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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

TREATMENT OF WoUNDs.-Every per-
son should know how to treat flesh
wound, because one is liable to be placed
in circumstances away from surgical and
veterinary aid, where he may save his
own life, the life of friend or of a
beast, simply by the exercise of a little
common sense. In the first place, close
the lips of the wound with the hand. and
hold them firmly together to check the
flow of blood until several stitches can
be taken and bandage applied. Then
bathe the wound for long time in cold
water. "Should it be painful" a cor.
respondent says, "take painful of burn
ing Goals and sprinkle upon them COM
mon brown sugar, and hold the wounded
part in the smoke. In a minute the
pain will be allayed, and recovery pro-
ceeds rapidly. In my case rusty nail
had made bad wound in my foot. The
pain and nervous irritation were severe.
This was all removed by holding it in
smoke for fifteen minutes, and was able
to resume my reading in comfort. We
have often recommended it to Others
with like result.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

CLEAN TEEH.-If you will only keep
your teeth clean they wont decay. The
wonderful dentrifices which are sold at
fabulous prices are greatly inferior to a
simple mixture of soap and prepared
chalk, and with little something like
orris root ; but the essential articles are
soap and chalk. The druggist will pre-
pare You enough for quarter Of dollar
to last long time. When you go to bed,
with a broad soft toothbrush. 90 through
the mouth thoroughly. IF disposed to
a bad mouth, you may repeat the dose in
the morning. But the principal article
for keeping the teeth clean is tooth
pick, soft goose quill, which you must
use after eating, no matter though it is
pice Of apple, and if convenient, after
the pick use mouthful OF water to rinse
from between the teeth what the tooth
pick may have left.-Dio LeaOis.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
Purity of Character. .

Over the outer coat of plum and ap.
ricot there grows bloom more beautiful
than the fruit itself-a soft, delicate
powder that overspreads its rich colors.
Now if you strike your hand over that,
and it is once gone, it is gone forever
it only appears once. The flower that
hangs in the morning impearled with
dew-arrayed with jeweis--once shake
it, SO that the beads roll off, and YOU
may sprinkle water over it as you please,
yet it can never be made again what it
was when the dew fell gently on it from
heaven.
On frosty morning you may see the
panes of glass covered with landscapes,
mountains, lakes and trees, blending in
to beautiful fantastic picture. Now
lay your hand upon the glass, and by
the scratch of your finger, or by the
warmth of the palm, all the delicate
tracery will be obliterated.
So there is in youth beauty and pu-
rity of character, which, when once
touched and defled, can never be re-
stored-a fringe more delicate than
frost-work, which, when torn and broken,
will never be repaired. When young
lad or girl leaves their parents house,
with the blessing of mothers tears
still wet upon the cheek, if early purity
of character be once lost, it is loss that
can never be made up again. Such is
the consequence of crime. It's effect can
not but be in some way felt, though by
Gods mercy it may be forgiven.-Early
Days.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

PREMATURE BURIAL-In the GENE.
teries of Maine, Frankfort, Munich, and
other German cities, the dead are ex-
posed for certain number OF days be-
fore interment, to guard against prema.
ture burial. The bodies lie in the cof-
fins, with the lids removed, in a large
dead house, wire attached to the ex
tremities of the corpse, and connected
with a bell, so that the least motion
would reveal animation. and bring aid
and succor at once. Certain medical
watchers are within call both day and
night, should the bell be rung, and thus
every possible assistance is secured to-
ward resuscitation.
Marvellous tales are told by the COM
mon people of sudden resuscitation and
premature burial, and these tales are
widely and firmly believed. They have
however, very little foundation, as it is
extremely rare, at least nowadays, that
persons prepared for the grave are not
actually dead. But still signs of death
are so fallacious that the custom adopted
by the Germans must be regarded as a
wise precaution. A celebrated anato-
mist, Winslow, had two such narrow es-
capes from ante-mortem sepulture that
he published a treatise on the subject,
expressing the opinion that iucipieut pa-
tretaction is the sole trustworthy symp-
tom of physical dissolution. | have
made diligent inquiry in Germany re-
specting cases of suspended animation,
and | have learned that not in a single
instance has body placed in the dead
house proved aught but corpse.-Har.
per's Magazine.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
Beautiful Incident of a Queen.

William ~. expired about midnight
at Windsor Palace. The Archbishop of
Canterbury, with other peers, and high
functionaries of the kingdom, were in
had departed" with the last breath of
the king, the Archbishop quilted Wind
sor Castle, and made his way with all
possible speed, to Kensington Palace, the
residence at that time of the Princess
already by the law of succession, Queen
Victoria. He arrived long before day
light, announced himself, and requested
an immediate interview with the princess.
She hastily attired herself, and met the
venerable prelate in her ante-room. He
informed her of the demise OF William,
and formally announced to her that she
was in law and right successor to the de-
ceased monarch. The sovereignty of
the most powerful nation of the earth
lay at the feet of girl of eighteen" !"
She was de jure, queen of the only realm
in fact OF history, "on which the sun
never SETS" She was deeply agitated at
the formidable words $50 fraught with
blessings or calamity" The first words
she was able to utter were these, " | ask
your prayers in my behalf" They
kneeled down together, and Victoria in
augurated her reign, like the young
king of Israel in the olden time, by ask
ing from the Most High, ~ho ruleth in
the Kingdoms of men, an understand
ing heart to judge so great people,
who would not be numbered nor counted
for multitude"
The sequel Of her reign has been wor-
thy of such beginning. Every throne
in Europe has tottered since that day.
Most of them have for a time been ov-
erturned. That of England was never
so firmly seated in the royalty and love
of the people as at the present hour.
Queen Victoria enjoys personal infu-
ence, too-the heartfelt homage paid TO
her as a wife, mother, and benefactor
to the poor, Christian woman-incom-
parably wise and greater than any mon
arch now reigning. She is loved at
home and admired abroad.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

A curious mode of fsh-hatching is
said to be followed in China. Having
collected the necessary spawn from the
waters edge, the fishermen place certain
quantity in an empty hens egg, which
is sealed up with wax and put under
setting hen. After some days they break
the egg and empty the fry into water
well warmed by the sun, and there nurse
them until they are sufficiently strong to
be turned into lake or river.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

To PRoLoNG OLD AGE.-In old age
incrustations form on the arteries, carti-
lagos, and valves of the heart. The
deaths after the seventy-ifth year are
often caused by such incrustations. They
can be removed, however, by Tactic acid,
as buttermiIk sbounds in this acid. M
Robing, in a communication to the
French Academy, advocates its use as a
means of prolonging life.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
T EATHER AND RUBBER
Betting. For sale by
ARMS 4 WILSON.
Estate of HartweII Ellis.

STATE OF VERMONT. I At Probate Court b eld
DISTRICT OF WINDSOR, sss at Chester. within and
for said District. on the l4th day of August A. ID.
1874, Instrument purporting TO be the last Will
and Testament Of HARTWELL ELLIS, late OF
Chester in said District deceased. was presented to
the court here for probate by the widow cf the de
ceased. Therefore, II is ordered by said Court that
public notice be given to all persons concerned
thereof to be held at the probate Office in Chester in
said District. on the 5th day of September, A. D..
1874 and contest the probate Of said will if they see
cause and il Is further ordered that this order be
published three weeks sucoessiyely in the Bellows
falls TINES. a newspaper printed at Rockingham in
this State. the last of which publications shall be
previous to the day assigned Aforesaid for hear
ing.
this 18th day of August, A. ID. 1874
1856 CHARLES T. BARRETT. Resister.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
AIR BEDs IN THE MoRNINe.-

AIR BEDS IN THE MoRNISG.-The
wise housekeeper should see to it that
all the beds are aired Immediately
after being occupied. The impurities
which emanate from the human body
from insensible perspiration, are made
up of minute atoms, which if allowed to
remain long are absorbed by the bed,
and will then, to a greater or less extent
vitiste the air for considerable time af-
terward. Let the occupant throw the
bed open on rising, and as soon as is con.
venient open the windows and ventilate
the sleeping-room. One hours early
ventilation is worth two hours late air
ing.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

A man out West, who married wild
ow, has invented a device to cure her
eternally praising her former husband.
Whenever she begins to descant on his
noble qualities, this ingenious No. 2
merely says, Poor dear man How
wish he hadn't died !" and the lady
Immediately thinks of something else to
talk about.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

The word "whig" is said to have
originated in England in the 10th centu-
ry, when party arose who favored re-
publican form of government. They
adopted as their motto the words ave
hope in God," the initials of which form
the word "whig." The word thus means
opposition to kings and monarcbies.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
DYSENTERY CORDIAL.

nON'T BE without BOTTLE Of WOODS -
u DYSFNTERY CORDIAL in the house. for it
is the best thing used for Dysentery. Cbolic,
Pain in the Bowels and Cramps. %
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
Never too Late to Mend.

Here, WIFE, said VIII. pray you TO devote
Just half minute TO mend this coat.
Which nail has chanced to rend."
It's ten o'clock, . said his drowsy mate.
Il Know" said Will, it Is rather late;
But It's never too late 70 mend l'-Sare.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
General Wood Work.

THEsUBsoRIBERs having purchased the inter
Il est of P. ELDRIDGE & COMPANY. are pre-
pared to manufacture all kinds of Packing Boxes,
Mouldings. &c Also all kinds of Saving, includ-
ing Scroll work and Brackets. Planning and Match
ing at short notice and in the most workmanlike
manner at very low prices.
PINE and SPRUCE LUMBER for sale.
HEALD * WHEELER.
April LIST. 1874. IA
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

A celebrated wit was asked if be knew
Theodore Hook. "Yes." he replied,
Hook and eye are old acquaintance"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04
STAGE NOTICE.

On and aft er July 1st the subscriber will run a
stage between Bellows Falls. Townshend, Jamaica
Townshend for Jamaica every Monday We'd esday
and Friday. Leaves Townshend for Wardsboro eve
ry Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, on the arrival
of the evening stages. Express business promptly
attended to. Ihope by careful attention business
to receive the patronage of the travelling public.
g. +. WELLINGTON.
Cambridgeport. VT. June "a. 1873. 26
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

ID. BLAKE, DENTIST .--Office CHASE'S
BLOCK. BELLOWS FALLS may be found at
from the ist TO the 18th of every month. At
NGFIELD from the 18th to the last or Febru-
o. April, June. August, October and December,
lows Falls. an. 10. 1872.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-04

N. GEORGE, Surgeon Dentist. Teeth
kiied with Gold or Silver. Satisfaction given
Icasess
Particular attention is given 10 inserting Ar
Teeth with all the modern improvements.
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10
The Tree GirdIer.

The other day lady halted in front
of a garden on State street, Portland,
and accosting a man at work on some
trees with the remark, "What are you
doing to those trees ?" 81 am girdling
them, madam, with printers ink and
cotton, to prevent the canker worms
from ascending" replied the man.
How much does it cost ?" asked the
lady. "About twenty-five cents
apiece" said the. man. whats your
name?' was the lady's next question.
Hill, replied the man. "Well, said
the lady, II wish you would come and
girdle ours" The man gave an evasive
answer and the lady went home. On
telling the story to her husband, she
was astonished to see him burst out in
fits of laughter. "What ON earth are
you laughing at?' said the lady.
Why" said her husband, "your man
that you asked to girdle your trees was
Rev. DIR. Hill, late President of Harvard
College, one of the foremost mathe-
maticians living, and now pastor of the
First Parish Church."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10

We have recently announced to our
readers that society had been organ
lied in Hanover, Germany, the members
of which pledged themselves to insert Il
clause in their wills requiring that their
bodies be burnt after death. Since
making that announcement, it has come
to our knowledge that n similar effort is
being made i'll this city, and that num-
Der of thoughtful men have become in
terested in this question of the crema-
ton of dead bodies. Having already
expressed an opinion i'll favor of n
thoughtful discussion of this subject,
we will not at present say any more re-
speeding the claims it has upon public
attention. 1t is evident that the ques-
ton is one not to be dismissed with
shake of the head or shudder, and,
now that health and sanitary associations
are doing so much toward the preven-
ton rather than cure of disease, would
it not be well to consider whether the
germs of many dangerous maladies may
not be fostered by the common exposure
OF the stricken and inanimate body, or
it's conveyance through the main thor
tughfares of crowded city? From Il
recent number of the Union .HeRicale
we learn that one Dr. Polli has been
making certain experiments in the
cremation of dead bodies, the methods
and results of which are described as
follows "ln the cylindrical retort of
refractory clay he placed the body of a
dog, ten kilogrammes in weight. The
apparatus was heated by crown of
flames issuing from a circular tube, per-
forated so as to render the combustion
more active, the ordinary gas being
mixed with a certain quantity of pure
air. The cremation continued several
hours, producing thick smoke and the
odor of roasting meat. (The smoke was
easily burnt by applying flame at the
upper orifce.) After condemnation, Il
complete incarceration was obtained ;
that is to say, the calcination of all solid
parts of the body, represented by a
weight of $50 grammes. This first at
tempt proves the possibility of reducing
to ashes the body of an animal to about
one-twelfth of its weight. The pipes
bringing the gas were then disposed so
as better to favor it's mixture with air.
In this way large dog, weighing nine
teen kilogrammes, was incinerated in
two hours, leaving a residue of 973
grammes of ashes. "-1ppletons' Jour-
1l0I
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10
The GriZZly Bear,

The grizzly stands at the head of the
bear family, and is more feared and re-
spected than all others. He is treach-
erous, sullen, malicious, desperate, i'll
hammered, uncouth, shaggy brute,-one
who stubbornly resists all advances
toward friendship, and is ready at any
time to die in the last ditch. Like the
immortal cold Guard" of Napoleon,
your genuine grizzly never surrenders,
but is game to the last. The grizzly
has lordly, Independent bearing, and
on his native mountain-side or in the
forests will hardly deign to make room
for man himself. If You meet one in
the road the chances are that he will
not bulge an inch, unless he happens
to be in an accommodating mood, and
then he. will trot out one side Il few
yards, rear himself upon his enormous
launches, and graciously wait for you
to pass. No matter whether you are
armed with a breech-loading Ballard,
needle-gun, Winchester, or Sharp,
never attack grizzly alone or out in
the open country. The only safe posi-.
ton is on the back of good horse or
in the limbs of Il cottonwood tree.
Many persons, disregarding this advice,
have paid for their temerity with their
lives ; for no matter where you shoot
grizzly, whether through the heart or
the brain-box, he never gives up the
ghost without II struggle, and will fight
as long as he can lift a paw.
Letter,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10

saved some of them but there was no
order-not bit. But there ! it's al
ways SO. I've been shipwrecked three
times myself, and nobody knows what
such scenes are that don't go through
them. The Loeb Earn smashed two of
the boats with her spars and rigging,
and when the two long ones had been
broken up by the falling masts, there
were only four others left, and two of
them were small. 1t was the masts,
however, that did all the mischief after
ward. If they had not fallen, and if we
only could have kept the passengers
quiet bit, I don't believe twenty of
them would have been lost
"Why did they not jump ON the Loeb
Earns bow? There wasn't time for
that, sir. She was going at twelve knots
and half, and we were doing twelve,
SO that she bounded back and was gone
from us directly. Our Captain re-
manned on his bridge all the time, Civ
ing orders, and was ON it when she went
down below the water. l went down
with her tool should think twenty or
thirty fathoms deep. On coming to the
surface again, | looked round, and saw
a great many poor struggling creatures
in the water There was a boat near
me, and / held on to the keel until
could get inside. l pulled in three or
four OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, gave them n
hold on to the boat until they could be
dragged in, Then I pulled off some of
my clothes, and jumped into the water
and swan to the Loeb Earn. Three or
four lines were thrown out to me, and
at last | was hauled on board"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10
Winter Care of Horses.

Considerable is written now-a- days
about false economy in various ways.
My observation leads to the conclusion
that one important item is almost en-.
tirely overlooked, and that thousands of
dollars are lost each year by the careless
wintering of farm horses. For instance.
Farmer A owns a fine span of horses !;
he is not much of a horseman, but in
the summer he works them, and keeps
man who takes good care of them.
In the fall, after work is over, the horses
are put into the stable and fed all the
hay they will eat (be it goo or bad
are left perhaps week or two at time,
with little or no exercise, and, when
they are driven, are let go at the top of
their speed. Fast driving, with stom-
achs full of undigested hay, is the very
worst of treatment. The result is that,
in year or two, the horses have the
heaves badly, are spoiled for market,
and are unable to do the usual amount
of the service on the road and this
alone causes loss each year so long as
the team is used.
This could in some degree be avoided
by building a shed with yard for exer-
else, and by feeding food of sufficient
strength to keep tie muscles in full
strength. Some say that wintering
horses in the field on hay alone will
cause falling away of muscles and
strength difficult to regain. No doubt,
being chilled by standing in a cold barn
is injurious to horses.-Cor. Country
GcntIellan
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10
Germany's ReOrganized Army.

A handbook recently published at
Leipsic gives the first complete resume
that has appeared of the newly reor-
ganized army of the German Empire.
The most important increase in this of
late appears, of course, in the cavalry,
which can now put twelve complete di-
visions into the field in place of the six
employed during the late war, and indie
pendent of the regiments attached to
the divisions of infantry. Including
Bavaria there are eighteen army corps
in the Empire of which seventeen (that
of Elsass-Lorraine is presumably the
exceptioD have every component elc-
ment perfectly complete. Each corps
has, of course, its divisions, and the
most striking change in the method of
organization as compared with that in
use in 1870 is the far greater indepen-
dence given to each division, this body
being no longer regarded as only a fight
ing but marching unit, with it's equip
age and other special service complete.
There is still, however, a special reserve
OF artillery, and engineers belonging to
the corps headquarters. The number
of combatants in the field army is given
at 57S, 600 bayonets, GS, 600 sabers, 1850
guns, and $4,000 engineers but the
ration lists of the army, including train
and non-combatants, amount to Si7, 600
men, with 23O, 600 horses. These figures
are, of course, entirely independent of
all the troops of the reserve.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10
Origin of the Prairies.

DIR. Newberry, of Ohio, in an article
in Appleton's Journal, expresses HIM
self as of the opinion that prairies are
the results of a diminished rainfall. In
reply to this statement, DIR. Chase, of
Kansas, says that, having resided four
years in the heart of the minimum rain
fall district, lying between the Missouri
river and the Rocky Mountains, he has
observed hundreds of magnificent oaks,
from one to three feet in diameter, far
from perennial streams, but protected
from fires by rocky hill-sides second,
groves of cottonwood, water-l loving
tree, which now are often found thirty
feet high, and foot in diameter third,
groves of young trees, often covering
an area of a hundred acres or more, snd
as thrifty as any among the Catskills !;
fourth, thousands of acres covered with
tall, long-jointed grasses, which ten
years ago produced nothing but short,
why, Buffalo grass.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10

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