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Year: 1873

and finally. No better work for free
dom and order and civilization was
done in that time than this none that
told more effectively on the future.
Not long ago, our public men we're put
to trial not only through theiS homer
but honesty How many fell, it does
not need now to tell One alone stood
firm :; his integrity helped to redeem
the character of the nation He and
the man who helped so largely to save
his state in war times, had each been
scholars of the carpenter. They did
not know each other, and their remem-
brance of the village school was of the
dimmest. But their work for freedom
and honor goes on widening and widen
ing from generation to generation,
while the old schoolmaster sleeps for
gotten under the locust trees. Yet le-
Us hope that he khsss by this time
that in the just universe Of God moth
ing is lost. N Y. Tribune.
Year: 1873

IF God made you half fool, it is
better that you should seem half fool
than that you should make believe that
you are wise. ALI animals are willing
to seem what they are. An ass is always
willing to be thought an ass and he
houors God in it. An owl is always
willing to be thought an owl and he
fulGlls the function given to him, even
if he does look wiser than he is. And
man should be willing to be just what
God made him Not that he should
not desire to increase, to augment, his
talents not that he should not put his
money out at interest; but man who
is ignorant had better admit himself to
be ignorant A man who is not a gen.
Jus had better not think himself to be
genius. A man who is poor had bet
ter think he is poor. A man who is
unskilled had better admit that he is
unskilled. Whatever you are, while
you strive for greater excellence, stand
on that which IS true and right. and
do not make yourself out to be- more
than you are. Do not attempt to put
on guises and pretenses, in the vain
hope of winning prai-e. A man talks
to me in such way that l see through
him in moment. He is trying to
make an impression about himself, or
about this, that, or the other thing
and the moment the dooi is shut, say.
"W hat fool he was TO think that |
could not see through him J. And yet
| go sraight to my neighbor's and try
the same trick and when | am gone,
he saws, What a fool !" And he goes
to his neighbor, and does the samo
thing Your character in the comnun-
ity is thing fixed, definitely, and your
reputation generally will be what your
character il. Men see through your
shams. They accommodate you, and
what they think you want them to;
they call you peacock, or an eagle, or
any other bird, as the case may be. to


nlease you; but they laugh as soon as


your back is turned !; for they know


what you are. If you are a jackdaw.
they know it. And these weaknesses,
these dishonesties, these corrupting
pretenses, after all, win but very little.
1t is false coin that you give, and you
get false change, as we'll as false goods.
1t is far the best thing for one TO IT.
tempt to be real, and to be willing to-
appear at just what he is worth.
". Beecher.
Year: 1873

A poor ignorant Indian was once
sent by his Spanish master to carry a
basket Of figs and a letter to his mas
ter's friend. The letter spoke of the
figs. By the way he ate the fruit, but
gave the letter to the friend, whereby
his deed was discovered, and he sound
ly punished. A second time he was
sent on a similar errand, but thinking
that the letter must have seen him
steal the figs and informed on him, he
hid it in the ground and sat down upon
it, and then ate the figs, feeling sure
the paper could not inform on him this
lime. Then taking up the letter again
he bore it on and delivered it, and was
again detected and punished. So men
think to hide their sins from God
and so also every man carries ever witt,
him a page on which Gods finger
writes his deeds, and which shall wit
ness against him in the end.
Year: 1873

ITO tell your own secrets is gen
orally folly, but chat folly is without
guilt to communicate those with
which we are entrusted is always treach-
cry, for the most part combined with
folly"
Year: 1873

A clergyman of high standing in
New York traces the non-attendanc> at
church of the middle classes to their
lack Of means for dressing their wives
and daughters in accordance with the
extreme fashion displayed in the pews.
He thinks the fact one Of the grayest
evils of the times.
Year: 1873

Success rides on every hour !;
grapple it and you may win, but with
out a grapple it will never go with you.
Work is the weapon Of honor, and he
who lacks the weapon will never tri-
umph.
Year: 1873

There could be no more beautiful site selected
for park than the high ground north of the
Brandywlne selected by the Conmlttee of CoOn-
ell. The chief objection urged against the pull
chase, is the high price demanded by the owners.
Aad this objection seems valid and reasonable
oac But ii dos not rest against this tract alone
None Of the prices named are low They are all
high and almost double what the property Is really
worth. We doubt whether 1t will bring the own
ers more ten yeus hence, ii they should Keep 1t
aud the city refuse TO buy. 1t does not pay them
one per cent on the price they ask for it.
Year: 1873

This was an exciting day in Wall
and Broad streets. The stock market
was active and buoyant, and great
deal OF wild speculation, that recalled
old times, was noticeable. Stocks most
depressed by the panic show the most
vitality.
Year: 1873

Buy Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil of
the druggist or merchant where you usual
" trade. If they are ont of it, get them
to order some at once. All the wholesale
druggists keep it on their list Of staple
goods. 1t is an, excellent remedy to cure
anv kind Of pain or inflammation. and IS
used both externally and internally. Try
Year: 1873

DEMEMBER this Is not lottery swindle, bat Is


II projected solely 20 relieve DIR. Spinney from the
care Of his property and all outstanding enbaFass-


ment- that he may devote his whole fine 20 the


practice of his profession in Davenport, which now
requires all his time and energy.
The projectors Of this scheme have been very Tor
innate In selecting their General Agent and Mana


ger. his personal and business character is per


feet guarantee of the integrity Of the enterprise.
- Agents wanted to sell tickets
| so All tickets not returned or poid for will he
cancelled
Year: 1873

From lands end TO lands end, that al may read
and readin. believe that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to an nutimely grave
with bilious complaints there is bat one truly great
and reliable remedy, and that il
Year: 1873

AS some lady visitors were recently
going through penitentiary, under
the escort of the superintendent, they
came to room in which three women
were sewing. "Dear mep one of the
visitors whispered, what vicious
looking creatures Pray, what are
they here for ~ " Because they have
no other home. This is our sitting
room, and they are my wife and two
danghters,o blandly answered the
superintendent. u
Year: 1873

One of the most singular murder trials on record has recently been con- cluded in Bordeaux. Some months ago the house of a postman named Mano, situated in the wild flats of the Landes, was entered in the night in the absence of the postman, and his wife, her father and mother and two of their children were brutally murdered in their beds, the weapon used being pickaxe. The only person left alive in the house was Bernard Mano, son of the postman, eight years of age. There were several lunatics roaming about the forests of the Landes, and at first it was supposed that one of these had committed the bloody deed. Some months after the murder the boy Bernard one day was sharpening knife, and in answer to an inquiry said that he intended to kill his papa with it because the latter had kill ed the boys brother, sister, mother, and grandparents. On this evidence Mano, who was not a man of bad char acter, was arrested. It was proved that Office, twenty-four miles distant from his house, on the evening of the murder. He walked habitually in making his rounds thirty miles day, and if he was the guilty person he must have got up after having done his usual days work and walked twenty-four miles to murder his family without any apparent motive, and twenty miles back again after doing the deed, making seventy-eight miles of pedestrianism during the twen- ty-four hours. It was shown that the boy was addicted to lying, and in his evidence he contradicted himself. He said that the man with the pickaxe look ed like his father, but he could not be sure that it was he; that he heard his mother crying murder, and hid his face under the bed clothes. When asked by the man with pickaxe whether he was sleep, he did not answer from fear. The presiding Judge, according to the French custom, pressed the ex- animation of the boy very closely, and after good deal of coaxing induced him to repeat several times that the man he saw was his father, and that he did not divulge the secret at first for fear of be- ing beaten. Solely on the evidence of this boy the prisoner was convicted, the verdict of the jury being "Guilty with extenuating circumstances" The ex- tenuating circumstances undoubtedly consisted only of the scruples of the jury in regard to condemning man to death on such testimony, method of compromising with the conscience quite customary with French juries. The sentence in this case was Imprisonment with hard labor for life.
Year: 1873

lnals can Live Under Water.

 A writer in the Chicago Times states that he has seen the infant son of Dr. Louis Shultz remain under water twen- ty-five minutes without being injured. Shultz claims that any land animal can be taught to do the same thing if taken in hand immediately after birth. His theory IS that before birth the circula- tion is carried on through the oval hole between the right and left arterial ca nals. After birth the circulation is conducted entirely by the lungs through the pulmonary artery, and the oval hole of the heart is gradually closed through disuse. The vital functions of the am phibia are almost identical with those of the land animals, including the hu- man species. Their young are born on land and would become incapable of remaining under water, were they not frequently forced by their dams beneath the surface, and thus the oval of the heart is constantly kept open until it becomes one of the permanent func- tions of the body

 Shultz was convinced that all land an- imals might acquire the same faculty, and tested the matter by yimmersing four newborn pups in water heated to blood temperature. He first kept them be- meath the surface two minutes, then five minutes, and they seemed to enjoy it rather than otherwise. When his child was born he stole it from the mother while the latter slept, and recklessly immersed it in water at blood heat for four minutes, keeping his hand on the babe's breast so that the pulsation of the heart could be felt.

 Shultz states that it was twenty sec- onds after immersion before the blood found its way along the old channel, with a bounding percussion which at once startled him and relieved his sus- pense. Upon lifting the babe from the water it was ten seconds before the lungs resumed their duties, and the cir culation proceeded in the natural man. ner. Shultz then dressed the infant and returned it to it's mother so quietly that she did not imagine anything un- usual had happened.

 The day following the experiment was repeated five times. It was not fol some time that shultz informed his wife of what he had done, assuring he1 | ter secret. But the shock prostrated UuC POOI u1OGu0I 1OI eWO WCOhS. DuIIuS E the winter Shultz never neglected the immersion of his child five times day, from five to twenty-five minutes each time. The boy is a blonde, and shows unusual physical strength for child ot six months. He can already go round by the chairs," and his voice is uncom. monly powerful.

 He appears to have much better con trol of his movements in the water than out of it. A few peppermint lozenges were tossed in different parts of 8 batl three feet deep, in pursuit of which the child eagerly went, and he was fully three minutes endeavoring to secure them as he dropped them almost as fast as he picked them up. Finally he came up with the candy appealing to be taken | out.

 Mrs. Shultz is not at all reconciled to the treatment of her child, but Shultz thinks he is doing humanity favor by initiating practical method of obvia- ting all danger by drowning.
Year: 1873

The Cor7ahiU Magazine has an inter esting anecdote related of large dog kept in Algiers by Miss Emily Napier, daughter of Sir William Napier. The dog was sent every morning to fetch bread from the bakers and regularly brought home twelve rolls in 8 basket. At last it was observed that for several mornings there were only eleven rolls in the basket and, on watching the dog, he was found to stop on his way and bestow one roll on poor, sick and starving lady-dog, hidden, with her puppies, in a corner, on the road from the shop. The baker was then instruct ed to put thirteen rolls in the basket, after which the dog delivered the twelve faithfully for few days, and then left all the thirteen in the basket-the token, as it proved, that his sick friend was convalescent, and able to dispense with his charity.
Year: 1873

The gold furry in Wall street is the event of the day in commercial and financial circles. Some light is thrown by the New York papers upon the cause of the advance and who are manipula- ting the movement. From an editorial in the Herald we quote:

 We have noticed from time to time the vast amount of imports during the past few weeks, and now we learn that they amounted last week to nearly four teen millions of dollars, over three and a half millions being the value of dry goods, and little less than ten and 8 half millions of general merchandise. x The rise of the gold premium may be accounted for in part from the unusual amount of the precious metal nur importers have needed to pay du- ties on these large importations, and partly dls6 from the-recent action of the Bank of England in raising the rate of discount. But there is, evidently, an- other and more general cause operating, for gold has been rising steadily from 112 toward the close of last year to 11844, which it touched yesterday. The ex- port of gold to greater amount than the production of our mines lessens, of course, the stock in the country. Since the first of January we have exported SIS ,347 ,318. This is at the rate of $53, ,389,2 ,272 year. We do not know what the present gold production of the mines is, but, probably, not over twen- ty-five millions year. The product of both gold and silver will hardly amount to fifty millions. Then the stock of gold in the Treasury is much less than 1t was last year, or than it had been from year to year since shortly after the close of the war. The demand for gold to take up the fve-twenties, and to fund the debt, together with the amount re- quired to pay interest on the debt, will keep down the surplus, though the ex- cessive importations of merchandise will furnish the Secretary with considera- ble sum from duties. Nor do we see how the export of specie is to be check ed, while imports are so excessive and the balance of trade is so largely against us. Heretofore Government bonds and other securities have gone abroad to balance the account, but there is limit to this resource. We cannot always pay in bonds. We must either pay in gold or by the export of produce, unless, in- deed, our foreign creditors choose to let what we owe them remain on this side for investment. But drawing from us gold at the rate of fifty-three mil lions year looks as if they preferred to have the hard cash at home. Nor must we neglect to notice the vast amount of specie taken or drawn from this side by the thousands of Americans crossing to Europe or living there.
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided, in the cases of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Boston, that neither the expiration of the policy nor its cancellation releases the holder from liability to assessment for all losses which occurred while he was member of the company.
Year: 1873

The respective Postal Administration mutually urn
each with lists stating the foreign which
foreign postage and the amount thereof be absOut
paid be left unpaid. and such lists are
neither country to mail 10 the her any cOrrespnnde
for foreign countries beyond the Country which the



such lists shall alss indicate the foreign countries
which registered correspondence may be exchanged in
mails between the several officers and the conditions her
Year: 1873

In to-day's paper we publish the
substance of numerous scientific lec-
lures read by learned men at the late
Scientific Congress at Portland, Maine.
BY reading these it will be seen that
the earth and all sublunary things are
coming to an end. They do not men,
ton the exact date when this will oc-
cur, but as these same scientific men
have proved, from equally clear facts,
that the world has already existed in
its present condition for six thousand
years, we do not think there is any
danger from this calamity during the
present century, and We suppose
thoughtless people will go on eating,
drinking and making merry, and en-
joying life just as usual, notwithstand-
ing the gloomy forcbodings Of these
great and Wise men.
Year: 1873

TEE mercurial French people, three
years after the bloody war, and after
having lust liquidated their immense
debt and freed their soil from the foot
Of the invader, are ready for another
revolution. This time 1t looks like
they were to return to monarchy.


It 10 enough to make the whole
world OF philanthrorists and lovers
Of freedom sick at heart to sec the
fckleness and absolute present inca.
pacity of the French people for self
government.


We have 90 little faith in the ability
OF the French people to remain long
in one mind, that we do not hope for
anything like q Republic to be estab.
hshed, and exist any time, in the
next thirty years.


The material ia not in the French
nation to make any government stable
They can not do it. They seem to
have q dual life, like the frogs, ar.
ticles Of their diet, and live both on
land and in the water, in monarchy OF
imperalism.
Year: 1873

A good many citizens, and large
majority Of them Republicans, could
not vote on Tuesday, because they
were not registered. We hope this
will prove salutary lesson to them,
and that in the future they will per-
sonally inspect the registry lists and
see for themselves that their names
are registered.
Year: 1873

The Anti-Monop revolution in this
State has beaten number Of the
strongest railroad tariff men we have
over had In the Legislature. A prom
inent instance Of this kind is found in
the defeat of Evans, ofMuscatine conn
Year: 1873

An instance of great liberality was
shown in New York during the pro-
gress of the Protestant Alliance, in
the fact that Episcopal clergymen have
taken part in the Communion service
as conducted by the Presbyterian
churches. This assemblage together
Of tho Protestant world is breaking
down the barriers that divided the
churches, very rapidly and surely.
Year: 1873

Professor Young, the most eminent
living student of solar physics, read a
paper on the sun. That body, he ar
gued, is a gigantic bubble whose crust
is gradually thickening and whose size
is diminishing. There is constant
loss of heat, which will end in its OK
tinction as q producer of warmth and
light. He quoted Faye, Secchi, and
Others to prove that the material Of the
sun is gaseous, and that these gases
are retained by some kind of crust
Through this surface the tumnltuous
inner composition is constantly spurt-
ing and outbreaking with great vic.
lence. He thinks that this crust "may
consist of a sheet of descending rain
not Of water, Of course, hut of the ma
terial whose yapors are known to exist
in the solar atmosphere, and whose
condensation and combination arc
supposed to furnish the solar heat. -
AS this peculiar rain meets the gaseous
substance of the sun it coalesces into q
continuous sheet forming s'a sort of
bottomless ocean, resting upon the con-
densed vapors underneath, and pierced
by innumerablc ascending jets and
bubbles" This action of the sun s en-
velope will be quenching of the great
orb upon which we depend for heat
and light. Ii will grow smaller, and
more compressed and surrounded by
this crust, until it will be so hidden
and muiiled as to be practically exclu-
ded from the economy Of the universe.
The result will be intense cold and
darkness. cessation of all animal life,
and an immediate return 10 original
chaos
Year: 1873

A second very large


SUPPLY OF NEW GOODS.
We arc now able to offer GREAT BAR
GAINS in many kinds of choice goods.
ure in showing our stock to our friends and the
public generally.
my s D. F. WlTMGR 60.
Year: 1873

Reflect that sound mind and body arc tho
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, tho
prospect hourly darkens to the view, tho mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
Year: 1873

ASSESSMENT NoTICE.-At n meeting
of the Board of Trustees of the Washing
ton Quicksilver Mining Company Coca
ton of works Trinity conuty) held at the
Office of the company in San Francisco,
on January 10th, an assessment of one
cent per share was levied on the capital
stock of said company. See notice else
Mhnrn
Year: 1873

AT LAsT.-After several weeks of dis
tressingly fine weather, at time when we
should have plenty of storm, it is now
showing. AS we go to press Weaver
Basin is covered with about five and one
half inches Of the beautilulu
Year: 1873

CINNABAR SALE.-As will be seen by
reference to real estate sales, one-fourth
interest in the Trinity Consolidated
Quicksilver Mine, near Trinity Center,
has been sold for Twenty Thousand Dol
lo
Year: 1873

CHICKEN DIsEAsE.-During the past
few weeks we have heard several persons
in this vicinity complaining about their
chickens dying off. Chickens which go
to roost apparently healthy are found
dead the following morning. There seems
to be no chance to doctor them as the
first indication of their being affected is
when they are found dead.
Year: 1873

WANTED, A P. M.-Junction City is
without Postmaster and cannot find
any one who wishes to cover himself with
glory by accepting the vacant position,
consequently Junction City will proba-
bly, soon be without Post-otiice. Strange
the modesty which af1lcts the people of
that section. A few years ago we, the
gifted writer of this elegant squib, occu-
pied the proud position of Postmaster Mt
Junction City, and from this acknowledge
ment it may be inferred that we "know
how it is ourself." Well, we do-about
$25 worth. A fellow gets more curses
than currency. The salary was nomin-
ally thirteen dollars year in greenbaclls,
we belicve--but we never got any, though
we did get about fourteen "cussins on
an average every day we held the exalted
station. We speak of the salary rs being
nominal, because it was not tangible.
Fifteen months was the extent of our Off
cial career. We settled with Uncle Sam
quarterly that is we sent in our sworn
quarterly return and would receive from
the Auditor of the Post office Department
a notice that we were I" in arrears to the
the Government to the extent of So %,
for the quarter ending, ETC." Two in
dividuals comprised our bondsmen, and
both of them being bigger than we were,
we quietly paid Uncle Sam the So 25,
each quarter while we were Postmaster,
over and above all receipts of the office.
After the fifth quarterly settlement OF
this sort, we concluded that we had served
our country long enough at that price,
and so rendered our resignation. Our
successor, having more money than we
did, stood it longer, but resigned n
short time ago only to find that he was
indebted to the Post office Department
to the amount of forty odd dollars. p.
NJ. does very we'll when it stands for af-
ternoon, but when fellow has to pay $2l
n year over and above his salary, for the
privilege of signing it after his name
about once month, it don't do so well.
It's too expensive. And that's what's
the matter with the junction City Post
Office.