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The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-07-11

IT is now decisively demonstrated in
physiological science that colds are the
effect of arrangements of the stomach
and the blood. When" says a writer
on the subject, "the human body is at
its prime, with youth, vigor, purity, and a
good constitution on its side, no degree
Of ordinary exposure to cold gives rise to
any unpleasant effects. All the ordinary
precautions against colds, coughs, and
rheumatic pains may be disregarded, and
no i'll effects ensue. But let the blood
become impure, let the body become de-
ranged from any acquired disorder, or let
the vigor begin to wane, and the intirmi-
ties of the age be felt by occasional de-
rangements in some vital part, either from
inherited or acquired abuses, and the
action Of cold will excite more or less
disorder of some kind, and the form of
this disorder, or the disease which will
ensue, will be determined by the kind of
pre.existing blood impurity or the pre-.
existing fault Of the organic processes" }"
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-07-11
$ek4ted 8Etsnany.
WHY rs IT So?

SOME find work where some find rest,
And so the weary world goes on;
I sometimes wonder which is best;
The answer comes when life is gone.
Some eyes sleep when some eyes wake,
And 70 the drcary night-hours 70.
Some hearts beat where some hearts break
often wonder why it's 50.
Some wills faint where some wills fight
Some love the tent and some the field
l oftcuwonaer who are right
The ones who strive, or those who Yield.
Some hands fold where other hands
Are lifted bruvcly in the strife;
And so thrO ages and thrO lands
Move On the two extremes Of life.
Some feet halt where some feet tread,
In tirclcss march, thOrny way;
Some struggle on where some have fed;
Some seek when others shuu the fray.
Some swords rust where others clash,
Some fall back where some move on,
Some flags furl where others flash
Until the battle has been won.
Some sleep on while others keep
The viyils Of the true and brave;
They viii not rest till roses creep
Around their name, above grave.
-Father Ryan.
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-07-11

A gentleman had occasion to call on
the Rev. Thomas Campbell when he was
at Glasgow "Is the dominic in?" he in
quired Of portly dame who opened the
door. He's in the yaird, sooperintendin'
Sauners, the carpenter Ye can see him
the moo if your business is vera precise"
The gentleman walked into the yard,
where he beheld a carpenter bri~kly
planning away to the air of Bonnie Mag
gle Lauder, and the dominic standing by.
Unwilling to intrude on their conversa-
ton, he stepped aside, and heard: "Saun-
ers, say! Can ye no hear me?" "Yes,
minister, hear ye. What's your will?''
"Can we no whistle some mair solemn
and godly tune while ye're at your
work?" "Aweel, minister, if it be your
wull, I'll cen do it," Upon which he
changed the air to the Dead March in
Saul, greatly to the hindrance of the
planning. The dominic looked on fol
some minutes in silence, and then said
"Sauners, hae another word to say till
ye. Did the guide wife hire ye by the
days darg or by the job?" "rhe days
darg was our agreeing, master" "Then
on the whole, Sauners, I think ye may
Just as we'll gle back to whistling Bonnie
Maggie Lauder"
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-07-11
How Humming-Birds Fight.

If two birds foraging come together,
they usually fight; one drives the other
away, and then goes on feeding as if
nothing had happened, Mr.. Gosse says" If
two vervain humming- birds are about the
moringa tree, one will fly off and suspend
himself in the air few yards distant; the
other presently shoots off to him; and
then, without touching each other, they
mount upward with strong, rushing
! wings, perhaps for 500 feet. They then
separate, and each shoots diagonally
toward the ground, like ball from a
rifle, and, wheeling around. comes up to
the blossoms again, and sucks as if it
had not moved away at all. The figure
of the smaller humming- birds on the
wing, their rapidity, their arrowy course,
and their whole manner of flight, arc en-
tircly those of an insect; and one who
has watched the flight of large beetle,
or bee, will have very good idea of one
of these tropic gems, painted against the
sky" Again he says: II once wit
messed a combat between two mango
| humming- birds, which was prosecuted
with much pertinacity, and protracted to
an unusual length. They chased each
other through the labyrinth of twigs and
| flowers till, an opportunity occurring, the
one would dart with fury upon the other,
and then with loud rustling of their
wings they would twirl together round
and round, until they nearly came to
earth. At length an encounter took
place pretty close to me, and perceived
that the heak nf the one graapod the heal
of the other, and, thus fastened, both
whrled round and round in their perpen-
dicular descent till when very near the
ground they separated; and the one
chased the other for about hundred
yards, and then returned in triumph to
the tree. Sometimes they would sus-
pend hostilities to suck few blossoms,
but mutual proximity was sure to bring
them on again, with the same result. In
their tortuous and rapid evolutions
the light from their ruby necks would
now and then flash in the sun with gem
like radiance. The war lasted fully an
hour and then was called away from
the post of observation.'- Popular Science
Monthly for July.
The New York herald., 1874-09-25

111 WEST 18th ST A DREsSMAKER, OF Il YEARS
II experience, wants work At her own house; the
NINE. ROGERS
The New York herald., 1874-09-25

TT EAST SD ST., BETWEEN Sd AND LExING-
l. ton avs.-Two girs; one chambermaid and
waitress; the other as cook is an excellent baker; is
willing to assist with washing and ironing best city
The New York herald., 1874-09-25

AL WEST 39riI sT.-rwO SISTERS; ONE Az
ffl cook. washer and ironer, the other as chambor
naid and waitress; no objections 10 the country; good
hty reference. 50
The New York herald., 1874-09-25

900 EAST 59rH ST., ONE PAIR STAIRS, 'FRONT.'
200 dressmaker wishes a lew engage ments
by the day or week IN private famies can cut and at
stands all kinds Of family sewing has Wheeler vii.
son machine or would take WORK at her residence Call
or address DRESSMAkER room T.
The New York herald., 1874-09-25

1CH EAST 18th STA YOUNG GIRL TO GO OUT
lou by the day sewing private fsmilies: can
operate on different machines terms reasonable Cali
on or address SEAMSTRESS.
The New York herald., 1874-09-25

OOS WEST HST STA RESPECTABLE YOUNG
CLC girl lately landed, To do general house
small family, or to assist in kitchen; willing and
obi
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
Rust on Farm Implements.

The rusting of tools and the bright
surfaces of implements on the farm is
not only a source of great annoyance to
the careful farmer, but also of great
yearly loss to all. Rust is the oxide of
any metal-the combination of oxygen
with a base, forming first a thin fiber
on the suIface-and il allowed to pro-
coed, eating into the metal to such a
degree as often to destroy their tools
in a single season. If kept in q per
fectly dry atmosphere, it would cause
but little if any trouble, but this can
not always be obtained. The next best
thing is to keep all polished surfaces,
when not in use, from contact with air.
This is usually attained by covering the
surfaces with some oily substance, and
when this is done, care should be taken
that salt does not enter into its compo-
sition. Our own plan of late years, and
one which we have found TO answer the
purpose perfectly, is to paint the sur
face with q mixture of common lamp
black and kerosene, and place them
where they will notsbe rubbed against.
and at the same time be kept dry.
They Will be found in the spring in pei
feet condition, and by simply rubbing
them with a cloth. they are ready for
use. Slightly rusted articles may be
cleaned by rubbing them with pure
animal oil and pure whiting or Stacked
lime, but if 1t has proceeded to such
degree as to accumulate black rust, the
surface must be ground down and re-
polished with emery, and in this case it
had better go to the pillow maker. A lit
lie cal at the Iroper time will, how
ever, obviate this, ard hence this sug-
gestion. - Journal of agriculture
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
FIighty Costumes,

A terrible fashion has been introduced
this autumn into Paris to swell bills
and excite an honorable emulation in
extravaganza. Some one has discovered
that trimming a dress with birds feath-
ers has an exceedingly charming appear
ance, and that envy is excited in pro-
portion to the rarity of the fowl plucked.
The lady who has introduced this nov
city, made her first appearance in a
costume which evidently left nothing
to be desired, though we are unable to
understand the millinery jargon in
which it is described. The tunic was
trimmed with the feathers of the Jay,
but only the blue ones that form part of
the wing. As the jay IS not a very COM
mon bird-for he Is a deadly enemy to
game keepers, and even the legislature
has put a price on his head-thOse
feathers must have cost pretty sum.
But what will old ladies and children
exclaim when they hear that another
T3erUeiLLeILSe, not to be outdOne, mas or
dered black silk dress to be trimmed
with canary feathers? It is not easy to
calculate how many hundreds of these
little creatures would have to be butch
cred before the quantity requisite to
produce the effect would be obtained.
Then arises the question, what next
To ladies of inventive genius, the Zoo
logical Gardens offer opportunities, the
thought of which ought to strike terror
into the heart of DIR. Sclater A peli-
cans beak as a hair-pin would set off
the largest chignon. How many cocka-
toos' graceful top-knots would be re-
quired to furnish forth a costume de
cO1tT could only be a matter of specula-
tion, and the iTdicious expenditure of
a few six-penny visits. A flamingo's
leg would make an elegant parasol han
die, and a tigers tail comfortable. as
we'll as unusual, boa. The mask of the
Polar bear, neatly trimmed with vul-
lures feathers, would make very strik-
ing as well as a warm covering for the
head during the coming whit r. But
these are rather Epeoulations for the
man milliners. II We only live long
enough we shall - doubt see the eIe-
plant and rhinoceros contribute some
thing else besides their "ivories'' to the
exigencies of fashion, and when the
earth and the air are exhausted there
will remain the great deep and its in
habitants to help to crafty feminine
vanity
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
The DIXIE Of Cambridge.

The duke was great dincr-out, and
nothing gave him moro pleasure than
being called upon to take the chair at
any of the annual festivals in aid of
some popular charity; but although
the toast which he had to propose was
written down for him on a slip of paper.
he very frequently eontrived quite to
forget what it really was, or managed
to mix it mp with some other subject in
manner which WIS highly entertaining
to the audience. Thus, If he happened
to preside at a dinner given at Willis
rooms in aid of the Newsvenders' benev-
client association, flushed with the Juice
Of the grape, the duke, rising, would
deliver himself AS follow:
LADIES AND GENT1EAIEN-It is now
my agr' cable duty to propose to you
the toast of the evening. We are met
here TO promote the objects of a most
useful society, one which has done a
vast amount of good in this metropolis
upon highly interesting occasions, and
helped many worthy fellow creatures at
n period of great anxiety and peril.
Ladies' and gentlemen, we are deeply
indebted to this most benevolent So
ciety. I beg, therefore, to propose
health, prosperity, and success to the
Lying-in hospital"
At this jnncture some friendly by
SANDER would pluck the orator by the
sleeve, and remind him that it was not
the Lying in hospital the claims Of
which 10 was there 10 advocate, but the
NewsvCuder's benevolent association
Then the dixie, taking up his parable,
would go laundering on, mixing the
two mp together in Il manner highly
comical.
"Ahem, ladies and gentlemen, I find
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
Whitney's COttOn-Gin.

The English manufacturers struggled
against many difficulties, three of which
may be named-the lack of suitable
machinery the opposition of the wool
trade, which induced the authorities
even to hang criminals in cotton gar
ments to render the goods unpopular ;
and the lack of supply of cotton.
The cotton from the boil yields only
from one-quarter to one-third genuine
fibre, and the labor of removing the
seed by hand seemed at this critical mo-
ment to set limit TO the production, or
at least render it so expensive that the
goods could not come into general use
among the mass of the people, who
were used to being tolerably well fed
and housed, and could not live on two
pence a day and support their families,
like the Hindoos. It is true that in
India sort of roller-gin had been in
use from time immemorial-one which
pinched the fibre and carried it away
from the seed, whose size prevented it
from passing between the rollers but
this was comparatively slew, and does
not appear to have been known in Amer
lea, where the manipulating was in
vogue. Besides, it is only suitable for
certain staples of cotton. The great
need of the producer and the manufac-
turer was a machine to remove the cot
ton from the seed with rapidity and
economy.
At this juncture appears Eli Whitney,
of Massachusetts, who in 1894 patented
the cottOn-gin. The name gin is short
for engine, and is a frequent curt ex-
preston for a handy machine. Whit
ney's sa E-gln comprises two cylinders
of different diameters mounted in a
wooden frame, and turned by a handle
or belt or pulley so as to rotate in oppo-
site directions, the brush cylinder the
faster. The smaller cylinder carries on
its circumference from sixty to eighty
circular saws, and the larger cylinder a
series of brushes. The teeth of the
saws pass in between a number of bars,
foTminga grating. The cotton, as picked
from the pods, is thrown into the hop
per; the saws strip the fibre from the
seeds, which fall through the bot
tom of the hopper, while the wool is
cleansed from the teeth of the saws, and
delivered by a sloping table into a re-
ceptacle below.
The crop of cotton increased from
169, 3l6 pounds in 1871 to 1900, 900. 600
pounds in 1859 Whitney and his part
ner received $50, 900 from the state OF
South Carolina, and tariff of so much
per saw per annum from the states OF
North Carolina and Georgia for a short
term OF years.-HGyper'8.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
The Sewing Machine Raid.

Among the raids which are to be made
when the next congress meets is that of
the sewing machine monopolists, who
will endeavor to secure a further extern
sion of their patents. This matter will
be closely watched by the people. The
sewing machine companies have already
reaped the benefit of q long extension
of their monopoly. They have thus
been enabled to sell their machines at a
price at least hundred per cent. above
that al which the machines could be
profitably manufactured and sold. This
enormous profit has been drawn direct
ly from the poorer classes of the COM
munity-the sewing women and the
tailor'5 workmen. It is time that the
public had. the benefit of the sewing
machine, and the effort to obtain a spe-
cial law of congress to prolODg a mo-
nepoly that has already lasted too long,
cannot succeed without creating the
strongest suspicious of the honesty of
congressman who may vote for it. We
may be sure that Investigations will be
the order of the day in the new house
of representatives, and men who give
their votes to the sewing machine mo-
nOpolists will be compelled to fully ex-
plain the motives which have Influenced
them NelD York GTaDbic
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
A Post-Omce Problem.


The Pail Mall Gazette has the follow
ing: By the last mail from India a Gu
riOus letter arrived at the general post
Office. It was not stamped, the paper
of which the envelope was composed
was peculiar, and the address was for
the time being utterly unintelligible.
Anyhow, the letter had been sent to
London. The general post-office au-
thOrlties at once dispatched a trustwor-
thy messenger to the most erudite
scholars in this city to ask them to de-
cipher the strange, blotted, crooked,
and indistinct handwriting on the envel-
ope. An eminent linguist of the Brit.
ish museum was applied to. He could
not interpret the address, but pronoun-
ced the characters forming it not to be
arrow-headed ones nor resembling the
letters composing the ancient Assyriac
inscriptions with which he had hitherto
met. Another Weli-known authority of
the British museum was consulted, but
he could not see in the writing on the
envelope any resemblance to Chinese.
The authorities at the India office were
next asked for their opinion. The ON
niscient librarian was unfortunately
absent just at the time wien the postal
messenger called, but a professor, his
able assistant, pronounced it to be
MalagasY or even Pail. The letter next
went to Richmond, where a well-known
Canarese scholar pronounced the ad-
dress not to be Canarese. So the letter
passed from pundit to pundit without
Interpretation. At length it happened
that learned gentleman of the India
Office recommended the bearer Of the
mysterious communication to take it to
two other learned gentlemen residing
in Bayswater. These laid their heads
together and discovered that the in
scription on the envelope of the re-
dOubtable letter was in the Telugu char
acter 1t was written very badly, how
ever, and when translated read as fol-
lows: &c NOttu l1eyOlu. JarOor! 1
this letter and give into the hand of the
Rance"
d" NOttU oeydu" means "not paid. "
There was no stamp on the letter. and
perhaps the Telugu person who sent il
considered his communication to &c the
Rance" as he styles her majesty the
queen, sufficiently important in itself to
pass free to the hands of the "empress
of India" "Jaroor 20 is the Hindus
tan equivalent for "pest-haste." The
"writer" of the London post-office, oil
course, means, in common Indian par.
lance. the "clerk." The author of the
letter evidently supposed that we IL
London possess only one post-office,
aud only one clerk to that Office. Oh
course the contents of the letter are
not known to us. Probably some petty
lawsuit has gone wrong with the sender.
and her majesty the queen is informed
that the local magistrate took brides.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
AnaIysis of The Conaette.

Punch says: 1.-THE coquette is a
graduate In the science of Irritation, has
taken every degree from her alma mater
who is so good n mistress of arts that
she is no longer tutor, and is compe-
tent to manage her own affairs without
the aid Of a chaprron. She is a psy-
Geological curiosity-undergoiD two
changes before arriving at maturity
from the insect of the school period she
becomes the chrysalis Of the ball
room, whence she energies from beneath
the wing of her chaperon, to fut' er
forth the full-grown butterfly, or CO.
quette. She has a scale of attractions
by which she measures her department
toward different individuals. She can
at a moments notice be intensely agree
able or quietly repellant. She can
smile with one side of her face upon a
new conquest, and frown with the other
upon his waning rival. She knows in
stincGvely the ex ct moment when TO
commence & filtration; and having no
passion, no feeling, can adroitly break
of an ineligible one, even if the wei
ding liveries have been ordered. Flat
terry is her food and caprice her rule of
conduc5. She may win our astonish
meut by her holiness, ingenuity and
protean changes of dsmeanor, bat not
our admiration or esteem"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
That Steam POtatO-Digger.

The Danbury News man gives q dig
at pOtatO-diggers in this way "In the
Franklin Institute fair, in Philadelphia,
they have on exhibition steam pota-
tO-digger,' which is warranted to do
the work of sixty men, It interested
me very much, because only a few days
before L heard Cooley tell of his exDe-
rlence with one of these machines. He
put it in his potato-feld, and for time
1T turned out the potatoes in magnif-
cent style, and he began to think that
he had obtained a prize. But after a
while something occurred to the throt-
tlevalve, and the digger began to Jump
about III the most extraordinary man.
ner, rearing, and pitching, and snorting,
without paying any attention to the po-
tatoes. Cooley managed to get upon it
for the purpose of shutting off steam,
but he must have pulled the bar the
wrong way, for no sooner had he reach
ed the ground than tie digger gave a
couple of preliminary shrieks and
started on a bee line across the field.
1t burst through the fence, ran over two
cows, and mashed a Southdown ram out
as fiat as the contents of q patent Office
report. Then it dashed into the barn
yard, through two stacks of hay, and
through the stables, emerging close by
the smoke house, from which it wrench
ed the open door. Then it plunged over
the flower beds, leaving a furrow three
feet wide and two feet deep; it tore
down four dwarf pear trees, hurried
into the kitchen, upset the stove, and
from there whirled into the parlor,
smashed the looking glass. overturned
the centre-table and the family bible.
and finally brought up on top of the
piano, which it set afire. They got it
out at last just in time to prevent a gen
eral conhagratioD. And now Cooley
digs potatoes with a shovel. His views
are not found among the recommends
tions of the machine printed in the cir
culars which are distributed at the
FoiV -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-26
& HAMIIN
Cabinet Organs.

Winners of THREE HIGH EST nj DALS AND
DIPLOMA OF HONOR at Vienna, 1873, PARIS
1867. and in AM ERICA ALWAYS. Declared by
MUSICIAN GENERA LILY to be u y RIVA LED
and INCOMPARABLE. sold fixed uniform
prices to all which are printed and invsriable
PURCHASERS OF ORGANS ARE Il &c
MIN DIED that the temptation TO Dealers and
PeddleTs is very strong to deal in and recommend
as best the ora ns CT those makers who will pay
them the largest commissions or dts
counts for selling
the MASON & II AMLtN ORGAN CO. print
ing they do their lowest prices can afford to
dealers only the smallest com missions This
p secures TO every purchaser The lOwast price
because the dealer cannot ask more than the Cat
alOgue price, but 1t causes many dealers do their
best to sell other organs, simply becauss they get
enormous discounts thrm. Some organs are
currently sold to dealers at seventy five per cent
discount, or at one quarter the prices printed for
them: AS a rule. ne poorer the organ the higher
It's printed price and the create The discount it,
The MASON & II AMLIN ORG IN I o. are now
Offering styles. wi i'm pOrtant improvements:
and selling not only tor cash exclusively, hut
also new plans Of easy payments. rum in.
through one year or longer. They also rent new
organs with privilege of purchase. Rent paid
three years purchases the Organ.
send for the illustrated Catalogues and Circular
which give very full in formation. and are SEM
free. address THE mason & HAH1LIN Or
GAN Coz at either New York, BOstOH,
Chicago.