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The New York herald., 1871-11-10

NN-ANIED-BY A SINGLE GENTLEMAN A ROOM
w clean, quiet house. in good pet bhorhood
have hot and cold water In ADDRESS win terms
which must be reasonable, TYPO. Herald once. '
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= WEST TuIRry-sEcoND svKEET.-a fRivArE
family desres 10 let handsome faror floor, til
class Board private taoe II References exchanged
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I FINE ROOM IS NINTH STRrFr BETWEEN RRAu
| wnv and nfv,rstv n ace e3it,We a Gentleman ~
wfe o two enen wn rst poaf1 ana aitendane@
Re erence require.
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B0ARnPN@ WANTED.

\ BLOCK EAST or CITY HAlsL.--PRANkfokI
Il House. of Frankfort William stteets-soJ
Rooms 5ec ~ pr day euan and lamhHs' On Ea
ropean pan house open night
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Cl TO So PER WEEK FOR PLEASANT ROOMS,
O with Board. the Goors sui al Tor
fani snre gentlemen nj 3J al street second
door from Fourth street
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IluMARs DANCING ACADEMY "a wEsT FOURTH
I, W ~ nnAf btna why Classes every day Boston amt
AZ Danses h' rtrfecus 10 aunrer sis Dauccs Is
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* WEST THIRTY EIGHTH STREET, NEXT To FIFTH
" avenue.Desrahr Far and Second wlta
eanseenee newly furutshed private table, are Room
fourth door
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% WEST NINETEENTH STREET. HANDSOME
'h suits ~ Rooms, with without private tore; alsC
large RuQm With oard, t0r gentlemen or tcGcnan ant
vile; l0c fton hr c.ass.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
Msefnl aud Curious.


Select sound fruit; peel with knife, or by soak
ing fe~ moments in I've made of soda in hot
water, and rubbing off with the hand--washing
the peaches afterward, and removing the-stones.
In porcelain kettle heat sufficient water to cover
the peachesit will hold, sweeten, and when tine
sugar is dissolved put in the fruit, and boil unit!
pretty well cooked. Have jars, or cans, clean ana
dry; if new glass jars they should be boiled before
using to prevent breaking; those with screw tops
are good also, those with a blacking-box kind OF
lid, with gutta percha band to slip over and
close the joining. In the absence Of any covers
for glass or stoue jars take closely-woven muslin,
and after the fruit is in tie tightly around the neck
and apply, with brush or swab, melted wax
made Of beeswax and resin. The fruit must be
put in while boiling hot filing three or four at
time wipe off the necks close up, and sit away to
cool gradually. The muslin covers are better for
stone Jars than tin lids corks as the latter are
more readilS bursted of. If the muslin does not
sink by the pressure of the atmosphere after cool
ing, the coating of wax has not been sufficient,
and the fruit should be reheated and the muslin
again waxed. Apply the wax to the muslin light
", to obviate passing it through into the fruit.
Glass Jars, after cooling, should be wrapped IN
newspapers, and all kinds should be kept in
dark cool place in summer, and where they Will
not freeze in winter.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
Security Agaiust l.ichtulug.

This is the season of storms, and from all parts
of the country come reports ofbuildings destroyed
not unfrequently attended by loss of life. People
who have lightning conductors should see to their
connection with the earth. A lightning conductor
having the earth extremity partially insulated,
soon becomes charged if storm passes over it,
and then lateral discharge takes place; hence
the accidents which have frequently taken place
in buildings supposed to be adequately protected.
Sand and gravel, brick-work and stone are bad
conductors Of electricity, and if the rod has such
base, and the surrounding earth be likewise dry,
it is practically insulated The difficulty of get
ting on what telegraphic operators call good earth
is one that should weigh with those putting up
lightning conductors. They should not rest sat
isfed that all is secure unless they can reach
running stream of water, or else sink consider
able surface of copper plate till permanently damp
earth is reached.-Ner Albany Ledger.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
When 10 Cut Corn.

At what time shall we cut corn, and in what
mannerf Shall we cut at the ground, top, or not
cut at ALI These are questions seldom discussed
in our agricultural papers; still they should be
thoroughly understood by all growers lam aware
that many Eastern growers practice topping; and
if this is the best method, we should all practice
it. COntending that it is NOT, will present a few
thoughts in favor of cutting at the ground.
Leaves are the lungs of plants, and none can be
removed while the crop is maturing, more par
ticularly while ripening, without decreasing the
amount of such crop. At the time that the top
ping is usually done, the leaves removed are the
ones most essential to growth, and You prevent
the corn from receiving the nutriment that it
would have derived from them had they not been
severed from the stalk.
In cutting corn we have in view the preserva-
ton of the fodder for feeding purposes; to be of
much value it must be cut previous to frost; cut
ut the proper time and well saved, they make ex-
cellent feed; but cut after they have become dry
and hard, or frost-bitten, they are nearly WORTH
less. believe that it is an accepted fact that
wheat cnt as soon as the kernel becomes hard
and while the straw is still green, properly shock
ed, improves in the shock, will make better
quality of flour and more of it than if allowed to
stand until the straw is dead ripe; and l have no
doubt but corn cut at the ground before it is full
~ ripe, shocked well, will be of better quality
than if allowed to stand until the stalk has be-
come dry for, if cut at such time the circulation
of sap continues until the stalk become dried and
the corn ripens and improves in the shock, where
as in topping you entirely remove that portion of
the stalk most needed in the ripening process
There is certainly a certain time at which corn
can be cut when the shrinkage in the corn will
bear no comparison to the loss of fodder to stand
longer; at just what stage this is each must judge
for himself My rule is, when the corn is all well
glazed and rather more than half the ears begin
to turn yellow, cut and put up in small shocks,
and as soon the corn is sufficiently cured to
crib husk, binding the fodder securely; and set
ting nine shocks of corn in one of fodder.
o. BURRAs.
NORTH FAIRFIELD O., 1871.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
sun Cure.

One of the ablest lawyers in our country, a vic
tim of long and hard brain labor, Gays a writer in
the Hearth and Home came to me year ago suf-
fering from partial paralysis. The right leg apd
hip were reduced i'm size, with constant pain in
the loins. He was obliged in coming up stairs to
lift up the left foot first dragging the right foot
after it. Pale, feeble, miserable, he told me he
had been failing for several years. and closed with:
"My work is done. At sixty find myself worn
ont"
directed him to sit down under large window
and allow the sun to shine on every part of his
body; at first ten minutes day, increasing the
time until he ccnld expose himself to the direct
not essentially altered in any other particular.
In six months he came running up stairs like a
vigorous man of forty, and declared, with spark
ling eyes, ~ have twenty years more of work
in me-"
have assisted many dyspeptic, neuralgia, rhen-
matte and hypochondriacal people into health by
the sun cure.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
a New Volcano.

A new volcano has appeared at Camiguin, one
of the Philippine Islands, between Mndinas and
Bojoi. For some months the island has been SO
shaken with earthquakes that many of the in
habitants had left it. On the LIST of May a noise
like thunder was heard near a mountain there,
and gradually increased in intensity till finally
the earth opened with tremendous crash, making
a cleft fifteen hundred feet long, hundred and
fifty broad, and twenty-seven deep, from which
stones, ashes and cnders flew into the air. After
short time another explosion was heard, the
earth again opened and buried about two hun
dred people. Herr Gustav Wallis in the Halliscke
Zeitwng says that this is the most terrible erup-
ton which ever occurred in the Philippines, which
nevertheless, are subject to such disturbances.
A volcano has vomited death and destruction
upon the hapless inhabitants of the Island of
Tagolanda, in the Malay Archipelago. The erup-
ton was accompanied by conclusion of the sea-
and wave forty yards high arose and swept
four hundred and sixteen persons ont of existence.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
pera1 for Ex,er-,aa,,as cockroaeA.s, Etc.

Among the many applications of borax recently
made one of the latest is in the determination of
cockroaches, which purpose it is said to answer
perfectly, although we are inclined to dOubt it.
Half pound, finely pulverized and scattered
about where these disagreeable pests frequent,
WILL it is said clear an infested house thorough
ly that the appearance of one in month is nov
city. 1t is not known upon what peculiar influ-
ence of the borax this depends; but We assured
that the facts are as stated One advantage of
this application is the harmless nature of the
borax, SO that there is no danger to the household
from its being exposed The use of borax, in Eu-
rope, for washing, is well KNOWN the addition ola
large handful Of borax, instead of soda, to ten
gallons of water, being sufficient to half the
quantity of soap ordinarily required. For light
fabrics and cambrics a moderate quantity is to
be used; but for crinOlines, which require to be
made stiff strengthened solution is necessary.
Being neutral salt, it does not affect the texture
of linen in the slightest degree; and as it sotens
the hardest water, it is much used in washing
generally. 1t is also said to be unsurpassed for
cleaning the hair.-Harpers Maga-ine
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
poor Cr,,,enarn Is interviewed.

The spiritualists of San Francisco have held a
conclaye. and one of their number having inter
viewed poor Crittenden, the victim OF Laura FAIR,
reports as follows:
Question.-"Do you know all that has happen
ed on earth since you were set free from mortal
clayf
Answer.-"Yes."
Q.-"You know all about the trial of dear Mrs.
Fair, theni"
A.-"Yes. Ihave watchedevery move through
ont with intense interest"
Q.-"Knowing all you now do, and seeing things
with spirit eyes, do you think she ought to he
hangedw
A.@"Yes.n
Q.-"But you surely do not wish her to be han
gedr
AYES; hang her, by! can't do without
herr
The circle hereupon broke mp in row; some
declaring that bad spirit was present, and others
that the spirit that answered was the one they
had desired to interview.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
NORTH FAIRFIELD, O., 1871.
Preserving Peach stones.

The New England Farmer says:
"The first care is to see that they do not get
dry while collecting them. In order to do this,
set and old box that will hold peck, in the shade
of the honse or a tree, and as fast as the stones
are collected throw them into the box and add a
handful of moist soil. Before the ground freezes,
sink the box three or four inches into the ground
and cover it over with earth to the depth of six
inches, and let ii remain till spring.
"As as the ground is sufficiently dry in
April TO fall 80 pieces readily when stirred, take
up the stones and plant them Many of the stones
will be found with sprouts sticking ont, and need
no cracking, but those that are not sprouted
should be carefully cracked before they are plan
ted. Place the stones in shallow burrows and COW
er them with one inch of soil. Place the stones
about two feet apart, to allow ample room
for budding them when they are ready for it,
If the spot where they planted is q dry one, or
if the proves dry, it will be well to
the rows with boards, set up an inch from the
ground, as to keep it moist until the young
plants appear
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

and the very hot weather. are likely, unless great
care is taken, to give rise to good deal of sick
ness. Every family should see to it that its own
premises are kept sweet and clean. Privies drains,
pig pens hen roOsts stables, etc. should he clean
ed or disinfected every few days. We find the
following recipe in an exchange for making a
cheap disinfectant:
dissolve bushel of salt in barrel of water,
and with the salt water slack barrel of lime,
which should be wet enough to form kind of
paste. For the purpose of disinfectant, this
homemade chloride of lime is nearly as good rs
that purchased at the shops and drugstores. Use
it freely about sinks, cellars, cutters, and out
houses, and in this way prevent sickness, suffer-
ing and expense"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

HORACE GREELEY presents the following as a
sure means of destroying the prosperity of the
most promising town. There can be Doubt of
its efficacy: If you wish to keep town from
thriving, don't put mp any more buildings than
you can conveniently occupy yourself If You
should accidentally have an empty dwelling, and
any one should want to rent it, ask three times
the actual value of it. Demand Shylock price
for every spot of land that God has given you
stewardship over. Turn a cold shoulder to every
mechanic or business man seeking home among
you. Look at every new conner with scowl. Run
down the work of every new workman. Goabroad
for wares rather than deal with those who seek to
do business in your midst. Fail to advertise, or
in any other way to support your paper, 80 people
abroad may not know whether any business is
going on in your town or not. Wrap yourselves
up within yourselves, and cover yourselves with
a coat of imperviOus selfshness. There is no more
effectual way to retarti the growth of town than
by actions like those enumerated, and there
people in every town who are pursuing the above
course every day of their lives, and to whom the
above remarks are most respectfully offered for
their careful attention.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

HUMAN skull of gigantic proportions has been
exhumed, a few miles northwest ofDubuque, Iowa,
at a distance of thirty feet below the surface of
the earth. The discovery was made by Mr.. Heth-
erington while sinking shaft in lead drift Of
this relic of the past the Times says:
The skull is a very large size, much larger than
skulls grow nowadays. fat on the top of the
head, with the sockets where the eyes once re-
posed in perfect state of preservation, the fea-
lures plainly Marked while the os fronts bone is
an inch and half in thickness. The teeth are
all wanting. and the interior cavity was filled
with coarse gravel. Hthe body was at all proper
tionate, the chap who once wore that skull could
not have been less than ten feet high in his stock
ing feet. provided they wore stockings in those
days. To what race it belonged, how it got there,
are questions with which we do not wish to deal,
hut shall leave the public to draw their own con-
illusions. Mr.. Hetherington now has the skull in
his possession, and is ready at all times to submit
it to the inspection of the curions.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

By the bottle-green Miami
Dwell maiden with her nanny,
And her name was Mariammie,
And she loved youth named Sammy.
Little Sammy Himilay.
OF the town Of Pickswsy.
by the bottle-green Miami,
In the State OF Ohio!
But all this was years ago.
When the maiden was sixteen,
Full-grown, radiant and serene
As queen,
while the lad was small and green!
Greater contrast meier was seen;
Yet they loved each other Sd
Hence the woe!
.Oh. nv darling little Sammy"
Sighed the maiden Mariammie
To herself-"ff you were taller,
Oniy by an inch or two
You might do;
BIT to marry one ~ small,
Would never do at al,
And 50,
Though
Her heart was full of woe
To refuse him.
And thus lose him;
Yet to all his wild entreaties
And love difties
She said No
No, no, no."
But that was years ago.
If she'd only told her reason
For refusing him. in season.
He had certainly grown boder,
And had answered her. and told her
He would grow;
But instead. he got UNHAPPY,
And he went tn Cincinnati.
And the maiden with her nanny,
Listened to the sad Miami
All alone
And her heart was turned to stone!
But one day.
After years had come and gone,
Who should come to Pick2way,
Who, but Sammy :,
.But. nv stars, how he has grown!"
Said Mariammie.
How could You 20 deceive me,
And bereave met"
Here she started, and caught her preatn'
And grew as pale rs DEATH
For he-he was not alone!
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

A RIcHMoND letter tells this of Gov. Wise:
"On one occasion since the war he seized negro
newsboy on the street, gently laid him down on
the pavement, put his right foot upon the neck
of the PROSTATE boy, and then shouted, Sic Sent
per tyramris, by Cdr But this dreadful express
sion of sentiment was Immediately qualified by
his presenting a fractional greenback to the 'ty-
PANT ,ZLmaking that negro youth importune him to
fdal5 again at the same price.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

SUNFLOwERs AND FEVER AND AGuE-M. Mar
tin, in paper read before the Therapeutic Soci-
ETY. of France, states, as a proved fact, that the
common sunfower Possesses the faculty Of freeing
the atmosphere from the animal and vegetable
germ, supposed to contain the miasma productive
of fever and ague. This is no in this country
at least not Theoretically; but have any Of our
readers proved itf
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
stlett 2ostrp.
THE OLD CANOE.


Where the rocks are gray, and the shore b steep
And the waters below look dark and deep;
Where the rugged pine in IL lonely pride.
Where the reeds and PUSHES are tall and rank,
And An the weeds gro. thick on the winding bank;
Lies at its moorings the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped
Like a sea birds wings that the storm has Topped
And crossed on the railing, one DER one,
Like folded hands when the work is done;
While busily back and forth between,
The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the solemn owl with his dull TOO hoo"
Settles down the side Of the old canoe
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave
Rots slowly away IN its living grave.
Hiding the Wondering dust away
Like the hand that plant. Ger the tomb flower.
While many blossom Of loveliest hue
Springs up Ter the stern Of the old canoe
The currentless waters are dead and still
But the light winds play with the boat at viii,
And lazily in and out again,
1t floats the length Of its rusty chain,
Like the weary march of the hands Of time,
That meet and part at the noontide chime;
And the shore is kissed at each turn anew,
By the dripping bow of the old canoe.
O, many a time, with Q careless hand,
/ have pushed it away from the Pebbly strand,
And padded it down where the stream quick
where the whiris are wild and the eddies arc thick
And laughed. as leaned DER the rocking side,
And looked below in the broken tide,
To see that the faces and boats were two,
That were mirrored back from the old canoe!
Bur now as lean DER the crumblng side
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has q sober tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skif wings,
Have grown familiar with sterner things;
But love to think of the hours that flew,
As rocked where the whirls their white spray threw
Ere the blossoms waved or the green moss grew
Ger the Wondering stern of the old canoe.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

NEWLY fedged Philadelphia doctor recently
settled in Havana ILL.,, and the first case he had
was q boy, who while Smelling popcorn, got a
kernel in his windpipe. The doctor examined the
case carefully looked at the patients tongue, and
then told the father of the boy to build up hot
fire. When that was done, the doctor told him to
take the boy and hold him over the fire until the
kernel got hot enough to "pop out" The old
man went up stairs and got his shotgun, but while
he was loading it the doctor escaped.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

REMEDY FOR DISEASED PEACH TREEs.-The
editor of the New England Farmer says that a
gentleman residingin Cambridge informs him that
charcoal placed around the roots of the diseased
peach stock was serviceable. He Immediately re-
moved the soil from around the trunk of the sick
" tree in his garden, supplied its place with
charcoal, and was surprised its sudden removal
tion and subsequent rapidity of growth. and the
tenacity with which the fruit held on the BRAN
ches, and the unusual richness Of its 4Avor when
matured,
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
OVER THE RIVER.


Over the river they beckon to me
Loved ones who've crossed to the further side;
The CLEAN of their snowy robes see,
But their voices are drowned in the rushing tide.
There's with ringlets of sunny gold,
And eyes. the reflection Of Heavens own blue;
He crossed i'm the twilight gray and cold,
And the pale mist hid him frUm mortal view.
We saw not the angels who met him there;
The gates Of the city could not see;
Over the river-over the river,
My brother stands waiting 70 welcome me!
Over the river. the boatman pale
Carried another-the household pet;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale
Darling Minniel see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We watched it glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe On the further side,
Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the rver-over the river,
My ehildhood's idol is waiting for me!
For none return from those quiet Shores
Who cross with the boatman cold and pale;
We hear the dip Of the golden cars,
And catch the CLEAN Of the snowy sail
And 10! they have passed from our yearning heart;
They cross the stream, and are gone for aye.
We may not sunder the veil apart
That hides from vision the gates Of day;
We only know that their barks no more
May sail with DER life's stormy sea:
Yet somewhere know, ON the unseen shore.
They watch, and beckon and wait for me.
And sit and think when the sunsets gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore,
shall one day stand by the water cold,
And list for the sound of the boatmans oar;
shall watch for CLEAN Of the tapping sail;
shall hear the boat as ii gains the strand;
shall pass from sight with the boatman pale,
To the better shore Of the Spirit Land;
shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet will the meeting be,
When over the river. the peaceful river
The Angel Of Death shall carry me!
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

THERE is now a large pear-shaped spot on that
side of the sun that is turned toward us. 1t is
about 10000 miles in diameter, which is equiva-
lent to three-quarters of minute Of arc equal to
the angle subfended by 13a inches at the distance
of one mile from the eye. 1t is a very good test
of the vision, through q smoked glass, requiring
an eyesight of little more than the average PEN
etration to it without magnifer The spot
is little to the left and about the same distance
below the apparent centre of the solar disc.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

think Heaven win nes shat fsrsvermars
Without knockcr len upca the dasg,
Heartbroken. ssking just n IL e Aans;
So that the Father win n I'D lhrxivr,
And looking m His fa1c. that nnuI ahalj ljvo
! think there win BE- taiismnn ShruuRh nIsht
Lest any, far "a turn then 70 he ngst,
A Father Infinitely fsshsriy.