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Year: 1873




There is one Of the most beautiful
specimens of petrifaction lying on the
top of one Of the high points Of bluff
near the Big Sioux river, about eight
miles northwest Of here, and about half
a mile east of Hardin's place on that
stream. 1t is the body of large tree,
at least two feet and a half in diam
eter, and not less than twenty
feet in length, with the bark
peeled off in places, exposing
the wood. There are two or three
short limbs projecting out from
the body, and many fragments Of the
bark lying around it all like the body,
composed Of the solidest blue lime
stone. The granting Of the wood and
bark are Just as perfect as the day,
probably centuries ago, when 1t stood
full of life and vigor beating back. the
iicrcest storms Of winter. The most
remarkable thing connected with 1t is
the fact of its being on the top of the
highest point in that neighborhood, and
not the least particle Of sign OF a
stump of any kind. either petrified OF
the hole where one may have rotted
anywhere to be found on the whole TOP
of the bluff. 1t surely must have float.
ed there in some great deluge ages ago
1t would well repay the trouble Of a
visit to it, as such perfect specimens
are extremely rare.
Year: 1873

issue, that these men and their opin-
ions are entitled to respect and con-
sideration. While we look to the
good of the party, we should not for
get that the interests of the country
and the people in general are para
mount to those of any mere party or
ganization.


As an individual, believing that
the Republican party and its princi-
Piles are right, that its masses are
honest, that it has not I" outlived its
day of usefulness" and that through
it, better than through any new ma.
tional or State organization, the best
interests Of the country may be pro-
tected, we shall stand by it and work
faithfully for its present and ultimate
success. Claiming our right as cit
izen and member of the party to onr'
own individual opinions as to the
course best calculated to secure those
ctiuo, we sHdii aCt III aCCoiuauCc WIN
those opinions as an independent
man, not willing to surrender any
principle, but willing to admit that
we may be wrong and others right.
Mere questions of policy the Conven-
ton Of next Saturday shall decide for
Us as a member of the party and as q
partizan journalist. If this spirit OF
concession and forbearance rules in
our Convention its action will be-
harmonious, the party will move
harnoniously in one direction, ann
success will "perch upon its ban
uers" in October
Year: 1873

nettled, or it may be made to mean
i great deal more, and wipe out all
Inference between the two old par
Hes. Whether this or that is meant
upon how you take it, or
low it is to be used. The platform


Hould have served the present pur-
Tose as we'll without this plank, but
cDuld not have been used SO effective
n against our party next year.
Year: 1873

The Peila Blade awaits the action OF
tue Republican Convention. 1t does
not endorse the Peoples ticket furth-
er than to say the nominees are good
men, and that their election is a fore
gone conclusion if the conventions ytt
to be held do not nominate.
Year: 1873

The Free Vest monthly paper published
in London devoted TO the spreading Of information
about the United States, Australia EevZealand and
Brazil for the benefit OF those who wish TO engrate.
BY far the greater part of its abundant reading matter
however, relates this country, and the facts which t
presents seem to have been integenty selected and
carefully arranged II will doubtless prove OF great
practical class for whom it intended, giving
with the experiences or emgrant3 and Travellers great
variety OF details touching rOues cost OF travel rates
vi wages and the local demand for different kinds Of
labor
Year: 1873

Political y, IT is an Independent 4epublcan
journal, the friend OF al genuine Reform
movsments and the earnest advocate OF tDo
rights OF the people as against monopolies OF
all descriptions
Year: 1873

ness of my clasp, and at my face, which
I felt was still white and scared.
made little motion towards my de-
iverer, but could not speak a word.
He said few words and gave his card
to my aunt, who accepted it and the
situation as graciouslyas she does every
thing, and looked rather anxious to get
me safely to the carriage and home, and
IN five minutes we were driving away.


What did lie do for you, darling?"


go he was so strong and so good to
me, and he made him eat the whole
turnip, auntie I"


"The whole turnip! You are ill,
Polly. Come, we won't talk or think of
it now"


And she quieted and petted me evi-
IDENTIFY thinking that had lost my wits,
until / was lying on the sofa in her
drawing-room, able to tell her all.


Well, that was my first and only at
tempt at taking care of myself" I
never want to do so again. Tom takes
care of me know, OF course, you under
stand that it was he who came to my
deliverance. Aunt wrote to him that
very evening, and my father came down
from London next morning on purpose
to thank him then Tom called, and so,
and so, the end of my story, or, perhaps,
I should say the real beginning of it, is
that I am his wife now.


At first I did think it pity that my
husband should be only "Tom, when I
had always intended to marry at least
three sylables, as am merely "Polly ;"
but now I think Tom the most charm
ing name in the world, and would not
change it.


1 have only one thing more to tell.
The old lady with the disagreeable bon
net is Toms aunt. am writing this in
her house. which is just what I had
fancied it, and she is the dearest and
kindest old woman in England.


"Una has found her lion," she says.


I don't think 1 am much like Una
but Tom is darling old lion, with his
twany beard and splendid strength, on
which his wife loves to lean. I hear
him calling "Polly !" from the lawn,
where he lies, laizily putting his cigar
under the cedar and, as he can growl
on occasion, if keep his majesty wait
ing too long, had better go.


''Coming, Lion. ."-Lond01a Magazine.
Year: 1873

Mr.. President and Gentlemen Many
years ago-more years than I now quite
like to reckon-I was visiting Sorrento,
in the bay of Naples, with my father,


mother and brothers, as a boy of thir.
teen. At that time of my life, as at this
time of my life, was an Unsuitable rea-
der of that order of books for which
heavy people have invented the name of
light literature. In due course of time
I exhausted the modest resources of the
library which we had brought to Naples,
ard found mS self faced with the neces-
sity of borrowing from the resources of
our fellow-travelers, summer residents
of Sorrento like ourselves. Among
them was a certain countryman of yours,
very tall, very lean, very silent and very
melancholy. In what circumstances
the melancholy of this gentleman took
its rise am not able to tell you. The
ladies thought it was a disappointment
in love. The men attributed it to n
cau.e infinitely more serious than that
i mean indigestion. Whether he suf-
stomach, I took, I remember, boys
unreasonable fancy to him, passing over
dozens of other people, apparently far





tured to look up to the tall American
it was a long way to look up-and said
in a trembling voice, "Can you lend me
a book to read?" He looked down to
met was a long way to look down
and said, 81 have got but two amusing
books. One of them is the Sorrows of
Werter,' and the other is the 'Senti-
mental Journey Laughter You are
heartily welcome to both these books.
Take them home, and when you have
read them bring them back and dine
with me, and tell me what you think Of
them" I took them home and read
them, and told him what thought of
them more freely than would now.
And last, not least, I had an excellent
dinner, crowned with cake, which was
an epoch in my youthful existence, and
which, may say, lives gratefully and
greasily i'll my memory to the present
day. [Applause.l


Now Mr.. President and gentlemen,
venture to tell you this for one reason.
1t marks nay first experience of Ameri-
can kindness and American hospitality.
In many different ways this early ex-
preston of your kindness and hospitali-
ty has mingled in my after life, now in
England, now on the continent, until it
has eliminated in this magnificent re-
ception from the Lotos club. / am not
only gratihed but touched by the man.
ner in which you have greeted me and |
the cordiality with which the remarks |
of your president have been received. I
venture to say that see in this recep- |
ton something more than a recognition |
of my humble labors only. l think l
see recognition of English literature,
liberal, spontaneous and sincere, which,
I think, is an honor to you as we'll as an
honor TO me. In the name of English |
literature, I beg gratefully to thank
you. On my own behalf, l beg to assure
you that shall not soon forget the en- |
couragement you have offered to me at
the outset of my career in America.
Permit me to remind you that am now |
speaking the language of sincere graft
tude, and that is essentially a language |
Of very few wordg
Year: 1873

PHENOMENA OF THE BRAN.-One of
the most inconceivable things in the
nature of the brain is that, although
the organ of sensation, it should itself
be insensible To cut the brain gives
no pain yet in the brain resides the
power of feeling pain in any part of
the body. If the nerve which leads to
it from the injured part be divided, we
become instantly unconcious of suffer
ing. It is only by communication with
the brain that any kind of sensation is
produced yet the organ is itself insen-
sible But there is circumstance more
wonderful still. A certain portion of
the brain itself may be removed with
out destroying life. The animal lives
and performs all those functions which
arenecessary to simple vitality, but it has
no longer amind. Itcannot think or feel.
1t requires that the food should be
pushed into it's stomach; once there it
is digested, and the animal will even
thrive and grow fat. We infer, there
fore, that pant of the brain is simply
intended for the exercise of the intel
lectual faculties, whether of the lower
degree, called instinct, or of that ex-
allied kind bestowed on man, called
reason.
Year: 1873

Take strong rope, and fasten it to q
beam overhead; to the lower end of the
rope attached to stick three feet long,
convenient to grasp with the hands.
The rope should be fastened to the
centre of the stick, which should hang
six or eight inches above the head.
Let person grasp with the hands two
or three feet apart, and swing very
moderately at first, perhaps only bear
the weight, if very weak, and gradu-
ally increase, as the muscles gain
strength from the exercise, until it may
be used from three to five times daily.
The connection with the arms with the
body, with the exception of the clavicle
with the breast bone, being muscular
attachment to the ribs, the effect of
this exercise is to elevate the ribs and
enlarge the chest; and as nature allows
no vacuum, the lungs expand to fill the
cavity, increasing the volume of air, the
natural purifier of blood, and prevent
ing the congestion or deposit of tuber-
culous matter. We have prescribed
the above for all cases of hemorrhage of
the lungs, and threatened consumption,
for thirty-five years, and have been
able to increase the measure of the
chest from two to four inches within
a few months, and with good results
But especially as a preventative we
would recommend this exercise. Let
those who love to live cultivate we'll
formed capacious chest. The student,
the merchant, the sedentary, the young
of both sexes, aye, all. should have
swing on which to stretch themselves
daily. We are certain that if this were
to be practiced by the rising generation
in dress allowing free and full devel-
opment of the body, many would be
saved from consumption. Independ-
emily of its beneficial results, the ex-
ercise is an exceedingly pleasant one,
and as the apparatus costs very little,
there need be no difficulty about any
one enjoying it who wishes to- Dio
Le1Ofe.


The best substitute for character
0haab
Year: 1873

The English railW ays furnish their
officers with Frodsham's chronometers,
locked up in wooden or tin case, and
which are the property of the railway,
secured by deposit for its safe return.
The chronometer is delivered at the end
of each journey by its custodian, who
does not hold the key of its box, TO tho
time-keeper, who is responsible for the
time.
Year: 1873

res' mbed a skeleton waiting for coroner,
but lately it has revived, and several able
md valuable articles have appeared in it.
For the coming year, trust more lively
interest will he taken in the matter, and that
every teacher will contribute.


again congratulate you, and thank you
for tn faithful earnest and efficient manner
in which you have performed your several
duties. have been enabled to secure tho
attendance of Charles II Allen, Professor Of
Natural Science in our Normal School, as
your instructor. and feel assured that we will
receive from him valuable instruction.


The work of the convention is now in
Your hands
Year: 1873




You rise in the morning, and while dress
ing take up phal containing tonic, of
which little has been p:escibed for you;
but, after the first few drops have been count
ed, succeeding drops run down the side of the
phia!-all because the lip is shaped without
regard to the requirement. Yet millions of
such phials are annually made by glass-mak-
ers, and sent out by thousands of druggists;
so small being the amount of sense brought
to bear on business. Now, turning to the
looking-glass, you find that, if not of the best
make, it fails to preserve the attitude in which
you put T.; or, if wnat is called "box'' look
ing-glass, you see that the maintenance of its
position is insured by an expensive appliance
that would have been superhuous had little
reason been used. Were the adjustment such
that the centre of gravity of the glass came
in the line joining the points of support
(which would be quite as easy an adjust
ment), tie glass would remain steady in
whatever attitude you gave it. Yet year af-
tee year tens of thousands Of looking glasses
are made without regard to SO simple a need
Presently you 60 down to breakfast, and.
taking some Harvey or other sauce with your
fish, find the bottle has q defect like that
which you found in the phial it is sticky from
the drops which trickle down, and occasional
ly stain the table cloth. Here are other groups
Of traders, similarly so economical of thought
that they do nothing to rectify this obvious
Inconvenience. Having breakfasted, you take
up the paper, and, before sitting down, wish
to put some coal on the fire. But the lump
you seize with the toLgs slips out of them,
and, ii large, you make several attempts be-
fore you succeed in lifting it-all because the
ends Of the tongs are smooth. Makers and
venders of fire-irons go on, generation after
generation, without meeting this evil by the
Simple remedy of giving TO these smooth ends
some projecting points, or even rougheniug
them by few burrs with chisel. Having
at length grasped the limp and put it ON the
fire, you begin tn read but, before you have
got through the first column, you are remind
ed, by the changes Of position which your
sensations prompt, that men still tail to make
easy chalrs.-Herbert Spencer, in Popular
Science MOnthlu for JulU,
Year: 1873

The imperial postage stamps are still used
by France; but they are to be changed when
the people have concluded, if they ever
should conclude, what form of government
they want. 1t certainly would not be wise to
alter them just at present.
Year: 1873

New York will supply Philadelphia with
the news of the day /; but it is consolng to the
Philadelphia papers that the New York
journals cannot hold candle to them in the
way of centennial articles and pure patriot
ism.
Year: 1873

CURE Docs OF KILLING SHEEP.-If Won
have good dog that kills or runs sheen and
don't want to shoot him, build pen sixteen
feet square, and run pole across the ton.
and then pick the largest and oldest buck Of
the flock, put him in the pen, get yourr dos
with collar around his neck, and rome to
draw up over the middle of the pole. so that
the dog will have his fore feet swinging off of
the ground few inches. Get out Of the non :
and let the buck give him several good butts
and then turn him loose. This is sure cure.
! tried it on my fathers dogs when I was a
BOY; never knew them to even cross field
Wnere the sheep were grazing. Try it.-Cor.
Year: 1873

A young gentleman who has been trying
the effect of nostrum warranted to pro-
duce whiskers and mustache on the smooth
est face in six weeks" and obtained by him
through the mail from some advertising
quack at distance, has reason to be dissat-
isfed with the result. Society will not brook
a piebald man, and his temporary retirement
from the circles erstwhile ornamented by him
is imperative.
Year: 1873

A gentleman who has fancy for bees hap
pened casually to say, a few evenings ago,
that he is constructing an apiary in his gar
den. What was his astonishment, next day,
on receiving from a lady who had not quite
understood him, a marmoset monkey and a
copy OF .'Darwin's Descent OF Man." as ner
contribution to his new experiment.
Year: 1873

q WHAT DID TITS no longer the question
since the introduction of Centaur Liniment.
When we meet an old friend who has been
shelved with rheumatism, or see person man
gled underneath a rail car, and restored TO
shape and eomeliness, we now know that it Is
the Centaur Liniment that does the work. NO
other article did perform such miracles Iheis
is no swelling it will not soften, no pain it VII
not soothe. or lameness it will not cure.
Year: 1873

William P. Frye, member OF Congress from
Maine, has been down in Virginia; he had
intended to go farther, but the atmosphere of
social life was not invigorating. ''The
South" he says, and in this he is corroborated
by all who know it, ''is far behind in the COM
forts, not to say luxuries of life; the shftless-
ness of antebellum days remains, and there Is
a deep prejudice against Northerners." He
found Maine man who had lived twelve
years in Petersburg, by the side of native
Virginian in the same social sphere, so far as
pecuniary means and intelligence were con-
cerned, but without the slightest social recog-
milton on the part of the Petersburg man and
his family. A daughter of the Virginian by
mistake went into the house of the Yankee,
one day, and WIS compelled by her mother to
remove and wash her olothiug. All this
would be simply ridiculous were 1t not for the
fact that it prevents, and so long as such feel


ing continues will prevent, the restoration of
the South to a position in the country to
which it is otherwise entitled. The native
Southerners and the negroes cannot fill up
that section, cultivate it, make it prosperous,
in long time. Some few may make fortunes
out of cotton but as whole there can be no
genuine advancement, no republican commu-
mites, no general prosperity, until this absurd
notion of ignoring Northern neighbors is over
come This sentiment is more in the way of
the progress of the South than even her enor-
nous indebtedness Properly might be pur-
chased with view to that incumbrance, but
no man with any proper self-esteem will 60
into a country where there is a population
looking upon him as degraded being.
Year: 1873

One of the most encouraging evidences of
advancing gcivilization in Omaha is the interest
manifested in the public school exhibition by
the adult residents who are in the habit OF
taking their whiskey with them and "making
night of il"
Year: 1873

&c. c.. F." writes to the Baltimore Amert.
can that it would astonish the American house
painters if they could witness the manner in
which painters of Paris climb over the fronts
of these six and scven-story houses, then from
roof to door still without the use of ladder,
scaftold or any other wooden contrlvance,
either for themselves or their paint pots.
One man without assistance Of any kind, can
paint the entire front Of one of these tall
houses in two or three days. Directly opposite
our quarters six story building fronting
about eighty feet, is undergoing complete rem
ovation, and the painting Of the entire walls
has been accomplished by two youths appa-
rently not over nineteen years years of age.
They arc each provided with rope about an
inch in diameter, extending from the appcX
of the roof to the pavement on which knots,
one foot apart, are made throughout its entire
length. BY means Of all apparatus with
straps, clamps and hooks, to which is append.
ed board on which they sit, and strrups
to rest the feet in, which are strapped to
their legs, they move up and down the rope
with great rapidity and apparent ease. They
move the clamps from knot to knot and with
out changing the position of the rope are ell.
abled to paint about six feet on either side of
them. Their smaller brushes are stuck in
little loops appended 20 the seat, and the
paint pot is suspended by smaller rope, on
which it is fastened by Il spring of some kind,
and it is raised or lowered with ease as they
may desireit. Long practice has given them
great agility, and they seem to move mp and
down and pirouette and cscillate on the front
with great deal more ease than if they were
on ladders. They use more brushes for most
of their painting, nearly double the size of
those used in America, and make rapid
progress with the work. House painting in
Paris is q very extensive business, as peri.
odical renovation Of the houses is rendered
imperative by law, no one being allowed
to disfigure a neighborhood by presenting
stained and dis6gured walls. The houses
being all built of soft cream-colored sand.
stone, many Of the finer structures instead Of
being painted, are redressed by the stone
cutter, and come out after undergoing the
process of scraping and scrubbing, as if
fresh from the quarry. In alluding to the
amount Of work these lads perform in day,
it should be understood that they commence
work at six o'clock in the morning, and stop
at seven o'clock in the evening, twelve hours
being days work among the mechanics in
Paris,
Year: 1873

WAKEFULNEss FROM OyERwoRK.-A
symptom Of mental exhaustion indicative Of
very great degree of mental strain, is persist
ent wakefuncss The physiological cause of
this condition is we'll understood. During
excessive labor of the brain there is an in
creased flow of blood to the working organ,
the vessels Of the head and neck becoming
distended with blood, as is shown by the flush.


ing of the face. If this condition of disten-
sion is long continued, the vessels are apt to


lose the power of contracting when mental
activity is diminished Hence arises the i'm
possibility of fulfilling the physical conditions
Of sleep, the most important Of which is the
diminution of the flow of the vital fluid to
the brain.
Year: 1873

TIE PENALTY FOR SELLING PROPERTY on
WHICH LIENS ARE GIvEN-It is perhaps not
generally known, says the Darlington Sotth-
erner, that persons may not sell any real or
personal property on which liens are given,
without being guilty of a misdemeanor in the
eye of the law, unless due notice has been first
given to the purchaser or purchasers OF such
property that there is lien upon it. The
practice of giving liens on crops to one party
and then selling to another is so common that
we append the Acts bearing on the subject, so
that none of our readers may be in the dark


BE it enacted, &C., "That from and after the
passage of this Act any person or persons who
shall wilfully and knowingly sell and convey
any real and personal property on which any
lien or liens exist without first giving notice
of such lien or liens to the purchasers OF such
real or personal property, shall be deemed
guilty Of misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, shall be imprisoned for term not
less than ten days or more than three years,
and be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than FIVE thousand dollars, or either or
both at the discretion of the court; Irorided,
That the penalties enumerated in this Act
shall not apply to public officers in the dis
charge of their official duties"