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Year: 1870

To SEE Down WELL-The New HAMPSHIRE
journal OF Agriculture suggests an excellent
plan for exploring the bottom Of a well: ait is
not generally known how easy a matter it is to
examine the bottom of a well, cistern, or pond
of water by the use of common mirror. When
the sun Is shining brightly, hold mirror so that
the reflected rays of light will fall into the water
A spot will be seen at the bottom, SO light as TO
show the smallest object plainly. By this means
we have examined bottoms of wells 30 feet deep
when half full or more of water. The smallest
straw or other small object can be perfectly
seen from the surface. In the same way one
can examine the bottom of ponds and rivers, ii
the water be somewhat clear, and not agitated
by winds of rapid motion. If a well or cistern
be under cover, or shaded by buildings so
that the sunlight will not fall near the opening,
1t is only necessary to employ two mirrors, using
one to reflect the light to the opening, and
another to send it down perpendicularly into the
water Light may be thrown fifty or hundred
yards to the precise spot desired, and then re-
hected downward. We have used the mirror
with success to reflect the light around field to
shaded spot, and also to carry it from a south
window through two rooms, and then into a els
tern under the north side Of the house."
Year: 1870

The Airline Railroad bill came up in thu
House yesterday, and was discussed with or ea-
animation for so dry a subject. but went over
swami, Of Maryland, in opposing the bill, SAID
the amount of travel to and from Washington
dld not warrant the building of the road. But
is it not probable that the building of the ROAD
will improve Washington so that the travel NAV
increase accordingly?-N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1870

CHARGE OF KIDSAPPING--Henry johnson. a
colored man, has been arrested on complaint of
Mary Reed, charged with Kidnapping her child
johnson had been living with Mary Reed for
some time past, but she becoming dissatisfied
with him, had left and taken up her quarters
elsewhere, and he resorted to this method to
bring her back to him. He was held for hear
ing by Justice Wall.
Year: 1870

There has been good deal OF trouble brewing
among the brewers OF this city OF late, ana the
burglariously inclined gentlemen who nave their
headquarters in the Eighth ward and other choice
metropolitan circles OF intelligence have made them
the victims OF a good many midnight attentions.
On Monday night Messrs. Phipps Evans, I27 Hud.
son street. came IN for their share or the
Kindness. Tne gentry took long road TO travel be-


fore they got into the place. by going over seyeraI
roof.tops until they reached the skYnaht OF Is7.
Down this skylight they dropped to where The o1ca
safe was, and then in default OF keys forced the OBJ


stinate thing open. They expected good deal for
their trouble, but everybody knows now s.0rest ex


pectations' generally result The present Instance
was no exception 10 the general rule for they only got
twenty five dollars In fractional currency and one
twenty dollar counterfeit note. They did not touch
several checks in the safe, one OF which, ior 1900


is payable TO bearer. They must nave been ex.
teney disgusted for In their hurry TO leave the pre.
misses they left behind them FIRST class Jimmy a
sedge hammer, half-dOzen wedges and a pocket
handkerchief which would occupy washerwoman a
whole day in getting back to its original color The
detectives are now on the track of the fellows


although there is rumor IN police circles that the
thieves intend 10 prosecute Phipps Evans for pass
Ing twenty dollar counterfeit bill on them. There'l
be fun II thev do. "
Year: 1870

and he drank, and fell. But we didn't
think he was so badly hurt, sir. = .
They said tirvy ....,, i.s.. f.,~..s .i,
froaxed him so, but they never were
after he was sick They did not
even come to see us. But, sir, didn't
care-Pd rather work the flesh of my
fingers than have them come, for they
ruined him for me, and ] could not
think well of them. / tried to
make him comfortable, but couldn't,
sir. The lady with you, sir, found
us this morning, when looking for
somebody, and said she would bring
you here but, sir, you couldn't help
hint was too late q month ago
lie said you would come, for the lady
said you would, and he whispered >
TO me : that you had, and :
and he would wait for me
"over yOnder"


Wealth in that garret.. Yes! The
wealth of a woman's love The
wealth of that great love which men
should better protect than they do.
Think you woman whoiloved q man
as that woman loved that man, could
be won away from him and from her
purityY A million times no : Theirs
was the love reborn of sorrow. He
had fallen-had repented-the love OF
Christ was no more than was the
great love Of her heart, which took
him and his misfortunes to.her soul,
there to nurse and care for. What
needed she for work. When she sat
on the floor sewing by his bedside she
could watch him as he slept, and,
when too weary, sleep beside him
happier than thousands of heartstung
women who had rather, if choice be
theirs, sleep in dungeon than beside
the form of one they cannot help
loathing, as the pure and good loathe
the coarse, brutal tyrant, whose mar.
tai rights are his boast and his tyran.
nies. Women would be better If men
would have them so Happy the man
Of honor, who wants to be good and
to do good who is, aided, encouraged
and strengthened by true woman,
whise heart is his, whose pride is her
husband, and whose gentle touch,
love-lit glance, sweet kiss, generous
confidence, and kind words, are bis
greatest reward for wel-doing Give
us a man of honor, a woman of true
love, genius, versatility of worth, and
we would defy all the powers of earth
to separate such hearts. or cause
either to wrong the other in thought
or act


Here is woman's' power-her
kingdom-her heaven. Here she is
queen, and TO her all men who live
here to lire hereafter will pay homage
with singleness of heart proof
against sorrow, trails or seductive
wiles The heart.broken woman Of
whom we have written, has her coun.
terpart in thousands of high and low
homes, and may all who are really
men be more true, good, loving, and
kind to them, till shall cometo us all
on earth happiness and that purity OF
purpose which will fit us for the voy.
age to the other and better side of the
river, where win come happy days,
but never Saturday Night" BrieL'
Pomeroy
Year: 1870

A Detroit girl, who wears beaver
and carries a cane, tried to kiss hotel
waiter the other day, The insultcd
youth complained to the landlord, who
informed the offender that she must
respect tho men about the house or
leave.
Year: 1870

II is a crime in the government to
have the greenbacks, the currency Of
the people, at twenty per cent. dis.
count on the bonds. Grcenbacks can
then be sold for bonds, and bonds for
greenbacks. The bonds and the cur
rency willthus be brought together,
and when this is done, resumption


will come. The dormant capital OF
the country, locked up in boads, wait.
ing for gold interest, will flow out, and
quicken every pulse Of commerce and


industry. Resumption will not come
by Congressional legislation, or, at
least, il will not stay. The attempt
TO bring about specie payments by act
OF Congress, with a difference OF even
ten per cent between greenbacks and
gold, would be a disastrous failure
Year: 1870

A TELEGRAPH operator claims to have
discoverered a method whereby four dis
patches can be sent over the wire at once.


PROFESSOR Stillman, of Yale College,
has invented machine by which ice can
readily be made in the Warmest summer
weather. 1t will make, in an atmosphere
Of IS degrees Fahrenheit, ton Of solid ice
for IS.


PROFESSOR Eaton is lecturing in New
York on the probable disappearance Of the
sun one Of these days, BY combustion. No
sun, Of course, no earth 10 speak Of and
both will 20 tOgether-the one BY too much
beat the other by too much cold.


FoR the produetiop Of car-wheeIs, iron
and steel rails, it is claimed by practical
men who are now investigating the matter,
that peat fuel is destined to prove Of special
value.


WHENEVER glycerise is applied to any
part Of the body where there is hair, care
must be taken to have it chemically pure,
as otherwise the salts of lime, one Of its
most common impurities, will injure and
finally destroy the hair bulbs, and cause
badness, dropping Of the eyelashes, etc.
Year: 1870

to take the pledge of entire abstinence from
all that could intoxicate. He kept the
pledge faithfully for some time, struggling
with his habit fearfuIly, till one evening, in
social party, glasses of wine were handed
around. Tasy came to clergyman present
who took glass, saying a few words in
vindication Of the practice. well, thought
the young man, If a clergyman can take
wine, and justify it SO, well, why not 2
80 he took glass. It.instantly rekindled
bis slumbering appetite, and after down
ward course We died Of delirium tremeas-
died a raw madman." The old man
paused for nee, and was Just able to
add that ~ man was my son, and that
clergyman was The Rev. Doctor who had
just addressed the assembly"
Year: 1870

DEDIcArIoN BALL.-The opening ball given by
Curley & Mahon, at their new hall at Auburn
Depot on Thanksgiving evening, was perfect
success in every respect. About eighty couple
We're present and participated in the enjoyment
of the dance recreations, and feastngs, which
continued until about four o'clock yesterday
morning, when it was determined that the new
hall had received a complete warming and chris
tening, and all departed feeling that it was an
evening well spent. Supper was prepared at
Wilson Hotel on the west side of the Depot,
and partaken of in patoons of fourteen couple at
a time
Year: 1870

THANKSGIVING DAY passed off quietly and
pleasantly here, each enjoying him or herself
in their own chosen mode. Service was held in
the NJ. E. Church IN the morning, and in the
afternoon sumptuous feastings and private din
ner parties all over town We're the order of the
day, and in the evening the great bali at the de-
pot was the centre Of attraction and enjoyment.
The day was splendid as, indeed, have been all
our days for month. Our people have as
much or more cause for thankfullness than any
other people on earth, and we feel assured that
they do appreciate these material blessings in
the true spirit and understanding.
Year: 1870

BOARD OF ExAMINATIoN.-By referring to our
advertising columns it will be seen that the
Teachers Examining Board will meet at Rocklin
on Wednesday, December 9TH, 1870 This is an
important notice to persons desiring to teach
school in this county as the law will permit no
money to be drawn from the School Fund to
pay q teacher who does not hold certificate.
Parties, therefore, who desire to teach should
apply to this Board and obtain the requisite au-
thoritv4
Year: 1870

HANDSOMELY DoNE.-On going home on
Thanksgiving evening we found fine large fat
turkey gobbler in the coop. There had been
turkey in the coop in the the morning, but we
felt sure we had beheaded it, and on further in
spection we found the new turkey to be OF diff
ferent color and much larger. We inquired
around awhile, and found that man named
Owen King we'll known to the people OF this
section of the county had been seen gong out Of
the lot that day, and we charge him with
the act. We don't propose to make much fuss
over this matter until about Christmas day
when, if said turkey is still found on our premi-
ses, we shall slay and eat him. Not being an
holder, we harbor no ill-will against our
friend King, land must set it down as delicate
act of friendship.
Year: 1870

MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT III IS IN c0ntenpla-
ton by the Trustees of the two Districts to give
Concert or nusical entertainment at Neilsburg
School house, for the benefit of Christian Valley
and Neilsburg Schools. In consequence of de-
linquent taxes of two years standing, and the
new School law not being in force for this rev.
enue year, many of our less populous School
Districts are short of means, and have to resort
to parties of this kind to keep their schools in
operation. These are praiseworthy efforts, and
should be seconded by all classes of the commu-
nifty. We hope when this party comes off that
it may be literally patronized and highly remu-
nerative.


lSince the above was in type, we learn that the
Concert will take place on next Friday evening
and that the entertainment will consist of Vocal
and instrumental music, under the direction of
Mr.. W B. Osborn. The Concert will be free to
ALL but collection will be taken up for the ben
eft OF the Schools as above.
Year: 1870

V7HIS OLD AND POPULAR SALOON is


l now open for the accommodation of the pub
lie (under the new proprietorship), who have
already occupied the premises in force, and pro-
ceeded to make themselves at home. The peo-
pie know good liquors when they taste en- and
good cigars when they smoke en- and therefore
when they have once been to the UNION they
are bound to call again and repeat. The propri-
etors will keep none but the best articles, and
they hatter themselves that they know how to.
mix and serve them. Call.


~o----<a In the Saloon is a new and
Year: 1870

Indians are very skillful in building
fires, both in their huts and in the open
air. They select dry wood and sticks,
aud place one end in the fire, while the
other ends point in all directions like the
spokes of wheel lying horizontally; they
thus keep moderate but steady fire du:
ring the night that white man would
burn up in an hour. Speaking of the
white man, they say: "Him big fool
make heap FIRE and smoke, stShd FIR of,
look at him burn, while freeze.
Year: 1870

Most of civilized human races pass a.
bout half their lives in bed. so that the
manner in which people sleep is a matter
Of great importance; yet very little at
tention is paid to it. When practicable,
Year: 1870

EATING WITH FoRKs.-Mr. w.
Peters of Otsego County, New York,
wishes to know "why it is not con-
sidered polite to eat with a knife"
He says he has mingled with all clas-
ses in New York City and elsewhere,
and has noticed "that the male per-
suasion who eat with their forks on
ly, generally carry a gold-headed
cane, part their hair in the middle,
and spend the money their fa-
theirs have earned the gentler sex
who never put their knives in their
mouths usually sports a long trail,
read novels, flirt with brainless fops,
and think it degrading to know
how to cook a steak or make loaf
of bread" Notwithstanding all this,
it is a fact that, in proportion as our
social civilization advances, four
tined silver or plated silver forks are
found for sale in hardware and house
furnishing stores all over the coun-
try. There are two reasons for this.
A knife sharp enough to divide meat
on the plate is an unsafe, not to say
dangerous, instrument to put in the
mouth. It is also in the nature of a
shovel, while the fork permits only
slow and select feeding, which is a
sure mark of refinement in man or
brute.-New York Tribune.
Year: 1870

1t appears to be taken for granted


that poverty is the normal state OF


clergymen, and that the preacher


who is in easy circumstances is but
poor exemplar of the doctrines he
sets forth from Sunday to Sunday.


We apprehend, however, that this
opinion results quite as much from


the fact that the majority of clergy
man are underpaid, as from any good
reason why they should be SO.


In these days of prin nting-presses
and newspapers, a man who is COM
PEELED to earn his livelihood by per-
suing some secular calling during the
week can hardly be expected to
preach edifyingly to an Intelligent
congregation on Sunday. We must
not, then, take great credit to our
selves because we agree to contribute
to the support of one who will make
it his business to so prepare himself
during the week, as to be able on the
Sabbath to dispense to us moral and
religious instruction.


Some of our religious exchanges, we
notice, have been discussing wheth-
er it be just to expect a minister
to perforrG the varied duties required
of him for the slender pittance of six
hundred dollars a year, and they
have our hearty wishes in the cru
sade against such narrowness. SeY-
eral of the daily papers, on the other
hand, have been pouring out the
walls of their wrath on a well-known
clergyman, because his congregation
proposed to increase his salary to
$50, 900 (Which increase he, however,
declined with thanks.) Butsuppose,
he had accepted it, what then?


We do not consider it to be either
desirable or expedient that our cler-
gymen should live in ostentatious
luxury; and yet we are persuaded
that it is a spirit of niggardliness
which resolves to give them no more
than just enough to pay their current
expenses. A good library of refer
ence is all but indispensable for a
clegyman as well as an editor, and it
requires no small expenditure to OBJ
tain one, as those who have tried
the experiment on small means are
well aware. Nor is there any reason
why a clergyman should not have
the means of giving his children a
thorough education, Including a col
legiate course, without the assistance
of some Hberal-minded parishioner.


It may not have occurred to those
who feel Mortified at the idea of a
clergyman with g salary of $20, 900,
that, in attempting to bold leading
down to a dead level Of
remuneration, they are effectuaIIy
riveting the chains that now gall the
Observation-Disclosures martyrs !;
but such is none the less the fact.
LII people. were more accustomed to
pay ministers as other professional
men, according to the real value of
their services, they would undoubt-
edly hear less frequently of parishes
paying only starvation salaries to
their pastors. and Home.
Year: 1870

ANECDOTE OF THE Blind ohm
Stanley, the musician, lost his sight
when only two years of age. He he'd
so correct an ear, that he never for
got the voice of a person he had once
heard speak. An instance is given
in which he rGcollected the voice of
a person he had not heard for twenty
years, who then accosted him in an
assumed voice. If twenty people
were seated at table together, he
would address them all in their reg
ular order, without their being pre-
viously known to him. Riding on
horseback was one of his favorite ex-
ercises, though it would seem very
dangerous one for the blind, and to-
ward the close of his life, when he
to give his friends an airing, he would
take them the pleasantest road, and
point out the most agreeable pros
poets. He played AZ whist with
great readiness and Judgment. Each
card was marked at the corner with
the point of a needle, but these
marks were SO delicately fine as
scarcely to be discerned by any per-
son not previously apprised of them.
His hand was generally first arrang-
ed, and it was not uncommon for
him to complain of the party that
they were tedious in sorting the cards.
He could tell the precise time by
watch. He knew the number of per-
sons in a room when he entered it |;
would direct his voice to each person
in particular-even to strangers after
they had once spoken; and would
miss any one who was absent, and
could tell who that one was.
Year: 1870

The idea of respectable employ
ment" is the rock upon which thou
sands split, and which shipwreck
themselves and all who depend upon
them. ALI employments are alike
respectable that bring honest gain.
The laborer who is willing to turn
his hands to anything is as respect
able as the clerk or draperstore tender.
Indeed the man who is ready to work
wherever work offers, whatever ii
may be, rather than lie idle and beg
is by far more respectable man than
one who turns up his nose at hard
labor, wearies his friends with his
complaint that he can find nothing
respectable to do, pockets their bene-
factions without thankfulness, and
goes on from day to day, a useless,
lazy grumbler. The only remedy
for him is to arise and go out and
seek employment, throw the false
idea of frespectability to the winds,
and become in reality a respectable
man by becoming useful man.


Strive for employment of some
kind. If you fail on the first appli-
cation, try the second, and so on I;
even if you fail ninety nine times,
the hundredth application may be
triumphant. "Try again" should
be the encouraging motto OF all VINO
are looking for employment. Wait
ing, Micawber like, for something to
turn up, won't help yOuI The world
will help those who are striving to
help themselves.


The selfish maxim, the world owes
me living never -advantaged any
one; but it has carried many to
the almshouse and more we fear to
the DrisOn There ia enough in the
world for every man, but the condi-
tion upon which that living is attain
able is expressed in word (; EFFORT.
The sentence, "by the sweat of thy
brow, thou shalt earn thy bread" is
in full force and it would be a woeful
day for humanity were that sentence
reversed. In obedience to that con-
dition, we secure health, both of body
and mind, and make life the blessing
which a merciful Providence design
ed that it should be.
Year: 1870

There is a fault, which does not
get itself called by the ugly name of
lie, but which is q dangerously close
relation to it, and that is the habit of
exaggeration. A man hears q thing,
true enough perhaps in its original
shape, but he passes it on with lit
tie addition of his own. The man to
whom he passed it on adds his touch
of exaggeration, until, at last, the
statement is so swollen and distorted
as to convey anything but the facts
of the case. Take many statements
which have gone forth and obtained
credence in the world and yet, though
they are in their final stage grossly
false, and do sore injustice, it is diff
ficult to charge any one with a full
grown lie, in the share he has had
in propagating the deceit. The result
is sort of accumulative lie, made
by successive persons contributing a
little touch of eXaggeration to the
story as it came into their hands.


The worst of it is that this mis-
chief is caused by the exercise of q
power which is sometimes useful
mean that creative imaginative pow
er which lends life to a description.
A man hears thing, and then gives
it the color of his own thoughts
almost unconsciously and yet, as ]
fear, this may produce very mischie-
vous, perhaps disastrous results.
And who is to blame? Why, every
one who has share in the accretions
which the story or statement has
received. See how responsible we
may be for the effects of lie, even
when we do not wish to deceive


How careful we should be not to add
to what we hear. If we must needs
repeat it, or help to circulate it, LEI
it leave US as it came. Let us pass
it on scrupulously unchanged, with
no twist or increase of our own.
Year: 1870

A lady living at Marseilles was re-
turning from church on q recent Sun
day, when she heard steps behind
her, and felt some one take her hand
and draw it under his arm. Turning
round she saw gentleman, elegantly
dressed, who was quite q stranger to
her. She tried to put away her arm
but the unknown held it firmly, and
said with an air of the greatest polite
ness, Madame, I am thief, and am
know that am a stranger in the
town, and will never suspect me If
they see me in the company of q
lady SO respectfully connected as you
must be % = ~ - sl3- 7 .-A
Year: 1870

THE fur trade is probably the only
traffic of any importanee-except,
perhaps that in ice-which can be
carried on in our new territory of
Alaska. The principal sources OF
supply there are the seal fisheries
and the attention of Congress has
lately been directed to the necessity
OF so restricting the indiscriminate
slaughter Of seals as to prevent the
utter determination of thess animals
sion. s -
Year: 1870

Southey says, in one of his, letters ::
I have told you OF the Span1ard who
always put on his spectacles when
he was about to eat cherries, that
they might look the bigger and more
tempting. In like manner, 1 make
the most of my enjoyments: and
though I do not cast my cares away.
I pack them in as little compass as /
can, and carry them as conveniently
as can for myself, and never let
them annoy Others"
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the New En-
gland Farmer has made skim-milk
cheese in the fall when milk can be
kept sweet several days, by putting
the juice of grated carrots into the
milk after skimming, as is done to
color butter, and then treat the milk
in the ordinary way of making
cheese. After forty years experience
he pronounces such cheese nice.