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Year: 1873

Jean Ingelow has written a poem
about the letter l.. We want to say
few words in prose about the letter l.
The printers tell us it is just the
smallest, thinnest letter in the ease
But ..ut of the ease how big it is
Ho, ,g it is in the mouth Of the
eg ii How its echoes roll out from
Il q .ps of the political demagogue!
how it crops out in the magazine arti-
Gle! How even in the pulpit it gets
between the speakers subject and the
people he is addressing, and stays
there. There is nothing so opaque as
I-nothins so pretentious and yet so
thin and raspy and insignificant as
this same personal pronoun vowel.
Judging by the completeness with
which, in the lips of preacher, it
screens his hearers from the divine
truth, we judge it the most effective
screen in the world. 1t is better than
glass, better than wood, better than
iron, and better than brass, of which
itsis largely composed. If you are
suffering from the warmth of your
fire, put a big | between yourself and
! the blaze. 1t is strange. this weak
ness of the egotist, and it would be
stranger, did we not know but too
we'll the shallowness of some people.
You may look down many and many
a fathom in Lake Huron and see bot
tom, but the lake is deep, neverthe-
less-surprisingly so. A mud-puddle
you can't see the bottom of, and it is
shallow. So with some shallow peo-
pie. They are muddy with Is; but
just wait till they settle little, and
you can probe through them with
your finger. Ii our anxious egotists
only knew human nature little bet
ter, they would drop the insufferable
l. Such speakers seldom-we had
almost said never-succeed. AS in
conversation you are sure to send
away charmed visitor whom You
allow the pleasure of listening to his


own voice, so in like manner, but in
tenfoId greater degree, the speaker is
sure to send away his auditors pleased


if he can but dismiss them with the
impression that they have caught at


half the truth through their own


quick perception. Egotists will do


well to remember that the wisest


thing they can do is to drop the third


|. Two are sufficient. If another


had been necessary, it would have


been given; but not in the middle OF


the forehead, nor yet spread all over


the face like cancer, as it appears in


some people, but in the back Of the


head. to avoid the blow from behind


Christian at Work.
Year: 1873

round the house and peeped in shyly
with wet eyes. Was that lady in a
soft, gray merino dress, wearing an
embroidered collar, and gold ear
drops, his mother? That pretty woman
suriy it was, for Nettie was feeling Of
her face, and was sparkling all over and
was saying, rs this you; mother? Why,
where have you been?"


oh, mai said Tom, holding her
around the neck as though she might
get away, why, where did you go, and
when did you come back?' Poor lit
tie ones, how proud they were of the
household drudge in her new and
beautiful transformation.


But this is not all. Before the first
cold blast of winter came, steps were
taken to save and tighten the labors
of the feminine portion of the farmer s
household. An addition was built to
the house, new siding was put on,
and painted white. New windows
were added and green blinds, and a
wide, long, rOomy porch. Closets
were put in all the rooms; the old YER
miny bedsteads split up and used for
kindlings; new chairs were bought
including a new rocking and sewing
,, chair for mother; a new sewing ma
chine that was love Of a friend; the
door yard was paled in, and the calves
and colts were kept where they be-
longed, and evergreen trees and flow
ering shrubbery and rose bushes
made beautiful the yard.


An easy chain pump took the place
of the moss covered bucket that held
as much as a churn. 1t was taken of
to the barn to put clover seed in, and
| the windlass was borne away forever
from the little arms that had tugged
at its ponderous weight with sick
! weariness many and many year
| The big we'll rope made nice swing
out under the oaks for Tom and Bel
lie and chubby little Harry.


Now that the no longer enslaved
mother has leisure to mingle with hel
growing children as teacher and com
panion and friend, they grow more


lovable and intelligent, and cling te


her like vines. They see so much in
their mother to admire and emulate
And John Jones. That spell o.


fever was the Aaron's rod that smott


the rock of his soul, and opened i


for the outgushing Of love and sym


pathy and charity, and all the virtues


and charms and graces of the human


heart; and to-day, growing broader


and ruddier and ripper and better
there lives no happier farmer thar


that dear old renovated John Jones
Year: 1873

A St. Louis baggage-smasher has
come to grief. He got hold of a
sheet iron trunk, and it wouldn't t
break. He did his best on it, but to
no purpose. Had the train been a
little delayed, he would have tested it
with trip hammer or pile driver !;
but, poor man, he had to send it off
intact. His disappointment thereat
has ruined him for life. He took to
his bed from a severe attack of brain
fever, which finally subsided, leaving
him raying maniac. He is now an
inmate of mad house, with no pros
pect Of recovery. None will lament
his terrible fate, unless it be the guild
of trunk makers. He has fallen-a
sad warning to all Of his dcspoiling
persuasion.
Year: 1873

Omce upon u Time


A local editor dreamed that he was
dead and in another world. He
approached the gate of city be-
fore him, and knocked for admit
tance, but no one answered his sum-
mons. The gate renamed closed
against him. Then he cried aloud
for an entrance, but the only re.
sponse were scores of heads APP
pearing above the wall on each side
of the gate. At sight of him the
owners of the heads set up dis
NAL howl, and one of them cried:
"Why didn't you notice the big egg
I gave your At this horrid and
most unexpected Interrogation, the
poor local turned in the direction
of the voice to Learn its owner,
when another voice shrieked, where
is the piece you were going to write
about my soda fountains' And
close upon that was the awful de-
mand: why did you write a piece
about old Peddle's fence and never
say a word about my new gate?'
Whatever answer he was going to
frame to this appeal was cut Oft
abruptly by the astonishing query:
what did you spell my name wrong
in the programme for?' The mis-.
erable man turned to flee, when he
was rooted to the spot by this ter
rible demand: why did you put
my marriage among the deathsa'
He was on the point of saying the
foreman did it, when a shrill voice
madly cried: what made you put
in my runaway, and spoil the sale
of my horse?' And this was fol-
lowed by the voice of a female hys-
terically proclaiming; This is the
brute that botched my poetry, and
made me ridiculous!' Whereupon
hundreds of voices screamed -
where's my article1 Give me back
my article And in the midst of
the horrid din the poor wretch
awoke, perspiring at every pore,
and screaming for help. The next
day he resigned, and we had to
hunt up another local editor.
Year: 1873

An idler is q curse to any COM
munity-an improbable servant
that should be cast out of society.
He eats that which others make.
and sits in ease and takes no inter-
est in being a man of industry.
He is hopeless cuss, and the
female that commits her heart and
happiness to his keeping, will lean
upon broken reed and weep bitter
tears of sorrow. But see a man
dilligent in business he shall stand
before kings, while the lazy man
will ask aims to keep soul and body
together.
Year: 1873

The Rockville Republican relates
some sharp practice Of an agent: J. T.
Railsback, railroad agent at this place,
sent in his resignation last week.
The road was indebted to him and
would not pay him, so when he had
enough funds to pay his claim, he
sent in his resignation together wi tn a
statement, aud played quits.
Year: 1873

Then he went in the next car
where the minister went. Then
the cars stopped FIVE minutes, and
1 had slight alteration with a sa
loon chap. He sold awful small
pieces of pie for ten cents piece,
and asked him, if he would sell
three pieces for quarter. He said
no.


Says I, by gosh You do do it.


He swore he didn't. Then J. told
him he did-that there were three
pieces to every quarter of pie on
his counters and that was three
pieces for a quarter.
Year: 1873

It is we'll known that there has been
some talk from time to time Of the de-
sirableness OF new residence for the
President on a grander scale than the
White House. How this proposition
is regarded by the present occupant of
that building We have no means OF
knowing, but we notice an apparently
authoritative report that PresidentGrsnt
has expressed desire to see commeuc-
ed before his retirement from Office the
erection OF suitable houses for the pri-
yate residences OF members OF the csbi-
net He is reported as saying that
they are expected to entertain good
deal, and must live in comparatively
good houses There can be no doubt
that come members Of the cabinet, in
one way and another, have afforded q
good deal OF entertainment, but whether
any additional outlay is necessary to in.
crease their efficiency in this respect is
somewhat doubtful. AS the members
of the cabinet are generally persons OF
considerable personal fortunes, they
might be able to entertain, il entertain
ing is necessary, at their individual ex-
pense. 1t may be questioned, however,
whether entertaining great deal," is
to be regarded as essential to public
business, although it seems 10 be 60
considered by the representatives OF
foreign governments in Washington.


II we deem it best to enter into COM
petition in entertainments with the di-
plomatic agents OF foreign governments
as part OF craftsmanship we must OF
course discard the unpretentious ways
OF the founders of our government. At
the same time it would be mistake to
suppose that the Spartan simplicity
evinced by the fathers Of the country
was the result OF ignorance and poverty
and not OF deliberate design and prln-
ciple. On the contrary, most Of them
had been more accustomed TO the pomp
and splendor Of courts than any Of
those who have succeeded them, and
they adapted the dress Of the country's
childhood not 90 much to its juvenile
period OF existence as in conformity
with the simplicity and economy which
they thought best became the republi-
can character They seemed to think
that the business OF the government
could be transacted as well IN offices as
in palaces. and hence they allowed
their public agents moderate salaries,
sufficient to drovide them with comtor-
table quarters in Washington, looking
more to the capacity OF the man thsn
to the house he lived 10, and act
ing upon the idea that the value OF the
gem did not depend upon the quality
Of the cssket. At any rate, in the pres
EFT financial distress, economy, which
is the order OF the day in all private
households, ought to be observed by the
government a. q useful example az well
a. good thing in ltselt.-Baltimore
Sun.
Year: 1873

NEW ORLEANS, November l3.-The
excitement about the Cuban affair is at
its height in this city, and indications
are clearly that should the necessity
present itself any number Of volunteers
would he found ready TO enroll them
selves 'or most any kind OF an expedi-
ton.
Year: 1873

OIL still goes down. Crude oil Is
DOWN to eighty cents barrel at Par
ksrs and two and ore-hali cents per
Gallon at Pittsburgh. Refined oil at
the latter place commands ten to eleven
Year: 1873

Only sixty thousand tickets will be sold
and one half OF these are intended for the
European market, thus leaving only SoON
for sale In the United States, where lUO,01
were disposed OF for the Third Concert. The
tickets are divided into ten coupons o.
parts and have on their back the Scheme
with a full explanation OF their mode oi
drawing.


AT this concert, which will be the grand
est musical display ever witnessed In this
country, the unpr cedented sum OF
Year: 1873

REGIsTR ATIoN.-Bea in mind that on
the first of August the Great Register
will be placed in the hands of the print
er, and those who intend to vote in this
county should attend to this necessary
duty at once. Those who have to obtain
transfers of registration from other coun-
ties, must also bear in mind the fact that
sending the certificate of cancellation to
the County Clerks office will not suffice.
1t must be accompanied by a personal
appearance before the Clerk or Assessor,
and an affidavit must be made by the ap-
plcant for registration giving his name,
age, birthplace, local residence, that he
has been resident of his precinct thirty
days, of the State six months and that he
is an elector of the county. This change
from the former way of simply sending
the certificate to the County Clerks Of
fee, was made by that trio of stupidity,
the Code Commissioners. While about
it they should have provided for finding
out the length of the applicants nose,
what he had for breakfast and other rele-
want matters. Mr.. McMurry has GER
tainly earned the gratitude Of the people
of this State for having taken the first
step toward unoarthing three such NUT
tonheads as Burch and his coadjutors
proved to be.
Year: 1873

DIVORCE IN UTAH.-Brigham Young's
seventeenth wife has left him and sued
for divorce. She carried away with
her the furniture and other personal eff
fects, and Brigham will endeavor to re-
cover them by suit. This case will bring
up some important points for considera-
ton. In the replevin suit the ownership
of the goods being involved, we suppose
the court will have to decide whether or
not the woman is Young'5 legal wife, and
thus the question Of Polygamy will be
properly before the court. This will be
the case at all events when the divorce
case is tried, for if the woman is not
legally Young's wife, we suppose the
court win refuse to grant divorce upon
the ground that there has been no legal
wedlock. If we remem Der correctly there
is no law in the Territory explicitly le-
CALLING polygamy, and hence it is prob
able that in the absence of legislation by
Congress on the subject, the common
law will prevail. In that event short
work will be made Of polygamy.
Year: 1873

EsQ.-A great many foolish things
have become sanctioned by custom, but
none more so than that of putting this
meaningless affix to gentleman's name.
We were guilty of tacking it to the cog
nomen of an old friend, few weeks ago
and we did not see him afterward until
the school ball at Junction. The stick
he was going to use was of manzanita
and about an inch thick, so we told him
that it might break up the ball and that
we wouldn't call him that again, anyway.
That Modified him.
Year: 1873

A BEAR, A CHICKEN HOUSE, AN AXE
AND AN AXEMAN.-Last Sunday morn
ing Mr.. b. Baumgartner, of Canon Creek
found a bear in his chicken house. Not
approving of bruins presence, he laid
hold of an axe and split his bearship's
skull, inflicting mortal wound and caus-
ing the intruder's speedy demise. The
next step on the part of our hero was to
make for Canon City, in double quick
time, with his hat on the back of his
head, to tell the story to chap with a
good memory who related the facts to
us, in order that we might tell everybody
else all about it.
Year: 1873

SCHOOL BALL.-The school dance at
the school house, junction City, on the
18th was pleasant little affair. Dancing
was kept up till nearly daylight and about
seventy dollars was realized over ex-
penses, to the school fund of that district.
Year: 1873

LAID UP.-Mr. L. j. Schall, of this
place met with an accident on Friday of
last week, which will keep him TO the
house for some time. He was returning
from North Fork, when at n rough part
of the road Mr.. Schall was thrown out
falling on the rocks and injuring his left
leg severely, while he was somewhat
bruised about the head. Fortunately no
bones were broken and he is getting along
well.
Year: 1873

A HONEY LEDGE has been discovered
on the summit of the hill between June
tion City and Eagon Flat, about halfway
between the two places. Some time ago
they were tracked to near the place, but
the hunters, seeing no trees near by, sup
posed the insects went over the noun
tain. There is an opening near the face
of the hill where the bees enter, and un-
doubtedly have large deposit of honey.


They have never been known to swarm.
Year: 1873

The British House of Lords has again
refused to sanction bill legaliZing mar
riage between a widOwer and his de-
ceased wife's sister. The House of Com
mons has reported the bill sixty-three
times, and the petitions for its passage
have been signed by an almost incredible
number of people. There were twenty
thousand signers among the women of
Birmingham alone. Now, we have no
idea of discussing this question in any
way. as 1t Is not in issue anywhere in this
country, we believe, but we mention it


because its history serves to illustrate a
curious tendency which is almost univer-
sal among men. Unless the city of Bir-
mingham is different from all other places
in the character of its population, there
are probably not more than a few hun
dred manageable women there, who
have widowed brOthers-in-law. Not every
one of these is enamored of the brother.
in-law, and even If they were, it is hardly
probable that the attachment is in all
cases mutual; in other words, the num-
Der of women in Birmingham who have


real, practical interest In the passage OF
the bill in question can hardly exceed a
few score at most, and yet twenty thou
sand danes and damsels in that city have
become so anxious for the abstract privi-
lege of marrying actual, probable, posi-.
BILE, or impossible brothers-in-law, as to
have made themselves humble and earnest
petitioners for the passage of the bill,
after it had already been rejected by the
Legislature sixty-two times! Why this
matter should SO strongly interest a
woman who has no brother-in-law, or one
who is already married, or one who, hav-
ing no sister, can never, by any possibili-
Toodles' door-plate argument to justify
her anxiety, we should be totally at loss
to determine, were it not for the fact that
it is a characteristic of human nature
every where to become most strongly in
terested in those things which cannot
possibly concern it.-Hearh and Home.
Year: 1873

The balloon ascensions from the Ave-
nue. Suffren, in Paris, were the first that
had ever been placed within the reach OF
ordinary purses and ordinary courage.
The cost of ascension was twenty francs,
and although this sum entitled one to no
more than a five minutes voyage, yet the
car rarely went up without its full COM
plement of a score or two dozen passsn-
gers. 1t is true there were no dangers
here. The balloon, an immense brown
SILK globe of twenty-one metres diameter,
was held in by cable of three hundred
metres 200 feet) length and weighing
nine hundred kilogrammes q 500 lbs.
English). This cable was wound around
a windlass turned by powerful steam
machine OF 50-horse power which pre-
vented it from unrolling itself too abrupt
ly; nevertheless the ascensions were ex-
tremely rapid; the balloon, filled with
hydrogen pure instead of common gas,
did not take minute to run out the whole
length Of its tether, and had it been al
lowed to go free it would have shot up
and been out of sight in less time than It
takes to count a hundred.


The sensation experienced in rising Is
of very exuberant kind. THERE'S some
thing almost intoxicating in that prodig-
ious flight into the cold pure air, some
nine hundred feet above the highest trees
and monuments ones pulse beats faster
by twenty to thirty throbs minute, and
1t is with real regret that one feels the
balloon come to standstill four out of
every five people who ascend find them
selves wishing that the cable would break,
and this, be it observed, Is a purely
physical sensation, quite Independent OF
the enthusiasm caused by the magnificent
panorama beneath one. For this reason
we should not recommend balloon riding
to every one with women of nervous or
ganiZation the excitement might very
well produce Mysteries, and men of weak
temperament have been known to be
seized with that strange impulse which
prompts one, upon the border of preci-
pice, to throw ones self down. II this
impulse Is not irresistible, it Is yet sufll-
ciently strong to trouble ones mind in
very high degree. A German chemist of
great learning, and of well-tried personal
courage, who had ventured upon scien-
tific ascension from Brussels, few years
ago, lost his head completely when he got
out of sight of land, and screamed hide
Ously for whole minute /; his companions
contrived to tranquilize him; but the
shock had been very severe, and we have
little doubt that from that day he has
fought shy of balleons.-OornhiH Maga-
x;1e
Year: 1873

DIR. WILLARD PARKER, an old and
prominent physician, in recent address
made the following statement concerning
the effects of alcohol upon the human sys-
tenn:


For many years was connected with
the care of inebriates and paid particular
attention to the character of those in my
charge, and have arrived at the conclu-
sion that drunkenness Is disease. A man
so affected cannot control his appetite,
and must have drink regularly, and will
can refrain from drinking, but diseased
man cannot and these men so addicted
readily admit that. Men suffering from
the disease have been cured and they will
with tears In their eyes promise to &b-
stain, yet on passing liquor store they
cannot help themselves, and will go In
and have their whisky. Now the question
arises: What can be done? How shall
we 90 to work? Society has been all the
time trying to show what the use of alco-
hol makes us do, and many will reply Il
makes them feel good, and some will say
1t makes them crazy, drives them to des-
peration and to fight. Now let us drop
that mode, and ask what does alcohol do
to me, and not what it makes me do.
That is the great starting point. We
have 10 teach the people wnat alcOnol does
to them, and how 1t acts on them. Ii Is
as poisonous as arsenic or belladonna, and
produces its deadly effect on those who
use it I; but then ip Is used In an adulter-
ated state. Whisky is poison, but some
believe and have the idea Ii we can get
pure spirits that it Is all right, but that is
a mistake. Alcohol is poison, and the
purer it is the more deadly is 1t In its ef-
feet, and If we're roing to partake of 1t
l would prefer that which is adulterated.
With regard to ales and beer, lis believed
that they are harmless, but with the
presence of alcohol there Is always danger.
and those who drink wines become stupid.
In lager beer there is or per cent of al
coho1, In ale or 8 per cent; wine con-
tains %, gin 81 per cent. and brandy SO
per cent of alcohol. Even In cider there
Is 2 or 3 per cent Of the poison present.
Year: 1873

SUCCESSFUL experiments have been
made in raising calves by means Of a soup
or milk prepared according to the recipe
of Baron Liebig, which is as follows:


Seven pints Of water end three and
half pints of milk are boiled with 10
ounces of wheat flour to an ordinary
pap; three and half more pints Of milk
are then added, with an ounce and q
quarter of potash solution consisting Of
two parts of bicarbonate Of potash dis
solved In ii parts of water. The same
quantity of bruised malt as Of wheat flour
fs added to the hot pap, which Ii well
stirred and allowed to settle for half an
hour near the stove or other warm place,
when it is boiled again and filtered through
suitable gauze.


The calves are fed for about six weeks
on pure milk, and gradually they are al
lowed less, some of the substitute being
added. At last they are given seven
quarts of artificial milk per day, and no
pure milk. After three months, only one
half of this quantity Is given, bali a
pound of linseed cake being added In tbe
fall some boiled potatoes are mixed IN.
The calves gain about two POUNDS In
weight per day. A calf which was weane1
on February ~ gained on an average ~
pounds Der day. Should calves dislike
| TO take the milk of the cow, the substi-
tute Is given Immediately. No disadvan-
taoeous effects of feeding with this milk
we're observed. DiarrhHa did not occur
at ali. The milk was also applied to the
raising of pigs, and was in their case use-
ful In the cure of diarrhea, which &c
often fatally attacks them.--Sesenftft


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