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Eggs by Weight.
From the Flint Mich Globe

rum lnt fHut tAlCD.) tlODt.
The Legislature of Massachusetts has
lately passed law making it necessary
that dozen eggs weigh one and a half
pounds. This is a move in the right
direction, and we hope that all the
other States may speedily follow the
good example set by Massachusetts,.
1t is annoying to the breeder Of blooded
and fine fowls to find, when he offers for
sale eggs nearly twice as large as his
neighbors, that they bring no more per
dozen than the smaller ones. Also, the
consumer is often vexed to find that he
must pay the same price to-day for a
dozen eggs weighing but a pound that
be yesterday paid for pound and a
half. Besides, an egg from a well fed
fowl IS richer and heavier than an egg
from a common fowl that is only half
fed, SO weight compared to size is a
combination of richness. Thus, eggs
of which eight will weigh a pound are
better and richer than those OF compar-
atively the same size of which ten are
required for pound. OF course, with
eggs at three or four cents a dozen :
and the writer of this has seen hundreds
of dozens sold at these figrres-it is
not much matter as to the size but
when the prices range from twenty five
to sixty cents per dozen, it IS a matter
worth looking after. 1t is high time
that this old style of selling and buying
poultry and eggs by the piece should
be discontinued. 1t is "a relic of the
past, and reminds us of the time when
dressed hogs sold 70, one dollar each.
without regafl to size or condition. and
were a dull sale at that Insist upon it,
then, you who have to buy eggs f01
consumption; insist upon it, all We rich
and poor, high and low, that eggs be
soldfor SO much pound Then it Will
be some inducement for farmers to
raise better class Of fowls, afll al will
get their just dues. Then the enter
prising breeder and poultry fancier will
receive the reward of his efforts to fur
nish market fowl of good size and of
such a degree of fairness that it shall be
eatable, and the breeder of poor, half
starved specimens will no longer be his
successful rival.
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The BaObab

The baObab is a plant of monstrous
size, the most colossal and the most
ancient vegetable monument on earth.
has round, woolly leaves. which consist
of from three to seven leaflets radiat-
ing from common centre, and giving
them somewhat the appearance of a
hand, and magnificent white flower.
1t Is an enormous tree, holding among
plants the place that the elephant holds
among animals hoary witness of the
last changes which the earth has under
gone, and deluges that have buried be
meath their waves the productions of
early ages. Several baobabs that have
been measured were found to be
from seventy to seventy-seven feet In
circumference. From It's branches
hang, at times, colossal nets, three feet
i'll length, and resembling large oval
baskets open at the bottom, and looking
from the distance like SO many signal
flags.
1t would take fifteen men with their
arms extended to embrace the trunk of
one OF these great trees, which, in the
countries through which the Senegal
flows, are venerated as sacred monu-
ments. Enormous branches are given
off from the central stem few feet
from the ground and spread out hori-
zontally, giving the tree a diameter Of
over one hundred feet. g Each of
these branches says Mr.. Danton,
would be monster tree elsewhere, and,
taken together, they seem to make up
a forest rather than tree.
1t is only at the age of eight hundred
years that the baobabs attain their full
size, and then cease to grow
The fruit of this tree is oblong the
color of the shell passes in ripening
from green to yellow and brown The
fruit is called monkey bread it CON
tains a spongy substance, paler than
chocolate, and filled with abundant
juice.
The bark is ashy grey in color, and
almost an inch in thickness. The
negroes of the Senegal grind it down to
powder and in this state they use it to
season their food, and to maintain a
moderately free perspiration, which
enables them the more easily to with
stand the heat. 1t serves also as an
antidote for certain fevers The Won
der8 of Vegetation.
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The West.

VERY cold weather in the hills of Oregon at
last accounts The snow was five feet deep,
cattle were dying in all directions, and typhoid
fever is prevailing among the settlers to All
alarming extent.
THE elevator cases, at Cresco, Ia. against
Beedle & Slice, brought for wheat destroyed by
fire in their elevator, was decided against the
elevator, who will appeal to the supreme court
where the question will be passed upon. Fiji
teen thousand dollars are involved.
T. T. WYCKoFF, Secretary of State, of OHIO,
has been acquitted of the charge of fraud III
purchasing stationery for the constitut iona
convention, by tho committee of the le6lsla-
ture
The directors of tho North Wisconsin Rail
way have decided to accept the St Croix land
grant, recently conferred on that company by
the WISCONSIN legislature. They have assru-
ances of all the capital necessary to build the
road from Hudson to bayfield,, and az soon as
a few minor details between stockholders are
arranged the security demanded 10y the state
will Ice Deposited and the work commenced.
The Michigan legislature has extended the
tim of the completion of the Marquette and
Macllinaw Railroad till December 81, 1877.
The Union Pacific Express brought four tons
of bullion to Omaha, Thursday.
Two colored men were hanged at Sumter,
and one white man at Abbyville, S. c., on
March u, for murder. Several other murder
ers are to be hung in the state in few weeks.
Gov KEMPER, of Virginia, has sent mess
age to the Legislature recognizing the validity
of the state debt, but stating that the utmost
resources of the state are unequal to meeting
it. and recommending an arrangement with
creditors for the payment of two-thIrds of the
interest in cash, with certificates for deferred
MT
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April.


Nurallng OF Mother Nature Just because
Ihou art a tender babe whose ready tears
with reader smiles and ever present fears
And transient hopes are true unto the laws
mat circle babyhoo affection draws
our souls to watch the promise that appears
III thy soft tints and gently rounding spheres
VI Fltai loyousness; and thus we pause,
Delighted with thy game of hide and seek.
bogulsh thou lift st a rufiied pinafOre
VI clouds, TO veil the quick returning store
u deWy sunshine, till bright colors sperk
a conscious ecstacy IN neeping flowers,
Held as trophies of the sun and showers.
-LippiHcot'S Maqazin,
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The z asst.

NUMBER 81 %cntl. men, really and Jealous
Il m earnest IN an ,aort to restore the prac-
uee of burning the dead instead OF burying
shcm, have called meeting to bc held at New
1o,} in 4 short time
dos. WI, oEroN, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, has sailed for
Europe under advice Of his physicians.
IHE captain Of the ship rrimountaine. who
SERVED here few days ago. was presented to-
day with a magnificent SET of silver plate. by
resident survivors of the Vile du Havre dis
ten.
PLArr 4 BOYD whose books were seized by
JAYNE July 10Th last, have begun suit to re-
cover $4,000 damages. for trespass. Other
sai similar suits against Jayne are threatened
Tus works Of the Plants Manufacturing
Company il soushington Conn. we're burned
on March "a One of the buildings was occu-
red as d depot Of the New Haven and North
symptom Railroad Nothing was saved from
tie depot except the books. The total loss
VII reach about SO 0)0 insurance $50. geo
! FIRE. originating in underbrush near Bris-
low. or the South Side Railroad, Long Island,
swept through the timber seven miles to Farm
iasJiale, destroying cordwood, fences. and cat
tie. valued 1t s15oo zoo.
THE eastern extension of the Allegheny |
Valley Railroad IS completed. connecting the |
road with the Philadelphia and Erie.
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Sonnet.
BY c. r. BATHS.


asIe II i rum that can make me weep,
Nor only that, but inly tremble too:
Not death itself can move an awe so deep
As that which lately thrilled my spirit through
To see the temple sinking to decay
wherein a soul was beaueously shrined,
Could hardly touch to plying tears to-day,
For have seen the ruin of a mind
Yet now, with harmony of order lost
lts nun proportions oyerawe the eye:
The shattered arch reveals the grandeur most
Like the Colossus of the Flayii;
Ahu GOD be thanked that hope, like some green
thing,
Out OF the ruins clefts doth slyward spring.
-LippincotfS Magazine.
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Eoreign.

/ TnE financial panic III Havana. due to the
Initiation of the currency, Is increasing The
premium on gold and exchange is advancing
/ hourly. Tie latest known gold quotation was
250
TIT remains of DR.. Livingstone left Alden
on the 23d inst, III the mail steamer MaIeva
for England They are encased III lead coffin
| and preserved III salt. The body was fully
recognized at Zanzibar.
THE Great Eastern viii start i'll August to
lay the Portuguese cable from St Vincent
Cape Verde Islands, to Pernambuco, Brazil
Tim returning Highlanders from the Asian
tee expedition were greeted by a delegation of
10000 people on their arrival at Portsmouth
England
THE Garllsts are throwing incendiary shells
into Bilboa with terrible effect Whole streets
are reported to be in flames. \ recent engage
mept before the city resulted in the occupation
by the besiegers of Abba, suburb on the left
bank of the Ncryionc.
MADRID Journals report the suspension of
further shipments of Carlist prisoners to Cuba.
and that an order has been issued for the re-
turn OF number Of prisoners to Spain by the
next steamer, for the purpose of being ex-
changed
4 pEPUrATIoN of royalists will soon visit the
Count de Chambord- and make last effort to
effect a restoration of the monarchy.
THE Spanish government contemplates the
promotion of Gen. Burriel to the rank of Field
Marshal for the eminent service rendered in
Cuba.
GrNERAL BUEnrEL, by whose orders the yir-
ginius prisoners were shot. Is to be promoted
to the rank of Field Marshal
THE French authorities have conducted the /
Cure of Santa Cruz TO the Spanish frontier.
KING VICTOR EMANUEL. ON March 23d. receiv /
ed some 5000 persons from all parts of the .
who came to congratulate him on
he twenty -1ifth anniversary of his accession
'iSnor Niscont, Minister OF Foreign Affairs.
presented to His Majesty an address from
American and English residents.
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w GShsnSton,

The committee on elections has flushed the
examination Of the case of pinchback against
Sheridan, for a seat from Louisiana. The rec
ord of evidence on which both claimants rest
their respective cases has not enabled the COM
mlttec to decide between them.
THE House Appropriation Committee have
agreed to recommend an appropriation of SIS
600 10 carry on the work of propagating food
for fishes. Prof. Baird who has had charge of
this work. appeared before the committee to-
day, and made an argument i'll favor of the
appropriation.
y PETITION has been sent to Congress, head
ed by Peter Cooper and signed by number of
the prominent business men OF New York.
urging an appropriation for the Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition,
The President nominated David Reed for
United States Attorney for the western district
OF Pennsylvania; Fred. Baggs, Collector of
the Internal Revenue for the Sixth District of
Indiana; Fred. II. Schenck. of Indiana, Con-
sui at Barcelona; Elijah Easton, Postmaster
at Owatonna Mimi.
TIE Senate confirmed the following nomjna-
tons: Thomas b. Van buren,. of New JERSEY,
Consul at hanagwa; Edward F. Dunno. Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona
IHE notorious fihbCster steamer Edgar
Stewart has been seized at Baltimore. by order
OF the government authorities at Washington.
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School Children Saving Money.

There is a very good system of school
savings bank in Client, which might be
initiated here to advantage. The school
master receives and records small sums
from his pupils, and when these say
ings in the case of any one pupil amount
to frame, he deposits them in the say
ings bank and hands over the receipt.
Next day the certificate is returned to
the schoolmaster, who keeps it, III order
that the investment of subsequent say
lngs may be recorded upon 1t. In SIX
years the school children of Client have
deposited, under this simple organiza-
ton, sums of mon ey to the amount OF
500, 047.
ii in, tyxantv-tnI1r-
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You've man, you had better be honest
than cunning, and it is hard work to be
both.
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senate.
FRIDAY, March 2S.-Bills TO relieve

RIDAI, MARCH, 2S..B1IIs 70 relieve
from political disabilities Thomas Hardeman, of
Georgia, and William L. Calell, Of Texas, were
taken up and passed.-The consideration of the
bill to provide for the redemption and reissue of
United States notes. and for free banking was then
resumed, the pending question being the amend
ment of Morrill,, Of Vermont, to the first lection of
the bill. prohibiting the of any portion of the
siu0,o@,0O0 authorized 10y that section as demand
Cd by Wright, for the purchase Of bonds of the
the Senate adjourned
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-04-04

CALIFORNIA delights in twenty-tou'
ounce lemons.
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number OF private bills were reported from
committee and referred to committee of the whole
The Senate bill removing the political disable
tiles OF William L. CBbnll OF Texas, was taken
from the Speakers table aud paHsed.-Thc House
then resumed the COnside OF the hin to amend
the several acts providing Tor the distribution Of
national currency and to establish free banking
M lot sD
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House.

Messrs O'Neill and Myers attempted to make
personal explanations but We're overrued by the
Speaker.--The Georgia contested election case
came up and Sloan the contestant, declared en-
titled to the seat occupied by Rawls. by vote of
135 to IA memorial from the Workingmens
Committee of New York i'll favor of the eight-hour
law and for the removal of the Supervising Aren't
tect of the Treasury, reCeiyed-The bill to
regulate interstate railroad commerce then came up
and occupied the remainder of the day.
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senate.

WEDNESDAY, March 25.-The usual
number of memorials was presented-The House
bill authorizing the Secretary Of the Interor use
certain uneXpended balances for the removal of the
hlckapoo and other Indians TO the Indian Territory
was passed.-Ihe bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Interior to funds from the sale lands for
the benefit Of the Usage Indians was indefinitely
postponed.-At the expiration Of the morning
hour the bill TO provide for tho redemption and re
issue of United States notes and for free banking
again came up, and occupied the remainder of the
session.
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TUESDAY. March 24.-No business OF

importance transacted during the morning
hour, at the expiration of which the bill to equalize
the distribution of the currency laid over. and
the financial bill introduced 10y Mr., Sherman
taken up. Mr.. Sherman explained the provisions
of the new bill.---Mr Thurman made somewhat
lengthy personal explanation, after which the Sen
ate went into executive session and adjourned
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House

The House took up the bill to regulate Interstate
railroad commerce, which occupied the entire day.
a final vote was not reached.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-08

have already secured. A short life and
q merry one seams to be the sum Of theiI
philosophy.
If the Administration leaders have de.
monstrated their un6tness and lack OF
comprehension of public sentiment in the
past two or three years, much more are
they to whom the people turned in des-
pair for some sort of change demonstrat.
ing their inability to govern wisely and
their lack of capacity to learn anything
from the lessons of experience. The par
ty of the Administration suffers from bad
leadership, the opposition from having no
leaders. Many honest and patriotic Re.
publicans believe it is impossible and
practicable to reform their party from
to turn out its Buffers and Car
and Camerons, its spies and in
formers, carpet-baggers and plumbers, and
give the country honest administration.
opportunity TO begin the work is of.
cred in the coming CongressionaI eleciious.
Democratic experiment does not
'rounise success. Will the Republicans
ICED the lesson of the hour and seize its
pportunity Tribune.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-08

is this gulf fixed, the man allows reason
and conscience to restrain, sometimes,
from wrong; and the other, nerer. Shall
we say, then, that, though reason, to some
extent. was given to inferior animals, it
was given for ends purely social and moral 2
yet this is ever seen to be the reason why
it was given to nan
Add this one thought mcre.-That mu-
sic. produced by the harp, gives that harp
no character. The defective music no one
morally faults. But is it thus with man =?
Is it not by mans phenomena that he is
judged? Who held Snow innocent ? BY
his phenomena all, but a deceiviDg adyo.
cate. held him guilty. Had Mr.. Cutting
died by the foot of Harris, instead Of the
foot of his horse s0ouM society hare held
Harris 10 no account? But do they, the
beasts? Why not, if mental powers we're
given to the inferior animals, for the same
reason they we're given to mau?
Thus does every thing, in true and en-
larged philosophy, and everything in COM
mon life, show, that, whatever relation
the brain s~usiains to human actions, il
does not divest them of moral and respo1-
sible character; and, therefore, does not
them to the necessity Of nature"
Where Psychologists are men of liberal
they will see the limits of their
And will suppress utterances OF
.aterialism ever %ruinous to the morals of
the unthinkiug.
1t was said by Prof T. that Prof. l..
would believe nothing unless he could nut
las knife into 1t. So we hear, from tim.
% time, of practitioners freely insisting,
n the presence of the young, that there as
10 conscious hereafter. Has such a senti.
nent anything to do with public crimes2
ID.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-08

The French complications were given
yet another turn, Friday. The count
DC Chauibord has at length broken his
long silence. and comes out in a manifesto
boldly proclaiming his right to the throne
aud his determination to get it if he can.
lie seizes a seeming opportune moment
when the B%onapartists are sorely in disfa-
vor, through the poorly planned and badly
carried out attack upon Gambetta, and
when the committee Of 80 rejected the
constitutional bill for prolongiug the re.
public under Mcmahon. We don't imap-
Inc he'll ever feel the weight of tie crown
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-08

Congress has left the Civil Rights
Bill on the table, whence it may or may
not be taken next session. Civil Service
Reform was killed by a refusal to make
any new appropriations for its support.
A bill of a rather mild form was passed
at the last moment with the protested in
tent Of making hard the way of Mormon
polygamists. Originally this was rather
strict in its provisions, but it has been so
amended that its effect will be merely to
facilitate legal procedure in the territorial
courts. So damnatory were the r~evela.
tons regarding the District of Columbia
Government that it is wholly abolished. The
President is authorized to appoint three
Commissioners ad interim, while a Con.
gressional Committee is appointed to ad-
wise a new scheme of government. The
President Enthusiastically hit upon the
one man of all others, namely, Gov. Shep.
ard, whom the Senate would, under the
circumstances, be bound to reject. Out
or AZ Senators present only six voted for
Quite a number refused to
vote. The President at once sent in the
Of ex-senator Cattell, Of New Jer-
sey. who was promptly confirmed. The
Geneva Award Bill, as finally agreed up
on by the Conference Committee, and
passed by both Houses. provides for the
appointment by the President of five
Commissioners, subject to confirmation by
he Senate. These will constitute q court
which shall sit in Washington, and pro.
'ounce upon claims resulting from the ,
lets of the alabama, Horida, ard Shen. ;
lndoah, with certain Limitations. 1t is :
understood that this will dispose Of about +,
hree millions Of the award. Tho distri. /
'ution of the remainder is left for future =
eglslation, but, provided the President -
elects a good commissission, it is well
hat a definite beginning has been made. 1t
he fact that a commission has actually 81
cen created will probably lead to a SINH Il
disposition Of the rest of this trouble. I
question. r
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I'm substance the new finance till j
as follows: lst. The Currency Act o
1874 shall hearafter be known as Nation
al Bank Act. Cd. The banks need nc
longer keep On hand "any amount ofmon'
cy whatever" on account Of circulation,
but the % per cent. in redemption cities,
and the Is per cent. elsewhere shall be
estimated on deposits. Sd. Each ma.
tional bank shall keep in the treasury a
legal tender reserve of 5 per cent. on its
circulation, this to be counted as a part of
its lawful reserve as before provided, and
the U. S, treasurer shall redeem in legal
tenders. bank notes, sorted or uusorted,
when presented in sums of $1,000, or its
multiple. lie shall charge notes redeem.
cd to the banks. and on the first of each
month shall notify them, and whenever
notes a~gragatiug $500 have been redeem.
ed for any bank, such hank shall deposit
with him the like amount of legal.tenders.
Redemption agencies are wholly done
away with by a provision that the banks
shall pay for sorting and redemption, and
banks can redeem only at their own coun-
tiers. 4th. Any bank may withdraw any
or all of its notes, by dcpositing legal
tenders in sums of not less than 1000
with the treasurer; the notes so taken up
shall be destroyed, and the bonds for them
shall be returned. 9th. The charter
number of each bank shall be stamped by
the comptroller on all notes hereafter is.
sued by him. 9th. 1.-THE amount of
United States notes outstanding, and to
be issued as a part Of the. circulating me.
dium, shall not exceed the sum of 1882.
900, 600. which said sum shall appear in {
each monthly statement of the public Q
debt, and no part thereof be held or used c
as a reserve" 7th. No circulation shall G
be withdrawn until the remaining s54,. c
OOO, 900 have been taken up. The comp. '
troller Is instead required to withdraw q
circulation from banks in States having an S
excess, as application is made by new {
banks, S54, 900, 900. 9Th. Tho comn. n
t%rollercr shall issue new circulation upon D
application, to such banks as have not re. a
ceived their share, to the amount of S54,. c
OO0, 900, of this not more than $50. 000,- IL
BOO shall be Withdrawn and redlstributed w
before June 30th, 1875. n