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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-01-05
The Kings Mistake.

A number of politicians, all of whom
were seeking office under the government,
were seated under tavern porch, when
an old topper named Joel D., person who
was very loquacious when corned but eX-
actly the opposite when sober, said that
he would tell them story. They told
him to fire away" whereupon he spoke
as follows: "a certain King-I don't
recollect his naine-had philosopher
upon whose Judgment he always depend
ed. Now it happened one day that the
King took it into his head to go hunting,
and summoned his mobiles, and making
the necessary preparations, he summoned
the philosopher and asked him if it would
rain. The philosopher told him it would
not, and they started. While journeying
along, they met Il countryman mounted
on a jackass.
He advised them to return, for said
he, it will certainly rain, They smiled
contemptuously upon him, and then
passed on. Before they had gone many
miles however, they had reason to regret
not having taken the rustic's advice as
shower coming up drenched them to the
skin. When they had returned to the
palace, the King reprimanded the philoso-
pher severely.
81 met countryman,' said he, and
he knows great deal more than you. He
told me it would rain, whereas you told
me it would not The King then gave
him his walking papers and sent for the
countryman, who soon made his appear
anCc.
"'Tell me- said the King, how you
knew it would rain L didn't know,
said the rustic; my jackass told me so.
And how, pray, did he tell you? asked
the King. BY pricking up his ears, your
Majesty said the rustic.
"The King sent the rustic away, and
procuring the jackass of him, he placed
him-the jackass-in the office the philos
opher filled.
And here" observed Joel, looking very
wise, lis where the King made great
mistake" 'How so?" inquired the aud
itors. "Why ever since that time said
Joel, with a grin on his phiz, Every jack
| oSs wants Office
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The Great Pictorial Annual.

HOstcttcrs United States Almanac for 1872, for
distribution, gratis, throughout the United States,
and all civilized countries of the Western Hemis
phero, is now published and ready for delivery, in
the English, German, French Norwegian, Welsh
Swedish, Holland, Bohemian and Spanish Ian
guages and all who wish to understand the true
philosophy of health should read and ponder the
valuable suggestions 1t contains. In addition to an
admirable medical treatise on the causes, preyen-
ton and cure OF great variety of diseases, II en-
braces large amount of information interesting to
the merchant the mechanic, the miner, the farmer,
the planter, and professional man and the calcu-
ations have been made for such meridians and
lattudes as are most suitable for correct and com
prehensiye NATIONAL CALENDAR.
The nature, uses, and extraordinary sanitary
effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the staple
tonic and Alternative of more than half the Christian
world fully get forth in its pages which are al
so interspersed with pictorial illustrations valuable
recipes for the household and farm, humorous an
ecdotes, and other instructive and amusing reading
matter, original and selected. Among the ANIMALS
to appear with the opening of the year. this will be
one of the most useful, and may be had for the ask
ing The propretors, Mcssrs. Hostetter n Smith
Pittsburgh Pa, on receipt of a two cent stamp
will forward a copy by mail to any person whc
cannot procure one in his neighborhood. The Bit
ters are sold In every city, town and village, and
are extensively used throughout the entire civilized
world.
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size since ! last saw them, several years

size since last saw them, several years
before.
IA few miles out from Cheyenne, and we
began to have ample sport shooting pfaire
dogs, and shooting at Hhtelopes. | say
shooting at Nntelopes, because, although
this most exciting sport was attended with
momentary pleasure, II resulted in no
meat for supper. Appearances are decep-
tive out West. The mountain to oil up
pearance Just ahead of the tiATelcf, may
be fifty miles AWAY the pretty little lake
in the distance, with sails upon its placid
waters, recedes as you approach, leaving
only the arid desert covered with sage
brush. The Indian, skulking on the plAihj
inspiring the lone traveller perhaps with
fear, vanishes. like the placid lake, and in
his place il found the slrutting crow,
pecking at the carcass of the fallen deer.
The man you meet, with pistols dangling
at his rear, with sun-burnt face, and mat
ted hair and beard, and buckskin suit,
may be desperate or thief, but then
you don't know, and wheh you ask those
who do, you find him gentleman and
scholar run wild an ex;iudge, or mem
Der of some State Legislature, turned
rancher perhaps, with a, squaM for awife,
and worth two Vt thfee hundred thousand
dollars. Such little uncertainties as these
and others, tend to take the conccit out of
man who comes West. They strike at
ones dignity, ones egotism they make
men more liberal and lenient In their
views of things,
have in the course of my ramblihgs
slept in many different positions and
places, in hay lofts, In granaries, on
porches in the corners of Virginia rail
fences and among the tall pines of the
| South beneath the sometimes question:.
BILE shelter of the army "purp tent"
| With my somewhat extensive experience
in outdoor lodgings" in sixteen differ
ent States of the Union, | have become
somewhat of an epicure in my choice of
beds. About the worst sort of lodgings
which ever came into very general use
was the pile of sacked potatoes on board
the Mississippi transport during the war
lpartook of this last once, and only once;
after that when this alternative presented
itself, as it sometimes did, preferred to
"sit standing" About the next best
mean thing in lodgings, is the new fan
gled patent spring mattress bedstead,
which, when you lie on your back, sinks
down in the middle, standing your head
on your stomach, and bringing your knees
up on each side of your ears. But the
best of all beds in good weather and in q
healthy climate, is the bed upon the soft,
fresh, sweet-smelling earth. We com
posed our tired limbs for sleep. 1t was a
clear starlight night, such night as is
only seen upon the plains. You could
have seen the hour by your watch. There
were the dim shadowy outlines of the great
mountain up among the stars, and per.
feet stiffness reigned. Silence absolute !
No night bird sang the wolf forgot to
howl, and the wind was asleep.
Lord Byron, in some of his writings,
has said that nothing could equal the aw-
full solemnity of a great empty room in
the dark. He could have known nothing
of the solemn, impressive stiffness of a
( great desert in the night
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An Excellent FertiIIzer.

As top-dressing for fruit trees, vines
grain crops or garden crops of any sort,
on ground that has been somewhat eX-
hausted by cultivation, the preparation
described below viii be found very useful
1t would improve the mixture, however,
to add to the ashes about peck of good,
newly Stacked lime, which would bring
the potash of the ashes to a caustic state
and enable it more speedily to soften and
dissolve the bones which, when lime is
thus used, need not be necessary in the
absence of the quicklime. With its use
in this way, and with suflicency of
good unleached wood ashes, or bones
which have merely been cracked up with
the hammer, may be easily softened
Take one barrel of pure, finely ground
bone, and mix with it-a barrel of good
wood ashes; during the mixing, add grad
ually about three pailfuls of water, The
heap may be made upon the floor of an
outbuilding, or upon the barn floor; and,
by the use of the hoe, the bone and the
ashes must be thoroughly blended to-
gether. The water added is just sufficient
to liberate the caustic alkalies, potash, and
soda; and these react upon the gelatine of
the bone, dissolving the little atoms, form
ing a kind of soap, and fitting it for
plant aliment 1t must be used in small
quantities, or in about the same way as
the so-called superphosphates A barrel
OF this mixture is worth two of any of
the commercial fertilizers, and the cost
will be but about half as much. 1t re-
mains to be added; If the bone meal and
ashes are very dry, four palfuls of water
may be required, but care must be cxer.
cised not to have it inconvcniently moist.
1t may be ready for use in week after it
is made. Pure, raw, Underground bone
and the best of ashes should be employed.
-BoSt0B Journal Of Chemistry.
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Graham Recipes.

6RAHAM BREAD Q0TNix half a pint
OF yeast with quart of lukewarm water,
or milk and water (two-thirds milk and
one-third water), stir this into about pint
OF schedt flour, and add g3'dh0n flour
enough to make stiff batter Let it rise,
in warm place, over night In the
morning, add teacup of molasses, a tea
spoonful OF salt, teaspoonful of soda,
and graham flour enough to make a bat
ter as still as can be stirred with a table
spoon. Put in tins TO rise (fill them more
than half fulD let them stand until the
loaves are light and bake about an hour.
This makes three loaves of bread, if baked
| in pint pans Be sure to mold the dough
into loaves as soon as it is light, as un.
| bolted flour runs into the acetous fermen-
tation much more rapidly than bolted or
supertine flour, Unboltcd -four requires
! somewhat thinner or softer sponge, and
| should be baked little longer than loaves
| of the same weight made of bolted flour
Soda is not essential if the yeast i: lively
Yeast should be well mixed with milk
warm water before being added to the
flour.
GRAHAM BREAD (2.)-Use one pint of
wheat-bread rising, 3 teacup of molasses
or sugar, teaspoon of salt, = teaspoon
little warm water, quart or more of
| graham meal The batter must not be as
thick as ordinary bread-dough pour the
mixture into bread-pans, or small forms,
as deep as you want the thickness of the
! loaf. Set the batta to rise and bake it in
n quick oven ; cover the bread with thick
/ paper during the first half-hour while
baking.
GRAHAM MUFFINs.-Two Quarts of ora.
ham meal, heaping teaspoon of salt,
tablespoons of sugar, IL quarts of luke
warm milk, p teacup of domestic hoI
yeast-more if of bakers yeast rise ovel
night, pour in muflin-rings or gems,
and bake in Il very hot oven. If less OF
the bran is required, sift the meal and dis
card the coarser bran left in the sieve.
GRAHAM GEMS Five cups of graham
meal, teaspoon of salt, AZ cups of colo
milk or water; pour into thoroughly
heated gems" or 'cups," and bake in
very hot oven. The rings" FORMS ol
pans, must be carefully greased.-He0rt'
! ami IJllJJq
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stands.there with hsbaok TO the stove, and
all over everything fof many feet around.
Thefe comes from the oven door suspi
cious smell of smoke his biscuit are
burning. All sorts of things In pots are
boiling over. She rushes to his assistance
Both burn their fingers. He has mislaid
half the stove coyers, and cannot find
them. One Is discovered, fortnight
afterwartt, up stairs under the bed. How
did 1t get thereP lie says he didn't know
he was carrying 1t up at the time. Absent.
minded. He was looking for clean
towel at the time
His wife, in desbalF, goes to her room,
and cries and thinks of her happy girl
hood days. She does not come down to
supper No one eats much that evening.
He has the whole table to himself. He
hasn't much appetite, either. He gets up
every half minute for SOME forgotten
article--fpr the salt, for a cup, for saucer
When he has entirely finished, he finds
the potatoes forgotten they are still on
the stove boiling-boilihg piecemeal
boiling ftriously, like the driving of Jehu
the sun of Nimshi who drove rapidly
Next day his wife comes down stairs
and hires woman to clean up. Things
get settled in about q week. 1t is his
only fault. He sticks to it that he car
cook better than any woman In the world
If he chooses "to give his mind to it,
She says the mania never broke out In
him until they had been two years mar
ried. Twice year it RACES, and the
kitchen smokes, All California husbands
have touch of this disease. 1t was con
tracted in the mines in the flush days oi
| 40 -IiDDiDcOtFs MdOdziDe.
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FINANCIAL.
Inveatment eecur1tIes.

JAY COOKE g. Co. are now selling, and rec
ommend as profitable and safe investment
for all classes, the First Mortgage 7-So Gold
Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, bearing Seven and Three-tenths per
cent. gold interest (more than s per cent
currency, and secured by first and only mort
gage on the entire road and equipments, and
on more than $4,000 Acres of Land to every
mile of track, or 800 Acres of Land to each
81 600 Bond. The highest current prices wiA
he paid for u. S. Flye-Twentlos, and all other
marketable Securities received in exchange,
Pamphlets, maps and full information viii
be fuhishea, en- application, by JAY Cooke
ington, and by most Banks and Bankers
throughout the country.
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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.

This gigantic enterprise is gradually de-
veloping its importance to the country by
opening up to settlement portion of the
public domain as varied in character and
as valuable for possession as any in the
country. Minnesota furnishes the most
productive wheat country; Dhkotah fine
grain.lands and the best of pasturage;
Idaho and Montana extensive. mining dis
tricts, with fertile valleys and rich grazing
lands; and Washington Territory and Or
egon are equally favorable for agricul-
tural pursuits, and at the same time
abound in valuable timber forests.
The belt of country traversed by this
great road possesses all that immigrants
may desire: first of all, temperate and
healthy climate, with flat and rolling
prairies and fruitful valleys, perennial
pastures, coal and timber lands, and mex
haustible mineral tracts.
The progress of construction Is ex
tremely favorable, and the financial pros
poets, under the manipulation and man
agement of our great bankers, Jay Cooke
Il Co., give the enterprise assured success
in this respect The bonds are selling
rapidly Qhe sales of Saturday last were
$125, ,O00, having come to be regarded as
among the best secured of all which art
offered for sale.
The inquiry for bonds by those who in
tend purchasing bonds, give assurance o
large settlements upon the lands during
next season. The company's lands IL
Minnesota will soon be ready for sale, ant
also on the western terminus. The com
pany me also prepared to permit parties
to take up lands at any point along thu
line of the road, to be subsequently ap
praised and paid for, The fact is conceded
that the sales of the land will build tht
road We saw report by an engineer
on yesterday, stating that from the gardel
valley of the Red River of the North tt
the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
there was but a single narrow strip o
poor land on the whole distance.
The future importance of this great en-
| tcrprse is glorious in the extreme, ant
the bonds of the company are as sure a
the obligation of the best government OF
earth.-N y independent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-01-05
Experiences and Impressions in the
Far West.

WE take the following extracts from a
letter of Max. Clark to the Baraboo (Wis.)
RepubIicdn'
Toward noon, as we approached Chey-
enne, the mountains appeared in sight, at
distance of almost hundred miles,
Majestic enough they looked, glistening
with snow in the heat of summer. Still,
to person who has only heard of noun
tains capped with everlasting snow, and
who has more than likely conceived of a
wall projecting perpendicularly into the
air all the way from ten TO thirty thou
sand feet, they generally prove a disap-
pointment at first sight. A nearer view,
however, or an attempt to walk around or
climb over one, has the effect to reinslate
all of that respect which Mr.. Beecher says
lac feels fer one of natures big hills ever
since he undertook TO Iaake an artificial
one, Though, Mr. Editor II has always
been theory Of scientific men that the
hills were continually washing doYn and
filling up the valleys, was unable, Strange
to say, to note any diminuion in their
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to-day. We do not mean to intimate that
pretty toys are not desirable for children
It s one of the pleasantest features of the
holidays that so large q proportion of the
sales go to brighten the lives of children
But let the selection of toys be wise and
judicious. Give your boy and girl as
much as possible to do for themselves In
their play. Let invention and imngina-
ton have ample scope--these faculties
will work fast enough If only they are not
hndered One almost fears, while exam
ming the comprehensive catalogues of
toys which wholesale dealers issue, that
the wonderful inventions will all start of
and play among themselves, and leave
the children nothing to do but to stand
and look on. When you choose holiday
gifts bear in mind the universal desire OF
childhood to bring into active exercise all
the unfolding faculties-to do something,
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THE PuRENoIoGICAI ID

The PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL for
January is still in the advance. For reading at
once spicy, vigorous, spirited and high-toned, its
bulky January number has our warmest commen-
dation. The following are among its articles: r.
b. Washbume, ON Minister to France; What Can
DO Best! Cheerful Giving; Joseph P.Thompson,
d. D., late Il the Broadway Tabernacle Church;
Expression, Its Anatomy and Philosophy; "Sol -
Smith Russell, or Some Studies in Facial Calica-
ture Passages from Dyak Life; Only Head, OF
"Nota Cent In the World, chapter of mishaps;
Taking Cold" or the Causes and Remedy OF
Colds; Our Objects; Political Economy not d
Failure; William N. Byers, the Rocky Mountain
Printer; Intercommunication; Great Fires of An
cient and Modern Times; Influence of Forests on
Climate. Numerous illustrations are given Price
only SO year Single Nos, 30 cts. Address s, R
WILLS, New York.
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Wind Calls or PuiTs.

WIND gals generally affect the hind
legs, and are technically called, bursal
engagements. Horse are frequently
affected with them for years without in
juring their working qualities, and they
are not considered as an unsOundness, yet
horsemen are anxious to remove them.
But their permanent cure is no easy
matter. Most of the remedies applied
have no real value. Pressure is the sim
plest and best remedy. A piece of soft rag
folded several times, saturated with wa
ter and on this lay one dram of opium
and camphor; place this on the wind
gall Then place on the wetted rag a
piece of tlattened cork as large as tho
wind gall and over the cork lace a rubber
or elastic bandage, which will give uni
form pressure upon the wind gall. In
stead Of the camphor and opium, q
solution Of carbolic acid may be used tC
wet the rag. This constant pressure vii
soon reduce the swelling, but the bandagC
should be,kept'on constantly while in The
stable and only taken off when the horse
goes to its work The bandage wet will
water alone will do where the othel
remedies are not at hand. Blisters arr
sometimes used, but cure in this way il
no more permanent than that of pressure
A hard pull or strain will bring them OF
again with either mode of cure. Lie
/ Stock J0ufR0L
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BMGnTLY BREAKS THE MORNING of n new
era in the annals Of medicine Alcohol will
soon be banished from the list of remedies,
and only knownas apoison. Dir. j. WALKER S
CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERs, composed en-
tirely of wholesome botanic extracts and
juices, are everywhere superseding the fiery
astringents, which no man or woman ever yet
took without bitterly rcpenting their credulity
There is no disease, acute or chronic, in which
the new tonic may not be administered with
beneficial effect
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A-ASc5 G1sOO ''tr AscttlSs
DIR. RAILWAYS
PERFECT PURGATIVE PILLS,

Perfectly tstelcss, elegantly coated with sweet gum
purge egulatc, purify cleanse and strengthen. Rad
ways is, for The OF all disorders OF the Stom-
acb, Liver Bowels Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseas
es, Headache, Constipation, Cosvencss, Indigestion,
Dyspepsia, Biousncss, Bilious Fever, Inflammation OF
tho Bowels, Piles and all arrangements of tho Internal
NlsCera. Warranted TO effect positive cure Purely
Vegetable containing mercury, minerals, or delete
rious drugs.
cIS" observe the following symptoms resulting from
Disorders of the Digestive Organs.
Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness OF the Blood in
the Head ACidity OF the Stomach, Nausea Heartburn,
Disgust of Food, Funess Weight in the Stomach,
Sour Euciations, Sinking FlutterinE at the Pit Of
the stomach, swimming of the Head, Hurried and Dif-
fcult breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or
Sutocating Sensations when in Lying Posture, Dim.
Of vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight, Fever
aud Dull Pain in the Head Deficiency of Perspraton,
YellowDeSs of the skin and Eyes Pain ia the side,
Chest Limbs, and Sudden Fushes OF Heat, Burning in
the Flesh.
TEN from all the aboye.named disorders. Price, Is
cents per box.
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The Cn1LpREN's HouR.-The Janual

The CHILDREN's HoUR.-The January
number surpasses itself in pictorial and other at
fractions. We only repeat what has been said over
and over again by the Press, when we say at is
one Of the best Magazines for children in the
world" "Our little ones leap with delight as they
open it" The ChRdren's Hour is published by r.
$ ARTHUR & Son, of Philadelphia, at S125 year.
Five copies are sent for S. Liberal premiums are
offered.
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BLESSED are they who seek relief from
Liver Complaint, Bilieusness," Bad Blood,
Pimplcs, Blotches, Eruptions, Rough Skin,
Salt Rheum, Erysipelas and Scrofulous
diseases, by the use of DIR. Pierces AIT. Ext.
or Golden Medical Discovery, for they shall
be happy in knowing that the cure is com
plete. Sold by all druggists. 594
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An English writer thus speaks Of the
status of the potato hundred years ago;
This root increases prodigiously and
is very proper for feeding and fatten-
ing cattle. They are boiled in water and
require but little boiling, though they
may have been kept two months in the
store, Cattle eat them raw, but for the
table they are wholesome boiled. l earn
estly recommend the culture of this plant
to husbandmen, as 1t is not only an excel
lent food for cattle, but good for man in
years of scarcity, After little use the
taste becomes at least as agreeable as tur.
nips, and particular if the potatoes are
boiled with bacon and salt pork The
consumption of them in the Engll8~ Is,
lands is astonishing, and many are \
yield a very white meal which, mixed
with wheat, makes good bread | have
eat it when there was no more meal in il
than was necessary to make il rise"
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BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs, for Pull
monary and Asthmatic Disorders have proved
their efficacy by test of many years, and
have received testimonials from eminent
men who have used them.
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If your horse is lame, sore or CALLED, you
should use JohHSon's Anodyne LiHime1t wash
the part with CASTLE soap and warm water,
rub dry with clean cloth, then apply the
Liniment rub in well with the hand.