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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

A railroad engineer, at Harrisburg. Pa,
having been discharged, applied to be re-
instated You were dismissed" said the
superintendent. austerely, " tor letting
your train come twice in collision" The
very reason" said the other party. inter
rupting him, "why ask to be restored" :"
GLOW SOP" 'Why, sir, if had any doubt
before as to whether two trains can pass
each other on the same track, am now
entirely satisfied; | have tried it twice.
sir, and it can't be done. and | am not
likely to try it again" lie regained his
position
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

Our English cousins are jubiIant over
the exploits of their Webb-tooted country
man in swimming naked across the Chan
mel, and beating the Yankee Boyton, with
his patent dress and his paddle, by two
good hours. The distance swan was cigh-
teen miles and it was accomplished ih It
little over twenty hours. Webb making
twenty strokes to the minute Caremi
preparations We're made for the feat lie
was rubbed all over with porpoiSe oil be
fore starting, and during the swim lunch
ed in the water on beef tea and od-liver-
oil, topping off towards the close with cot
fee and brandy; and he wore spectacles
to keep the sun and the salt water out of
his eyes. On reaching Calais sands he was
tired, but soon recovered, and being con
veyed to Il hotel, was rubbed down and
put to bed. This is claimed in London as
the greatest physical feat of the century
Let us hear no more Of Leander aud the
llelIespont. Byron swan the same dis
tance in seN enty minutes, but what is that
to swim of twenty hours. Portland
TRANSCRIPT
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

Men seldom think of the great event of
death until the shadow falls across their
own path, hiding from their eyes the
traces Of the loved ones whose smile was
the sunlight of their existence. Death is
the great antagonist Of life. and the cold
thought Of the tomb is the skeleton OF all
breasts. We do not want to 60 through
the dark valley, although the passage
lead to paradise; and with Charles Lamb,
we do not want to lie down in the muddy
grave even with kings and princes for
bed fellows But the fiat of Nature is in
eNorable. There is no appeal or relief
from the great law that dooms us to the
dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves
OF the forest, and the flower that blooms
and withers in day has not Trailer hold
upon life than the mightiest monarch that
ever shook the earth with his footsteps.
Generations of men appear and vanish as
the grass, and countless multitudes that
throng the world to day will tomorrow
disappear as footsteps on the shore.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

Dry earth is a first class deodorizer, and
may often be used for this purpose to good
effect. Earth upon which slops have been
thrown should be frequently removed to
be used as fertilizer, and its place sup
piled with dry earth.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

An old woman sat on a bench in West
ern depot, wiping her eyes with her hand
kerchief, when a portly man, full of SYM
pathy, said to another: at always makes
my heart ache to see an aged person in
trouble" Walking up to her he kindly
asked: "My good woman, why these
tears why do you weep?' She took
down the handkerchief, looked up in sur
prise, and bluntly answered; 1--we got
the wust cold in my head Eve had for
torty-siN year,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

The Journal says that mad dog, foaming at
the mouth, was shot on Water Street, Acgusts,
Friday. His condition was discovered before
he did any damage.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16
Incidents of a Marriage.

y couple who undertook to get married
the other day had rather a troublesome
time of it. They went, accompanied by a
bridesmaid and groomsman, to one OF our
churches, and were ushered into the sacred
edifice and escorted to the altar by the
sexton, who, however, got the parties
mixed up, stationing the bridesmaid next
to the bridegroom, and the bride and
groomsman in corresponding wrong posi-
tions. The clergyman not noticing the
mistake, went on with the ceremony and
began marrying the bridesmaid to the
bridegroom when the bride served an in
junction on him by eXclaiming that she
was the marrying party The mistake be
ing remedied, the clergyman took another
hitch at it and the performance went
smoothly along until it became time for
the bridegroom to produce the ring essen
tial to the completion of the ceremony.
But when that gentleman felt in his vest
pocket it wasn't there in the other not
there; and then he dove down to the bot
tom Of the remaining pocket, and finally
exclaimed, ''Well, sure, there's 4 hole in
my pocket and the ring has slipped down
into my boot" And the only way to fin
ish the Job was tor the bridegroom to sit
down, and pull off his boot, take out the
ring, pull on his boot, stand up like Il man
put the ring where it ought to 90, and
walk out with his bride = and all this he
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

The death OF Ex-Governor Weller of
California revives this anecdote of him.
..Weller was once unfortunate enough to
be caught in shipwreck. Arriving at
San Francisco, he was asked by smypa-
thizing friend if he had lost much. Lost
everything, SIR said Weller. everything
but my reputation Governor said the
friend, you travel with less baggage than
any one | ever saw.'n
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

A young woman of, engaging personal
appearance, says the Burlington Hawkeye,
who came here last week from Creston,
recently announced that she was going to
open barber shop on North Hill. The
very next day, which was yesterday, each
married woman on North Hill surprised
her husband, whose many virtues she had
long known and admired with a neat lit
tie present, consisting of a razor, lather-
brush and strop. And now, as often as a
North Hill man comes home, the wife OF
his bosom puts her arms around his neck
and rubs her downy cheek against his face
in all apparent innocence and affection,
but If his cheek is smoother than when he
went away from home in the morning,
she fans him with the rolling-pn until he
has to wear his hat on whichever lump it
will fit best.
LIS said that every steamer from China now
lands one thousand Cinnamon at San Francisco.
1t Is worthy of note that they are becoming
quite numerous in the east. Probably there
are twenty Cinnamon in Boston to-day where
there was one five years ago
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16

AS stranger was yesterday knocking
at the door OF a house on Second street, a
boy came around the corner and inquired :
"Got anything to sell?" Yes, ! want to
sell your mother box of tooth paste
Might as well get off'n the steps" contlnu,
ed the boy. as smile broke out around
his mouth, "she's got store teeth ana she
cleans 'em with wooen rag
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

hair curling over low, broad forehead,
lips full and handsome, with a massive
chin and classic throat the woman of
he yelled picture, line for line, but to
all appearance living and breathing, with
a beautiful smile in her eyes, and wear
ing, not the riding habit, but floating,
ccape-ike, white garment, impossible
| to describe. There was q strange, weird
| brightness in her face-the transfgured
brightness of great icy aid greater
| love"
"Constance Constance and my
| child !' cried Sidney, in a voice that rose
| to a shrek and, like a dissolving view,
the light and all We looked on with eyes
trans6xed, faded away
I was aware of an excess of sensitive
ness, and that my heart was beating
with painful rapidity. did not become
| insensible, but some time elapsed before
[ became aware that lights were in the
| room, and that several servants. whom
my friends cry had summoned in haste
and alarm, were endeavoring to rouse
him to consciousness from fit that had
seized him but from that fit he never
breathing gradually grew less and less,
anu ere uOcIOF CAME, ue Adu C6do0u W
| respire.
His death-sudden as hers on that
eventful night, but retributive one
was declared to be apoplt Ny; but knew
| otherwise. Since then, though the
effect of the grape-shot wound on my
nervous system had quite passed away,
l feel myself compelled to agree with
the hackneyed remark of Hamlet, that
hnu
earth than are dreamt of in our philoso-
DhV
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

seventy-fve pounds in weight. Here is
a case where it looks as though it paid
to raise pork. In the first instance he
fed fraction short of four bushels of
corn, reckoning seventy pounds to the
bushel. For this he got in live pork,
for each bushel fed, twenty-one pounds.
In the second instance he fed 81 bushels
and got seventy-fve pounds live pork,
or fourteen pounds for each .bushel OF
corn, a wide difference from the first
experiment. The result is very similar
to one of Lewis trials. The ground
cob, no doubt, added very much IN the
digestion of the meal. Mr.. Lewis,
after feeding his pigs on clear corn
meal as much as they would eat for
nearly eight weeks, found swelling in
the sides OF their neck indicating lack
of something in the diet. Wishing still
to continue the experiment with the
clear meal, he concluded to try medi
cine. He took two pounds of finely
sifted coal ashes, four pounds of COM
mon salt and one pound of superphos-
plate of lime, mixed them together and
placed the mixture in pan convenient
for the pigs to get. They soon ate the
mixture and with evident relish. The
DuuCuoS Oh Gnc HECK ulSdppedT0u anu
their breathing improved, which had
been affected. In looking these expert
ments all over carefully it will appear
that mixed feed is pest to feed pigs.
Either feed cob and corn meal or corn
and meal and shorts at the rate of one
bushel of shorts to three of meal
NeaU York NelUS.
FEEDING MEAL TO RUMINANTS.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
man says, having often seen it stated in
the papers that corn meal fed to COWS
went directly to the fourth stomach
without mixing with other food, or be-
ing Reconstructed, I fed a COW about
five pounds cry corn meal some months
ago, in the morning, after she had eaten
her usual feed or hay. In about one
hour after [ killed the COW and found
that meal as thoroughly mixed with all
the hay in the paunch as if it had been
put in tub and stirred up with fork.
think that some, or all, of that meal
would have come up to be re-chewed if
the hay did.
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Let The People Speak.

r. V. PIERCE Buffalo, n. Y.
Dear Sir-Your Favorite Prescription has
done my wife world of good. She has taken
nearly two bottles and has felt better the past
two weeks than at any time in the past two
years. No more periodical pains none OF
that aching back or dragging sensation in her
stomach she has been accustomed to for sew
eral years. l have so much confidence in it
that would be perfectly willing to warrant to
certain customers Of ours who would be glad
to get hold Of relief at anv expense. 1 have
tried many Patent Medicines but never had
any occasion to extOl one before
Very truly yours, GEO. b. WHITING.
Mrs. E. r. DAILY, Metropolis. ILL.,, writes:
DIR. r. V. Pierce-My sister is using the
Favorite Prescription with great benefit"
MARY ANN FRIsBIE. Lehman Pa, writes:
DIR. r. V. Pierce-Whst l have taken OF
your medicine has been of more benefit to me
than all others and hundreds OF DOCTORS bills. Z"
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sold by
dealers in medicines generally.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28
A ROSE LOOKED in AT THE WIN
DOW.

"A Rose looked in at toe window,
On bleak November morn:
was lingering ray Of the summer.
- Tue WrccE Of the year to adorn.
Nne beauty and grace Of the blossom
SHed gladUess and light through the room
At ~ q nose, looking IN at the window,
Dsperses November's bloom.
Iheres Rose looking in at tie window
Tor every condition Of life;
IN Gays OF content and enjoyment,
IN hours with bitterness rife.
Inc voice Of friend in affection,
Hls Elndness IN troubles duII day
= Is Rose looking in at the window
1hat chases dark thoughts away.
There's Rose looking in at the window,
And Pleasant it rs TO see,
In the palace of pOmp and pleasure,
IN the cottage of low degree.
NherCer there's the smile of A woman
As G-lght IS beam from above,
.nere's a Rose loCbtug in at the window,
ana hihng the dwelling with love.
There's a Rose looking in at the window
On Youth with it's smiles and its tfa-s.
Us affection who prays that a blessing
May dwell IN the breast that she cheers,
Nor forgotten is Age, with his treasure
OF mercies, Of errors forgiven;
ana the Rose that looks in st his window,
i HOPE, that points upward to heayeL.
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SAVE MoNEY-It is well worth sauino

SAVE MoNEY.-It is we'll worth saving.
and you can save it in buying a sewing ma.
chine, and get one Of the best and most per.
feet machines in existence. The Wilson shut.
tie sewing machine has reached point OF ex.
cellence and perfectness equaled by no ma.
increasing demand, which is almost beyond
their manufacturing capacity to supply is con.
vincing evidence that the merits of this ma
chine are appreciated. Machines will be de-
ivered at any railroad station in this county
free of transportation charges, if ordered
through the company's branch house at 1se
Canal street, New Orleans, La. They send al
elegant catalogue and chrome circular free on
application. This company want few more
agents.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28
Married Couples How to Tell Them

If you see a lady and gentleman dis.
agree upon trifing occasions, or correct
ing each other in company, you may be
assured they have tied the matrimonial
moose.
If you see a silent pair in car or
stage lOlling carelessly, one at each
window, without seeming to know they
have companion, the sign is infallible.
If you see lady drop her glove, and
a gentleman by the side of her kindly
telling her to pick it up, you need not
hesitate in forming your opinion or
If you meet couple in the fields, the
gentleman twenty yards in advance of
the lady, who, perhaps, is getting over
a stile with difficulty, or picking her
way through a muddy patch; or,
If you see lady whose beauty and
accomplishments attract the attention of
every gentleman in the room but one,
you can have no difficulty in determin-
ing their relationship to each other
the one is her husband.
If you see a gentleman particularly
courteous, obliging and good natured,
relaxinginto smiles, saying sharp things,
and toying with every pretty woman in
the room excepting one, to whom he
appears particularly cold and formal,
and is unreasonably cross-who that
one is, nobody can be at loss to dis
cover.
If you see an old couple Earring,
checking and thwarting each other, DIFF
fering IN opinion before the opinion is
expressed, eternally anticipating and
breaking the thread of each others dis
corse, yet using kind words, like honey
bubbles floating on vinegar, which are
soon overwhelmed by a preponderance
of the fluid they are, to all intents,
man and wife lit is impossible to be
mistaken.
The rules above quoted are laid down
as infallible i'll just interpretation-they
may be resorted to with confidence ;
they are upon unerripg principles, and
deduced from everyday experience.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

CONsUNPTIvE CURED.-When death was hourly
expected from Consumption, all remedies having
failed, accident led TO a discovery whereby DIR. H.
James cured his only child with preparation of Can
ibis Indica He gives recipe free receipt OF
two stamps to pay expenses. There is not a single
symptom of consumption that it does not dissipate-
Night SReats Irritation of the Nerves Difficult EX-
pectol atons sharp pains in the Lungs Nausea at the
stomach InaCtiOn of the BOw' Is and Wasting Of the
Muscles. Address, CRADD0CK Il Co, l. 81 Race
Street, Philadelphia, Pa, giving of this paper
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Sights.

They are cheap. It costs nothing to
turn the face, to shut the mouth, to not
see a person who is not before the eyesa
and has expectations if not claims. 1t
is very easy to put off the call long over
due to neglect sending an invitation to
a party to one who is not of much &C
count to pass a former friend on the
street without recognition to go and
come, ignoring the existence of people
who have rights and feeling. And it is
as cowardly to do so as it is easy and
mean.
But the cheap, cowardIy slight is as
hard to bear as 1t is contemplate. How
it rankles. 1t stings like a nettle. It
is prussic acid on a wound. The very
cowardliness of it makes it more painful.
If Miss Scornful had only had the cour-
age to frankly say she does not care for
our friendship, and prefers orr room to
our company, we could possibly reply
with an equally polite expression of
popular chilliness but to be dropped
out unceremOniOusly and cut direct is
like a stab in the dark. Society is set
of complex relations. People are bound
together. They have duties, Obliga-
tions, affiliations. Kindness and polite
ness are parts of the unwrltten law of
social commerce. A slight is a sort of
robbery mean, pick-pocketry sort of
robbery, too-Of the notice one has a
right to expect. 1t may not cost any
thing just to mind ones own business,
and let a nd Ianguish for want of
notice and sympathy and cheer; but it
shows what he is made of, and what his
friendship is worth. The person who
can slight another is too base to be
sighted by a second time.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

SEE advertisement Fosters second
Texas Drawing postponed for few days. Ger
tifcates of deposit, payable only when the draw
ing takes place, will be received for tickets.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

CONE, AND LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
To the afflicted in body, we offer a
few words of plain, practical reasoning.
No matter under what form of sickness
YOU labor there is one great truth you
should ever keep in mind, viz: All dis
ease originates in an impure condition
of the blood. Purify that, and the dis
ease must depart, for 1t has nothing to
feed on; but you cannot purify the
blood by the use of poisonous drugs,
and exhaustive stimulants; the relief
which these afford is temporary and de-
ceptive, leaving you worse off at every
interval The best Blood Purifier ever
discovered is DIR. WALKERS FAMOUS
VINEGAR BITTERs, compounded of sim
pie herbs. No matter how hopeless
your case may seem, try the VINEGAR
BrrTERs, and a few draughts will con-
vince you of their value. DIR. Walker,
the discoverer of this priceless remedy,
had been given mp to die by the Phyal-
clans, and is now a sound and healthy
man from their use.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and
cheapest hair dressing in the world.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

THE QUEEN AGAIN N DANGER. The
British Medical Journal says that
OCouner, who, ON the day of thanks
giving for the recovery of the prince of
Wales, attempted 10 shoot the queen,
was arrested again On the oh inst
The queen was holding a drawinp-room
at Buckingham Palace, and O'Conner
was found standing at the same place
in front of the ratings, from which he,
on the former occasion, pointed a pistol
at the queen. the srrest was quietly
made, and O'COnner was sent to Hone
well Asylum, on the certificates of two
physicians that their prisoner was sub
ject TO both homicidal and suicidal fits.
TIE ST Louis Globe thinks that
Norway. where Tia" days are three
months long, Is the best place to start
daily paper.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

FACTORIES and machine shops should
not be allowed to run day without JohnsOn's
Anodyne Liniment. In case Of sudden acct
dent, an immediate use of it may save weeks
of suffering, and perhaps limb, or even life.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

THERE are several kinds of worms
which trouble horses the pin-wOrms (pointed
at both ends) are the most common and most
dangerous. Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders will in few days eject the worms
and the horse will begin to thrive.
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A MAN OF THOUSAND.

Delays are Dangerous. Don't neglect
your Cough. It may get beyond control. DIR. TUFTS
Expectorant is a prompt, reliable remedy.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

A VERY WIDE DIFFEREN CE.-The
anti Bonapartists in Paris are repeat
ing with much gusto an anecdote ap-
ropos of the projected marriage of the
Empress Eugenie's niece to the Duke
de Medina-C@li. 1t appears that after
Nine. de Montijo had married one of
her daughters to the Duke of Alba she
was anxious to make match between
her beautiful Eugenie-then the Belle
of Madrid-and the Duke d'Ossuna,
who is said to be tire most powerful
and the haughtiest nobleman in Spain.
Respecting his wealth and his munifi-
cence, it is said that one of his many
palaces is devoted to the occupancy of
his aged servants, all OF those who have
grown gray in his service being thus
cared for to the end of their days.
This princely grandee respectfully de-
clined the honor of the fair Eugenie's
alliance. After her marriage with the
Emperor, some one remarked to the
duke that as she had become an en-
press she might we'll have been held
worthy of the honor of becoming the
Duchess d'Ossuna. pardon me, re-
marked the duke, drawing himself up,
there is a wide difference between a
Bonsparte and an Ossuna. An alliance
which would be proper for the first
would he derogatOry TO the second.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

THE art of nursing is being elevated.
The average pay of monthly nurses in
New York is said by an intelligent cor
respondent to be $50, and sometimes
more. Male nurses demand from $25
to $40 per week, and there are nurses in
the cit who receive SO per day. So it
is a favored class after all. No crea-
ture in this world makes less account
of money than the New York millionaire
when the shadow of death is hanging
over him.
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w IinCreaSe cOntinu ally"
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m lit is the best,
,AIFarmers wives can excel New
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d send for circular to Geo. r.
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DIR. WHITTTER
MARRIACE GUIDE.

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