anaheim-gazette 1876-03-11

VOL. VI. THE SITUATION. What are the causes which militate against our prosperity and result in the hard times, about which all talk, and the pinch of which we all feel? Making every allowance for the disposition, which many have, to look at the dark aspect of their own and public affairs; making every allowance for the fact that there are chronic grumblers everywhere, and that some would not have been content in Eden itself, giving, perhaps, as a reason that there was evidently a "corner" got up in the apple business merely because the fruit on one tree was not on the market; making every allowance for the fact that unthrifty people will do well nowhere, we must still acknowledge that there are rome powerful evils doing their work of detriment among us, and sucking the vitality from the veins of the body politic of our section. It may be replied that the stagnation and depression that now exists is merely the result of confidence and usage being interrupted by the recent bank troubles, and that all will right itself when the crops are harvested and the proceeds received by the producer. The public malady lies deeper; the breaking of the bank is but a ripple in the stream, and the proceeds of the next THE ALMOND. The cultivation of this tree receives much less attention than it deserves. Not only does it bear early and produce largely, but it is independent of irrigation after once getting started. There is a considerable orchard on the Santa Anita ranch which is in fine condition, notwithstanding the fact of its not having been irrigated for several years, and of its being in a dry, sandy soil. One of the cardinal advantages of the almond nut lies in the fact that it will allow the producer to choose his own time and his own market for them, since they will not spoil by delay or by transportation. Thus he is to a great degree independent of those fluctuations in prices, at the mercy of which the raiser of perishable fruits groans. The importation of almonds is very large, and the prices paid for them so high as to promise ample profits to any one engaging in the business here. The Languedoc is the best variety. It is said to thrive best in a light, loamy soil. ASSEMBLYMAN Jamison introduced some time ago a bill to prevent the roads of Santa Clara county being cut up by the heavy lumber wagons, by enacting that all vehicles for heavy loads be required to have a tire of a triment among us, and sucking the vitality from the veins of the body politic of our section. It may be replied that the stagnation and depression that now exists is merely the result of confidence and usage being interrupted by the recent bank troubles, and that all will right itself when the crops are harvested and the proceeds received by the producer. The public malady lies deeper; the breaking of the bank is but a ripple in the stream, and the proceeds of the next agricultural products will afford but a temporary relief. When one would ascertain the condition of the public, he can readily do so by finding that of the farmers [for their prosperity is the substantial basis of public welfare] in the same way as a physician feels the pulse and tells whether the physical man is in health or disease. The farmers here are not prosperous, because there being no considerable local consumption of their products, they are, after the slight home demand is satisfied, obliged to seek outside sale of their crops and get but a small price for them, on account of the transportation expenses and because the capitalists who do then buy, do so for speculation and at speculative rates. Now, this absence of local demand and home capital is caused from the fact that the extravagant ideas of the value of land and the future development of the country, have caused all the capital that comes to the country to be absorbed into real estate investments and improvements, and have also sent up the prices of land so as to scare off the sturdy, industrious and thrifty immigrants who, following the even tenor of their respective duties and paths in life, constitute the unseen backbone upon which the structure is built, or to use a figure perhaps more applicable—the cities and towns with their inhabitants of merchants, artisans and lawyers, are very desirable as the fringes and accessory appendages to the mantle of the body politic, but the mass is the mantle itself. The vast extent of good land in Southern California, makes the present settlements that are scattered over it, seem but as oases in the desert, while surrounding them on all sides are lands capable of supporting thousands. Even when a man puts down his prices on land to a low figure, he finds more or less difficulty in disposing of it, because the general inflation prevents those who might buy at those rates, coming to hunt for it. When this section ever gets started again, from its present prostration, it will go with a bulge, but we sincerely love large, and the prices paid for them is so high as to promise ample profits to any one engaging in the business here. The Languedoc is the best variety. It is said to thrive best in a light, loamy soil. Assemblyman Jamison introduced some time ago a bill to prevent the roads of Santa Clara county being cut up by the heavy lumber wagons, by enacting that all vehicles for heavy loads be required to have a tire of a certain prescribed breadth of from three to five inches. This is an interesting and somewhat novel idea and suggests the question, would not the heavy teams which go to and from the mines and which haul immense loads constantly, be benefitted by a change from their comparatively narrow tires to much broader ones. We have frequently seen, on the roads, these large wagons at a stand-still and the driver swearing and beating his mules, with incoteren rage, because the wheels had sunken down into the earth, and the teemn, in consequence, had stalled. It would seem that a wheel with a five inch tire would not sink in wet ground or in sand, with double the weight which would cause a wheel with a 24 inch tire to cut in. If our understanding of the matter is correct, the idea is a very good one on the part of Mr. Jamison, and would be of much more advantage than the mere saving of the road from being injured. AN OLD FABLE. There is an old fable that once a youth in walking upon the road, found in the dirt a piece of money. It so wrought upon him that he kept his eyes steadily on the ground during all his after life, lest he should, by withdrawing them pass unnoticed some coin lost in the dirt. Thus he came to find much money which he otherwise would not have possessed, but how much did he miss? He never took time to raise his eyes to see the beauties of nature, or the charms to be found in the intercourse with his fellow-man; he never perceived the pleasures of existence, but he found—many a dollar. Now, this old fable finds perfect exemplification in the lives of thousands in every one of the varied phases of existence. Let us notice its application to a certain class of farmers; let us see how little difference there is between them and the man who passed through the world with his eye on the ground. Thousands or thousands in every one of these people work hard for their livelihood. Official after infection in corrupted that the faction against him "step down" and all awkward in than one case thus rewarded suiting upon them more than those they quish. If Congress it would be impatient in her garding Belknap accord with her self established Secretary's resignation a cordial letter she was accused of appoint him to the Supreme Mission. Downer The Downey from the following: Our farmers lost by the K purchased in this ley, a San Francisco are plenty more. Several times depot has been roof with gravel at a premium. A large amount washed away because appropriated has been difficult. Frequently whereployees of this threatened with dared to remove conduct is repaired we are inform premises three of company it has offered to lumber, fair of Sheriff it even hired team from bed out away, and had an officer be The company re-action against. The following from this departmentary: Grain. 50 lb.; mercredi stock. 27,000 lb. We have received a San Francisco paper styling itself the Pacific Liberal an avowedly infidel sheet, the whole object of which seems to be to throw mud at all that is pure, holy and of good report. Clocro, Cesar, Napoleon, and nearly all of the great pagans of the past have left on record the fact that, though disbelievers, they thought highly of the advisability of religion as the conservator of public morals, and the very large majority of men of great minds and great scholarship have been proud to join themselves to the noble army of Christianity. Individual opinions are individual property and any man is entitled to believe that the world is flat, or that there is no God, or any other barbarous notion that may assail and take possession of a crothely brain, but when that person comes forward and prostitutes the enlightening press to the dissemination of his errors, he then becomes legitimately the object of criticism and public expression of disapproval. There is no better maxim in matters of religion than the famous one "Toleration to all but in toleration," but in this case it is the duty of all to speak out for the cause of public depeney. Under similar circumstances Horace, heathen though he was, would have said of this man as he said of one who abuses an absent friend, "His niger est; hunc in Romane, cavelo." Now, this old fable finds perfect exemplification in the lives of thousands in every one of the varied phases of existence. Let us notice its application to a certain class of farmers; let us see how little difference there is between them and the man who passed through the world with his eye on the ground. Thousands of their busy busily ignoring improvement of their own minds, ignoring their own comfort and that of their wives, and most especially ignoring the proper disciplining and braining of the minds and the dispositions of those children to whom, having tollled their lives away to obtain it, they will leave their property, without having provided them with the discretion and education necessary for its proper use. To follow blindly in one narrow, monotonous rut, to play but one card in the great game of existence, is as foolish and unnecessary as it is unworthy of the dignity of man as the highest grade of creation. Yet many do so, and even then frequently play a deuce when they have a hand full of trumps. Let such men pause and take thought rationally that they are not like horses, and while it is incumbent upon everyone not to be a drone in the hive, that a man is created for a more dignified role than that of a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water." Spare the whip and use the brake; take time to keep up your information with the progress of the age; surround yourselves and your families with the humanizing, civilizing influences of books and all the nameless refinements which constitute a pleasant home, and ceasing to be a laboring tobacco-smoking, eating machine, rise to the lofty dignity of being a man. That remaining high, immortal thing. Just less than Jove and much above a king. THE TELEGRAMS FROM WASHINGTON ARE FULL OF PARTICULARS AS TO THE LATEST RUNNING SORC OF THE ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS NOW POURING OUT ITS IMPURITY TO THE EYES AND OLFACTORIES OF THE PUBLIC. IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT BE'KNAP, THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IS DEMONSTRATED TO HAVE BEEN GUILTY OF TURNING AN HONEST PENNY, IN THE SALE OF HIS APPOINTMENTS. THE TELEGRAM SAYS THAT THE GREATEST EXCITEMENT PREVAILS IN WASHINGTON—THAT BELKNAP HAS TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION, AND THAT CONGRESS WILL, IN EVERY PROBABILITY, IMPEACH HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. THE CASE WHICH HAS BRUGHT THE CORRUPTIONS TO LIGHT, IS THAT OF MARSH, OF NEW YORK, IN CONNECTION WITH HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE POST-TRADERSHIP OF FORT SILL. THE PREVIOUS POST-TRADER THEN MADE A COMPROMISE WITH MARSH, BY WHICH, FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF RETAINING THE PLACE, HE AND HIS PARTNER BOUND THEMSELVES TO PAY AN ANNUAL BONUS OF $12,000, THE ONE HALF OF WHICH THE VIRTUAL SECRETARY RECEIVED AS HIS SHARE. TO SAY NOTHING MORE OF THE OTHER ASPECTS OF THE CASE, IS NOT THIS FACT A SIGNIFICANT COMMENTARY UPON THE FABULOUS EXTENT TO WHICH THE GOVERNMENT IS PLUNDERED ON ALL HANDS BY ITS AGENTS, THAT THE POST-TRADER OF AN OBSURE FORT IS ENABLED TO PAY $12,000 A YEAR FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF HOLDING THE OFFICE? THE COMMENTATIONS UPON THIS TOPIC ARE PROVIDED BY AN AUTHORIZED EDITOR. He was troubled with Bells. [From the Rochester Express.] There was a sad expression on his countenance, and one could tell by the precision with which he trod, and the carefulness with which he avoided passing objects, and by the superhuman efforts he made to shrink himself up so that his clothes would not fit him, that something was the matter. "O-o-o! Whoop! Great G—uns!" he exclaimed as a man ran against him, "I'll choke you to death if you don't keep on your side of the walk!" "But a gentleman jostled me, sir," stammered the man. "Hang the gentleman! Hang you!" exclaimed the irritated man; "I've got a bile; I've got two of 'em; I've got three of 'em; and when I get well I'll bust the man that busts them!" He laid his hand carefully on his thigh and limped away with tears in his eyes, but in turning out to let a woman pass he ran against a hitching post. He grabbed the post and jerked and wrenched it from its place, kicked it into the road and whacked it against the pavement, and then started after the woman like a mad man. "Madam," said he, as he overtook her in a dry goods store, "one word; I have upon my thigh a circum-scribed subcutaneous inflammation, characterized by a pointed pustular tumor and suppurating with a central core. I have also one on the back side of my front side, and another one on—" "Git out!" shrieked the woman, whacking him with a bundle of calico. Man in the Rows. [A Maiden Lady in Indianapolis Herald.] Let us take a bird's eye view of the men as we now find them—men with their "noble passions"—their prominent qualifications. What is their love? Egotism. Their heroism? Brutish dare devilism. Their cleverness? Imaginary. Their vows of love? Perjury. Their faith and fidelity? A broken reed. And where they are good natured you may be sure it is from stupidity. They are saving—when they are to settle household accounts. Generous toward girls—young, inexperienced chids. Severe judges of morals—toward their wives. Full of devotion—toward pretty house, nurse and waiter girls. They tenderly care for their horses, dogs, etc., and are amiable everywhere but at home. Men are like scarcrows—they are found on forbidden ground. They are like bees, they hum about and surround the most ravishing flowers, taste their sweets and fly away. Men are like swallows, they often seek the dirtiest corners to build their nests. They are like California gold, sought after in places where they are not found, and found where nobody would suspect them to be. Like organs, their tenest tones are nothing but wind. Like cigars, more smoke than fire. It would be easy to continue, but I desist, in the hope that I have said enough to warn my inexperienced sisters. Beware of them, or rather imitate one who knows, and make them beware of you. THE LIONESS AND THE TERRIER.—The carnivora of our large zoological collections, when in health, have no objection to the presence of rats in their cages; on the contrary, they the privilege of retaining the place, he and his partner bound themselves to pay an annual bonus of $12,000, the one half of which the virtuous Secretary received as his share. To say nothing more of the other aspects of the case, is not this fact a significant commentary upon the fabulous extent to which the government is plundered on all hands by its agents, that the post-trader of an obscure fort is enabled to pay $12,000 a year for the privilege of holding the office? The Sacramento Union, commenting upon the affair, says: Official after official have been detected in corrupt practices, and on finding that the facts were too strong to fight against, have been allowed to "step down and out," and thus escape all awkward inquiries, while in more than one case the President has actually rewarded such persons by bestowing upon them more desirable positions than those they were forced to relinquish. If Congress were not in session it would be impossible to feel any confidence in the President's course regarding Belknap. It would be quite in accord with the precedents he has himself established, if he were to accept the Secretary's resignation, write him him a cordial letter to the effect that he had never admired him so much as since he was accused of selling places, and appoint him to the Court of Claims, the Supreme Court, or the French Mission. Downey City Items. The Downey City Courier furnishes the following: Our farmers did not ship the hogs lost by the Kalorama. They were purchased in this valley by Mr. Farley, a San Francisco drover, and there are plenty more left. Several times during the week our depot has been packed clear to the roof with grain. Passage ways were at a premium. A large amount of railroad lumber, washed away by the late freshets, has been appropriated by farmers, and it has been difficult to get trace of it. Frequently when discovered the employees of the railroad have been threatened with bodily harm if they dared to remove the lumber. Such conduct is reprehensible. One man, we are informed, had stored on his premises three hundred dollars worth of the company's ties, etc. Mr. Hewitt has offered to pay for the return of the lumber, failing in which, the aid of the Sheriff will be invoked. Men even hired teams to haul the property from the bed of the stream and take it away, and had to be threatened with an officer before they would quit. The company might bring a criminal action against these parties. The following were the shipments from this depot for the month of February: Grain, 1,402,000 lbs; meal, 48-50 lbs; merchandise, 6,947 lbs; live stock, 27,000 lbs; spuds, 1,372 lbs; 2-lb. stock of number 7,275 lbs; S.P.R.R. He grabbed the post and jerked and wrenched it from its place, kicked it into the road and whacked it against the pavement, and then started after the woman like a mad man. "Madam," said he, as he overtook her in a dry goods store, "one word; I have upon my thigh a circum-scribed subentaneous inflammation, characterized by a pointed pustular tumor and suppurating with a central core. I have also one on the back side of my front side, and another one on—" "Git out!" shrieked the woman, whacking him with a bundle of calico, "git out, or I'll call the perlice!" "But I was going to say—" "Git out!" she shrieked. "That you—" "Git out!" she yelled again. "Busted one of em," he finally ejaculated, "and if I ever find out where you live I'll let your cow loose in the yard some washing day and let her chew up the whole of your petticoats and tread your sheets and pillow cases into the mud and break down your front gate." Then he slid out and was limping down the street, when he slipped up on a piece of ice and came down with an energy that startled all of the horses in the vicinity and shook the window panes in the store fronts. There was a shrick. a long wall, a volley of oaths, and a variety of groans and sobs, which attracted the attention of a kind-hearted doctor, who took him into a drug store and hung him across the back of a chair, where he writhed and wriggled until a boy with a grocery cart gave him a seat in a bushel basket and took him home. And now he waits the streets, And he hurds at all he musts Such sad smiles; And upon his rugged coat, There is hanging this brief note: "I've got bills." There is a man in Rochester so close that when he attends church he occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit to save the interest on his money while the collectors are passing around the plates for contributions. She asked Squaggles if her new dress wasn't as sweet as a Spring rose, and Squaggles, who knew the dressmaker, said it was even to the minor attraction of still having a little due on it. Dr. Peterman, the great geographer, expresses himself satisfied that the diamond fields at Zimbaye, Africa, are identical with the Ophir of the Bible, from which King Solomon is said to have conveyed gold and ivory and precious stones for the construction of the temple. The place now possesses ruins and extensive piles of buildings of unquestionably remote antiquity. When a young man calls on a girl for the first time, and when the conversation lags and the subject of the weather has been torn all to pieces, then it is that the photograph albums step in and fills up the gap that nothing else in the world could bridge. A blacksmith of Maryland sets an example to the country, offering to do good work "for cash, or no cash if a person has a good countenance, for I have no Sally to scold, no children to like California gold, sought after in places where they are not found, and found nobody would suspect them to be. Like organs, their tenderest tones are nothing but wind. Like cigars, more smoke than fire. It would be easy to continue, but I desist in the hope that I have said enough to warn my inexperienced sisters. Beware of them, or rather imitate one who knows, and make them beware of you. THE LIONESS AND THE TERRIER. The carnivora of our large zoological collections, when in health, have no objection to the presence of rats in their cages; on the contrary, they rather welcome them as a relief to the monotony of existence, which constitutes the chief trial of a wild animal in confinement. Thus it is a common sight to see half a dozen rats gnawing the bones off which the lions have dined, while the satisfied carnivora look on contentedly, giving the rats an occasional wink with their sleepy eyes. In illness the case is different, for the ungrateful rats begin to nibble the foes of the lord of the forest before his death, and add considerably to his discomfort. To save a slick lioness in the Dublin Zoological Gardens from this annoyance, there was placed in her cage a fine little tan terrier, who was at first received with a sulky growl; but, when the first rat appeared, and the lioness saw the little terrier toss him into the air, catching him with professional skill across the loins with a snap as he came down; she began to understand what the terrier was for. She coaxed him to her side, folded her paw around him, and each night the little terrier slept at the breast of the lioness, enfolded with her paws, and watching that his natural enemies did not disturb the rest of his mistress. The rats had a bad time during those six weeks. HOW TO EDUCATE FLEAS. From the Scientific American we learn that Mr. Bertolotto, who is very successful in this branch of education, adopts the following method. He puts in insects in a small, circular glass box, where by jumping and knocking their heads against the glass for a day or two, the idea is finally beaten into them that it is useless to jump; and during the remainder of their natural lives—to wit, about eight months—they are content to crawl. Having corrected their intellects with regard to jumping, the instructor next fastens a delicate pair of wire nippers to the middle part of the fleas' body; to the nippers any desired form of miniature vessel, such as a car, a wagon, etc., is attached; and she flea thus harness trots away with the load, to the amusement of the looker-on. As a reward for their good behavior, fleas are allowed to feed twice a day on their teacher's arm. LONDON'S RAIN FALL. The average yearly rainfall in London amounts to 11,754,425,548,800 cubic inches, or 6,802 million cubic feet, and the average daily ditto, as nearly as possible, to 32,204 million cubic inches. Or 184 million cubic feet. This is equal in volume to nearly 42,400,000 gallons in the course of the year; or to upwards of 116,000,000 gallons; on an The following were the shipments from this depot for the month of February: Grain, 1,402,000 lbs; meal, 48,500 lbs; merchandise, 6,947 lbs; live stock, 27,000 lbs; spuds, 1,372 lbs; 2,000 feet of lumber, 7,275 lbs; S P R R freight, 35,150 lbs. Total, 1,529,204 lbs. This is an extraordinary shipment for the month, considering there were many days in which no freight was transported, owing to wasbouts. Orange Library Association. The following is a list of books accepted by the Committee, and deposited in the library of the Association, during the week ending March 4th, 1876: Name of book. Prest'd by About hard words...J. E. S. Bell. Glennair; Hazlett... Circle of useful knowledge... Josephus... T. J. Lockhart. Four years in Cecessia... Frost's pictorial history of California...Clarence Parker. Life of Marion; Simms Milton's Poetical Works... Footprints of an Itinerant... Sam Slick in search of a wife... Frank on the Lower Mississippi... Frank in search of sea shells... Tom Ray... The French Protestants... Johnny Ladlow...J. M. Wright. Weak lungs and how to make them strong... Dio Lewis...G. W. Shane. The art of conversation W. H. H. Reavis Love in the XIX century... C. W. SHANE, Librarian. When contracting for your coal always ascertain which dealer has the lightest driver, as it makes auced difference, with coal is $15 a ton, whether you pay for 120 or 240 pounds of driver. "Washing done dam cheap," is the way a Gold Hill Chinaman announced his vocation. The authorities made him take down that sign — quick. A Baltimore man proposes to light his city by one big lamp suspended by a balloon. But he will not profit by it, because the cell in the lunatic asylum in which he is confined has no window. Bulow, the planist, sarcastically says that "the souls of the masters do not lie at the bottom of beer mugs." When a man empties the pockets of his coat, preparatory to laying it by for repairs, there is nothing that makes his conscience get up on its hind legs quicker than the sight of the letter his wife gave him to mail two months ago. A man who in talking to a lady lays his hand upon her shoulder may be thought too touching in his remarks. When a Sacramento man plays spoiler he marks his winnings and loosings on his shirt-cuffs, and when the latter excered the former he sends his linen to wash and the whole score is wiped out. "Well, neighbor Slummidge, how much shall I pull you down for to get a chandelier for the church?" Neighbor S.: "Sho! what we want to get a chandelier for? The' hain't nobody kin play on it when ye git it." GAZETTE NO.21 MISCEL A bootless enterprise—Going b foot. The silent, reserved man in a social gathering is he whose mouth is full of tobacco juice and no spittoons are handy. Have you noticed that our street cars never come to a stop without there is a brake down? There are various stations in life, but the least desirable is a police station. In the line of "How to bring up parents," is the speech of the little boy who said, "Father, I think you should give up swearing or family prayers." The boy recognized the fitness of the thing. The newspapers are talking a great deal about the last shaft that has been thrown at Beecher; now we should like to know if it wasn't a Bow-en arrow? The young man who leads the Germans this winter has been invariably selected for four great qualifications—his thorough lack of knowledge of everything else but dancing, the smallness of his foot, the good clothes he wears, and the unvarying regularity with which he parts his hair in the middle. At a late prayer meeting in St. Louis, one of the brethren directed attention to a stranger who was sitting by himself near the door, and asked why he wasn't invited to pray. "Because," reprovingly observed a deacon, "this ain't no place for practical jokes. That man's the President of a gas company." Brooklyn is the home of a charm- It is said that Professor Tyndall proposed to the daughter of Lord Hamilton in a letter beginning: "Becharine conglomeration of protoplasm. Adorable combination of matter and force! Rarest product of infinite ages of evolution!" and continuing in the same strain. The closing appeal was as follows: "Defign, O admirable creature, to respect that attraction which draws me toward thee with a face inversely proportional to the square of the distance. Grant that we shall be made double suns describing centric orbits, which shall touch each other at all points of their peripheries." A certain parson, who is also a school teacher, handed a problem to his class in mathematics the other day. The first boy took it, looked at it while, and said, "I pass." Second boy took it, and said, "I turn it down." The third boy stared at it while, and drawn out, "I can't make it." "Very good, boys," said the parson, "we will proceed to cut for a new deal." And the switch danced like lightning over the shoulders of those depraved young mathematicians. A young American lady who has enjoyed the rare privilege of taking a stroll with the poet Tennyson, incidentally mentions in a letter to a friend that "it seriously affected the romance of the situation when he paused during the walk to scratch his back against a gate post." The worst Biblical typographical error, has just been discovered in an Old Testament in Brooklyn: "And the Lord shot Job with four balls." In the New Testament of the same edition appears the curious declaration, from Matthew xli., 20: "He that AND THE TERRIER.—Our large zoological in health, have no presence of rats in the contrary, they them as a relief to the existence, which constituted of a wild animal in thus it is a common dozen rats gnawing which the lions have one satisfied carnivora, giving the rats rank with their sleepy case is different, real rats begin to nibble bird of the forest before considerably to his save a sick lioness in biological Gardens from there was placed in little tan terrier, who received with a sulky in the first rat appearance saw the little terrier to the air, catching professional skill across the as he came down, she and what the terrier axed him to her side, around him, and each terrier slept at the mess, enfolded with her seeing that his natural disturb the rest of his rats had a bad time weeks. ECATE FLEAS.—From American we learn that who is very successful of education, adopts the aid. He puts the inail, circular glass box, taping and knocking that the glass for a day is finally beaten into useless to jump; and under of their natural about eight months—unt to crawl. Having intellects with regard instructor next fassair of wire nippers to of the flea's body; to desired form of minia as a car, a wagon, and the flea thus baray with the load, to of the looker-on. As our good behavior, the need to feed twice a day's arm. IN FALL.—The average in London amounts to 100 cubic inches, or rubbic feet, and the averas nearly as possible, on cubic inches, or 184 square feet. This is equal in nearly 42,400,000,000 course of the year, or to 100,000 gallons, on an young mathematicians. A young American lady who has enjoyed the rare privilege of taking a stroll with the poet Tennyson, incidentally mentions in a letter to a friend that "it seriously affected the romance of the situation when he paused during the walk to scratch his back against a gate post." The worst Biblical typographical error has just been discovered in an Old Testament in Brooklyn: "And the Lord shot Job with four bells." In the New Testament of the same edition appears the curious declaration, from Matthew xli., 20: "He that is not with me scratcheth a board. Graphic. A propos of German war civilization: "The stronger, healthier, and more spirited a youth is, the greater is his prospect of being killed by needle-guns, cannons and other instruments of civilization. The more useless, weaker or infilmer the youth is, the greater is the prospect of escaping the recruiting office and founding a family." G. W. Boon was arrested at Lone Rock, Wasco county, Oregon, last week, for an assault on R. G. Robinson. Boon is 55 years of age, and lost the use of his left arm in the Mexican war; two years ago two saw logs rolled over him, crippling his left arm still more, and also breaking his right shoulder and jaw bone and nearly all his ribs; and yet it took three officers to arrest him. A Bachelor's Choice.—"Oh, Mr. Grubbles," exclaimed a young mother, "shouldn't you like to have a family of rosy children about your knees?" "No, me am," said the disagreeable old bachelor, "I'd rather have a lot of yellow boys in my pocket." A city cobbler, it is said, made so many pairs of shoes in one day that it took two days to count them. He was a smart man, but not equal to one in the County Tipperary, who built so many miles of stone fence in one day that it took him all night and next day to get home. The Marysville Appeal says that the reports of large losses of stock by the recent severe storm in Slaklyon county are exaggerated, if not entirely untrue. The stock-raisers generally have laid inample stores of food for their sheep, and only in isolated instances have any losses occurred, the reports of loss being generally spread by greedy sheep-owners, to prevent the settlement of the country and the taking up of the trants now used for grazing. An old farmer of Alameda county went out to his barn the other day for the purpose of pitching some hay from the loft for his cattle. After throwing two or three forks full down, the implement became attached to some heavy substance under the hay, and after struggling and puffing and grunting for some time, the old Granger brought up a tramp by the coast-tails, and the first thing he asked was: "Have you got any first-class chicken salad und pickled oysters in the house? He was pitched down with the rest of the hay, and after the cattle had tamed him about on their horns for a time he went around to the house and young mathematicians. At a late prayer meeting in St. Louis, one of the brethern directed attention to a stranger who was sitting by himself near the door, and asked why he wasn't invited to pray. "Because," reprovingly observed a deacon, "this aln't no place for practical jokes. That man's the President of a gas company." Brooklyn is the home of a charming girl, with a face so sunny and alluring that an old gentleman recently said to her, "If kisses were entirely unknown, she would have invented them." In 1854 the City of Mexico contained 29 Catholic churches, with about 500 monks and nuns. All the religious orders have now been abolished, and the extensive buildings which formerly belonged to them are used as bargacks, schools, and so on. One day last week a young man in a neighboring town was invited with his sweetheart to attend a party, but unfortunately was not in possession of enough money to defray expenses. To provide it he killed a neighbor's dog, skinned it, and sold the hide to a tan yard, realizing enough to supply his need. A Chicago girl writes to the school authorities of that city to say that she "hed bin out of employment for a yeare, and wud teech for $10 a month and bord around." A strong-minded woman on Page street spends her days in lamenting her unhappy fate. "When," she says. "I recollect that I might have been a female preacher and got an invitation to the Advisory Council, and so had a chance of finding out all about the Beecher scandal, it sometimes appears to me if I had been created in vain." A case of chronic laziness is reported at Washington. A young man appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department was conducted to his desk and informed what his duties were. The chief of the department discovered him a short time after comfortably reposing in his seat, with his feet characteristically resting on the desk. "Hello," said the chief. "don't you expect to do any work?" "Work be hanged!" exclaimed the astonished youth, "I had to work hard enough to get here." All of the American Presidents are noted for their wonderful remembrance of faces," says an exchange. According to this man who recognizes the face of his tailor in time to dodge into a gin-mill has a very promising future. The Spanish pay pensions only to wounded soldiers after twenty years' service. Volunteers for Cuba receive a bounty of $50 on enlisting, soldiers grub and fifteen cents per day in coin. If I had not read Carlyle I should never have made my leather so good," said an English tanner recently. Animals fatten on proper doses of arsenic, because this substance injures young mathematicians. A young American lady who has enjoyed the rare privilege of taking a stroll with the poet Tennyson, incidentally mentions in a letter to a friend that "it seriously affected the romance of the situation when he paused during the walk to scratch his back against a gate post." The worst Biblical typographical error has just been discovered in an Old Testament in Brooklyn: "And the Lord shot Job with four bells." In the New Testament of the same edition appears the curious declaration, from Matthew xli., 20: "He that is not with me scrutacheh a board. Graphic. A proposof German war civilization: "The stronger, healthier, and more spirited a youth is," the greater is his prospect of being killed by needle-guns, cannons and other instruments of civilization. The more useless, weaker or infilmer the youth is, the greater is the prospect of escaping the recruiting office and founding a family." G. W. Boon was arrested at Lone Rock, Wasco county, Oregon, last week; for an assault on R. G. Robinson. Boon is 55 years of age, and lost the use of his left arm in the Mexican war; two years ago two saw logs rolled over him, crippling his left arm still more; and also breaking his right shoulder and jaw bone and nearly all his ribs; and yet it took three officers to arrest him. A BACHELOR'S CHOICE.—"Oh Mr. Grubbles," exclaimed a young mother, "shouldn't you like to have a family of rosy children about your knees?" "No, me am," said the disagreable old bachelor," I'd rather have a lot of yellow boys in my pocket." A city cobbler, it is said, made so many pairs of shoes in one day that it took two days to count them. He was a smart man, but not equal to one in the County Tipperary, who built so many miles of stone fence in one day that it took him all night and next day to get home. The Marysville Appeal says that the reports of large losses of stock by the recent severe storm in Slaklyon county are exaggerated, if not entirely untrue. The stock-raisers generally have laid inample stores of food for their sheep; and only in isolated instances have any losses occurred; the reports of loss being generally spread by greedy sheep-owners; to prevent the settlement of the country and the taking up of the trants now used for grazing. An old farmer of Alameda county went out to his barn the other day for the purpose of pitching some hay from the loft for his cattle. After throwing two or three forks full down, the implement became attached to some heavy substance under the hay; and after struggling and puffing and grunning for some time,the old Granger brought up a tramp by the coast-tails,and the first thing he asked was: "Have you got any first-class chicken salad und pickled oysters in the house? He was pitched down withthe rest ofthe hay,and afterthe cattlehad tamedhimaboutonthehornsforathetimehewentaroundtothehouseandyoungmathematiclans. A young American lady who has enjoyed the rare privilege of taking a stroll with the poet Tennyson, incidentally mentions in a letter to a friend that "it seriously affectedtheromanceofthe Situationwhenhepausedduringthewalktoscratchhisbackagainstahidepost." The worst Biblical typographical error has just been discovered in an Old Testament in Brooklyn: "Andthe LordshotJobwithfourballs!" IntheNewTestamentofthesameeditionappearsthecuriousdeclarationfromMatthewxli.,20: "Hethatisnotwithmescratchethaboard.-Graphic. A proposofGermanwarcivilization:"Thestronger,健康lier,andmorespiritedaouthalfisowhetherisherprotectbefoundbyneedle-guns,cannonsandotherinstructionsofcivilization.Themoreuselessweakerorinfilmertheyouthis,thegreateristheropeffectescrowingtherecruitingofficeandfoundingafamily." G.W.BoonwasarrestedatLoneRockWascocountyOregonlastweek;foranassaultonR.G.Robinson.Boonis55yearsofage,andlosstheuseofhisleftarminthenexicanwar;twoyearsofgowloglogsrolledoverhim,cripplinghisleftarmstillmore,andalsobreakinghisrightshoulderandjawboneandnearlyallhisribss;andyetittookthreeofficerstotrajecthimatrankedupafteritmustbearguedforgrazing. AnoldfarmerofAlamedacountywentouttohisbarntheotherdayfordespousethepurposeofpitchingsomehayfromtheloftforhiscattle.Afterthrowingtwoorthreeforksfulldown,theimplementbecameattachedtocomeheavysubstanceunderthehay;andafterstrugglingandpuffingandgrunningforsometime,theoldGrangerbroughtupatrampbythecoast-tails,andthefirstthingheaskedwas:"Haveyougotanyfirst-classchickensaladundpickledoystersinthehouse?Hewaspitcheddownwiththerestofthehay,andafterthe cattlehadtamedhimaboutonthehornsforathetimehewentaroundtothehouseandyoungmathematiclans. A youngAmerican lady who has enjoyed the rare privilege of taking a stroll with the poet Tennyson, incidentally mentions in a letter to a friend that "it seriously affectedtheromanceoftheSituationwhenhepausedduringthewalktoscratchhisbackagainstahidepost." The average London amounts to 100 cubic inches, or cubic feet, and the averages nearly as possible in cubic inches, or 183 feet. This is equal in our nearly 42,400,000,000 course of the year, or to 100,000,000 gallons, on an course of each day—the rate of rather more tons (of four hogsheads) and upwards of half a million (50,000) daily. The Spanish pay pensions only to wounded soldiers after twenty years' service. Volunteers for Cuba receive a bounty of $30 on enlisting, soldiers' grub and fifteen cents per day in coin. "If I had not read Carlyle I should never have made my leather so good," said an English tanner recently. Animals fatten on proper doses of arsenic, because this substance increases the power of digesting and lessens the excretion of nitrogen. Fifty years ago Gen. Banks was bobbin boy in a mill of the Nashua Manufacturing Company. Now look at him. His looks are white with the snows of many winters, but he is still a bobbin—from one party to another. Before his marriage Squiggles praised the artistic manner in which his wife "banged" her hair. Now he complains of the cruel manner in which she bangs his head. The owner of a pair of bright eyes assures us that the prettiest compliment she ever received came from a child of four years. The little fellow, after looking intently at her for a moment, inquired naively, "Are your eyes new ones?" In his sermon last Sunday night, Mr. Beecher said: "I do not think it would be safe to give a person the run of the New York banks. The vaults might be open, and every human being in the city might be asleep, and I would not take a dollar—at least I do not think that I would. But a man does not know what he may do until he is tried. [Laughter.] I learn of honest stock—my parents were honest. I would not steal. I have faults, but they lie in a different direction." [Laughter] This is not explicit enough. There is a touching Kilkenny ballad that begins: "Fario's daughter walked down to the Nile. Along wid her mades for to baths in stile. As she ran along the shores for to dry her skin. Her fut hit the basket that Moses was in." An old farmer of Alameda county went out to his barn the other day for the purpose of pitching some hay from the loft for his cattle. After throwing two or three forks full down, the implement became attached to some heavy substance under the hay, and after struggling and puffing and grooming for some time, the old Granger brought up a tramp by the coat-tails, and the first thing he asked was, "Have you got any first-class chicken salad and pickled oysters in the house? He was pitched down with the rest of the hay, and after the cattle had tasted him about on their horns for a time, he went around to the house and asked for a "drink of milk with cream on it." A method of procuring fresh water from sea water through the direct section of the sun's rays is among the foreign inventions. The apparatus consists of a box of wood one inch thick, about 14 feet long, two feet wide, and an average depth of six inches. The upper part of the box is closed with ordinary glass, which has an inclination of an inch and a half. At the lower edge of the glass there is a semi-circular channel, destined to receive the fresh water which is condensed on the interior surface of the glass. The operation is entirely simple. The salt water is let into the box for about an inch in depth, and then it is exposed to the rays of the sun. A very active evaporation then begins, and it is found that a square meter of glass will condense daily the amount of two gallons of pure water. The method of preserving wood by the application of lime, as pursued by M. Svostak, is published in the French journals. He piles the planks in a tank, and puts over all a layer of quicktime, which is gradually slashed with water. Timber for mine require about a week to be thoroughly impregnated, and other woods or less time according to its thickness. The material requires remarkable consistency and hardness on being subjected to this simple process, and it is alleged, will never rot. Boschwood has been prepared in this way for hammers and other tools for iron works; and it is said to become ash without parting with any of its well-known elasticity or toughness, and to last much longer than when not thus prepared.