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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05
$Dot vas me himself.

WATCH Your CARPETs-A NEW PEsT.-The
Rochester IN. " Union and advertiser of
late date says: considerable outcry is being
made in neighboring villages concerning the
ravages OF new pest that has lately arisen,
namely, the carpet bug. These bugs are de-
scrlbed as being about twice the size af the
ereu WIN mar. fnerr curUr Is a rhaGut 66ratk.
The first time these bugs were heard from in
this section was at Dansville last year, where
they did considerable damage. This year they
have increased and extended their territory, for
it seems that they have become a source Of ex-
treme annoyance in Brockport. A lady who
resides il that village informed reporter Of
this paper yesterday that there is not single
house that has escaped their depredations. In
her house, she said, every room was infested
with them, AMI they had eaten large holes in
every carpet in the house. Their favorile mode OF
procedure is to follow the seam of the boards and
cut their way clear through. In some instances
the carpet has been eaten through clean that
it looks as if it had been cut with very sharp
knife. In other rooms they had eaten large
patches out of it, generally picking out the CEN
ire of breadth. The lady referred to says she
has tried everything to get rid of them, but
without avail. Tobacco seems to make them
livelier, and for bug poison, they regard
it as luxury, and grow fat OF it. We have not
yet heard of them making their appearance
this city, although, being so close to US, it
would be reasonable to Xpect a visit from them
at any time. In the meanwhile, perhaps some
of our scientific r1en will have a remedy prepar-
ed for Them"
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Embatnlipg lnaOng the Egyptians.

The Egyptians, however, carried their pro-
cess to perfection by introducing antiseptics in
to the vacated interiors of their dead, thus en-
balming in their catacombs, it is estimated, not
less than 400,000,000 persons. Herodotus and
Dodorus Slculus, especially the former, have
minutely planned the method CT preservation,
and from them we learn that it was regular
trade. The embalmers removed the brain and
the intestnes, supplying the emptiness with
myrrh cassia, and other spices, and then placed
the body in natron for seventy days. Subse-
quently it was carefully laved and wrapped
with bandages of fine linen smeared with gum,
and put in wooden case shaped after the hu
man figure. There were other modes of en-
balming less expensive, the rate varying from
$500 to $400 in our currency, which was so
much money in those days that we can not see
how Egyptians of the ordinary class could pos
sibly afford to die. They doubtless lived long
er than they would have done otherwise, prompt
ed by prudent economy to avoid the extrava-
gance of burial as long possible.
The cheapest way of embalming, adopted by
the poor was to free the abdomen of the intes-
tines by means of clyster-commonly the oil
of the cedar tree-and let the body lie in ma
tron until the flesh was impregnated. Recent
investigations indicate that heat must have been
applied to the corpses after they had been filed
with some bituminous substance, and creosote
generated and diffused through all the tissues.
The reason that heat was not mentioned by the
authorities is supposed to be their desire to keep
the process secret, and enhance the dignity and
mystery of the art.
Embalming is still employed. The means
adopted by Chaussier and others have been to
eviscerate the body and keep it constantly sat
urated with protochloride of mercury. The
salt, combining with the flesh, not only gives
it firmness, but renders it incorruptible either
by internal or external agencies. The injection
into the veins of concentrated solution of sui
phate of alumnia, or of chloride of mercury
and wood vinegar, or of sulphate of zinc, has
been found very effective not only for anato-
mcal purposes, but also for embalming
We emight attain to the preservative excellence
of the Egyptians were we so minded; but as
embalming, except for temporary convenience,
is not deemed desirable with us, and forms no
part of our theological system, we have no am
| btion to rival them in mummifcation. Our
sepulchral vanity manifests itself in grandilo-
quent epitaphs and sculptured monuments, in
stead of its desiccated carcasses and igmental
of DEATH The aesthetic element alone would
prevent us from initiating the dwellers on the
Nile, who made death more hideous to the eye
than it could be to the supremest superstition.
--JuniuS Henri Browne, IN HarperS Magazine
| for September
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

DEATH OF 1873 YEAR OLD CoLoEED MAN.
Samuel Jones (colored) died near Turleytown,
in this (Rockingham) county. recently, at the
advanced age of 1873 years. The fact OF his age
is we'll established, and he was probably the
oldest human being living He was not gen.
uine African, and it is supposed he had mix
ture of Indian blood in his veins. He remem
bered many historical events happening long
prior to 1900, and was said to have been man
of considerable intelligence.-Od Common
wealth, Va.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

In the decade from 1864 to 1874 the num-
Der of letters transmitted by the United States
mails has increased from 335, 5000, 600 in 1864 to
9OO,00O,OO0 in 1874-a greater increase than
has ever taken place in any country during the
same length of time. In the first fl We years of
the decade the rate of increase was so per cent,
ald for the last five years it so per cent
The cost of handling 5O2 900 letters in 1864
was S23 ,69S 900, and the cost of 100000 for
the year ending June 80, 1874, was about 1884,
1000. This shows that an increase of 80 per
c3nt in the amount of business has increased
the expenditures of the Department Al per cent
In 1865 the annual deficit was $6,437 ,O00 in
1873 it was Sc, $50 ,00G.
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1ess-Tba original Arkansas traveller is dea

MS-The original Arkansas traveller is dead.
His name was s. 9. Faulkner, and he was born
in Scott county, Kentucky, in 1903. During
the election campaign of 1910, Ashley, Sewer,
Fulton, and Yell were on the stump in Arkan
sas, and being in company with Faulkner,
they stopped at log cabin in the Boston Noun
tains, when Faulkner, by his skill with the
violin, induced the owner to give the five
nights lodging. Faulkner, upon his return to
Little Rock, related his experience in the noun
tlins, which created much amusement, and he
com posed the tune and story OF the "Arkansas
Traveller" He was colonel in the Con tcder
a te service, and won some prominence. His
age was seventy two.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

@a~A married lady, who was in the habit of
spending most of her time in the society of her
neighbors, happened to be taken i'll. and sent
her husband in great haste for physician
The husband ran short distance, and then re-
turned, exclaiming, "My dear, where shall l
end YOU when | come back? y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

HANDSOME MARRIAGE PoRTIoN.-There was
recorded at the New York registers office late
ly marriage settlement made by Leonard o.
Jerome and wife in favor Of their daughter Jen
ME- who is about to marry Lord Randolph
Henry Spencer Churchill, son of the Marquis
of Blandford. Thomas NJ. Foote, of New York,
and George Charles Spences Churchill, Marquis
of Blandford, are made trustees, to receive an
annuity of $4,000 in gold. A portion of Sl25,-
900 is allotted to Lord Churchill, in case of the
death of his wife leaving no issue surviving,
and further allotment of $25O,OO0 is made
for the issue of this marriage in case Of the
death of both of the parties thereto. The prop
erty known as the Union League Club House is
the security for this settlement.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

@-Popular juvenile conversation; First
boy-"Lemme see your tongue" Second boy
--"Lemme see yours" First boy-"There."-
Second boy-"Your mother only lets you have
one piece of huckleberry pie. Had the panic
down to your house. didn't your"
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y-" Papa, do you think Beech" "Hush.
Johnnie" 'But, papa, don't you think Beech"
"Didn't you hear me tell you to stop your noise,
sir ? wont have you talking about these things
Go in and get your face washed" And John
ME with tears in his eyes wants to know why
papa won't tell him whether beech nuts are
ripe.
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Der Baby.
So help me gracious efery day
/ laugh me wild to see der way
My small young baby drie do play
Dot funny little baby.

So help me gracious efery day
laugh me wild to see der way
My small young baby drie do play
Dot funny little baby.
When look of dhem little toes,
Und saw dat funny little nose,
Und heard der way dot rooster crows,
/ shmile like | vas crazy.
Und when heard de reel nice way
Diem peoples to my wife dhey say,
"More like his fathers efery day"
| vas so broud like bIazes.
Sometimes dnere come leetle schquall,
Dots when der windy Wind will crawl
Right in its leetle stchomack schmall,
Dots too bad for der baby.
Dot makes him sing at night so schveet,
I'm gorrybarric he must cad,
Und | must chumb shbry on my feet,
To help dot leetle baby.
He bulls my nose and kicks my hair,
Und grawls me Offer everywhere,
Tn shlobbers me-Yat / carer
Dat vas my small young baby.
Around my head dot leetle arm
Vas schquezin me SO nice und warm
Oh may dher never come some harm
To dat schmall leetle baby.
4Dot vas me himself
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3poefrp.
SCHOOL "CALLED.o
BY b. F. TAYLOR.

Don't you hear the children coming,
Coming into school2
Don't you hear the master drumming
On the window with his rule?
Master drumming, children coming
Into school2
Tip.toed figures reach the catch,
Tiny fingers click the latch;
Curly headed girls throng in
Lily-free from toll and sin.
Breezy boys bolt in together,
Bringing breaths OF winter weather.
Bringing baskets Indian checked,
Dinners in them sadly wrecked.
Ruddy' mittens off,
Soldiers rush from the Malakoff-
Built of snow and marble white,
Bastions shining in the light,
Marked with many dint and dot
Of the ice-cold cannon shotl
Hear the last assaultiDg shout!
See the gunners rally out
Charge upon the battered door,
School is called, and battle o'erl
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=, ejsh Aalcylniss.o a. ,, III
ed upon to preach, amongst others, at one Of
those periodical gatherings popular amongst
the Welsh, which are, as it were, teasts of ser
mons-two, three, or even four preachers sue
ceedng each other in the pulpit-perhaps in
Welsh or English alternately. The young man
" no Immediately preceded Sammy had taken
IS his text, "He that believeth not shall be
itmned," but begged pardon" of his audience
tr the strong language he was using. Sammy
ut up after him and read the same text
Brethren" said he, in his honest Welsh-Eng
lsh, "0ur young friend has been fiery foine, and
am not polite but will preach little bit
p! gospel to you, He that beleveth not shall
b, TANNED, and begs no pardons."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

TIE PLAGUE OF GRAssHoPPERs.-A private
letter written by a lady of Nemaha county,
Kansas, gives the following description Of the
grasshopper plague there:
'.It looks very sad and dreary to me to-day.
The sun is quite hidden by the clouds of grass
hoppers flying all around Il d alightng on
everything. They are peiting against my doors
and windows as fast as hallstones ever came.
can scarcely see through my screen door f..
them, and to look out as far as eye can sec,
looks like snow stprm-as they fly their wing
look white like fakes of snow in the air. They
destroy everything they alight on. They have
destroyed acres and acres of corn, and now they
are going in our corntield by clouds, aud will
destroy it all in day. E@ary shrub and tree
is covered with them. Ynu know we read OF
Pharaoh's plague, where the insects got into the
kneading troughs. ] think this is one of them.
went out by the door to tiY and drive them
off and they few all over me, and had to
change my dress to get rid Of them. Instead
of rain we are having showers Of grassboppcrs.
Our six windows are completely covered with
them, and as l write, they ere pouring down
the chimney and coming down The s'pYcpipe.
"Father has just come in. He caunot work
out doors, for they blind him and they are
coming faster, and are now eating the netting
off my door and windows, and the heat and close
air are sitting. | never saw anything so ter
riblo in my life. The ground is now complete
ly covered, and they cause such an offensive
smell that but for an occasional breeze to carry
it off, know not what we should do
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

N@-H Hair Cutter (who has been eating onions)
-"S'moil on your hair, sir?" Glowing tierceiy
down the customers neck) Customer -"Phew
what's that?" Hair rCutter-"S'moil, sir" Gus
tomer-"Then won't have any"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

&a-It was "daring Gweorge" when bridal
couple left Omaha it was ''dear George at
Chicago; at Detroit it was Georges" and when
they reached Niagara Falls it was "Say you.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

na-The custom of sending to friends cards
announcing births in a family is said to be in
creasing in New York.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-09-05

RE I A IL STORE E.
314 N. Howard St., Lear Richmond.
You will save money by buying your own
and your chlldrens Shoes direct
from the manufacturer.
Plain Extra
A sample of our prices: Finish. Finish.
Ladies' Fine Foxed But. Boots. $500 $3.50
Eng. Lasting 2.5O 300
" Lace - go. 200 2.25
Foxed Lace do. 225 2.5O
Kid French Goat But. do. 325 3.75
French Calf Morocco do. 2.25 2.75
Chlldreu's and Misses fine Button and School
Shoes in great variety; infants Turn Cacks,
all colors and qualities, from 30 cts. up. We
manufacture our shoes from the very best I'm
ported Stock, and have tie work done under
our own supervision, and can therefore guar
antee satisfaction Fit, Style and Durability,
not to be surpassed, II eQuated
K. FERGUSON,
Wholesale Manufactory, l12 Garden st.
RETAIL STORE, 3l4 N. Howard St., near
Richmond, Baltimore. (Jan. l0,'74-ly.
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RESTAURANT,
Corner Gay and Front Streets,
BALTIMORE.

rs MEALS At ALL HOURS. H9N
O x s II z r 8, G "A M Z,
and all delicacies of the market handsomely
served. Charges Moderate.
MILLER q MILLS,
Oct. Is, ,'73.-1y. Proprietors.
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Journal-Towsontown
Richmond Market Colat0,a.
FergusOn's Shoe Factory,
No. lI2 Garden streer.

RE 7 ALL STORE,
3l4 N. Howard ST. hear Richmond
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IN and after Monday. April nh, 1874.
ihe steamers ~ this llns viii leave Mill.
MAlkEE from ,ksls dock, q Nrst Water
street, tally ~ u. NJ. Saturdays 81.
cra.il mailing direct ranneriinhs a
GRAND MAVEN the followi,g morning
with Trains for U~irutt
ANO ALL POINTS EAST.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Carr ~ Night
Trains. Parior Cars On bay Train.
F"n $500 /,ess firm N,iuuni'ee
Man W st,.y other vunfs.
Through Tickets for sale u MI principal
iirhr, .m~cs In the Northwest. Alan !
COMPANY \ Once aDa l!realway, Mil~aut
krs, AMI On boarl steamers.
HARRY BRADFORD,
Ticket AEvnt. Milwaukee.
VI " WILSON,
Wrsa~rn rASs. Agent. Milwaukee.
1T. MOnDCOcK.
Agent GRECO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-25

were thus detained. for more than two
years a midnight prayer meeting was
sustained by them. So largely blessed
was this meeting, that it is said three
churches grew out of its influence
along the line of the road. Take a
cigar2'' said a passenger one evening
to pious brakeman Thank you,
said the brakeman, Il never smoke. ;"
Take a chew, then?'' Il don't chew.
"Well, then, take drink Never
drink, " was the reply. "What never
smoke, nor chew nor drink" replied
the man. quite astonished. What do
you do?' Il frequently pray, replied
the brakeman. 'Well-l-l," " said the
"this is the queerest rail
road | ever saw = Watchman aud Re
tlector.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-25
Work and Worry.

The mind often kills the body. This
is more frequently seen in men who
have heavy responsibilities in connec-
ton with a nervous temperament
such as meachants, railway managers,
superintendents of extensive manufac-
tories. Then there is another class of
cases in the occupation of men who
have a multitude Of perplexing and
intricate details to attend to; those
who are called on constantly to sup
press their emotions, almost habituallv
SO, as is often the case with women
also those which involve great and
sometimes violent vicissitudes these
are they who oftenest suffer from
broken down nervous system-making
life a burden, and in many cases so un-
endurable that relief Is sought in sui
eide, whose fate would often be regard
ed with sincerest commisseration if but
a thousandth part of the sorrow was
known under which the poor heart suf-
fered.
Many person reads with indiffer-
ence, if not with kind of contempt,
the details of suicide, or dismisses it,
from the mind most carelessly, as if to
say 'sOh, he was crazy; it s a good
radiance; better dead than alive
In almost every case of deliberate sui
eide it may be taken for granted that
life was crushed ont by some sorrow or
wounding, which broke the poor heart
that could no longer stand up against
It's grief
There are three remedies the first,
ana greatest, and best, are the consola
tions of religion; getting out Of the
one ruinous rut of thought embark
ing in some new enterprise, which COM
pels outdoor activities, which shall
insure pleasurabIe results.
-"There is floating idea in the
minds of most of us, that great perils
and great trials often work sort of
charmed change in our lives. This is
seldom more than a delusion. The
lessons of life, are, for the most part,
slowly learned. The page is often
carelessly turncd, aud hurrivdly passed
by, on which our great Father has
written much that he would fain have
US study with patient and prayerful
earnestness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-25
Making Others Miserable.

People who would faint to see eush
Of blood, and who think themselves
Christians, have lively enjoyment in
witnessing pain, and cultivate the art of
inHicting it. The mention of few of
the methods employed will make good
my remarks:
The delight with which many report
bad news, the eagerness with which
they report to people evil sayings which
cannot but lacerate the feelings, show
a morbid love of suffering. This is not
the trait of real kindness of DISPOSE
tion. 1t is not anomalous, because it
is SO widely extended as to seem nor
NAL
Some people scatter pain-producing
elements thoughtIessly, are are sur
prised and sorry when they witness the
suffering produced. Others do it for
momentary pleasure, without meaning
any serious results. But now and then
we find persons who love to torment a
victim. They enjoy another's suferings.
1t is their happiness to see some one
made keenly miserable by their lance
like tongue. They VIII smile, and
talk in low, sweet tones, and shoot out
quivering sentences, poison-tipped, and
cast look sideways to see ifthey strike,
and at every sign of pain their face
grows bright.
Those who in the main are striving to
make friends happy will have one
black thread in the web of white.
Those who really love each other have
strange fondness for stirring each
other up.
There is an innocent and even pleas
ure-producing method of rallying which
if deity and gracefully done heightens
the enjoyment of society. But life is
full Of the other sort. II fDarwin is right
in thinking that men assembled from
monads by gradual evolution, then it Is
very certain that some men came up by
the way of the mosquito. the flea and
the biting fly, and that their ancestral
traits still linger in the blood.--Hery
Hard Beecker.