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The Portland daily press., 1871-12-23
MARRIED.

In Augusta, Dec. IS, VIM. H. Mason and Miss Su-
san A. Stewart.
In Bddeford, Dec. 0, Henry Hyde, of b., and Har-
riet Poindexter, of Porter
In Matinicus, Dec. 2, Freeman c. Norton and Miss
Lisetta Ames.
In Matinicus, Dec John E. erie, of NJ, and Nam
cy A. Dunton, of Searsmont.
The Portland daily press., 1871-12-23
LEA & PERRINS, SAUCE.
For Sale.

fTllE new two story French roof house, just fin
Il shed, ON Cushman ST.; house piped for Sebago
and all the modern improvements. Enquire on the
premises or No % Emery st. j. A. TENNEY.
sep5dtt sn
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DEPARTURE OF OCEAN sTEAmERs

Miniature Almanac. December %.
Sun rises ..........72S Moon sets. ....... 420 AM
Sun sets. ........4.31 High WATER. :. . s45 AM
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FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.

Cid at Philadelphia Dist, barque Daring, Mcdonald,
Portland
Ar at Matanzas 18th, sch Ethan Allen, Blake, from
Portland.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Muck and Ashes.

In the discussion on fertilizers, at the re-
cent meeting of the Massachusetts, State
Board OF Agriculture, President Wilder
said that he had used muck combined
with potash, as a substitute for ashes, with
good results.
In reply to an inquiry as to the compare
tive value OF leached and unleached ashes.
DR.. Nichols said he would rather pay forty
cents per bushel for the latter than ten
cents per bushel for the former Coal
ashes he considered but little better than
sand.
Mr.. Lawrence, member of the State
Board of Agriculture of New Hampshire,
said his experience in the use of fertilizers
corresponded with that of the lecturer.
Twelve years since, his father left. him a
farm of 800 acres. 1t had been customary
to consume all the products of the farm
upon the farm. He reduced his stock two
thirds, and commenced system of farm
ing which he had found profitable. Last
year he had submitted his farm for pre-.
MUM and though he had the best farmers
| in the State to contend with he was proud
to say that he received it, and this result
had been reached without the purchase ol
barn yard manure, having never spent SIC
for that purpose.
He used the hoe less and the plow more
If he was busy in the spring he was more
busy in the fall, commencing to plow a:
soon as he had finished haying. Hs
spread his manure on his land in the fall
He had expended between 5000 and $70(
for phosphates. He was confident that hs
should be rich farmer, if he continued
the system he had SO far pursued.
Hon. S. Brown, of Concord, said tha
the idea that corn could be purchased
cheaper than it could be raised by oul
farmers was false one. He had RAISED
corn for the past twenty years at a les:
price than he could buy it; he had seen {
crop of 800 bushels raised the past yea
| that had not cost over 25 cents a bushel.
The frauds in fertilizers, Mr.. Brown
said, were constant and great, and farmer
should combine to put this down. Their
was no time TO be wasted. They coulC
not afford to pay $50 per ton for phos
pilates. He had been over DIR. Nichols
farm, and had been amazed to see wha
the Doctor had done with those little fer
tilizers, that he could, as it were, carr,
in his vest pocket and scatter where b
went, up hill and down. He advise,
farmers to use large quantities of muck
He thought that every cord placed upol
the soil was worth two dollars 1t wa
good on all sorts of land. He should con
slider his time well spent if he could en-
courage farmers to use muck extensively
Mr.. Barnard, of Worcester. said he ha
used muck as a manure for forty-five year:
He put it under his barn as an absorbent
and applied it to his land, composted on
load of manure with two loads of much
In that time he had not bought $40
worth of manure. His farm, which di
not cut over twenty-five tons of hay pc
annum when he took it, now kept owe
forty head of stock; with only eightee
acres of pasture land, he had kept twent
cows the past season. He was confideI
that he had raised five tons to the acre.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

The remainder, nine men and five
women, will be scattered along between
sixty and eighty years-an age at which
almost any one would be expected to
know better. 1t will be seen, however,
that the desire as well as the opportunity
for marriage falls off rapidly in both sexes
after thirty-up to that age both seem to
increase. In twenty-seven thousand five
hundred marriages, or thereabout, there
will be one hundred and nineteen men and
only sixteen women between sixty and
seventy years of age, while fourteen men
and four women will be between seventy
and eighty.
Interesting as these ancients are, there
is still another class deserving of some
thing more than a passing notice. We
mean old maids. How many are there, and
what are their matrimonial chances? We
have already stated that twenty-one out of
every hundred women who reach the mar
riage-age, namely 25 46 years, never marry.
But even this does not tell the exact num-
Dor of manageable women who are wait
ing for husbands, if indeed, so ungallant a
thing as this may be said of any. But,
then, how is it possible to expect an alge-
braic sign to be guilty of gallantry? From
the best authority that can be had upon
this exceedingly interesting topic, it ap.
pears that the number of unmarried and
marriageable women, within those hereto:
fore mentioned as the marriageable ages,
namely, fifteen and forty-fve, is about
twenty five per cent. of the whole number
Of women living between those ages.
1t seems to be part of the creed OF
the discontented sisterhood, whether wives
or spinsters, that one of the inalienable
rights of woman entities her to husband
1t will be seen that nature sets her face
against this assumption, and makes a very
different decree. The truth is, that every
woman living between the ages of fifteen
and forty five has twenty-five chances in
one hundred of dying an old maid-tha
is, her chances of marriage are as four tC
one. This is just enough to give them al
hope, and not sufficient to drive any tc
despair. The complaints of managing
mammas are of no avail. Even the ballo
will not bring them better fate, and, will
suffrage or without it, one-fourth of all be
tween the above-named ages are doomed
to live in old-maidenhood and die unhus
| banded.-ADDletO7,' Journal
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Keeping Bees.

The time is not far distant when every
farmer, and almost every suburban resi-
dent of our large towns and cities, will
have their swarms of bees as much as
they have now their hens.
There is at present popular prejudice
against the honey bee, either as very un-
certain possession, or one of doubtful com.
fort and easy management. But this pre-
judice is founded wholly on the ignorance
and mismanagement of former genera
ton. We shared this feeling in full meas
ure till induced by friend, few years
ago, to accept swarm of bees and try our
hand at their management. But a short
time was Sufficient to disarm us of all
prejudice against the honey bee, and we
were not long in becoming decidedly at
tached to them. Our experience was suf-
ticient to learn that their management is
easy, and even more so than that of poul-
try; and by the introduction of movable
comb hives, the management is rendered
still more easy, and their income and
profit greatly increased.
We therefore advise every person living
in the country, especially those of small
means, to procure hive. of bees and gel
information on their best management
from the many sources now open.
One swarm will soon increase to several
and in few years to scores. Their pas
turage costs nothing, and yet their pro
ductions command high price, and the
price of a swarm of bees will continually
advance as knowledge of their value in
creases.-Bee Journal.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Trees Girdled by Mice.

AT meeting of the Northern Illinois
Horticultural Society, ID. B. Wair, of
Lacon, read a paper on Saving Girdled
Fruit Trees" He said he had over a
hundred, seven years planted, completely
girdled by mice. There had been for
some time a heavy snow upon the ground,
and mice being plenty, and in starving
condition, with nothing else to eat, they
ate all the bark from the trees as far as
they could reach, some of them for foot
up and down all round; and portions of
the sap-wood in some places half an inch
deep. As soon the damage was discov-
cred, which was on the first thawing days.
he banked the snow around the trees, and
as soon as the soil thawed, he banked that
a foot high about the trunks. This was
all the attention they received and to-day
they have all the damaged parts covered
by almost as thick a coating of bark as the
uninjured portion of the trees. When the
girdling is done high up on the trees,
banking with soil will be impracticable.
If the wounded parts are too high to
reach by banking, clay may be bound on
with a bandage. The sooner the surface
is protected the better. The death of the
tree is caused by the seasoning of the sap
wood
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

after forty-fve, the number of Benedicts is
more than thrice that of the brides. In
one thousand marriages of the average
kind as to ages, fourteen women and forty
nine men will have passed their ninth lus-
trum. Widows remarry at an average age
of thirty nine years. while the average age
OF widowers who again take to themselves
conjugai partners, is forty-one, or there
about.
We will not undertake to tell each of
our fair readers how old she will be- when
led to the altar blushing bride, if that
should prove to be her destiny; but we
can tell her what the chances are in the
present state of our knowledge of statisti-
cal facts. If we take the weddings that
actually occur, we shall find that in every
thousand there will be one hundred and
seventy nine wives under twenty years,
while there will be only nine husbands OF
that tender age. But perhaps these facts
will be better stated in statistical terms
thus: In every thousand marriages there
will be- -lf
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
To Make DOugh-Nuts.

REQUIRED: Twelve ounces sugar, three
eggs, one pint of milk, one-half pint of
lard, one-half pint of yeast, one good
sized nutmeg, with salt and flour. Melt
the lard, and be careful to have half pint
of lard when melted-no more, and no less
Put the pint of milk upon the stove to
warm, and pour into the melted lard
While this is warming Gt should not be
hot), take about three pints of sifted flour,
and CRATE into it a good sized nutmeg,
then add about two teaspoonfuls of salt; !;
next roll the twelve ounces of sugar (cof-
fee-sugar is best, because it is soft, and
add that to the flour; then beat the three
eggs, and stir them in with the sugar and
flour. When that is mixed up well. stir
in the wetting of milk and lard, and then
add the half pint of home made yeast, add
more flour, and knead soft like biscuit.
Be sure not to get it stiff, for dough-nuts
should be made very soft; they do not re-
quire much kneading, only sufficient to
mix all the ingredients well together.
When you are through kneading, put the
dough into warm pan or pail to rise Ga
siX-quart pail, with cover, is about the
thing, as it keeps the dough moist, and
prevents its hardening on top, as it will do
this cold weather, if covered only with a
cloth), and keep it in a warm place until it
is very light lit should rise to the top of
the paiD. When light enough, roll out
the dough upon board, to the thickness
of half an inch, then cut out your dough-
nuts with biscuit cutter, and lay them
upon molding-board, well tioured; the
board should be warm, and the dough-nuts
should not be put too near each otherupon
it-say about two inches apart; cover
them with a light cloth, and let them
stand in a warm place until light enough
to fry. They ought to be puffed up round
like ball, but sometimes they will rise
sideways. When ready to cook, take from
the board with care, that the outer crust
which holds the air may not be broken,
and drop into kettle Of hot lard, and let
them fry slowly to nice brown, turning
them several times while cooking. Do
not let the lard brown, but have it hot
enough to keep the cakes from soaking in
the fat. When done, roll in fine sugar, if
you like. Certain good housekeepers use
half suet in frying dough-nuts, believing
that it is better than to use clear lard
Hearth and Home
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

went into the kitchen and asked for 4
pitcher of boiling water 1T was handed
to him and off he posted up stairs. just
as he reached his daughters door he COM
menced! calling to her. SO telling her
lover to wait moment, she came to the
door. sNellie, my dear, iruh- up tony
room and get my spectacles; I'll wait here
till you come down." She disappeared up
stairs, and he stole cautiously to, the win
dow. The minute he touched the funnel
the amorous and unsuspecting youth
clapped his mouth to it to resume where
he had broken Off" my darling, you can
not imagine how" Just then the old
the funnel with hot water, and the rest of
that miserable youths sentence was never
heard. He wore flour on hisface for afort-
night after, and declines to go,into society
at preSent ~ ls.t t..-.s -s.t.t-r{ f.lftsz {
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Poisonous Medicines.

The theory that the virus of disease can be safe
ly counteracted by doses OF poison, is false and
dangerous. Within the last twenty-five years not
less than a score of virulent poisons have been
added to the repository OF the medical profession
They given in small doses, otherwise they
would destroy life Immediately; but even in mi
mute quantities, they produce, ultimately, very
disastrous effects. II is unwise and unphlospohi-
cal to employ, as remedies, powerful and insidi-
ious drugs, which, in subjugatng one disease, SOW
the seeds of another still more unmanageable.
None of these terrible medicaments operates with
as much directness and certainty upon the causes
of disease as Hostetters Stomach Bitters, a tonic
and corrective, tCiLhot single dei.teTiONs ingre.
dieRt in lis composition. Arsenic and quinia are
given for intermittents; bromide Of potassium for
nervous disorders; strychnine and prussic acid for
general debility; mercury, in various forms, for
liver complaint; preparations Of chloroform and
opium for sleeplessness; and yet these deadly
drugs do not compare as specifics for the diseases
above enumerated, with that wholesome vegetable
invigorant and alternative, while they are all &C
pernicious that it is astonishing any physician
should take the responsibility of prescribing them
Let invalids for their own sakes, try the Bitter
before they resort to the poisons The relief they
will experience from course OF the harmless spe
cifc, will render recourse to the unsafe prepare
| tons referred to quite unnecessary.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
HgMaking Love.


In. Seville, which is popularity believed
to be in Spain, there is. in use amost fe-
icitous invention in the way of making
love-clandestinely. After dark, young
cabaleros steal beneath the lady's lattice
which, perchAee, is in the third story
and softly thscfeWing the handle of their
walking sticks, proceed tp,extract from the
same, which are hollow length after
length of hollow tubing, serewing them
together after the fashion of japanese
fishing pole, or the old apparatus where
with sweeps clean Ghimheys. A mouth
piece is fitted into each end and one raised
to the window above. Soon by the aid Of
this improvised speaking tube, two souls
with a certain unanimity of thought and
two hearts with possible union Of pulsa-
ton are softly communing. - = -.
Now this is all very nice, seductiyely
mark what the Knowledge of it brought to
a certain youth of Baltimore. He had
read. of it, or heard fit, and happening to
have a surreptitious affection for a young
and wealthy lady, which she as surrepti-
tiously reciprocated, he, determined with
her connivance, to avail himself of it.
He got a tin pipe Of the desired length,
made by timer, and in .eachsend of it
placed, for want of better mouth piece,
funnel Delicious conversation went on,
he sitting on the top of "a water barrel
and she leaning from her; window
above. They would converse for hours,
and exchange all the soft nonsense
in the world, and then he would
unship his apparatus, put = the / fun
nels in his pocket, wrap the pieces upsin a
newspaper, and go home in, condition of
ETHEREAL bliss. The course Of true, love
never did run smooth, and one evening
the old gentleman, smoking in the back
garden at an unusual hour, saw the young
gentleman arrive, fix up his apparatus, and
commence his soul l-communing operations.
He made up his mind in a minute. He
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
.Ia wALTHAM
WATCHES.

rr.-
use oi tnese "alcnes ior tne ihst Aileen
80 80 ~ ~ nalsAy oononc'ofs, hnslneeIs ana Express
ne ue oss eAAcung OF Vatcn-SeareTs, has thoroughly
. 1ne Strength, seadiness durability and so
~, ~, - . - " "An nascn 10 sansiy tnat ciass IN
,s - 49,, - = ~ e-ue tne quesuon as 70 tne real
-". " ~ .-eASeISrS' -
Hole .lAn ooo,ooo Oh tnese watches are now speak
- oi iiseass IN tne pocAets OF the people-a proof
ena guarantee OF their superiority over AL Others
Inc superior organization and the great extent of the
Companys Works at waltham, enables them produce
watches at price which renders competition futile and
those who buy other watch merely pay from . 10 50
FER cent more for their watches than is necessary
These tfnekeepers combine everv imnrov,n,r, ,h.,
long experience has proveI of al nactic.l ma. tyrvt
had The rsf1saI of nearly ev-v Invsn,,on ,n
inv o-sy5n.,ir, q, ,hIs eo-,r,-,. -. a. - - a..
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sI. - - Hs ~ " - e9ss-A1AA4 '" So1ieNs A~1 eAr
. '-s NA.,. ~ l4is,
Among the many improvements we would parncularize:
The Invention and use of cenierpinon of peculiar
to prevent damage to the train by the break
age OF mainsprngs, original with the American Watch
Company Who having had the refusal Of all other con
80 600. oss p@'snA panion as oeAng tne PES
r,.rd... "a .,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Does SubsOiling Pay2

In answering this question, the Rural
CdrOlinian, among other things, says:
"Some soils will hold water like pan :;
some, the water will percolate through
and go out at the base of the hill. Not
only the kind of soil, but the peculiaries
of locality should influence our decision
on this subject. There are localities where
the surface soil has been exhausted, when
eight or ten inches below, you may strike
soil as good or better than the original
mold on the surface. Here, say, by all
means, subsoil; and not only subsoil, but
bring portion of the subsoil to the sur
inches of soil and pipe clay substrata, SUBJ
soiling can do no good, for in a wet season
it will hold too much water for the crop,
without subsoiling. What you now want
is thorough draining, close and deep, with
main trunk as an outlet"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Superior Washing Fluid.

Mrs. ANDREW PARNELL, Grand Rap
ids, Mich, in the Western Rurdl, says:
Half pound of stone lime, one pound
sal soda, and five quarts soft water; put
al together in an iron pot, and bring to a
boiling heat, stirring and skimming the
while; when the soda and lime are dis
solved, pour all into an earthen vessel, and
keep well covered, to prevent the loss of
strength; then to each boiling, just before
you put in your clothes, stir one teacupful
of this fluid in your boiling water; let
your clothes boil about twenty minutes !;
then rinse well in three waters. Take care
to see that the fluid is quite clear before
using. Soak your clothes over night, and
use this fluid i'm boiling, and they will be
snow white, and need no more than half
the rubbing generally necessary.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

A NEW NUMBER--The Phrenological
Journal for March contains-Noah Webster, the
eminent photographer, with portrait; What can
Do bestf or the qualification for Phrenologht;
Progress Of Religious Civilization, as illustrated
in the improved condition Of the Race; Thomas
de Witt Talmadge, the eminent divine; Brain
Waves-a new theory; the new King Of Spain,
with portrait; our Domestic Props, or the servant
question; the Food supply ofEurops and America,
interesting facts; Japan, its present condition;
How to Rise in the World, or wherein lies Great.
ness-birth or culture; etc., etc. Price So year
! 80 cents q number Sent to new subscribers on
trial six months 81. Address s. Il. WELLS, Pub
| lisher New York
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
The Way to Cook Beams.

THE usual way people cook beans is to
parboil them put them in kettle or pan
set them in the oven to bake, with a
chunk of fat pork in them. The grease
bakes out into the beans, making most
unwholesome and indigestible mess, de-
stroying all the good flavor of the beans.
Now. my method for cooking them (which
all who have tried it pronounce excellent)
is as follows: Parboil as usual, putting in
salt to suit the taste Then put them in a
pan and set in the oven to bake, putting in
q piece of good sweet butter-the size of a
butternut will answer. Bake until tender
and nicely Drowned over on top. Beans
are very nutritious and cooked in this
way are palatable, digestible, and can be
eaten by any one. If you want the pork,
cook in a dish. by itself.-COr. Rural Meso
Yorker
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

An old farmer in the neighborhood of
Forestville, Conn, who is dubbed by the
Hartford C0urant " a cheerful idiot" was
Shedding wood the other morning. Hav-
ing on a heavy load it stuck fast in crossing
the track of the Hartford, Providence &
Fishkill Railroad. So the old man un-
hitched his oxen and deliberately marched
off home, leaving the heavy load of green
wood standing across the track, and max
ing no effort to warn the passenger train
due in few moments-of its danger.
The train came on. "Down brakes
screamed the whistle, and the train and its
passengers fortunately escaped injury; yet
the locomotive struck the load of wood
with sufficient force to knock it and the
sled clear of the track.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

NOTWITHSTANDING the Franco Prussian
war has interfered with the manufacture of
kid gloves, the thorough acquaintance of John
" Farwell & Co. with the markets of Eu-
rope enables them to procure, at the lowest
prices, kid gloves equal TO any ever made in
Paris, which they now offer, in every variety,
cheap to the trade i-
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

"A writer in Chambers Journal makes
note of the title of book published in
1850, and containing a collection OF
poems: "I do not know what it is; by
whom / know not; the price? 1 know
not how much; it is sold know not
where; by bookseller whom I know
NOT -