 20 in
swimming from the pier-heads, throw stones
at each other. break windows, steal mats.
get up behind cabs, and perform many other
freaks of Ike nature But is that any rea-
son why we should paint them with the
somhre brush of condemnation. and nat the
boys Of the fields upon the head, and hunt
in our pockets for pence to heSt0w upon
them? The popular idea of the rural boy is
very pretty as Il mental picture lie is in
duStrious. and carries his little hoe a-feld
with which to touch up the sprouting corn.
lie i, studious to fault, and it Is n favorite
habit Of his to sit up all night and read Latin
books on astronomy by the light Of a pine
torch. We never witnessed this operation,
but have it on good authority that it is look
cd at as the correct thing for the country
boy to do No sluggard is he; but when
the first flush crimsonS the eastern SKY he
bounds from his bed, pulls on his jeans trow-
scrs and rawhide boots and goes to work in
the stables, or Mt chopping wood. In the
winter he walks ten miles through the snow
to school, and draws his little sister upon
his sled. In time he comes to own farm,
then he marries. builds 4 church. becomes
Justice of the peace, dies and is buried in
the village churchyard-a hundred dollar
tombstone informing a passing world, in n
very expensive manner, Of his many virtues.
This is what the country boy is supposed to
be. but we know the statement to be a swim
die. As we have often seen him, he was an
adept in all sorts of mischief He could steal
eggs, and deny the accusation with a nerve
that Schuyler Collax might envy. Dog
fights are his delight; circus his heaven.
To get into the circus he Will appropriate
money that was intended for the conversion
of some little heather boy and. that scheme
failing, he will crawl under the tent. 1t is
n grim satisfaction to know that he is often
punished for this sin. In one instance the
performing elephant accidentally stepped on
three little boys who were squirming in, and
mashed them 50 that their different parents
were at loss to tell which was which, and
50 had to shake their names up in 4 hat, and
draw for it, When such sad scenes are pos
sible, it is well to claim moral superiority
for the boy of the country Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper.
Year: 1873

Nothing is easier than to create a desp0n-
dent feeling at time like this, and nothing
can be moro dangerous than to yield to it.
There has been enough of disappointment
about the early termination Of the crisis to
account for the influence Of hope de-
ferred" Fortunately, the stability Of our
banks docs not entirely depend upon men
who yield to the prevailing influence Of the
hour. There is large class of merchants
who, while perfectly conscious OF the dan
gers Of the existing deadlock in the ordina-
ry machinery Of finance, arc serupulously
careful to do nothing to aggrayate those
dangers by unreasOning panic. So long as
our largest business firms maintain their
attitude of coOlness and confidence, it is
impossible that the gloomy predictions 50
freely uttered should be ycriied.-N Y.
Times
Year: 1873

INcENIoUs RASCAHTY - Briefly Hill. y
small village on the outskirts of the BLACK
Country. (London) has just been the scene
Of a robbery which for lis impudcnce and
ingenuity would do credit to the most ac-
complishcd of Whitechapel thieves. \ lad
entered the shop of provision dealer in the
place, and purchased a penny roll. Having
done 50. he besought the shopkeeper (who
was alone in the premiSe>) to stuff it down
for him behind his ''smOck,' alleging that
he wanted to hide it from his mate. who was
lettering outside, ard would be sure to take
it from hlm if he saw it in his possession


The complaiSant tradesman did as requested.
with reiterated and urgent requests from the
lad to stuff it down as far as he could that it
might not be seen. While the roll was be-
Ing slowed away in this anomalous hiding
place the purchaser managed to steal the
tradesman's watch. \ minute or two after
the former had left the shop, enter another
lad and said, " Do YOU know what that chap
has Just done? He's prigged your watch =
The shopkeeper looked in horror his watch
chain was dangling, his watch gone. There
he goes, said the last conner, pointing to 4
figure Just disappearing round a corner. Of
started the shopkeeper in pursuit, leaving
the shop unguarded. When he reached the
corner the presumed thief was out of sight.
By the time that he returned from the fruit
les chase his kindly informant had also dis
appeared. and the till was emptied to its
last copper. No trace of either thief has as
vet been discovcred.-PaH Mall Gazette.
Year: 1873

An exchange says that one of its sabseri-
bers. rcw weeks since, concluded he would
stop his paper, thinking he could not afford
n newspaper investment. The paper had
ceased its visits two weeks, when he came
into the Office and said he wanted it again.
lie had lost Sl00 the week before for want
of information he could have obtained
from the paper. The worst economy in the
world Is stopping your local paper.
Year: 1873

To drive away ants.-If they are married
ants, borrow some money of their husbands
If they are single, let'em take care of the
baby for the afternoon while your wife goes
to a matinee.
Year: 1873

\ BAD WETrE.-On Friday evening last
a Young lady of this village. SAYS the S1rG-
fogiGH, received letter out of tie post of
fee. Hastily opening it, Sic attempted to
read its contents, but it was puzzle, as She
ioand it an impossibility to decipher many
of the words and sentences; and those that
she did. seemed to convey no intelligence or
to have the slightest particle of sense in
them. She asked Young gentleman friend
to assist her in reading it. lie looked at
the mysterious miSsiye and smiled Her
curiosity was aroused, she snatched the let
ter from his hands and attempted to read it
and smile, but it was of no use She hand
ed it back to him. lie gazed at it and
smiled a little BROADER, but said nothing.
Now she was vcxed, and thought it real
mean in him to laugh and not tell her what
about. After laughing till he grew red in
the face and bis sides shook and aohed. he
handed it back to her, saying: "Why,
that's your own letter returned from the
dead letter Office
Year: 1873

The experience of all people among
whom it has existed in Egypt, China, the
Sandwich Islands and elsewhere. has re-
suited in the unqualified affirmation that II
is A few physicians, and still more un-
professional persons in this country, pro-
test that it is not, except under peculiar
circumstances. The argument is a com
mon one we have had the leprosy here
in California ever since we have had the
Chinese why if it is contagious, has it
not spread among the white people 4
There is a primary error here in the as
sumption that it has not. The fact is that
il has. A man named EIkridge died here
few months since from this disease.
Another died of it not long since in the
Alameda county hospital A man who
held the highest place in the esteem Of the
people Of San Francisco, died but few
weeks since, and it has been affirmed to me
that this horrid pest was the cause Of his
demise. | know of one case now in pro-
gress here, white man, who is suffering
with leprosy and | only refrain from Civ
ing his name by request Of the physician
who has him in charge Could the truth
be known about the spread Of leprosy
among the white population it would be
appalling


CHINESE CAUTION.


''The Chinese do not quite strictly shun
the lepers, yet even they avoId touching
them Ii is their belief that the leprosy
is only communicated by actual contact
with the minute scales that fall from the
leper's livid tumors. Hence the leper finds
home in a separate pen, has tub ali to
his own use in their wash house, a table
by himself in their cigar factories, a bench
where he may work alone at slipper max
king


This is the graphic description Of our
filthy population by personal observer /;
the truth Of which our citizens may learn
in the same way if they wish to look for
themselves


CIGARS AND SLIPPERS.


II is not very pleasant for us TO reflect
that men stick their feet into slippers made
by a leper, and it is less so, when we see
the diseased lips produced by smoking oi-
gars made by leprous hands No man who
smokes cigars made by Cinnamon can tell
which one is the product Of the leper.
With liberated hands they wrap the fallen
leper scales with the tobacco, and the
smoker sucks it into his system, which may
break out III one year, OF in ten years, and
children may inherit the disease from the
careless father
Year: 1873

We said, o day or two ago, that Mayor
Havemeyer stood at the dividing of ways. We
fear that in one or two important particulars
he has since taken the wrong way.


On purely partisan groun DIS, no faction in
the city has any right either to complain or
to rejoice over yesterdays appointments. The
Administration Republicans get the Chairman
of their Committee. The Tammany Democrats
fairly balance this, for they get Mr.. Oliver
Charlick. The military element has Duryea /;
the artists get Church; there is q gene
raj and genial division of honors easy.
1t is not on any partisan grounds
that we take exceptions to the Mayors work.
But we insist that this appointment of one
politician to please one class, and of another to
offset him, and please another class, is not
the way to secure good government.
What above all things the people of New
York have looked to Mr. Havemeyer for
is strictly nOn-partsan Police Board,
which should care for the peace of the city
and let politics alone. We fear that on this
he has failed us. Mr. Hugh Gardner is q
gentleman of whom we hear little but good,
and whose ability and integrity are alike un-
questioned; but he is Chairman of one of the





Charlick is a gentleman of unquestiOned force
and large executive capacity familiar with
affairs, and thoroughly conversant with the
wants of the city; but he is an ardent political
manager, and one OF the chief men of Tammany.
Doubtless either may be trusted to aim at
neutralizing the other but we should prefer
q Police Board where the elements of strength
might be combined in legitimate police work
rather than expended in working against each
other iii politics. For the rest, we fancy that
Mr.. Henry Smith and Mr.. Oliver Charlick will
be natural allies in the Board, and will prove
easily an overmatch for Mr.. Gardner. Oliver
Charlick may be set down in advance as, by
virtue alike of experience, force of will, and
force of brain, the ruling spirit of the new
Board.


The nomination of Mr.. George w. Lane to be
Chamberlain is as surprising as it is gratifying.
He is a representative of the oldschool, upright
and straight forward New York merchant. lie
has had to do with politics nothing more than
the lending of his name and influence TO the
Reform inaugurated by the Committee of
Seventy two years ago. He has never
held Office, and will enter the iChamberlain's
Office the representative and agent of no
bank anxious for deposits. aud from his