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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-25

Railroad bonds were strong with an advance IN
some eases At the Second Board New-Iork Central
Fiy3s sold az high as 1923, and Chicago and North
Western Consolidated Gold Bondsat S. The Pacific
ISSUES were in good request The following were
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-25

The Philadelphia stock market is strong; Penn
sylyania Skies, 111!; Philadelphia and Enc RAIL
road, 1911; Reading. 81, Pennsylvania Railroad, 90.
Gold, liz.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-25
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-25
The bidding and asking prices. for the more active

The London adyices were of no great Importance,
Consols being steady and United States securities
strong, Ere ruling weak. The foreign exchange
market was quiet and strong at the rates given
below, but sales were made as low as 4S5!04S5s for
60 days bills and 4.9CQ49O4 for sight Amore active
business was done in gold. the opening sale being
at 1lll, followed by On advance to III. On gold
loans the rates were Il! l. 9 81, and per cent for
carrying The export clearances Of domestic pro-
ducc from this port for the week ending to-day
amount in currency valuation to 1891 O57. The
Assistant Treasurer paid out $4,000 IN coin interest,"
and S208,O0O in redemption of called bonds. The
days operations at the Gold Exchange Bank COW
cred: Gold cleared $50 $4,000; gold balances,
$l,C98,O9j; currency balances $2,O31G75. The fol-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-25

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The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Rat Stories.

A WORK, recently published in En-
gland, on "Waste Products" and their
utilization, contains some curious and
amusing matters. The statements con-
corning rats, living and dead, are espe-
cially remarkable. The bones of defunct
animals are largely in demand everywhere
for buttons, knife handles, and various
other purposes. But, to make these bones
marketable, they must be cleaned. To
poll them, or apply decomposing SUBJ
stances to take off the adhering flesh, in
Jures the bone. To clean them by hand
would add too much to the cost. There
IS pound" in Paris, about ten acres in
extent, surrounded by stone wall: to
this receptacle all the carcasses of dead
animals from the city are brought; and
here the problem of bone cleaning is
solved. The city authorities colonized
the place with rats from the catacombs.
They Go the work of bone cleaning artist
cally polishing the bones gratuitously as
no human cleaner could do, without great
trouble and expense. With the rodents
it is work of love, impaired bv voracitv:
and carcass dumped in the inclosure
one day is found on the morrow "a neat
and polished skeleton" The bones are
all ready to be sawed up into frames of
ladies' fans, and to touch beautiful noses,
all unconscious of the odorS which the
elegantly carved toy exhaled but few
weeks or days before.
But the four-legged operators grow
by what they feed on" sleek individual.
ly' but collectively "too numerous to
mention" There is such an increase of
laborers over the demand that the rats
employed to keep down waste become
waste" themselves. They, in their turn,
are utilized" and human ingenuity is
too much tor animal sagacity. All around
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
POl1teness as an Investment.

The grievous error we fall into is. in
looking for direct instead of indirect COM
pensation. When we declare that polite
ness costs nothing, we really understate.
Not only does IL cost nothing-it is
materially profitable in the long, some
times in the short run. Every one of US
goes where he is we'll treated, and STAYS
away from where he is i'll treated. In a
great city competition in each branch of
trade is necessarily active, and the trades
man or merchant who is courteous on
principle must soon discover that his
principle and interest are IDENTICAL What
man ever forgets the place or person
where or by whom he was atfably received,
when there was no visible motive for such
reception? The poorest memory, the
least impossible nature, will retain so
much as that.
smith, who lives uptown, actually goes
Tar downtown to buy his smallest gar
ment, because, years ago, bit of in.
formation was pleasantly given to him at
the shop he now regularly patronizes.
Jones does not object to walking half a
dozen blocks out of his way in order to
purchase cigars, for the reason that the
cigar.vender comprehends the art OF
amiability.
Robinson will never have another hat.
ter Though his friends criticise his hats)
from the fact thatthe halter once EXCHANGED
a defective head covering without grumb
ling, or even without trying to make
Robinson believe that he did not know
what he wanted.-Junius Henri Broaone
IN Appleton's Journal.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Process of Cremation.

PROF. BRUNETTE gives the details Of
the apparatus that would be required for
the process Of incremation. After having
made several experiments on the human
subject, in which the bodies were burned
in the retorts Of gas manufactures in
closed receptacles, ard with access of air,
he first satisfied himself that the complete
and perfect performance of the process
would be impossible under all ordinary
circumstances. In the first place there is
required an oblong furnace of fire-proof
bricks, having ten holes below, by means
of which the intensity of the fire can be
regulated. The upper part Of this should
be followed to receive the coffin, and over
this d0med cover is to be placed, by
which the flames, as in q reverbatory
furnace, may be directed upon the body.
Within the coffin is metal supporter
table on which the body rests, fixed by
thick iron wire. The operation embraces
three periods-the heating of the body,
the spontaneous combustion, and finally
the incarceration Of the soft parts and the
calcination of the bones. During the
first period, and about half an hour after
the pile of wood in the furnace has been
lighted, the combustion of the body COM
mences. 1t gives off large quantity of
gas, and the management Of the reverba-
tory part Of the furnace is of great impor-
lance. If the wood has been we'll ar
ranged, two hours suffice to produce per-
feet carbonization. During the third
period, the air-holes being open, the car
bombed mass is collected and placed upon
a fresh plate, and the heat is now urged to
the utmost; fresh supply of wood is
inserted. By means Of this arrangement,
at the expense of about $50 pounds of
wood, complete incremation-that is to
say, incremation OF the soft parts and cal
cination of the bones-may be effected in
two hours. When the furnace has cooled,
the clnders and bones are collected and
deposited in a funeral urn.-London Ian.
cek
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Drainage for Health.

THE proper drainage of buildings is
matter of great importance. Cellars may
be wet, stables not very dry, water may
drip from the caves, cutting holes into
the earth and making puddles. The
water from such puddles filters directly
into the cellar, so that old houses in the
country are very frequently dangerous to
life on account of the water settling into
the cellars. A damp cellar may some.
times be made dry by making a sink in
it. Cellars are sometimes made in such
wretched places that they need drain
pipes to carry off the water. In arrang-
ing any of this kind Of work about
stable it is necessary to be careful that
the DRAWINGS of the stable do not filter
into any water required for domestic use.
Water should on no account be allowed
to drip from the caves; it is a great nui-
sance, undermining foundations and rap
idly destroying buildings.
Air confined anywhere, even in clean
room, becomes offensive, probably un-
healthy, with disagreeable smell of close
ness, and confined in drain or sewer it
must be infinitely worse. Drains built
tight, with traps, ETC., SO that there is no
ventilation of their interior, generate
very poisonous gases, which are ready on
the occurrence of any small leak to es-
cape and poison everybody who happens
to go near them. The best arrangement
for ventilators in houses is to have sepa-
rate flue built in the chimney stack ex-
pressly to receive the ventilator pipes.
Thus the air from the drain is discharged
high in the atmosphere in position to
be mixed with smoke; and the noxious
properties are destroyed, the smoke,
whether of wood or coal, containing
about the best chemical disinfectants
known.
In all parts of New England hundreds
of people are dying every year of typhoid
fever; a large tract of the city of Boston
is now building on made land nearly as
flat as the prairies around Chicago; and
in few years it will doubtless have to be
| regarded and rebuilt to get rid of this pes
thence. From Maine to Pennsylvania
there are flat, undrained fields and wet
| cellars nearly as bad. All over the coun-
try further south, but principally in the
Mississippi Valley and the flat country
| bordering the ocean, the halfdrained land
is infected with the intermittent fever and
the other malarial pestilences to such an
extent as to destroy many thousands of
people every year; so that, in spite of
constant immigration, extensive tracts of
country are about as sparsely peopled as
they were when Pocahontas saved the life
of John Smith.-Dr. Joseph Wilson, Ned.
Dir. u. s. Macy.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Soaking Seeds.

When one sOws wheat or corn, the
seeds terminate so soon after sowing that
no previous preparation is required to &C
celerate the process. But in those which
take few weeks time much is gained
by soaking them.
All seeds require to absorb certain
amount of moisture before they can grow ;
hence if soaked in cold water before SOW
ing this much is gained, and the plants
are ready to terminate at once on being
put into the ground. The harder the out
side shell of the seed the more useful is
the cold water soaking process. Very
hard seeds, like peach stones and cherry
stones, are often put in cold water by
nurserymen for week before sowing
Many tree seeds require some time to
soak, and thus have to be put in the
ground in the fall of the year. If not
sown till the spring, after the ground
dries, it is no uncommon thing for the
seed to lie in the ground all the summer
and the next winter, and not grow before
the following spring. Apple seed and
pear seed often do this; hence they are
sown in the fall, or else soaked some
time in water before sowing. Even when
sown in fall, if dry when put in, it often
results that they do not grow. Generally
this is when frost Immediately follows the
sowing, in which case the seeds stay
frozen all spring, that is, "frozen in.
and thus they are unable to get that soak
ing moisture which they require. Sim
gularly enough it has been an idea with
some people that it is the frost which
helps seeds; and people, in getting this
class of seeds in the spring, often inquire
if they have been frozen. It is the water,
not the frost, which helps them. Frost is
rather an injury than benefit to seeds.
That is to say, the moisture without the
frost is much better than the frost and
moisture both.
These hints about the value of water to
seeds may be of service to many of our
readers. Many have endeavored to get
still further benefited by soaking seeds in
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02

the inside base of the wall of the inclo-
sure are perforated cylindrical holes, in
diameter the size of the rats body, and in
depth equal to its length. AT break of
day, once q month, calathumplan
band" armed with drums, tin kettles,
and whatever else will make a horrid
noise, PUSHES in among the rats. Thus
charivaried" into mortal terror, the
poor rats poke their heads into the first
holes they find. Rat catchers, each
equipped with bag over the left shout
der, rush round and seize the rats by their
protruding tails, and whip them into the
bags with wonderful and dexterous celer-
ity. The privilege of catching the rats is
paid for, and the catchers make good
thing out of the sale of the fur, the skin
and the flesh. The fur is used, among
other purposes, for hats. The skins fur
nish thumbs for kid gloves. Fur and
skin are sometimes used together. But
the flesh? After such revelation the
customers at a cheap Paris restaurant
might say: In that savory dish what rats
may come "must give us pause!'
Rats, it will be seen, have thus reached
the dignity of articles of commerce in
Europe. In China, where rat soup is
delicacy, this small game has, perhaps
for centuries, been quoted at So dozen.
In the East India province of Scinde the
Commissioners, to abate the rat nuisance,
issued proclamation giving threepence
a dozen for rat tails. The catchers were
permitted to keep the carcass, no small
addition to their profits. The emigration
of rats and their multiplication are among
the curiosities of natural history. In
France they are computed to amount in
number, with other rodents, to over two
thousand millions, and their depredations,
if estimated at only one-fifth of an Amer
lean cent year to each rat, would amount
to nearly four millions of dollars annual
ly. The proprietor of slaughter house
near Paris has trapped and killed over
5000 rats in one month. In one night he
destroyed nearly 5000. These rat figures
are something appalling. They certainly
far exceed any American experience, and
it is to be earnestly hoped that they al
ways may.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Well Guarded.

P1TMAN's woodpile has suffered good
deal lately from the ravages of thieves, so
the old gentleman the other day loaded
his gun with coarse salt and expressed
his determination to lombard the first
man who should be observed to haunt the
timber. On Wednesday morning he had
to attend court, and as he did not expect
to reach home until late in the evening
Mrs. Pitman felt it her duty to keep an
eye upon the woodpile. But Pitman re-
turned about dusk, and as he walked up
the yard he thought he might as well
carry in enough wood to last all night.
He had just placed the fourth stick upon
his arm when an explosion occurred, and
the same instant he felt as if a million
red-hot darning needles were dancing IN
and down his legs. He had heard from
Mrs. Pitman. He yelled with pain, and
dropping the wood, most of it upon his
toes, he fell to the ground. Just as he
did so he saw Mrs. Pitman standing in
the kitchen doorway with his firearm at
parade rest" and contemplating her
victory and her victim with serenity. Pit.
mans first thought was that she had sud-
denly been animated by an insane but
judicious desire to realize upon his life
insurance policy. But when he screamed
to her she dropped her artillery and flew
to the scene with expressions of alarm and
grief at the discovery that she had per-
torated Pitman. She called the servant
girl, and as they carried him into the
house she explained that she mistook him
tor thief, and then she apologized. Pit
man said it was all very we'll to apologize,
but what good was that to man with two
quarts of salt and half a pound of gun
wads in his legs. Mrs. Pitman insisted
that he oughtn't to mind little salt, i,
would do him good. She urged that love
was better than anything else for preserv
ing meat, and that mis- legs would proba
bly, be alive and we'll and prancing around
the universe when the rest of him was
dead and spoiled. That made him mad
and after splitting up his gun with the
ak he went to bed, and he hasn't spoken
to Mrs. Pitman since; but he has limited
gloomily to the doctor that if divorce
can be had he will obtain one.-Maa
AdeZer.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD D.

Delicate Cake.-One and half cups
of sugar, half cup Of butter. Rub this
to a cream, add half cup of sweet milk,
in which dissolve half teaspoon of
soda, and two cups of -four in which one
teaspoon Of cream of tartar has been
rubbed. Add little salt. Flavor with
vanilla, lemon or nutmeg. Beat the
whites Of four eggs to froth and add last.
The successful effort of lady to
"break up" sitting hen is thus recorded
in Moore's R,ral: "Picking some splin-
tiers from the chip-yard (some four or five
inches long) she bound them firmly to the
hens legs, leaving only the hip Joints in
working order. Biddie was Outwitted.
Like the Dutchman's hen, she would have
to sit standing up"
"A distinguished French physician
suggests that the annoyance of hiring wet
nurses may be happily obviated by max
ing infants take their nourishment direct
from q cow without the intervention of a
bottle. The trif1ing inconvenience of
keeping COW in the nursery, if one has
an apartment four floors up, is, of course,
scarcely worthy of mention.
Pure Air.-That the quantity Of pure
air absolutely required by an adult is
ooouS OA0 PlAC a. otaCn 1uspu dIIOu, Ut
over fifty hogsheads every twenty-four
body may be kept in a state of health, is
proof sufficient that the impressible, sensi-
tive nature of children should also have
their rights most sacredly protected all
through their tender years. But how
many regard these rights as sacred?
The right way to sweep is to incline
the handle a little forward, then give a
light drawing stroke, allowing the broom
to scarcely touch the carpet. Not one
half the weight of the broom should be
allowed to press on the carpet as the
dirt is moved forward. Let the dirt be
moved and rolled lightly. If a generous
quantity of fairgrounds, small bits of wet
paper, or clean and wet sawdust can be
spread over the carpet before the sweep
ing is commenced, all the fine dirt will
adhere to the wet materials.
Snowflake Cake.-Take half cup
of butter, two cups of white sugar, four
cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk,
three eggs, one teaspoonful of cream Of
tartar, and one-half of that quantity of
sa'eratus. Stir butter and sugar together,
| add the beaten yolks of eggs and half the
flour with the cream of tartar in it; turn in
nearly all the milk, dissolve the saleratus
in what is left and add it. Beat the
whites of the eggs and mix in; stir in
the remainder Of the flour. Bake in
jelly-cake tins. Crate the meat of two
fresh cocoanuts after pairing off the outer
| skin; add to them one cup of sugar and
the beaten whites of two eggs. Spread
between the cakes, which should have
been baked in three pans. Heap the
cocoanut very high on the top Of the
uppermost cake and scatter sugared al
monds among it.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02

STATISTICS SHOW that of the thousands
who die annually large proportion are
destroys not by old age or by the natu-
raj exhaustion Of vitality, but through in
temperance, or disregard, either on the
part of the sufferer or his parents, of the
simplest laws Of nature. Such being the
case-and figures cannot 1nisrepresent facts
the conclusion is that, were the causes
of intemperance, its kindred vices, and
disregard of natural laws removed, the
average length of the human lifetime
would be extended proportionately. What
agent most rapidly, harmlessly and ce,'
tosnly will eradicate these vices, or the
tendency to them, is the question which
has been as thoroughly and persistently
agitated as has the search for the Philos-
opher's stone. The discovery has been
made by DR.. Joseph Walker, whose wide
Unknown VINEGAR B1rTERs are accom-
plishing wonders which the old-fogy doc
tors never dreamed of. Try them and
Judge oryourself, as thousands are doing
all over the country. 80 Q
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02

DON'T TAMPER WITH A CoLD.-Perhaps in
the whole category Of diseases to which hui
manity is susceptible, the cough is most neg
lected In It's early stage. A simple cough Is
generally regarded as q temporary affection
unpleasant, and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, it is the
diseases Consumption. A cough will lead to
consumption-if not checked-so sure as the
rivulet leads to the river, yet it is an easy
enemyto thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
Auen's Lung Balsam is the great cough remedy
OF the age, and it has earned its reputation by
merit alone. Sold by all good druggists.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02

A WONDERFUL 1NsT1TUT1oN-Thrty thou
sand sufferers from Deformity of the Spine,
Limbs and Face, Paralysis, Chronic Diseases,
Catarrh, Piles and Fistula have been success.
fully treated by the National Surgical Insti-
tute, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1t has Branch
at San francisco and Atlanta. By sending for
their journal full particulars can be obtained
On account of their long and extensive ex-
perlence they can cure cases cheaper than it
can be done elsewhere
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-02
Blue Sky and White Clouds.

The ethereal blue color of the sky is
due to minute particles of matter which
float in the air. Were these particles re-
moved the appearance of the sky would
be dead black. 1t is fact in optics that
exceedingly fine portions of matter dis
perse or scatter the blue rays of light,
coarser portions scatter red rays, still
coarser portions scatter all the rays, max
ing white light. An atmosphere is full
OF aqueous vapor the particles of which
ditfuse white light in all directions.
When these particles are enlarged they
become visible in the form of clouds. The
vapor particles of the white clouds are
supposed to be finer and lighter than
those of the dark clouds.
That the diffusion of light in our atmos
phere, the blue coloring of the sky and
the colors of the clouds are due to the
presence of matter floating in the air has
been conclusively proven by Tyndall. On
passing beam of sunlight through a
glass tube the beam is rendered brilliantly
visible by the reflection Of light from the
dust particles floating in the air contained
in the tube. But on removing the dust
particles, which is done by filtering the
air by cotton wool or causing the air to
pass over flame, the beam of light is no
longer visible in the tube. Scientific
american.