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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-04

SAD FALLING OuT.-It is indeed a sad
falling out when, after years of the closest
intimacy the hair parts company with
the head Fortunately the Iamentable
separation may be easily prevented and
the twain more closely united than ever
by timely and systematic use of LyoN,s
hAIIIA1KoN, the most potent invigorant
OF ,ne halr and promoter of its growth
anu beauty known to modern pharmacy
1t completely obviates the dry and parch-
ed condition of the roots of the hair
which Is preliminary TO its coming ont. nv
supplying the precise degree of moisture
requisite to its preservation in n healthy
state. 1t il the only true dfssolvent and
eFaporant of dandruT and other imnuri-
TIES OF the scalp, whose presence is iniuri-
Gus to the hair. As a beautitier of the head
Inc hathairon has no equal 1t not only
increases the quantity of the hair. but i'm
proves its quality immediately. imparting
iuStrous appearance and silky texture
which are exceedingly attractive.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
The British Museum.

The British Museum is now said to
have 1000, 600 books in its library. The
idea of printing its catalogue entire has
been abandoned, inasmuch as there sre
in the collection some hundreds of
thousands ephemeral publications and
broadsides, which would swell a cata-
logue to n magnitude that, for practical
purposes, would be useless. The num-
Der of American books in the Museum
is said to be greater than in any library
of the United States. 4 separate cata-
logue of these books has been compiled
by Mr.. Henry Stevens, the gentleman
who has had the largest share III pro-
curing them. Since 1913 this gentleman
has devoted most OF his tine in Lon
don to adding to the collection of
American books in the British Museum,
and also in enriching many Libraries,
both public and private, III the United
States, by his selections from the for
eign markets The Museum contains
no less than l75 various editions, in
our own language, Of "The Pilgrims
Progress, IS well as 20 copies of the
work in other languages, including
Arabic, Bengalee, Danish, Dutch,
French, Gaelic, German, Maori, the
peasant dialect Of Norway, Oriza, mod
ern Greek and Russian; also, Y edi-
tons in English of Paradise Lost"
while there are 50 editions in other
languages, including Armenian, Danish,
Dutch, French, German, Icelandic,
Italian, Latin and Swedish. OF "Rob-
inson Crusoe the library contains "a
editions in English, and 2G in other
languages.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
AGRICULTURAL.
Copperns and Salt as Preventive of
Pear Blight.
An exchange says :

An exchange says :
Many years since we used copperas
water applied to the soil, as remedy
for leaf blight in the pear, and the use
of iron filings scraps etc. has been
occasionally reported as preventive
In other words, pear trees standing
near blacksmith shop, around which
all the refuse filings, ETC., of the shop
were thrown, have been reported
healthy, when trees not SO supplied,
but in equal or better soil, Just adjoin-
ing, have blighted and died. The use
of hot copperas water as wash to pre-
vent the blight has been advised, but
while it has acted beneticially when
taken in the very first stages OF the dis
ease, 1t has not been generally accred-
tied as IF specific value. The why is
believed TO be, because the blight is
caused from some unhealthy condition
of tree, and like the human system sub
jective whatever disease may exist III
the same.
A study of the organism of tee plant,
its ingredients to form health and Wig
or, has therefore been rs much point
with the intelligent horticulturist, as
has the human system to the professor
of medicine and careful observation
makes it apparent that copperas or
sulphate of iron, as well as common
salt, are necessary to health in the pear
tree. With this knowledge in yiew
therefore, it becomes the pear tree
grower to apply to his soil a solution of
copperas and salt, in preference to a
free use of animal manure, in which are
only a small percentage of the great
properties of the two ingredients of
food requisite to health in the tree.
As to quantity and time of applica.
ton it is our impression that to each
pear tree of ten years growth one
fourth pound of copperas and two
pounds of salt dissolved in two gallons
of water and sprinkled over the ground
within the area of the branches is about
the quantity that should be used, and
| that any the time previous TO March is
the time to make the application.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22

An Eastern paper has the following:
The tantali2ing suggestion is made
to the patent medicine people that one
of them might have immortalized him
self and his medicines during the late
dangerous illness of the Prince of
Wales, thus: Sceno-St Georges
Chapel. Queen Victoria in the royal
pew. The doctor rushes in, strew-
ing handbills along the aisles, falls on
his knees before the Queen and pleads;
"Your Majesty, give the Prince one
tablespoonful every hour and he is
saved My patent Periopticopherous
cures gum boils, smallpox and blood
spavins, makes the skin soft as that of
the newborn babe, unites broken china,
organs to healty action, can be worn for
lifetime, and is not TO be distinguish
ed from silver on the closest inspection.
Just hear what the press, the pulpit
and the people say From the Bun
kinsyille Weekly Conservative, Febru-
ary-" Ere he can say another word
the Queen shrieks, thousand 1,0O0)
talchions are flashed III the air, the in
truder is hacked into demnition little
fragments, and the British hon eats
him up and licks his chops for more.
But the purpose is effected, the Peri
opticopherous is advertised though the
proprietor has persisted. The oriPina-
tor of this bold-we might say Helm
bold scheme, halls from Chicago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
Barn Gisterns.

The New England Homestead has
the following in relation to the manner
of making brick cistems-a great de-
sider0t9m where there is no supply of
spring water for barns:
g In ordinary clay soils a cistern may
be built without brick except for the
arch--by merely making the excavation
Of the size and depth required and lay
ing the mortar Immediately on the clay
sides if well done with good bydrao-
lie cement, and clean, coarse sand, it
will be as permanent as if plastered up
on brick wall. Brick will be required
for the arch. TO do this, about eigh
teen inches below the surface of the
ground, shoulder should be made
the width Of the brick on which the
arch is to rest. One thousand brick
will be sufficient for cistern of the
capacity of one hundred gallons, con
structed on this plan, and the whole
may be built at the cost of $50. On
many farms brick may be already on
hand and some farmers, perhaps, would
prefer to wall the entire cistern from
the bottom. To do this, two-thirds, or
perhaps three fourths more brick would
be required.
"Hhe most proper form, and theone
which gives the greatest strength to a
cistern is that of an ordinary jug say
ten or twelve feet deep and six or eight
feet in diameter at the bottom, increas-
ing in the middle to nine or ten feet,
and from the middle upwards the size
should be contrived 10 the base of the
arch to six feet or less. Such cistern
will hold from one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty barrels, and would afford
a supply of water for twenty head of
cattle continually.
at is important to secure as freshly
burnt hydraulic cement rs possible.
The coarsest sand makes the strongest
mortar This should be clean, that is,
free from any clayey or marty substance
Every good mason knows the proportion
in which these should be mixed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
White Color for W0olens.

Remnants Journal gives a formula
for the preparation of what is claimed
to be the most beautiful of all known
white colors To prepare this, for each
hundred pounds ofwool are to be taken
three pounds of alum, two pounds of
sulphuric acid, one pound of cream Of
tartar, and three-eighths of an ounce Of
anhydrous iodine violet In this the
wool is to be immersed for an hour, at a
temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
The iodine violet must be blueish, and
the quantity to be used will vary slight
ly in amount with the tone of the de-
sired white. A fresh bath of three
pounds of chloride of barium is also to
be made, and into this the blued wool
is to be introduced and left for two
hours, at a temperature of 104 Fab.
The result is deposit Of sulphate of
barytes in the wool, which retained a
quantity OF sulphuic acid from the
first bath. This gives to the wool a
beautiful white, and increases its
weight about Is per cent The use of
the chloride of barium is, it is said,
preferable to the chalking of white
goods, and for whitening the woods in
question.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
Wooden Drains.

The following is from the German
town Telegraph
Strange as it may seem, after all our
experimenting with wood and the tile
d aiming material, we are likely to
come back again to wooden drains OF
some sort under peculiar circumstan-
ces. They are pronounced to be on
good authority superior to, as they are
far cheaper than tile drains, where the
wood is subjected to the vapor of car
bolic acid But even without this pre-
paration, wooden water pipes, made IN
the best manner, will last two or three
generations under ground. But as il
regards the so-called Robins process, it
is not applied to logs, but boards, 50
that the logs Of any perishable woods
sawed into boards, and the boards sub
iected to carbolic acid formed into
square conductors and used as drains
upon farms, will last, it is claimed,
forever, Mt cost of not over fourth
or a fifth Of that for tile, heavy article
and expensive to farmers living at a
distance from a mandatory. Should
this process turn out to be all that If
claimed for it, the farmers of the coun-
try will find it a means Of rejuvenating
their lands by draining, which, while il
viii cost but little, VIII nearly double
their productive capacity
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22

DIR. 7. Miller has given. in the Moni-
teur Scienttique, an account of his re-
searches on the subject, and his con-
ciuslons are as follows: Meat extracts
are neither directly nor indirectly food
for they do not contain albumenoid
matter, neither do the heterogeneous
principles which they contain arrest
assassination; that is, they do not
prevent the waste of the organic mat
ter which composes the body. In small
doses, those extracts are useful, by the
stlmulant action of the potassa salts,
which promote digestion and circula-
ton; in strong doses-too large mt
once-these substances may have a
very injurious effect. When given to
conyaiescents from serious diseases,
especially if the system is exhausted
by prolonged abstinence. the potassa
salts present in these extracts in large
quantities viii act more injuriously,
because the system has lost a great
deal of chloride of sodium instead,
then, of promoting digestion, these
substances Will interfere with it. Cd, by
the direct action of the salts of potash
on the blood elobules. whereby the
absorption of the oxygen by these
globules is greatly decreased; CD by
the performance Of such salts in the
serum of the blood which only physic-
allydissolves carbonic acid, and does not
allow the normal quantity of that gas
to be exhaled and thus impede the ne
cess of oxygen. Medical men should
bear in mind that, if given alone,
these extracts, and likewise beef tea,
are no nutriment and only tend to
keep the convalescent weak, being thus
Ill fed, or rather, not fed at all. These
conclusions are substantially those
entertained by Liebig and many other
Investigators in the same field.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22

upon your aunt, as they entered the
room where she sat, crying out:
"Oh, ma'am, oh, Mrs. Malcolm,
Charley is drownedn
Il have heard one of these boys,
now almost man, say that he shall
never forget while he lives the look
that came into your aunt's face. 1t
frightened him. Every drop of blood
seemed to go out of it, and 1t became
white rs ashes, and full of pam and
terror. Where Where Z she gasped,
and when the boys answered, In the
mill-dam,' she ran out OF the house,
bare headed and without shawl or
cloak, and started off wildly for the
place, running so fast that they could
not oyertake her.
CAS- | told you, she never looked on
the face of her darling boy again.
When she reached the mill-dam, and
saw the great hole in the lee into which
he had fallen, she give such a cry of
despair as made all SILVER who heard it,
and fell senSeleSs on the ground.
They found the poor boy at the bot
tom of the dam after searching for him
a whole day, but when his body was
brought home his mother was too i'll to
know of anything that went on around
her, and he was buried without her
eyes ever again seeing his dear face
/ The shock was so great that 1t was
many months before she was able to
leave her room, and ever since her
health has been poor and her nerves
so weak that little things disturb her.
And now, my son, have answered
your question, What made her get
weak nerves 2 and | am sure You will
be very thoughtful of her. and never do
anything that is rude, or rough, or
noisy when she is here"
Hartley, who had listened with deep
interest, looked sober, and sat quiet for
a.good while.
Mother" he said, at lest, in a half
hushed voice, looking up with a kind
of tender pity in his face, "did you
have little boy drowned z"
mo, DEAR" she answered. "What
made you think SO? ~
He dropped his eyes and was silent a
few moments, then rs he put his arm
about his mothers neck, he said,
Your nerves are weak like Aunt
Malcolmsn
Mrs. Overman kissed the boy, tears
filling her eyes.
mo, dear" she answered, lit was
not a sorrow like your Aunt Malcolm's
that shattered my nerves, but long
sickness and great pain
ooh. I'm SO sorryl" the boy said,
lovingly, us he put his hand on his
mothers thin, pale face and smoothed
the soft skin tenderly. "And I'll new
er do anything to hurt your nerves
again - The CHildren'S Hour.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
The Eight Hour Law.

Halls Journal Of Health has plain
talk about the eight-hour law. 1t puts
the point essentially in this way: "If
/ pay for eight hours work as much as
Y hours work is worth, my house costs
me one-third more than it is worth, y
consequently the rent must be one
third higher. The workman gets as
much for his eight hours as he used to
get for 10 or II, but house rent, and
food and clothing cost more; hence,
unless he works more than eight
hours he is living beyond his means.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22

AN English paper estimates the av-
erage speed Of railway trains in that
country as not, probably, more than
% miles for all, and 30 miles for those
which are regarded as fast trains. The
Manchester Express goes from Kentish
Town to Leicester, distance Of 97b
miles, il. two hours and eight minutes,
the speed being 46 miles an hour, and
the Scotch Express from Kings Cross,
at $40, reaches Peterboro, rs! miles,
ia one hour and thirty-seven minutes,
travelling at over ~ miles an hour
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22

A YOUNG WOMAN, whose fathers pala-
tial residence is situated in one Of the
principal streets OF Missouri's capital,
recently, in the space ofasingle twenty
four hours, managed, without discov-
cry, to get herself tied in the matri-
monial knot to eight different men, and
told them all to come at the same time
the next day to obtain Ter fathers
blessing on their union. They al did
did So /: AMI the scene that enaped can
be better imagined that described Tho
LADY meantime had left the state dis
gtlised as Jew peddler.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
Electrical Phenomena.

The Worcester Spy speak, of certain
electric phenomena as peculiar to a
house on Pleasant street. BY walking
around the room, and rubbing the feet
ON the carpet, person becomes highly
charged with electricity, so that, on
touching "a register or conductor of any
sort, IA spark is seen. 1t is also possi-
bic to light the gas by spark gener-
ated IN this way. These interesting
phenomena can be witnessed in almost
any house where there is a wooden car
pet with paper under it. Not every
body has the capacity to hold and give
off electricity acquired in this way, but
1t is common, especially among young
ladies'. To get electricity enough to
light the gas is indeed difficult, and
probably possible in most instances,
only in dry, cold weather, but it is very
easy, after draying the feet across the
floor two or three times, to get a dis
tinctly audible snap on touching the
chandelier. Another form of the ex
pertinent is to insulate stool by plac-
ing its legs in tumblers. A person
standing on it can be charged with
electricity by rubbing or beating him
with mutf.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
A BERLIN photographer has invented

a BERLIN photographer has invented
a paper to be used for currency pur-
poses, which he claims VIII defy conn
terfeitina, The protection is in the
color Of the paper, which cannot be
chemically Analysed, neither initiated
by photography. Each state can have
lts oan color, which can be kept d SCI
cret. The process is not more eEpens
slre than that now employed in pre-
pallug TIE present paper
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
he Houso-NIouse and the Wood House.

sbe siouso-NIouse and the od-1Iousc.
BIZ CARL LARSEN.
house-mouse and a wood-mouse
1nca met. ald invited each other to u
sisit. The house-mouse was to go to
fhe wood-mouse so the wood-mouse
mode her house, which was at the foot
III a fr-tree look as nice as she could,
aud took home some roots and berry
buds for dinner.
d Then the house-mOuse came and
fapped at the door, and CONTESTED like
1 lady; and the visit began. OF course,
tompany must like what is set before
fbem and so the house-mouse tired to
bat; but it was hard work, and, to do
ler best, she couldn't chat as much as
b. other times.
Next day it was the house-mouse's
4urn to have company. She lived in a
1ranary, and had heaped up nice pile
Ii barley and wheat and rye, and bits
h cake, and pork, and ends of candles.
and then the woodmouse came; and
B. her visit began.
a The wood-mouse had never before had
fuch dinner; and the house-mouse
bad to tell how she came by such nice
.things. She told about the the pantry
inl the kitchen and the cupboard,
(Which last was so hard to get into.
But just as they were saying how
squch better it was to live here than in
bic wood, they heard some one come
sflyly over the straw.
n "Hush, hush there comes Sheriff
Ct" said the hostess. So they sat
Bill, hardly daring to breathe but, be-
fore they knew it, the sheriff was stand
iug right over them.
~ who are you, mussing up my grana-
b. ;" said he.
"Only two little MICE" said the
lOuSe mouse.
What are you doing here?"
N Only having little dinner"
n Eating up al my grain"
n "Oh, no. We have taken only what
Nas lying loose
IL L am going to take you now"
"Oh, no. Don't take us" said the
4ouse-mouse, land we Will tell you a
ttory'
Let me here it, then" said the
theuf
Once there was a little bird >
Il Well, what did he do?"
He was going to sweep the floor" >
Ihenhe was very neat, >
And he found dime
Then he wasn't poor"
80 he bought a tiny piece of sau-
sage."
Then he had enough to eat"
He put it on the Goals to fry"
Then he didn't eat it raw. "
He laid it on the door-sill to cool. :"
Then he didn't to get burnt. ="
But tire cat came and snatched
And so shaB snatch you, replied
Sheriff Cat.
r but the wood-mouse ran quickly
way and didn't stop until safe under
Pie root OF the fr-tree. She was so
Scared that she did not dare to come
81 ut again until she was so thin and
lngry that she could hardly creep ::
I'D she resolved never more to visit the
Il -rMarv
And what became Of the house-mous {?
nat Is for you to guess. - The Nursery.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22

SCENE in grocery store. Enter boy,
who asks Have you got any yaller
sugar ~ Grocer-"We have brown
sugar, some at 1l!c, and better grade
at lie pound " Boy, hesitatingly-
" We'll, / guess I'll have a pound of
the ll5c, The sugar is weighed, put
in bag, and handed to the young
economist, who makes his exit in a
state Of dire perplexity as he gazes on
the l3c remaining from the quarter
presented in payment Of the saccharine
parcel under his arm.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
W cak Nerves.
BY T. S. AETHUR.


Pr Don't make that frghtful noise.
tey, said Mrs Overman, speaking
i.er son, lad in his tenth year.
u riley had found an old tin pan. and
w. beating on it with two bits of iron.
4 49,. noise was peculiarly trying to SEN
'.,ye nerves.
Why can, l make it," asked the
1T doesn't hurt anybody"
i hurts me, replied Mrs. Over
hartley lookedcuriously at his moth
Where does it hurt your he que
i hurts me here" she replied.
ag hand against her forehead.
Int hurts me- all over 1t sets my
s.s IA a quiver."
IL are nerves, mother! How
aart them. I inquired tie bow.
Alss Oyaruau answered.
e. are Little white threads rum
yer our bodies. Some 81 them
snail shat tine eye cannot see
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS.
thick-a-dee-dec .
JAMES RICHARDSON.


Twenty little chickadees,
Sitting ia row
twenty pairs Of naked feet,
Buried in the snow
7 should think you'd fly away
Where the weather's warm;
Then YOU wouldn't have tob
out there in the storm.
Pretty little chickadees
All the trees are bare;
wouldn't you prefer to be
Where the weather's fair"
Al the other birds have flown
South among the flowers;
There the snow-storms never come
Only summer showers.
Sorry little chickadees
Don't you know the way?
Can't Won find the road to go
Where it's always May?
Robins all have found it out.
Wrens and blue-birds too;
Don't sou wish you'd thought to ask,
Ere away they flew?
Chilly little chickadees
/ should freeze, know,
II had to live outdoors
In the wind and snow.
Don't Won find it very cold
For your little feet?
Don't YOU find it hard 10 get
Anything to eat?
Hungry little chickadees
Would YOU ike some bread?
Twill give you all you want,
Or some see de instead;
ANYTHING you like to eat,
You shall have II free,
Every morning, every night,
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-11-28
Tum0r OF Ia Years, Growth
Cured by Eadway,s EosOIvont.

y. bkyKAxv, MAJ, July iSB9
Dr. RAnwAY:T have hsd Ovarian ovares and
All "thsra itn tried
svy thing ... w S,.asg ke,ea Hw
baase had suffered far twelve took sig bae 81 tas
Resoiveat aud box OF Railways Pills ard bottles Of
Ready Relief; and there ID n.t sign cf bs M
and feel better AL happr than kf-s far years.
write this to you for the ssssft Of sthe Yea ruhh
you hooaa. UALNAH z. KNAEY.