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THE MAKEUP OF THE BODY.

Suppose your age to be fifteen or there
abouts, can figure you to Il dot. You
have 100 bones and 800 muscles; Your
blood weighs % pounds; your heart is five
eter; it beats 20 times per minute, 4, 200
times per hour, 100, 800 per day, and &c.
722, 900 per year AT each beat little
over two ounces of blood is thrown out of
it; and each day it receives and discharges
about seven tons of that wonderful fluid.
Your lungs will contain gallon of air,
and you inhale $4,000 gallons per day
The aggregate surface Of the air-cells of
your lungs, supposing them to be spread
out, exceeds 10000 square inches. The
weight of your brain is three pounds; when
you are man it will weigh about eight
ounces more. Your nerves exceed 10, 000.-
600 in number. Your skin is composed of
three layers and varies from one fourth to
one-eight of an inch in thickness. The
area of your skin is about LOO square
inches, and you are subjected to an at
mospheric pressure of Is pounds to the
square inch. Each square inch of your
skin contains $500 sweating tubes Or per-
spiatory pores, each of which may be lik-
ened to little drain-tile one fourth of an
inch long, making an aggregate length of
the entire surface of yonr body of POI, 1GG
feet, or a tile ditch for draining the body
almost forty miles long.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-12-14
Table Use of Oatmeal.
BREAKFAST CAKE.

This is made of No. . oatmeal, with wa
ter enough to saturate it, and little or no
salt Pour it into baking tin half an
inch or three quarters deep, shake it down
level, and when this is done it should be so
wet that two or three spoonfuls of water
should run freely on the surface. Put it
in quick oven and bake twenty minutes.
Eat warm. 1t will be as light and tender
as the best Johnny cake or else you
have wet it to much or baked it to long.
This is one of the most accommo dating
baked dishes that can be made. 1t will do
very nicely with little longer time if the
oven is not quite hot. If it will not bake
there at all, pour it into frying pan, COW
er it close and set it OH the top of the stove
where it will even bake in fifteen minutes.
For hurried breakfast and slow coal
fire it is invaluable. Scarcely any whole
some thing in the bread line can be pre-
pared more readily. 1t can be made still
thinner and baked quicker. 1t is good
either crisp or moist. For emergencies
alene every houscleeper will find it con-
venient TO be able to make the break fast
cake. Many use oatmeal mixed with
buckwheat, wheat or corn for griddle- cakes
For this use prefer it cooked first. Take
sly one,half pint of the porridge or the
mush, diffuse it in one quart Of water and
add the wheat meal, sitting it in and STIR
ring slowly.
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COMPOSING SODS.

american Agriculturist.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-12-14

Being lately in Orange County, n. Y
we saw farmer busy doing valuable work,
which might at this season be very profita-
bly, done by thousands of farmers through
out the country. He was making manure
With a broad sharp-edged grubbing-hoe,
he was cutting sods in very rough, Doggy
meadow, covered with tussocks and coarse
grass and weeds. These he was piling up
i'll heaps, with weeds gathered seemingly
from his fields and fence-rows, and all ar
ranged in layers, with lime between them.
This is quite common plan in several
European countries, and we should Judge
this farmer was an adopted citizen" pay
ing for the privilege of his citizenship by
giving some new ideas to his neighbors.
At any rate, it is very useful thing to do,
and by spring these heaps will be all rot
ted down into fine, rich mold, which will
make an excellent top-dressipg to grass
lands or young wheat.
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'MIEhe EARN.
RAT PROOF CORN.CRIB.

J. NJ. Bolts writes as follows upon this
subject to the N. Y. Times:
''My objections to building corn-cribs on
posts placed deeper in the ground, and let
ting them extend two feet above it, with
tin-pans, sheet-iron, or flat rocks, on their
upper end, to keep rats from climbing
them, are, that during heavy wind-storms
and soft, wet ground, the posts will give
way, and so twist about as soon to require
the building to be propped up, or fall to
the ground. l build corn crib on this
plan: Lay two stone-walls about eight
feet apart, and as long as want the crib,
these walls are one foot in the ground and
one foot above it, and open at each end, or
no walls at the ends. On these walls l lay
two sills two inches thick, ten inches wide.
On these stills lay sleepers Of the same
width and thickness as the stills, eight feet
long and one foot apart. On these sleep
ers the floor is laid, out of inch boards OF
any width; then lay floor on the top OF
this, so that every joint in the first 1ioor is
AAO~-
is to be of the same size of the stills. Then
build above upon this foundation twelve
feet high. The boards, four or six inches
wide and one inch thick, are first to be
nailed to the sills, then to the floor, and
then by scantling, two by four, in three
places above the floor. The roof must ex-
tend one foot over the building, which
should be several feet from any other build
ing. These boards must be of hard wood
beach, sugar-tree or ash. have kept
nv corn in this kind of crib for fifteen
wears, and rats have eat none of my corn
while it was in the crib during that time.
1t is held together by two iron rods in the
centre and iron straps for the corners This
building is as good for poultry or bacon as
it is for corn. Hens may lay their eggs,
hatch out their broods, and raise them in
safety from all varmints, with no other
trouble than closing the door at night
This does away with coops; besides, broods
are healthier than when confined in small
coops. Bacon, that is SO often eaten by
destroyed in these building. would not
have Lighthouses for these purposes, if any
one would make me a present Of them.
Besides preventing much corn from being
eaten, also prevent it from being dam
aged by the fouling of the rats. In cribs
where rats have been bad the corn is so in
jured that it is unfit for bread or for horses
and the best use that can'be made OF 1t
is to screen it, grind it into meal, and feed
it to hogs. 1 may say the same of bacon
that has been badly eaten and fouled by
rats, it is no more fit for family use, and is
generally thrown aside for soap grease.
Its advantages over all others for fowls
are many; they are free from danger ano
alarm while asleep, and nothing required
but to shut the door at night to rid them
of all danger from all varmints that art
their recognized enemies"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-12-14
STRAW FOR BEDDING.

In some parts of the country straw is so
abundant that it is left in the field where
thrashcd and set fire to. Even in the
wheat-growing sections of this State there
are many farms where straw is scattered
about the yards all winter for the mere
purpose of rotting it into manure, In 9th
or parts of the State it is so scarce that the
cattle must lie on the bare boards, or be
bedded with sawdust or shavings.
We believe there are few farms where
straw need be wasted. We propose to say
nothing in regard to the demand which
exists for it to make paper or for bedding
in the cit les, except to remark that in some
cases it might be more profitable to sell the
straw and buy bran or grain rather than
to waste the straw at home.
Some farmers seem to suppose that they
must get rid of their straw during the
Winter. We know many farms where
straw is thrown a foot deep at time
about the yards in Winter and early Spring,
where not handful of straw could be
found in June! We hope all the readers
of the .Agricuzturist will avoid this mistake
There is not week in the year when straw
can not be used to advantage on a farm.
Where straw is fed to horses, cows OF
sheep, We would not be sparing of it
Put enough into the racks for them to pick
out the best, and use what they leave each
day for litter. What we object to is scat
tering a great layer of straw about the
yards two or three times during the Win
ter. Better litter the yards every day
where it is necessary. In the case of sheep,
there is nothing more injurious than to
compel them to lie on mass of fermentine
straw. Sheep are very fond of having a
clean bed of straw to lie down upon. We
have often observed sheep in Winter stand
ing about uneasily, and when a little clean
straw was spread under the shed or about
the yard they would very soon lie down and
chew the cud of contentment.
The great point in littering sheep, then.
is to give little and often-the less the bet
ter, provided it keeps the sheep out of TIL
mud, ana gives them dry, clean bed to
lie upon. A sheep must be very tired be
fore it will lie on dirty bed. Another
point to be observed is either to change the
position of the racks occasionally, or to be
careful every day to scatter the straw that
is pulled out. Unless this is done, there
will soon be thick layer of straw on the
side of the rack, which will be liable to fer
ment.
1t is sometimes great convenience, and
we think economical, to cut the straw into
chaff, not only to feed, but for litter. We
think it absorbs more liquid, and the soiled
portions can be removed more readily from
the rest of the bedding, OF at any rate with
less waste of straw.
american AgricuHurist.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-12-14
MANURE HEAP.

We have in the center of the barn-yard
basin, or hole with sloping sides. Into
this basin the old-fashioned plan was to
throw the manure, promiscuously, any
where just as it happened, and the result
was that for several weeks or months it
would form only thin layer spread out
all over the bottom of the basin. 1t was
too thin to ferment, and had a slovenly ap-
pearance Our plan now is to wheel or
cart the manure into one corner of this ba-
sin, making kind of hot-bed of it. Make
it four or five feet high, and as you get
more manure, increase the ZENITH and width
of the heap, but Away keeping it in COM
pact mass. It soon begins to ferment and
to get warm and throw off steam. If the
heap is properly managed, there is no loss
of ammonia. That is an exploded notion.
There is water in the form of steam or va
por escaping, mixed with trace of volatile
oils and carbonic acid, but these are of no
manurial value.
This little fermenting heap is the ''nest-
egg"
Now, is not this better than having a
heap of horse-litter at the stable-door.
where it gets so dry and hot as to ''fire-
fang? OF better than having another heap
or heaps on the side Of the COW sheds,
where the drippings from the caves wash
out much of the best substance from the
manure or than having the pig-sties reek-
ing with filth? or the sheppard so foul
and damp that there is great risk of the
foot-rot, and no possibility Of the sheep do
ing well?
The great point is to get the heap start
ed. Many rich man dates his wealth
from his first deposit in the Savings Bank.
Once get a little manure into the heap and
start the fermentation, and it will keep
growing bigger and bigger. Manure scat
tered about the premises is soon frozen
solid, and remains in a crude state until
spring. But this snug little heap will not
only keep itself warm, but, like yeast, will
induce fermentation in the fresh manure
that is daily added to it. 1t will, as we
can state from actual experience, keep fer
menting slowly during the coolest weather
in winter. But it would not commence in
such cold weather; hence the Importance
of starting the heap now.-American Agri-
culturist.
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GM NV ZSs HAxE
s:ssS==ZRENEWER.
Every year increases the populari-
ty Of this valuable Hair Preparation;
which is due to merit alone. We
can assure our old patrons that it is
kept fully up to its high standard;
and it is the only reliable and perfect
ed preparation for restoring GRAY
OR FADED HAIR to its youthful color,
making it soft, lustrous, and silken.
The scalp, by its use, becomes white
and clean. 1t removes all eruptions
and dandruff, and, by its tonic prop
critics, prevents the hair from falling
out, as it stimulates and nourishes
the hair-glands. By its use, the hair
grows thicker and stronger. In
badness, it restores the capillary
glands to their normal vigor, and
will create a new growth, except in
extreme old age. 1t is the most eco
nomical HAIR DRESSING ever used,
as it requires fewer applications,
and gives the hair splendid, glossy
appearance. A. A. Hayes, MD,
State Assayer of Massachusetts,, says,
the constituents are pure, and care
fully selected for excellent quality;
and l consider it the BEST PREPA-
RATION for its intended purposes"
Sold by all Druggists, aud Dealers in Medicines.
Price One Dollar.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-12-14

How TO MAKE TEA PRoPERLY.-The
proper way to make cup of good tea is a
matter Of some Importance. The plan
which l have practiced for these twelve
months is this: The teapot is at once fill
ed up with boiling water, then the tea is
put into the pot, and is allowed to stand
for five minutes before it is used; the
leaves gradually absorb the water, and as
gradually sink to the bottom; the result is
that the tea-leaves are not scalded, as they
are when boiling water is poured upon
them, and you get all the true flavor of the
tea. In truth, much less tea is required in
this way than under the old and common
practice.-J4mes Cutsal, London.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-12-14
Trees True to Name.

L. Balderston, of this county, writes to
the n. Y. Farmers Club:
81 noticed in the proceedings at recent
meeting of the Farmers Club, complaint
was entered by some one in regard to
nursery trees failing TO be true to name
Also, he asks for a remedy against this in
Fiction. Now, while failure on the part
Of nurserymen to supply trees Of the kind
ordered, is not to be excused, | have a
remedy..to suggest to fruitgrowers, in case
Of disappointment. We may discover by
the time our trees come to an age for bear
ing that whether the kinds we ordered or
not, they are not what we then want. 1t
has been the case in my experience (proba-
bly, in that of many Others that each sue
ceeding year. or period of years, goes to
change my judgement with reference to the
varieties of apple best suited to our soil
and climate. Perhaps in New York Or
Michigan this point (ths choice of kinds
may be established, but the remedy for
young orchard of Improbable varieties
would be the same in both cases--regraft-
ing.
1t may be done so as to lose but little
time or profit in the ultimate product of
tree. So would say to my disappointed
friend, proceed next Spring to regraft with
the varieties he now thinks most profitable
and at the end of ten or twenty years he
may find it has been to his advantage
that the nursery-man cheated him. But if
he wishes ultimate success, must call his
attention to another matter. He speaks of
planting 1900 trees on 12 acres. Now, ac-
cording to all my experience, he has just
1850 trees too many. Apple-trees should
not stand within two rods of each other,
which distance puts 40 trees on an acre.
70 explain this discrepancy in figures: l,
500 trees being already planted, three-quar
tiers of them, 1850, must be taken up. J
The intervening vacancies may be titled to
advantage while the trees are young, and
when grown at distance of two rods their
limbs will interlock, and as suppose every
fruit-grower of experience knows, fruit
tree should have sunlight on every side. If
he cannot sell or appropriate his !, $50 spare
Crees he may burn them, and can probably
10 it with the less regret from their not be-
ing true to name.'"
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MEDICINAL.
..Ayer's Cathartic Pills.

GC For the relief and
ET of all dcrange-
~ ,nent5 in the stom-
~ ach, liver and bow
C%A els. They are mild
~ saZ-FAA aperient, and IN
s2S MN excellent pnrgative.
StsEaas4 Being purely vege-
,5sef ~ &EIe~s>ss' vi. table, they contain
RH 3s1 no mercury or min.
NY flgs eral whatever. Much
<SFtis serious sickness and
~ ~l suffering is prevent
ed by their timely
use; and every family should have them on hand
fD- their protection and relief, when required.
Long experience has proved them 10 be the saf-
est surest, and best OF all the Pills with which
III. mlrkct abounds. BY their occasional use,
the blood is purified. the corruptions OF tho sys-
whole machinery of life restored to its healthy
activity. Internal organs which become clogged
and sluggish are cleansed by 4ycr's Pills, and
stimulated into action. Thus incipient disease
is changed into health, the value of which change.
when rrckonel On the vast multitudes who enjoy
it, can hardly be computed Their sugar coating
makes them pleasant to take, and preserves their
virtues unimpaired for any length of time, so
that they ever fresh, and perfectly reliable
Although searching, they are mild, and orerafo
without disturbance to the constitution, Or diet, or
OCCUPATION.
Fail directions are given On the wrapper to
each box, how to use them as 4 Family Physic
and for the following complaints, which these
Pills rapidly cure:-
For Dyspepsia Indigestion, Listless-
ness, Languor. and Loss of Appetite, they
should be taken moderately TO stimulate the stom.
ach, and restore its healthy tone and action.
For Liver Complaint and its various symp-
toms Bilious Headache, Sick Head
ache, Jaundicc or Green Sickness, Bill
ious Collie and Bilious Fcvers, they should
bo iudicousy taken for each case, TO correct the
diseased action or remove the distractions which
Cause it.
For Dyscntery or DiarrhGa, but one
mild dose is generally required.
For rheumatism, Gout, Gravel, Pal
r,itation of the Heart, Pain in the
uous!y taken, required, TO change the diseased
action of the SYSTEM. W 18th such change those
complaints disappear.
For Dro,sy and Drcpsical SyveI,inrs.
thcy shouid be taken in large and frequent doses
to produce the effect of drastic purge.
For Suppression, largo dose should he
taken as it produces the desired effect by SYM
pathy.
nromo:r digestion aud relieve the stomach
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels restores the appetite and invigora.es the
system Hence it il often advantageous where
no serious arrangement exists. One who feels
toIerab'y well. often finds that dose of these
T,iiix makes Linn feel decidedly BETTER from their
cleansing and renovating effect en- the digestive
apparatus.
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Buckingham's Dye.
FNR nIu UyuTSRHRS

AS our Remover in many cases
requires too long a time, and too
much care, to restore gray or faded
Whiskers, we have prepared this
dye, in one preparation; which will
quickly and effectually accomplish
this result. 1t is easily applied,
and produces a color which will
neither rub nor wash off. Sold by
all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents.
Manufactured by r. P. HALL, & CO.,
NASHUA, nh.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-21

For comparison with the returns Of the
Presidential election in Mississippi, we
have reproduced the election returns o.
the gubernatorial canvass in 1S69-there
having been no general election since
that time. In the election for members
of the Legislature, etc, last year in a
number OF counties where the Radical
vote largely predominated, there was no
organized opposition, and no means nj
forded of ascertaining the relative
strength of parties. Neither in the cleo
ton of 1869 nor the late one, was there
a full display of the strength Of the op-
posers of Radical rule. In 1859, large
numbers remained away from the polls
in consequence of dissatisfaction with the
head of theil ticket; and in the late election
many anti Radicals did not vote because
they regarded the prospect of defeating
Grant entirely hopeless, after the Octo-
Der elections:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-21
The sad story Of IA Trusting
Girls Story.

A telegram to the Alexandria CVa.)
Gazette has this to say about the Jewell
trial:
Among the witnesses examined on
Friday was Miss Jewell She is Il bright
and pretty looking light haired, blue eyed
and rosy checked girl, about sixteen years
old and rather small for her age She
wore a dark dress with white stripes, a
red sack and a straw hat with blue mask
vail. Her evidence was given, not in
long and continuous statement, but in re-
plies to numerous questions, the most Of
which were propounded by udge Thomas,
and was to the effect that Clarke had in
duced her to go away from home under Il
promise OF marriage; that he met her at
the dept in Alexandra that when in
Baltimore he told her that he could not
marry her, as he had already one wife,
but that he had left that wife and his
children for her; that her father would
not take her back home that her repu-
tation was irreparably injured by coming
to him, and that henceiorward, as thcy
had both made sacrifices, they would re-
main together through life; that after
deserving her in Mexico, No, she had
found him by accident in Boyle's Hotel.
in Washington, and that there he had
taken away from her most OF the. little
money that had been given her, and gone
to Fredericksburg. Her replies were
made IN voice Of usual distinctness,
and such was the stiffness prevailing dur
ing their delivery that they were audible
IN every part OF the court room.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-21
Origin Of the Queer Name of an ,''OH
Reu0llttioner"

From the New York Ledger
The father of Return j. Meigs was
born at Middletown, Conn. In his youth
he loved and addressed fair Quakeress
of Middletown, whose home was very
near his own residence, but found much
difficulty in obtaining her hand, her
objection resulting from sectarian bias.
She repeatedly answered his protesta-
tons of fidelity and attachment with:
Nay, Jonathan /; respect thee much,
but cannot marry thee; for better is
dinner of herbs and contentment, than
stalled OK and contention herewith"
Mr.. Meigs finally wearied with the
profitless suit, and paid Ruth what he
meant should be his last visit as a lover.
He held her hand and blessed her, and
having told her that he hoped in time
the wound in his heart might be healed
in happy alliance with some other family,
he spoke his farewell. The kind and yet
scrrowful word, spoken with tender soft
ness, and with fearful eyes, fell upon her
heart with awakening power, and as he
vaulted to his saddle to ride away the.
fair Quakeress, full of love and relenting,
beckoned to him with her hand, at the
same time calling out:
Return, Jonathan! Return, Jona-
than !"
To him they were the sweetest words
that ever fell upon mortal ears He re-
turned, and the day was speedily fixed
for the celebration of their nuptials.
The first child born to them was son,
and the happy father, in commemoration
of the blissful words which had hidden
him into his earthly heaven, had him
baptized and christened "Return iona
than" And the child thus curiously
named grew up to an important manhood.
the officers of the American
Revolution he was one of the best and
bravest, and for his brilliant exploit
against the British at Sag Harbor he re-
ceived the thanks of Congress and
sword He was warm Fl lend and sup
porter of President Jefferson, by whom
he was appointed Indian agent for the
among which people he passed
the last of his well-spent and useful life.