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The Trade iw Edible BtrdS'-NestS.

China is the only considerable recipieAt Of
brought as curiosity to Europe and America
are hardly worth mention. The greatest trade
| in birds'-nests is done with Canton, the entire
import there being reckoned at 1,2OO piculs, or
| 10000 pounds. We may reckon on fifty nests
to the pound, SO that altogether 100000 nests,
or, from three pluckings, the products of $500,
| 600 pairs of birds, are annually introduced into
| China.
| There are, principally, two kinds of nests
distinguished in Canton-the mandarlan nests,
and the ordinary; the former, or perfectly
white kind, are sold at So 900 to $4,000 per pic
ul, which is double their weight in silver
Each pound thus costs in China $40 to $50, a
quite exorbitant price, compared with that
which the salangan pluckers themselves re-
ceive for their dangerous work, and which is
at the most only ten or twelve per cent. of the
market value. The second quality of nests are
sold at 81 800 to 81, ,s00 There is a small trade
done in the kind Of nest built by the so called
-weed-eating salangan, referred to above /;
dissolved In water or broth, and so taken as
soup. 1t is highly spiced with minor substan-
css. This forms an entree which is rarely
wanting on the tables of the wealthy Chinese
and never from that of the imperial court at
Pekin. The Chinese set high value upon it,
| considering it one of the best stlmulants; but
for this opinion there appears to be little or no
ground. The most recent analysis of the nests
we owe to Prof Troschel, of Bonn He finds
| that the material does not consist of specially
nourishing or stimulating substances, but is
quite similar in constitution TO any animal
saliva. Thus the Chinese pay dearly for what
really has no intrinsic value.-- Chambers Jour-
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I Co,sn16ias Comtroveysy.
From the Detroit Free Press.

! From the Detroit Free Press.
| The holt on the back door had needed re-
placing Eor long time, but it was only the
other night that Mr.. Throcton had the presense
OF mind to buy new one and take it home
Alter supper he hunted up his tools, removed
the old bolt, and measured the location for the
new one. He must bore some new holes, and
Mrs. Throcton heard him roaming around the
kitchen and woodshed, slamming doors, pull
ing out drawers, and kicking the furniture
around. She went to the head of the stairs and
called down:
Richard, do you want anything"
eyes, L do!' he yelled back. "I want to
know where in Texas that corkscrew 81"
"Corkscrew, Richard p"
eyes, corkscrew, Richard I've looked the
house over and can't find it,"
"Why, we never had one Richard !"
Didn't, eh I! We've had dozen of 'em in
the last two years, and boughto one four weeks
ago. It's always the way when want any
thing"
"Butyou must be out of your head, husband"
she said, as she descended the stairs
Kept sesas e9ass ssysn syS OY
no4a-..
80, yes, I'm out of my head, am !" he grum-
bied, he pulled out the sewing machine
drawer, and turned over its contenrs. per
haps I'd better go to the lunatic asylum right
away"
'Well, Richard, know that l have never
span a a., houea
"Then you are as blind as an owl in day
light, for I've bought i've or six The house is
always upside down, anyhow, and | never can
find anything!
"The house is Kept as well as any one of
your folks can keep one :" she retorteG, grow
ing red in the face.
"Pd like my mother here to show you few
things" he SAID, he stretched his neck to
look on the high sleit in the pantry.
Perhaps sned Doil her spectacles with the
potatoes agaIur answered the wife.
''Do you know who you are talking to he
yelled as ne jumped down.
"Yes, l do!'
"Well, you'll be going ior New York State,
if you don't look out !"
"Pd like to see myself? When go this
house goes J"
'Look out Nancy"
"Pm afraid of no man that lives, Richard
Throcton !"
"Tll leave your
"And I'll laugh to see you go!"
Going close up to her he extended his finger,
tn nh Si1 IL
said:
"Nancy Tbrocton, I'll apply for divorce to-
morrow I'll tell the judge that kindly and
lovingly asked you where the gmlet was, and
you said we'd never had one in the house,
which is a bold falsehood, as 1 can prove!"
"Gimlet!" !" she gasped.
eyes, gimlet!"
why, know where there are thI . or four
You said corkscrew !"
"Did II he gasped, sitting down / the cor
ner of the table; "well, now, belle E I did -
"Ard you went and abused me Ii a slave
because wouldn't say gimlet W; a cork
screw p she sobbed, falling on the l, Jnge.
"Nancy," he said, tenderly lifting .er up.
"oh, Richard l' she chokingly ans rered.
"Nancy, I'll go right out doors, an, kill my
selfw
81 ye,' aoe4 srniI9c IS n05-s toi iE'screw
ait ain't,-it amt, Nancy forgimme and
less be happy?"
And that household is so quietly happy that
a canary bird would sing its head off if hung
up in the hall.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04
The Tiger.

| Generally speaking. the tiger, unless he is a
nian-eater, will not attack human being
When, however, he is wounded, he will turn
and fight desperately. Tigers "appear to be
afraid to encounter man until they have once
had an encounter with him, when all fear
ceases ever after. But whenever a
tiger has once tasted human blood, teven seeks
it in preference to all others" Dr. Frayrer
thinks it probable that, on account Of the
general disarming of the natives after the mu-
tiny, the number of tigers has increased rather
than diminished of late years. Their ravages
are certainly appalling. Captain Rogers says
that in lower Bengal alone, during the six
years ending in 1866, 13,40O human beings
were killed by wild animals, while Govern
ment reports state that during the same period
and in the same locality, 4,21S of the above fell
victims to tigers, while 4,287 were slain by
wolves. In the Rangpore district alone, the
yearly loss of life is between fifty five and six
ty. The exploits of individual tigers are even.
more remarkable. We read of one tiger which
in 1867, 1868, 1869, killed respectively q, "a,
and AZ people. Once it killed father, mother
and three children within a few moments
week before it was shot. Another tiger de-
stroyed during 1885, 1857, ls5S, an average of
80 persons annullay. A third tiger in 1869
slew 127 people, and stopped up public road
for several weeks till killed by an English
sportsman. So great is the awe which this ty-
rant of the jungle inspires that whole villages
are sometimes deserted, and all cultivation in
the neighborhood stopped A Government re-
port informs US that in the Central Provinces
"a single tigress caused the desertion of thir-
teen villages, and 250 square miles of country
were thrown out of cultivation" The inhabi-
tants of India, especially the Hindoos, believe
the tiger to be the abode OF an evil spirit, and
many would not kill him If hey could, for fear
of subsequent mischief. So great dread in
some parts of the country is 1eIt ny the peas
ants of his supernatural powers aud malevo
lent disposition, that they either avoid naaing
him at all or speak of him as 'the jackal,'' or
"the beast" There is almost universal be-
lief that his flesh, especially his heart, if eaten
produces courage and strength. His whiskers,
claws and fangs are also religously preserved
as potent charms.-At then@uns.
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Won,em aoho Never Wash.

A Spizz respondent of the London Stand
ard writes: Those of your readers who have
Travelled in Spain, have certainly remarked the
dirty stripes on the necks of the lovely seno-
ras no devout Spanish woman dares to bathe
without the permission of her confessor. This
aversion to cleanliness has come forward from
the time of the anchorites Sabinus, Pachomi'
nus, Besarion, and other saints OF the desert
and indeed whole sects ofthat epoch condemn
ell all abutions as heathenish and were laud-
ell because they wore their clothes so long that
they rotted to pieces and fell off them, or be-
cause their skins became as "pumice stone
from the crust of dirt on it. The superstition
that cleansing the body soils the soil exists this
day among the women Of those christian ma
tens who have long carried on conflicts with
the Mohammedans, on whom the Koran en-
Joins frequent ablutions.
A female Bulgarian is permitted to wash
only once in her life-on the day before her we'd
ding; and in most South Sclavonian families
the girls are rarely allowed to bathe, the wo-
men never. recall with a shudder the inte-
rior of the Montenegrn huts. When woman
offered me wine she always dipped her fingers
into it, the same fingers which had just been
engaged in the chase on her children's heads
or which had been gently scratching the pig
the pet Of the family, which is always ad-
dressed by endearing names. The adults squat
or lie down, the children tumble about IN the
LIQUID manure which covers the floor of the
hut, and many women are blear-eyed in con
sequence of the creosote caused by the smoke
which can only escape through the door. Th'
The Princess Milena, as have said, forms al
| exception.
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0oefrg,
THE GATES OF PRAISE.
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

In the waning of the year,
When the nights are long and cold,
When the fields are brown and sere,
And the reaper's tale is told;
When to SUMMER climes than ours
Far the birds have winged their way,
And the memory of the flowers
Fainter grows from day to day;
When no more the scarlet leaf
Flutters through the silent air,
And the answer of the sheaf
Guerdons we'll the toiler's care:
Then, in autumn's parting days,
Enter we the Gates of Praise.
Praise to Him whose harvest wealth
Fills the land from sea to sea,
Praise to Him whose joy and health
Bless our homes with melody;
In His shadow we abide,
Ill nor harm can touch us there,
From the hurtling storm we hide,
Clinging to His arm by prayer:
In our glad or lonely days,
Enter we the Gates of Praise.
By the Bethels we have known,
By the Films, fair with palms,
By each dear remembered tone
Mingled in our household psalms;
BY the places, angel watched,
Where we wrestled long with pain,
By the bolted doors unlatcneo
At some angel touch; again,
As they grow to more and more
We will count our mercies up,
He who doth our souls restore
Mixes for us every cup:
In our sweet or bitter days,
Enter we the Gates of Praise.
HAPPY to the Fathers ear,
Come the minor notes of pain,
And the cadence of tear
With no dlscord in the strain;
So, when ache our wounded hearts,
In the darkness vague and chill,
This soothing balm imparts,
Sorrows self is Gods good will:
Though Affections hedge our ways,
Enter we the Gates of Praise.
Thankful Father, most of all,
For the life unseen of men;
For the hearts that hear Thy call;
For the faith that comforts when
Earthly joys retreat; for hope
In Thy Son, our Saviour strong;
For the heaven, SO sure to Ope,
Where our vanished loved ones throng.
Sure to epe and let US in,
There to be well satisfied,
Set forever free from sin,
Bathed in glory's fullest tide;
Thankful still that we are Thine,
Children of Thy tender care,
All our days a light divine
From Thy sacred presence wear:
Since Thou guardest all our ways
Enter We the Gates OF Praise.
Christian at Work.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

M8-When an authoress names her hero
"Claude" and her heroine "Maud." and adopts
"Viotoria St. Clair" for non de plume, you may
know that her real name is something like
Sarah Jane Muggns, and that she is senti-
mental young thing of thirty'fve, with two
cerk-screw curls hanging in front of each ear
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

IsH DER SMIr IN.-Two Dutchmen, not long
since, had occasion to go to blacksmith's shop
on business, and finding the smith absent, con-
cluded to go to the house. Having reached the
door, said one to the other:
"Come Hans, you ak all about der smt"
"Nein, nein," said the other, "you can shust
do dot peesnis putty much as peeter as can"
"Vell, den make some knocks on the door
NIT my knuckIes."
The mistress Of the house came to the door
and then Hans inquired:
"Ish der smit NIT der house in7"
"I can't understand you," said the woman
Hans then bawled out:
"Ish der smt been NIT der house in If he
don't vas homer"
The other dutchman perceiving that the wc'
man could not understand Hans stepped to the
front, pushed his friend aside and mended
matters in satisfactory manner as follows:
"Stan' pack, Hans, an let man watts man
come up, vat can say somedinks. Good vo'
mems, of you blease, ish der placksmit shop in
der house?"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

Mg~Vice President Wilson's name was orig
inally Colbath and he had it changed to Will
son by the Massachusetts, Legislature, to oblige
\ Henry Wilson, who hal greatly befrended
him. The two chief personages in our Govern
nent have changed their names since infancy
for the President, now known as Ulysses simp-
son Grant was originally named Hiram Ulys'
ses Grant.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

Ms-supposing she did walk three-fourths OF
a mile in the rain, soil her new striped stock
ings, and nearly ruin her dress, what was that
in comparison to the joy of being the first one
to tell Mrs. Jones that the Smiths couldn't
board at the Revere this winter, as old Smith
had failed.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04
OLDFIELD'S EXCELSIOR PUMP |!

TENHE undersigned has now Oh hand about
1900 feet of choice White Oak Pump Stock
which has been in spring water a sufficient
length of time to free it from sap. Any Pump
constructed of this stock is guaranteed not ~
giys g58ess sq h SnRleaaaHt tSste t9 ths
and he will always be prepared to put up the
EXCELSIOR PUMP at short notice.
Always on hand all kinds OF Pump, Fixtures
of the very best quality, including LsathereA
Buckets for Old Pumps, which can be iarnish
ed on demand.
Common Wooden Pumps made on the prem
ises where they are to be placed, when defirsd.
All Pumps constructed by the subscriber are
warranted ier one year. After the first yesr
they will be kept in order by him, for ten y'arI'
for the moderate sum Of 81 per year.
If the Excelsior Pump should not giue satisfa~
tiof 1t acW be REMOVED and the money TefUnatd.
Mg~ Refers by permission to R. R. Bosrmsn
ESQ., Towsontown. Orders by mail, or in per
son. attended to promptly.
VIM. OLDFIELD, PUMP MAKER,
Mv29-1y@ Fountain Green, Hartford Co., Nd
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M@-An exchange says that, amid the gen.
oral reduction of wages in these times, there IS
one thing whose wages is not in the least re-
duced, and that is SIM
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

FEEDING THE SIoK.--Sad mistakes are made
by hundreds of we'll meaning folks in their
method of administering nourishment to inva-
lids. 1t is the custom to keep the delicacies
intended to tempt their appetites constantly
within their reach. The result is, that instead
of feeling any desire for the jelles, broths, etc.,
thus obtruded upon their notice, the sight of
them creates loathing and disgust. Sick peo-
pie should never be haunted with food in this
way. Even persons in health would lose their
relish, if condemned to live in e larder, sur
rounded night and day with all the dainties of
the season. If you have anything rare and de-
licous for your patient, surprise him with it.
A pleasant surprise is a good tonic, and you
may excite his palate by springing refresh
ing rarity upon him unexpectedly. Never
hand sick man pile of eatables, telling him
that you expect him to devour the whole of it.
Feed him on the infnitesimal plan, with fairy
morsels; and as soon as he has taken what he
requires, remove the remainder. In visiting
sick rooms, how often one finds bowls of ar
roWroot and sago, dabs of jelly, cups of beef
tea, fragments of dry toast, slices of oranges,
and the like, mixed in among black draughts,
boxes of pills, plasters, leeches, and other
denominations of the "healing art" No won
der the pale and languid inmates HI no ap-
petite.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

TwEEp's FAITHFUL WIFE.-They were mar
ried when the man was achairmaker, and they
might have had happy career had the former
remained honest. They lived in plain man
ner, mingled with mechanics society, and were
the parents of two boys and two girls, good
looking and healthy children. The era ofmer-
etricious splendor has come and gone like
dream. The girls are married. Each had
diamond wedding and each has sunk into OBJ
scurity and poverty. The two sons once held
| fine appointments in the service of the Ring,
but they are now only lounging around the City
Hall. The mother is in widows desolation.-
The ill-getten wealth is almost all gone. A
million and half has passed into the hands OF
her lawyers, and her husband is still prison
or. A seedy and corpulent old man, inhabit
ing a pair of rooms in Ludlow street Jail is all
that is left of one who has been Alderman, Con-
gresham, chairmaker and lawyer, commission.
or of parks, public buildings and docks, State
Senator, and for several years the autocrat Of
| the city. The only redeeming feature is the
faithful wife, who is reducing herself to power.
ty in hope Of obtaining her husbands release
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

Nsa- The true secret of living at peace with
all the world is to have an humble opinion OF
ourselves.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04
MusicaS Education in our Schools


How is this great power of music to be con-
trolled and brought to bear most directly, most
efficiently, on our people? That nation is the
best educated in which knowledge is most diff
fused, in which the results of learning
within the grasp of the greatest number. On
ly so far as any art or science becomes part
of popular education that art or science
become a power, an influence, in land. Of
the growing desire among our people for high
er musical education have many signs in
the frequency of festivals and choral unions
and the number of musical associations. We
Americans a conglomerate race, made up
of the best of every people under the sun, so
transfused that the origin of even a single fam
lily can scarcely be traced without element
Of Celtic or Teutonic race discovering itsel T.
Perhaps this is the source of the musical taste
SO widely spread among us as people. We
say taste, not culture we are not cultured; We
are not yet cultivated people in any true
sense. AS national characteristic, tc be song
and music lovers belongs to the Irish end Ger
man races rather than to the Saxon. 1t is rare
to find German or an Irish girl without an
ear LOT music. In our w eSCern ObdCeS anu cell
tres of population the Germans instinctively
gather, in remembrance of the fatherlard, in
to Sangverens, preserving the songs and mus
ical traditions of the old land, while they well
come gladly any thing fresh and worthy from
the new. The marvellous achievements of the
| school festivals in the Music Hall in Boston
| are largely due to the fine voices, the quick
perception, of the Irish, either by birth or de-
scent, who constitute majority of the pupils
in our public schools.
No one thing has done more for music in the
past twenty years than its introduction as an
| integral part of our common school education.
In the large cities and suburban towns little
seems left to desire in that direction. From
the time children called at the age of five en-
ter the primary school till at the age Of sixteen
or eighteen they graduate from the high or
normal school, music is as much part of their
training as the multiplication on-table and SPELL
ing book. The next generation will see what we
forsee, and reap the harvest this generation is
so wisely sowing.
If, as we contend, music is in itself purifying
and elevating, if it can displace and crowd cut
baser pleasures by giving nnocent recreation
and excitement to people that must be amused
a people who must be busy for good or for evil
we can not have too much of it. Itcan not en-
ter too largely or too deeply into the system OF
common school education.-Ellis Gray, in Har-
per's Magazine for October.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

sLINGLUFF & SLINGLUFF,
ATTOR NEYS AT LAW.
c. BONN SEINGLUFF will be found daily
at his new Office in Towson town, and in con-
nection with F. c. SLINGLUFF, 1881 st. Paul
st., will attend to all business entrusted to
them promptly, either in the county or city.
C. BONN SLINGLUFF,
UTSCHER Il VOCAT T
AND RECHTS ANWA L T,
R-D Dem Court House gegenuber.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

D. HOPPER EMORY,
TTORNEY AT la W.
sMEDLEY ROW, TowsoNTowN, ND.
Will practice his profession, in connection
with D. G H. EMORY, who may be consulted
at their Offices No. AZ st. Paul street. Baltimore,
on MONDAYS and FRIDAYS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

JAMES MILLER,
ATTORN4tY AT La W d MAGISTRATE.
Office with R. R. Boarman, ESQ.,,
sMEDLEY ROW, TOWsONTOWN, MD.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1875-04-28
Sbto @aiienfreuuo.

iliet seratben; es miHen iomit oieie &C.
iebe piel miloer iein als bic preubi'
men, oa li9 unlere gii66fe III Der
Wobrung tirdli9er &edte uno Sreibei-
ten teinespe9s bon ibren preubii3en
@mtsbriioern an Gorrectbeit Der @eiin-
nun8 iibrtreHen lallen ,uiirben, tpenn bier
uie bort bic ndmli9en @erbdltnilje Be-
ltdneen. Sieies frieoli@e Nebenonoet1ein
Der tir6lidcn uno taatliaen Mutoritdt
lit ntslen Qeuten natiirlid) cine @rcuel,
un6 namentli9 Die oberaliitil@cn Bldt-
ter, m09en iie aud ionit in reli9ioler Be-
5iebung cine correcte 9altun9 eiue)men>
beben fortwdbreno 9e9en Die confellionel-
len @elebe. 9as ~Baterlano" bat oenn
aud Die grfldrun9 Winoborirs nit elmer
sroBen In5abl BON Gra9e5ei@en ousse-
itattet, II. bur9 elm iol9es Gra9eIpiel,
>pel9es Die Wabrbeitsliebe oes betud6r<
ten &dmpfers ftr reli9i01e 6reibeit in
3peifel 5iebt, lid Der Miibe 'iiberb boben,
ben fru6tloien 8eriu@ elmer Mieoerle-
sun9 magen 5u nsiihen. Die liberalen
Bldtter ober, ,pelde uulere Re9ierun9
fort,uQbrenb in Die Babnen ses preuB'<
I6en v@ulturtampfcs" gu brdnsen lu9en,
9erietben auBer Hano unb @ano our9
Den Wus1pru6 Winotbort's ~Sn Oelter-
reid ,pirft man oer lieberolen partei
einige l60ne 6losieln bin, aber in Der
Sauptla9e bleibt es beim Mlteu." Sa~
wobl, ir Der $ ouptio d bleibt uno
n1uB es beim Mlten bleiben; oenn oer
Monor6 uno Die &esieruns Deiterreib's
linb fatboli14, bic 8elpobner Oeittrreid)'s
in Der ,peitaus iiber,uiesenoen Ufebr'
5abl &atboliten, uno es tann Oeiter'
reid, mel9es Sabrbunoerte binour@
bic Bei9iituns oer tatbolil@en air4t
als cine leiner 9auptauf9aben betrad)tete.
obne @elleu9nun9 ieiner @eI4i4te ni4t
gum &ir@erfturm iibereeben.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1875-04-28

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Mbseor6neten Winotborlt (Meppen) bel
Der 9sbatte iiber oas prtuBi(6e ~@perr=
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Fidcn confeiiionel1en @elebe oiel miloer
leien ols Die preubii6en uno iiberoies
ou6 nidt 10 itren9 sebanbbobt wiiroen,
6ot in Dieli9en politif9en &reilen cine
ni6t 9erin9e Nufre9ung perurlo9t uno
,ucnn au6 Die Q8eQen oieier Belpegun9
ldon tbeilweile >oicoer 9egldttet lino, 10
meroen ood) Die lieberalen 8ldtter niGt
iniioe, Ole Gegieruns Sag fir Sag lp6t=
tiid oorauf bin5ulpeiien. Nidts oeito=
>penj9er bat oos bobgeebrte M&it9lieo
berGentrun,spartei, mie bel 1einer befann-
ten correcten &uifanun8 uno genialen
Beurtbe beilun9 politil l6er @erbdltnilie nidt
anoers gu er>parten 1T, ganS ri4ti9 9e=
urtbeilt; 9err 8inotborit tann lid sum
Beueile auf Die 9altun9 uni leres Gpis>
copates ben niellioneQen @e1eten ge<
geniiber berufen. Gs lit nod nir9cnos
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