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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
How Our FOrefathers Lived.

A writer in the GALAXY has collected
quantity of curious information regard
ing the manner in which our forefathers
lived prior to The Revolution. In Boston,
1870 years ago, butchers meat averaged
two pence per pound. A underground
cod could be bought for the same sum.
A salmon, weighing from twelve to four
teen pounds, was sold for a shilling.
HOLSTERS, poultry and venison were
plenty and cheap. Pigeons brought
eighteen pence per dozen. In New York,
twenty years later, the price of beef was
fixed by law at four and one-half pence
per pound; that of pork and veal at q
penny more. Butter was fifteen pence
per pound, and bread four coppers per
loaf of one pound twelve ounces. Milk,
which was carried in cans suspended by
n yoke from mems shoulders, was six
cents per quart
In 1884 Franklin lived in Philadelphia,
on a vegetable diet, for eighteen pence
sterling week. Fruit was abundant
everywhere. The best of peaches were
three pence peck in New England; and
pigs were fed on the poorer qualities,
North and South There were cook
shops in Philadelphia as early rs 1897
where meats, pies, tarts and cakes were
to be had The delegates to the Con-
gress of 1774, which convened in the
Quaker City, were often treated to
sumptuous dinners by the wealthy citi
zens. Enumerated in one of the bills-of-
fare still existing to attest the luxury of
those early days we find curds and
creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various
sorts, twenty kinds of tarts, fools, tribes,
floating-islands, whipped syllabus, Par
mesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer,
etc, etc. No mean variety for the
lighter courses. The substantials of
these banquets included turtle, ducks,
chickens, ham, beef and pork. Choco-
late was more commonly used than
coffee Cider was three shillings ster-
ling in Massachusetts, and we may infer
the people drank it in preference to
Adams ale. Flip and toddy were also
popular beverages. The beer manufac-
tured in Philadelphia was of such prime
quality that it was preferred in Barba-
does, whittier it was exported to the
beer of England. Madeira was the IA
vorite wine all over the country, and
rum-punch was universally relished.
The teetotaller was an unknown being
only 100 years ago. and the Grand Jury
in Philadelphia, in 1914, declared that
liquor was sold in every tenth house in
the city. The same story might have
been told with equal truth of every other
citv In the proyincps
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

tically useful. Messengers employed in
conveying dispatches from the Bourse to
the Central Telegraph Bureau have
mounted the bicycle and received the
sobriquet of "yeloee-men." A company
is forming to place a large number OF
velocipedes on the streets for the use of
messengers travelling to all parts of the
city The Partisan journals are also en-
ploying the vehicle in obtaining quick
reports. During the trial of Marshal
Bazaine the Woniteur daily kept large
number of velocipedes running between
Paris and Versailles. The distance,
about twelve miles, was accomplished in
forty-five minutes-less time than the
ordinary trains consume. The carrier
pigeons, which the papers also used,
make the distance on clear days in thir-
teen minutes.
For fourteen years Spanish savant
has been studying the subject of the flow
of sap in growing vegetation. As the re-
suit of his Investigations he puts forth
the theory that there is the same ebb and
flow in the circulation of sap as in the
movement of the tides, and that the ac-
ton of the two corresponds perfectly in
point of time. In applying this theory
to practice the experimenter claims that
trees felled at low tide resist the decay
ing influences of time and weather for a
much greater time than do those cut dur
ing the flow of the tide. In pruning
trees at the ebb of the tide and of the
sap an equal advantage is claimed. In
applying the principle to orchards of the
olive, orange, lime and other fruits which
had fallen into decay it was found that,
by pruning them while the tide was out,
their health and fertility were restored.
1t is also asserted that trees so treated are
rendered exempt from the ravages of in
sects and disease. Experiments made
with different sets of silk-worms, respect
lively fed on leaves of trees treated by
the ordinary and by the new systematic
leaves under the new system being gath
cred exclusively at the hours correspond.
ing to the ebb tide-resulted most de-
cidedly in favor of the latter.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

The wood, however, of the stem will
consist of four distinct varieties, though
formed from one continuous layer Be-
low the almond wood and bark we shall
have perfect peach wood and bark, then
perfect apricot wood and bark, and at
the bottom perfect plum wood and bark
One day you will be pleased with a
friend, and the next day disappointed in
him. lit will be so to the end; and you
must make up your mind to it, and not
quarrel unless for very grave cause.
Your friend you have found out, is not
perfect. Nor are you; and you cannot
expect to get much more than you give
You must look for much weakness, fool
ishness, and vanity in human nature; it
Is unhappy if you are too sharp in seeing
them.-Country Pars0R.
In the training of little girl great
pains should be taken to discover what
gift Or talent she has, if any, and, what
ever her circumstances, to fit her for its
use. Even putting the money value of
such art or accomplishment out of the
question, its aid as resource and
strengthened is incalculable Disap-
pointment and grief come more easily TO
women than to men; they abide with
them longer, and sap more of their life
away, simply because they need the tonic
OF hard, enjoyable work-not the mere
drudgery of the bread.winner, but the
toll of the artist. Pride, philosophy, even
religion, cannot give the new vitality
which such work bestows on the faithful
votary. 1t repairs bodily and mental
forces like nature itself, slowly, upper
ceptibly, surely. The father and mother
who can find in their daughter such
power, and give to her the means of
using it, may count themselves happy,
and her the inheritor of royal heritage
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
Miscellaneous.

Scarcely week passes without the
record of some wonderful surgical opera
ton. Sally Brown was lately taken in
hand, had a broken knee and dislocated
rib taken out, and new ones put in, and
she is now as good as ever. 1t may not
injure the story much to add that Sally
is canal-boat.
The latest novelty in earrings is
probably the singular pair which were
sported by dashing Partisan belle at a
recent wedding. From each ear hung a
small gold gridiron on which was laid a
heart formed of garnets, the idea to be
conveyed being that of bleeding heart
upon the fiery Goals of love.
"A Boston lawyer, under the will of a
deceased wife, claimed life interest in
large estate in Kansas left by her, but
her friends sought TO break the will As
pertaining that under the laws Of Kan
sas he would have been heir to the estate
il no will had been made, he permitted
them to break the will, and then TO their
surprise and disgust, took possession OF
the estate.
If we view the human body 10 regard
TO its maladies and the season OF the
year, says an English observer, we shall
find that summer is divided from winter
by line drawn from somewhere by the
third button of the waistcoat. As the
mercury in the thermometer goes up our
ailments go down. In cold weather the
respiratory organs, in hot weather the
digestive organs, are severally the places
in which we go wrong.
There are many curious facts about
vegetable life. We can, for example,
graft the apricot on the plum, and the
peach on the apricot, and the almond On
the peach, and thus we may produce a
tree with plum roots and almond leaves.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
Foreign Gossip.

There has been a war On awning
posts in st. John, N. B. These posts dis
figuring the streets, their removal was
ordered by the authorities, but the man
date was not needed. On recent night,
while the owners were sleeping, uncon-
scious of passing events, band of city
scavengers laid low every offending post,
and probably much objurgation was
avoided by making the raid a midnight
one.
In the postmortem examination of a
man seventy-three years of age, Prof.
Klob, of Vienna, lately found all the
muscles of the body studded with thou
sands of trichin9, mostly calcified, but
some still alive. The man had died of
morasmus. He had not left Vienna for
ten years, but had previously spent some
time in Germany DIR. Klob believes
that the invasion of trichin9 must have
occurred at least fifteen or twenty years
ago.
AS though it hadn't enough on its
hands already the German Government
has undertaken to regulate dueling in
the army. Boards of honor are to be
formed, and without the sanction of such
a board and the presence of its President
no duel is hereafter to be fought. Off
GERS complying with these conditions are
to be exempt from criminal prosecution
for casualties occurring on the field of
honor, except in peculiarly fragrant cases
OF unprovoked insult. The old Emperor
is quoted in the London Times as saying:
will no more tolerate in the army an
officer who wantonly attacks the honor
OF comrade than an officer who does
not know how to guard his own honor. !"
The French depend chiefly for their
sugar on the beet-root. In manufactur-
ing the product there has hitherto been
large residuum, in the form of molasses,
which could not be recovered, and it
was so nauseous in consequence of its
vile smell as to be useless. NJ. Dubrar-
FAINT had lately discovered process by
which this molasses may be made TO
yield up all its saecharine matter. BY
adding hydrate of baryta to the mo-
lasses combination is formed between
II and the sweet principle, and an insolu-
bic substance called saccharateor sucrate
OF baryta is produced. This is cleansed
OF all extraneous matters and is left per
fectly colorless. Upon then being treated
with carbonic acid the baryta leaves the
sugar entirely free. This is now sub
Jected TO Qualification, whereby it becomes
perfectly white, extremely sweet and en-
tirely free from baryta. BY this process
there is a recovery of from 30 to 40 per
cent. of pure sugar from the originally
fetid molasses
The velocipede which suddenly burst
out with violence all over our country a
few years ago, and then as suddenly
totally subsidized, has been cultivated in
Paris, recently, with prospect that 1t
will be rendered permanently and prac-
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
Making a Few Remarks.

Mr.. Stone, a well Unknown and excellent
Christian gentleman, belonging to one OF
the Murray Hill! churches in New York
city, was up in the country in the sum-
mer, and learning that an evening prayer
meeting was in progress at the village
church walked in and took seat in the
back part of the room. The brother in
the chair conducting the meeting, observ-
ing the stranger, left his seat, and coming
to Mr. Stone said to him:
What is your nance"
My name is Stone"
Where are you FROM"
II am from the city of New York"
Are you one of the Lords people?"
81 hope that / am" answered Mr..
Stone, with becoming humility The pre-
siding genius, satisfied with the answers
to his catechism, returned to his elevated
seat, and at the end of the hymn arose
and said:
"Will Brother Stone, from New York,
avor US with few remarks?"
Mr.. Stone, willing to do what he could,
and having often been told by the New
York Observer to do In the country as he
would in the city, rose and made few
practical observations to the best of his
ability No sooner had he sat down than
the presiding elder rose and said:
"Will Brother Stone, of New York, ask
the Lord 10 bless his feeble remarks 2"
Undismayed by this commentary on
his speech, Mr.. Stone offered prayer aud
the meeting proceeded as usual
I" Iren9us," IN ". Y. Observer.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
A Kentucky Female Stock-DrOyer.

The advent of drovers at the East
Liberty Stock Yards is not generally
heralded with any extraordinary flourish
of trumpets, thoughthere Is consldera-
BILE believing at times when there Is an
arrival of stock. But when female
drover--a genuine female drover, or we
might call her UNDERESTIMATE her
appearance out there early last Monday
morning, riding on top of car with the
other drovers, you may imagine 1T caused
something of sensation. The ladys
name is Mrs. Margaret Magee, and she
halls from Cynthiana, Ky. She brought
along two carloads of cattle, and was
accompanied by her son, seventeen years
of age. She is rather good-looking,
robust in figure, and probably thirty-flve
or thirty-eight years Of age. She owns
400 acres of land in high state Of cul-
tivation in the blue-g region, and is
monarch OF all she surveys She raises
stock, and has shipped stock several
times before, but this is the first trip
she has gone into the business, and into
the caboose-car like the other drovers.
She is the widow Of drover who died
some time ago and left her TO shift for
herself, and she is doing it nobly. She
is treated with the greatest respect and
courtesy by the other drovers, and her
first trip among the jovial class OF drov-
ers exerted decidedly beneficial infiu
ence. Nothing was said in her presence
to which she could take exceptions, and,
her first reception being so cordial and
gentlemanly on the part of the drovers
and all others with whom she had occa-
sion to mingle, she will doubtless con
tinue to accompany her stock to the East
Liberty Yards in the future. There is
no use in singing "Who will care for
mother nowy" about such women as Mrs.
Magee.--Itttsburgh Leader.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

Jewish, and six miscellaneous, or about
one church for every 1,700 of the in
habitants.3
Youthful simplicity is beautiful, but
it may be exasperating. A Sunday-school
teacher, wishing his pupils to have a
clear idea of faith, illustrated it thus:
Here is an apple-you see it, and
therefore know that it is there; but
when place it under this teacup you
have faith that it is there, though you no
longer see it." The lads seemed to un-
derstand perfectly, and the next time
the teacher asked "What is faith?" they
answered, with one accord, IAN apple
under teacupr
The Baptists in Canada are trying to
coax English ministers to come among
them. But the inducements are not fiat
tering There are only six churches
which pay a salary of $1,000, the other
societies raising from $500 to $500 only
for their pastors. Rent is double what it
is in England, much clothing is required,
there are no servants, and ministers
wives have to make all the clothes for
the family and do all the homework
themselves. A majority of the churches
are supported by the Home Mission
Boards, and many are purely mission
fields. These facts are vouched for by
an English minister who spent several
years in Canada and knows by expert
ence what hardships Baptist minister
has to undergo there.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

ITO cure dyspepsia: Close all the
outer doors of four-story house, open
the inner DOORS and then take a long
switch and chase a cat up and down
stairs till she sweats.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

The best Of travelling dresses after
all is black silk 1t Is genteel to begin
with. and when you arrive at your desti-
nation you are not necessarily obliged 10
change your costume. There Is no real
satisfaction in any but q black silk.
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Speculation is set afire by il in thou
sand directions; and the more simple
and obvious the real reason for the cir
cumstance happens to be, the more
scornfuly it is secuted by alarmed and
puzzled, but also delighted, friends.
Scarcely anybody who is in the remOtest
degree associated with either OF the two
principal folks escapes the mitraileuse
shower of suggestions and suspicious,
whine the girl herself, though she be as
tender as Juliet, as wise as Portia, and
as hardly entreated as Ophelia, is sure
to be called all manner OF names by
those of her lady friends who always
did consider her sly, cohceited, and no
better than she should be. Look, on the
other hand at the opportunity such a
custom as that we mention would afford
to a manly young fellow to come forward
and say: at is with great regret find
nv circumstances not such as would
warrant my asking Miss Susan Smith to
forsake a comfortable home;" or, my
uncle having proved mean, Miss Jane
Herbert very properly refuses to
marry man who cannot earn II
halfpenny for himself;" or, "This
is to give notice that, as Miss
Clara b. Seeley and myself having found
after long acquaintance that our tastes
do not quite agree, we cancel our engage
ment, and prefer to remain friends, with
every sentiment of mutual esteem and
respect" And so on in thousand cases
in which the young lady would, as il
were, "leave the court without stain
on her charactes." At present what IL
the result of broken engagement wheI
the period of weeping and calling for 1
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-12
The Harbor Lights.
EY JOHN W. CHADWICK.

ij-t at the harbor9 mouth She stood:
Behind her was the beacon white,
" hich sends it. kindly warning forth
From evening shade till morning LIGHT
Nhuve her was the golden sun.
More golden >hone her tossing hair:
Inc oceans azure at her feet.
Mlth her blue eyes could not compare
ull sheer the lin wherein she stood.
and. though her eyes were DOWN. ard "a It
! still could row my boat an oar,
And sec ther glory IL passed.
Patiently there She watched her line,
Thai sank among The golden weed
w no would not be fish thought |,
By >uch sweet hand, if doomed to bleed.
Htct hands but browner than the rorL
hereon her pretty feet had place
mich broNner yet, laid hold OF it
" lth naked purity and grace.
tIio day | dared to speak 10 her
Nv hat have YOU caught to-day my dear
nothing but Just thought OF two:
More thoughts than fish come swimming
here
And haye YOU caught this thought, my dear
That | love you and you love me-"
| dared not speak the question out
dch JOY Is that might never be.
o every day pass her by,
Bat cannot bring my lips to say;
" My heart is caught upon Your hook,
And cannot tear itself away"
Why should ! speak? She would not lip
From on the rocks into my boat,
And lay AS thus foreverlnore
Let US together sit and float"
he would not loye--'ts not her time:
But naught that she can do OF say
an rob me Of my right divine
10 love and worship her AWAY.
81 maiden at the harbor's mouth!
BY day, With their di-tracting light.
your eyes wilFWreck more yenturous heart
Than ever beacon saved by night
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-12

THE SILENT MAN. The man who pos
sesses the power of maintaining silence in
seasons Of anger. danger, SANDER and
temptation. always Yields an influence
over his fellow men which the fluent dealer
III loud epithets can never command His
words are waited for. his gestures noted,
his countenance studied. He never con-
descends TO apologize, but lets new actions
explain the old ones. Are SANDERS circu-
lated about him. Do they even creep into
the columns of some careless or unscrupu-
lous sheet? He does not hasten to set
himself right before the people by card,
bnt simply lets them die, lives them down.
In times Ike the present, when political
bitterness gives birth to SO many unwar-
ranted statements, the man who has not
by nature or culture, this understanding
power has great need to acquire it, unless
he desires TO be kept bristling like a por
cupine, every quill sharpened 10 a pen
point, and constantly in the vain task Of
retuting SANDER Touch and pierce, =
is a foolish motto
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-12
Belfast Savings Bank.
NOW IS THE TIMETO DEPOSIT
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"

hEPOSITS made on or before the ls OF any
- month, will be placed upon interest every
month, except May and NOV embtr) and the interest
computed upon the sam" in June and December.
Deposits received daily al the Banking Room, from
9to Il A. NJ, and to L. VI. Saturdays from IL
II A. Nj.
John IL Quincy, Treas. ASA FAUNCE rrr,'t
i!tltAst, JulN Il. ls1n.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-12
The Babes in the Woods.
BY BRET HARTE.
Big Pine Flat, CtMl., 1871

B&V EtHc Fldt, CW., 1871.
something characteristic" Ell:
Hump. | reckon YOU mean by that,
something that happened in our way,
Here at the crossin' of Big Pine Flat.
illnes aren't now n they used to be,
When gold was flush and the boys We're iri>kv
And man would pull out his battery
lol any thing-may he the price 81 whisky
Nothing Of that sort Ell? That's strange,
Why. thought YOU might be diverted.
Hearing how Jones, OF Red Rock Range
Draw ing his Hint 10 the Unconyerled.
MA saving "Whar will you have et:" shot
Cherokee Bob at the last Debating.
What was the question: | forgot
But Jones didn't like Bob's way of stating.
Nothing OF the kind Ell? You mean
Something milder: Let's see-oh joe
Tell TO the stranger that little scene
Out OF the Babes III the Woous." You know ,
'BabeS was the name we gave 'em. sir.
Two lean lads in their teens. and greener
Than even the belt OF spruce and Fir
here they built their nests and each day
grew leaner.
No one knew where they came from. None
Cared 10 ask if they had mother.
Runaway school boys may be one
Tall and dark spruce; the otheI
Blue and gold in the eyes and hair,
~91t and low in his speech, but rarely
Talking with us; and we didn't care
10 get II their secret 1t ali unfairly
FOR they We're quiet, 50 sad and Shy,
Content To trust each other solely,
hat somehow we'd always shut one eye,
Aud never seem to observe them wholly.
y they passed 10 their work. HWaS Il W ru
out claim
And II paid them grub They could live with
out il,
tul the boys had way Of leay ng game
In their tent and forgetting all about ii.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-12

unloadcd aud left on The piazza to bis Office,
where obey remained for Il long time, to
the great amusement OF all passers by.
They were in exact compliance with the
contract, although the baskets as made
did not cost five dollars Montpelier
Argus
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-12

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Sore Throat, Pains or Sore
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Cough, and leave the cause
behind, rs is the case with
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thus removing the cause OF
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