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About The Democratic times. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1871-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1872)
I ■' I c/ O • ■ 5 • <7' / ADVERTISEMENTS, * Published Every Saturday Morning BY J. N. T. MILLER & CO., Publishers and Proprietors. FFI0E-—On.Oalifornia St,, over Reamse A Wil son'a Livery Stable. iw TERMS: Subscription, per annum........... Six months...................................... G. JACKSOX COUMTY. He AIKEN, Ma Da, PHYSICIAN A SURCEON. F ibs ? J upicial D istrict .—Circuit Judge, P. P. Prim ; Prosecuting Attorney, H. K. Hanna. JACKSONVILLE, Jackton County— Circuit Court, Second Monday in February and November. County Court, first Monday in each month. SHALL a president be elected UNDER MARTIAL LAWt [From the New York Trjbune.) If a deed of unmistakable"iniquity is to be attained by a subterfuge, commend us to Gen. Butler. His plan for smuggling the Ku-Klux law into an extension is jpfy- Offioe at the former millinery store of the worthy of its author. Consider the case. Couary Office™ —Judge, L. J. C. Duncan ; 46m3 Clerk, Silas J. Day ; Sheriff’, Henry Klippel; Misses Kent, U. 8. Hotel. There is no excuse now for violent Ku- Deputy Sheriff, E. D. Foudray ; Treasurer, John Klux legislation. Whatever the origin Neuber ; Assessor, David Redpath ; County Com al need of it may have been, it has whol missioners, John 8. Herrin, Thomas Wright; ly passed away. For months there has School Superintendent, Wm. M. Turner; Survey or, J. 8. Howard ; Coroner. L. Ganung. been scarcely a sign of Ku-Klux disor PHYSICIAN A SURCEON, ders. Negroes and whites have learned Jacktonvillt Precinct— Justice of the Peace, to occupy in peace the land in which JACKSONVILLE, OGN. James R. Wade; Constable, N. Stephenson. Providence lias placed them together; Tottn of Jaektoneille —Trustees, James A. Wil and they are even preparing to meet in son, N. Fisher, H. V. Helms, John Bilger and harmonious political action on the com David Lian; Recorder, U. 8. Hayden ; Tress wrer, Henry Pape ; Marshal, James P. McDaniel; JBP* Office and residence at Ryan’s brick build mon platform of the Cincinnati conven Street Commissioner, Peter Bosohey. ing, Third street between California and Main. tion. The present law was only passed J osepbixk coujyty . after earnest and conscientious opposi County Offictrt. —Judge, J. B. Sifers ; Sheriff, tion, on the distinct agreement that it Daniel L. Green ; Clerk, Charles Hughes ; Asses was not to extend over the next presi sor, R. E. Foley; Treasurer, Wm. Naucke; dential election, and on tlie adoption, as (KEPT OS THE EUROPEAN PLAN,) Commissioners, Thomas G. Patterson, II. Wood- was supposed, of a limitation that made oock; School Superintendent, R. R. Middies- this amply secure—the provision that it Corner of Stark and Front Streets, worth. should expire at the close of the present Jotepkine County.— Circuit Court, 2d Monday session of Congress. On the stump it was FOXLTXiAXn), - - - OREGON. in April and Fourth Monday in October. County defended against the fierce attacks of Court, First Monday in January, April, July and ZIERER <t- HOLTON, PROPRIETORS. which it was subjected by tlie equally October. January 7-tf. conspicuous assurance that by no possi bility could it be made to affect a presi New Boot and Shoe Shop, dential contest. Alter all these pledges and this self-limiting clause, it was only Cal. Street, (two doors east of P. 0.,) accepted by the American people with JACKSONVILLE LODGE No 10 tlie greatest reluctance, and because of a JACKSONVILLE, OGX. belief in its instant necessity for the pres olds its regular meetings on ent protection of a helpless race, exposed every Saturday evening at the Odd Fel erery Fellows’ to midnight scourgings and assassination. Hall. Brothers in good standing are invited to General Butler now proposes that Con attend. NEWMAN FISHER, N. G. IIE undersigned, having permanently located ISAAC SACHS, R. Sec y. in Jacksonville, respectfully informs the gress shall not adjourn its present ses sion, but merely take a recess till after Regular Rebekah Degree meeting, last Monday public that he is prepared to do all kinds of work night of each month, at 7) o’clock p. in. in the boot and shoe-making line. Satisfaction the election, that tlie limitation may be guaranteed. [6tf] M. CATON. vial. evaded, and the Ku-Klux law kept in force. We do not believe the dodge will Oregonian, Pocahontas. Tribe No. 1, Im win. A great nation cannot be tricked proved Order of Red Men, out of its purpose like a ward caucus; OLD their stated councils at Odd Fellows’ Hall, and we warn gentlemen who contemplate Cal. Street, (two doors west of Sachs Bros.) the third sun in each seven suns, at the 8th the attempt that it may prove a very se run. A cordial invitation to all brothers in good JACKSONVILLE, OGUXT- rious piece of business. All men do know standing. D. CRONEMILLER, S. Jos. H. H tzkr , C. of R. that there is no excuse for the extension ENGINEER, - - HENRY PAPE. of this law. Its propriety was earnestly disputed by many of our best people at r X Jwiofjs Curb tlie outset, and it was only carried over 1H0ICE CIGARS AND LIQUORS CON- their heads by sense of its necessity. ) stantly on hand. The reading-table is also There is no such sense now’. There are DR. L. DANFORTH, well supplied with Eastern periodicals'and leading no disorders to call for it. There is a re papers of the Coast. turning spirit of peace and good order, Physician and Surgeon, which it, more than all else combined, can destroy. It is a most alarming and THROUGH TICKETS, 12) CENTS, AS permanently located on the Fort Lane __________________ ___ \ vln39 dangerous power to commit to a Presi Ranch, two miles north of Willow Springs, dent like General Grant, when his owui and offers his professional services to the people of TREADWELL & CO., interests are at stake. Because it is need Jsekson and Josephine counties. 38ttf less, because it is baneful to tlie region it Agricultural Warehouse A General professes to protect, because it is danger Dr. L. T. DAVIS, ous to tlie country at large, not less than 1 troot, because it was originally a grave stretcli DEPOT, of power which only the most pressing Opposite the Old FOR FARMERS, MINERS, MILLMEN, Ac. exigency could warrant, we protest against tlie trick for its renewal. Let tlie South as well as tlie North have Importers and Wholesale Dealers in A rkansas L ivery S tadi . e , Hardware, Portable Engines, Mills, peace. Jacksonville, Oregon. AGRICUL TUR A L IMPLEMENTS, A T rue W ife .—Daniel Webster once Wood-working and Iron-working Machinery, said: There is nothing upon this earth DR. W. JACKSON, Miners’, Engineers* and Mechanics’ that can compare with the faithful at Tools, Mill Supplies, etc., etc. tachment of a wife; no creature who, for ZDZEILTTIST. At the !Cor. Market and Fremont Sts. the object of her love, is so indomitable, SAN FRANCISCO LL styles of plate work made—such as Old Stand, [7in3] so persevering, so ready to suffer and die. Gold, Silver, Platina. Aluminum and Rub Under the most depressing circumstan ber plates. Special attention given to Children’s NEW STATE SALOON ces, woman’s weakness becomes a migh teeth. Ether Spray used in extracting. ty power, her timidity becomes a fearless Will visit Ashland on the 1st of March annually ; courage, all her shrinking and sinking also Kerbyville on the 4th Monday in October. passes away, and her spirit acquires the Call and examine specimen work. HIS popular resort, under the new manage Offioe eor. Cal. A 5th street; residence opposite ment, is furnishing the best brands of firmness of marble—adamantine firmness Court House. no3o —when circumstances drive her to put liquors at forth all her energies under the inspira tion of her affection. It is the bubbling Twelve and a half Cents a Drink. stream which flow’s gently, the little riv The “New State” has been elegantly refitted, ulet which runs along day and night by HE UNDERSIGNED HATE ESTABLISH- and is now one of the finest resorts in town. Two the farm house that is useful, rather than ei a Real Estate Agency in connection with billiard tables are provided for the lovers of this the swollen flood or cataract. Niagara their Law Offioe, and are prepared Co buy and sell game. The bar is furnished with the choicest real estate in this and adjoining counties. Records Brandies, Wines, Cigars, Ac., and the reading ta excites our wonder, and we stand amazed searched and abstracts of title prepared with dis bles with Eastern periodicals and leading papers of at the power and greatness of God there, patch aad accuracy. Parties at a distance can Coast, as it pours from the hollow of His hand. C. W. SAVAGE, Prop’r. eommunioate with us by addressing But one Niagara is enough for a conti Jacksonville, Jan. IStb, 1872. 3tf FAY A REA, nent or the world, while the same world Jacksonville, Oregon. thousands and tens of thousands apu22-tf. EDWIN R. PEACOCK, requires April 32, 1871. of silver fountains and flowing rivulets, C. W. BAMLBB. WAT80M. Fresco, Scene, House, Sign, Carriage that water every farm and meadow and garden, and that shall flow on every day KAHLEB A WATSON, and night with their gentle and quiet —AND— beauty. So with the acts of our lives. It Attorney and Connseilor-at-Law, is not by great deeds, like the martyrs, 77ÏTÏ that good is to be done, but by the daily JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, and quiet virtues of our life, the Chris tian’s temper, the good qualities of rela Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and tives and friends. AVING permanently located in Jacksonville, other Courts of this Stata. S. F. CHAPIN, M. D„ a COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL H T H RAILROAD SALOON C I H MACHINERY i SUPPLY A T a REAL ESTATE AGENCY T H I would respectfully inform the public that OFFICE—In building formerly occupied by 0. I am prepared to do all kinds of painting known to L ongevity of B irds .—Among the Jacobs—opposite Court House square. the art, and in a style not surpassed on the Coast. feathered creation the eagle and raven, All work V ARRANTED satisfactory. JT-ST* Par D. 1. BBS. JAMBS D. FAT. ticular attention paid to graining and marbling. the swan and parrot, are each centenari FAY * BEA Shop two doors above Franco-American Hotel. ans. An eagle kept in Vienna died after a confinement of 114 years, and an an 3tf E. W. PEACOCK. Attorneys and Counselfors-atsLaw, cient oak in Selborne, still known as the “raven tree,” the same pair of ravens are OFFICE—In Court Honsa, np stairs. believed to have fixed their residences for Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts a series of more than ninety years. of this State. Swans upon the river Thames, about whose age there can be no mistake, since <5#* Particular attention paid to the collection they are annually nicked by the Vinters’ of Claims against the Federal and State Govern Company, under whoso keeping they ments, the Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption aad Homestead Laws, and to the Entry of Mineral have been for five centuries, have been “ is MY MOTTO.» Lodes under the recent Act of Congress. 1 tf. known to survive 150 years and more. The melody of the dying swan is entire ARTICLE AM SELLING A SUPERIOR A ly mythological. Upon the approach of of Saddles and Harness cheaper than ever was the bird quits the water, sits down offered before in Jacksonville. “Seeing is believ death ing.” Give me a call before purchasing else upon the bank, lays its head upon the ground, expands its wings a trifle and ex Wintjen & Helms, Proprietors. where. _________ __ pires, uttering no sound. repairing Oregon St., Best to Odd Fellows» Building. L ook U pward .—A young man once done with neatness and dispatch. picked up a gold coin that was lying in ▼In2 JERRY NÜNAN. TA <E88R8. WINTJEN A HELMS BEG TO the road. Always afterward, as he walked JV1 inform their friends and the public generally ___________ ~__________ «____________ along, he kept his eyes on the ground, that they have thoroughly refitted their saloon, hoping to find another. And in the and reduced the price of liquors to course of a long life he did pick up, at different times, a goodly number of coins, lfil 1-0 CEMSTTSA. CALIFORNIA STREET, (Opposite U. S. notel,) both gold and silver. But all these years that he was looking for them he saw not They will be happy to have their friends “call jAczsoirvxuii, OKsaosr. that the heavens were bright above him. and smile.” He never let his eyes turn away from the LWAYS on hand the best stock of patent and filth and mud in which he sought his home-made Rifle and Shot Guns, single and Sngliflh Ale and Porter, treasure ; and when he died—a rich old double; Revolvers of the latest patent« ; Pocket Pistols, neat, small and powerful t Derringers, the man—he only knew this fair earth as a tegsther with the finest brands of liquors and ei- latest and best. Also the best I uwder and Powder dirty road in which to pick up money. QUICK SALES And Small Profits, THE TABLE ROCK SALOON. I - - — . va — : HUNTERS' EMPORIUM! A gan always on hand. Flasks; all «ort of Shot and Pouches; Caps, Wads, and everything in the Sportman’s line. 60 Points of Billiards for Drinks. The above goods are all of the best quality, and will be sold cheaper than the cheapest, fit* AU April 1st, 1870. aprl-tf. orders promptly filled. Repairing done promptly LL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING neatly sad in good stylo.“Ms JOHN MILLER. y executed al the T imxs Printing i your order*.' Jacksonville, Sept. 9th, 1871. “WRASUIN» JOE.’» [From Portland Daily Bulletin.) O GN. Joseph Thomas, or as our readers have learned to know the man, “Wraslin’ Joe,” arrived in Portland on the south ern train to-day for the purpose of taking the steamer on Saturday, en route to St. Louis, Mo., where he proposes to end his days. During the past eighteen months this old man—a living link connecting the events of the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries—has furnished the news papers of this city with many paragraphs. Born on the frontier when the now magnificent State of Illinois was a wil derness in the possession of the Red Man, and its boundless prairies the feeding fields of millions of buffaloes, he has lived to the age of ninety-three years, leading the life of a trapper, boatman and hunter. Spending the days of his youth in flat-boating on tlie Mississippi river, his vigorous manhood in the forests of Arkansas and Southwestern Missouri— lumbering, trapping, hunting and light ing Indians, and his old age as a beggar in the streets of cities that have grown up on spots where more than half a cen tury ago he shot deer and “wrasled” with his companions. After years of want and beggary he was found and recognized as tlie lawful heir ofa magnificent estate, gained and left by his wife and child here on the banks of the Willamette river, and now a portion of Portland. In his eflorts to recover that which be longed to him he run the legal gauntlet of the lawyers of this city and State, and underwent one of tlie most tedious cross- examinations known in tlie history of the law. Tlie result of the law-suit is known to every reader of tlie Bulletin, and now old “Wraslin’ Joe,” when near ly one hundred years of age, starts upon a long journey of nearly three thousand miles, for the purpose of spending his last days amongst those who were his friends when he was a beggar, and who helped him when it was not known that lie would ever be able to repay them. Good-bye, old-fellow ! may your voyage be pleasant and your days continue many years yet. D ying at the T op .—Quite a number of prominent railroad men are mentioned as being obliged to retire, for a time at least—some going to Europe—their brain being affected by too long and excited at tention to business. It is the bane of our business men. They are doing too much. They must take things moderately, or go by the board. # - It is next to impossible to-make any man sensible of his own need of the care and caution that ho would commend to his neighbor. “All men think all men mortal but themselves.” And every man thinks he can endure a strain that lie knows would break down any two men of whom he was not one. At the very time when lie is feeling the best, doing his work with the greatest possible zest, freshness, energy and success, tlie crisis is coming. At the top of its bent tlie bow snaps, and the man is a wreck. He goes to Europe to find his wits, but they are not there. He comes home, and they are not here. He is a “used up man.” The moral of this is: be moderate in business. In getting riches or honors, take care of your health so as to enjoy your gettings. For it is better to retire with a competency and health, than to become very rich with softening of the brain. _ ______ To C ure the L ove of A rdent S pir its .—Captain Hall was tlie commander of the Great Eastern steamship. He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At length he sought the advice of an ancient phy sician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for seven months. At the end of that time he had lost all desire for liquor, although he had many times been led captive by the most de basing appetite. The prescription, which he afterwards published, and by which so many other drunkards have been assist ed to reform, is as follows : Sulphate of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, 10 grains; pep permint water, 11 drachms; spirit of nutmeg, 1 drachm; twice a day. P oison O ak .—We And the following in an exchange : A standing antidote for poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four ap plications will never fall to cure the most aggravated case. Poison from bees, hor nets, spider bites, etc., is instantly ar rested by the application of equal parts of common salt and bicarbonate of soda, well rubbed in on the place bitten or stung. _____ C rime . — Statistics show that from three to seven per cent, of the population of the United States commit thirty per cent, of all the crime, and less than one- fifth of one per cent, is committed by those who are educated. Throughout the country from eighty to ninety per cent, of crime is committed by those who are not educated, or none sufficient to afford them a valuable purpose in life. ♦ I First insertion, (ten lines er less) • vrees • see s^S 03 For each week thereafter....^,.......................... 81 ®8 A liberal deduction from the above rates will be made on quarterly and yearly advorttseasenta. JOB PRINTING. Every variety of Job Work executed with naxf ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates. A NO. 23. JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1872. VOL. II ..83 00 ..|1 50 In T he D kmocbatic T imes will bo charged at the following rates gap- LEGAL TENDERS taken at eurranf rates for subscription. THE SCIENCE OF ADVERTISING. FORSAKING HIM. Judicious advertising always pays. If you have a good thing, advertise it. If you haven’t, don’t. Large type isn’t necessary in advertis ing. Blind folks don’t read newspapers. Don’t be afraid to invest in printer’s ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run out. Never run down your opponent’s goods in public. Let him do his own advertising. Let your advertisements have some thing of a dash in them, without great exaggeration. You cxn’t eat enough in one week to last a whole year, and you can’t adver tise on that plan either. It’s a« true of advertising as of anything else in the world—if its worth doing at all, its worth doing well. Hand-bills and circulars are good of their kind, but they cannot take the place of newspaper advertisements. Injudicious advertising is like fishing where there’s no fish. You need to let the line fall in the right place. No bell can ring so loudly as a good ad vertisement. People will believe what they see rather than what they hear. Small advertisements and plenty of them, is a good rule. We were all babies once, yet we made considerable noise. When you advertise, do it on the same principle you buy goods. Get the most you can for the money. We don’t recommend advertising as the best way to get a wife; but we know that it is the best way to get a good trade. People who advertise only once in three months forget that most folks can’t re member any thing longer than aboutseven days. If you can arouse curiosity by an ad vertisement, it is a great point gained. Tlie fair sex don’t hold all the curiosity in the world. A constant dropping will wear a rock. Keep dropping your advertising on the public, and they will soon melt under it like rock salt. Quitting advertising in dull times is like tearing out a dam because the water is low. Either plan will prevent good times from ever coming. “Dull times,” it is said, “are the best for advertisers.” Because when money is tight, and the people are forced to econ omize, they always read the advertise ments to find out who sells the cheapest, and where they can trade to the best ad vantage. According to the character or extent of your business, set aside a liberal percent age for advertising. Keep yourself un ceasingly before the public; and it mat ters not what business of utility you may be engaged in, for, if intelligently and in dustriously pursued, a fortune will be the result. The man who advertises shows not on ly a business talent above his neighbors, but he may be at once reckoned among the independent, generous and public- spirited of the community. He who hides his light under a bushel, when such ad vantages as those at present afforded are so freely offered him, does not deserve to succeed. B oy ’ s C omposition .—The following “Boy’s Composition” is the latest. The boy who “manufactured” it is bound to make his mark in the literary world: “A goat is stronger than a pig, and gives more milk. He looks at you aud you look at him. So does the doctor. But a goat has four legs. My goat but ted Mr. Tillinghast in a bad place, and a little calf wouldn’t do so. A boy without a father is an orphan, and if he hasn’t got no mother, he’s two orphans. The goat don’t give so much milk as a cow, but more than an ox. We saw one at a fair oue day with a card tied on his left ear ; he went in on a family ticket Mother picks geese in the summer, and the goat eats grass and jumps on a box. Some don’t like goats, but as for me, give me a mule with a paint-brush tail and patent cars. The goat is a useful animal, but don’t smell as sweet or as nice as bear’s oil for the hair or burnt molasses. If I had too much hair I would wear a wig as Capt. Peters does. I will sell my goat for $3, and go to the circus and see the ele phant, which is bigger as five goats. Fa ther is coming home to-morrow, and the baby has got the croup bad.” One by one the most powerful Radical organs of the United States are turning against Grant There is such corruption that they can no longer stand by and see the people wronged and the nation dis graced by the imbecility of the Chief Magistrate. The Atlantic Monthly, the most powerful and able Republican monthly published on this continent, and which has never before swerved from its allegiance to the principles of that party, nor faltered in its devotion to the leaders thereof, has taken a new depart ure and forsaken Grant. In a late num ber, it says: Those who distrust the Administration have an underlying ground of complaint, which it would require a great deal to re move. It has often been repeated, but repetition does not weaken its force. It is, that when Gen. Grant was elected, al most four years ago, it was the popular belief and understanding that he would bend all his energies to the work of pu rifying the Government, of redeeming it from the corruption into which it had fallen, of assisting those whose object it is to make political life in America once more respectable and honorable. Instead of doing this, he has allied himself with the very men whose names are by-words throughout the country for these vices which he professed his desire to root out; he has lent his warm assistance to petty factions, warring not for any political ob ject, but for the control of plunder, and he now demands his re-election on the strength of these services to the country. C anary B irds .—Hang the cage al ways where drafts do not strike the bird. Give healthy birds canary and rape seed, plenty of fresh water, cuttle-fish bone and gravel on the bottom of the cage of ten. Also, give the birds fresh water to bathe in every day. After they have bathed remove the dish, which should be rather shallow. Never have the room over-heated. At night, when the fire has gone down, if it is very cold, throw a thin cloth over the cage. A littlo pepper occasionally regulates them. Do not give them cake or sugar. When shedding, feed them on rape seed, slightly moisten ed. Hard boiled egg and cracker grated are excellent. Bad seed will kill birds. Cabbage and sweet apples are good for them, and now and then a fig. With moderate care the little songsters will re pay your kindness with the sweetest notes of joy. C hina has a newspaper which has just entered upon its two thousanth volume. It is understood that Bhooda was its orig inal proprietor; that Confucius served on it in every capacity from devil to chief editor, and that its continued existence is due to the fact that the Grand Lama, who never dies, has contributed most of the capital. The compositors’ cases have each over 6,000 compartments for the numerous letters of the Chinese alphabet. The cases are built in the form of an am- pitheatre, and the oompositor stands in the middle. Every letter he selects from the six thousand. I n one of our large cities, a short time ago, a Western editor was met by a friend, who, taking him by the hand, ex claimed : “I am delighted to see you. How long are you going to stay?” “Why, I think,” said the editor, “I shall stay as long as my money lasts.” “How disappointed I am,” said the friend ; “I hoped you were going to stay a day or two.” ~ _______ A B oston girl being asked if she had not once been engaged to “a party by the name of’ Jackson, who was at that time a Harvard student, languidly replied, To grow rich, earn money fairly, spend “I remember the circumstance perfectly, T he speed of a comet is often eight less than you earn, and hold on to the but I am not certain about the name.” times greater than that of a telegragh difference. The first takes muscle, the message; that is, we are told so by sci I t is all very well to say : Take things second self-control, and the third brains. as they come; but suppose things don’t entific people who are entirely “up” in this sort of thing. L ong division—separation for life. come ? e 1 4 How I t F eels to be H anged .— A Frenchman, who tried to hang himself and was cut down by his friends, thus describes his sensations in a Paris paper: The first feeling after kicking away the chair was “very strange.” From the soles of his feet to the crown of his head “a sort of general mixing up of the fluids of his body” ensued. Suddenly there flashed before his eyes a sparkling, danc ing light of color, in which blue and som bre red predominated. Presently the flashing light concentrated to a single fo cus, and thence spread away into space and ripples. At the same time a fearful weight pressed upon his head—a com pression as if the temples were tightly bound In a ring of iron. His hands and feet were full of pins and needles. Nee dles without number seemed to pass out of the ends of his fingers by a process of continual expulsion. Then came a terri ble “snapping” at the nape of the neck, and along his spine there passed a wrig gling which he “can compare only to * small serpent forcing a passage along the vertabrae.” His last sensation was one of acute pain at the throat and shoulder- blades, and finally came a state of per fect unconsciousness. S ugar B eets for F attening S wine . —Jonathan Talcott gives a statement in the Boston Cultivator, of an experiment performed on a Suffolk pig, where sugar beets were largely employed in fatten ing. The animal was about a year old, and the feeding on boiled sugar beets, tops and roots, began on August 16th, and was continued three times a day un til October 1st, after which ground feed was given, consisting of two parts of corm and one of oats, three times a day, till the animal was slaughtered, the meal be ing mixed with cold water. The result was, on August 16th, when the sugar beet feeding was begun, that the weight was 360 pounds; Sept. 1st, 890 pounds; Oct 1st, 450 pounds; Nov. 1st 520 pounds. This is the substance of the statement given, by which we perceive that the in crease the last of August when fed on boiled sugar beets, was at the rate of two pounds per day; the same rate of increase on the same food continced through Sep tember. When fed on ground corn and oats, made into cold slop, the gain for the next fifty days was less than a pound and a half per day. W hat I K now , E tc .—An Oregonian bought a farm densely overgrown with elders, and commenced clearing it for cropping. The confounded brush kept coming up just as fast as he could cut it down, and all his efforts to stop it were unavailing. At last he thought perhaps he had taken hold of it at the wrong time of the year, so he concluded to write to H. G., of the N. Y. Tribune, about it. He asked the white-hatted philosopher, “What is thd4>est time to cut elders?” In the next number of the paper, the sage of Chappaqua answered him, “Just be fore c imp-meeting.”_______ C elestial B odies .—The moon is our nearest celestial acquaintance, but it has the safe distance of 287,000 miles. Great as is the space between the earth and the moon, the sun could not pass through it; but still perhaps a better idea of the sun can be obtained from the fact that if it should be entirely hollowed out and the earth placed In the centre, there would still be room for the moon’s entire path, and an unoccupied space of 204,000 miles in diameter all around—for the diameter of the sun is 882,000 miles! T his is the way a Florida man expects to get a partner to his bosom. He adver tises as follows: “Any gal what’s got a cow, a good feather bed, with considera ble flxens, $500 in good, genuine slam-up greenbacks, that has had the small-pox, measles, and understands tending chil dren, can find a customer for life by rit- ingasmall william-ducks addressed X. Y. Z., and stick in a crack of Uncle Bil ly Smith’s barn jinin’ the pig pen where Harrison Reed is now planning for future operations.”_____ A B oston girl is so absent-minded that she kisses any of her male acquaintances she may happen to meet, under the im pression that the aforesaid are her dear est female friends. The practice is ren dered all the more unaccountable from the fact that the mistake seldom or nev er occurs except when the recipient of the affectionate salutation is young and good looking. i 1 «■ I