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Year: 1876

There ia cage containing three white
mice at the Delta saloon, Virginia, which
are quite a study. After seeing their
maneuvres for an hour or two, one is
not at all surprised at the racket made
by mice generally, for during the early
part of the evening they take constant
and violent exercise. They consume a
great deal of water, taking drink every
ten minutes or 0ftener. Ii would be
supposed that such small animal as a
mouse would not be at all ferocious and
aggressive; but such appears to be the
case with the white species at least. A
chipmunk that was put into the cage
with those at the Delta was attacked by
them all and very quickly despatched,
without one Of the mice being injured
in the least by the unfortunate victim.
A gray mouse, which was subsequently
put into the same cage, was very roughly
handled, being attacked by two of the
white mice, who took hold of him like q
couple of bull dogs, and repeated the
attack again and again, shaking him by
the throat and biting his legs and tail,
the latter being nearly severed from his
body. Perhaps white mice, like red
ants, are peculiarly ferocious species
Of the genus to which they belong


Viryisid (Cal.) Chronicle.
Year: 1876

1t is much easier in some cases than
others to produce what looks like pa
tience. There IL a constitutional i'm
patience which is the natural result Of
the delicate nervous system, and the
quick, active brain which always ac-
company high talent and cultivation.
Some people, again, seem naturally pa
tient. They are not easily fiuttered and
excited. They are phlegmatic and CO.
matose, the result mainly Of a dull
brain and slow circulation. Extremely
stupid people often seem remarkably
patient. The truth is, the more patient
men seem, the less patient they often
are. That quietude of manner, which
Is the outward sign of patience in one
striving against anger may be the out
ward sign of mere stolidity in another.
1t is not patience to be composed under
what another would feel keenly, if the
reason is that you do not feel it at all.
Year: 1876

A good wife is to a man, wisdom,
strength and courage; bad one is con
fusion, weakness and despair. No con-
dition is hopeless to a man where the
wife possesses firmness, decision and
economy. There is no outward pro-
priety which can counteract Incidence
extravaganza and folly at home. No
spirit can long endure bad influence.
Nan is strong; but his heart Is not ad-
amant. He needs tranquil mind and
especially If he is an intelligent man,
with a whole head, he needs its moral
force in the conflict of life. To recover
his composure, home must be place
of peace and comfort. There his soul
renews its strength, and goes forth
with renewed vigor to encounter the
labor and troubles of life. But II Al
home he finds no rest, and there is met
with bad temper, jealousy and gloom,
or assailed with complaints and censure,
hope vanishes, and he sinks into de-
spair.
Year: 1876

In speaking Of persons faults,


Pray don't forget your own,
Remember those with homes of glass,
Should never throw a stone.
II We have nothing else to do


Than talk Of those who sin,
Yes better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried;
Should We not like his company.


We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults. and who has not !?
The old as well as young.
Perhaps We may. for ought we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you of better plan.


And find it works full well,
To try my own defects to cure


Ere others faults to tell
And though sometimes hope to be
No worse than some | know,
Ny own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let US all, when we begin


To slander friend or foe.
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know;
Remember sometime curses. like
Our chickens. roost at home;
# ,tl,o~,a
We have none Of our own.
Year: 1876

To comprehend a mans life it is nece.a-
sary to know not merely what he does.
but what he purposely leaves undone.
There is limit to the work that can he
got out of a human being and he j. a
wise man, who wastes no energy on
pursuits for which he Is not fitted, ami
he Is still wiser man who, from among
the things he can do well, chooses and
resoluteiy follows the best.
Year: 1876

makes In answer to their squeaking.


In the case observed the old SOW rose


in less than an hour and half after


pigRing, and went out to eat; the pigs


ran about, tried to eat various matters,


followed their mother out, and sucked


while she stood eating. One pig put


in bag the moment 1t was born and


kept 1t In the dark until it was seven


hours old, when placed it outside the
sty, q distance Of ten feet from where
the SOW lay concealed inside the house.
The pig soon recognized the low grunt-
ing Of its mother, went along outside
the sty struggling to get under or over
the lower bar. At the end Of five min
utes 1t succeeded in forcing itself
through under the bar at one Of the few
places where that was possible. No
sooner in than it went without pause
into the playhouse to its mother, and
was at once like the others in its beha-
vior. Two little pigs l blindfolded at
their birth. One Of them placed with
Its mother at once: it soon found the
test and began to suck. Six hours later
l placed the other little distance from
the SOW II reached her in half min
ute, after going about rather vaguely;
In half minute more 1t found the teat.
Next day found that one of the two
left with the mother blindfolGed, had
got the blinders of; the other was quite
blind, walked about freely, knocking
against things. In the afternoon un-
covered its eyes, and it went round and
round as If 1t had had sight, and had
suddedly lost it. In ten minutes it WAS
scarcely distinguishable from one that
had had sight all along. When placed
on chair II knew the height to require
considering, went Gown on its knees
and leaped down. When its eyes had
been unveiled twenty minutes placed
II and another twenty feet from the
sty. The two reached the mother in
five minutes and at the same moment
Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1876

Any healthy man may easily in this
country make himself thoroughly indie
pendent of capital, and hold himself
Indifferent to the fate of labor. For he
need ask no man for employment TO keep
the wolf from the door. The time wasted
in standing on street corners, waiting
for work, or in travelling from store
house to factory, and town to city, begg-
ing employment, applied to the pro-
duction of the necessaries Of life would
support most men and their families
beyond the fear of freezing or starving.


"A general reduction has been made
in the salaries Of the employees Of the
New York Post Office. Every depart
ment, with the exception Of the carri-
ers, whose pay is established by Con-
gress, is affected by the reduction.
Year: 1876

A more sickening tale of brutal outrage has
never found its way into print than the one
which comes from New Orleans of the man.
ner in which Eliza Pinkston was mutilated.
The woman saw her husband cut to pieces,
her child was murdered in her arms, she her
self was outraged and her body was riddled
with knives and bullets. Her testimony is
printed elsewhere. No man can read it with
out blush of shame at the thought that such
savage atrocity is possible in this land. The


most brutal Turk that holds sway in Bulga-
ria to-day would indignantly resent the accu-
satlon OF so horrid crime, and the widest
Indian ofthe plains could not surpass its fiend-
ishness.


One does not wonder that those who heard
the story were moved to fierce indignation.
Men with hearts in their breasts could not
listen unmoved to the sickening narrative.
General Palmer exclaimed that the question
arose above all questions of party or presi-
dent making, for it concerned the honor and
good name of the country, it was a question
of humanity; and we cannot but believe that
he voiced the sentiment Of every honest Dem
ocrat in the North. There may be men
whose strong partisan zeal will lead them to
excuse the atrocious crime, but for the honor
of humanity we hope they are few. Already
the Southern Democrats are endeavorng to
discredit the appalling revelation, which they
now see is losing them the support of all true
men in the North; and to disprove the testi.
mony of Eliza Pinkston they are adducing
the evidence Of the very men who committed
the crime! They are attempting to persuade
the country that she ard others like her
manned and disfgured themselves for the
purpose Of being used as false witnesses
against the innocent Democrats of Louisiana
But the damning record cannot be b!otted
out. The proof is too strong. Independent,
impartial observers, who have inquired into
all the facts of the case, firmly believe the wo-
mans story.


The country feels too that this is not an
isolated case, that Henry Pinkston is not the
first man who has been murdered in the
South because of his political opinions. There
are many well attested cases of murder, in
which American citizens have been shot down
for daring to support the Republican party.
People remember the Coushatta slaughter,th
great Paris grant massacre, the murders in the
Red River country. They know the outrage
upon Eliza Pinkston is not an uncommon cir
cumstance in the sad history of Louisiana.
and they can scarcely question the justice of
Sheridan's epithet, when he stlgmatized the
people who could be guilty of such crimes as
'banditti."
Year: 1876

THE Democrats are taking a good deal of
comfort, unnecessarily, from a comparison of
aggregate votes of 1872 and 1876, showing
diminished Republican majorities in North
ern states. The edge is taken off this COM
parison by the well known fact that Mr.. Gree
ley did not draw out the Democratic vote in
1872, and the Republican majorit;es in that
year were much larger than they would have
been if the Democracy had been united on
their candidate.
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are In
Ill cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

IT appears that the Louisiana returning
board is not responsible for the tamper-
ing with the returns from De Soto parish.


The law requires that the supervisor of regis
tration for each parish shall make up his re-
turns after election and forward them by
mail to the returning board, enclosing at the
same time any affidavits of fraud or intimida-


ton. In this case the supervisor brought the
returns in person instead of sending them by
mail, then made and enclosed an affidavit
in which he swears that he was obliged to go
to New Orleans to make out his affidavit, as


he did not dare to do so in De Soto. Having
done this he foolishly attempted to deceive
the board bv fixing up the envelope and dat
ing back. The clerk of the board, however,
seems to have been cognizant of the matter.
Year: 1876

THE Americans in Europe are just begin
ming to get excited over the Presidential elec-
ton. They gather at all the favorite loaing
places and discuss the situation with as much
warmth as we all did on this side two weeks
ago.
Year: 1876

SMALL Pox AT UPPER BARTLEIT.-DrI
Eudy, the physician at Upper Bartlett, died
Wednesday night at Saunders Settlement of
smallpox He was taken from his house after
his death and buried in hole in the ground,
without coffin or any funeral 1t is said that
the cases are fast increasing, and the report is
that sister of the station agent is ill with the
terrible disease,
Year: 1876

A Melbourne paper gives a descrip-
ton of an extensive boiling down estab-
ishment, which may not be uninterest-
ing The sheep are collected in the
yards, and then killed and taken into
the shed attached to the dip; they are
then skinned and cleaned, and hung up
till the vat is ready to receive them.
AS soon as the vat is to be 0lled with
the sheep, number of hands are en-
ployed into chopping them into three or
four pieces and then throwing them into
it. The vat is eleven feet high and
tapers towards the bottom. The taper
ing avoids the necessity of packing the
carcasses, as the pressure above always
causes them to be close, and as they fall
to the bottom, when steam is applied,
room is left for the fat to swim on th2
top. Steam is conveyed from d forty
horse power engine in an adjacent shed.
The vat is capable of holding 800 or 400
animals, and 1000 of these are stewed
in forty-eight hours. Ti,are are about
thirty hands employed. When the fat
has been extracted, it is allowed to flow
out Of the taps placed in the side of the
vat 80 that it may pass into 500 gallon
coolers. The gravy runs from tap in
the bottom of the vat into the reservoir
prepared for it, and is afterwards given
to pigs. All the bones and shreds of
meat are carted away.
Year: 1876

If man be only true to himself it will
be very difficult for others to overreach
him.


The most dangerous of all fattery is
the very common kind that we bestow
upon ourselves.


Although love is blind, it can't be
fettered it has enslaved thousands, but
won't be enslaved itself.


Virtue and vice are 80 adroitly mingled
in some constitutions that the man him
self can't tell which is which.


Don't be discouraged if your children
don't prove to be young miracles !;
plants of the slowest growth bear fruit
the latest.


Honesty and happiness seem to be
alike in this particular-those who have
the most of either seem to make the least
fuss about it.


Virtue seems to thrive the best on poor
soil where the ground is very rich, if it
amt well hoed, there is sure to be two
weeds to one blade of corn.


1t is often hard to distinguish between
praise and fattery; the one may be
honest, the other never is. Honest
praise will strengthen any man, but
fattery will weaken anything except a
mule.


What persons are by starts they are by
nature. You sec them, at such times,
off their guard. Habit may restrain
vice, and virtue may be obscured by
passion, but intervals best discover the
man.


You cannot live without exerting in
fuence. The doors of your soul are
open on others, and theirs on you. You
inhabit house which is well nigh trans
parent and what yeu are within you
are ever showing yourself TO be without.
Year: 1876

In paper read before the Cologne
engineers association attention has been
drawn to the fact that in towns like
Glasgow, Brussels, etc., situated in
billy districts, the best end of town in
usually on higher ground than the
poorer quarters, and yet that poisoning
from sewer gas may, under certain con-
ditions, affect the former and not the
latter. The chief of these conditions
will be the weight of the atmosphere.
When the barometer sinks, the water
seals in the closets of the high-lying end
of the town become ineffective, and sew
age gas thus finds its way in. The only
plan to insure safety is to ventilate the
sewer by pipe leading to at least the
height Of the roof of the house.
Year: 1876

A Row Anecdotes Relating how IL Is Done.


An English review has anarticle which
it calls Proposals." meaning pro-
posals for marriage. Some of the vari-
GUS methods of popping the ques-
tion" are very good. AS an instance of
the serious method is the following:


An Irish girl. who was very anxious
that her scatterbrained brother should
not be refused by the demure young
Englishwoman with whom he had fallen
desperately in love, implored him to try
to propose with the seriousness becom-
ing the occasion. He vowed solemnly
that he would behave as if he were act
ing as chief mourner at his fathers
funeral. The demure young lady, in
imitation of many of her rcountrywomen,
graciously accepted her wild Irish
lover. She, however, confided to her
bosom-friend that Edmund had pro.
posed in rather an odd way. He had
taken her after church to see tho family
vault, and had there, in sepulchral
voice, asked her if she would like to lay
her bones beside his bones. This he
evidently thought was a proper way to
fulfill the promise made to his sister of
treating the matter with becoming seri-
BUSINESS.


When a man says to girl, with whom
he has waltzed several times, that, if
ever he becomes a Benedict, he hopes
his wife will exactly resemble her and
dress precisely as she does, if the girl
answers "You must ask papa" there
may reasonably be difference of opin-
ion as to whether the pretty speech can
be twisted into a proposal or not.
When, however, shy man, having got
his mother to plead his cause, says to
the beloved one, with tremulous
grasp: "Won't you do the thing my
mother asked youa" there is no doubt
that, to all intents and proposes, he has
asked her to be his wife. More than
one proposal has been made by under
scoring the lines in marriage-service I:
"Wilt thou have this man to be thy
welded husbanda" and passing the book
and pencil during the sermon to the
adored one. 1t sometimes comes
back with faint but still visible stroke
under CT will


A bold and audacious method is illus
trated by the subjoined


The officer whose leave had nearly ex-
pired without his having been able to
bring pretty little coquette to the
point of acknowledging that she cared
for him even little, wee bit, was not
unwise to take her, ostensibly for the
purpose of sketching, to the top of the
church tower, to lock the staircase door,
put the key in his pocket, and VOW that,
if she did not promise solemnly to marry
him within month, he would throw
himself off the parapet before her eyes,
key and all.


How he choose time and place is we'll
illustrated by the following:


. A young parson travelling in Palestine,
and asked to join a pleasant party,
among whose numbers he found nota-
BILE heiress of passionate piety, did well
to restrain the expression of the ardor
of his affection until he found himself
lying at her feet on the slopes of the
Mount of Olives, looking toward Jeru-
salem. Scarcely any girl with spark
or religion or poetry in her composition
could have said "no." to white tie
and pair of handsome brown eyes
under such weu-chosen circumstances.
Year: 1876

The world has got on 80 fast, and there
is so much genius, that not one man in
a thousand now folds newspaper when
he is done with it, and he is considered
no statesman who doesn't leave it spread
out ten or fifteen feet from the place
where he picked it up. The less right o
man has to a paper, the moro he is ex-
pected to misplace and rumple it, or lay
it on the edge of something from which
it may fall on the floor.
Year: 1876

MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARILY DC
casionally the newspapers contain an
account of the marriage of persons
whose former relation has been very
close, so close, IN fact, As to make the
marriage rather conspicuous, if not OBJ
jectiona ble. This was the case of Jas.
Parton marrying his step daughter
Recentlya strange occurrence Of this
sort took place in this city, where a
young widow married her father-in-law
which might be nore properly charac-
terized IA that of u man marrying his
sons widow As she had one child by
her first husband. the product Of the
second marriage will be related to the
frs. child rather peculiarly. However,
this was a match of propriety as well as
convenience. The son. when he died,
left will conveying all his property to
his father, i'll trust for the use of his
wife. aud especially requesting that
they should always live under the same
roof. The fsther-in- law grew SO fond
Of his daughter in-law that mutual
attachment was soon formed. and last
week their marriage was celebrated
The parties started on Thursday night
for Newport TO spend their honeymoon,
and were attended by a jolly assem-
blage of friends, who truly and sincere
ly rejoiced over the event of snch i'm
portance To the priucipals.-Nec York
Letter.
Year: 1876

One mile above the ferry the Virgin
river comes in from the North, and on and
near it is perhaps, the most wonderful and
extensive salt formation, on the continent.
The formation, is in fact, one of the noun
tains of SALT hard rock salt which is blasted
and quarried out like quarries of granite
and marble. Commencing six miles up
the Virgin river, these mountains of salt
extend for thirty or more miles up the
Virgin and Muddy rivers. There are open
ings now made from six to twenty miles up
the Virgin river at different places From
six to twelve miles up these openings un-
cover species of dark gray salt, ninety
two per cent. pure, presenting to the
caSural observer the appearance of common,
coarse, gray granite. These openings are
all on the east side of the Virgin river, from
one fourth to one-half mile from its banks.
At point twenty miles up the river, and
on the western side, is mountain of pure
white crystalized salt white as the driven
snow and transparent almost as glass. 1t
IS at once pleasing and interesting spcca-
Gle to see the great masses Of crystal like
salt, as thrown out by three or four foot
blasts, These pure and beautiful blocks
resemble somewhat blocks Of the purest ice
when prepared for the ice house On plac-
ing Il mass six inches thick over the column
of newspaper, the fine print could be read
easily. The formation of the salt deposit
isno doubtvcry ancient, dating back in years
beyond computation. Long since the de-
posit was made, the great upheavals and
earthquake era have occurred, which have
changed the whole appearance Of the coun-
try for great distances around. These salt
bluffs or mountains, can bcidentifed for long
distances by the peculiar color of the surface,
which is of reddish or orange color I'm
derneath this formation, as well as in it, is
a peculiar kind Of micaceous sedimentary
granite. [ found sufficient evidence to
warrant the assumption that veins of valu-
able mica will yet be discovered in or near
the salt formation The whole country is
deserving of thorough investigation by both
the miner, prospector and the student.
Another very interesting natural curiosity
visited and examined here is a natural salt
well, mile northwest of the ferry. 1t is
on a mesa which extends up and down the
IINGI, Ou It's uOIIuClu Ddllh. IHlS uneSd Is
drift formation formed of small pebbles
and boulders mixed with earthly matter.
The well is large circular opening in the
mesa, some 800 feet in circumlerences, with
abrupt descent to the surface of the well,
which is fifty feet below the surface. The
water is exceedingly salty, far more so than
any salt spring, and has been sounded to a
depth of 137 feet. 1t is splendid natural
salt bath; in which the bather floats almost
as buoyant as a cork upon pool of water.
From careful examination of all the sur
rounding, [ feel confident that this interest
ing salt well is all that is left of once great
salt lake, which, in the lapse of time, has
been filed III by the draft formation, only
leaving the present opening as an evidence
of its former existence.
Year: 1876

If brooms are wet in boiling suds once
a week they will become very tough, will
not cut carpet, but last much longer,
and always sweep like new broom. y
handful or so of salt sprinkled on the car
pet will carry the dust along with it and
make the carpet look bright and cleam. a
very dusty carpet may be cleand by set
ting pail of cold water out by the door,
wet the broom III it, knock it to get off all
the drops, sweep yard or so, then wash
the broom as before and sweep again, be-
ing careful to shake all the drops off the
broom, aud not sweep far at a time. Ii
done with care it will clean a carpet very
nicely, and you viii be surprised at the
quantity of dirt in the water. The water
may need changing once or twice if the
carpet is very dirty. Snow sprinkled over
a carpet and swept off before it has time
to melt and dissolve, is also nice for reno
waiting soiled carpet. Moistened Indian
meal is used with good effect by some
housekeepers. The broom wears out car
pets quite as much as feet do.