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Year: 1872

STRANGER THAN FIcroS.-On two or three
occasions the Grass Valley Union has con
tanned editorials favorng no fences. Does
tho Union want the people of the foothill
counties to burn up, together with all they
have, every Summer? Let the editor take
= look at some fenced, ungrazcd spot, and
tell us what would be the effect if the whole
country was covered with such a growth
during the dry season. Remove every hool
w. o.H ..H. NOM Nevada county and burn it
a trespass law, and then tell us how pros
porous you would be when your little dab OF
fruit rots for want of market Destroy
all your lumber interests, all your stock
beef, butter and milk interests for the sake OF
cultivatmg one acre out of one hundred (al
you could expect 20 do without fences) and
then tell us how you like it.
Year: 1872

To CORRESPONDENTS No letter or COM
muncation can be printed in the HERArr
unless the true name of the writer is fur
nshed to us. We do not require the name
for publication, but it must be in our pos
session. 1t often becomes necessary for us
to communicate with correspondents before
publishing what they have written, and this
makes it imperative that we have the name
and post-ollicc address. We wish news
from every portion Of the county, but the
above requirements must be strictly complied
with before any attention will hereafter be
are now awaiting a compliance with this
rule.
Year: 1872

A NEGRO at Rochester, n. Y, violated
the person of little girl, on the I'd inst.
and was put in jail A great mob assembled
to take him out and hang him, the police
and military were called out; the military
fred into the crowd, killing two innocent
men and a boy, and dangerously wounding
others. The people are quiet, but still
threaten vengeance against the negeo and
the officer who gave the order TO fire, and
the trouble may be renewed at any moment
Year: 1872

WE publish an Interesting article, written
for the HERALD, on the subject of ancient
and modern mping. to-day. which will repay
the reader for careful perusI. The author
is miner of forty-five years experience and
has yisited aud worked in most of the noted
mines of tie world 1t is quite ieugthy, but
this should deter no one from reading it,
Year: 1872

We find in late number of Halls
Guide to Health the following impor-
tant observation on vaccination, which
will be found of interest just now:


l. InfantiIe vaccination is an almost
perfect safeguard until the fourteenth
year.


2. AT the beginning of fourteen the
system gradually looses its capability
of resistance, until about twenty-one
when many persons become almost as
liable to small p0x as if they had not
been vaccinated.


4. This liability remains in full force
until about forty-two, when the sus-
ceptibility begins to decline, and con-
tinuos for about seven years to grow
less and less, becoming extinct at
about fifty. the period when the gen.
eral revolution of the body begins to
take place, during which the system
yields to decay, or takes new lease
of life from two to three terms of
seven years each.


4. The great practical use tc be made
of these statements is, let every youth
be revaccinated on entering fourteen.
Let several attempts be made so as to
be certain of safety. AS the malady is
now liable TO prevail in cities during
the winter, special attention is invited
to the subject at this time.
Year: 1872

A FEW years ago butcher of Caen
bought calf of a cattle-jobber in the
environs. Half gallon of cider was
to clinch the bargain, and the butcher
jecosely observed, in conversation,
among other things, that he meant to
smuggle the calf into town in broad
day light, and to pass tho oUtT0t, or
customs barrier, publicly, without
paying. The cattle dealer declared
this to be impossible, and a wager
was accordingly laid between him and
the butcher, who merely made this
condition that the dealer should lend
him his dog for half an hour. He put
the dog INTO large sack, which he
threw over his shoulder, and away he
trudged to the city. On reaching the
OctYoi, he declared he had nothing to
pay, as there was only dog in the
sack, which he had just bought and
shut up, that he might not find his
way 10 his former master. The Off
GERS of the Octroi would not take this
story on trust, bnt insisted on seeing
the dog. The butcher was therefore
obliged to open his sack, and the dog
naturally availed himself of the OPP
portuuity to run away. OFF scamper-
ed the butcher after him, scolding and
swearing all the way. In a quarter
of an hour he was again at the octrOi
with q sack on his shoulder as before.
"You have given me pretty chase"
said he peevishly, walking through.
Next day he invited the officers to
partake of veal outlet, TO which.
haring won the wager he treated
them and the cattle dealer.
Year: 1872

The Missionary Record is publish
ed at Charleston, S. c., by Rev. Cain,
colored, who in late issue disoour-
ses to his fellow-citizens as follows:


To-day the colored man in this coun-
try is no better off by any acts of those
demagogues who call on them when
election time comes on, but never see
them after, till election time comes
again. We would ask those thousands
of colored voters on Johns James,
Edisto and Wadmalaw Islands, what
have your great friends done for
you since they were elected? Where
are your day schools established by
them? Where are the homesteads Sc
cured to you by any one of them
Are you not, to day, as dependent on
your own labor for living as ever
You were? There is no interest man
ifested in you but to get your votes,
and then you are forgotten by these
men. We rejoice that there is a
change in the sentiments of the pco-
pie, and they are beginning to see
their own interests and work for
themselves. Too long they have been
the stepping stone on which these bad
men have climed into place and pow
er.
Year: 1872

BuHalOeS as Farm Stock.


Much interest is now felt in some
parts of the West on the subject of do
mesticating buffaloes, and the opinion
is generally entertained in stock-rais-
ing districts that an important and
permanent increase of the meat sup
ply of the country may be effected by
this means, with great profit to those
undertaking the experiment. It has
been found by those who have made
the trial that the buffalo or bison Will
fatteff under conditions fatal to or6i-
nary domestic stock, that it is worth
more in hide and flesh than the OK,
and can be trained to the performance
of any kind of labor for which oxen
are adapted. 1t is necessary, howev-
er, that calves should be obtained for
this purpose. The old buffaloes can
not be domesticated, and their flesh is
so tough as to be unfit for meat; but
the old ones are very much in the
way when the calves are to. be captur-
ed. They are kept in the center of the
droves, and in case of danger the bulls
flank the herd. To capture them it is
necessary to make through the ranks
of the fiankers, and lasso the heifers,
which is difficult and dangero OPP
Grafton, considering the fact that the
herd sometimes covers very wide
extent of territory. No .way-ahas yet
been devised of capturing the calves
that would not be likely to kill them
than to take them alive. There is rea-
son to believe that this difficulty will
be surmounted at some time, howev-
er, and it is thought by many that the
demonstrating of buffalo calves will re-
ceive such an impetus within the next
few years as to make an important
branch Of the stock-raising business
of the West.
Year: 1872

Two little kittens one stormy night,


Began to quarrel and then to fight.
One had a mouse, the other had none


And that was the way the quarrel began.
"Ill have that mouse !" said the bigger cat


"You1l have that mouse? we'll see about that"
az will have that mouse" said the elder son.


"You shant have that mouse!" said the little one
/ told you before twas stormy night


When the two little kittens began to fight;
The old woman seized her sweeping-broom,


And swept the two kittens right out of the room
The ground was covered with frost and snow,
And the two little kittens had nowhere to go;
So they laid them down on the mat at the door,


While the old woman finished sweeping the floor
Then they crept in as quiet as MICE


All wet with snow and cold as ice;
For they found it was better that stormy night


To lie down and sleep than to quarrel and fight
Year: 1872

The grog shops of Japan are neither more
nor less than tea shops. All along public
roads, at frequent distances, are planted
pleasant tea-houses. They ''tea," according
to correspondent, when they must stop by
the wayside, and in such little bits of cups
that one could drink the contents of twenty
of them and then want more. Pretty tea
girls stand by the entrance, and (their teeth
not yet blackened) with pretty ways and
courtesies SO facinating that tea even without
sugar or milk becomes agreeable. On pretty
laquered walters, the tea girls hand you tiny
cups with mouthful in them, and you squat
down on the nice clean mats, if squat you
can, and you sip and sip this mouthful of hot
tea, as if the gods nectar was going down
your throat in infinitessimal drops of micro
scopic invisibility. The keeper of Japan
tea-house picks out as pretty place for the
tea-house as she or he can get. The keeper
covets, if possible, view of, and the air of
the Bay of Yeddo, along which most of the
way here runs the Tocaido. The grand tea
house is cut up into numerous little rooms,
with paper partitions to part them running on
slides, but all removable at will, to restore
the whole to one grand room. Cakes, sweet
meats and candies are brought in with the tea
all put on the clean matted floor, (there are
no seats,) and all squat or stretch out on that
floor
Year: 1872

The end of the world is now set for next
summer, Ieste David cum Si6y1a, or rather
DIR. Cummings and Prof. Plantamour. For
while the prophetic doctors latest calculation
places the final conflagration at about this
time, the great astronomer of Geneva relates
the discovery of a comet of wonderful and
unusual size, that is rushing with immense
velocity towards our earth, to reach it on the
18th of August. Professor Plantamour has
found this comet afar off in space, pointed so
directly toward our globe that nothing can
prevent collision except the intervention of
some other heavenly body to sway the wan
derer out of its course. 1t is new comet.
and therefore more to be dreaded .han our old
friends of the same sort, which have been
picked to pieces by the spectroscope, pierced
by the telescope, and, in one Or two instances,
even robbed of portions of their luxuriant
tails. We know these to be harmless bodies
while of this giant of Professor Plantamour's
we know nothing. But there is consolation
in the thought that before the collision actu-
ally takes place our wise men will have ample
opportunity to dissect the hostile comet and
to inform us whether our fate is to be incre-
mated with burning gas, stoned to death with
meteorites, or simply to add another satellite
TO our train.
Year: 1872

From the Utica Herald.


found the cherished face of Mary Ann
wreathed in smiles, the other evening, when
l returned from my arduous daily toll. q
am engaged as standing man at a saloon. So
many candidates are treating, that the saloon
keeper hires six of us to be treated. We all
drink with every candidate who comes in,
and it makes business pretty brisk.)


Said my chosen one, "Joshua, am afraid
you do not always find me an angel in dispo-
sition."


Said /, s'that's so-hic-my dear, don't
seldom find your nangel in-in anything"
"And," she added, "you are not always
the most pleasant man in the world"
did not feel called on to reply.


"Now," said she, tread that"


She had cut an item from the columns of
some paper wherein a demented writer told
about some impossible woman who, being
troubled with bad temper, counted twenty
five every time she got provoked, and thus
became a sweet, amiable and dearly loved
ornament of the house of her delighted hus-
band. I read the article as well as the condi-
tion of my head would allow, and remarked,
''Bosh."


Mary Ann paid no attention to me, but un-
folded her plan. She said that every time
got mad 1 should count twenty-five, and
every time she got mad she would count



would pay our rent while we sat and counted
twenty-five, over and over all day long. Then
she said was always raising objections to
her plans for our mutual improvement, and /
said was not, and she said was enough to
try the patience of saint, and l said she
was too and she came for me, and told her
to count twenty-five; but she forgot all about
that, and just Tailed one in my left eye.


Then I was going to demonstrate with the
II. A1ll
and said would not but did before she
had pulled more than half my hair out. Then
she made me count twenty-five over and over
again, until was out of breath and felt real
pleasant and good-natured. So we went to
supper. Now the cat was curled UP in my
chair, but did not see it until sat down;
and l did not see it then, but was pretty sure
it was there, in fact knew it was there as well
as | wanted to, and more too. felt inclined
to rise up suddenly, but as gathered to spring
she brandished the teapot and murmured:
"Joshua, your temper is rising; count twenty
five or I'll break your head" and that cat was
drawing map of the tenth ward with her
claws around behind me, with the streets and
boundaries marked in my blood. l rose to
explain, and said, my dear,-I-" but she
caromed on my head with well-shot tea cup,
and sprinkled my hair with quart of hot
tea, and sat down and counted twenty-five;
but it killed the cat The old fellow died hard,
though. could feel him settle as his nine
lives went out one by one.


A few days practice of this rule, under the
loving instruction of Maria Ann, has enabled
me to conquer my temper completely. No
body can get me mad now; am in state of
perpetual calm, and want to see the man
that wrote that story. want to fit him for
the hands of the undertaken, and make de-
mand for mourning goods among his rela-
tives. Then l can die happy-counting
twenty-five.
Year: 1872

A goat is stronger than pig. He looks at
you, and so does the doctor. But goat has
four legs. A boy without father is a
orphan, and if he amt got mother he is
two orphan. The goat does not give SO much
milk as cow but more than an OK. l saw
an OK to the fair one day, with card tied on
his left ear, and we all went In on the family
ticket. Mother picks geese in summer. A
goat eats grass and jumps on box. Some
folks don't like goats, but as for me, give me
a mule with paint brush tail. If had to
much hair would wear wig as old captain
peters does. I will sell my goat for three
dollars and go to the circus and see the ele-
phant which is bigger than five goats.
Year: 1872

Horace Greeley notices that Victoria Wood
hull signifies her purpose of sending out five
hundred female orators to make shrill and
incOherent the coming Presidential campaign,
and the Tribune adds:


perhaps she can do it. Who knows? If
so, it will add petticoats and picturesqueness
to crusade which has hitherto been some
what bleak from the lack of those alluring
and attractive elements. The twinkle of a
No. gaiter with high heel, upon the ros-
trum would doubtless tickle the great mass
meeting-imagination, stupefed by long con-
temptation of No. IA brogans double soled;
but we don't think the discourses of the wear
ers of these bewildering boots would amount
to much. 1t is seriously to be hoped that
Mrs. W. will reconsider her alarming resolu-
ton and not wantonly flood the land with
another deluge of talking virgins. There are
surely enough now. With babble of them is
the world filled, and of most of them the
emptiness is as the emptiness of innumerable
drums. Of the other sort, so far as heard
from, it would appear that they desire to have
as little to do with Mrs. Woodruff as posi-
ble"
Year: 1872

That prosaic and coldly rational temper
with wich modern men are wont to regard
natural phenomena was in early times un-
known. We have come to regard all events
as taking place regularly in strict conformity
to law; whatever your official theories may
be, we take this view of things. But our
ancestors knew nothing about laws of nature,
nothing about physical forces, nothing about
the relations of cause and effect, nothing
about the necessary regularity of things.
There was time in the history of mankind
when these things had never been inquired
into, and when no generalizations about them
had been framed, tested or established. There
was no conception of an order of nature, and
therefore no distinct conception of SUPER
natural order of things. There was no belief
in miracles as infractiOns of natural laws, but
there was belief in the occurrence of won
derful events too mightyto have been brought
about by ordinary means. There was an un-
limited capacity for believing and fancying,
because fancy and belief had not vet been
checked and headed off in various directions
by established rules of experience. Physical
science is a very late acquisition of the human
mind, but we are already sufficiently imbued
with it to be almost completely disabled from
comprehending the thoughts of our ancestors.


How Finn cosmOgonists could have believed
the earth and heaven to be made out of a
severed egg, the upper concave shell repre-
senting heaven, the yolk being earth, and the
crystal surrounding fluid the circumambient
ocean, is to us incomprehensible, and yet it
remains fact that they did so regard them.


How the Scandinaviaps could have supposed
the mountains to be the mouldering bones of
mighty Jotun and the earth to be his fest
ering flesh, we cannot conceive, yet such
theory was solemnly taught and accepted


How the ancient Indians could regard the
rain clouds as cows with full udders, MIXED
by the winds of heaven, is beyond our COM
prehension, and yet their Veda contains in
disputable testimony to the fact that they were
so regarded. We have only to read Barring
Gould's book of "Curious Myths" from
which haye just quoted, or to dip into Mr..
Thorpe's great treatise on Northern Mythol-
ogy," to realize how vast is the difference be-
tween our standpoint and that from which in
the latter middle ages our immediate fore
fathers regarded things The frightful SUPER
stition of werewolves is a good instance of
this. In those days it was firmly believed
that men could be, and were in the habit of
being transformed into wolves. 1t was be-
lieved that women might bring forth snakes
or poodle dogs. 1t was believed that if a man
had his side pierced in battle. you could cure
him by nursing the sword which inflicted the
wound. ''As late as 1900 German writer
would illustrate thunder storm destroying
crop of corn by picture of dragon devour-
ing the produce of the field with his flaming
tongue and iron teeth. ."--,JO1tn FSske
Year: 1872

Statistics show that marriage conduces to
longevity in the male sex. Married men live
longer as rule than bachelors. This rule
holds good in many of the civilized countries
of the world. The theory in part for the
above fact is that in countries where women
help by their industry, and economy, and
management to increase the family wealth,
the husbands are not subject to that mental
tension and strain as are single men who have
no such aid. We fear, however, the statis-
tics for this country would vary the general
rule, for it would seem that wives consider it
their mission merely to spend money. There
are great many thrifty wives, great many
to whom the pecuniary salvation of their
husband is due, but as general rule, do not
American wives squander rather than econo-
mize their husbands earnings If this be so


wives, though not convicted of poisoning
their husbands, may be held responsible for
their husbands lives; the statistics showing
that frugal wive lengthens the lease of her
husbands's life, also prove that thriftless
wife shortens the husbands life Cleveland
Herald
Year: 1872

What q miserable reprobate the preachers
all make Fisk out to be! And they are right.
Why, the scoundrel actually stopped his
coupe one cold, dreary night on Seventh Ave
nue., and got out, inquired where she lived,
and gave the poor old beggar woman dol
lar He seemed to have no shame about him.
for the next day the debauched wretch sent
her around barrel of flour and load of
coal. .


One day the black-hearted scoundrel sent
$40 and a bag of -four around to a widow
woman with three starving children; and,
not content with this, the remorseless wretch
told the Police Captain to look after all the
poor widows and orphans in his ward, and
send them to him when they deserved charity.


What shameless performance 1t was to.
give that poor negro preacher $40 and send
him on to Howard University And how the
black-hearted villain practiced his meanness
on the poor, pennyless old woman who
wanted to go to Boston, by paying her pas
sage, and actually escorting her to a free state
room, while the old woman's tears of graft
tude streamed down her cheeks


Oh, insatiate monster! thus to give money
to pennyless negro preachers and starving
women and children.-N y. Commerci0l
4dcertiser.
Year: 1872

The European papers are full of the details
of wonderful surgical operation which has
recently taken place in public hospital in
Paris. A Mr.. Rodun was wounded in the
face by gunshot, the bullet hitting the nose
near the zygomatic arcade. The excessive
cold weather of the season provoked an cry
sipelas, which soon became very dangerous.
One of the eyelids had to be removed in sew
eral operations from the subciliary tissue to
the under part of the orbit. That part of
the eye called sclerotica was laid quite bare.
Doctor Labbi undertook a remarkable auto
plastic operation, which consisted in remoy-
ing several pieces of skin from the arm and
applying them at an interval of several days,
over the eye This system of human graft
ing proved o complete success; the eyelid
performs its functions to perfection and has
a very natural appearance. This operation
is without precedent and DR.. Labbi deserves
much praise for his skill and boldness. .rl..
Year: 1872

There are Indian traditions which indicate
an eruption of Mount Hood, in Oregon, but
there exists no other evidence ON the subject
except that of scientific observation. The
natural desire of every American citizen is,
that If Mount Hood is about to return to ac-
tive life as volcano, ii will do so on a scale
worthy of the nation which has arisen around
it since the last eruption. The eyes of great
people are upon it, and if it shows proper
spirit Mount Hood may become nations
pride-N Y. Post
Year: 1872

A NEW kind of type for the blind has been
invented by Reuben Vose, New York brok-
er, by the use of which it win cost only two
dollars to print Bible, instead of fifty, as at
present, and TO further complete the system a
printing press has been constructed by which
the blind can print for themselves, enabling
them to carry on correspondence with their
friends as well as those with eyes.
Year: 1872

Of Democracy has been reinforced by
their late brethren in arms, the Refor-
nlers, and that the union Of these for
ces, representing the wealth and them
telligence of the State, is complete and
perfect. The moral effect of this an
nouncement will be felt in every nook
and corner of Louisiana. Nothing now
remains for the good men Of the State
to do, but to make one sustained
mighty effort, resolving that VIC
tory shall be theirs in November. Let
the "oywo'd return, the disconsolate be
more faithful and the hopeful moro
courageous, aud all combine their cf-
forts to redeem the State from lnisrule.
The interests arc mighty, the occa-
sion opportune and the hearts of the
people waiting and longing to be led to
victory. Who will be q laggard in this
critical hour Of the country's need: