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Year: 1875

One of the most exquisite wonders Of
the sea is the opelst, q flower resembling
very much the German Chinaaster. 1t
has the appearance of large double
aster, with a quantity of petals of
light green color, glossy as silk, each
petal tipped with rose color. These
lovely petals are never still, but wave
in tho water, while the flower olings to
the rock. So innocent and lovely-look-
ing, no one could suspect it of eating
anything certainly if it did, only a bit
of rainbow or a drop of dew. But
those beautiful waving petals have other
and more material work to do-to pro-
vide for a large mouth, which is cum
ningly hid deep down among them.
They do their duty famously for, as
soon ns a silly little fish comes in con-
tact with those rosy tips, he is struck
with poison fatal and quick as light
ming. He dies instantly, and the beau
/ tiful arms wrap themselves about him
| and drag him into the greedy mouth.


Thea those lovely petals unclose and
! float innocently on the water, just like
our water-lily, but its existence doubted
until the last century. Now the opelet
is known to be thing that really exists.
Year: 1875

in the bank of France they have
got & brick for which they paid 1000
francs in specie. It was taken from the
ruins Of e burnt house, and the image
and figures of a note for 600 france
are burned on the surface, transferred
by heat from real note. This brick
the bank redeemed on presentation, as
If it we're q note itself,
Year: 1875

-Lohse has investigated what would
be the effect and appearance of spher-
ical gaseous mass, as seen by an OBJ
server passing over the solar disk, and
has sought to apply his results to the
possible effect of the atmosphere of
Venus on the phenomena of the Venus
transit. In conclusion, ne states, with
reference to the so called black-drop
phenomenon, that if the atmosphere of
Venus has a density so great that 1t
uniles the solar rays in one point lying
between Venus and the earth, it must
then have the same effect as an obaque
body; that is to say, the solar limb viii
by this atmosphere be broken or in
dented before the body of Venus itself
touches it ; and, conversely, the solar
limb viii not regain its integrity at the
close Of the inner contact until the at
mospherio layer is entirely within the
solar disk. It Is possible that at the
inner contact the effect of the atmos
phere of Venus contributed eonsidera-
bly, to the appearance Of the Eo-called
] back drop.
Year: 1875

Nine-tenths Of the Juvenile poems
written spring ont of the musical and
suggestive condolences. And else
where the autoerat speaks of beings
who send him some 4" strings of verses,
candidates for the orthopedic infirmary.
all of them, in which I learn for the
miIlionth time one of the following
facts: Either that something about a
chime is sublime, or that something
about time is sublime. or that some
thing about chime is concerned with
time, or that something about q rhyme
is sublime or concerned with time OF
with chime"
Year: 1875

An exchange in speaking of the i'm
portance of every business man making
an authoritative statement of the nature
of his own business to the public, makes
the following excellent suggestions:


Some men are willing enough to pay
70, printing ink, but they imagine that
palpable straight out advertisingis is not
exactly the thing. They want to get it
done in the third person, or to have the
endorsement of the editorial 1--WE"
That business man who soonest educates
himself out of this delusiOn will have
the most greenbacks. A business mans
advertisement in his own language, over
his own signature, and for which he is
plainly responsible, is in the nature of
an official document. There is an air
about the responsible advertisement
which says: 81 want to trade and will
give yOu "A fair bargain" When we
have occasion to advertise our own bus
mess We rarely make editorial mention
of it, but insert an advertisement. This
view of the subject is not inconsistent
with the common practice of making
editorial mention of new advertisements
and tine largest papers cannot ever do
that-nOr of local mention of matters
that are constantly occurring in the
business community, by which any
mans business may be called into no
tice One is news item and the other
is an introduction as it were of new
customer to the reading or business
public


To obtain the full value OF printers
ink, advertise. Do it in your own Ian
guage, or if you cannot do that to suit
you, get some one better versed in the
matter to help you, or come to the Office
with your ideas written down and we
will help put them in shape. BY all
means advertise. Change Oftep, and
when your business admits of it, make
different features of it prominent in
THEN t,.rn; to- day one thing, TO morrow
or next week another, and then some
thing else. Let your advertisements
have something Of the dash in them,
without great exaggeration. Hundreds
of fortunes have been made by adver-
tisiDg, and yet as an art it is but imper-
fectly understood.
Year: 1875

crazed or dreamiEg2 There in the same
place was the same man, digging as be-
fore.


She entered the house, half fainting.
and briefly told the story to her sons,
VII" We're now stalwart young men.
They went into the garden, and there,
sure enough, was the man. In two min
utes they had their guns ready, and one
of them passed round the edge to the
gate below where the man was, while
the other took up position near low
stone wall which cut off part of the field
from an open lot. Both showed them
selves at one time, and called out to the
man. He started up and prepared to
fly. In a moment the young men closed
in on him, covering him with their
weapons. When he saw lie was hope
lessly entrapped, he dropped to the
ground, and allowed himself to be cap
tured. As they led him through the
street Mrs. Rand confronted him. He
was the double OF the Iuan who had WIS.,
tied her the morning after the Squire's
murder, and bore Il striking resemblance
to the late Squire, who had been hanged
as his brothers assassin, even to the
Wen which had made Mrs. Rand's ident-
iiication fatal. The authorities were
sorely perplexed, but the man admitted
that he was the murderer of Squire
Greene, and that he had come back in
the hope of finding the money he had
buried there the morning after the per-
petration of his crime. He gave his
name as John Sedley. He saved the
county the trouble Of hanging him by
jumping from the top of the stage coach
while crossing the bridge into Durham,
and fracturing his skull against an abut-
ment.
Year: 1875

/
great strife raging. 1t is an Austerlitz of
ribbons. The carnage of color is seen
all over our assemblages. Along on the
| outskirts of the Sabbath audience you
see, here and there, picket of fashion.
| But down in the middle of the church
are the solid columns, blazing away all
through the services Five hundred
'broken and contrite hearts" covered
up in rainbows and spangles. Follow
ers of the ''meek and Iowly Nazarene"
all a-jingle and a-flash. Ten cents for
the missionary cause, and two hundred
and fifty dollars for trappings Church
of God hung by the neck with gold
chains, diamond-locketed. Unsophisti-
Gated person travelling on two yards of
silk, dragged by the lady going up the
aisle ip front of him. Diamonds enough
to give all India the gospel. The item
of dress among Christian people on the
Sabbath day is an outrage on the Chris
tian religion.


For graceful and beautiful apparel we
have admiration. But this strife in
Christian circles as to who shall excel
in costly millinery, and who shall dash
up to the church door in the gayest turn
out, and who shall make the most
blazonment of wardrobe, is one of the
great hindrances to religious advance
ment Our ladies' hats and shawls are
SO fine that on rainy days we are afraid
to go to church, lest we get a drop on
them. Our head-gear is worth more
than our souls. We teeter and swagger
up the aisles, to the disgust of good men
and the grief of angels Enough money
is expended by the Christians of our city,
in excess of the requisite out lay for
dress, to relieve all the poverty, and ed
ucate all the ignorance, and balk all the
crime. Much of the piety of our church.
es is being smothered under shirred
basques and jabot ruffles and Louisines.
Some of our Christian gentlemen have
boots so tight they can hardly walk in
paths cf righteousness, and they feel in
church more like swearing than praying,
because their corns hurt; and our Chris
tian women shut out the sun or right
eOusness by twenty-dollar parasols, lace
trimmed, silk lined, ,silver-mounted. The
poor are kept out Of church because
their plain apparel looks SO bad in the
contrast.


We want great ecclesiastical refor-
nation in this matter of Sabbath ac-
coutrement. Shoe these religious pea
cocks out of the house God. ByyOur
example make subdued and modest cos
tune more popular than gaudy apparel.
DO not put so much dry goods on your
back that you cannot climb into glory.
You cannot sail into heaven with such
rigging as that. They would level their
guns at you as being a blockade runner.
Coming up to the celestial door, the
gate-keeper would cry, ''Halti you can
not go in with such regimentals. And
as you answered, 81 got these jewels
from Tiffany, and that dress from
Arnold and Constable, and those shoes
from Burt" the gate-keeper would say
to one of the attendants, 'rake this
soul down to one of the out-houses. and
tear off those puffs and ruffies and knife
plaitings and Hamburg embroideries,
and put ON her more appropriate Sun
day attire; for going in as she now is, all
heaven would burst out n laughingn'-
Christian at Work.
Year: 1875

IT is indeed wondrous thought, and
one that must forever disassociate hum
ble labor from dishonor and disgrace,
that in union with the infinite, incom-
pr-hensible nature of Him who planned
the worlds, who of old from everlasting,
set rule and compass on the face of the
deep, meeting out the heavens with the
span of His hand, and without whom
was not anything made that was made
might be seen the lowly Son of the
Iowly Mary, busted at His reputed faith
er's bench, shaping the instruments or
husbandry-the drops of labor falling
from His forehead.-J. X. Macduf.
Year: 1875

A RECEIPT FOR HAPPINESS. 1t is sim
pie, When you rise in the morning, form
the resolution to make the day happy
one to a fellow creature. 1t is easily
done. A cast-ofr garment to the man
that needs it; kind word to the sor
rowfuI; an encouraging expression to the
striving inebriate-trifies, in themselves,
light as air-will do it at least for the
twenty four hours. And if you are young,
depend upon it, it will tell when you are
old; rest assured it will send you gently
and happily down the stream of time to
eternity, Look at the result. You send
one person, only one, happily through
the day; three hundred and sixty-fiv in
the course of the year; and suppose you
live forty years only after youcommence
this course, you have fourteen thousand
siy hundred human beings happy, at all
events, for time. Now, worthy reader,
is it not simple, and is it not worth ac-
comElishingl
Year: 1875

WHAT CUsmOTND INTEREST DOEs -
Save tie pennies and the dollars Will
take care Of themselves" used TO lie the
advice the wise old gentlemen gave to
the boys. As our reXcellent savings banks
are ready to help those who are so wise
as TO lay up their savings, the young
people especially can find 70 d forprofit
able reflection in the following table,
showing the products OF weekly savings
at a compound interest at six per cent,
and deposits commence interest the first
dav of each month.
Year: 1875

TIE daily habits of every boy and girl
are materials with which they are bHild-
ing up their character Industry. econ
omy. justice, honor, integrity and self
control are no ephemeral blossoms that
days sunshine can call into being, and
a nights frosts with6r and kill. They
grow slowly aud develop gradually, but
once rooted firmly in the heart, ami
trained by constant exercise, they will
prove sturdy. healthy, long lived plants,
that viii bear rich and abundant fruit.


EVERY true hero grows by patience.
People who have always been prosper
Gus are seldom the most worthy, and
never the most strong He who has not
been compelled to suffer has not prob
ably begun To learn how to be mag
unanimous; as it is only by patience and
fo-titude that we can know what it is
to overcome evils, or feel the pleasure
oi forgiving them.
Year: 1875

A writer on maiden ladies says: It
cannot have escaped remark that to
many minds in many cases it is consid-l
cred sufficient to condemn cause to
say that it is promoted by "a lot Of old
maids. Sometimes they are strong
minded females;" at others blues"
but it you want to cover them with ine-
radicable ridicule, dub them "a bevy of
old maids" or throw in the male friends
who assist them in the promotion OF
their philanthropic or charitable objects,
and facetiously term the whole "a parcel
of old women of both sexes" aud your
end is at once accomplished. Why
this should be so we were never
able to understand. Age is surely
as honorable in a woman as in a
man. Celibacy can be no more worthy
censure in the one sex than in the other.
If it be, indeed the men are in the worst
predicament; for it 80 happens that in
Great Britain there are half million
more women than men, so that the ladies
could not all get married if they would,
Nor are the professed misogynists at all
consistent in the bestowal of their ridi-
cule. Let q persevering band Of spin
sters strive to break down the wall of
prejudice which bars. their entrance to
the suitable and honorable profession of
medicine, for the purpose OF alleviating
the ailments of their own SEX and no
terms of obliquy are thought too dis
courteous to apply to them. Let Miss
Nightingale go out to Scutari to bind
up the wounds and attend to the sick
wants Of soldiers brought fresh from the
battle field and she is a heroine. The
woman as nurse may be deifed, as ply
sician she cannot be tolerated. Let wo-
men strive to enter our universities, the
so-cslled nurseries of belles-lettres and
the arts, and they 'unsex themselves, "
yet who think of "old maids" as they
read the novels of Miss Austin or admire
the pictures of Rosa Bonheur2 Let them
seek to obtain the right to vote for wild
ows and spinsters who have the same
qualification and fulfill the same State
duties as men, and politicians are aghast.
Yet Miss Harriet Martinieu's Political
Economy" has been in its time a text.
book, and Miss Burdett-Ooutts was made
a peeress in her own right for her efforts
to ameliorate the condition of the poorer
| classes OF the community.
Year: 1875

A train of seventeen heavy laden
camels have started from Tripoli to cross
the Desert of Sahara. 1t may be that
they are carrying complete library of
the Beecher scandal into the regions Of
Central Africa.
Year: 1875

Wise words are those uttered by the
Philadelphia North American on the
subject of Centennial carpet-baggers
The Southern States are really anxious
to make good showing at the Ex-
position of '76; but it may as we'll be
understood, first as last, that they are
not going to submit to the indlgnify
of being lnarshaIled into the big Fair
by men of whom nobody in the South
every herd, except in connection. with
some unsavory scheme of public
plunder.
Year: 1875

New YORK, August At is stated
that the notice Of trial served on
Beecher's lawyers by TiIton's attorney,
is purely formal. The notice, it is
said, does not indicate, necessarily.
that a new trial will he pressed. It is
formal document drawn up and
signed because the last trial dId not
result in verdict
Year: 1875

General Newton's grand explosion in the
submarine works at He'll Gate is promised
for next summer. The excavations are now
completed, leaving little to be done aside
from reducing the piers which support the
rocky bed of the river. These will be per-
forated by numerous drills so that multi
tude of small blasts can be lighted stimuli
taneously by an electric wire. After the
explosion there will remain to be removed
by means of graphing irons, about $4,000
cubic yards of material in order to make
the depth of the water at mean low tide
twenty six feet.
Year: 1875

RELEAsED.- Philosopher" Pickett,
confined in San Francisco Jail since the
9Th of August last, for alleged contempt
of court, was released last Thursday, and
the fine Of $500 imposed upon him remit
ted. The long incarceration Of Pickett
has attracted great deal Of attention ;
the night Of the Court TO impose so severe
penalty being justly questioned. No
one disputes but Courts of every grade
must be endowed with power to preserve
order and decorum during their sessions,
or to punish any approach which may be
made toward judge with view of inhu-
encing his decision upon some question
ut issue, but it seems the power vested in
the Courts Of this State, in the Supreme
Court, at least, is too great, and may, in
certain cases through the prejudice of the
j ldge, result in punishment which might
be deemed excessive. Doubtless this
,se of the philosopher will lead to the
passage Of legislative enactment, defn
ing the power Of court and the extent to
which it may go in the punishment of an
alleged contempt. Something Of the kind
SENS to be needed.
Year: 1875

FAILURE OF HARRY MEIGGs.-Few
men have been more noted in certain
line than Harry Meiggs, After leaving
san Franisco with the fruit Of his knav-
cries, he next turned up in Chill, where
he made an immense fortune. The hos
pita ity and lberaity which he always
showed toward Americans who claimed
his assistance or counsel in that country
gave people better idea of Meiggs than
the circumstances Of his fight would seem
TO justify, while the fact that creditors
who followed him to Chill, generally re-
ceived the amount Of their demands with
interest added, told greatly in his favor.
Later he seems to have transferred his
railroad operations from Chill to Peru,
and here, too, it was said that he would
reap q colossal fortune. With that wrea h
of charity we are always so ready to throw
over wealth. no matter how questionabiy
gained, the Legislature passed law per-
uniting Meiggs TO return to this State,
and promising immunity from criminal
prosecution, which was passed upon the
assurance that the great absconder would
make ample restitution to all whom he
bad wronged. Mciggs, however, has not
been so fortunate in Peru as in Chill
The government of the former country
tailed to fulfill its Obligations with Meiggs
and ne in turn, having paid out all of his
private funds TO the workmen, has sus-
endtd payment.
Year: 1875

HEAVY WORK, The railroad work on
the Tahetoche Pass is the heaviest ever
done in California. In thirteen miles of
that Pass there is more work to be done
10 let the locomotive through than had to
be done on any thirteen miles of the
Central Pacific in the California Sierra.
In the thirteen miles there will be twelve
tunnels, one Of them 6,24S feet-oycr a
mile long, and in one place there are two
tunnels in the same hill, one right aboye
tho other.
Year: 1875

SURVEYING SHASTA BUTTE.-A par
ty in Redding attached to the Coast Sur
vey, is now making arrangements to as
cend Mount Shasta for the purpose of
making an examination as TO the erec-
ton of monument on the summit
They have established barometric sta
tions at Redding, and will make stimuli
taneous observations there and on the
summit to determine the hight.
Year: 1875

THE San Jose Mercury is inclined to
credit report that the grave of Vasquez
has been disturbed and his head carried
of. The relatives of Vasquez were APP
prehensive that an attempt would be
made TO steal the body, and his brother
and sister watched at the grave for sew
eral nights, but the sister became i'll and
the watch was abandoned.
Year: 1875

The San Francisco
papers recently stated thata body found in
the Bay was that of Michael Diamond, a
tailor. His friends came in from the
country to attend the funeral, and were
very wroth at being put to an unnecessary
expense. Even Michael himself was vex-
ed at the unreliability of the daily press.
Year: 1875

Mrs. j. NJ. WooDMAN will run for the
Office Of County Superintendent in Butte
county, at the request of number of
prominent citizens. This will be the first
instance in this State of lady candidate
for so important position.
Year: 1875

THE Sacramento Bee says: The
towns along the Central Pacific Railroad


are full of thieves, whose sole business is
to beat the immigrants as they pass
through. A favorite trick is to buy green
backs, paying for them in bogus silver"
Year: 1875

Dos'T SgLL ALL THE WHEAT.-Tht
Jackscnport Perald, of the 18th, has the
following sensible article:


Will the wheat producers, who have
not already sold all their wheat stop and
consider the matter before it is is too
late, and, il possible, apply the only rem,
edy within iher reach. 1t is within their
power to prevent much Suffering, and at
the same time do much good by benefit
ting their fellow man From all the in
dications before us, at the present rate
of shipment Of wheat, it will not take
three months to exhaust the wheat crop
of this section of the state Now, if each
producer were only shipping oil his sur
plus, it would be all right, bat sneh, un
fortunately, is not the case. The last
bushel is being brought to market and
sold at low figures not near what it is
worth---anl the inevitable consequences
are, that each farmer will, in less than six
months, he coming to the merchant to
whom he sold his wheat, for the purpose
Of buying tlour. Now, this is not the
conduct of a wise and thrifty husband
man He looks forward and provides
accordingly, by laying up in store plenty
and to spare, of all family necessities for
one year to come But he who sells all,
and saves nothing for family use, is worse
than a fool; he i, an enemy to his own
wants and needs, and deserves to staryc,
Now, in view of all thess facts, we sub.
nit if it would not be far wiser and bet
ter for the wheat producers to hold back
and keep ON hand more than enough to
supply all their wants until the harvest
is gathered and saved BY doing so they
will be enabled to go through next sea
sen without going in debt a dollar, or
mortgagine everything they have to the
merchants for supplies 1t will be the
first grand stride toward the bursting of
the shackles that have 80 long bound
them to the merchants, and for independ
encc and freedom. VIII they act the part
of sensible men, or that Of a foolish one
1t will be seen
Year: 1875

SMUT IN WnEAT-The cause of smut
In wheat is sowing too late in the season,
| will give my experience, which will 90
far to support me in the assertion. Sew
eral years ago prepared a piece Of land,
about an acre, on which to SOW turnip
seed | sowcd wheat with the tnrnip seed,
got a very good stand Of wheat; this
acre oil land was in field where | pro
posed to sow my crop of wheat. About
the middle of November | soNcd the
field, sowed the wheat on three sides of
the acre above referred to; afterward
moved fence which gave nae a strip Of
land on the other side of the acre about
the 18th OF December I sowed that strip
down in wheat also. You will perceive
that the acre was snrroau led by the sec.
ond and third sowing. ploughed in so
close that only a furrow separated them
The ploughing was all done il the same
manner, by the same ploughs, and the
seed wss taken ont of the same box. The
wheat sown in August had not one sin
ole head of smut; that sown in Novem
Der had smut in it to some extent, but
not enough to cause much injury, while
that sown in December was nearly one.
third smut


Since then have tried the experiment
and have never seen a head of smut in
wheat sown in September. Last year
sowcd an acre in August; in September
l sowed about three acres more, and the
last Of November, sowed the balance Of
the field in wheat; this last, in Novem
Der, soaked in blue stone, to prevent
smut. Being pressed for time, began
sowing the wheat before it was thorough
ly soaked; and this produced a pretty
heavy sprinkle of smut, but that sown in
August and September was perfectly free
from it-and just here let me ftate that,
with me, the early sowing always produc-
ed the most excellent crops --Erchange