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Orders left at the Herald office for Mr. Cur- ter’s service will be promptly attended to. Jiinc’Q‘fiflSlfl i)_fl[lUUIS’l‘s. H. SANDERSON a SON, PBOPRIETORS OF THE RICHMOND HILL DRUG STORE, Corner of Young and Centre streets East, have constantly on hand a good assortment of Drugs, Paints, Perfumery, Chemicals, Oils, Toilet Soaps, Medicines, Varnishes, FancyArticles, Dye Stuffs, Patent Medicines c'id all other articles kept by druggists generally. Our stock of medicines warrant- genuine, and of the best qualities. Richmond Hill, J an 25, ’72 705 " THOMAS CARR, ealer in Drugs, Medicines, Groceries, Wines, and Liquors, Thornhill. By Royal Letters Patent has been appointed Is- suer of Alariiage Licenses. rinsu‘lsrnv. A. ROBIESON’S, L. D. S. " ‘ ' Tow method of extracting teeth without pain, by the use of Ether Spray,which affects the teeth only. The tooth and gum surrounding becomes insensible with the external agency, when the toothcan be ex- tracted with no pain and without endanggr- ing the life, as in the use ofChloroform. r., Robinson will be at the following places prepared to extract teeth with, his new ap- paratus. All office operations in Dentistry performed in e workmanlike manner : Aurora; 1st, 3rd, 16th and 22d of each month Newmsrket..... .. 2d. 7 “ “ Richmond Hill, 9th and 24th “ MtAlbcrt... ..............15th “ .. “ Thornlrill.” " ....23rd ’ “ r “ ' Maple..,................. ......26th “ _ “ Burwick..... .........28th " “ . “ Kleinburg.....................29th ” ‘ Noblcton ..................... :30th - “ “ Nitrous Oxide Gas always on hand at Aurora. - ' Aurora, April 28, 1870 w. H. a R. PUGSLEY, (succussons T0 w. w. cox,) ‘ ' UTCHERS, RICHMOND HILL, HAVE . alwayson hand the best of Beef, Mutton, Lamb, Vfial,?ork, Sausages, &c., and sell at the leviest'pricés for Cash. ’ I Also orned and Spiced Beef, Smoked and Dried , The highest market price given for Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, &c. Richmond Hill, Oct. 24;”72. ‘ FARMERS BOOT AND SHOE STORE OHN’B‘ARRON, manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of bootsand shoes, 38 \Vest Markethquare, Toronto. ‘ Boots'and shoes made to measure, of the best material and workmanship, at tho low. ost§ram inflating prices. ' Toronto, Dec 3. 1857. PET 15R S. GIBSON, ROVINCIAL LAN D SURVEYOR, Civil Engineer and Draughtsman. Orders 12y lsllcr should state the'Concossion, , Lot and character of Survey, the subscriber having the old Field Nola: of the late D. 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All orders promptly attended to. November 12, 1872. 74741 “Olivia” says of Alexander H. Stophens:â€"â€"“ Wonderfulman I It may be said that he once had a body, but it has been pared down until it is transparent. You feel that God is very good to give you almost a chance to see a naked soul.” ' “He was a good man,” says an Iowa paper of a deceased citizen, “ but then he sometimes bet on the wrong horse, the same as the rest of us.” A poster advertising a masquerade ball to be given in a certain city makes the announcementâ€"“ Extra Ladies, 50'cents.” Well, that’s cheap for ’em, to say the least. Some of the frequent fires in cotton and other factories at the North may be explained by a discovery made by Prof. Brown of the University of ‘ He thinks that fires are caused by electrical sparks generated by rubber bands usod for propellin machinery. 0 D The Duke of Edinburgh has been salts have been made public, and we USTARD'S Catarrh Specific Cures Acute V ~ The Resistance of Railroad Trains. RICHMON $.17,“ ,TO.‘D§YE. , .i 91.1.... L..’. H _7 7 Life is passingâ€"â€" each toads}; '- 'r'" * ~ Fails not to lay its cherished ficWers In the grave of yesterday ; Well, for all, if closing hours Enfold alone the blossoms bright, .Of lives that have not shunned the light. ' Life is passingâ€"onward flowing, From its shelter‘d natal place ; . . Gleaming, glancing, sparkling, glowmg, ’ With the sunbeams on its face; Still gathering in its spreading breast The force that bears it to its rest. Life is easingâ€"whither, whither? Chec nor stop retards its flight Till, past the bounds of heaven‘s ether, It finds the day, without the night ; And, lighting on the Father’s arm, It Hats, secure from every harm. MchoMWâ€"y New Chicago. ELI PERKINS BAMBLES OUT WEST. Chicago is a queer city. It looks as if they had begun at the wrong end in building this new and magnificent town. They have gone to work and built up the city-aâ€"built up' stately blocks and long lines of grand brick and mortar commercial palaces. and now they are waiting patiently for people to come and live in them. “ To let I" is the familiar tablet which everywhere stares yen in the face from plate-glass win- dows and granite doorways. “ How came this so ‘1" I asked Gen- eral Chotlain, President- of the Home National Bank. “ “Yell.” he said, “ immediately after the fire came offers of money and aid from New York and Boston. The East poured out her money, and these magnificent blocks, sprang up all over the cityâ€"«blocks which are now empty, and which cannot be occupied for a year or two to come. The Grand Pacific Hotel cost $1,700,000 and rents the first year for $5,000, while your hotel Windsor in N ew York, which cost Mr. Duly $800,000, roots for $110,000. The Potter Palmer Hotel built after the French pattern (the first story be- ing low), cost $1,000,000, and there you can board fOr $3 a day. This re- sults from having too much hotel room â€"â€"too many buildings for the people.” It occurs to me as I look around this beautiful city that there is a too proflié vats magnificence about everything-â€" limb? out of keeping with the tastes-and habits of a business comâ€" munity. The furniture and tapestry are too good for every-day wear. It looks as if they were playing a play. Negro harbors and bootblacks sit around on black walnut carving, and long-haired, rough border-radians drop quills of tobacco on Axmiuster carpets. The splendid furniture looks soiled and . ufikept like a demi-monde's toilet. Still there has been in Chicago in ninety days. Money is plentiful, real estate is firmer, and prosperity seems to have come back. The advance in corn and pork and whisky has quadrupled the wealth of the State behind the city, and I believe the spring will dawn on a prosperous city.-â€"â€"Cor. Daily Graphic. A great deal has been said and writ- ten within the past year or two regard- our want of knowledge of the power required to move American rolling stock on American railroads. At their annual meeting in Boston last year, the Master‘ Mechanics' Association ap- pointed a Committee to investigate and report upon this subject, and since then a number of master mechanics, to our knowledge have been making and ex- perimenting with dynamoters to:deter- mine the power required to move cars varying speeds and under different conditions. Notwithstanding the fact that all this attention is given to the subject, thus far no really valuable re-' D niLL; our/i appointed a Colonel in the Prussian are now newly as much in ignorance arm)” This is the 51‘“ 111931100 011 of the whole subject as were ten or record Of an English Princeflbtaining more years ago. Now, the reason for aPrussian commissmn. English princes this we believe to be that it is impos- have been honorary Colonels but Prince Bib}. to measure accurately the resist. 13 the first who 113.8 ever really ance of one car or a, train of cars > such instruments as have been made. A Missionary among the, freedmon Th? write" has, liecenfly PM} in} 09130!“ in Tennessee, after relating to some “1th Of 01353?va the mdlwtlons Of a colored children the story ofAnanias dynumometer in WhiCh Steel springs held a Colonel’s rank in the army. and Sapphire, asked them why' God tells a- lie, when one of the lease in the room answered, “Because there wouldn’t be anybody left.” Ribbed glass for roofs and cellar windows is comparatively a recent in- troduction. The Boston and Lowell Railroad .station in Boston is roofed with 25,000 feet of this glass, weighâ€" ing three poun-‘s to the square foot; and the Boston and Providence station has on its roof 13,000 feet, weighing four pounds to the square foot. An old _Parisian beggar, famous for his success, thus explains the business “ rules ” to which, he says, he invariably adliercs’:-‘â€"â€"“ I never ask alms of one who lhas dined, as ‘ros-bif’ renders man'selfish, nor of stout men, as it borés them to stop, nor of any one putting on his gloves. nor of a lady alone, but always o'f ' any Ono manii fesfly going to dinner, of people walk- ing together; as theii"‘ainour propel" “grand uniforms, _ and ‘of people appar- ently seeking favour from the Govern- mentâ€"Lthey think that a gift will bring them luck." were used to measure the resistance of does not strike everybody dead that, a train of cars. It was found that the variations which it indicated were so great and so frequent that nothing more could be done than to make shrewd guesses at the average shown. The fact is, that the resistance of a train is controlled by so many different conditions adu causes that it is con: Istantly varying, and within very wide limits. It acquires more power to start a train than to keep it in motion at a slow and uniform speed. In other lwords, the friction of rest is greater ‘thun the friction of motion. When the Speed of the engine is accelerated the train resistance is greater than when it is dominishing, although at the moment of observation they may each be moving at the same alsoluto speed. An ascending grade, it bad track, a curve, varying wind, rate of speed, the application of a break, the condition of ,liibrication and other causes all help to vary ith'e'strain on the dynamometer, so that fit is impossible. from -mleroly ob- makés'the'm generous, of officers in serving its indications to form any. accurate'idea of tli’é' resistance of the train ‘which it indicates. The element of speed has so important an influence on the resistance of the train that un- part. ' -._ " -., ' RIO, CANADA. FRIDAY, lose some accurate measure of it can be taken simultaneously with the indica- ' 'tions of the dynamometer, it is. impos- sible to draw any deductions from the latter which will have any value. To do this, and also to tell what the dyna- mometer does indicate, both it and the speed indicator should be self-register- ing. A direct comparison could then be made of the one with the other, and an average of the records of the resist- ance for any given time could be calcu- lated from the dlagrsm drawn by the dynamometer. Such an instrument would require considerable shill to de- ' sign and construct, and would moreover be costly. ‘_[n the experiments made in France by M. Vuillemin, M. Goeb- hard and M. Dieudonne, they used such instruments which were placed in afour-wheeled car which was used es- pecially for this purpose, and which is described in Spon‘s Engineering Dio- tionary. The experiments made, by those gentlemen were with European rolling stock, and are therefore almost useless to us. Without similar instru- ments it will, we believe, be impossible to get any correct information regarding the resistance of our American cars. Therefore the Committee of the Master Mechanics’ Association who were an- thorized to expend $500 to construct a dynamometer should be careful to pro» cure one which will be self-registering, otherwise it is very doubtful whether they will find it efficient in determining the resistance of trains. In fact, the amount to be expended for this purpose is quite insufficient to construct the instruments which are needed, and without which no new or' valuable information can be elucidated. A little experience in attempting to determine the resistance of trains will show the experimenters the difficulties which niust be encountered before any accurate results can be obtained. The first impreSsion of a person who is interested in this subject is, that all that is necessary to do to determine the resistance of a train is to attach to attach to it an instrument which will indicate the power exerted to draw it. It will lbe found, however, that the problem is not nearly so simple as it seems, and that the variation of resistâ€" ance 'which the instrument indicates defies all analysis. It is for this reason, we believe, that so little~ actual infor- . mation can be procured regarding this subject. That it. is sufficiently impor- tant to justify a liberal outlay of money, to arrive at actual results, all who have had occasion to use data relating to the power of engines have reason to know. The difficulty is to convince those who should contribute to defray the ox- penso of such experiments of the practical value of the information which could thus be obtained. “‘O . The Murderers of London. The following singular letter, sign- ed “A Retired Murderer,” was for- warded to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette: “You were good enough on a former occasion to per- mit me through your columns to pro- sost against a practice indulged in by young and inexperienced murder- ers of hacking and mutilating the remains of their victims, and thus naturally exciting [in the breast of the public a disgust not generally awakened by a simple assination ar- tically effected. without undue ’vio- lence,'an_d with a proper regard for the feelings of survivors. I venture, therefore, on behalf of a growing and important classâ€"the murderers of London, in whose reputation I shall feel the deepest interest, having spent some of the happiest days of my life in their societyâ€"to trespass again on your kindness while I beg the public to believe they have no hand whatever in a practice whichit appears from certain remarks made by Dr. Lancaster at an inquest held by him on Monday prevails in the neighbourhood of the Regent’s Canal of taking out of that convenient receptacle the bodies of murdered persons or suicides, robbing them, and depositing them again in the water. A-‘vmore contemptiblo form of crime cannot be conceived than svstem referred to; and I wouldim- plore the public to believe that no murderer worthy of the name would so far demean himself as to rob the remains of one in whose removal to to a better world he had borne a. So far from the London mur- derers as a rule approving this prac- tice, they would, I feel assured, will- ingly lend the police (whom thpy cordially admire, and for whom in- deod they are beginning toflfeel a a. sincere affect-ion) every assistance in bringing to justice the low scorin- drels who thus disgrace the criminal classes. I'need only point to the neat and peaceful manner in which babies are now despatched, and their bodies (packed in 'lime) deposited under the very noses of the police, to prove that murderers not only know how to perform disa reeablo' duties in an orderly fashion, ut that. there is an openness in' their pro- ceedings that speaks volumes for the nobility of their nature.” ' Goodness runs in the blood of some families,. and Mr. Theodore Lyman, whose father endowed. the VVestboro' Reform School, and didn’t tell anybody who did it, has given $20,000 to the Massachusetts Infant Asylum at Brook- line, which saves a great many Boston and other babies from drowning and worse things. Massachusetts is going fo raise her babies hereafter. FEBRUARY 6‘, 1874 A Nice Little Tale. Nicholas the First was very fond of inasquerudoballs, and one night ap- peared at one in the character of the devil, with grinning face, horns and tail, and appeared to enjoy his charac- very much. About three o’clock in the morning he went out, and, throwing over him some furs, called a coachman, and ordered him to him to the Quay Anglais. As it was very cold he fell asleep, and wheh ‘he awoke he found that the man had taken him in a wrong direction, for the Quay Anglais is one of the most elegaiit portions of St. Petersburg, while before him were only some miserable houses. Nicholas began to remonstrate, but the coachman paid no heed to him, and presently passing through a stonegateway, brought him into a cemetery, and taking a large knife from his girdle, and pointing it at his employer’s throat ,said “ Give me your money and your furs, or I wiil kill you.” “ And do you give me, your soul,” euclaimed Nicholas as he throw off the furs and disclosed his personifi- cation of the devil. TheRussians are very superstitious, and the ooachman was so terrified that he fell senseless on the ground, and the Emperor drove himself back to his palace. ~ Power of the Human Eye. _â€"â€".â€"- The power of the human eye as ex- orcised by woman over man. is doubt less irresistablo, but when a man im- agines that his own eye can exert the influence over- the lower creation, and that he has only to gaze fixedly on a wild beast to subdue its ferocity, he occasionally m‘iscalculates his chance. Thus, a professor in Vermont, who was a believer in the power of the human eye, realized the truth of the doctrine to his sorrow. Determined to convince the skeptics of its truth,he selected a ferocious bull who was the terror of the neighbourhood as the object of his experiment. 'l‘he result was not altogether successful. Sur- rounded by a retinue of disbeliebers, the scientific gentleman sauntered in- to the pasture where’ the thoughful bull was peacefully grazing. 1:16 fix- ed upon the bull his eagle eye, but the ferocious old animal quailed not, neither did it, retire in melodramatic order, but the last thing seen of that professor was his archaeological form tossed twenty-seven feet into the air and coming down on the other side of the fence. Biophysical injuries were slight, but his faith in scientific mos- merism as illustrated in bnlls has been greatly weakened. . Late at Church. The Springfield Republican says :â€"â€"â€" “ Ono ol'the papers tells the story of a man coming into church after the sermon had begun, whereupon the minister paused, and said' to him,â€" ‘ Glad to see you, but come in, come in ; always glad to see those here late. who can’t. come early.’ To which salutation the stranger, taking his seat, as coolly replied, ‘ That you; would you favour me with the text ?’ ‘Certainly,’ was the answer, which done, and the discourse moved on as before. This recalls a Missouri inci- dent. One cold night the Rev. Ezra S. Ely, of Presbyterian fame, was preaching in a prairie. farm-house. when about a third through the ser- mon, two late comers rode up to the door and entered. The Doctor slop- ped, and Said that, as these friends were very cold with their ride, the meeting would sing a hymn while they were warming thamselves,wbich being done, he observed that, as they had taken so much trouble to come. he would begin his discourse again for their benefit; and, taking his text, ho accordingly commenced once more at the beginning and repeated his sor- mon, rather more to their edification than to that of the rest of the audi- ence, perhaps.” â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"~>99o4 ‘ The Career of a Countess. The Bridgeport (Conn) Farmer of the 14th inst, tells the following sto- ry 2â€"“ A hearing was had in the Su. peri‘or Courtthis morning, on a peti- tion to dissolve an injunction obtain~ ed by Duncan, Sherman & 00., blank- crs, of New York, restraining tho Countess Heinrich, of Greenwich, from committing waste on her pro- perty. The evidence on the petition was taken, and the argument adjourn? ed to next Thursday. The career of the party in this suit, who bears the lofty title of Countess, has been, to use a familiar phrase, a. checkered oiio. Of Irish birth, and tho daugh- j for of a Colonel in the English army, l she, in company with her third hus- band, came to Greenwich from Eng- land in 1868, and purchased three large farms. Her title is derived from her marriage with her second bus- band, a. German Count, her first bus- band bemg dead, and from the third, a Major Rowland, she is divorced. Besides owning a' large amount of lproporty in Greenwich, she was also ossessed' of extensive estates in Eng- and. After taking up her‘ residence in Greenwich, sho displayed the most rofuso extravagance, expending ar e sums for benevolent purposes, on generally enacting the character of Lady Bountiful in that locality. A year or two after coming to Green- wieh she was obliged to return to 'England to nttgmd to some lawsuits [concerning her property there, inl which she-had become involved, and during her absence the firm of Marley dz Sypber, to whom she had become heavily indebted, laid attachment on her Greenwich property, the suits, as she did not come to protest them, going by default. On learning ofthis event she sent $15,000, as she claims, to the firm of'DuncanShermau & 00., to remove the encumbrances on her property here, but according to her allegation, instead of making out her releases to her, they transferred the mortgage to themselves, and in this way secured the lion out of which grow the injunction and the peesent action for its modification or dissoluâ€" tion. It appears that the reckless prodigality which has characterized her mode of living has swept away nearly all of her extensive fortune. From the Credit Foncier of France alone she received during three years the sum of £38,000, notwithstanding which it appeared in evidence this morning that. she was so far reduced that at present her residence is destiâ€" tute of both fire and carpets. She cresth a sensation by appear in Court in a dress of faded magnificence, with a lenghty trail and wearing an ex- tensive display of -‘owollery‘. It is said, however, thatt e greater part of her once gorgeous collection of ward- robes and jewels has lately been near- ly all sold orpawnod to supply her with means of subsistence." o Matrimonial. Cincinnati can boast of the most extensive family wedding on record. A widdowed mother, three sons, and two daughters were all married at once. The cost- of tho rites was put at wholesale rates. It is observed sagely by a 1009.1 newspaper that perâ€" haps thisis the commencement ofa system of domestic economy which will save many a sixpenco fora rainy dav. I , .___.-.â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€"â€"â€" Sensible Thought. ‘ It is questionable whether the age improves in common sense. Some of the ancient laws of Massachusetts are worthy of consideration at the present day. In 1642 there was a law pro- viding that “ those who do not teach, by themselves or others, their child- ren or apprentices, so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital .laws, shall be fined twenty shillings for each negléct therein.” In those days it was‘Tfls’o thought proper that no interference should prevent suitable marriages. A law of 1641 reads that ‘- if anypor: son shall wilfully deny any child timely or convenient marriage, or shall exercise any unna- tural severity toward them, such children shall have liberty to com- plain to authority for redress in such cases.” A Case of “ Shear” Desperation. _â€"â€"â€"- Some years ago the passengers of a coach passing through a country town in England, Were alarmed b seeing a hairdresser, pale as a ghos , rush out of his shop with his scissors and comb in his hands, and chamber frantically to the top of the vehicle as it pursued its. journey, uttering the most piercing shrieks of despair. When he had somewhat recovered his composure, he gave the following ex- planation of his conduct: He was, he said, engaged in cutting a customer’s hair, and while thus employed, be- came so absorbed in conversation that he forgot to control his operations, 'too late, found that he had clipped the hair to such an extent that he had pro- duced a large bald patch on the head of the unconscious victim of his care lessness. Droading the consequences when the fatal mistake should be disâ€" covered, be prolonged the stting un- til tho coach made its appearance, and then successfully effected his escape, intending never again to return to tho scene of his professional disgrace. How Long to Sleep. The fact is that as a life becomes Concentrated, and its pursuits more eager, short sleep and carlyrising be- come impossible. We take more sleep than our ancestors, and we take more because we want more. Six hours’ sleep will do very Ewell for a pleughman or bricklayer, or any other man who has no exhaustion but that produced by manual labour, and the sooner he takes it after the labour is over the better. But for a man whose labour is mental, the stress of work is on the brain and nervous system, and for him who is tired in the evening with 'a day of mental application, neither early to bed nor early to rise is wholesome. He needs letting down to the level of repose. The longer the interval between the active use of the brain and his retirement to bed, the better his chance of sleep and re- freshment. To him an hour after midnight is probably as good as two hours before it, and even then his sleep will not so completely and quickly restore him as it will his neighbour who is physically tired. He must not only go to bed later, but lie longer. His best sleep probably lies in the early morning hours, when all the nervous excitement has passed away, he is in absolute rest. Chicago Journal. and unreasonably “ Tori"? 00! Dollar per Ann-m in Adwnce Aux. Scan}, l'noriiis'rrm. Things Wise and Othervnse. The sweet orb of lifeâ€"Tho honey. " ‘ moon. A highly intelligent dogâ€"Tho tyre? setter. A phenomenon of potteryâ€"The tears of a pitcher. A compulsory hashish-oater -â€" The patron ofa private boarding-house. The Ohio Constitutional Convention only costs about $900 per day. How to make a. slow horse fastâ€"â€" Don’t feed him. We mention incidentally that the mouth of the Mississippi is to be im- proved. A Georgia editor was bitten by a dog, “ being evidently mistaken for a bone.” ~ Mrs. Partington says, she gets up every morning at the shrill carrion of the chandelier. Springfield, Masso has an ordinance which imposes a fine on any one “ who swears out loud.” “And still they tumble,” is the heading for some of the Western dry goods advertisements. The young man who boasted he could marry any girl he pleased, found that he couldn’t. please any. Elgin, Illinois, offers the boys two cents apiece for all the rats they can kill, and the schools are on tho point of suspending. -" Mrs. Andrew, of Vermont, said she didn’t care a darn whether dinner suited her husband or not, and a J us- tice fined her $7. A newspaper office in western Iowa routs part of the office for aolieeso factory, and thus exhibits a double claim to the power of the press. A man who claimed to be John Quincy Adams, (ax-President of the United States, gota week’s board and much attention from a Green Bay landlord. The, Chief of Police ofMemphis has taken a census of the “roughs’” and finds that, of one hundred and thirty- six, all but three survived the epi- demic. A Philadelphia book-keeper added the year1872 to his column of figures, and, as he couldn’t accountfor the de- ficiency in receipts, ho was arrested. , Mark Twain is honest. On being surprised by .a toast at. a dinner in London recently, he pulled out a large roll of manuscript and proceed ed to reply. ‘A philosopher says that “ a true man never frets about his place in the world. but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star." “You must be a! quarrelsomo fol- low,” said a phrenolOgist to a man whose bumps ho was examining.â€" “Say that. again and I’ll knock you down,” was the response. In an item of information of con- siderable solemnity, the Yazoo .Dem- ocrat tells us that “ America oonsmes annually six million pounds of turk- ish figs, in round figgers.” “ I meant to have told you of that hole,” said a gentleman to his friend, walking in his-garden, stumbled into a pit of water. “N o matter,” said the friend, “I have found it." New Orleans sent to Genoa, Italy, , two hundred barrels of whiskey, man- ufactured in Louisana, but consoles herself with the reflection that it is all coming back soon in the form of, , French Brandy. The farmers in Western New York who rcfued $.20 a. ton for hay in Do- cember, don’t feel like exclaiming " Hay! hayl”_now that the price is down to $12 in consequence of the open winter. ‘ ‘ Pennsylvania is considering the question ofhaving punctuation taught in her public schoolsâ€"«by which it will be understood, not to put too fine a point upon it, that each pupil is ex- pected to graduate comma it faut. “How to keep the canal open in winter,” is a problem that many news- papers ‘and correspondents are trying to solve. It is doubtful, however, if they can find a better way than to let the water out. An engraver in Springfield, Mass, has cut the Lord’s Prayer into a piece of copper less than one-fourth the size of a silver three-cent piece, and there is room in the circle for fifteen or twenty words more. Some miserable creature, void of principles of honor, having stolen the scissors of the editor of the Sullivan Democrat, that paper comes to us this week void of its usual variety of editorial matter. It was bad enough for the Boston Advertiser to say 01 Wilkic Collins as a lecturer: “ The London intonation is noticeable in the flattening of the vowels." But it was worse when a Western compositor made it read “ a flattening of the bowels.” It is said to be a current joke in Eu- rope that any titled personâ€"no mat ter how old or ugly orimpovorished he may beâ€"finds no difficulty in cap turing an American heiress, the tit e' of Madame la Duchesse or Madame la Baronne being considered an equiva- lent for the sacrifice of youth, beauty or fortune.