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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-10-17

Their research has at last been rewarded by discor
ery which fully realizes the fondcs desires of the med
cal faculty, aud which is justly regarded the most
important triumph that Pharmacy has ever achieved.
This important dcsdcratum is
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
SEED POTi TOES.

An old Maine farmer, in giving his
idea on seed potatoes, says that we use
700 ripe seed when we propagate from
tubers that have lain in the ground until
dead ripe. He says that plants that are
propagated by tubers require different
treatment from those propagated by
seeds. Our corn and grains that we
use for seed we like to have
stand a little longer than the
main crop, and become perfectly ma
tured. On the same principle our corn
is selected from the ripest, best-developed
ears and kernels. But potatoes for seed
should be dug and placed in IA cool, dark
cellar, Just as soon as a majority of them
will slightly crack open in boiling. This
is most invariably while the tops are vet
green and growing fast. The tubers are
then i'll most vigorous state. Disconnect
them from the parent stalk at that time
and they retain their vigor. Instead of
leteriorating, as most of us know the
older sorts have, their vitality is in
creased, and they yield better, with less
tendency to rot. AS long ago as 1915,
and subsequently, observations led him
to make some experiments to test the
theory, and he finds it the proper course
to pursue.
Is it not often said that the late plant
ted potatoes are better for seed than
those planted early? The lateness of
their planting, presumably, pre-
vents early ripenins, hence the prin-
ciple of the above reasoning would be
in force.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
RTRiL BRETITIES.
The hog crop of Iowa is 1925, 10
against zoos, GIL last year.

THE hog crop of Iowa is 1925, 179,
against ,OOS, gu last year.
A HAYsTAcK a quarter of a mile long is
the pride of Wachita, Kansas
Ir has been discovered by Minnesota
farmers that two acres of sunfowers will
supply family with fuel through long
inter-. The wood of the stalk, and the
oil of the seed, it is said, make roaring
and cheerful fires.
A PUMPKIN followed was used as a
ballot-box at recent Kansas election.
A LATE writer lays down this as an
axiom in drainage: 1t is not judicious to
spend money in draining land that needs
draining, SO long as we can use the money
to good advantage in the better cultiva-
ton of other good land that does not
need draining
We learn from the Practical Farmer
that, at the Worth Farm, fine porker
was cured of pneumonia by a dose con-
sisting of tablespoonful of carbolic
acid. 1t was also given to others, mixed
with the slop, though in much smaller
quantities. and soon stopped all further
spread of the disease
FARMERS are becoming more and more
convinced of the advantage derived in
sowing corn for soiling purposes. Dairy
men, especially on clay or sandy soils
easily affected by the drought, realize
the fact of its being superior to almost
any other food for the production OF
milk during midsummer.
THE California farmers have fnllel
into the tolls of wheat spectators anG
shipping agents, and they are farine
worse than if their farms had beer
visited by drought or food. The
wheat crop this year amounts to S27,
600, 900, but of this S., 5000 are alb
sorbcd by the combination, and very
little remains to pay the farmer for hi:
time and labor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
THE MAN or lone yJEE

tie has proper and well pronort;,n-
ca stature, without, however, being too
tall. He is rather of the middle size
and somewhat thick set. His comnlex.
Ion Is not too ford at any rate too
m1ch r1ddlness in youth is seldom q
sign of longevity. His hair approaches
rather to the fair than the black his
SKIN Is strong, but not too rough. His
mead Is not too big; he has large veins
at the extremities, and his shoulders ara
rather round than flat. His neck is not
too long; his abdomen does not project .
and his hands are large, but not too deem
~ cleft His foot is rather thick than
long; and his legs are firm and round
lie has also broad, arched chest n
strong voice, and the faculty of retaining
his breath for Il long time without diff
Guilty. In general, there is a complete
harmony in all his parts. His senses
are good, but not too delicate; his pulse
is slow and regular.
His stomach is excellent. his annette
Is good and his digestion easy. The
JOYS OF the table are to him of impor-
lance; they tune his mind to serenity
ana his soul partakes in the pleasure
which they communicate. He does NOT
eat merely for the pleasure of eating,
nut each meal is an hour of daily festivi-
ty; kind of delight, attended with this
advantage, in regard to others, that it
does not make him poorer, but richer.
he eats slowly, and has not too much
tnirst' Too great thirst is always a sign
OF rapid self-consumption.
In general, he is serene. loouoc;ons
susceptible of JOY, love and hone. bnt
lnsensible to the impressions of hatred
anger and avarlce. His passions never
become too violent or destructive. If
he ever gives away to anger, he expert
ences rather useful glow of warmth
an artificial and gentle fever without an
overflow of the bile. He is fond also of
enjoyment, particularly calm meditation
and agreeable speculations, is an optim-
list, friend to Nature and domestic fe-
hcity, has no thirst after honor or riches,
and banishes all thoughts of to-mor
row.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
DROOTU AND ElLSEHOOT.

One tay in der summer dimes ven all
nadure was looking beautiful like der
deuce. Drooth and Falsehoot vas run
away from der shoolhause, and vent in
shwimmin. All of gwick, Falsehoot
comes der wasser ont, ind shteals all der
glotin on der beach of der canal, und
runs away nit EN-. Drooth he saw dot,
ind SO gwick you Good said Rob Jackin-
son, he makes alder him. Falsehoot vas
got goot shtart, und ofer Drooth, like
der leedle tog, hadn't shprained his
ankle, he wood caught him. But Drooth
he got much merry, and he dond vas
ashamed wort a cent pieces of his efey
condition, but shtill vas chasin old
Falsehoot, und l hobe dot he wood
caught him sometime during der tay,
und lick his outsites in. But I vas sorry
dot der peobles vas gif Drooth nick
names like dose, Naked Drooth. He
cond help it, und so long vat he shall
lif, he will hafe mine sympady, Offer he
can use dot.-Cdrl PiCtzci
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

This advice, given by bluff Captain Cutie To the
frrlurn Mr. Tuots, is cordially rendered to all who
are lal,oriug under that cloud of depression and
melancholy which usually accompanies chronic
indigestion, biliousncss habitual constipation and
nervous debility. 'Chccr up!' wue-brgone i'll
valds. The causes Of your gloomy feelings, though
incurabe. A course of IIostettcr's stomach Bttcrs
the purest and NEST genial Of all vegetable
stimuants and corrcctivcs, and especially adapted
to like yours will relieve you Of your bod
ailments and consequent mental misery, speedily,
certainly, aud without pain. The chills and damps
of the present season in fact all its atmospheric
conditions, are uufavorable to dyspeptic, bilious
and nervous sufferers. They need n stimulant,
well a tonic and Alternative. This wholesome
vegetable preparation combines the three. While
it increases the digestive capacity of the stomach
and changes and regulates the condition of the
liver and the bowels, it gives agreeable impulse
to the mental faculties and stcafies the nerves.
Unm edicated stmulants are never advisable; they
are too exciting, and often react disastrously. On
the other hand, the sham tonics which contain no
diffusive stimulant and surCharged with
drastic evacuants that almost turn man inside
out, are dangerous. The system needs more
vitality, and they PROSTATE it entirely. Hostel
ter's Bitters has affinity either with the dam
gerous excitant the still more dangerous de-
pletent. 1t simply strengthens and regulates the
body and clears the mind. This is the whole secret
of its cures.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

RULES FOR PRESERVING FRUIT
The London Garden gives the follow
ing as the rules of the Royal Horticul-
t'lral Society for the preservation of
choice fruit:
l. As the flavor of fruit is so easily
affected by heterogeneous odors, it is
desirable that apple and pear rooms
should be distinct
2. The walls and the floor should be
annually washed with solution of quick
silver.
3. The room should be perfectly dry,
with as uniform a temperature as prac-
ticablr, and be well ventilated but there
should not be through draft.
4. Use the utmost care in gathering
fruit, handling as little as possible.
3. For present use fruit should be well
ripened, but for long keeping it is better,
especially with pears, that it should not
have arrived at complete maturity
The point, however, requires consider
able judgment
6. No imperfect fruit should be stored
with that which is sound, and all more
or less dccayed specimens should be re-
moved.
7. If placed.on shelves the fruit should
not be more than two days gathered, and
no straw should be used.
8. Where especially clear and beauti-
full specimens are wanted they may be
packed carefully in dry bran, or in layers
of perfectly dry cotton wool, either il
closed boxes or III large garden pots
Scentlcss sawdast will answer the same
purposes, but pine sawdust is apt to com
m,lnicatc an unpleasant taste
g. With care, early apples may be
kept until Christmas, while many kinds
may be preserved in perfection to sec
ond year.
The rules given by American fruit
growers agree very well with the above
but make especial mention that frll
rooms for slow ripening should be nearl,
dark, and the temperature low. Ligh
and heat hasten maturity, and next, o
course, decomposition.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
UEREDITi IRA SNISSION.

In Cations recent work treating of
hereditary influence, he holds that there
are certain marked types Of features and
temperament That the latter are in
herited no one questions; and the
same may therefore be inferred of the
former. Gallon instances the face of
the combatant, which is square, coarse
and heavily iawed, differing SO striking
ly from that of the ascetic, the voluptu-
ary, the dreamer, and the charlatan
But still more strongly marked than
these are the typical features and char
acters of different races of men. The
Mongolians, Jews, Negroes, Gipsies and
the American Indians severely propagate
their kind; and each kind differ in char
acter and intellect, rs in color and shape,
forming class of instances worthy of
close investigation, in which peculiarities
of character are invariably transmitted
from the parents to the offspring.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

of knowing the best way of fattenning
hogs, determined to try the different
plans, and also how much pork a barrel
of corn will make. / made foored pen
and covered it in. Weighed three hogs
and put them in the pen. Ialso weighed
three of the same size and put
them in dry lot; average weight, one
hundred and seventy-five pounds; / fed
six barrels of corn to the six hogs. They
were forty days eating the corn, with
plenty of salt and water Their average
gain was seventy-tive pounds. The hogs
i'll the lot gained the most. One that
was fattened in the lot gained eighty
pounds. One in the pen gained eighty
four pounds; the other four were not so
thrifty"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
PFNPh-TNS FOR COWS.

From peck of seed dropped and COW
cred in the gaps of a corn-field, dairy of
nine cows have been kept to summer
milking and the quality of the butter is
super-excellent, and six heifer calves
raised from the above as fat as moles
The cows are fatter, too, than majority
of the cattle slaughtered. These cows
have been making about six pounds of
butter per week, besides supplying new
milk and cream for a gentleman's house
with sixteen inmates. The pumpkins
are chopped up in the managers with a
spade, morning, noon, and night, about
half bushel each time when cut into
pieces They eat while being MIXED
morning and night, and they come to the
yard and go into the stable for half an
hour at noon. Beets, carrots, and some
other roots and small ears of corn will
follow, so as to keep up the milk during
winter
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
GAMBETTA is q Jew.

GAMBETrA is q jew.
GREAT BRITAIN has 800, 600 horses.
ADELINA PATTI will visit America next
year.
KING OSCAR, of Sweden, is the tallest
monarch in the world.
The King of Saxony is the most errl-
dite of European monarchs.
Ir requires 1O7 tons of nails weekly to
shoe the horses of Great Britain.
HAVING done the Japanese NIikatlo,
Duke Alexis is going to try Amoor.
A RAILWAY track eight inches wide is a
miner item from the British coal region
CARDINAL CULLEN calls on the Irish
clergy to prevent the holding of wakes
by the people.
LATE English journals allude to a rl-
NOR that poison, and not rheumatism,
was the cause of the recent illness of
King Amadeus.
THE Countess Skenns, of Sweden, pro-
jects another search for DIR. Livingstone,
which she intends to head i'll person if Il
sufficient fund be contributed.
GLADSTONE is as enthusiastic tree
cultivator us was Horace Greeley, and
spends much of his time trimming sap
lings at Howar,len, his Chappaqua.
Mr. THOMAS HUGHES is engaged in a
somewhat personal quarrel with Mr..
Bradlaugh, who crlls him can untruth
ful coward and contemplate hypocrite. -
A BOY with microscopic eye is the
latest wonder in England. 1t is said he
sees things twenty-five million times
larger than they seem to an ordinary
eye.
RECENTLY, at trial of considerable
interest in Rome, where the courtroom
was crowded, the pickpockets let loose a
trained bird, which sailed around the
heads of the audience, attracting their
attention, giving ample time for the
pickpockets to relieve the pockets of the
audience.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

One man with trade is worth thou
sand without one. A return to the old
plan of apprenticing boys to trades is
being advocated The hosts of young
men in every large city who apply for
employment and fail to get it, for the
reason that they cannot truthfully affirm
that they are educated or especially fit
ted for any particular business, consti-
tute potent argument i'll favor of re-
form. Under the apprentice system, we
should have fewer ignorant mechanics
and incompetent men. A trade is half 4
mans fortune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
4 Memorial Gift.

The round of gifts for holiday sea-
son is soon exhausted. Books, and
Jewels, and trifes repeat themselves with
the return of every Christmas and New
Year, so that we are weary of choosing
from them. We want to find remem-
brance for our friends, having some
thing more than that temporary value
which these customary gifts possess.
There is a new gift more graceful and
useful than anything that is to be found
i'll the shops. It's possession is not only
benefit for life, but it keeps its giver
in perpetual remembrance. 1t is Il Life
Insurance policy, presented on New
Years day by the husband to the wife
by the parish to their pastor.
Can there be better comlnemoration
of this joyful season of the year than
such a gift? 1t will bear fruit long
after all other offerings are lost and for
gotten, and it is one which the giver can
never regret.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
REMA SELEPOSSESSION


The PuU Man gazette declares that
to be perfectly cool and deliberate Ill the
face of an emergency is no doubt n great
merit, but even presence of mind may
be carried too far at times, and there are
occasions when the impulse of the heart
is a safer guide than the slower opera
tons of the brain. can inquest was
held day or two ago at Castleford on
the body of a pork butcher, who de
stroyed himself owing to distress of
mind produced by an unfomded rumor
that he had killed some pigs suffering
from foot-and-mouth disease. On Sat
urday, after getting his dinner, he went
into an clubhouse, while his wife was up
stairs, and hanged himself. When his
wife came down stairs she found him
hanging, but instead of giving an alarm
or cutting him down she went into the
house, put on her shawl, walked to
Normanton, and then took cab to
Wakefield, where she informed friend
of the melancholy occurrence. The
friend Immediately drove over to Castle
ford, and told the police, who at once
cut the body down. Such GOODNESS as
this almost equals that of the old maiden
lady who, after seeing her sister, with
whom she lived, consumed accidentally
by fire in the parlor, merely rang the
bell, and when the servant appeared said,
Sweep up these ashes, Jane, and we
shall only want one roll for breakfast
tomorrow morning.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
GREEN FOOD For EOWLS.

Mr. Wright, in his book on poultry,
thus talks of the Importance of green
food to poultry that is confined The
last requisite i'll the shape of diet is a
regular supply of green food. Here,
again, fowls kept on grass will need no
attention but for birds penned up the
daily provision of it is an absolute ne
cessity, though most beginners are ig-
norant of it. We well remember in
olr early experiences how our fowls
died, we could not at first tell why; and
one fine Buff Cochin cock, whose only
fault was strong vult,lre hook, was in
particular greatly regretted. An expert
enced friend let us into the secret, and
after that we had no difficulty in keeping
fowls, even where it is often said they
cannot be kept in health, viz. in yard
paved with large flag stones. The best
substitute for natural grass is large,
fresh turf, thrown in daily, to each four
or five hens; and even in towns it is often
possible to procure this by giving chill
dren few pence every week to keep up
IA regular supply. Where turf is not al
lowed to be taken grass may be cut or
pulled, but in this case must be cut into
green chatf with shears or chatf ma
chine. The latterp plan is how We actually
managed for years in yard only sixty
seven by thirtytive feet, divided into six
pens, paying some child few pence to
bring fresh-cut grass daily, cutting it up
and mixing it with their soft meat
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

OUR BOYS for January opens chipperer
and brighter than ever. A grand Christmas
story, by Charles Diehl, "Myself-a memoir
not after the Modern, " with a fine illustration,
leads off A continuation of the two serials.
Sturdy and Steady" and " Lance and Lasso,
with short stories, poetry puzzles, etc. The
number is illustrated with original designs. 1t
is emphatically the American Boys Own
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18
PERSONAL.

4 L<Itb'oAN Il
THE Presidents Message contained
1885 words.
JOAQUIN MILLER is being translated
into German.
STANLEY's new book sells in England
for s. a copy.
ALEXANDER DUMAS announces that he
will write no more plays.
DURING the past year there have died
in Hartford, Conn, thirty-one persons
whose fortunes amounted in the agpre
gate to 80, Ala, 900.
FOURTEEN persons diedin Philadelphia,
last week-three men and eleven women
who had lived to or beyond the adj
Vanced age of so years.
lT is curious coincidence that the
oldest tragedian and the youngest lead
ing comedian on the American stage
should both have died the same week,
Forrest and Craig
A KENTUCKY matriarch Off we may be
allowed to coin feminine for PATRIARCH
aged lib, counts her direct descendants,
down to great-great- great grandchildren
to the number of 1,O76.
STANLEY has had two babes, one black
and the other white, named after him,
and now comes word that his name in
gold letters occupies a proud position on
the stern of an Eric canal boat Could
ambitious man desire more?
THE Fairbanks, scale manufacturers
borrowed s. to make their first scale,
and are now worth $3,0O0,OOO. A great
many scaly individuals have made this
experiment, but have still to borrow the
five that is to make their fortune.
MISSES NELSON & TYLER, two young
Springfield, Mass, ladies' of business
tact, have taken two years contract fol
the manufacture of patent surcingle
and are giving employment to twent,
girls, and producing about fifteen dozel
per day.
A FRENCH lady and gentleman at Cape
May have been into the ocean every da,
since early last summer. They are try
ing to persuade themselves that by going
in every day they will not notice the
change Ill temperature, and so be able t,
go in all winter.
A DANBURIAN who was in New York
Saturday, came up with the wild state
ment that he had seen a hotel clerk
with side-whiskers. This is more of ,
lie than one man should undertake +,
tell. Hair growing on the cheek of ,
hotel clerk. Scat.
Mrs. TEMPERANCE DODGE JEwErr
who recently died in Barnstead, n. Y
at the advanced age of 100 wears an,
months, was the wife of the late DR.
Jeremiah Jewett, and own aunt to th,
late George Peabody, she being the sis
ter of Judith Dodge, the mother of Mr.
Peabody.
Miss SARAH G. LEWIS. of Brointree
Mass, bequeathed, at her death, the in
come of her house and 81 per week to h,
applied to the care of her fayorite tor
tolse-shell cat; recently the cat who in
herlted this home and annuity died. an,
the Universal Church succeeded TO tb,
entire property in accordance with tb,
will OF the deceased. Did the cat die
natural death?
AN Orleans county On. W ann
OF the late Horace Greeley relates tina
some years ago her distinguished nephew
came to deliver the address at her count,
ialr, and, to enable the boys and all farm
hands to listen to his agricultural learn
ing went into the com-feld hung hi.
coat on crab-apple tree, and strippe,
husks so vigorously that the lob wa.
worked off in good time for all to no,t,k,
OF his pastoral succulence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

COURAGE and modesty are virtues
which every sort of society reverses, be-
cause they are virtues which cannot be
counterfeited; also, they are known by
the same hue.-Goethe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-18

BRowN's BRONCHIAL TROcHEs, for
Pulmonary and Asthmatic Disorders, have
prored their efficacy by a test of many years,
and have received testimonials from eminent
men who have used them.-[Com