Show k AN earthquake IN WAI sai rashoe wailon yA SHOE iol loi the virginia enterprise of december ath says we are informed by john who has just returned from desert district about 75 miles east of this tilis city that a few days since several severe shocks shocks of an earthquake were experienced in the region of country named above john says there is no humbug about it the shocks were genuine and startling the indians say that about nine years ago the ground round got very sick out near P pyramid ral rai lake that a great crack opened and that water was spouted out from it to a great height y A L I 1 BLASTING ROOKS nocks A simple simp leand and effective invention for blasting rocks has been patented by mr air D S sutherland of 31 great george st westminster ho he is to introduce into the borehole bore hole a cone either of wood or hollow metal between the powder and the outer side of the hole the apex of the cone is i outward and arld the hole is then filled up with sand sufficient room only being left for the passage of the fuse tho the effect of thi econe is that the foice force fouce of the explosion is much increased tho the sand rendering the blowing out oi of the cone impo impossible kalble london mining journal journ al GENERAL mcdowell AND THE INDIANS OF THE I 1 PACIFIC han SAN cai cal nov 23 1861 1881 J it has haa come to the knowledge of the major general commanding that officers in this department h havo have avo assumed to act in a summary manner in reference to indians charged with crimes and there are cases where they have had llad indians executed by the troops this tills is against all ail law is irano in no way wax to bo justified and will not be sanctioned As his Excellency the Go governor of ca california li correctly states indians are amenable to the civil law equally with whites wl rites and should be tried for lenses offenses of committed and punished accordingly hereafter no officer or soldier will execute or aid in executing any indian prisoners on any pretext whatever if an indian commits any crime them tary may hold him under guard until the civil authority can take charge of him by command of major general mcdowell R 0 DRUM assistant adjutant general how BODIES ARE E EMBALMED A correspondent of a philadelphia 1 paper writes arites from city point va as follows I 1 among the curiosities in the rear of our g great reat armies none more attract my attention than embalming tents and the amount of business they do the process of embalming is is very s simpie simple 9 and easily comprehended when the sub bub actis is laid upon the operating table in a slight incision is made in the neck from which as much of the blood as can be is wi withdrawn and then an incision in artery admits the metal end of ii a rubber tube through which by a force pump the preserving fluid is driven into ane entire arterial system and thus into the venous system expelling in the course of its progress what blood had yet remained in arteries or veins the materials used the embalmers b imers attempt to conceal it is said that arsenic is a principal one this ia is especially ally aily important in warm weather veather after the process procesa is completed the form of the face and general expression of the tho countenance remains unchanged exe pi rt a i good bood deal darkening in color at tue the end of a few months an embalmed embalm ed boils would ont ant bu be very different diu herent ferent in appe t anie ance pi u 1 ap dds from tiie file r egyptian ep eri irn ns frough less il the em L i jiing king is deferred till the tto tio ta j day jay a W i luth lath in ummer time IL r not bt loomed w wilh with ith success ex c fc i iii ili a rai tes ta the second d ices less ite tte te certa n and when V v tie tle y within a i kw few hours of ii i maw law mat oat i i to rue we 10 io 10 very i i eases cases X iad rad id he ile exi 1 son bon iliah beert ia fui ful t LO L rn T I 1 arned arnod u nned ned nod i dr df J W 13 1 i it jy ty P it who A ii imaged nu aged in tho the business t ittu lawm the che wl w t ht st of coffin embalm i A id ex uhe the body home to U N oi 01 the ii a viii ylli range I 1 from flom 0 IGO v s 1 k be p pil j ul hc h be fofe faje e the body i a I 1 in pon the lof cof h having baag a fr a i A I body embalmed embalm ed and taken token ili ill T KI T am stron jy in the nea yeative negative tive lf if in 0 na lanu v aai lib lis body will help heip eon secra the bott soil and und and make it truly di dust t ft and he win 7 then remember him as he appeared when wilen ho he left his northern home homo nor have our recollection of a bright and beautiful faco face forever marred by the vision of his decaying but embalm ed corpse such would be my advice to any friend still if you must secand see and bury with your own hands thit that loved dust the embalmer cm balmer will enable you to do it AN EDITOR MIGHT HAVE havn BEEN bern holland the editor 0 of f the springfield mass be ap publican ubi lean ican has been up in vermont verav to where lie he came from and lie he thus sketches what he should have beani been if he be had not left home and become an editor your correspondent would have grown grow n stalwart and strong I 1 1 with I i th horny hands and a face as black as t the be ace of spades he would have taught school winters work worked edon on the farm summers and gone out haying fifteen days in july jul jui and taken for pay the iron work adyr and running gear of a wagon at tw two 0 and twenty or thereabouts he would have begun to pay attentions to a girl 1 ra with a father worth two thousand dollars 50 1 and a spit curl eurl on her forehead forel lead a girl who always went to singing school and set iset in the seats and sung without opening her mouth a pretty girl any way ivay well lvell after seeing her home from singing school two or thieo three years taking her to a fourth of july ami getting about a hundred dollars together he would have married and settled down years would pass away and that girl with the spit curl would have eleven chil chii children drion drien justas just as sure as you live seven boys and four girls we should have had a hard time in bringing them up but they would soon be able enough to do the milking and help their mother on wash days and 1 I getting inde pendent leendent at last and feeling a little stiff in i the joints should be elected a member of the legislature having been an assessor and school committee for years in the evening of my days with my pipe c in in my mouth thirteen barrels of cye cne cider r in the cellar and a newspaper in in my hands I 1 should sit and look over the markets through a pair of gold mounted spectacles and wonder why should such a strange silly piece althis as this be published TRIAL OF AN alrine ALPINE locomotive an interesting trial of a locomotive engine an e built upon novel principles at the canada nada works birkenhead took place lately at whaley bridge on the crom ford and high peak railway and upon a short line made especially for the experiment peri ment the engine is constructed to ascend and descend steep gradients to pass sharp curves and to perform work which locomotives as yet have never been able to accomplish the practical object of this invention cannot but be greatly lliter interesting esting inasmuch as it proposes to run a line of railway for passengers mails malls and merchandise over the very heart of the alps and along the road hitherto considered impassable for locomotives it is the well known military road hewn out of such great difficulties by the first napoleon that it is thus contemplated to traverse at present there is a tract of mountain pass forty eight miles in length between the two great railway systems of france prance and north italy the terminus of the former being san michael in savoy and the latter susa in piedmont the mount cenis by which this district is known has been considered so import i ant for the purpose of traffic that the french ani and italian governments five years ests ago commenced the excavation of a tunnel t the he dimmig difficulties unties so often felt at the lowest computation this great undertaking will take twelve years to complete the proposed railway over the surface of the pass will only be two years in irk snaking jn aking and the projectors projector s would therefore have ten years of working before the tunnel was available for trammie traffic the district has been thoroughly surveyed by mr sir fell in connection with a company of well 1 english capital capitalists faiwl contractors and the scheme has met the approbation atlon of the italian government the present plesent road is sufficiently wide to fW accommodate the ballway and leave luom ro n for loc loe loidl al trammie traffic le and alid the usual en linoa 1 ing labors of tudd ohn I 1 c e will lot jot i P tuil liu liua 4 1 the chief difficulty however is that which the new locomotive is especially I 1 benned denned to 0 overcome arcome namely tho thi ex eive elve c ive lve s starting from flom han ban la 11 e lel lei 11 tel ll the road roal gna gra dudly i lies lles i sel as far fr u h v alar I 1 lae la e of la L ta a k I 1 v 1 t k i it t a lid ild iid atia 0 a 1 l oi 01 one in tw twelve elveto to the summit t of the pa pass pas s which is seven sewn thousand thou and fet fet above lh the 1 rula ruin ta is point th i i is an equally rapid descent to ca arto erto in 1 addition to this tilis rising and kud falling there I 1 are frequent sharp curves it is 19 proposed to cover in those portions of the line where it is known avalanches and snow drifts fall the locomotive to be employed here is in fact a double engine a horizontal and vertical engine combined bained dand wd so af arranged ranged that it may be worked either cither together or separate according cord in to the steepness of the incline not ta tho the least feature of this invention is the safety which it insures the horizontal wheels referred to above fac militate the passages of the curves enabled the driver to stig stop the engine in tile tiie the middle of the steepest gradient give a pro pressure of several tons and b by means of the flanges which the tile centre rail renders it nearly impossible that the carriages can be overturned the brake brakes sare are extremely powerful and as they are attached carria carriage gei get no danger can arise from a coupling chain giving way the extreme narrowness I 1 of the gauge renders the curves less difficult to pass gives more room for the P public road and greatly assists in erecting the tile covered ways wa ys for the most dangerous parts I 1 the trials on thesda tuesday y were in in every way successful and for once the eHigh th high peak proved an a aid ald id rather than an obstacle stacle to the engineer there were two inclines the first being two undred hundred li yards long at a gradient of one in twelve with curves of about two chains radius this represents the most difficult part of the mount cenis cents road the shortness of the line upon which the experiment was made prevented the full getting up of steam and the trial may therefore be taken as a fair test the locomotive itself wel wei weighing hing 1 sixteen tons first ascended and te descended the lines stooping in the middle and going backwards and forwards as required with perfect ease four wagons laden with twenty six tons of ballast were then attached and the experiment was repeated with equally satisfactory results it 1 is proposed to work the mount cenis line at an average speed of twelve miles 1 thus performing the journey J I 1 in n from four to five hours the number of passengers will not exceed one hundred and niney ninety equivalent to twenty four tons liverpool post SALT FOR TIM THE Tirl THROAT fOAT in these days when diseases of the throat are so universally prevalent and so many cases fatal we feel it our duty to say a word irl ill behalf of a simple and what has been with us a most mok effectual preventative venta tive if not a positive cure eure of sore nna flA throat roat ki vor for or many past indeed wa we may say during the whole of a life of over forty years we have been subject to sore throat and more abre particular to a dry hacking cough which was not only distressing to ourselves but to our friends frends and those with whom whom we were brought into business contact last fall we were induced to try what virtue there was in common salt we commenced by using it three times a day dav morning noon and night we dissolved a large tablespoonful table spoonful of pure salt in about half a small tumbler full of cold water with this we gargle the throat most thorough just before meals the result has been that during the entire winter we were not only free from the usual coughs and colds to which as far as our memory extends we have always been subject but the dry hacking cough has entirely disappeared vve we attribute those satisfactory results solely to the use of salt gargle gargie ar ae and do most cordially recommend recommend a frial thial trial of it to those subject to disease of the throat many persons who have nevar never tried theale gargle have the impression that if ir is unpleasant such is not the ase casa case on the tiie contrary it is pleasant and after a few lew days use no person who loves lovesa a nice clean mouth and a first rate sharpener of the appetite ag appetite petite will abandon it lt farmer all ali and gardner f INGENIOUS CLOCK there is now in possession of and manufactured by mr collings ceilings silversmith of gloucester england a most ingenious piece oi of mechanism an eight day clock cloak with 1 dead beat boat escapement maintaining power chimes the qu arteme artere plays sixteen tunes tune plays three tunes iii twelve hours or will play at any time required red the hand hann to ro lound rand a follows follow one once 6 a i lintio lii ill twe Tio 0 mie wie i one Q a an n hour one oira alicea v 0 o 0 oil oi ean can a olith one 1011 loll I 1 airo oiro eay oay a ar r it ft dv t 2 ii 11 on 01 n s a aye 1 e the time ot und and of eulle ul 0 sun the time of high and low water half ebb an and d h half al flood and by a beautiful contri contrivance eon con ance anee there thorp is a p part rt which reli rell represents resents the vail vati ine ibe liand mils mlis jis nis uti na tl h wot iob IA ut rt k 2 ii 4 if fi it A i T r n n u re es s leaves laves these little automaton ships tiry on the nals ads 1 hows the tw ivean ive lve sn dign i ithe z ii it il L or I 1 no c ia or not noan a you yon biall lq 11 11 I 1 i ola oll i table showing lae dibe diVe liverence difference rence of eloa doal and stan sun every evely day dwy in the year every portion ofir of the clock is of beautiful workmanship and performs most aceil accurately the many dif dil lerent objects which are called into action by the tilo ingenious proprietor WOMEN killum WIVI CARE every woman must have a best parlor pailor with haircloth furniture and a photo graphic book she must have a piano or some other substitute lier her little girls must have havo embroidered skirts and much mathematical knowledge her husband must have two or three meals meala every day of his life and yet her house must be in perfect order early in the afternoon ter noon and she prepared to go out and pay calls with a black silk dress dresa and card case in th evening she will go to a concert or lecture and then at the end of all J she will very possibly sit up after midnight with her sewing nia machine chinel doing extra work to pay for little ellas music lessons all ali this every capable woman will do or diel she does it and dies and then we aro are astonished that her vital energy gives o ou sooner than that of an irish apman iii in a shanty with no ambition on earth but to supply ay her young patricks with adequate potatoes F T ir f gon son PLANTERS SETTLING US IN BRAZIL the brazil and river biver piatta platta mail sava bava 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