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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Flying Power of Bees.
National Repository for August.

The following experiments were made
with bees by Herr Donhoff; He took
some bees from the hive, just as they
came out of the entrance-hole, and
placed them under a glass bell at a
temperature of 60 Fahrenheit. First
they ran hastily up and down the sides
of the glass, and flew about the jar.
Some time after their movements became
less hasty, and fnallythey all set quietly
together, or moved slowly and clumsily,
being unable to fly about. A few were
allowed to crawl upon a pencil, which,
on beingjerked, threw them into the air;
they fell down perpendicularly without
moving their wings in the least. Two
or three were killed, and their honey
bags found to be empty. To the others
Herr DonhoE then gave a solution of
sugar, and after feeding for a few mo-
ments, he again threw them into the air.
They no longer fell down perpendicu-
larly, but little farther off, also moving
the wings. A minute afterward they
did not fall down at all, but flew to the
window. On repeating the experiment
at a lower temperature they lost their
power of flying even sooner, and a longer
period elasped before it returned after
they were fed onsugar-water. Inhigher
temperature the power returned sooner.
Herr Donhoff thinks it probable that the
bee loses the power of flying because it
does not possess the necessary strength
to be converted into muscular action,
and that this strength returns to its
system because in sugar it finds the
necessary vital support.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Marsh Malaria.

The following, which we take from
Hdrper's Weekly, gives some interesting
facts with regard to a theory first
preached during the wal by DR.. J. H.
Salisbury, then a resident of Cleveland
O., pending Investigations as to the origin
of chills and fever, which were much
talked of at the time. We believe he sue
ceeded in cultivating this disease in ordi-
nary fower-pots, and ~propagating it also
by bringing persons within the influence
Of the disease-producing plants:
One hypothesis in regard to the origin
of marsh malaria refers this to the devel-
opmentof certain microcopical growth,
which are supposed, by their dissent
nation, to effect alodgmentin the human
system, and there set in motion organic
changes, producing the various phenom-
ena of disease.
The subject has been calculated by
the recent researches, in Rome, of Messrs.
Langi and Terrigi, who have been study
ing the m~icroscopical fauna of the Ro-
man marshes. They find, in the cells of
alga collected there, certain dark gran
ules penetrating into the endochrome, or
%chlorophyll of alge having this sub
stance. These become more and more
developed with the death and decay
of the alge, and finally turn black, and
either cause or accompany a condition
of putrefaction which results in their
extensive dissemination.
According to the authors mentioned,
the marshes of the Campagna, in the
winter season, develop large masses of
this alge, which become decomposed by
the drying up of the ground, afterward
producing phanerogamOus land plants.
Toward autumn the marshy portions of
the undried land exhibit a corrupting
layer of slime, Astounding in the dark
granules referred to various animal
infusoria. These are found in alum
dance in the atmosphered dust of the Cam
pagna, and are largely developed from
it by cultivation.
The pigment granules found in the
liver and spleen of individuals suffering
from malaria, have similar properties to
those of the ferment granules in ques-
ton, and they can be developed quite
similarly. Terrigi has found that the
best method of preventing the decay and
development of these granules is in the
application of chloride of lime, of lime,
or of choral. A filtering of the 'atmos.
phere several hundred feetabove the sur.
face of the earth, revealed the presence
of these bodies, which also appeared in
the liver and spleen of g~uinea-pigs thai
had been kept for some time at the leve
of the marsh.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

and let it boil till the alum is dissolved
then apply it hot with a brush to all
cracks, closets, bedsteads and other
pieces, where any insects are found.
Ants, bed-bugs, eockroaehes and creep
ing things are killed by it; while there
is no danger of poisoning the family or
injuring the property.
Vegetables, the edible parts of which
ripen under ground, such as potatoes, car
rots, and parsnips, are heat-producing,
while those that ripen above ground are
cooling. The latter, including especially
asparagus, lettuce, peas, beans, tomatoes,
corn and all fruits, should be freely
eaten in summertime. Meat should not
be eaten oftener than twice a day at the
most, and lean is preferable. Tomatoes
are particularly healthy as a summer
diet
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
A Little Mormon Colony.

The Wallawala Union says that up on
the mountain side, between Mill Creek
and Russell Creek, there lives a colony
representing about seventy persons, who
are commonly called Mormons. These
are an offshootfrom the Mormon Church.
Their first Prophet was one Morris, who
was killed by the old-fashioned Nor
mons years ago. The most noticeable
popularity about them is, that the men
never cut their hair, and some of them
look as though they washed or
combed their locks. The head of the
colony is a f~ne-looking man by the name
of W. H.. Davis, who has a sonnow about
five years old that is claimed to be the
second Christ. But little is known of
this sect by our people, as they live in a
lot of houses built close together, and do
not neighbor" much with the settlers
around them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Trump Kards.

We copy from Josh Billings new book,
Trump Kards, a few of the philosophers
remarks, and commend them to Our
readers:
hay never known a second wife but
what waz boss ov the situashun.
Wiskee il a hard thing to convince,
therefore never argy with a drunken
man.
Maids marry to change their condi-
shun, widows marry to improve it.
After a, man gifts to be thirtyeight
years old he kant form emmy habits
mulch, the best he kan do is to steer his
old ones.
Iluv a rooster for two things. One IL
the crow that il in him, and the other
IL the spurs that are on him, to bak up
the crow with.
Emmy man who can swop horses, or
ketch fish, and not lie about it, IL Just
about as pious az men ever get to be in
this world.
The sassyest man i ever met, is a hen
peckt husband, when he IL away from
home.
An enthusiast IL an individual who
behaves about four times az much az he
kan prove, and who kan prove about
four times az mulch az ennybody else
behaves.
The dog that will follow everybody,
amt worth a cuss.
Thoze people who are trieing to git to
heaven on their kreed will find out at
last that they didn't have a thru ticket.
The greatest mistake emmy woman kan
make, IL, Just as soon az her husband
haz been elekted capting ov a malisha
company to be krazy to appear in his
uniform.
Too long courtships are not alwuss
judicious; the partys often tire out
skoreing before the trot begins.
Natur seldum makes a phool, she
simply furnishes the raw materials, and
lets the fellow finish the job to suit him
self.
Young man, learn to wait, if yu un-
dertake to sett a hen before she IL reddy,
yu will loze your time and confuze the
hen besides.
One of the best trades emmy man kan
make liz to sell out his religious kreed
and invest the proceeds in charity.
One quart of cheap whisky, the
cheaper the better, judishously applied,
will do more bizzness fer the devil than
the smartest deakon he haz got.
Be mersiphull to all the dunn animals
no man can ride into heaven on a
sore-backed horse.
Prudes allwus seem to have more
property on hands thar the kno what to
do with.
When men retire from the world they
go into the kroaking bizzness, and il
amounts tn just about az mulch az the
kroaking of a retired bullfrog.
There IL two things about the devil
which i admire, and which are worthy
of imitation, he IL allwuss bizzy, and
never was known to break an engage.
ment.
When yu hav bored the bulls eye, SET
down, and keep still; folks will think
then that yu kan hit it emmy time W
hav a mind to.
1t IL kind ov kurious that the thinner
a man il the more anxious he liz to gel
into a strong light.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
A Mechanical Horse.

The Geneva Continent says: An inge-
NOUS gentleman of Berlin, Herr Fred
erich Netzsch, has invented a horse.
The animal is made of iron, and the
motive power, instead of being its own
legs, is derived from the legs of the rider.
The iron horse, as the Berlin papers call
him, showed off his PAGES the other day
in the garden of Hagen's Summer
Theater, in the presence of the leading
mechanicians and journalists of the Ger
man capital. The concern is described
as consisting of a couple of wheels, two
meters high; between these " find itself"
the horse, upon which mounts the rider.
The latter moves his legs latter the
English fashion of riding" (this means,
we presume, that he rises and falls in his
saddle), and the thing goes along as fast
as a quick trotting horse. The road
makes no difference-it is all the same
whether the machine goes gently over
the stones or moves swiftly on the hard,
high road-and the facility with which
the steel turned round corners excited
the admiration of all beholders. Herr
Netzsch believes that his invention will
be of great use to porters and others for
the carrying of light loads, and he has
confident hopes that it will be highly ap-
preciated by the numerous classes who
are fond of saddle exercise, but are
destitute of the w~herewithal to buy and
maintain horses of flesh and flood; he
contemplates too, its application to the
drawing of cabs and other carriages. II
is even conceivable that in this inyen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

LAFAYETTE HUGHES registered in
the Lindell Hotel, st. Louis, and told
the clerk that he had come there from
his home in Chicago to stop drunken
ness. He had been on a long spree, and
was very nervous from the effect of it.
He deposited all his money in the safe,
so that he could not buy liquor, and
went to the theater, hoping that the en-
tertainment might divert his thoughts
from his craving for alcohol. Late at
night he demanded his money, saying
that he could no longer resist his appe-
tite, and having obtained it went out
and got very drunk. On the following
morning, being sober and discouraged,
he killed himself.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09


The story is old about swans singing
just before their death, and our readers
are doubtless familiar with the child's
inquiry in the beautiful stanzas of Mrs.
Sigourney, copied into some of our
school-books:
What is that, mother?
The swan, my love-
BE is floating down from his native grove;
No loved one now, no nesting nigh,
He is floating down by himself to die;
Death darkens his eye and unplumes his wings,
Yet his sweetest song is the last he sings"
There is also a caustic epigram, by
Coleridge we believe, upon a bad verse
maker, which embodies the pretty leg
end, as follows:
" Swans sing before they die; It were no bad thing
Did certain poets die before they sing"
But the swan figures in the ancient
poets as well, and Sir Thomas Browne,
in abiding to his musical habits, re-
marks that he was well known as a min
strel long before the Sirens. Hence it
was after his death Orpheus, the master
of song, became a swan; and since then
departed poets have been a~ffectionately
called by his name. Pindar was the
Heliconian Swan of Thebes, Virgil the
Swan of Mantua, and Shakespeare the
Swan of Avon. Horace called him the
bird of Apollo, and describes him as
drawing the car of Venus over the
waves. Homer compares the Greeks
when leaving their ships and rushing to
battle, to
The milk-white swans on Asius' watery plains;''
and Aristotle asserts that the souls of
poets after death pass into swans, and
retain the gift of harmony which they
possessed in human form. A German
myth informs us that swans soar over
and around the heads of heroes, singing
to them, as though Walhalla were sum-
moning them to immortality. There is
a pleasant fable about the dying swan
being visited by a stork, who told him it
was contrary to nature to sing so much
out Of season, and asked the reason for
it, "Why," said the swan, Z" 1 am now
entering into a state where / shall no
longer be in danger of either snares,
guns, or hunters; and who would not re-
joice at such a deliverancew
The voice of the swan is a harsh, un
musical one, and the story about its dy,
ing notes being changed into a song is, Of
course, only a fancy. Yet in support of
the story, we clip the following extract
from an exchange:
"A sporting friend recently returned
from a foray upon the Potomac River,
below Mt. Vernon, was the guest of a
venerable and highly intelligent lady,
who has always lived on the Potomac.
Speaking of the swan, she gave it as her
decided opinion that this bird was in the
habit of singing or making a plaintive
noise when dying: The reason she gave
for entertaining this belief was, that Oh
very many occasions in the last fifty
years, she had been awakened at night
by a sweet and exceedingly sad noise.
something like the tones of a fageolet
coming ove the water, and that OIL
every subsequent morning a dead swar
was found to be floating on the water, OF
to have been washed ashorel"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
GLEANZNGS FROM THE MUSE.
ADONIRAM PODGE.

Adoniram Podge was as lank and lean
Asa withered up stalk of corn;
And his face was as solemn as ever was seen
Since the days when Adam was born.
He lived on a farm in the edge of town,
And managed to keep on his legs
When he sold his butter and eggs.
His nose was as long as a piece Of chalk,
And his eyes were little and gray,
And he hacked when he opened his mouth to talk,
And twitched in an awkward way.
His voice was as sharp as q steel-spring trap,
And his head was minus of hair,
But he covered it up with an old fur cap
That his grandfather used to wear.
Adoniram Podge got q liberal price
For the truck that he took to town;
The top of his measure was always nice,
But shabbier deeper down;
And his wood was straight on the top of the load,
And crooked and gnarled below;
But the heavier part, on q rutty road,
VIII always shake down, you know.
Adoniram's Bible was worn and old
From the usage that it had got;
But a piece of knowledge that never was told,
Was, whether he used 1t or not;
If so, his memory served him wrong,
For he was not much of q doer
To the needy and friendless, who came along,
With the story that they were poor.
A capital man in the Church, was Podge,
To groan when the minister prayed;
And he knew to 4 7 the collection dodge,
And how much money he paid;
And he had, in a frame, in his dark spare-room,
Kept clean and neat by his wife,
A paper which stated a certain sum
Had made him a member for life.
Adoniram Podge kept a hired man,
And he fed him potatoes and beans,
That were kept cooked up in a big tin pan,
Along with some pig-weed green's;
And he made him work from the dawn ofday,
Tillthe sun took its final lurch,
And docked him, then, a part Of his pay,
To use for the good of the Church.
Adoniram finally died, one night,
And left the farm to his son,
Who does, as near as a true son might,
The things his father had done;
And he daily drives to the market town
With the mare and her spawned legs,
And he gathers money and salts it down,
The product Of butter and eggs.
And he keeps the Bible so worn and old,
And he reads it without a doubt;
But the leaf containing the Rule OF God
Is somehow or another torn out;
And blotted are all of the verses which speak
Sharp things of the tricky doer,
While through its pages 'twere vain to seek
For a word of cheer to the poor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

AFTER an experience of over twenty-five
years, many leading physicians acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLIcoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
PILLS, the ostpopular remedy ofthe dayfor
~biliousness, headache, liver complaint and
diseases of digestion. Sold by all druggists.
Send for almanacs. Grafenberg Co., New
York
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

ST. JOSEPH Herald: A Masonic Lodge
in Indiana, was presided wei by a
Master who had an exaggerated notion
of discipline. One night he met his
Lodge in called meeting (not a member
absent) to instruct them in the work.
Teaching them the use of the gavel, he
had just called them up with three
knocks, when he leaned too far back, fell
through to the ground, four stories, and
broke his neck. Picked up next morn
ing, he was buried decently, but not a
Mason came to thefuneral. More strange
still, not a Mason appeared any more in
that village. 1t was inexplicable. Forty
women left widows, two hundred and
twenty children left orphans, eighty
four merchants left in the lurch with
unpaid bills. Twenty years after that
somebody went up into the fourth story,
broke open the door andbeheld the lodge,
a lodge of skeletons! Strange, but true,
they had strictly obeyed the orders of the
W. NJ, and, waiting for the knock to
seat them, starved to death. Each was
standing in an attitude of respectful
attention, Cooking to the east" and had
not pitying citizens taken them down
they would have been standing there
still.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

New YORK Commercial Advertiser: A
daily chicken train has been started on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. They have
a passenger Cochin the rear, and a loco
motive to pullet.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Interest the BOys.-How can we

Interest the BOys.-How can we
teach a boy business habits better han
by giving him an opportunity to run a
henneryP The accounts must be accu-
rately kept; there must be buying and
selling; there must be bartering; there
ought to be profit. A miniature bust
ness springs up; and, inasmuch as it is
real, why is it not as good as a business.
college? 1T may be better; for it may
prevent spending time in the streets, or
away from home, perhaps among ques-
tionable companions. A love of home
is fostered by the ownership of flowers,
small fruits and poultry. A fondness
for the finest things produced in our eli
mate-to cultivate them if belonging to
the vegetable kingdom; to breed, foster
and pet them if belonging to the animal
is not only a source of keen enjoy
ment, but indicates good traits and a
certain elevation of character above
that which is british. Young people
should be deftly guided, step by step,
through pleasant paths, with here and
there a little job of earnest work, made
easy by social frolic and recreation,
which come after in their proper place.
With a little encouragement, boys may
become familiar with the points of ex-
cellence in high-class poultry pigeons
and other pets, and learn the best
methods of breeding and management.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

The American Dairy Belt.-In one
of his late lectures, Mr.. x. A. Willard
said concisely that the American dairy
belt lies between the fortieth and forty
fifth parallels of latitude. 1t stretches
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi,
and possibly to the Pacific. Within its
limits are New York, Pennsylvania,
New England, the northern parts of
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the greater
portion Of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota and a part of the Canadas.
Of all this belt, probably not more than
a third of the land is adapted to dairy
ing. The dairy lands are quite irregu-
lar in outline, not always continuously
together, but often detached, and not
unfrequently, if represented on the
map, they would have the appearance
of islands.
The characteristics of a good dairy
farm are a high, undulating surface,
numerous springs and streams of never.
failing water; a soil retentive of moist
ure, a sweet and nutritious heritage that
springs up spontaneously and continues
to grow with great tenacity; a rather
low average temperature, frequent
showers rather than periodical rains o.
droughts; sufficient covering of the
ground in winter to protect the grass
roots, so that the heritage may be perma
nent and enduring.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

CHILL CuRE!-SAFE AND SURE
Wilhoft's Tonic is curative and protective
It will cure Chills and protect from f9rthei
attacks. its reputation is established: Is
composition is simple and %sclenti9c. Ia 1. con ~.
tains no poison. 1t acts promptly ana ls
effects are permanent. 1t is cheap, because
it saves doctors bills. til harmless, speedy
in action and delightful in its effects. Try
it and prove all that's said. u. X.
Co., Proprietor, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
THE proprietors of Hatch's Universal
Cough Syrup gave me the virtual formula OF
this medicine. Knowing from this that II
must be of value, I recommended it to my
customers. An experience with it of six
years has shown me that it has no superior.
1 have seld by far more bottles during that
six years than of any similar preparation.
consider it safe in all cases.
W. H. SCOTT, NJ. D., Friendship, N. Y.
Sold by JOHN d. PARK SONS, Gin. o
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

PONDS EXTRACT.-The marvellous vege-
table Pain Destroyer, has a career of thirty
years as a standard medium. 1t has made a
great reputation. Try it!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Swans Singing Before they Die.

T0utIOIuI HcPOsTVVIJ'I
The story is old about swans singing
just before their death, and our readers
are doubtless familiar with the child's
inquiry in the beautiful stanzas of Mrs.
Sigourney, copied into some of our
school-books:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
TOPICS FOR FARMERS.

Use Of Bones in England.-Within
the last eight years the Use Of bones
and bone-dist, as a mantire, has become
general throughout Great Britain, and
the present fertile condition of that
country is in a great asu due to
their use. Some authors estimate that
ten million dollars worth of bones are
annually imported into that country,
principally to be used as manures.
They are obtained in the ports of Rus
| STA, Germany, South America and the
United States. After the bone-dust of
Germany had been fully tested, and
proofs of its efficacy were fully estab-
lished, a proverb arose that " one ton of
German bone-dust saves the importation
of ten tons of German corn" Through
out Great Britain bones are collected
from every possible source of supply,
and the markets of the world have been
ransacked to supply the demand created
for them by the strong conviction of
their value, which experience has i'm
pressed upon the minds of the British
farmer. Even the bones of battle-felds
have been collected and sold for this
purpose.
How to Set a Hen.-Speaking of sit
ting hens, Mr.. G. E. Chase, Of East
Freetown, Massachusetts,, gives the fol-
lowing method as one employed sue
cessfully by him for several years:
"Take a half keg, such as is used for
butter and lard, fill it t%wo-thirds full of
moist earth, press it down hard so that
the sides will be a trife higher than the
center line it with hay literally sprink-
led with petroleum, put in a couple of
china eggs, set it in a retired place, and
put the hen on in the evening, turning
a lath-coop we the whole with food
and water within reach. After a week
or ten days the coop can be taken off
without much danger of the hens go
ing on the wrong nests. If your hen is
anxious to sit the good eggs can be put
under her in two days; if not, turn her
adrift and choose another. This method
will not injure the vitality of the eggs,
and is proof against spiders and lice;
but beware of using oil of any kind
about hen or nest during the remainder
of the period of incubation, for it is
sure death to the chicks when half
formed in the she'll"