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Year: 1876

LARGE apes are now employed to pull
cocoanuts in Ceylon. These animals are
imported from Acheen in patches, and
are marched around the plantations by
their owners, who let them out on hire.
A line is first attached to each of the ami
mails, and he is then sent up a tree,
where he is said to select fruit with
great discrimination, and to twist the
nut round and round until it falls to the
ground. Each successive fall of nut is
hailed by the hairy worker above with a
jump and chuckle of satisfaction. They
are very Industrious workers, and do not
"strike."
Year: 1876

GUN COTTON, we are told, is one of
the curious triumphs of the past few
years of chemistry. 1t was never i'm
agined. that the well-known and useful
vegetable fiber called cotton could be so
easily converted into one of the most
powerful explosive compounds known,
and would serve as an article of offer-
sive and defensive warfare. At the
present time number of batteries of
artillery in the Austrian service use gun
cotton. 1t is employed largely by the
English Government in their military
service. 1t is also used for blasting
quarries.
Year: 1876

Funny thing a baby i,


Curious little creature
Funny is its little Phiz.


Comic every feature.
Helpless thing . baby is
Tiny hands uplifting
DER the troubled tide Of life
Into which 'tis drifting.
Mystery . baby is


Memories Of heaven
siilI must hover in the soul
such a short time given.
soIemn Thing a baby is,


Since It must inherit
All the loss and gain Of lii-,
Al the sin and merit.
Funny, helpless, mystic, sad,-
Let me tell you, Freddy,
Half the good and sweet Of life
Is the getting ready.
Yours the sunshine-takc il al
While you're weak and tiny
By-and-by the days that come
May not be so shiny.
Year: 1876

A centennial legion is to be formed CON-
posed Of the Boston light infantry, the old
guard of New York, and the Washington
light infantry of South Carolina, and which
is to consist of one company from each of
the thirteen original states.


The New England Battalion" is being
organized by the Boston light infantry,
who will of course represent the Old Bay
State Rhode Island will probably be
represented by the Providence light infan-
try, which already has Il petition, before the
legislature of that state in reference to the
matter. Connecticut will be represented
by the New Haven grays, or rather by the
veteran company connected with that or
ganization. New Hampshire, it is hoped,
will lie represented by the Amoskeag
veterane, who have been invited to join,
but have not yet fully decided to do so.


Each company will consist of 100 men,
and each OF the three battalions is to elect
one field officer Gen. Ambrose Il. Burn
sac VIII be commander of the New Eng
land battalion. The other commanders
Will be Fitzhugh Lee and Gen. George b..
Mcclellan.


1t is he design for the several companies
to rendezvous in Philadelphia on the % OF
July TO complete arrangements, and the
legion will offer its services as escort to
President Grant in the big parade on the
4lh, aud should they be accepted the head
of this great nation will have an appropriate
escort from the original thirteen states.
Year: 1876

Our Claremont correspondent sends us
further particulars of the shooting affray
at the Junction house on Sunday evening
last. Thomas Mason of West Windsor,
came to the hotel-and inquired tor George
p. Dean, the clerk. In a few moments
Dean came in and after little time he
asked him if he was going out to Felch-
vile to dance. He replied no, and said
he was out there three years ago and the
hostler stole the feed away from the horse
and he would not go there again. 1t turned
out that Mason was the hostler at the time.
He gave the lie to Dean. Dean said he
could prove il. Thereupon Mason says :
"Come out of doors and we will settle II. A"
Dean replied al do not wish to fight, "
and did not go out. Mason went to the
barn and after remaining few moments,
came back into the bar room, he shot Dean
while he was standing by the stove. The
ball passed through the waislband of his
pants and was taken out near the back by
the left kidney.


Dean is still alive with little hope of re-
covery Dean is 20 years old Mason A.


Mason was arraigned on Tuesday and
bound over for trial at the county court
under bonds, in default of which he was
lodged in Jail at Newport. He has the
reputation of being a rough customer.
Year: 1876

Here however, one evening, Joe came
running aft with broad grin on his face
to get gun, saying there was bear swim
ming near the ship. Everybody made a
rush for the guns, and in moment lively
fire was opened on Mr.. Bruin, who, how
ever, swan off under this shower of bullets
unharmed, In the meantime the captain
and Mr' LillingstOn had lowered boat and
started after him. 1t proved to be close
race, for the bear swan with speed had
little expected, looking around at his pur-
suers now and then, and redoubling his ex-
eriions when he saw they were gaining up
on him. pitied the poor brute with all
my heart, for he had not of course, the
ghost Of a chance, and he swan hard for
his life, Soon the boat had approached
within ten feet of him. Then there were
two shots, and he suddenly stopped swim
ming and lay lifeless on the water, shot
through the head. 1t was certainly not
very good sport, as the poor brute could In
the water neither get away nor fight but
the truth is we were out Of seal and need
ed him as a change from salt meat Cor.
New York Herald
Year: 1876

during the exhibition prefacing said bill,
as we believe, by an incontrovertible argu-
ment, and thet we hereby pledge him our
mutual support, congratulating Congress-
man Joyce upon the honor he has done
both himself and our state in this matter.


Resotced That this act of our representa-
tive brings prominently to the surface
fact most encouraging TO the large army Of
temperance workers, that our cause has so
far progressed as TO command attention In
our highest legislative body, and that "The
star which never sets" is the first to agitate
this question Of prohibition on the floor Of
of congress


The remaining resolutions ask the CO.
operation Of oil good citizens to aid In
sending from the several towns in Ben
nington county, representatives to the next
legislature, Who will give such amendments
to the prohibitory law as TO render its ex-
ecution practicable in the larger towns,
among which shall be one THAT the
wife may sue in her own name and collect
from the rum-seller all moneys paid by her
husband for liquors sold him contrary to
lav, and that said moneys 50 paid the rum
seller contrary TO statute shall be subject TO
trustee process the same as now provided
by our laws for the collection of claims"


The next meeting will be held at Factory
Point on the second Wednesday of May
next.
Year: 1876

The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks
that Ben Hill, Tucker and company have
made a mess of it. 1t Is gloomy and, at
the same time, prophetic. Hear it :
"There is every likelihood that the next
house will be hopelessly radical, and
wholly and solely because of their
lack of penetration. They forget
nothing. They learn nothing. They
talk and talk, while the other side
i hies off with the swag Thus far, in
"spite of an overwhelming majority, they
have allowed themselves to be beaten,
overreached and turned upside down on
their particular ground. Even their
" friends are sick and despondent." And
this was all before jeff Davis had written
his letter. How sick and despondent they
must feel now
Year: 1876

However much we may congratulate
ourselves that the most exalted are com
PEELED to obey the process of the courts, in
the same manner as the humblest citizen,
as was shown in the Babcock trial, We'd
nesday is 1t not little humiliating to
learn, at the same time, that the president
of the United states, from his intimacy and
personal relations to the accused, should
be considered material and necessary
witness for person on trial charged with
o copspiracY to defrand the government 2
Year: 1876

The senate by extending to the president
pro tenlpore the courtesy OF naming mem
Der of the finance committee, have placed
thereon an opponent of the presumption act.
Henry Cooper, with one exception, when
present, voted in favor of every imitation
measure, and in opposition to every meas
ure looking toward specie payments, during
the last congress, as well as against the re-
sumntion act SO called.
Year: 1876

We wish all our subscribers TO be particular
to notice the date against their names upon
their papers, and see that the account is right
The date shows the time TO which payment has
been made, 80 that the label is a constant re-
ceipt for the time to which the subscriber has
paid.
Year: 1876

Floods in the North.


Ogdensburg, March 1.-THE dam
age caused by floods in the Deer and
Stregis rivers is extensive. The wa
ter rose higher than Was ever before
known, carrying away saw mills,
shiDgle mills and bridges. At Helena
the water is feet deep in the church
and large amount Of wood and some
live stock were swept away. Ice is
piled up six feet high in the roads.


Bank Failure.


The Bank of the State of New
York closed its doors to-day. Its fail
ure was caused by injudicious specu-
lation and the loaning of money on
poor security. One concern was al
lowed to overdraw S4I7 600, the bank
taking as security for the overdraft
a patent about which little is known.


The effect of the closing of the bank
at the stock exchange was to create u
wild excitement, during which there
was sharp decline in prices. This
continued for only short time, when
the facts became known and prices
recovered part of the decline. In the
gold market the effect was to put the
price up to 1l5 from which II has
since fallen to 11il.
Year: 1876

Little babies we all were once.


We're not much in the line of heft,
Knew not the right way from the wrong,
Knew not the right hand frCm the left.
Bef ore five years have passed away,


Millions 60 from the sands of time,
Millions go in he years of youth,


And millions more in manhood's prime.
Millions depart in wint'ry age,


Tottering onward down lifes slope,
BY accident, disease, some go,


And some CO. by tho hangman's rope.
Some depart from the battlefield,


Mid the wild roar the souls made free,
Some pass on from the martyrs flames,
And some by shipwreck on the sea.
Many have lived and blest the world,


Some to the world have been curse.
Some have been good, some have been bad
And some have gone from bad to worse.
0 strange, ho,o strange the life of man


How strangely varied life and death;
No two lives that are just alike,


From the first to the last drawn breath.
What makes the difference, none may know
Here in this twilight misty gloom,
But there comes time when all will see,


In the bright day beyond the tomb.
Year: 1876

now going on. There can be little
doubt, however, that the condition of
this matter will remain unaltered, as
the dying mans business affairs have
been carefully arranged, and his 81
gantic enterprises will be in the hands
of competent men trained by him and
in strict accord with him as to policy.
Year: 1876

Fryer and his last attempt to make his
"process work, down at the Prospect
Mine, had nearly passed out Of mind until
yesterday, when we happened to think that
the grand revolutionizer of noble metal re-
duction must be hereabouts yet, and we
asked Prospect stockholder how the thing
was getting along. "Fryer be hanged" )"
said he, "we are losing all this season and
nothing done. IF we had put on mill,
Prospect would have been all right now"
1t seems the Octagon stamp PAM barrel
crusher-pulverizer-amalgamator don't per-
form all it agreed to, and resort is had to
stamps some miles away, which makes it
slow work testing the "process." Some
little change is understood to be necessary
in order to make it a success. Twas ever
thus. "We never are, but always to be, ]"
etc. 1t is well known here that since we
looked the 'process - over, last spring, we
have never expressed the least faith there
in, but said but little about it, preferring
bring it out. There is no use, that Ga We @ { can
see, of holding back any longer the express
sion of our candid opinion of the "proeess," !"
which is that as a "process" there is
nothing in it. The roasting may partially
desulphurize the ore, but this kind of
roasting, it is our honest conviction, can
be better, easier, and more cheaply done in
common ''draw " lime-kiln than in the
tilt-bottom one of Fryer. The subsequent
treatment by Fryer, which was claimed at
one time to be the important part OF the
process, always appeared to us child's-
play.


On the principle that there is room for
much improvement in the manipulation OF
our ores, both silver and gold, more espec-
tally those which contain these metals in
combination with minerals of a baser ma
ture, we never condemn a ' process = at
first, as some do on general principles, for
we believe some good may come of any
experiment, but there certainly can be no
use in winking at this attempt any longer,
and thereby keeping mine owners in sus-
pense in regard to the kind of works they
ought to put up.-Grdss Valley 7sdings.
Year: 1876

as New York is to them. From the ex-
treme East to the farthest West, come peo-


pie who never saw big city before, and
they are making the most of their opportu-
mites. You can tell them at sight, for they
are all dressed alike. The ladies all have
linen busters when they arrive, and black
alpaca the next day, the men all in busi-
ness suits, fresh when they left home, but
very much the worse for the dust of travel.
Every one Of them walk the length Of
Broadway, by night, and very good thing
it is to do. Few more interesting sights
can be found than this beautiful thorough
fare, with it's miles Of lamps, it's glittering
shop windows and thronged with number
less vehicles. They go over to Brooklyn to
get from the ferry boats view Of the wa
ter-fronts of the cities, and they climb Trim
ity spire and the tall tower of the Tribune
to get comprehensive views of the city.
Stewards is thronged from morning till
night, with ladies, and the Sc, 900 shawls
and the 5000 rugs are duly inspected and
admired. But with all this there is but lit
tie trade from them. The merchants COM
bine the Centennial with business, but the
regular sight-seer buys little or nothing.
They are here to see, and they want to use
the money they haYe for that purpose, and
the way business has been for three years,
none of them have too much of it. So far
as the dealers are concerned the Centenni-
al has been a disappointment. They have
four times the work to show their wares
that they ever had, but not any larger
sales.


#.r BUSINESS


is still improving, much to the delight of
the business people, and to the disgust Of
the Democracy, The enormous sales now
being made takes away their chief argu-
ment, for it shows that the hard times was
caused by something else than the "Repub-
lican misrule " they prate SO much of, and
that the change they clamor fer is not
needle T. The merchants from the interior
are buying literally, and they are all here.
New York is selling as many goods as ever
when the eurtailment of its territory by in
terror cities is taken into account The
good times that have been SO long coming,
are here, thank heaven. PIETRo.
Year: 1876

THE snow that fell Saturday gave
us warning that winter.is approach
ing. Last year our citizens were
put to great Inconvenience in trav-
cling by our sidewalks made slippery
with the boys enjoying their sleigh
ride and skating sports thereon. A
number experienced severe falls,
that otherwise would not have oc-
Cured. Would it not be q good
idea for our city council to give
Marshal Prisk some special author
ity to prevent the occurrence again
this coming winter.
Year: 1876

To PURIFY SICK RoOM.--If onions are
sliced and kept in sick room they will
absorb all the atmospheric poison. They
should he changed every hour. In the
room of a smallpox patient they blister
and decOmpose very rapidly, but will pre-
vent the spread Of the disease.
Year: 1876

1t is a well-authenticated fact that clean
cuffs have an unaccountable tendency to
secrete themselves somewhere in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the elbows, while dirty
ones exhibit wilful and exasperating
determination to remain obtrusively in the
vicinity of the knuckles.
Year: 1876

FOUNDER REMEDY.-A correspondent of
the Agric''trahst says As soon as the
horse is found to be stiff, swab the legs and
feet with hot water. so hot that the hand
cannot bear to touch it, but not so hot as
to scald. Aftera short time the legs should
be rubbed dry, and the horse gently exer-
cised. Have never known this remedy to
fail
Year: 1876

Mamma asked precocious youngster at
the teatable the other evening, after a
long and yearning gaze toward plate of
doughtnuts, Mamma, do you think
could stand another of those fried holes .
She thought he could.
Year: 1876

The whirlgig of fashion may bring
round the most sudden and dazzling chan
ges, and the duties of the toilet may multi
ply like leaves in Vamlambrosa, but there
is nothing that will make woman stand
before her looking glass so long, as a sun
burnt nose.
Year: 1876

NOta Dye makesharsh hair soft and silky; cleaEscs
the scalp from all impurities causing the hair to grow
where it has fallen Off or become thin.


Can be applied by the hand as it docs not stain the
skin soil the finest linen. As Hair Dressing it is
the most perfect the world has ever produced. The
hair is renovated and strengthened and natural color
restored wthOutthe application ofmncral substances


Since the introduction of this truly valuable prcpa-
ration into this country il has been the wonder and
admiration of all classes it has proved to be the
only article that will absolutely without deception
restore gray hair to its original color health sofncss
luStre and beauty and produce hair on bald heads of
its original growth and color.


This beautiful and fragrantly pcrfumCd article is
complete within itself no washing preparation be-
fore or after its use, accompaniment of any kind
being required to obtain these desirable results,
Year: 1876

A TExAs editor had his SCISSORS
stolen from him the other day
OF course he was sorry, but. still
after calling upon the thief to re-
turn them, he round strength
enoogh to say editorially. "But
if the scamp means going into the
editorial business he can can keen
them, and our revenge will be
complete. We wish him no gretaer
punishment on this EARTH"
Year: 1876

The st. Louis papers tell of further
efforts to I've put forth by the mercantile


interests of that city with Il view t.
cnIarcing its cotton trade and describe a
"ncw method" Of handling cotton as one
of the agencies to I've employed


1t is proposed that on the arrival of
cotton at warehouses it shall he sub
jcctcd to a rigid inspection after the bag
ging and ties are removed, and two sam
pies drawn from the bale and marked
sol numbered to correspond. Compress
sion will Immediately follow inspection,
and one sample will he given to the cot
ton factor and the other carefully sealed
and deposited with the secretary of the
cotton exchange. The cotton thus in
spcctcd, sampled and compressed on ar
rival, will he stored away ready for ship
mcnt promptly to any part of the world,
while under the present system of in
spcction and COMPRISING after II sale is
made. there is sometimes n delay of seven
to ten days before shipments go forward.
For the loss in weight by drying ont
after compression the trade are expected
to agree upon certain per ccntagc per
month which will be establish d as the
rule, and cotton will he sold by the
weights on the certificates given after
con, preston, less the per centagc above
mentioned. Df the advantages of this
plan, that of lesscning the cost Of in
surancc is one of the most important.
More than this, all classes Of buyers will
receive their cotton fully week earlier
than under the present system, and will
also he relieved from the troubles now
experienced to ascertain what portion of
n lot of cotton is to bc rejected. Interior
shippers will he promptly informed of
the exact condition OF their shipments,
and if any bales prove to be iraudulcntly
packed the planter can he Immediately
advised of it. Water packed cotton, if
promptly examined and picked over on
arrival, can he saved from serious dam
age, while if it remains in Tie ware
houses, under the present plan, perhaps
for months before it is examined, the
damage extends throughout the bale.
The compress compahcs will bc required
to employ competent inspectors, for
whose conduct the companies will he re-
sronsible.


TIE MoNGoIIAN INFLUX.-Thc tol.
lowing statement of Chinese arrivals at
San Francisco since 1865 has been care
fully compiled from the books of the
cllStOm-housc:
Year: 1876

TwEED's HIDING PLACE -Superin-
tendent Walling says that he believes
that Tweed is living somewhere in Can
ada that trustworthy information has
been received that points conClusively to
Canada as his present hiding place.
Nevertheless, the superintendent admits
Tweed may still be concealed in this
city. lie could remain here very easily,
and none of the persons in pursuit of
him could learn the least thing about
his hiding-place. There were men con-
ncctad with Tweed who would serve him
to the death and never divulge his hid
Ing place or say or do anything to attract
the attention or suspicion of the authori


ties If he were to he taken sick, he
could find plenty of physicians who
would be willing to attend TO him and
ask no questions. Where Tweed il, the
superintendent concludes, can only. he
conjectured at best, but it is truly re-
markable that nothing positive or de-
finite has been heard Of him since his
escape from custody.-Mew York Trib.
Year: 1876

"MY boy, tell us what you know about
rattan?' said the committeeman. at
is sometimes called the calamus rottang;
comes from Penang Samarang and Pa
dang, and is used by the master in this
school too dang often"
Year: 1876

We are now prepared to offer our customers
better meat than ever before. Meat that will
stand inspection by the most fastidious Dur
facilities for keeping meat is as good as any in
the State, having au immense first class kefriger-
ator, where meat is kept cold and free from HES
and other bothersome insects.


We shall at all times keep in their proper
season
Year: 1876

Another member asked if young
lady could say "old splendid without
subjecting herself to fine.


"You bet she can't" said the presi-
dent, who was the original founder
of the society, and therefore appealed
TO when any nice question was to be
Year: 1876

To Know THE AGE OF A HoRsE.-
The colt is born with twelve grinders;
when four front teeth have made thei:
appearance the colt is twelve days
old, and when the next four come
forth il is four weeks old. When the
corner teeth appear, the colt is eight
months old; when the latter have at
tanned to the hight of the front teeth
be is one year old. The two, year old
colt he's the kernel (the dark sub.
stance in the middle of the tooth's
CROWN ground out of all its front
teeth. The next four teeth are shift
ed in the fourth year, and the corner
teeth in the fifth. At six years The
kernel is worn out of the lower mid
die front teeth, and the bride teeth
have now attained to their full growth.
At seven years hook has been form
ed in the corner teeth of the upper
law, the kernel of the teeth next at
the middle fronts is worn out, and the
bride teeth begin to wear off AT
eight years of age the kernel is worn
out of all the lower front teeth, and
begins 10 decrease in the middle up.
per trent. In the ninth year the ker-
ne! has wholly disappeared from the
upper middle front teeth, the hook on
tie corner teeth has increased in size,
and the middle teeth lose their points.
In the tenth year the kernel is worn
out of the teeth next to the middle
front of the upper jaw; and in the
eleventh year the kernel has entirely
vanished from the corner teeth of the
same Jaw. At twelve years old the
crown of all the front teeth in the
lower jaw bas become triangular, and
the bride teeth are much worn down.
As the horse advances in age the
gums shrink away from the teeth,
which consequently receive a long
narrow appearance, and their kernels
have become metamOrphOsed irto a
darkish point, gray hairs increase in
the forehead, over the eyes, and the
chin resumes the form of an augle.-
Journal Of the Farm.