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Year: 1870

To those teachers who assert that pu-
pills can safely study from three to five
hours at home, even rising early in the
morning to accomplish very difficult
tasks, we commend the following ex-
tract from the pen of Prof. Haven:


The law of life is most frequently
violated by the students, Is the demand
for timely and sufficient sleep. The
mind uses up the machinery of the
body when awake in proportion to the
rapidity and energy of its workings,
and the reservoir is filled up again IN
sleep. Henry Kirk White shortened
his life not with q dagger or opium, but


by an alarm-clock. He did not retire
to rest when ne should, and obeyed the
summons of his villainous clock when


he should have slept. He died 1905.
aged q. Probably he might have been


alive to-day. "But I can sit up all


night" says the youthful student,


"even after hearty supper, and feel


no bad effects. rally again in twen-


ty-four hours."' Ofcourse you do. He
would be feeble youngster who could


not endure dissipation for time. This
is the advantage of youth and good
constitution. If you must expose your


self in this way for sufficiently worthy


motive, do it like man, and bear 1t.


Oyer-punctilious men, who live accord
ing to the timepiece and balances, are
lot the highest type of men. But the
everlasting facts remain, that nature
will enforce her laws. If you deprive
yourselfof timely and sufficient sleep,
prepare to pay the penalty when the
day of reckoning comes. Come it will.
The stories about Wesley, Rrougham,
Napoleon, and others, who slept only
four or six hours in the twenty four,


have done much harm. They are gem


orally not true, for these sleepers al
most invariably take many maps in
| the daytime. If not, they are exceed
| iIigly regular in their habits, and lose
no time i'm wakefulness in bed. 1t il
wise to take regular sleep enough to
keep the nervous system steady and
| strong.


Almost as injurious Us late hours at


night, is the practice of rising too early


in the morning, The test alarln-clock


j. sunlight, The eyes should not be
wearied by artificial light in the morn
ing. If they must bear this exposure,
let it be just previous to the repose oi
the night.
Year: 1870

4 man, in crossing a London street
the other day; met woman and push
ed hy her so hardly as to knock her
over. The police took him before the
municipal court, where he was fined
SI5. His defense was that he could
not move out of the way to accommo-
date every person who met him."
Year: 1870

The Italians have a legend about the
bite of this spider producing an irresis-
tible desire to dance. This may all be
very pretty as romance, but the effect
of the fangs of the tarantula found in


many portions of Texas tends more to-
ward the dance of death than anything
terpsichorean. One of our contempo-
raries in that State describes this ven
onlous terror as huge, brown, hairy
spider of the genus mygale, living in
holes in the ground lined with silk, and
with or without a trap door, and
which spins no web, but captures its
prey by running it down or leaping up
on it. The venomous, offensive appa-
ratus of this spider consists of pair OF
claws with poisoned glands attached,


which secrete the venom and inJects 1t
I'M the wound. The bite of the Texas
tarantula is not always fatal, however,
but that of the species found in Costa
Rica, where the ground is riddled with
their burrows, is very often, and when
they bite q horse or COW just above the
hoOf, that portion of the foot slOughs
of A solution of sal ammonia (harts-
horn is said to be q remedy. An army
of these spiders crossing the road will
leave an appearance in the road as If a
large rope had been dragged across it,
while their black, hairy ugliness, as
seen with the naked eye or under a
microscope, is frightful in the extreme.
Year: 1870

OTTAWA, March 3O.-A resolution
of inquiry into the landing of a small
pox patient from the steamer City of
Brussels, was adopted by the Pariia-
meut


Tho report of the shooting Of q per
son at Red river, By order Of Riell, IS
confirmed.
Year: 1870

To THE wonder of the world. Italy.
lie very seat of civilized conserva-
ism, has passed to the head IN the
reform agitation which now most at
tracts discussion and consideration.
IL has given women the right of suf
rage in all municipal elections. We
DO not expect the success from this
measure that would follow its adop-
ton in country like our own, where
the women are already fitted by edu-
cation and habit of thought for the
intelligent use of the ballot, but we
shall watch the workings of woman
suffrage in Italy with very great in
faresk.
Year: 1870

VF
- County OF Tuolumne The District Court of the Fifth
Judicial Distrct-E. l.. smith, Plaintiff, The Shaw.
Mining Company. Defendant Action brought in the
District Court of the Fifth Judicial District and the
plant filed in the said County of Tuolumne in the office of
the Clerk of said District Court The people of tho State
of California, send greeting To The Shawnut Mining
Company.


You hereby required to appear in action brought
against by the above named Plaintiff in the District
Court the Fifth Judicial District and for the County
Tuoumne, and TO the complaint filed therein, Ia
copy of which accompanies this sunmrns within ter days
exclusive of the day Of scrvce after the service Of
this summons-f served within this county; if served
of this county but within this Judicial District within
twenty days if served of said District then with
in forty days-or default will be taken against you.
The said action is brought To obtain Judgment against
The Shaw nut Mining Company, Defendant herein, for
the of twenty-five hundred aud fifty dollars with le
gal interest thereon from September d, 1869, and for
of suit and that there be included part of said
the of three 90 100 dollars paid for recording
lien and the further ofone hundred dollars Attorneys
fees also to obtain decree that plaintiff have lien upon
the aforesaid premises for the of said Judgment
and said len attach thereto the first day of March,
1867 said premises be ordered sod and the
ceeds arising thcrefrcm he applied in satisfaction of said
judgments and that plaintiff have such other and further
relief may be consistent with equity in the premises
said plaintiff alleges, that said of -, 80 the
amount due To A. f. Hector for working i'll and supern
tending said Mine from March ls 1867 to September LIST.
1869 and that said account and en assigned to this
plaintiff valuable consideration, and if you fail. to
appear and the said complaint above required
s plaintiff will taken default against you, and apply
the Court for the relief prayed for in complaint file


Given under my hand and the Seal of the District
Court OF the Fifth Judicial District. this 18th


day of December in the year of our Lord one
t.. g. thousand eight hundred and sixty mine.


X. T.. GARDINER, Clerk


BY |. j. Potter, Deputy.
December 25th, lS60-4w
Year: 1870

A CHEAP HARD SoAP.-Many house-keep
ers in the country know how difficult it is tc
obtain good article of tar-soap. The vel
low soap sold at the stores cuts soft as cheese
and rubs away as easily, and unless the
housewife buys box of soap at time, and
piles it up in stacks in the attic or some dry
place, the yearly record will show a goodly
sun paid out for soap By the bar. The fol-
lowing recipe will prove desirable article Of
economy:


Four large bars of yellow soap; two pounds
OF sal soda three ounces of borax one ounce
OF liquid ammonia. Shave the soap in thin
slices /; put into eight quarts of soft water
lrain water is best.) When the soap is near.
ly dissolved, add the borax and sal soda stir
till all is melted. Pour into large tub OF
shallow pan; when nearly cool add the am
monia slowly, mixing it well. Let it stand a
dny or two, then cut into cakes or bars, and
dry in warm place. No better soap can be
made to wash white clothes, calicoes and fan
nels and it is excellent for all household
purposes. 1t costs but three cents per pound
and is made in less than half an hour This
recipe has been sod for five dollars and will
be of service to every family.-HearM ana
Home.
Year: 1870

How TO UTILIzE SMurrED Wharf.-The
Willamette Fdrmer says that smutted wheat
can be made into good and wholesome flour
by adding one quart of finely pulverized air.
Stacked lime to each eight bushels of grain
and thoroughly mixing it before it passes
through the cleaning apparatus of the grist
mill previous to grinding. The lime seems to
cut the smut which adheres to the fuzzy end o
the wheat and is blown out with other dust and
dirt. If this is fact, it is new to us, and is
we'll worth the attention of the farming com
munity everywhere.
Year: 1870

ana consumption.


Probably never before in the whole history Of
medicine, has anything won so widely and so deeply
upon the confidence of mankind, as this excellent
remedy for pulmonary complaints. Through long
series of years, and among most of the races of
men 1t has risen higher and higher IN their estma-
tion as it has become better known. Its uniform
character and power to cure the various affections
of the lungs and throat, have made it known re-
liable protector against them. While adapted to
mi1er forms Of disease and to young children, it is
at the same time the most efectual remedy that
be given for incipient consumption and the dam
gerous affections of the throat and lungs. As pro-
vision against sudden attacks of Group, it should
be kept on hand in every family, and indeed as all
are sometimes subject to colds and coughs, all
should be provided with this antidote for them.


Although settled Consumption is thought in
curabe, still great numbers of cases where the dis
ease seemed settled, have been completely cured,
and the patient restored to sound health by the
Cherry PectOrdI. So complete is its mastery
over the disorders of the Lungs and Throat, that
the most obstinate of them yield to it. When moth
ing else could reach them under the Cherry Pee
tOral they subside and disappear.


Singers and Public Speakers find great pro-
lection from IT.


asthma is always relieved and often wholly
cured by it.


Bronchitis is generally cured by taking the
Cherry PectOrai in small and frequent doses.


So generally are its virtues known that we need
not publish the certificates of them here, do
than the public that its qualities are fully
maintained.
Year: 1870

A Virginia paper believes that the new
emigration movement South, by the negroes,
will in q few years empty that State Of the
race, and it confesses that Sambo has been
among the whites so long that they will be
sorry to part with him.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy. and eilectual
for preserving the
hair. FADED or gray
hair is soon restored
to ats original color
acith the gloss and
freshness of youth.
Thin hair Is thick
Year: 1870

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keepit clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those dcleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious TO the hair, the Nigor can
only benefit but not harm it. IT wanted
merely for q
Year: 1870

Let all bashful people, and there
are great many of them, take
comfort and consolation from the
remarks of writer touching their
class.


We seldom see genuine bashful
man who is not the soul of honor.
Though such blush and stammer,
and appear awkward, shrug their
shoulders, and are unable to throw
out with ease the thoughts to which
they would give expression, yet
commend us to bashful men for real
friends.


There are fine touches on their
character, that time will mellow and
bring out; perceptions as delicate
as the faintest tint of the unfolded
rose, and their thoughts are none
the less refined and beautiful that
they do not flow with the impetuos-
ity of the shallow streamlet.


1t is wop,.er that such men are
not more a. p,ecieted; that young
womel, with really good hearts and
cultivated intellects, will regard the
gallant Sir Mustachio Brainless
with smiles and attentions, because
he can fold a shawl gracefully, and
has dandy countenance with Par
isian elegance, while they will
scarcely condescend to look upon
the worthier man, who feels for them
reverence so great that his very
glance is a worship.


The man who is bashful in the
presence of women is their defender,
when the loose tongue of the bold
slanderer would defame them; it is
not he who boasts of his conquests,
or dares talk glibly of failings that
exist only in his imagination; his
cheek will flush with resentment,
his eyes flash with anger to hear the
name of woman coupled with an
oath; and yet he who would die to
defend them, is the least honored by
the majority of the sex,


Ladies, a word in your ear. Have
you lovers? Would you possess a
worthy husband? Choose, then, the
man whose delicacy of department,
whose sense of your worth leads
him to stand alOof, while others,
with less modesty and no feeling,
crowd around you. If he bushes, if
he stam.ners even, at your approach;
consider these things so many signs
of his opinion Of your sex.


If he is retiring and modest, let a
thousand fortunes weigh him down
in balance; for depend upon it,
with him your life will be happier,
even with comparative poverty, than
with many that are surrounded by
the splendor ofpalaces..
Year: 1870

srhite, but dirty brown is neither


here nor there. From a slovenly,


smoking, snuff taking, beer-drinking


parson, NAV the church be delivered.


Some that meet with may, perhaps,


have very good manners, but they


did not happen to have them about


them at the time; like the Dutch


captain with his anchors, they had


left them at home; this should never
be the case, for, if there be we'll


behaved man in the parish, it should


be the minister. A worn coat is no
discredit, but the poorest may be
neat, and men should be scholars,
rather than teachers, till they are so.


You cannot judge horse by his
harness: but modest, gentlemanly
appearance, in which the dress is
just such as nobody could make a
remark upon, seems to me to be the
right sort of thing. This little bit
of mind is meant to warn you young
striplings who have just started in
the ministry; and if any of you get
cross over it, 1 shall tell you that
sore horses cannot bear to be combed
and again, 'those whom the cap fits
must wear it." John Ploughman,
you will say, had better mend his
own smock, and let the parson alone;
but l take leave to look about me
and speak my mind, for a cat may
look at king, and fool may give
wise men good advice. If l speak too
plainly, please remember that an
old dog cannot alter his way of
barking, and he who has long been
used to plough straight furrow, is
ve.y apt to speak in the same
straightforward manner.
Year: 1870

Every man should be sober some
times. once knew one so unfortu
nate rs to be sober all the time, and
yet an honest man. We have known
men that never smiled, or seldom
whose faces were rigid as an iror
mask, and yet they were kind, simple
and really reliable.


But such are exceptional cases
Uniform sobriety is presumptively
very much against a man. He who
giveth no play to the gentler feel
ings has something the matter with
him that should be looked into be
fore we trust him.


Mirth itself is not always honest
But it tends to openness. Mirth has
better stuff in it to make a man OF
than sobriety has. 1t, too, is used
sometimes as a mask for hypocrisy
but not half so often as sobriety is.
Only consider how many men, quite
empty and worthless, inwardly nei-
ther rich nor fearful, are kept ago
ing by the mere trick of gravity
When some men come to you il
is like sunshine. Everything seems
to take new life, and shines. Other
men bring night with them. The
chill shadow of their sobriety falls
upon every innocent gayety, and
your feelings, like birds at evening
stop singing, and go to their roost.


Away with these fellows who &C
bowling through life-all the while
passing for birds of paradise.


He that cannot laugh and be gay
should look we'll to himself. HI
should fast and pray until his face
breaks forth into light.
Year: 1870

The Journal and Messenger tells
us of a theological student who sent
the following as his contribution to
a festival of the choir of the New
port Baptist church:


What is q slur? Almost any re-
mark one singer makes about an
other.


What is rest? Going out of the
choir for refreshment during sermon
time.


What is singing with an under
standing? Marking time on the
floor with your foot.


What is symphony? Flirting
with the soprano singer behind the
organ.


What is staccatO movement:
Leaving the choir in a huff when
one is dissatisfied with the organist.


What is a swell? A professor OF
music, who pretends to know all
about the science, while he cannot
conceal his Ignorance.


What is a turn? When one singer
is discharged to make room for an
other.


How do you produce a discordi
BY praising ohe lady's singing at the
expense of rival who overhears
you.


What is pause? When the or
gan boy gets asleep when the choir
is ready to sing.


What is q flat? A singer who sup
poses himself or herself indispens
able to the success of the choir.


How to secure quartette. Get
two good looking unmarried gentle
men for basso and tenor, and there
will be no trouble in securing so
prano and alto.
Year: 1870

If man should tell us that a
healthy child could put his system
under the influence of a powerful


narcotic every day, without perma-
nent injury, we should tell him that
he didn't know much-dbOut that.
We never saw so many boys smok-
ing along the streets as now. The
practice will reduce the final stature
of the boy who begins at fourteen
at least half an inch. 1t will dimin-
ish his physical force in that proper
tion, and mental force still more.
The boy that smokes can bear trouble
better. He can lose his place in a
store with less grief. 1t worries
him less to get to the foot ofhis class.
Tobacco is leather,jacket that
shields his hide from the lash of
adversely. We doubt if there is a
business man in Boston so green
that he would take boy that smokes
when he could as well have as good
a boy who does not. Tobacco is a
source OF daily expense, a motive
for theft till a boy comes to mans
pay. 1t wastes his blood, for though
the parotid glands save the kidneys
some work, yet he that makes an
urethra ofhis mouth, must lose from
his blood much that is needed for
digestion, whereas the kidneys do
their own work better, and, in health,
rob the blood of nothing useful.
Man is the most precious crop the
Yankee raises, and just now it is
scant in quantity. Let it not be in
ferior in staple also.-Boston Ners.
Year: 1870

The King of Prussia has sent
five thousand thalers to the relief OF
the inhabitants of Strasbourg.


A Boston dry goods firm has a
lady customer whose bill of goods
purchased for her personal wear dur
ing the nine months ending July 80,
footed up over $4,000.


The first church organ in Boston
was put into Kings Chaple in I713,
but so great was the prejudice
against it that for seven months
it stood mpacked in the vestibule
of the church. When it was put up,
and its sounds were heard, it met
with favor. 1t was related that one
old lady expressed her opinion of il
by saying: It's pretty box OF
whistles, but an awful plaything for
the Sabbath"


Recently in Berlin, six hundred
and fifty couples appeard one sun
day to he married in church with
out previous publication of their
banns, in consequence of the rapid
mobilization of the army. How
many of these newly made wives
may not be to day widows?


A backward spring" is produced
by presenting q red-hot poker TO 8
mans nose.
Year: 1870

The leaves are dropping, dropping,
And l watch them as they go;
Now whirling, floating, stopping.
With look of noiseiess woe.
Yes, watch them in their falling.
As they tremble from the stem,
With a stiffness so appalling
And my heart goes down with them!
Yes, see them floating round me


Mid the beating of the rain,
Like the hopes that still have bound me


To the fading past again.
They are floating through the stiffness,


They are given to the storm
And they tremble of like phantoms
OF joy that has no form.
But the proud tree stands up prouder,


While its branches east their Leaves
And the cold wind whispers londer,


Like sobbing breath that grieves;
A heart that's long in breaking,


As single flower may cling,
All withered, shorn, and quaking,


On the naked stalk till spring.
Then Thought" That tree is human.


And its boughs are human too;
For while the leaves were wealthy


With kindling sap and dew
With the sun shot golden lances


Through all its billowy green,
And the birds poured love and music


Where the slanting rays had been
81 f~a
Like wine drops from the ground,
Till it sparkled through the foliage,


As faith fills the profound
OF souls that live together


In kindred trust and love,
Till their union seems immortal


As the burning stars above.
But the very dews of summer


Had left their own decay;
And Change, ruthless vampire,


That steals the soul away,
Came with the mellow autumn,


And touched those leaves with blight;
Then the forest came stealing earthward,
Like ghost upon the night.
When the frost had done its death work,
When the golden leaves were scar.
And the brown crept dimly ON them
In the old age of the year.
All. the roots withdrew their nurture,
While the tree stood firm and high;
When the leaves had lost their greenHess,
10, it cast them Off to die!''
Then thought, "Those leaves were weary
And thrilled with human pain,
As they fell so cold and dreary


Beneath the beating rain.
While the boughs waved slow and grimly,
And shook them all away
Those leaves that fell so dimly,


Like shadows on the day
Then my soul went sadly after,


As they quivered from my sight,
And it followed faster, faster,


As my hopes had taken flight.
SO l watched the pale leaves flutter,
Flutter downward from the stem;
And I said, The cold earth under
Is enough for me and them.
Year: 1870

We should like to have little of the
amusing insipidity, the admirable dull
ness. of real life depicted in fiction. We
would rather know what took place in a
young lady's mind on a shopping excur-
sion than be told of the transactions of
her soul after her ruin; and the chances
are, we hope, that most novelists of her
sex could treat her better in the former
attitude. To our simple taste there is
sufficient tragedy in the idea of her get
ting home a new dress spoiled by the
dressmalSer; and if you must have in
trigue, what black arts are not employed
to avoid the acquaintance of certain
people, what wiles to achieve the friend
Ship Of others Besides, there is in life
ever so much love-making of perfectly
harmless kind, and even amiable flirta-
ton, that we ask nothing worse. What
more pathetic figure need one look up
on than that of young girl who some
how expects a call or bow. or an invi-
tation to dance which she does not get


These things carefully studied and
lightly done, are really much more de-
sirable in fiction than clouds and crimes
and sins and shames of whatever tint
Atlantic IhoRkEk foS- '9isse.
Year: 1870

heroically passed through this exit, and


their spirits have been borne by conveys


of angels, on silken pinions, up-up to
the home of their final rest. And may
we not. in conclusion, invoke the hal
lowed influence of their sacred memories
to awaken within US an increased devo-
ton to the cause for which they gave
up their lives, and to inspire US with the
high resolve and the true courage to dis
charge every known duty of life, that we
may be in readiness for that solemn call
when the drum-beat of death shall sum-
mon us all to judgment.