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lILrolI it Son's
SSTING OF
ad1e Cle/iin
TS & SHOES
i& ERCLISH TWEEDS
Hey Dress Goods,
Breakfast [Shawls,
Hoods,
-Grey Cottons, c e :
Iso a. choice lot ofd:
OERIESI
ys kept on hand.
Bontliron & Sons..
:lcksG-n's Old Stand.
y. 21st, 1870. 52 tf..
sada Tweeds
80 cents.
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Jan. 21, 18.70,
Syr` _ . -*Orli Josh*
r./�i nae
d"inuary 5th, Perhaps rain : pe rhspo not
January 10th, 11. -' Wether shiftily ; lay
yure ice, -
Flattery is like colon war,;to be smelt
ov, not swalleied.
Ate uhe ,hardest thing a feller ken do,
woggle at onat, and graaergveefts i
if -�
sayetIraq st'good one.
Medicine` f z'cost the wort o more than
bread haz; ance hoz killed mo than it haz
cured.
It iz very difficult for a poo man n tew be
superior to his fortune,- and ore difllkuit
for a rich one.
If you want a tru friend, hi e him bi the
month aid pay him fair wage •
September Monograph. -S ptember iz
named after "Septus," which, thrashed out
in Amerikah, :means. seven. I awoulan't
take $500 for the latin I kn .w ,• I don't
*mow' much nether. Sept. iz a lockadaiiial
mouth allow as the dekaT side ov a
punkin, and az sensitive- az a boarding -
school miss during her • fust quarter in
French. Natur . makes her . wily this month,.
hogs. -root violently, birds hold conienshuns
and adjourn down south, tree toads boast
each other uptrees and. waiblik some an-
thems, kattydid chem musick and spit it
out freely, and brill frogs post their books..
'Advice to young sportsmen. --In shoot-
lf, and tew
us;
old
ing at se deer that looks like a
hit it ifitizadeer.
In fishing for crabs use y re fingers
for bait ; you kali feel thein wh n they fust
bite.
Don't fire at a bumble bee o the wing
not till he settles, then take g d aim and
knock him endways.
Extra Eklipse for the year 1 70.—There
will be domestik Ekiipses, ( ' ible only
tew theinaked eye), kaused b the new
comet Sorosis jumping out of her pasture
and cannering around from iskuss." '
There will be. a teetotal eklipseduring
the year '1870 ov all othe Allminax
throughout the earth, upper aa lower Ka-
neda,` and. some' parts of Nu Je sey kaused
bi the immense circulaahun of the " Josh
Billings Farmer's Allmines."
Words tew Housewives.—To ake a hoe
kake, take a hoe and bile it to a thin jelly,
and then let her kaki).
„Te w akin a eel, turn him ins'de out, and
remove the meat, with a jack-pl ne.
Tew make a ken lay tew egg's a day reas
on with her a if that don't do, hreaten to
chastize her if she don't.
Tew learn your off pring to teal, make
them beg hard for all that yu gi e them.'
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Fight wit;} a ,Pytho
In axectentl� L tun belied, vol; e, entitled
'The a !Teel," Th writer de-
mon �. _ `been , - prese_n _ with • a
mons a e1osed: in a `lox He
takes it y,. pini on board a itch vessel,.
but shortly after haying set sai discovers
that the box is empty, and that he python
(a.large. serpent found in the st Indies)
harassuaned to himself the freedom of the
vessel: In descrioing his effort to recap-
ture it, the author says: --"We had four
horses on deck, and the middlef the boat
was filled with hay, for them, andunder
that it is probables ghat the reptile has
crawled away. In the bottom othe beat,
aft, was a triangular deck, and as I climbed
up a second time I noticed that a board
which formed the apex of the t angle was
loose, and moved a little to one s de. .Care-
fully raising this, I espied, to m horror,
the great python closely coiled aw ay be-
neath, the place being so small that the
loose board rested on one of his coils. I
were a thin suit, a Chinese bajin, or loose
blouse, a pair of canvases shoes, = nd a large
sun -hat. Throwing . off my ha that I
might 'go into the dreadful strug: le unern-
peded,_= I shonted out for a long knife, knew
ing :well that what I. must try to do was to
catch ray hand in his jaw; and, if he should
succeed in doing that, .he would ind him-
self around me as, qnick as -a • n could
wind the lash of a long -whip aro d a fixed
stick, and eertaurly he was I rge and
strong enough to crush the largest horse.
The cook handed me a sharp knife more
than a foot long; and, holding t e board
down with my feet, I thrust :the blade
through the crack, and, wrenchin with all
my Might, I tried to break th reptile's
backbone, and thus render all that part of
the body behind the fracture helpless. De-
spite my utmost efforts, he pulled away the
knife, and escaped two or three feet for-
ward, where there was more roo ' under
the deck. By this . time there was .the.
greatest confusion. The captain vidently
beleiving that discretion is the be ter. part
of valour, ran below the moment he was
satisfied that I had indeed disco Bred the
monster, seized a brace of revolt' and
perching himself upon. the mon ey rail,
leaned his back against: the mizzen rigging,
and held one in each liana, read te ; fire
into. the boat at the slightest alarm. The
sailors,` all gathered around the boat, and
stood perfectly still, apparently- self -stupe-
fied, and not knowing whether it would be
safest to stand still, `climb the ` 'rigging or
jump over -board. The first nate armed
himself with a revolver, and cls bed on
the stern of the boat. Indeed, eery mo-
imeril I expected to hear a report, and find
myself shot by. some of the br ve ones
behind m e; The second mate, who was the
real man among them all, . seized a large
sheath knife, and climbed nto the
boat to help toe;- I knew it would not do
to attempt_to strike the monster with .a
knife'' where he had room to defend himself..
I thereforerthrew it down and seize a short
handspike, the only weapon wit in my
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reach, and told the second mate to raise the
de , ane 1 Mould `atotnpt '4 $ `
sntegoriist With' the slut;; for the thought
of escaping while I could, and leaving for
others to do V what belonged to me, never
entered my mind.. As . the desk' rose 1 be-
held himcoiled up about two feet and a
half from my right foot. Suffering the
ar utest agony from the deep wound I had
already given him, he raised his head, high
`out of the midst of his huge coil,his red
jaws wide open, and his eyes flashed fire
like live'coals. I felt the blood chill in my
veins as, for a moment, we glanced into
each other's eye, and both instinctively re-
alized that one of us must die on the spot.
he darted at my foot, hoping to fasten his
fangs in my canvass shoes; but I was too
quick for him, and gave him such a blow
over the head that hewas glad to coil up
again. This gave me time to give him an-
other blow, and thus for about fifteen min-
utes, 1 continued to strike with all my
might, and three or four times his jaws came
within three inches of my canvass shoes.
I begau to feel my strength failing, and
that I could not hold out more than a mo-
ment longer ; yet in that moment, fortun,
ately, the carpenter got hie wits together,
and thought of his broad -axe, and bringing
it, to the side of the boat, held up the handle
so that I conld seize it while the reptile
was coiling up for the last stunning blow.
The next time he darted at me, I gave him
a heavy cut abont fifteen inches behind his
head, severiug the body completely off, ex-
cept about an inch on the under side; and
as he coiled up this part fell. over, and he
fastened his teeth into his own coils. One
cut more, and I seized a rope, and, in an in-
stant, I tugged him over the ship's rail into
the sea. The trail of his blood on the deck
assured me that I was indeed 'cafe; and,
drawing a long breath of relief, I thanked
the Giver of all our bleseings.
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The Pre -Historic Pompeii
Under this title the .heevdes .Data htondes
has published an article by M. F. Foque on
some underground villages discovered in
the island of Therasia, adjoining Santorin
of volcanic notriety, in the Greek Archi-
pelago, The writer affirms that their pri-
mitive villages were destroyed by the same
volcanic Agency as Herculaaeum, Pompeii
and Stabn. The houses were in the open
air, on the old soil, and were afterwards
buried under a stratum of puenicestone and
tufa ejected from a crater. The inhabitant;
were taken by surprise in the midst of their
daily avocations, and their tools, vases and
domestic utensils have remained for thous-
ands of years on the spot they occupied at
the.tiree. At Sansorin and Therasia the
strata tufacaus pumice, have been worked
from time immemorial as building material
and a good deal of it has been exported to
the Suez Canal. Yet the habitations now
brought to light under M. Foque' s- direction
are constructed quite differently. They con-
sist
of blocks of. lava, heaped one upon the
other without any order, the intersitices,
without an/ mortar or cement, but with
reddish volcanic ashes, having no cohesion
whatever.
The only house entirely exhumed is com-
posed of six rooms, the largest of which if;
eighteen feet by five, and - the smallest a-
bout eight feet square. One of the main
wales . of the building encloses a court.
three windows and one door have been re-
cognized—.a circumstance which shows
that this was a dwelling house, and not a
tomb. The ceiling was compose,d1of a series
of cross -beams, on which stones and a thick
layer of volcanic earth were spread. A
mong the' objects found inside there was
the skeleton of a man, besides flint imple-
ments; earthern vases manufsetured - on a
turning wheel, and containing various
seeds, such as barley, peas, cardamon; etc.
Most of the vases are of the capacity of
twenty gallons or more,. Two slant; .of;leva
were used {or -grinding corn; bat toe most
cririot s relics were certainstone disks.with
a h'ol'e .thiougli the Middle, ' and' wlriel "are
stilltiused in the country' to: sit etch the
threads of the wraps with; whence it may
be `inferred that -the textile art existed many
thousand years ago, and must have been
ne€idy'coeva1''with the creation of:nnan..
The Deep Sea World
Some very interesting fats to geologists
and naturalists have been developed by one
or two deep sea explorations, made by di-
rection of the British Government, under
the supervision of Dr. • Carpenter. Professor
Wyville Thompson and fir: ' Gwyne Jeff-
reys, anda reportof which was read at the
meeting of the Royal Society in London.
The paper was a very' lengthy and . a very
intetettfjjgtone, from which ` we 'have con-
densed a few of its most important features.
In it many facts were established diametri-
cally opposed to previous belief. For 'in-
stance, it had been held that ata depth of
300 fathoms all life would cease, and that
the deep sea=tereperature everywhere was
39 degrees ; but itis -proved that life exis-
ted ate much greater depths, and there wad..,
considerable variance in " the tewpereture.
There etas found to be a difference in. bot-
tom temperature of from 32 to 47 degrees
within eight or ten miles, the bottc-m-at
the lowertempetatureZbeiag fermedt ()frock,
inhabited by scanty fauna of ,an arctic char-
ratter, while that of the higher area was
composed- of a more abundant fauna Kith
characterestics due to a temperate climate.
This upsets , the theory previously enter-
tained, ._that when these formations . are.
together on land,they must have been
seperatsd from each other by long- periods;_
and strikes at the root -of - -geological assum-
ptions ` r�d ng, time: At 'the ' nortliein-
ex trcmity the Bay of BiscaYettom
was' orl ed,et. 2, e;;1extraurd d a` ` ;:e
w��z neart,�'
I iiiklit of font illus;;, ' m feet i eeper
then the. Atlas ccabie. • On many occasi-
ons, a dredges T'we ging eight hundred
weight and carrying one and a half
hundred weightof mud, was brought up
from a depth of 2,500 fathoms. Regarding
sea temperature, it was found that it var-
ied considerably with differences of lati-
tude and season; but, when high, declined
'rapidly, and was lost at about 100 fathoms;.
In deep water there about 4,000 fathoms,
at which a temperature of 38 degreos was
found, and that 2.435 fathoms; there wait a
further fall to 32.5 degrees. Thisshowed
that the general temperature of the North
Atlantic basin was 'higher than that ander
the equator o t the Arabian O' hickfalls
to 30 s r,
dear; and even To'Rer. - -The: i a-
bnndirnb f iiaal lii`e :ervesi the :deepest
ocean abysses was mcyst'ext-
,_. s
the profoundest depths animals of high or-
ganization, and with perfect eyes were
brought itp, including siliceous. sponges and
foraminifera, and 'zoophytes, echinoderms,
moll'bses, annelid, and crustaceans. Alto-
gether 127 new species of molluscel were
found. Sea water was brought up from
various depths for chemical analesis, as to
the character of its retained gasses: Near
the surface the gas consisted of about 24
or 25 per cent' of carbonic acid—the rest
chiefly • oxygen or nitrogen ; but at 700
fathoms the proportion of carbonic acid
reached 45 per cent. After the surface of
the ocean had been agitated by wind the
carbonic acid was much diminished the in-
ference, being that the agitation liberated
the carbonic acid, thus permitting the as-
cent of that inconstant formation by the
abunclanee of animal life below, and thus
rendering the continuance of life possible
in the depths of the ocean.
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A Caravan in Syria.
After riding along seven Liles from
Damascus we came into a beautiful valley -
where a caravan was being marshalled.
The road .from this point was beset with
Bedouin Arabs, whose .law is the sword,
and whose right is might: Consequently
stragglers hurried up and fell into the
ranks ; bales and packages on mules and
camels were re -arranged afid carefully ad-
justed; muskets' and pistols were exanined
armed men were placed in something like
order along the sides of the file of animals ;
and a few horsemen were sent in front to
scour the hills and great plains beyond, to
prevent surprise.
It wasa strange and exciting scene; and
one would have thought that any attempt'
to reduce such a refractory and heterogen-
eons multitude of men and animals to any-
thing like order would he absolutely useless.
Sonne of the camels and donkeys, breaking
loose, scattered their loads over the plain,
and ;Treed confusion all around them ; oth-
ers growled and kicked and brayed ; drivers,
shouted and gesticulated ; men and boys
ran through the crowd asking for missing,
brothers or companions ; horsemen gallop,-
ed
allop,ed from group to group. entreating and.
threatening by turns. At length, however
the order was given to march. It passe
along: from front to rear, and the next met
ment every sound was hushed. The very
beasts seemed to comprehend its mean.ii
for they fell speedily into their place:
and the long files began to move over the
grassy plain with a stillness which was al-
most painful. •
Genius and. Labor.
It is no man's business whether he has
genius or not ; work he must, whatever he
is, but quietly and steadily ; and the nat-
ural and unforced results of •
such work will
be always the thing that God meant him to
do, and will be his best. No agonies nor
heart-rendings will enable him to do any
better. If he be a great man, they will be
great things ; if *BMW' man, small things ;
but always of thus peacefully done, good
and right ; always, if 'restlessly and 'ambi-
tiously done false, hollow and despicable.
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What are Cloves 4
Cloves are unopened flowers of, a small
evergreen tree that resembles in appearance
the laurel or the bay. It is a native of
the Molucca spice Islands,• bat has been
carried to all the warmer parts of ` the
world, and is now largely cultivated in the
tropical regions of America. The flowers
are small in size, and grow in large num •
bers in clusters, at the very ends of the
branches. The cloves we use are the flow-
ers gathered before they have opened, and
whilst they are still green. After they
have been gathered they are smoked by ' a
fire, and then dried in the sun. Each
clove consists of two parts, a round head,
• which is the four 'petals or leaves of the
flower rolled up, inclosing a number of
smallethlks.or filaments ; the •other part
of the clove is terminated with four points.
aiid isit, in fact the flower cup and the uu-
ri Ere seed` vessel. ° All these parts may be
distinctly shown, if a few cloves are soaked
for at Ina time in hot water, .' when -the
leatte n o__ f the flowers, soften - gad. readily..
-unrglj. The s3mellf cloves ia. very, .strongand-� aioantic bit- not - tnpletrt:-'-
'their taste, wheniinbnixed.with other sub-
stances, is pus gent,_ acrid and lasting.
Both the •twat!t and smell of cloveaf depend
on the therfeatintitY of oil•tRey contain .tit is
o great that it may be prestie t1 out with
the finger. ---Sometimes. the oil is separated
from. therc`loves Before they are sold and- the
odor.' '44-.646- in consereluence r is. much
weaepec'tea such. anfa re3_ _proceed pgs�
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January, 21st, 1870. 03•tf-
NEW
FALL & WINTER-
GOODS.'.
KIDD & M'MtILKD ,
ARE
prepared to show the Large' Stock of
DRY GOODS !
!Consisting of the Latest Styles of Dresa•Pattern ,
i8: Isiah and French Poplins, , all Wool Plaice,
French Merinoes, and Twills of various kinds,
ever offered in Seaforth.._
'Their Millinery Depart-
ment.
• Is furnished with a large assortment of Hats,
Bonnets and Mantles of the Latest Pashi.
ons, VERY CHEAP:.
READY-MADE CLOT111103
For the Million. GOOD TWEED SUITS FOR
TEN DOLLARS
BOOTS & SHOE$!
CHEAPER . THAN EVER.
Also a very choice stock of
Fresh Groceries
Be sure and call for theist $-1.00. Tea.
2-5'
The. Rice for $1 ; lbs Rai -eine and
10 lbs. good bright Sugar.
117,111? AND COURSE SALT:
Give them a Call.
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Seaforth, Jan'y 5th. /870.
THE CN ,OF TIIE .OLDS
THE subscriber begs to informs e
public that
he has just received - a great -variety of 9ad-
dles aid._
TRUNKS.
Which he is prepare&1 to sell
.t Prices Almost thiparelleled
OU.LAS of every cierptioa, warrant -
t to hurt the horse's •neck.
o
In the way . of Harness
=0' ALL RANDS,
He is, as heretofore, in a position to give his
custememas good value for their -money as
any other establish'meat: Oho ' -
Quality of work. and material,. employed,
petablet. . . s.
liar SHOP OPPOSJ R KIDD
Mc dCULKIIV'S
JOHN CAMPBELL.
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