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Year: 1872

From the NY. World.


Every now and then some fellow with more


money than either sense or decency complains


10 the police that lie has been robbed while


drum by cyprian. The poor wretch is forth


with arrested, male to diagorge if possible, and
complainant goes On his way. In England they
made beginning in doing things differently
and the rule is one that could be profiiabIy
adopted here. While carous,ng at sheffield :
choice spirit was lightened of we'll filled purse,
and Immediately charged one of his female
companions with the theft. The magistrate de-
clined to proceed on the word of druui en- man,
and as complainant wended his way owly TO
the door called him back, ordered him % stand
forward on a charge Of being drunk in a public
place, and delivered TO him this eminently SEN
sible address


| shall fine you ten shillings and costs for
being drunk in public place. l believe that
you were robbed, and it is because beliye you
were robbed that impose this fine am only
sorry cannot impose heavier penalty. II is
an intolerable nuisance that men with large
sums Of money in their pockets should &c,
drunk and support a class OF thieves in the town
who are rolling in wealth, and who are enabled
TO profit better BY thieving than they could by
honest labor A man who allows himself to be
robbed in the way you have done is a public
Year: 1872

A few words as to the salt-works on the shores of the Mediterranean may not be uninteresting. The water from the sea is brought during the Summer months into large basins, where it clears and concentrates it's quality by evaporation, until the time arrives when it is saturated that IS, when it contains the largest quantity of.salt that the water can keep in 8 state of dissolution. There is a curious phenomenon connected with this period the surface of the water acquires red tint, and exhales the odor of vio- lets, which is thus accounted for. Many small organic beings, such as the little crustaceous branchiopodes and globu- lar microscopic vegetable, both of @ red coler, for the crustacean feeds on the latter, and, it's body being transparent, the color of the food it itswallows is visible, live in the salt water. As the evapora- tion proceeds, the density of the water in which they move increases, and the time comes when it is so considerable that they can no longer live in it, but rise to the surface like thin tissue spread over the liquid, and form rosy and perfumed bed. Then the workmen say " The basin will now yield it's salt. J Many other matters are deposited besides salt, such as salt of magnesia, chalk, sodium, iron. When the early attempts were made, the existence of iodine and bromine were altogether unknown ar- ticles in chemistry they have both played an important part in the progress ot photography.

 Ther5 was one drawback to the success of these salt-works which las been re- moved during the past few years, the evaporation being due to the season of the year, warm or cold Sumner made the greatest difference, and long periods of rest often hindered the workmen. It is we'll known that heat is but modif- cation of force and, wherever machine can be worked, there is source of heat, and, by means of applicances not difficult to modern mechanics, it can be trans formed into source of cold. When the question arose how the salt-pits could be regulated in these respects, it was known that powerful steam engines of more than hundred horsepower were used in India for the making of ice. In the London Exhibition of 1862, an economi cal and elegant machine of this kind was exhibited this on larger scale, was i'm mediately employed and the tempera ture can now be lowered at the right moment for the production of sulphate of soda- Chdmbe9'S Journal.
Year: 1872

A letter writer who has been on the Yellow Stone, thus speaks of Geysers, and the Grand Geyser in particular

 The most striking exhibition of Ma ture's forces in this wonderful region is that of the "Grand Geyser." While we were in the Fire Hole Valley this geyser played only at intervals of about thirty-two hours but when it was in active operation the display was grand beyond description. As we stood near the crater or basin, it threw up, with scarcely any preliminary warning, a col umn of hot water eight feet in diameter to the height of two hundred feet and so steady and uniform did the force act that the column of water appeared to be held there for some minutes, returning g into the basin in millions of prismatic drops. This was continued for about fifteen minutes, and the rumbling and confusion attending it could only be compared to that of a charge in battle The steam poured out in immense mass es, rising in clouds thousand feet or more in height. After the Grand Geyser had ceased playing the water of the basin retired from the surface, and the temperature fell gradually to 150o. Another geyser in the same group, and named by the Langford party "Old Faithful" was far more accommodating and played at intervals of only an hour, throwing up column of water at least six feet in diameter and one hundred and fifty feet high. for period of about fifteen minutes. The ease with which this column of water was sustained at the great height during the period of its operation rendered it marval of beauty as well as of power.
Year: 1872

ANSWERING LETTERS. great many people in this country are shamefully negligent about answering letters. Nothing is more annoying. In European countries it is regarded as the height of ill breeding to allow letter which needs a reply to go unanswered, and so it ought to be considered here. This is a point on which parents should lay great stress to their children. They should be taught to consider it as rude not to reply to a letter which needs attention as to hand a fork with the prong end.

 The busiest people are generally those who are the most exact in this respect. The late Duke of Wellington, who. it will be admitted, had @ good deal on his hands at different times of his life, re. piled to every letter, no matter from how humble source. Once clergyman who lived in distant part of the king. dom wrote to his Grace, on whom neith- CT he nor his parish had shadow oi claim, to beg for a subscription to build church. By return of mail came back letter from the Duke to the effect that he really could not see why in the world he should have been applied to for suol an object but tho parson sold the letter as an autograph for e5, and put the Duke down for that amount among the subscri | bars.
Year: 1872

A new method of converting wheat in to bread has lately been devised in France, and is said to have found great favor wherever it has been tried. The process is substantially as follows: The wheat is first deprived of it's outer GOV ering or husk by suitable machinery, after which the decorticatcd grain is subjected to severn successive soakings in tepid water, the temperature of the water being about 175 deg. Fahr. for the first bath, and about 1O5 deg. Fahr. for the others. By this means the gummo- resinous cover of the grain is dissolved and removed. When fermentation oc- CUTS, this gummy substance, if left in the mass, gives the dough deep brown or blackish color, while it's removal leaves the dough as white as Ill the ordinary process. During the soakings the grain absorbs from sixty-fve to seventy per cent. of water After the last bath it is reduced to paste by means of machi- nery very similar to that used in chocolate mills. This perfectly white paste is next leavened, and after fermentation Is ready for baking.

 The advantages claimed for the method are these: The same quantity of grain will yield thirty per cent. more bread than by the old process the bread is more nutritious, and every way superior to that made in the common way its manufacture is also attended by very considerable reduction of both labor and expense. It is stated that the process has been Independently tested by com potent scientific and practical men, with uniformly favorable results.
Year: 1872

Fear NOT. Men may frown, and men may scoff-

 Fear not If you cast all weakness off, Taking sides with Right and Truth, Victory will come forsooth-

 Fear notl Life is not all sunny skies

 Fear not Often in the dark cloud lies Brightest sunshine. III is good Oft, when rightly understood

 Fear not! Proudest monuments are those

 Fear not Which from noble actions rose; All brave men may build them high, Crowned with flowers that never die

 Fear not Courage is the good mans shield

 Fear not Cowardice can never yield Honors which we all would wear; Cowardice begets despair

 Fear not! Shun the evil, seek the right

 Fear not Truth is honor, truth is might; Firmly stand by all that's true; Scorn the false. In all you do,

 Fear not! Fear was never made for those

 Fear not Who the wrong and false oppose He who acts thus wins the prize, Life immortal in the skies

 Fear not
Year: 1872

How SALT LAKE CITY IS IRRIGATED. The city of Salt Lake, which has pop ulation of about fifteen thousand, is so laid out that the streets, at right angles with each other, coincide with the cardi- nal points of the compass ; and of the one hundred and eighty blocks thus formed, each one contains a plot of ten acres, while this square is again subdivi- ded by lines crossing at the centre, into four corner building lots, or two and a quarter acres each. The streets are broad and without pavement Between the carriage-way and the sidewalk is a shallow ditch filled with running water, which surrounds every block in the city, and serves to irrigate the gardens and lawns which are the charm of the town This water is brought from the noun tains and distributed at the highest point of the city during the season, and when winter approaches it is turned in another direction, to prevent the inconvenience of it's freezing in the street.
Year: 1872

SALT OF NEvADA-Nevada is capable of supplying the world with salt. It abounds in salt springs, salt marshes, and salt mountains, and great plains where the evaporation of ages has left deposits of salt almost 1llimitable in extent For mining purposes, the salt of these depos- it requires onlyto be shovelled into sacks and transported to the place of use. For table and dairy purpose it is not quite equal to Eastern salt. It contains a slight per cent. of impurity, which would have to be removed by re-evaporation or some refining process to render it ,uar- ketable for domestic use. This may not be the case with all the deposits of this character in the State, but applies to such of them as have been worked. Within fifty miles of Reno, and not. more than one mile from the railroad, are some of the finest salt springs in the world. One gallon of water will evaporate three pounds of the very best quality of this salt.
Year: 1872

Horace Greeley at the ded1cation of the Franklin statue in New York, said {: If were required to say for which oi Franklin's achievements he deserved most and best of mankind, I should award the palm to his autobiography so frank, so sunny, so irradiated by a brave, blithe, hearty, humanity. For if our fathers had not-largely by the ai2 of his counsel, his labors, his sacrifices achieved their independence at the first effort, they would have tried it again and again until they did achieve it; if of the identity of electricity with the lightning, that truth would nevertheless have at length been demonstrated but if he had net so modestly and sweetly told us how to wrestle with poverty and compel opportunity, do not know who beside would or could have done it so well. There is not to-day, there will not be in this nor in the next century, a friendless, humble orphan, working hard for naked daily bread, and glad to inn prove his leisure hours in the corner of a garret, whom that biography will not cheer aud strengthen to fight the battle of life buoyantly and manfully. I wish some humane tract society would present copy of it to every poor lad in the United States. But l must not -detain you. Let me sum up the character of Franklin in the fewest words that will serve me. I love and revere him as a journeyman printer who was frugal and didn't drink a porvedu who rose from want to competence, from obscrrity to fame without losing his head ; states man who did not cruc1fy mankind with long winded documents or speeches a diplomatist who d1d not intrigue 8 phi losopher who never loved and an office holder who didn't steal. So regarding him, I respond to your sentiment with "Honor to the memory of Franklin
Year: 1872

DAMAGES CLAIMED. is claimed that in consequence of the failure of this Gov ernment to give the proper notice of the blockade of Southern ports, established by MT. Stewards proclamation of 1861, the English owners of the vessels which were captured in attempting to enter Southern ports during the days allowed by law for the blockade to become effec- tive, are making up bill of damages to present to the Board of Arbitration and that this is done by and with the advice of the officials of the English Govern ment, who claim that there exist just grounds for these claims, and that there is nothing in the construction of the terms of the Washington Treaty to pre- vent the presentation and allowance of these claims.-N r Poper.
Year: 1872

"It is vain thing, young men, for you to put your finger in the water and, pulling it out, look for hole; it is equally vain to suppose that, how ever large space you occupy ill your own estimation, the wOrH will miss you when you die
Year: 1872

VERY L1KE.-Somebody tells us that sailors are never so much at sea as when they are on shore. In this they are somewhat like hen-pecked husbands, who are never so much at home as when they are abroad
Year: 1872

At the recent strike of the telegraph clerks in England, ten ladies employed in an office also struck, and what is more, they refused to go in again unless their male companions were also reinstated.
Year: 1872

The Pope recently sent for a monk
to come to him and be made Bishop.
The monk begged to excused, implol-
cd tho Pope to let him off His only e1-
cuso was q want Of memory. 90 we'll,
sud the Pore, "the worst of that will
be hat after you are dead they cant
speak of you as of happy memory,
This will be only slight inconven-
ience, and a Bishop you must be.
Year: 1872

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Permit me to ask you to suggest to the various
dissatisfied zcalots who desire to strike out for
themselves and construct pot pourri OF a Church,
composed Of members from all denominations. like
pound of mixed candies in paper bag, that, Tor
distinction and suitability, 1t be called the Church
OF the Dolly Vardens o.
Year: 1872

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Ihave, from time to time, in reading the HERALD
seen pieces OF greater or lesser length on Sweden
borgiansm (is not that an awful long name Mr.
EdltorD, and beg to ask you how it comes to pass
that In treating of the Scriptures, in many in
stan ,es, quite extensively, there Is no regular
connected erpOse OF the four Gospels. am aware
that they are quoted from very much, but the Old
Testament lat least Genesis and Exoius) are
treated OF In detail Now, why are not the four Cos
pes Of equal consequence? Inform devoted
reader Of and believer in the HERALD.


JOHN EMANUEL.
Year: 1872

OLD SHOES You probably think thai
if you look sharply at an old shoe, when
you throw it away, you will know it
again if it ever comes back to you. But
that doesn't at all follow. One Of these
days you may button your dress with an
old pair of slippers, comb your hair with
boot, or grasp cast off gaiter while
you eat your dinner. You don't see how
this can be? Well, we'll tell you. Old
shoes are turned to account in the follow
ing manner: They are cut into very
small pieces and kept for Il couple Of days
in chloride of sulphur. The effect Of this
is to make the leather hard and brittle.
Next the material is Withdrawn from the
action Of the chloride of sulphur, washed
with water then dried. When thoroughly
dried, it is ground to powder, and mixed
with some substance like glue or gum,
that causes it to adhere together. 1t is
then pressed into moulds and shaped into
buttons, combs, knife handles, etc. So
you see how it may come to pass that
you will comb your hair with boot and
lasten your clothes with slipper.
Year: 1872

SINGULAR DIsCoVERY.-While somo
men at the Torpedo Station were at work
inside old Fort Wolcott, the wheel of
their cart sank deep into the ground.
Removing some Of the earth to find n
cause for this, one Of the men struck his
spade against what seemed to be an iron
plate. This excited the curiosity Of all,
and they set to work with n will to dig
away the earth above the plate. Soon
their efforts were rewarded by the sight
of an iron door fastened with rusty bolt.
On breaking this open, they came upon
"A fight Of winding stairs, which they de-
scended, and arriving at the foot they
found themselves in dungeon whose
gloom was made more marked by the
ray Of dim light which solitary loop
hole at the top admitted. Striking II
light to dispc the darkness OF the dun
gcon, they found upon the floor n few
withered bones, skull and lantern.
The lantern is of such an old-lashioned
construction and shape that it must have
been made over fifty years ago.-N. y.
ITmeS.
Year: 1872

CARRIER PIGEoNs.-The adage which
allows that one story may be good I'M
til another has been told, recently re-
ceived quite forcible illustration at the
hands Of Captain VIM. Bacon, of the
brig GEO. ". chase. Some time since
an extraordinary account was given of
the flight Of carrier pigeons from the brig
named while she was far out in the At
lantic ocean. a youth named Harry
Blocker was referred to as the authority.
1t appears that this young gentleman
was passenger on the chase, and ac-
cording to his own Showing started the
pigeons for the purpose Of testing their
power to return home from long distances
at sea. The experiment was considered
to be in every way satisfactory; and we
have no doubt that many persons who
propose making the tour of Europe next
Summer, thought of sending news to
their friends from the ocean; Captain
Bacon's statement is therefore worth
knowing. He admits that Master Bleek-
er was passenger on his vessel, but de-
clares that there were no pigeons on
board during the voyage. In view Of the
possible heart-aches and disappoinments
that might result from the failure of such
agencies for facilitating communication
not to speak Of the cruelty to the poor
birds, it is proper that the Captains con-
tradiction should not go unnoticcd.-N
y. Times.
Year: 1872

HAND-SuAKING.-llow did people get
into the habit OF shaking hands ? Tho
answer is not far to seek. In early and
barbarous times, when every savage and
semi-savago was his own law givcr,
judge, soldier and policeman, and had to
watch over his own safety in default Of
all other protection, two friends and ac
quaintances, or two strangers desiring to
be friends or acquaintances, when they
chance to meet, offered each other tho
right hand-thc hand alike Of offence and
defence, the hand that wields the sword,
tho dagger, the club, the tomahawk, or
other weapon Of war. Each did this to
show that the hand was empty, and nei-
thor war nor treachery was intended. A
man cannot we'll stab another when he is
in the act Of shaking hands with him, un-
less he be doube-dyed traitor and viii
lain, and strives to aim cowardly blow
with the left while giving the right, and
pretending to be on good terms with his
victim.
Year: 1872

A NICE DIsTINCTToN.-A prominent
lawyer was hailed while passing jewel
ry store, by the proprietor, with: "Gcn-
eral, come in here moment we have
something for you to solve. If man
brings his watch to be fixed, and it costs
me ten cents to do it, and | keep it week,
and charge him six dollars, what per cent
do | make ? We have been figuring and
make it nine hundred, and have only got
up TO one dollar. How much do you say
it would be at six dollars ?" Well"
replied the General, do not wonder at
your perplexity, for it is well known, and
the celebrated Babbitt calculating ma
chine has demonstrated that at certain
points in progressive numbers the law
governing them changes. In this case
the law would change and, long before it
would reach the six dollars, it would be
out Of per cent. and into what is known
as larceny"
Year: 1872

BE CHEERFUL.-"B BE cheerful" says
the man who is easy in his circumstances,
missing no loved face at the table, nor by
the hearth. But does be ever consider
how hard it may be to I" be cheerful "
when the heart aches, and the cupboard
is empty, and there are little fresh graves
in the churchyard, and friends are few or
Indifferent and even God, for the time
being, seems to have forgotten us, so des-
olate is our lot How difficult for one
man to understand another in such cir
cumstances How easy to say "Bo
cheerful !" How hard would we find it
to practice, were we stripped Of all life's
brightness"
Year: 1872

TREES NEAR RAILWAY TRACKS,
Lake Shore and Michigan Shore and
Michigan Southern railway company
have commenced work of planting trees
along the tracks of their road-l1 600
chesnut and 10000 European larches have
been planted along its line between White
Pigeon and Toledo, through the country
where the forests have been mostly
cleared away and the supply Of timber
is scantiest. The work was most thor
oughly done, with the intention that every
tree might live, and the cost, including
the time Of laborers, who belong to the
regular force of the road, and did this
work in connection with and in addition
to their ordinary duties, at an average of
eight cents per tree ; excluding the cost
Of the company's employees, the cost was
only four cents per tree. The raising of
trees suitable for cross ties on the unoccu-
pied land adjacent to railway lines has
something practical in it. These trees,
when Of proper size, may be used for re-
placing cross ties, and thus become u
source of profit, or rather of saving; and
when growing a protection against storms
especially the heavy snow and wind
storms Of the prairie country. The rapid
extension Of the railway system, and the
short " life " Of the ties-cstimated not to
exceed OH an average more than four
and one-half years-makes the produc-
ton of timber of particular interest to
railway men.
Year: 1872

A MACHINE has recently been perfect
ed in London with which writer, using a
pen in the usual manner, can at the same
time produce duplicate so small as to be
invisible to the naked eye, yet 50 distinct
that a microscope will reveal every line
and dot. A useful application will lie
f)r the prevention of forgery, as private
marks could be made which no imitator
conld see or even suspect the presence Of.
Year: 1872

AN anecdote is related Of Il preacher at
city. church, who had for his text a
verse from the parable of the ten virgins,
and in the course Of his sermon explain
ed :-"That in old times it was custom
ary, where the bridegroom and the bride
were coming, for ten virgins to go out
and meet them, and escort them home
GUe Of these utr9ins being n,ales and dCe
(emdieS.
Year: 1872

B 7 TELEG EGRAPH.


LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS


A Personal Explanation


MIR. BECK IN THE House


HE FEVER TOLD A LIE
SUPREME COURT DECISION
LINEN AND JUTE SMUGGLING
A CHAMPION SKULL RACE
CO0LIE TRAFFIC DENOUNCED
SCENE AT A PARIS FUNERAL
THE DANGER OF ICE GORGES
LOSS OF STEAMBOATS,
PERIL AT ST. LOUIS
Year: 1872

The Council yesterday lef. little outside
business of interest to be attended to.
Nevertheless. the bills made by the Mayor
and the Administration of Assessments in
behalf of the Duke are subjects of good
deal of .jocular conversation. The Council
declined to take any action on them until
next meeting. This was however only done
in jest, no doubt. and ample provision will
eventually be made for their payment.


The Administrator Of Improvements is
pushing forward as rapidly as possible
necessary work on the canals. The drain
ing canal, running parallel with the new
canal, will enable us very soon to close the
drain on Canal street and remove from that
splendid thoroughfare the incubus so long
an eye-sore to tie residents along it.


1t IS estimated that the expenses attend
ing the Grand Dukes reception in this city,
will he about $4,000. There certainly can
be no objection to this.