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Year: 1872

The following will be regarded one Of
- y. anaanfric freaks of nature, if it be
-S3zk Tvwvrm.x son'sO. an, about 20
years of age, rtnldy completion and curly
red hair, who had an iisSctabln ~.rS.
painful ulcer on the left arm, resisting all
previous modes Of treatment yielded to
the request of trying the effect of trans
planting piece Of skin TO the ulcer from
another person. The ulcer was prepared
in. the usual manner by his physician,
and bit of skin about an inch square
was taken from the arm Of fine healthy
negro man, and Immediately spread over
the ugly ulcer and then carefully dressed
and bandaged. Theskin transportation
had the desired effect. Healthy granula-
ton sprang and the unsightly ulcer soon
healed. A few months afterwards he
went to his physician and told him that
ever since the sore healed the black skin
commenced to spread, and it was increas-
ing. About one-third of his arm was
completely negrocd. The doctor himself
is alarmed. The high probability is that
the whole skin of this white man will be-
come black. This is a isw thing under
the sun. 1t would be rather difficult to
explain the physiological process which
takes to bring about such skin change
as this. The problem is, how can the
coloring of the skin be so radically
changed? and how is this pigment change
propagated? 1t is certain that the law Of
capillary attraction plays no insignificant
part in the spreading process. Grating
pears on an apple tree has communicated
to the apples pear taste.--ErchdHge.
Year: 1872

The Radical State ticket is certainly
i'm great danger in Pennsylvania
Hartranft is very unpopular, and For
ney and Cameron are at daggars draw.
One of our Northern exchanges
says:


at is reported that President Grant
is so uneasy about the prospects in
Pennsylvania that he recently sent
an agent to see Gen. John f. Hart
ranft, the Republican nominee for
Governor of the State, and request him
TO withdraw, on the ground that there
was such q strong feeling against him
that his persistence in the canvass
must endanger the whole Republican
ticket, and especially the reelection
of Grant. Did he tell you to say that
to me?' asked Hartranft. Yes re-
piled the agent, and he thinks that
for the good of the party you ought to
withdraw, and if you will consent TO
make this personal sacrifice, the party
will not be ungrateful to you in the
future Go back and tell Grant for
me, that L think HE ought to with
draw-that his running will endan-
ger my election.


: We trust that both of these inter
prising gentleman viii be in the same
boat. destined for Salt River, after No
vember next.
Year: 1872

What lots of advertisements Who
reads them, ] wonder? I'm sure |
don't :"


Until last week / confess myself to
have been in sympathy with such senti-
ments, and to have often spoken words
to the same effect, mwisely, as l now
see.


The daily newspaper, with its freight
of news and entertainment, would be
impossible but for the advertisers. The
daily New York I5-i6une, for several
weeks after one of its enlargements, was
sold to readers at less than the cost of
the white paper before it was printed.
This was for no long time. But the
general rule holds that ninety-nine of
every hundred newspapers must suspend
publication if their income from adver-
ments should cease.


Liberal advertisers, therefore, should
be looked upon gratefully by all who
are pleased and proftted by periodic
literature. 1 thank goa, gentlemen.


To that great number of outlying peo
pie waiting for something TO turn up by
which they may get living, what
better reading is possible than page after
page of advertisements He must be
of sluggish temperament indeed who,
stimulated by the unbounded variety of
suggestion found in advertising columns,
is not quickened to some useful notion.
1t is very difficult to sit in ones chair
and think up what to do; but when the
panorama of busy life is set in motion
before waiting mans eyes, it would
seem as if sonner or later something
would come along which yould set him
to possible industry.


On the whole, am convert. | have
established new habit. have made a
Year: 1872

good resolution. an going to read the
advertisements. And ] have no oues
ton that the singular and growing ex-
cellence that my people viii detect in
my sermons hereafter viii be due in
great measure to this excellent habit
which have founded so broadly


forgot to say that one use Of adEer-
tisements is to let folks know where
they can find the things which they
want, besides helping them 10 want the
things which they can find. .-CErist.Qz
Union.
Year: 1872

ALBURGH-SMALL PQx.-Iohn ParO,
a bridge hand of the V. G. r. r., came
from st. Johns, p. @. where he had
been working, to his home at East AL
burgh last Saturday, sick. He was
taken bleeding at the nose very bad Sun
day, and about sixty of the neighbors
went in to see him during the day
When the doctor came at night he pro-
nounced it the small pOX. This is the
first case in town, and we hope 1t will
be confined to this family, although
from so many being exposed, we may
expect to hear OF it all over the town.
Year: 1872

THE MINER of July 27 is informed that at Verde, Captain Carr, some other officers, and quite party of en- listed men, were out trying to induce the Apaches to lay down their arms and take quarters on the reserve.
Year: 1872

Ma. EDITOR AS our church is nearly &C mpeted.
think 1t about time our Music Committee was
seeing something about the new organ, and desire
through the columns OF your paper call their alien.
ton 10 it. We sincerely hope that the committee do
intend to let the church be reOpened and
with the old instrument they have there al present
We do not think the congregation want It done. II
10 that If we do not have the organ on the
day Of dedicatIOH will be like the man who built
himself nice house, but had no nice furniture to
put in it, We will have a nice church lin fact. a
most beautiful one) but the organ will be missing il
nothing is done soon We sincerely hope the music
committee will take note Of this and GO TO work with
sll Of their might. BY all means let us have The
organ on the day Of dedication.


LOVER OF Music.
Year: 1872

KEEP A LOOKOUT AHEAD In steering the
human bark through the sea of life always
keep bright lookout ahead. 1t will often save
moral shipwreck to look ahead and take care
of shoals. When you go to Philadelphia to
No. SIS Market Street, halfway between Fifth
and Sixth Streets-whcre splendid stock
awaits inspection, and the prices are the low
est in the city.
Year: 1872

The power of the Cincinnati convention
was Enthusiastically manifested at the two
old party State conventions held Yesterday
at Elmira and Rochester, New York. At
the latter the Democrats of the State, as
sembled in convention under all the usual
rules and precedents of the party, chose a
Greeley man for chairman, and adopted, so
far as their proceedings went, policy indi-
eating a decided nrepOnderance of the
Greeley element. The platform submitted
is decidedly that way, and the method of
appointing delegates to Baltimore which
the convention, after discussion, adopted,
is the method most promising of harmoni-
GUS and influential action in the same direc-
ton. This course of the New York Demo
Gratis viii bring much encouragement to
the friends Of reform, and corresponding
confusion to the Bourbon element now
dominant at Washington. 1t is precisely
the course which Mr.. COnkling and his as
sistants have been at work desperately, but
vainly, for some weeks TO prevent.


So much for the Democratic convention.
The Republicans at Elmira bowed to the
logic and force of the principles asserted at
Cincinnati, and doubtless still more to the
logic of the events which were inagaurated
at Cincinnati Accordingly we find them
trying to creep upon the Cincinnati plat
form, doubtless " It'll the intention of setting
their arms akimbO, and claiming to have
been the original squatters upon that plat
form. They resolve in favor of civil service
reform, while at the same time they are
controlled by the gavel of A. B. Cornell,
one of the most shining examples of the
spoils theory and of customhOuse dictatiOn.
In short, they resolve" a great variety of
good things in their platform. and give the
lie to them in their choice of party leaders
and of Presidential candidate.
Year: 1872

In the case of Patrick Clark against the
city, praying to recover judgment for dam
ages oecasioned to him by the alleged iJle-
gal impOunding of several cattle, Judge
Emerson decided that the city could not be
held in damages, but that Judgment for the
amount claimed must be rendered against
the keepers of the Sixth District pound.
Year: 1872

lowing grounds: The Judgment herein rem
dered, in so far as it DEGREES Mary E. Whey
land to be the widow Of Walter r. Whey
land, is null and of no effect for want of
jurisdiction, and should be set aside. The
marriage of Walter r. Wheyland and Mary
E. Roberts is null teven if it had been
proved, because the law prohibits wife
from contracting a second marriage at any
time within ten months after the dissOlu-
ton of previous marriage.
Year: 1872

Do not choose your friend by his
looks handsome shoes often pinch the
feet.


Nobody is more like an honest man
than a thorough rogue. When you
see a man with a great deal ofreligion
displayed in his shop window, you
may depend he keeps a very small
stock of it within.


Don't be fond ofcompliments; re-
member, "Thank you, pussy, and
thank you, pussy" killed the cat"


Don't believe in the man who talks
most; for mewing cats are seldom
good mousers.


By no means put yourself in an
others power; if you put your thumb
between two grinders, they are very
apt to bite.


Drink nothing without seeing it,
sign nothing without reading it, and
make sure that it means no more than
it says.


Don't go to law unless you have
nothing TO lose; lawyers houses are
build ON fools heads.


In any business never wade into
water where you can not see the bot
tom.


Put no dependence upon the label
of bag, and count money after your
own kin.


See the sack open before yea buy
what is in it; for he who trades in the
dark asks to be cheated.


Keep clear of the man who does not
value his own character.


Beware of the man who swears; he
who would blaspheme his Maker
would make no bones of lying and
stealing.
Beware of no man more than OF
yourself we carry our worst enemies
with us.


When new opinion or a doctrine
comes before you, do not bite till you
know wether it is bread or stone, and
do not be sure that the gingerbread
is good because OF. the gilt on it.


Never shout halo till you are quite
out of the woods, and never cry fried
fish until they are out of the net.
THERE'S always time enough to boast
wait little longer.
DeFft throw away dirty water until
You have clean, and keep ON scraping
the roads till you get better work.
The poorest bread is better thau
none, and the humblest Office is better
than being out of employment.


Always give mp the road to bulls and
madmen, and never fight with a coal
HEAVIER or contend with base char
acter, for they will be sure to blacken
Ynu.=E ErchGnqe.
Year: 1872

AS Mr.. j. II. Wagner and his wife
were returning to:Akron, from Boston,
Ohio, in buggy, along the railroad
track, they were suddenly overtaken
by a locomotive, with a eabOose at
tached, and before they had time to
turn out of the way the horse, carriage,
and all were lifted bodily from the
ground by the engine and carried for
ward with tremendous force. The
horse was the first to BECOME olsen
tangled, being turned completely
around and hurled into ditch at the
side of the track. Mrs. Wagner was
the next to go, and with her the great,
er part of the body of the buggy,
while Mr.. Wagner was carried near
| ly thirty feet beyond before he was
dashed to the side of the track. The
whole affair occurred in an instant,
almost. and in less time than it takes
to tell it the engine had freed itself OF
its burden and disappeared in the
darkness. Mr.. Wagner was the first
to recover consciousness, and when he
did so it was with unbounded surprise
to find that he was not only not KILL
ed outright, but what was most Won
derful of all, he was not injured in
the least. Returning along the track
in order to find, as he supposed, the
dead body of his wife, he was stih
more amazed to .discoveT;her crawling
from the wreck, and with the excep-
ton of a few slight bruises, entirely
uninjured. The poor horse was found
stretched out upon the grouitd with a
broken leg, apparently much injured
internally, and had to be shot, and
the buggy was smashed into thou
sand pieces, the track along which it
was dragged being strewn its entire
length with the wreck.
Year: 1872

A rich young fellow from Alabama
visited New York the other day, and,
having imbibed a little too freely took
it into his muddled head to enlist in
the United States service, under the
impression that there was to be i'm
mediate war with Spain. He is now
petitioning the Secretary OF War for
u discharge.
Year: 1872

If the French Government can farm
out the monopoly of the sale of tobac-
GO in French domination for thirty
wears to bankers who will pay off the
balance of the war debt, it is fortu-
nate. The people of France can pay
the debt in this way if they chews
Year: 1872

The great diamond, weighing 154
carats, which has been found at tie
Cape and is now on its way to Eng
land, is already furnished with it's le-
gend. 1t is said to have been found
in the wall of one of the native huts,
where a poor Irish adventurer had re-
eeived hospitality for the night, and
that being surprised by the light shin
ing amid the darkness, he had, upon
examination, found it to proceed from
clump of the earth of which the wall
was built. Of course the clump was
soon detached by the visitor, and this
new Koh-i-noor, with many other
smaller diamonds, found within.
Year: 1872

A SALT MoUNTAIN.-The famous
salt mountain of Palestine, called by
the natives Jebel Usdum, is singular
formation, being solid mass of rock
salt, of greenish white transparency,
very much the color of shallow sea
covered at the top with a loose crust
gravel, flint, plaster of paris and
chalky marl The mountain runs
north and southwest. 1t is about
seven miles long and one and half
wide. In its highest points it is nearly
five hundred feet high. Around the
base of the mountain the ground is
full of dangerous hollows, into which
animals often, and sometimes men,
fall and sink out of sight. Little
streams of water are constantly trick
ling, even in the dry season, from un-
delneath the salt mountain, and run
ming into the sea. A correspondent
writing from there says he never
tasted anything so salty i'll all his life ;
salt itself in the lump, is not so salty.
Only little way east-about ten
miles-are rich fields of sugar cane,
indigo, wheat, barley, and oats.
Year: 1872

man appeareu laGely III MdttCH Cluiih
with patent air brake for railroad cars
for sale. He claimed that it would
stop train going at the highest rate
of speed in half its own length. There
was a certain railroad man also up
there who treated this suggestion with
scorn, and said he would wager large
sums that the air-brake wouldn't stop
a train any quicker than any other
brake. So he borrowed the contriv-
ance and fixed it on an open car on the
Switchback railroad, and went up to
the top of Mount Pisgah to get q fair
start. He let her come down the in
clined plane for awhile until she began
to move along at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, and then he suddenly
placed his foot on the brake and but
on full power. One minute later the
eye of any solitary traveller passing
| through those wilds might have OBJ
served car standing perfectly still on
the track, and a railroad man going
down hill among the blackberry bushes
and underbrush head d-foremOst at the
rate-say of forty-six miles an hour
He was carried home on a stretcher
with an abiding faith in the success ot
the invention, but thinks its usefulnes:
would be improved if some other maj
would improve on the machine, 81
as to avoid the certain decentralization
overtaking those who use it.
Year: 1872

MARRIED MEN.-There is an ex-
preston in the face of a good married
man who had good wife, that a
bachelors cannot have. 1t is indes-
cribable. He is little nearer the
angels than the prettiest young fellow
living. You can see that his broad
breast is pillow for somebody's head,
and that little fingers pull his whiskers.
No one even mistakes the good mar
ried man. It's only the erratic one
who leaves you in doubt. The good
one can protect all the unprotected
females, and make himself generally
agreeable to the ladies, and yet never
'leaye doubt on any mind that there
as a precious little woman at home
worth all the world to him.
Year: 1872

To CLEAN LOOKING Glasses
Take q newspaper, fold it small, dip
into basin of clean cold water. When
throughly wet, squeeze it out as YOU
do a sponge, then .rub;it pretty hard
all over the surface of the glass, tax
ing care thatit;is not so wet as to run
down in streams in fact, the paper
must only be completely moistened or
,damped all through. Let it rest a
few minutes, then go over the glass
with a piece Of fresh newspaper, till it
looks clear and bright. The insides
of windows may be cleaned IN the
same way also spectacle glasses, etc.
While paper that mas not been print
ed on is better, but in the absence of
that very old newspaper, on which
the ink has become thfoughly dried,
should be used. Writing paper will
not answer.
Year: 1872

Do not assign lesson for young pupils
to prepare in half an hour which, to pre-
pare yourself upon so as to hear it with
out book. would require two hours.


Have common sense enough not to ex-
pect your pupils to be more thorough in
the lesson without book than you are
with the book.


Be just enough not to use book at a
recitation when you do not permit the pu-
pills to do so. 4


Have definite, fixed length of time for
your recitations. and never overreach it.


If you are forgetful, make pupil in
your class monitor, to tell you when to
stop the lesson in time to hear the review,
or give the preparatory drill.


Introduce every recitation by review
ing briefly the preceding lesson.


Conduct the recitation with view to
having the pupils realize the few points
involved.


Take time, before excusing the class,
to recapitulate points made.


Just before assigning the next lesson,
give preparatory drills on the coming
hard points.


Be sure that the whole lesson has test
ed the reasoning po,0er, not the memory
of your pupils. - University Monthly.
Year: 1872

ter; but there was country to save, Ii
berty to win. and their noble commander
to follow into the heart of fiery battles. I
do not think man went home.


Far away, there was another comman-
der-a fair and true hearted woman. She
marshalled her forces from far and near
only women and girls Into their hands
she placed shining weapons. and, armed
in like manner, she took the van and
cheered them on to battle. That was a
silent and bloodless war but it was VIC
torious one. Ere the winter was half gone,
an enemy was vanquished, for whom no
sword had terrors, and who had never
quailed before the loudest cannon.


One morning the old soldier, (but he
was young then.) standing in front of
George Washington's tent, saw the Gen
eral come to the door and look abroad over
the encampment. Here and there SOL
dier was carrying water to his tent, or
hewing wood to feed the fire that must
roast his scanty breakfast of potatoes but
there was none of that noisy mirth that
soldiers are noted for. All were wan, and
speechless, and despairing.


Suddenly there came 10 sight, just
turning corner of the camp road near
by, three wagons, laden from dashboard
to tailboard. Upon the foremost load, sat
a fair and noble woman, the woman whom
the great commander loved the best in all
the world-his wife. She had come, the
conquerer of the knitting needles, the
queen of stockings!


The young soldier looked at his COM
mander. Ger all that more than kingly
face there was a sudden flush Of JOY and
George Washington lifted up his voice and
laughed aloud
Year: 1872

No native tree we have is better adapt
ed to the purposes Of shade and ornament
than the sugar maple. It's foliage is full
and dense, and its form is that of rounds
ed cone of beautiful proportions, Il is
also clean and free from insect enemies.


1t would be we'll if, in planting Shade trees
on our streets, there could be suitable
alienation Of differentkinds. some Of rsp-
lid growth for temporary use, and others
for permanence. Some attention should
also be paid to variety Probably the
very best trees for general street planting
are the different varieties Of the maple
Next in value We would place the elms.
For intermediate and temporary planting.
the box elder and the ash may be men-
toned. Here and there should be the
bass wood, rlinn. the tulip tree, the horse
chestnut, and the buckeye.aSoC rsszsia'a
Year: 1872

Cs-Thompson is not going to- have
any thing more to do with conundfumss
He recently asked his wife the difference
between his head and hogshead, and
she said there was none He says that
is not the right answer,
Year: 1872

EXPENDITURE OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT
According TO our Washington dispatches the
expenses OF the War Department now are
thirty millions of dollars year. 1t is stated
that the cost of this branch of the public SER
vice has been decreasing at the rate of about
half million year, and that this reduction
will go on ill the expenditure will hardly
exceed twenty millions annually. Thirty mil.
lions year appears to be a large and unncccs-
sary cost of this Department in time of peace,
and we hope the goyernment will bring il
down as soon as possible The vast facilities
which our railroad system affords for trans
porting troops, munitions and supplies will
enable the government TO accomplish as much
with a smaller army as ity did some years
ago with larger one.--N Y. Herald.
Year: 1872

IMMIGRANT LABOR.-ln our local column
we give the proceedings of meeting held in
this town on Saturday last to devise some
means to supply the constantly increasing de-
mand for farm laborers aud domestic help that
is being felt in this community. There was a
goodly attendance OF farmers-almost ex
clusiyely this class-and the general tenor OF
the argument made on the occasion was that
there was a scarcity of labor that was con-
stantly becoming more manifest and more
annoying, and a lack of reliability in such as
could be obtained that was even more perplex-
ing than the scarcity. 1t was decided that the
only way to meet the case was to import immi-
grant labor from Europe, and to do this it
would be necessary to consolidate individual
effort into a cooperation organization, which
organization was accordingly entered into pre-
liminarily, and will be perfected ats subsequent
meeting. A general preference was expressed
for the Swedish immigrants, but those o.
Alsace and Lorraine were also suggested. The
society will operate similar to that organizedin
Middletown, we suppose, though no plan wa
acted upon.
Year: 1872

The Young Mems Republican Club Of
Ws>hinItun called upon President Grant last
Saturday, and congratulated him on his re
election. The President said the vote he
received was more gratifying than the possess
sion of the office itself, as it showed that the
people did not believe the campaign ISLANDERS
on his character.