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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
A Two Dollar Sell.

Joe Dobbin's was exceedingly fond of
duck hunting and one afternoon last fall
started out for some fun. He traveled
nearly all the afternoon without seeing a
single duck or other game worth the
price of charge of powder and shot and
just before night came across the fields
to the road where fine flock of ducks
were padding around in a puddle near
farm house. Close BY the old farmer
who after greeted Joe said:
You don't seem to have had much
luck guess you aint much of shot"
"Ifyou think so" replied Joe "what
will you take for shot at those ducks 2"
"Well don't know, what do you
think it would be worth to you ?" an
swered the farmer.
"I'll give you two dollars for a shot,
from where | now stand, if you have a
mind to take it,"
Well, replied the farmer hand me
your two dollars and blaze away for all l
care" H. .
This offer was at once accepted by Joe,
who hastened to pass over that amount of
stamps, and taking deliberate aim was
fortunate enough to kill and wound six
ducks. Turning to the farmer he ex-
claimed in tones Of exultation, "rather a
dear two dollars to you guess you think
by this time, don't you?"
ooh | don't know but what l am sat-
isfed" replied the farmer. -,
Don't you consider them six ducks
worth more than two dollars ?" asked
Joe.
"They aint worth that to me-" was the
reply.
Why not to you?"
Because they don't belong to me, for
don't live here, | am just waiting for
Mr. johnson who lives here to come
home," was the startling answer
Joe hastily left that locality but before
doing so, was strongly tempted to empty
the other load into the carcass of the old
fellow who had sold him so completely
and ever after before buying a shot, ascer,
tains who is the owner Of the property
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
SCIENTIFIC READING.
White Lead.

A mixture of carbonate and hydrated
oxide of lead, known as white lead, is a
chief ingredient of most oil paints. Its
pure white hue and great opaqueness
make it good basis to which other col
oring matter can be added. Paint made
from it will completely cover and hide a
larger surface than if made from any other
material. The relative body" or COW
ering power of different samples may be
tested by weighing out 100 grains of each,
and adding, if the lead is ground in oil,
three drops of boiled linsecd oil; eighteen
or twenty, if the lead is dry; then spread
the different samples as uniformly as may
be on piece of glass. Hold them between
yourself and the window, and that which
looks darkest-most opaque-has most
body.
White lead is made by the Dutch pro-
cess, which was invented two or three
hundred years ago, and intr oduced into
Engla nd and America about the begin
ming of this century. 1t was first made
in this country at Philadelphia. The
process probably differs in detail, in every
establishment, but substantially consists
in exposing pieces of the metal, so cut or
cast as to offer large surface to the
action of vaporizod vinegar or acetic acid,
which forms tribasic acetate of lead
(three parts lead to one of acid); COM
monty placing clay pots, containing lead at
top and vinegar some distance below, on
layers Of spent tan bark, whose fermen-
tation heats and eyaporates the acid and
at the same time gives out gaseous carbon
ic acid, which takes the place of the acetic
acid as fast as the latter is drawn away
from the acetate by the attraction of the
still uncoroded lead. Layers of tan and
pots, separated by boards, are piled up to
the top Of the building, and then shut up
for about three months at the end of
which tim c the lead has become a white
crumbling mass. This is then put
through revolving screens, so that any
bits of metallic or blue lead remaining
are sifted out. The weight of the white
mass is not far from the sum Of the weight
Of lead and vinegar. After screening, it
is thoroughly washed with water to re-
move any free acetic acid, acetates of lead
or other metals that may have been mix
ed with the lead and like impurities. 1t
is then dried by evaporation and ground
in oil, eight pounds of oil to one hundred
pounds of white lead. 1t is packed in
small iron-hooped kegs or tin cans, and is
then ready for market.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
Thirst QuencIled Without Drinking.

1t may not be generally known to our
readers that water, even salt water, i'm
bibed through the skin appeases thirst
almost as well as fresh water taken in-
wardly. In illustration of this subject,
correspondent has sent us the following
abridged quotation from " Narrative Of
Captain Kennedy's losing his Vessel, and
his Distresses Afterwards" which was
noticed in Dodsley's Annual Register
for 1869"
cannot conclude without making
mention of the great advantage [ receiv-
ed from soaking my clothes twice a day
in salt water, and putting them on with
out wringing. 1t was considerable time
before l could make the people comply
with this measure, although from seeing
the good effects produced, they afterward
practced it twice day of their own ac-
cord. To this discovery | may with JUS
tice attribute the. preservation of my own
life and six other persons who must have
perished if it had not been put in USE
The hint was first communicated to me
from the perusal of a treatise written by
DIR. Lind. The water absorbed through
the pores of the skin produced in every
respect the same effect as would have re-
suited from the moderate drinking of any
liquid The saline PARTICLES, however,
which remained in our clothes became in
crusted by the heat of the sun and that
Of our own bodies lacerating our skins
and being otherwiseinconvenient but we
found that by washing out these parti-
cles and frequently wettin G our clothes
without wringing twice in the course of
day, the skin became well in a short
time. After these operations we uniform
ly found that the violent thirst went off,
and the parched tongue was cured in u
few minutes after bathing and washing
our clothes ; and at the same time we
found ourselves as IN uch refreshed as il
we had received some actual nourishment.
-Four persons in the boat who drank salt
water went delirious and died, but those
who avoided this and followed the above
practice experienced no such symptoms.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
Spoiled Children.

Like many unwise mothers certain
lady would never allow her child to be
contradicted, for fear that it might make
him sick. Her friends, as we'll as her
husband, in vain demonstrated with her,
informing he that such Course would be
sure to spoil the child, One day she
heard him screaming with anger in the
garden. In an instant she asertained the
cause the nurse had refused to give him
what he desired.
T" Yon impertinent creature" said the
angry mother, "not to give him what he
wantedW
"By my troth," said the girl, "he may
cry till morning, and he'll not get it,"
Enraged beyond bounds, she complain
ed to her husband. The man was as
weak as the woman.
+" Do you have the impudence to DISC
bey your mistress?"
!" 1t is true sir, that / did not obey her.
The child has been crying for the moon,
which he sees reflected in the fountain.
1 could not give it TO him, though com
manded to do so. Perhaps my lady can"
There was general laugh, in which
the lady Joined, while she possessed sufh-
cient sense to treasure up the lesson.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
Gle Gin1es, Mem BLOOMFIELD, 1Da.

Four thousand dollars cash." was
the reply, and that is but small advance
on the cost"
Very well, 1 will buy it of you,"
added Mrs Newton quietly.
" What did | understand you to say ?''
asked the Squire, scarcely believing his
ears.
I repeat that I will buy this house
at your price, and pay the money within
week" ......'.-..a.
"Then the house is yours. But your
hus band said nothing of his intention, and
in fact did not Know"
That he had the money to invest, [
suppose you would say. Neither does he
know it, and must ask you not to tell
him for the present"
The next morning Mrs. Newton invi-
ted her husband to take walk, but with
out specifying the direction.
They soon stood in front Of the house
in which he desired to live.
Wouldn't you like to go in 7" she
asked.
yes. It's pity we haven't got the
key"
IL have the key" said his wife, and
forthwith walked up the steps and pro-
ceeded to open the door.
When did you get the key of Squire
Bent ?" asked the husband.
Yesterday when I bought the house."
said his wife quietly .....
Mr.. Newton gazed at his wife in pro-
found astonishment.
What on earth do you mean, Eliza
beth ?' he inquired.
Just what I say. The house is mine,
and what is mine is thine. So the house
is yours Ezra"
Where in the name of goodness did
you raise the money!" asked her hus-
band, his amazement still as great as ever
" l haven't been a managing wife for
ten years for nothing" said Mrs. Newton
smiling.
With some difficulty Mrs. Newton per-
suaded her husband that the price of the
house was really the result of her savings.
He felt when he surveyed the commodi-
GUS arrangements of the new house that
he had reasons to be grateful for the
prudence Of his managing wife.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
A Glue which will Unite Polished Steel.

The following is receipt for a cement
used to fasten diamond and other prec-
ious stones to metallic surfaces, and which
is said to be capable of strongly uniting
surfaces of polishing steel. Dissolve five
or six bits ofgum mastic, each the size of
large pea, in as much spirit of wine as
will suffice to render it liquid. In anoth-
er vessel dissolve in brandy as much is
inglass, previously softened in water, as
will make two-ounce phial of strong
glue, adding two small bits of gum am
moniac, which must be rubbed until dis
solved Then mix the whole with heat
Keep in phial closely stopped When
it is to be used set the phial in boiling
water.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
HOMES FOR ALL,
IN THE
Land of Flowers and Perpetual Growth.
FLORIDA.
The Italy Of America.

Ahc Italy OF America.
TT IS not eXceled in CLIMATE by any of the
Il United States, and it may be doubted whether
it can be equaled in the world.
Located on the very borders of the TOrrid Zone,
still her situation between the Gulf of Mexico and
the Atlantic Ocean is such that she is swept alter
nately by the winds of the Eastern and Western
seas, and relieved from the burning heats which
prevails in other Southern States and thus it
happens that by the joint influence of latitude
and peculiar location, she is relieved, on the one
hand, from the rgors of the Winter climate of the
Northern and Middle States, and on the other
from the extreme heat with which not only the
southern States, but in the Summer time the
Northern States are characterized.
Settlers have not the hardships to undergo that
and developed our harsh Northern latitudes The
entire gear is q perpetudL season Of grOlCth, able
to produce and send to market all the productions
OF the IrOptcm and Temperate Zones 1CeekS and
months i'll advance of and other IOcdtiy,dnd at q
season lChen all such prOductiOnS are luxurious
and command the reryhigheSt prices;
The Florida Improvement Company,
under the auSpiceSof the state Of Fvorda, propose
which can be raised Vegetables ET7titS etc.. COM
mon to the more Northern climates, and all the
GRAINS FRUITS and VEGETABLES of the TROPICS.
Such selected lands in the HEALTHIEsT part of
the STATE, and of the best quality
The COMPANY have issued q pamphlet Of 12S
concerning FLORIDA its CLIMATE, SOIL and PRO
DUCTIONs, with Il sketch of its HISTORY which the
Company Will forward free of postage, on receipt
OF 25 cents.
For other information or circular, address or
apply to
The Florida Improvement Co.,
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23
INC FlOrlda mprOYement COmpany,
The Florida Improvement Co..
:SA PARK ROW, n. ".

NEW YORK AND FLORIDA COLONY.
Partially organized. For full information cir
culars etc, address EDWARD DELOUEST, 81
Nassau street, New York City p. o. Box 1856
5Sl3 q
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-23

For Hand-bills,, or job work of any kind,
go to the Times Office. Our "Steam Power
Press" will print larger bill than any
press in the county.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
DiSraeli as an Editor.

Disrae is career as an editor is thus
sketched by London letter writer :
"Oae OF the past metropolitan daily
papers is the Representative, started in
1925, by Murray, the publisher, and
edited Ivy Mr.. Disraeli. The offices of
this Journal were fitted up in state of
splendor without parallel. The recep-
ton room especially-the visitors to
which We're expected to be mostly Of
the aristocracy, was furnished in gor-
geous style. 1t was expected that Mr..
Disraeli would encourage Mr.. Murray's
aristocratic friends to make frequent
calls by accoa ding to them a courteous
reception; but, says Mr.. Grant, Mr..
Disraeli did not then, any more than he
does now, or dld at any intervening pc
Rod of his history, enjoy any remarka-
BILE reputation for atfability of manners
The reception room of the Representative
was but little visited this led to cool
ness between the proprietor and editor.
The paper never had circulation wor-
thy the name, while the advertisements
were few and improbable. The Repre-
sentative expired after feeble and UNI
happy existence of six months, the loss
to Mr.. Murray, according to Mr.. Grants
estimate, being fl5,O0O. 1t is mista-
kenly believed that this was the first
journal with which Mr.. Disraeli was
connected. Some few years before,
when he had not much exceeded his
majority, and while his Vivian Grey
was before the public, he had a journal
of his own, called the Star Chamber,
which consisted of an uncompromising
denunciation of what he regarded as
the vices and follies of fashionable So
ciety, mingled with unsparing severity
in his notices of some of the leading
works of the day. Mr. Cyrus Redding
used to say that Mr.. Disraeli gave RI
eulogistic review in this publication Of
Vivian Grey. The Star Chamber never
excit d the slightest interest, and
never had any circulation. 1t died
when it reached the end of the second
volume"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
sinking Fast.

Pale, miserable discouraged, without relish for
food without energy enough for exertion yet with no
acute pain or other specific indication of disease how
often do we see feeble invads fading it were out Of
life without any apparent We of them that
they are "sinking fast" Sinking gradually" as
the case may be- But there is good reason why
they should sink at ALL Persons in this dead alive
state simply want invigorating and vitalizing Ma
ture, in a state of torpor demands help. Bring out
the reserve of vitality in the system brace the nerves.
tone the stomach break up the morbid trance of body
and mind with course of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters 1t can be done. 1t has been done in thousands
of instances The effect upon the enervated frame is
electric Never give up. however languid and broken
down. Remember that for the exhausted, the debili-
tated the responding this powerful vegetable restora
tive is a genuine elixir. 1t is not mere stimuant,
that provokes transient flash of vigor in the system
and then leaves it in depressed condition than
before 1t removes the causes of debility by altering
the secreons and regulating the action of the internal
organs as well as reinforcing them 1t is partcu
arly valuable medicine this season, because it is
antidote the malaria which produces intermittent
fever biliousI collie and other disorders of the bowels
prevalent in the fall
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
SUGAR.

Mr.. EDITORIALS your readers may not all be
familiar with the present tariff on Sugars and its
effect on their cost to nsumers, few facts may
be of interest to some of them.
Under the act last passed by Congress, such
grades are suitable for refining purposes pay
duty of IA to "a cts per lb. while those adapted
to consumption or suitable to without
change. pay a duty of "a to cts per Id. The
suit of this is that the quantity of the better
grades imported is very small-by comparison
next to none-consequently the entire commu-
nifty are obliged to take, with slight exception
those clarified or refined here.
If this difference in cost the amount of which
you can readily conceive would be immense in
dollars went into the Treasury, we should all
feel some relief in the knowledge that it con-
tributed to pay a debt which would have TO be
met in some other form, and, consequently, not
matter of any especial cons equence. But such
is not the fact. On the contrary. what duty is
paid over the rates for refining grades, is tor
the protection of a few manufacturers in this
country if that expression is objected o. for
the profit and expense of doing the work here. it
being we'll known that Sugars are clarified where
the raw material is produced. which, as suggest
ed we should get but for the excessive duty they
now pay.
Molasses, which can almost be called Sugar as
it is used as its substitute. pays but one rate of
duty though it may be worth Is or 80 cts per gal
lon. All Coffees. without regard to quality or
place of growth. pay three cts per lib and Teas
though they be worth 80 cts per lb or Sl.20, pay
Is cts. 1t is intended to petition Congress that
the tariff shall be so changed that all grades of
Sugar shall pay one rate of duty-it being recol-
lected that refners do not now pay any manufac-
turers' tax, The necessities of our Indebtedness
as government will for long time require
duty to be placed on sugars, which will, no doubt,
be liberal protection to our planters in Louis
lana and Texas Persons feeling desire to effect
a change in this matter will, no doubt. accom-
plsh the most desirable result by comforting
with the Representatives of Congress from their
district. ANTI-MONOPOLY.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
Interesting Lawsuit.

A lawsuit, which bids fair to rival in
interest the famous goat case of West
Virginia is now exciting the fashionable
circles of Louisville. The subject of
contention is poodle dog, and the
litigants are two prominent citizens.
The plaintiff claims that he purchased
the dog of a New Orleans merchant for
the sum of ten dollars, more than two
years ago. 1t was then puppy. He
raised it up to full-grown poodle,
weighing at least three pounds. About
Il year ago, owing to a misunderstood
ing between the master and the poodle,
the latter received severe kick, where
upon it left its owner in disgust, and
was not afterwards seen until found in
the yard of the defendant. On the
other hand, the present possessor of
the dog claims to have always owned it
and to own all of it's relations, and pro-
duces its full pedigree in evidence.
Prominent lawyers have been employed
on both sides of the case, dispositions
are being taken in New Orleans, a host
of witnesses are ready to testify that
both parties are in the right, and, how
ever the question of ownership may be
decided, big bill of costs is certain to
accrue. The moral of this story is OBJ
vious.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
Extinction of Fires-ImpOrtant if True.

A recent German writer, in discussing
the general theory of fires, and the best
method of preventing and extinguish-
ing them, mentions various mineral
substances which may be mixed with
the water employed, to give it much
greater efficiency.
Chief among these in his opinion, is
common salt, and he maintains, as the
result of actual experiment, that one
part Of water containing salt will have
more effect than four without it. He
explains its action by saying that sa-
line solution is less readily vaporized
than pure water, and that it is not easily
decomposed into it's constituent eie-
ment of oxygen and hydrogen, which
of course, tend to reunite and produce
a still greater intensity of combustion
He thinks that the salt itself also, fall
ing on hot Goals, is decomposed, its
sodium combining with the oxygen of
the water, but that the hydrogen of the
water unites with the chlorine of the
salt, and forms complete incombusti-
BILE gas, which has very favorable
effect in deadening the fame, and aid
ing in extinguishing the fire.
There is no danger of injury to the
fire apparatus attendant upon the use of
salt water, provided it be subsequently
flushed with fresh water from the nv.
drant. Our author advises that a supply
of rock salt be kept in bags in every
engine-house, and as soon as a fire
breaks out that the solution be made.
1t is not necessary to have such solu-
ton saturated, as large percentage of
water may be added without materially
affecting the efficacy of the mixture.
An important preventive of fire is
suggested in the coating of the beams
and timbers of newly built houses with
soluble glass, applying this in several
successive coats of rather dilute solu-
ton, to be followed by final applica-
ton of mixture of soluble glass and
cement. Wood treated in this way may
be exposed quite close to burning mat
ter without actually taking fire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
A French TichbOrne.

Four hundred years ago there was a
cause cele6re in France which, like the
Tichborne case in England, divided
public opinion while the trial lasted,
though cleared up at last. A French
woman who had been deserted by her
husband, Martin Guerre, received him
again, as she supposed, after an absence
OF eight years, and it was not until she
had lived with him three years and
borne two children that she made up
her mind he was one Arnaud who had
taken possession of herself and proper
ty. We read that in the trial which
followed one hundred and fifty wit
nesses were examined large number,
including the family of Martin, swore
positively to the identity, recognizing
him by his voice, manner. az pearance
and perfect knowledge of the family
history. The real Martin had crooked
hnger-nail, two scars under his eye
brow, the left eye bloodshot, and Ger.
tain warts, etc., all which peculiarities
the accused possessed. Quite as much
contrary evidence was, however, adj
duced, and to increase the perplexity
OF the situation another man suddenly
appeared, declaring himself to be the
real Martin. This one, however, had a
wooden leg, and his answers were not
so clear as those of No. l. He was in
with the rival claimant, who browbeat
him and charged him with being an
imposter. And yet Woodenleg was the
genuine article, and succeeded in prov
ing it. He had lost his leg in battle,