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Year: 1872

A curious phenomenon has just happened
in Russell county, Va. The rocks around a
spring have been cracking and making reports
as loud as guns, and some of them weighing
from four to five hundred pounds have been
thrown up. The people in that section are at
q loss how to account for it.
Year: 1872

Two Pennsylvania women called for their
husbands at a bar room the other evening
One broke the ice pitcher over her husbands
head; the other satisfied herself with doing
the same for two decanters, but made up for
it by throwing the cat and her kittens into
barrel of cider. These little bursts of play.
fulness over, they took their husbands to their
quiet homes.
Year: 1872

ADVICE TO TRAvELERs.-Well,s says forelgn correspondent, give this but of personal experience for the sake of giving a piere of good advice, or rather for giving 1t force. French landlords are now going upon the principal of the Arkansas Bonn

 face, who charged $34O for a breakfast. His ordinary price was $1 day, but as it had been nearly a year slnce he had had a call, he had 10 keep up the expenses ot his hotel. The best way for travellers coming abroad this season or next, is to be in a measure independent of these people. Buy in London good English luncheon basket. which is both elegant and easy to carry, to see Fontaineblcau, Saint German, Saint Cloud, and other historical places, butsno one cares to see them at the cost of fifteen to twenty dollars head. One dollar will fill your lnnch-basket in Paris. and by taking an early train you can reach Fontai bleau m time to see the most re- markable part of the forest before the pal

 ace is opened. Picnic in the woods-and there are lovely spots for it-vislt the pal

 ace at l2, then go to the other s'de of the forest, and take the evening train back to the city. In this way every thing of note can he seen, and one returns without hay

 ing the unpleasant sensation ot being rob- bed. Most Englisbmen do this now, and it is for this reason that the ''expense of the hotels" have to be put upon Americans and such stray French travellers as can be caught. II those Americans who are com ing to France this season will profit by this bit oi advlce, l shall have done them good service on the score of morality bad language is said to be immoral-ano shall have saved Jim a snug sum In gold.
Year: 1872

Every woman with any romance or magnanimity has, so far as she contem. plates marriage for herself merely in the abstract, an ideal, or some vague assem- blaze of high qualities which stand for such. She can only suppose herself vol untarily linking her fate with another, if that other is man excep. p.ionally good or noble, or at least distinguished ] among his fellows. At all events he must be something quite above the common run of men about Ter. The typical old maid has had this ideal, and been faithful to it; it may be for want of adequate temp tatlon to inc,ns lncy. Some women the charming woman, for example have not been allowed to keep their ideal. They have lost sight of it in find. ing themselves the ideal of some one else. Our typical vestal has never been a charming woman, though she may have many excellent gifts and graces. Women are so made, happily for men, that gratitude, pity. the exquisite plels- ure of pleasing, the sweet surprise of finding themselves necessary to another s happines tor heing hattered into the notion,) altogether obscure and confuse the judgment; they either forget their ideal altogether, "r think they have found it in the very commonplace mor- tai who is their choice. But to some women this does not happen. The natural instinct to please is not strong ln them. They only care to please where their taste and judgment approve, and thelr manner is cold or indifferent iu general society. There is French pro. verb, compounded of resignation and worldly policy. which represents the submission and destiny of the attractive woman: Q"omd om 'e'a pas ce qu'ou aime II faM dinaea' ce 2 Ion e. It is not that the other is deliberately unattractive, but she recognizes no necessity. She doe. not want to please out of her pale O. sympathies; and the alternative has nc terrors for her. In fact, she has forsee1 that single life is her probable destiny It is not at all necessary that this unat tractiveness should have to do with 'nscious want of beauty. A beautiful woman, as far as color and outline con stituie beauty-bu failing in bewitch ing qualities-may repel admiration b, indifference, and live to glorify the sis terhood to which her manner devote her; but it is the woman of common place exterior and sensitive mind tha IS most commonly left alone with he ideal. We believe that almost any wo man who is not what is called particu lar" may marry If she chooses-that is if she does not speculate upon herself or share the worlds unfavorable view o her personal pretentions. -Blackwood' | MG01gi0e
Year: 1872

INTERNATIONAL CODE OF S1aNALs.-The United States Treasury Department is considering the propriety of urging upon Congress at it's next session the importance of some general enactment in regard to the adoption by the merchants marine of the international code of signals now used by she merchant vessels of most foreign nations. This code is being publish 6 l by the Navy Department for use in the navy, and when completed will be on sale at it's cost ot publication, which will be less than $8 per volume. The system is very com- plete, and by the use of the books com munioation can be established as we'll be- tween vessels of nations speaking different languages as between those of the same nation. At present communication be- tween American vessels is very different. owing to several systems being in use, and it is almost impracticable for an American merchant vessel to communicate with & vessel of a nation speaking foreign lan- guage, or with vessels of the United States Navy, by which the new code has been adopted.
Year: 1872

NOVEL METHOD OF PRoPELLING STREET CARs.-The latest novelty in the way of street car motive power IS now in operation in New Orleans. On a four wheel truck about half the length of an ordinary passenger car are boiler, a tank, and doublc-cylmder engine of seven inches stroke. The tank is filled with about three hundred gallons of water This water is heated at the depot in stationary and discharged into the tank at the beginning of each tr,p. In this manner enough steam IS provided to propel the car nine miles, and have sur- plus of power left at the end of the trip. One man performs the duties of engineer, brakeman, and conductor. There is no escape of steam, nor any noise beyond that ordinarily caused in running passenger car and trial of nearly three months has shown this new motor to be not only practicable, but much cheaper than horse power. The actual running expenses have been $l 4S per day.
Year: 1872

TEA.-A good deal of misdirected ef- fort has been expended in endeavoring to introduce the ten culture in the Unl- ted States. The tea plant sa! good authority is very closely allied to the camelia, or iaponica, which thrives in the open air in the Southern States, and there is no reason why it shouli not do equally well there. But it would be i'm. possible to raise and prepare tea for the market here 80 as to compete with the imported article, on account of the scarcity and high price of labor Be. sides, there is great loss of land in tea culture until the plants attain their growth, which takes from three to five years. When the leaves are ready for picking this must be done by hand labor, and in China it requires eight days work of fifteen skillful hands to pick enough leaves to produce three hundred pounds of the dried tea. If the tea plant grew wild in profusion, it would be cheaper to buy the China product than to undertake to gather it here.
Year: 1872

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF Two GILL DRsN.-In Waterbury the lightning struck a house in suburb occupied by John Read It fir-t struck the lightning rod, taking lively run downward until it reached the sill, where owing to an imp, rfection in the rod. it divided one portion running cut from the house, and kicking up rumpus in wood pile near by, the other entering the dwelling on the head of nail, and running along the fool of the sitting room, killing a dog under the lounge, and then to the corner of the room, tearing huge splin- ter from the sill, and then entering the cellar, where it's force was spent upon a large rock which was considerably shat. tered. Two little children were on the lounge at tho time, but they felt no inju ". Mrs. R ad who was in an adjoining room was considerably prostrated by the shock.
Year: 1872

The Louisville papers tell curious story about negro woman who was bit ten by dog thirty years ago, and has b en subject to convulsive fits about twice a mouth ever since. She is per fectly harmless, but when the fit is on she lies on the floor doubled up like a hoop, and barks for twenty minutes to- gether. Her bark cannot be distinguished from that of dog.
Year: 1872

THE ARIZONA DIAMOND FIELD Ds.-We have information from an ind pendent source, SD particular and explicit as hardly to leave doubt of the true loca- tion of the diamond fields which have created SO much excitement in this city for the last few days. The diamond mines are situated in the southeast cor ner of Arizona Territory, south of lati tude 32 degrees east at point near to the boundaries of New Mexico and Sonora. Any one by taking map of recent date, can readily find the point where boundary lines of Arizona and New Mexico lntersect Mexico on the south. The country has several silver mines laid down, and Apaches are desig- mated as occupying the same district. The country is not surveyed. It is situ- ated at no great distance from the old southern trail cro sing the coun ry from Fort Yuma to Fl Paso. It is pretty certain that one or more parties are in this city who have brought up specimens of rlbi from that region, and whose operations are independent of the dia- mond adventurers who first brought in diamonds. We give this information as we have received it. We have not much reason to doubt but the true locality has been substantially given in this parA- graph. If that is the diamond territory, we do not think half dozen men will he able to gobble it up, or to keep every body else ont of it. But we advise no body to go there. The diamond hunters of South Africa had hard luck. Hardly more than a dozen gained anything at Ill adequate as compensation fer the risks and sufferings encountered. 1fany extensive diamond fields are discovered it will be very difficult to prevent as free competition as was established in South Africa. There is not sufficient evidence within reach to warrant any one in run, ming off b.indlv to this distant and in. hospitable territory. Diamonds are used for cutting diamonds, aud just now very sharp men are disposed to try the cutting of diamonds on the public. Francisco Bulletin.
Year: 1872

The sea hath its pearls, The heavens have their stars, But my heart, my heart, My heart hath its love. Great are the sea and the heavens, But greater Is my heart, Aud brighter than pearls or stars Sparkles and glows my love. Thou youthful little maiden, Come to my mighty heart; My heart and the sea and the heavens Are melting away with love.
Year: 1872

INsEcTs.-There is often much fruit which falls prematurely, which on exam ination will be found to contain insects, and should be given to the pigs as fast as they fall, or if preferred, the pigs may be allowed to run in the orchard.
Year: 1872

The Supreme Court of Iowa has decided that where cattle are enticed by the drlp- plng water from railroad tank, and are thereby brought upon Q railroad track, and while there injured, the rail- road company is liable.
Year: 1872

We pledge our reputation on the assertion that any educated physician, after a careful examination Of the recipe, will say that PAR SONS PuR9AT1vE PILLS possess more merit than any other pll now offered for sale. Com.
Year: 1872

Go1coNDA.-Somehow we don't feel disposed to credit in full that story of the Simbad's Valley which the papers tell us has been so lately discovered, near the Rio Colorado, Chiquito. There are too many diamonds and rubies shovelle d up at time, bushtl or so having been sent on to New York to be properly polished and cut. The two generous miners who discovered this new Golcon- da, instead of keeping their knowledge to themselves and picking up bu>hel or two of gems whenever they were in want of money, preferred to tell the tale of their discoveries to certain speculative persons, and permit them first to pre- empt this diamond region, and next to form u stock company. In thls idea of a stock company we smell mice. .-Bostua' Globe,
Year: 1872

CRISTADoRo'S EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE is the most and complete preparation of it's kind in the world Its effects magical its character harmless it's tints natural its qualities endurng.-Com.
Year: 1872

adopt this mode OF advertising my business
instead OF employing agents. My object s, to
reduce the expense OF the business as much as
possible, so bv purchasing OF me you pay no
agent fees. You can also save the expense of
delivering the work II you choose besides you
can select the Marble yourself, and see the sytle
OF 1t, as 1t will be, so there is possible chance
for being decelved or being disappointed.


By taking tins course, there Is a saving of
from twenty TO thirty per cent according TO
how far the purchaser comes.


You can readily see that the money | save by
not keeping agents goes TO the purchaser in
stead OF the agent.


Agents claim that they can furnish work
cheaper. That cannot be done, unless done by
Apprentices. | furnish no work OF that class
as l employ no Apprentices.


My work and material cannot be questioned.


SSs" Patronize home, If You can, and save
money by so doing. Sl3
Year: 1872

Editors Of Montpelier Journal II notice there
is quite move in the State for refunding the
money paid by certain parties as Communication
money, and for substitutes. This is one Of those
questions, which, if it has its arguments in its
favor, also has them on the other side. | aln one
of several thousand from this State who enlisted in
the first Of the war and never had any of the large
bountes paid later; who served over three years
(unless killed, or disabled by wounds or diseaso)
and have now returned to the State, the war
being over Many Of US who do not claim any
pensions, still feel the effects Of our exposure.
and expect to as long as we live. Now how was
Il with these men who paid this money which it
is now proposed to refund? They had chance
at first to 90, or pay $500 and be exempt. Later
il was seen by the government that this was a
bad bargain, and If men were drafted they mnsi
90 or furnish n substitute.


These men who had paid the $500 considered
themselves lucky, and indeed they were, for
many a man would have been glad to pay them
two dollars for every dollar they had paid for
but these papers they wanted. They sang


Let drafts like a wild deluge come,


And storms OF bullets fall,


I'm safely snuggled at my home Ii I.


They won't reach me az all. 49,


The war being closed, and there being no longer
danger of their being called upon to 60, they


Forget the JOY which once they knew,


Nor docs It's mem'ry linger still.


And now comes the Macedonian cry to the leg
islature, " Help, or we perish" | think there
are some cases where it would be well for men 10
have this money refunded but if 1t is to be to all or
none ! am Of the opinion that ii is not best to
pay any. Many wealthy man stad at home by
using little of his money, while his poor neigh
Dor, who had no money was obliged to 60, and
perhaps it cost him his life.


Now while we cannot refund to those who went
to the war; what It cost them --cannot restore the
loved ones TO their homes, nor fill the empty
sleeves, nor replace the limbs, nor the lost health
to these thousands am Of the opinion it is not
best to undertake TO restore this money 10 men
who purchased immunity from danger AT least
if it is paid, in the name of humanity and decen-
cy, let the law be such that those, who went to
the war and protected these fellows, may be ex-
empted from all share in the burden of paying
these heroes of " the peace establishment


lie who paid and sfai array


May live TO fight some other day


Let these beggars fight and suffer little before
they are paid.


Barre, Oct 81, 1872
Year: 1872

In the Illinois Legislature bill providing
for the establishment of title muniments by
proceedings in Court of Equity was pro-
posed by committee of the best men In the
House, assisted by eminent legal talent. 1t
was carefully drawn, and was well calculated
ofthe Burnt District of Illinois that portion of
the State devastated by the Chicago fire-for
which purpose the bill was introduced. One
Jack Heafield, Cook county orator, de-
feated the measure by single burst of elo-
quence. And here's the speech that did the
mischief:


Mr.. Speaker:-I am opposed to this bill,
and am coming down on it like June bug
on potato vine. have come to pronounce
its eulogy as Mark Antony did over Cleopa-
ira. / am laboring man myself, and
know what ls sborers want, and know that
they don't want any such thing as this. I've
been in chancery, and know how it is my
self. After hanging in chancery till the
lawyers got my bottom dollar, got my case
before twelve honest farmers, and / knocked
the socks off my antagonist just like falling
off log. Now, here's King coming in here
with this bill to help out the legal fraternity
and put every man in Cook county into
chancery. amt got nothing against my
friend King, but want to tell him right here
that my names Jack, and that King cannot,
never did, and never will take Jack. Look
at this section here, providing for masters in
chancery- in chancery- yes, we'llhave
them in Chicago thicker that fieas on dog,
to eat our substance and get fat ON our mis-
fortunes. call upon the hard listed yo-
manry on the Democratic side of this House
to nip this thing in the bud-we don't want it,
and we won't have it. We have got along so
far without it, and we can borrow all the
money we want and sell all the property we've
UOt without pOinp intO chaOcprV IN do II
Now, Mr.. Speaker, though Nero tfddled when
Rome was burning, and Lycurgus played
seven up on his wife's coffin, that is no reason
our people should be gobbled up in chancery
hopper after they have been burned out, and
ground out of what little they have left.
Year: 1872

1t is always pleasant to know that we are
held in good estimation by our neighbors, es
pecially when their estimation is worth hav-
ing. 1t is still more pleasant to have that es-
timation extended into unqualified approval
of any act of ours which may have raised us
up an enemy, or placed us in doubtful posi-
ton. -....... .-


just at this juncture, when we are so pc
culiarly situated with regard to England, on
the question of the Alabama claims, and with
all the nations of Continental Europe waiting
with bated breath for the signal which shall
mean peace or war, Russia steps forward, and
in language neither stinted nor measured, en-
dorses the demands made by the United States
government in the Washington treaty, and
the position taken for their enforcement. The
tone of the government journals at St. Peters
burg and Moscow is echoed by the leading
papers of the empire, and not an article has
yet appeared in q Russian journal inimical
to the case of the United States. There are
different opinions as to the justice of the de-
mands for consequential damages, but not as
to the right of the United States to refer their
consideration to the Council of Arbitration at
Geneva.


The St. Petersburg Gazette, after long
review of the case, says, in leading article,
that the United States are Internationally
right, and that the plaintiff cannot be forbid
den to bring in against the defendant claims
for all the damages he thinks he has suffered.
1t is for the defendant to disprove them by
his evidence, but it is only the court which
can decide in the matter. 1t says that the
action of America is perfectly logical, and
that it is very natural on the part of COM
mercial nation to exaggerate its damages.
The Russian Monthly Messenger, which weilds
an influence in Russia similar to that of the
Times in England, says that the English ex-
citement was manufactured for the occasion
by the press, and that President Grant did
only his duty in including the claims for in
direct losses.
Year: 1872

MANY people have no doubt felt somewhat
uneasy at the prospect of this planet and a
certain comet coming into collision next
August, which occurrence has been predicted
by Swiss professor of astronomy. What
the result of such meeting would be is not
well known to the majority of mankind.
For aught they can tell, the earth would be
dashed into millions of pieces and hurled
through space; or it might be burned into a
cinder and be absorbed by the moon. We
feel great pleasure, therefore, in stating, on
the authority of that excellent scientific jour-
nal, Nature, that we actually passed through
a comet as late as 1861, and that it il; possible
we are passing through one every day, as
Arago computed their number at II, 500, ,000
All this shows that comets are very harmless
affairs, and that their coming against our
planet can hurt them, but not us-unless they
hurt us by exercising subtle influence over
our mental organization, and making us ripe
for all manner of mischief. We began she'd
ding great deal of blood in 1861 perhaps
the comet is to blame for it all!
Year: 1872

Dr. PRIME, in his ''Travels in Japan, says:


Passing through a street and seeing some
forty or fifty coppers hanging on as many
nails at the front of a shop, the copper coin
has hole in the CENTRE asked what they
were for, and was told that they were placed
there by the shopkeeper to save time and
trouble in answering the calls of the mendicants
When one came along he simply took cop
per and passed on, never abusing the charity
of the shopkeeper by taking two. @ F
Year: 1872

The New York Commercial AdcertSser ad-
vises its readers that, as general thing, at
tempting to fog editors is an Improbable
business. ShoVeling off snow or driving a
charcoal wagon for living pays better in the
long run. A hostile visitor to an editorial
sanctum usually finds that the best side of the
building for him to be on on is son on the outside.
themselves and approaching an editor for the
purpose of cleaning him out, but they have
always gone away with the conviction that
they were born for some less active pursuit.
Thus discouraged, such intruders are daily
diminishing in number.
Year: 1872

has done, the practical teachings he
cessary to ft the man for a life Of
usefulness. There is something also
to be set down to the mistaken feeling
that a profession is more honorable
than trade, and to the snobbishncss
which pushes into colleges and into
the professions many men whom ma
ture has intended to build houses or
make machinery or to till the soil
To most men a 'collesiats training is
very valuable when joined to busi-
ness education of some sort, but some
are better without it, and no man is
fitted for life who has nothing more
than diploma on which to rely.


HeartA and Home.
Year: 1872

How TO BE AN EDITOR. "A good
editor must combine the loqnacity OF
a magician with the impudence of the
devil. He must know how to time a
horse race, teach a Sunday school,
preach a charity sermon, run Il saw


mill, keep a hotel and brew whskey.
He must be insensible to the cruelest
snubs, and manifest no sense Of anger
when kicked down stairs. He must
throw modestv to the hogs, and let
the tigers howl, But above all things
else, he must be an adept at putting.
He must be enthusiastic on the sub
ject of hams verbose in extrolng
hardware, and highly imaginative in
the matter of dry goods. He must
talk learnedly OF programmes, with a
liberal mixture of glowing words.
He must be heavy on concert, with
q capacity to appreciate Miss Squeak $
execution of difficult feats in the
upper strata, and ecstatic and elo-
quent in behalf Of every one connec-
ted with it.