December 25, 1868 (4 pages)

Ganiermas. —This is the day fixed up. on by theologians as the anniversary of . the birth of Christ, but was not so considered until the fourth centary. Prior to. that time it was a. moveable feast, a hie inn GOAL as, the months of April or This day Christians 4@ a réligious fe@et, and besides a time when gifts are given to friends. .or children. The custom of erecting Christmas trees and distriba_ ting presents is ‘borrowed. by. us from the Protestant districts of. North Germany, where Christmas is called the “Childeén’s Febtivat.” “Phe exercises cisely’ ‘the oun al liave 4 our Christmas trees in the Sunday schools, custom is omitted with us. After the distribution the ion stan ae to say to the daughters, and t! ty their conduct du merly in North Germany, the presents were sent to one. person, who in high wig, wént from house to house distributing presents. Hie was ‘nade much of by parents,and in the: presence of the children glosely examiped into their by presents. In the Unhod BULGE So hare combined Sithie, debehes be" edith 46: _ ‘anions and good dinners the German ee ee et agreeable ofthe year. Christmas is a time for good cheer, ote Cee eee vie with the ether: int. bringing happiness to the LS the ist of January the San Francisco Heréld, under the conttol of its fornier Pte: Nugent, will be ved. ies wy nop Oe am VELVETEN suite re the favorites one New York promenades. sdf % ‘Apoinenthetintedientesinmeatnee °° Brromaw Young, it is said, is going Sherrer ee Ee: BOGS oe goa that. ‘Wislinenisecs was . is unfounded. The old fellow is sow in tho Humboldt country. Iris given out on ‘good oes that a.corps.of the ablest of the Virginia orators, t rebels, in Cabinet and field, intend canvassing such States as Pennsylvania to invite farmers, meehanics and cupitalists to ‘settle in that State. ; Tew thousand frst ‘and witiale read— ers for the schools of Utah, printed in the new Mormon aiphabet, have arrived at Salt Lake City. “Tur tax. roll of Panini Pa., amounts to $498,193,370. man, and deals in the vilest abuse of the Union. Here is a specimen in which he suggests designs for the monee We would « as a design for another panel the enormous National debt, created. not to-save the. Tr: but to carry on the murderous for cotton and negroes, for the _benefit of Lincoln’s pets and hirelings—the offscouring of creation, the’picked up humanities from the tan-vaulte, gutters, — saloons and grogeries of the Wé would suggest as another panel a picture representing the slaying of soldiers.in the South in raids for cotton, mules, and household goods forthe benefit of the homes of the and Christian charches of the feligions in the North. After going on in this style for a colamn atid a half, he coaclades in the following “red hot” Democratic strain : And there, right beside Lincoln’s monument, Jet the haters of oppression and lovérs of Tiberty erect a mar ble shaft on which shall be engraved the namé of Jobh Wilkes Booth, on one side’ and on the other a picture of his heart-broken spether, keoaliog is prayer supplica the of Lincoln tae dine ety ot Brick Pomeroy’s age libetally sustained by the New! York Democracy, and he is fast breaking down the World which, as.a party journal, is not coneae ne neh Giants or Open Tores.—In one of his recent lectures, Professot Sill man, the younger, alluded tothe discovery of the skeleton of an enormous lizard, of eighty feet. From this'the that the species it represented had degenerated. The verity of his opinion he rather endeavored to enforce by an allusion to the well known: existenée of giants of olden times. The following list is the data on which this singular hypothesis is based : The giant exhibited in Rouen, in 1530, tas Geitiaine tava seoebuent iat ‘teen feet. NY cerpustan a get gecsiarl Wk se eee See was ten feet Bagene Il, measured eleven and a ud aaa site Chaat Sei. found in one of the caverns of that mountain, the heai of Gunich, who had sixty teeth, . and was not lees than fifteen fest high. The ep iemget, slain by Orlando, = at of Charlemange, was twenty1814, near St. Germain, was found the tomb of the giant Isorent, who was. not less than feet high, , In 1790, near ouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and whose’body ‘must have been a Magadan. high. wes tw =two feet h his h eae mesa S in 1813, near the river Moderi. In 1828, near the castle in Dauphine . ssid a tomb w. twenty-six feet w h, on a was ¢ om By x.” The sheleiea at was sae pect So bone to the back. ow the skeleton of a thirty feet high ; the head was the size of a hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. Human Foop.—Dr. Beaumont states that the time required by the meen stomach to digest food fo—Pige one hour; tri one hour th nutes ; steak, one hour thirty-five mteniog? boiled milk, two hours ; . tarkey, two hours and thirty minutes ; ‘roasted beef, three hours ; roasted mutton, three hours and fifteen minu ; Veal (broiled) four hours ; salt beef (broiled) four hours and fifteen ’ minutes ; roas rk, five hours and fitteen minutes or people then who can’t get enough to cat, or want to'live cheap, Begs is the thing— t and next to pork, beef. If it were not that wheat and \er than they are, 4 wid, and Rowe . v stone, . and a half feet } feet th shoulders, and tug ay fk niger < Near Palermo, in Sicily,, 1516, ‘was. found the chcleoe ofa irty feet high, and in 1550 anothe y-four feet } Heat Uishtas, in Sicily, in 1816, was . one ho trout trod) cheap in California, hogs would be highDm. Thomas, of the first Baptist vorite form of female a Se “an intense womanliness, an aggravating, intensity of womanliness, that makes one long for a little roughness, just to take off the oeere excess of sweet“Puex have a “Saturday ligaor law” in Canada, requiring all taverns to close from 7 o’clock on Saturday night till 8 . . o’clock on Monday morning, A MACHINE has been invented in A TERRIFIC contest. between a bull dog and a large hog, resulting inh victory for the porker, was a Sunday street scene in Louisville. Peek Gieiiies ote. pooh 1,776,029 : ISI LVER WARE, francs last October. ee 7 ‘Tire Napa Valley Railroad advertises to commence operations on the 22d inthe junction with the Vallejo road made. THE Rothschilds are unfortunate.— Baron James, head of the house, lately has been defeuted asa candidate for the British Parliament. THE city of Philadelphia is importing one saan aparsowe for her parks. A CavVE of impenetrable depth has been found near Elizabeth, in the Stdtd of New Jersey. AN Ohio farmer has raised 40 bushels of_a new variety of corn in two years, from four kernels. given one-hundred thousand dollars to -INUNDATION —oFr THE— teeRIVER NILE! Is fally explained:in a work now being intro duced in NEVADA COUNTY. tBeeiel Ey ; Ui age rit weked MILLER having Hentanrant will Koop ioe peered with the very best the ‘ety New England which emibosses and cuts . died at Paris, and Baron Lionel Nathan . . A:etertigenn of. atte Caeete teas! Attorney at Law, “FOR SALE! me WATCHES, . JEWELRY, . AND BY W. C, RANDOLPH, BROAD STREET, > sf NEVADA. a PHOT OUB-A PHI C Visits ARTIST, . , Beh be opr Eek the = ON PINB SoKuer, M. S. DEAL, . BS cage of the Peace. Nevada Clay, Cain a erg JAMES MON £0, Dealer Beef, Pork, Mutton, gormes Beet, a te siop on read Breet, oppose cart oN taternip ined. to sell sg [A BE GOODS ay sons jin BEFORE SPRING! . CASH custom ONLY solicited. E. ¥. SPENCE. MARTIN WETZEL, Itdoor below Nattzigat & Stone’ 8 butcher shop —m™— WINES, LIQUORS, &e. At ON ‘HAND PATTE TRUFFE, CHAMPTIEoNs And all kinds of FANCY PRESERVES. up in French Styles. vas a een tonne of Movads and Veslatty ave JOHN CALPWELL, Attorney” and: Counselor at Law and " Netary Public. » MOORE'S FLAT, NEVADA €OUNTY. Moores Fiat, July 2nd_ i DOCTOR H. TILING, Pha PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, of the er at Dorpat. . = wise bot ys ty “Reshape gon ke Liodis A it all eisai a Some foiks realiy believe aay are Posted as to the place where they can buy . . their Christmas Goods _THE CH EAPEST 1 Dowt bianio us'if you get fooled by your smartness, and pay & + rea a more oe Goods than . CEO. R. CRAWFORD. _ CHARGES. TOYS! .TOYS! TOYS: The Prettiest, The Neatest, . The Handsomest, The Cateist, “* Stock of Toys ever seen in Nevada City! 7 Don't be so unsophisticated as to any oe of the following articles without examining : Geo. R. ‘CRAWFORD's WORK BOXES, ._. Writing Desks, , Slbume, &e. key &e. Call on 3 GEO. R. CRAWFORD, Broad strect,...Newada City. GEORGE W. KIDD « 00., Ane nme. BROAD STREET. . ARVADA CITT, auch aprun Fon basis ieee hea ae ese heer Express charges for neta area” on conte ables aptd Ae Weis snd Dhaene: 8 Drafts on San ° San Jose and’ ity. Da nae tame ork, London and wei Te ag collections and 4.Geid and Ores every description melted, r for i end aibeais tor the London and Liverpool en MDa S, ecramentc San city ; The f { Stockton, § The Bank of San Jose, of California, Virginie shop * u7 J. P. WEGB, Mm. D.,And Licentiate reac AN College of Physicians of Edinb OFFICE—BROAD STREET, rye wesite the National Exchange ‘Hotel D. 8. BAKER. J. A. MARTIN BAKER & MARTIN. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS _ GAN FRUITS AND SHELF GoeD OF ALL KiInpe. a —aLso— CORN, _ GROUND FEED WeoD! woop woop: Shakes, Shingles, &c., &€¢., _. WHERE . eeeecanb Ba 6 Oe 6G Aemoae «qa 3 4 af “meh Oa ees eek ese. nt 6k ee ee aa ~e an ew &® 6 wt Om oe hk @an\b aeaaaseitw ~_3s am a et es

Ganiermas. —This is the day fixed up. on by theologians as the anniversary of . the birth of Christ, but was not so considered until the fourth centary. Prior to. that time it was a. moveable feast, a hie inn GOAL as, the months of April or This day Christians 4@ a réligious fe@et, and besides a time when gifts are given to friends. .or children. The custom of erecting Christmas trees and distriba_ ting presents is ‘borrowed. by. us from the Protestant districts of. North Germany, where Christmas is called the “Childeén’s Febtivat.” “Phe exercises cisely’ ‘the oun al liave 4 our Christmas trees in the Sunday schools, custom is omitted with us. After the distribution the ion stan ae to say to the daughters, and t! ty their conduct du merly in North Germany, the presents were sent to one. person, who in high wig, wént from house to house distributing presents. Hie was ‘nade much of by parents,and in the: presence of the children glosely examiped into their by presents. In the Unhod BULGE So hare combined Sithie, debehes be" edith 46: _ ‘anions and good dinners the German ee ee et agreeable ofthe year. Christmas is a time for good cheer, ote Cee eee vie with the ether: int. bringing happiness to the LS the ist of January the San Francisco Heréld, under the conttol of its fornier Pte: Nugent, will be ved. ies wy nop Oe am VELVETEN suite re the favorites one New York promenades. sdf % ‘Apoinenthetintedientesinmeatnee °° Brromaw Young, it is said, is going Sherrer ee Ee: BOGS oe goa that. ‘Wislinenisecs was . is unfounded. The old fellow is sow in tho Humboldt country. Iris given out on ‘good oes that a.corps.of the ablest of the Virginia orators, t rebels, in Cabinet and field, intend canvassing such States as Pennsylvania to invite farmers, meehanics and cupitalists to ‘settle in that State. ; Tew thousand frst ‘and witiale read— ers for the schools of Utah, printed in the new Mormon aiphabet, have arrived at Salt Lake City. “Tur tax. roll of Panini Pa., amounts to $498,193,370. man, and deals in the vilest abuse of the Union. Here is a specimen in which he suggests designs for the monee We would « as a design for another panel the enormous National debt, created. not to-save the. Tr: but to carry on the murderous for cotton and negroes, for the _benefit of Lincoln’s pets and hirelings—the offscouring of creation, the’picked up humanities from the tan-vaulte, gutters, — saloons and grogeries of the Wé would suggest as another panel a picture representing the slaying of soldiers.in the South in raids for cotton, mules, and household goods forthe benefit of the homes of the and Christian charches of the feligions in the North. After going on in this style for a colamn atid a half, he coaclades in the following “red hot” Democratic strain : And there, right beside Lincoln’s monument, Jet the haters of oppression and lovérs of Tiberty erect a mar ble shaft on which shall be engraved the namé of Jobh Wilkes Booth, on one side’ and on the other a picture of his heart-broken spether, keoaliog is prayer supplica the of Lincoln tae dine ety ot Brick Pomeroy’s age libetally sustained by the New! York Democracy, and he is fast breaking down the World which, as.a party journal, is not coneae ne neh Giants or Open Tores.—In one of his recent lectures, Professot Sill man, the younger, alluded tothe discovery of the skeleton of an enormous lizard, of eighty feet. From this'the that the species it represented had degenerated. The verity of his opinion he rather endeavored to enforce by an allusion to the well known: existenée of giants of olden times. The following list is the data on which this singular hypothesis is based : The giant exhibited in Rouen, in 1530, tas Geitiaine tava seoebuent iat ‘teen feet. NY cerpustan a get gecsiarl Wk se eee See was ten feet Bagene Il, measured eleven and a ud aaa site Chaat Sei. found in one of the caverns of that mountain, the heai of Gunich, who had sixty teeth, . and was not lees than fifteen fest high. The ep iemget, slain by Orlando, = at of Charlemange, was twenty1814, near St. Germain, was found the tomb of the giant Isorent, who was. not less than feet high, , In 1790, near ouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and whose’body ‘must have been a Magadan. high. wes tw =two feet h his h eae mesa S in 1813, near the river Moderi. In 1828, near the castle in Dauphine . ssid a tomb w. twenty-six feet w h, on a was ¢ om By x.” The sheleiea at was sae pect So bone to the back. ow the skeleton of a thirty feet high ; the head was the size of a hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. Human Foop.—Dr. Beaumont states that the time required by the meen stomach to digest food fo—Pige one hour; tri one hour th nutes ; steak, one hour thirty-five mteniog? boiled milk, two hours ; . tarkey, two hours and thirty minutes ; ‘roasted beef, three hours ; roasted mutton, three hours and fifteen minu ; Veal (broiled) four hours ; salt beef (broiled) four hours and fifteen ’ minutes ; roas rk, five hours and fitteen minutes or people then who can’t get enough to cat, or want to'live cheap, Begs is the thing— t and next to pork, beef. If it were not that wheat and \er than they are, 4 wid, and Rowe . v stone, . and a half feet } feet th shoulders, and tug ay fk niger < Near Palermo, in Sicily,, 1516, ‘was. found the chcleoe ofa irty feet high, and in 1550 anothe y-four feet } Heat Uishtas, in Sicily, in 1816, was . one ho trout trod) cheap in California, hogs would be highDm. Thomas, of the first Baptist vorite form of female a Se “an intense womanliness, an aggravating, intensity of womanliness, that makes one long for a little roughness, just to take off the oeere excess of sweet“Puex have a “Saturday ligaor law” in Canada, requiring all taverns to close from 7 o’clock on Saturday night till 8 . ..

o’clock on Monday morning, A MACHINE has been invented in A TERRIFIC contest. between a bull dog and a large hog, resulting inh victory for the porker, was a Sunday street scene in Louisville. Peek Gieiiies ote. pooh 1,776,029 : ISI LVER WARE, francs last October. ee 7 ‘Tire Napa Valley Railroad advertises to commence operations on the 22d inthe junction with the Vallejo road made. THE Rothschilds are unfortunate.— Baron James, head of the house, lately has been defeuted asa candidate for the British Parliament. THE city of Philadelphia is importing one saan aparsowe for her parks. A CavVE of impenetrable depth has been found near Elizabeth, in the Stdtd of New Jersey. AN Ohio farmer has raised 40 bushels of_a new variety of corn in two years, from four kernels. given one-hundred thousand dollars to -INUNDATION —oFr THE— teeRIVER NILE! Is fally explained:in a work now being intro duced in NEVADA COUNTY. tBeeiel Ey ; Ui age rit weked MILLER having Hentanrant will Koop ioe peered with the very best the ‘ety New England which emibosses and cuts . died at Paris, and Baron Lionel Nathan . . A:etertigenn of. atte Caeete teas! Attorney at Law, “FOR SALE! me WATCHES, . JEWELRY, . AND BY W. C, RANDOLPH, BROAD STREET, > sf NEVADA. a PHOT OUB-A PHI C Visits ARTIST, . , Beh be opr Eek the = ON PINB SoKuer, M. S. DEAL, . BS cage of the Peace. Nevada Clay, Cain a erg JAMES MON £0, Dealer Beef, Pork, Mutton, gormes Beet, a te siop on read Breet, oppose cart oN taternip ined. to sell sg [A BE GOODS ay sons jin BEFORE SPRING! . CASH custom ONLY solicited. E. ¥. SPENCE. MARTIN WETZEL, Itdoor below Nattzigat & Stone’ 8 butcher shop —m™— WINES, LIQUORS, &e. At ON ‘HAND PATTE TRUFFE, CHAMPTIEoNs And all kinds of FANCY PRESERVES. up in French Styles. vas a een tonne of Movads and Veslatty ave JOHN CALPWELL, Attorney” and: Counselor at Law and " Netary Public. » MOORE'S FLAT, NEVADA €OUNTY. Moores Fiat, July 2nd_ i DOCTOR H. TILING, Pha PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, of the er at Dorpat. . = wise bot ys ty “Reshape gon ke Liodis A it all eisai a Some foiks realiy believe aay are Posted as to the place where they can buy . . their Christmas Goods _THE CH EAPEST 1 Dowt bianio us'if you get fooled by your smartness, and pay & + rea a more oe Goods than . CEO. R. CRAWFORD. _ CHARGES. TOYS! .TOYS! TOYS: The Prettiest, The Neatest, . The Handsomest, The Cateist, “* Stock of Toys ever seen in Nevada City! 7 Don't be so unsophisticated as to any oe of the following articles without examining : Geo. R. ‘CRAWFORD's WORK BOXES, ._. Writing Desks, , Slbume, &e. key &e. Call on 3 GEO. R. CRAWFORD, Broad strect,......Newada City. GEORGE W. KIDD « 00., Ane nme. BROAD STREET. .. ARVADA CITT, auch aprun Fon basis ieee hea ae ese heer Express charges for neta area” on conte ables aptd Ae Weis snd Dhaene: 8 Drafts on San ° San Jose and’ ity. Da nae tame ork, London and wei Te ag collections and 4.Geid and Ores every description melted, r for i end aibeais tor the London and Liverpool en MDa S, ecramentc San city ; The f { Stockton, § The Bank of San Jose, of California, Virginie shop * u7 J. P. WEGB, Mm. D.,And Licentiate reac AN College of Physicians of Edinb OFFICE—BROAD STREET, rye wesite the National Exchange ‘Hotel D. 8. BAKER. J. A. MARTIN BAKER & MARTIN. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS _ GAN FRUITS AND SHELF GoeD OF ALL KiInpe. a —aLso— CORN, _ GROUND FEED WeoD! woop woop: Shakes, Shingles, &c., &€¢., _. WHERE . eeeecanb Ba 6 Oe 6G Aemoae «qa 3 4 af “meh Oa ees eek ese. nt 6k ee ee aa ~e an ew &® 6 wt Om oe hk @an\b aeaaaseitw ~_3s am a et es