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Year: 1873

LET US KNow.-Postmasters, express
men and others who distribute the jour
NAL will greatly oblige us by reporting
to this office the names of any persons
who do not get the papers sent them.
Frequently subscriber leaves the local
ity where his paper is sent without letting
us know. Therefore the above request.
Subscribers will bear in mind that it is
no trouble to us to change their paper
from one locality to another.
Year: 1873

YES, THEY Miss HIM AT HOME
Happening in at Charley Davis the other
day Charley exhibited to us n variety of
elegant and useful articles he had re-
ceived as Christmas and New Years
presents from the folks at home. Every
year Charles relatives remember him in
this way, delicately reminding him that he
is missed from the family circle. Char
ley ought to be a good boy, write home
often and go home once in a while.
Year: 1873

A lady in Nevada City has a botan-
ical curiosity in the shape of a night
blooming cactus. The plant is round,
and about six inches in diameter.
Once week it blooms, a stem being
thrown out from the body of ihe cactus
about eight inches long, upon the top
of which is a beautiful white flower,
the size of the top of an ordinary tea
cup, the aroma from which fills the
whole house. The flower begins to un-
fold itself about o'clock in the eve
ming, at o'clock is in full bloom, and
remains so until o'clock in the morn
ing, when it begins to close up and by
noon has entirely disappeared. The
flower upon the stem only blooms
once, and but one stem Is throyn out
at a time.
Year: 1873


p A seafaring man, who was recently
married, gives the following descrip-
tion Of his bride and her apparel, which


we think will put some of the society


papers to the blush: "My wife is just
as handsome a craft as ever left the
millinery dry-locks; is clipper built,
and with figure-head not often seen
on small craft. Her length of keel is
five feet eight inches, over all five feet
eleven inches; displaces twenty-seven
cubic feet of air; of light draught, which
adds to her speed in ballroom; full
in the waist, spars trim. AT the time
we were spliced she was newly rugged,
fore and aft, with standing rigging Of
lace and flowers, mainsail part silk,


with forestaysail Of Valenciennes. Her
frame was of the best steel, covered
with silk, with whalebone stancheons.
This rigging is intended for fair wealth
er cruising. She has also set of storm
sails for rough weather, and is rigging
out small set of canvas for light
squalls, which are liable to occur in
this latitude sooner or later. am told
that in running down the street before
the wind she answers the helm beauti-
fully, and can turn around in her own
length if a handsomer craft passes her."
Year: 1873

From the Danbury Newsl


We never knew a man to be elecedt


to an Office of trust who carried horse
chestnuts in his pocket as a preventive
of rheumatism. ...-q


New apples are one dollar and ten
cents quart. Ten cen cents for the
apples and dollar for doctor.


A young man who has recently lost
both of his parents, and has just recOv-
cred from severe attack of illness
which left him penniless, writes for a


position on this paper as a humorist.


A very Juvenile member of Dan
bury Sunday-school asked his teacher,
Sunday, if anybody could go to heaven
who didn't have bay-window on his
house, and was favorably impressed by
the answer. 3. z.4yis ta4 a


When you see man who Is hasten
ing across a street to avoid team, step
on a piece of mud, and lose his balance
and come to the earth, and tear the
skin from both his wrists, and smash
his head against post, you want to
shout as quickly as pOssible: "The
more haste the less speed" Then you
want to pick up your feet, and get out
of that neighborhood like lightning.


When the train draws up at Stam-
ford, Conn.,, with five minutes for re-
freshments, it i, easy to distinguish the
experienced traveller from the rest.
He has already got out on the platform
and is either on the bottom step, or
close enough to it. Justas soon as the
speed of the train becomes less than he
can make, he springs of, and dashes
madly for the saloon door, through it
and up to the counter, giving his order
for coffee while moving, and snatching4
up the right article the first time. He
knows just how much time is required
to make five minutes, and when it is
expired he is out on the platform, pick
ing his teeth and talking about real es-
tate. Alas! for the inexperienced trav-
eler, such is not his record. He is in.
side the car when itstops, with twenty
persons ahead of him, He jumps
down ON the platform in time to see
the mass surging into the door, and
then it suddenly strikes him that he
may he too late, and under this in
spiration he throws himself into the
gang. He doesn't reach the
table. He and the other inexperienced
travellers form the, outside line, and
shout their orders through the OPEN
ings, and receive what is handed them
with thankfulness and what dexterity
they can muster. Such man will per-
spire and choke, and paw and jaw dur
ing the entire five minutes, and in that
time may get down twO-thirds of a
one-third ola piece of Gus
tard pie and more or less of the coffee,
and then get out of the door just in
time to catch hold of the car rail and
be pulled on by the brakeman. And
when he has reached his seat and is
scraping the rest of that pie from his
boots, and drawing cold air into his
throat to aIlay the pain of the scald, he
will think up things about the keeper
of that restaurant that would make the
hair on a saw-horse stands straight on
end.
Year: 1873

i Those who put up and trade in pick
les are looking gloomy enough. The
drouth has injured the cucumber crop
very seriously and the prospect is that
pickles will be scarce and high. These
same houses are also much concerned
in the matter of canned goods, for short
crops of corn, tomatoes and peaches are
feared, and already speculation has set
in and prices are advancing. There
can be no profit for canning them for
next winters use unless very liberal
advances can be got over last years
prices. Such an increase would of
course lessen the demand, and greatly
curtail business, so that the outlook is
far from encouraging.
Year: 1873

A sense of uselessness is one Of the
severest trials of old age IL is COM
mon complaint of old people that they
feel themselves 10 be a burden and in
the way, and they are no longer capable
of active service in the cause of God.
1t is not for them to argue about the
providence which still keeps them in
the world. For themselves it may be
that patience may have her perfect
work, and that rare and illustrious
finish may be put upon their character.
For Others also that their large expert
ence may be the heritage of the youth,
and that the good of the past may be
brought down and welded on to the
present. ii b. 'a
Year: 1873

A ridiculous instance of the way in
which the use of a thing is lost sight of
in the ornament with which it is over
laid, is exhibited at Washington. In
a cemetery there, the rules require a
corpse to be left in the chapel, and not
deposited in the grave till the funeral
procession has Withdrawn, for fear tho
mournerS may tread down the grass
and flowers.
Year: 1873

| New Southern Leaders WanSeU


The Norfolk Day Book, after allud


ing to the fact that the politicians Of


the South who led her on to secession


have not even given the people of that


section one word of good advice since


the termination of the late struggle,


but that whatever has been effected


was done by few of the military lead.


ers, says:


To our mind it argues that the South


needs new leaders entirely. Men who


mislead the people, who involve them


in such great calamities es the South


ern people have Lo2n involved, and


then and there leave them to struggle


out the best way they can, while they
stand off aghast, paralyzed, with a
nobility or inclination to come forward
and help the people out, are not the
men that should be suffered to take the
lead in future.


While this is the true state of the
case, and is really an ugly showing, we
admit that it has had some excuse or
palliation. Immediately after the
war terminated so diSastrously, and
before matters could settle down and
assume shape, there rushed to the tri-
bunes of the people-the press-a lot of
probably the worst demagogues that
ever afflicted an unhappy country
These individuals got possession of the
press, and from that standpoint they
welded ithe power of leadership, to
the exclusion of better men, who could
not approach the people from the ros-
trum, for the reason that the disturbed
state of affairs then existing, together
with the great distress on the public
mind, would not allow of public as
semblages- is to say, no public
meetings of considerable numbers of
persons could be gotten together to dis
cuss what was best to be done. The
press held supreme sway, and, unfor-
tunately for our people, many of those
who sway the press, and, through the
press, the sentiments of the people,
were the very worst persons that could
have been called to that important duty.
They have proved themselves hothead-
ed and unwise, giving in all cases the
very worst iadvice, sustained by the
meanest appeals to passion and pre-
judice; and this has but added to the
calamities Of the war, and sunk the
people into still greater grief.


1t ought to be evident to every cam
did person that if the matter of adjust
ment after the war could have been
by those who were sat the
'front.'" and those who really suffered
by the war, all things would long since
has been adjusted to the satisfaction of
the majority of the Southern people,
and prosperity would in less than eight
years have returned to the land and its
But it appears not to have
been the desire of those who unfortdn-
ately got possession of the power of |
public sentiment in the South, for a re-
storation of good feeling, peace, quiet,
and prosperity; and we suppose this
has really been the case; such charac-
ters can only flourish in times of un-
rest, strife, and the non-existence of
public confidence. They are dema-
sogues of the lowest order, and pros
per only on the distresses of thers.
Year: 1873

They tell about boy, somewhere
or other, whose loving mother took
him upon her knee and began 10 talk
to him about Heaven, and about his
dead aunts and uncles and little cous-
ins and, when she had finished her
description, she thought she would
ascertain what kind of an impression,
as it were. had been made upon her
darhng's mind. So she said: ''And
now, Henry, who would you most
like to see when you get into the spir-
it world 2" Henry ran the thing over
in his mind, and then observed =
SWELL believe I'd like first rate to
take a good look at Goliah ii the Bel
gian giant at the museum doesn't die
before ] do If he does, give me tick
cts for him." Then she suddenly put
Henry to bed.
Year: 1873

Calicoes often fade simply because
they -re improperly washed. To in
sure their not fading, infuse three
gills of salt into four quarts of water,
put the calico in while it is hot, and
let it remain there until cold.
Year: 1873

At the Massachusetts, Radical Convention, at
Worcester, on Wednesday, Butler saw SO clearly
that the mass Of his party were against him that
he feared TO make contest and al the opening
of the evening session, he took the hoor aud
Withdrew hts melton to verify the result of the
aAs vote by counties. He said he was satisfied
ltai majority of the delegates were in favor OF
the nomination Of Governor Washbnrn, and he
did not care to delay the business of the eonven
lion by resort to parliamentary tactics. He
declared anew his featy to the party, and said he
did not want to do anything to cause diAsensiu
in its ranks, and he consequently withdrew his
name, and said he saw no cause to rna independ
entity. Governor Washbum Was thea renomi
mated by acclamaIlon. ff.rEtt
Year: 1873

Though a man may be essentially re-
ligiOus who never heard of st. Peter, OF
Savonarola, or FenelOn, or Wesley, we
still think that the good men whom God
every now and then gives to mankind
are amongst the most precious of his
gifts If we would know God he must
manifest himself to us !; and the extent
to which he manifests himself to us de-
pends upon the extent to which we sub
NIT ourselves to mis- guidance. On this
hypothesis, then, the holiest men are
those who will see most of God, who
will penetrate most deeply into the
secret of his relations to us. Like the
peaks of the highest mountains, they
are the first to catch the light of the
Sun of Righteousness, and to transmit
it to the valleys below. If it were not
for them the deep things of God might
be forever concealed.


When, nineteen hundred years ago,
the words Love your enemies" fell
upon the ears of a Jewish congregation,
there was perhaps not a man among
them who had not considered himself
at liberty to follow the Mosaic COM
mand, ''Thou shalt hate thy enemy !"
But though their unassisted spiritual
VlSlon nau Deen 700 IeeDle 10 u1ScoNer
the moral obligation of the new COM
mandment, there were doubtless some
amongst them who, when they heard it
for the first time, felt that it was divine,
and that the proof of its divine origin
came not from logic, nor reflection, nor
learning, nor the authority of any great
teacher, but from the attesting response
of the spirit within them. Such per-
sons would welcome with Joy the new
spiritual perception, and in proportion
to the fidelity with which they might
ever afterward follow its guidance,
would be the closeness of their future
ralntiOns to God
Year: 1873

Mr.. Greeley was man of the lntens-
est feelings. After the strain of hard
worked life, in his declining years, he
watched almost necessarily by the side
of q dying wife. The anguish of final
separation after a union with one long
loved, together with the almost con-
slant strain upon his nervous system
for months, necessarily by his position
and events, proved more than humanity
could. Horace Greeley is a spirit now,
and has ere now met and been united
in the spirit world to her he loved
so we'll in this. But while he is gone
where he needs no human censure, and
where he needs no moral praise, his
orphan daughters vet remain. Think
of them. First, they stood by mothers
death-bed and then by mothers grave.
While yet the sod was sounding on the
coffin's lid the fiance of the elder was
perishing amid the flames of the i'll
starred steamer Missouri. The sad
news had scarcely reached her when,
with her younger sister, she was called
to the bed side of their rapidly-sinklng
father. In few days he, too, was not
of earth. Might not the strongest
MUD succumb to such a pressure?


The orphans are not friendless. The
world is full of friends to them, but no
words of friendly sympathy can at this
time do ought to mitigate the poignancy
of their anguish that time and chang
ing scenes alone can alleviate. They
have our hopes--they have our prayers.
Year: 1873

Since Boston was fated to burn, I
think any one may blamelessly regret
that he was not by to see it, if he had
the MISFORTUNE to be absent during the
red thirsty hours of its loss. As a
spectacle, it must have been one of the
most impressive that human eyes ever
beheld, and those who looked upon it
are truly to be envied. That steady and
resistless destruction of the finest bust
ness architecture on the continent by
flames that melted piles of solid granite
like sand, and consumed the prosperity
of long years of successful commerce,
lacked the dramatic poignancy of most
great confagrations. Comparatively
few homes were burned; there was little
of the agony of attempts to save things
dear by use and association, or of the
sacrifice of what nothing could buy
again; but as those millions of money
were licked up by the fire and vanished
forever in the crimson glare and dusky
flame, all the more potent must have
been the lesson of human effort par


alyzed, and of human industry and
achievement absolutely annulled.
Year: 1873

A correspondent confidently recon-
mends equal parts of carbolic acid and
olive oil, smeared over the surface of
the instruments, as an unfailing preven-
ture of rust in any climate He states
that it is plan much used by medical
officers in the navy, and is is found to
preserve the burnish and brightness of
the steel, however moist and warm the
atmosphere may be. Our correspond
dent adds that it will also be found ad-
vantageous TO have the fitting of instru-
ment cases made only of brass and pol
ished wood, rs the glue with which the
velvet usually employed is fastened on
is apt to absorb moisture and remain
damp for considerable time.
Year: 1873

Death, ina natural way, comes TO more
petsons in the neighborhood of five
o'clock in the morning than at any


other of the twenty-four the fewest
about the hour of one in the afternoon.
In the early morning the world is still,
the atmosphere heavy with the damps of
the night, and the body bebilitated,
often. with the long fast from supper
time, with nothing to rouse the spirits
or the circulation. At about one o'clock
in the afternoon the air is most gener-
ally fully dried by the sun, has more
life, more oxygen in it. hence it is more
purifying, more invigorating, while the
bright daylight itself has an elevating,
vitalizing tendency. These facts should
be borne in mind by those who are
nurses to the sick; for by extra atten-
tions of various kinds the critical hour
might pass, and, if so, the patient is
more liable to live over for another
twenty-foHr hours. It is said by OBJ
servant physicians that each seventh
year of life is critical which means
that every seventh year is liable to be
fatal but that if passed over with inn
proved health it gives reasonably GER
tain lease of another seven years for
example, the most of those who become
consumptive do so about the age of
twenty one,-a year sooner or later,
but twenty-one is the largest average
when the disease becomes decided
About forty-two, the six-times-seven, is
by far the most critical time of life in
women. If that is passed healthfully
they have a good chance Of seeing
three-scere 1t will perhaps be found
that larger number of persons die
within a year or two including sixty
three than at any other specified time
between forty-nine and seventy. These
things suggest that increased attention
should be given to the health at these
critical periods.
Year: 1873

A PHILADELPHIA manufacturer is
preparing plan for a column / 200 feet
high, to be constructed entirely of iron,
in open work, from the summit of
which the grounds of the Continental
Exposition are to be illuminated by the
means of a drummond light. If
adopted. it will be the loftiest mOnu-
ment in the world.


A MAN OUT WEST wants patent on
all invention calculated to prevent the
bungling method of executing criminals
that has now grown SO common. In
case the vertebrae of the condemned are
not scientifically dislocated at the first
fall the rope instantly lowers the vic
tim safely to the ground, lassoes the
Sheriff and his assistants, jerks them
fifty feet into the air and drops them on
the nearest picket fence. This device
is known as the Automatic Avenger. !"
New THEORY OF THE AURoRA-Th
English Mechanic publishes the views
of DR. Wolfert, German observer, on
the nature and origin of the aurora
borealis. which, it will be noticed, are
based on speculations which do not con-
meet the phenomena with magnetic or
electric source. DIR. Wolfert says "The
suns rays, falling on the earth, are
variously reflected, according as they
fall vertically or at angles more or less
obtuse. The earth being conceived as
large mirror, many of the Oblquely
incident rays will be reflected TO part
of the celestial vault ON the night side
of the earth" The zodiacal light he
ascribes to the irregular reflection of
sunlight from water, and similarly the
vast fields of ice in the polar regions,
he considers, may be regarded as an
imperfect mirror irregularly rejecting
the incident light. The rays which fall
most obliquely are the most abundantly
reflected and as the quantity of re-
fected light increases with the angle
of incidence, adds the author, we may
see how the reflected sunlight illumi-
mates in the highest degree the night
skies in the region nearest the pole /;
further, the great similarity of the in
cipient light of the aurora to moonlight
is thus explained, the latter being also
reflected. The rays falling on the ice
at an angle of forty degrees are, how
ever, dispersed as well as reflected. 1t
is commonly said that the point of
origin of the aurora is indicated by the
direction of the magnetic needle. Nor,
correctly, according to DIR. Wolfert, a
line. drawn from the sun at right
agles to the horizon and prolonged
would be the middle line of the phe-
nomena On this supposition an advance
of the contral part of the aurora to the
north is explained.
Year: 1873

Cape Horn Island is the southern
most extremi Of Terra del Fuego, in
south latitude 55 degrees 80 minutes.
1t is the southern termination of q
group of rocky islands surmouated with
a domelike hill, out of which is pro-
lection like a straight horn. But
SchOuten, the dutch discoverer, is said
to have named Cape Horn from Hourn,
III the Netherlands, his native place.
The whole hill is a bare rock indeed,
how could anything, even the lowest
forms of vegetable life, find foot on a
place smitten as this is by the waves
Only the ichens, stealing with seeming
compassion over every form in nature,
doomed to barrenness succed in holding
on to these rocks. The hill is about
eight hundred feet high, its base en-
vironed by low black rocks, with not a
sign even of marine vegetation. One
line OF these rocks looks like fort, the
seeming gateway, higher than the rest
of the walls, being composed of per-
pendicrllar fragments. All along the
base of the rough hill, low, irregular
piles, like a growth of thorns and
brambles around boulder in field,
constitute a fringe, as though nature
felt that the place needed some appro-
PIRATE decoration, and what could be
more so than that which she has here
given ?" For a long space toward tn
termination of the cape, sharp rocks
stand up in groups, and some apart,
making a gradual ending of the scene,
all in the agreement of the wildness
which marks the region.


The sight of this spot, the landmark
of our continent, can never fade from
the memory of the beholder. Like
many a remarkable object, it is of mod
crate size, its impressiveness being due,
not to its bulk or height, but to It's po-
sition. AT first you are disappointed in
not seeing at such place something col
lossal you would have it mountainous /;
at least, you would have thought that it
would be columner Nothing of this !;
you have the disappointment which
you feel on seeing for the first time a dis
tinguished man whom you find to be of
low stature. whereas YOU would have
had him of imposing appearance. But
soon. however, you feel that YOU are at
one of the ends of the earth Here the
Atlantic and Pacific ocean begin, the
great deep dividing itself into those two
principal features of our globe. Any
thing statgesqe. Like silence, more
expressive at times than speech, the
total absence of all display here is sub
Unity itself; you would not have it
otherwise than an infinite solitude I'M
pretentious, without form, almost cha
otic Around this point it is as though
there was a contest which ocean each
billow shall divide here the winds and
waters make incessant war; the sea
always roars amid the fullness Thereof.
The rocks which finally terminate the
Cape stand apart, as you sometimes see
extensive fire has ragged, and the most of
the walls have fallen in, but here and
there a shoulder of wall overhangs
the ruins. We stood together as we
passed the last landmark, and sang ::
" Praise God from whom all blessings
flow"