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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-09

10 young men the road up the hill NAV be
nard, but at any rate it is open, and thew who
sci stout hearts against stiff bill shall climb il
JET. w ltyoung men would deny themselves.
"osS hard, aud save in their early days, they
ueea not keep their noses to the grindstone ali
i'elr lives as many do. Let them be tetotal-
,sts a lor economy's sake water is the strongest
a,'as' sna 1t drives mills. It's the drink for lions
a1 apu nonTses, aud Samson never drepx ,anythina
v hou,. lhe beer money would soon Build 3
n0use.-C IL Sprgeon. '''' '~'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-09
MATIN AGUE MIXTURE
4u Will Positively Cure
HHJTI,S Nh FFUERI

MATIN AGUE MIXTURE
N1 Will Positively Cure
CHILLS AND FEVER
This Mixture contains nothing whatever that
can injure the general health nor is it disagree
able to the taste. It is composed of the finest
ingredients, and the patient need not change his
customary mode of living whilst taking the REM
edy. It is pleasant tonic, and if taken in small
Quantities before breakfast each day will pre-
vent chills and fever in localities where miasma
prevails. It will be found that Matin Ague
Mixture excites Ali appetite and improves the
general health For children as well as adults,
il will be found most effectual and pleasant
remedy. Price ST. 90 per bottle.
JANNEY & CO.,
Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers,
sep2 las King st., Alexandria, Va.
PEEDS AMERICAN DRESSING, for la
IL dies and children's boots, shoes, rubbers,
leather bags, &C., softening the leather and
making it waterproof. This is the only article
in the market which combines q permanent
Backing with q glossy Dressing For ladies
and children's shoes which have worn red it is
particularly adspted-it will give them ma perfect
dressing and will not rub off or crock the
clothing. It's believed to be the best thing ever
offered for leather bags trunks, &c.,-lt makes
an elastic surface, and gives bright lustre
Price twenty. five cents. For sale by the dozen
or single bottle.
octl23 JANNEY s. co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-09

OUR STOCK COMPLETE-OCT 49, 1875.
~ We have now in store the best and most
complete assortment of FOREIGN and DO
MESTlC ST A T LIE and FANCY DRY
GOODS ever offered by us in this city These
have been purchased with great care and at very
low rates in the New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore markets. Will be sold al down prices
to cash buyers or to responsible parties on short
time. ID. F. BRASHEAR
II. b. HooMEs. No. lob King street,
oct IL Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-09

DRIME FACTORY CHEESE just recA;-
l. by [sep l41 j. g. s. E. MI
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
4 Singular Sermon.

Four gentlemen and an old minister
were assailed on the highway by three rob.
bers, who demanded and took possession
of all their funds. The old minister plead
ed very hard to be allowed little money
as he was on his way to pay bill in Lon
don. The highwaymen, being generous
fellows, gave him all his money back again
on condition of his preaching them a SER
mon. Accordingly they retired little
distance from the highway, and the minis
ter addressed them as follows:-
"Gentemen, you are the most like the
old apostles of any men in the world, for
they were wanderers upon the earth, and
so are you; they had neither lands or
tenemerts that they could call their own,
neither, | presume, have you. They were
despised of all but those of their own pro-
fession, and so, l believe, are you; they
were unalterably fixed in the principles
they protested, and | dare swear so are
you; they were often hurried into jails
and prisons; all of which sulferings, pre-
sumo have been undergone by you; their
profession brought them all to untimely
deaths, and if you continue in your course,
such will be your end. But in this point
you differ nightly; for the apostles as
cendcd from II tree into heaven, where, |
am afraid, you will never come, but us
their deaths were compensated with eter-
nal glory, yours will be rewarded with
eternal shame and misery unless you mend
you manners"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
Fattcning Pigs.

They know how to make the most out
of pig at Detroit, Michigan, and tLey
claim that the pains necessary to bring
about such a result are well rewarded.
And how do you suppose they do it9
Why, sir, they administer to each pig fat
tening for the market thorough washing
and curying every day-currying him
with currycomb, as you would (or ought
toy curry horse. Peas mixed with slops
from the dairy, and now and then a little
corn-meal, they consider the best food
with which to start them thriving. The
peas are soaked in warm water until swol-
len all partly soft. If corn is used, they
put it through the same process. They
feed him and lie will eat, and give him a
good dry pen, where he can sleep without
disturbance, somewhat dark and shady.
with no draughts of wind penetrating
through it, rather low in the roof, so that
the animal heat he generates will surround
him with temperature that is pleasant.
When those Michiganders get pig fairly
started" as they call it, they, according
to the Michigan Farmer, expect to gain not
less than three pounds daily. A pig weigh
ing $50 pounds at eleven months old is
considered with them nothing at all re-
markable.
1t is the quick fattening that pays those
hog growers, ON the principle of "quick re-
turns" etc. They count their time there,
and the hog demonstrates the truth of the
old saying which sets forth to us that
slime is money"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
Treatment of Shying Horses.

Shylng generally arises from finn
ldlty, but sometimes it is united with cnn.
nlnS, and induces the animal to assume
fear OF some Object for the sole purpose of
finding an excuse for turning aside Tho
usual cause of shying is, doubtless tho
presence of some object to which tLe borse
has not been accustomed, and if bo hos 10
fective eyes, which render him short. sioht.
Ell, II VIII be difficult to convince him of
the innocent nature of the novel object
There are endless peculiarities in sbyino
horses, some being dreadfuly alarmed bV
one kind of object, which to others is mot
at all formidable. The best plan of treat.
mcnt which can be adopted, is to take as
little notice as possible of the shyinp, and
to be especially carefully to show no fcor
OF its recurrence when the alarming" Oh
ject appears in the distance. When the
horse begins to show alarm, but not till
then, the driver shoud.speak ENCOURAGING.
ly to him, and, if necessary, with severe
tone, which may even be supported by the
use of the whip if his onward progress can
not otherwise be maintained
The principle which should be carried
out, is to adopt such measures as will oet
the horse to pass the object at which he
SHES, somehow or other, and this should
be effected with as little violence as posi-
BILE, always commanding in an encouraging
tone as the purpose is gained. Nothing
has SO great tendency to keep I'D the
habit as the plan so common among igno-
rant grooms Of chastising the shyer after
he has passed the object of his alarm. If
he can be persuaded to go quietly up to it,
and examine it with his muzzle, as well as
with his eyes, great good will be effected,
but this can seldom be done with moving
vehicles, and heaps Of stones or piles Of
sand are generally only alarming from de-
fective vision, so that each time they as.
sumo new phase to the active imagina-
ton of the timid animal. Furnishing bits
only make high-couraged animal worse,
and the use of "overchecks" rarely, if ever,
proves beneficial Wilkes Spirit
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
The First Locomotive and Passenger.Car.

Stephenson had been called lunatic
when he had said that his locomotive could
run twelve miles an hour. One very dis
tinguished officer of the English Govern
ment, whose duty it was to see that the
mails were carried as rapidly as possible,
laughed at the idea, and said that "if ever
Il locomotive ran ten miles an hour with a
mailbag behind it, he would cat stewed
engine wheel for his breakfast"
There was some little excuse for his dis
belief, for the locomotive was very clum-
sy machine. 1t was called the "Locomo-
ton" Stephenson, when he built it, was
the man besides his son Robert who believed
it would go at all and some OF the learned
members of the English Parliament declar-
ed that it could not run against a strong
wind! 1t was small, clumsy affair, weigh
ing not more than one-tifth as much as an
engine of the present time.
The first improvement on 1.-THE "Rock-
et"-was even more ridiculous in appear
ance; but it was found to be faster and
stronger. Before it was accepted by the
railroad company, it was put in a race with
three other engines manufactured by
other engineers and of the judges
and thousand of persons who witnessed
the race, "nine-tenths were against the
Rocket because of its appearance" But
Stephenson received the prize over the
other competitors, one of whom was Cap
tain John Ericsson. His locomotive could
run fifteen miles an hour, and once actually
drew thirteen tons at u speed of twenty
nine miles an hour. That performance de-
cided the fate of locomotives, and engineers
at once went to work to improve the new
motive power.
The first railroad passenger as sim
ply an old box on wheels, with seats run
ming along the sides, door at the rear
end, and seat in front for the driver, like
the box of an omnibus. 1t was called by
Stephenson, who invented it, the "Experi-
ment," because it was not generally be-
lieved that people would travel on the
railway. In 1925, about the time the first
line was finished, one of the principal pa
pers of England said that nothing could
be "more ridiculous than the prospect of
Locomotives travelling twiceus last as stage
coaches!" And it added that people would
as soon suffer themselves to be fred off
upon one of Congreve's rockets as trust
themselves to the mercy of such machine
going at such rate" Stephenson, how
ever, firm in his belief that passengers
would travel by rail, declared that the time
would come, and he hoped to live to see
it, when it would be cheaper for a poor
man to ride than to walk. This prophecy
threatens to be more than fulfilled in a
few years. II is proposed in England to
send passengers by rail at ordinary Eng
lish letter-rates, and under IL system of
tickets like postage stamps-a six-cent
stamp emitting the holder to go by any
route to any part of Great Britain. But
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
farmers' Column.
Speed the HIOsU,o
Loss from Light Seeding.

While walking over new seeded wheat
stubble the other day we noted manv strins
or patches where the clover had entirely
missed. As the catch was GOOD on either
side, 1T was evident that the strip had bcen
unseeded, and, as the natural result wac
filling with rag weed, barn grass and the
like. Wherever in the same field clover
covered the ground like a mat NOT q wood
of any description was visible. Look;nn
on last years seeding mown this summer
we lound the same result-long strips of
Two 10 ten or more feet wide through the
neld barren OF clover or filling up with blue
grass or worthless weeds. No matter how
long the field may remain unplowed these
strips Will never become well seeded. and
even after blowing the loss will continue
us there Is less valuable sod to turn under
and these strips will require more manure
10 make them as productive as adjoining
parts OF the field. The same result in less
striklng form is seen from an even. tbouph
aenclent, seeding on the whole field The
loss from poor seeding, either of whole
or part OF a field, continues with ipcreas.
ing volume for all subsequent time.
Inc utmost care should be taken to have
every square foot Of ground well seeded
with clover. 1t is far better to o,erlan
the strips and give some double norton
imam to leave any without seeding. When
this overlapping gives the clover thicker
ana better sod it is proof positivetb at Won
nave used too little seed on the who'll
Some OF the best farmers of orr acouoint'
ance now sow fully one peck of clover
seed per acre, and would increase the
quality II they could thereby secure A bet
Ter catch. Their clover fields are delight
10 any good farmers eye; the clover grows
30 rampant that the pestiferous annual
weeds which lnfest most fields are crowd.
ed out. Possibly, with very favorable sea-
sons, less seed might suffice but these can.
not DC depended upon. There is no loss
except OF a little seed in sowing thicklv
while, ii the season requires it this th;ck
seeding may be worth five or ten doll,rs
per acre more than thin seeding. II will
not do to depend on plants from all the
SEED soWn, and some seasons not from half
oi IT, even when perfectly good Some &C
cloeht' dry week just as clover is sprout-
ing, may wither the shoot before its root
mas struck down, and only those seeds pro.
tected by small stone, q leaf or n clo1
VIII escape. 1t is generally better, when
a Sooa seed sower is convenient, to divide
the seed into two parts and sow half of il
early In spring and the other half two or
three weeks later. This gives double
chance for success, besides ensuring the
covering OF all the ground, if done with
care; ny TINS plan of double seeding a
sooo catch is almost certainty, and where
a SEED sower is used it does not involve
much extra troublc-N0o,e's Rural Ner
Yorker. '" ~ AVG"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
Mental Improvement.

A Detroter of liberal education has been
greatly annoyed because his wife and other
women are not better posted on history and
other matters connected with the growth
or welfare of the country. The other day
he carried home big history and handed
it to his spouse with the remark;
There, Mary, I want you to commence
at page one and see if you can't learn
something
She agreed to become his pupil, and
when he came home to supper he found
her reading away, hair down, slippers on,
all the fires out but one and no sign Of
supper.
why, how is this ? he inquired; ARE
you sick 2
Sick No
We'll, where is my SUPPER?
4 don't know anything about your sup
per, she replied, as she settled Lack in her
chair, but | can tell you all about the first
discovery of Florida rs straight as a
string
That history hasn't been opened since
that evening.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03

Twas on the river Ohio,
A steam boat with full cargo
The downward trip was making.
Not far from The town of Wheeling,
Three hundred on the deck or more,
Who saw q woman on the shore
Making hailing signs with her hand
For the boat to come to land.
The Captain ordered boat ashore,
To take one passenger more.
The boat hove 10, n plank run out
Now, mann, please step upon the boat
The Captain, sir, wish to see,
If he would do Il turn for me.
No sooner called than forth be came,
What's this you wish from Inc now, nam?
To New Orleans wish to send
One dozen eggs with you, my friend;
Twelve cents here is all they bring,
While at Orleans we get thirteen.
Some things from there like have bought,
We ret them there at first cost.
Here is the bill that you can see
One skein of silk, three cents Ia snuff, the rest
in tea.
You'll find them all at Jasons firm.
Please stop with them on your return.
Here is the basket, eleven in it.
The hen is in her nest; please wait minute,
Detroit Tribune
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03

REFUSED BLEssNGs.--"It's amazing
said Deacon Green, show stupid VIC hu-
man beings are, little and big what
worthless things we strive for, and what
blessings we carelessly cast away. In some
parts of Japan, when you go home from IL
dinner, IL servant is sent after you with a
box containing everything that was offer
ed to you at table and that YOU refused
All. what if some day an angel comes after
US to show us all the blessings that were
offered to us on earth, that we were too
stupid or too obstinate or too proud to
take So. Nicholas. for Dec.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03

Henry grew up to be a steady, high
principled man, and as years rolled on he
rose to higher position in society than
he ever hoped or expected to have done.
In short time Quaker Drake, who had no
children, took him iuto his office, where,
by his industry, integrity. and general good
conduct, he made himself of so much use
to the Quaker, finding, that he could not
do without him, he gave him share in
the business. Al the Quaker's death, which
occurred some years afterwards, Henry be-
came master of the establishment.
He that covereth his sin shall not pros
per; but whose confesseth and forsaketh
them shall have mercy. He will not al
ways Glide, neither will He keep His an
ger forever. british Workman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
PO g tic al.
Castles in the Air.

A wonderful palace is building;
The bricks are Of molten gold,
Caught when the clouds of sunset
Their yellow glory unfold,
Bright as the hue of the rainbow
Turret and bastion stand,
And hope is the strong foundation
OF this palace in fairy land.
The windows are crystaled dew-drops,
Picced together with care,
And it shines like mine of diamonds,
This castle built in air.
Royal and rich are the hangings,
Draped with satin the walls;
Merry and sweet is the music
That echoes throughout the halls.
Never sound of weeping,
Never thought of sin,
Nothing that speaks of sorrow,
Shall enter its gates within;
Never shadow of darkness,
Never the giant despair,
Shall dare TO enter the castle,
The castle built of air.
And two shall dwell in the castle,
And the joy of life shall be
To keep it as free from evil
As fairy palace can be.
They will dwell in the airy fabric,
Faithful and fond and good,
And bind on the gold cscutcheon
Two monsters from the wood
These warders will guard the portal;
While bear and forbear are there,
No harm can reach the castle,
The castle in the air.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03

Gen. Colquitt, of Georgia, in recent adj.
dress said, to remove stumps from field,
all that is necessary is to have one or more
sheet iron chimneys, some four or five feet
high. Set fire to the stump and place the
chimney over it, so as to give the requi-
site draft at the bottom. 1t will draw like
stove. The stump will soon be consumed.
With several such chimneys of different
sizes, the removal OF stumps may be accom-
pished at merely nominal labor and ex-
pense.- Maryland Farmer.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03

George Stephenson was not believed then,
and people continued to call him "Daft
Geordy," which means Crazy George"
1t was not long after the Stockton and
Darlington road was opened that more
passengerca were needed. The first i'm
Improvement on the Experiment" was a
double Car, made out Of two "mourning-
coaches" This car was lighted at night
by a single candle.-,St. Nicholas for Dec.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
VARIETIES.

There is ore very mad man in Oconto'
Wisconsin. He was a candidate for the
Legislature, and being too heightened to
vote for himself he voted for the other man,
who was elected by one majority. He is
disguised with politics.
A Young fellow once offered to kiss u
Quakercss. "Fricnd," said she, "thee must
not do it." "Oh! by Jove but must"
said the youth. "Well, friend, as thee
hast sworn, thee may do it; but thee must
not make practice of it,"
Some people are too trusting for this
world. At recent trial the prisoner en-
tered plea of mot guilty." when one of
the jurymen put on his hat and started for
the door. The judge called him back and
informed him that he couldn't leave until
that case was tried. "Tried ?" queried the
Juror, "why he acknowledged that he is
not guilty. MloCaukee Sentinel.
Two persons were once disputing so
loudly on the subject of religion, that they
awoke a big dog which had been sleeping
on the hearth before them, and he forth
with barked furiously. An old divine
present, who had been quietly slipping his
tea while the disputants were talking, gave
tile dog kick, and exclaimed, "Hold your
tongue, you silly brute You know no
more about it than they do
-Archduke Macmillan, of Bavaria,
went recently to Vienna to visit his daugh-
ter, the Empress of Austria. He always
travels quietly, and was mistaken for a
business man by a laxative Austrian
tradesman who occupied the same COM
partment in the train, and who, after tell
ing all about his own affairs, asked the
Archduke where he was going. "Going
to Vienna" "On business mo; to visit
my daughter, who married an Austrian"
Is your son-in-law in good business ?"
swell, tolerably good, but troublesome at
times" what is he r. Tho Emperor"
The tradesman was covered with confusion,
and, notwithstanding the laughing protes-
tions of the Archduke, he darted from the
carriage at the very first stopping place.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-03
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