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Year: 1872

The New York World says: "We


are reluctantly constrained to believe


that the endorsement of Greeley at


Baltimore is one of the absurd posi-


b1ilties of American politics. Every


body knows that political conventions


are egregious shams. They are engin-
eered and controlled by trading poll


tlclans. If Mr.. Greeley should be en-
dorsed at Baltimore, the endorsement
would not represent the Democratic
party, but only its trading politicians.
But the success of the Greeley move
ment depends on the choice of its in
dorsement by the Democratic masses
The great mistake of the Greeley Dem
ocrats consists in their confidence in
party machinery. They absurdly think
that every thing is accomplished if they
can get Greeley nominated, at Balti-
more. They will find that this is
mistaken calculation. There are hun
dreds Of thousands of Democrats who
would Loyalty vote for any Democratic
nominee in Difference to the National
Convention, who cannot be brought to
vote, under any circumstances, for the
lifelong asailant and defamer of the
Democratic party We do not believe
there will be a bolt; at any rate, we
shall not support bolt, if Mr. Greeley
should be nominated at Baltimore,
though we freely say that if there arise
chance for successful bolt it can
count on our jealous cooperation; but
we shall decline to go into any move
ment inspired by conflicting passion
with regard to political possibilities.
The danger is not from bolt, for we
do not believe there will be a bolt even
IT Greeley l. nominated at Baltimore,
but from the disgust and apathy of the
multitude of Democrats who will sui
lenly stay away from the polls when
they were asked to vote for the chief
llbeler of their party. There are hum
dreds of thousands of Democrats who
cannot be induced to vote for Greeley,
and his nomination at Baltimore will
be an act of supreme folly, unless he
can bring over to our party strong Re
publican reinforcements; and there is
as yet no evidence that he can bring
one Republican voter for every ten
Democrats that so utterly absurd
nomination will disgust and drive
away"
Year: 1872

Without knowing the cause of its
development, 1t has always been charged
to what is called malaria-aud curious
as it may appear, we don't know what
that is. In popular opinion there are
banetul emanations from the ground
In certain localities, which inhaled, pro
duce vital disturbance which only one
medicine controls or subdues That is
quinine. Happily, as the tree from
whose bark that medicine is extracted
becomes scarcer and therefore more
costly, chemists are encouraged with a
belief they shall finally discover how to
make it. 1t will be another great
triumph of inductive science when that
deslderatum is accomplished.


Fever and ague, the old expressive
name for intermittent fever, because
the sufferer is Intensely hot and in
tensely cold-shiyering-is a scourge
that battles physicians. It is regulated
by laws-laws of periodicity as positive
and uniform in the alterations of heat
and chill as the phases of the moon or
the satellites Of Jupiter.


Certainly here is an inviting field for
d1scovery-the cause of intermittent
fever and its destruction. Emanations
from the ground, mixed with atmo-
sphere air, theoretically are carried
directly into the circulation through
the medium of the lungs Why do
not domestic animals have the disease
they breathe the same air? There
IS the rub III medical SCIENCE We do
or take some things that make us sls-
ceptible to the action Of that invisible
poison. What is it?
Year: 1872

A WEALTHY Chinese firm recently
bought the monopoly of the opium trade
in the Sandwich Island for $25, OOO
The profits of the business must of
course be immense, and it is increasing
every day. The natives, in an illicit
way, of course, are getting to be great
opium smokers, paying to the Chinese,
who are allowed to buy the drug, so
much for q smoke.
Year: 1872

stops at the door in his carriage and


lodges in attics no longer but he never
has forgotten, nor seems likely to for
get, the loaf of bread given him by the
poor tailor's wife when he was starving.
Year: 1872

PERHAPS IN no other territory of
equal extent upon the face of the globe
can be found such vast beds of nearly
every variety Of iron ore as IN the state
OF Missouri. From the fine. glittering
slllclous, blue specular ore of Iron
county, attording some of the most
beautiful cabinet specimens, to the
chronic specular, red and brown
oxides of other localities, this most
important metal exists in profusion
that is truly wonderful.
Year: 1872

The low barometer over Iowa viii move northeast
ward over Lake Michigan into Canada accompanied
by brisk winds the upper lakes to night shifting
to northweSterly Friday with clearing weather. and
clear and pleasant weather will prevail on Friday over
the New England and southern and middle Atlantic
States Clear and clearing weather with westerly winds
for the Cult States The area of cloud ard rain north
west of the Ohio Valley will extend eastward,
Year: 1872

Travellers tell some strange tales, and
sometimes not very reliable, but the follow
ing is vouched for by gentleman who
was travelling in upper Alsace


In journeyIng from Phlt tO Basle ! Jaw
at distance 81 about two hundred PAGES
from me a large dog leave the road, and
enter the brushwoUd The dog belonging
to my companion, a native Of Alsace. Was
about to follow the strange dog, but was
recalled by his master


No, no, you must leave him alone, ne
is on duty it does not do 70 interrupt
business


looked to him for an explanation of the
mystery conveyed in his words He then
told me that dogs were trained u bring
smuggled goods, such a. watches, &c,
from Switzerland into Alsace BY means Of
kind Of saddle fastened tO the back THE
manner Of training the dog was this


The dog is well fed at home, and then
after a while led across the border " the
village where he is 10 receive his load. He
is shut up some days without food. and
moreover beaten by man dressed in the
uniform Of custom-house official As
soon as the dog is set at liberty he natur-
ally starts for home at a double-uuick pace.
On the way, that is ON the high road,
which ne is pretty sure to take, people are
stationed with whips, or guns loaded with
peas, which are fired at him, until he learns
to take refuge from all strange men in the
brushwOod. Two or three such lessons
are sufficient to make the sagacious animal
comprehend what is required Of him, and
he then becomes the best contrabandist
going. Six dogs can thus support their
master.
Year: 1872

THE pun 6end is again on the war path.
Here is the latest effort Why is AL
egg produced in the month Of May like a
native Of Malacca Because it is May
lay"


WHAT glorious world this would be If
all its inhabitants could say, with Shakes
pe&re's Shepherd Sir, ! am q true
laborer earn that i wear owe no man
hate envy no mans happiness glad with
other mems good content with my farm. I"
Year: 1872

OFT as the eve and the twilight approach
l think of the time when my love did broach
AS we sat by the banks of that pure, gurgng


spring,
And gazed with delight on that bright, golden


ring


You placed on my finger some wish for to bring
Bright gem! thou symbol and signet of love,
Thou art more precious to me than angels above
You left me alone the hour we parted,
Too sad to be gay and quite broken-hearted.
My love to confess, oh, hard did I try
And for relief of md heart drew deep sigh;
AS we sat by the banks of the clear rppling rill
That rolled down the glen from the top of the


hill.


No doubt you thought at the time it was spoken,
He's gallant young firt,j just merely ioking." "
And this my confession, dearest Belle, 1 shall


make,
BY Jove! it's as true as my name it is Jake.
NY love for thee l can never unfold
Years hence tthe of it cannot be told,
All want, all ask, for thou art my pride,
Is to say Eyes, my dear Jakey, I'll e'er be thy


bride E..
Year: 1872

The following is the version of the "Exe
of Erin which is TO be sung at the Worlds
Peace Jubilee The first half is from the
original poem by Campbell; the remainder,
in which the sadness of the song is changed
to hope, tone more befttng the season, is
written by John Boyle O O'Reilly:
There came to the beach poor exile of Erin,
The dew on his thin robes hung heavy and
For his country he sighed when at twilight re-


pairing,


To wander alone by the wind beaten hill
But the day-star attracted his eyes sad devotion.
For it rose o re his own native soil of he ocean,
Where oft in the fire of his youthful emotion
He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.
Oh Erin, my country, though sad and forsaken,
In dreams revisit thy sea beaten shore;
But alas! in far foreign land l awaken,
Aud sigh for the friends who can meet me no


more.
STILL Erin, the new land gave friends now beside


me,
Bound with links to my heart strong as those


that once tied me
To thee, my loved land and cen thou canst not


chide me


For new love that makes me but love thee the


more.


And lends me fresh vlgor to work and to pray
For though darkness be round thee, the day-star


that blesses


Thy whole future life is uprising to-day;
Thy star rises weatw2Ed ia promise and warning,
Thy noon shall be brighter for gloom in the


morning,
Thou 1t be hailed as of old, dearest Erin, adorn


ing


The crown of the sea when the clouds pass
Year: 1872




FRUITS OF THE SEAsoN.-Califomia stands
head and shoulders over any other State in
the Union, in her wonderful varieties of early
and late fruits, of temperate and semi-tropcai
growth. Our first straw wberries, in quantity
sufficient to call them regular marketable
commodity, purchasable any day at the fruit
stands, were first seen about the 2Oth OF
March; in two and three weeks after, quite
abundant, by the middle of April, not only
abundan, but cheap, and from that time to
the present, no one who likes strawberries
need to have gone without, and for month
longer they will enliven the fruit stands.


Cherries were never so finely gotten up by
any other country or climate on earth, as
evidenced by the size and flavor Of the spec-
mems, or rather quantities that are every
where presented to tempt the eye and appe-
tite. Raspberries and currants are unusually
abundant and of excellent favor. Aprcots
for the last two weeks have been a staple
fruit, and the quantity on the market is
every day increasing. Cherry plums; large
and delicious, are to be had anywhere that
fruit is sold.


Watermelons put in their first appearance
on 4th street on Saturday the 18th inst, but
whether they were delicious or not, we only
know that they carried an odor of silver 50
pungent, as altogether to exceed that from
our-strange to say, for once-pretty well
lined pormonaie. And to-day, June 18th,
ripe peaches and apples are to be had at
several of the more prominent fruit corners.
If there is any other country SO richly ell
dowed by Pomona as is California, with
rare, ear ly and delicious fruits whilst apples
of last years growth in any quantity and ex-
cellent in quality are lying along side, we
would like to hear of its precise locality
if we are never able to visit it; for we would
like to know that the people Of some other
part of this beautiful earth are as blessed
and favored as we are.-Rural Press.
Year: 1872

The captain became SO inextricably con-
fused in his facts and opinions, that, after a
few moments, one of the passengers kindly
volunteered to finish it for him. He was a
small man, with nervous, excitable man.
ner, and he told the story with such dram
attic appearance of absolute faith in the ira
dition that he managed to impress his audi
ence very sensbly.


lie pointed out the very spot-still lighted
by CLEAN of sunshine-where the Indian
encampment had rested in the long ago Of
Winona's story. He told us of the crystal
stream which dropped down the rocks in
toaming cascade, and then, wandering about
among the willows, found its way 10 the
river. lie traced out the path by which
Winona-the beautiful daughter of the pow
erful chieftain of the tribe assembled the
fatal rocks. He pictured her resolution and
despair, for she had chosen death rather
tia n to give up the young brave whom she
loved, and marry the chieftain of her fathers
choice And then he told of the despair of
the tribe when they saw her far up on the
rocks and instinctively OWNED her purpose;
of the wild entreat,es and commands of her
father, and her own unalterable purpose;
how he sent swift messengers to intercept
her, but she had already reached the highest
point, and they stopped involuntarily as the
clear notes of her voice rose in the mournful
death-chant. Even the old chief ceased his
lamentations az he looked at her. Her hair
was unbound, her hands were folded across
her breast and her eyes were intently fixed
on the shining heavens. Her song ended,
she stood silent for moment, and then,
stretching her arms toward the setting sun.
she threw herself into the lake. The blue
waters parted to receive her and taking up
the drge, have ever since sung ceaseless


lament over her grave. Winonas heroism
was not that of Christianity or of modern
civilization, but it betrayed physical cour-
age that led cur Imagination captive in spite
of ourselves. Besides, the effect of being 80
near the spot where the tragedy had occur
red affected even our miscellaneous company.
This one bluff, with its human association,
appealed to us as only human interest can
as if the scene which was once enacted was
photographed on the place, and it needed
only the agency of human contact to brush
away the film of years and bring out the
picture fresh and clear again. "a
Journey in Early Summer" IN Overland
Monthly for July.
Year: 1872

The whether has been unusually cold for the season. It has been good sleigh ing for some time. Many farmers were caught with root crops ungathered and will doubtless appreciate January thaw and the sooner it arrives for them the bet ter.

 The last Tribune comes to us in mourning and sad pleasure it was to read therein of the life and death of one over whose sudden death nation mourns. How many will lay aside that paper as a memento of him whom to know 0but through his paper) was to love. For very many the Tribune has lost in his death it's greatest attraction.
Year: 1872

A Frenchman named Andre having kill ed his wife in New York, her infideity was shown in defence, and the jury disa- greed. One of their number is now out in card in which he says that large part of them held that husband under such circumstances, had a right to kill either the wife or her paramour. Things must go little further: not only must adultery excuse two murders, but twelve perjuries
Year: 1872

The abominable taste of Mayor Halls invitation to ths President to attend Mir. Greeley's funeral has been severely com- mented on by the press throughout the country. Considering how Mr. Hall came to be Mayor of New York, what he has done since he has been Mayor, and where he is like to go at the end of bis term, ene might naturally expect some lack of taste in connection with such plentiful lack of honesty
Year: 1872

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:


In all Of mans sublime essays Of
loveliness and beauty, he has not nor
never can more than symbolic true
woman. Faras the mind may have ex-
plored the plain OF Imagination, far as
divine rapture may have repayed the
efforts of speculation in the realm of
fancy, far as the perceptive ken has
been introduced to Heavenly forms and
angelic glory, man has never vet found
even the ideal Of woman's superior in
the whole universe. Strange it is that
men will forget that the skill OF God was
applied in the creative perfection of
woman as well as man. All this fustion
about superhuman excellence is the
merest nonsense. 1t is not within the
mental compass of man to conceive Of
anything better than the highest range
of earthly perfection. Man may weaken
his own eyes by celestial speculation, or
by chronic condemnation of earthly
perfection; he may indulge evangelic
visions, but he can dream of no image
more divine than woman. The daugh-
ters of Eden have all their elements of
divinity yet. Men, what are you talk
ing about? What are YOU looking for
of there among the clouds? Better
come down and stay here awhile
maybe you can see something TO admire


J. G. SNoDGRAss.
Year: 1872

\ recent letter from Boston tells this


sad story; "a funeral procession passed
by yesterday. a young man told me a
story that L think has peculiar sadness


about it. At Saratoga, last season, at


one of the largest balls, was a young lady


with the most charming and insinuat-


ing manners and graces. Her toilet was
equally rs pleasing. She was the belle of
the ball-an honor accorded her without
dissent. Her attendant during the
evening was young man dressed al
most gaudily, and bearing himself with
all the distasteful self-conceit of brain
less millionaire. He was the son of


Boston leather dealer. He met the lady
at Saratoga for the first time last season,
and she, by direction of her parents, who
were also wealthy, and who insisted
upon the arrangement, became his affi-
anced. Previous to this she had met
young gentleman, also Of Boston, of the
utmost Tespectability, thorough honor
and integrity, but without fortune. To
him she had been something more than
a friend, in fact almost q betrOthed. He
was young, had risen by his own stern
efforts, and was, it is said, possessed of
sterling and promising abilities, which
in time must have won him wealth and
perhaps distinction. On the return Of
the lady from Saratoga last season her
engagement prevented her from further
intercourse with her first suitor and he
was dismissed. His grief was pitiful.
He strOve not to reverse it by word or
action; but the very efforts he so labor
iOusly made exposed the pOignancy of
his wounds. The lady lived with her
husband in the suburbs of the city at a
large and costly residence for one month
after their marriage. By that time the
abuse of the husband compelled an inn
mediate separation. He was inconti-
nently shipped to Europe, where estill
remains, and the young wife was left to
gradually decline in health until death
ensued; but not before she had re-
preached her parents for driving her to
the alliance which wrought such early
ruin and blasted such bright hopes and
expectations. As the funeral procession
passed up public street the first lover,
while watching with blanched cheeks
and moist eyes the sad cOrtege, fell to
the ground while suffering an attack of


hemorrhage of the lungs. He was car


ried into a physicians Office near, where


he died before the body Of one he so


tenderly and devotedly loved was laid
in its last resting place"
Year: 1872

THOMAS CARLYLE'S ADVICE To A
POET.-Nour name hitherto is known to
me chiefly as associated with verse. 1t
is one of my constant regrets. i'm this
generation, that men to whom the gods
have given genius (which means n
light of intelligence, of courage, and all
manfulness, or else means nOthing) will
insist, in such an earnest time as ours
has grown, in bringing out their divine
Gift i'm the shape of verse, which now no
man reads entirely in earnest. That n
man has to bring out his gift in words
of any kind, and not i'm silent divine
actions. which alone are fit TO express il
well, seems to me a great misfortune for
him: but that he should select verse,
with its half credibilities and other sad
accompaniments, when he might have
prose and be wholly credible, if he
desired it; this | lay at the door of our
spiritual teachers Opedants mostly, and
speaking an obsolete dialect, who
thereby intellectually rot the world;
making him who might have been a
soldier and fighter so terribly wanted
inst at present., 4 mere preacher and
idle singer. This is fixed perception
of mine. growing ever more fixed these
many wears; and offer it to you, as
have done to many others in the like
case, not much hoping that you will be-
lieve in il all at once. But, certainly, a
good, wise, earnest piece in prose from
YOU would please me better than the
musicallest verses could.
Year: 1872

Did il ever occur to any of our readers


what refining and polishing influence
the society Of woman gives to man
The association with intelligent and ed
ucated women is ever observable in the
man. The common cOarseness of many;
the bashful awkwardness of others; the
general tendency of man to satisfy his
passions-are all toned down and oblit-
Grated, when they are continually
brought into the society of women. The
gentle, kind and insinuating way good
woman's influence is thrown about the
rude and reckless man, is always OBJ
servable. She seems TO reach into his
heart with fingers that very soon weed
out every uneouth and unseemly plant.
She does this, apparently, without an
effort; she gives to man grace, fiuency
in conversation, gentleness of manner,
complete ease in society and love OF
the arts, sciences and beauties of nature;
she throws about his experience an
atmosphere of love, confidence, hope,
trust, honor, fidelity and virtuei The
rough distractions to be met with upon
the exterior of his character are very
soon cut away and the scars healed up
from sight. The process of change from
a vicious, lonely life, to one of female
association and refinement, is often slow
and tedious; but the metamorphic
change is sure to take place under the
love, Judgment and guidance of true
woman. If there is anything in a man
that may be called metal, the beneficial
influence of wOman's association will
burnish it to such n brightness that its
kind and quality can soon be deter
mined.


Some coarse and british men scott at
the beneficial influence of woman, but
most all sooner or later are led to feel its
power. The man who can never feel
this reclaiming, purifying power, and
has no faith in wOman's ennObling, ele-
waiting influence, is possessed of u heart
poor indeed. We do not wish his
society-we know our business relations
with him cannot be pleasant and COM
paniOnable. The low, vicious habits of
life are his, as he has no incentive to be
otherwise, or even wish to elevate his
chaTacter.-W Willamette FtUn1cr,
Year: 1872

CANNING TOMATOES the Syracuse


Union we find the following: ''The most
thorough and reliable mode of canning
tomatoes is as follows: They are Just
sufficiently steamed, not cooked, to scald
or loosen the skin, and are then poured
upon tables and the skin removed, care
being taken to preserve the tomato in as
solid a state as possible. After being
peeled, they are placed in large pans
with small bottoms in which holes are
perforated, so rs to strain off the LIQUID
that emanates from them. From these
pans they are carefully placed by hand
into cans, which are filled as sOlidly as
possible, in other words, all are put
through the usual process and hermet-
ieally sealed. The cans, when opened
for use, present the tomato, not only
like the natural vegetable in taste and
color, but also in appearance; when thus
sealed, they are warranted to keep in any
and when opened, will taste as
naturally as when first plucked from the
vine -
Year: 1872

DISTURBANCE IN THE SUN.-FamiI-
lar as we all are with the great luminary
of the solar system, astronomers at this
particular epoch were never so vfvidly
excited in regard to its physical eharac-
ter. Since the invention of the spectre
scope, they have found that we have
been profoundly Ignorant in a branch of
science considered quite firmly estab-
lished. Within the past few months
observers have witnessed gigantic dis
plays of force in the metallic lustre of
the SUMS atmosphere, far more wonder
ful than any phenomena heretofore seen
or suspected in far off celestial regions.


There are frequent burstings or expIo-
sions on the surface of the sun, appar-
emily, which rend 4 path through its
shining envelope ut the rate of seventy
thousand miles in a single minute.
Electricity is slow coach in comparison.