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Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

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Kerrsakes.—Let us say a word a on suctt
remembrutces ns lockets, Inve gifts and kerpsakes. Frum the ervoked sixpence which
Mary, the muid-of-all-work, bourds jeuloosly up
in her bux, becuase Joli the footmat gave it
ti her—fiom the humble testimony of love to
the glittering banble that decks the fingers of
her young mistress, we adinire and prize them
all. A keep-uke, Itke mercy, is “ twice blessed
—it blesseth him that gives and lin that
takes.” No leart cun be so dead to the best
fevtings of hummuity as not to throb with aome
little emotion when the eye is guzing in sulace
anil aecret on the last relic of one we dearly
loved. It hullows the mind and purifies the
heart, and we have a saving faith, too, thot it
absolutely betters their morals. No very
atrvcious deed conlil be committed when the
present of one we esteemed und respecteil was
near to us tu check every action. A. locket,
containing the hair of one no longer living, is
aniclincholy, but yet a gratifying oeitorial
‘tis a kind of pledge given to those on earth
in naticipation of a blessed onion hereafter.
The lair, tov, is the last tling that decays,
and is, theretore, the must appropriate relic of
the dead. We never belnid a locket sits
pended umiongst the glittering jewelry of a
puwnbroker’s without being led into a triin
of most suubre reflections. What a striagele
Ietween lile aml dvath must thut have been
that inluged tho possessor to relinquish this
lust token to sutisfy the cravings of hanger,
It 13 tuo paintnla theme to twellupou long.
The heart sickens at the sight of things, the
very possession of which speaks of Jloriner
o, ule ce ail present poverty—ol a once happy
home. pow deserted. These glittering itemorials of love, these sacred offerings of friendship, are here exitibitrd like the hony integnincuts piled ap in the Parisian catacombs, as
part und parcel of tlio virtually dead,
Lapy Scnscoiners.—The editor of a Boston
weekly paper pays a high and well deserved
complinient to the fuir patrons of the press.
‘Women,’ he says, are the best snbscribers in
the world to newspupers, niagazines, ete. We
have been an editor now going on forty-eivht
yenrs, and we have yet wever lost n single dol
lar by female subscribers. They seem to make
ita point of conscientions duty to pay the
preacher ani the printer—two classes of the
community that suffer more lrom bad pay, aud
no pay at all, than all the rest put together,
Whenever we liuve a woman's bame on our
book. we know it is just as good for two dollurs as a picuyune is lor a ginger cake.’
Natvnat Listony ror tux Youxo.—For
many years it hus been one of my constant re
grets that no school-master of mine hud a
knowledge ol natural history, so fur, at least,
as to have taught me the grasses that grow by
the waysite, atul the little winged and winless
neighbors that are continually meeting me with
asulntution wh ch feunnot answer as things are
Why didu't somebody teach ine the constellations, too, and muke me at home in the starry
heavens, which are always overhead, and which
T don’t hall know to this day? I love to prophesy t ‘at there will come a time, when not in
Edioborgh only, but in all Scottish and Kuropean towns and villages, the school-master will
be strictly required to possess these two capabilities (neither Greck nor Latin more strict!)
and that no ingenious little denizen of this
universe be thencelorward debarred from his
Tight of liberty in these two departments, and
doomed to look, upyn them as il across grated
fences ull his life. —Thomas Carlysie.
Nest or tHE Hussino Birs.—The nest of
tle hamming bird is a miracle of perfection in
domiesii¢c economy. For beauty. fitness and
snfety, the wisd.m and taste displayed in its
arrungement are irreproachable. Budecked in
plumage of emerald, ruby and topaz, remarkable
lor the delicacy of its form and grace ol its
notion, onsullied by rain from tho clouds or
dust Irom the earth, feeding upon tle nectar of
the flowers. its babitation should be in character, and so itis. Shaped like u half cup, it is
delicately lormed of lichens, colored like the
branch on which it ig fixed, and lined with the
soft down of plant blossoms, of nilen leaves,
or the young fein. It is delicately soft, sheltered, and is nndistinguishabls Irom the burk
of the tree, of which it seems a most natural
excrescence—a moss-grown knot. ‘I'wo white
eges as large as peas adorn the nest, upon
which, as asserted by some navuralists, the cock
and hen sit by turus for ten or twelve days.
The little birds, scatecly larger than flies, enter
npon their existeuce in a chamber tapestried
as with velvet, and nre fed with the sweets of
flowers from the maternal tongue. ‘The tiny
househuld exhibits not only # commendable
nentness but exquisite taste and delicncy in all
its arrangements. Cun geutle humanity derive .
no lesson from such an example ?
At the mines of ‘Traversalla, in Savoy, magnets revolving on a wheel are used to pick up
the powdered ore, leaving the copper pyrites
behind.
Che Alining and Scientific Press.
Knox's Improved Patent Aimalgamator and Separator,
With Palmers Patent Steam Chamber or Dic.
em For further particulara, Inquire of
Hvl3-pliq
TIWIS CVT REPRESINTS AN A.ALRamiter ant S paretor that bas stood the
fest of salt Ves ' feactical working li
the g bl onmescd Vallounia, and lor uearly
the saine tin ter sliver mines af Nevastu,
hovine ber litrodue tl mito the frst slenm
milfs built inahe thet Territury, slnee which
tine they te ve bern successfully working
agamst all competsion,
The grent wivnntoges these Amalgamutors
huve over any others, ore—
Tet.
21. They do not © fone" the mereury,
and collect any that may have hee ' pickcoed" inthe buttery or grinders,
Much less Cost.
84. Thee’ sloshiug '” motion givia to the
pulp (yy the revahil ar ef the mutter miuer
tho staticnery from) uguiist the amal:
Kimeteloymer plates that wre fastened to
the frame, nod ley thls mens catching thy
Gue golil and mercury that will not eeti le,
4th, The gate inthe eune, through which
the poly {4 dirchirgrd, frum the toy, aud
wher there is tho lest motian, almost
precluling Che ossill {ty efaoy grauutaled
Merenry er fine gall cecaplng,
There ure weer 500 of them in nse In Call:
furnti aml Nevaon, whero these interesied
enn sue their practleal workings.
ISRARL W, KNOX, on
W. A. PALMER, Inventors,
At the Golden State [ron Works, No. 10 First street, San Fraacisco,
, HEUSTON, WASTINGS & CO.,
— TPirtrE—
FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS
OF SAN FRANCISCO,
ARE SELLING
THEIR NEW STYLES
—or—
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS,
14v12 3m
TRUNKS, BAGS, AND VALISES,
wm At Reduced Prices.
A RARE CHANCE FOR INVESTMENT,
ele
THE PATENT RIGHT FOR SALE
‘SHILNNOO CNV SNMOL ‘SULVLS YOA
Yor the Best Chimney Top.
Ever invented Numerous Iestinnlals trom Proprietors
ol Faclories, FPonndries, Steamers, Hotels, ete, can be
shown, attesting 10 118 usefniness In creating draft, saving
the expensoot tiigh chimn and @ greut saving af fucl,
Pamphiels eentaining des {ye drawings an
nhals will be sent Treo, upon {ication hy Initer ar other:
wise to the patentee, LEN RIKSE
Or J, B, JOERGENSEN,
Vv123m No, 828 Kearny vireet, San Franelseor
Portabie Steam Engines !
“+ Woadiv y's” and BMtiliper’s Make,
COMBINING THE MAXIMUM OF EFPICIENOY,
aeey Durability, and Economy, with tho Auinum ot
cite Weight and Price.
thes These Engines aro favorably known, a large
were tnumber belng In use on this coast tur hoisting,
paniping, threshing, milling aud inining purpoxes.
Stoam ¢an be got up on Iiese Engines in ittteen minutes
after reaching the lice of operaltun, and the tle, expcuse
of setting builers, machiuer: i uructtin aceouut’
saved, Gwhich en the d enee berween the snecesstul
and unsucecssiul proreeul ot milling enterprises,) an
fiet, the portable prine{pic js the plone frlend, and enableshini to draw engines on thelr own wheels to. Ins eabli
dvor, and jlant on the ontermyst continues of civilization
the snw aud grist mill, and it bas done and will do more
to help sutcdue the continent than any other ot the modern
Motors which are crowding sucloty aud wornislizing tle
world ‘
All sizes on hand frem 3 te 30 herso power, with and
ST Seas baer a Grist atts
Alyo, Portable Saw and Grist AUT s.
For salo by TREADWELL &CO.,
3v12-310 Oorner of Front and Market streets.
Tue Presa la a large, sixteen pig? paper, nnd fs truly ¢
valuable assistant to the ralning Interests of the Pavifia
Coast —[yye County ivews.
BAUX & GUIODS
Separator & Amalgamator
Isthe most Importanl improvement in nubing machinery
ever intradueed. ‘If was awarded the FIRST £QEMIU A at
the San Fruncisco Mechanics’ Falr for 1861, where It proved
lisclt to be the lest _Separalarani Aiwnlgnmalor amony all
the cumpetitors, Coustruected on pritetjles whieh cambine
Seientiric Kxownheoek with VrsericaAn Exezrienecr, these
Pans extract more gold and silver Ian their ores than any
others in use, as a few hours trial will demonstrate mil
meu will find {t to thelr advaninse to employ lliese pans as
Senarators, In addition tu the ardimry Amalzaturs now lo
nse, and to re-worls their old tailines.
The cost of these Pans Is inconsiderable, and thelr strneture is such that they can he readily separated iu yurts convenient for Re ou mules. Among the many udvuntafe possessed hy BAUX & GUIOD'S Pan, are the Cae
fhe trilling cost for attendance; Its sult cust; Its portabil:
Ity; The large quantity af pulp it can operate npenina
eu timo; It may be workei even wreks
as It is constructed to wurk contin
thoronghiuess of the separution of th ek T
and the triting power required 1o work them;
attached to nny ordinary ernshing apparatus,
We have ihe plensure al reverring parties Interesied to
ihe fallawing partivs, who have ont Pan tn use: Jelfersonlan Mining Conipany, Bawninn's Runch, Nevada county,
The Froneh Mil, Nevada Clty; Crall’s Gravel © nt
3, Nevada ua Waliman’s Ciflorination W
. Cul; Goll till Quartz ALL W 1c,
Mannlaciured at the Vulewn Iron Works and San Mranelsco Foundry, Ban Francisco, and at lkengh & Thom’s
Foundry, Nevady Clty.
WW
without stopp lng
sly, The complele
m tho metre
They can be
oh
For turlther particulars, or te see fife Puinin aperation. °
call on or address
J.. BAUS,
Fremont Street, near Mission, adjoining the San Peer!
vo-tdl Tron Works, San Francisco. 4
JAMES MACKEN,
coPPYPERsS MiTII.
No, 226 Fremont at., bet. Fhoward & Folsom.
All kinds of COPPER WONK done to order In the best
manner. Particular atteution paid te Steamboat, Sugar
House and Distillery work.
Repairing promptly and neatly eA CG Oe
: v.
&
HIS WHELL, WHICH WAS HAD THE
must unurceedentat sale of any wiler-wheel ovor
imme, and whieh hies ¥1 (nustal satisfaction whenever
used, ia now lar sale by APIA GRANT, 310 Wuishingten
sircet, San Frauelsen, ys pers desi¢ing to use wateryower can be supplied, Thess Wheels ure ndaydeil to usa
Tram 10 to 5,000 hiches of winer, and from 4 feet ta d0U feot
full) Let us kitew how inuch water yau have efther In
iiiner's Inclies or cubie feet per minute, what fall you huve,
and what power you require Write ar seit for vlrenlur to
KNAPP : GRANT,
= Alu San Franctseo.
Lefttls Lever Jacks,
Vor rallroads, cara, or sons, Railroad Jnecks for en.
ginvs wid cara; Track J situr leveling, with whieh ihree
men, with apalr of these Jacks, ean level more track Ina
ay than twelve nien warktng In the ordivary manner,
alt Track Jueka tor relieving the axte of pressure te relace the brass, These Jacks are now in general tec In the
eustern States, anit give entire eatisfaction, Also, Wagon
und Track Jacks of the most sunerier mike and kind,
For snle by BNAPP & RANT,
i2yvl2-3u1 : Fraucisce,
IUNTER’S
PREMIUM
CONCENTRATOR, AMALGARIATOR
AND SEPARATOR,
Awarded a Silver een ut the late Mechanica’
Waelder,
UNTEN'S CONCENTRATOR CAN BE SEEN IN OPERation dady ai He Nuvelty lron Works, Fremont street.
Varties whshtig to purchnse Concentrators witl Tind It to
thelr advnntaze ti examine the above machine before
purchnslng elsewhere, for the fallowing reasons:
ist. Lt will work the sands trom a 6-stamp hattery, and
save from 1 to 20 per cent. nore sulphurets than any ma.
etiine built on tho Pacific coast,
2d. The Sulphurels are wished clean, eonialning less than
ten per cent. of sand.
84. The waste iree gold anil amalgam Is amalgamated on
Ihe copper plates, ne ti ace of ground mereury and scarcely
a trace of metal passes off wilh the sand,
41h, Itssimplifeity Is a sufiiclent recommendation for Ita
generul use as a Concentrator, The variniion of speed Ina
te Milldues not effect [he working of the Muelitne.
hesume was demonstrated nt the late Mechanies' Fatr,
when with Ihe greatest IRREGULAKITY OF SsPKED the best of
results were given.
5th Foere is no clogging or stopping to clean out the sulphurets nnd sand; evascquently no wasle from any Inatientlau autho part of the attendant,
6th. In exhibiting the working of the machine (it fs not
Tnn empty), all classes of ores and talllngs, from 50 pounds
and upwarils. are eaiceutrated that parties may sce fit to
test the machine with.
Give {tu telal, nnd saiisfaetion 1s guaranteed. All ordora
and any information required, aildress,
ANDREW HUNTER,
Novelty Iron Works, Fremont_st., San Franelseo,
l6v1i-3m Or lu E, I. STEEN, Agent.
FOR ; ALE
A SHTEAM ENGINE!
‘CH CYLINDER,F UR-FOOT STROKE, IN PEN2 Order. inquire at VULCAN IRON WORKS, 137
nil 139 Firétstreet, or to
WMEYNEMANN & CO.,
26v ttl 311 and 313 Callfornia street.
_Stevens’ Pressure Packing.
Patented Marella 7th, 1865.
Pressnre Purkiug is now conceded, by the best engl+
neers, to be the most effectual method of making aud
fkerplog the metallic ring of pistons sicam-tight,
STEVENS' PACKING has tu aulyantage of being cheaper
la first eomt than the ordinary peeking, tnd can be applied
te old style pisions with very litle alteration or detention,
In place of testimonials, the Patentce requests of those
who are nsing the ald sjring packing toe Inquire of the
owuors of the yvnrious engines which uow have thls packlug in use—some of whieh have been tnnning from three
to twolve moutha wilhout being apensd, or showing any
descriptive leak—and uct upon Liclr rcomony ndalion,
Further parheulars ean be hal by upplying to the
Patonleo, ANIR).W STEVENS, Masier Meehaule, Alumeda
Ruilroud, erat the VULCAN IRUN WORKS, where they
al ho seen, at any time, in cunrse of construction,
Tour ANDREW sTEVENS,
NEPTUNE IRON WORKS,
Corner of Mission and Fremont Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO,
REA RINE,
Locomotive,
And nil kinds of
HIGHW PRESSURE
Steam Boilers
MADE.
All Boilers guranteed ang
tecteil by U,, Builer Ine
speclor beture § if
the Shop, it }
Worng, ete., ete.
Manut«ctured to Order.
Old Dotlers Repaired
BD. CAMERON, é6v121y